Make a Jazz Noise Here

[Dancing Divertimentian]

That's very nice, but The Awakening (1970) is very good as well. I don't think his individuality is lost here. It is one of my favorite Jazz piano albums.
https://www.youtube.com/v/5f6x-laLDeY

Yeah, The Awakening is good, no question.

[Mookalafalas]

He was a big influence on Miles Davis and Bill Evans, who were fans. 

[torut]

Yes, Miles borrowed the intro to Autumn Leaves from Jamal. However, I cannot tell what exactly Jamal's musical/stylistic influence on Miles was.

[Mirror Image]

Looks like I'm back in full swing with jazz again.

Jamal was a big influence on Miles in terms of leaving space in the music and going for lyricism rather than trying to showboat and run scales.

[Ken B]

Looks like I'm back in full swing with jazz again.

Jamal was a big influence on Miles in terms of leaving space in the music and going for lyricism rather than trying to showboat and run scales.

There is more joy in heaven ....

[Mirror Image]

There is more joy in heaven ....

Well, I truly feel that jazz is the music of my soul. My first phase with jazz lasted 15 years. Who knows how long this second one will last? Anyway, I'm sure my dad will be thrilled as he's really a jazz guy, too. Give me some 40s, 50s, and 60s jazz, especially bebop, hardbop, big band, and cool jazz and I'll be a happy man.

[torut]

Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Dancing In Your Head
Live Under the Sky Festival, 1986
https://www.youtube.com/v/72SVN9sO4P4

My favorite Ornette Coleman live.
"Ornette Coleman and Prime Time! Living Legend, Mr. Ornette Coleman!"

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Any of you buying the Blue Note 75 reissue series? They are on CD (I believe), but if you're awesome like me you're buying the LPs! I have quite a few LP reissues of classic jazz LPs--these never really went away, even after the supposed demise of the LP. Anyway, the first of the Blue Note 75 LP reissues I picked up is Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris, with the awesome Pierre Michelot (of L'Ascensur Pour L'Echafaud fame) and Kenny Clarke and Bud Powell. I've admired Dexter for quite some time for his thoughtful and lyrical interpretations of various ballads (my favorite: The first time ever I saw your face), but this LP has some great straight-ahead pieces that show a wonderful sense of rhythm I've never heard from Dexter. Highly recommended.

What if anything from this series have you bought or recommend?

[North Star]

If you're asking for recommendations of the music and not specifically these reissues, that Grant Green album Idle Moments is certainly one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. Magical work from Green, Duke Pearson, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, and the rhythm section isn't bad either.

[chadfeldheimer]

Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Dancing In Your Head
Live Under the Sky Festival, 1986
https://www.youtube.com/v/72SVN9sO4P4

My favorite Ornette Coleman live.
"Ornette Coleman and Prime Time! Living Legend, Mr. Ornette Coleman!"

Nice!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

If you're asking for recommendations of the music and not specifically these reissues, that Grant Green album Idle Moments is certainly one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. Magical work from Green, Duke Pearson, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, and the rhythm section isn't bad either.

Thanks, I'm actually just going to buy these at random to expose myself to new (new to me) artists. I'll probably get them all eventually anyway, so the order doesn't matter all that much. Grant Green is an artist of whom I've heard very little, so I will use your recommendation soon!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Like the Mehldau I mentioned above, I'm not even sure Bill Frisell's The Intercontinentals really counts as jazz. But it sure is fascinating:



This is a kind of "jazz meets world music" tour of the musical globe. Sounds wonderful, and the genre-bending is part of the fun.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Just picked this one up on LP, and listened today. The only thing more mind-blowing than the sound quality (considering it is an old mono) is the performances. If you haven't heard this, you haven't heard schit.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Just picked this one up on LP, and listened today. The only thing more mind-blowing than the sound quality (considering it is an old mono) is the performances. If you haven't heard this, you haven't heard schit.

Somethin' Else is one of my Top 5 jazz albums probably, "Autumn Leaves" being the highlight of the album, and the last 2 minutes (piano solo by Hank Jones) being the highlight of that.

[North Star]

Somethin' Else is one of the great albums, for sure.

[early grey]

It was reported recently that Gerald Wilson has died and that he made some highly rated big band LPs in the 60s. This I didn't know. However I've just discovered that I admired two Gerald Wilsons who turn out to be one and the same and the same as the one referred to at the start. The first was the arranger and bandleader on Nancy Wilson's "Yesterday's Love Songs, Today's Blues" with several outstanding tracks, "Never Let Me Go" and "Send Me Yesterday" among them and the second was the trumpeter on Curtis Counce's LP "Carl's Blues" where Gerald Wilson shared the trumpet duties with Jack Sheldon. This LP was on the LP page of my site for a while but had to go to make room for others.  Nancy Wilson's LP has been added to my non-classical LP page as well as music from Keely Smith, Mel Tormé/ Marty Paich and a marvellous live recording of the Phil Woods Quintet "Integrity" recorded in Italy.

http://www.cliveheathmusic.co.uk/vinyl2.php

There is some GW "you tube" material to explore but maybe more modern.

[HIPster]

Interesting article on John Coltrane and the newly released 1966 Temple University show:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/14/what-if-jazz-giant-john-coltrane-had-lived.html

Spending some time with this quite lovely tribute album to John Coltrane and J.S. Bach:
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[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Looks interesting--added to my wish list. Unfortunately the link to the article does not work. 

[North Star]

Looks interesting--added to my wish list. Unfortunately the link to the article does not work. 

Try without that extra space

Interesting article on John Coltrane and the newly released 1966 Temple University show:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/14/what-if-jazz-giant-john-coltrane-had-lived.html

[HIPster]

Try without that extra space

Thanks North Star.  I fixed the link.