What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

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

Thanks for the info, JR.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Workin'

[Serial_Apologist]

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.

Just now listening to this for the first time - hugely grateful for the opportunity. What's particularly interested me here is the rare late return to the high speed modal period. Trane hands more than half the number over to McCoy, who puts into it Trane's most advanced expansions in the harmonic-melodic sphere before Ascension. Trane has moved on into abstracter more ambiguous territory harmonically, and one wonders if he or they were still tracking the underlying thematic structure... not that this matters any more from our listening perspective. In some ways one appreciates that the new less forward-driving time dynamic Coltrane was seeking to shape in its place was to be less amenable to Tyner or Jones; there's somewhere where McCoy later said he had not really appreciated where Coltrane was at at that point until he chose to re-enter the domain in setting up the early 1970s band with Sonny Fortune, though the latter seems to have more been directed towards maintaining the spirit of this particular performance than in moving "beyond time".

[Joseph K]

Just now listening to this for the first time - hugely grateful for the opportunity. What's particularly interested me here is the rare late return to the high speed modal period. Trane hands more than half the number over to McCoy, who puts into it Trane's most advanced expansions in the harmonic-melodic sphere before Ascension. Trane has moved on into abstracter more ambiguous territory harmonically, and one wonders if he or they were still tracking the underlying thematic structure... not that this matters any more from our listening perspective. In some ways one appreciates that the new less forward-driving time dynamic Coltrane was seeking to shape in its place was to be less amenable to Tyner or Jones; there's somewhere where McCoy later said he had not really appreciated where Coltrane was at at that point until he chose to re-enter the domain in setting up the early 1970s band with Sonny Fortune, though the latter seems to have more been directed towards maintaining the spirit of this particular performance than in moving "beyond time".

Now spinning: Miles Davis - Relaxin'

[teamsaint]

A current fascination with Dave Brubeck led me to “ Brubeck and Rushing” with his quartet plus singer Jimmy Rushing.

I’m really not competent to talk about this music with any degree of confidence, so will limit myself to saying that I enjoyed it a great deal, and that I think it is really very good.

[elmo]

Jemeel Moondoc trio with Fred Hopkins and Ed Blackwell with Judy's Bounce from the album of the same name 1984

https://youtu.be/IgJ9RyJkq7k?feature=shared

elmo

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Cookin'

Thus concludes my listening (for now) to all of Miles's Prestige albums.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Big Fun

[Jazzrook]

John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones playing 'Chim Chim Cheree' live at the Half Note, 1965:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=rzU221jyvHU

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Art Pepper Quartet, The Croydon Concerts 1981, Laurie Pepper's release of all the tracks played.

Art's ballad for his estranged daughter "Patricia" which is superb and moving. As is the entire group including Bob Magnuson who was never my favourite bassist with Art. One of those occasions when it all really came together. Art playing his heart out

http://youtu.be/wDo7_RFnh24?si=dTRDn1ziSx-ZEhL5

[Serial_Apologist]

Art Pepper Quartet, The Croydon Concerts 1981, Laurie Pepper's release of all the tracks played.

Art's ballad for his estranged daughter "Patricia" which is superb and moving. As is the entire group including Bob Magnuson who was never my favourite bassist with Art. One of those occasions when it all really came together. Art playing his heart out

http://youtu.be/wDo7_RFnh24?si=dTRDn1ziSx-ZEhL5

I do so love those late Art Pepper recordings. A few years ago I picked up Blues for the Fisherman for six squid, having for many years only seen offerings at ridiculous prices, and it was and is in very good nick.

Is there an Art Pepper legacy in terms of a performance style influence, I ask myself? The earlier stuff is okaaaaaaaaaaay.. This may sound sacrilege, but for me there were too many more exciting post-Parker altoists such as Cannonball, Eric Dolphy and Joe Harriott. Perhaps Chris Biscoe comes closest to the best of him.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I do so love those late Art Pepper recordings. A few years ago I picked up Blues for the Fisherman for six squid, having for many years only seen offerings at ridiculous prices, and it was and is in very good nick.

Is there an Art Pepper legacy in terms of a performance style influence, I ask myself? The earlier stuff is okaaaaaaaaaaay.. This may sound sacrilege, but for me there were too many more exciting post-Parker altoists such as Cannonball, Eric Dolphy and Joe Harriott. Perhaps Chris Biscoe comes closest to the best of him.

That's an interesting point, I can't think of any other player who has taken from "later Art", perhaps because it was so highly personal to him. Laurie Pepper said it was like living with "an adult adolescent", with Art having no thick skin, totally open with few defences. Hence the endless drug use.

I'm a fan of all periods of his work, he was a master musician and the late 50s/early sixties playing is equally brilliant. "Getting Together" from 1960 with Miles' rhythm section, and his increasing use of fragmentation in his solos, appears more conventional, but there is a hell of lot going on. It's certainly not just running the changes as many of his contemporaries. He was always pushing for something.

* Btw, there was a continuity in his playing. His 1960 recording of "Rythym a Ning" and his much later concert recordings of it still use the tag that Monk so disliked and the similar solo fragmentation. "That's not a fast solo!", said Monk dismissively, "it's just a slow solo played fast!"

[Joseph K]

Today, I'm embarking on a new listening project: the ten-CD Charlie Parker collection Now's The Time. The box does not contain info on these recordings - and while I have managed to locate a document with the recording details, it still doesn't say the names of the albums these recordings first appeared on - bird_documents_10cd.pdf (chasinthebird.com)

[Joseph K]

Newly discovered live recording of this awesome trio -

Gateway Trio (Abercrombie, Holland & DeJohnette), Juan les Pins (1977) - YouTube

[Jazzrook]

James Clay with Sonny Clark, Jimmy Bond & Lawrence Marable playing 'Minor Meeting' recorded in Hollywood, 1956:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=QFDYe4oYGyI

JR