What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Mal Waldron with Reggie Workman & Billy Higgins playing 'Snake Out' from the 1973 album 'Up Popped The Devil':

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

JR

"Destination Out" (coincidental - not the cover title for this old 1975 album of mine) - ending with Brötzmann's singing of "Tchüs" which, as you all know, is Swahili for "Bye-bye". Elsewhere, if you've appointed to go for an ears syringe, just cancel the date.

http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/tsch-s

Van Hove is revelatory - Han Bennink is himself, though I'm not hearing any paper bags being fought out of from this one.

Scroll down the track list - however the entire album is an enjoyable romp through several unlikely juxtapositions.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bennink's MasterChef moment was playing a drum kit made entirely of (Dutch?) cheese.

Edam to that.

[Ian Thumwood]

Prompted by jazzrook's review on a famous retail site,I have picked up Dave Holland's 1973 recroding "The Conference of the birds." It is a record that has stood up well after nearly fifty years and a marker of just how far ECM has gone from being a very credible jazz label that was picking up on the more asventurous jazz of the time to a more "product" orientated label concerned with maintaining an identity at the expense of taking a risk. I have to be honest and think that Dave Holland has been served by better saxophonists such as Steve Coleman and Chris Potter in later groups even if this is probably the most convincing record I have heard Anthony Braxton in a more orthodox setting. I am somewhat on the fence with Sam River's playing as he seens to be grappling more freer elements of laying with an idiosyncratic approach akin to Wayne Shorter. I sometimes feel Braxton's solo'sdo not necessarily have much to do with the themes Holland gives them to work on. All told, I think this is still a pretty decent album even if, in my opinion, he has gone on to produce even better records with a frightening level of consistency which is almost unparalleled in conteporary jazz let alone ECM. I cannot recall anything I have in my collection by Dave Holland which is not less than excellent. (I have quite a few of his albums.)

I was surprised that the album's title had nothing to do with Attar's Suffi poem which is next on my reading list having discovered the "hero" of this work is a hoopoe.

[Jazzrook]

John Stevens with Ed Jones, Byron Wallen & Gary Crosby playing 'Dudu's Gone' at Crawley Jazz Festival, 1992:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Suv4mygtg_s

JR

[Joseph K]

Prompted by jazzrook's review on a famous retail site,I have picked up Dave Holland's 1973 recroding "The Conference of the birds." It is a record that has stood up well after nearly fifty years and a marker of just how far ECM has gone from being a very credible jazz label that was picking up on the more asventurous jazz of the time to a more "product" orientated label concerned with maintaining an identity at the expense of taking a risk. I have to be honest and think that Dave Holland has been served by better saxophonists such as Steve Coleman and Chris Potter in later groups even if this is probably the most convincing record I have heard Anthony Braxton in a more orthodox setting. I am somewhat on the fence with Sam River's playing as he seens to be grappling more freer elements of laying with an idiosyncratic approach akin to Wayne Shorter. I sometimes feel Braxton's solo'sdo not necessarily have much to do with the themes Holland gives them to work on. All told, I think this is still a pretty decent album even if, in my opinion, he has gone on to produce even better records with a frightening level of consistency which is almost unparalleled in conteporary jazz let alone ECM. I cannot recall anything I have in my collection by Dave Holland which is not less than excellent. (I have quite a few of his albums.)

I was surprised that the album's title had nothing to do with Attar's Suffi poem which is next on my reading list having discovered the "hero" of this work is a hoopoe.

Coincidentally, it's Dave Holland's birthday today. I am listening to this, Aziza:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aenkmJS18M

[Serial_Apologist]

Bennink's MasterChef moment was playing a drum kit made entirely of (Dutch?) cheese.

Edam to that.

He would have adopted a holeistic approach there, presumably.

[Serial_Apologist]

John Stevens with Ed Jones, Byron Wallen & Gary Crosby playing 'Dudu's Gone' at Crawley Jazz Festival, 1992:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Suv4mygtg_s

JR

Stevens told me after the Bristol gig that he'd found overnight places for everyone in the band except for Ed Jones. I said I'd be delighted to put him up for the night - we returned to my place and had a few hours chatting and listening to some of the British Fusion albums I'd collected - Ed was mostly impressed but greatly to my surprise had not heard of most of the names - something I subsequently found out was common to many of the "Django Bates generation": although they were all aware and often influenced by the likes of Kenny Wheeler and John Taylor. I seem to remember most of those guys knew more about Tubby Hayes!

[Jazzrook]

Ran Blake & Anthony Braxton playing ':Round Midnight' from the 1988 album 'A Memory Of Vienna':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=j67G4-hTdrY

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Soul Stream’ – George Braith
with Billy Gardner, Grant Green & Hugh Walker
Blue Note (1963)

[Jazzrook]

Gigi Gryce Quintet with Richard Williams, Richard Wyands, Julian Euell & Mickey Roker playing 'Nica's Tempo' recorded in 1960:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=gWMUowS6wbQ

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘A Sure Thing’ – Blue Mitchell
with Clark Terry, Julius Watkins, Jerome Richardson, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones & Albert Heath
Riverside (1962)

[Stanfordian]

‘Hub-Tones’ – Freddie Hubbard
with Herbie Hancock, Clifford Jarvis, James Spaulding & Reggie Workman
Blue Note (1962)

[Jazzrook]

Ric Colbeck with Mike Osborne, J.F. Jenny-Clark & Selwyn Lissack playing 'The Sun Is Coming Up' recorded at Chalk Farm Studios in 1970:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=6cyzRBDYxtg

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Ric Colbeck with Mike Osborne, J.F. Jenny-Clark & Selwyn Lissack playing 'The Sun Is Coming Up' recorded at Chalk Farm Studios in 1970:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=6cyzRBDYxtg

JR

That is an astonishing recording, not least for Ossie's playing, which at that particular time was at its nearest to Ayler.

[Jazzrook]

That is an astonishing recording, not least for Ossie's playing, which at that particular time was at its nearest to Ayler.

Yes, wish someone would get round to reissuing this great Fontana album.
I did manage to get the title track played on JRR many years ago.

JR