What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

The 1963 album 'My Name Is Albert Ayler'(BLACK LION) recorded by Danish Radio in Copenhagen with Ayler(tenor & soprano saxophones); Niels Bronsted(piano); Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen(bass) & Ronnie Gardiner(drums).

Here's 'Summertime':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Id6N30MuII

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘The Complete 1960 Sextet Jazz Cellar Session’
Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges with Lou Levy, Herb Ellis, Wilfred Middlebrooks, Gus Johnson
Wax Time (1960)

[Stanfordian]

‘Boss Tenors in Orbit!’
Sonny Stitt & Gene Ammons with Paul Weeden, Don Patterson & Billy James
Verve (1962)

[burning dog]

New to me

Land sounds great

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Land's the Man. I've got the box set of the Curtis Counce Quintet and it's wonderful. Jack Sheldon, Frank Butler and Carl Perkins. Although Elmo Hope is on the above?

Hope so.

BN.

[burning dog]

Bass – Curtis Counce
Drums – Frank Butler
Piano – Elmo Hope
Tenor Saxophone – Harold Land
Trumpet – Rolf Ericson

Liner Notes, Producer – Nick Coleman

Originally issued by Dootone in 1958.

[Stanfordian]

'Laughin' to Keep from Cryin'
Lester Young with Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Roy Eldridge, Herb Ellis, Hank Jones, George Duvivie & Mickey Sheen
Verve (1958)

[Serial_Apologist]

Bass – Curtis Counce
Drums – Frank Butler
Piano – Elmo Hope
Tenor Saxophone – Harold Land
Trumpet – Rolf Ericson

Liner Notes, Producer – Nick Coleman

Originally issued by Dootone in 1958.

Wonderful drummer, Frank Butler. Didn't he teach Jack de Johnette?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I don't think so because Frank Butler was West Coast based and De Johnette was Chicago?

More this...

Fred Jung: Let's start from the beginning.

Jack DeJohnette: I was always drawn to it (music) when I was a kid. My uncle was Roy Wood, a famous journalist and a prominent person in the broadcasting network. He was into jazz and I used to listen to his records and that kind of got me into jazz. And of course, I had piano lessons. I listened to all kinds of music on the radio...

FJ: What intrigued you about Ahmad Jamal?

JD: Well, Ahmad Jamal was always ahead of his time. In fact, he is such an important figure among a lot of other musicians, particularly Red Garland and Miles Davis. In fact, that particular trio with Israel Crosby and Vernell Fournier influenced the rhythm section that Miles had with Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. You could hear Ahmad come out and do "But Not for Me" and "Billy Boy" and you'd hear Miles come out on his albums with some of the same songs that he heard Ahmad play.

FJ: When did you begin focusing on the drums?

JD: It was just naturally. I actually had a trio that used to play for dances and things like that and the drummer left his drums at my house. I would listen to my uncle's jazz records and go down to the basement and start playing drums. But with the records, I just became a natural drummer. I taught myself to play drums well enough to start working on both instruments. Eddie Harris hired me for a while and he said to me, "You play good piano, but you play better drums. You should make drums your main instrument." At the time, I wanted to do both. Eventually, when I came to New York, I got hired as a drummer by John Patton. I decided then that I would make drums my main instrument. Since I have had experience playing the piano, it gave me another kind of insight to playing the drum set in an orchestral manner."

*****
Frank Butler was quite "the cat", in prison with Art Pepper and Dupree Bolton, played with Coltrane, stole Herb Geller's brand new white portable TV to sell for drug money...and dumped from an associated record date for his pains... But a very wonderful player, the Philly JJ of the West.

BN

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think so because Frank Butler was West Coast based and De Johnette was Chicago?

More this...

Fred Jung: Let's start from the beginning.

Jack DeJohnette: I was always drawn to it (music) when I was a kid. My uncle was Roy Wood, a famous journalist and a prominent person in the broadcasting network. He was into jazz and I used to listen to his records and that kind of got me into jazz. And of course, I had piano lessons. I listened to all kinds of music on the radio...

FJ: What intrigued you about Ahmad Jamal?

