sidewinder Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 1 hour ago, felser said: Billy Bang has been my big find the past 6-12 months. Can't get enough of him! And for me too - his 'movie' is currently on Amazon Prime streaming. Quote
xybert Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 Ray Bryant. Horace Parlan. Cedar Walton. It's funny because Blakey's Drum Suite was one of the first jazz album that i really got in to. Ditto with Mingus Ah Um. Free For All was also a big hit for me when i heard it much later (and i loved Walton on other Blue Notes, particularly Donald Byrd's Slow Drag). For some reason i never really checked out their leader dates. I think i must have heard something of Walton's which put me off checking out his leader dates further, but anyway those first 3 Eastern Rebellion albums are so, so good. Now that i think about it, i remember getting one of his quartet dates on Steeplechase and really liking it but having to bin it because it had a catastrophic scratch. I wonder why i never sought more of his stuff out... Ray Bryant... i had previously checked him out a bit on Spotify but didn't feel the need to buy an album. Recently got the trio albums on Epic and Prestige from the fifties and they are so good. Dude has such an amazing feel. I also have the Con Alma album on Columbia which is also excellent. Those three albums sit in my collection as favourites. I've actually been trying to get my head around why Bryant was not a bigger name, especially having been on Columbia. I have my half baked theories but can anyone provide any insight? Horace Parlan... i've only gotten started by getting Us Three, an outstanding trio record. Quote
HutchFan Posted March 23, 2017 Report Posted March 23, 2017 20 hours ago, xybert said: Ray Bryant. [ . . .] Ray Bryant... i had previously checked him out a bit on Spotify but didn't feel the need to buy an album. Recently got the trio albums on Epic and Prestige from the fifties and they are so good. Dude has such an amazing feel. I also have the Con Alma album on Columbia which is also excellent. Those three albums sit in my collection as favourites. I've actually been trying to get my head around why Bryant was not a bigger name, especially having been on Columbia. I have my half baked theories but can anyone provide any insight? xybert - You might also want to look into Bryant's Pablo recording from the late-70s and early-80s -- particularly Here's Ray Bryant, Potpourri, and Solo Flight. Quote
soulpope Posted March 23, 2017 Report Posted March 23, 2017 50 minutes ago, HutchFan said: xybert - You might also want to look into Bryant's Pablo recording from the late-70s and early-80s -- particularly Here's Ray Bryant, Potpourri, and Solo Flight. plus Quote
ep1str0phy Posted March 24, 2017 Report Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) (1) In the interest of showing up for some (actual) new music, I just heard this duo project yesterday: https://jonbafus.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-earthtone Full disclosure: Randy and Jon are friends of mine, and I'm also a huge admirer of both. Randy plays as part of the inimitable chamber improv quartet Bristle (also featuring saxophonist Cory Wright, who has been on a few of Grex's records), and Jon is drummer/leader of the Sacramento prog-punk-avant quartet Gentleman Surfer. (Gentleman Sufer is--like fellow Nor Cal band Hella--both immaculately structured and awesomely, calculatedly chaotic.) The first and simplest way in which this music strikes me is that the drums are not playing in the obvious, now rote mode of Interstellar Space-era Rashied--the music is more harried and schizophrenic than that, though not in an ironic way (ala Zorn or some of the new Dutch music). The full spectrum of ideas suggests a more hectic version of the Evan Parker/John Stevens duo, if that makes sense. The last new duo I loved this much was (Seattle band) Bad Luck, which is itself a fully realized and completely unique variation on classic late Coltrane dynamics. (2) You guys were not kidding about the Bill Barron material. Sheesh. I'm most familiar with The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron--a record both quirky and conventional, buoyed by some deft interplay and some brief, fleeting moments of weirdness. I've also heard and own Tears for Dolphy, a record that I admit I should (and should have) spent more time with. This week I finally got around to Barron's Motivation and Curon's and The New Thing & The