What a great jazz album side, side A of Illumination! Nuttin Out Jones with Sonny Simmons on the English Horn, Oriental Flower highlighting Tyner, and Half and Half with an awesome Charles Davis’s baritone sax solo. Side B wasn’t as strong but maybe it will grow on me. Wonderful variety in horn/woodwind sounds with Prince Lasha on clarinet/flute also. Can not stop listening to Half and Half.
Love the sound of Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins playing together. Also Charlie Parker plays tenor, apparently drunk, on the 1st 4 tunes of Collectors.
This recently released 2007 performance by Haden and Mehldau is certainly worthy of the "great duets" mantle. Some wonderfully conversational playing between the two musicians. A tribute to Haden from top to bottom, from Mehldau's liner notes to the prevalence of the bass in the mix.
Quick question for the experts! For Blue Note albums, am i better off getting a McMaster remaster on CD or a Grundman/Yoshida lp from the recent, controversial 75th anniversary pressing?? Thanks!
If you do computer audio, I'd choose the Grundman/Yoshida download from HDTracks or service of your choice. If you want the LP, I'd check whether the Euro pressing is available to you. The US pressings were done at United, save for some of the 10" records, which were done at RTI.
I got some more Audio Wave Blue Note XRCDs. I couldn't help myself. Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks Tina Brooks - True Blue Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' Kenny Drew - Undercurrent Plus, the ORG Mingus Tijuana Moods as well.
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia Music Matters 33 SRX vinyl In my opinion, the definitive version of this classic record. All-analog on pristine, dead silent vinyl, with stunning dynamics and transparency. Highly recommended.
Listening to one of my favorite recent discoveries: Jessica Lurie's Long Haul. I stumbled across this one after googling her name as a member of Zion80. A lovely set of compositions played by a great band. (I'm finding Brian Marsella's involvement in a record to be a mark of quality...) Long Haul, by Jessica Lurie Ensemble Jessica Lurie: alto saxophone Brian Marsella - piano Mike Gamble - guitar Todd Sickafoose - acoustic bass Allison Miller - drums, percussion Special guest Naomi Seigel on trombone
I thought this was the first time I had seen this album posted here at but alas the intrepid @Six String had posted it earlier. Still a rare showing. Ill have to check this out.
That album reads like "Impulse! album where Coltrane wasn't feeling it that day." I bet it's outstanding.
That 1954 Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins session with Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke that gave us all those Sonny Rollins classics -- Doxy, Oleo, Airegin, and that awesome version of But Not for Me (great solo by Silver), is one of my three or four favorite, most listened to, Miles Davis sessions.
Hello to my first cup of coffee. It's nice to meet you. Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte – Come In Red Dog, This Is Tango Leader Label: Ropeadope Records – 6-16892-56062-3 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2003 Genre: Jazz
As that set went out of print not too long after its release, and as only a smaller portion of it has been subsequently reissued or remastered, it amazes me that much of it has been out of print for nearly 20 years. The young fellow with his hand outstretched to Duke was the blind pianist Brooks Kerr, who was the world's leading expert on Duke's compositions. He died recently. After Duke's death, he hired several former members of Duke's band (Sonny Greer, Russel Procope) and played Duke's music in NYC clubs. “If you have any questions about my music,” Mr. Ellington said, “just ask Brooks Kerr.” Mr. Kerr, who was 2 when he began playing the piano, 5 when he met the maestro and 17 when he helped celebrate Mr. Ellington’s 70th birthday at the White House, died in a Manhattan hospital on April 28, 2018 on the eve of the anniversary of the Duke’s birth. He was 66.
Amen! When this came out it was a stretch of my budget and a hard-won battle with my wife to purchase it. . . but I am so glad to have it. Amazing music within. Many have taken issue with the sound but I find it fine.
Asked over in the JB thread and will do so here too - Anyone have exposure to this Anthony Braxton/Marilyn Crispell duet album? I can't find streaming samples so any insight is appreciated: Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell - Duets - Vancouver, 1989 (Four Compositions By Anthony Braxton) Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell – Duets - Vancouver, 1989 (Four Compositions By Anthony Braxton)
I read several summaries of it and there was a question as to how it even came about because it was recorded in 1963 during the Classic Quartet period. I’m sure some on this thread could give a backstory or maybe it was just an opportunity for Jones/Garrison to do something under their own name? The rhythm session adds 3 players to take the place of John for this album (as the narrative in a couple reviews goes implying it takes 3 to =1). Maybe that is why I am liking this album so much, and I am warming to side B, that drum solo on Aborigines Dance in Scotland has my attention, you get to hear Tyner/Garrison/Jones with different horns and styles. Tyner, Simmons, Lasha and Garrison wrote 1 track each, and Davis wrote 2.
This one again. I had not explored Byrd's Concord years before this and have to say that was a mistake--some great music on the three discs I have. I really enjoy Jobim in the wintertime. The sunny Brazilian "vibe" is welcome, and alternately the melancholy, the "saudade" in the music seems fitting with snow on the ground and the bare trees brandishing snow. The Charlie Byrd Trio (with special guest Ken Peplowski) "The Bossa Nova Years" Concord cd
Impulse AS-9183 from 1970. Continuation of overtly political albums recorded in the 60s. This was inspired by songs from the Spanish Civil War, the LMO being a continuation/offshoot of the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra. The Jazz Composers Guild
If I ever took the time to do an A/B sound comparison with the Duke Ellington French RCA series of LPs, I cannot remember. Did you ever compare the two? Sidebar comment: Graphic design in France has always been odd. I could never understand why they did not use "period appropriate" images of Duke on the covers.
