Album For Today

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiUX6wSMT-8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwU8CZnkW4M

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_thn7JyKBBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Q2_vESwlA&feature=related

....masterpieces by midnight ...

[charles t]

Always look for 'Live' issues and this one from Jonas Kullhammar's Moserobie catalog is a Nordic gem:

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum

Didn't get any CD's for Christmas this year (replica 1960's Saints shirt instead!), I've been listening to the Anat Cohen CD that I bought for my Dad.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Village-Anat-Cohen/dp/B001CISIEO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1293968229&sr=1-4

Anat Cohen usually plays clarinet but this disc features some great tenor playing as well as a feature for bass clarinet and soprano. However, she excels on the clarinet. Her tone is fantastic and it is great to hear this instrument in a post-Brecker context. The CD is fantastic and worth the money alone for the beautiful rendition of "After the rain" and the frisky verson of "Jitterbug Waltz" with Jason Lindner impressive on piano. There is a very good boppish blues on the record too and an original that starts off sounding like a children's musical box before Cohen picks up the tenor that builds to a powerful conclusion from it's naive yet clever opening statement. The music is contemporary in style but extremely melodic. She really wails when the music gets going too. I've been hugely impressed and she sounds like a talent that you ignore at your peril.

The reason why i mention her is that she is also somthing of a specialist in Brazilian Choro too and thought that this would appeal. "Notes from the village" is definately worth checking out though. This is a record that I would rate extremely highly.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

here is Anat Cohen on the tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7_F78Kk5aw

here is another lady with the same first name Anat Fort, i have twice toyed with this as a dld on emusic but not quite managed to commit;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8YWZSezJb0

[elmo]

Played a very underrated album by Elmo Hope yesterday - Sounds from Rikers Island, wondefully inspired piano from Elmo and some brilliant playing from John Gilmore, Ronnie Boykins and Philly Joe. What would this band achieved if they could have stayed together?

[charles t]

Elmo: Very little to be found for John Gilmore, for instance. If case you don't have this one, highly recommend:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..hell's bells Chas that is irresistible and on iTunes! [for £5-53p]

[Paul Sherratt]

Gosh, Calum, this is a lovely place to lurk.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

no lurking! POST!

[Ian Thumwood]

Been playing Carla Bley's live big band record "Appearing Nightly." This is like a surreal set by a big band from the 1940's. Many of the tunes allude to other standards and only one song ("I hadn't anyone 'til you" ) is left unamended. Great to hear the band crank out those riffs and old themes like Tony Jackson's "Pretty Baby" and "Hey, Pete, let's have mo' meat" being thrown into the mix. This is really good fun to listen to and one of the best albums her big band produced albeit it is very much in a mainstream mode. The music has been absorbed from the past and instead of being yet another ironic take off of some earlier jazz traditions, is remoulded very much into Carla Bley's own musical language. The whole set is underpinned by Steve Swallow's wonderful rubbery bass guitar and trhe energy never flags.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXb7ckjcZU&feature=related

John Handy alto; Booker Ervin tenor; Richard Wyands piano; Charles Mingus bass; Danny Richmond drums.

[elmo]

Elmo: Very little to be found for John Gilmore, for instance. If case you don't have this one, highly recommend:

Thanks Chas, glad you reminded me of that one - I have it on LP and I will haul it out of the collection if I can find it.

Have been listening again to a couple of obscure but very good Hard Bop Tenors this week.

Frank Haynes - on the Walter Bishop Jnr album Bish Bash, there are two long tracks with Frank, recorded in 1964 with Walter, Eddie Kahn and Dick Berk. Frank really is on inspired form on these live tracks - I have most of Frank's recorded work and these tracks show him at his best. Pity he recorded so little and died so young.

Joe Alexander - Don't know much about Joe, the only albums I have are Tadd's Fontainbleu and Joe's own album Blue Jubilee on Riverside.
The Riverside is pretty well generic hard bop but Joe has a lovely big sound, plenty of ideas and a great feeling for the blues. It seems Joe was a musicians musician, there is a quote by Shafi Hadi on the Blue Note album he was on with Hank Mobley where he speaks highly of Joe and dedicates a composition to him.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TG18cLvjg

a somewhat neglected album, by me at least, but not currently ..... an example of great jazz, individual creativity and going beyond constraints, working together with sensitivity across the generations ... and just impossibly good improvising

[Pianorak]

I know next to nothing about jazz. I have just dug out an ancient 45 rpm disc of Earl Bostic and his Orchestra playing Liebestraum by Liszt and Song of the Islands by C.E. King on the B side. Is Bostic still a known name and what's the experts' opinion of him? I remember playing both tracks almost non-stop as a child and absolutely loved it! Is that where it all went wrong with me?