What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79yRnXYo1Y

I'm confident that the CD I'm getting out tomorrow will trump it! And I don't mean Donald.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm confident that the CD I'm getting out tomorrow will trump it! And I don't mean Donald.

I look forward to it

[Stanfordian]

'Setting the Pace'
Booker Ervin with Dexter Gordon, Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman & Alan Dawson
Prestige (1965)

Great stuff, unusually with two tenor saxes! Hardly known too, I would guess. Full album on YouTube.
Recorded in Munich during the early hours of 27 October 1965.

[Beef Oven!]

'Setting the Pace'
Booker Ervin with Dexter Gordon, Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman & Alan Dawson
Prestige (1965)

Great stuff, unusually with two tenor saxes! Hardly known too, I would guess. Full album on YouTube.
Recorded in Munich during the early hours of 27 October 1965.

Will check this out later. Last night I listened to a few BE albums on YT and really enjoyed that's it.

[Jazzrook]

'Lament For Booker Ervin'(ENJA) which features his astonishing 27-minute 'Blues For You' recorded live at the Berlin Jazz Festival on October 29, 1965 with Ervin(tenor sax); Kenny Drew(piano); NHOP(bass) & Alan Dawson(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7QFFFju3n8

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Will check this out later. Last night I listened to a few BE albums on YT and really enjoyed that's it.

GREAT "period" sleeve notes on the original vinyl of that album, how they all got there, trials tribulations, booze and blues, "the jazz life".

[Stanfordian]

‘Not so Dukish’
Johnny Hodges featuring Ben Webster with Roy Eldridge, Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Lawrence Brown, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmy Woode & Sam Woodyard
Verve (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘Bearcat’
Clifford Jordan with Cedar Walton, Teddy Smith & Cedar Walton
Riverside (1961)

[Jazzrook]

Sun Ra Arkestra playing 'Shadow World' in West Berlin, 1971:

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

JR

[Joseph K]

There's something about Miles' Filles de Kilimanjaro that's really magical, its whole vibe is effortlessly wonderful and unique.

[Serial_Apologist]

There's something about Miles' Filles de Kilimanjaro that's really magical, its whole vibe is effortlessly wonderful and unique.

I remember the first time hearing "Toute de Suite" from that, back around 1969 on a broadcast, and thinking, how brave this music is with its modern harmonies, bluesy hints and spaces allowing for breaking free. Miles in the Sky is also a favourite among that batch between 1965 and 1968 starting with ESP and including many outtakes on compilations.

[Jazzrook]

Steve Lacy's duo album 'Spirit of Mingus' with pianist Eric Watson in 1991.

Here's 'Peggy's Blue Skylight':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iToF9dsLvh4

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Elvin jones ~ "Illumination" / "Dear John C"

This combination of Impulse records is interesting because the "Illumination" album enjoys a greater reputation because of the rare appearance on record of Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons and Charles Davis but the second disc with the unlikely Charlie Mariano is actually the better of the two. This is not to the detriment of the first, rather that the second is surprisingly good and totally out of character for saxophonist. I never cease to be amazed by the record which , on the face of things, is a collection of standards plus a few familiar jazz compositions with the piano duties shared between Roland Hanna and Hank Jones. The fact that one of the tunes is the seemingly incongruous "Anthropology" doesn't help with the perception anyone unfamiliar with the record might have of a rather through away session. I don't think that the playing falls that far short of Coltrane's quartet with both Mariano and Jones being inspired by each other.

[Jazzrook]

Prince Lasha Quintet featuring Sonny Simmons on the 1962 album 'The Cry!'

Here's 'Congo Call':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjptztZy9IU

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Jazzrook


Thanks for posting that link. It is interesting to hear Lasha in this context, against with Sonny Simmons. I see you have reviewed the 2Firebirds" album that they also cut which appears to get very good reviews indeed. I quite like Simmons but only have one record with him here he was recorded in a pick up group with Horace Tapscott which played a load of hoary old standards like "Body & Soul", "Caravan" and "So what" which looks unpromising yet makes this hackneyed material seem really interesting. I didn't realise that Lasha spent a year living in the UK in 1966 and Simmons used to be a regular visitor to these shores in the 2000s with the "Cosmatics."


I find it strange that Simmons is so overlooked whereas Lasha's predominance on the West Coast probaby accounts for his lack of acclaim because the West Coast avant garde never seemed to attract the attention of places like New York or Chicago which were at the Vanguard. When you consider the likes of Bobby Bradford and John Carter as well as Horace Tapscott were vital cogs in this scene, it is a surprise that it gets overlooked.

Another player often cited these days who I have seen is Bunky Green who I heard with Rudresh Mananthappa. I always think of him as being of this ilk. I see the new Steve Coleman album includes a version of a Green composition. You can also add someone like Steve Potts in to the mix .Although he is more associated with his collaboration with Steve Lacy, when I saw him it was with a group of French musicians. It was pretty intense but you could tell that Potts was the genuine article.