"If That Arm Heals, It Ought To Be Broken Again" 2008 Jazz D Minor Bags Thread

I didn't even know who this cat was, but based on his resume I'll be checking him out real soon http://www.jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?p=708875

That should say: Earl May R.I.P.

To find this thread (and the other one) search title for "jazz d"

http://www.woebot.com/2007/12/jazz_1.html

Woebot on his jazz vinyl collection

Completely random purchases I just made out of the J&R Blue Note bargain bin:
Eliane Elias Plays Jobim
The Magnificent Thad Jones
Conquistador!- Cecil Taylor

For all the Bags in the house:
http://images.umvd.com/aec/Toenails/a6ef4a52782b4d4ea0645ac83d183633.jpg

I've been digging on my jazz vinyl lately. Some live Adderley Bros. and Mongo Santameria records that I don't think are available anymore...not classics, but nice Saturday morning listening.

Also this on vinyl, which is fucking rad.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51a5QE1QfpL._AA240_.jpg

I heard this in the car over the weekend
http://www.thebottomend.co.uk/artists/Azar_Layuca.jpg

Some live Adderley Bros.

Nippon Soul?

No, although if Nippon Soul is what I'm thinking of then that's some hot shit.

I guess I have At the Lighthouse.

Did you know that Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones had four illegitimate sons and they were all named Julian after Cannonball?

Maybe there were only two of them.

Just heard a track off the latest McCoy Tyner Quartet recorded live at Yoshi's in 2006. It was "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit" and it has a kind of "Love Supreme" bassline. I'd gladly check out the rest of it.

http://www.mccoytyner.com/

that Ellington Anatomy of a Murder soundtrack is great, and I think the film is playing at Film Forum now.

Just heard a track off the latest McCoy Tyner Quartet recorded live at Yoshi's in 2006. It was "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit" and it has a kind of "Love Supreme" bassline. I'd gladly check out the rest of it.

-- James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You should also hear the magnificent "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit" from Enlightenment. One of my all time favorites.

And I don't think anybody linked this yet (forgive me if I'm wrong). The 2007 Voice jazz poll.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0801,davis,78767,22.html

The recent McCoy Tyner Mosaic Select 3CD box is excellent, and highly recommended.

that Ellington Anatomy of a Murder soundtrack is great, and I think the film is playing at Film Forum now.
Missed it. Last weekend.

You should also hear the magnificent "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit" from Enlightenment. One of my all time favorites.
I think I remember really digging this song at when he played a free show at the Clinton Castle (?) in Battery Park a few years ago. I kind of prefer modern McCoy in Middle Eastern mode to his more painterly, Bill Evans-y stuff.

Yeah...Enlightenment is anything but Bill Evans-y. Very aggressive. It's amazing he didn't break the piano.

My favorite 2008 jazz d record so far: Cuong Vu's Vu-Tet. Unreal sounds coming out of a trumpet, best rhythm section going.

Also great: Ryan Blotnick, François Ingold Quartet, some Italian guitar quintet thing (gotta look up the name). Album I wish I'd heard in 2007 as it would have been on my top ten list: Josh Roseman's New Constellations Live in Vienna, severely art-damaged jazz-ska with humor and edge.

By the way I don't know if you d bags know but we have a thing going at Cave17.com, come check us out, I will review all these jazz discs eventually. Spread the word, too, we need it real bad.

Is that Cave as in Caveau de la Huchette?

Or is "Cave 17" the title of an unreleased Johnny Paycheck song?

Here's a hint: Mel Brooks.

2,000 Year Old Man?

ding

Was that where the ladies were?

http://www.woebot.com/2007/12/jazz_1.html

Woebot on his jazz vinyl collection

-- curmudgeon, Monday, January 7, 2008 4:40 PM

ok good stuff for the most part but

"In a Silent way" must be the most perfect imagining of a Minimal Jazz.

ffs

Max Roach's birthday today.

Would have been 84.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/ces-2008-product-names-best-of-the-worst/575941/

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I keep hearing this groovy version of "I Never Knew Love Like This Before" by The Deep Blue Organ Trio.

Already said this on the vinyl thread, but other day I got:

Trident - McCoy Tyner
Reqiuem: Complete Atlantic - Lennie Tristano
Joe Henderson in Japan - Joe Henderson (duh)
Concert by the Sea - Cal Tjader

Requiem is everything I wanted it to be, Trident rips and is exactly the Tyner I was looking for when I bought the wrong handful of 70s albums last year. The Tjader isn't what I was hoping for (wanted more of a latin soul feel to it, but this is kinda MJQ stuff), but is still good.

The Joe Henderson is the first Henderson record I've heard, it was all rep up to now, and holy shit I am loving this guy. I'm gonna have to see if we have a S/D thread on him.

lol oh wait i started one

S/D: Joe Henderson

really, really great piece on miles davis dissing oscar peterson, the blues in jazz, etc.

(at do the math)

That was awesome. Only thing is he doesn't mention "Song For My Father" or "Watermelon Man." Maybe he gets around to them in the footnotes, which I haven't read yet.

pretty interesting article, but way too effin' long. i like this quote from davis: "I don't know what they mean when they say 'swing hard' anyway." Doesn't that kind of sound like Xhuxk or Tom E talking?

No, because xhuxk would immediately supply one hundred exemplars of his own understanding of what the word is supposed to mean.

This article was especially interesting to me because I just read through the Ben Ratliff Coltrane book and this does a better job than BR does of, um, healing old wounds.

i recently picked up a nice vinyl copy of The Cannonball Adderly Quintet in San Francisco, I think it's his first thing after leaving the legendary Miles band w/Coltrane...from like 59...bros down with Nat.

Really nice stuff, very gospel and R&B influenced, almost a Ray Charles feel to some of the piano rhythm parts, but yeah I think it's a little poppy and breezy and got dissed for being so at the time, like he'd sold out the hardco-ah scene, but I think it's great, very fun and ingratiating w/o seeming corny.

Also got "Inception" by the McCoy Tyner Trio, his first deal as well, nice sealed copy of a late 80s Impluse! reissue, very nice stuff as well.

He learned that and runs it into the ground worse than Billy Taylor.
Ha, you got to hear a lot of both of these guys recently since, as noted above, sort of, Billy Taylor's bass player passed away shortly after OP.

