Montara is such a great song and captures the mellow vibe of a morning with sun burning off the fog on the coast south of San Francisco.
Not jazz, but my wife and I have been enjoying Yo Yo Ma's new album of Bach solo concertos, Six Evolutions. These are new recordings, Yo Yo Ma's 3rd time recording these compositions. Beautiful 3 LP album in a triple gatefold cover. Sound and music is wonderful. I feel smarter after listening to this music.
Speaking of San Francisco, now I'm playing: Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (MFSL SACD, mono) I've had a pretty beat up copy of this on vinyl that I think I've played once since salvaging it from a box under a friend's bed over a decade ago, so this one is actually a pretty fresh listen for me. I never really got into JA that much in the past, but listening to so much Grateful Dead and reading the McNally book about them sort of piqued my interest in other San Francisco bands of the time, so I picked up the two JA SACDs from MOFI a few weeks ago.
Yeah. Some of it was just a numbers game. Blue Note released eight Andrew Hill albums from 1964-70. That seems like a fair release schedule. It's just that he recorded so much more than that, and after 1967 I think he probably struggled for support without Alfred Lion around to champion his work. Luckily, someone eventually had the sense to hire Michael Cuscuna to sift through the vault--and his archival picks really started to pour out after EMI bought the label in 1979. But in a more just world, there should have been a few more Andrew Hill albums released circa 1969-71, and UA/Blue Note wouldn't have dropped him, for sure.
It's Friday so I'm sneaking in some Bob. Bob Dylan "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966" Deluxe Edition disk 2
Listening to Alice Coltrane/ Huntington Ashram Monastery in trio w/ Ron Carter & Rashied Ali. Alice plays harp on Side A, piano on Side B, pretty much the same approach to both. All abstract expressionist "sheets of sound" up & down the instruments. I like hearing her without horns, and it's a new angle for Ron Carter, too.
Now disk 1. I ended up buying a second hand copy I could afford of the 18 cd "Collector's" edition of this and I'm listening to this 6 cd version to whet my appetite; I'll probably sell the 6 cd version when I receive the "big blue." Bob Dylan "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966" Deluxe Edition
Does anybody know any great Female Jazz artists besides Esperanza Spalding? Need something with some feminine tocuh.
A new addition. Have a couple other JCOA albums, and will grab anything that comes into my view(well, within reasonable cost). This one has some legendary players on it, great sound, and the music is outstanding.
Jessica Williams (pianist) Maria Schneider (big band arranger/compser) Melba Liston (arranger and trombone player) Mary Halvorson (guitar)
Junko Onishi - Blue Skies from Live at the Village Vanguard is killer. Renee Rosnes - her solo on Someday My Prince Will Come from Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen's Friends Forever knocks it out of the park.
