What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Beef Oven!]

'One Flight Up'
Dexter Gordon with Donald Byrd, Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1964)

Taken out for later.

Hi Stanfordian

Thank you so much for this post.

This really caught my eye. I bought Go! in 2008 and quite liked it. As far as jazz is concerned, I really only enthuse about free-jazz, 'avant garde jazz', and the obligatory Miles and Coltrane, but I seem to be mellowing in my old age and listening to more accessible stuff (jazz is also an increasing presence in daily playlists).

I decided to listen to 'One Flight Up' via streaming this morning and was in ecstacy with the first 18 minute track, 'Tanya' - plus blown away by Art Taylor’s drumming! I just had to buy the album - Qobuz Hi-Res 24-bit–192 kHz £6.98. It does not have the fourth bonus track like the CD, just the original 3 track album.

Just finished listening to Go! as a warm up and will now give 'One Flight Up' a good listen!

Btw, if anyone is interested in Go! (1962) Qobuz have it as a Hi-Res download, 24-bit–192 kHz with a booklet for just £5.23.

[Serial_Apologist]

Altoist Marion Brown's 1966 album 'Three For Shepp'.

Here's Brown's 'New Blue' with Grachan Moncur III(trombone); Dave Burrell(piano); Sirone(bass) & Bobby Capp(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-S95q_U5Y

JR

An album I really ought to have. That particular tune has a wind-out-of-the-sails Ornettish character - must check the others on there. I wonder who Bobby Capp really was. Andy's black working class brother?

[Jazzrook]

An album I really ought to have. That particular tune has a wind-out-of-the-sails Ornettish character - must check the others on there. I wonder who Bobby Capp really was. Andy's black working class brother?

There's also a Bobby Kapp who I assume is the same drummer. He's played on recordings by Dave Burrell, Gato Barbieri & Noah Howard.
The other drummer on three tracks on Brown's 'Three For Shepp' is Beaver Harris.
Archie Shepp's joyful & swinging 'Spooks' is worth the price of the album but doesn't seem to be on YouTube.

https://www.bobbykappjazz.com

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Marion Brown is one of those players I have never checked out although I like some of the more recent stuff he produced with Hilton Ruiz which you can hear on YouTube.

I have been paying a lot of Sun Ra lately. The "Futuristic sounds " and "Supersonic jazz" discs are quite intriguing but the music always seems uneven to me. I don't think you can dismiss him and the writing for the percussion demonstrates a degree of savvy that was quite forward thinking for early 60's. Better still is "Jazz in Silhouette" which is much better recorded and , to be frank, better played than the other two records. The musician the latter sounds a lot like Tadd Dameron but refracted through Ellington. The trumpet player on this record is pretty sensational and, apart from John Gilmore who seems like a precursor of Coltrane, he is the start soloist. This is a terrific record whereas the other two are uneven and haven't really stood the test of time. They were probably quite exotic when recorded yet they are a bit dated. 5/5 stars for Silhouette but the others a probably3/5 at best.

Having dug sun Ra for most of the last two weeks, I switched to an early 90's Arild Anderson record with Ralph Towner on guitar. It is a mish-mash of three sessions and reinforced by perception that some of these ECM records have not aged too well. I love the tracks with Towner but the processed double bass effects mask the fact that there is not a great deal going on with the music. This seemed a radical recording when I was given it as a birthday present yet it now seems to come from a totally different era. The delayed release of much of the material might suggest Eicher's lack in belief in it. Looking back, Anderson's folkish music is almost as dated as Eberhard Weber, another ECM'er who seems as remove from these times as the Swing Era was when he made his best records.

[Stanfordian]

‘White Gardenia’
Johnny Griffin with Nat Adderley, Clarke Terry, Ernie Royal, Jimmy Cleveland, Paul Faulise & Urbie Green
Riverside (1962)

Will play tonight!

[Tenor Freak]

Hi Stanfordian

Thank you so much for this post.

This really caught my eye. I bought Go! in 2008 and quite liked it. As far as jazz is concerned, I really only enthuse about free-jazz, 'avant garde jazz', and the obligatory Miles and Coltrane, but I seem to be mellowing in my old age and listening to more accessible stuff (jazz is also an increasing presence in daily playlists).

I decided to listen to 'One Flight Up' via streaming this morning and was in ecstacy with the first 18 minute track, 'Tanya' - plus blown away by Art Taylor’s drumming! I just had to buy the album - Qobuz Hi-Res 24-bit–192 kHz £6.98. It does not have the fourth bonus track like the CD, just the original 3 track album.

Just finished listening to Go! as a warm up and will now give 'One Flight Up' a good listen!