Kind of a hilarious article here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=28260

I stayed in one of these resorts and it's not so bad (especially with kids), so dude is being kind of a drama queen. But his research into Mexico's hate/hate affair with jazz is pretty amazing, and I like how he is willing to tear new ones for lazy schmuck artists.

Is that the guy who has all the theory lessons on the web?

idk, how do i shot web?

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

No, the other guy is Marc Sabatella.

"d minor bags"!!

Charlie Mingus' death in Cuernavaca
I know that Dexter Gordon was down in Cuernavaca for a while, but I'm not sure what he was doing there.

"d minor bags"!!
Yeah, that was a really bad joke, sorry.

Haw, I liked it.

Next one I'm calling Jazz G7 Bags Thread, if I remember to.

Hm. Usually when I heard the word "fusion" that's when I reach for my Revolver, but this looks kind of interesting.

Manieri is really good -- and Tony Levin!

Yeah, exactly. Plus I've seen Donny McCaslin once or twice before in Latin Jazz contexts and he's good too.

Sounds like something I would have been psyched about in high school. God, so many sterile, chopsy albums with Steve Smith, Mike Stern, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers, ad infinitum.

That's why Donny McCaslin is the tie-in, he's from a younger generation with a little more of the Latin influence, hopefully keeping the whole thing from fusioning out of control.

Although maybe he'll just get caught up in the ball of con-fusion like everybody else.

Picked up Matthew Shipp's Nu-Bop today.

Basically sounds like dude had been listening to a bunch of Aphex Twin and wanted to play around with techno-jazz. It's pretty good, stays kinetic enough that it never veers into Smooth territory even though the 9 tracks are basically 9 variations on a theme. A bit repetitive, but I dig it.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080225/stillman

^ hilarious albert ayler story in http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080225/stillman

oops

basically "i got really high and listened to albert ayler and had great insights about western civilization" but it's fun

I love Nu Bop!

I just ordered the David S. Ware album from last year. Have high expectations.

I need to get back to seeing live jazz again. I've gotten lazy.

Haven't heard Nu-Bop in forever, but the bassline on the title track is sick.

I just ordered the new Nik Bartsch disc!

Went to 55 Bar to see Lew Soloff- it was his birthday so he had a few special guests play with him- many of whom the doorman charged a cover! Big guy walks up with a trumpet and says "I'm Jon Faddis, former director of the Jazz Orchestra at Lincoln Center" and the Dan-Hedaya-crossed-with-Stifler-looking doorman holds out his hand and says "And I'm Paul R4mirez, pleased to meet you, but you still gotta pay ten bucks." Other guest was Jerry Vivino (who I never realized was a different person from his brother Jimmy)

When they got started, John Faddis played "Happy Birthday" at him, then Lew called "Equinox", then they played "How High The Moon" followed by "My Funny Valentine" dedicated to his daughter. Sort of ended with "Night In Tunisia" but then they fooled around with a tango -"La Cumparsita"- I think, and then on some kind of "Hava Nagila" crossed with "St. James Infirmary," I don't think the band even knew what the tune was.

Lew has a great way of sort of starting with kind of lazy bleat and then getting louder and more forceful as he goes along. Lew and Jon had a little bit of a contest during "Tunisia," I think Jon kind of won, he was channeling Diz. I like that about jazz, that bigtime cats play the same corny tunes that Jordan played in Jazz 101 and they make it sound so good.

Took my dad (the jazz fan in the family who grew up in NY seeing shows at Bop City and such) Tuesday night out to 1,900 seat Strathmore in suburban Md./DC to see the 50th anniversary Monterey Jazz Festival on tour (54 United States shows; in Jersey tonight and tomorrow) with pianist Benny Green, James Moody, Terence Blanchard, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott and singer Nnena Freelon...

Nice, well-balanced show---Moody's bad jokes, vocalese and nice blowing; trumpeter Blanchard's somber New Orleans cuts from his latest effort; a Coltrane number; fine young 20-somethings Hodge and Scott and pianist Green who looks like he's 18 but is older; Freelon closing with "Misty"

I have missed Blanchard on recent headlining gigs and this taste of his playing made me that much more eager to see him in a headline role sometime.

I got the whole set of those Jazz Icons DVDs last year, but never dug into 'em until now. Took home Art Blakey (Belgium, 1958, one month after Moanin' was recorded) and Thelonious Monk (Norway and Denmark, 1966). Watched the Blakey last night. Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt, and Blakey, just tearing through "Moanin'" and "A Night In Tunisia" and four or five other pieces - 55 minutes all together. Fucking killer, killer stuff. I could listen to Lee Morgan all day every day for a year.

Nice. I've only been to the 55 Bar once, to see Ari Hoenig's band, but it was cool.

I saw the the Monterey tour when I was a freshman in college, and it was Nick Payton's quintet w/Cedar Walton, Randy Brecker, sax dude I can't remember the name of, etc..

I got that Nik Bartsch cd (Holon) and listened to the first two cuts on the way to work this morning. It's so sick...it's as much Steve Reich as anything relating to jazz (the closest parallels might be some M-Base shit or Vijay Ayer, but this is much more composed and cinematic than that), but who cares what you call it.

Picking apart the time signatures almost feels like doing a crossword puzzle or something.

Yeah, Ronin albums are scarily beautiful. Do you have the earlier ones? He switched to piano from Fender Rhodes on this new one.

No, I only have the new one and Stoa (which I think was all piano as well). The older tracks on his myspace sound great, less complicated and funkier.

Herbie Hancock is a friend of Listening Post, so we were delighted when he took Album of the Year honors at this year's Grammys even though 87.7 percent of this blog's readers think the awards don't matter, and the ceremony must, by its very nature, honor the John Mayers of the world over its Mark E. Smiths.

But apparently, lots of people base album buying decisions on the award. His win has proven a boon to sales, bumping River: The Joni Letters 967 percent to number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart -- Hancock's highest result ever in his long, storied career, which now includes 12 of the trophies.

Tomorrow night, Hancock will perform on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

"Tell that to your new leader- Leno!"

Sold 54,000 before Grammys and that same amount in the week after, and now more

I almost bought it...but I didn't.

