JRR 23 Aug 14

[Alyn_Shipton]

Here from amid the culinary delights of Southern France is today's playlist:


JRR 230814


DISC
Artist Ruby Braff
Title Down In Honky Tonk Town
Composer McCarron / Smith
Album ...and His New England Song Hounds Vol. 1
Label Concord
Number 4478 Track 8
Duration 4.23
Performers: Ruby Braff, c; Scott Hamilton, ts; Dave McKenna, p; Howard Alden, g; Frank Tate, b; Alan Dawson, d. April 1991.


DISC
Artist Ginger Baker
Title St Thomas
Composer Trad arr Rollins
Album Why?
Label Motéma
Number 233846 Track 6
Duration 6.04
Performers: Pee Wee Ellis, ts; Alec Dankworth, b; Ginger Baker, d; Anass Dodoo, perc. 2014.


DISC
Artist Count Base
Title Way Back Blues
Composer Basie
Album Coming Out Party
Label Naxos
Number 8.120819 Track 16
Duration 3.31
Performers: Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; J Jones, d. 24 July 1942.


DISC
Artist Stephanie Trick
Title Handful of Keys
Composer Waller
Album Hear That Rhythm
Label Stephanie Trick
Number Track 3
Duration 3.00
Performers: Stephanie Trick, p. 2008.







DISC
Artist James Williams
Title Chuckles
Composer Terry
Album Talkin’ Trash
Label DIW
Number R 470150 Track 3
Duration 5.13
Performers: Clark Terry t; Billy Pierce, ts; Steve Nelson, vib; James Williams, p; Christian McBride, b; Tony Reedus, d. 1994.


DISC
Artist Ken Snakehips Johnson
Title It Was Lover And His Lass
Composer Shakespeare / Young
Album Black British Swing
Label Topic
Number 781 Track 12
Duration 2.50
Performers: Dave Wilkins, Jiver Hutchinson, Jack Cosker, t; Freddie Butt, tb; Carl Barriteau, Bertie King, George Roberts, Baba Williams, reeds; Yorke De Souza, p; Joe Deniz, g; Ernie Stevens, b; Tommy Wilson, d; Al Bowlly, the Henderson twins, v. 24 April 1940.



DISC
Artist Thelonious Monk
Title Blue Monk
Composer Monk
Album Thelonious Monk in Action
Label Riverside
Number 1190 Track 5
Duration 8.31
Performers: Johnny Griffin, ts; Thelonious Monk, p; Ahmen Abdul-Malik, b; Roy Haynes, d. Aug 1957.


DISC
Artist George Russell
Title Concerto For Billy The Kid
Composer Russell
Album The Jazz Workshop
Label RCA
Number LPM 1372 Track 2
Duration 4.49
Performers: Art Farmer (trumpet), Hal McKusick (alto sax), Bill Evans (piano), Barry Galbraith (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass), Paul Motian (drums), George Russell (arranger) 1956


DISC
Artist Jack DeJohnette
Title One For Eric
Composer DeJohnette
Album Special Edition
Label ECM
Number 1152 Track 1
Duration 9.52
Performers: David Murray, bcl; Arthur Blythe, as; Peter Warren, b; Jack DeJohnette, d. 1979.


DISC
Artist Gerry Mulligan
Title Love In New Orleans
Composer Mulligan
Album Complete Studio Recordings
Label Lonehill
Number 10221 Track 5
Duration 5.46
Performers: Gerry Mulligan, bars; Bob Brookmeyer, vtb; Bill Crow, b; Gus Johnson, d. May 1962.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks very much Alyn.

Very much a mainstreamer's delight this week, apart from the George Russell track (from one of my favourite LPs of his); interesting to see the great Alan Dawson keeping such company back in 1991.

[Ian Thumwood]

Thanks very much Alyn.

Very much a mainstreamer's delight this week, apart from the George Russell track (from one of my favourite LPs of his); interesting to see the great Alan Dawson keeping such company back in 1991.

SA

Depends what your idea of "mainstream" is.

