What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

'Brilliant Corners' - Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk with Ernie Henry, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach, Clark Terry & Paul Chambers
Riverside Records (1957)

[elmo]

Coltrane solo of solo's on the wonderful "Moments Notice"

https://youtu.be/iosNQMGMVwY

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Reggie Workman's 'Summit Conference' with Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Julian Priester & Pheroan AkLaff in 1995:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=NJn8j_20msc

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Working from home yesterday, I was able to listen to a number of recent editions of JRR in the I-player. The change to Sunday afternoons means that I cannot always catch the programme live, either because I am elsewhere or because when I work Sunday I always listen to the football commentary before turning off before I have had enough of Robbie Savage. The recent programmes have produced some interesting requests, none more so than the ODJB with the British pianist Billy Jones. I listened attentively but it was a shame that his piano playing was too far n the background to make out exactly what he was playing. I have heard about this musician previously although I was not aware of him until about 10 years ago. You can find some information about him on line as well as a few "documentaries" on YouTube which only serve to make his brief tenure with this band less likely. It is intriguing to think that there was someone who knew how to play jazz piano in 1919 in this country but very odd to think that he remained so obscure. I think he ended up playing for dance bands in the 1920s but this documentary relocates to Romford in the late 1960s! There is a better film on line elsewhere but I cannot find it. It made me wonder if he was Britain's first jazz musician ?

[Stanfordian]

‘Clifford Brown & Max Roach’
Clifford Brown, Harold Land, George Morrow, Richie Powell & Max Roach
EmArcy (1954)

[Jazzrook]

Mal Waldron's haunting 26-minute 'The Seagulls Of Kristiansund' with Charlie Rouse, Woody Shaw, Reggie Workman & Ed Blackwell live at the Village Vanguard in 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCT7TsTWK-E

Also, a 10-minute version with Mal Waldron & Jeanne Lee live in Tokyo:

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

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

That has long been a favourite of mine. And proof of how good Charlie Rouse could be, too often dismissed. His albums pre and post Mr Monk are full of good stuff.

[Joseph K]

Miles Smiles

… and again His greatest acoustic album IMO.

[Jazzrook]

Max Roach Quartet playing 'Giant Steps' with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater & Tyrone Brown in East Berlin, 1984:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=fhb_QrphJ1U

JR

[Joseph K]

Max Roach Quartet playing 'Giant Steps' with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater & Tyrone Brown in East Berlin, 1984:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=fhb_QrphJ1U

JR

Quite a formidable tempo they're dealing with there!

[Stanfordian]

‘Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio’
Sonny Stitt and Oscar Peterson with Ray Brown & Ed Thigpen
Verve (1959)

[Joseph K]

Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain

[Jazzrook]

Reggie Workman's 1995 album 'Cerebral Caverns' with Sam Rivers, Geri Allen & Gerry Hemingway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNsm5lvL6Q

JR

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

This is not "listening" but reading. From a very reflective interview with Sonny Rollins in last week's New York Times Review...

"I’m also thinking about when you played with John Coltrane on “Tenor Madness.”2 There’s a part of that performance where you guys were trading fours and he played a lick and in response you played the same lick but with the notes reversed. That wasn’t meant as one-upmanship? David, I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this to many people. When I played with Coltrane, I had the impression — and back then it was true — that I was much more popular than him. I remember what Kamasi Washington said about “Tenor Madness”: “Sonny, you weren’t even really playing.” I wasn’t really playing. Coltrane was playing. I was only playing halfway, because I thought that I was the guy and that Coltrane was this young whippersnapper. That was my mind-set. It was immature.

So you were holding back to show your status? Exactly. I don’t want people to think that I’m saying, “Oh, wow, I could have played much better,” but that’s the story of “Tenor Madness.” My attitude on it wasn’t right."