You know, thinking about Trane and his development after getting fired by Miles in '57, I just listened through a string of great solos -- from "Trinkle Tinkle," and"Traneing In" in '57 to "Giant Steps" to "Countdown" and "Spiral" in '59 to "Chasin' the Trane" in '61 -- after he cleaned up and got in touch with whatever this spiritual thing was that he got in touch with, he was like a rocket ship just blasting off to escape velocity with ideas AND technique and execution -- straight up with incredible speed. You can't believe its that same guy squeaking his way through "Diane" in '56.
Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah Recently purchased from the used bins. Double-album. Really enjoying it.
Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful insights. I'll definitely be listening to some of these solos with your thoughtful observations in mind during the next few days and weeks.
I think this is my favorite of the Pat Martino albums I have, duets which are dominated by Pat. More mellow than his other albums, with a really pleasing guitar tone.With Gil Goldstein (el p). Recorded at Blue Rock Studio, NYC, 2/13 & 17/76. Producer: Ed Freeman. Engineer: Ed Korvin. 1998 32 Jazz reissue of a Muse LP. I bought this used in 1999 at a place that for a while had a bunch of 32 Jazz reissues priced like this one at $3.99. That would be $5.99 today.
I also have the OJC Remasters CD, and this BR-A plays in entirely different league. A lot of detail is lost on the CD.
I've been enjoying your posts and knowledge for almost 3 months now. There are things that almost everyone likes here, but I think it's great that we all have different tastes. I'm not a Mingus fan, but understand his importance. Still I bought the following CD some years ago. It's one of those that - for it's relevance - we must have. It's a beautiful CD, and like all this late buys, it has nice liner notes and several extra tracks. My day started with this classic from 1959 (the golden year). Came back twice to listen "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" - my favorite.
I got this with a great deal of anticipation since I do not have a lot of Duke Ellington. He sits in and it is interesting to hear his accompaniment with Coltrane guys, some of my favorites, being a big fan of Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison, who play on most of this. The record deserves a little more time invested from me, but I like it a good bit. Now I would love to hear Coltrane sitting in with the Duke and his orchestra.
Great time for you to explore some Duke. Maybe "Ellington Indigos" or "Blues in Orbit" or "And His Mother Called Him Bill" or "The Far East Suite" or. . . .
NP Junko Onishi -Tea Times (Sony/Japan) SACD Ms Onishi performs a George Russell track Chromatic Universe on this, a nice surprise.
Great minds. Listened to this one last night. Agree about Bobby. A couple of very fine Shorter tunes included as well in Dear Sir and Rio.
That's quite cool! I love watching unboxing videos and videos of people going through their collections but there tend to be few on jazz CDs. I don't collect vinyl but i still enjoy watching the numerous vinyl ones. Anyway, I watched your one on The Sun Bear concerts... when i'm looking to get a box set, they're often big purchases for me and i'll often look on Youtube to see if there's any unboxings so that i can dream... Your video wasn't around when i got Sun Bear but it brought back memories, it was such a big deal for me at the time. Cheers.
Just finishing, then moving on to something non-jazz for a bit (Stevie Nicks, just have her stuck in my mind):
There is some confusion as to the actual recording dates and places (either 1962/1963), but none in the performance! Tyner, Jones, Garrison, Coltrane - you know it smokes!
Paul Chambers Quintet (MM 45) By chance happen to be listening to a lot of Donald Byrd sideman appearances. Certainly not a bad thing!
