Best track you heard all week

[sidewinder]

Hadn't heard it for a while, but I really enjoyed "West Side Story Medley" from

The CD sound is great, the band is tight and inspired, the soloists are good, Rich's solo is shorter than the usual live versions. A great Bill Reddie arrangement. Lead trumpeter Bobby Shew left his blood on this chart (literally, according to later Rich lead trumpet players).

Remember seeing/hearing Rich's band play that suite live at Ronnie Scotts..

Listening highlight of a week filled with listening highlights - The multiple takes of 'Keen & Peachy' on the Woody Herman Columbia Mosaic last night.

Edited April 23, 2014 by sidewinder

[uli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG4M21LkgFU

[Neal Pomea]

Just Blues by Memphis Jazzers (on Really the Blues CD 9)

[ghost of miles]

Can't seem to stop listening to Weather Report's "Cannonball":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7XwwcvjUFg

[JohnS]

he title track

[jeffcrom]

Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Cake Walking Babies From Home. Taylor sings one chorus on this 1925 jazz masterpiece. The rest of the record is a no-holds-barred duel between Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, each of whom plays as if his life depended on it.

[BillF]

he title track

Haven't listened to it for a long time, but Pete La Roca's drumming on that track is still fresh in my memory.

[Balladeer]

Lars Gullin - Ma

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

From James Brown's "Soul Pride: The Instrumentals"--The King

Tighten Up (with an extended jazz trumpet

solo by Waymon Reed, which is exciting)

Waymon Reed had an interesting career, for a musician few people have heard of. Worked with Ira Sullivan, James Brown, Count Basie, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, All Star Trumpet Spectacular and Sarah Vaughan (to whom he was married), before dying of cancer.

Nice leader date on Artists House, IIRC

Yes, it's really nice. Jimmy Forrest is great on it, too.

MG

Track 7 of BFT123. Thanks Tom, it's bloody wonderful!!!!

MG

[erwbol]

There are some incredibly beautiful McCoy Tyner solos on John Coltrane's Meditations (side 2 of original album).

[Peter Friedman]

Back To The Land by the Lester Young Trio

[BillF]

Back To The Land by the Lester Young Trio

[soulpope]

"Angel Eyes" 1979 Art Pepper + Russ Freeman + Bob Magnusson + Carl Burnett (Atlas LP Bill Watrous "Funk n`Fun") - this is only one of two quartet tracks on said album featuring otherwise Bill Watrous.......the band is execellent, Art Pepper is magnificent but the real highlight here is Russ Freeman`s solo......beyond belief.....then Art Pepper reenters, but much too soon his wailing is faded out.......I would have begged to make this last longer....every single second.....

[Shawn]

The backing track version of "Thank You" by Led Zeppelin from the deluxe edition of Led Zeppelin II. All these work-in-progress versions are fascinating to listen to, like taking a time machine back to the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeOOGrtm-Q0

Edited June 6, 2014 by Shawn

[soulpope]

Sister Sadie - a true CLASSIC !

[Steve Reynolds]

Title track to Speak No Evil

[paul secor]

"Something Wonderful" and "Someone To Watch Over Me"

Ballad playing doesn't get any better.

[John Tapscott]

Not going to pick a single track. Every track is just a "sterling" example of what makes Silver's music so good and enjoyable.

Edited June 24, 2014 by John Tapscott

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

'Jug and McGee', from 'House warming' by Gene Ammons (with Howard McGee)

MG

[JohnS]

Oska T, Very striking

[Balladeer]

Loo-Padoo - Tony Fruscella/Bill Triglia Septet (Tony´s Blues, Jazz Factory)

[John Tapscott]

"Isotope" (Joe Henderson) from

Edited June 29, 2014 by John Tapscott

[Peter Friedman]

"For All We Know" - from CD of the same title by David Hazeltine Quartet on the Smoke Sessions label.

Excellent solos by both Hazeltine and Seamus Blake.

[JohnS]

Section C by Cecil Taylor. The version included on a Marty Krystal/Buell Neidlinger lp. Not only exciting piano but also I really like Shepp's playing.

[paul secor]

It's also on the Cecil Mosaic, which was issued about six years after the Neidlinger release. Perhaps Mr. Neidlinger just wanted to get the music out there or perhaps he was testing the waters to see what would happen if he issued previously unreleased material from the Candid sessions.