What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

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'!

Joy Yates was a great singer - Maori: she was married to Dave MacRae, a New Zealander pianist and very inventive keyboards player who worked in Robert Wyatt's Matching Mole, and also with Ian Carr's Nucleus and the Mike Gibbs big band at the start of the 1970s. The two of them led a jazz-funk unit called Pacific Eardrum in the late '70s before eventually going back to NZ.

[Joseph K]

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.

I have Coltrane live in Stuttgart from 63 which features a very long and excellent Mr PC. I've just checked and it's now being sold for 200 odd quid on amazon - but perhaps available as part of a boxed set?

[Serial_Apologist]

I have Coltrane live in Stuttgart from 63 which features a very long and excellent Mr PC. I've just checked and it's now being sold for 200 odd quid on amazon - but perhaps available as part of a boxed set?

Jesus!!! Many years ago I got to know a bloke who started a fanzine for Julie Driscoll. This was decades after The Trinity etc. He did brilliant reviews of albums she's either led or featured on, one being "Open" on the Marmalade label, from 1967: one side of Brian Auger's Trinity, mostly just instrumentals and btw including one good tenor solo, unattributed but definitely Skid, the other with the band backing "Jools", including "Season of the Witch". This fellow told me, "You won't get that for less than 300 quid, even for a ropey second hand copy". Two years ago I'm going through the second hand vinyls in our local covered market, a treasure trove straight out of Lewis Carroll, and there it is, going for... £6!!! Obviously I don't haggle over it; back home I take the record out, look at it, give it my magic clean-up, put it on the turntable, and it's in remarkably good nick, barring a few clicks. I'm surprised the guy was asking so little for it, given that it was in the general asking price range of all the duff stuff that's always to be found in such places these days, with little else besides. I've got it right here beside me, in all its hideous pink and yellowness!

[Tenor Freak]

Jesus!!! Many years ago I got to know a bloke who started a fanzine for Julie Driscoll. This was decades after The Trinity etc. He did brilliant reviews of albums she's either led or featured on, one being "Open" on the Marmalade label, from 1967: one side of Brian Auger's Trinity, mostly just instrumentals and btw including one good tenor solo, unattributed but definitely Skid, the other with the band backing "Jools", including "Season of the Witch". This fellow told me, "You won't get that for less than 300 quid, even for a ropey second hand copy". Two years ago I'm going through the second hand vinyls in our local covered market, a treasure trove straight out of Lewis Carroll, and there it is, going for... £6!!! Obviously I don't haggle over it; back home I take the record out, look at it, give it my magic clean-up, put it on the turntable, and it's in remarkably good nick, barring a few clicks. I'm surprised the guy was asking so little for it, given that it was in the general asking price range of all the duff stuff that's always to be found in such places these days, with little else besides. I've got it right here beside me, in all its hideous pink and yellowness!

A heartwarming story, S_A. "Rare" vinyl is one of those commodities where prices can fetch silly money. Thank feck for youtube and download sites.

[Joseph K]

A heartwarming story, S_A. "Rare" vinyl is one of those commodities where prices can fetch silly money. Thank feck for youtube and download sites.

Indeed. Seems both CDs of the Stuttgart set I mention are on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkn5PMvQWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_uS99mHOo

[elmo]

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.

Yes I remember those Grandi Di Jazz albums and I had quite a number of them. It was a job sorting out the discographical details.

I think that Fantastic version of Mr PC was the version recorded at Birdland Feb 9th 1962 - a superb performance.

elmo

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes I remember those Grandi Di Jazz albums and I had quite a number of them. It was a job sorting out the discographical details.

I think that Fantastic version of Mr PC was the version recorded at Birdland Feb 9th 1962 - a superb performance.

elmo

Could well be, elmo.

Best wishes.

[elmo]

Could well be, elmo.

Best wishes.

SA

Try this

https://youtu.be/W0tJVLqZ3SU

elmo

[Quarky]

SA

Try this

https://youtu.be/W0tJVLqZ3SU

elmo

Wow! Unbelievably intense. The fire in their souls radiates outward, and raked over the embers in this old fella.

[Serial_Apologist]

SA

Try this

https://youtu.be/W0tJVLqZ3SU

elmo

That's the one Elmo! I hope others will tune in to that link, for which, thank you.

[Joseph K]

SA

Try this

https://youtu.be/W0tJVLqZ3SU

elmo

[Stanfordian]

'Bluesin' Around'
Kenny Burrell with Eddie Bert, Illinois Jacquet, Leo Wright, Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Major Holley, Osie Johnson, Louis Hayes, Jimmy Crawford & Joe Dukes
Columbia (1962)

[Padraig]

Joy Yates was a great singer - Maori: she was married to Dave MacRae, a New Zealander pianist and very inventive keyboards player who worked in Robert Wyatt's Matching Mole, and also with Ian Carr's Nucleus and the Mike Gibbs big band at the start of the 1970s. The two of them led a jazz-funk unit called Pacific Eardrum in the late '70s before eventually going back to NZ.

Eh?

[Serial_Apologist]

Eh?

"Jump with Joy"? No?? Oh well, never mind.

[burning dog]

Dave MacRae also worked with the Goodies as did Mike Gibbs for a while

Dave and Joys daughter Jade aka Dune is an R'n'B singer based in Australia