What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

‘Blackjack’
Donald Byrd with Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1967)

[Stanfordian]

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

[Bryn]

I totally agree, Bryn - a real whiplash of a drummer showing apparently little more than a minimum of energy exertion necessary - myself being reminded of this a few weeks ago when we saw him at the Oto with John Edwards and, yes! - Andy Sheppard!! (I reported that one under Jazz from the Smoke). John Edwards - since he's on those dates - just gets better and better - always amazing to see him losing and finding himself as he engages that wiry frame of his with all around him, always managing to produce something I've not seen or heard anyone else doing. I'll look out for that set of CDs - thanks for the pointer!

Revisiting this message from a couple of years ago to draw attention to a forthcoming appearance of Eddie and John, along with N.O. Moore at iklectik. Be there or be a right-angled rhombus.

[Jazzrook]

Booker Ervin's 'Lynn's Tune' with Ervin(tenor sax); Woody Shaw(trumpet); Kenny Barron(piano); Jan Arnett(bass) & Billy Higgins(drums) from the 1968 album 'Tex Book Tenor':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH2BO6tVuMI

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The New John Handy Quintet, JH with Bobby Hutcherson, Pat Martino, Doug Sides. What I've only just discovered is that Doug Sides, a drummer who played with Stitt, Griffin, Teddy Edwards etc etc in their prime, now lives and plays in....MARGATE! Who knew that? Sounding very good, why ain't he been R3 interviewed, featured? EH?

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

The New John Handy Quintet, JH with Bobby Hutcherson, Pat Martino, Doug Sides. What I've only just discovered is that Doug Sides, a drummer who played with Stitt, Griffin, Teddy Edwards etc etc in their prime, now lives and plays in....MARGATE! Who knew that? Sounding very good, why ain't he been R3 interviewed, featured? EH?

BN.

Well well - so that's where he disapPIERed to! Is that the 1967 LP with "Anatomy of a Riot" on Side 2 Bluesie? If so I've got it - had it for years, picked up in a second-hand rack. Doug's rather wonderful drum solo looks forward to Jack De Johnette's way of building up a longish solo.

[Serial_Apologist]

Revisiting this message from a couple of years ago to draw attention to a forthcoming appearance of Eddie and John, along with N.O. Moore at iklectik. Be there or be a right-angled rhombus.

Thanks for the advance notice of this - duly noted. £9/7 is either a fantastic deal considering what one has to pay to get into the Vortex or Oto these days, or ridiculously cheap for musicians of this calibre and influence. My problem consists in not marking up possible gigs for attendance until the start of the new month, which means I often miss out! L/Klectik haven't been in the habit of advertising in Jazz in London of late, either.

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPUrUI4_ek

McLaughlin's solo on Take the Coltrane is sick! I love his tone as well (of course) it has a nice growling edge to it.

[cloughie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPUrUI4_ek

McLaughlin's solo on Take the Coltrane is sick! I love his tone as well (of course) it has a nice growling edge to it.

I take it that by saying sick you mean pretty damn good! I suppose it will be in the next Oxford Dictionary!

[Ian Thumwood]

I take it that by saying sick you mean pretty damn good! Isuppose it will bevin the next Oxford Dictionary!

I had never heard "sick" used in the manner until I went to a workshop about 6 years ago held by the Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan who used it incessantly. Got to say that that some expect that you are not going to like all musicians just as you cannot like everyone in normal life but I felt that he is easily the least likeable jazz musician I have encountered. Kenny Werner did a similar workshop in 2001 and he crossed the point of eccentricity where is goes from being endearing to scary. It didn't help that he did not appear to be sober either but Hamasyan managed to get quite a few people's backs up and despite the absence of Werner's offensive vocabulary, was perhaps even more unpalatable. "Sick" was his favourite word of approval and when he wasn't extolling his own virtues, he was intent on championing hardcore rock acts. Got the impression that he wasn't a big jazz fan deep down and had the understanding of English been better amongst his predominantly French audience, I think someone would have genuine taken him outside for the good kick in that he thoroughly deserved. I always thing that the British have a good sense of fair play and are not tolerant of people who have zero social skills. He did make my blood boil (not a fan of his bassist or drummer either) and I think he would have had a tougher ride in the UK. I am convinced that anyone with a better grasp of English would have twigged how unpleasant he was and it was interesting speaking to a really talented French pianist afterwards to find that she had no idea how rude he had been. She was oblivious to his lack of charm and bitter jealousy. Just found him reprehensible and the phrase "sick" has always stuck in my mind since then. A spoilt brat who fully deserved to have his lights punched out.

[Joseph K]

Ian, cloughie, I think you'll find 'sick' in the sense I use it is a perfectly cromulent word.

[cloughie]

Ian, cloughie, I think you'll find 'sick' in the sense I use it is a perfectly cromulent word.

Thanks JK, I don't feel inspired to use it, or for that matter 'cromulent' having checked its meaning, McLaughlin is however a cracking guitarist!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"The term "sick" as slang originated in Trinidad & Tobago in the late 70's early 80's. In use in slang statements as "Dat rell sick"= that is very good or awesome in reference to a place action or event. "He di sickest"= He is the best.This has now in the last 10 yrs slowly moved in to modern western urban slang ."

I blame the parents.

* Otis Redding recorded "I'm sick y'all" in the '60s to describe his general lack of money, food, ladies, stomach pains etc in a soul manner. How quaint. Time to overbud the vocals...

[Serial_Apologist]

Slick - now there's a word you don't often hear these days. It's become so ubiquitous - slickness that is - that everyone just seems to acept it, whether it be from the salesperson or the smiling politician whom I just saw on BBC1. We have a very slick tenor saxophonist coming to our neck of the woods in a couple of weeks' time: I shall be going along for the rest of the band, who are excellent without the techical smugness I would use for defining the word.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Spike Jones and his City Slickers. The one time trombone player was Frank Rehak (Miles, Gil Evans etc.). Now, he was "slick".