What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Someday My Prince Will Come- Corea, McLaughlin, Wooten & White @ Blue Note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGu4B8ilkk

Checking out a few different versions of this tune I'm learning... there's also a duet of McLaughlin and Corea playing this tune on the Five Peace band album.

[Ian Thumwood]

I am currently listening to this.

Ian's comment still makes no sense - no phrase is stacked on another, his playing (which is really good BTW) is monophonic, as I suspected.

EDIT: And Murray is something else, wow!

Joey - FFS.I think you must have been watching "Fleabag" or something whilst listening to that clip. The point I was trying to make was that JDA's solo had structure whereas Murray just seems totally unrelated to what else was being played. I like Murray but thought this clip actually goes him a bit of a disservice. Not a lot was actually happening in his solo. It was all bluster. There are plenty of other clips around where he is on the money but not this one.

[Joseph K]

I apologise, I didn't intentionally come across as obtuse. I just think 'stacking phrases on top of each other' is a peculiar expression, that's all. I am aware that some people like to think of music as having two dimensions, vertical and horizontal; certain techniques can emphasise either one of these aspects etc.

Now listening to Jonathan Kreisberg playing 'The Song is You': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDWthzdL5gs

[Ian Thumwood]

Listening to the football commentary...

P*******th 0 - Southampton 4

[Stanfordian]

‘Lookin’ at Monk!’ – Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis
Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis with Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance, Larry Gales & Ben Riley
Riverside (rec. 1961)

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQbNXRyexI

I just discovered a great jazz guitarist Pasquale Grasso.

[Jazzrook]

Pianist Benny Green playing 'Monk's Dream' in 2011:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=iUB1odbIqiU

JR

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQbNXRyexI

I just discovered a great jazz guitarist Pasquale Grasso.

More of this guy. His playing is rather astounding, he sounds like Art Tatum or Bud Powell. His hands and fingers are huge, too.

[Ian Thumwood]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQbNXRyexI

I just discovered a great jazz guitarist Pasquale Grasso.

I have never heard of this guitarist but it is fascinating to hear someone who has so thoroughly absorbed the kind of jazz that was being performed 70 year ago. It is strange to hear bebop guitar like this as I think that so much of pre-1970's jazz guitar is underwhelming and you cant help wondering that he was born too late. Whenever I hear jazz guitar from the late forties / early fifties, the attack of players like Chuck Wayne, for example, never seems to share the confidence of attack of Charlie Christian. The endorsements of Pat Metheny are slightly out of proportion with this clip. Grasso stumbles over quite a few of these phrases and hearing the likes of Lage, Halvorson and Paul Jarret perform live this year so far, the enthusiasm seems a bit exaggerated. In some respects, the tine reminded me a lot of another gifted player who is really over-looked and frequently maligned on this board's old incarnation, Martin Taylor. I have a solo disc of his which is also impressive in this respect. Quite interesting to check out Grasso on line and see who has worked with. (the cultish Freddie Redd, Harry Allen, Buck Pizzarelli Frank Wess, etc) I could imagine him being the kind of artist Concord would have recorded in the 70s and 80s.

Curiously enough, I have been checking out the blues guitarist Breezy Rodio who has been cropping up on Delmark and, curious about his name, it transpires that he is Italian too.

[Joseph K]

In some respects, the tine reminded me a lot of another gifted player who is really over-looked and frequently maligned on this board's old incarnation, Martin Taylor. I have a solo disc of his which is also impressive in this respect.

I just bought an instruction book by this guy. BTW I don't think Grasso stumbles over any phrases but I do agree that his playing doesn't sound very modern.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Late Show’ – Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis
Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis with Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance, Larry Gales & Ben Riley
Prestige (rec. 1961)

[Serial_Apologist]

I have never heard of this guitarist but it is fascinating to hear someone who has so thoroughly absorbed the kind of jazz that was being performed 70 year ago. It is strange to hear bebop guitar like this as I think that so much of pre-1970's jazz guitar is underwhelming and you cant help wondering that he was born too late. Whenever I hear jazz guitar from the late forties / early fifties, the attack of players like Chuck Wayne, for example, never seems to share the confidence of attack of Charlie Christian. The endorsements of Pat Metheny are slightly out of proportion with this clip. Grasso stumbles over quite a few of these phrases and hearing the likes of Lage, Halvorson and Paul Jarret perform live this year so far, the enthusiasm seems a bit exaggerated. In some respects, the tine reminded me a lot of another gifted player who is really over-looked and frequently maligned on this board's old incarnation, Martin Taylor. I have a solo disc of his which is also impressive in this respect. Quite interesting to check out Grasso on line and see who has worked with. (the cultish Freddie Redd, Harry Allen, Buck Pizzarelli Frank Wess, etc) I could imagine him being the kind of artist Concord would have recorded in the 70s and 80s.

Curiously enough, I have been checking out the blues guitarist Breezy Rodio who has been cropping up on Delmark and, curious about his name, it transpires that he is Italian too.

There was a guitarist around in the 1940s who worked with Dizzy Gillespie called Bill DeArango, who stood out for the daringness of his lines, as heard on the four (maybe more) tracks Dizzy's septet lad down with Don Byas, Al Haig, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown and JC Heard in Feb 1946: Night in Tunisia, Anthropology, Ol' Man Rebop and 52nd Street Theme. I would have ascribed the chromatic freedom with which he wraps fast runs around and through the changes to Billy Bauer and the Tristano school. Paul Rutherford was astonished when he heard them. Ahead of his time: I read that DeArango moved into freer playing in the 1960s. Here's his Grauniad obit from 2006:

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/17/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

[Joseph K]

Now Spinning: Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969, The Bootleg Series no. 2. It just was pushed through our letterbox; I used to own this but it was robbed. Very happy to have it again, amazing music, half fusion half post-bop.

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus Quintet live in Berlin, 1972 with Joe Gardner, Hamiet Bluiett, John Foster & Roy Brooks:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=145XAQQun9Q

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Now Spinning: Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969, The Bootleg Series no. 2. It just was pushed through our letterbox; I used to own this but it was robbed. Very happy to have it again, amazing music, half fusion half post-bop.

Whenever something of mine that has had great value to me has been stolen, I always hope that it will be to the good, inasmuch that the recipient will in some way be "improved" by the having of it. Probably a bit pious to think that way, I have to admit.