What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

John Stevens with Ed Jones, Byron Wallen & Gary Crosby playing 'Dudu's Gone' in 1992:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Suv4mygtg_s

JR

Thanks Jazzrook. I seem to remember that band did a tour around that time - hadn't realised they had recorded. Stevens was asking around the audience for places to billet. I ended up putting Ed Jones up for the night, and played him a lot of celebrated British recordings from the 1960s and 70s - none of which he knew anything about! I think that was true of quite a few of the guys who came to our attention at that time.

[Ian Thumwood]

Thanks Jazzrook. I seem to remember that band did a tour around that time - hadn't realised they had recorded. Stevens was asking around the audience for places to billet. I ended up putting Ed Jones up for the night, and played him a lot of celebrated British recordings from the 1960s and 70s - none of which he knew anything about! I think that was true of quite a few of the guys who came to our attention at that time.

This is a really interesting comment because I have also been staggered my what jazz musicians listen to or the jazz that they are aware of. It is something that I had been aware of for a long while and first came across when I had lunch with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra during a workshop at Vienne. The musicians I sat next too were full of awe for a musicians several of them had worked for and talked about her with reverence. That was Barbara Streisand! Another French musician I met who is quite well known was totally unaware of Herbie Nichols. You always think that these musicians will be familiar with everything and perhaps explain the merits of really obscure musicians. I find the most informed musicians are often the semi-pro musicians. I appreciate that musicians are often going to have broad taste but having an affinity to a pop musician was something that staggered me.

[burning dog]

Anthony Braxton

"The writer, lecturer, and educator cites John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, and Warne Marsh as major influences, but has also disclosed his love for the music of Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand."

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/anthony-braxton

[Jazzrook]

Sonny Red with Blue Mitchell, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw & Al Heath from their 1960 album 'Breezing':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBWERC8O8ho

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Back to the Tracks’ - Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks with Jackie McLean (track 2 only) Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Blue Note (recorded 1960: first released 1998)

[Joseph K]

Currently learning this tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD21FG2Nmcw

[Ian Thumwood]

Anthony Braxton

"The writer, lecturer, and educator cites John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, and Warne Marsh as major influences, but has also disclosed his love for the music of Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand."



https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/...nthony-braxton

Thanks for that information. I am not so surprised by someone like Braxton having more open ears. I have read about her being a perfectionist and demanding to work for yet the effort to bend over backwards to work in one of her orchestras and then praise her to the heavens almost seems a total rejection of the stereotypical "be-bop" musician image. There are some "pop acts" that you can appreciate jazz musicians having a degree of respect for and these would probably be those artists who owe a large debt to jazz themselves. (Thinking of the likes of Prince, EW&F, Ray Charles, Randy Crawford, Chaka Khan, etc.) I have a perception of Barbara Streisand as being distinctly middle-of-the-road and whilst she may be a technically brilliant singer, what she produces if effectively music for people who don't wish to be challenged by what they hear. This is before you even get to the fact of her unsavoury political views.

[Joseph K]

Mike Stern - Give and Take

The first tune is a nice rendition of Cole Porter's 'I Love You' -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoEFzq43Xcs

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for that information. I am not so surprised by someone like Braxton having more open ears. I have read about her being a perfectionist and demanding to work for yet the effort to bend over backwards to work in one of her orchestras and then praise her to the heavens almost seems a total rejection of the stereotypical "be-bop" musician image. There are some "pop acts" that you can appreciate jazz musicians having a degree of respect for and these would probably be those artists who owe a large debt to jazz themselves. (Thinking of the likes of Prince, EW&F, Ray Charles, Randy Crawford, Chaka Khan, etc.) I have a perception of Barbara Streisand as being distinctly middle-of-the-road and whilst she may be a technically brilliant singer, what she produces if effectively music for people who don't wish to be challenged by what they hear. This is before you even get to the fact of her unsavoury political views.

I seem to remember the drummer John Stevens saying that his favourite (or one of his favourite) singers was Marlene Dietrich.

[Ian Thumwood]

I seem to remember the drummer John Stevens saying that his favourite (or one of his favourite) singers was Marlene Dietrich.

But maybe not for musical reasons ?

[Stanfordian]

‘Tough’ Duff’ - Brother Jack McDuff
Brother Jack McDuff with Jimmy Forrest, Lem Winchester & Bill Elliot
Prestige (1960)

[Jazzrook]

The first official release of part of the 1962 Graz concert by the John Coltrane Quartet:

http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=28368

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

But maybe not for musical reasons ?

[Serial_Apologist]

While thinking about the problematic of short excerpts of free improvisation and avant jazz, as presented on Freeness, I came across this link to an hour-long comprovisation by the British pianist Alexander Hawkins, who I think of as in the lineage of Keith Tippett in many respects, not least as now being Louis Moholo's most frequent duetting partner. This is on the current Cafe Oto menu for January, since Alex is playing his part in Anthony Braxton's latest standards-performing outfit, on a 3-day residency at the venue from the 19th-21st. Apart from Braxton, I can think of few others operating in this Third Stream/Second Viennese School crossover area these days: the quest for new forms and sonorities has mostly gone elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhvC2GRk1Q

Ironically the Tuesday date (the 21st) clashes with Ingrid Laubrock at The Vortex, given that Ingrid is a participant in another of Braxton's projects - or was last time I heard.

[Joseph K]

Mike Stern - Give and Take

This again. Tis superb.