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[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Haven't seen this before, footage of Kenny Dorham at Newport 1966. A trumpet jam with Dizzy, Clark Terry, Thad Jones etc. Kenny Burrell on guitar...

http://youtu.be/v1CpFSDV5ao?si=5fEjIsxmszDz7QWH

[Jazzrook]

Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams in Stockholm, October 31, 1967:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Iv7bzjoifjc

JR

[elmo]

I checked out Ian's recommendation of James Brandon Lewis and he is right this restores faith that the music can still surprise and enthral - the sort of jazz as most of us on this bored would recognise as a development within the art.

Here is a live performance of the album Ian recommended

https://www.youtube.com/live/qHmvPdLsWuE?feature=shared

elmo

[Serial_Apologist]

I checked out Ian's recommendation of James Brandon Lewis and he is right this restores faith that the music can still surprise and enthral - the sort of jazz as most of us on this bored would recognise as a development within the art.

Here is a live performance of the album Ian recommended

https://www.youtube.com/live/qHmvPdLsWuE?feature=shared

elmo

Most impressed - big thanks, elmo. Bordees may be interested in the interview below. Not sure I follow a lot of what Brandon Lewis says, but if his ideas shape the spirit in this music, there's no argument!

http://thequietus.com/interviews/james-brandon-lewis-interview-efg-london-jazz-festival/

[elmo]

Prez a matter of months before he passed away but still a giant of the music, quite poignant.......

https://youtu.be/9wvAjA-ovhs?feature=shared

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Cecil Taylor in conversation:

http://is.gd/iLoiG6

JR

[Jazzrook]

Roots: Sam Rivers, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Nathan Davis, Don Pullen, Santiago Debriano & Idris Muhammad playing ‘Lester Leaps In’, 1992:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=XU_eKFPsdaY

JR

[Jazzrook]

Howlin’ Wolf with Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon & Clifton James at Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1964.
I was lucky enough to see this group the same year at Fairfield Hall, Croydon along with Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson & Sugar Pie Desanto among others!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JXB9CF-fMOY

JR

[Jazzrook]

Mesmerising solo piano from Cecil Taylor on ‘Free Improvisation #3’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstPgi4eMe4

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The closing session of the blues section of 1960 Newport Jazz Festival...

"Mean mistreater" Muddy Waters, Betty Jeanette (excellent) Jimmy Rushing etc, and I think Sammy Price, Otis Spann, Lafayette Thomas... & Pat Hare etc from Muddys band. Him of "Going to murder my baby" fame... Which he later did.

Muddy totally cool and majestic.

http://youtu.be/KAOLICFKTtA?si=TyBtJp_nMdo4ZTbP

Just discovered that Betty Jeanette is also. Betty Harris, the N Orleans soul singer.

"Cry to me" from 1963. The Solomon Burke hit, very nice version.

http://youtu.be/V7pyVhOUwNQ?si=iRfZWGEV0WYJtCTy

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Lou Donaldson RIP 9 November
For some (system? reason I can't post the YouTube tribute video. Or any video!

[Jazzrook]

Sad news - he was 98!
Here’s Lou with Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell & Grady Tate playing ‘Blues Walk’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=thIbnAP19cI

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

I only have one Lou Donaldson record in my collection which us The Natural Soul. The something incongruous with a Bird styled saxophonist performing Soul Jazz but it is good fun.

Donaldson is something of a blind spot for me although I love Blue Note. The earlier stuff with Brown abd Blakey is unfamiliar and falls between original be bop and what became Hard Bop. I always felt he was a very strong player but the records were fun as opposed to having any depth.

I Once went to gig by Wynton Marsalis and ge told an amusing story about Donaldson being on a panel for a jazz award and joked about how Donaldson was something of a great character with a reputation for being quite outspoken. Marsalis clearly respected him as well as being amused by his comments. Was it Donaldson who commented that Coltrane had killed jazz ?

[Serial_Apologist]

I only have one Lou Donaldson record in my collection which us The Natural Soul. The something incongruous with a Bird styled saxophonist performing Soul Jazz but it is good fun.

Donaldson is something of a blind spot for me although I love Blue Note. The earlier stuff with Brown abd Blakey is unfamiliar and falls between original be bop and what became Hard Bop. I always felt he was a very strong player but the records were fun as opposed to having any depth.

I Once went to gig by Wynton Marsalis and ge told an amusing story about Donaldson being on a panel for a jazz award and joked about how Donaldson was something of a great character with a reputation for being quite outspoken. Marsalis clearly respected him as well as being amused by his comments. Was it Donaldson who commented that Coltrane had killed jazz ?

Would it be unfair to suggest that that some of second generation of boppers, lacking somewhat depth and originality, sought recognition by outbidding both their predecessors and contemporaries in terms of technical wizardry? This hadn't occurred to me until now in terms of British (and other non-American) jazz musicians such as Tubby Hayes almost outdoing the Americans in speed of execution and choice of tempos on standards an additional factor in the inferiority complex at not being black and American that only really began to break down when the advent of free jazz threw out the rules and questions about jazz correctness.

[Ian Thumwood]

S A

I think the point of Donaldson was that he was looking to maintain the connection between jazz and thr general public. Sure, many musicians of his generation had bags of technique but Donaldson's music in the 1960s sought to reconnect with a more mainstream audience. He was really vociferous about the music having a groove. Maybe more populist than Cannonball. Nothing to dislike about his music . It was always about enjoyment.