Album For Today

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

indeed it is jazzrook

[grippie]

The best of Max Roach and Clifford Brown, this album contains one of my favourite solos:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9wHyy5cX0

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

great song innit

Bunny B

Billie and Friends

JATP Greats

Cybil and Stan G

Mingus


..well you started summat there grippie! .. the Brown Roach ensemble is still one of the very greatest in all jazz ...

[Jazzrook]

Some intensely moving tenor playing by Booker Ervin from Randy Weston's hard-to-find 'Monterey '66' album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBgwbJdN518

[Byas'd Opinion]

David Murray has recorded so much that it's easy to lose track of which are his best albums, but "Morning Song" from the early 1980s is a favourite of mine. It's a fairly straightahead sax (and bass clarinet on one track), piano and rhythm quartet with John Hicks, Reggie Workman and Ed Blackwell.

Here's a version of the title track from a couple of years later, with Fred Hopkins rather than Workman on bass:

[grippie]

great song innit

Bunny B

Billie and Friends

JATP Greats

Cybil and Stan G

Mingus


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Thanks for those Calum I really enjoyed listening to them, so much so I got in trouble for being late for my tea.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ooops


love this tune too and way to go Wilbur!

and thanks Byas'd for that David Murray .... must confess i too often overlook his work for no good reason!

[Ian Thumwood]

Just gpt back from France last night and have been listening to Kate McGarry's "If less is more..." this morning:-

Not quite sure about this one. The record is worth the money for the cover of the Bob Dylan number and Clarence Penn's drumming throughout is amazing. Sometimes the music slips a bit too much towards "Oirish" inspired folk music and there is no Joe Locke on the record slthough Donny McCaslin is on the record as it Gary Versace. Difficult to know what to make of her approach as she is a bit too much like Christine Tobin for my liking even if McGarry is more of a jazz musician although not exclusively a jazz artist. It's an intriguing mix and the jury is still out as far as I am concerned. Next up is the new ASntonio Sanchez.

The line up for this years' Vienne has come through. Last year was one of the very best I've been to but 2013 looks like it will stink. Too many old faces (BV Social Club, Dee Dee Bridgwater and marcus Miller again) and players like Sonny Rollins who is sadly past his best. On the bill are genuine jazz musicians like Chucho Valdes, Muchel Portal, Charles Lloyd but the club in the evening which is usually a venue to hear the latest offerings is taken over by European players I've never heard of. Gerald Clayon plus Logan Richardson is the best option. Other bands include Santana , Don Bryron playing Gospel and a scattering light-weight stuff. If I'd known the line up was going to be so poor this year, I wouldn't have bothered. Shame there is a lack of genuine, new jazz musicians and more experimental stuff although there don't appear to be too much techn- 0rientated stuff which is so embarrassing.

[Tenor Freak]

ooops


love this tune too and way to go Wilbur!

and thanks Byas'd for that David Murray .... must confess i too often overlook his work for no good reason!

PROBABLY TEH BEST BASS SOLO EVAH! (at least my favourite anyway)

[Tenor Freak]

J
The line up for this years' Vienne has come through. .<MASSIVE SNIP>

Ian, go direct to the source and travel over to teh New Yawk if the Frenchies aren't delivering the goods. I would if I had the bread.

[Jazzrook]

The overlooked British free jazz pianist/composer, Howard Riley, turned 70 this year.
Humphrey Lyttelton always championed Riley's music on 'The Best of Jazz' but he's rarely, if ever, heard on jazz radio nowadays.
Here's the title-track from his hard-to-find 1970 trio album 'The Day Will Come'(COLUMBIA) with bassist Barry Guy & drummer Alan Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd548yKSYbc

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

more of the Riley Trio live

as ever thanks to jazzrook for a timely pointer

[Serial_Apologist]

There's a CD of jazz piano solos and duos out now, one of Howard Riley and Keith Tippett, the latter of whom played two absolute blinder solo sets last night at a crowded Cafe Oto - standing ovation at the conclusion, no less .

Wish I'd noted the title of that CD for you...

[burning dog]

The remarkable thing about the Howard Riley track from Jazzrook is just how "Pop" it is. Optimistic times for Jazz and its related musics. In those day Riley looked like a cross between Michael Parkinson and Paul McCartney

PS

http://music.geocities.jp/softsjp/HowardRileyTheHeatOfMoments2.jpg

PPS

And Alan Jackson of that time reminds me of Harry H Corbett....

[Serial_Apologist]

The remarkable thing about the Howard Riley track from Jazzrook is just how "Pop" it is. Optimistic times for Jazz and its related musics. In those day Riley looked like a cross between Michael Parkinson and Paul McCartney

PS

http://music.geocities.jp/softsjp/HowardRileyTheHeatOfMoments2.jpg

PPS

And Alan Jackson of that time reminds me of Harry H Corbett....

Whereas Calum's link is more representative of the HR Trio I saw late in '72 at the Bristol Arnolfini where it was before its present location on the waterfront. I have that track from a R3 broadcast which must've been from around that time, but the two sets I saw were much more abstract, if that is possible! - Guy (in a smiley T-shirt!) de-tuning and re-tuning much of the time; Oxley with the electric kit not apparently shown here; Riley spending almost the whole concert inside the piano, not into the Cecilisms we see here. Interesting.

I well remember those concerts - the Arnolfini always insisted on sitting on the floor, providing cushions to make the experience bearable!