What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

[Jazzrook]

Art Blakey Quintet live at Birdland in 1954 playing 'A Night In Tunisia' with Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver & Curley Russell:

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

JR

[LMcD]

'Ham Gravy', played by Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies - track 4 on ABMMCD 1153 'Harlem Jazz The 20s'

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Clark Terry - "Colour Changes" Album. Candid 1960. With Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Kneeler etc. I had never heard of this before and its VERY good. Terry given a free hand to pick the group, the tunes and the arrangements. Lots of gems like this to be found...

http://youtu.be/4fvOrpSP46I

[Stanfordian]

‘Breezin’
Sonny Redd with Sonny Red, Yusef Lateef, Blue Mitchell, Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw & Albert 'Tootie' Heath
Jazzland (1960)

[Jazzrook]

Little Walter playing 'Mean Old World' from AFBF in 1967:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=fJPoKKOS4qA

JR

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAy0EB4_Pt4&list=OLAK5uy_kH8IgiMLjNf9RnyOvqGIgwGYztxNJXAaI

Kevin Eubanks - Opening Night

[Jazzrook]

Ornette Coleman's 'Invisible' from his 1958 album 'Something Else!!!!' with Don Cherry(cornet); Walter Norris(piano); Don Payne(bass) & Billy Higgins(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2oqnpIw-8

John Coltrane playing 'Invisible' from 'The Avant-Garde' with Don Cherry(trumpet); Perch Heath(bass) & Ed Blackwell(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLuvBsagL88

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Bluesnik’
Jackie McLean with Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Drew, Doug Watkins & Pete LaRoca
Blue Note (1961)

[burning dog]

Love this album.

Bill Hardman is the surprise package - brilliant!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Love this album.

Bill Hardman is the surprise package - brilliant!

It is indeed a great session, with Hardman's "pecking" phrasing. Apparently he was a very helpful guy and taught Freddie Hubbard the Blakey book when Hubbard was about to join the band. The "silences" in Monk's solos are from when he was dancing with the Baroness. When the date was over at dawn, they had to push start her Rolls, and then Monk & Nica just drove of and left them standing!

BN.

[Padraig]

It is indeed a great session, with Hardman's "pecking" phrasing. Apparently he was a very helpful guy and taught Freddie Hubbard the Blakey book when Hubbard was about to join the band.

Was going to post this last night on the Poetry page. Three Blind Mice is followed by "Freddie Hubbard's mournful trumpet on 'Blue Moon'". (8.30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygFmfA72qw&t=842s

[Jazzrook]

It is indeed a great session, with Hardman's "pecking" phrasing. Apparently he was a very helpful guy and taught Freddie Hubbard the Blakey book when Hubbard was about to join the band. The "silences" in Monk's solos are from when he was dancing with the Baroness. When the date was over at dawn, they had to push start her Rolls, and then Monk & Nica just drove of and left them standing!

BN.

Here's Bill Hardman in 1968 with Bennie Maupin, Horace Silver, John Williams & Billy Cobham playing 'Nutville':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=KKGBLjjy-hQ

JR

[Joseph K]

I'm currently listening to a video of a Kurt Rosenwinkel clinic. His chord vocabulary on playing a blues sounds simultaneously fresh and yet definitely grounded in jazz tradition... there must be precedents for his playing, I can think of Joe Pass (and on another clinic he mentions George van Eps) but Rosenwinkel is more relaxed in his phrasing, and his voice leading concepts and harmonic devices are all very hip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ox3Mfby2I&t=55s

[Serial_Apologist]

It is indeed a great session, with Hardman's "pecking" phrasing. Apparently he was a very helpful guy and taught Freddie Hubbard the Blakey book when Hubbard was about to join the band. The "silences" in Monk's solos are from when he was dancing with the Baroness. When the date was over at dawn, they had to push start her Rolls, and then Monk & Nica just drove of and left them standing!

BN.

I'd forgotten all about that recording of Monk with the Jazz Messengers, now fondly remembered from my school days.