Best track you heard all week

[jlhoots]

Jason Isbell: If We Were Vampires

[HutchFan]

YouTube has the title wrong on the video below.  It's actually "Day Dream" (two words, singular), not "Daydreams."

Gonsalves' playing on this Strayhorn composition is sublime.

 

[jlhoots]

The Band: Atlantic City

[Chuck Nessa]

Hot Bones and Rice by the Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra.

Back in the '60s I bought a 10" lp on Label X by this band and it has stuck with me for all these years.

Edited October 15, 2023 by Chuck Nessa

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

The Band: Atlantic City

Great version of the song. 

[jlhoots]

Buddy & Julie Miller: The Painkillers Ain't Workin'

[Peter Friedman]

"Orient Express" from this album 

[soulpope]

The Valentinos „The Death Of Love“ (Jubilee)         1968 ….

[jazzbo]

"Autumn Leaves" from 

[mjazzg]

Track 9 of BFT 237

[Big Al]

On 11/29/2023 at 10:31 AM, mjazzg said:

Track 9 of BFT 237

Same here! I've listened to it at least ten times today!

[Chuck Nessa]

Duke Ellington's "Old Man Blues" from August 26, 1930.

[John Tapscott]

Blues for E.J. from 

[medjuck]

10 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Duke Ellington's "Old Man Blues" from August 26, 1930.

Featured in the film "Check and Double Check". A great tune. 

[Chuck Nessa]

2 minutes ago, medjuck said:

Featured in the film "Check and Double Check". A great tune. 

and a fascinating film clip.

[mjazzg]

12 hours ago, Big Al said:

Same here! I've listened to it at least ten times today!

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[ghost of miles]

Spent a lot of time recently revisiting Fats Navarro’s discography for a Night Lights show, including this track, with lots of flamethrower repartee between Fats and Howard McGhee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llk7Prh7s6k&pp=ygUYZmF0cyBuYXZhcnJvlGRvdWJsZSBOYWxr

Edited December 9, 2023 by ghost of miles

[kh1958]

Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Four on Six (Maximum Swing, CD1)

[jlhoots]

Adam Duritz (Counting Crows): Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (you tube)

Edited December 21, 2023 by jlhoots

[Gheorghe]

Last week: "More than you know" as performed by Sonny Rollins on Roadtrips Vol. 1 . Amazing ! 

Yesterday night: " Round Midnight" as done by Joe Henderson on Freddie Hubbard´s "Keystone Bop": It´s a fierce version of the tune, solos in double time....

[Quasimado]

Tadd Dameron group with Clifford Brown from "Clifford Brown Memorial" on Prestige doing "Theme of no Repeat". The writing is just fine, Clifford is excellent, the rhythm section of Philly Joe and Percy Heath is perfect   - and Tadd is incredible! He often gets dissed as playing "arrangers piano" but here that ain't near the truth - think Monk with a touch of Bud, but completely Tadd!

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, Quasimado said:

Tadd Dameron group with Clifford Brown from "Clifford Brown Memorial" on Prestige doing "Theme of no Repeat". The writing is just fine, Clifford is excellent, the rhythm section of Philly Joe and Percy Heath is perfect   - and Tadd is incredible! He often gets dissed as playing "arrangers piano" but here that ain't near the truth - think Monk with a touch of Bud, but completely Tadd!

You said it ! 

When we were that "gang" of 18 year old jazz addicts, I had what we called "the blue Tadd Dameron album", it was a cheap Musidisc titled "Tadd Dameron-Fats Navarro, Birdland 1949" and it´s a super hot set or two sets of bop live. 
And on each title there is a nice Dameron solo. 
He could play lines as well as fat chords and often started his solo more boppish, but different to Bud, and ended it with fat block chords. 
On ballads he had a wonderful sound, and his voicings were unique. 
I also had "Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron Paris 1949" and "Tadd Dameron-John Coltrane" on Prestige. 
All have very much solo space for Tadd. 

And if he would have reacted to the injustice that was done to him (dissed as playing "arranger´s piano") , on "Eb Pob" he plays such a virtuoso solo it would have been equal to Bud. We boys always said he can do it and if he was annoyed by crittics maybe he did that solo on Eb Pob to say "okay if THAT´s what you wanna hear, I can do it easily, but it´s not what I think to do permanently". 

[Gheorghe]

Monday night at Porgy´s : Kirk Leightsey Quartet......with trombonist Paul Zauner: They played an Abbey Lincoln Song I think the title is "Don´t throw it away" or "keep it if it is your´s", that´s a wonderful slow bossa with wonderful chords. I had never heard it before and obviously it was not on "Captain Kirk´s" playlist, since he had to take out the sheet. It was the soft sound of the trombone, that played the melody. 

Such moments are the best in jazz. You hear musician colleages doin´a song that moves you and you wanna try out your own version of it for the next time......

[HutchFan]

Just heard this for the first time. . . .  ¡Música fantástica!

 

[Balladeer]

Don´t stop - Jon Batiste (from Hollywood Africans)