So far I would list my favoritest things I've heard like this:

1. Cuong Vu, Vu-Tet
2. Steven Bernstein, Diaspora Suite (Miles-ish space funk, but Jewisher)
3. Louie Bellson and Clark Terry, Louie and Clark Expedition 2 (big-band corny stuff but really good and kinda forward-looking -- Duke Ellington once said Bellson was the world's greatest musician and he was married to Pearl Bailey so that's good enough for me, jack)
4. Matana Roberts, The Chicago Project (only had it for a couple of days, moving up quickly)
5. Cowboys From Hell, Monster Rodeo (metal-jazz from Switzerland, covers of the "Halloween" theme and straight-up beat-jacks from "Eye of the Tiger", so amazing)
6. Jason Kao Hwang/Edge, Stories Before Within (Third Stream weirdness, kinda good while shoveling at midnight)
7. The Wrong Object, Stories From the Shed (Zappa Tribute Band goes jazz-legit LOL)
8. François Ingold Trio, Fat Free (v.nice)
9. Keith Marks, Foreign Funk (jazz flautist gets down with "Axel F"...but actually better than that sounds)
10. Joe Locke Quartet, Sticks and Strings (I'm a sucker for vibes)

okay my copy of Maceo Parker's Roots and Grooves just arrived and it is SHIT HOT Y'ALL. He's playing with the Cologne big band WDR; one disc of Ray Charles covers, one disc of good old Maceo funk stuff including an 18 minute "Pass the Peas." Dude can still play the holy hell out of that saxophone, it's like he hasn't aged a day. WOW BLAM ZING.

Mo' Roots & Southern Exposure are classics. Life on Planet Groove is a good time too, though I haven't heard it for years.

I keep almost buying Life on Planet Groove at Strictly Discs, they always have it there...but then something else catches my eye.

Meeting Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley while working as a snack-bar clerk in Newark Airport was one of the greatest things to happen to teenaged me.

'A Beginner's Guide to Coltrane on Impulse'

yeah I've been into Bernstein's Diaspora too. Saw this great footage from early '60s this week of Anita O'Day live in Japan, swinging--whatever that means--hard and looking cooler than anyone in history. Also found the Free Form Funky Freqs' Urban Mythology really far better than I would've guessed.

Have you guys heard about Andrew D'Angelo? He has brain cancer, no insurance...there's been a bunch of benefits, I was going to go to one in Chicago yesterday but didn't make it. He's blogging about it pretty extensively, which is kind of fascinating.

Peter Margasak was blogging enthusiastically about D'Angelo on his Chicago Reader Post No Bills blog and conveying the health news-- blurring the lines between edgy postbop and noise rock--

Jazz and more critic Howard Mandel in a comment to Christgau's posting re the demise of No Depression magazine on the NAJP website

Essentially the same circumstances resulted in the demise in print form of Mississippi Rag, the long-running mag covering traditional jazz, and with increases in US postage probably threatens publications I've worked for such as Rhythm (formerly RhythmMusic) and SignalToNoise (though that one's currently in expansionist mode -- how does publisher/editor Pete Gershon do it?). Other periodicals covering "marginal music" (American roots, world music, jazz and classical are marginal, not fundimental?) must be at risk, too. Will readers migrate to the websites or issues put out in pdf form? And most important to writers and photographers: Will online-only publications pay contributors as the print versions did? Robert Christgau is right that grants and funders are not known in this realm. Does the NAJP have ideas about addressing the problem, or are arts journalists just going to watch this happen, helplessly? If we're to go with the flow, at least let's build platforms that allow professionalism on the web to assert itself as worthy of and able to attract financial support.

http://www.najp.org/articles/2008/02/no-depression-lets-hope-so.html

Mandel blogs about 2008 releases - http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2008/02/best_records_of_2008.html#more

Holy Smokes. I just found this bunch of videos at the library called Jazz Casual, hosted by Ralph J. Gleason, with all kinds of great players on them. I took home two, the first being Jimmy Witherspoon with Ben Webster and the Vince Guaraldi Trio, the second Count Basie leading a quartet with Sonny Payne and Freddie Green, but it seems like they are all worth watching.

I just wish there was a better view of the front of Freddie's guitar so I could see him make those famous three note "Freddie Green chords."

hey does anyone on here groove on arthur blythe? i've gotten three of his albums - illusions, blythe spirit, and basic blythe -- and i think he's becoming one of my fav jazz dudes ever...perfect for me, a great mix of free jazz "out there" stuff with really curious and idiosyncratic "in there" trad moves...like maybe if you made a comparison to rock guitarist he would be robert quine, sort of bridging the classic/modern gap really nicely...plus he's not like super revered by collectors so you can pick up the vinyl for under $5!

Blythe is a knockout on the early Horace Tapscott LPs-- seek "The Giant is Awakened"... It's one of the first (if not the very first) sessions featuring "Black Arthur"

This music is not my cup of tea (but it might be yours), but I still find Villafranca an amazing pianist to see live.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/eliovillafranca

He was more-or-less based in Philadelphia for a while, but Philadelphia couldn't keep him any more than Cuba could.

My favorite Blythe, for decades now, has always been Lenox Aveneue Breakdown from 1979, which has a very cool Latin bulgalu feel at its root, somoehow.

(Wow, this Elio Villafranca stuff is really boring. All that skill and this is what he does. I don't understand musicians.)

xp Or at least that's how it's always felt to me.

Here's Christgau's take on it:

Lenox Avenue Breakdown [Columbia, 1979]
I prefer this to, say, Blythe's more conventionally "free" Bush Baby (on Adelphi) because--thanks to Jack DeJohnette, Guillermo Franco, and the lilt of Blythe's theme vamps--its passion for popular rhythms enables it to say something about them. The sinuous Latin groove of "Down San Diego Way" wends through three of the four tracks. But while the California opener is unfailingly sunny, the groove runs into two-way traffic on the title tune and suffers further cross-comment on the bluesy "Slidin' Through" before disappearing into "Odessa." Just as Steely Dan's lyrics (and chord changes, I suppose) work against the surface mellowness of the music, so the strength of the groove here is challenged and transformed by solo voices and alien rhythms without ever being defeated, much less exploited for its "accessibility." And if we're interested, all this conflict helps us understand why music like Bush Baby exists. A

thx chuck yeah my friend said real good things about lenox ave and bush baby i'll have to track them down...is blood ulmer on those? he's on illusions and i kinda like the choppy hard r&b feel he brings to it

i like some of the blythe stuff with bob stewart on tuba + joey baron, but haven't spent a ton of time with it.

