Who are you just discovering?

[flat5]

Actually I have rediscovered Art Van Damme recently.

Four of his albums. On most of them the arrangements are quite good.

One he did with Joe Pass has good (though short) guitar solos. How 'bout that?

I want to find the ones he did with Buddy DeFranco.

I had one when I was a kid.

Edited July 14, 2009 by flat5

[king ubu]

and a google search for "clifford brown" "sean levitt" leads to the fine 24 year old guitar player attila muehl, say about 24 year old boppers what you want... he has soul imho , worth checking out...

http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl

an albums worth of organ trio featuring muehl is here

http://www.myspace.com/maxblumentrath

son of this guy (there's a great tradition of sons of artists becoming guitar players...?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex?

Still much impressed by The Band... in fact, I just ordered all their albums (except for "Cahoots" and the magnificient "The Band", both of which I found in the local summer sales just before departing for vacation, a few weeks ago), as well as the 4CD version of "The Last Waltz".

Also, in the wake of this, I got into Dylan quite a bit again. He's been my first musical hero, back when I was 11 or 12, and on and off, I have listened to his music quite often. The most recent acquisitions were all the Bootleg Series volumes I was missing (the fantastic 1966 concert, the Rolling Thunder, the 1964 solo set, and the first 3CD set), the Biograph box, which I just finished playing for the first time yesterday (some great liner notes there), and the two nineties solo albums.

[Niko]

and a google search for "clifford brown" "sean levitt" leads to the fine 24 year old guitar player attila muehl, say about 24 year old boppers what you want... he has soul imho , worth checking out...

http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl

an albums worth of organ trio featuring muehl is here

http://www.myspace.com/maxblumentrath

son of this guy (there's a great tradition of sons of artists becoming guitar players...?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl

yuck, muehl on org... maybe bebop with all it's linear clarity and clean beauty helps him getting rid of his father complex?

well, according to this biography http://www.archivesmuehl.org/bio.html muehl concentrated his efforts after his release from prison in 1997 on inspiring/forcing/whatever the kids of his new commune to become jazz muscians... this is a remarkable output for a community of 35 people i'd say...

http://www.myspace.com/attilamuehl

http://www.myspace.com/olympiajensenquartet

http://www.myspace.com/emesemuehlquintett

http://www.myspace.com/lizapflaumquartet

http://www.myspace.com/wenzlmcgowenquartet

http://www.myspace.com/eddiejensenquartett

http://www.myspace.com/giottoroussies

http://www.myspace.com/charlyrousselband

here's also an article by a former follower of muehl claiming that after attila's birth in 1985 it all went downhill in the commune... (sorry, both articles in german)

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/6/6154/2.html

(funny how muehl is so much of what bruno leichts stalker claims about leicht...)

[AndrewHill]

George Russell, who I've been really, really digging a lot lately. I think what I like most is that he's not really a flashy player, he seems really layed back and lets his band play, but its something about the arrangements and the aggressiveness of the players that really drives this music forth. Botton line: I'm absolutely floored by it!

[king ubu]

I'm still much into The Band... waiting for "Northern Lights, Southern Cross" to arrive I'm taking a break now, having played each of the earlier albums multiple times in a row.

Again exploring some Oscar Peterson, namely the Ellis/Brown trio (the Zardi's set, the Verve live albums, last night the collaboration with Louis Armstrong).

George Russell, as well... though there, the discovery is about the later recordings, as I've cherished the Decca, Riverside etc. early albums for a while by now. I just got a used copy of "The London Concert" 2CD set (on Label Bleu) and will be digging into that soon.

What's recommended from his later albums? My thorough Russell collection ends with the MPS double album... I have "The African Game" (Blue Note), "The Essence" and "New York Big Band" (both Soul Note) and now "The London Concert". That's not exactly a lot of music, for the past four decades... there aren't many live shows in circulation either.

[Niko]

late chet baker and somewhat parallel once more artists from belgium, the strangest country in the world... (nathalie loriers, michel graillier (only belgian by marriage), steve houben, the pelzers and i have a long list of names - most of these guys don't do much for me but some do...)

(check out this guy's http://www.youtube.com/user/Spatzoupload two rene thomas videos on youtube, a long one with louiss/humair and a short one with bennett/clarke (if i identified all correctly...)!)

[jeffcrom]

What's recommended from his later albums? My thorough Russell collection ends with the MPS double album... I have "The African Game" (Blue Note), "The Essence" and "New York Big Band" (both Soul Note) and now "The London Concert". That's not exactly a lot of music, for the past four decades... there aren't many live shows in circulation either.

I'd add Live in an American Time Spiral on Soul Note, which I think is superior to the New York Big Band album. "Time Spiral" is one of Russell's major later pieces. Also Living Time, if you can find it. It was issued under Bill Evans' name, but for all practical purposes it's a George Russell album.

Edited August 5, 2009 by jeffcrom

[Guest Bill Barton]

An aside re: George Russell's later works. The African Game has caught a lot of critical flak from various directions over the years, but the more that I listen to it, the more I dig it.

