CEDAR WALTON - Jazz Lib 2/7/2011 (this Sat)

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  • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
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    • Dec 2010
    • 4314

    CEDAR WALTON - Jazz Lib 2/7/2011 (this Sat)

    I see Alyn has Cedar up for discussion this weekend with tracks including "Mosaic" (Blakey), Eastern Rebellion (with George Coleman), Lee Morgan/Jackie M ("Tomcat") and Kenny Dorham's (part) vocal album for Riverside - i.e. Cedar's recording debut...and much more.

    Should be well worth a listen.

    BN.

    Wot no "Free For All" avec Blakey and Wayne!!!


    Cedar also made some wonderful quartet albums with Cllifford Jordon, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins for Steeplechase. Also, I think, Hank Mobley's very last session? A live album.
  • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
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    • Dec 2010
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    #2
    Very good programme and contradicts what I said about "interview led" shows a la Johnny Griffin.

    I found Cedar's thoughts on Bluenote interesting (and he was the house pianist for Prestige for a while in the early '60s), especially when he said the Alfred Lion gave the band three of four days rehersal before they recorded a date. I thought it was only a day.

    BN.
    Lou Donaldson once said HE had no prep and just went in and cut them! Quite possibly.

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    • Ian Thumwood
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      • Dec 2010
      • 4223

      #3
      How about a thumbs up for a similar pianist, Mulgrew Miller ?

      Totally under-appreciated, in my opinion.

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      • burning dog
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        • Dec 2010
        • 1511

        #4
        Mulgrew Miller is a fine musician who 'gets on with it' with a minimum of fuss, he seem to be a neo bopper by nature not ideology.

        I suppose the difference between Walton and him is that Walton was so much of his time (in a good way) not avant garde but up to date the music he played was fresh.

        Walton sounded a bit like Tyner in the mid 60s I don't think it was a deliberate impersonation. He and Reggie Workman give the Messengers a Coltranish edge and Shorter is at his most Trane like on Free For All and Kyoto, which a very good album but short and with a dodgy vocal, Nihon Bash is one of the hottest post bop tracks there is if memory serves. A few bars can be heard here.http://images.amplified.com/FLVStrea...0_0002_102.mp3

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