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‘Blues Walk’ - Lou Donaldson
with Herman Foster, Peck Morrison, Dave Bailey & Ray Barretto
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I guessed wrong! I thought you had posted Coltrane's Sun Ship, also recorded 55 years ago today.Originally posted by Jazzrook View Post
In addition, it's 50 years ago - almost to the exact time! - that this wonderful thing happened:
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Listening to the Bim Huis Julian Lage Trio posted above - he's an awesome player and I highly recommend it!Comment
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I keep forgetting to change the CDs over in my car so have been listening a lot to Bobby Previte's "Latin for Travellers" band. I think this was released some time in the late 1990s and I acquired this at a time when I was listening to quite a bit of this drummer's work. He seems to have receded a bit from the profile he enjoyed in the late 80s and 1990s when he was closely associated with the likes of John Zorn and the whole Downtown scene. There was an album with his band "Weather clear, track fast" which I loved but the Travellers are a stripped down quartet with guitarist Marc Ducret, guitar / bass Jerome Harris, the keyboards of Jamie Saft and the leader on drums. It is an odd line up because effectively it is a bar band, the music almost being akin to MMW but without the funk and free jazz elements. I think that Previte is seriously under-rated. His music sounds totally unique and he is a terrific drummer. However, I find Ducret a strange guitarist, an album avant-grunge musician and not as appealing as Harris. Jamie Saft is another musician who emerged through the bands that Previte led and he seems to accentuate the unruliness of Ducret. The music has some brilliant grooves yet Ducret and Saft are on a mission to pull the harmony as far out as possible. What could have been a good natured jam becomes, by contrast, something more chaotic. Listening to the record again this week, it is one that I have warmed to although I think Previte's drums are essential to the music retaining an even keel. Amazing to think that Previte, one of the enfant terrible of the 1980s, is now approaching 70!Comment
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Art Pepper with Stanley Cowell, Cecil McBee & Roy Haynes playing a moving version of 'Patricia' in 1978.
Judging by the comments, the fictional detective Harry Bosch is responsible for turning on many readers to Art Pepper.
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The second album on the third disk of the Sonny Rollins Prestige Years box - Saxophone Colossus.Comment
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The first three of the Ray Charles Eight Classic Albums quad CD box set: "Ray Charles", "The Great Ray Charles" (1957 respectively), and "Yes Indeed" (1958), on Real Gone Jazz. Quality not quite up to the original vinyls, though better than the bootleg double LP I bought 40 years ago as replacement for lend-outs that were never returned, but annoying for they way they've sequenced tracks way out of chronology without listing track dates, and there's virtually nothing about line-ups, most of the booklet being devoted to publicising the rest of the Real Gone Jazz catalogue. Missing from this collection are "Tell the Truth", "It Should Have Been Me", the live later extended version of "Drown in My Own Tears" and "I'm Moving On" - 4 of my favourite Ray Charles numbers which I fortunately transferred to D90s before dispensing with the vinyl double LP - but very nice to have this, nonetheless.Comment
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The missing 4 tracks from your collection are on a 3-CD set 'King of Cool:The Genius of Ray Charles'(ATLANTIC).Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Thinking of getting a copy.
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Plus a few more. n'all! Thanks, JR.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostThe missing 4 tracks from your collection are on a 3-CD set 'King of Cool:The Genius of Ray Charles'(ATLANTIC).
Thinking of getting a copy.
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This is excellent:
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George Russell with Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Dave Baker, Steve Swallow & Joe Hunt playing 'Round Midnight' in 1961:
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That has to be one of the greatest ever recordings of "[A]Round Midnight". Plus, I always wish we had more George Russell on piano in recordings.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostGeorge Russell with Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Dave Baker, Steve Swallow & Joe Hunt playing 'Round Midnight' in 1961:
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‘Blue & Sentimental’ - Ike Quebec
with Grant Green, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones
also Sam Jones, Louis Hayes, Sonny Clark (track 8 only ‘Count Every Star’)
Blue Note (1961, released 1963)Comment
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