Best track you heard all week

[Neal Pomea]

Clarence Williams and His Orchestra, Speakeasy

Recorded August 1928, Long Island City, NY, Broadway 1347-B

(heard in Joe Bussard's basement)

Outstanding tuba again by Cyrus St. Clair, and a lot more of course!

Red Hot Jazz Archive has this at http://www.redhotjazz.com/williamso.html

[colinmce]

Jimmy Lyons & Andrew Cyrille - "Take The A Train"

Just wonderful.

[BillF]

The wittily-titled "Parker 51" from Stan Getz at Storyville (1951).

Getz, Jimmy Raney and Al Haig zoom through "Cherokee/Koko" changes.

[king ubu]

Got hold of the VJC Carnegie Hall Concert by Ellington (Jan. 13, 1948) - fantastic! And that's the cue... "Fantazm" with Carney on bass clarinet! Wow!

[Larry Kart]

Fabulous Gillespie on three tracks (Groovin' High, Round Midnight, Shaw Nuff) on this:

http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-At-Philharmonic-Seattle-1956/dp/B005EN4JKK/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_3

[Steve Reynolds]

Giant Sand: Sucker in a Cage

from the new re-master of "Long Stem Rant" recorded in 1989

[DavidB.Wilkerson]

"Frank's Tune," Ahmad Jamal, "Poinciana Revisited."

"Star Trek," The Three Sounds with The Oliver Nelson Orchestra, "Coldwater Flat." A Gene Harris composition rather than the Alexander Courage TV theme.

[JSngry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wWMRyWL1mY

[spangalang]

Today "Modal Mood" literally made me swoon, and I was driving!

[king ubu]

solo of the day: Janice Robinson on trombone with plunger in "The Farewell" on Jones/Lewis' "Suite for Pops"!

[John Tapscott]

A very swinging version of "As Long As I Live" by Richard Wyands from the CD "Half and Half" (Criss Cross)

[Peter Friedman]

"Straight No Chaser" by the Kenny Barron Trio with Buster Williams & Ben Riley.

From album GREEN CHIMNEYS on Criss Cross.

[Shawn]

"Eight Miles High" by The Byrds. Sometimes re-living an old favorite can be just as stimulating as hearing something new.

[Big Al]

Not just a track, but a whole friggin' album: McCoy Tyner NIGHTS OF BALLADS AND BLUES. Certaintly not his most essential recordings, and nowhere near as intense as his later solo work and his work with Trane. But as the jazz equivalent of comfort food, it simply can't be beat!

[Tom 1960]

This week a non jazz track, from Pink Floyd's "Animals" the track "Pigs(Three Different Ones)". Listening to this album was like revisiting a long last friend. I kind of forgot just how much I enjoyed this album. Very underrated, IMO. It's a shame classic rock radio, doesn't play this more often.

[A Lark Ascending]

'Stupidly Happy' by XTC off Wasp Star. Ended the week on a big high, heard a fragment on a UK TV advert and it just fitted my mood.

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp/Cecil Taylor/Buell Neidlinger/Dennis Charles: "Cell Walk for Celeste" (take 3) from The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger (Mosiac)

Four musicians on the same wave length - in every sense of that term

[Tom 1960]

From the John Fedchock "New York Big Band" release(1992), the latin track "La Parguera". This really cooks.

[BillF]

From the John Fedchock "New York Big Band" release(1992), the latin track "La Parguera". This really cooks.

[Peter Friedman]

"Day Dream" from the album PEPPER ADAMS / DONALD BYRD QUINTET - OUT OF THIS WORLD - WARWICK

[Chuck Nessa]

What's To Ya from The House of Blue Lights by Eddie Costa with Wendell Marshall and Paul Motian. 1959 and all over the place - from Tristano to Taylor to Evans to Garland, but always EC. Wish he had made 20 more piano trio records.

[king ubu]

What's To Ya from The House of Blue Lights by Eddie Costa with Wendell Marshall and Paul Motian. 1959 and all over the place - from Tristano to Taylor to Evans to Garland, but always EC. Wish he had made 20 more piano trio records.

[BillF]

"Autumn Serenade" from John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Coltrane's solo is spine-chilling!

[Alexander Hawkins]

What's To Ya from The House of Blue Lights by Eddie Costa with Wendell Marshall and Paul Motian. 1959 and all over the place - from Tristano to Taylor to Evans to Garland, but always EC. Wish he had made 20 more piano trio records.

Thanks for the reminder on this one...just put it on again. Big Eddie Costa fan here!

[John Tapscott]

Actually two, and they may come from last week:

- Scrapple From the Apple on Jim Hall Live (Horizon/Verve)- it's not just Hall's great playing but the interaction of the whole group that really grabs me. Collective improvisation (without being 'free') at the very highest level. No wonder Hall loved this group. (And yet another incentive to think about getting the Hall set on artistshare, in spite of the $$$)

- Blues for Philly Joe from Sonny Rollins' Newks's Time (Blue Note) - always loved this performance; one of my favorite jazz tracks of all time.

Edited April 6, 2012 by John Tapscott