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And another enthusiastic for Hailey Niswanger's Confeddie CD.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Josh Sinton

I heard his Ideal Bread West (music of Steve Lacy) last night and really, really liked his baritone saxophone playing. Somewhere in the as-yet-unpacked boxes from the move I have the Ideal Bread CD on KMB Jazz. Will have to give that one another listen...

[Hoppy T. Frog]

Black Sabbath

[fasstrack]

We may have had this discussion before, but I will raise it again.

Any artist or artists that you just been floored by recently that you new of but never really gave that extra effort listening to.

I've been listening to Lucky Thompson these past few days and have been amazed how great he is. Although I have a number of CDs with him I never devoted myself to focusing on his playing. That has all changed this week.

Not just discovering, but realizing exactly how heavy he is IMO: Warne Marsh.

[7/4]

Black Sabbath

I'm Born Again myself.

Just got this on CD last week!

[fasstrack]

Black Sabbath

I'm Born Again myself.

Just got this on CD last week!

I'd be afraid to listen to them, after getting help from Christian groups lately. Even though I'm not a believer, if I listened---with my luck---who knows? Not sure what I'm afraid of, but I can somehow see the Fallen Angel himself emerging from the vinyl to get me

[sjarrell]

Woody Shaw. Where the hell have I been?

[king ubu]

some Eccentric Soul reissues

[sidewinder]

Woody Shaw. Where the hell have I been?

Pluto?

[sjarrell]

Woody Shaw. Where the hell have I been?

Pluto?

Yeah, go figure. Not complaining, though- there's loads of goodness I've never heard! Always up for new goodness.

[WorldB3]

Neko Case - it's taken me WAY too long to get hipped to her music. Breathtaking.

My favorite non-Jazz artist right now. Her last two records have been sublime.

Recent new discovery for me has been Jon Hassell. Just got into his latest Last Night The Moon.. and Power Spot. Great stuff.

[Guest Bill Barton]

I've been semi-asleep on John Hollenbeck... The new Large Ensemble Eternal Interlude CD made my eyes pop open in a big way.

Edited August 11, 2009 by Bill Barton

[Jazzmoose]

For god's sake, don't tell Bev, but I'm listening to Fairport Convention right now for the first time in my life. I don't know if it's the music, or just the way it's matching my mood, but this is good stuff! Listening to the 20th Century Masters disc on Lala; I was hoping it would give me an overview.

The only problem is this weird desire to put on tights and learn to play the lute...

[A Lark Ascending]

The only problem is this weird desire to put on tights and learn to play the lute...

Keep listening...in time you'll do this quite naturally!

I always wear a stetson and chew tobacco when listening to anything American.

Edited August 17, 2009 by Bev Stapleton

[Jazzmoose]

You know, if I'd heard this stuff without knowing who it was, I'd swear up and down they had to be from San Francisco, though.

edited to add:

In spite of the fact that I want to start grabbing Moby Grape, AIrplane and It's a Beautiful Day records I no longer have at this point, I'm loving this stuff. I'm listening to their first right now, and I'll have to spin Leige & Lief before I give up for the night, if only to hear Matty Groves again. Seriously, if I'd known what this stuff was like, I'd have been listening to it at least thirty years ago.

Edited August 17, 2009 by Jazzmoose

[A Lark Ascending]

They actually began as a sort of US folk-rock/West Coast covers band - they were nicknamed 'England's Jefferson Airplane'. Their first album (before Sandy Denny joined) is almost completely in that vein (they recorded some Joni Mitchell and Dylan tracks that were not known over here, passed on by manager Joe Boyd). The English (well, really Scottish/Irish) influence began to trickle in on the next two albums until it took complete hold on Liege and Lief. It caused an early fragmentation with Ian Matthews parting from the band to follow a career with a more American feel.

Give 'A Sailor's Life' off 'Unhalfbricking' a listen for an almost perfect mesh of English traditional music and Grateful Dead-like extended jamming. A magical track.

If you listen to Richard Thompson's guitar you'll hear more than a hint of classic US country playing (he often does things by the likes of Buck Owens as encores etc)...though he has always avoided any blues styling, apart from a brief Blind Willie Johnson cover on the second album.

[Niko]

For god's sake, don't tell Bev, but I'm listening to Fairport Convention right now for the first time in my life. I don't know if it's the music, or just the way it's matching my mood, but this is good stuff! Listening to the 20th Century Masters disc on Lala; I was hoping it would give me an overview.

The only problem is this weird desire to put on tights and learn to play the lute...

funny i heard "i want to see the bright lights tonight" by richard and linda thompson for the first time two days ago and also definitely want to do some more listening in that direction...

[Jazzmoose]

It caused an early fragmentation with Ian Matthews parting from the band to follow a career with a more American feel.

That name rings a bell; is he the same Matthews who covered Darkness, Darkness? Thanks to the Savannah, GA FM station (that condescended to playing decent rock rather than top forty for four hours every Saturday night...), that song has been permanently burned into my brain!