Make a Jazz Noise Here

[NorthNYMark]

Maybe we can open this up to jazz trombone in general. I am close to sharing your skepticism, but not quite there. I like Kai Winding, but haven't found a trombonist I like more than Jimmy Knepper's work on the Mingus albums.

Try Grachan Moncur III, particularly if you may be interested in a uniquely "spacious"  approach to playing and composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHWhrigwG7I

[NorthNYMark]

Some still active jazz tombonists

Ray Anderson, usually in an experimental context
Steve Turre, traditional hard bop and some latin
Steve Davis hard bop
Craig Harris, also experimental worked with Sun Ra
Delfeayo Marsalis, 'nuff sed
Jerry Zigmont, New Orleans style
Rob McConnell, traditional valve trombonist

Recently passed: Bob Brookmeyer

After posting I thought about a couple of others - Roswell Rudd, check out his stuff with Steve Lacy and Wycliffe Gordon played with Wynton Marsalis and is excellent traditionalist.

Great list!  I would also add Steve Swell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r6JdL4rMws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPhQiMzNMpA

[Mookalafalas]

Anyone else familiar with this?  It's a great favorite of mine:

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[Karl Henning]

Anyone else familiar with this?  It's a great favorite of mine:

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Never heard of it before;  looks very tasty!

[Mookalafalas]

Never heard of it before;  looks very tasty!

  It is! It's ridiculously fun.  It gives the same "WTF?!" jolt as the Liszt piano transcription of Beethoven, but instead it's a smokin' hot trio playing 21st Century Schizoid Man, etc.  The second volume is equally good. 
   Fripp disowned the early Crimson music, but if he hear this I think he'd change his mind: translated into jazz you can really hear how rock solid the music is. 

[Brian]

Here's the list of stuff I'm bringing on my weekend road trip, most of which I've never heard before:

- Coltrane/Cannonball: Quintet in Chicago
- Coltrane: Mating Call
- Chet Baker & Crew (GMG recommendation!)
- Jazz Messengers: Buhaina's Delight
- Mingus Oh Yeah (this is the only album on the list I've heard before)
- seven Dizzy Gillespie albums: Diz & Getz, For Musicians Only, Gillespiana, The New Continent, Carnegie Hall Concert, Newport 1957, An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Try Grachan Moncur III, particularly if you may be interested in a uniquely "spacious"  approach to playing and composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHWhrigwG7I

Thanks! I will, once I'm not listening to Villa-Lobos.

Saw that video on facebook of the 11 year old piano whiz from...Malaysia? Anyway, suddenly wanted jazz, and badly!

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What are your favorite Hank Jones albums? I love his work on Somethin' Else and, well, everywhere else I've heard him.

[San Antone]

What are your favorite Hank Jones albums?

He's done so much and all of it is great work, but the series of recordings he made with Ron Carter and Tony Williams, as The Great Jazz Trio, is stand out stuff.  Live at the Village Vanguard, probably my favorite.

[Mookalafalas]

What are your favorite Hank Jones albums? I love his work on Somethin' Else and, well, everywhere else I've heard him.

   To be honest, this is the first time I've ever listened to Hank Jones as a front man.  I don't think of him that way at all. As SanAntonio says, he has (or rather, he's in) tons of stuff and he's always good, but generally he's interacting with his peers--and they are always great, too.  A lot of 50s stuff was like that, especially, with tons of albums drawing from the same pool of great players, but with different guys in charge of a session, putting their name out front.  The Jazz Messengers was originally "Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers"! 

[Henk]

Can the thread title be changed into Make a Jazz SOUND Here, Free jazz is noise, good jazz entirely not..

[Artem]

One of my favorite cds:

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[Mookalafalas]

1926 Bing Crosby.  The original white jazz crossover singer.  Hard to believe for those of us who grew up just hearing his crooning.  Anyway, I'm reading a bio of Bing by Gary Giddins and he's talking a lot about these early recordings so I picked up a set.  It's pretty fun, like white O'keh Ellington, kinda-sorta.  Missable as jazz, but very interesting for historical interest.

[Ken B]

1926 Bing Crosby.  The original white jazz crossover singer.  Hard to believe for those of us who grew up just hearing his crooning.  Anyway, I'm reading a bio of Bing by Gary Giddins and he's talking a lot about these early recordings so I picked up a set.  It's pretty fun, like white O'keh Ellington, kinda-sorta.  Missable as jazz, but very interesting for historical interest.

Brother Can You Spare A Dime is magnificent.

By any reasonable standard, Bing Crosby was the biggest star of the century. The top selling recording artist for decades, and one of the top box office stars (top 10).

