Make a Jazz Noise Here

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Every round I go with this album I find a new highlight. Last time it was Morgan's trumpet blowing me away like the dude in the old Memorex Tape ad.



his time around I found myself wanting to climb through the speakers to get as close to the sound of Golson's sax on the opening track, 'Moanin and then Along Came Betty. His sound has an ever slight distortion to it that is a head shaker. I could try to describe some more, but I probably already ruined it with what I posted here.

One of Blakey's best albums IMHO.

[Bogey]

Just unsealed a new 180g pressing of this gem of a score. Dunno' if this fits here, but  those groovy riffs might be the "decider". Either way, you got to love Lalo on this one.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KNZNGT5_w

[kishnevi]

Every round I go with this album I find a new highlight. Last time it was Morgan's trumpet blowing me away like the dude in the old Memorex Tape ad.



his time around I found myself wanting to climb through the speakers to get as close to the sound of Golson's sax on the opening track, 'Moanin and then Along Came Betty. His sound has an ever slight distortion to it that is a head shaker. I could try to describe some more, but I probably already ruined it with what I posted here.

And I just bought it this morning (see NC Purchases thread)!

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In parallel with the restoration of jazz 78s ( #1409 above) I am also working through my LPs and as I do so putting them on my site for a while, up to a dozen at a time roughly. I recently reloaded my non-classical LP page. The only ones to remain from the previous selection are Nat Adderley's "That's Right!" which has contributions from two recent departures, Jim Hall and Yusef Lateef, and the Eydie Gormé LP (who also left us last year).

As to the new selections, first, the Quintets.

Carl Perkins is a contender for the "before their time" thread dying at the age of 30 from a drug overdose. Here he is with the Curtis Counce Quintet in a LP dedicated to him which has Jack Sheldon on some tracks (also heard on the Art Pepper LP). Harold Land is on tenor sax and gives the ballad "La Rue" a special intensity.

Thad Jones fronts a quintet with Pepper Adams on baritone sax and Duke Pearson on piano. Thad has the knack of choosing an ethereal melodic line and seems to me at times like a lady in a tower while Pepper is a scruffy herbert trying to win her over!

Chet Baker has George Coleman as his front line partner, which might be thought quite a contrast. A forthright rhythm section binds them together although George copes better with the frenetic speed of "Cherokee" than Chet!

Hank Mobley has just a quartet, but what a quartet! Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Philly Jo Jones. Better known than the quintets, "Another Workout" shows off Hank's oblique style and they manage to make a good jazzer out of "Hello, Young Lovers".

For the larger groups: Another offering from the Terry Gibbs Dream Band. Marvellous arrangements, soloists and a joie-de-vivre feeling to the whole experience. They sometimes say that the thing about jazz is that the performers are having more fun than the audience.... not here.

Marty Paich, Art Pepper, Jack Sheldon are the main contributors to "Modern Jazz Classics" although the powerhouse drumming of Mel Lewis is vital ( as it is with the Dream Band and on the Thad Jones LP).

Quincy Jones explores the music of Henry Mancini is not one for the purist, but let your hair down and go with it! Read the 5* review in the All Music Guide

http://www.allmusic.com/album/quincy...i-mw0000817111

and prepare to enjoy the double-cream richness of the brass choir in "Dreamsville", the pounding 6 bass-notes-a-bar in "Charade" and the sophisticated trombones in "Mr. Lucky". As it happens only one of the added LPs gets less than 4 stars in the AMG.

..and the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Basie songfest gets five. "Fiesta in Blue" is one of the standout tracks for me.

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl2.php

is the link and as I say on the page, you may find you like one or more of these enough to buy them in a quality format.

[Bogey]

Just beefed up my Monk selection a bit with these three:

   

[San Antone]

Those sides with Johnny Giffin are great (the others are great too, but Johnny Girffin was an nice foil for Monk). 

