Starting Tuesday with: NP: Howard McGhee And Illinois Jacquet – Here Comes Freddy (Sonet UK 1976) First listen to this NY recording of the quintet plus Jacquet. McGhee was characterized in this later period as more lyrical, slower than his iconoclastic, fast-paced 50s recordings. Sam Charters' liner notes pay attention to the notion of hearing McGhee and squaring his current style with what he loved from the 50s. McGhee's band clearly gelled over many performances together, and the addition of Jacquet adds the X factor. I'm ready to just appreciate latter period McGhee on its own merits. It is odd how this US recording doesn't appear to have a US release. I suppose that happens more often than one would think. Alto Saxophone – Bugs Dyer Bass – Lisle Atkinson Drums – Walter Bolden Piano – Jim Roberts (17) Tenor Saxophone – Illinois Jacquet Trumpet – Howard McGhee
Spinning an excellent sounding OJC reissue title this morning. Harold Land - Harold In The Land Of Jazz (Original Jazz Classics 1984)
NP: I've been doing filing the past couple of days, which also leads me to pull out things I haven't played in a while as I do it. Here's one I got back toward the end of the '70s, and is now on the TT: Ryo Kawasaki - Prism In getting the image, I was surprised to see this: Ryo Kawasaki - Easy Listening Jazz Guitar - By The Time I Get To Phoenix While I haven't heard it, in the 5 years between, with Prism, Kawasaki had moved far beyond easy listening covers of pop, and shows that he has plenty of his own licks, not just those 'borrowed' from past masters. While Kawasaki's playing itself doesn't remind me of mid-70s Jeff Beck, the band's sound palette does.
NP Jim Hall - Concierto (CTI) mustard colored label Happy to be home in front of my home system again. Haven’t played this lovely album in months and it sounds great. I always start with the Concierto side (2).
24, or an inverted 32 would be my 2 top guesses; I had no luck looking (briefly, admittedly) for 23 bits among the 24 and 32s.
Joining you with the lp version. Like Concierto I started with side two to hear the title track first.
I am not sure that a child was ever conceived while John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" was playing at a decent volume. But it did seem to have a rhythm that may have been just right. Some may have needed the CD version though, as side one may have been too short.
Side one w/o automatic pick-up is a bit repetitious... there's also the autoreverse/loop option of a tape deck. The Oscar Peterson duos with trumpeter series that davidpoole brought up the other day I first had on cassettes made from library LPs, and later found that... And keeping up the jazz content: Ida Cox– One Hour Mama Accompanied By – Ida Cox And Her All Star Band* Bass – Artie Bernstein Clarinet – Edmond Hall Drums – Lionel Hampton Guitar – Charlie Christian Piano – James P. Johnson* Trombone – J.C. Higginbotham Trumpet – Hot Lips Page Vocals, Written-By – Ida Cox NP: Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra - Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra Vol. 5 (1949-1950) Opens with a cover of PeeWee Crayton's Texas Hop. And who's Stretch Ridley, paired with Julian Dash on tenor sax?
NP: Anthony Williams - Life Line (LP, 1978 Dutch issue of a 1964 LP) Sam Rivers (ts), Gary Peacock (b), Richard Davis (b), Ron Carter (b) Bobby Hutcherson (vib, marimba), Herbie Hancock (p), Anthony Williams (d) One reason to return to side A (and the first track of side B) of this album regularly, is that it is another great 60s Sam Rivers recording. That doesn't take anything away from Williams' great drumming on this set, however. The line-up changes throughout the album (a Hancock/Carter duet, a Hutcherson/Hancock/Williams trio, a Rivers/Peacock/Williams trio, and two Rivers/Davis/Peacock/Williams quartets) make for a very varied LP that allows everyone involved to showcase their skilled and sympathetic musicianship. But I guess a 1964 Blue Note release with such a stellar line-up doesn't need a write-up from me ... most of you are probably quite familiar with this great music already.
Duke Ellington "In Sweden 1973: featuring the Swedish Guests Alice Babs, Rolf Ericson, Ake Person, Nils Lindberg" Caprice Records cd Blew the dust off this one, a great listen.
Only released in Japan on CD it seems. Nat Adderley – You, Baby A&M Records – POCM-5020 Bass – Ron Carter Cello – Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken, George Ricci Cornet – Nat Adderley Design – Sam Antupit Drums – Grady Tate Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder Flute – George Marge, Harvey Estrin, Jerome Richardson, Joe Soldo, Romeo Penque Oboe – George Marge Photography By – Pete Turner (4) Piano – Joe Zawinul Soprano Saxophone – Jerome Richardson Viola – Al Brown*, Bernard Zaslav, Selwart Clarke Notes Recorded at Van Gelder Studios. Recorded March 26, 27, 28; April 4, 1968.
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Take 5) (From the forthcoming CD, "Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus: Deluxe Edition.")
CHECK THE WINNER - Various Artists (Greensleeves/VP) CD THE ORIGINAL PANTOMINE INSTRUMENTAL COLLECTION 1970-74 Issued in gatefold cardboard sleeve with booklet. An excellent Reggae Roots Music compilation of rare and mainly instrumental recordings. There is some tasty playing here from saxophonists Tommy McCook, Karl Bryan, Lennox Brown & Richard 'Dirty Harry' Hall, trumpeter Bobby Ellis as well as trombone man Ron Wilson that may appeal to some Jazzbos. The 18 tracks, all produced by Glenmore Brown, were previously issued on a variety of Jamaican 7" labels including Pantomine, African Museum, Big Shot & Downtown. Although I had a number of these killer tracks on 7" & 10" singles as well as a few LP compilations I found the selections and sequencing on this particular CD irresistible. * Glen Brown began his musical career in the 1960s as vocalist with Sonny Bradshaw's jazz group
