Album For Today

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRkGglLe-U&feature=related

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

new acquisition .... rather fine tribute to Billy Strayhorn

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

Being giving this a spin and thought that you may be interested given your enthusiasm for the Third Stream. Line up includes David El-Marak and Sohpie Alour.

https:///http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pre...0679646&sr=1-1


Samples are available on this site. "Potomac River" is particularly good but a disc recommended for fans of Schuller, etc, etc :-

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8554321

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

Wondered if you had checked out Christophe Dal Sasso's new disc "Pretextes" being a fan of the likes of Gunther Schuller. Evidence that the Third Stream movement continues in thrive in contemporary jazz circles.

A few samples are available on this site - think this will definately be your cup of tea.

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8554321

Ian

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

thanks Ian ... i am into that stream, was looking at Marcus Stockhausen's symphonic album today on emusic but skipped it .... for some Arnett Cobb with Lockjaw and Duke Ellington with Buck Clayton at Newport, my mind and ears are not up to anything too demanding this week!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well just because it has been neglected does not mean it was a bad idea!
listening to messrs Allsop and Challenger i heard a ghost ....



east of the sun

[Serial_Apologist]

thanks Ian ... i am into that stream, was looking at Marcus Stockhausen's symphonic album today on emusic but skipped it .... for some Arnett Cobb with Lockjaw and Duke Ellington with Buck Clayton at Newport, my mind and ears are not up to anything too demanding this week!

The "classical music" of M Stockhausen will be found imho to be very conventional, in a sort of sub-Hindemithian idiom.

[Pilchardman]

Spinning this today:



I'm not a great McLaughlin aficionado, but it is a terrific album, and I hadn't listened for a while. (I was reminded of it by a YouTube video of him in the 80s playing Cherokee on a US chat show, on a nylon strung guitar, in front of the house band. A curiosity rather than a great moment in jazz).

[Pilchardman]

Spinning today is disc two of the Now's the Time boxed set:



Excellent value - 10 discs at around an hour each, from 1941-1952, covering Savoy, Dial, Jay McShann Orchestra, Tiny Grimes, Red Norvo, Slim Gaillard, the Bird & Diz album, the Strings album, and much more. Currently only £14.99! (No booklet, though, but you can download a booklet of session dates & personnel from here: http://www.chasinthebird.com/nest/bi...ments_10cd.pdf ).

[charles t]

Spinning this today:



I'm not a great McLaughlin aficionado, but it is a terrific album, and I hadn't listened for a while. A curiosity rather than a great

I too was overwhelmed and ordered from the UK (cd version) and two booklets were inside...framed one until I later needed that particular frame.

Have caught John Mac with four editions of Mahavishnu Orch...including an extremely loud original version at The Whiskey A Go Go...also the string outfit with Ponty and later outfits with the grooving sax of Bill Evans.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

superior music making or what ................

[Pilchardman]

Spinning today:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wow a real cooker! .... Horace Parlan is a very undermentioned pianist Pilchardman ... your album is on the tube we can all dig it

loved Parlan with Mingus

this is one of my favourite Turrentine albums ...

[Pilchardman]

Thanks for that, Calum. I didn't know Rough N Tumble. I'll have to look it out.

I knew his work with Jimmy Smith, of course, and with Kenny Burrell (one of my favourite guitarists), the CTI stuff. My favourite Blue Note album of his is Never Let Me Go.

[Ian Thumwood]

Pilchardman

I share your enthusiasm for Stanley Turrentine and I would suggest that you also check out the wonderful , gospel inspired record he made for Blue Note called "Joyride" where he is backed by an all-star big band directed by Oliver Nelson. Kenny Burrell is on this record too but the disc is also worth the money for Herbie Hancock's lesson in how to comp behind a soloist. Few jazz pianists are as effective as Hancock in this respect and whilst the arrangements are in the same vein as the charts written for Smith and Wes Montgomery, it is difficult not to enjoy the general good-natured feel of Nelson's writing. The CD is still available if a little steep for an old issue. Great record, non-the-less.