Yard

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

pianoless & tasty Byas'd ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Frank Strozier any one?

[Serial_Apologist]

Here's one for the bankers. Das Kapital play Hanns Eisler:

Well done, Byas'd - managing to find some Hanns Eisler on utube (which was more than I did!)

There's other good stuff on there too!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

perfick ......

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

some lady day in 56, jump to 3' 30" or thereabouts for her singing

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

one for TC 'n me

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i am passably certain that ian gave us the nod about this album a while back ... just to say that today it is proving irresistible .... the real stuff etc ...

[Serial_Apologist]

i am passably certain that ian gave us the nod about this album a while back ... just to say that today it is proving irresistible .... the real stuff etc ...

The tune on that track could almost be one of Kenny Wheeler's - I also hear a bit of Kenny in this trumpet player, if I'm not mistook.

[Ian Thumwood]

Calum / SA

"Destinations unknown" is a really unasuming record and typical enough of the 3 Criss Cross CD's I have to suggest a "house style" or atleast a philosophy. For my money, they share alot with the more interesting records that Blue Note would put out in the 60's insofar that the music is performed soley for it's own benefit without any desire to be modish or "cutting edge." They often feature combinations of more "outside" players like Taborn with "conservatives" like Sipiagin and I would suggest that this disc shares wth Walter Smith's "III" and the David Binney "Barefoot town" a happy medium where they are just out to create good quality jazz. I get the comparison with Kenny Wheeler but Sipiagin's writing often gets picked up by Swiss bandleader / arranger George Gruntz and the style is more familiar to me through the recordings that Gruntz has put out. (One chart, "Novgorod bells" is terrific.) I don't think that Sipiagin is quite as lyrical as Wheeler and probably a "harder" player even if they seem similar in other respects. For me, the interesting thing about this disc is the juxtaposition of Chris Potter (a seriously under-rated performer amongst jazz fans yet highly regarded by fellow musicians) and David Binney who is perhaps more unorthodox and not a "hot" player. If you don't pay attention, I think David Binney's playing could pass you by but it is a curious mix and different from the combination with Mark Turner who is probably even "chillier" than the altoist.

The Criss cross website is fascinating with the label moving from recording the last flourish of the boppers in the late 70's at a time when fusion was more fashionable. I think the label has stuck to it's guns with pursuing a more "traditionalist" approach which is now paying dividends with the more interesting jazz these days being performed by artists who aren't so modish or rail against post-bop. In other words, Criss Cross is a proper jazz label that refuses to compromise and in doing so, ensures that a certain standard is maintained. I'm becoming a big fan of this label.

[handsomefortune]

ellington's yard in 1958, ................(humph sounds so like him in manner and accent)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBu9lWbCoFY&feature=related

[Serial_Apologist]

ellington's yard in 1958, ................(humph sounds so like him in manner and accent)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBu9l...eature=related

Duke Ellington studied at Eton and served in the Horse Guards, as is of course well known.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

....coz e woz a duke innit

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er coz i like it .... lots

whole album innit .....

i am ringing

[grippie]

er coz i like it .... lots

whole album innit ....

Playing this, not played it for a while and it sounds so fresh, coooooooooooooool

http://youtu.be/vjI8ruaL4D0

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and now for something completely different .... man mexican brass sections are always somethin else ..