[Bogey]

Those sides with Johnny Giffin are great (the others are great too, but Johnny Girffin was an nice foil for Monk).

I am a huge sucker for live albums. As a kid, I used to buy nothing but the live stuff. Heck, I was the only kid in the neighborhood with Angel: Live Without a Net. My dad would just scratch his head and always say that I was missing out on the quality of the sound that most of the studio albums had to offer. Still did not sway me. I mean, which offered a better venue for air banding throughout the house. Well, almost 40 yeas later, I am still finding I gravitate to the live recordings but now in jazz (though to my dad's relief, I also enjoy the studio as well now). Just something about sitting back in my vinyl lounge chair and pretending I am at the gig. Seems that jazz also offer a ton of selections when it comes to live recordings. Would love to know the history of the those that recorded all the sets that were left to us. Tonight's show:

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I am a huge sucker for live albums. As a kid, I used to buy nothing but the live stuff. Heck, I was the only kid in the neighborhood with Angel: Live Without a Net. My dad would just scratch his head and always say that I was missing out on the quality of the sound that most of the studio albums had to offer. Still did not sway me. I mean, which offered a better venue for air banding throughout the house. Well, almost 40 yeas later, I am still finding I gravitate to the live recordings but now in jazz (though to my dad's relief, I also enjoy the studio as well now). Just something about sitting back in my vinyl lounge chair and pretending I am at the gig. Seems that jazz also offer a ton of selections when it comes to live recordings. Would love to know the history of the those that recorded all the sets that were left to us. Tonight's show:

That's a damn good one as is Misterioso. I always wished Little Giant played more with Monk than he did.

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That's a damn good one as is Misterioso. I always wished Little Giant played more with Monk than he did.

I can hear why you feel that way.

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I can hear why you feel that way.

I think Little Giant is underrated anyway. I've got several of his solo albums and they're just smokin' hot. Have you heard Chet Baker's album Chet In New York. Griffin played wonderful on this recording and is the only time I believe he's played with Baker. I could be wrong of course.

[Bogey]

One of my favorite things to do is go down to a local used record shop and have a mind set that I am going to leave with a jazz cd of someone I do not have on the shelf.  Case in point:



This especially is fun with big band type ensembles.  For those keeping score, Bill was the guy playing the trumpet solo on Artie Shaw's orchestra's recording of "Stardust".  Yup , that one.

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Wow, you guys are really talking my kind of stuff.  I listened to mostly jazz for about 20 years, until really getting bitten hard by the classical bug about a year ago.   

  I hate jewel boxes and used to keep all my disc in those LP sized books where you can put in 4 discs per page, 200 discs altogether. I had them all in storage (I just played music off my hard drive for about 10 years) and when I took them all out, the humidity had ruined about 1/2.  This one worked, though, and I was really happy. These days this is probably my favorite jazz sound:

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   I used to make big mixes of Bill Evans and Miles Davis and let them just play through the computer on Winamp for days and weeks at a time...

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Wow, you guys are really talking my kind of stuff.  I listened to mostly jazz for about 20 years, until really getting bitten hard by the classical bug about a year ago.   

  I hate jewel boxes and used to keep all my disc in those LP sized books where you can put in 4 discs per page, 200 discs altogether. I had them all in storage (I just played music off my hard drive for about 10 years) and when I took them all out, the humidity had ruined about 1/2.  This one worked, though, and I was really happy. These days this is probably my favorite jazz sound:

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   I used to make big mixes of Bill Evans and Miles Davis and let them just play through the computer on Winamp for days and weeks at a time...

Sorry to hear about the loss of your CDs due to the humidity.  I store CDRs that I made of my LPs like that, i.e. in binders, and have not checked them lately but will do so after reading your post.

I've done the same thing, large playlists and random play, with Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and others. 

[Mookalafalas]

Sorry to hear about the loss of your CDs due to the humidity.  I store CDRs that I made of my LPs like that, i.e. in binders, and have not checked them lately but will do so after reading your post.