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Just back from the 14th International Jazz Festival at Rochester, NY.  Weary of being treated like an animal by airlines, and 'sleeping' overnight in airports due to cancelled flights, I drove the 839 miles to the Flower (formerly Flour) City to get there in one day.  Also saved on car rental, a total savings of over $1,000!  So, was I impressed with what I saw of our great nation? Nope, boring as hell, and the poor condition of Route 70 made me wonder where my taxes are going.  But the Jazz Fest, now one of the Top Ten worldwide, was well-worth the yawns and bumps of the trip.  You can read about it here : http://www.rochesterjazz.com/  To me, the standout performances were these :  Benny Green, solo and trio; Fred Hersch (as brilliant a pianist as he was a patient!); Aaron Diehl (a remarkably sensitive pianist who also has his own trio and backed-up Cecile McLorin Salvant, a wonderful singer and someone to keep your eye on).  BTW, Diehl is, among other accomplishments, an extraordinary interpreter of Philip Glass's Etudes.  Also, Jon Ballantyne (brought in to sub at a moment's notice for Bob Albanese, ailing from carpal tunnel); Tessa Souter; and a most impressive British band, Gogo Penguin, a very nearly indescribable, quite creative group that blends classical, jazz, trip-hop and electronica - think Philip Glass meets Bad Plus and Sigur Ros.  They wowed me in a very unsympathetic setting (large church with walls that echo one another ceaselessly - good for conveying the Gospel perhaps but not music).  I also saw Diana Krall in a talented group with fascinating visuals - but 'twasn't jazz or very little of it - she seems to be taking a page outta her husband's book and experimenting with this and that, likably if not as impressively, IMO.  Also caught the young (11-year old) Joey Alexander, a pianist with great promise who is being marketed, IMO, way too early.  My opinion however was not in accord with the crowd who loved him despite his gaffes (he described a Monk piece he played as being "very hard.")  He walks on the stage like a very old man in need of an osteopath - my concert-going buddy wondered aloud, to the amusement of anyone near, if he would "make it to 12." I wonder as well. 

[San Antone]

Just back from the 14th International Jazz Festival at Rochester, NY.  Weary of being treated like an animal by airlines, and 'sleeping' overnight in airports due to cancelled flights, I drove the 839 miles to the Flower (formerly Flour) City to get there in one day.  Also saved on car rental, a total savings of over $1,000!  So, was I impressed with what I saw of our great nation? Nope, boring as hell, and the poor condition of Route 70 made me wonder where my taxes are going.  But the Jazz Fest, now one of the Top Ten worldwide, was well-worth the yawns and bumps of the trip.  You can read about it here : http://www.rochesterjazz.com/  To me, the standout performances were these :  Benny Green, solo and trio; Fred Hersch (as brilliant a pianist as he was a patient!); Aaron Diehl (a remarkably sensitive pianist who also has his own trio and backed-up Cecile McLorin Salvant, a wonderful singer and someone to keep your eye on).  BTW, Diehl is, among other accomplishments, an extraordinary interpreter of Philip Glass's Etudes.  Also, Jon Ballantyne (brought in to sub at a moment's notice for Bob Albanese, ailing from carpal tunnel); Tessa Souter; and a most impressive British band, Gogo Penguin, a very nearly indescribable, quite creative group that blends classical, jazz, trip-hop and electronica - think Philip Glass meets Bad Plus and Sigur Ros.  They wowed me in a very unsympathetic setting (large church with walls that echo one another ceaselessly - good for conveying the Gospel perhaps but not music).  I also saw Diana Krall in a talented group with fascinating visuals - but 'twasn't jazz or very little of it - she seems to be taking a page outta her husband's book and experimenting with this and that, likably if not as impressively, IMO.  Also caught the young (11-year old) Joey Alexander, a pianist with great promise who is being marketed, IMO, way too early.  My opinion however was not in accord with the crowd who loved him despite his gaffes (he described a Monk piece he played as being "very hard.")  He walks on the stage like a very old man in need of an osteopath - my concert-going buddy wondered aloud, to the amusement of anyone near, if he would "make it to 12." I wonder as well.

I'm with you regarding air travel.  Stinks and gets worse every time I fly.  I don't mind driving if it's under 12 hours, but your journey must have been longer than that.

The jazz festival sounds like an excellent event.  Glad you heard some good jazz.

[escher]

(he described a Monk piece he played as being "very hard.")

what's wrong with that? Besides certain simple pieces as blue monk many of his tunes are well known for their strangeness and complexity. I remember the legendary Von Freeman who described Wayne Shorter's Footprints as a piece that "you have to be 70 years old to understand."
Anyway I don't know if he will change the history of jazz but there's absolutely no doubt for me that Joey Alexander has a huge talent way beyond the usual children prodigies showing their chops.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

what's wrong with that? Besides certain simple pieces as blue monk many of his tunes are well known for their strangeness and complexity. I remember the legendary Von Freeman who described Wayne Shorter's Footprints as a piece that "you have to be 70 years old to understand."
Anyway I don't know if he will change the history of jazz but there's absolutely no doubt for me that Joey Alexander has a huge talent way beyond the usual children prodigies showing their chops.

His off the cuff remark, I believe, was meant in reference to some painfully obvious slips of his fingers in Monk's work.  However, Joey Alexander's talent is not in dispute; the wisdom of his parents and managers in exposing him at such a young age is.  The list is long of performers who were promoted too early and were affected personally and/or professionally.  I hope this is not his fate, but from what I saw of him I don't think he's ready.  I was told he is being "promoted very aggressively." If such a phenom were my child, his or her psychological welfare would be first and foremost in my mind - I hope same is in his parents' minds as well.

[Mirror Image]

I just love this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/rMnRyJvuMbE

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZY0gNusKM-Q

[escher]

I just love this:

wow. You know I'm not a huge fan of Metheny but the piece is very interesting and the solo is simply stunning.

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/-UPHNruG1wI