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9 hours ago, John Tapscott said:
I have a late J.J.Johnson record titled "Pinaccle" which was very much discussed and praised when it came out. As much as I remember , J.J. after he had disappeared from the jazz scene where he had been so super active, was the much awaited "Yokohama Concert" which is fantastic, and the "Pinaccle", also fantastic.
Is "Vivian" in a similar style, I mean a mixture of straight ahead and jazzrock tunes ?
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The best from the Band of the midseventies.
The Viena Gig back then was about the first live music I heard.
All of them are great. My favourite was Al Foster. Mtume fantastic, a lot of great trumpet by Miles, and the one and only Dave Liebman, I became a big fan of Liebman right from the spot.
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32 minutes ago, HutchFan said:
I don´t think I have that, since I try not to have too many records of one kind of music or interpret, but I know I must have some of them very long blues tracks with players like Trane, Chambers, Art Taylor with some wonderful block accord solos of Red Garland. I like the way he voices his chords , maybe some here in the forum like other pianists more (Horace, Kenny Drew, Ray Bryant), but those voicings helped me a lot. I have listened very very intensely to them....
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I must admit I am not familiar with the music of Ahmad Jamal, I may have read hundreds of times his name, but my first few Davis LP´s or better said maybe a kind of sampler anyway had some tracks with the Trane-Garland combination, maybe the "Walkin" from the middle period with Wayne, Herbie, Ron and Tony and some early electric. So this was my first info and the first music of the old styled Miles Davis I heard.
I remember, when I heard somewhere the original version of "Walkin´" I didn´t like it very much, because in my fast youth only the fast versions of the second quinted counted, I thought about the 1954 Walkin as a "lame duck"......dumb yeah, but I was a kid......1 hour ago, soulpope said:Regarding Red Garland the "cocktail pianist : wouldn't this perception also apply to Ahmad Jamal (at least until his Impulse recordings) .... btw I love Ahmad Jamal and Red Garland is on these Miles Davis Quintet Prestige recordings just perfect ....
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12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
While I usually enjoy Red Garlands playing, referring to him as a "cocktail pianist" is something I can understand.
There were many jazz pianists who, in my opinion, were far more interesting soloists than Garland in the 50's.
Horace Silver, Barry Harris, Sonny Clark, Hampton Hawes, Tommy Flanagan, Ray Bryant, Kenny Drew and Hank Jones would be fine examples.
Interesting point of view.
Horace Silver is on most pre-quintet recordings with Miles, especially important on "Walking".
Tommy Flanagan as I think I remember is only on one strage session, when the quintet already existed (with Rollins, I think on Collectors Items)Ray Briant is very very nice on the Miles Davis - Milt Jackson album.
Kenny Drew, I hear his very Bud Powell influenced piano on that supa allstar bop sessions at Birdland just at the beginning of the 50´s .
Hampton Hawes, maybe he played with Bird and Miles in LA in the mid fourties.I don´t think there is recordings with Barry Harris or Sonny Clark or Hank Jones together with Miles....who knows....
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13 hours ago, Roger Farbey said:
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
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This is great and those records together with Jackie McLeans´s "One Stop Beyond" and "Destination Out" are very similar. Same lineup alto, vibes, trombone.....
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12 hours ago, John Tapscott said:
"Affinity" and "We Get Requests" are two different albums. Here's another cover for Affinity, which is the better record IMHO.
Incredible, Peterson here looks so similar to Bud Powell in the mid 60´s it´s astonishing. Look at the series of photos of Bud in that late stage of his career, fat, silly grinnin, the eternal cigarette, really like Peterson here, but another personality probably.....
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16 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:
Juini Booth, yeah. Saw him a couple times in the early 00s, great player and could probably (weed) smoke any of us under the table.
That´s how I saw him at Jazz Spelunke.
It was during his stint with Beaver Harris and I think they had a day off and Joony Booth came in, and he was in company of a middle aged lady from Viena, who kind of spoke for him and translated to him. The question was, if there is a place that night where he can jam with some musicians. I remember he smoked a cigarette that looked like those hand made cigarettes some people smoke (I never was able to roll a cigarette, when I tried they looked like a snake that had eaten a rat. Well I didn´t know anything about weed and as receptive I was for harmful stuff like beer and booze, and have been smoking for 50 years (or even 51,52 if I really started at 13 on school toalet) , but never had the urge to smoke other stuff than tobaco.
But back to Joony Booth : He came to Spelunke with that austrian lady who translated and they were not allowed to have live music later than until 10:00 pm because it was a building where other people had their appartments, so it was live only from 07:30 pm until 10:00, otherwise I would have been glad to jam with him.
