miles65 Posted March 27, 2013 Report Posted March 27, 2013 How about Dolphy at the 5 Spot? Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Potter, Haynes at Birdland March 31, 1951 Mingus 1964 Wuppertal is among my favorites Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted March 28, 2013 Report Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Agree with comments about those Cecil 1970's Unit recordings I think One too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye is simply one of the great live documents in the history of this music Calling it The Eighth with a quartet with Rashid Bakr is also quite good How about Nefertiti from 1962 with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray? Not great sound but there are passages when truly new music is invented What I would love to hear would be a multi disc set of some of the Gerry Hemingway quintet shows from the 90's with best band he ever led Btw I posted more current bands that I've seen to make a point. Someone else asked what makes a classic band? Certainly Trio 3 is and Live in Willisau from 1992 fits the bill Parker Guy Lytton from 1996 At the Vortex is the best they ever sounded on record Edited March 28, 2013 by Steve Reynolds Quote
colinmce Posted March 29, 2013 Report Posted March 29, 2013 Steve, I know you're also a huge fan of the Hemingway 5. I was listening to Waltzes, Two-Steps, & Other Matters of the Heart (culled from multiple shows, alas) the other day and was just newly blown away by how insanely good that band and those songs are. Complete and total mastery. How how how do you so consistently write such melodic, complex, challenging, engaging and above-all enjoyable tunes? Gerry did it, and they played it with ease. And that's how it sounds: so easy! Quote
MartyJazz Posted March 30, 2013 Report Posted March 30, 2013 Rollins live at the Museum of Modern Art in June '65. Cooks his ass off on the opening "Green Dolphin Street' into a magnificent "Three Little Words". Cover of the LP is unfortunate since it depicts Rollins' mid '70s look, not at all what he looked like in '65: Quote
bogdan101 Posted March 31, 2013 Report Posted March 31, 2013 Two of my favourites that I haven't seen mentioned so far: Tolliver live at Loosdrecht George Adams - Don Pullen at the Village Vanguard. Quote
Steve Reynolds Posted March 31, 2013 Report Posted March 31, 2013 Plus Waltzes has Toombow on it which I saw live with the American Quartet maybe in 2000 or so. It was amazing. Would love to hear The Marmalade King suite live. I know a few who would just love to get the original long out of print Hat Art CD. Hemingway combined all his best qualities as a writer, leader and drummer with that recording. Plus all the recordings are of the best sound quality, with Waltzes being no exception Quote
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