Album For Today

[burning dog]

Yes.. Day is Done is not typical, but they carry it off with aplomb

[Jazzrook]

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

[Jazzrook]

The mysterious flugelhornist/trumpeter, Wilbur Harden, led three excellent SAVOY sessions with John Coltrane in 1958 and then, sadly, soon disappeared from the scene after suffering a mental collapse.
Here's a track 'E.F.F.P.H.' which also features an exuberant solo from Coltrane.
I'm probably missing something obvious but can anyone tell me what E.F.F.P.H. stands for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3grap4EVA

[Jazzrook]

Joyful and swinging jazz from altoist Marion Brown's overlooked and hard-to-find 1966 IMPULSE! album 'Three For Shepp'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ORdw9pa04

[Ian Thumwood]

Joyful and swinging jazz from 2005. (Can't believe that I missed this group.) Jazzrook should love this!!!

[Jazzrook]

As far as I know, pianists Thelonious Monk & Horace Silver recorded only once together on this magnificent version of 'Misterioso' from Sonny Rollins' overlooked 1957 album 'Volume Two'(BLUE NOTE).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r78pjdlrmNE

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Metheny and Zorn .... before you say no way try it ...

[Tenor Freak]

In an acid jazz mood today...this is beautiful:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

GG always been the man in my book; with the rain thrashing the windows and the wind outside howling your post led to this oasis

[Tenor Freak]

Very nice

[grippie]

GG always been the man in my book; with the rain thrashing the windows and the wind outside howling your post led to this oasis

Funnily enough I wasn't sure what to listen to today so a random choice of Grant Green's Blue Note: Matador is echoing through the house. relaxing

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

great album grippie!

[Beef Oven]

Not the only album for me today, but this has been on the turntable for the last half an hour. Watching a tv programme last night on BBC4 about Ronnie Scott's gave me an appetite for a bit of Jazz.

[Ian Thumwood]

I've been checking this out over the last week. Some of the tracks on the album "Ellipse" are fillers and, in all fairness, would probably struggle to get released if recorded by a serious composer / jazz musician. However, there are moments of this record which I think are inspirational and illustrate an intelligent musical mind. I'm sometimes reminded of Laurie Anderson and maybe Annette Peacock, a bit of 1980's John Surman and even a playfulness that started to infuse some of the better ECM-inspired records of the last 30 years. That said, the use of technology is a dominant feature and, I would have to say, the one thing that strikes you with these performances. What I like about this music is that it is unpredictable and perhaps just a tad outside to really be classified as pop music. I wish that there was more room for improvisation but some of the tracks are far more interesting than the majority of pop music recorded since the 1970's.

[Ian Thumwood]

This is even better:-