What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

Dig that backbeat!

Mongesi would be gone inside a year.

I wonder if Mingus ever heard that band, or knew of its existence. I think he would have appreciated: they both had that Ellington grounding and drew on miscellaneous sources. I've been listening to all my Mingus recordings - a natural link to the Dolphy stuff previously - including various programme series. I love this story:

"Hey Charles, what you doing employing a white musician in your band?"

"Charlie Mariano? He's not white, he's Italian!"

I've been tempted to tell that story to a neighbour, who's Italian, and whose wife is black. Lovely family - two small children - but, hmmm, neighbours and that, y'know...

Thanks for that. S_A
I heard many of those 'Jazz in Britain' programmes but somehow missed the Brotherhood of Breath one. I'm sure Mingus would have loved the band.
Liked the Charlie Mariano story but it could be tricky explaining it to your Italian/black neighbours!

JR

[Joseph K]

Two tracks from Sonny Rollins's album 'Tour de Force' - Two Different Worlds and My Ideal, which concludes my listening to the boxed set 'Sonny Rollins: The Prestige Years'.

I think next I'll start listening my way through the boxed set Thelonious Monk: The Complete Album Collection 1954-57.

[teamsaint]

World Statesman.
Dizzy Gillespie.

Loving this. Certainly helping my working day go with a swing.

[Stanfordian]

‘Street Singer’– Tina Brooks & Jackie McLean
with Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1960, released 1980)


A super line up for sure!

[Serial_Apologist]

Buddy DeFranco/Tony Gumina Quartet album "Pol.y.tones" (1963)

Here the twofold interest is on the possibly under-recognised Tony Gumina's remarkable dexterity on the brand of accordion he is using here, combining squeeze box and organ by way of internal electronics enabling him to add rich textures, and the album's anticipation in some senses of Django Bates's Human Chain in its early days as a trio, in which he was sometimes given to gently parody the cocktail lounge ethos on much of this record. In other respects the LP is an early example of jazz/pop crossover. DeFranco, with connections to Ellington as well as West Coast and sometimes maligned as over-cerebral, at others an important translator of Parker's ideas to the clarinet - thought at the time to be past its vintage - chooses second place for himself here in favour of the spotlight being on Gumina.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeGw8qCO6s

[Jazzrook]

Italian pianist Giorgio Gaslini playing 'Ghosts' from his 1990 solo album of Albert Ayler tunes:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Oi1uL-Sc480

JR

[Joseph K]

Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1

[Joseph K]

Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent

[Stanfordian]

‘Preach Brother!’- Don Wilkerson
With Sonny Clark, Grant Green, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins, Jual Curtis
Blue Note (1962)

[Joseph K]

This has just appeared on youtube.

[elmo]

Don't see Roland kirk tracks making many appearances on this site, so here is a great track with a marvellous line up of Roland with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson playing Monk's "Evidence"

https://youtu.be/yggv0BYyfak

elmo

[Stanfordian]

‘Blues Walk’ - Lou Donaldson
with Herman Foster, Peck Morrison, Dave Bailey & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1958)

[Jazzrook]

Don't see Roland kirk tracks making many appearances on this site, so here is a great track with a marvellous line up of Roland with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson playing Monk's "Evidence"

https://youtu.be/yggv0BYyfak

elmo

Thanks, elmo.
The Jaki Byard Experience is one of my favourite albums.
Here's Roland Kirk with Andrew Hill, Vernon Martin & Henry Duncan playing 'Meeting on Termini's Corner' from the 1962 album 'Domino':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ELnvM5xJXvc

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't see Roland kirk tracks making many appearances on this site, so here is a great track with a marvellous line up of Roland with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson playing Monk's "Evidence"

https://youtu.be/yggv0BYyfak

elmo

I too love that group. I could be wrong but I don't think Alan Dawson gets much mention let alone many plaudits these days, yet what a fantastic drummer he was! I hadn't realised until checking just now that he taught Tony Williams, and that he was Dawson's first pupil in what turned out to be quite a list.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I too love that group. I could be wrong but I don't think Alan Dawson gets much mention let alone many plaudits these days, yet what a fantastic drummer he was! I hadn't realised until checking just now that he taught Tony Williams, and that he was Dawson's first pupil in what turned out to be quite a list.

Booker Ervin's "Freedom Book" and "Space Book" with that same rhythm section are both magnificent. In fact rhythm section is poor description for what are fully integrated collective performances. More remarkable in that Alan Dawson had just got off a train and raced to the studio so very little rehearsal. Sonny Rollins late 50s trio dates with Dawson in Europe are also first rank. Interestingly Phil Woods didn't get on too well with them (in his opinion) even though his Musique d'Bois Muse date is one of my favourites of his.

Off topic, but listening again to Bill Evans live in Paris with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker and struck how good they are. Israels was/is a wonderful woody bass player.

BN.