Jump to content

This or That?

HutchFan

By HutchFan
in Miscellaneous Music

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 317
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

BillF Mentor

BillF

Posted
Posted
13 hours ago, mjzee said:

Hank.

Bill Frisell or John Abercrombie?

John Abercrombie

Just now, kh1958 said:

Ray Nance.

Earl Hines or Mary Lou Williams?

 

Ray Nance

Earl Hines

HutchFan Grand Master

HutchFan

Posted
  • Author
Posted
13 minutes ago, BillF said:

Renee Rosnes or Jeb Patton?

Rosnes for me -- not just for her playing but also for her excellent composing.

 

Johnny Griffin & Lockjaw Davis (together) or Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt (together)?

 

11 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Earl Hines or Mary Lou Williams?

Now THAT is an impossible choice.  

My pick: BOTH!  :P

 

BillF Mentor

BillF

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

Rosnes for me -- not just for her playing but also for her excellent composing.

 

Johnny Griffin & Lockjaw Davis (together) or Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt (together)?

 

Lockjaw 

Stitt

Joe Magnarelli or Jim Rotondi?

JSngry Grand Master

JSngry

Posted
Posted
17 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Johnny Griffin & Lockjaw Davis (together) or Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt (together)?

Jaws/Griff - all of Ammons/Stitt plus another gear or two if needed.No small feat.

Freddie Green or Bennie Green?

HutchFan Grand Master

HutchFan

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Just now, JSngry said:

Jaws/Griff - all of Ammons/Stitt plus another gear or two if needed.No small feat.

Agreed.

 

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Freddie Green or Bennie Green?

I love Bennie Green, but Freddie's just so omnipresent with Basie's band.  Impossible to imagine that band without his rhythm. 

So I gotta go Freddie G.

 

Speaking of Basie... Frank Foster or Frank Wess?

 

HutchFan Grand Master

HutchFan

Posted
  • Author
Posted
2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

"Girl Talk" or "Odd Couple"?

Probably "Girl Talk" -- but not just in Hefti's arrangement.  My favorite version of that song is Ray Bryant's.

 

Basie on Verve or Basie on Roulette?

 

HutchFan Grand Master

HutchFan

Posted
  • Author
Posted
1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Which period of Verve, first or second? Or collectively?

All of it.

 

4 minutes ago, BillF said:

Eric Alexander or Grant Stewart?

I prefer Stewart.

 

Dave McKenna or Dick Wellstood?

 

mjzee Mentor

mjzee

Posted
Posted
5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Hubbard, by an eyelash.

 

The Muse label in the 1970s or the SteepleChase label in the 1970s?

 

SteepleChase.  Muse gets credit for releasing albums from younger artists, but their covers were ugly, there was little promotion behind their releases, and there were too many of them, so most seem undifferentiated.

In the '80's, Gramavision or Antilles?

HutchFan Grand Master

HutchFan

Posted
  • Author
Posted
11 minutes ago, mjzee said:

In the '80's, Gramavision or Antilles?

Gramavision wins handily.  They were putting out all sorts of interesting music in the 80s -- John Carter, Billy Hart, Anthony Davis, Oliver Lake, Bob Moses, James Newton, et al.  IMO, they were one of the best labels of the decade -- right up there with Black Saint/Soul Note.

 

ECM in the 70s or ECM in the 80s?

 

Larry Kart Proficient

Larry Kart

Posted
Posted
35 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

What Hutch Fan said - Hubbard by an eyelash

 

Ben Webster   or. Budd Johnson

Webster

Morgan -- and I'll take Bill Hardman over Hubbard too. Too much flashy diddling from Freddie at times. Without being at all solemn, Hardman was a serious player.

Herman Chittison or Clarence Profit

Mickey Tucker or Walter Davis Jr.

Sonny Red Kyner or John Jenkins

Peter Friedman Grand Master

Peter Friedman

Posted
Posted
29 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Webster

Morgan -- and I'll take Bill Hardman over Hubbard too. Too much flashy diddling from Freddie at times. Without being at all solemn, Hardman was a serious player.

Herman Chittison or Clarence Profit

Mickey Tucker or Walter Davis Jr.

Sonny Red Kyner or John Jenkins

I consider Hardman a very fine and serious player, at the same level as Hubbard and Morgan. All 3 have their really fine moments, and sometimes the level drops a bit for each of them.  

Blue Mitchell is another top player who may be perhaps just a hair below those 3?

Walter Davis Jr.  he swings far more that Tucker

Sonny Red Kyner -  more soulful than Jenkins

Sal Nistico  -  Tubby Hayes plays a lot of notes very fast, but lacks the depth I hear in Nistico's tenor work.

 

Milt Jackson. or Cal Tjader

Pete Jolly. or Lou Levy

Harold Mabern   or. John Hicks

Illinois Jacquet   or.  Arnett Cobb

danasgoodstuff Community Regular

danasgoodstuff

Posted
Posted
6 hours ago, JSngry said:

Strikingly personal voice vs Pepper Adams clone? Easy choice - Cuber!

Move You Hand or Grant Green Alive! ?

Move Your Hand v. GG Alive! (at the Cliché Lounge) is hard, both for their virtues and their faults, I'll take the recordings from the Club Mozambique in Detroit by either over either of those though, if that makes any sense.  Better jazz and better funk.  All lovely records that I enjoy.  But things go to heck for me pretty soon after.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...