cello in jazz

[Bright Moments]

Dave Douglas has worked on a couple of projects with a cellist named Peggy Lee (no, not HER). I like what I've heard of her on albums like "Mountain Passages."

enjoyed this one but not so much for the cello. would like to track down some of the recommended peggy lee though.

Edited July 8, 2006 by Bright Moments

[Bright Moments]

thanks ubu!!!

welcome! back from undercover... if you want to check out Schütz or rather the great Koch-Schütz-Studer gang, I'd go for "Heavy Cairo Traffic", their meeting with traditional egyptian musicians - a great disc! I think it's on the Intuition label - I have no idea if you can find that in the US... but you should find it somewhere on the net, I suppose.

enjoyed heavy cairo traffic!!

can't find "acceleration"

[Bright Moments]

ron carter plays cello on this one!!!!

[Bright Moments]

all i can say about this one is WOW!!!

thanks lon!

[Bright Moments]

i am REALLY digging this, but don't just take my word for it!

from the web page http://www.spoolmusic.com/framesmain.HTML :

What the critics are saying:

Not so long ago, the cello was one instrument left out on the doorstep of jazz, if not most improvised musics. But times have changed! Indeed, this instrument's role has blossomed in recent years and who cannot acknowledge the sterling artistry of Ernst Reijsiger, the equally remarkable playing of Eric Friedlander, even the sheer resourcefulness of the late Tom Cora? To this growing list, one must equally include the now Vancouver resident, Peggy Lee …

Marc Chenard, Program notes for the 1999 Festival Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville.

With her ddeply sonorous instrument in hand, Lee has more-than-shared the stage with creative improvisors from all over the world: Joelle Leandre, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Susie Ibarra, and Barre Phillips to name but a few. Her playing blends grace and precision, yet when the music demands it she can be equally challenging and vibrant.

Jon Morgan, Signal to Noise

She can scrape and stridulate as required, but her cello playing also grants due place to clarity of line and sweetness of tone. Both aspects of Lee's musical character inform her compositions and their performance by an entirely sympathetic sextet.

Julian Cowley, The Wire

As a jazz cellist, Lee is almost in a league of her own... Devoted to her own compositions, this disc will only increase her profile - it's a stunner. [The group] execute the lush material with nearly-telepathic ensemble playing. Hear tunes from one of the year's best jazz records ...

Stuart Derdeyn, The Province

This self-titled album on Spool Records' improv series is a masterwork of skill and innovation. The music is a blend of pop, classical and jazz, but in the most original manner I've heard. She's helped out by other great musicians, especially Brad Turner on trumpet and flugelhorn and Jeremy Berkman on trombone. Both stimulating and relaxing.

Lara, Pop Boffin

The musicians devote themselves to exploring every facet of Lee's complex and evocative compositions; from Wilson's scratchy free-play to Turner's burnished lines, their solo statements are wonderfully personal, but always bear some relationship to the source material at hand. And Lee's tunes are as distinctive as her own rich cello sound: drawing on the jazz avant garde, contemporary chamber sounds, folk music, and even rock, they ebb and flow with an almost oceanic grace ...

Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

Vancouver is a hotbed of improvised music, with one of its most interesting experimenters being this sextet led by cellist Peggy Lee which draws from different genres -- modern trumpeter Brad Turner, electric bass funkster Chris Tarry and avant garde percussionist Dylan van der Schyff, for example. With trombonist Jeremy Berkman and Tony Wilson's electric guitar adding fierce "outside" forays, the Lee compositions veer between wild extravagance and spacey deconstruction, and sometimes examine futuristic group dynamics.

Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star

Cellist Peggy Lee is a musician whose every phrase seems to contain fresh inspiration. An adept reader and improvisor, she is ever popular with musicians because of the consistent artistic integrity she brings to music. She is popular with Vancouver audiences because of the warmth and sincerity she projects through music. It is hard to slot The Peggy Lee Band into any kind of musical category, a mark of excellence that makes me give this CD the highest recommendation to music lovers.

Laurence M. Svirchev, Planet Jazz

Perhaps the most effective trait Lee shows on this debut recording is her scope as an arranger. She positions the various textures in her band to great effect and combines instruments to create rich tapestries of sound...This sumptuous recording will introduce listeners to the depth of exciting contemporary music being created in Vancouver.

James Halle, Ottawa Citizen

Peggy Lee Band At Performance Works on Friday, June 25, 1999;

Lee has won an international following for the strength and beauty of her improvisational style: she's fearless and sweet, just as likely to sing her heart out in a rhapsodic melody as she is to plunge headfirst into a gnarly exploration of knotty chords...Lee's compositional style is just as adventurous and diverse...her particular compositional gift is evinced in the way her pieces flow, as if in a dream, from one form to another. Her melodies slide in and out of abstraction; skewed marches butt up against folksongs; chamber-music niceties crumble under the assault of funk and psychedelia… Lee plunders all the musical resources available to her, but always in the service of emotional exploration.

Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

Since Peggy Lee and Dylan van der Schyff's cd, "These Are Our Shoes" was my favorite cd of 1998, The Peggy Lee Band was a natural choice for kicking off the [Du Maurier Vancouver International Jazz] festival for me. My expectations were high, and I was not disappointed. Lee's playing is always both sensitive and passionate, and she's aligned herself here with some of the best musicians in Vancouver… A definite festival highlight.

David MacLeod, The Jazz Asylum.

Produced by Peggy Lee and Shawn Pierce.Recorded and mixed by Shawn Pierce at Blue Wave Productions, Vancouver BC, for Maximum Music Ltd.

[Bright Moments]

morelenbaum - casa

OH YEAH!!!!!

[Bright Moments]

and:

[Jim R]

morelenbaum - casa

OH YEAH!!!!!

and:

Glad you discovered those. Did you ever check out the YouTube videos of Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto that I posted near the beginning of this thread? Here they are again: M2/S videos - Jobim music

[Bright Moments]

[Peter Friedman]

Aside from the two Sam Jones Riverside recordings on cello, Sam also did one for Xanadu.

It is titled:

Sam Jones - Cello Again - Xanadu with Barry Harris, David Williams(b),Sam Jones(cello), Billy Higgins.

Unfortunately it has not been re-issued on CD.

[Jazz Kat]

Eldee Young with Ramsey Lewis! He makes that cello groove!

[tatifan]

Fred Lonberg-Holm is very active in very diverse projects. I really enjoyed his duo with Carlos Zingaro (violin) released on his own Flying Aspidistra label this year.

Wow, there's a name from my past! I went to high school with Fred in north Wilmington, DE! Not only that, but cello was my second instrument (still playing the piano for my livelihood), and I played in our modest school orchestra (seated ahead of Fred, actually). I had not heard that he was known as a jazz cellist, nor heard anything of him these nearly 30 years!

[jostber]

A couple more here:

Karen Bredberg - http://karenjazzcello.com/

Harry Babasin - http://www.onoffon.com/harrythebear.html

Akua Dixon - http://www.jazzbows.com/akuadixon/akuascareerhighlights.html

Gideon Freudmann - http://www.cellobop.com/bio.htm

[Big Beat Steve]

Strange that not much mention has been made of Oscar Pettiford.

And then there are Harry Babasin's 50s "Jazzpickers" groups on Mode and EmArcy.

[andybleaden]

My fav was always Doug Watkins Soulnik which I thought was really different and new. I did not know as ewll he had only just started playing it just before recording this LP

[alocispepraluger102]

anyone mention eyges' trio session with paul bley? probably on steeplechase. he cant quite hang with paul, but an awesome recording. by the way, cant find my copy. only have the jewel box.

Edited December 10, 2006 by alocispepraluger102

[Bright Moments]

finally getting around to eyges!

just enjoyed this one:

what's next?

[Bright Moments]

this was next:

"Eastern Man Alone"

actually i was surprised to hear cello (David Baker) on this Charles Tyler cd.

[Uncle Skid]

Fred Lonberg-Holm is very active in very diverse projects. I really enjoyed his duo with Carlos Zingaro (violin) released on his own Flying Aspidistra label this year.

Wow, there's a name from my past! I went to high school with Fred in north Wilmington, DE! Not only that, but cello was my second instrument (still playing the piano for my livelihood), and I played in our modest school orchestra (seated ahead of Fred, actually). I had not heard that he was known as a jazz cellist, nor heard anything of him these nearly 30 years!

Fred is on a record discussed here -- highly recommended!

[Uncle Skid]

ron carter plays cello on this one!!!!

Great record!

Ron also plays cello on this one... which IIRC, is also part of the Tyner Mosaic Select.

[ep1str0phy]

this was next:

"Eastern Man Alone"

actually i was surprised to hear cello (David Baker) on this Charles Tyler cd.

I couldn't really get into this one at first--probably because it isn't as aggressive as Tyler's first ESP--but I think some of its nuances have started to emerge to me. The strings/sax mix works really well, and Baker is a large part of that.

[alocispepraluger102]

hard to beat roger kellaway's quartets and quintets over the years.

one of my fav kellaways is his russian jazz quartet on angel.

Edited September 6, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[alocispepraluger102]

all that bowing reminds me of the great bowing bassist charles izenson.

Edited September 6, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Bright Moments]

can anybody turn me on to some cd's with Dimos Goudaroulis playing cello?

i have the konitz.

[BillF]

For me, cello in jazz means Fred Katz with the Chico Hamilton group and Oscar Pettiford.

EDIT: I now see they've been already been mentioned in this thread - but a couple of years ago, so they're due for a recall!

Edited March 11, 2008 by BillF