John Coltrane - Blue Train
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Less than 2 months before Eric died.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostCharles Mingus with Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Jaki Byard & Dannie Richmond playing a 44-minute version of 'Fables of Faubus' in Stuttgart, April 28, 1964:
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‘Open House’ & ‘Plain Talk’ - Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith with Blue Mitchell, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, Jimmy Smith, Quentin Warren & Donald Bailey
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'Saturn' from Interstellar Space by John Coltrane. I mention this a lot I know but it is sui generis... full of passages that are so full of awe and profundity... truly mystical and radiantly colourful.Comment
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Most grateful for this Joseph - just managing to catch up on a few things! The version they did on this of Body & Soul is particularly moving. I'm most of the way through the second of these two parts of that concert. The barnstorming version of Evolution is mostly collective improvisation, but contains a solo by McCoy Tyner that is remarkable even for him, being almost atonal. McCoy used to say that he didn't really understand what Coltrane was about at that time, and not until he made such recordings as Sahara in the early 1970s, but the evidence here belies that. Some of my favourite Tyner playing is from this period - just listen to him following Pharaoh's usual scream-up on Afro Blue!Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
Here is part 2, but be warned: best make this your last listening experience of the day, because you may not know what else to play afterwards!
PS - Surely there's a second bass player on here??Comment
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You're welcome, SA.
I need to get round to listening to the second disk of that.
I used to own the Live in Seattle album, though at that time only in a one-CD version, which was the only edition I could find at that time. So - pleased to see the whole thing is now available.Comment
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The Steve Lehman disc is really impressive. The playing time is quite miserly yet there is something always going on with the music. The Henry Threadgill album I bought recently was also on Pi and the duration of music on that record was also under 40 minutes. I think that it is curious that so many of the people "thinking" about the mechanics of jazz at the moment play alto. In addition to Lehman and Threadgill, the last Steve Coleman double-CD was demonstrative that the music he is producing now is as significant n the development of jazz as Ornette Coleman. Lehman is a pupil of SC and, O think, also studied with Jackie McLean. Whilst I can understand the influence of Steve Coleman, any resemblance to Jackie McLean is hard to discern although I sometimes detect an element of Paul Desmond's coolness in his approach. Like Coleman, there is almost a mathematical feel in Lehman's music whilst being quite visceral at the same time.
For anyone curious about contemporary jazz, Steve Lehman seems quite a significant figure - he is effectively what I could describe as a "post-free" player. Like so much of the more interesting jazz being produced these days, the written approach within jazz seems to be opening up more possibilities within jazz these days than the more improvised approach. If you lump Lehman in with Steve Coleman and Henry Threadgill, there are all theorists and are probably as representative of the current state of more explorative elements in jazz than any others. These are the musicians who are now setting the agenda.Comment
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John Coltrane 'Live in Japan', 1966 with Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison & Rashied Ali:
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Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostJohn Coltrane 'Live in Japan', 1966 with Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison & Rashied Ali:
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My favourite performance on that is the first one, 'Afro Blue'. Sanders largely eschews extended playing techniques on the performance on 'My Favorite Things', and I think Coltrane actually plays alto sax on the intro to that. 'Peace on Earth' is another favourite ...
I have fond memories of listening to the Japan Concerts in their entirety in 2014 in a stimulated and stoned state of mind, after having seen John McLaughlin at the South Bank Centre, once I'd made it all the way back to Redditch...Comment
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I wold imagine Redditch was never quite the same again, after you returned from that concert!Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
My favourite performance on that is the first one, 'Afro Blue'. Sanders largely eschews extended playing techniques on the performance on 'My Favorite Things', and I think Coltrane actually plays alto sax on the intro to that. 'Peace on Earth' is another favourite ...
I have fond memories of listening to the Japan Concerts in their entirety in 2014 in a stimulated and stoned state of mind, after having seen John McLaughlin at the South Bank Centre, once I'd made it all the way back to Redditch...
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Interesting town. The home of the Anglepoise, and Tom Paddock,” the Redditch Needlepointer “ a champion bare knuckle boxer.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostI wold imagine Redditch was never quite the same again, after you returned from that concert!
Plus of course its spectacular and impenetrable “bus only “ ring road, which has foiled even the most experienced drivers.
But JK can tell us more , of course.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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What about Redditch's greatest fictional invetigative journalist?Originally posted by teamsaint View PostComment
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‘Quiet Kenny’ - Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham with Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
New Jazz (1959)Comment
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Michael Garrick Piano & Orchestra: Meteors Close at Hand (1994)
Double CD.
"Michael Garrick is a musician in the great Ellington tradition. These suites present a memorable gallery of jazz scenes and portraits - witty, evocative and swinging". Geoffrey Smith (BBC RaDIO 3) - from the liner notes.
Earlier on:
Waldron - Haslam - 1994
Mal Waldron, piano; George Haslam, baritone sax. Mostly standards but a couple of free improvisations.Comment
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