Working through a lot of "early" Phil Woods from the 1950s, all excellent if on occasion ("Woodlaw") the youthful need to demonstrate speed detracts a tad. But now to the 60s and the bizarre. It's 1969 and "Love song for the dead Ché" sic. It sounds more like the theme to a Tuesday Weld TV movie but it's on Verve so maybe a Creed Taylor production. And perhaps Tuesday & Ché would have loved it, hand in hand in the sand. Fidel not so much.
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Excellent!!!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Should have been titled "Ché passa?"Comment
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Paul Chambers Quintet with Donald Byrd, Clifford Jordan, Tommy Flanagan & Elvin Jones playing Chambers’ ‘Beauteous’ in 1957:
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I have been playing James Brandon Lewis's ' code of being' album. This is the second album of his that I have and have to say that I feel he is one of the most significant tenor saxophonists around at the moment. He has recently been singled out by Sonny Rollins .
There is a spirituality about the music which evokes Coltrane and Ayler yet he sounds like neither. For me, this is staggering playing and is the real deal as opposed to the facsimile of jazz we get so often today. This is bang in the centre of Jazzrook's usual recommendations and he will love this music without doubt. Surprised JBL is not a name featured more often in here. Hugely impressive and maybe the best tenor playing since Joe Lovano ? ?Comment
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Doug Raney, "Introducing" Steeplechase 1977. Denmark.
With Duke Jordan and Billy Hart etc.
A sad end, alcoholism, drugs etc and (predictably?) dead at 59, but I was surprised at how good this is, his first album cut in his twenties. Not (to me) sounding like his father, more punchy and with a fine rhythm section.
I'm not a great one for jazz guitar but I make exceptions.
"Mr PC" for starters...
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I would agree with that, adding that there are some as good here that I've mentioned in the past - not that many admittedly, but there again the same goes for America, today - and America is a bigger country, as they say!Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View PostComment
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Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
For that Raney day (which we have here today). But that one you've already heard; this one I hadn't!Comment
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Doug Raney used to post on the old All About Jazz website and I found him really confrontational . He was very much an advocate of white jazz musicians and I have to admit I really disliked him. I think alot of people posting there were tolerant of him but I was not surprised by the comment that he had drink problem.
Not had much chance to listen to much jazz of late. The two James Brandon Lewis discs in my collection both have a potency that I have not heard for years. These days I rarely buy discs after snapping up a lot of 2nd hand discs of classical.piano that I feel I need to be familiar with. I still really appreciate musicians like J D Allen, Tomeka Reid, Steve Lehman.etc yet there seems so much these days that is merely cosmetic . Lewis strikes me as almost a throw back to the kind of genuine jazz that triumphed in the 1980s such as David Murray,Bradford Marsalis, Arthur Blythe etc. There is currently a glowing review of a JBL on All About Jazz concerning a recent gig.
I really miss the time when jazz this good was ubiquitous. Jessop Wagon is also very good and featured cornetist Kik Knuffke who frequently crops up in avant garde settings. William Parker plays the bass in this disc which owes alot to Albert Ayler.Comment
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I still like to hear this kind of music - friends remembered lazy Blues music - way down in New Orleans music. This was recorded a couple of days ago, but it's coming from a better time.
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Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land with Hal Galper, Reggie Johnson & Joe Chambers playing Herbie Lewis’s ‘The Creators’ recorded in the Krizanke during Ljubljana J.F., June, 1970:
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A couple of tracks from Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band album "Play Monk and Powell" - Motian's fine drum work and the band injecting fresh life into the Bop classics. Monks 'Little Rootie Tootie and Powell's 'Wail'
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NP: Amina Claudine Myers, Song For Mother E (Leo Records, 1979). A superb duo of Ms. Myers and Pheeroan akLaff. I heard one track from this LP on today's Gilles Peterson show and looked it up. This is the track that I heard on the radio today - almost a "what if" had Larry Young lived longer, this has strong vibes of that. 
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NP: Arthur Blythe, Blythe Spirit (Columbia, 1981). Recorded before Columbia rumbled him, this one sees him safely on home turf with his usual collaborators of the time such as Bob Stewart, Kelvyn Bell and Abdul Wadud. I always liked his use of tuba and electric guitar in those ensembles.all words are trains for moving past what really has no nameComment
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I love Blythe's work on Colombia. There are some great recordings and I would cite his playing as a benchmark that many jazz musicians today fail to.livd up to. I particularly like the Monk album but they are all good with the exception of the disc which took its cues frim Tutu. I have all the discs on two BMG reissues.Originally posted by Tenor Freak View Post
Liked the Organ and drum duet BTW.Comment
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