Michael Bourne on WBGO talking to this cool-singing Abbey Lincoln-protegee named Libby York.

I have no idea what made me click this thread, but I just recently happened to find this record: Lenox Avenue Breakdown [Columbia, 1979] in a cutout bin for a dollar. I am glad to hear it is good.

Maybe you clicked because you wanted to learn the voicing of the elusive Jazz D Minor Bag Chord?

A couple of notable 2007 releases that I'm just now coming around to:

Joan Stiles - Hurly-Burly
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0nfixzu5ldhe

Great piano-led sextet in a Monkish mood.

The Blueprint Project with Han Bennink - People I Like
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k9foxzlgld6e

A bit more abstract, Dutch-influenced trio with Han Bennink on drums.

I have no idea what made me click this thread, but I just recently happened to find this record: Lenox Avenue Breakdown [Columbia, 1979] in a cutout bin for a dollar. I am glad to hear it is good.

-- roxymuzak, Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i'm sooo jealous that's supposed to be the best one!!!!!

Bennink is duetting with Brotzmann here later this month. I already have a stiffie.

Spring Jazz film series at the Library of Congress in DC on the next 4 Wednesdays for free. This Wednesday April 2 at 7 p.m.:

Imagine the Sound (Sphinx Productions, 1981). Dir Ron Mann. (90 min, color, DVD)

preceded by:

Jazz--Rhythms of Freedom (JAK Films, 2007). Dir Mike Welt. (32 min, color, DigiBeta video)

Ron Mann's recently restored version of his now classic 1981 documentary features interviews and beautifully shot studio performances by four free-jazz firebrands: pianist Paul Bley, trumpeter Bill Dixon, saxophonist Archie Shepp and pianist Cecil Taylor.

Preceded by the short film Jazz--Rhythms of Freedom , one of 94 historical documentaries recently produced by Lucasfilm, which explores the use of jazz as a tool for liberation with profiles of contemporary musicians Billy Taylor, Kahil El'Zabar and Joe McPhee.

Bennink is duetting with Brotzmann here later this month. I already have a stiffie.

-- Oilyrags, Monday, March 31, 2008 4:15 PM

dude i have never heard either one of these dudes in life but i am amped

Yeah, hard to go wrong with that line-up. I like the CD that Brotzmann did with Hamid Drake, The Dried Rat-Dog

I went to see Han Bennink at Tonic last year on Hurting's recommendation. Hurting ended up not going, but my friend and I really enjoyed the show, especially the duets with Anthony Coleman.

I'll hook a HOOS up, man, don't worry.

Anybody seen this doc (not that I can make it tonight to the free showing at the Library of Congress, as I have my son's baseball practice)

Anita O'Day--The Life of a Jazz Singer (Elan Entertainment/UGO Productions, 2007). Dir Robbie Cavolina & Ian McCrudden. Producers Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden, Melissa Davis. (90 min, color, DVD)

I guess not

No, but I'd like to see it.

She had a crazy life

Frank Lowe's Black Beings is being reissued by ESP-Disk this week, with an additional 15 minutes of music. This was William Parker's first session, and it's a killer.

So, what's with Charlie Parker showing up in a Grand Theft Auto ad?

i posted this unnecessary shit on IMM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJt1cB7AA0

(dude playing along to the Giant Steps sax solo on keys while accompanying himself on electric bass)

picked this up this weekend, $8 on nice shape vinyl:

http://img11.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/4/c/1/8/6/4c1863edbde0c5d2fe67754c4d28c0b0_full.jpg

early coltrane stuff...looks like the bandleader is wilbur harden.

it's a nice little record...breezy bop for the most part, but it's cool when coltrane takes a solo as it's clear he's already starting to strain against the conventions, clearly on another level than the others (who are great players, don't get me wrong)....but yeah def. worth checking out...

Harden did a pair of albums with Coltrane in the band. A few years ago Savoy put 'em together on a 2CD set.

This Mary Lou Williams record with Ronnie Boykins and Roy Haynes is awesome.

it sounds like it

oh shit, there's finally a new Brian Blade fellowship album, must get immediately.

the clips alone sound incredible.

Interesting article about jazz obsessive: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/19/080519fa_fact_remnick
I'm listening to the radio show embedded on the bottom of that page. Dude is giving an hour-long monologue on what date Charlie Parker was recorded making a primitive overdub on a Benny Goodman 78 disc. WAS IT 1944 or 1941?!!! I think this guy might be king of the jazz d-bags. Fun stuff.

i'm reading this ethan iverson article on lennie tristano, race, etc.. i've never listened to tristano but it's pretty fascinating: http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2008/05/lennie-tristano.html

yeah, that does look good! thanks for the link. have only heard a little Tristano.

Was that Phil Schaap you were listening to tylerw? Every time I tune into his show I never hear any actual music, only him going on for an hour about what he played in the previous half hour.

Ah yes, I see it was. Mary Lou Williams disk is still great a week later.

Over a decade later he is still complaining about the drums in this 1958 interview for Down Beat. He does have one accurate and nice thing to say (“The cymbal beat is an intrinsic part of jazz. You just cannot do without it”)
Haha, that reminds me of a certain famous thread around here.

Tristano’s comment that “I never heard anyone’s foot keep steady time” is ludicrous. Tristano himself played with Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Shelly Manne, Buddy Rich, Art Taylor, and Paul Motian. Granted, that’s a collection of humans, not metronomes,
One time I talked to Lee Konitz a little bit and he told me a story about once when he was playing with Lenny T and Jimmy Garrison and Lenny wanted to use a metronome! "What do you think of THAT?" said Lee. "Um, Um..." (I'm thinking that's insulting to Jimmy, isn't it). "I think it's a little corny, don't you?" said Lee.

ha, further down in that article:

One of the most amusing stories in Shim’s book is told by Konitz about the time Jimmy Garrison showed up at Tristano’s studio to play a session:

The first thing Lennie did was place the metronome on the piano, and Jimmy said, “Oh, no.” He refused to do it. I thought that was kind of an insult to do that to Jimmy Garrison, who had great time.

