What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

The John Scofield Organic Trio - Jazzwoche Burghausen 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-CNMqLc1g4

[Stanfordian]

‘Hi Voltage’ - Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley with Jackie McLean, Blue Mitchell, John Hicks, Bob Cranshaw & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1967)

[Joseph K]

For naysayers who think of McLaughlin as a shredder, listen to this:

The sense of swing and McLaughlin's fresh, sophisticated command of chromatic vocabulary are nothing less than exquisite.

[Joseph K]

Mike Stern - Donna Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4GMF1lY7Y

[Ian Thumwood]

I have been listened to the baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan disc "Smul's Paradise." The group features the organist Mike LaDonne who is more familiar for his own organ led "Groover Quartet" but this disc has him as a sideman alongside guitarist Peter Bernstein. Bernstein is probably best known for working in one of Sonny Rollin's last groups.

The album was originally envisaged as a tribute record to Don Patterson who I cannot recall ever hearing. It is quite interesting because the Patterson numbers such as "UP in Betty's Room" are pretty good. I had never heard of Patterson before but his bands included the likes of Sonny Stitt and Pat Martino at various times. Smulyan's record is pretty enjoyable and it is rare to hear a baritone in this context although there is form for this with the group with Ronnie Cuber and Lonnie Smith led by George Benson. Smulyan is one of the few jazz musicians I have spoken to and found him to be a really nice bloke. The liner notes describe the fact that he considers himself to be a be-bop musician and mentions the fact that he got started in the same Woody Herman band as Joe Lovano. I am usually more familiar hearing him in a big band context, whether the Vanguard Orchestra, Dave Holland, Gerald Wilson and George Gruntz . I have not heard him stretch out as he does on this really good natured session.

[Jazzrook]

Not jazz, but I was bowled over by this track from Caroline Shaw's 'Attacca Quartet' played on Iggy Pop's eclectic BBC Radio 6 programme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPY89YQmJQ

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Not jazz, but I was bowled over by this track from Caroline Shaw's 'Attacca Quartet' played on Iggy Pop's eclectic BBC Radio 6 programme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPY89YQmJQ

JR

Jazzrook

Thanks for posting this. I am impressed too. The music does put me in mind of some of the chamber music written by Gavin Bryars - thinking about pieces such as "After the requiem." I have never heard of Caroline Shaw before. Thanks for the link!

[Stanfordian]

‘The Thing to Do’ - Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell with Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor, Al Foster
Blue Note (1964)

[Serial_Apologist]

Jazzrook

Thanks for posting this. I am impressed too. The music does put me in mind of some of the chamber music written by Gavin Bryars - thinking about pieces such as "After the requiem." I have never heard of Caroline Shaw before. Thanks for the link!

She's not my cuppa - not enough harmonic depth - but you'll find a lot of other stuff from and about her by Googling.

[Jazzrook]

Don Patterson with Booker Ervin & Billy James from their 1964 album 'Hip Cake Walk':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=OQhT1vavuDQ

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Don Patterson with Booker Ervin & Billy James from their 1964 album 'Hip Cake Walk':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=OQhT1vavuDQ

JR

Interesting early example there of modal improvisation in soul jazz/hard bop: Jimmy Smith was still improvising using bop phraseology (heavely bluesfied of course) - Patterson must have been one of the first Hammondists before Larry Young, I would have thought.

Just to confuse things BTW there's another Don Patterson - a very good Scottish guitarist and friend of radical poet and songsmith Dick Gauguin who was Tim Garland's musical partner in the latter's Lammas, and has worked with Ken Hyder's Talisker.

[Ian Thumwood]

There was am article I read last week about Django Reinhart's "Artillerie Lourde" being based on two scales with the second going up a semi tone in the same fashion as "So what." This is not to say that he was playing modal jazz too but that this simple harmonic device had traction twenty years before the Miles Davis record.

[Serial_Apologist]

There was am article I read last week about Django Reinhart's "Artillerie Lourde" being based on two scales with the second going up a semi tone in the same fashion as "So what." This is not to say that he was playing modal jazz too but that this simple harmonic device had traction twenty years before the Miles Davis record.

Really? Can't say I can hear that in these two Django takes on the tune, which is standard ABA form for the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKF-MYfGtjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScvPsD1LZk

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I have been listened to the baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan disc "Smul's Paradise." The group features the organist Mike LaDonne who is more familiar for his own organ led "Groover Quartet" but this disc has him as a sideman alongside guitarist Peter Bernstein. Bernstein is probably best known for working in one of Sonny Rollin's last groups.

The album was originally envisaged as a tribute record to Don Patterson who I cannot recall ever hearing. It is quite interesting because the Patterson numbers such as "UP in Betty's Room" are pretty good. I had never heard of Patterson before but his bands included the likes of Sonny Stitt and Pat Martino at various times. Smulyan's record is pretty enjoyable and it is rare to hear a baritone in this context although there is form for this with the group with Ronnie Cuber and Lonnie Smith led by George Benson. Smulyan is one of the few jazz musicians I have spoken to and found him to be a really nice bloke. The liner notes describe the fact that he considers himself to be a be-bop musician and mentions the fact that he got started in the same Woody Herman band as Joe Lovano. I am usually more familiar hearing him in a big band context, whether the Vanguard Orchestra, Dave Holland, Gerald Wilson and George Gruntz . I have not heard him stretch out as he does on this really good natured session.

I've got that Gary Smulyan cd (on Capri) which I picked up for a couple of Euro from a market stall selling mostly old punk 45s. Remarkable the things you find for no reason. I got the two live CDs of Joe Henderson with Wynton Kelly's trio for 99p each in a rundown Welsh Dr Bernardo's! Anyway it's a very nice date all round, not always the case with baritones of a "certain" style. I find later "brute tone" Pepper Adams almost unlistenable.

Also Don Patterson was/is very highly regarded by organ players & enthusiasts. CK/out the Organissimo crew, huge fans, especially the records he made with Booker Ervin and longtime drummer Billy James. I remember he played Ronnie Scott's back in the 60s and they went head to head, Patterson trying to lose him by changing key after each chorus. He certainly has ze chops and taste. Not a limited blues "gurgler".

[Ian Thumwood]

Really? Can't say I can hear that in these two Django takes on the tune, which is standard ABA form for the time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKF-MYfGtjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScvPsD1LZk

Sa

The reason you cannot hear it is because it is the wrong tune!

Should be "Fleche D' or"