Blue Thing. The Curson material of this vintage can be a little formulaic, and I mean that in the classic sense--a lot of it is structured around Mingus's ensemble and rhythm dynamics, but without the pliancy or surrealism that make the Mingus quartet stuff so exceptional. As players, though, Curson and Barron are tremendous. Speaking of which, Jim is not overselling Motivation. It's that good. Barron has the rounded voice and voluptuous texture of a Texas tenor, but his phrasing and command of timbral improvisation recall Rollins or early Wayne. It is weird shit--like hearing Ayler on a Kenny Dorham record or something. The compositions, too, are genuinely strange--maybe more so for trying to accommodate the format and context of a "normal" hard bop ensemble. I think it actually suggests Joe Maneri in the superimposition of these darting, almost atonal lines over a texturally static rhythm section dynamic. It's the sound of anachronism, and it's aged hugely well--guys like Tony Malaby or even Mark Turner make bread out of music like this now. Edited March 25, 2017 by ep1str0phy Quote
optatio Posted March 24, 2017 Report Posted March 24, 2017 On 23.3.2017 at 5:24 PM, soulpope said: plus plus RAY BRYANT: MONTREUX ´77. PABLO LIVE 2308 201 [1977] Quote
Brad Posted March 24, 2017 Report Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Strange as it may seem since these are all cds in my collection but I never closely listened to Roy Eldridge. I mean I had listened but not listened. Today I listened to Little Jazz and I discovered I had a Hep record, Hecklers Hop, that still had the plastic wrap on it. Amazing stuff. Edited March 24, 2017 by Brad Quote
BillF Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 12 hours ago, Brad said: Strange as it may seem since these are all cds in my collection but I never closely listened to Roy Eldridge. I mean I had listened but not listened. Today I listened to Little Jazz and I discovered I had a Hep record, Hecklers Hop, that still had the plastic wrap on it. Amazing stuff. Love Roy in the fifties. His work with Krupa/Anita O'Day is a bit early for my tastes and his powers had declined in his late Granz recordings. My favorite of all is his playing on this one. Perhaps the unusual company was an inspiration! Quote
Brad Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 Thanks. I will need to look for that one. The cast probably shows he wasn't above trying new things. Quote
JSngry Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 Roy was Roy no matter the setting. He was a force of nature (as was Jo Jones). Hopefully you have the Mosaic? It's a treasure chest. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 Really listening to Fred Frith & Louis Sclavis on this awesome CD on Victo from 5/21/2000 "I Dream of You Jumping" as good as free music gets - plus this percussion dude named Jean-Pierre Drouet - wow saw Frith for the first time last November and it was the best night of music for me of the whole year or decade?!? Quote
Brad Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 4 hours ago, JSngry said: Roy was Roy no matter the setting. He was a force of nature (as was Jo Jones). Hopefully you have the Mosaic? It's a treasure chest. Yes, thanks, I need to go back and listen to it. Quote
ep1str0phy Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said: Really listening to Fred Frith & Louis Sclavis on this awesome CD on Victo from 5/21/2000 "I Dream of You Jumping" as good as free music gets - plus this percussion dude named Jean-Pierre Drouet - wow saw Frith for the first time last November and it was the best night of music for me of the whole year or decade?!? My personal ties to Fred notwithstanding, I think it's difficult to overstate the importance of his contribution to a certain school of free improvising. Along with Keith Rowe, Derek Bailey, Sharrock, and a couple of others, he was one of the first dedicated and significant free players on electric guitar--and he was one of only a handful of guys to emerge from that late century wild west period of sheer invention with a series of technical innovations that have had a lasting technical impact--e.g., preparation, extended techniques, mechanics that enable sustain, alternative methods of amplification, textural improvisation, and so on. On a completely different level, I don't think I've ever met another guitarist with as complete a knowledge of practical sound production on the instrument--I had detailed conversations with the guy