What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

'A Shade Of Brown' with Curtis Amy(tenor sax); Dupree Bolton(trumpet); Ray Crawford(guitar); Jackie Wilson(piano); Victor Gaskin(bass) & Doug Sides(drums) from 'Katanga!'(1963):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORErr437h8

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Now's The Time!’
Sonny Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter, Bob Cranshaw & Roy McCurdy
RCA Victor (1964)

[Jazzrook]

Stanley Cowell's 'Equipoise' from Max Roach's 1968 album 'Members Don't Git Weary' with Gary Bartz(alto sax); Charles Tolliver(trumpet); Stanley Cowell(piano) & Jymie Merritt(electric bass):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAy3ctBgdck

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Comin' On!’
Dizzy Reece with Stanley Turrentine, Musa Kaleem, Duke Jordan, Bobby Timmons
Jymie Merritt, Sam Jones, Art Blakey, Al Harewood
Blue Note (1960)

[Joseph K]

Stanley Cowell's 'Equipoise' from Max Roach's 1968 album 'Members Don't Git Weary' with Gary Bartz(alto sax); Charles Tolliver(trumpet); Stanley Cowell(piano) & Jymie Merritt(electric bass):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAy3ctBgdck

JR

Nice tune.

I like Gary Bartz.

[Serial_Apologist]

Nice tune.

I like Gary Bartz.

Me too, especially for his very very bluesy work on Miles's "Live-Evil". As far as JR's choice of track is concerned, I have a special affection for that period of jazz, when some very attractively un-macho edge-of-free music came up almost seemingly in shocked response to the death of 'Trane, this being just one of many examples: the Andrew Hill track with string quartet referred to recently from J to Z is another, and Miroslav Vitous's "Mountain in the Clouds" two others. Something very nice was happening to jazz before fusion started to click in.

(My fingers seem to have developed a form of dyslexia right now! )

[Joseph K]

Speaking of Bartz - I'm currently listening to this amazing thing -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYVvjoXf4o&t=454s

[Serial_Apologist]

Speaking of Bartz - I'm currently listening to this amazing thing -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYVvjoXf4o&t=454s

It's good to be seeing Afro hairstyles making a comeback. Today, I mean. On women especially.

[Ian Thumwood]

Oh yes, Lester Bowie plus Fontella Bass and overlooked tenor player Ari Brown:-

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It's good to be seeing Afro hairstyles making a comeback. Today, I mean. On women especially.

When Miles had his first big hair weave, and walked in Birdland, Art Blakey shouted, "Hey, you could have had Willie the Lion's hair (wig), it's his funeral!"

One of my favorites.

BN.

[Stanfordian]

‘Back to Back’
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges with Harry ‘Sweets’ Ellison, Les Spann, Sam Jones, Al Hall & Jo Jones
Verve (1959)

[Jazzrook]

'The Dreamer' with Yusef Lateef(tenor sax); Bernard McKinney(euphonium); Terry Pollard(piano); William Austin(bass) & Frank Gant(drums) recorded in June, 1959:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjcLIB0xrIg

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Warm Sounds", Johnny Coles Quartet (+ Kenny Drew, Peck Morrison, Chari Persip). Epic/Sony 1961. Tremendous record. Coles full of personality, tone, and invention, and a very good choice of tunes (Hi Fly with Randy Weston guesting on piano).

Interesting to me because Johnny Coles is usually assigned to Miles Davis, but here there is a lot more affinity to Kenny Dorham, with KD's pinched note thing on ballads. But still very individual.

I actually greatly prefer this to "Little Johnny C" (Bluenote), held to be JC's calling card. ("That's REALLY a Duke Pearson date" - Chuck Nessa)

BN.

[Joseph K]

In terms of polyphonic jazz guitar, they don't get much better than Martin Taylor -

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

[Jazzrook]

Frank Foster's 'Simone' by the Don Braden Quartet at Litchfield Jazz Festival(2013) with Braden(tenor sax); Geri Allen(piano); Avery Sharpe(bass) & Alvin Atkinson(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNNau0z5RHE

JR