Make a Jazz Noise Here

[Brian]

I'm realizing two things at once.
(a) I love, love, love jazz and always have.
(b) Because classical music has taken up my entire budget, I've never actually spent anything on expanding my jazz collection.

I know enough about jazz to know that, of people on this page alone, Ike Quebec and Duke Pearson would be right up my alley and I should look them up. But on the other hand, I just don't have any jazz. Never got around to that part of it. So I'm thinking about these gigantic box sets.

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No. 01: Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
No. 02: Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi
No. 03: The Jazz Messengers
No. 04: Lady in Satin
*No. 05: Kind of Blue
*No. 06: Time Out
No. 07: First Time: Count Meets the Duke
No. 08: Parole E Musica
No. 09: Tijuana Moods
No. 10: Chet Is Back!
No. 11: Monk's Dream
No. 12: Sonny Meets Hawk
No. 13: Martial Solal Trio at Newport (1963)
No. 14: Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two Of A Mind
No. 15: Together Again
No. 16: It's Uptown
No. 17: Nina Simone Sings the Blues (Exp)
*No. 18: Piano Starts Here
No. 19: Concert By the Sea
No. 20: Head Hunters
No. 21: Best of Two Worlds
No. 22: Jaco Pastorius
No. 23: Heavy Weather
No. 24: Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1
No. 25: Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


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Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Goes To College
Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Various Artists - The Sound Of Jazz
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Clifford Brown - The Beginning And The End
George Benson - Beyond The Blue Horizon
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - Carnegie Hall
Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me
Jim Hall - Concierto
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Weather Report - 8:30
Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight
Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Times Vol.3
Nina Simone - Silk and Soul
Aretha Franklin - Unforgetable A Tribute To Dinah Washington

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'Round About Midnight, Miles Ahead, Miles, *Porgy And Bess, *Kind Of Blue, Sketches Of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come, Seven Steps To Heaven, Miles In Berlin, ESP, Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute To Jack Johnson, On The Corner, We Want Miles, Star People, Decoy

The four starred albums are the only ones, out of 68 listed there, that I own.

Also Mirror John said I need Time Further Out which puts this in play:

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The first three are about $50 each and the Brubeck one is $15 for 5 albums.

[Leo K.]

I'm realizing two things at once.
(a) I love, love, love jazz and always have.
(b) Because classical music has taken up my entire budget, I've never actually spent anything on expanding my jazz collection.

I know enough about jazz to know that, of people on this page alone, Ike Quebec and Duke Pearson would be right up my alley and I should look them up. But on the other hand, I just don't have any jazz. Never got around to that part of it. So I'm thinking about these gigantic box sets.

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No. 01: Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
No. 02: Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi
No. 03: The Jazz Messengers
No. 04: Lady in Satin
*No. 05: Kind of Blue
*No. 06: Time Out
No. 07: First Time: Count Meets the Duke
No. 08: Parole E Musica
No. 09: Tijuana Moods
No. 10: Chet Is Back!
No. 11: Monk's Dream
No. 12: Sonny Meets Hawk
No. 13: Martial Solal Trio at Newport (1963)
No. 14: Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two Of A Mind
No. 15: Together Again
No. 16: It's Uptown
No. 17: Nina Simone Sings the Blues (Exp)
*No. 18: Piano Starts Here
No. 19: Concert By the Sea
No. 20: Head Hunters
No. 21: Best of Two Worlds
No. 22: Jaco Pastorius
No. 23: Heavy Weather
No. 24: Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1
No. 25: Bird: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


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Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Goes To College
Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Various Artists - The Sound Of Jazz
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Clifford Brown - The Beginning And The End
George Benson - Beyond The Blue Horizon
Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - Carnegie Hall
Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me
Jim Hall - Concierto
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
Weather Report - 8:30
Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight
Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Times Vol.3
Nina Simone - Silk and Soul
Aretha Franklin - Unforgetable A Tribute To Dinah Washington

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'Round About Midnight, Miles Ahead, Miles, *Porgy And Bess, *Kind Of Blue, Sketches Of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come, Seven Steps To Heaven, Miles In Berlin, ESP, Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute To Jack Johnson, On The Corner, We Want Miles, Star People, Decoy

The four starred albums are the only ones, out of 68 listed there, that I own.

Also Mirror John said I need Time Further Out which puts this in play:

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The first three are about $50 each and the Brubeck one is $15 for 5 albums.

Brian, I was not aware of those great sets, thanks for the heads up!

The sets I have recently acquired include:

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I too have more classical than Jazz, much more, but I've been collecting here and there and it adds up nicely. I'm reading this book at the moment:

[Bogey]

One that I return less than I ought.

[Gold Knight]

From Keith Jarrett's The Mourning of a Star: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J5m-7gf0ZKY#t=0s

[Gold Knight]

Some more awesome, Traffic inflected jazz music: Keith Jarrett – The Rich (And The Poor)

[Gold Knight]

Some more short, sublime Keith Jarrett:
Keith Jarrett – Introduction And Yaqui Indian Folk Song

[San Antone]

That's some great Keith Jarrett.  You might also checkout Belonging from his European Quartet and any of the Standards Trio recordings.  My only complaint is his grunting and singing along, and then, of course, his tantrums when anyone in the audience coughs.