Btw, if anyone is interested in Go! (1962) Qobuz have it as a Hi-Res download, 24-bit–192 kHz with a booklet for just £5.23.

You'll like this then:

[Beef Oven!]

You'll like this then:

That’s gotta be the coolest sax soloing out there! Great sound quality and gloriuos footage!

[Tenor Freak]

That’s gotta be the coolest sax soloing out there! Great sound quality and gloriuos footage!

and check out Dexter's quote from "the Christmas Song" at 5:49 (he did like quoting other tunes in his solos)

[Stanfordian]

Hi Stanfordian

Thank you so much for this post.

This really caught my eye. I bought Go! in 2008 and quite liked it. As far as jazz is concerned, I really only enthuse about free-jazz, 'avant garde jazz', and the obligatory Miles and Coltrane, but I seem to be mellowing in my old age and listening to more accessible stuff (jazz is also an increasing presence in daily playlists).

I decided to listen to 'One Flight Up' via streaming this morning and was in ecstacy with the first 18 minute track, 'Tanya' - plus blown away by Art Taylor’s drumming! I just had to buy the album - Qobuz Hi-Res 24-bit–192 kHz £6.98. It does not have the fourth bonus track like the CD, just the original 3 track album.

Just finished listening to Go! as a warm up and will now give 'One Flight Up' a good listen!

Btw, if anyone is interested in Go! (1962) Qobuz have it as a Hi-Res download, 24-bit–192 kHz with a booklet for just £5.23.

Hiya Beffy,

Yes I also greatly admire 'Go!' and 'One Flight Up'. However 'Our Man in Paris', 'Doin' Allright' and 'Dexter Calling' are probably my favourites. 'Clubhouse' recorded 1965 and not released until 1979 is pretty hot too. Most of these are available on bargain sets.

[Serial_Apologist]

That’s gotta be the coolest sax soloing out there! Great sound quality and gloriuos footage!

Have you seen the 1986 Tavernier movie "Round Midnight", starring Dexter and others? Unavailable on youtube, sadly, due to copyright isssues.

[Beef Oven!]

Have you seen the 1986 Tavernier movie "Round Midnight", starring Dexter and others? Unavailable on youtube, sadly, due to copyright isssues.

No I haven’t. Probably for the best - I’d end up buying a load more downloads and listen to too much Jazz (I’m getting worried about the amount of Jazz I’m listening to lately).

[Stanfordian]

‘Silver's Serenade’
Horace Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor & Roy Brooks
Blue Note (1963)

For later!

[Jazzrook]

Tenorist Flip Phillips & trombonist Bill Harris on 'Funky Blues' from 'Flip Wails'(VERVE):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilblTW-m8Qw

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

I've been playing the new re-issue of Bob Brookmeyer's classic 1957 album "Traditionalism Revisited" which is a kind of music thumbing of the nose to some of SA's arguments about jazz needing to move forward. The record has always been one I have loved. Brookmeyer was a weird musician, associated with playing valve trombone with the likes of Mulligan and Baker although he started out as a pianist with Pee wee Russell before joining the big bands of Claude Thornhill, and ex-Glenn Miller alumni Tex Beneke and Ray McKinley.

This album has a number of interesting liner notes where Brookmeyer enthuses about the material he employed which is made of repertoire by King Oliver, Louis Armstrong. Ted Koehler and Benny Goodman as well as universal standards like "Jada", "Honeysuckle Rose" and "The sheik of Araby." Of course, the music is made fascinating by the inclusion of multi-reed player Jimmy Guiffre and guitarist Jim Hall. About 50% of the tracks have a guitar/ bass / drums rhythm section and the others features Brookmeyer's piano - rather like a feisty John Lewis. My edition is fleshed out with two trio performances with Brookmeyer / Guiffre / Hall which sound completely way out for 1957.

However, the point of posting is that clearly Brookmeyer did see the point in revisiting material from the very early days of jazz and could see the relevance of earlier jazz and how the then modern jazz of the day could refract this. It is not a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. Brookmeyer and Guiffre really push the harmony on these records to breaking point, a bit like a child trying to smash a toy in the case of the brilliant rendition of "Honeysuckle Rose." The best tracks have am almost folk-like element such as "Sweet like this" but the weirdest element of the music is that in Jim Hall's guitar the music hints at Sonny Rollin's "The bridge" as well as a multitude of projects that Bill Frisell has been involved in. It looks forward as much as it looks backward. This is a Classic jazz record with a capital "C" but I would suggest one from the 1950's that is likely to be subject to the opprobrium of someone like Bluesnik.

[Stanfordian]

‘Search for the New Land’
Lee Morgan with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, Reggie Workman & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1964)

For this evening!