What Jazz are you listening to now?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

http://jazzstreams.ddns.net/www/KJAZ/KJAZ-Jim-Toman-Kenny-Dorham.mp3

For.Kenny Dorham admirers, definitely me, a very rare recorded long interview with him from c1967, out on the west coast, jazz station KJAZ. Unfortunately the interviewer is bland & not particularly "aware", no reference to Kenny's brilliant work with Joe Henderson or his Bluenotes, but KD comes through well, with lots of hopeful projects including education and an autobiography which never appeared..

Source for this is Organissimo and it's contributors.

[Stanfordian]

‘Look Out!’ – Stanley Turrentine
with Horace Parlan, George Tucker & Al Harewood
Blue Note (1960)

[elmo]

Howard Mcghee - 'Brownie Speaks' with Phineas Newborn, Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne.

Wild solo by Phineas (pronounced Phinas apparently)

https://youtu.be/DWlzL934FpA

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Tenor saxophonist Rocky Boyd(who was in the Miles Davis Quintet during 1961) with Kenny Dorham, Walter Bishop, Ron Carter & Pete LaRoca playing 'Why Not?' which was recorded a few months before Coltrane's 'Impressions' on Impulse!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=wt0Pqpq0fqc

JR

[elmo]

Tenor saxophonist Rocky Boyd(who was in the Miles Davis Quintet during 1961) with Kenny Dorham, Walter Bishop, Ron Carter & Pete LaRoca playing 'Why Not?' which was recorded a few months before Coltrane's 'Impressions' on Impulse!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=wt0Pqpq0fqc

JR

Interesting little article on Rocky Boyd in the Vancouver Jazz Forum. I was not able to copy and paste it but if interested put Vancouver Jazz Forum Rocky Boyd into Google and up she comes.

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

Listening to the jazz records on the Qatar Airways whilst flying out to Doha. There is a massive back catalogue of from the Arabesque label including Hilton Ruiz, Dave Douglas, Billy Hart, Myra Melford, Ray Anderson,

Charles McPherson ,etc. The two most impressive discs were Horace Tapscott's ' aieee, the phantom with the likes of Marcus Belgrave and Andrew Cyrille and Jane Ira Blooms ' Art and aviation.'

The Tapscott record is incredible. Reminded me of Andrew Hill but a bit more outside. Absolutely brilliant and indicative of hoe powerful jazz still was in 90s.

Bloom is a musician I have read about but unprepared for this abstract electro acoustic jazz. Mix of Ornette, Surman and Steve Lacy but highly original. She is a great player. Fascinated by this record.

Picking up on Bluesniks comment about insipid J to Z, these records seem to demonstrate how wide and varied jazz was 30 years ago. Fair play to Qatar Airways.


Achieved a life time ambition and saw a hoopoe on Tuesday. Taken me over40 years to see this bird!

Shopping trip lined up in Doha with my partner next.....The architecture is hugely impressive though. Shame FIFA tickets were impossible to obtain.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Intrigued by Ian's reference above to a Hoopoe (bird), I looked them up! Impressive! I've only just got used to recognising Wagtails!

Here's a "Hoop"!

http://youtu.be/mERIvytIcpQ

[Jazzrook]

Interesting little article on Rocky Boyd in the Vancouver Jazz Forum. I was not able to copy and paste it but if interested put Vancouver Jazz Forum Rocky Boyd into Google and up she comes.

elmo

Thanks, elmo.
An excellent article and sad that he seems to have made only one album. Would have been fascinating to hear Rocky with Miles.
Here's an interesting Sunny Murray interview that mentions the influence of Rocky Boyd.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/sunny-murray-sunny-murray-by-clifford-allen

JR

[elmo]

On a scale of 1 to 10 how dreadful is this..... I didn't think anything could be worse than Tiny Tim singing Tiptoe through the tulips but here come 'The Links'

https://youtu.be/PeHI99RHXis

elmo

[Quarky]

Rarely post these days, but I thought this album deserved a hearing:: Duke Ellington - Queen's Suite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr9m1gb6VU

And the background:: https://www.themusicman.uk/duke-elli...-elizabeth-ii/

[RichardB]

On a scale of 1 to 10 how dreadful is this..... I didn't think anything could be worse than Tiny Tim singing Tiptoe through the tulips but here come 'The Links'

Outstanding!

NP: Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes (1976) with John Abercrombie, John Surman, Stu Martin, & Dieter Feichtner - a little known Austrian synthesizer player whose name I only know from this and another Phillips album, which is a shame, I like what he does here a lot.

[Serial_Apologist]

Outstanding!

NP: Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes (1976) with John Abercrombie, John Surman, Stu Martin, & Dieter Feichtner - a little known Austrian synthesizer player whose name I only know from this and another Phillips album, which is a shame, I like what he does here a lot.

A rather overlooked album, felt by some to have inaugurated the characteristic ECM atmosphere of open landscapes which was to be exemplified by Jan Garbarek - Marmite to some, heaven to to others, but not me!

[Stanfordian]

‘Somethin' Else’ – Cannonball Adderley
with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1958)

[RichardB]

A rather overlooked album, felt by some to have inaugurated the characteristic ECM atmosphere of open landscapes which was to be exemplified by Jan Garbarek - Marmite to some, heaven to to others, but not me!

I can't stand Garbarek's sound, and I'm not much of a Surman fan either, and Abercrombie, for whom I have a lot of time, only appears on one track. Phillips is a great player though, and still going strong at 87, I don't know if he's still playing but I did see him play not that long ago.

[elmo]

Outstanding!

NP: Barre Phillips, Mountainscapes (1976) with John Abercrombie, John Surman, Stu Martin, & Dieter Feichtner - a little known Austrian synthesizer player whose name I only know from this and another Phillips album, which is a shame, I like what he does here a lot.

See that is why this Bored is so good, who would have thought that "Links" vid would lead to Barre Phillips 'Mountainscapes'. I would probably have never considered listening to that album but I played some of those tracks and I really liked them. I love challenging my prejudices - thanks RB

elmo