What Jazz are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

As for the No. 2, the credit should go to Blakey, not Marsalis. Bobby Watson composed that wonderful tune anyway.

Interesting; thank you for the information.

[Old San Antone]

Confirmed by his family, R.I.P. Gary Peacock.

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

[aligreto]

Confirmed by his family, R.I.P. Gary Peacock.

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

What wonderful playing and how interesting to see a 12 string guitar being used.

[Old San Antone]

What wonderful playing and how interesting to see a 12 string guitar being used.

Yes.  I first heard Ralph Towner play 12-string on his introduction to the "The Moors" by Weather Report.  It blew my mind.


https://www.youtube.com/v/S9nGrC8R8a4

[SimonNZ]

RIP

[aligreto]

Yes.  I first heard Ralph Towner play 12-string on his introduction to the "The Moors" by Weather Report.  It blew my mind.


https://www.youtube.com/v/S9nGrC8R8a4

Cheers. Thank you for posting that.

[André Le Nôtre]

Booker Ervin Quintet, Sextet and Quartet.




Also, Compass by Susanne Abbeuhl. Incredibly great voice and very innovative instrumentation/accompaniment and material--not the same old standards! Too bad she is so little-known.

[Alek Hidell]

Listened to this while mowing the yard today (admittedly not an ideal way to listen ):



Excellent. I've had it for years but I think this was only my second listen.

[T. D.]

I've been listening to some (mostly) British stuff lately, all new to me:

[Scion7]

Westbrook was an interesting musician when he worked Gary Burton, etc.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tango night with the Orquesta Baffa-Berlingieri.

[Old San Antone]

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin'



Just Coolin' is a previously unreleased recording that somehow slipped through the cracks at Blue Note following the March 1959 session that birthed it. Featuring a short-lived lineup of trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley (a returnee from the original mid-'50s lineup, keeping the sax chair warm for Shorter), pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Jymie Merritt and, naturally, Blakey, half of the album's six tunes were penned by Mobley; another, "Quick Trick," was a previously unrecorded Timmons number.

[Old San Antone]

Frank Kimbrough – Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) (6-disc-set)

Perhaps it's an instance of what the box set's annotator Nate Chinen calls Kimbrough's "curatorial humility." It's a key to the mindset and attitude that he brought to a project whose presumptions might greatly risk the pitfall of excessive hubris.

In Chinen's notes, Kimbrough explains: "There is something that I tell all my students: the composition is a gift from the composer, for how you're going to improvise on this tune. It gives you information. It gives you motive. Gives you intervals... rhythms...all sorts of things to deal with. And if you just throw all that out the window with the first chorus of your solo – to play a bunch patterns you figured out in a book, or something that's just going to get applause – then I think you're doing a disservice to the tune and to its composure."

Kimbrough's multi-instrumentalist horn player Scott Robinson explains how their smart humility in the light of Monk music guided them: "When you listen to Monk play his music, he never strayed very far from little twists and turns and funny little mechanisms and structures that recur through the form. They run all through his solos, pretty much all the time."

The result: Kimbrough and company have carved out the most authoritative and delightful reclamations of jazz history in recent memory. A profusion of groups have covered Monk material in recent years, especially since he died in 1982, an event which Kimbrough says began his long journey to this pinnacle achievement, modestly as he thinks of it. (No Depression Magazine. Jan. 14, 2019)

A fantastic achievement.

[SimonNZ]

[Alek Hidell]

Frank Kimbrough – Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) (6-disc-set)

A fantastic achievement.

Of course, Kimbrough isn't the first to do this: Alexander von Schlippenbach released Monk's Casino about 15 years ago.



I would imagine that Kimbrough's approach is more "mainstream." Guess I should give it a listen via streaming or something.

TD:

[Old San Antone]

Of course, Kimbrough isn't the first to do this: Alexander von Schlippenbach released Monk's Casino about 15 years ago.



I would imagine that Kimbrough's approach is more "mainstream." Guess I should give it a listen via streaming or something.

I very much prefer Kimbrough's recording over Schlippenbach's - precisely because it is "more mainstream" as you put it.  The playing is first rate and well worth a listen.

[Alek Hidell]

I very much prefer Kimbrough's recording over Schlippenbach's - precisely because it is "more mainstream" as you put it.  The playing is first rate and well worth a listen.

Thanks, O.S.A. I'll check it out.

[SimonNZ]

[Old San Antone]

Coltrane Plays the Blues

    John Coltrane — soprano saxophone on "Blues to Bechet" and "Mr. Syms"; tenor saxophone on all others
    McCoy Tyner — piano
    Steve Davis — bass
    Elvin Jones — drums

[George]

Second spin of this fun album.