Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[sidewinder]

‘Another Story’ is a real favourite of mine - very nice sounding album.

[jeffcrom]

Contours from the Sam Rivers Complete Blue Note Sessions

[ghost of miles]

[ghost of miles]

[Bluesnik]

I love to hear Hall behind Brookmeyer or the other way round (even with Brookmeyer on piano). And The street swingers is the pick in the lot included here. At least to me.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Bluesnik

[Stereojack]

I had all the LP's back in the day, but it's nice to become reacquainted with this music.

[mikeweil]

[Brad]

Disc 4. Not too big on the Glenn Miller selections. Only three, fortunately. 

[jeffcrom]

 

The Jimmy Giuffre 3, from the Capitol/Atlantic box, programmed in the original track order. Just gorgeous.

[jeffcrom]

The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet, also from the Mosaic big box, and also programmed in the original track order, which is the only way this album makes sense.

[JohnS]

3 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet, also from the Mosaic big box, and also programmed in the original track order, which is the only way this album makes sense.

Nice one Jeff.   The JImmy Giuffre Clarinet was one of my first buys back in the day.

[ghost of miles]

[jeffcrom]

   

Two very different albums from the Larry Young Blue Note box: Contrasts and Grant Green's I Want to Hold Your Hand.

Edited September 21, 2018 by jeffcrom

[Brad]

18 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

   

Two very different albums from the Larry Young Blue Note box: Contrasts and Grant Green's I Want to Hold Your Hand.

I haven’t given it much thought but I wonder how many jazz versions there are of Beatie songs (having recently listened to Organissimo’s album). 

[JSngry]

At least one!

 

[Brad]

That’s a travesty.  

[ghost of miles]

[JSngry]

23 minutes ago, Brad said:

That’s a travesty.  

How so?

[Larry Kart]

23 minutes ago, JSngry said:

How so?

Indeed. I assume the altoist is Ernie Watts, but who is the trombonist?

[Brad]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

How so?

There’s something about Buddy Rich that is so uncool and square playing a song like Norwegian Wood.  They just don’t go together. Like I said, a travesty. 

[paul secor]

I agree with Brad. It sounded like lounge type crap to me.

[JSngry]

I don't know what kind of lounges you guys have gone to. Ah, I forgot, Buddy Rich, haters gonna hate.

That's I fine, y'all do Buddy Rich, I do Oscar Peterson, y'all do Buddy Rich, the difference being that Buddy Rich wasn't fake.

Here's some jazzlounge Beatles, but I don't think it's  a travesty either, not with legs like that

 

[JSngry]

 

Is a hookah bar a lounge?

 

[Brad]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I don't know what kind of lounges you guys have gone to. Ah, I forgot, Buddy Rich, haters gonna hate.

That's I fine, y'all do Buddy Rich, I do Oscar Peterson, y'all do Buddy Rich, the difference being that Buddy Rich wasn't fake.

Here's some jazzlounge Beatles, but I don't think it's  a travesty either, not with legs like that.

 

That's pretty awful stuff, but it's Jackie and Roy.  The Liebman cut wasn't bad; it has feeling  

Try to deflect all you want but I guess that wasn't sufficient; you had to throw in a sexist comment. Whatever works for you. You love Buddy, good for you. That Norwegian Wood version is terrible, no matter how you cut it.  

Edited September 23, 2018 by Brad

[JSngry]

Those were great legs, those leggings or colored hosiery, whatever they were, very striking, very stylish. I applaud the fashion, nothing sexist about it at all, unless appreciating fashion is sexist.

I don't love Buddy Rich, god knows. But yeah, the guy drove, he was Tony Williams before there was a real Tony Williams.

Here's the deal - They played NW as a jazz waltz, as a 6/8 swinger. If you didn't know it was a Beatles tune, you'd not hear it as a "jazz version of a Beatles tune". So your mind is already thinking one thing, telling your ears what you're going to hear before you even hear it. We all do it, but it's fucked up, it's lazy thinking, and it's why we're all so easily manipulated by image and "culture". Buddy's driving that band like a man possessed, and they're more than up to the task (except for the guitarist who muffs the ending and knows it right away, he looks at Buddy in near fear!), and oh, it's A Beatles song, that's a travesty. No - the travesty is that we already know what to hear before it's even heard. And then we actually hear nothing. Nothing.

Here's a bit more of a travesty, although again, a helluva band. But 4/4? Seriously?

All this to answer the question of how many jazz versions of Beatles songs there have been, and the answer is quite a few actually. Quite a few.