I’m sure Tristano didn’t mean to be insulting; he was just caught up in his own systems and not realizing just what kind of young musician he was dealing with. But this story is good example of the divide between Tristano’s scientific approach versus musicians who consider jazz folklore to be of the highest importance.

I've been reading that article and it's various links for half an hour and still haven't gotten to the bottom of it.

I didn't like The Bad Plus too much when I saw them performing outside City Hall across the street from J&R once but everything you've ever linked to in the blog is amazing. I guess I've gotta give them another chance.

I can listen to Phil Schaap for about 90 seconds before I want to reach through the speaker and throttle him. He is the absolute world-beating king of the jazz d-bags. That being said, he comes across in that article as slightly less pathetic than Rodney Bingenheimer, and very nice to lonely old jazz players the rest of the world has forgotten.

jazz is 95 percent wack. smack a sax player. i need some sessions i could call actual phrases that are coherent on a simple level. jazz heads are fucking wackos unless theyre down, which seems exceedingly fucking rare as it turns into an academized specialization

i heard this miles davis and the lighthouse allstars from 53 i think and they seemed on then, heard it again when i was 20 and it seemed dead, empty

listen to some new orleans jazz

Jordan, are you turning into a Moldy Fig?

yeah i'll read th thread

moldy fig?? wtf is u on

haha, maybe! i do listen to (and play) more traditional jazz than modern these days, because that shit is funky.

I've been enjoying some songs by Build an Ark lately, off their late '07 album Dawn. They're a big improvising collective out of LA that plays very direct, spiritual music (sample song title: "You Yourself Are the Key to the Universe") sometimes with vocals, sometimes without - perhaps a bit of a throwback to the ethos (if not the sound) of late-period Coltrane - but they're a bit more mellow and West Coast sounding than Coltrane. Some lovely textures.

http://www.myspace.com/buildanarkdawn
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=61154

Some band photos here:

http://www.undomondo.com/2008/04/build-an-ark/

what about old jazz lyrics? who were the greatest in the 30s-63. some of those songs are magic

Most of the songs that later became known as jazz standards started out as songs from musical comedies written for the stage or screen.

I've been wanting to read this book:

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812970187

Yeah, me too.

Here's a rave review from Garrison Keillor, of all people, in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Keillor-t.html

I'm listening to the radio show embedded on the bottom of that page. Dude is giving an hour-long monologue on what date Charlie Parker was recorded making a primitive overdub on a Benny Goodman 78 disc. WAS IT 1944 or 1941?!!! I think this guy might be king of the jazz d-bags. Fun stuff.

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He's like that every show too. Some kind of weirdo jazz aspie for sure, and almost unlistenable, but an immense wealth of knowledge.

And I find Iverson kind of boring as a player but I'd like to read that Tristano article as soon as I have time.

I sat next to PS once at the bar at Dizzy's, and he talked to the bartender a little but nothing too much. I was a little afraid he was going to go into one of his big spiels even while off-mic.

What was the last Iverson thing that was linked to, Why Miles Didn't Like Oscar Peterson?

My favorite PS shows are the ones with a guest.

PS: "So you subbed a few nights with Charlie Parker at the Half Note in December of 1941, and the drummer for those dates was Kenny Clarke. Now due to the recording quality it's difficult to make out, but it sounds to me like Clarke's snare is a bit higher-pitched than normal. Was he using a different snare that night, or did he perhaps tune it higher than usual? I do know that the weather was unseasonably humid at that time."

85-year-old Bass Player Who Has Played on Thousands of Sessions: "???"

lol

(i've never heard this guy)

Haha. One time I saw Doc Pomus in the audience at a Lonnie Mack show and I asked him some dumb question about something. He said "People are always asking me questions- one guy got mad at me and said 'You mean you don't KNOW who played saxophone on that record made in 1963?' I've been on thousands of record dates- how the hell do I know?"

Jo Jones was impressed. So he said, ‘Madame, you’ve got yourself a new babysitter.’ ”
!

And when Schaap asked him if he remembered the name of the song that Benny Carter opened with at the Apollo seventy-four years ago, Lucie said, “I know, Phil, but do you?”

“Sure, it was ‘I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful).’ ”

“That’s right.” Both men laughed.

“And you played the first notes,” Schaap said. Indeed, they were the first notes played in the Apollo when, in 1934, the theatre opened
!

Bilal Sunni-Ali and Raja C are doing a Sun Ra tribute at Ruta Maya next Sunday.

Sorry, that's Cosmic Intuition with special guests Bilal Sunni Ali and Raja C

the new Brian Blade Fellowship is so great, really simple and deep. not a lot of solos or long tracks. the beat on "most precious one (prodigy)" is so heavy.

Ah crap, I spaced out on the space jazz. Well, they were pretty good about 8 years ago when I saw 'em.

crazy interview w/kurt rosenwinkel: http://campstudio.blogspot.com/2008/05/real-rosenwinkel-now.html

random snippet:

My friend Chris V.V.V.B. told me he heard Larry Grenadier take a solo on a Mike Stern record (this was in the early 90s) and it shot him (Chris) into this whole like Irish Leprechaun World, and that's what made him learn Jazz on the Double Bass. It seems like you probably know the Leprechauns. Like you've found peculiar feel-zones and worlds in the corners of what the insensitive listener might just label (and potentially dismiss) as Jazz, you discover little Goblin doors in what most people would just see as a regular hill.?

