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Perhaps the graffitist meant "Brent"!!!Originally posted by burning dog View Post
I love Henry Lowthers tone and style. I remember the North Circular from that era - IKEA induced traffic jams and "M Khan is Bent" painted on a bridge
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From the same period a favourite of mine
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Tremendous period for British jazz, that was - so many recordings one can still listen to again and again, and find excitement, freshness, compatibility and astonishing creativity. Last night Soweto Kinch played a track from Alan Skidmore's Once Upon a Time (1969) - this one, I think. Look at the line-up!Originally posted by burning dog View Post
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SA - Tony Oxley is outstanding on that albumComment
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Alan Skidmore talking about his album ‘After The Rain’:Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Tremendous period for British jazz, that was - so many recordings one can still listen to again and again, and find excitement, freshness, compatibility and astonishing creativity. Last night Soweto Kinch played a track from Alan Skidmore's Once Upon a Time (1969) - this one, I think. Look at the line-up!
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I have been listening to the late Vic Juris' album ' Let's cool one' which was essential listening during the pandemic. The album is largely a quartet date but with three duos and material associated with other guitarists such as Towner, Abercrombie and Burrell. I loved this album when I first heard it . A colleague of mine once described the Criss Cross label of being championship level of jazz artists. I think that was an apt description but albums like this belay just how good rhe mainstream jazz can be. Gary Versace is on piano.Comment
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Dave Holland Quintet....2009 Les Pommiers....Never heard this before what a really tremendous 90 minutes - best I've heard in some time ....elegant....happy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZDxQqHdy8bong chingComment
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Dayo....Daayo....too piercing man , too piercing....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXE1FPRP7nEbong chingComment
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Fair point. It's a power trio with acoustic bass. I have to be in the mood for it.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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classic from 51
years ago
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For those preferring something a little more relaxing, "Blues in the closet" by Arnette Cobb from the early 60s Prestige album "Party Time".
I've been listening to Cobb all afternoon and only really thought of him before as a "Flying Home" guy, but he was a superb ballad player and the series of albums he recorded for Prestige & Moodsville after a hellish road accident (crushed legs, flat on his back for a year) are exceptional.
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Arnette Cobb was one of my Dad's favourite saxophonists and was someone whose music I grew up with although more frequently as a member of some of Lionel Hampton's bands. I quite like players like Cobb, Illinois Jacquet and Lock Jaw Davis. They all played with character and I feel there musicianship is overlooked these days. The late 40s boppish records Jacquet made with Joe Newman in the late forties are excellent.
It perplexs me that some of the traits of these musicians are so out of fashion yet the ability to swing like that is almost a lost art. The nearest I have witnessed to that in concert has been James Carter and although he was being hyped alot in the 1990s, I feel he is overlooked these days. I think jazz has become too polite in many respects.
Dave Holland is exceptional. I think he is amazingly consistent on record. Easily one of the best bandleaders in jazz over the last 40 years. He just does not seem to do average. He is also supposed to be a real gent.Comment
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James Newton with Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter & Tony Williams playing Dolphy’s tribute to Monk, ‘Hat And Beard’ live at Town Hall, New York in 1985:
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