Album For Today

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

just rediscovered this on me itunes innit

Just two minutes and 34 seconds into the first track, 'Brown Street', you discover where the rest of this live two-CD set is going. After an atmospheric intro, Zawinul cues Victor Bailey in on bass to lay down a simple walking four. The groove is set. Zawinul on keyboards and the WDR Big Band lock in and, for the next eight minutes and 24 seconds, the title track builds to a powerful climax. If you're not tapping your foot, popping your fingers or dancing by then, it's time to call the men in white coats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/dec/10/19

[burning dog]

One of the greatest partnerships in jazz? Clifford may not 'push the boundaries of harmony' but his playing with Roach is phenomenal. The trumpet 'solo' is really a duet here

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Hutcherson & Land were another great twosome ......

just get past the TV theme tune bit ...

[geofflikesmusic]

Hutcherson & Land were another great twosome ......

just get past the TV theme tune bit ...

Pretty solid album in general, at least from the 'late' blue note catalogue.

I prefer this track though

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

they must have been a right gasser live ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

new album from Andy Shepherd Libero Trio reviewed in Graun

i like it ....

[Jazzrook]

Startling cover for very rare CBS Realm LP featuring Mississippi bluesman Bukka White:-

https://www.vinylnet.co.uk/gallery/jjk.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUuqhGjq48

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

poor goldfish!

[Serial_Apologist]

poor goldfish!

Yes you'd really think some people would be more considerate at bedtime before dumping their entrails in the toothmug alongside the family goldfish now, wouldn't you?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Pianist McCoy Tyner is heard at the height of his powers throughout this rewarding set. He contributed all five compositions and has a colorful and diverse group of major players at his disposal to interpret them: vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, altoist Gary Bartz, Azar Lawrence on tenor and soprano, John Stubblefield doubling on oboe and flute, bassist Buster Williams, drummer Billy Hart and both Mtume and Guillerme Franco on percussion.
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Hutcherson is especially fine on this

[Serial_Apologist]

Hutcherson is especially fine on this

"Azar Lawrence not on very good form", as of this recording a certain jazz musician said to me, though he'd a agreed with Calum about Bobby. It came out around 1974, didn't it? Terrible recording quality, Tyner's albums of that time. Someone nicked my copy.

[Ian Thumwood]

Snapped up "Miles Smiles" this week which was a gaping omission from my collection although I have a number of CD's already by Miles' second quintet. This is something else, though. Since I put it on in my car earlier in the week, I've played it continously and only had another disc on for a few tracks. Staggeringly brilliant and something of a revelation insofar that I didn't think "Sorcerer" could have been improved upon. What shocked me was that this was the quintet's second record and came two years after "ESP" - what a disaster that this group never visited the studio in between! Herbie Hancock is fantastic on this record and Tony Williams hugely impressive too. If you listen hard you really start to appreciate just how fabulous Ron Carter was on bass. For me, nothing tops "Freedom Jazz Dance" even if Herbie's compoing on "Footprints" is a model of how to select choice chords behind a soloist. His solos on "circle" is also justly praised.

Made me wonder, was there ever a better studio album by Miles?

Has anyone bought the record 3 CD / 1 DVD box set of live performances by this band? I intrigued about this as it seems a possible addition to my Birthday list next month. The reviews on Amazon are all very good but with a band as great as this, it would be difficult to be less favourable.

[Serial_Apologist]

Snapped up "Miles Smiles" this week which was a gaping omission from my collection although I have a number of CD's already by Miles' second quintet. This is something else, though. Since I put it on in my car earlier in the week, I've played it continously and only had another disc on for a few tracks. Staggeringly brilliant and something of a revelation insofar that I didn't think "Sorcerer" could have been improved upon. What shocked me was that this was the quintet's second record and came two years after "ESP" - what a disaster that this group never visited the studio in between! Herbie Hancock is fantastic on this record and Tony Williams hugely impressive too. If you listen hard you really start to appreciate just how fabulous Ron Carter was on bass. For me, nothing tops "Freedom Jazz Dance" even if Herbie's compoing on "Footprints" is a model of how to select choice chords behind a soloist. His solos on "circle" is also justly praised.

Made me wonder, was there ever a better studio album by Miles?

Has anyone bought the record 3 CD / 1 DVD box set of live performances by this band? I intrigued about this as it seems a possible addition to my Birthday list next month. The reviews on Amazon are all very good but with a band as great as this, it would be difficult to be less favourable.

The Dutch pianist Jasper Van T'Hof once told me this was his favourite of all jazz piano, Ian.

[Ian Thumwood]

S-A

The more I listen to Herbie, the more impressed I am. For me, I don't think he has an peers and something like "Miles Smiles" is excpetional because there is such a density of music going on all the time. It is "total music" rather like a Bach composition.

[Serial_Apologist]

S-A

The more I listen to Herbie, the more impressed I am. For me, I don't think he has an peers and something like "Miles Smiles" is excpetional because there is such a density of music going on all the time. It is "total music" rather like a Bach composition.

Free jazzers have argued with me that the group is "out" for most of this recording, "Orbits" apart - but if you infer the chorus changes, they're adhered to throughout.