What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley in Sheffiled, prior to leaving for London to play their part in the burgeoning free jazz/free improv scene, using Coltrane's "Miles Mode" as a launching pad into more abstract terrain. As far as I know this is the only recording of the trio, and they are on a cusp which has always fascinated me, as with Schoenberg's music around 1908 when at a certain point you are aware of being in entirely new listening territory, something tranforms the experience of music, and you can only "look back" with new ears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZx4SCF-d6M

It starts properly at 1 minute 15 secs.

[Jazzrook]

"Thelonious Monk never recorded his composition 'Two Timer', which he apparently wrote in the late 1950s.
Unbeknownst to Monk, pianist Sonny Clark recorded it in a session led by alto saxophonist Jackie McLean in October 1961 as 'Five Will Get You Ten'.
Clark also took composer's credit for the song".

From Robin D.G. Kelley's biography of Monk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ZphdNu4ng

JR

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pVc4CDoto

Autumn Leaves, Keith Jarrett Standards Trio.

[Stanfordian]

‘Fuchsia Swing Song’
Sam Rivers with Jaki Byard, Ron Carter & Tony Williams
Blue Note (1964)

[Serial_Apologist]

‘Fuchsia Swing Song’
Sam Rivers with Jaki Byard, Ron Carter & Tony Williams
Blue Note (1964)

A fanstatic record, Stan! - my gateway into Sam Rivers... and Jaki Byard, whom I had the huge privilege of meeting at the Pendley Festival, in 1986 (I think). And meeting his wife, who had a terrific sense of humour.

[Stanfordian]

A fanstatic record, Stan! - my gateway into Sam Rivers... and Jaki Byard, whom I had the huge privilege of meeting at the Pendley Festival, in 1986 (I think). And meeting his wife, who had a terrific sense of humour.

Yes, a fine album. Great memories for you.

[elmo]

Yes one of my absolute favourites, I think "Beatrice" is one of the greatest tenor ballads of all time and Jaki and Ron Carters solos on that piece are perfection also. Bobby Hutcherson "Dialogue" was the first B Note I bought (cost 45/6 big bucks) "Fuschia" my second - what a great start...

elmo

[Stunsworth]

The Atomic Mr Basie

A second hand LP that I bought this afternoon. Very dirty, it buffed up well after a spin in the record cleaning machine.

My father loved big band music, so naturally I hated it as a teenager. As I’ve grown older I can see why he liked it so much. I only wish he was around so I could say sorry.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Atomic Mr Basie

A second hand LP that I bought this afternoon. Very dirty, it buffed up well after a spin in the record cleaning machine.

My father loved big band music, so naturally I hated it as a teenager. As I’ve grown older I can see why he liked it so much. I only wish he was around so I could say sorry.

Richard Rodney Bennett told a story about how the aged Vaughan Williams said to him that one day, he (RRB) might not like his music as much as he did now, but that that was a natural progression in acquiring taste, and nothing to feel guilty about.

[burning dog]

Basie - I have this one on vinyl - my other favourite ( along with the Atomic Mr Basie mentioned above)

[sidneyfox]

The Atomic Mr Basie

A second hand LP that I bought this afternoon. Very dirty, it buffed up well after a spin in the record cleaning machine.

My father loved big band music, so naturally I hated it as a teenager. As I’ve grown older I can see why he liked it so much. I only wish he was around so I could say sorry.

Don't feel sorry, feel "I get now dad"!

[burning dog]

The Basie Lps with Joe Williams and Jimmy Rushing I find excellent but with a few duff tracks

I got the feeling these singers were critically unfashionable in the early to mid 70's ** (possibility earlier).

More R&B leaning "jazz" singers were more acclaimed, jazz style crooners still were (mostly with older listeners) and out and out jazz singers were. Chicago school "electric" Blues singers certainly were

**When I first started to notice such things as opposed to just hearing the records

[Stanfordian]

‘A Fickle Sonance’
Jackie McLean with Tommy Turrentine, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1961)

[Stanfordian]

‘Sayin Something!’
Gigi Gryce with Mickey Roker, Richard Gene Williams, Richard Rylands & Reggie Workman
New Jazz (1960)

[Serial_Apologist]

Can't find that great Phil Woods utube link to the 1973 Molde Festival, where Daniel Humair smashed his drums heads, any more. This is from Paris, 1969 - already the great Texier/Humair bass/drums pairing that would serve Woods so well, but George Gruntz is on joanna: Gordon Beck took his place a couple of years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhRhuKQXlw