What Jazz are you listening to now?

[elmo]

What a find..... Just released Coltrane 'Blue Train the complete master tapes' a 2 cd set of the Classic. including 7!! alternate takes 4 of which previously unissued.
I have just ordered the album but the tracks are already on Youtube and this unissued stuff is fantastic..... listen to 'Moments Notice' take 5A (incomplete) and Blue Train take 8. Boy were they on form that day.

https://youtu.be/et4TDoKnTPs

https://youtu.be/pTyHXEQAyTM

elmo

[Jazzrook]

What a find..... Just released Coltrane 'Blue Train the complete master tapes' a 2 cd set of the Classic. including 7!! alternate takes 4 of which previously unissued.
I have just ordered the album but the tracks are already on Youtube and this unissued stuff is fantastic..... listen to 'Moments Notice' take 5A (incomplete) and Blue Train take 8. Boy were they on form that day.

https://youtu.be/et4TDoKnTPs

https://youtu.be/pTyHXEQAyTM

elmo

Wonderful stuff, elmo - you've got me forkin' out again!

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Easy Living’ - Ike Quebec
with Bennie Green, Stanley Turrentine, Sonny Clark, Milt Hinton, Art Blakey
Blue Note (1962)

[Serial_Apologist]

Wonderful stuff, elmo - you've got me forkin' out again!

JR

We want none of that language here on the Jass thread, for fork's sake!

[Ian Thumwood]

I went to heae the Brno symphony orchestra in Basingstoke perform a first half of Janacek's "Taras Balba" and Martinu's 1st cello concerto. I love Janacek's music and toy can hear clear echoes in something like this in the way that he wrote for the brass that hints to the way jazz would be played by lager ensembles in the 1950s. The music's orchestration is really rich and I find that there is something about the way he juxtapositions the brass and strings to hint at dissoance whilt enriching the melodies. The orchestration makes the music sound three-diminesional.

Martinu is a mixed bag for me. The slow movement was brilliant yet he lacks the melodies for me that make Janacekso appealing . Although he was writing in thr "Jazz Age, Janacek's music see more "jazzy" to me. The second part opened with Janacek's "Jealosy."

The revelation for me was Dvorak's 8th symphony. I am not at all familiar with this compoer but he has traction in jazz largely as a conceuence of his far-reaching observation that America's future in Classical music would stem from Africa-American folk forms. His "New WOrld" symppony is cited as a prime example. I have to say that it is quite shocking to realise that Dvorak actually lived in to the 20th century and was effectively at his peack in the late 19th. The style of writing in this symphony had not moved on much from Beethoven and whilst the orchestration is really lush, i was struck by the thoiught that this must have seemed deeply conservative even back then. There is not much development in the last two movements but what you do get is effectively a series of variations on cafe -music themes bolted on to each other, one after the other. The whole effect was to reveal the music's structure in a way that I have not witnessed in symphony or concerto wrtiing before. The bare bones of the symphony were exposed to the extent tha you can appreciate Dvorak was probably just scoring improvisions on a particular theme.There is little sense of evolution of ideas in the music.

I think Dvorak's orchestration was impressive and the use of "variation" made me think of his assessment of American music and the role of improvision, especially in jazz. One of Dvorak's pupils was Will Marion Cook, a violinist who was a pioneer figure in syncopated music and whose Southern Syncopated orchestras included te young Sidney Bechet whose playing was aingled out for praise by Ernest Amsemet around 1919. From recollection , this was the irst use of the word "swing" in jazz criticism. As for, Dvorak, have to say I found the 8th symphony boardering on "Light music" as opposed to a serious Classical composition and little better than Eric Coates.

[Stanfordian]

‘Nice 'n' Tasty’ – The John Wright Trio
John Wright with Wendell Marshall & J. C. Heard
Prestige (1960)

[Jazzrook]

Thelonious Monk with Charlie Rouse, Harold Land, Joe Gordon, John Ore & Billy Higgins playing 'San Francisco Holiday(Worry Later)' live at The Blackhawk, San Francisco, 1960:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=hJ_VTt76IqQ

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Inner Urge’ – Joe Henderson
with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1964)

[elmo]

Duke Ellington 'Daybreak Express' (1933)

Remarkable piece especially for 1933 - Duke lives.......

https://youtu.be/Y2HgifUdhn0

elmo

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Duke Ellington 'Daybreak Express' (1933)

Remarkable piece especially for 1933 - Duke lives.......

https://youtu.be/Y2HgifUdhn0

elmo

Not sure if you're seen this but it's wonderful...

DA Pennebaker's 1953 film of the "Daybreak Express" using Ellington's recording...

http://youtu.be/9fZ0-T80YD8

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - Ascension

[Jazzrook]

Max Roach with Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham, Ramsey Lewis & George Morrow playing 'That Ole Devil Called Love' in 1958:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=05JjyTk5e04

JR

[Joseph K]

Dunmall/Etheridge/Pursglove/Sanders - DEPS

This is one of the CDs I acquired at the gig last week, just getting round to listening now.

Comprising a couple of acronymous tracks - the first of which I'm ten minutes into, and I would assume is based on a suite-like structure. Dunmall and Etheridge really go well together, I am enjoying this a lot.

[Ian Thumwood]

Duke Ellington 'Daybreak Express' (1933)

Remarkable piece especially for 1933 - Duke lives.......

https://youtu.be/Y2HgifUdhn0

elmo

"Daybreak Express" is a record that hugely impressed me when I first heard it and effectively was the first in a number of compositions where Ellington was infouenced by locomotives. The evocation of steam engines at the beginning never ceases to impress. However, I think it is really fascinating to analyse this music a bit more closely I often wonder just how much Ellington was trying to capture the style of the then popular Casa Loma orchestra...

I hve to admit that I fan of Glen Gray's band from that era yet they never got within a sniff of the Ellington band for finesse. That said, I think there is a clear and obvious influence upon " Daybreak Express. " Ellington's arrangement is far more savvy than Gene Giffords yet the fact remains that it is effectively a contra-fact on "Tiger Rag" like so much material from that era. (The "go to"staple before "I Got rhythm." )

[elmo]

Not sure if you're seen this but it's wonderful...

DA Pennebaker's 1953 film of the "Daybreak Express" using Ellington's recording...

http://youtu.be/9fZ0-T80YD8

Bluesie thanks for reaquainting me with that Pennebaker doc I'd forgotten how good it is.
The 1965 film of Bob Dylan's tour of the UK is also excellent.

elmo