... .walking in the rain

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

JLU features a live set from:

High-octane jazz from saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and his quartet recorded at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, featuring David Virelles (piano), Dezron Douglas (bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums).

Geoffrey is in Tribute to Billie Holiday; as is Alyn on this week's JRR

Jon3 does last years Marsden Jazz festival:

When approached to write a new commission for the festival Simon Fell began with a brief to explore sounds from the first part of 20th century, and ended up creating "a kind of bridge (or better still, a time tunnel) which allows the musicians to slip backwards and forwards over the decades within a split second". From twisted ragtime to swing era stomps and bursts of free improv, Fell and his sextet present jazz's lineage as one of the festival director's John Quail describes, making "sounds that are now so antique... to make them new, to make them shocking, to make them the 'Devil's music' as it was once before."

On stage drummer Paul Hession and guitarist Richard Comte join the leader in the rhythm section whilst Percy Pursglove, Alex Ward and Shabaka Hutchings complete the line up on trumpet, clarinet and bass clarinet respectively.

yeah support your local and not so local jazz festivals in the sticks!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

JLU features a live set from:


Geoffrey is in Tribute to Billie Holiday; as is Alyn on this week's JRR

Jon3 does last years Marsden Jazz festival:


yeah support your local and not so local jazz festivals in the sticks!

"Devil's Music". Don't they know its Easter?

BN

No eggs, just Oscar Pettiford's 'Lost Tapes' on my holiday Sony. Tone, taste, economy and drive. Avante H'Oscar.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

"Devil's Music". Don't they know its Easter?

BN

No eggs, just Oscar Pettiford's 'Lost Tapes' on my holiday Sony. Tone, taste, economy and drive. Avante H'Oscar.

those tapes? Lucky EL Senor!

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[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yes thems the one.

I imagine that Ian would say Oscar was nowhere near as advanced ( = 'good' ) as today's bassists but his notes and time and economy were superb. Nothing flashy, just a massive authority. A lost art.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep this track was on an ep from my early teens [bless the Gate Bookshop back in 60ish]; the opening bass phrase is engraved in my ....

[Ian Thumwood]

Yes thems the one.

I imagine that Ian would say Oscar was nowhere near as advanced ( = 'good' ) as today's bassists but his notes and time and economy were superb. Nothing flashy, just a massive authority. A lost art.

BN.

Have you not seen my post on the Tadd Dameron thread?

[Alyn_Shipton]

I have been working through the Oscar Pettiford exercises in Bass Facing, the text book he wrote with Erik Moseholm, and they get very difficult very quickly. Playing those and the Blanton transcriptions are a good way of keeping that lost art alive, BN!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I have been working through the Oscar Pettiford exercises in Bass Facing, the text book he wrote with Erik Moseholm, and they get very difficult very quickly. Playing those and the Blanton transcriptions are a good way of keeping that lost art alive, BN!

I feel a request coming on!

The duet with Lucky Thompson from these 58/9 tapes is stunning. I bought an EP of the late 50s Pettiford quintet (with Hans Koller) in Saltzberg on a sixth form trip. Always loved that record. Reissued on Black Lion as The Vienna Sessions.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

way to go Alyn - now try this solo!

[Serial_Apologist]

yep this track was on an ep from my early teens [bless the Gate Bookshop back in 60ish]; the opening bass phrase is engraved in my ....

Pre-dates that of "So What" if my chronology's right.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Marc Myers - Jazzwax

If you listen to Pettiford's August 1959 album,
Montmartre Blues, you'll find a track called Why
Not? That's What. Take a listen. Sounds a lot like
payback to me—a mashing of Bohemia After Dark
and So What. The following notes are from the
album's liner notes:

"Pettiford answers Miles Davis's deprecatory So
What? with an affirmative Why Not? That's What!
As Pettiford says, 'the title contains a message
for Miles on behalf of Paul Chambers and myself.'
And it certainly has something to do with
opinions on bass playing."

I have not yet gotten to the bottom of the rift
between Miles and Pettiford or why the message
to Miles comes from Pettiford and Chambers.
Clearly Pettiford wasn't happy."


BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Marc Myers - Jazzwax

If you listen to Pettiford's August 1959 album,
Montmartre Blues, you'll find a track called Why
Not? That's What. Take a listen. Sounds a lot like
payback to me—a mashing of Bohemia After Dark
and So What. The following notes are from the
album's liner notes:

"Pettiford answers Miles Davis's deprecatory So
What? with an affirmative Why Not? That's What!
As Pettiford says, 'the title contains a message
for Miles on behalf of Paul Chambers and myself.'
And it certainly has something to do with
opinions on bass playing."

I have not yet gotten to the bottom of the rift
between Miles and Pettiford or why the message
to Miles comes from Pettiford and Chambers.
Clearly Pettiford wasn't happy."


BN.

Seems I wasn't so far out then.

Thanks BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Mark Meyers

http://www.jazzwax.com/2007/09/bohemia-after-d.html

worth the read in full,, many thanks El Senor