I wouldn't called Jack deJohnette's Special Edition mainstream, personally and would suggest that the other selections actually make a good case for the "jazz mainstream" being pretty creative. No crumbles with Monk, Mulligan, Williams or Basie for that matter.

Regarding Alan Dawson, your comment made me smile as I first heard of him in the context of playing in these kinds of groups on Concord during the 1980s' / early 1990's and had no idea at the time of the fact that he had been quite so instrumental in some of the most provocative recordings of the 1960's! Years ago he appeared as a member of the Howard Alden / Dan Barrett sextet which modelled itself on the kind of intelligent small group swing produced by John Kirby. I bought the CD as a Christmas present for my Dad about 25 years ago and he was hugely impressed. It won Jazz Journal's record of the year poll when it came out. We went to see this band with Alan Dawson at the Concord Club about two years later.

Concord always used to be the epitome of "mainstream" for me and labels like Nagel Heyer obviously found their model successful that they practically replicated the records that Concord would issue and often with the same roster of musicians. They used to specialize in swing-bop repertoire with line ups that mixed older generations of players from the Basie band , etc and mix them up with similar minded soloists from an earlier generation. The results could be mixed but I would be reluctant to right the whole label off as being too conservative as the standard rarely flagged. Personally I loved the Latin stuff that they put off on their Picante side-shoot and eagerly snapped up all of Tania Maria's recordings - just about the most exciting contemporary stuff I could lay my hands on in the mid 1980's! Shame that Concord seems to have added more contemporary players to their roster but somehow managed to tame the output so that some records lend themselves more towards GRP smoothness than the out and out jazz policy of Carl Jefferson that would have baulked at the idea of releasing anything too commercial.

[Tenor Freak]

Excellent programme and I say that not because I put one of the requests in but because the music was so good - Monk and George Russell, for example.

Mind you I heard only bits as I was too busy "cooking" a BBQ on the beach.

<thanks> Alyn and co. Hope the weather is better down in the S. of Fr.

[Ian Thumwood]

Bruce

Have you moved ? Didn't realise that there were any beaches in Wiltshire!!

Ian

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a beach is a state of mind ......

the Five Spot recordings of Griffin and T Monk are wondrous, wondrous

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Wiltshire on Sea....

"Sailing, beach volleyball, golf & fishing all given
a go at free family day at Coate Water -
Coate Water, Swindon"

"Beach Volleyball/Swindon"....where's my Visa card...

BN.

[Quarky]

DISC
Artist Ginger Baker
Title St Thomas
Composer Trad arr Rollins
Album Why?
Label Motéma
Number 233846 Track 6

Why Bother? Comparison is invited with Sonny's definitive recording of this. And the only conclusion is that it was a pale imitation.

Dolphy - mainstream?

[charles t]

DISC
Artist Ginger Baker
Title St Thomas
Composer Trad arr Rollins
Album Why?
Label Motéma
Number 233846 Track 6

Why Bother? Comparison is invited with Sonny's definitive recording of this. And the only conclusion is that it was a pale imitation.

Dolphy - mainstream?

O.B.: Upon listening to same and if you were to gaze upon the DVD - Beware Of Mr Baker - shortly thereafter...(better...not to...speculate).

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

O.B.: Upon listening to same and if you were to gaze upon the DVD - Beware Of Mr Baker - shortly thereafter...(better...not to...speculate).

In the early 60s Ginger Baker shared a London basement flat with Phil Seamen and Jackie Mclean. It was the time of the London run of The Connection.

"More tea, Vicar?"

BN.

Talking of drummers, I picked up a DVD of The Man with the Golden Arm at a car boot sale this morning. Cameo from Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.,,very funny film for all the wrong reasons, "Just need another fix man...."

[Quarky]

O.B.: Upon listening to same and if you were to gaze upon the DVD - Beware Of Mr Baker - shortly thereafter...(better...not to...speculate).

Point taken charles!

JRR is obviously constrained to play items requested. However Ginger Baker might have been given a better showing if the album title track Why? had been played instead.