Easter JRR playlist & All Our Eggs in One Basket

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 18-04-14, 07:28

blimey! two earthquakes and now two playlists!

many thanks Alyn some egg shaped morsels to appreciate there!

other eggs are available:

JLU features Tim Garland and his Songs to the North Sky

Geoffrey does a return to the Big Easy for his Easter Surpirises [find the eggs!]

Jon3 continues its adventurous [commendably so] presentations:

New York composer and guitarist Elliott Sharp appears in a rare UK performance, playing his piece Foliage at the Vortex in London.

A key component in the downtown experimental scene for over 30 years, Sharp has spanned orchestral music and techno, no wave rock and film scores. For Foliage however, it's a complex relationship with graphic scores and visuals that lies at the heart of the music. Using graphic software, the composer manipulates traditional musical notation and images by means of filtering, stretching and layering - paralleling similar methods that can be used to affect sounds in a studio. These graphics are then interpreted by improvising musicians - in this concert, Sharp is joined by players from the UK scene, including Percy Pursglove (trumpet), Jeremy Price (trombone), Liam Noble (piano), Riaan Vosloo (bass) and Andrew Bain (drums).

**BLUESNIK'S REVOX** · 18-04-14, 09:50

Thanks also Alyn. JRR...Earl Hines, "Lightly and Politely". Didn't Sinclair Traill have his column named after this in Jazz Journal?

BN.

Academic footnote. ...in the 1890s UK jazz critics and presenters were called "Sinclair" or "Humphrey" and were Old Etonians by law. Now they are all called LestR D'Jezza...well almost all.

**Serial_Apologist** · 18-04-14, 11:44

Many thanks to both Alyn and Calum for the alerts. Brave of our lads to take on Elliott Sharpe's music - heavy duty stuff, and pretty scary too!

Oh, I never knew Satchmo recorded, let alone played, with the Brubeck Trio. L,H & R as the backing group presumably - it's imaginable such a celebrity gathering as this taking place today, but I'll bet a few high brows were hackled back in '61!

**Ian Thumwood** · 18-04-14, 16:16

It will be interesting to hear the Earl Hines track as I am not familiar with this number. I became interested in jazz piano after hearing a number of tribute programmes shortly after he died in the early 1980's. Hines was the first jazz pianist who really made an impression on me but his big band seemed to have an almost mythical reputation. For me, it was discovering that he had employed the arranger Jimmy Mundy to write charts prior to the latter's employment by Goodman which sparked an interested but when I heard the track with Burroughs on drum I was staggered at how differently this band swung. There was almost a feeling than Hines big band was a free-wheeling juggernaut powered by the driving drummer that attacked the music with the kind of pugnacious aggression that I feel is a characteristic of a lot of jazz from Chicago right up today's musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Josh Berman or Jason Roebke. Jazz from Chicago seems much "harder" than from New York where the music appears to sound more sophisticated and knowingly contemporary. I suppose the city produces jazz at the opposite spectrum to more laid back Mew Orleans styles or the more breezy approach to jazz on the West coast. For some reason, Hines' big band always sounded different from anyone else's and regardless of the fact that it was led by one of the most exciting and unpredictable jazz pianists of any era, I am really looking forward to hearing this.

This is one of my favourite Hines' recording. I didn't realise that this tune was actually before by yet another Chicago legend, the tenor saxophonist Franz Jackson who I believe was playing up until the 1990's. This track always seems to be bristling with modernity and pointed the way for the more bop orientated stuff that it later recorded:-

On the subject of Chicago tenor men, I was intrigued by the new CD by Ari Brown - not a familiar name to me but his latest effort sounds very good from the samples on a well known on line retailer.

**Ian Thumwood** · 18-04-14, 16:17

Here's some Ari Brown which should please the likes of Bluesnik and Jazzrook:-

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 18-04-14, 17:21

here is a 30 min radio broadcast Ian:

swings innit!

**BLUESNIK'S REVOX** · 18-04-14, 17:54

Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View Post

Here's some Ari Brown which should please the likes of Bluesnik and Jazzrook:-

Good stuff Ian. He goes back a long way...reading a long piece on the Vanguard and he was in one of Elvin's bands.

BN.

Just listening back to some old Woody Shaw records...getting to really like what he was about back then. Much Mo than Wynton.

**Alyn_Shipton** · 18-04-14, 18:30

Back in the Jazz Notes days, did a couple of programmes on Roy Eldridge which included interviews with Franz Jackson, who played in his band as well as the Hines and Fats Waller big bands, with whom I toured quite a bit in the UK in the 80s. A great tenor player, and actually a rather good clarinettist.
Ari Brown was in the Chicago Revolution jazz file series I did for the AACM's 35th birthday in 2000. Maybe Bluesnik has a C120 with him talking along with the Art Ensemble guys, Jodie Christian, Chuck Nessa, Von Freeman et al...

**BLUESNIK'S REVOX** · 18-04-14, 18:50

Thanks Alyn! I will force open the locked steel boxes in the cellar...

Dont remember much call for Woody Shaw on JRR? May seek to address this...

BN.

**Andrew Slater** · 19-04-14, 11:58

Many thanks. I've added the details to the printable listings and to the blog version.

**Serial_Apologist** · 19-04-14, 17:29

I spotted the Pastorius big band influence on Loose Tubes before Kevin Le G pointed it out just now.

Glad to see Tori Freestone getting a track airing from her trio album.

**Tenor Freak** · 20-04-14, 00:38

Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

I spotted the Pastorius big band influence on Loose Tubes before Kevin Le G pointed it out just now.

Glad to see Tori Freestone getting a track airing from her trio album.

I remember an interview with Steve Berry - this was on Sounds of Jazz with Peter Clayton, c.1986 - where he played "Three Views of a Secret" and Steve was very clear that this was influential on his writing for teh Tubes

**Tenor Freak** · 20-04-14, 00:47

Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post

Thanks Alyn! I will force open the locked steel boxes in the cellar...

Dont remember much call for Woody Shaw on JRR? May seek to address this...

BN.

Woody was in the Larry Young group I requested a few years ago...I thought about requesting something from Tyrone Washington's LP "Natural Essence"...something from "Rosewood" perhaps?

**BLUESNIK'S REVOX** · 20-04-14, 08:01

Originally posted by Tenor Freak View Post

Woody was in the Larry Young group I requested a few years ago...I thought about requesting something from Tyrone Washington's LP "Natural Essence"...something from "Rosewood" perhaps?

"By the time of the Bemsha Swing
session *, it seemed that Woody at 41
was almost a figure from a past era.
Changes in the jazz business and
the fashion for "young lions" had
marginalized one of the most
important voices in the music. It
seemed that there was little interest
for this swinging but forward-leaning
music as young players turned to
other, often conservative models for
their nascent and marketable styles.
Shaw would keep playing brilliantly
until his tragic death after a subway
accident in 1989, but the message of
his accessible yet challenging music
was overlooked. Woody's music and
playing had true originality, building
on tradition but never content to
follow, always striving to lead. The
implications of his music have still
not been explored by the musicians
who have come after him to the
extent that it, and he, truly
deserves."

Reviewer: Brian Lynch

I've got a friends big birthday later this year so it will def. be something from "Rosewood" for her.

BN.

*Woody Shaw - trumpet
Geri Allen - piano
Robert Hurst - bass
Roy Brooks - drums

Easter JRR playlist & All Our Eggs in One Basket

Easter JRR playlist & All Our Eggs in One Basket

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