Bill Evans / Jim Hall - Undercurrent (Liberty UCCU-5759) Need something smooth and warm to help me through the cold outside...it`s -22 Celsius in Montréal.
I just had a quick listen to this & picked up a CD copy for £2.66 online. I was needing a place to start with Ellington & this seems like as good a place as any. Thanks.
Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods (ORG ORG-174) Man I love this album. Mingus is not only a great bass player and a fantastic composer but his arrangements are reminiscing of Duke Ellington. No wonder Mingus is citing Ellington as a huge influence. This is the ORG SACD and this album sounds stunning ! GREAT album !!
"People Getting Ready to Go See Eddie Harris" 1975 Atlantic Records • SD 18165 Eddie Harris: Vocal, Sax Guitar/Guitorgan: Ronald Muldrow Bass: Bradley Bobo Drums: Paul Humphrey Organ: Odell Brown Percussion: Calvin Barnes
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash (Atlantic WPCR-27073) I admit that I overlook Hubbard`s releases on Atlantic. They don`t offer the same quality as his Blue Note of CTI`s output. Backlash is like a transition album for him. Although the band is less spectacular than those who accompanied him on Blue Note, the music is still swinging hard on some tracks (Backlash) and there`s also a peek at the avant-garde on Echoes Of Blue notably. Not a great Hubbard album IMHO...and a truly terrible album cover.
Brandee Younger/ Soul Awakening (2019) Some spiritual jazz to start the morning. I first heard Brandee's harp on Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings. People who have been into that album and Kamasi Washington lately probably would dig this, too. Of course you can't help but think of Alice Coltrane; I don't think Brandee minds. She even got Ravi to play on a couple of tunes! Here's a video of Brandee and Ravi performing last May:
Two great artists who also recorded together in Italy a lot of years ago: A curiosity, the first violin was Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, great classical pianist Arturo's nephew.
Another special one from that era is the Far East Suite. It's one of the last albums to feature Strayhorn compositions.
Charlie Haden / Joe Henderson - The Montréal Tapes Verve 530 999-6) The Montréal International Jazz Festival decided that 1989 would be Charlie Haden`s Fest. Eight days of concerts, eight different bands and eight different sets. The first of those concerts was June 30 and showcased Haden with Joe Henderson and Al Foster. Henderson is equal to himself...magnificent. You should take the time to listen to the first track, a version of `Round Midnight that is simply sublime. This is coming from the box set The Montréal Tapes.
Duke is the rare artist who never really fell into decline or staid routine. New Orleans Suite, The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, Latin American Suite, This One's for Blanton!, Togo Brava Suite, Soul Call, Eastbourne Performance (his final Orchestra tour, 1973) and Live at The Whitney (solo piano 1972), not to mention his Sacred Concerts, are some more rewarding recordings from his late years. Usually pushing himself to create something a little different, but even The Popular Duke Ellington, 1966 recordings of his greatest hits, is really good.
Holy grail find alert! @Mugrug12 and @Yesternow I finally found one at Dusty Groove. The cover is beat to heck but the LP is in VG+ condition at least. Me forking out some $$ pretty much assures that the next Pure Pleasure Strata East release will be Long Before Our Mothers Cried! And I’ll probably buy that too. After this, about the only thing I have left at the top of my want list is what coincidentally @Berthold just posted, the Tolliver Big Band Mosaic
IIRC, doesn’t Haden make a comment in the liner notes about not thinking Henderson would be as comfortable playing “out” as he does on this album?
I don't think so. . . I think that catalog number is for the previous box set. I believe all the discs are separately available (though OOP as well).
My personal favorite trumpeter is Kenny Dorham. I have been informed how wrong I am again and again. So my second favorite trumpeter gets his due today. Both are astonishing. Period.
Norgran Records MG N -1078 [compilation] " The Wailing Buddy Rich" - reissue by Polydor K.K., Japan in 1989 a) Buddy Rich (dr) with Thad Jones (tp) / Joe Newman (tp) / Ben Webster (ts) / Frank Wess (ts) / Oscar Peterson (p) / Freddie Green (g) / Ray Brown (b) - rec. May 16, 1955 b) Buddy (dr) with Harry Edison (tp) / Sonny Criss (as) / Jimmy Rowles (p) / John Simmons (b) - rec. August 26, 1955
Norgran Records MG N-1094 "Odalisque" - "The Music Of Buddy De Franco" a) The Buddy DeFranco Big Band with among others: Harry Edison / Conrad Gozzo / Joe Howard / Tommy Pedersen / George Roberts / Jimmy Giuffre / Wilbur Schwartz / arranged by Nelson Riddle - recorded September 1953 b) The Buddy DeFranco Quartet with Sonny Clark (p) / Eugene Wright (b) / Bobby White (dr) - recorded April 7, 1954
Agree, an excellent song and performance overall. I like all of them that I have (I'm missing the Egbert Gismonti show) but the one with Joe is one of my favorites. NP Mose Allison - I Don't Worry About A Thing (Atlantic) plum mono label Trio with Addison Farmer (b) and Osie Johnson (d) from 1962. This is the album with Your Mind Is On Vacation, a favorite of mine.
I played that last week and almost grabbed Awakening to spin a few minutes ago but decided on Mose Allison instead.
