Chick Corea - Akoustic Band Alive
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Welcome to the jazz bored, Gargoyle.Comment
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Love this album!Comment
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Duke Pearson Big Band playing "Eldorado" recorded at the Left Bank Baltimore in 1969 - a very nice feature for Donald Byrd
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Listening to last sundays jazz record requests via the website......strong intro...cotton fields...yeaaaa jazzzAnnoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Burnng DogOriginally posted by burning dog View Post
Good to see you back in the room.
I love Dave Douglas' music ever since I first heard him play on "impressions" nearly 30 years ago. I have always been a bit fan and can remember seeing this group perform at the Turner Sims in Southampton and being deeply disappointed. The stuff he released for RCA was, as a rule, superb yet electronica nature of this project always struck me as the musical equivalent of "Dad Dancing." Albums like "The Infinite," "Soul on soul" and the Strange Liberation" group struck me as some of the best jazz of that time and the "Freak in" project just struck me as being disconcerting. Listening to it again, I am not sure that the electronic gadgets add much to the music with the passage of time but when he did return to this kind of format with "Spark of Being" , I felt that he was far more successful. It is a bit edgier and the compositions are really sharp. I think DD in an acoustic setting is always going to be a winner but "Spark of Being" wirh the group Keystone is one of his most interesting. The music is inspired by Frankenstein. I have a couple of the Keystone discs and would recommend if you like "Freak in."
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Dave Brubeck
Bossa Nova USA.
I would be no kind of a judge on this stuff, but thought this sounded very engaging and thoughtful.
But really, what do I know ?! Anyway, I enjoyed it.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Will give that a listen!Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View PostBurnng Dog
Good to see you back in the room.
I love Dave Douglas' music ever since I first heard him play on "impressions" nearly 30 years ago. I have always been a bit fan and can remember seeing this group perform at the Turner Sims in Southampton and being deeply disappointed. The stuff he released for RCA was, as a rule, superb yet electronica nature of this project always struck me as the musical equivalent of "Dad Dancing." Albums like "The Infinite," "Soul on soul" and the Strange Liberation" group struck me as some of the best jazz of that time and the "Freak in" project just struck me as being disconcerting. Listening to it again, I am not sure that the electronic gadgets add much to the music with the passage of time but when he did return to this kind of format with "Spark of Being" , I felt that he was far more successful. It is a bit edgier and the compositions are really sharp. I think DD in an acoustic setting is always going to be a winner but "Spark of Being" wirh the group Keystone is one of his most interesting. The music is inspired by Frankenstein. I have a couple of the Keystone discs and would recommend if you like "Freak in."
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Astonishing sound from Pristine Classical
"The album Fontessa was the first the MJQ recorded for Atlantic records, and although normally heard in mono, it was in fact also recorded in stereo. However, as the occasional issue on vinyl and CD testifies, there were myriad technical flaws in the stereo issue, hence the current "official" preference for mono.
This remastering aims to correct or reduce as much as possible those flaws and present the stereo Fontessa in as good a light as possible. This has required extensive restoration, removing heavy electrical hum, thumps, bumps, hiss and more. In addition, in order to bring some life to the rather dead sound of the stereo mix, I've used a convolution reverberation which recreates perfectly the live acoustic of Birdland in New York, where the MQJ doubtless played on numerous occasions.
The coupling here, Pyramid, demonstrates what further improvements XR remastering can offer an already accomplished studio recording of the era.
Andrew Rose"
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Miles Davis Sextet with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb playing Monk's 'Straight No Chaser' live at The Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958:
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Supersax plays Blue n Boogie - not usually a great fan of this sort of thing but it has to be said Bird's musical logic and daring is further emphasized when played without Bird's personal sound. Fine Warne Marsh and Frank Rosolino as well.
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Ann Cole's original 1956 version of Preston Foster's 'Got My Mojo Working':
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Good stuff! I always thought Willie Dixon wrote that.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostAnn Cole's original 1956 version of Preston Foster's 'Got My Mojo Working':
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But Muddy!!!
"I had asked her not to perform any unreleased songs on stage, to avoid just this problem ... Ann Cole ignored me and was singing Mo Jo all over the South with Muddy's band. He went back to Chicago after the tour and told Leonard Chess of Chess Records he had written a new song that he wanted to record"Comment
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I've been listening to blues for around 60 years but have only recently discovered Ann Cole!Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
Some believe that Jay McShann's 1955 R & B hit 'Hands Off' with Priscilla Bowman was the basis for Cole's version:
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Mike Osborne Trio - Mike Alto, Harry Miller Bass, Tony Levin Drums playing 'Nutty' rec Birmingham 1976 - Great musician sadly missed
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