Got busy doing stuff and forgot to post these: Mario Adnet "Jobim Jazz" . . . love this cd. Nice arrangements and playing and of course the great songs. Followed by Miles Davis "In a Silent Way" Mobile Fidelity SACD Man this is so damned tight and some of my favorite Miles trumpeting. Who else would have played what he played here? Finally this masterpiece from THE jazz singer. . .the one, the only Betty Carter. Betty Carter "I'm Yours, You're Mine"
More Monk today ... excellent Mosaic Box set! The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club - 4 LP (Mosaic 2009)
Freddie Hubbard "The Body & The Soul" Analogue Productions/Impulse SACD The title track and arrangement seemed the perfect followup to that wonderful Betty Carter disc. (If only that weren't her last and she had given us a few more that beautifully moody and inventive).
Picked this up with a gift card I got from my Medicaid Healthy Rewards Program (if you are on Medicaid don't miss out on the gift cards!). Spinning now. 2019 OJC
Dave Brubeck...hadn't listened in a while ...so nice. Toes tappin'. Time Out 1959...great cover art too.
The Other Side Of Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Limited Edition 180g Audiophile Vinyl LP! Mastered From The A&M Records Tapes by Friday Music's Joe Reagoso! George Benson The Other Side Of Abbey Road 50th Anniversary 180g LP This looks good, but a bit pricey right now...fortunately I have my first pressing on A&M in NM condition! 1969 was an incredible year for the music world. The Woodstock festival, underground radio was at full peak, and of course The Beatles delivered what many consider their greatest work, Abbey Road. At the time, jazz and funk pioneer George Benson and his producer Creed Taylor immediately went into the recording studio, three weeks after The Beatles release, and recorded the amazing jazz/soul/funk classic The Other Side Of Abbey Road for A&M Records. George Benson put together a team of players which today reads like a who's who of jazz royalty, including greats Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Idris Muhammad, Hubert Laws, Ron Carter, Don Sebesky, Sonny Fortune, Ray Barretto, etc., and delivered one of the all time greatest acid jazz/fusion albums of our time. On The Other Side Of Abbey Road we get to hear George Benson in many modes, riffing out to a small combo sound, into a fully orchestrated setting, or solo with his incredible vocals styling on Beatles' classics "Golden Slumbers", "Oh! Darling" and his big hit interpretation of "Here Comes The Sun". The funk continues as Benson throws down a stellar groove on "Come Together" and rocks the house with "I Want You". The smash LP closes out things with "The End" which brings all the players upfront, as George Benson plays his lead guitar with clarity and tone, rounding the album out with a fascinating ending. Friday Music is no stranger to the music and artistry of George Benson. They've continued to release his fine music here with the likes of Breezin' and In Flight and now are very pleased to announce the 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl release of his 1970 classic The Other Side Of Abbey Road. Mastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios from the A&M Records tapes, this super limited edition album will also be featured in the classic gatefold cover from 5 decades ago. Benson is given some room to stretch out on guitar, sometimes in a bluesy groove, and there are more samples of his honeyed vocals than ever before (oddly, his voice would not be heard again by record-buyers until he signed with Warner Bros.). Don Sebesky's arrangements roam freely from baroque strings to a full-throated big band, and Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Fortune, and Hubert Laws get some worthy solo space. Yet for all its diversity, the record fits together as a whole more tightly than any other George Benson project, thanks to his versatile talents and the miraculous overarching unity of the Beatles' songs. One wonders if the Fab Four liked it, too. -Richard S. Ginell, AllMusic, 4.5/5 Stars Features 50th Anniversary Limited Edition 180g Vinyl LP Mastered from the A&M Records tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios Classic gatefold cover artwork Musicians Sonny Fortune alto saxophone Don Ashworth baritone saxophone, bass clarinet Jerome Richardson tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute Wayne Andre trombone, euphonium Freddie Hubbard trumpet Bernie Glow trumpet, flugelhorn Marvin Stamm trumpet, flugelhorn Mel Davis trumpet, flugelhorn Hubert Laws flute Phil Bodner flute, oboe George Benson guitar Bob James piano, organ, harpsichord Ernie Hayes piano, organ, harpsichord Herbie Hancock piano, organ, harpsichord Jerry Jemmott bass Ron Carter bass Ed Shaughnessy drums Idris Muhammad drums Andy Gonzalez percussion Ray Barretto percussion George Ricci cello Emanuel Vardi viola Max Pollikoff violin Raoul Poliakin violin Selections Golden Slumbers You Never Give Me Your Money Because / Come Together Oh! Darling Here Comes The Sun I Want You (She's So Heavy) Something / Octopus's Garden The End ...................................................................................................... The Other Side of Abbey Road Review by Richard S. Ginell / All Music Just three weeks after the U.S. release of the Beatles' swan song, Abbey Road, Creed Taylor ushered George Benson into the studio to begin a remarkably successful pop-jazz translation of the record (complete with a parody of the famous cover, showing Benson with guitar crossing an Eastern urban street). It is a lyrical album, with a hint of the mystery and a lot of the cohesive concept of the Beatles' original despite the scrambled order of the tunes...
