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18 hours ago, Joe said:
Perhaps you're thinking of this (fine) LP?
Galaxy was not always well-served in the CD era, alas. That PJJ date features Ira Sullivan, which made it something of an instabuy for me.
Yes, the "Let ´em roll" is what I was referring to. I didn´t remember the title, but remember the cover now. Sometimes I listen to it in the little hours of a hot summer night, that´s where it fit´s for me.
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1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:
Sonny's RCA period (obviously
), 1962-1964. Particularly, the "The Standard Sonny Rollins" sessions were spread all over June and early-July 1964.
oh, shame on me, that means that his RCA period really spanned over at least two years. And I realized that the first album of Sonny - Cherry was done for RCA, I had known only the live albums of that group in Europe, but must have heard the original at some friends place. You know, others collect, you hear it at some place......
But I remember at some other´s friend´s place, who was the pioneer of Austrian Free Jazz, there was the Rollins from maybe 1964 or was it 1966, anyway something with Hancock and Tony, that´s where my musician friend told me that Sonny had borrowed Miles men when Miles had to lay out due to illness.....
I remember with those free jazz only guys it was also that way, that they stated they don´t play and won´t play regular stuff, not even C-Jam Blues. They wanted me to join them, but I did understand free only as a thing that grew out of let´s say C-Jam blues. So I had to say no......, I´m too deeply rooted in forms of jazz....
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37 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:
Currently delving into the East Broadway loft days chapter (1966).
So you are more into it. I´m just where they talk about the Charlie Parker Influence, I think soon there will be Sonny´s first recording.
About the mid 60´s period I don´t know almost nothing, somehow I have much of Sonny with Don Cherry, that step to avantgarde, and then is a big hole and then the 70´s where I saw him live and bought many of them Milestone records.
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Would be quite a challenge.
Until now the best jazz book with interviews , the one I really like is Art Taylor´s "Notes and Tones".
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4 hours ago, Joe said:
Those many many Grant Green albums, I think I might listen again to one of them. I think the one I loved most was some that was titled after a Rollins composition. "Solid" maybe ?
But I was always astonished about those numerous albums that were under a certain motto, like one is with soul, one is with spirit, one with latin, one even with western and so on. "Music for all occasions", was that how Lion and Wolff wanted to sell his records ?Ah, there is another I love, quite untypical for me it has a Beatles Tune but I love it, or my wife likes it more than other "jazz". But I don´t remember if it was under Hank Mobley´s or Grant Green´s name.
Oh, and there was one with a no horn frontline, with Green, Hutch, and ah..... an organ player.....
The Philly J.J. I remember I saw the cover, it was Galaxy, right ? Somehow it was almost impossible to purchase them, if you didn´t purchase them when they came out. Same with the Red Garland albums for that label. It seems that many former Miles sidemen from the first quintet recorded for that 1970´s label, too bad they seem to be OOP.
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22 hours ago, EKE BBB said:
From what period is that ? Once, at a late friend´s place he spinned some Rollins playing standards like Afternoon in Paris, and some other standards and bop tunes, with a rhythm section that seemed to have been "borrowed" from Miles. Sounded very good. Is this from the same session.
I´m quite uninformed about many labels, but RCA always seemed a bit strange to me. It seems they never had something like their "house artists", like let´s say there were the BN artists, the Prestige artists, Impulse of course, Verve for more mainstream jazz et cetera .
But RCA always pop´s up here and there: Blakey, who was a BN artists, made "Plays Lerner and Lowe" for RCA, Bud, who was first a Verve and than BN artist, made two very very strange albums for RCA, and here Sonny Rollins.13 hours ago, mikeweil said:
I think I remember I must have this somewhere, but I doubt I spinned it more often than once. As much as I remember mine had or still has a little different cover and might have been titled "Byas and the Girls".
I think the only Byas I had and that was a gas and was spinned over and over again was that "Black Lion" album with Anthropology on it.The "Byas and the Girls" sounded outright tame to me in comparation to "Anthropology" or the "Savoy Sessions" (I think this is the other Byas I have ).
Maybe I should give it a try again. I´m not too familiar with them girls. Mary Lou Williams it seems I have read a lot about here, but more in the way that she was a maternal figure who tried to help many strung out guys, and that she was into some kind of religion.....
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19 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Jackie McLean “Demon’s Dance” Blue Note RVG Edition Japan
Woody Shaw! And LaMonte Johnson channeling McCoy Tyner.
It´s one of my favourite albums from that period. They are so great. I think, Woody Shaw´s composition "Sweet Love of Mine" is on that.
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Last week: "More than you know" as performed by Sonny Rollins on Roadtrips Vol. 1 . Amazing !
Yesterday night: " Round Midnight" as done by Joe Henderson on Freddie Hubbard´s "Keystone Bop": It´s a fierce version of the tune, solos in double time....
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17 hours ago, kh1958 said:
1994: Five Guitars Play Mingus at the Fez in the Time Cafe. This was a pleasure to hear.
