Bluesnik Posted October 4, 2018 Report Posted October 4, 2018 And now, after Guy Laffitte From the Rare Groove Series. Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Musical-Joe-Castro/dp/B0157S7MTQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538696755&sr=1-1&keywords=joe+castro Just getting into it. Second CD of six looks quite intriguing -- Teddy Wilson and bass and drums backing either Stan Getz or Zoot Sims in 1954. First CD consists of three long (one is more that 35 minutes) rather abstract at times jam session tracks with Castro (a good player), Chico Hamilton (very prominent in guiding things along), Buddy Collette, trumpeter John Anderson and a bassist. Soloists duck in and out of the spotlight, usually after brief stints, but there's a lot of Collette in excellent form on clarinet and flute, not as much John Anderson but what there is of him is choice -- he's kind of a West Coast version of Joe Wilder, very relaxed and with a gorgeous mellow sound. At first I found the some-of-this-then-some-of-that fluidity of the music a bit frustrating, but then I realized/began to think that this fluidity was inspiring to Collette especially and also began to make sense in its own right. I can't think of any music being made in 1954 that sounded quite like this. Boy, was Collette a fine clarinetist. Quote
paul secor Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 Lovin' Spoonful: What's Up, Tiger Lily/You're a Big Boy Now Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Musical-Joe-Castro/dp/B0157S7MTQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538696755&sr=1-1&keywords=joe+castro On to CD 2, with Teddy Wilson, bass, drums and either Getz (7/55) or Zoot Sims (1/56). This is great stuff. Wilson is in remarkable form throughout, and Getz really responds to his thematic-motivic, semi-contrapuntal comping, which is not unlike John Lewis' behind Milt Jackson with the MJQ. Stan initially is akin to his laidback "Long Island Sound" period of a few years before but then he really digs in. Zoot was in great form in 1956, more long-lined/linear than he would be in later years. His reading of "You Go To My Head" is masterly. Drummer Sol Gubin only has a snare and brushes to work with, and the first of the Teddy-Zoot tracks, "Sunday," doesn't lift off as much it might have, as Gubin sticks with "what-to-do" rudiments, but things loosen up notably later on, and Zoot is irrepressible. Interestingly, Wilson's comping behind Zoot is not particularly thematic-motivic, as it was behind Getz. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 Hank Mobley - No Room for Squares (BN). The 1989 CD issue, with the entire Lee Morgan/Andrew Hill session. Quote
Gheorghe Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 Sometimes "best known" albums get lesser spin. But yesterday I was in the mood to listen once again to this classic. Before I got the CD with the original cover, I had a 2 LP set with some much more interesting liner notes, some first hand informations about the date and how Miles had to borrow a horn. The second side is not so interesting like the first side. The cup mute doesn´t allow very much variations on sound. Quote
soulpope Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 9 hours ago, Peter Friedman said: Excellent .... Quote
soulpope Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said: Sublime music .... Quote
Matthew Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 (edited) Eddie Fisher & The Next One Hundred Years Edited October 5, 2018 by Matthew Quote
JohnS Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 A couple of Blue notes chosen more or less at random Quote
paul secor Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, JohnS said: A couple of Blue notes chosen more or less at random Sometimes random choices work out just fine. Quote
HutchFan Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 2 hours ago, soulpope said: Tremendous. ...I'm going to follow your lead and listen to that right now.    On the way into work: Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve, 1960) Fischer's arrangements of Ellington's music are very un-Ellingtonian -- very dense, very buttoned-down. So I found myself having to think of this music as something different -- something "not-Ellington" -- to not get hung up on it. When I did, I started to enjoy the music more. Dizzy, of course, sounds great throughout.  Quote
soulpope Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 Just now, HutchFan said: Tremendous. ...I'm going to follow your lead and listen to that right now.  Sounded today better than ever to me .... Quote
Matthew Posted October 5, 2018 Report Posted October 5, 2018 Les McCann: Invitation To Openness Quote
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