What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

'So Much Guitar'
Wes Montgomery with Ron Carter, Lex Humphries, Ray Barretto & Hank Jones
Riverside (1961)

[Constantbee]

[B]‘The Honeydripper’

Ooo ... we sell those In beechwood for sweetening your catnip tea.

Picked up a copy of James Tormé's first album Love for Sale for a couple of quid on ebay. Glad I didn't have to pay more for it, tho'. It's a bit MOR but the scat passages are to die for: crisp, neat and clear, and he's really secure in the falsetto, too. Couldn't resist playing 'Autumn Leaves' back to back on Youtube with dad Mel's 1957 version. James has a likeable voice, somewhere in between Bublé and Cullum, but the search is still for some really male good jazz singers. Harry Connick jr still has it for me. Gregory Porter's another obvious choice, but none of these are really Radio 3 artists For a station that plays so much choral music jazz vocalists don't get enough airtime imho. Anyway, James is playing at The Pheasantry in Kings Road this weekend, resurrecting some of dad's old classics on the Born to be Blue tour. Hope there's another album in the offing as I'd like to hear what he does with the old June Christy classic 'Something Cool'.

[Stanfordian]

Ooo ... we sell those In beechwood for sweetening your catnip tea.

This will be X-rated tea?

[Stanfordian]

‘Heavy Soul’
Ike Quebec with Freddie Roach, Milt Hilton & Al Harewood
Blue Note (1961)

[Constantbee]

This will be X-rated tea?

Sorry to disappoint you ... PG, I think

[burning dog]

Now Hes Sings Now He Sobs - Chick Corea

So Good!

[Jazzrook]

Gene Ammons(tenor sax) playing 'Angel Eyes' in 1960 with Johnny "Hammond" Smith(organ); Frank Wess(flute); Doug Watkins(bass) & Art Taylor(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If77_P8v7iE

JR

[Stanfordian]

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

[Stanfordian]

‘The Sidewinder’
Lee Morgan with Joe Henderson, Billy Higgins, Barry Harris & Bob Cranshaw
Blue Note (1963)

[elmo]

The Iggy Pop programme on Radio 6 tonight - Just happened onto it and its really good, lots of jazz, he's played (amongst others) Roy Hargrove playing K Dorham's "Afrodisia" , Artie Shaw St James Infirmary and a version of J Henderson's "A shade of Jade" plus some excellent Blues Rock and pop with no DJ drivel.

Quite a revelation - I shall be regularly tuning into our Ig.

elmo

[Serial_Apologist]

Now Hes Sings Now He Sobs - Chick Corea

So Good!

Given as I then was (and still am to some extent) to "placing" people, I always located Chick Corea midway between McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock. Later he gravitated more towards the latter, partly by virtue of friendship, part by associations, though he always had a tighter sense of how to build tensions than the deceptively easygoing Herbie, and for a time (In Circle) went towards the European avant-garde, before going in a more Latin direction that then went Fusion, and ended up a nicely finessed amalgamation of all these areas. Dave Buxton, Andy Sheppard's pianist at the time of that Schlitz competition that made him more famous than Itchy Fingers, claimed Corea as his solo influence, being the only jazz pianist he had ever listened to prior to joining Andy. Another who seems to have dropped off the scene.

[Jazzrook]

T-Bone Walker with J.A.T.P. at Poplar Town Hall in 1966:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK6PBq-hA

JR

[Jazzrook]

The Iggy Pop programme on Radio 6 tonight - Just happened onto it and its really good, lots of jazz, he's played (amongst others) Roy Hargrove playing K Dorham's "Afrodisia" , Artie Shaw St James Infirmary and a version of J Henderson's "A shade of Jade" plus some excellent Blues Rock and pop with no DJ drivel.

Quite a revelation - I shall be regularly tuning into our Ig.

elmo

Agreed, elmo.
During the past few weeks Iggy has played a wide range of excellent jazz tracks from Gene Ammons to Sun Ra.
I.P. is always interesting to listen to and 'The Confidential Show' is currently one of the most intelligent and eclectic music programmes on radio.

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Boss Soul!’
Gene Ammons with Walter Bishop Jr, Patti Brown, Art Davis, George Duvivier, Art Taylor & Ray Barretto
Prestige (1961)

[Stunsworth]

Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

From the De Agostini Jazz LP series. The series is due to end soon after 70 releases. I’ll miss those monthly delivery of 2LPs.