montg Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 I just ordered Pops' California Concerts, which got me thinking about live recordings and those I like the best. Top tier live sessions have to have at least two qualities for me--first, they have to be well recorded (well-balanced, can hear the bass etc) and there has to be a really good vibe. Two favorites of mine are Monk, 'Live at the it Club'--well recorded and, for some reason, I just get the sense that Monk was in a really happy, dancing mood on these sets Basie Live in Sweden (Roullette/Mosaic)--again, well-recorded and the band is just crackling with energy. Great to hear Basie's band, especially the two Franks and Thad Jones, stretching out. What are some other favorites? Quote
Guy Berger Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 I just ordered Pops' California Concerts, which got me thinking about live recordings and those I like the best. Top tier live sessions have to have at least two qualities for me--first, they have to be well recorded (well-balanced, can hear the bass etc) and there has to be a really good vibe. Two favorites of mine are Monk, 'Live at the it Club'--well recorded and, for some reason, I just get the sense that Monk was in a really happy, dancing mood on these sets Basie Live in Sweden (Roullette/Mosaic)--again, well-recorded and the band is just crackling with energy. Great to hear Basie's band, especially the two Franks and Thad Jones, stretching out. What are some other favorites? Assuming we are sticking only to official releases, some favorites: John Coltrane, 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings John Coltrane, A Love Supreme live Miles Davis, Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 Miles Davis, Live at the Fillmore: It's About That Time (March 7 1970) Weather Report, Live in Tokyo Quote
John B Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 (edited) Mingus - Antibes Miles - Agharta / Pangea Brotzmann - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts 1 & 2 Brotzmann - WELS concert Brotzmann - Empty Bottle DKV Trio - WELS / Chicago Ayler - Fondation Maeght Dave Holland - Extended Play Braxton - Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 Braxton - Quintet (Basel) 1977 Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues Cecil - Willisau Jimmy Smith - Club Baby Grand 1 & 2 Jimmy Smith - Cool Blues Edited October 11, 2004 by John B Quote
ralphie_boy Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 Woody Shaw - Stepping Stones Monk - At The Blackhawk Braxton - Dortmund Quote
catesta Posted October 11, 2004 Report Posted October 11, 2004 Some for me... Count Basie at Newport (1957) Duke Ellington at Newport (1956) Duke's band also kicked ass on Ella and Duke at the Cote D' Azur Horace Silver - Doin' The Thing Quote
jlhoots Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 (edited) Rollins At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans At The Village Vanguard Edited October 12, 2004 by jlhoots Quote
LAL Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 In no particular order: 1940s JATP Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts 1969 All Star Tribute to Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong at Symphony Hall Duke at Fargo Miles - Complete Concert '64: My Funny Valentine + Four & More Capt. John Handy - All Aboard Quote
montg Posted October 12, 2004 Author Report Posted October 12, 2004 Duke Ellington at Newport (1956) I haven't really warmed up to this, which reflects poorly on me, I know, because it's a classic. Maybe it's the weird way it starts--Phil Schaap has the Star spangled banner and two fairly long talks by Fr. O'Connor in the first six tracks. Then Duke's festival suite doesn't do much for me either. Things don't really start cooking, for me, until Schaap's solo. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Basie at the Chatterbox Diz and Bird - Town Hall '45 Bird Rockland Palace Bird quartet DC 53 Hawk and Roy - "Opera House" Rollins Vanguard Trane Vanguard Miles Nickle Ornette Croyden Hall Ayler Cellar Cafe, etc Roscoe Willisau more to come........... Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Lots of those mentioned above, plus the Ira Sullivan "Bird Lives!" concert on VeeJay from 3/12/62, with Nicky Hill, Jodie Christian, Donald Garrett, Wilbur Campbell, and Dorel Anderson (what a moment in time that was), and the "Bud Powell Trio, Birdland '53 Vol. 1" (I have it on Fresh Sound), with fantastic Bud and a mindboggling Roy Haynes solo on "Salt Peanuts" that might be the best thing he ever did. Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Also the Bird, Bud, Fats Navarro "One Night at Birdland" material from 1950, a week before Navarro died of TB (which seems impossible when you hear the way he's playing). Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Don't want to mislead anybody. Of the ones I've mentioned above, only the Sullivan "Bird Lives!" is decently recorded. Quote
