Bright Moments Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 (edited) wow!!! Edited May 26, 2009 by Bright Moments Quote
RDK Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 I agree! Never heard (or seen) this stuff before I found it on a blog. Turned me on to a whole "style" of early 70s jazz. Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 I has to has this. Can I order it on the interwebs? I has "Manhattan Latin" on Decca and "Jazz for the Jet Set" on Atlantic, maybe one or two more. I love MPS records. Easy listening for groovy and decadent young Europeans in the early 70s. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Look at those guys. Do you really want music that looks like that? Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Look at those guys. Do you really want music that looks like that? Absolutely. Middle-aged easy-listening and jazz guys trying to get hip to today's sounds made the BEST records, infinitely better than what actual kids were doing. Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 It's the same reason I love the teenage/party/club scene music in 60s and 70s films more than actual pop/rock from the era. The aging film composers came up with stuff that was far more creative and subversive than what kids really listened to. It all comes off like pop music from an alternate universe, like it's jumping out from the pages of a 1967 issue of Vogue or Playboy. Quote
mikeweil Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Look at those guys. Do you really want music that looks like that? That's a neat description of one of the problems I had with this type of music back then ... Although Pike was American, their groove sounded so .... German to me. A nice band, and very influential, but I was missing some type of black groove. Quote
mikeweil Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 i find the pike stuff a little too deliberate. the freak outs, the indian-ness, it all seems too thought out. imo. the album the pike group did with the brazilian musicians on MPS in 72 or so is pretty awesome and worth seeking out. Yes, because the groove was made by non-members on that album. Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Look at those guys. Do you really want music that looks like that? Take ANY noted jazz scribe now in his 60s or late 50s and have a look at pictures of him taken in the early 70s and then ask that question again. :D Or, for that matter, take a look at pictures of any jazz or blues musician (especially if he's black and/or if he's been on the scene since the early 50s, i.e. was well past the age befitting the "young ghetto dude image" by the 70s) taken at about that time. Aren't some of them just painful to look at? In short, those were the times, for better or worse ... Quote
michel1969 Posted June 6, 2008 Report Posted June 6, 2008 Dave Pike's "Jazz for the Jet Set" has one of the hippest cover ever ! Music is clearly what you describe as "easy listening middle aged", very good quality, commercial music, and incidentally a big promo for the Braniff airline company (*). The whole makes a very funny product, fashionable and superficial. I like it for what it is. Nothing more, nothing less. (*) Not very efficient promo, as Braniff went up belly at the end of the 70's. The Jet set already had private jets... Quote
Bright Moments Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Posted January 28, 2009 (edited) enjoying this one ATM. Edited January 28, 2009 by Bright Moments Quote
mikeweil Posted January 28, 2009 Report Posted January 28, 2009 Now the Riverside is your archetypal bebop vibes album - that's one I play quite often. Same goes for his Epic session with Bill Evans. Quote
Peter Friedman Posted January 29, 2009 Report Posted January 29, 2009 Now the Riverside is your archetypal bebop vibes album - that's one I play quite often. Same goes for his Epic session with Bill Evans. I agree with Mike. The two he mentioned are favorites of mine. These are also Dave Pike CDs I like. Dave Pike with The Cedar Walton Trio - Pike's Groove - Criss Cross Dave Pike/Charles McPherson - Bluebird - Timeless Dave Pike - Bophead - Ubiquity Most of the other Dave Pike recordings are not to my taste. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 29, 2009 Report Posted January 29, 2009 DAVE PIKE IS MY GUY - I DONT KNOW ABOUT WHAT HES BEING DOIN LAST 10 YRS, BUT 10 YRS AGO HE HAS LIKE JUST MOVED TO SAN DIEGO AND I SAW HIM WITH ALL THE BEST LOCAL CATS. HE HAS A LITTLE BELL MOUNTED ON TOP OF THE VIBERARPHNE AND HE WOULD LIKE DING IT TO GO BACK INTO THE OUT CHORUS, IF IM REMEMBERING THAT CORRECTLY...SO COOL. HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING OF WHAT HES DOIN LATELY> Quote
Free For All Posted January 29, 2009 Report Posted January 29, 2009 DAVE PIKE IS MY GUY - I DONT KNOW ABOUT WHAT HES BEING DOIN LAST 10 YRS, BUT 10 YRS AGO HE HAS LIKE JUST MOVED TO SAN DIEGO AND I SAW HIM WITH ALL THE BEST LOCAL CATS. HE HAS A LITTLE BELL MOUNTED ON TOP OF THE VIBERARPHNE AND HE WOULD LIKE DING IT TO GO BACK INTO THE OUT CHORUS, IF IM REMEMBERING THAT CORRECTLY...SO COOL. HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING OF WHAT HES DOIN LATELY> Quote
mikeweil Posted January 29, 2009 Report Posted January 29, 2009 (edited) Well ... check out this fine Cuban jazz CD released in 2000 on Cubop Records with Bobby Matos ... Reviewed here, with full details. http://www.latinjazznet.com/reviews/archiv...f/dave_pike.pdf Edited January 29, 2009 by mikeweil Quote
mikeweil Posted January 30, 2009 Report Posted January 30, 2009 (edited) ... and while we're at it: Indispensable for any serious Dave Pike fan is this Fresh Sound reissue: Solemn Meditation - The Paul Bley Quartet Featuring Dave Pike, Vibes This is Bley's GNP Crescendo LP from August, 1957 with Pike, Charlie Haden, and Lennie McBrowne. As a bonus, there is the very rare LP by Pike's band from half a year earlier, The Jazz Couriers, with Eugene Russell (p), John Goodman (b), and Reed Vaughan (d). Edited January 30, 2009 by mikeweil Quote
clifford_thornton Posted January 30, 2009 Report Posted January 30, 2009 I have that GNP record, it's quite good. First recording of Charlie Haden, to boot. Quote
GA Russell Posted January 31, 2009 Report Posted January 31, 2009 This thread has motivated me to go over to lala.com and listen to Dave Pike's Bophead on the Cubop label, apparently from 1994. It's good! Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Posted May 26, 2009 This is an AMAZING album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Posted May 27, 2009 This is an AMAZING album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I CANT STOP PLAYING THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 27, 2009 Report Posted May 27, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the Pike reminder. I have just a smattering of his work - including some of the stuff with Volker Kriegel, which I actually DO like... Edited May 27, 2009 by clifford_thornton Quote
king ubu Posted May 27, 2009 Report Posted May 27, 2009 I have the Dave Pike Set "Masterpieces" compilation from the earlier generation of MPS CDs (Motor Music, mid/late 90s), and I think that will do... some of the MPS albums are available now on that label selling their CDs for fantasy prizes... The Riverside is much more interesting, I find, and if I want nice easy listening/loungs stuff, I'd rather go with "Manhattan Latin" than the MPS. Though it does seem like I should check out "Salomão"... Quote
Bright Moments Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Posted May 27, 2009 I have the Dave Pike Set "Masterpieces" compilation from the earlier generation of MPS CDs (Motor Music, mid/late 90s), and I think that will do... some of the MPS albums are available now on that label selling their CDs for fantasy prizes... The Riverside is much more interesting, I find, and if I want nice easy listening/loungs stuff, I'd rather go with "Manhattan Latin" than the MPS. Though it does seem like I should check out "Salomão"... post-haste my friend!!! Salomão is no lounge music - it is SMOKIN HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
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