Recorded on October 23, 1957, this was Griffin’s last album with Blue Note before he moved to Riverside. Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone Sonny Clark - piano Paul Chambers - bass Kenny Dennis - drums The early jazz album covers of Andy Warhol
I obviously hadn’t had enough coffee when I posted this morning, I meant UHQCD not SHM-CD! Sounds very nice...
I saw Jason Moran + The Bandwagon up front in small venue last night....wow! They were truly spectacular. And Jason is such an eloquent spokesman for jazz, always honoring the music's history, while continuing to look forward and create something entirely new. For my money, there is no better current spokesman for the music.
Mingus Moves to me is a gem perhaps a bit underrated. I am listening to it on my hi-fi system (CD player Marantz 6006). It's an European reissue, Serie Jazz Best Collection 1000, low price. George Adams, Don Pullen, Ronald Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dannie Richmond and the singers Doug Hammond and Honey Gordon on the tune Moves composed by Hammond is an excellent line up.
I sent that photo of Eleanor Roosevelt with children from 1933 to my mother's surviving sister, and she said she believes it is indeed my mother in the hat next to Eleanor. I wish I could have showed this to my mother before she passed. She was a New Dealer all the way. Eleven years later, she was seeing Art Tatum on 52nd Street and sitting at Lead Belly's feet as he sang.
This trio session is quite something. Sometimes it takes a second time through and the right mood and I’m really hearing this on my second listen. Fielder’s kit is tuned just right, Kowald is great as always and Kidd is just flat-out in the groove - he’s playing more in the middle and lower registers of the tenor than he normally does. So sweet. June 11th is going to be very special. Maybe I’ll get there the other night later in the week when he is playing in a group dedicated to Alvin Fielder.
Man, sometimes there's nothing like a good smoke, glass of port, and Billie to set the mood. This is one of two of my faves from her. I'll be that AP sounds fantastic...I have a Verve pressing.
...soooo good for the soul. Weekend starts now. Enjoy life my friends. Stan Getz And João Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim– Getz / Gilberto Label: Verve Records – 314 521 414-2, Verve Records – V6-8545 Series: Verve Master Edition – Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Cool Jazz, Bossanova, Latin Jazz Recorded March 18 & 19, 1963
Daddyo, your weekend starts with that album. I guess my love for Jazz started with that same album. Getz... I knew I had to have more of that sound in my life. Great album. One of the very few with vocals that I own and like. Classic! Mandatory for music fans.
I like the original first issues of Billie, from during her all too brief life. I was very lucky to get all three of these for less than the cost of one new pressing. Images from the web (still no camera) Somehow, these things make me feel as if I am touching Billie herself.
I bought this vinyl from a charity shop a few weeks back for $2 (it appears to be a reissue of At the Blackhawk). I don't have a record player (or space for one) and this is the only record I've ever bought. I don't usually even look through them but this one was staring at me from the top of a pile under the CDs and I couldn't resist. Going to the in-laws shortly where I'll be able to give it a listen and do a needle drop.
I took this from another thread on the forum. It reminds me that we need to discuss Nat more often here. Certainly the greatest singer-pianist or pianist-singer in jazz history.
Claudia Quintet - Royal Toast Just in the mood for something kind of 'proggy' for want of a better way to put it. I always thought fans of Zappa's instrumentals would dig John Hollenbeck's music.
Tribute I think I recall you mentioning your moms appreciation of Lead Belly once before. Did she also have contact with Woody G ? I have always wondered about the relationship of Woody and Lead Belly and I wonder if she had any personal insite to that We don’t seem to have a Woody Guthrie amongst us these days.
This is one of my faves, discovered accidentally. Thought I was buying an Insane Clown Posse (ICP) album and ended up wit this weird Jazz stuff. Ended up really digging it. Had front row seats for the (real) ICP, got to chat with Misha and Han prior to the start. Han played push-broom during his drum solo. Priceless.
You know, I never asked her about Woody, surprisingly. She was into his music and had his records. But Woody did not really have a commercial career in the time she might have seen him (before kids came). He never sought one. Maybe we don't know of the Woody Guthrie's that do exist among us today because as soon as a performer seeks money to sing, to have a public profile, they are not really like Woody at all. One artist she described as being the most intense and unusual performer she had ever seen was John Jacob Niles. He wailed as no one else ever has again.