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Is there some live recordings of Eastern Rebellion AFTER the 3 that was with Cliff Jordan, I mean with the saxophonists that played later ? Because it might not be bad to hear one time the stuff with George Coleman and with Bob Berg (I doubt I saw him live with the exception of his stint with Miles). But I mostly need live performances to enjoy music (on live recordings usually you hear the drums better and you must hear everything Billy Higgin´s is doing). Anyway I think the one I have at home with Cliff Jordan was back than when I was browsing thru some LPs and found that one and bought it, because I had known Cliff from "my" Mingus Album, and Higgins from my Ornette Coleman album as well as from my Sonny Rollins album. He was my favourite drummer then !!!!! (I went to see George Coleman Quartet because of Billy Higgins !!!!!)
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7 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:
potential, at least for Coltrane, Chambers, and Philly Joe. I never really felt Garland was all that interesting but it has been years since I listened to him with any level of concentration. My piano sense has gotten better over time, and I might hear him differently now.
Listen to the way he voices his chords. I have learned a lot from that.
8 hours ago, ghost of miles said:Via the booklet for the box set of Davis' Prestige quintet recordings:
In his liner notes to Steamin', Joe Goldberg wrote that many listeners initially felt that the quintet was comprised of "a trumpet player who could play only in the middle register and fluffed half his notes; an out-of-tune tenor player; a cocktail pianist; a drummer who played so loud that nobody else could be heard; and a teenage bassist."
The "Steamin´ album was very much around here in Europe, but with another cover than the original !!! @Big Beat Steve knows more than me about Liner Notes or different album covers I am sure !
I think I remember that I have read that phrase that Mr. Goldberg is quoting. But I must admit, my English was even weaker when I was a kid...... but I remember that others had read the liner notes and while listening to a Garner solo (I think it was the one on "Well you Needn´t") one kid exclaimed "not bad for a guy who started as a cocktail piano player". I didn´t even know what a cocktail is !!!! I don´t remember that anybody as well as in Viena, as well as in Eastern Europe drank anything else than beer, wine and vodca or schnapps made from the usual garden fruits......😄
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Miles heard exactly WHAT he wanted to hear. He saw Trane´s potential very early and made him grow and grow. And he loved Garland for his Ahmad Jamal thing and his block chords, and Philly J.J. was the best thing that happend to drums during his time, he was the father of them all, of Elvin, Tony, Al, all of ´em.
And Chambers was also the best bassist of his time, he was the foundation of modern jazz bass.
So I don´t know how dumb folks could be then, but Miles was right. Period. And for me he had the best bands in the 50´s , 60´s , 70´s and even in the EARLY 80´s..... -
3 hours ago, soulpope said:
Nice Cover Photography .... btw was sort of a "showcase platter" with Hi-Fi aficionados for some time ....
I think this was it. Friends of my parents had a son who was more interested in Hi-Fi than in music, but he had this LP.
Cover nice.....well typical Peterson grin
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2 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:
Have it with this coverart
though I definitly am NOT an OP fan, this one I have spinned sometimes, because it is not so overwhelming, like let´s say "Night Train". OI think "We Get Requests" and "Nighttrain" I had heard on some of those houses of upper class who heared classical but had "hidden" one Peterson or Garner LP.
But let´s say, there is a few occasion where I have "bock" to hear some pieces like this, maybe if I am tired and lazy and don´t want to thing primarly about music.
The third one I like most, and got from Serena is "In Tune" with the Singers Unlimited. That´s also cool because it does not have this Peterson banging the whole 88 keys.....
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4 hours ago, felser said:
Go out immediately online and order this CD to hear peak Lawrence!
Oh yes I have some McCoy on Milestone, but it must be from some years later, so from 1977 on, when I began to be more interested in acoustic mainstream. But I must admit I have very very little acoustic jazz from the early 70´s, it was not so much around then. But what I read here from the personnel sounds very very great.
Joony Booth is or was a helluway bassist, and I had heard Alphonse Mouzon with his great Electric Band, and maybe later even with acoustic artists, I think Chet Baker .... -
7 minutes ago, soulpope said:
Great Cover Photography .... btw Steve Ellington (!) ....
I have only the Dimensions-Inventions, which was among my first jazz albums back then, but I never heard him play standards.
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1 hour ago, jazzbo said:
Ronnie Stevenson, Rick Laird, Stan Tracey.
Well Stan Tracey I know well and he was on this forum I think.
But about bass and drums I knew some great british drummers from that period, Tony Crombie on drums, and the legendary John Heart or so on bass, they was great. They had and have great musicians.
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30 minutes ago, jazzbo said:
Earl Coleman “There’s Something About An Old Love” Xanadu LP
Ted Dunbar is a highlight here as he always is.
I remember two of the tunes here were presented by Austrian Radio Jazz DJ Herwig Wurzer (the Austrian "Symphony Sid") in the 70´s . I never saw the record but I like the voice.