Kurt Rosenwinkel: sometimes all i have are the goblin doors. i realized today while riding my bike that if i could make something good, music, that would be really meaningful beyond my life, that i would run my bike into an oncoming car and obliterate myself if that's what it took. i would do that for it.

i think that fact might make it difficult for me to find stability or happiness but i know it's true.

in outer space it's either lasers or free float. guidance. thrusters are so byzantine; crude. they won't ever get you where you need to go. ok maybe in a spacecraft but that's just a very crude analogy for the space travel we do as human beings. in our minds. who hasn't been afraid of the dimensions there? humanity seeks comfort but also gets used to wider circles of knowledge, little by little over eons. i feel like i have lived eons. what else would you call it when some of the lives you have lived are like postcards or dreams. sometimes i can't tell the difference between dream and memory. time seems ancient even in my own memory. just as ancient as anything. egypt. my own personal fictions. my lived life is a personal fiction. ancient egypt is just as close or far, really to my thoughts, to my dreams, to my memories. past life experiences? hell yes! even within my living brain!!
i haven't really got a fucking clue who i am. anyway, knowing is over. starting is learning. i don't want to be someone who knows.

Nobody told me Esperanza Spalding was gonna be on Letterman.

i didn't know about her before today, but i'm watching some youtube stuff and she is bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jZCjNz_kQ (letterman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulxSAiWR70

I went to see the Flamenco guitar player Niño Josele last year and it turned it the rest of his band was Esperanza Spalding and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez. It was like a very good-looking, super-charismatic three-headed monster up there.

i am going to try to catch a set of Roy Haynes tomorrow before i have to go play a gig!

Awesome. I was just looking at the Roy Haynes box set, thinking about getting it. Got some other stuff instead, including the Brian Blade and the Esperanza Spalding and Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington Songbook, vol. 1.

If you get a chance to talk to Roy, tell him you heard good things about his grandson.

i won't, but i'm trying to set up an interview for one of my bros (for possible documentary use!).

Also got an Anita O'Day sampler which is pretty good.

OK, now onto The Complete Atomic Basie.

The new Jenny Scheinman instrumental disc Crossing the Field is good, as expected. I'm curious about the vocal disc Jenny Scheinman but haven't heard it yet. The instrumental stuff has a big Americana flavor but in a very eclectic way - "jazz" seems a bit too limited as a description: elements of rock, folk, and classical are almost as prominent. Bill Frisell seems to be a big influence, also Tom Varner's The Window Up Above: American Songs 1770-1998.

atomic basie is so so good.

Got the new Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet disc in the mail today. It's a whole new GQ, with Vijay Iyer and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

I saw Jenny Scheinman recently sit in with Robbie Fulks and Robbie Gjersoe. Robbie F did a funny thing where he sang a song about her in the voice of country singer John Anderson.

atomic basie is so so good.
I'm big fan of Walter Page and Jo Jones, but this New Testament band is pretty good too.

SPeaking of whom, I just watched this thing called Dizzy's Dream Band, which features lots of name players, including a young and skinny Jon Faddis. Very special guest Max Roach takes a hi-hat and does a little tribute to Jo Jones and then Papa Jo himself walks on, waves and walks off. The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

you can't fuck with sonny payne!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZMnEsWvktA

btw, roy haynes' group was great the other night, although i had to leave just as they were getting nasty on "windows".

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Yeah, he's breaking it up pretty good right now on "Fantail."

Who else was playing with Roy?

The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

seems like Bird liked West Coast lightweights! i think he was always extolling the virtues of mulligan, chet baker, paul desmond -- who isn't west coast, but might be considered lightweight by some jazz d-bags.

jaleel shaw on alto, somebody wong on bass, and i didn't catch the piano player's name (though he was my favorite). he gave the bass player a whole unaccompanied tune to himself (on "darn that dream"), which was cool since the audience was staring at roy the whole time and not his young sidemen, but i could only stay for 45 mins so i was itchin' for roy to throw down before i had to go.

Google cache tells me it was this guy you saw.

I saw Jaleel Shaw last year in a band led by Johnathan Blake.

I wish I could say more about him, but I was paying more attention to the other sax player, Donny McCaslin and the bass player, Hans Glawischnig.

HI

anything here about the new herbie hancock reissue?

Nothing yet.

Hm, looks like our friend Jaleel just won an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.

he was great and all but didn't make much of an impression on me. :/

Same by me. But maybe I'll catch him somewhere else and that will be the time.

Brian Blade is in town this weekend. Paquito D'Rivera too. Maybe I'll go see one, maybe the other.

Looks like all the 9 o'clock Brian Blade shows are sold out. Maybe I'll go for broke and go to the 11.

VV?

The other very special guest is Gerry Mulligan,who is presented here as a Bird protégé. And I always thought of him as a West Coast lightweight.

You need to hear this:

http://i30.tinypic.com/112hpit.jpg

not that there's anything wrong with the lighter stuff he did either

Yeah, VV.

Did you not want to push past the Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell fans so did not go to this. Went to the Jazz Standard to see Bill O'Connell's Triple Play featuring Dave Valentin and Richie Flores.

i'm leaving tomorrow to play at a new orleans/trad jazz festival overseas. looking forward to seeing: herlin riley (GOAT), donald harrison, john allred, marcus miller.

Leaving to play some hot brass in an awesome oompah show in Switzerland?

yes but there's nothing oompah about it!

oompah yrself

I thought that was going to be James Chance.

ha

I've got a big (4500 words or so) feature on Bill Dixon in the July 08 issue of The Wire (it's got Mark Stewart on the cover). As an online-only bonus bonanza, you can visit their website to stream MP3s of my entire 75-minute phone interview with Dixon. Each question and its answer is a separate MP3, so you can listen to as much or as little as you like. The link is here.

The Downbeat interview/discussion with Vijay Iyer, Matthew Shipp, and Jason Moran (I think it was the May issue of this year) is worth checking out. (Of those three, I'm mostly interested in Shipp, although I don't know that I've heard much by Jason Moran.)

Moran does some nice work on Jenny Scheinman's new album, Crossing the Field - check out the extended blues-funk vamp "Hard Sole Shoe".

some vinyl i picked up:

George Russell Presents: Jan Garbarek - Esoteric Circle (dude ended up kinda being new agey on ECM in the 70s, but this is from 69 some kinda righteous norweigian fusion/free jazz with a pretty rock influenced guitarist)

George Russell Sextet - 1 lp comp of tracks from his three riverside records from around 61-62....features Don Ellis and Dolphy on most of it...just an AMAZING record, not really "out there" but not really normal either...i guess he invented some Lydian musical theory that had a lot to do w/coltrane and miles going to modal scales...anyway, their are nicely arranged and sort of trad bop but permutated in odd ways, sounds a bit "off" in a great way

Hurting, please to go to free Cindy Blackmon show at Newark Museum tomorrow and free Bobby Sanabria show and master class next week and report back.

