What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

'Mode for Joe'
Joe Henderson with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter & Joe Chambers
Blue Note (1966)

Speaking of modes of another sort, those Blue Note sleeve covers were magnificent, weren't they!

[Stanfordian]

Speaking of modes of another sort, those Blue Note sleeve covers were magnificent, weren't they!

Hiya Serial_Apologist,

Many of the covers was super art but they started going tasteless in the mid-to-late sixties usually containing a fashionably dressed chic on the front cover rather than the leader or band members.

[Serial_Apologist]

Hiya Serial_Apologist,

Many of the covers was super art but they started going tasteless in the mid-to-late sixties usually containing a fashionably dressed chic on the front cover rather than the leader or band members.

Yes, I was thinking mainly of the early to mid-60s covers.

Just now I've been listening to "Let Freedom Ring" (2003), the second album by Denys Baptiste, a saxophonist of African Caribbean descent whom I consider an important voice, and thoroughly decent bloke, from the Black British jazz community. This link from the time, probably taken from a VHS tape, has Denys introducing the work, its motivation and choice of personnel; I can't help remarking on the fact that one of the two Americans in that line-up, the trumpeter Abram Wilson, is no longer with us; the other, Rod Youngs, well deserving of greater profiling in the UK: another thoroughly nice man and that rare thing, a thoroughly musical, and never merely showy drummer, is still on the scene, and has shown up down here, with Denys, still, and in a number of other groupings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWSrD8ybHnI

[Quarky]

I'm glad there is you (no, not you)- Sarah Vaughan (Clifford Brown ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU6O601qFvA

Superb delivery, tons of vibrato, no silly shooby dooing, no catchy toon. The way it ought to be - where did female jazz singers go wrong?

[Stanfordian]

'Now's The Time'
Sonny Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter/Bob Cranshaw & Roy McCurdy
RCA Victor (1964)

[Serial_Apologist]

'Now's The Time'
Sonny Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter/Bob Cranshaw & Roy McCurdy
RCA Victor (1964)

Herbie Hancock in company with Sonny Rollins didn't happen that often, did it? I think I should seek to get that one.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Herbie Hancock in company with Sonny Rollins didn't happen that often, did it? I think I should seek to get that one.

If you are going to get it, then get as well, "Beyond the Bridge" and/or "The Alternative Sonny Rollins" (RCA) which have all the extended or full takes, some very long. Wonderful wonderful sessions, but ones which Sonny did not want released and was enraged when RCA did so after his contract ended. He thought he had total artistic control. Not so.

I'm playing, and have been for days, Chris McGregor's (The Blue notes) "Very Urgent", their first album for Polydor in 1968. Bloody glorious.

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

This tune has been getting a lot of airplay on the radio today following the passing of Glen Campbell. I have to admit that I really hate C&W and find it pretty unforgiveable. Campbell may have been a Django fan and an accomplished studio musician yet the stuff produced under his own name is the epitome of middle of the road bland. I think that Jimmy Webb wrote some good tunes yet the execution of them was rarely as good as this which becomes quite dissonant by the end:-

[Stanfordian]

‘There Will Never Be Another You’
Sonny Rollins with Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, Mickey Roker & Billy Higgins
Impulse (1965)

[Stanfordian]

This tune has been getting a lot of airplay on the radio today following the passing of Glen Campbell. I have to admit that I really hate C&W and find it pretty unforgiveable. Campbell may have been a Django fan and an accomplished studio musician yet the stuff produced under his own name is the epitome of middle of the road bland. I think that Jimmy Webb wrote some good tunes yet the execution of them was rarely as good as this which becomes quite dissonant by the end:-

Blimey! That interpretation is like torture to my ears.

[Jazzrook]

Herbie Hancock in company with Sonny Rollins didn't happen that often, did it? I think I should seek to get that one.

An extraordinary version of John Lewis's 'Django' in 1964 with Sonny Rollins & Herbie Hancock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laT0KjuG-KE

JR

[Braunschlag]

Trilok Gurtu - Usfret.

[Stanfordian]

'Unity'
Larry Young, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1965)

[Serial_Apologist]

Trilok Gurtu - Usfret.

I nickname him "Triple Lock", in honour of his extraordinary ability to hold down at least three rhythmic metres simultaneously. And he's the only percussionist I have yet come across, knowingly, who can maintain a strict tempo in one part of the kit, while doing a rallentando or accelerando in another. He must be possessed of two brains!

[Richard Barrett]

he's the only percussionist I have yet come across, knowingly, who can maintain a strict tempo in one part of the kit, while doing a rallentando or accelerando in another. He must be possessed of two brains!

That's very interesting... where can one hear him doing this?