What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Iain Ballamy's Anorak, from the 2002 Cheltenham Festival: Iain (ts,ss) Gareth Williams (p) Orlando de Fleming (b) Martin France (d).

iain told this Ashley Slater "joke": "What do you call a balding jazz pianist? A receder Walton.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Honeydripper’
‘Brother’ Jack McDuff with Jimmy Forrest, Grant Green & Ben Dixon
Prestige (1961)

[Stanfordian]

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

[Ian Thumwood]

I have been listening to the classic album "Money Jungle" which was recorded in 1962 around the same time as Ellington's collaboration with John Coltrane. This latter disc was subject of an interesting discussion with two fans last week but I thnk that the pianist sounds far more modern and engaged on this trio session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

The whole album is pretty bizarre with the title track evoking early Cecil Taylor. Other tracks on the augmented version I have of the record consist of blues and these are no less interesting. Reading the liner notes, it appears that this session was pretty fractious but it does not elaborate. After a few listens, I am guessing that the problem with this trio was Mingus and you quickly wish he had been replaced with someone like Richard Davis. HIs playing on the title track is pretty dreadful, to be honest and his constant repetition of a motif in one key does sound like an attempt to sabotage the record.

Where the record does score is the coordination between Ellington and Roach. They sound made for each other and this is a marked contrast to the Coltrane record where the older man is clearly uninterested in Elvin Jones' drumming and lays out for a number of choruses on a few tracks. "Money Jungle" sounds far more aggressively modern and almost shocking in it's unwillingness to compromise. The record deserves it's status yet the role played by Mingus is demonstrative of why I find him so divisive. There are moments when I love his music yet there seems to be an element in his psyche where he seems intent in unsettlingly the balance to the extent of almost wrecking an ensemble as is the case in the opening track.

[Stanfordian]

‘Rollin with Leo’
Leo Parker with Dave Burns, Bill Swindell, Johnny Acea, Al Lucas, Stan Conover, Wilbert Hogan & Purnell Rice
Blue Note (1961)

[Serial_Apologist]

In a minute:

The Kenny Wheeler Quintet with Mark Feldman @ the 2002 Bath Festival: Feldman (vln) John Taylor (p) Chris Laurence (b) Adam Nussbaum (d);

to be followed by:

The New Mike Westbrook Orchestra - "Chanson Irresponsable" (2002) - about a bird, but not the Bird! - and introducing a young Sebastian Rochford on the drums, by the way.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Soul of Ben Webster’
Ben Webster with Harold Ashby, Art Farmer, Mundell Lowe, Jimmy Jones, Milt Hinton & Dave Bailey
Verve (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘Soul Train’
John Coltrane with Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Prestige (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘Street Singer’
Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks with Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1961)

[CGR]

Cantando
Bobo Stenson Trio
ECM

Sitting down with my mid-morning cup of coffee. More of an European twist than my usual Blue Note-ish hardbop.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York’
Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes
Riverside (1962)

[Ian Thumwood]

Dig this:-

[teamsaint]

‘The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York’
Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes
Riverside (1962)

they never do these albums in place like Alton, or Devizes or Tiverton, do they ?

Just a marketing ploy , I guess........

[Quarky]

they never do these albums in place like Alton, or Devizes or Tiverton, do they ?

Just a marketing ploy , I guess........

An album of historical interest, which seems to support your view:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew_Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEI8O_wnA6c

CORRECTION:
Columbia have released:

Miles Davis Isle of Wight

This is present in the Complete Columbia Album Collection.

[Stanfordian]

‘Redd’s Blues’
Freddie Redd with Benny Bailey, Jackie McLean, Tina Brooks, Paul Chambers & Sir John Godfrey
Blue Note (1961)