I bet the Sanabria thing will be nice. I saw him down here leading a band once (and he also was featured in a videotape lecture thing about clave and stuff in a Smithsonian exhibit on Latin-Jazz). Informative and entertaining without being either simplistic or highbrow.

He almost verges on being a blowhard, but he ends up being a smart, funny guy as well as being a great player and bandleader.

i saw herlin riley about 10x last week. he is the best drummer.

I saw these guys from Bhutan last week for free in a specially built Bhutanese shrine building covered in artwork set up down on the mall grounds between the Capitol and the Washington Monument for the Smithsonian Folklife fest. All sitting cross-legged against one wall with two guys blowing didgerdoo-like long horns, two others on bugle/trumpet hybrid things, another guy on a weird funky little keyboard thing. It had an Asian goes free jazz vibe...

So, my dad is looking for eMusic recommendations based on what he's been listening to lately: "Melvin Gibbs, Harriet Tubman(both Miles-like guitar bass drums); Marc Ribot, Chocolate Genius (not too big on CG, he's a singer songwriter who happens to be black , but that's what I have been listening to) . Roscoe Mitchell. Lester Bowie."

I don't have eMusic, so I don't know what's in their catalog. Anyone wanna take a swing?

I dunno if emusic has Henry Threadgill's Very Very Circus, but it sounds like it's tailor made for your dad's stizzo.

listening to some lafayette gilchrist clips, sounds good. it seems like he does a way better job of mixing a love for rap and hard beats w/acoustic jazz than, say, roy hargrove (too jammy) or christian scott (too smooth). anyone have a favorite record?

Yeah, Matt does.

I read something really cool that Lafayette Gilchrist said about mixing and matching genres, something about how you can't just go and switch hats in your laboratory/studio and say "now I will be funky!" and record your funk track, the process has to be a little more organic. Maybe I'll post a link if I can find it.

Actually, I came to this thread to recommend a really intense album I got from the Dusty Groove bargain section, Richard Davis's Now's The Time. Really intense stuff, very free but without going to the Olatunji Concert Point Of No Return. With the great Hannibal Marvin Peterson on trumpet.

Going back to the eMusic recommendations question, sounds like Dad would like Burnt Sugar a lot.

OK, I couldn't find the exact interview I read before, but I found a couple of other good ones, he's very thoughtful and articulate. This one is especially interesting and relevant.

Ha, I guess the thing I was talking about was the first link in that link, where Lafayette took Strongo's Blindfold Test.

Both of those pieces are nice

agreed, thx

Just realized I coulda gone up to Bawlimore and seen Saturday night:

Lafayette Gilchrist & the New Volcanoes (Jazz) cd release concert at
Creative Alliance at The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 4

Doh!

"Going back to the eMusic recommendations question, sounds like Dad would like Burnt Sugar a lot."

See, this is the problem with trying to suggest things for my dad—He was the one who got me into Burnt Sugar. He already has all the Henry Threadgill he wants. He's a voracious jazz-eater, and everything that I've thought of to look for, either emusic doesn't have or he does.

does your dad have the art ensemble 1967/68 box on nessa?

so Dave Holland finally came out with a new album last month? haven't heard it but i'm kinda disappointed that it's not the quintet (piano instead of vibes, no Nate Smith on drums).

http://www.amazon.com/Pass-Dave-Holland-Sextet/dp/B001C5ZR5A

wow, nate smith has a smoothed-out r&b solo cd, but at least it sounds better than billy kilson's smooth jazz solo cd (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=85705487)

New Rudresh Mahanthappa sounds like it might be worth checking out.

Listening to some older Ralph Petersen Fot'et. Why isn't this band better loved?

some recent jazz purchases:
motian/frisell/lovano -- time and time again
nice stuff! only know a little of frisell's oeuvre, but i like this a lot. are there other recordings by this trio worth seeking out? was thinking about getting the motian/frisell/ron carter disc too.

bobby hutcherson -- head on
yow! from 1970 or so. kinda bitches brew-y in a big band avant-fusion way. actually, the bonus tracks might be better than the album itself. funkier anyway. got harold land on it too, so that is good.

Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers -- Free For All
can't believe i hadn't heard this one yet, but what the hey, art blakey's got like a gazillion records. wayne shorter, freddie hubbard, curtis fuller, reggie workman all going for broke. intense! similar to coltrane's quartet but maybe a little more swinging?

motian/frisell/lovano -- time and time again
nice stuff! only know a little of frisell's oeuvre, but i like this a lot. are there other recordings by this trio worth seeking out? was thinking about getting the motian/frisell/ron carter disc too.

I love this trio a lot. Monk in Motian, esp (assists from Geri Allen on one or two tracks.)

i like that band

xp, ralph peterson i mean

I think I like Frisell best when he's paired up with Don Byron, though. Couple albums with each cat as leader and the other guy in his band.

More xey postey

cool, will check out monk in motian. not sure that i entirely GET what this trio is doing yet, but it sure sounds nice.

A related question

Motian:

Moe-shun (aka Motion)?
Mo-tee-an?
Mo-tie-an?
something else entirely?

ha, i thought it was just pronounced "Motion" but now that you mention it ... i have no idea. you know, i have no idea what that guy has played on other than this frisell stuff and bill evans' trio.

Oh man! He and Charlie Haden were kind of joined at the hip for a while there. Check out the Liberation Music Orchestra discs - big bands (arrangements and conducting by Carla Bley) with freeish bits, latin bits, straight up heartwrenching lyrical bits....

ohhh, did not realize that he was the drummer on those records. have always wanted to check that stuff out, but have never really been sure where to start.

Whoops, I just looked at Wikipedia, and Andrew Cyrille is the drummer on the first LMO album, from 1968. But he's a badass, too.

New book out today by Ted Gioia about the Delta Blues which looks like it was almost titled "How a Jazz D-Minor Bag Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Delta Blues."

Motian pronounces it like the word motion but should be pronounced Mo-tee-an.

i don't think you can be wrong about your own name?

