What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

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

[Serial_Apologist]

Cecil Taylor & Albert Ayler playing 'Four' taped during a TV broadcast in Copenhagen on November 16, 1962 with Jimmy Lyons(alto sax) & Sunny Murray(drums).
Sadly, the video footage is believed lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3QV2FLeSyI

JR

I just listened to this - thanks again for posting JR. I guess Ayler was the one other player (apart from Murray) who was attuned to what Cecil was doing. In '62 Jimmy Lyons - who does not get a look in on this excerpt - was still doing a sort of free association Charlie Parker thing. 20 years on from this date Peter King did something similar on the John Stevens Freebop recording from the Bracknell Festival - which still knocks me out and is for me one of the great recordings by British guys.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker trio home tapes are not to be found at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI3sQxKbgr4

More than two hours of truly remarkable playing - kicking off with what is possibly a makeshift header and investigating a number of standards. Later parts of these sessions include lengthy unaccompanied acoustic bass solos from Bruce, prompting the thought that he might have made a better player had he not switched over to the electric a year or two later to make his fame with Cream. I can listen endlessly to this and find it extraordinary for British jazz as early as 1962: much of it anticipates the improvising language of today's finest working on the borderline between straight and free playing, without resort to the phrases and clichés of the American bop and hard bop players then still prevalent among our better-known modernists.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I was in Gerrad Street/Old Place one Saturday night in 1968? around midnight listening to Mike Westbrook with Surman et al, and DHS came down the stairs with his tenor, and a flute in the bell. He asked to sit in and (I thought) Westbrook was somewhat reluctant, but said OK. And he played his a*"" off, just brilliantly. One of the VERY classic "jazz nights" for me.
BN.

[Stanfordian]

‘Somethin' Else’
Cannonball Adderley with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘The Soul of Ben Webster’
Ben Webster with Harold Ashby, Art Farmer, Mundell Lowe, Jimmy Jones, Milt Hinton & Dave Bailey
Verve (1958)

[Jazzrook]

Graham Collier's Hoarded Dreams recorded live at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, 1983:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz52KNjqwvc

JR

[elmo]

[Charles Mingus recorded live at the 1959 Newport Festival with Leo Wright, Richard Williams, Roland Hanna and Booker Ervin

Ah Um ...

elmo

[Quarky]

Joni Mitchell-Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / God must be a Boogie Man.

Listening, but not really enjoying. May be I just don't get Joni.

[Serial_Apologist]

Joni Mitchell-Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / God must be a Boogie Man.

Listening, but not really enjoying. May be I just don't get Joni.

Track 9 on today's Jazz Record Requests also off of that album, BTW.

[Stanfordian]

‘Blues Up & Down’
Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin with Lloyd Mayer, Larry Gales & Ben Riley
Jazzland (1961)

[Stanfordian]

‘River: The Joni Letters’
Herbie Hancock with Wayne Shorter, Lionel Loueke, Dave Holland, Larry Klein & Vinnie Colaiuta
Guest vocalists Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza & Joni Mitchell
Verve (2007)

[cloughie]

‘River: The Joni Letters’
Herbie Hancock with Wayne Shorter, Lionel Loueke, Dave Holland, Larry Klein & Vinnie Colaiuta
Guest vocalists Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza & Joni Mitchell
Verve (2007)

Looks an interesting album, Stan, I’ll try it on spotify later!

[Stanfordian]

‘Midnight Blue’
Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Major Holley Jr. Bill English & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1967)

[Jazzrook]

Archie Shepp live at Donaueschingen Music Festival on October 21, 1967 with Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur, Jimmy Garrison & Beaver Harris playing 'One For The Trane Part 2':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIcWbU10NH4

I saw this group at Hammersmith Odeon a few days later. Many walked out but those who remained gave a standing ovation. The Miles Davis Quintet were on the same bill.

JR