Never heard of this album. Listened to a few snippets on YouTube. Sounds pretty good. Have you ever listened to McLemore Avenue by Booker T and the MGs. Similar concept. Great album, worth a listen.
We’ll, here’s a sad story. After a long wait due to its being sent to the wrong address (my own fault!!), this long-sought record finally arrived. I had to go to the post office to pick it up. When the lady brought it out, the package was in a mess - the tape had come loose and I could see the LP and pull it out without unwrapping it. I got home, opened it and the LP and cover had come out of their plastic wraps and laid loose in a jumble of wrapping. BUT… the cover looked okay and the 10” played with no problem. WHEW!!! I wanted this recording not just for the music - which is great - but also for the cover. It’s by Charles White, a well-respected artist who was a contemporary of most of the musicians on this date. White did several other covers for Vanguard early-ish in his career, and recently had a retrospective exhibit of his works at the MoMA. But here’s another wrinkle - we just got a puppy - who I was taking care of while “researching “ other Vic Dickenson recordings and that darn puppy got a hold of the cover and because I was deep into my “research “ I didn’t notice that she chewed up the upper right corner. Oh well, it’s still going up on my wall - even though the corner isn’t just dog-eared but dog-toothed. Dog-gone!!!
Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis and Belladonna Got my LP ahead of the street date for this wonderful release. Surely destined to become one of Halvorson's landmark works, the LP combines both albums, Amaryllis and Belladonna. "Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers, including Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). The Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. The suite showcases Halvorson’s many musical influences from jazz, experimental, new music, and beyond. Belladonna is a set of five compositions written for Halvorson on guitar plus the Mivos Quartet: Olivia De Prato (violin), Maya Bennardo (violin), Victor Lowrie Tafoya (viola), and Tyler J. Borden (cello). It is Halvorson’s first time writing for a string quartet. Mivos’ parts are through-composed and augmented by Halvorson’s guitar improvisations. Halvorson says, “Amaryllis features some of my favorite musicians on the planet. I started writing the music in 2020, when the world slowed and most activities came to a halt, and all I had was my guitar, a pencil, some staff paper, and a computer. The pleasure of imagining what the music might sound like kept me sane during that time and gave me reason to push forward. “Around the same time, I was listening to a lot of string quartet music. I had a few orchestration books lying around my apartment, and ample time to take composition lessons. Writing for string quartet has always been a dream of mine, but something that seemed intimidating and somehow out of reach. But with a clear schedule and endless days stretching out in front of me, it felt like the right time to finally go for it,” she continues. “Working with the Mivos Quartet was a dream. After I composed the Belladonna record, for string quartet and guitar, I wanted to keep going, so I started adding string quartet parts to the Amaryllis sextet music, too. Hence the project ultimately circled back around to contain both groups, as a tentet,” Halvorson concludes. “I liked the notion that the projects are modular—they can exist separately or come together as one large ensemble.”" Highly recommended.
She is going to play these albums at the FIMAV this year. MARY HALVORSON Edit:where did you bought it from? On bandcamp they say that it is for shipping in the USA only?
I found out the hard way...I preordered two weeks ago and paid through PayPal but got a refund the very next day.
Currently streaming available here as a download Travelling Ligths, by François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and here as a physical release Travelling Lights with Carrier, Lambert and guests Gary Peacock, Paul Bley I have seen Francois Carrier with Gary Peacock and Paul Bley at the Jazz fest and I have remembered that they mentioned that they were going to record an album together. So here it is.