about Clapton and Bill Frisell. Dude is legit. Fred's been touring with two really great friends of mine--bassist Jason Hoopes and Jordan Glenn (they also feature as the rhythm section for a sister band of ours--Jack O' the Clock--and I played with them in a Blood Count-type quartet called Host Family). Again, I can't listen to this music with any sort of impartiality, but some of the spaces that they get into are just in another universe. The group recalls Massacre, the heavier days of Material, and even a bit of Last Exit in a way that can't be done justice in words. They just released a record (called Another Day in Fucking Paradise): Edited March 25, 2017 by ep1str0phy Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted July 3, 2017 Author Report Posted July 3, 2017 (edited) Pianist Jodi Christian. I just got a copy of his duo session with Louis Smith, "The Very Thought Of You" on SteepleChase. It is a very fine recording. I liked his playing and I will look for some more by him. Edited July 3, 2017 by Hardbopjazz Quote
jlhoots Posted July 4, 2017 Report Posted July 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Hardbopjazz said: Pianist Jodi Christian. I just got a copy of his duo session with Louis Smith, "The Very Thought Of You" on SteepleChase. It is a very fine recording. I liked his playing and I will look for some more by him. Louis Smith is great too!! Quote
Scott Dolan Posted August 14, 2017 Report Posted August 14, 2017 Been listening to a lot of Peter Evans tonight! First came across his playing on Scenes From The House Of Music with Parker/Guy/Lytton. What an immensely talented and exciting player! I've since listened to a couple of Only Other People Do The Killing albums, his quintet album Ghosts, and am currently "spinning" Carnival Skin, which is a different quintet. I haven't been this enamored with a player since, oddly enough, I first discovered Nate Wooley. Quote
Dan Gould Posted August 16, 2017 Report Posted August 16, 2017 Blues guitarist/singer Larry Davis. Not entirely new to me as I had a comp of most of his Duke work but I heard one of those tunes on a Norton comp, the flip to Texas Flood, "I Tried" and was knocked out. Don't know why it never hit me before but within a couple of weeks I had received the handful of releases he cut from the 80s to 2000s. Strong stuff, and I am also finding the 45s he cut for BB King's label to be pretty good too. Quote
Clunky Posted August 16, 2017 Report Posted August 16, 2017 Not so much as what. I followed my nose to Strut Records. They've put out some excellent Sun Ra issues including RSD 2015 release Planets of life or death. I've been listening to their endless fascinating world music ( for want of better word) such as .... Reunion Island 1975-1986 Peru Bravo- Funk soul and psych Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted August 16, 2017 Report Posted August 16, 2017 (edited) Maloya is such great stuff...have really fond memories of a gig with Mulatu Astatke (also some great stuff on Strut!) out on Reunion a number of years back, and we all went to a tiny bar out in the countryside one evening, and heard and jammed with some fantastic maloya guys... Edited August 16, 2017 by Alexander Hawkins Quote
kh1958 Posted August 16, 2017 Report Posted August 16, 2017 Strut is a fine label. A couple of other rather good ones on Strut: Spirit of Malombo https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/next-stop-soweto-presents-spirit-0/ Sunburst, Ave Africa https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/ave-africa-the-complete-recordin/ Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted August 17, 2017 Report Posted August 17, 2017 21 hours ago, kh1958 said: Strut is a fine label. A couple of other rather good ones on Strut: Spirit of Malombo https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/next-stop-soweto-presents-spirit-0/ Sunburst, Ave Africa https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/ave-africa-the-complete-recordin/ Yeah, there's some really nice stuff on the 'Next Stop Soweto' compilations! Quote
JSngry Posted August 20, 2017 Report Posted August 20, 2017 ala.ni no idea what to think, much less what i feel, it's equally entrancing and creepy, but it's not something i can easily walk away from once it starts. that's not necessarily a good thing. Quote
Bluesnik Posted August 20, 2017 Report Posted August 20, 2017 18 hours ago, JSngry said: Very nice! Quote
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