Make a Jazz Noise Here

[Pessoa]

I´ve read the 1997 re-issue of Sketches of Spain was remastered to the point of losing the original sound. Out of the several cds available in the market, is there one as loyal as possible to the original mono vinyl?

[Bogey]

The deal here is that Connie Kay on drums really steals the spotlight for me. His drumming is absolutely top-shelf. Not sure why this recording does not get more run.

[Mirror Image]

I'll go ahead and say it: I never have liked Coltrane. I mean he was fantastic with Miles, but on his own, I don't really dig him much at all. The only Coltane album I can say I like with any certainty is Blue Train.

[Mirror Image]

No love for Horace Silver here?!?!? Come on, guys!

http://www.youtube.com/v/Q7YWmNsKJZ0

Silver was one of the first pianists/composers in jazz to just really hit me. I mean here was a guy who was taking that hard-bop sound that he helped crystalize with Art Blakey and doing his own thing with it. He's just the coolest.

[Bogey]

I'll go ahead and say it: I never have liked Coltrane. I mean he was fantastic with Miles, but on his own, I don't really dig him much at all. The only Coltane album I can say I like with any certainty is Blue Train.

There was a time that I did not like Bach, either.   Cool that you do not mind throwing that out though.  I enjoy him until his very late run, then he loses me, but so did Miles. 

[Mirror Image]

There was a time that I did not like Bach, either.   Cool that you do not mind throwing that out though.  I enjoy him until his very late run, then he loses me, but so did Miles.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about Silver's later music, but his work from the 50s through the 60s is bebop gold.

[Mookalafalas]

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.

  The Duke has quite a bit of small ensemble stuff, and it is incredible.  I used to have a triple album of it on a Swedish(?) label, in series called "Giants of Jazz". That was 20 years ago, but I remember it as one of the top CD sets I've ever owned, bar none.  His trio album Money Jungle, with Mingus and Roach is fantabulous.

     My mom loves Count Basie and my dad is a Stan Kenton fan (they are both around 90, btw), but I never really became a big fan of either of those guys, for some reason.   

[North Star]

Nothing wrong with Basie.

No love for Horace Silver here?!?!? Come on, guys!

Silver was one of the first pianists/composers in jazz to just really hit me. I mean here was a guy who was taking that hard-bop sound that he helped crystalize with Art Blakey and doing his own thing with it. He's just the coolest.

Silver is great. Thanks for sharing that, John - good stuff

Dave Holland deserves more attention here!
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z2TtCtONB5I   http://www.youtube.com/v/Jcq6PtAZYj4
http://www.youtube.com/v/rfZ0o-qOWY0   http://www.youtube.com/v/HDj6pqd0sCc

[San Antone]

Dave Holland is great.   

His work with Sam Rivers, especially the duo, is fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/v/OHlCDqPXs2Y

[toledobass]

I love the overtime disk.  I spun that tons when it came out.  I'll have to give a deeper listen to his catalogue.

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[early grey]

A new batch of "fantastic" music is recently uploaded. In order of presentation;

Freddie Roach has Kenny Burrell guesting on several tracks and the whole thing is great getting-up music.

Hampton Hawes with his quartet including the late Jim Hall are heard in one of the three LPs from the all-night session recorded as far back as 1956 in stereo.

Keely Smith is one of my favourite jazz-inflected singers, backed here by a Billy May ensemble. There can't be many singers who have recorded in front of as big, bold and brassy band as this one ( and there are strings too!).

You'll probably all know Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' famous recording "Moanin' " but you might enjoy my take on this classic.

Ornette Coleman and his trio are caught at a gig in Stockholm. A stunning sequence of high powered melodic and rhythmic invention.

Benny Bailey, a stalwart of the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland big band, is recorded with Francy as pianist and arranger accompanied by Tony Coe doing his "Gonsalves" inspired tenor thing and Sahib Shihab giving us some close-miked flute as well as the bari. I said hello to Benny at Ronnie's once reminding him of an LP "Midnight in Europe" which he had made in Berlin with the guy who I was then working for.