How much would I have liked to hear this.
It´s interesting that Mingus until "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" was not really involved with guitar players, at least I don´t remember he used them in small bands or touring bands. There is a bit Spanish guitar on "Black Saint" but not really involved in the band playing, more as kind of an interlude here and there.....But Coryell really was involved with Mingus in his last two years of recording. He got much solo space, beside the "Three or Four..." I mostly think about his brilliant playing on "Three Worlds of Drums" and the "Farwell Farewell" with that wonderful solo on that great D flat tune......
So it would be interesting to know what stuff those five guitars played on that occasion you saw them.
One of the most disappointing things that happend with jazz concerts in my youth was when the already scheduled concert tour of late autumn 1977 (it would have been a tour with Larry Coryell and Phillip Caterine to promote his albums). I already had made my plans to travel from Austria to Germany to see the event, it was advertised and all, and then it was cancelled. But at the same time Mingus had made that strange album with Hampton.....
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8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:
I have this one. What impressed me most was the live set from Boston, the rest is a bit uneven. If I remember right there is one private track where someone took the drum chair who is not a drummer and it sounds terrible.
But there is also a short broadcast where Buddy Rich (who is great but not necessarly my favourite) plays some superb brushes behind Eager..... -
14 hours ago, jazzcorner said:
Have that Amsterdam vinyl too. Excellent!
Featuring Billy Harper.
Yes, that´s it.
At Kongresshouse they performed those two tunes, a bit of drum solo feature (Mr. Hi Hat and The Drum also waltzes" plus a fierce version of Round Midnite.
Once thing I remember: The night before, Max Roach who already had arrived came down to Jazzland to hear and greet Art Farmer who performed. The next day, when it was Max Roach´s concert, Farmer was in the audience and greeted by Roach from the stage...... -
18 hours ago, felser said:
Great Concert of... is wonderful, the first full Mingus I ever heard (it was in my college's library browser rack). First Mingus cut I ever heard was "Hora Decubitas" from the wonderful 'Impulse Energy Essentials' sampler collection, which opened so many pathways for me when I picked it up as a brand new jazz convert.
Very similar to my entry in Mingus´ music. When I still was not a jazz fan, maybe 12 or 13, someone had a sampler with Jazz History and the only thing I dug was the last two tracks: "Milestones" from the Miles Davis sextet, and one of Mingus´ late fifties tracks from those albums "Dynasty" or "Ah Um" and that´s where I started to become a jazz fan with ambitions to play myself. So I bought first a Miles Davis album (Steamin´) and then somebody had "Great Concert" but stated that it´s too advanced for him, I gave it a try and that it was !! The best music I had heard in my live util then !
16 hours ago, kh1958 said:The Great Concert is great. At some point I realized that at the time of this concert, my family lived only about 80 miles from Paris--U.S. Army stationed in Orleans. Unfortunately, I was only 6 and not yet a Mingus fan.
Same here in other surroundings: In the summer of 1964 when I was 5 years old, we did our holiday in France, while Bud Powell was performing in a Beach Resort called "Edenville". To bad that I was only 5 and not yet a Powell fan !
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On 11/22/2023 at 12:02 PM, EKE BBB said:
I just started it a few days ago. Got it from my wife. Right now I´m at the point where Sonny first had heard Hawk´s "Body and Soul" and his idols where Louis Jordan and then Hawk.
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18 hours ago, felser said:
Neither is almost everything else everyone's ever recorded. 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' is a desert island disc for me.
What I listen to is very dependent on the certain mood I´m in. Usually I spin "Black Saint" in a warm spring night, when you can open the windows.
But I have not cited it as my very favourite Mingus. If I might keep only one, it would be the 3 LP set "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus", you know Dolphy, Jordan, Byard, Richmond.....
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Just now, soulpope said:
On Baystate Records from 1979 .... outstanding music ....
Did you see Max Roach at Kongresshouse in 1978 ?
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I saw Larry Coryell live in 1979, it was a trio with Alphonse Mouzon on drums and Julius Farmer on electric bass (I think he was Art Farmer´s nephew). Maybe it was a pickup trio, since Alphonse Mouzon and his electric band were also billed at that festival.
It´s an interesting coincidence that also Sonny Rollins was one of the top acts of that festival and it was just a few weeks after Sonny had made that album which features Larry Coryell (Don´t Ask).
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18 hours ago, Pim said:
I have a similar Roach LP, also on Denon I think, they were very expensive. Mine is Live in Amsterdam and had the same personnel I saw live during that period: Cecil Bridgewater, Reggie Workman and Billy Harper.
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10 hours ago, BillF said:
Now playing:
Oh I love it ! Some of my very favourite tunes, like "In Walked Bud", "Evidence".....tunes that were always favourites of mine for set lists since some Monk tune usually is included in a gig.....
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Some great Steve Grossman is on Miles Davis´ last album, that kind of Reunion with old friends in Paris, where they even play some stuff like "Dig", "Out of Blue" and so on. There is an acoustic sextet of Miles, Jackie McLean, Steve Grossman, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Al Foster.....
