What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

'Destination... Out!'
Jackie McLean with Grachan Moncur II, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley & Roy Haynes
Blue Note (1963)

[Stanfordian]

‘J.R. Monterose’
J.R. Monterose with Ira Sullivan, Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware & ‘Philly’ Joe Jones
Blue Note (1956)

[Stanfordian]

‘True Blue’
Tina Brooks with Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordon, Sam Jones & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1960)

A favourite album of mine!

[Stanfordian]

‘Screamin'’
Brother Jack McDuff with Leo Wright, Joe Dukes & Kenny Burrell
Prestige (1962)

[Beef Oven!]

'Destination... Out!'
Jackie McLean with Grachan Moncur II, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley & Roy Haynes
Blue Note (1963)

One of Blue Note's best releases, and at a time when the label was so strong.

[Serial_Apologist]

Checking our ends of old cassettes for spare space to record odd JRR requests just now, I came across what must have been an over-recorded session from Sounds of Jazz with Peter Clayton announcing, from 1988, by THE COLVILLE COLLECTION. Doubtless I'd wiped them as being of little interest - an old-style mainstream band containing only two people with recognisable names, pianist Mike Pyne and bassist Harvey Weston - Pyne in particular adjusting to way beneath his full capacity. It turns out that leader Randolph "Randy" Colville was a Scottish clarinettist, alto and tenor saxophonist in that order associated with Midnite Follies, who, born in 1942, had died in 2004. I'd just caught the end of "There'll Never be Another You" and the entire final number of what was a live set, Golson's "O Whisper Not". In a way, pre-bebop-styled players working on bop or post-bop standard fare no longer seemed anomalous or some sort of reverse postmodernism by the late 1980s - one remembers the veteran New Orleans clarinettist Pee Wee Russell working to great effect on Monk tunes in the early 1960s - Lol Coxhill was a great PWR fan; there was nice relaxed interplay on this date, with Johnny Richardson on drums and rather fine trombone from Ray Wordsworth making up the complement, so I've registered it on a fresh index card, having decided after all to keep it.

[Stanfordian]

‘Etcetera’
Wayne Shorter with Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee & Joe Chambers
Blue Note (1965)

[Beef Oven!]

‘Etcetera’
Wayne Shorter with Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee & Joe Chambers
Blue Note (1965)

One of my faves!

[Stanfordian]

‘Takin' Off’
Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1962)

The hit track 'Watermelon Man' is superb!

[teamsaint]

Art Blakey.

Holiday for Skins Vol 1


I'm working at home, wandered off to make a coffee, on my way back I'd forgotten what was spinning, and thought for a moment someone was breaking in, or the Postie had a parcel and was a bit over enthusiastic !

Not my fave AB album, Roots and Herbs now,

[Stanfordian]

‘New and Old Gospel’
Jackie McLean with Ornette Coleman, Lamont Johnson, Scortty Holt & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1967)

[Serial_Apologist]

‘New and Old Gospel’
Jackie McLean with Ornette Coleman, Lamont Johnson, Scortty Holt & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1967)

Very interesting recording, that. When it first came out, I remember people asked "Who wins? Jackie or Ornette". Today people would take a more relativistic view, considering respective contributions in context and on their own merits.

[Beef Oven!]

‘New and Old Gospel’
Jackie McLean with Ornette Coleman, Lamont Johnson, Scortty Holt & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1967)

I've only recently discovered Jackie McLean.

I bought downloads of 'New & Old Gospel', 'One Step Beyond' and 'Destination .... Out!'

My favourite so far is 'Destination .... Out!'

[Stanfordian]

I've only recently discovered Jackie McLean.

I bought downloads of 'New & Old Gospel', 'One Step Beyond' and 'Destination .... Out!'

My favourite so far is 'Destination .... Out!'

[Lat-Literal]

BBC4 - Secret Knowledge : Nina Simone & Me with Laura Mvula

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wps6k

Another reminder of how Nina Simone had everything as in absolutely everything music and character wise.

Odd thoughts go through the mind like wondering whether to ditch half the personal record collection so as to replace it with all that she recorded and what place she should have in the list of priority people if science ever sufficiently develops to bring back people from the dead. I reckon somewhere in the region of top five.

Laura Mvula did a pretty good job in this programme - I had perhaps too readily dismissed her and will now explore her recording outputs properly - and there was an unusually strong - and relevant - selection of interviewees/people to sing along with. But it could have been longer. I'd have happily have had three hours of it.