What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Ian Thumwood]

Quite like this too, The keyboard player is one half of the group Pamplemoose. Not sure if there are other fans of this band on this board

Big band version of Daft Punk...

[Serial_Apologist]

Quite like this too, The keyboard player is one half of the group Pamplemoose. Not sure if there are other fans of this band on this board

Big band version of Daft Punk...

I just hate that adenoidal way of voice treatment in modern-day R&B.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I went to the British Museum on Friday and , for once, did not go to the exhibition and exploted some of the galleries I had not visited before. Usually I rarely get further than the Romano-British gallery which is my absolute favourite but I visited the Japanese gallery in the hope ofseeing some of the Hokusai prints. What I never realised was that the ink prints are actually called "Sumi -e" which I had hitherto only associated with this brilliant Toshiko Akiyoshi big band track. Nice to know what the word actually means.

Incidentally, knowing Bluesnik's enthusiasm for all things Danish, I bought this book of prints by the Danish painter PEder Seberin Kroyer whose paintings I recall seeing a lot during my holiday in that country in the late 1990s. The text is in French as it comes from an exhibition in Paris. The paintings are terrific.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lheure-bleu...s%2C539&sr=8-1

A big admirer, "the master of light" or a some similar critics phrase? I'm sure I saw an exhibition in London a few years back. Incidentally he was born in Norway but brought up in Denmark.

http://youtu.be/TjLOqjGZ7Y0

[Jazzrook]

Thanks JR , I have got those two albums but can't see how i missed out on ' One Upmanship' still thanks to you its on its way - tidy price too

elmo

Mal Waldron & Jeanne Lee with a remarkable version of 'The Seagulls of Kristiansund', live in Tokyo.
Don't know if this is available on CD.

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

JR

[elmo]

A big admirer, "the master of light" or a some similar critics phrase? I'm sure I saw an exhibition in London a few years back. Incidentally he was born in Norway but brought up in Denmark.

http://youtu.be/TjLOqjGZ7Y0

Thank you for highlighting this painter he really was "a master of light" also his paintings have wonderful structure and form. I shall be delving further...

Incidentally I am a big fan of abstract art and via a review I have just come across Hilma af Klint a Swedish artist a contemporary of Mondrian, Klee and malevich. She was a pioneer and her abstract work pre dated the male artists by 3or 4 years but (surprise surprise) she was not recognised for it. Her series of paintings simply known as '10 large paintings painted in 1906/7 are very fine.

https://youtu.be/Qt7oGXu4EXU

elmo

[Stanfordian]

‘Headin’ South’ - Horace Parlan
with George Tucker, Al Harewood & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1960)

[Stanfordian]

Quite like this too, The keyboard player is one half of the group Pamplemoose. Not sure if there are other fans of this band on this board

Big band version of Daft Punk...

This vocal is not for me. I find it most unpleasant. Reminds me of the Sonovox technique vocal and also Peter Frampton on 1976 album 'Frampton Comes Alive!'.

[JasonPalmer]

Jazz record requests the new year edition https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ghdn

Sat on sofa under blankets, iPad with headphones...wife reading a book.....oh yea my return to radio 3 addiction is making process.

[Joseph K]

My new jazz guitar teacher, Christian Miller, gave me some homework - based on something Lennie Tristano would teach, I'm to learn to sing by memory a one-chorus solo by either Charlie Christian or Charlie Parker (I'm not allowed to touch my guitar in doing this!) and I have opted for Charlie Christian, since I am less familiar with his oeuvre, apart from 'Topsy: Swing to Bop' some of which I transcribed a long time ago, though that's a longer solo than the one I'm going to learn. Anyway, I am looking forward to familiarising myself with this music.

I listened through most of the first disk of Daddy of 'em All but that was a few weeks ago now, so I'm listening again, this time making notes of tunes that catch my ear that I might potentially learn in the manner described above.

[Jazzrook]

Jaki Byard Experience with Roland Kirk, Richard Davis & Alan Dawson playing Monk's 'Evidence' in 1968:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=UteKGilij7M

JR

[Joseph K]

Anthony Braxton - All The Things You Are.

Wonderful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJjuSAL5VzA

[Stanfordian]

‘Out to Lunch!’ – Eric Dolphy
with Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis & Tony Williams
Blue Note (1964)

[Serial_Apologist]

Jaki Byard Experience with Roland Kirk, Richard Davis & Alan Dawson playing Monk's 'Evidence' in 1968:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=UteKGilij7M

JR

In conjunction with Byard playing "Parisian Thoroughfare". This has to be my favourite Kirk album.

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin turns 81 today, so I am giving his 'Tokyo Live' with The Free Spirits album a listen, this first tune being this, powerfully swinging tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wc-jP5V_wg

(That should be 'One Nite Stand' not 'Nite Stand' BTW... )

[Ian Thumwood]

I listened through most of the first disk of Daddy of 'em All but that was a few weeks ago now, so I'm listening again, this time making notes of tunes that catch my ear that I might potentially learn in the manner described above.

I love Charlie Christian. The record that always impresses me is "Waiting for Benny" which was effectively a warm up in the studio whilst Goodman was late for a recording session. The whole rhythmic concept he employed effectively set Benny Goodman's small groups of the period 1939-1941 right at the vanguard of jazz. It is a shame that no recordings were made by Christian when he was playing for bands like Alphonse Trent in the mid thirties as the few recordings Trent made underscore why this band was so highly thought of. Christian was already respected by his peers prior to joining Goodman. Like pianist Clyde Hart, it is pretty obvious that Christian would have been heavily involved in Bop had he not died prematurely.