rdavenport Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Avoiding the rest of the white album: Yardbirds - first album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Al Cohn 'Four Brass, One Tenor' (RCA Victor, mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Art Blakey, Drum Suite (Philips) Love the MacLean/Hardman/Dockery/De Brest Messengers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Watazumi Doso - The Mysterious Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute (Everest) Okay, it's a stupid album title. But I had been trying to find something by hotchiku flutist Watazumi Doso (or Watazumido-Shuso) after reading these passages by Steve Lacy. It's from the November, 2002 issue of The Wire, reprinted in the book Conversations With Steve Lacy. Doso was a great master for me. I took two lessons from his and studied his music a lot. He's one of the greatest improvisers I've ever heard in my life, maybe the greatest. He was the most modern improviser I've ever heard in my life. He surpassed anybody I could think of, including Braxton, or Derek Bailey. Doso, to me, was just... whew, outside all of that, really. Doso was like... whew, like Charlie Parker compared to all the other alto players, you know. Once I finally found this album, I was afraid (if that's the right word) that I wouldn't "get" it. I know just a little bit about Japanese music, and I have a few shakuhachi recordings. But Watazumi's playing is really stunning - I've never heard anything like it. I'm glad I finally got to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Frank Stokes - Creator of the Memphis Blues - (Yazoo) Roy Smeck - Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele and Guitar 1926-1949 (Yazoo) V.A. - Blues Bottleneck Guitar Classics 1926-1937 (Yazoo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durium Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 MY at random PLAY LIST: herb geller/condoli-vines Keep ( it ) Swinging Durium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Helen Merrill/John Lewis (Mercury) with Hubert Laws, Richard Davis and Connie Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, New York 1957 (Jazz Anthology, Musidisc) Bought in Paris in 1980. Bears a sticker: "19F Prix Maximum"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Watazumi Doso - The Mysterious Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute (Everest) Okay, it's a stupid album title. But I had been trying to find something by hotchiku flutist Watazumi Doso (or Watazumido-Shuso) after reading these passages by Steve Lacy. It's from the November, 2002 issue of The Wire, reprinted in the book Conversations With Steve Lacy. Doso was a great master for me. I took two lessons from his and studied his music a lot. He's one of the greatest improvisers I've ever heard in my life, maybe the greatest. He was the most modern improviser I've ever heard in my life. He surpassed anybody I could think of, including Braxton, or Derek Bailey. Doso, to me, was just... whew, outside all of that, really. Doso was like... whew, like Charlie Parker compared to all the other alto players, you know. Once I finally found this album, I was afraid (if that's the right word) that I wouldn't "get" it. I know just a little bit about Japanese music, and I have a few shakuhachi recordings. But Watazumi's playing is really stunning - I've never heard anything like it. I'm glad I finally got to hear it. So I read your post, the record sounds interesting, and I stopped at HPB on the way home and they had a copy for $4--I wasn't expecting it to be so easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Watazumi Doso - The Mysterious Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute (Everest) Okay, it's a stupid album title. But I had been trying to find something by hotchiku flutist Watazumi Doso (or Watazumido-Shuso) after reading these passages by Steve Lacy. It's from the November, 2002 issue of The Wire, reprinted in the book Conversations With Steve Lacy. Doso was a great master for me. I took two lessons from his and studied his music a lot. He's one of the greatest improvisers I've ever heard in my life, maybe the greatest. He was the most modern improviser I've ever heard in my life. He surpassed anybody I could think of, including Braxton, or Derek Bailey. Doso, to me, was just... whew, outside all of that, really. Doso was like... whew, like Charlie Parker compared to all the other alto players, you know. Once I finally found this album, I was afraid (if that's the right word) that I wouldn't "get" it. I know just a little bit about Japanese music, and I have a few shakuhachi recordings. But Watazumi's playing is really stunning - I've never heard anything like it. I'm glad I finally got to hear it. So I read your post, the record sounds interesting, and I stopped at HPB on the way home and they had a copy for $4--I wasn't expecting it to be so easy. Wow - nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, New York 1957 (Jazz Anthology, Musidisc) Bought in Paris in 1980. Bears a sticker: "19F Prix Maximum"! That would be £1.90 then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, New York 1957 (Jazz Anthology, Musidisc) Bought in Paris in 1980. Bears a sticker: "19F Prix Maximum"! That would be £1.90 then ! I recall that the sour-faced woman who served me made enquiries in the back of the store before releasing it at the marked price!! (Incidentally, it's one hell of a record. IMHO the McLean/Hardman/Dockery/De Brest Messengers just can't be beaten for FIRE!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 Art Blakey with the Jazz Messengers (CBS twofer) Still can't get enough of that band: "Cranky Spanky", "Stanley's Stiff Chickens", etc! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostber Posted August 4, 2010 Report Share Posted August 4, 2010 (edited) Charles Brown - One More For The Road (Demon) Brilliant album from 1986 recorded in New York with Billy Butler, Harold Ousley, Earl May and Kenny Washington in the band. Edited August 4, 2010 by jostber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Charles Brown - One More For The Road (Demon) Brilliant album from 1986 recorded in New York with Billy Butler, Harold Ousley, Earl May and Kenny Washington in the band. Very fine record. His best later years recording - by far - imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 William Ackerman - The Search for the Turtle's Navel - (Windham Hill, orig paste-on) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Hank Mobley - Reach Out! - (BN Liberty orig) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, New York 1957 (Jazz Anthology, Musidisc) Bought in Paris in 1980. Bears a sticker: "19F Prix Maximum"! That would be £1.90 then ! I recall that the sour-faced woman who served me made enquiries in the back of the store before releasing it at the marked price!! (Incidentally, it's one hell of a record. IMHO the McLean/Hardman/Dockery/De Brest Messengers just can't be beaten for FIRE!) These Musidisc releases were available for a song in several Paris stores after Musidisc went down under! Now spinning: George Russell 'Jazz in the Space Age' (Decca, stereo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Martial Solal 'Thesolosolal' (MPS France) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Hank Mobley, Far Away Lands (Blue Note/Capitol/DMM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Sonny Criss/Gerald Wiggins/Erroll Garner/Stan Getz - A Crown mishmash, with two tracks from 1947 Just Jazz concerts and two tracks by the Teddy Edwards Quartet (with Wiggins) from 1959/60. Garner is not even on any of these recordings, although he did play at least one of the Just Jazz concerts this is drawn from. This was the first issue of the Edwards tracks. Poorly recorded, poorly pressed, poorly put together - but some excellent music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 John Graas - Premiere in Jazz (Andex) I really like Jazz Symphony No. 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Chubby Jackson 'Live' (Mopaque) Outstanding broadcasts from the Royal Roost by the outstanding Chubby Jackson 1949 big band (with relentless drumming by Tiny Kahn!). God bless Boris Rose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavenport Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers (Jazzland) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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