^^^

I'm trying to remember what I heard Maxine Gordon call him the last time I saw him, but I think she just referred to him as "my, my, ..." and made some kind of give-me-a-hug gesture with her arms.

Actually it might have been that other people pronounce it Mo-tee-un but it's actually "motion", it was a while ago that I read whatever it was. Plenty of people get their names wrong, Ralph Macchio from Karate Kid for instance pronounces his surname incorrectly if some interview I saw with him on television is anything to go by.

What am I saying? Her name is Lorraine.

this sounds interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/arts/music/22berger.html?ref=arts

Does anyone have anything to say about Fred Hersch? I've had a few of his trio albums in heavy rotation lately. I really know nothing about the guy, but he's totally great. Is he sort of slept on?

Fred Hersch

GIVE US AN EXAMPLE OR TWO OF AN ESPECIALLY GOOD OR INTERESTING:

1. Movie score. "Prizzi’s Honor" (Alex North); "Altered States" (John Corigliano); "City Lights" (Charles Chaplin)
2. TV theme. "The Wild Wild West"
3. Melody. Aria from Cantata “Wachet Auf” (Bach), "Miyako" (Wayne Shorter), "Tomorrow Is The Question" (Ornette Coleman)
4. Harmonic language. 4-part writing (string quartets, choral music)
5. Rhythmic feel. “Serpentine Fire” (Earth, Wind & Fire); “Big Stuff” (Peter Gabriel); “Aqui Oh!” (Toninho Horta)
6. Hip-hop track. (no answer)
7. Classical piece. Brahms Piano Trio #1 in B major; Stravinsky “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto; Brandenberg Concerti
8. Smash hit. (no answer)
9. Jazz album. Sonny Rollins “Live at the Village Vanguard”; “Mingus,Mingus, Mingus, Mingus”; Thelonious Monk “Alone in San Francisco”
10. Non-American folkloric group. Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
11. Book on music. “Glenn Gould: Music and Mind” (Geoffrey Paysant); Stravinsky “Poetics of Music”

BONUS QUESTIONS:

A) Name an surprising album (or albums) you loved when you were developing as a musician: something that really informs your sound but that we would never guess in a million years: Joni Mitchell “Blue”; Stevie Wonder “Talking Book”;

B) Name a practitioner (or a few) who play your instrument that you think is underrated: Art Lande, John Taylor, Frederic Rzewski

C) Name a rock or pop album that you wish had been a smash commercial hit (but wasn’t, not really): (no answer)

D) Name a favorite drummer, and an album to hear why you love that drummer: Elvin Jones “A Love Supreme”

RIP Tony Reedus.

What a way to go.

Has anybody heard the new Spring Heel Jack album? I like the sound of it, based on brief clips.

yusef lateef is playing in mpls tomorrow nite, might go but it's really spendy...but anyway the city pages did an article on him and this quote made me LOL:

"Jazz is defined as doggerel, skullduggery, poppycock, coquetry, sexual intercourse," he said recently from his home in Massachusetts. "It has nothing to do with what I do."

^^^that has everything to do with what i do

Freddie Hubbard is in critical condition.

Although some seem to say he is improving.

just picked up Song X by Ornette/Methany. WOW.

Denardo & DeJohnette make a hell of a team.

where's the news about freddie hubbard? can't find anything.

http://www.jazz.com/
http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?s=d0f4ca254e9cc507c94fd495371712c2&p=791839#post791839

ah, yeah, thanks. found this too: "Freddie has been in ICU since the night before Thanksgiving due to a heart attack. since that time, he has made remarkable progress but still has a long way to go. he is now awake and alert, according to the reports i've received from a friend who has visited him almost daily."
guess he's not even that old ... well, best wishes, freddie. definitely an amazing musician who has played with the cream of the crop ...

http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2008/12/steve-lacy-on-monk.html

Awesome.

is this he thread where we ask what makes miguel zenon a Latin jazz guy?

No, that's this thread Latin Jazz: Generic Thread Forever

but, while i would like to better understand the latin roots in his music, i don't think its description should be so limited or defined

I thought that there was a long running jazz thread smehwhere but I can't seem to find it. Anyway I've been listening to jazz now for several years after ignoring it my entire life. I bought Wes Montgomery's Smokin' at the Half Note which is really fantastic and I can't say enough good things about it. The band he plays with, the Wyton Kelly Trio, is also (equally) great but Wynton Kelly only seems to have one album and from the cuts I've heard it's worth getting as well. Maybe some recommendations on some things Wynton has been involved with? Also any jazz stuff you might like post about.

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ok, I found this thread

wynton is great on the Miles Davis stuff, obviously, but also on a bunch of Hank Mobley Blue Note dates ...

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If you lose it again, just search for "jazz d"

yeah, Jordan gave me the Hank Mobley tip. Never heard him. Man, there's a lot of stuff out there.

I also picked up the Charlie Rouse Bossanova Bacchanal which is also good but the last song that was tacked on (a straight jazz tune not from the Bossanova sessions apparently) is a real stunner. I'm gathering he never did anything else as a bank leader besides that song which is a real shame.

band leader

just bought some records from a friend:

Mal Waldron (feat steve lacy) - Hard Talk --- fucking WOW

Lee Morgan - The Cooker

Art Pepper - Smack Up

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling

all really great stuff

The new Joshua Redman album, Compass is pretty damn good. Between this and 2007's Back East, he's on a sort of mini-roll. The new one features him as the sole horn, fronting bassists Larry Grenadier and Reuben Rogers and drummers Brian Blade and Gregory Hutchinson. A few tracks feature a straight saxophone trio (Grenadier/Blade or Rogers/Hutchinson), others feature both bass players and one of the drummers, and a couple feature all five musicians at once. Coming out on Nonesuch next month; at 13 tracks in 72 minutes, it's about five tracks and 25 minutes too long, but I can't honestly say which ones I'd cut, so: recommended.

that sounds good, i was wondering where gregory hutchinson's been at. i love him on christian mcbride's "a family affair" (awesome record).

Maybe somebody should start a new thread. I tried to find a title here but couldn't pick one: http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2008/12/steve-lacy-on-monk.html

"if you don't want to play, tell a joke or dance" or "let's lift the bandstand!!"

You've got it!

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