Happy Easter! It's 18C outside and clear blue skies. Enjoying a cold brew in the sun. Mid 70s Fleetwood Mac is playing on shuffle
Off work (Good Friday) and I’m listening to: John Escreet Trio + Evan Parker: The Unknown 45 minute improvisation followed by a 28 minute piece Escreet on piano John Hebert on double bass Tyshawn Sorey on Drums & vibraphone Parker on tenor saxophone Recorded live on 2/12/2016 @ Bimhuis in Amsterdam & on 2/13/2016 @ Lanteren Venster in Rotterdam On Sunnyside Records
Man, I kind of like this, but the vocals are just too much. I thought it was just going to be the first song, but that's how they are:
I have to admit I've never been a big fan of free improv, but I recognise the name of Evan Parker Trio from a project titled "Atlanta" , which I was introduced to a few decades ago. It featured only sax, bass & percussion and it was quite good. I guess when it comes to improv I feel that less is more, and sax is such a wonderful iinstrument for improv so that record was right for the mood. I'll check this one out too ! I also love vibraphone thanks
Some strong listens happening here in the UnGrateful Thread. Wolf City, Miles/Coltrane Final Tour, The Duke, Derek and the Dominos, Lowell, Cohen's I'm Your Man, Never a Dull Moment and too many others to name. Impressive as usual, but it usually always is... ----------------------------------- I've mixed in some '74 Dead (posted elsewhere of course) with a reprise of lots of 60's jazz records including Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon and Freddie Hubbard. It all mostly ran seamlessly together very much, including that jazzy hippie band too. lol Duke Robillard is an excellent guitarist and shows his craft very will on ROB's first outing. I picked the Fillmore Concerts because it may be my favorite sounding of the many releases that it has gotten, mostly because of warmth and air within the mix. It also runs nicely with those jazz records and Dead, lots of improv and laid back groove that fits right in with a good glass of High West Double Rye.
The Skydog Box has a treasure trove of gems throughout, and here area few of them: from the last three discs, 5-7. Derek and the Domino's I Am Yours, Clapton and Duane's Mean Old World, Duane jamming with the Dead on Sugar Magnolia, 3 tunes from Herbie Mann's Push Push--Duane simply cooks on these funky Bossa Nova workouts. Delaney and Bonnie's Come On In My Kitchen, The Allman Brothers Blue Sky, Stand Back and Little Martha, and Dreams live, a song which most times usually puts the moment in a very proper perspective... In listening to the last half of disc one of The Fillmore Concerts, and then everyone of these tunes from SkyDog on several different pairs of very old but very respectable-sounding headphones, it has in a word been... fun, in another word... elevating. I need to do this more often, cupla more records thrown in including the strange, immensely talented minstrel from Texas...
Joelle Leandre solo bass (plus with some of her amazing vocalizing) from June 14, 2005 found within the 8 CD box set titled “A Woman’s Work” Probably my favorite acquisition of the past year. I thought since 6 of the 8 discs are without drums that I’d find it lacking. It is all so much more than that. Without a doubt Lady Joelle is one of the finest bassists in the history of music and her improvising talents are otherworldly. For Archtop before anyone else. I know it’s not his sort of thing but the talent and creativity is so off the chain that sometimes brilliant improvising make it anyone’s sort of thing. As I’ve also mentioned many times in discussing this release the sound quality is as good as any live jazz recording I’ve ever heard. All 8 concerts/discs. Stunning in the extreme. On Not Two records
Pre-Heritage tunes for a day in the man cave doing things centered around food and music and reading (Stones book), leading up to 3 network hours of men driving and putting a white ball around large lawns. Think I'm gonna order me a Flowers t-shirt.
Amanda Shires, To The Sunset Earlier today, while re-arranging the garage: Tower of Power, Very Best Of Lucinda Williams, Car Tires On A Gravel Road
I see what you did there. These were recent acquisitions that I hadn't heard yet so it worked out nicely.