Album For Today

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-wiLECmuA

................. inhale, inhale, hold it ...... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... exhale! ... listen aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ....

[grippie]

Weekend ahead no more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6qDVyr3Rs

[Ian Thumwood]

Been playing Chucho Valdes "Chucho's Steps" all week. Valdes is an amazing player but with such a technique he totally dominates the ensemble. As good as the tenor and trumpet as well as percussion play in the band, you are always drawn to the fabulous piano playing which seems to mix up elements of Cuban music with almost McCoy Tyner like intensity mixed with Cecil Taylor disonance and disruption. One one of the tracks, the piano sound like it has strayed from "Conquistador" albeit with all sorts of percussion clanging around in the background. Having seen Valdes play twice, he has got to be one of the most entertaining jazz musicians on the scene today and a good example of just why the scene in 2010 is as vibrant and exciting as in 1960.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlX37palyYI&feature=related

Part 2:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwSstmqGNI&NR=1

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

found a cover of it Ian:



here is my album for today:



a seasonally allusive title perhaps ...

recorded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_YRl1qWTk

live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzXZwN7axng

[eighthobstruction]

Ian....rocking out to Jill Scott this morn....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBcZ26dHI0I

a warmer! ...and brilliant .....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

another david Stone Martin cover, denied to the UK however which had this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pp5x_stan-getz-plays-standerds_music

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPEULPEDg_M

a bass player


a flamenco guitarist


some Mediterranean inspiration in the midst of winter

[grippie]

Calum very nice too. Thanks.


Two Guitar Legend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFaBRZco8pI

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Thanks Grippie

Grippie very nice as well! [love Lonnie Johnson]


another inspiration altogether ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZEnbOCZGIw

[Ian Thumwood]

Giving this recent purchase a spin following a good heads up on "Jazz Library." (a steal at the price , too.)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Geri-Timeline-Allen/dp/B003INBNTI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293106369&sr=8-1

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJiCStJ6dk

xmas innit

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr72UkaBdtk&playnext=1&list=PLE0DB99A5FD4AA577&index=7

Ole!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Yf45H5E0A

Billie sings jazz

[Ian Thumwood]

Now spinning pianist Gerald Clayton's "Two-shade" which does a nice job of bringing mainstream modern jazz piano bang-slap up to date. Plenty here to appeal to those jazz fans who lament the passing of the jazz played between 1950-65 whilst very much catering for a contemporary audience.

http://www.geraldclayton.com/

Love this album which is a real grower. Maybe not quite as exciting as Vijay Iyer or Jason Moran, Clayton seems to me to be unfairly overlooked in the rush to laud young jazz pianists. Part funded by Artist Share, the CD features a trio of Joe Sanders on bass and an impressive Justin Brown on drums. In my opinion, Clayton is a name to watch.