What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Hiya Joseph K,

Although I love it I know diddly-squat about jazz. If you mean John McLaughlin, I've looked him up and I have never previously encountered him. I'm playing some of his music on YouTube at the minute.

Hiya Stan,

I meant the Dolphy record is wonderful - but I am glad it's made you check out McLaughlin. Given what I know about your taste in jazz, this might be up your alley:

[Ian Thumwood]

Inteview with McLaughlin here where he discusses his new album via a telephone call from his home in Monaco...

https://jazztimes.com/features/interviews/john-mclaughlin-discusses-mahavishnu-orchestra-liberation-time-and-more/

i think the process of making this album will raise some eyebrows amongst the more traditional members in this chatroom.


I have been revisiting some old CDs this week including clarinetist Andy Biskin's "Trio Tragico" from 2005 where he leads a group with trumpeter Dave Ballou and bassist Drew Gress. There if often a "folkish" element in Biskin's work which probably reflects his time as an assistant researcher with Alan Lomax. This album has a degree of whimsicality about it and I suppose you could describe it as what Jimmy Guiffre might have produced if he was asked to make a soundtrack for "Wallace & Gromit. " The group sounds totally unique and I think that it is one of the most original albums of the 2000's. There is a good-natured degree of pep with the livelier tracks but it is the pathos of the more thoughtful pieces that pack the punch....

[Stanfordian]

'Solid' – Grant Green
with James Spaulding, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1964)


'The Jody Grind' – Horace Silver
with Woody Shaw, Tyrone Washington, James Spaulding, Larry Ridley & Roger Humphries
Blue Note (1967)

[Serial_Apologist]

'Solid'

That's a strange concidence, seeing my heading for next week's offerings. How often in the lifetime of a jazz person does the word "solid" come up? Not often, I'll wager - definitely not twice in one week...

"There are more things in heaven and earth than.... " etc etc.

[Bryn]

"Darkened, yet shone" (N. O. Moore, John Edwards, Eddie Prévost)



I am usually somewhat wary of edits from live improvisations but a fine job has been made of this 52, or so, minutes from an August 2017 Iklectik gig.

[Stanfordian]

‘Some Other Stuff’ – Grachan Moncur III
with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee & Tony Williams
Blue Note (1964)

[Serial_Apologist]

"Darkened, yet shone" (N. O. Moore, John Edwards, Eddie Prévost)



I am usually somewhat wary of edits from live improvisations but a fine job has been made of this 52, or so, minutes from an August 2017 Iklectik gig.

Now, was I there? I'm sure I would have said hello, so I think probably not. 2017 now seems so long ago. So thanks for reproducing this.

[burning dog]

early-ish john mclaughlin

[Jazzrook]

John Coltrane(who died 54 years ago today) with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones playing 'Lonnie's Lament' live in Berlin, 1963:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=n_Ve5W4MWiw

JR

[Joseph K]

Recently uploaded early Holdsworth:

[Serial_Apologist]

Recently uploaded early Holdsworth:

Terrific! Thanks, JK.

[Joseph K]

Coltrane Live at Newport 63 & 65

Specifically Impressions from 63 and One Down, One Up from 65.

[Stanfordian]

'Straight Life' - Jimmy Smith
with Quentin Warren & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1961)

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus with George Adams, Hamiet Bluiett, Jon Faddis, Don Pullen & Dannie Richmond playing 'Fables of Faubus' live at Carnegie Hall on January 19, 1974:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=3cWxSGs-NR4

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Blowing in from Chicago’ – Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore
with Horace Silver, Curly Russell & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1957)