What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis & Milt Jackson - Quintet/Sextet

[elmo]

Charlie Haden and Hampton Hawes playing Ornette's composition 'The Turnaround' from the album "The Golden Number"

https://youtu.be/bmIMK3ttd-Y?feature=shared

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop Jr., Tommy Potter & Art Blakey playing 'Bluing' in 1951 from the album 'Dig':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=J5CD56jPBYY

JR

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - The New Miles Davis Quintet

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - The New Miles Davis Quintet

... especially great is Red Garland's solo on 'S'posin' -

[Serial_Apologist]

... especially great is Red Garland's solo on 'S'posin' -

And if you listen carefully (he said condescendingly!!!) listen out for how by accenting the highest pitches in his sequences louder than the rest - a trait a few pianists of the time picked up from Lennie Tristano, viz his monodic 1955 "Line Up" solo below - (which incidentally Herbie Hancock later re-modelled many of his Miles Smiles solos on) - a sense of ongoing buoyancy is maintained by drawing attention away from the downbeat - conventionally the "natural" emphasis point in the bar.

Strangely, the score does not indicate the accents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRkKfvvkoc

[Joseph K]

And if you listen carefully (he said condescendingly!!!) listen out for how by accenting the highest pitches in his sequences louder than the rest - a trait a few pianists of the time picked up from Lennie Tristano, viz his monodic 1955 "Line Up" solo below - (which incidentally Herbie Hancock later re-modelled many of his Miles Smiles solos on) - a sense of ongoing buoyancy is maintained by drawing attention away from the downbeat - conventionally the "natural" emphasis point in the bar.

Strangely, the score does not indicate the accents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRkKfvvkoc

Yes, SA, it was exactly Red's phrasing/articulation/use of accents that impressed me about it, and reminded me of later pianists (though probably it's a feature of Bud Powell's playing too). However, I didn't know of Tristano's solo, nor obviously that Herbie Hancock modelled his solos on Miles Smiles on it, so thanks for introducing me that. Accents tend not to be a feature in jazz transcriptions... I remember how nonplussed I was as a teenager when I first saw a jazz transcription - just reams of quavers!

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, SA, it was exactly Red's phrasing/articulation/use of accents that impressed me about it, and reminded me of later pianists (though probably it's a feature of Bud Powell's playing too). However, I didn't know of Tristano's solo, nor obviously that Herbie Hancock modelled his solos on Miles Smiles on it, so thanks for introducing me that. Accents tend not to be a feature in jazz transcriptions... I remember how nonplussed I was as a teenager when I first saw a jazz transcription - just reams of quavers!

And transcriptions cannot possibly capture the sometimes tiny nuances that distinguish jazz playing from classical which make it swing - although I did once read that classical pianists also tend to play slightly off the beat, often without intending to! I once asked the Dutch keyboard virtuoso Jasper van t'Hof what his favourite jazz piano was, and he said without hesitation, "Those single line solos Herbie plays on 'Miles Smiles'". I noticed after posting earlier than someone else also observed the similarities with the Tristano in the comments to that clip.

[Joseph K]

And transcriptions cannot possibly capture the sometimes tiny nuances that distinguish jazz playing from classical which make it swing - although I did once read that classical pianists also tend to play slightly off the beat, often without intending to! I once asked the Dutch keyboard virtuoso Jasper van t'Hof what his favourite jazz piano was, and he said without hesitation, "Those single line solos Herbie plays on 'Miles Smiles'". I noticed after posting earlier than someone else also observed the similarities with the Tristano in the comments to that clip.

[Joseph K]

Feeling very happy - someone over on the Jazz Guitar Forum just introduced me to this, whose existence I wasn't aware of! -

John Coltrane Quartet - Impressions (Half Note 1965) - YouTube

[Serial_Apologist]

Feeling very happy - someone over on the Jazz Guitar Forum just introduced me to this, whose existence I wasn't aware of! -

John Coltrane Quartet - Impressions (Half Note 1965) - YouTube

I hadn't realised Trane performed Impressions ever again in the aftermath of Love Supreme, so greatly looking forward to listening to this tomorrow. Thanks for posting, JK.

[Joseph K]

I hadn't realised Trane performed Impressions ever again in the aftermath of Love Supreme, so greatly looking forward to listening to this tomorrow. Thanks for posting, JK.

You're welcome. As far as I'm aware this is the last time he played and recorded 'Impressions' - it's a wonderful version imbued with mysticism. I've known it for some years since it was on a CD with the live A Love Supreme also recorded in France, 1965, which I knew and loved for years before I acquired the studio version -

https://youtu.be/6R472aHWMu4?si=PymjVFJZoAd8PmXL

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Steamin'

[Jazzrook]

Feeling very happy - someone over on the Jazz Guitar Forum just introduced me to this, whose existence I wasn't aware of! -

John Coltrane Quartet - Impressions (Half Note 1965) - YouTube

The 1965 Half Note 'Impressions' also appeared on a 1982 LP 'Reflections'(Audio Fidelity AFEMP 1041) along with two other tracks:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1436624-John-Coltrane-Reflections

JR