What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

Sonny Rollins live in Rome, 1962 with Don Cherry, Henry Grimes & Billy Higgins:

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

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Cornbread’
Lee Morgan with Billy Higgins, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock & Larry Ridley
Blue Note (1967)

[Serial_Apologist]

‘Cornbread’
Lee Morgan with Billy Higgins, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock & Larry Ridley
Blue Note (1967)

A few years ago I bought the vinyl re-issue of that, just for olde fashioned's sake. I don't know how general this is or whether I just had bad luck, but the experience has been never to do that again, as the pressing is terrible, poor sound, distorted loud bits, jumping grooves.

[Jazzrook]

Booker Ervin at the Berlin J.F., 1965 playing an astonishing 27-minute tenor solo on 'Blues For You' with Kenny Drew, NHOP & Alan Dawson:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=g7QFFFju3n8

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Rollins - Without a Song - from the 9/11 concert.

Just relaxing into Sonny.

I bought this album after hearing Rollins perform at Vienne on a tour to promote the disc. Rollins' later work is usually seen as a disappointment by critics but I felt that this record was hugely enjoyable. It has two great calypsos on it.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've got on the 2 c90s I recorded in 1988 of the double broadcast featuring the Clark Tracey Quintet's performance of the "Stipertones Suite" at Bracknell and the Stan Tracey Big Band's "Genesis Suite" from the Festival Hall, interlinked by a great interview of both Traceys by Charles Fox halfway through: Clarke's gig featuring Guy Barker, Alec Dankworth, Steve Melling (much less indebted to McCoy Tyner back then, who takes a great unaccompanied slot on "Nipstone Rock"), and a young Jamie Talbot on alto and tenor, (tearing up the canvas like the rough and ready young Peter King). The Tracey BB had a strong contingent at the time, including Steve Waterman alongside Barker, trombonist Malcolm Griffiths, Peter King, Tony Coe and Art Themen in the reeds section, and swung like a supercharged Basie unit. Those were the days when Roy Babbington was still Tracey's regular bassist - like the great and gruff Griffiths, one of our unrecogniseds).

[Jazzrook]

'Regeneration'(1982) with Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Kent Carter & Han Bennink playing compositions by Herbie Nichols & Thelonious Monk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4aA76vGqA

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Inner Urge’
Joe Henderson with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1964)

[Joseph K]

‘Inner Urge’
Joe Henderson with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1964)

I like that tune. Haven't heard the whole album though.

[Serial_Apologist]

'Regeneration'(1982) with Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Misha Mengelberg, Kent Carter & Han Bennink playing compositions by Herbie Nichols & Thelonious Monk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4aA76vGqA

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Just now back from seeing the young alto saxophonist Alice Leggett's quartet in the Clore bar room at the Festival Hall - saving £8 otherwise spent had I attended at the Vortex last month!

http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/alice-leggett-quartet/

A tidy player would be the best description - for all the influences quoted in that write-up all I heard was re-hashed mid-70s Keith Jarrett American Quartet, but with a likewise good backing band here doing its best to appear excited by its nominal leader meandering with an occasional top note - which is no reflection on Jeremy Corbyn, by the way. That said, this was my first live experience of drummer Will Glaser, who for some reason I thought was American, but in fact he comes from Nottinghamshire, the Worksop of Midlands jazz (pun intended - great beard, according to Wynton the Marsalis), and it was he who really lifted the last number of the band's middling hour with a concluding solo that began as an elaboration of the Ed Blackwell style before finding a mind truly its own, evoking whoops and cheers from the overwhelmingly geriatric audience, the ice maiden observing from afar. Pianist Will Simpson has the Corea thing off pat, and Calum Gourlay, many people's bassist of choice, is okaaaaaaay; but, as with many on the scene today, one pines for individuality, and personality. And one finds it. Just not here.

I'm sure Ian would be in agreement with me on this one.

I then legged it over to Lambeth Palace to view the archbish's extensive garden before they closed, which, for a fiver, turned out to be more interesting.

[Jazzrook]

Lee Morgan's overlooked 1964 BLUE NOTE album 'Tom Cat', for some reason not issued until 1980, with Jackie McLean, Curtis Fuller, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw & Art Blakey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RofUC1BYu4

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Night Dreamer’
Wayne Shorter with Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1964)

[Stanfordian]

‘Plain Talk’
Jimmy Smith with Blue Mitchell, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, Quintin Warren & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1960)

[Joseph K]

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery.

Part of a 'Three Classic Albums Plus' collection on two CDs.