What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Roscoe Mitchell - Sound

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - Live in Japan

[Serial_Apologist]

This track from an album I must have overlooked was from a late 1970s British group (signal yawns from some around here!) with Alan Wakeman added as second saxophonist to Trevor Watts. It was more common for Keith Tippett to be found playing changes than would become the case in the succeeding decade - notoriously on an album recorded in 1976, also on Hazel Miller's Ogun label, titled "They All Be On This Old Road", a favourite of mine - and this one likewise bears out my strongly held belief that the most interesting straight ahead jazz can often be discovered to be that played by those usually known as free players, with a remarkable solo by any measure from Tippett. If the link which follows fails it is due to this URL probably being the longest I've ever attempted to transcribe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-s2JwllVQ&fbclid=IwAR1fdB0-6zFtSGLs_3adPt5E2t6n5BcE-iut9CRvCZe59CgFMNMeRso-_z0

Sadly the others in the line-up don't get to solo, and this is the one track of the album available on youtube.

[Quarky]

This track from an album I must have overlooked was from a late 1970s British group (signal yawns from some around here!) with Alan Wakeman added as second saxophonist to Trevor Watts. It was more common for Keith Tippett to be found playing changes than would become the case in the succeeding decade - notoriously on an album recorded in 1976, also on Hazel Miller's Ogun label, titled "They All Be On This Old Road", a favourite of mine - and this one likewise bears out my strongly held belief that the most interesting straight ahead jazz can often be discovered to be that played by those usually known as free players, with a remarkable solo by any measure from Tippett. If the link which follows fails it is due to this URL probably being the longest I've ever attempted to transcribe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-s2JwllVQ&fbclid=IwAR1fdB0-6zFtSGLs_3adPt5E2t6n5BcE-iut9CRvCZe59CgFMNMeRso-_z0

Sadly the others in the line-up don't get to solo, and this is the one track of the album available on youtube.

That made a welcome change from Breakfast fare. It invited me in and did not disappoint.

[Stanfordian]

‘Hear Ye!’
Harold Land with Red Mitchell, Carmell Jones, Frank Strazzeri & Leon Pettis
Atlantic (1961)

[Stanfordian]

‘Down with It!’
Blue Mitchell with Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor & Al Foster
Blue Note (1965)

[Tenor Freak]

Butterfly - Herbert Jeffrey Hancock

[Joseph K]

Butterfly - Herbert Jeffrey Hancock

John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard Again!

[Jazzrook]

I knew that Sonny Rollins made a 1966 album with Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones('East Broadway Rundown') but only recently discovered that he also recorded a 1978 live album with the other member of Coltrane's classic quartet, McCoy Tyner.
They appear together on 'The Milestone Jazzstars in Concert' with Ron Carter(bass) & Al Foster(drums).
Here's Carter's 'N.O. Blues':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGSZ4POtrU

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Marty Paitch..."Jazz Picasso" or "The Picasso of Big Band Jazz", finally found a CD copy of this. I first heard tracks on Jamie Cullen's radio show as it was reissued or recommended by Alan Bates of Candid Records. It's a wonderful date with the cream of the West Coast (Inc some great Jack Sheldon), all sounding very "East Coast". One that slipped under the net...

BN.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe Bootleg vol. 1.

Still the best in the bootleg series IMO. Absolutely superb.

[Conchis]

Being There - the Tord Gustavsen Trio. Only discovered this the other day. Great stuff!

[Jazzrook]

Booker Ervin's 1966 album 'Heavy!!!' with Jimmy Owens(trumpet); Garnett Brown(trombone); Jaki Byard(piano); Richard Davis(bass) & Alan Dawson(drums).

Here's 'Bachafillen':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHseYpVIbh0

Also discovered a rare film of Booker Ervin playing 'Milestones' with Ted Curson, Pony Poindexter, Nathan Davis, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Woode & Edgar Bateman.

For some reason I've been unable to upload this film here but it can be found by Googling 'Edgar Bateman & Booker Ervin'.



JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Dee Byrne's band Entropi, as heard on Monday's Jazz Now, but not by me until last evening. Always as I am on the lookout for something of that sense of adventure, risk, imagination and collaborative effort and compatibility that rings on to this day in the choices posted by members on this thread, I plead guilty to overplugging my enthusasm for this band and its feisty leader, and would urge others who may not have heard this particular broadcast to give it a go. You may be surprised in the best sense!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001qgv

Go on! Trust me!

For me, the spirit and strength of character of Barbara Thompson as unofficial mentor lives on and will live on through the likes of Dee, Ingrid Laubrock and Rachel Musson, to name just three, as well as the Deirdre Cartwrights and others of that 1980s sub-generation including the Guest Stars that following Barbara helped to put women on the map of British jazz, and I am now off to see the Barbican exhibition of women in jazz, notwithstanding the fact that Barbara is apparently not featured, about which I have expressed my anger - though Barbara says she is not surprised and in any case does not really see herself as coming within any specific jazz remit, musical or exemplary - because it only has 4 days to go:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/women-in-jazz-a-celebration-of-the-past-present-and-future

[gradus]

A little later today, Derek Nash and Sax Appeal. It'll be one helluva good gig.