JD: Well, Ahmad Jamal was always ahead of his time. In fact, he is such an important figure among a lot of other musicians, particularly Red Garland and Miles Davis. In fact, that particular trio with Israel Crosby and Vernell Fournier influenced the rhythm section that Miles had with Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. You could hear Ahmad come out and do "But Not for Me" and "Billy Boy" and you'd hear Miles come out on his albums with some of the same songs that he heard Ahmad play.

FJ: When did you begin focusing on the drums?

JD: It was just naturally. I actually had a trio that used to play for dances and things like that and the drummer left his drums at my house. I would listen to my uncle's jazz records and go down to the basement and start playing drums. But with the records, I just became a natural drummer. I taught myself to play drums well enough to start working on both instruments. Eddie Harris hired me for a while and he said to me, "You play good piano, but you play better drums. You should make drums your main instrument." At the time, I wanted to do both. Eventually, when I came to New York, I got hired as a drummer by John Patton. I decided then that I would make drums my main instrument. Since I have had experience playing the piano, it gave me another kind of insight to playing the drum set in an orchestral manner."

*****
Frank Butler was quite "the cat", in prison with Art Pepper and Dupree Bolton, played with Coltrane, stole Herb Geller's brand new white portable TV to sell for drug money...and dumped from an associated record date for his pains... But a very wonderful player, the Philly JJ of the West.

BN

Thanks for that, Bluesie - very interesting. I have Mike Dibb's and Ian Carr's documentary on Miles Davis. In it Ian is seen sat around a dinner table at the de Johnettes, with Jack, Jack's wife and Dave Holland - all very friendly and relaxed. Mrs de Johnette would join the band on tour, and Jack remembers, when she was very pregnant, Miles telling him to order her off the front row in the audience, as the sight of her was putting him off his playing!!! As far as I remember he doesn't get anywhere with that - I must watch that video again sometime.

[Stanfordian]

'Hear Ye!'
Harold Land with Red Mitchell, Carmell Jones, Frank Strazzeri & Leon Pettis
Atlantic (1961)

Taken out for later.

[Stanfordian]

‘Go Lightly’
Blue Mitchell with Leo Wright, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Gene Taylor & Roy Brooks
Blue Note (1963)

[Joseph K]

'My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport' by John Coltrane, which just fell through the letter box (somehow). Specifically 'Impressions' from 63. The 63 recording features Roy Haynes on drums - I think Elvin Jones had cold-turkey issues at the time. This performance always used to leave me breathless - I'm looking forward to the 65 performance as well. I used to own this recording - it's good to have it again, for a couple of quid.

[Padraig]

In the middle of an ad on Radio 3 just now I heard a s(n)atch of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWB3OKV9_k

P S It's 'Potato head Blues', but doesn't it make you want to 'Jump With Joy'!

[Serial_Apologist]

'My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport' by John Coltrane, which just fell through the letter box (somehow). Specifically 'Impressions' from 63. The 63 recording features Roy Haynes on drums - I think Elvin Jones had cold-turkey issues at the time. This performance always used to leave me breathless - I'm looking forward to the 65 performance as well. I used to own this recording - it's good to have it again, for a couple of quid.

Anyone remember the plush I Grandi Di Jazz Italian bootleg series of vinyl recordings that came out in the 1980s? Complete with beautiful internal notes (in Italian) and often including a lavish fullsized booklet of photographs? I bought one, tooke it home, and discovered it had the wrong LP. What I had expected was Wayne Shorter's Et Cetera; what I had was a compilation that included a Thelonious Monk quartet track "Bright Blue"; One by a Mingus group, "Better Get Hit in Your Soul"; and a live concert version of "Mister PC" by the Coltrane quintet of 1961 with Eric Dolphy. Dolphy takes the first solo on alto and shreds it astoundingly; Tyner comes on next, reaching the usual block fourth chords suggesting culmination, but obviously being urged not to stop finding further previously undiscovered reserves; then Trane takes it to levels of intensity rare even for him prior to Ascension, climaxing on four exchanges with Elvin that might have seemed old fashioned by that stage were it not for the intensity of the interchanges: unprecedentedly visceral for '61. Needless to say, I transferred those three tracks onto a cassette, which I still have, and returned the LP for a refund - only to be sold another fantastic LP in a wrong cover!!! Many years on I mentioned this to Alan Skidmore, who, however, was utterly convinced that Coltrane never recorded "Mister PC" alongside Dolphy.