It´s strange, I´m crazy ´bout sharp lookin woman, but to hear jazz vocal I prefer male vocals, Billy Eckstine, and of course Earl Coleman, and the Johnny Hartman with Coltrane. I think the Earl Coleman with Rollins is beautiful, I would have liked to hear a whole album of it. Besides the Charlie Parker Dial album I also like the Fats Navarro album where Earl Coleman sings I think it´s 4 songs.
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17 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Rollins, right ? Who is the sidemen ?
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I think I only have his name on Miles´ Dark Magus, but it seems I listened more to Dave Liebman on that record.
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17 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Johnny Coles “Little Johnny C” Blue Note 85th Anniversary UHQCD Japan
Alto Saxophone, Flute – Leo Wright
Bass – Bob Cranshaw
Drums – Pete La Roca, Walter Perkins
Piano – Duke Pearson
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
Trumpet – Johnny ColesIt´s a nice record, I think there is a little ballad dedicated to his baby daughter on it, which is very very nice.
But I have not listened to it for decades. My only more touch to Johnny Coles seems to be on the Mingus recordings with Dolphy and Cliff Jordan.
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On 6/20/2024 at 5:29 PM, JSngry said:
Could you put a few samples of something up on your website?
Dear Jim !
You are right, this is missing.
Well me myself I can´t put anything on my website, because my photograf/webdesigner is doing that job. She told me if we put soundcloud I wouldn´t get a cent for my compositions from the Austrian Asociation of Composers (AKM) but on Spotify I will.
My bass player who has his website from the same designer has his tunes on spotify direct on his homepage and that´s what I intend to do as soon as the boss of the label get´s the okay from spotify Austria. Only he has the authority to do it, and usually we have to wait 14 days until Spotify Austria gives the ok .So very very soon it will be.
I want people to hear the whole stuff , I couldn´t decide what to edit or how many seconds a short "taste" of the music might can need.....
Finally , I´m just the "music maker", I play , I compose (write down with the help of others since my writing is only rudimentary), with very very little knowledge about anything else .
As soon as I get news from Mr Guschelbauer from Alessa -Records (ALR) and from my webmaster/photograph/designer, I will let it know you !
Sincerly Gh.
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14 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
ERIC DOLPHY - AT THE FIVE SPOT - COMPLETE EDITION
Just so good.
Last year we had "Fire Waltz" in our repertory, it was Allan Praskin´s wish to play it and it sounded great !
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10 hours ago, mjzee said:
The liner notes to Last Date (Limelight) say "Eric Dolphy had arrived in Berlin from Paris on June 27. He was four days behind schedule as he hadn't been feeling too well, and Leo Wright was subbing for him. Two days later, on June 29th, Eric died suddenly and unexpectedly. Leo was here in July, and he told me that he reached the hospital at ten past seven in the evening, just ten minutes after Eric died. The doctors told Leo later that Eric died of diabetes, and had probably never suspected his condition." So there at least is one first hand account: Leo Wright recounting what the doctors told him.
I knew Leo Wright well but didn´t talk to him about Dolphy. So maybe I would have had more infos.
The only thing I can say is that Dolphy was the FIRST alto I heard and my first love for that instrument. I heard Dolphy without even knowing who was Bird.....
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1 hour ago, Guy Berger said:
Lots of recordings of Miles with the Cosey band, from 1973 through 1975, a few of which have been officially released.
i haven’t listened to this period closely - are these Brazilian recordings better than average, in terms of either content or sound quality?
There’s also a recording from Rio, I believe.
I have listened closely to that special period and have seen Miles in Vienna with that Band. I was just 14 so this was maybe the first concert I went out to see. Though I had heard some acoustic Miles before that on record (Walkin´ done in the 60´s with his so called "2-nd Quintet", the transition to electric and funk rhythms was the most natural thing for people who lived then.
So it´s natural I have a special interest in the music they played then.
Anyway, we shouldn´t complain, this period is well documentated with 3 live double LPs.
But from what I had heard on youtube the Sao Paolo Gig really was something special, it´s a wonderful intro into that tune in Bb-minor, which I think was called "Funk".
Miles usually started with "Turnaround Phrase" (like on Panghea), but sometimes with "Funk" (like on Agharta).About sound quality I´m not the smartest guy, since my hearing is not so well after 50 years of playing music. I want it if it captures the sound of the live event, I don´t care for let´s say some distortions, because the live situation is so hip.....
Marshall Allen in The New Yorker
in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I have been a big Sun Ra fan all my live and had loved Marshall Allen´s playing just on my first Sun Ra record "Nothing Is". Have seen Marshall Allen in the late 70´s with Sun Ra live, and later as leader of the Arkestra. Love his alto sound and his strange oboe on "Nothing Is" for example.