Best track you heard all week

[JohnS]

Cheers Paul. I guessed so. I don''t have the Mosaic, just the Candid cds. It's all terrific stuff, I heard Air when it first came out, it expanded my listening immediately

[sidewinder]

'Hello To The Wind' by the Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble from the 'Complete Muse Sessions' Mosaic. Stunning !

[page]

BJ's Lullbye - Jon Raney trio

[Steve Reynolds]

"Outer Space" from Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Before there was Sound

Alvin Fielder roars, Favors with bow is pristine, Fred Berry more modern than 1965 and the leader is wonderful and searching on alto saxophone

[Neal Pomea]

Jeanette James and her Synco Jazzers, The Bumps

(what a groove by everyone involved!)

Mary Lou Williams' first records were with this group. James was the vocalist of the group, later named John Williams' Synco Jazzers. This song is instrumental.

This was on Really the Blues cd 4.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Neal Pomea

[Balladeer]

Kenny Dorham - Grand Street

[soulpope]

Charlie Haden+Hampton Hawes "As Long There Is Music" (Artist House)

[jeffcrom]

Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers/Hobart Smith/Ed Young/Nat Rahmings - "Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rolling Under." Alan Lomax was usually concerned with recording folk music as he found it, but in 1960 he put together an ensemble to record music which would approximate the earliest African-American music. He brought together musicians who represented some of the oldest musical traditions hanging on in America at the time. Georgia's Sea Island Singers and Mississippi hill country fife player Ed Young came from isolated, majority-black areas whose music reached back to the antebellum period. White banjoist Hobart Smith, from Saltville, Virginia, learned to play from older black musicians as early as 1911, and his participation in this project was enthusiastically endorsed by the other musicians. Nat Rahmings was a Bahamian drummer whose playing, on a deep-toned drum, has just the syncopated bounce/swing you would expect early American black drumming to have.

There's no way to really know, of course, if early African-American music sounded like this. But I've always found this session to be moving and compelling, and "Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rolling Under" is my favorite track.

[Neal Pomea]

Interesting mix with Hobart Smith!

[StarThrower]

Weather Report-Tears/Umbrellas Live In Tokyo

[danasgoodstuff]

Oska T, Very striking

Is this from the Monk family, or European 'grey market' issue, octet right?

[Peter Friedman]

"Marionette" by the Charles McPherson Quartet

This a video from Jazz on the Tube in recognition of Charles McPherson's birthday.

Both McPherson and pianist John Campbell marvelous solos here that should not be missed.

[Steve Reynolds]

The 25 minute first piece from the second set last night @ Cornelia Street Cafe

Again, if one is really into the outskirts of avant-garde combinations, NEVER leave before the second set. Decent first set, THEN:

Doom metal free jazzish improvisational skronk care of Malaby, Monder, Hebert & Williams

In a sane world it is a side long track on an upcoming underground LP that gets played on a radio station as it's awe inspiring power transcends the fact it is wholly improvised and this world will never ever hear anything like it, before, since or ever after.

Easily the best "track" I heard all week

[Balladeer]

Chet Baker - Portrait in Black and White (from Live in Tokyo)

[jlhoots]

Paloma Faith: Trouble With My Baby

[jazzbo]

"You are Beautiful" from "Secret Ellington." Just an amazing duet performance, and the engineering and production transform it into something piercingly touching to me, just makes me a puddle, brings out a bundle of recent emotions in me, all great emotions to revisit.

[BillF]

"Gone Jelly Blues" from Art Hodes' solo piano album, Pagin' Mr Jelly.

[John Tapscott]

Kenny Drew Jr. - "This One's for Bill" (w George Mraz and Al Foster) from

[danasgoodstuff]

"Gone Jelly Blues" from Art Hodes' solo piano album, Pagin' Mr Jelly.

Great title!

[Chuck Nessa]

"Gone Jelly Blues" from Art Hodes' solo piano album, Pagin' Mr Jelly.

Great title!

To bad Universal never reissued the Emarcy Hodes date with my old friend Truck Parham.

[xybert]

'Ruth' from Bobby Hutcherson's Spiral.

[A Lark Ascending]

My two favourites from the last couple of weeks:

[paul secor]

Curtis Fuller" "It's Too Late Now" from Curtis Fuller Vol.3 (BN)

[BillF]

"Blues for Beverlee" from the Junior Mance Trio's Junior.

[Steve Reynolds]

Whenever I listen: "Blues for Tomorrow" and "Burning Sky" from DKV live in Chicago from The Velvet Lounge November 20 and/or 21, 1998.

One of truly spectacular performances of modern jazz