What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

I can't remember where exactly I left off listening to John Coltrane's European Tour 1962 for it was some time ago, but I've started listening to disk 4. The first track is Impressions and Coltrane is on FIRE. Awesome stuff. I wonder if Jazzrook ended up buying this set... it's fantastic.

Disk 5 now.

[Stanfordian]

'See You at the Fair' - Ben Webster
with Hank Jones, Roger Kellaway, Richard Davis & Osie Johnson
Impulse (1964) reissue with 3 extra tracks

[Serial_Apologist]

Paul Dunmall and Tony Bianco: Tribute to Coltrane - Slam Records, 2012

A tenor/drums duo, this hour and a quarter-length CD presents nine late Coltrane compositions, including a just under 4-minute rendition of "Reverend King", the one ballad. As might be expected knowing Paul, this is to a great extent in the spirit of 'Trane's "Interstellar Space" - the sax soloing free but always rooted, Bianco very much after the manner of Rashied Ali, though more audibly in pattern with Dunmall's shifts between motivic and more extended phrasings than its notable forerunner, one or two of the tracks being more rerminiscent of those previous occasions with Elvin when the rest of the band would drop out and allow the two to crest. An hour plus of sax and drums might seem a lot, even for these two, but the odd thing that experiencing all the tracks to be the same length, whether ranging from the 14.5 minute version of "Ascent" down to the 4 and a half minutes of "Wise One", can be taken as a trusty "measure" of both quality and depth in this one.

[Joseph K]

Paul Dunmall and Tony Bianco: Tribute to Coltrane - Slam Records, 2012

A tenor/drums duo, this hour and a quarter-length CD presents nine late Coltrane compositions, including a just under 4-minute rendition of "Reverend King", the one ballad. As might be expected knowing Paul, this is to a great extent in the spirit of 'Trane's "Interstellar Space" - the sax soloing free but always rooted, Bianco very much after the manner of Rashied Ali, though more audibly in pattern with Dunmall's shifts between motivic and more extended phrasings than its notable forerunner, one or two of the tracks being more rerminiscent of those previous occasions with Elvin when the rest of the band would drop out and allow the two to crest. An hour plus of sax and drums might seem a lot, even for these two, but the odd thing that experiencing all the tracks to be the same length, whether ranging from the 14.5 minute version of "Ascent" down to the 4 and a half minutes of "Wise One", can be taken as a trusty "measure" of both quality and depth in this one.

This record sounds right up my street.

[Serial_Apologist]

This record sounds right up my street.

This kind of thing, except Paul's on alto here, unusually. When Elton Dean died, he left Paul his saxello - rather as had Dolphy his flute to Coltrane. Not sure about his alto - I think this is a different model from Elton's, it looks smarter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77l3qQQlpc

I rate Paul to be a giant in the music, one of the few to understand and digest 'Trane comprehensively from end-to-end. These youtubers of the two are well worth checking out.

[Jazzrook]

This record sounds right up my street.

There's also a 2-CD set 'Homage To John Coltrane'(2015) by the same pair:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=4qXIhZvdNo4

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

There's also a 2-CD set 'Homage To John Coltrane'(2015) by the same pair:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=4qXIhZvdNo4

JR

That's the one - thanks JR.

On second thoughts, maybe a second take.

[Joseph K]

This kind of thing, except Paul's on alto here, unusually. When Elton Dean died, he left Paul his saxello - rather as had Dolphy his flute to Coltrane. Not sure about his alto - I think this is a different model from Elton's, it looks smarter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77l3qQQlpc

I rate Paul to be a giant in the music, one of the few to understand and digest 'Trane comprehensively from end-to-end. These youtubers of the two are well worth checking out.

There's also a 2-CD set 'Homage To John Coltrane'(2015) by the same pair:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=4qXIhZvdNo4

JR

Thanks.

[Stanfordian]

‘Heavy!!!’ - The Brooker Erwin Sextet
Booker Ervin, Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Alan Dawson
Blue Note (1966)

[Joseph K]

Thrust just arrived.

Herbie's variety of jazz-funk is the funkiest music I know... but then, I tend to think jazz-funk is funkier than pure funk, with respect to fans of James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone etc. this is what I think.

[Joseph K]

Just listening now to Autumn by Paul Dunmall and Tony Bianco. Fantastic. Really quite ecstatic - I completely concur with what you say, S_A.

Now listening to the link Jazzrook provided - but I think this is called 'Expression', not 'The Drum Thing' - though I could be mistaken.

[Ian Thumwood]

Sun Ra -"Space is the place" -this is really rugged and doesn't show the Arkestra in the best of light. Quite shocked at how out of tune some of the ensemble playing is.

Alexander Scriabin - "poem of ecstasy"

Arthur Blythe - "Lenox Street Breakdown" and "In the tradition."

Jaimeo Brown - "Transcendence" - a mixture of sampled field recordings with the leader / drummer fronting a trio with the great J D Allen. There is a Coltrane-like intensity in the music although the samples of spirituals actually makes the record sound slightly disturbing.

Harold Land / Bobby Hutcherson, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, etc- "At Onkel Po's."

Steve Coleman - "Synovial Joints" - a brilliant record.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis on David Sanborn's NBC TV show in '89. Lovely Kenny Garrett alto halfway through, on Mr Pastorius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=7U0gDkriczc

S_A - you should copy and paste the web address rather than typing it out! It's just as well you described the video, otherwise we would be none-the-wiser.

I'm listening to it, anyway. Might skip this interview part though.

The guitarist is a new one to me.

[Stanfordian]

‘Newer Than New’ - Barry Harris Quintet
Barry Harris with Lonnie Hillyer, Charles McPherson, Ernie Farrow & Clifford Jarvis
Riverside (1961)

[Serial_Apologist]

S_A - you should copy and paste the web address rather than typing it out! It's just as well you described the video, otherwise we would be none-the-wiser.

I'm listening to it, anyway. Might skip this interview part though.

The guitarist is a new one to me.

It came up as first on a page of Miss Cellanious links, but next time, OK!