artists with lots of LIVE recordings of WORKING bands

[Rooster_Ties]

Was recently listening to most of the four(!) volumes of live Woody Shaw material on High Note, plus Stepping Stones (Live at the Village Vanguard), and another other live Woody Shaw date --> "Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage". And then there's also the Louis Hayes / Woody Shaw quintet and the "Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 5" release. All of these are live recordings of working bands, or in the case of the Berliner Jazztage, a working band augmented with an extra musican or two.

I was thinking -- that's a LOT of documented live recordings by WORKING bands of Woody Shaw -- QUITE a lot -- and in most cases, the majority of the material is original to those bands (compositions by Woody, or by other band members, or contemporaneous tunes associated with the "Woody Shaw" book), and not a whole lot of standards either (just a few, here and there).

What OTHER artists have quite a lot of LIVE material recorded and released, documenting their WORKING bands -- and that also (partially) document their own band's (and bands') book(s) of tunes??

Miles, obviously. Ellington, obviously. Coltrane, obviously.

Who else, that ISN'T as obvious. And, even if somebody doesn't have a deep catalog of leader dates, even two or three live dates might constitute "a lot" of live material, relative to the total number of releases by that artist.

Edited May 17, 2007 by Rooster_Ties

[Guy Berger]

Assuming we aren't talking only about official releases...

Weather Report.

Charles Mingus's sextet/quintet in the spring of 1964

Charles Mingus's group w/Don Pullen and George Adams.

The George Adams/Don Pullen quartet.

Guy

Edited May 16, 2007 by Guy

[JSngry]

Cannonball & Blakey

[jazzbo]

THE All Stars.

[.:.impossible]

Cannonball was the first to come to mind.

[JSngry]

Cecil Taylor & Anthony Braxton

[jazzbo]

George Lewis (clarinetist)

[Guest donald petersen]

jimmy smith?

i mentioned this in a live chat one night but this is a reasonable example of it-

i said that roosters posts were often like big budget american action movies-full of unecessary special effects and over the top and overdramatic elements (evinced through the use of bolding, italics, exclamation points, smilies, capitalization, etc...)

whereas, in contrast, chuck's posts are like arty european movies which are sometimes hard to understand and are a bit confusing and sometimes sort of spare compared to american flicks but leave you feeling like if you aren't getting it, it is because you aren't smart enough so you will try your hardest to get it and find the meaning hidden within.

[Guy Berger]

jimmy smith?

i mentioned this in a live chat one night but this is a reasonable example of it-

i said that roosters posts were often like big budget american action movies-full of unecessary special effects and over the top and overdramatic elements (evinced through the use of bolding, italics, exclamation points, smilies, capitalization, etc...)

Not sure if you intended to come off sounding like a big jerk, but if so you succeeded.

Guy

[Guest donald petersen]

not at all!

are you serious?

not at all.

i was just joking.

[Guest donald petersen]

sorry rooster, i meant no offense.

if i wanted to sit down and watch a movie, i would throw on "mr. and mrs. smith" just as quickly (if not more) as anything else.

but i will reiterate-i think jimmy smith fits the bill....

[GA Russell]

Herbie Mann in the 60s put out a number of live dates.

[Guest donald petersen]

elvin jones also...

[bertrand]

The current Wayne Shorter Quartet.

Bertrand.

[John L]

Thelonious Monk quartet

Modern Jazz Quartet

VSOP

Bill Evans Trio (Especially the last one)

[DMP]

Miles

[John Tapscott]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet w. Paul Desmond (actually almost ANY of Brubeck's groups).

Edited May 17, 2007 by John Tapscott

[paul secor]

Bird - tho not "authorised" recordings, and mostly (all?) released after his death

Steve Lacy

Ornette's trio with Moffett and Izenzon

Albert Ayler

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Louis Armstrong

[DMP]

Jack McDuff made several, although it's questionable how "live" they really were...

[J Larsen]

How about Shelly Manne?

[medjuck]

Duke Ellington-- though many of the releases were years or even decades after the performances.

[White Lightning]

Billy Harper Billy Harper Billy Harper

[White Lightning]

Pepper Adams! Pepper Adams!! Pepper Adams!!!

[Hot Ptah]

Sun Ra

Count Basie

Benny Goodman

Buddy Rich

Woody Herman

[White Lightning]

Plus, Lots of Count Basie New Testament live albums around, especially with those Live Roulette and Live Verve Mosaic sets. That must've been a GREAT band to see live!