Jazz, c. 1950-1970: Recommendations (and jazz in general)

[Josquin des Prez]

Gotta listen to the 'Trane Pt. 1....the quote of how Miles told him to end his often long solos was priceless.

Heh, i think Davis was right. All the same since, at least in my opinion, he grew out to become a better soloist. Possibly the best damn Jazz soloist of all times.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Today's listening. An excellent album throughout, with some stellar playing. But man - Jarrett's duck-like vocalizations are irritating, worse even than Glenn Gould! 

[Bogey]

Earlier:



The track Lonnie's Lament got two spins.

Now:

[Shrunk]

Earlier:



The track Lonnie's Lament got two spins.

His most underrated album, IMHO.

Now THIS is a wonderful cover art:

Can't disagree with that.

Tell me something:  Has anyone ever seen a picture of Coltrane smiling?  He supposedly was a very warm person with a good sense of humour, but that never seems to come across in photos.

[Bogey]

His most underrated album, IMHO.

Can't disagree with that.

Tell me something:  Has anyone ever seen a picture of Coltrane smiling?  He supposedly was a very warm person with a good sense of humour, but that never seems to come across in photos.

Page 21 of the liner notes that came with the Complete '61 Village Vanguard recordings....he may even be laughing in the photo.  I will see if I can scan it.  If not, maybe Allan has the know how.

[Bogey]

Now, from 1958:

[toledobass]

His most underrated album, IMHO.

Underrated? I don't think so.  Many talk about it being one of the most important albums in his canon.  W. Marsalis even considers it one of the 5 most important jazz recordings. Look at the recordings he recorded before and after that one. Cresent is so concise and the band sound was in it's prime.

Allan

[toledobass]

I tried to scan it but can't figure out how to compress the photo on a mac in order to get it to fit into the file size limit here.

Any hints?

Allan

[Bogey]

Here is a post that I started at another forum.  It may be of interest to some trying to add to their Coltane collection.

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?p=422073#post422073

and here are some others:

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/search.php?searchid=2224401

[Bogey]

Dug this nugget out of one of the threads.  It has "Trane's discography.  Looks like I have plenty of homework to do.

http://home.att.net/~dawild/john_coltrane_discography.htm

*Does not look like it covers VERY early 'Trane as mentioned in the Jazz Profiles story, you know, the stuff with Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges.

[Shrunk]

I tried to scan it but can't figure out how to compress the photo on a mac in order to get it to fit into the file size limit here.

Any hints?

Allan

It's OK.  I'll take you guys' word for it.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Some weekend listening. Man does it sizzle:

[Josquin des Prez]

Tell me something:  Has anyone ever seen a picture of Coltrane smiling?  He supposedly was a very warm person with a good sense of humour, but that never seems to come across in photos.

I have a biography of his which contains a few photos of him smiling. Can't really find anything on the net though. He was a very serious and introspective person, but was also shy, soft spoken and had a gentle and generous soul. Even during his drug addiction phase he never became a burden to anybody, always kept to himself, never asked for help or anything. The man was a saint.  

[Bogey]

I have a biography of his which contains a few photos of him smiling. Can't really find anything on the net though. He was a very serious and introspective person, but was also shy, soft spoken and had a gentle and generous soul. Even during his drug addiction phase he never became a burden to anybody, always kept to himself, never asked for help or anything. The man was a saint.  

Which bio is this, Josquin?

[Bogey]

Was able to grab this 4cd set today at a reasonable price.  It has been on my lst for a year or two, but could not find one at a price I was willing to pay:

[Bogey]

And again:

[toledobass]

I listened to it the other day after it popped up in this thread.  I forgot how dark of an album it is.  I didn't even make it through the whole thing cause of the mood it was putting me in.  But I'm gonna spin in now wichya.


Allan

[Bogey]

2 spins of this today:



There were a few moments when I wished that Duke's volume level was a bit higher.  Besides that, nothing but "net" here folks.

[Bogey]

Finished off the secong part of the Jazz Profiles Coltrane story.  Started my morning with disc one from:



Elvin Jones' drumming was the highlight of this show.  "Trane wasn't too bad either.

[toledobass]

Damn B.  Morning listening?  where do you go from there? Or do you just put the sound system on lockdown for the rest of the day?


Allan