Busy day at work, so not much listening happened. But did manage to hear another disc from my recent XRCD order: Lee Morgan - Tom Cat [Audio Wave XRCD24] [AWMXR-0008] With Lee Morgan: trumpet; Jackie McLean: alto sax; Curtis Fuller: trombone; McCoy Tyner: piano; Bob Cranshaw: bass; Art Blakey: drums. Unlike Candy, this one is a stereo mix. Good stuff!
Blue Note I'm going to select more recent Blue Note releases and not all are Jazz Amos Lee - Amos Lee Bob Belden - Black Dahlia Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles Charles Lloyd - I Long To See You Charlie Hunter with Leon Parker - Duo Jacky Terrasson and Cassandra Wilson - Rendezvous Jose James - Yesterday I Had The Blues Nels Cline - Lovers Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Top 10 Blue Note. I'll go with... Eric Dolphy/ Out to Lunch Bobby Hutcherson/ Stick-Up! Grachan Moncur III/ Evolution Grant Green/ Idle Moments Wayne Shorter/ Night Dreamer Sam Rivers/ Contours Lee Morgan/ The Procrastinator Ike Quebec/ Bossa Nova Soul Samba John Coltrane/ Blue Train Cannonball Adderley/ Somethin' Else And Monk makes 11, but who's counting? Post-1980 highlights, non-archival James Newton/ Romance and Revolution, The African Flower Bobby McFerrin/ Spontaneous Inventions Andrew Hill/ Eternal Spirit VA/ Town Hall Concert VA/ The New Groove: The Blue Note Remix Project, Vol. 1 Geri Allen/ Eyes... in the Back of Your Head Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson/ Rendezvous Cassandra Wilson/ Traveling Miles Jason Moran/ Black Stars Erik Truffaz/ Mantis Medeski, Martin & Wood/ Uninvisible Greg Osby/ Inner Circle Bill Charlap/ Live at the Village Vanguard Robert Glasper/ Double Booked Bobby Hutcherson/ Enjoy the View Tony Allen/ The Source
I’d have a hard time picking my top ten Blue Notes of 1963-64. Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond Grachan Moncur III - Evolution Jackie McLean - Destination . . . Out! Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Bobby Hutcherson - Montara Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1 (CD version with Parisian Thoroughfare) Bud Powell - Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 4 Bud Powell - The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 5 Grant Green - Street of Dreams Grant Green - Matador Hank Mobley - Soul Station Herbie Nichols - Complete Horace Silver - Trio Jason Moran - Ten Joe Henderson - In 'N Out Joe Henderson - Inner Urge Joe Lovano - From The Soul Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy Ornette Coleman - At The "Golden Circle" Stockholm Volume One Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin' Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard Wayne Shorter - Without a Net That was harder than i thought... started with a list of about 40 and whittled it down... some serious favourites had to be cut... and then i realised that i forgot Herbie Hancock and i just gave up.
Yeah, picking a top 10 from Blue Note is hard! I set myself the additional restriction of a limit of only one album per artist. Here's my list: Geri Allen - The Nurturer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Herbie Hancock - Speak Like a Child Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Kurt Elling - This Time It's Love Joe Henderson - Our Thing James Newton - Romance and Revolution Renee Rosnes - Ancestors Wayne Shorter - The All-Seeing Eye Objectively, this list can't represent Blue Note's absolute best (no list can, because "best" depends on the criteria you use to define it). But these are the Blue Note albums I have come back to listen to over and over again. They are more of a "favorites" list than a "best" list, but maybe in the end that amounts to the same thing (if you accept "most played" as the criteria for "best").
When down to my favorite wrecka stow today, picked this, and didn't quite jive with it. Or, maybe I did. I'm not sure. We've got fruit vendors selling their wares out of streetcarts, some hotdogs, maybe, hold the ketchup. The camera flickers as little knob-kneed girls skip rope, curbside. Laughter and sing-songy rhymes, as cars speed by on time lapse. The smell of the city, on hot pavement, garbaged-gutters and a Coney Island Whitefish. Lens flare. Mr. Cohen's been selling the paper there for years, nudie mags, too, if you're at least 16. Pick up a pack of Pall Malls and toss the inside packaging foil at your feet. That's what we always do. Ring-top cans of Coca-Cola; the preacher hold his bible close to his chest. One day the police will finish their coffee early enough to catch Sam dishing out dimes on the corner. Carew's been batting .328. Outside a transistor radio blares "Have You Seen Her." Everything is just right with the city, as right as the city is long...
Nice to see someone else digs Romance and Revolution. I feel that's a very under-the-radar album that deserves wider recognition. And, Spontaneous Inventions is my favorite Bobby McFerrin album (his version of "Opportunity" is particularly amazing). Had I thought of it, Spontaneous Inventions might have made my list as well, though don't ask me which album I'd've kicked off the list to make room, because I have no idea!
Scorcher. Geri Allen remains solid and tasteful throughout while the inferno burns around her. A recent favorite.
love my porch crusher, aka Boxzilla, @Lonson One of the crown jewels of my music collection. Those 1990-1995 shows are a lot more enjoyable than they should be
Still my favorite Dylan song after all these years. "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet!" might also be my favorite Dylan lyric.
I have participated in that in Weekend Records and Cocktails from time to time. They call it Saturday Night Live and they all vote on a record to play. It's been ongoing for years I want to say. It has exposed me to some cool records I have never heard before.
They wouldn't be for me. I just can't get into shows after Brent showed up and beyond. Lord knows I've tried.
Oh yeah, I don't even think of the Ornette golden circle or the latter day Wayne Shorter quartert album as "blue note albums," but they're some of my all time favorite albums, I would have put them on a list if I thought of them. Just goes to show you I should stay out of record label-related lists. I can't keep straight in my mind what music came out on what record label, unless it says "Complete Blue Note Sessions...." in the title!
Donald Byrd "Chant" Blue Note (from the Complete Blue Note Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Studio Sessions" Mosaic set.
I stumbled into an original pressing of Ornette Coleman's Crisis recently. Holy God, the apocalypse has never sounded so joyful. This is top shelf stuff. I know it got a CD reissue with Ornette at 12 in recent years; I might have to track that down, too. Crisis, in my opinion, deserves to be revered in the pantheon of great Coleman records, which is to say great records. If you like The Shape of Jazz to Come or Coleman generally, but you haven't heard Crisis, as I hadn't, run, don't walk. Highest recommendation.
