What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Shirley Scott - Hip Soul (1961)
Stanley Turrentine - Dearly Beloved (1961)

Shirley with Stanley, and Stanley with Shirley

[SimonNZ]

Taft Jordan - Mood Indigo (1961)
Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo (1961)



Ron Carter - Where (1961)
Shirley Scott - Blue Seven (1961)



The Latin Jazz Quintet - Hot Sauce (1961)

[king ubu]

[SimonNZ]

Shirley Scott - Satin Doll (1961)
The Swingville All-Stars - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (1961)



Gil Evans - Into The Hot (1961)
Oliver Nelson - Main Stem (1961)

[king ubu]

Gotta love Johnny Carisi!

[SimonNZ]

Gotta love Johnny Carisi!

From the Gil Evans album?

Somehow, despite being a really big Miles fan, and despite Miles Ahead being one of my favorites of his albums and Carisi having - I now see - penned the opening track (as well as "Israel" from Birth Of The Cool), and despite having read a number of books on Miles...somehow I've never heard, or at least taken in, Carisi's name before.

[king ubu]

From the Gil Evans album?

Somehow, despite being a really big Miles fan, and despite Miles Ahead being one of my favorites of his albums and Carisi having - I now see - penned the opening track (as well as "Israel" from Birth Of The Cool), and despite having read a number of books on Miles...somehow I've never heard, or at least taken in, Carisi's name before.

Yes, the Evans album is half Cecil Taylor and half Gil Evans' folks playing Johnny Carisi. "Israel" is a dead-classic of course. Carisi remains one of those characters that never got out of the shade, never really got his break ... he did a session for RCA, planned for one of their "Jazz Workshop" albums, but it only appeared around 1990 on a disc called "The Arrangers". Freshsound has compiled a Carisi disc:
http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/johnny-carisi-albums/6085-the-music-of-johnny-carisi-israel.html

And more to read up:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/15063-john-carisi/

[SimonNZ]

Thanks for that. I'm going to re-listen to the Gil Evans album with all that in mind.

[king ubu]

It's really not an Evans album ... a very weird one for sure, but musically mighty good! I don't have the story present, but I think Evans had some kind of falling out with the just-born Impulse! (which was a vanity project, sort of, for Creed Taylor, who left after six - or if you count this one, which he didn't produce though: seven - albums to take the lead at Verve, which again had just been bought by MGM (from founder Norman Granz) and offered other opportunities for Taylor. Impulse was unlikely in that ABC-Paramount (the main company of which Impulse was a sub) was a rather conservative label in which the suits pulled all the strings (usually ABC jazz albums have a somewhat restricted, very "produced" feel to them, tight arrangements, short cuts, all very neatly done ... RCA went in a similar direction). Anyway, Impulse was lucky of course to have Bob Thiele (and later Ed Michel) at its head, and obviously it wrote a major chapter of jazz history, recording not just Coltrane but also Sanders, Shepp and other avantgarde musicians. So having Cecil Taylor so early on (in his only appearance for the label) is interesting, for sure. And Evans had his folks play the music of Carisi then (I think he didn't want to have more of his own out on Impulse, but I'm not really sure, memory may play tricks on me), thus offering exposure (and his own, already rather big name) to two talents deserving wider recognition.

Thread duty - another new arrival, part of the Oliver Nelson days going on here:



"Respect" (1967) is a small group date, funky, tight, tough - with Eric Gale or Thornel Schwartz (g), Ron Carter or Bub Bushnell (b) and Grady Tate or Bernard Purdie (d) (I guess the two line-ups are Gale, Bushnell, Purdie for the funky stuff and Schwartz, Carter, Tate for the jazzier ones), it comes with a non-LP-single as a bonus, Smith singing Jimmy Dodd's "Mickey Mouse". "Livin' It Up" offers a more lavish production, still in a funky vein, Oliver Nelson arr./cond., orchestra incl. Conte Candoli, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott, Howard Roberts, Ray Brown, Carol Kaye, Larry Bunker a.o. plus 14 strings.

[king ubu]

the other Oliver Nelson disc that arrived today:

[SimonNZ]

Jimmy Forrest - Most Much (1961)
Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go (1961)

[kishnevi]

CD1

Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!

[king ubu]

CD1

Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!

Came into disc two by now ... immensely fascinating stuff! On the one hand, Miles is truly on top of his game, giving pointers and pushing things into the right direction, on the other hand, I was amazed by how relaxed the mood was when these masterpieces were committed to tape. "Freedom Jazz Dance" is a truly amazing study in how this band explored different approaches, how everyone was allowed to try out stuff and then discard it again ...

"Miles Smiles" is my favourite second quintet album, so it's really cool to have the session reels for it in full!

[George]

CD1

Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!

Thanks for the reminder, now enjoying this via Spotify!

[king ubu]

[king ubu]

From the Dolphy Prestige box ... desert island music, most of that box!

[king ubu]

one more from the Dolphy Prestige box, and now Miles in mono

[SimonNZ]

Johnny Hodges - Blue Hodge (1961)
King Curtis - Old Gold (1961)

organist Wild Bill Davis seems to think its his name on the cover of that Hodges album



Jaki Byard - Hi-Fly (1962)

[North Star]

Periodically I need to listen to this classic.



The perfect palate cleanser.

Ditto.

[SimonNZ]

Walt Dickerson - Relativity (1962)
Etta Jones - From The Heart (1962)