[Gold Knight]

@ Sanantonio, Thanks for your Jarrett suggestions. I know what you mean about his often quite audible grunting and humming, which for me, usually detracts from my otherwise completely enjoying what he is playing.

[Gold Knight]

Some mellow and rocking Chick Corea and Return To Forever: Return To Forever – No Mystery

[Mirror Image]

Never cared much about Keith "Hum Along With The Tune" Jarrett. Seriously an overrated musician in the jazz community. A Bill Evans or even Fred Hirsch he is not.

[Leo K.]

I've been drawn in by the direct cornet playing of Red Nichols, from the Chronological Classics label (which I've been collecting):

This anthology collects sides released between 1925 and 1927 by Red Nichols under the usual assortment of monikers, including, this time around, Lanin's Red Heads, the Hottentots, Red & Miff's Stompers, and Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies. These combos usually included longtime associates Miff Mole on trombone and Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto sax.

As a cornet player, Nichols often gets dismissed as a version of Bix Beiderbecke lite, an assessment that isn't exactly fair, and he tackles Beiderbecke's own "Davenport Blues" here in his own easy style, showing allegiance more than competition. Other highlights here include the stripped-down "Jimtown Blues" and the intricate "Boneyard Shuffle." Nichols tackled more innovative and complicated arrangements a couple of years down the road from these recordings, and while this might not be the place to start to sample Nichols' massive 1920s output (he is rumored to have appeared on over 4,000 recordings during that decade alone), it is nonetheless a warm, bright, and pleasant listen.

[Bogey]

Interesting blip from wiki:

Lush Life is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7188. It is assembled from unissued results of three separate recording sessions at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1957 and 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.

[Gold Knight]

Interesting blip from wiki:

Lush Life is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7188. It is assembled from unissued results of three separate recording sessions at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1957 and 1958. As Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige used unissued recordings to create new marketable albums without Coltrane's input or approval.

And probably without his getting any royalties, either!

[Bogey]

And probably without his getting any royalties, either!

Yup.

[Karl Henning]

Well, it wasn't right off that performers in the pop idioms were considered to have any ongoing rights to the recordings. And things were ever a bit shadier in The Land of Jazz.

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/9xq1q4aFOZo

[San Antone]

The song Evidence has always fascinated me.  It is my favorite Monk composition.

[Karl Henning]

I was telling Cato off-line, it's almost . . . jazz Feldman . . . .

[Leo K.]

One of my favorite trumpeters, Bunny Berigan, has been on my playlist this month, from the Chronological Classics label in France. Although I think these are out of print, the music is definitely available on other labels.

Incredible trumpet, his solos sound pristine and refined, with a lot of thought about tone, phrasing and construction, as if no note is out of place. A wonderful tonic for the soul.








Quotes from the bio "Mr. Trumpet" by by Michael P. Zirpolo:

"...About the trumpet players I admire...first, I'll name my boy Bunny Berigan.  Now there's a boy I've always admired for his tone, soul, technique, his sense of phrasing and all.  To me, Bunny can't do no wrong in music."

Louis Armstrong, Down Beat, September 1, 1941.


"Steve Lipkins and I would sit there in the back row night after night, set after set, and watch and listen to Bunny, and be totally amazed by what he could and would do."  ---Irving Goodman, trumpet; page 169.

"Bunny always wanted free rein, ad lib solos without any inhibitions of any kind.  As his professional peers, we could understand his fearless cavortings on the horn, full of surprises and delightful experiences.  Bunny was a most colorful player.  When he laid eight bars on the line, it was there for posterity."  ---Manny Weinstock, trumpet; page 138.

"Wow!  Tremendous!  He just picked that whole band up and swung it by himself."  ---Johnny Blowers, drums: page 239.

"Bunny Berigan was a revelation to me.  Never having heard him in-person before, even though I was well acquainted with his work on recordings, I was unprepared for such a tremendous thrill."  ---Helen Oakley (Dance), critic; page 257.

"He had the most gorgeous sound, and that beautiful vibrato. And everything he played had a line.  It was like a melody, even if it had a lot of notes in it."  ---Jimmy Maxwell, trumpet; page 259.

"Touring with Bunny was my first big-time gig, and it was one of the highlights of my life."  ---Ray Conniff, trombone/arranger; page 227.

"I asked Freddy, the recording engineer, where Bunny had stood when he played that chorus (on 'Marie') into a standard RCA 44-ribbon mike.  He showed me a point approximately thirty feet away from the microphone.  Thirty feet! "  ---George "Pee Wee" Erwin, trumpet; page 259.

"This is the greatest living trumpet player."  ---Harry James, trumpet; page 142.

[Gold Knight]

Some more Chick Corea and RTF:
Return To Forever – No Mystery