Yard

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

west coast tight section great stuff:

[Ian Thumwood]

Whilst digging the latest jazz sounds from your yard, why not take advantage of the vegetation growing therein in this obscurantist cookery book:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ortie-pissenlit-gourmandes-Anne-Brunner/dp/284221241X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1408293526&sr=8-3&keywords=ortie

[Ian Thumwood]

I was looking for this kind of Ortie....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Whilst digging the latest jazz sounds from your yard, why not take advantage of the vegetation growing therein in this obscurantist cookery book:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ortie-pissen...keywords=ortie

...nah mate i'm a fan of Alice B Toklas meself ....

[Ian Thumwood]

As a fan of the great Jimmy Guiffre you could do a lot worse than check out the clip called "Parshara" on their website. This is a terrific duo although it is a job to place the music as either jazz or classical music. There is a lot of writing in there to so I'm not even convinced that "improv" is a fair description. Whatever it is, the result is hugely compelling. I was hooked when I heard them perform last month.

http://www.ortie-duo.fr/en/galeries/videos

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

As a fan of the great Jimmy Guiffre you could do a lot worse than check out the clip called "Parshara" on their website. This is a terrific duo although it is a job to place the music as either jazz or classical music. There is a lot of writing in there to so I'm not even convinced that "improv" is a fair description. Whatever it is, the result is hugely compelling. I was hooked when I heard them perform last month.

http://www.ortie-duo.fr/en/galeries/videos

moi aussi!

[Ian Thumwood]

Fans of Maria Schneider might want to check out Steve Owen's writing:-

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

aimer!

[Ian Thumwood]

Liked that clip, Calum

Try this more experimental, French group....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

good stuff Ian ... what knocks me down about Zaz and freres is their youth and joy and pride in the tradition

kids like this in the UK would never get on TV [there are many i know for sure on the Jazz Courses at the major colleges and conservatories] ... when did Aunt put them on TV except as some crap biannual Pepsi Promo Competition in a graveyard slot ..

the Suits@Aunt have an unpolishable imagination

[Serial_Apologist]

aimer!

They should get a tenor player in; then they could call themselves Mist and Getz.

[Serial_Apologist]

Liked that clip, Calum

Try this more experimental, French group....

Nice as far as it goes, but it all looks very effortful for the limited harmonic scope on that number, which gets to be an irritant after a while. Maybe they do more interesting stuff too.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

great crew but oh Bill Hardman is lovely!

[Serial_Apologist]

Agitate, organise, Mobleyise!

[Ian Thumwood]

I dug out Bobby Hutcherson's "Oblique" and have being playing that CD is my car over the weekend. Combined with the ever better "Happenings", this quartet with Herbie Hancock must surely be one of the most under-rated albums in the entire Blue note catalogue. The line up is on to a winner with Hutcherson sharing the solo duties with the ever excellent Herbie Hancock yet the real surprise package is drummer Joe Chambers. (He also plays vibes on one track on "Happenings" ) It's staggering that he is so little known as these two performances mark him out as one of the finest around in the late 1960's. A lot gets written about Alan Dawson on this board whereas Joe Chambers seems to me to be even more over-looked. These two albums are sensational and demonstrates just how the same line up of the MJQ might sound if taking on the ideas of miles' second quintet as well as free improvisation.