What Jazz are you listening to now?

[LMcD]

Smudgely by Don Weller (one number one of the numerous old jazz anthology cassette tapes which still give me much pleasure)

[Joseph K]

I was handed a leaflet yesterday about the release of a previously lost Miles Davis studio session . But before anyone gets too excited it dates from 85 and 86 with largely unfamiliar musicians with rhe exception of Lala Hathaway. There is a lot of programmed drumming too so not too hopeful for this material from his last CBS session before the switch to Warner with Tutu. Joseph probably will enjoy.

Hmmm... this quote is from the Bitches Brew thread -

TBH, I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I've listened to anything from 80s of Miles.

[Jazzrook]

Smudgely by Don Weller (one number one of the numerous old jazz anthology cassette tapes which still give me much pleasure)

Don Weller Quartet with David Newton(piano); Andy Cleyndert(bass) & Dave Barry(drums) at the Jazz 606 in 1998:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ExT_GoPqdX4

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Don Weller Quartet with David Newton(piano); Andy Cleyndert(bass) & Dave Barry(drums) at the Jazz 606 in 1998:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ExT_GoPqdX4

JR

Thanks for this, JR.

It must be a good 5 years since I spoke to Don Weller, and that was at a funeral for another local musician, the pianist Richard Madgewick, a great singer accompanist, but whose most regular means of support was the John Miller Band, complete in US WW2 outfits! Don had had heart surgery, and the last I heard of the local lad was last September, when a number of leading musicians put on a tribute to Don at the 606, the gig blurb saying he was no longer playing. Don was of a generation when every player of note evolved his or her own instantly recognisable style: in every way a weighty as well as soulful player, and master of chromaticism and alternating on and off the beat phrasing. Andy was Stan Tracey's regular bassist; Dave Barry was the drummer on Westbrook's The Cortege.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Thanks for this, JR.

It must be a good 5 years since I spoke to Don Weller, and that was at a funeral for another local musician, the pianist Richard Madgewick, a great singer accompanist, but whose most regular means of support was the John Miller Band, complete in US WW2 outfits! Don had had heart surgery, and the last I heard of the local lad was last September, when a number of leading musicians put on a tribute to Don at the 606, the gig blurb saying he was no longer playing. Don was of a generation when every player of note evolved his or her own instantly recognisable style: in every way a weighty as well as soulful player, and master of chromaticism and alternating on and off the beat phrasing. Andy was Stan Tracey's regular bassist; Dave Barry was the drummer on Westbrook's The Cortege.

Don Weller recorded (an original) Qrt track called "Young Mum's Bums". Absolutely no way you'd get away with that these dazs, and I do vividly remember Hump straight faced reading it out on his R2 jazz show! Players like Weller were/are the bedrock of jazz, far more than "journeymen" but never stars. I've got a tape of him and Georgie Fame and it's a joy.

BN

And here it is! "Young Mums Bums"...

http://youtu.be/q2ueYYhAEJ0

"Recorded in London 1979.

Don Weller sax, Martin Blackwell piano, Ray Babbington bass and Bryan Spring drums"

[Serial_Apologist]

Don Weller recorded (an original) Qrt track called "Young Mum's Bums". Absolutely no way you'd get away with that these dazs, and I do vividly remember Hump straight faced reading it out on his R2 jazz show! Players like Weller were/are the bedrock of jazz, far more than "journeymen" but never stars. I've got a tape of him and Georgie Fame and it's a joy.

BN

And here it is! "Young Mums Bums"...

http://youtu.be/q2ueYYhAEJ0

"Recorded in London 1979.

Don Weller sax, Martin Blackwell piano, Ray Babbington bass and Bryan Spring drums"

One of Don's titles for Major Surgery, the jazz-rock quartet he led in the 1970s, was "Shitotto Risotto". And one of the titles in The Pennine Suite, a later commission, was "Glosy Row" - apparently thought up when Don was a few over the limit! Another from that suite was "Two By Four", dedicated to a piece of wood!

[Joseph K]

Mike Stern - Standards and other Songs

… mentioned this before, but it's a superb album. It's on youtube if people want to check it out, but I have the CD.

[Stunsworth]

Miles Davis: On The Corner

The MoFi LP rerelease.

[teamsaint]

Miles Davis: On The Corner

The MoFi LP rerelease.

My good jazz deed for the week was introducing one of the young people at work to this album. He liked it a lot .
:cool1:

[Stunsworth]

Dexter Gordon: Clubhouse

The recent Blue Note LP rerelease in their Tone Poet series. Magnificent.

[Jazzrook]

Sun Ra & his Arkestra, Lugano July 3, 1985:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iheAEsDM7JQ

JR

[Stanfordian]

Dexter Gordon: Clubhouse

The recent Blue Note LP rerelease in their Tone Poet series. Magnificent.

Yes, I've had 'Clubhouse' recorded in 1965 a while and I greatly enjoy it. I believe the late fifties and early sixties was Gordon's prime time and he never recaptured it, namely:

'Daddy Plays the Horn' (Bethlehem 1955)
'Dexter Blows Hot and Cool' (Dootone 1955)
'The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon' (Jazzland, 1960)
'Doin' Allright' (Blue Note, 1961)
'Dexter Calling...' (Blue Note, 1961)
'Go!' (Blue Note 1962)
'A Swingin' Affair' (Blue Note, 1962)
'Our Man in Paris' (Blue Note, 1963)

[Stanfordian]

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

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, I've had 'Clubhouse' recorded in 1965 a while and I greatly enjoy it. I believe the late fifties and early sixties was Gordon's prime time and he never recaptured it, namely:

'Daddy Plays the Horn' (Bethlehem 1955)
'Dexter Blows Hot and Cool' (Dootone 1955)
'The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon' (Jazzland, 1960)
'Doin' Allright' (Blue Note, 1961)
'Dexter Calling...' (Blue Note, 1961)
'Go!' (Blue Note 1962)
'A Swingin' Affair' (Blue Note, 1962)
'Our Man in Paris' (Blue Note, 1963)

Did you get to see Philippe Renaud's fillum "Round Midnight", Stan? Some I know think the movie to be too sentimental, but I thought he was magnificent in that, both as actor and in his playing - along with the rest of the cast.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Did you get to see Philippe Renaud's fillum "Round Midnight", Stan? Some I know think the movie to be too sentimental, but I thought he was magnificent in that, both as actor and in his playing - along with the rest of the cast.

Dexter Gordon Qrt - Holland 1964 - "Night in Tunisia", fabulous piece of film (Dex starts playing c.1.50 minutes in). He exudes charm and plays superbly, and for my money did so considerably longer than the 1960s. There's some very fine Danish stuff with Kenny Drew, a great "School" concert and a very fine album in Vienna with Slide Hampton. The much later CBS "Sophisticated Giant" album with Hampton's arrangements is also beautiful. I think Dexter's musical decline really kicked in with the booze (a bit like Ray Charles in that respect). The drugs do not *always* mess you up. On heroin they both achieved greatness. (Not a recommendation)

Anyway back to the "prime"..."Tuuuuuunisiaaaa"

http://youtu.be/woVHjtWaVoY