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[Ian Thumwood]

Another good one ...Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson..."Change keys to play these blues"

https://youtu.be/n4vxfwCwRKg?feature=shared

These recordings amaze me. Eddie Lang was a massive loss to jazz and I feel would have become more progressive in the 1930s.

I love these re mcordings and the bizarre small groups with Joe Venuti. It strikes me as a glimpse into the future from a late 1920s perspective. I don't think it is as modern from a rhythmic point of view as Armstrong but the harmonies and cadences are eccentric for that era . If you like, it is modernity before it's time.

[Ian Thumwood]

Archie Shepp on piano playing ‘Round Midnight at Chateauvallon J. F., 1973:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=cxsci8E6XUA

JR

This clip perplexed me for a number of reasons . I quite liked the playing although in was played rubato. Did not expect Shepp to be that savvy with harmony and to know the tune without music. It is the best standard to play with harmony on and I like the whole tone scales. It was much better than I had anticipated.

The main fascination for me was how such an out of tune piano got used on a gig at a jazz festival. The attentive audience is fascinating...
not sure the same would happen in 2025.

The final thing that fascinated me is his cigarette. It may have given this music a casual appearance. Nowadays, I am just left wondering where the ash went.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bunky Green (alto), who has just died (Ist March) playing "Round Midnight" in 2006 as a tribute to his friend Jackie McLean who had then recently passed. Very moving...

http://youtu.be/z5KID9rVSqI?feature=shared

[elmo]

Bunky Green (alto), who has just died (Ist March) playing "Round Midnight" in 2006 as a tribute to his friend Jackie McLean who had then recently passed. Very moving...

http://youtu.be/z5KID9rVSqI?feature=shared

That is a remarkable performance by any standards, I must check out more of his work.

Here is Jackie's equally moving tribute to Eric Dolphy

https://youtu.be/5bJc6MdR7KU?feature=shared

elmo

[Serial_Apologist]

This clip perplexed me for a number of reasons . I quite liked the playing although in was played rubato. Did not expect Shepp to be that savvy with harmony and to know the tune without music. It is the best standard to play with harmony on and I like the whole tone scales. It was much better than I had anticipated.

The main fascination for me was how such an out of tune piano got used on a gig at a jazz festival. The attentive audience is fascinating...
not sure the same would happen in 2025.

The final thing that fascinated me is his cigarette. It may have given this music a casual appearance. Nowadays, I am just left wondering where the ash went.

Those whole tone runs are obvious Monk tributes, as also is the tune, of course. It was rather a hammed performance, but Shepp could certainly play.

Keith Tippett would always have fag in mouth, lighting it before launching into one of his gynormous improvisations, and it used to be alleged that one of the ways he sustained audience attention was focussed on the growing length of the curving ash, wondering if it would break off before he finished the performance!

[Ian Thumwood]

I saw Bunky with Rudresh Mahanthappa I
in 2011 and thought it was quite an intense set. Bunky Green could really play but was surprised that his life in music education had meant he was not as celebrated as he should have even. We need more people like Green un today's scene.

[Serial_Apologist]

I saw Bunky with Rudresh Mahanthappa I
in 2011 and thought it was quite an intense set. Bunky Green could really play but was surprised that his life in music education had meant he was not as celebrated as he should have even. We need more people like Green un today's scene.

Bunky Green was conceptually influenced as an improviser by James Moody, who departed from his previous bebop orthodox phraseology and configured a different, more jagged counter-rhythmic chromatic idiom while playing with Diz in the early 60s. I well remember being rather shocked on hearing him on some jazz programme at the time. Green then passed on his own conception to Steve Coleman and his associates in M-Base. I'm always glad to have experienced James Moody, who may have been appreciated more for his flute playing than his tenor - and for Annie Ross name-dropping him in one of her songs - can't remember the title - it began with the words "There I go there I go Therrrrrre I go-oh". can't remember which: a ballad. Very very friendly bloke, James was.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bunky Green was conceptually influenced as an improviser by James Moody, who departed from his previous bebop orthodox phraseology and configured a different, more jagged counter-rhythmic chromatic idiom while playing with Diz in the early 60s. I well remember being rather shocked on hearing him on some jazz programme at the time. Green then passed on his own conception to Steve Coleman and his associates in M-Base. I'm always glad to have experienced James Moody, who may have been appreciated more for his flute playing than his tenor - and for Annie Ross name-dropping him in one of her songs - can't remember the title - it began with the words "There I go there I go Therrrrrre I go-oh". can't remember which: a ballad. Very very friendly bloke, James was.

Moody's Mood for Love...his paraphrase of I'm in the mood for love. He first played it on a record date in Sweden using Lars Gullins old alto. A "hit" back in the States and then King Pleasure and/or Eddie Jefferson put the words to. A hit again. There's a very fine 60s Georgie Fame version with a great baritone solo by Johnny Marshall. Moody was a fascinating character, remarkable life, he was partially deaf early, hence that slight speech impediment. And a great saxophonist. "Last train from Overbrook" where he took a life saving cure for alcoholism is just one example. Only complaint, tracks are too short!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Moody explains...! http://youtu.be/ckxMozZZLzA?feature=shared

[Jazzrook]

Moody explains...! http://youtu.be/ckxMozZZLzA?feature=shared

Fascinating, BN. He comes across as a very friendly and interesting man.
He plays some stunning tenor on Mingus’s ‘Hobo Ho’ from the 1971 album ‘Let My Children Hear Music’:

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

JR