What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Tenor Freak]

NP: "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" - Mingus from LP "Changes One" (Atlantic, 1975)

[Stanfordian]

‘Groove’ - The Complete Legendary 1961 Sessions - Ben Webster
with Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Les McCann, Lawrence 'Tricky' Lofton, George Freeman, Herbie Lewis & Ron Jefferson
Pacific Jazz (1961)

[elmo]

Dug out the classic 'Birth of the cool' album today, it still sounds wonderful a perfect combination of composition, arrangement and soloist.

This is a nice later version of 'Venus De Milo' recorded in 1957 with Gerry, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn and Henry Grimes soloing and most of the arrangement retained

https://youtu.be/o4SpHRVT10M

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Dug out the classic 'Birth of the cool' album today, it still sounds wonderful a perfect combination of composition, arrangement and soloist.

This is a nice later version of 'Venus De Milo' recorded in 1957 with Gerry, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn and Henry Grimes soloing and most of the arrangement retained

https://youtu.be/o4SpHRVT10M

elmo

Many thanks for that, elmo, which has persuaded me to order a copy of 'The Gerry Mulligan Songbook' with extra tracks(very cheap!).

JR

[elmo]

Many thanks for that, elmo, which has persuaded me to order a copy of 'The Gerry Mulligan Songbook' with extra tracks(very cheap!).

JR

Thats the copy that I own and all the tracks are excellent including the bonus tracks'

Some of the tracks have Alan Eager on alto - he's very good too.

elmo

[Stanfordian]

‘Bluesnik’ – Jackie McLean
with Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Drew, Doug Watkins & Pete La Roca
Blue Note (1961)

[Serial_Apologist]

Yesterday I was re-listening to the Elton Dean remembrance session of June 2010 recorded by Jezza's team at his Dalston flat, which was one of those blows that just went to show how brilliant freely improvised jazz can turn out with musicians so well attuned to each other. I was unable to find any link to the performance, which I am lucky to have on cassette, but the BBC page below includes two very short clips from it which can be played (unlike the programme as a whole) - one from the session, the other a quick tour around the premises looking at some of Elton's and his wife's posters:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009sf4k

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009sf5l

Of those performing the great drummer Tony Levin would be gone within ten months; the others - trumpeter Jim Dvorak (whose name Jez annoyingly mispronounced "De Vorak"), saxophonist Simon Picard, bassist Paul Rogers and pianist Alex Maguire are still around, but as in the cases of so many British artists, one hardly ever gets to hear them on the BBC unless their names get picked up for Jazz Record Requests. While listening I was struck by the sheer inventiveness of these musicians improvising out of thin air and the limitless inspiration afforded when boundaries are tacit, worked out as they go along, rather than by virtue of pre-imposed frameworks.

[Joseph K]

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

[Stanfordian]

‘The Jazz Giants’ 56 – Lester Young
with Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Teddy Wilson, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey & Jo Jones
Verve (1956)

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus with Jackie McLean, J.R. Monterose, Mal Waldron & Willie Jones playing the classic 'Pithecanthropus Erectus'.
It always astonishes me that this was recorded as early as January, 1956:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=p0H2G_W-O0I

JR

[Quarky]

It may not have been mentioned yet, but I'm listening to
"The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's", the unreleased London live performance of the 1972 sextet of Charles Mingus, appearing in a box of 3 CDs, to celebrate the centenary of the double bass player, born on April 22, 1922.

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/14760

[Jazzrook]

It may not have been mentioned yet, but I'm listening to
"The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's", the unreleased London live performance of the 1972 sextet of Charles Mingus, appearing in a box of 3 CDs, to celebrate the centenary of the double bass player, born on April 22, 1922.

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/14760

Review of " The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's":

https://londonjazznews.com/2022/04/19/mingus-the-lost-album-from-ronnie-scotts-rec-1972/?amp=1

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Orange was the colour..." apart from being on Plays Piano (my JRR request) was a feature of the Mingus band with Dolphy, Jordan, Coles etc. They still played it on tour after Johnny Coles was taken ill. And indeed up into the next decade with new members...
Here's a good video of Mingus et al playing it in Oslo in 1970 with an early version of the RS band above, but with Jaki Byard and Eddie Preston on trumpet. Bobby Jones has the longest hair!

http://youtu.be/quutv2SF7_E

[Jazzrook]

"Orange was the colour..." apart from being on Plays Piano (my JRR request) was a feature of the Mingus band with Dolphy, Jordan, Coles etc. They still played it on tour after Johnny Coles was taken ill. And indeed up into the next decade with new members...
Here's a good video of Mingus et al playing it in Oslo in 1970 with an early version of the RS band above, but with Jaki Byard and Eddie Preston on trumpet. Bobby Jones has the longest hair!

http://youtu.be/quutv2SF7_E

Wonderful to see that, BN.
A really haunting Mingus composition.
I have a CD of this sextet, 'Live in Rotterdam 1970' which is probably hard to find now.
Here's 'The Man Who Never Sleeps':

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

JR

[Jazzrook]

Richard Williams' encounter with Mingus in 1972:

https://thebluemoment.com/2022/04/22/mingus-at-50/

JR