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Serena and me, at a fancy summer resort just before COVID started.
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11 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Grant Green “Am I Blue?” US RVG Blue Note cd
This one gets little love, but I really do like it myself.
I know, that it gets little love, but I can say there is certain occasions where I like to hear it, especially very very late at night. The title track is just fantastic and really has that after hour feeling.
Usually I listen to recorded music always after midnight, and sometimes, when I don´t want to hear more loud and rhythmic stuff , you know there is nights where you just are in that mood, you love it. -
9 minutes ago, sidewinder said:
A bit late but I've gone for a copy of the LP version of this set. Only have 'Moves' on LP and the Changes 1 and 2 on old CDs so it will be worth it. Have to say that I never originally bought 'Cumbia..' onwards due to the widespread negative reviews at the time. In hindsight, a mistake.
Should be very good Xmas listening along with the Don Byas set ! This era of Charles Mingus was long overdue a decent reissue.
It will be nice to read the booklet in comfortable size without a magnifying glass as well.
I was not aware of negative reviews and I even think, that I heard the long suite Cumbia live BEFORE it was in the record shops. Mingus himself announced it as a "Movie score we just had recorded".
Same with "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" . Well again, I have heard live the title tune, also a kind of suite, but there was no guitars and no two basses." Noddin´ Ya Head Blues" also was performed, but much faster than on the record.
Both albums reflected what Minguts actually performed in those days, but yeah, they are somehow overproduced.
I first was reluctant when I saw the cover of "Three or Four Shades", with all them little fotos of the musicians, and see´n a white young hippie (Corryell) and a white old man (Rowles) didn´t really encourage me. Not that I wouldn´t have dug young hippies (I also had even longer hair at that time) or old gentlemen, I was used to other images of Mingus-Musicians.But the review of "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" in the important magazine "JazzPodium" was positive, even if the only "negative" remark was that it is not as deep or good as "Black Saint and Sinner Lady".
Since sure I love "Black Saint and...." it wouldn´t be my first choice Mingus album anyway, so I was content to read a good review and bought the record.Too bad that the following tour, planned to promote that album, was chancelled because I was prepared to take the album to the concert to get it signed from the Master Himself.
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15 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Started the day off with the breezy sounds of trombonist Vittor Santos “Renewed Impressions/Renovando As Consideracoes” cd on Adventure Music. I love this cd!
Followed by the Verve Acoustic Sounds series Japanese SHM-SACD of “Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.” Sublime sounding disc, music that I have cherished a few decades.
Followed by
“Chico Buarque Songbook Vol. 6” Lumair cd
The Coltrane-Ellington thing I remember I got from Serena, she has that thing she just read the interpret and knew she somehow heard me mention him, and bought it. Funny she knew the name "Coltrane" better then "Elllingon".
The interesting thing is, Ellington is one of my favourite composers and he is compin so fine on the tunes, but other than Monk if he does his or elseone´s composition, I prefer to hear Ellingtons composition played by others. Same like a Dizzy with Basie LP I also got from her. She knew who´s Diz (or better: his cheeks) but had´n heard of Basie, and maybe the instrumentation quartet with Basie is quite thin.
But they are some of the most interesting albums, and the most beautiful of those star-combinations is another one I got from her "Coltrane-Hartman" with that fantastic bop era balladeer..... -
I think I heard him sing "Dinah" once, is that possible ? Liked it, quite of hi pitched voice.
I think he was not the only one with different birth dates.I never knew when Hawk was born: Once I read 1902, or 1904 or even 1906. Anyway .....for the modern bop stuff he played and rote (Dig "Bean ´n the Boys" which I love to play) it´s wonderful how much ahead of his time he was.
But all those senior players like Hawk, Rushing, Basie I see photos of them it seems they never was really young, they always looked a it like old men. Like on that film of Monk playin Blue Monk with Basie just sittin´ there, he really looks like an old man which sure he wasn´t when that old film was made...
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You said it !
When we were that "gang" of 18 year old jazz addicts, I had what we called "the blue Tadd Dameron album", it was a cheap Musidisc titled "Tadd Dameron-Fats Navarro, Birdland 1949" and it´s a super hot set or two sets of bop live.
And on each title there is a nice Dameron solo.
He could play lines as well as fat chords and often started his solo more boppish, but different to Bud, and ended it with fat block chords.
On ballads he had a wonderful sound, and his voicings were unique.
I also had "Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron Paris 1949" and "Tadd Dameron-John Coltrane" on Prestige.
All have very much solo space for Tadd.
And if he would have reacted to the injustice that was done to him (dissed as playing "arranger´s piano") , on "Eb Pob" he plays such a virtuoso solo it would have been equal to Bud. We boys always said he can do it and if he was annoyed by crittics maybe he did that solo on Eb Pob to say "okay if THAT´s what you wanna hear, I can do it easily, but it´s not what I think to do permanently".