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

[Bogey]

Currently listening to:


Some wonderful jazz here.  The main theme is credited to Count Basie and the rest of the album is Stanley Wilson (http://www.spaceagepop.com/wilson.htm) with the help of Benny Carter and Johnny Williams (yop, the same one).

[Bogey]

Here are my 10 11 favorite tracks from some of my favorite albums-Only 1 Coltrane and 1 Getz...gotta be something wrong with my head.

Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens-West End Blues

Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens-Mahagony Hall Stomp

Satch could have had three or four more, but I'll break it up some here.

John Coltrane At Birdland 1962-My Favorite Things

Miles Davis At Newport 1958-Fran Dance

Miles Davis Kind of Blue-So What?

Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else-Autumn Leaves

Billie Holiday Ken Burns Jazz (on Love Songs-help me here, Kevin)-In My Solitude

Benny Goodman Stompin' at the Savoy-Sing, Sing, Sing

Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz at the College of the Pacific Vol II-Crazy Rhythm

Stan Getz Jazz Samba-Desafinado O Pato

[toledobass]

I've been downloading and listening to some of the NPR Jazz Profiles podcasts.  Anyone else find them entertaining?


Allan

[Bogey]

I've been downloading and listening to some of the NPR Jazz Profiles podcasts.  Anyone else find them entertaining?


Allan

Never tried....link me a good one buddy.

[toledobass]

I listened to the Betty Carter last week.  I learned some stuff about her that I didn't know.  There's all kinds of stuff on there though so:

Jazz Profiles

Check it out!!!!

Allan

[Bogey]

Thank you, sir!

Now:

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens-West End Blues

Wonderful of course - but technically this 78 stuff isn't an album as such, is it? Still, for me "Potato Head Blues" just edges it.

Miles Davis Kind of Blue-So What?

If not for "All Blues" on the same album, this woulda made my cut.

Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else-Autumn Leaves

Possibly my favorite 10 minutes of jazz ever. Nothing is more magical than Hank Jones' closing piano solo.

[Bogey]

I listened to the Betty Carter last week.  I learned some stuff about her that I didn't know.  There's all kinds of stuff on there though so:

Jazz Profiles

Check it out!!!!

Allan

Listened to the story today on the history of the Village Vanguard.  Thanks again, Allan, for pointing these out.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94034531

Now:
Miles
Plugged Nickel 1965-Dec. 23, First Set
Columbia

[Bogey]

Wonderful of course - but technically this 78 stuff isn't an album as such, is it? Still, for me "Potato Head Blues" just edges it.

You're absolutely correct, but I stand by my post nonetheless, and adamantly support your "Potato Head Blues". 

[toledobass]

Listened to the story today on the history of the Village Vanguard.  Thanks again, Allan, for pointing these out.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94034531

Funny thing is you prolly started listening around the same time some of the last sets of the night were ending!!!!!!

Allan

[Bogey]

Funny thing is you prolly started listening around the same time some of the last sets of the night were ending!!!!!!

Allan

Some pre-50's jazz to start the day:



Many incarnations of these recordings.  Has anyone here heard multiple pressings and has found one to be superior?

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Speaking of starting the day - I'm groovin' to this at the moment. More effective than 3 cups of coffee!:

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

...and as we move into the afternoon on this cloudy Moscow day, what could be more appropriate than the cooler and more meditative sounds of Bill Evans & Co.?



The title tune (by Evans himself) is my favorite thing here, and makes me wish he had composed more. Some very nice work by Freddie Hubbard on this disc, too. 

[Bogey]

Just listened to the Part 1 of the Coltrane Jazz profile.  Still need to finish of the last ten minutes when I get home tonight.  Again,  great stuff Allan.  

Spitvalve, do you have the complete Hot Five Hot Seven recordings?


Now:

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Spitvalve, do you have the complete Hot Five Hot Seven recordings?

No I don't, just that 1 disc. I'm actually not all that interested in pre-1950s jazz, so I tend to make do with samplers and compilations.

[toledobass]

Just listened to the Part 1 of the Coltrane Jazz profile.  Still need to finish of the last ten minutes when I get home tonight.  Again,  great stuff Allan.  

Finished the Vangaurd one last night.  Branford, "Hello, Village Vanguard."   I thought the Harry Belefonte stuff at the end was very eloquent and movinging.


Allan

[Heather Harrison]

I'm glad to see that this thread is still going.

Here are two recent acquisitions.



These are low-priced 4-CD box sets with a substantial number of classic tracks from the swing era.  There is quite a bit here that I haven't heard before.  So far, I have listened to parts of each one, and the sound quality is decent for the age of the recordings.

Heather

[Bogey]

I'm glad to see that this thread is still going.


Heather

Welcome back to your jazz thread, Heather.  Your phone avatar seems to work here nicely.

[Josquin des Prez]

...and isn't that a fabulous cover?

Not really, it seems to foreshadow the direction of contemporary black art, i.e., hip hop, rap et al. Then again, Jazz achieved it's apex right about the point our culture plunged into permanent childishness, dragging everybody else with us. Now we have to deal with MTV. What a miserable end for one of the greatest civilizations in human history.

Now THIS is a wonderful cover art:

[Bogey]

Finished the Vangaurd one last night.  Branford, "Hello, Village Vanguard."   I thought the Harry Belefonte stuff at the end was very eloquent and movinging.


Allan

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

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91621422