Best track you heard all week

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Kamasi Washington - Leroy and Lanisha from The Epic (2015).

Edited June 3, 2015 by Buddha the Magnificent

[John Tapscott]

Track 8 - Jim McNeely's "Off the Cuff" - an outstanding baritone improv

[rockefeller center]

https://soundcloud.com/knowermusic/04-f-the-makeup-skip-the

[John Tapscott]

Yes, yes, I know all the reservations about Oscar and I sometimes share some of them. But Daahoud from the Opera House is just outstanding IMHO. Oscar at his best without any of the negative stuff. And very well recorded. Much better than the more celebrated Live at the Shakespearian Festival.

[BillF]

"Tin Tin Deo" from this:

[soulpope]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlpkODAWG54

Mighty Sam "Sweet Dreams" (Amy 957) 1966

[Peter Friedman]

"See See Rider" from Ike Quebec - Easy Living on Blue Note SHM - CD

Especially love the great Sonny Clark solo !

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Benny Golson's Stand By from Lee Morgan's 1956 recording Indeed!. Golson could write some wonderful material.

[Balladeer]

Francis Hime - Illusao

[BillF]

"Our Delight" from this:

 

[JohnS]

There's so much going on here that it's difficult to choose, Las Vegas Tango, Hotel Me.  Terrific.

[BillF]

There's so much going on here that it's difficult to choose, Las Vegas Tango, Hotel Me.  Terrific.

[Morganized]

[Steve Reynolds]

4th track on Rodrigo Amado's "The Flame Alphabet" - I believe it is called "In to the Valley". The recording is 5 tracks totalling ~ 45/46 minutes. All totally improvised by the quartet recorded on what was a very special day in the studio in Lisbon in 2011.

Amado and Bishop play together with and around a bass sounding cello and drums creating an awesome groove and energy for the whole 13-14 minutes of the track. 

Fwiw, the whole album is tremendous and the energy and focus never wavers - from softer solo/duo/trio passages up through improvising by the full quartet, but this track hits the highest peaks of anything on the record. This Rodrigo Amado dude is a real improvisor who is becoming one of my favorite tenor (and some baritone) players playing today. It has taken a while for me to fully hear the power behind his seemingly subtle improvising. The brand of free improv he is dealing with (at least with the few recordings I've heard him lead) seem to be a cross with the more detailed British improv and the open ended groove based more classic American free jazz. The results are all their own. This recording simply reminds me most of the other great quartet recording on the same label (see below).

this recording (along with "Searching for Adam") demands to be heard 

both on not two records

both recorded in sound that would make 90% of current recordings hide in shame

Edited July 3, 2015 by Steve Reynolds
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[aparxa]

Clifford Jordan Septet - Vienna

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https://video-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpf1/v/t42.1790-2/1304582_10201776717318827_9974_n.mp4?oh=ce674d731c5628d497847b0084ae9ca0&oe=55A546E9

The fabulous Golden Gate Quartet! together with Pow wow;
'Run on', baby!

[Cyril]

Joris Roelofs on bass clarinet.

 

 

[soulpope]

Karin Krog "Maiden Voyage" Live 1969 ....

[Peter Friedman]

The Decathexis From Youth (For Cole)

Manhattan Nocturne

Both tunes are from the terrific CD by Charles McPherson - The Journey - on the Capri label.

[jazzbo]

Not much music this week other than the classical radio station in the cargo van. But heard Shostakovich's 11th Symphony and loved it. Was just the right music for the right time.

[Steve Reynolds]

Right now: the opening long track "Blood and Body" from the awe inspiring Maneri Ensemble recording, "Going to Church"

every time I listen, I believe this is just about the best recording of the 21st century

[hbbfam]

 

[soulpope]

Etta James "I`ve Gone Too Far To Turn Around" - some more Muscle Shoals Sound magic ....

[BillF]

Bud Powell's "Oblivion" from this - particularly Barry Harris's solo:

 

[Head Man]

Theme tune from Spartacus by the Metropole Jazz Orchestra conducted by Maria Schneider:

When I'm in the mood this track always hits the spot for me. On her album "Coming About" Maria has the wonderful Rich Perry soloing on tenor sax but this version is mighty fine too.

Edited July 21, 2015 by Head Man