7 tracks from Manny Album and his "Jazz Giants": Travis, Farmer, Brookmeyer, Woods, Sims, Mulligan, Jones (Hank), Hinton, Johnson (Osie). Smooth swinging jazz of the highest order.

Larry Coryell and John McLaughlan are joined by Miroslav Vitous and Billy Cobham in a guitar,bass,drum frenzy alleviated from time to time with some quieter moments of strange beauty.

Art Pepper's LP "Smack Up" is one of his best with contributions from Jack Sheldon, Pete Jolly, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler. One of the tracks is an Ornette Coleman composition "Tears Inside".

(coming shortly to replace the Thad Jones) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco. This is the gig that Dmitri Shostakovich attended with his minders and none of them cracked a smile although they did applaud. Do we have Cannonball to thank for those insipid "jazzy" Shostakovich items so beloved of the BBC classical music presenters or was it Victor Sylvester? whose two pianists fooled Art Tatum to develop his fantastic technique!!! allegedly. You'll have gathered that my default position on small groups is drums on the left, piano on the right unless otherwise indicated and in the case of this recording the picture on the back of the sleeve is unequivocal agreeing with what you will hear, not what the recording engineers produced.

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

[Artem]

Washington Suite is a great flute drive album. Sanders' Jewels of Thought is a bit uneven.

[Mookalafalas]

Dave Holland is great.   

His work with Sam Rivers, especially the duo, is fantastic.

  IMO Miles davis album with Sam Rivers, Live in Tokyo, is the most exciting live album he every made (well...that I have heard, but I've heard quite a few]
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[San Antone]

  IMO Miles davis album with Sam Rivers, Live in Tokyo, is the most exciting live album he every made (well...that I have heard, but I've heard quite a few]
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I agree. I would have liked to have more recorded music from this line up.  Although, I do think Shorter was ultimately the best saxophonist for that band, Rivers created some nice contrast with Miles.

[Brian]

I've lately been listening to this.

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Just fascinated by the dynamic between Blakey and Monk. Such a clash of personalities - the withdrawn, spiky, chordal pianist; the effortlessly cool drummer who never lets up - and the result is enthralling. I've spent a few months under the spell of Art Blakey: at first for the flashy drumming and mammoth solos, but more recently for the way he tugs and pushes and cheers on his soloists. A band on fire.

[Bogey]

  IMO Miles davis album with Sam Rivers, Live in Tokyo, is the most exciting live album he every made (well...that I have heard, but I've heard quite a few]
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My favorite Live Miles that I have heard: Plugged Nickel. 

[Bogey]

Added three to the Miles' collection:

[Artem]

Nice, laid back set. Perfect for a sunday morning. And a fitting title too.

[Bogey]

Looks like a winner, Artem.

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Just not enough of the "Kind of Blue" grouping out there to be satisfied, so gems like these are cherished. The highlight has to be the Fran-Dance effort. I could loop that for twenty three and a half straight hours and still say, "Just once more." Add to that the recording crew telling the band to not mess with the equipment before they started. Love it!  By the way, Miles is cooler than you and me.

[San Antone]

Crash course in music history in Philly this weekend

Saturday night at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia saxophonist and bandleader Bobby Zankel kicks off his three-night "Still the New Thing" festival with a concert celebrating his mentor, Cecil Taylor. The avant-garde pianist turns 85 this month; the festival continues March 21 with a tribute to fellow birthday boy Ornette Coleman, a year younger, concluding on April 9 with a centennial concert in honor of pianist Sun Ra.

For this weekend's concert, Zankel has gathered an all-star band of adventurous musicians who have worked with Taylor over the years. Drummer Andrew Cyrille and bassist Henry Grimes both played on the pianist's landmark late-'60s albums Unit Structures and Conquistador! Bassist William Parker is a member of Taylor's Feel Trio, while pianist Dave Burrell has a fiercely percussive approach and a genre-spanning style that makes him an apt surrogate for Taylor, who innovated a highly physical, improvisatory attack on the keys.

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My In-Laws live in Philadelphia; wish I were there.