What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stanfordian]

‘Blues Up & Down’- Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis
Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin with Lloyd Mayer, Larry Gales & Ben Riley
Jazzland (1961)

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Workin'

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Workin'

Relaxin' now.

[Joseph K]

Relaxin' now.

Now: Cookin'

[Stanfordian]

‘Somethin' Else’– Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1958)

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - Ascension


…

… again.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Jazz Jamaica Allstars performance at the Royal Festival Hall, part of the 2001 London Jazz Festival. And what a broadcast! - this was an expanded JJ, with Kevin Robinson's trumpet augmented by Guy Barker's, Annie Whitehead joining Dennis Rollins as the trombone section, Denys Baptiste, Andy Sheppard and Jason Yarde on tenor, alto and soprano saxes, Alex Wilson on piano, Alan Weeks guitar (I'd forgotten how good he was), Orphy Robinson vibes, and leader/bassist Gary Crosby doing the announces and giving Jezza a preceding interview, in which he talks about Uncle Ranglin and the old guys who kept the jazz flag flying after Joe H and Milton BG passed on through Ska and into Reggae in the 1960s. Fantastic Last Night-type audience response. This was a Radio 3 broadcast I'm glad I got on cassette.

I don't have the drummer* - must see if I can find who that was, so as to complete details on my index card!

*Edit - Kenrick Rowe, it was.

[Joseph K]

John Scofield - Hand Jive

[jarvis]

IMHO, JS is the most remarkable jazz guitarist of all time

[Joseph K]

IMHO, JS is the most remarkable jazz guitarist of all time

He's very good. I'm currently listening to his performance of 'Milestones' with Joe Henderson.

[Serial_Apologist]

He's very good. I'm currently listening to his performance of 'Milestones' with Joe Henderson.

When Miles died, the BBC contacted Ian Carr asking him to do a tribute programme on Radio 3 "because" Ian said,"I had all the contacts". In the event, considering the emotional weight Carr did a pretty good programme, consisting of his choice of recordings interspersed with on-the-spot phone calls across The Pond to people Miles had worked with, one of them being "Sco". Luckly I had a blank cassette to hand and was able to record the whole thing, which I still have.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Here's another remarkable guitarist, "Hey Hey"! I finally worked out the fingering for the A chord figures....http://youtu.be/Fm1qtX7Mz5w

[Stanfordian]

'The Sidewinder' - Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan with Joe Henderson, Billy Higgins, Barry Harris & Bob Cranshaw
Blue Note (1963)

[Stunsworth]

Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour l’Echafaud

The fairly recent 3 x 10” LP set in very well recorded mono.

[Joseph K]

Robert Glasper - Stella by Starlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZYGaOP41U