Dr. Rat Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Don't want to mislead anybody. Of the ones I've mentioned above, only the Sullivan "Bird Lives!" is decently recorded. That the one that just got issued on CD a couple of years ago? --eric Quote
Jim R Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Some great ones already mentioned, plus... Dexter Gordon - Swiss Nights Eddie Davis / Johnny Griffin - the Live at Minton's recordings Kenny Burrell - Live at the Village Vanguard Stan Getz - The Dolphin / Spring Is Here Sarah Vaughan - at Tivoli, 1963 Wes Montgomery - Full House Brown / Roach - at Basin Street Stanley Turrentine - Up At Minton's ... and many others... Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Live @ the VV: Trane, Sonny, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, etc. Maybe it should be a national monument? Ellington @ Fargo Goodman @ Carnegie Hall Clifford Brown Beginning & End (the End part, even if it wasn't quite) Albert Ayler Prophesey, etc. (over Spiritual Unity) Miles @ the Plugged Nickel (but I'd love to hear > of '67) Monk Big Band & Quartet Mingus @ Antibes Parker Summit Meeting @ Birdland w/Diz, Bud & Roy H, over Massey Hall non jazz: Dylan at the Royal Albert (sic) Costello @ the El Mocombo Allman Bros @ Fillmore Jimi all over the place, 'cause he was all over the place live, running hot and cold from tune to tune but when he was on... James Brown at the Apollo (Oct '62) Ray Charles in Atlanta on Atlantic Howlin' Wolf in Cambridge (piss poor sound, but stomping...) the Band Rock of Ages, over Last Waltz by a mile Quote
SEK Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Ed Blackwell - "What It Is?" (The Ed Blackwell Project, Vol.1, 1992) Paul Bley - "Axis" (1977) Don Cherry - "Live at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, 1986 John Coltrane - At The Village Vanguard, November 1961 Miles Davis - "No Blues" (Paris, 1967) Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Abdullah Ibrahim - "Autobiography" (Nyon Jazz Festival, 1978) Clifford Jordan - "Epistrophy/Now's the Time" (Muse) Steve Lacy-Roswell Rudd Quartet - "School Days" (1963) Charles Mingus - "Mingus at Antibes" Thelonious Monk- "Thelonious In Action" and "Misterioso" (At The Five Spot, August 1958) Randy Weston - "Carnival" (Montreux, 1974) Quote
brownie Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Albert Ayler 'Bells' Kenny Dorham at Cafe Bohemia Grant Green 'Live at Lighthouse' Charles Mingus 'The Paris Concert' Lee Morgan 'Live at Lighthouse' Bud Powell at the Golden Circle Barney Wilen At Club Saint-Germain Other favorites have already been mentioned. Quote
brownie Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Oops, he has not been mentioned yet? The best of them all. RAHSAN! RAHSAN! All of his live recordings... With as special fondness for the Newport tracks from 'Volunteered Slavery' and the Montreux performance 'I, Eye, Aye' Quote
JohnJ Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Recently picked up the complete Art Pepper at the Village Vanguard. Powerful stuff and fast becoming a favourite. Quote
doubleM Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Keith Jarrett, Koln Concert (sp). Quote
Clunky Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 Basie at the Chatterbox Bird quartet DC 53 what lable etc are these two ? Quote
king ubu Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 the Chatterbox is on some grey labels, GREAT music! Lester Young in full flight, certainly among my favourite live recordings, as well! Some others (many or all already mentioned, I suppose): - Bill Evans Vanguard (with LaFaro & Motian) - Coltrane Vanguard 61 - Monk: Misterioso & In Action dates - Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti - CT: Willisau - Ayler: Prophecy - Mingus: all the 64 Europe material - Barney Wilen at Saint Germain ("Barney" + more) - the great Dolphy/Little/Waldron/Davis/Blackwell live date - Art Pepper Vanguard 9CD box - Randy Weston: Monterey 66 - Randy Weston: Carnival - Randy Weston: that great solo piano Freedom LP recorded in Zurich - Abdullah Ibrahim: Yarona - Duke at Newport '56 - Sonny Rollins Village Vanguard - Sam Rivers, Portrait - Albert Ayler, Hilversum Session - Stan Getz at Storyville - Massey Hall Concert I'm sure I missed many a favourite... Quote
king ubu Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 some more: - Miles Plugged Nickel - Parker-Guy-Lytton at the Vortex - Italian Instabile Festival (2CD set on Leo) - Cecil Taylor: Two Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza 10CD box) - Miles: Carnegie Hall 1961 (LOVE it!) - Monk at the It Club - Von Freeman, The Improvisor & At the Dakota - Irene Schweizer: Chicago Piano Solo - Ahmad Jamal: the few of his Argo/Chess sides I know still missing many, I guess Quote
jazzbo Posted October 12, 2004 Report Posted October 12, 2004 The stereo recording from Le Cave in Cleveland by Ayler's group that appears as disc four in the Ayler box from Revenant is fast becoming a favorite. I love the sound of simple and direct recordings like this. And the playing is wonderful! Quote
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