sambrasa Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Pondered the spoken word albums, in jazz genre. Any recommendations. Some I enjoy: The Heinrich Heine album with Attila Zoller Quartet which was mentioned in German jazz topic recently. Masaomi Kondo with music by The Freedom Unity group: Skokubuchu-shi: Hitoribotchi no heya (植物誌 ひとりぼっちの部屋) https://www.discogs.com/release/6899411-近藤正臣-植物誌-ひとりぼっちの部屋 Jan Erik Wold with Jan Garbarek etc. several albums which are compiled here https://www.discogs.com/release/2609874-Jan-Erik-Vold-Vokal-The-Complete-Recordings-1966-1977 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 I assume you are hep to Babs Gonzales and Ken Nordine. I would highly recommend Rhino's three-CD Beat Generation box set, if you can find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvopedz Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Are you referring to albums such as the recordings of Mingus with Langston Hughes (Weary Blues)? Another Mingus album might be the A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 (edited) I'm a big fan of Kazuko Shiraishi's album, words are spoken in Japanese but it has a great feeling to it, obviously helped by the presence of Sam Rivers, Abdul Wadud and Buster Williams https://www.discogs.com/master/332790-Kazuko-Shiraishi-Featuring-Sam-Rivers-Dedicated-To-The-Late-John-Coltrane-And-Other-Jazz-Poems Of a lot more recent vintage is Aja Monet https://www.discogs.com/release/27677148-Aja-Monet-When-The-Poems-Do-What-They-Do Edited May 8 by mjazzg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Colette Magny's series of records for Le Chant Du Monde with collaborators including Barre Phillips, Beb Guérin, François Tusques, Noël McGhie, Workshop de Lyon, and Dharma Quintet would qualify. They're interesting documents and less chanteuse-focused than her earlier work. Jayne Cortez: duo with Richard Davis on Strata-East, "Celebrations and Solitudes," and her later Firespitters group (three LPs with Denardo Coleman, Bern Nix, Jamaladeen Tacuma, et al.) are cornerstones in this area. Also, her performance with Clifford Thornton on side two of his "Communications Network" is worth hearing. K. Curtis Lyle "The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson" on Mbari (feat. Julius Hemphill) is a wonderful recording. Barry Wallenstein's two LPs on AkBa with Cecil McBee, Stanley Cowell, Charles Tyler, et al. are worth checking out. Isolated tracks but LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) with the New York Art Quartet and Sunny Murray are iconic. Maybe "jazz-adjacent" but of interest is The Jihad album "Black and Beautiful," street corner rap/soul with free-ish embellishments, featuring & released by Jones. Hart Leroy Bibbs with Sunny Murray on the Shandar & Pathé LPs is wonderful tool. Sunny's own poetry on "An Even Break," Archie Shepp's poetry, Amos Mor with Muhal Richard Abrams... all important. More recently, Steve Dalachinsky's CDs with Joëlle Léandre, Matt Shipp, and Dave Liebman are all incredible. Amina Baraka & The Red Microphone, a newer CD with Rocco John Iacavone and Ras Moshe Burnett, is good and worth hearing too. If we're talking beats, the Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada LP is fun and interesting. I love Patchen even without the jazz. Mike Pearson reading Patchen with Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet is also awesome: https://www.discogs.com/release/1790932-The-Peter-Brötzmann-Chicago-Tentet-Featuring-Mike-Pearson-Be-Music-Night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambrasa Posted May 8 Author Report Share Posted May 8 Some interesting recommendations here. Few more spring to mind: Jorge Amado - Guia Das Ruas E Dos Mistérios Da Cidade Do Salvador Da Bahia (with Egberto Gismonti's Academia de Danças) Michael Mantler - Hapless Child (with Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley, Terje Rypdal, Steve Swallow & Jack DeJohnette) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Both highly recommended on both counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 15 minutes ago, JSngry said: Both highly recommended on both counts. Often wonder about that top one, I should seek out a listen someday and stop wondering. Second looks interesting if only for WLS and Hopkins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 18 minutes ago, sambrasa said: Jorge Amado - Guia Das Ruas E Dos Mistérios Da Cidade Do Salvador Da Bahia (with Egberto Gismonti's Academia de Danças) Oh wow. That looks interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 This worked really well live, haven't heard the album yet https://www.discogs.com/master/3288400-Mike-Reed-The-Separatist-Party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Mingus: The Clown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 Cortez/Davis: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 1 hour ago, mjazzg said: Often wonder about that top one, I should seek out a listen someday and stop wondering. Second looks interesting if only for WLS and Hopkins I should revisit the India Navigation. I wasn't as into it but I think was expecting something it didn't purport to be (i.e., Jihad/Black Dada Nihilismus action). To put it simply, LeRoi with the NYAQ doing BDN was life-changing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 8 Report Share Posted May 8 It won't be life-changing, but it might affirm the correctness of the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 (edited) On 5/8/2024 at 3:19 PM, Teasing the Korean said: I would highly recommend Rhino's three-CD Beat Generation box set, if you can find it. Found the three CDs of that set for the "pricey" sum of 1 EUR each at the clearout sale of a local record store about 4 weeks ago - but no box case nor booklet, unfortunately. Did find the discographical details online but to get some (more) context surrounding these recordings I'd love to get my hands on a scan of the relevant sections of the booklet. Apart from that - yes, these recordings are very interesting - and enlightening. Re- other recommendations, the "Heinrich Heine/Attila Zoller LP mentioned earlier is called "Lyrik und Jazz" and is an achievement in its genre (but probably was plugged to death in the media at the time of its release in ANOTHER attempt at securing "respectability" of jazz among a "wider" public). But to appreciate it fully you would have to be able to master the German language, of course. But it's not overly expensive on amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Heinrich-Heine-Lyrik-Jazz-Westphal/dp/B000GH3DVK Edited May 9 by Big Beat Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pim Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 There’s some spoken word on Billie Harper’s Blueprints of Jazz album by Amira Baraka I believe. Not a big fan of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (Flying Dutchman) 1971 .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 9 Report Share Posted May 9 1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said: Found the three CDs of that set for the "pricey" sum of 1 EUR each at the clearout sale of a local record store about 4 weeks ago - but no box case nor booklet, unfortunately. Did find the discographical details online but to get some (more) context surrounding these recordings I'd love to get my hands on a scan of the relevant sections of the booklet. Apart from that - yes, these recordings are very interesting - and enlightening. Re- other recommendations, the "Heinrich Heine/Attila ZollerW LP mentioned easrlier is called "Lyrik und Jazz" and is an achievement in its genre (but probalby was plugged to death in the media at the time of its release in ANOTHER attempt at securing "respectability" of jazz among a "wider" public). But to appreaciate it fully you would have to be able to master the German language, of course. But it's not overly expensive on amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Heinrich-Heine-Lyrik-Jazz-Westphal/dp/B000GH3DVK PM sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 On 5/9/2024 at 4:39 PM, Teasing the Korean said: PM sent. Very helpful! So a public THANK YOU is in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 16 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said: Very helpful! So a public THANK YOU is in order. My pleasure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 Surely, the greatest moment in spoken word jazz, if not cinematic history: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 6 hours ago, sgcim said: Surely, the greatest moment in spoken word jazz, if not cinematic history: I'll raise you the opening scene from Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood, which recycles Fred Katz's score to Little Shop of Horrors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_forumlogo.png.a607ef20a6e0c299ab2aa6443aa1f32e.png)
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.