JL 13.viii.11 NHOP

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...one for the specialists [bass players like Alyn] NHOP has played on some pretty standard stuff but no one can argue about his technical facility ... nor that he pops up in all sorts of company ... very interesting looking prog ...

Four keys is very hard to find [legally that is] but is a marvel of improvisation ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

,,,,fascinating programme, NHOP was a more adventurous musical personality than you would guess if you only know him from his work with Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass .... never mind the context he was a consumate bass player and jazz artist of distinction ... between my foot tapping at the swing machine and the gasps at his facility and melodic improvisation i was entranced ... [but then i am a bass player manque]

i do hope someone will reissue Four Keys on cd ... or down load ... NHOP with Solal Konitz and Scofield ...

[hackneyvi]

... one for the specialists [bass players like Alyn] NHOP has played on some pretty standard stuff but no one can argue about his technical facility ... nor that he pops up in all sorts of company ...

He's one for the non-specialists, too. This track with Michel Petrucciani is lovely, I think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRAilvKmt8 But then, I also find pleasure in this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpiiM...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M-Ln...eature=related And the elastic punch, the playing makes the silence around it soothing lovely (though I can see that the performance wanders disjunctively like a tourist on the Charing Cross Road).

At best, I'm a middle-brow. Alot of the most sophisticated music, literature, argument (and everything else) flies right over my head without leaving even a splash of its droppings. The Buck Clayton video posted a couple of weeks ago was another instance. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a...mbed&start=240 Though I assume he's the second fiddle here, I enjoy Charlie Shaver's playing quite as much as Clayton.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Phil
You might be interested in this link, which goes some way to explain why so many of us who had anything to do with Buck regarded him with enormous affection. Lots of Joe Newman on show as well. Mind you, (keeping on message ofr the thread) I felt much the same about NHOP...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpr8JtoYYY&feature=related

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

NHOP was indeed a very fine bass player - Demark seems to produce them. I would have liked to have heard a little more (some?) Dexter as "the Dane" was a mainstay of his Danish qrt with Kenny Drew and little (far) LESS guitar which morphed into one for me.

Then there's the (v.good) duo with Shepp playing Bird, Chet, the Miles album, Webster, Horace Parlan, Joe Albany et al. (He was the house bass player for Steeplechase).

BN.

[Jazzrook]

Some great playing from NHOP & Archie Shepp on this overlooked duet album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK2DIUW7j4k

[Byas'd Opinion]

I suppose it was obvious NHOP would concentrate on the albums released under his own name, but as Bluesnik says, he recorded with some of the top American sax players during his stint as house bassist at the Montmartre.

Stan Getz:


Jackie McLean:


Don Byas:


The Byas is probably the best of the three. The other two are worth a listen, particularly the Getz one as it's a rare chance to hear JoAnne Brackeen in a Getz group, but they're not indispensable parts of the Getz and McLean recorded legacy.

[burning dog]

Not sure if there are CD releases on NHOP playing with Sonny Rollins on the '65 and '68 tours. There are TV recordings.

[hackneyvi]

Phil
You might be interested in this link, which goes some way to explain why so many of us who had anything to do with Buck regarded him with enormous affection. Lots of Joe Newman on show as well. Mind you, (keeping on message ofr the thread) I felt much the same about NHOP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOpr8...eature=related

Thank you, Alyn. He seems like a very genial gentleman. In the clip with Charlie Shavers who bubbles notes out, Buck Clayton looks and sounds like a Cool Professor of Jazz and I'd expected an intellectual. But then the man that speaks seems very different to the instrumental player; I couldn't imagine what ailment he might have had that beer and TV could be the best cure?!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Burning Dog - Sonny Rollins with NHOP (2 CD "Trio and Quartet" ~ Gambit)"•

This Gambit double CD presents two extremely rare and long-unavailableEuropean concerts by Sonny Rollins :

• A 1965 Paris performance showcases Rollins in a trio format with GilbertRovere (bass) and Art Taylor (drums); and a 1968 quartet concert from theCafe Montmartre, Copenhagen, with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning OrstedPedersen and Albert “Tootie” Heath.•

The first session includes a half-hour plus version of “Three Little Words”;and 23 plus minutes of “There Will Never Be Another You”. The second concert includes a 47 minute version of Miles Davis’ “Four” and 20 minutes of “Sonnymoon For Two”.• The recording quality is not always up to modern standards, but thesesessions are of high historical importance.

BD - I have this and the music is amazing if totally exhausting ~ 47 minutes of "Four"! Sonny was off on one and shakes it like a rat.. Sound quality is not great but listenable with Kenny Drew is out back somewhere. There's a very moving (and fine) take on "Naima" , Sonny's tribute to Trane.

BN.

[handsomefortune]

> The Byas is probably the best of the three. <

but you are byas'd!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQYOIAuWuI&feature=related

what a night at 'the village gate':cool2:, fascinating speeches about don byas'd's arrival!

imo it's a shame humph isn't on this documentary, as don's ....speaking ...french?

'born to swing' is a masterpiece. just brilliant of someone to put it up online for all to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOd1oRCXPA

JoAnne Brackeen features in 'women in jazz' docu, with blossom dearie etc...but there's no humph-style narrative.... (must be a fragment of educational online media)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHN-KvL9D4&feature=related

nhop, and grappeli doing 'pent up house':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbQ1mOQajZY&feature=related

nhop - fabulous solo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR6eskEN0jo

> a more adventurous musical personality than you would guess <

good point calum da jazbo! a huge emotional range, not necessarily reflected in some styles, particularly 'collective' based music styles, such as samba. (as with mulato astakte (sp)? it's the introductions, the way into appreciating individual musicians, that counts for a lot, in the longterm. eg if you hear astakte from a funk perspective only, it doesn't reveal the ethiopian/duke ellington side of astakte's development. same with nhop, and his actual emotional range, over and above his most famous tunes, and reknowned musical partnerships.

irresistibley, more from joanne on the piano, (any excuse). and in the absence of bluesnik's > 1968 quartet concert from the Cafe Montmartre, Copenhagen, with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning OrstedPedersen and Albert “Tootie” Heath).•

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYW76PBoyI

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

MILES DAVIS ~ "AURA"

...The main theme consists of 10 notes, yielded by the letters "M-I-L-E-S-D-A-V-I-S" (see BACH motif, and Schoenberg hexachord "EsCHBEG", and the chart at Musical notes#Accidentals). It is introduced at the beginning over a sustained chord of these same notes. The following 9 movements of the suite represent the colours Mikkelborg sees in Miles's aura.

The music is scored for an extended jazz big band, and the core of the band is formed by the Danish Radio's Big Band, featuring Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Thomas Clausen and Marilyn Mazur

GOOD STUFF.

BN.

[handsomefortune]

>1968 quartet concert from theCafe Montmartre, Copenhagen, with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning OrstedPedersen and Albert “Tootie” Heath.<

oh here they are, though 6 years later, nhop positively flying along, on 'dark beauty' album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdNLqqr1XdI

nhop playing danish traditional music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WK832TdHJw&feature=related

[handsomefortune]

> (see BACH motif, and Schoenberg hexachord "EsCHBEG", - <



late 6os,

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

> The following 9 movements of the suite represent the colours Mikkelborg sees in Miles's aura.<

how very 70s!

nhop orchestral composition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzwlXN2Mz8Y

[burning dog]

Thanks BN There's a DVD by the look of it with a Danish gig from the 65 tour and the 68 gig you mention