What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

‘It’s About Time’
Jimmy Hamilton & Clark Terry with Britt Woodman, Tommy Flanagan Wendell Marshall & Mel Lewis
Swingville (1961)

[Stanfordian]

‘Headin’ South’
Horace Parlan with George Tucker, Al Harewood & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1960)

[Stanfordian]

‘A Blowin' Session’
Johnny Griffin & John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1957)

[Stanfordian]

'Laughin' to Keep from Cryin'
Lester Young with Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Roy Eldridge, Herb Ellis, Hank Jones, George Duvivie & Mickey Sheen
Verve (1958)

[Beef Oven!]

[Jazzrook]

Cecil Taylor(at 80) performing in Perugia, July 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Pia-qNs6Q

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Redd’s Blues’
Freddie Redd with Benny Bailey, Jackie McLean, Tina Brooks, Paul Chambers & Sir John Godfrey
Blue Note (1961)

[Stanfordian]

'The Real McCoy'
McCoy Tyner with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1967)

[Jazzrook]

Grachan Moncur III(trombone); Bobby Hutcherson(vibes); Cecil McBee(bass) & Beaver Harris(drums) playing
'Blue Free' from the hard-to-find 1965 album 'The New Wave In Jazz'(Impulse!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oT5ZbigaDk

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Open House’ & ‘Plain Talk’
Jimmy Smith with Blue Mitchell, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, Quentin Warren & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1960)

[Serial_Apologist]

Grachan Moncur III(trombone); Bobby Hutcherson(vibes); Cecil McBee(bass) & Beaver Harris(drums) playing
'Blue Free' from the hard-to-find 1965 album 'The New Wave In Jazz'(Impulse!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oT5ZbigaDk

JR

I love that album, patchy though it has been described. I had the amazing chance to meet Cecil McBee. "My name is CEEEEcil McBee"... firm handshake. It was the morning after the final days of the final Bracknell Festival, the Monday; I had been staying at the Post House hotel just up the road as part of the very reasonable all-in ticket, and was enjoying a final breakfast, and he came and sat at the next table, all on his own - a very handsome tall black man in the smartest brown mohair suit - I'd imagined him to be a delegate to some local business gathering. I told him I'd first heard him on an early Charles Lloyd album still in my possession. He told me something that I didn't know, and is possibly not common knowledge - that in '68 he had sat in for Ron Carter in Miles's band. That was all I learned.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Cecil McBee Makes A Name for Himself In Japan -- and Sues
Jazz Musician Toured Tokyo, Then Discovered That He Is Now a Chain of Stores ( Wall Street Journal 2004)

Cecil McBee, an American jazz musician on tour in Japan, made an unscheduled stop one night in the early 1990s. A friend in Tokyo hurried him off to a shopping mall and said there was something he just had to see.

When the elevator doors opened on the third floor, Mr. McBee couldn't believe his eyes: The words "Cecil McBee" were emblazoned above the window of a chain store selling clothes to teenagers.

Ever since, in Japanese and U.S. courts, Mr. McBee, who has appeared for 40 years with the likes of Benny Goodman and Miles Davis, has been on a crusade to reclaim his name. The 69-year-old bass player hasn't been able to stop his moniker from appearing on bikinis, dog sweaters, cellphone covers and credit cards.


The store he saw is owned by the Japanese holding company Delica Co. It chose the name in 1984, soon after Mr. McBee's first performances in Japan. It now owns about 35 Cecil McBee stores, which had sales of about $112 million in 2002.

With its miniskirts, fake-fur jackets and silky, shoulder-baring tops, the chain is the vanguard of a current Japanese fashion craze called "erogance" -- a melding of "erotic" and "elegant" styles.

From his home in Yarmouth, Maine, Mr. McBee says the stores have cost him bookings and damaged his career. Colleagues say searches for his contact information on the Internet call up the chain's Web site. Music students have asked whether he had a side business selling clothes to young girls.

"I heard a few jokes about my profession and my name, and that was rather painful," says Mr. McBee".

Well dressed?!

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Cecil McBee Makes A Name for Himself In Japan -- and Sues
Jazz Musician Toured Tokyo, Then Discovered That He Is Now a Chain of Stores ( Wall Street Journal 2004)

Cecil McBee, an American jazz musician on tour in Japan, made an unscheduled stop one night in the early 1990s. A friend in Tokyo hurried him off to a shopping mall and said there was something he just had to see.

When the elevator doors opened on the third floor, Mr. McBee couldn't believe his eyes: The words "Cecil McBee" were emblazoned above the window of a chain store selling clothes to teenagers.

Ever since, in Japanese and U.S. courts, Mr. McBee, who has appeared for 40 years with the likes of Benny Goodman and Miles Davis, has been on a crusade to reclaim his name. The 69-year-old bass player hasn't been able to stop his moniker from appearing on bikinis, dog sweaters, cellphone covers and credit cards.


The store he saw is owned by the Japanese holding company Delica Co. It chose the name in 1984, soon after Mr. McBee's first performances in Japan. It now owns about 35 Cecil McBee stores, which had sales of about $112 million in 2002.

With its miniskirts, fake-fur jackets and silky, shoulder-baring tops, the chain is the vanguard of a current Japanese fashion craze called "erogance" -- a melding of "erotic" and "elegant" styles.

From his home in Yarmouth, Maine, Mr. McBee says the stores have cost him bookings and damaged his career. Colleagues say searches for his contact information on the Internet call up the chain's Web site. Music students have asked whether he had a side business selling clothes to young girls.

"I heard a few jokes about my profession and my name, and that was rather painful," says Mr. McBee".

Well dressed?!

BN.

Wonderful!

[Ian Thumwood]

I am a bit addicted to Delmark's jazz releases from the last 7 or 8 years but haven't bought anything recently since Jason Stein's "Lucille!" which includes the leader on bass clarinet, Keefe Jackson's tenor / contrabass clarinet, Joshua Abrams on bass and drummer Tom Rainey. I wish I had bought this group's previous album as this doesn't quite work. Part of the problem is that the material is bizarre for an avant garde album. This most be the only record where Lennie Tristano's music is played on instruments with such a low register. Some of the heads are a bit rough and ready whereas the bop covers of Bird and Monk don't seem to take off.
The best track s the original, abstract that is the penultimate track.

The previous record had Frank Rosaly on drums and I wonder whether he would have been more appropriate.

[Stanfordian]

‘Take Twelve’
Lee Morgan Quintet (Clifford Jordon, Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw & Louis Hayes)
Jazzland (1962)