What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Interview with Eric Dolphy, after show, Amsterdam April 1964.

I don't think I've heard this before, what comes over is the warmth and enthusiasm. Great player great voice, and as he says of the future, "time will tell", unfortunately far too soon.

http://youtu.be/kJ1JqYinGCM

There's also this extraordinary footage, incorporated into an interview from 1975 with Eric Dolphy's parents. Towards the end his mother says Dolphy never made much in the way of money, then one remembers how generous he was towards Coltrane and other fellow musicians. It's just wonderful to have this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbt6qwhbCDg

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There's a bit in the Albert Ayler film where someone in the group said that when they were broke they'd hit on Coltrane, and he'd send them whatever he had on him on the time, right down to coins, just shoved in an envelope. I think Coltrane got hit on a lot.

[Jazzrook]

Horace Tapscott with Art Davis & Roy Haynes playing 'Lino's Pad' from the 1979 album 'In New York':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=qzVLkFHgv6o

JR

[Stanfordian]

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

[Joseph K]

Wayne Shorter - Super Nova

Happy 89th birthday, Wayne Shorter. It's been a while since I listened to this album, and I love Shorter's playing here, it has a ferocity and velocity which I find very appealing (and a great asset to the Miles Davis group of this time). The title track is the same sort of concept as 'Nefertiti' (Wayne's tune from the Miles Davis album of that name) where the melody is repeated while the main variation is assigned to the rhythm section (see also Wayne's 'Sanctuary' from Bitches Brew, recorded just a few days prior to Super Nova). Or at least that's what I thought earlier, it's not quite the same on listening again, I guess here the demarcation between head and solo is blurred and the fact that Wayne references the melody a lot in his solo invites the band to participate conversationally, so to speak, and it has that potent 'on the edge' kind of feeling, the band is truly cooking. The album is great and I recommend it to anyone who likes for example Mountain In The Clouds by Miroslav Vitous though of course while it is Wayne's album I'd've liked perhaps more solos from the excellent band he's assembled here ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Wayne Shorter - Super Nova

Happy 89th birthday, Wayne Shorter. It's been a while since I listened to this album, and I love Shorter's playing here, it has a ferocity and velocity which I find very appealing (and a great asset to the Miles Davis group of this time). The title track is the same sort of concept as 'Nefertiti' (Wayne's tune from the Miles Davis album of that name) where the melody is repeated while the main variation is assigned to the rhythm section (see also Wayne's 'Sanctuary' from Bitches Brew, recorded just a few days prior to Super Nova). Or at least that's what I thought earlier, it's not quite the same on listening again, I guess here the demarcation between head and solo is blurred and the fact that Wayne references the melody a lot in his solo invites the band to participate conversationally, so to speak, and it has that potent 'on the edge' kind of feeling, the band is truly cooking. The album is great and I recommend it to anyone who likes for example Mountain In The Clouds by Miroslav Vitous though of course while it is Wayne's album I'd've liked perhaps more solos from the excellent band he's assembled here ...

Many years ago I picked up Shorter's Etcetera from a second hand booth at a festival - or thought I did until I got home and discovered the album inside to be Super Nova, but on playing it finding my initial disappointment immediately remedied. A great album indeed, sometimes overlooked in the Shorter pantheon. I'm wondering if I am correct in thinking this was the one recorded occasion which had John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock together in the same ensemble.

[Joseph K]

I'm wondering if I am correct in thinking this was the one recorded occasion which had John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock together in the same ensemble.

No, they appear together on the second part ('Willie Nelson') of the second track ('Yesternow') on the Miles Davis album Jack Johnson. I used to think the Sharrock contribution to this was superfluous, not so any more. It's a funky riff and contains some of my favourite drumming courtesy of Jack DeJohnette.

[Joseph K]

Now: 'Yesternow' from Jack Johnson. I often remember listening to this in my last year of uni, having bought the complete Miles on Columbia box, and thinking it was a bit of a come-down from the incredible 'Right Off'. However, having started listening to it, I think I almost never turned it off before listening to the whole thing. It really draws you in, the musicians are great at creating interest over a stop-start, laid-back bassline (borrowed from a James Brown song) then before you know it via a quote of 'Shh/Peaceful' (which whets ones appetite for that album) the incredible 'Willie Nelson' begins, which personally I find funkier that a lot of funk; Jack DeJohnette is incredible.

[Jazzrook]

Peter King with Alan Skidmore, Steve Melling, Alec Dankworth & Martin Drew playing McCoy Tyner's 'Passion Dance' live at The Fleece, Boxford in 2006:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=UqNo7YYVK98

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Midnight Special’ – Jimmy Smith
with Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1961)

[Jazzrook]

John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones playing 'Welcome' in 1965 from the Impulse! album 'Kulu Se Mama':

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

JR

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones playing 'Welcome' in 1965 from the Impulse! album 'Kulu Se Mama':

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

JR

That tune also appears on my edition of the album Transition.

[Joseph K]

Drowning out the neighbour's pop music with:

Miles Davis - 'Bitches Brew' from Bitches Brew.

Loud.

[Serial_Apologist]

Drowning out the neighbour's pop music with:

Miles Davis - 'Bitches Brew' from Bitches Brew.

Loud.

I often wonder what my upstairs neighbours must think of my tastes in music - half hoping they might be listening if they can here them at all, and maybe gaining something; half hoping they're not upset by any sound of music coming through, or that it's inaudible. The former could be indicative of an undesirable tendency to control freakery on my part. I did tell them, when they moved in a few years ago, to complain should they be finding themselves being disturbed, and they never have. Possibly our concrete ceilings are better sound mufflers than I thought; or is it that my other upstairs neighbour (the arrangement of the flats floor above floor are not aligned) really does play Radio 4 at an exceptionally high volume? Tom and Stacey are a lovely couple, and I've never ever heard music emanating from their flat, although I get a rumbling vibration whenever they use their washing machine. I really do feel exceptionally lucky to have this flat.

[Joseph K]

I often wonder what my upstairs neighbours must think of my tastes in music - half hoping they might be listening if they can here them at all, and maybe gaining something; half hoping they're not upset by any sound of music coming through, or that it's inaudible. The former could be indicative of an undesirable tendency to control freakery on my part. I did tell them, when they moved in a few years ago, to complain should they be finding themselves being disturbed, and they never have. Possibly our concrete ceilings are better sound mufflers than I thought; or is it that my other upstairs neighbour (the arrangement of the flats floor above floor are not aligned) really does play Radio 4 at an exceptionally high volume? Tom and Stacey are a lovely couple, and I've never ever heard music emanating from their flat, although I get a rumbling vibration whenever they use their washing machine. I really do feel exceptionally lucky to have this flat.

Yes, I wonder what my neighbours must think when I've played something that I would imagine might elicit a WTF sort of reaction e.g. something by Xenakis or Barrett or Birtwistle loudly. I have no idea how much if at all sound permeates the walls to the next-door-neighbours, but I never hear much coming from them (the pop music this afternoon was coming from adjacent neighbours, who from time to time will also produce marijuana smells). We did have antisocial next-door-neighbours ten or more years ago but not so any more, fortunately. It's nice that you like where you live, SA.