What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman & Elvin Jones playing Trane's only recorded version of Victor Young's 'Delilah' live at Falkonercentret, Copenhagen, November 20, 1961:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=O4KgqBOk9eU

JR

Delilahtful!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, Jon Eardley sextet, "Koo Koo", from 1956. Released and re-released on a few labels and whatever leader of the three was in momentary favour. A really nice relaxed blues for a summer's afternoon (et beer) and with a sinuous solo from Zoot. "Nice"!

I see our Jazzrook reviewed this on Amazon. Always reliable.

http://youtu.be/qPBhPJSgPRY

[Jazzrook]

I really regret not buying this set. Shelly Manne is seriously under-rated. I think there was a time when Richie Kumuca was much vaunted but you seldom read his name nowadays. Manne is a drummer I always feels enhances a session. I know SA has stated that he was not fan of his drumming with Bill Evans but I always felt that the pianist benefitted from having a more forthright drummer behind him. Manne recorded on some of Ornette Coleman's earlier records and there is also an association with some of the West Coast big bands which is probably at the other scale of things. I would argue that Manne is one of those musicians like Harold Land who is remarkably consistent.

Picking up on Joseph's comment about Pharoah Sanders, I could be controversal and suggest that Eric Dolphy was a far more radical foil for Coltrane's work. Some of the earlier "New Thing" players have not really aged well and I do think that there was very much an "of their time" element in their playing. I get the shock value of the work and there are players like Ayler who have a naive quality about their work which does appeal. Sanders is a bit hit and miss for me. I like his music yet it is often pretty simplistic and the two-chord vamps strike me as avoiding the challenges that Dolphy presented. There is a darkness in Dolphy's playing and the odd intervallic leaps which make his work insccessible for some. Take away the timbral approach of the likes of Sanders and Shepp, I feel they are not really saying as much as Dolpy. In addition, if you want to go down that route, there are tenor players like Frank Lowe and Dewey Redman who were much better. I was intrigued by Jazzrook's post featuring Hadley Caliman as he is a name Ihave never heard before. I liked that track but I think it is a good example of how jazz coped post-Coltrane. I am a Coltrane fan yet I think that some of those who built a career from his coat tails are not necessarily the most interesting saxophonists who worked ino the 1970 and 80s.

Ian ~ A 4-CD box set of Shelly Manne's 'Complete Live At The Blackhawk'(Fingerpoppin' Records) is currently available for £17.86.
Just type in the following in the Amazon search box:

B0BJ9DL7Z7

JR

[Joseph K]

Kurt Rosenwinkel's recent Village Vanguard CD arrived yesterday so I've been giving it a spin since then (I'd already received the download of course, but I am something of a stickler for having something on CD, where possible!)

[Ian Thumwood]

Ian ~ A 4-CD box set of Shelly Manne's 'Complete Live At The Blackhawk'(Fingerpoppin' Records) is currently available for £17.86.
Just type in the following in the Amazon search box:

B0BJ9DL7Z7

JR

Thanks, Jazzrook. Just ordered this box set.

I also picked up some more Scarlatti as I am getting a bit obsessed by this composer. The one composer I have been listening to this week and who may appeal to SA is Arthur Bliss. I am quite intrigued by his chamber music as he allegedly was influenced by jazz and had lived in the States for some time in the 1920s. I have to say that I am struggling to here any influence from jazz on the Viola sonaye, Oboe quinet and piano quintet. The copy was picked up 2nd hand as it was therefore not an issue if the music was duff. I am quite perplexed by it. Thankfully it lacks the usually wallow in nostalgia that it a feature of most English classical music on the first half of 20th century and there are moments where the music is quite strident. The Viola sonata is probably the most adventurous of the three compositions and that music is sufficiently decent forme to wonder why Bliss is not celebrated more as a modernist albeit I appreciate that his later works are supposed to have ditched the more modernistic elements as he became accepted within the mainstream establishment. It seems a suddent change of approach and maybe detracted from the direction he has been heading in after WW1.

All about jazz are suggesting that the Coltrane at the Village Gate session is the best "re-discovered" Coltrane since "One up, one down." Quite frightening to see the volume of material that is unlkely to be released which ould appear to dwarf the "official" material issued during his lifetime.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-impulse-records

[Jazzrook]

Thanks, Jazzrook. Just ordered this box set.

I also picked up some more Scarlatti as I am getting a bit obsessed by this composer. The one composer I have been listening to this week and who may appeal to SA is Arthur Bliss. I am quite intrigued by his chamber music as he allegedly was influenced by jazz and had lived in the States for some time in the 1920s. I have to say that I am struggling to here any influence from jazz on the Viola sonaye, Oboe quinet and piano quintet. The copy was picked up 2nd hand as it was therefore not an issue if the music was duff. I am quite perplexed by it. Thankfully it lacks the usually wallow in nostalgia that it a feature of most English classical music on the first half of 20th century and there are moments where the music is quite strident. The Viola sonata is probably the most adventurous of the three compositions and that music is sufficiently decent forme to wonder why Bliss is not celebrated more as a modernist albeit I appreciate that his later works are supposed to have ditched the more modernistic elements as he became accepted within the mainstream establishment. It seems a suddent change of approach and maybe detracted from the direction he has been heading in after WW1.

All about jazz are suggesting that the Coltrane at the Village Gate session is the best "re-discovered" Coltrane since "One up, one down." Quite frightening to see the volume of material that is unlkely to be released which ould appear to dwarf the "official" material issued during his lifetime.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/evening...mpulse-records

Hope you enjoy the Shelly Manne Blackhawk box set.
Have just ordered the "re-discovered" Coltrane at the Village Gate recording. Looking forward to hearing this 80-minute CD.
For some strange reason my dumb smartphone refuses access to the All About Jazz website. Very annoying!

JR

[Joseph K]

When I got back home yesterday after a pleasant weekend away in the Peak District I was greeted with a parcel containing the Monk/Trane Carnegie Hall disk. It's an awesome album, my favourite number being 'Evidence' - (4) Evidence (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York/1957) - YouTube

[Serial_Apologist]

When I got back home yesterday after a pleasant weekend away in the Peak District I was greeted with a parcel containing the Monk/Trane Carnegie Hall disk. It's an awesome album, my favourite number being 'Evidence' - (4) Evidence (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York/1957) - YouTube

That makes two Peak experiences in quick succession then - lucky fella!

[Joseph K]

That makes two Peak experiences in quick succession then - lucky fella!

😁

Now:

https://youtu.be/Z594RQQs2oY

[Serial_Apologist]

😁

Now:

https://youtu.be/Z594RQQs2oY

[Jazzrook]

'Charlie Parker At Birdland 1950 Revisited'(ezz-thetics) with Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Curley Russell & Art Blakey:

https://revisited-ezz-thetics.bandcamp.com/album/charlie-parker-at-birdland-1950-revisited

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

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Struggling with the log in. I was previously logged in automatically but user name and password no longer function.

[Ian Thumwood]

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Too difficult on a mobile.

Cheerio

Ian

[Jazzrook]

Cecil Taylor/Buell Neidlinger Octet playing 'Things Ain't What They Used To Be':

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

JR

[Joseph K]

Definitely not working. Tried different combination but log in function will not work. Think the tech is too new for my laptop as it is impossible to log in.

Too difficult on a mobile.

Cheerio

Ian

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