The Alan Wakeman Octet on ‘Jazz in Britain’ in 1979 playing ‘Chaturanga’. Good to hear Charles Fox again!
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Miles Davis with Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb playing ‘No Blues’ live at Carnegie Hall, 1961:
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Lee Morgan with Clarence Sharpe, Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware & Philly Joe Jones playing Owen Marshall’s ‘Gaza Strip’ in 1956:
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Hank Mobley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones playing ‘Hank’s Other Soul’, recorded in 1961 but not released until 1985:
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Never heard of Alan Wakeman but this broadcast is fascinating , both from a perspective of the writing and the presentation of the music. I was getting into jazz at the same time although it was always around from.when I was small as my Dad was a fan.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostThe Alan Wakeman Octet on ‘Jazz in Britain’ in 1979 playing ‘Chaturanga’. Good to hear Charles Fox again!
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It is fascinating to think that there was music around like that then which expressed complex origins. This was not the kind of jazz I was listening to in 1979 and Charles Fox seemed to be pushing an agenda regarding jazz that I was totally unaware of.
You would expect the music to change in 46 years yet the style of presentation is almost as alarming.. I love the idea of the music being explained yet this now almost seems like a pastiche of Open University.
Made me wonder whether there was a call for affording jazz proper musical analysis anymore. Just struck me as being a world from where we are in 2025. . Makes you realise just how differently jazz was treated in 1970s.
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More from that session on here - personnel listed on the page this time:Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View Post
Other tracks down page.
I've always maintained that there was much more still going on in British jazz in the late 70s than admitted by later commentators making out that apart from free improv and fusion there had been nothing after the early 70s until the coming of Andy Sheppard and Courtney Pine.Comment
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I always think of British jazz from that era as what was released by albums like Spotlite.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
More from that session on here - personnel listed on the page this time:
Other tracks down page.
I've always maintained that there was much more still going on in British jazz in the late 70s than admitted by later commentators making out that apart from free improv and fusion there had been nothing after the early 70s until the coming of Andy Sheppard and Courtney Pine.Comment
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As it’s the first day of Spring here’s John Coltrane with McCoy Tyner, Steve Davis & Elvin Jones playing ‘Equinox’ from the great album ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ recorded in 1960:
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Some fascinating information about the seldom recorded and rarely heard alto saxophonist Clarence “C” Sharpe(1937-90).
I’ve only heard him on Lee Morgan’s 1956 debut album for Blue Note, ‘Indeed!’
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From Organissimo...Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostSome fascinating information about the seldom recorded and rarely heard alto saxophonist Clarence “C” Sharpe(1937-90).
I’ve only heard him on Lee Morgan’s 1956 debut album for Blue Note, ‘Indeed!’
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Posted December 3, 2013
We were buddies. I went up on the roof with him in '84 and we played Someone to Watch over Me for 45 minutes. I wish you could have heard the bass lines on alto he played behind me that day----let alone the solos.
He was underrecorded.That Archie Shepp album, Poem for Losers, has his solo on I Got it Bad (sung by his wife, China Perrault) all but obfiscated by Shepp's obnoxious obligatto.
There's a date with a Japanese drummer, Monkey, and something with another saxophone player named Ted Harris. They are probably hard to get. There were in the display case at Barry Harris's Jazz Cultural Theater, where he regularly performed.
He worked a lot in the 70s and 80s and had superstitions about recording. He talked a lot about 'the music that goes into the air'. He went to Paris to play a show opposite Phil Woods and others in the late 80s, but his health (cancer) declined after that. We lost him in early 1990. I think of him a lot. Beautiful soul, great player.
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Many thanks, BN. It’s a pity he was so underrecorded.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
From Organissimo...- 6 years later...
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Posted December 3, 2013
We were buddies. I went up on the roof with him in '84 and we played Someone to Watch over Me for 45 minutes. I wish you could have heard the bass lines on alto he played behind me that day----let alone the solos.
He was underrecorded.That Archie Shepp album, Poem for Losers, has his solo on I Got it Bad (sung by his wife, China Perrault) all but obfiscated by Shepp's obnoxious obligatto.
There's a date with a Japanese drummer, Monkey, and something with another saxophone player named Ted Harris. They are probably hard to get. There were in the display case at Barry Harris's Jazz Cultural Theater, where he regularly performed.
He worked a lot in the 70s and 80s and had superstitions about recording. He talked a lot about 'the music that goes into the air'. He went to Paris to play a show opposite Phil Woods and others in the late 80s, but his health (cancer) declined after that. We lost him in early 1990. I think of him a lot. Beautiful soul, great player.
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Here’s the alternative take of ‘Little T’ from Lee Morgan’s 1956 ‘Indeed!’ which has been described as containing Sharpe’s “best solo on record”:
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Hank Mobley with Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Paul Chambers & Billy Higgins playing ‘Pat ‘n’ Chat’ recorded in 1965 from ‘The Turnaround’:
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Art Pepper With George Cables, Tony Dumas and John Dentz playing 'Darn That Dream' rec 1982 - Art puts his heart and soul into this.
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The overlooked Tristano School tenorist Lenny Popkin with Eddie Gomez & Peter Scattaretico playing ‘I Remember You’ live in New York, 1979 from the LP ‘Falling Free’:
This is also available on the CD ‘317 East 32nd’(Candid CHCD 71027) with an extra track.
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I've just seen (Organissimo) that Johnny Mathis has announced his retirement, at approaching 90 not such a bad decision. Never a fan but he was obviously talented. What I didn't know was that his first album for Columbia in 1956 was intended to have a small group jazz sensibility with arrangements by Gil Evans, John Lewis etc. And Art Farmer, Buck Clayton, Hank Jones, Phil Woods etc playing. Who knew.
Here's "It might as well be spring" arranged by Gil Evans.
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