I've done the same thing, large playlists and random play, with Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and others. 

  Thanks for your concern . I really didn't mind much, as I have them all backed up.  I really hated fishing them out of those books.  Unlike a lot of folks, I'm really happy with the return of paper sleeves for CDs.  To me they seem easier to handle, and more natural. I love flipping through them, like we used to do with albums way back when. (I've got mine in long narrow boxes on a book shelf, about 150 discs to a box. Actually I bought several of these, separated the lid from the body and use each half for storage. Fantastic set, btw)

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[kishnevi]

  Thanks for your concern . I really didn't mind much, as I have them all backed up.  I really hated fishing them out of those books.  Unlike a lot of folks, I'm really happy with the return of paper sleeves for CDs.  To me they seem easier to handle, and more natural. I love flipping through them, like we used to do with albums way back when. (I've got mine in long narrow boxes on a book shelf, about 150 discs to a box. Actually I bought several of these, separated the lid from the body and use each half for storage. Fantastic set, btw)

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As if I didn't have enough big boxsets already,  along comes one for....jazz!

grumble grumble

It does seem to have a high quantity of recordings I don't yet have.   On the wishlist it goes, for now.

[Mookalafalas]

It's much worse than you think--this is just one box of 5! I bought 3 (this one, be-bop and Big bands).  Unfortunately the bebop box has a lot of radio recordings and other low-fi discs that, while perhaps a godsend for avid collectors and those with a historical bent, are often unlistenable for me.  The one above, though, has very nice sound and great variety--within the field of 1950s straight-ahead jazz.  At a dollar or so a disc, it's pretty reasonably priced

[kishnevi]

It's much worse than you think--this is just one box of 5! I bought 3 (this one, be-bop and Big bands).  Unfortunately the bebop box has a lot of radio recordings and other low-fi discs that, while perhaps a godsend for avid collectors and those with a historical bent, are often unlistenable for me.  The one above, though, has very nice sound and great variety--within the field of 1950s straight-ahead jazz.  At a dollar or so a disc, it's pretty reasonably priced

I saw the other boxes, but this is the only one that interests me--I'm finding I prefer small ensemble jazz, and don't necessarily care for "historical", so big band does not move me, and on the unlistenable front, you've got a greater tolerance than I do!

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I saw the other boxes, but this is the only one that interests me--I'm finding I prefer small ensemble jazz, and don't necessarily care for "historical", so big band does not move me, and on the unlistenable front, you've got a greater tolerance than I do!

Have you listened to any Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, or Count Basie? I'm generally not a huge fan of big band jazz, but these three musicians were masters.

I just love Basie's Corner Pocket -

http://www.youtube.com/v/qBuYSVrFBLA

[kishnevi]

Have you listened to any Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, or Count Basie? I'm generally not a huge fan of big band jazz, but these three musicians were masters.

I just love Basie's Corner Pocket -

http://www.youtube.com/v/qBuYSVrFBLA

Oh, I've got some of the Duke, but not Kenton or Basie.  I just prefer small scale jazz, and a big box of it would be wasted on me:  I suppose the best of both worlds would be Monk's album of Ellington's music.

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Oh, I've got some of the Duke, but not Kenton or Basie.  I just prefer small scale jazz, and a big box of it would be wasted on me:  I suppose the best of both worlds would be Monk's album of Ellington's music.

A big box of jazz is a waste for me too since I don't do these big boxes. I would rather pick and choose what I want to buy rather than have one of these massive sets. Monk's album of Ellington is pretty decent (I'm not too crazy about it), but I prefer Monk in larger settings preferably a quartet, quintet, etc. One of the best albums I've heard of more recent years of anyone doing Ellington is this Stefon Harris album:



This is simply a killer album. There are a few Harris originals on this album and they fit in quite nicely with the Ellington material. Check it out sometime.