POV: Barn-Burnin' Up-Tempo Jazz (single tracks)

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I recently rediscovered the live Joe Pass and Herb Ellis version of Seven Come Eleven (with Jake Hanna and Ray Brown), which was one of the first jazz cuts I ever heard. It still makes my bowler hat fly off of my head like in a silent movie. More often than not, I find chop-busing up-tempo jazz boring, but there are a few that keep me on the edge of my seat. That said:

1. Herb Ellis and Joe Pass - Seven Come Eleven (from Seven Come Eleven)
2. Thelonious Monk (feat. Johnny Griffin) - Rhythm a Ning (from Thelonious in Action)
3. Charlie Parker - Koko
4. John Coltrane - Goldsboro Express (from Bahia)
5. Duke Ellington - Daybreak Express

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis - So What (Highlights From the Plugged Nickel)
Sonny Rollins - Three Little Words (Sonny Rollins on Impulse!)
Dinah Washington - Lover Come Back to Me (Dinah Jams)
Chet Baker - Jumpin' Off a Clef (The Hard Swing)
Sonny Sharrock - Dick Dogs (Seize the Rainbow)

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

john coltrane - countdown
eric dolphy - status seeking (live)
ornette coleman - eventuality
johnny griffin - the way you look tonight (from blowin session)
mccoy tyner - rebirth (the fast jazz track i have heard! how does he do it!??!)

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

i meant fastEST

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "A Night In Tunisia" (the version from the album of the same name, w/Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter)

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Eric Dolphy - Gazzeloni
Charles Mingus - Ysabel's Table Dance
Davey Graham - Moanin'
Grachan Moncur III - Air Raid (I think)

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet - Cherokee
Kenny Garrett Quartet - Two Down & One Across (oh man)
Ornette Coleman - Broken Shadows (I think? One of the tunes off the Complete Science Fiction sessions)
Branford Marsalis Quartet - Doc Tone

And everything from the second disc of Miles Davis' "Four + More", from right before George Coleman left the band, where they take everything incredibly fast (Seven Steps, So What, Joshua, Milestones, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Charlie Parker - Be-Bop
Sun Ra Arkestra - Other Worlds
Oscar Peterson Trio - Begone Dull Care
Cecil Taylor - Steps
John Coltrane - Manifestation

Some of these are in entirely free time, but that certainly doesn't make 'em any less 'uptempo'.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "A Night In Tunisia" (the version from the album of the same name, w/Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter)

Yeah, that's one hair-raising performance all right! I just played it a few days ago. Wish there were more bandleaders who would follow Blakey's lead & give the horn players tambourines to shake and whatnot when they weren't soloing.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus - IIBS

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

give the horn players tambourines to shake and whatnot when they weren't soloing

Brass bands to thread!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Some of these are in entirely free time, but that certainly doesn't make 'em any less 'uptempo'.

Well, if you want to get technical, you can't really say that something without a tempo is "up-tempo"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

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