What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

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Well, I picked up one of those 8 album box sets of (name the zero royalties) in Paris, in this case Mose Allison's Prestige to Epic output, which is totally wonderful. Always been a huge fan of Mose and it was him and Ray Charles that got me into jazz a hundred years ago. But its the piano tracks that now really stick with me. Some great compositions with Mose's slightly quirky off centre playing.

So a Mose composition and the George Wallington "combo" is OK with me!



BN.

Mose Allison's original version of 'In Salah' from 'Back Country Suite':

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

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

This has been on the play list in my car over the last month:-

1. Cassandra Wilson - "Belly of the sun."

2. Grant Green - " Idle moments."

3. Andrew Hill - "Judgment." This might be Hill's best on Blue Note. Really impressed by this disc.

4. sonny Sharrock - "Ask the ages" - absolutely terrific.

5. Wes meets Bags - recommended on this board. Anything with Philly Joe and Wynton Kelly has got to be good.


6. Jason Adasiewicz's "Roll down" - "Varmint" - Quintet in the mode of Dolphy's "Out to lunch."

7. Jimmy Heath - "Really big." -underrated big band session by all star outfit. Deserves to be classed as a classic. Why is Jimmy Heath so under-rated by fans ?



Waiting for this to land in June:-


http://http://jazztimes.com/articles/172033-jt-video-premiere-greg-ward-s-touch-my-beloved-s-thought

[Ian Thumwood]

Anyone who like Bill Withers might also want to check out Michael Kiwanuka - good to see the UK producing some pop music this good.

[Jazzrook]

Glad to see that 'Lament For Booker Ervin'(enja) has recently been reissued. It features Booker Ervin's inventive and passionate tenor playing on an astonishing 28-minute 'Blues For You' at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1965.
Here's the other track dedicated to Booker which has a moving piano solo from Horace Parlan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRlqHDjKGy0

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Martinu's "La review du cuisine."

I quite like this but am generally enthusiastic regarding anything associated by Les Six and their associates. I suppose that this is a bit similar to Milhaud's music of that era albeit I am not sure that Martinu had ever visited the States in 1927 and maybe picked up the influence second hand from Paris where he resided at the time,

[Ian Thumwood]

Been listening to the Hamilton / Clayton big band with special guest Milt Jackson. This must have been quite an early record for this orchestra which is a kind of West Coast equivalent of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra. They are probably my Dad's favourite big band and one of his frequent complaints is that this band simply does not produce enough records. The writing on this disc is pretty impressive. ("Deed I do" and "Monk's "Evidence" getting re-workings which are hugely impressive - the latter being very original and quirky. It is intriguing how that "Basie model" of big band music has evolved in to something that sounds timeless. About ten years ago I saw this band on a double bill with the then current Basie outfit and they were so much sharper and much hipper too. However, you could readily sense the debt that the Basie band was owed even if John Clayton is relaxed about pushing the writing.

The oddest thing about the record is that the band are much sharper than Jackson. The ex-MJQ man is not on every track and whilst he was the best thing about that quartet, it is intriguing to hear him out of context. I am not convinced that he was as much as Lionel Hampton or Bobby Hutcherson.

[Rcartes]

A current favourite is Pharoah Sanders' Journey to the One, particularly for the wonderful John Hicks. What a sad loss he was!

[Ian Thumwood]

Keefe Jackson - "Seeing you see."

For some reason I was a bit underwhelmed when I first listened to this quartet session by a young Keefe Jackson that was recorded in 2008 and released two years later. However, turning it out to listen to in the car this week my opinion has changed and the interplay between these four musicians is pretty incredible. The bass and drums of Jason Roebke and the Japanese whose name I forget tie the group together and the combination of the front line of the leader and the brilliant Jeb Bishop recalls Ornette's classic quartet. Jeb Bishop is one of those players you can always rely upon and I am a big fan of his avant garde Teagarden-isms. For me, he is probably the most exciting trombonist in jazz at the moment. Jackson is no slouch either. He really reminds me of how Warne Marsh might have sounded had be been influenced by Albert Ayler. In a age where colleges seem to be churning out identikit tenor saxophonists, Keefe Jackson is really cutting across the grain.

All in all, this is another record that I would suggest is in the Jazzrook territory of things although I think it will also massively appeal to SA too:-

[Ian Thumwood]

This is really good too (Not too sure about the video) :-

[Ian Thumwood]

Never heard of these musicians but this is brilliant:-

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Like that a lot ( the first track), shades of Grachan Moncur and the Bnote album he made with Wayne Shorter..."Some other stuff"?

Excellent.

BN.

[Bryn]

3 Nights at Cafe OTO, night 1 (Evan Parker, John Edwards, Eddie Prevost)

[Serial_Apologist]

3 Nights at Cafe OTO, night 1 (Evan Parker, John Edwards, Eddie Prevost)

Didn't realise that was out. I was there on one of those nights - can't remember which one.

[Bryn]

Didn't realise that was out. I was there on one of those nights - can't remember which one.

Giovanni's recording is excellent. You would hardly know the sort of environment he was working in. I have yet to watch the DVD which is the fourth disc in the set. I strongly recommend the set. Apart from the fine recordings, the hardback book presentation with page upon page of photographs is beautifully done, and the only plastic involved is that of the polycarbonate discs themselves. The one little weakness, I feel, is in Richard Williams's notes. Re. Eddie Prevost he writes, "over the past couple of years he has revealed himself to be not just the improvising percussionist we a;ready knew from his work with AMM but one of the free jazz's great drummers, loose in feel, precise in detail, constantly attentive to tone and timbre." It's the "over the past couple of years" that I would question. I have been following Eddie's drumming since around 1966 (I even had some lessons with him in the early '70s) and while he has gone from strength to strength, he was ever attentive to tome and timbre, and as to looseness, it was one of the first things that struck me about his mode of playing. Such incredible economy of movement. His interest in Alexander technique has served him well for decades.

[Serial_Apologist]

Giovanni's recording is excellent. You would hardly know the sort of environment he was working in. I have yet to watch the DVD which is the fourth disc in the set. I strongly recommend the set. Apart from the fine recordings, the hardback book presentation with page upon page of photographs is beautifully done, and the only plastic involved is that of the polycarbonate discs themselves. The one little weakness, I feel, is in Richard Williams's notes. Re. Eddie Prevost he writes, "over the past couple of years he has revealed himself to be not just the improvising percussionist we a;ready knew from his work with AMM but one of the free jazz's great drummers, loose in feel, precise in detail, constantly attentive to tone and timbre." It's the "over the past couple of years" that I would question. I have been following Eddie's drumming since around 1966 (I even had some lessons with him in the early '70s) and while he has gone from strength to strength, he was ever attentive to tome and timbre, and as to looseness, it was one of the first things that struck me about his mode of playing. Such incredible economy of movement. His interest in Alexander technique has served him well for decades.

I totally agree, Bryn - a real whiplash of a drummer showing apparently little more than a minimum of energy exertion necessary - myself being reminded of this a few weeks ago when we saw him at the Oto with John Edwards and, yes! - Andy Sheppard!! (I reported that one under Jazz from the Smoke). John Edwards - since he's on those dates - just gets better and better - always amazing to see him losing and finding himself as he engages that wiry frame of his with all around him, always managing to produce something I've not seen or heard anyone else doing. I'll look out for that set of CDs - thanks for the pointer!