What Jazz are you listening to now?

[elmo]

Miles Davis with Barney Wilen, Rene Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clark playing "Solar" at the Paris Olympia Nov 30th 1957, a previously unissued track. I don't recall Miles on any other recorded versions of this tune other than the 1954 version with Davey Schildkraut. Lovely Stuff

https://youtu.be/srl72qHnc7I?feature=shared

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Miles Davis with Barney Wilen, Rene Urtreger, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clark playing "Solar" at the Paris Olympia Nov 30th 1957, a previously unissued track. I don't recall Miles on any other recorded versions of this tune other than the 1954 version with Davey Schildkraut. Lovely Stuff

https://youtu.be/srl72qHnc7I?feature=shared

elmo

Wonderful, elmo.
Here's a recent enthusiastic review of the album:

https://www.jazzwax.com/2023/09/miles-davis-in-concert-at-the-olympia-paris-1957.html

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The complete date (Miles, Barney et al) is excellent and the sound is pretty good for a 1957 lift? All of it up on YouTube as you point to. And more Barney Wilen which is always a big plus in my book! That Miles' line,"why do you play those awful notes?", seems just one more example of Miles' "gaming".

[Joseph K]

I am celebrating Trane's birthday by listening to Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

From the December 18 Stuttgart section of the Miles 1957 tour as above...

Miles with the Erwin Lehn Orchestra...(Horst Jankowski on piano for those with long memories!)

Yesterdays Round Midnight
Walkin'

Very fine indeed.

http://youtu.be/bog49fyRIo0?si=iJcAzx0gv3NbMjx-

[Jazzrook]

Film footage of Miles Davis with Barney Wilen, Rene Urtreger, Pierre Michelot & Kenny Clarke playing ‘Dig’ in 1957.
Stage set reminiscent of Sun Ra!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Et8Jlhgag-A

JR

[Jazzrook]

J.R. Monterose with Rein de Graaff(piano); Henk Haverhoek(bass) & Pierre Courbous(drums) playing 'Body and Soul' in the Netherlands, 1970:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Cn1OPxx8Nds

JR

[Joseph K]

Disk 7 of the aforementioned Charlie Parker box, mostly consisting of a long-ish medley of ballads which as I've just found out comes from a Jazz At The Philharmonic recording.

[JasonPalmer]

Drinking cava and waiting for j to z to start...oh yes... radio 3... give it a go sometime

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin - Extrapolation

[elmo]

Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Andrew Hill, John Ore, Philly Joe Jones playing a beautiful soulful ballad 'Carolyn' from "No Room For Squares" - one of my favourite albums

https://youtu.be/r9jEc5rZazc?feature=shared

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Jackie McLean with Bill Hardman, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones playing Charlie Parker's 'Steeplechase' in 1956 from the elusive Prestige album 'Jackie's Pal':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=vOzREHfWRR4

JR

[Joseph K]

After Thursday night's gig* I purchased Paul Dunmall's new album Soultime Again, which features Paul's quintet along with the Royal Conservatoire Big Band directed by Ed Puddick. I'm only currently on the fourth track but I think I would go so far as to say this is the best Dunmall album I have yet come across - certainly of his own compositions. The third track 'It Dawned On Me' is especially wonderful, and for me there are hints of Miles's big band albums as well as Coltrane's Ascension. Some tracks have more of a rock beat behind them, such as the opener 'Soultime', but the nature of these pieces evinces a wide variety of influences and taste. Highly recommended!

*... which was wonderful, BTW. It was Paul along with blues guitarist & singer Steve Ajao and the RCB Big Band, all playing blues and jazz-blues numbers. I spoke to Paul a bit before the gig and he was saying how he wasn't used to playing this kind of music so much, though someone mentioned how some time ago he had toured with Johnny 'Guitar' Watson. In any case, he smashed it with aplomb.

[Serial_Apologist]

I spoke to Paul a bit before the gig and he was saying how he wasn't used to playing this kind of music so much, though someone mentioned how some time ago he had toured with Johnny 'Guitar' Watson. In any case, he smashed it with aplomb.

Ah, but that was back in the time when he was (as he said to me, at the time) "just a Coltrane imitator, really"!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Streaming Spotify as a very late "adopter" and pulled up Tubby Hayes's Mexican Green which I thought had OK sound on the original LP and v.poor compressed etc sound on the Impressed/Repressed release from a few years back. Anyway the Spotify version was remastered in 2019 and is leaps better.

Here's "Dear Johnny B" from it . As it's YouTube the mastering suggests 2019 but really cant be sure. Good to rediscover it again anyway.

http://youtu.be/LvTaOGv37iE?si=0kI5qZFP6_N7Ohu7