Jazz Finds on Spotify

[Guest]

Thought it would be great to start a specifically spotify orientated thread in the jazz section (I've created a similar one for the world music section).

Starting with a very under-rated Mingus album, called East Coasting. The pianist for this session was none other than Bill Evans on one of his rare 'sideman' recordings.

http://open.spotify.com/album/1EROEaTTgWowOGfCZiifs5

[charles t]

Geoff: To get in the spirit of Spotify 'finds', here is one not-so-old, but worthy I feel, because of that great UK reedsman: Iain Ballamy.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

..there is no greater champion of brit music making in the genre on these boreds than our friend Chas .... you are dubbed Sir, dubbed ... please to call yerself SirChasT...

[charles t]

Dutifully dubbed o'JAZZ 1!

All as a result of hanging around Loop Collective...Bable...sure beats the old days of mailing-off a [American Express] M.O. to Mole Jazz Record shop, in the Spring and listening to same in Autumn!

P.S. Hope there are some closet Earthworks people out there (exclm mark)

[Serial_Apologist]

Dutifully dubbed o'JAZZ 1!

All as a result of hanging around Loop Collective...Bable...sure beats the old days of mailing-off a [American Express] M.O. to Mole Jazz Record shop, in the Spring and listening to same in Autumn!

P.S. Hope there are some closet Earthworks people out there (exclm mark)

One right here

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er ditto

[charles t]

(Live in Tokyo, 1986) Where did those 26 years go, Guv?

Some of which are encased within Bill Bruford's autobiography...23 people gave 4 **** (reviews on the River)...1 people gave 1/2 * more.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bill-Bruford-Autobiography-Crimson-Earthworks/dp/1906002231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326735918&sr=1-1

[geofflikesmusic]

Talking about British Jazz, Graham Collier's Songs for My Father is one of my favourites and it's on Spotify too!

http://open.spotify.com/album/0Y0HxS0LxrNJUoThcBDnts

What a severely underrated album!

[geofflikesmusic]

er ditto

sorry not an an Earthworks fan :( a bit too much on the cheesy side of jazz for me.

[charles t]

Cheese is relative...

'it needn't end in tears'

[johncorrigan]

That nice Cerys Matthews on 6 music had a jazzy morning on Sunday - started with a smart bit of Bunk Johnson doing Thriller Rag. She likes to educate her listenership, does Cerys - she had Arun Ghosh on talking about Coltraine's My Favourite Things for example and very interesting I found him to be - liked his playing too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019jq89#synopsis

Among the Miles, Bird, Kirk etc she played a bit of rap from the Gang Starrs called Jazz Thing which you might enjoy a listen to.

http://open.spotify.com/track/5SBHtn0A0Mp2JoS6Tdgzds

It comes from what I thought was a very fine record 'Mo Better Blues', a soundtrack to the Spike Lee film by the Branford Marsalis Quartet which is there on Spotty.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0p9pjx1LrmYBb70ns5lMGz

[geofflikesmusic]

a while back I made a spotify mix of my favourite Eric Dolphy moments (my favourite jazz musician).



Contains a 'choice' selection of both is own solo performances, and as a sideman.

http://open.spotify.com/user/geofflikesmusic/playlist/2UHdkenWzPoiFrSGdf4Tka