What are you listening to? Jazz, World, New Age, Rock, etc.
I discovered some superb big band jazz recently on the Sea Breeze label. Gary Urwin is a conservatory graduate (Oberlin) who later became an attorney but continued to make music on the side. These recordings feature top quality musicians playing Urwin’s swinging, colorful and very interesting arrangements and original pieces. One unusual chart blends Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” with Samuel Barber’s “Adagio.”
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Being from New Orleans, I naturally love New Orleans Dixieland jazz. It can always cheers me up and at the same time make me feel very homesick. I listen to Fats Domino (happy birthday, Fats!), Louis Armstrong, and the less-universally known folks like Papa Celestine, Professor Longhair, and others who recorded Mardi Gras music and New Orleans Christmas music.
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Not strictly jazz, probably . . . .
Zappa, "Filthy Habits"
Zappa, "Filthy Habits"
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No. You're not alone!miranda wrote:I'm right here. I just have been listening to more classical music than jazz lately. (Imagine that!)Thomas J wrote:Hey! Where did all the jazz fans go? It's been very quiet here lately.
However, I did listen to this a little while ago--am I the only Cecil Taylor fan on this board? It would be a shame if I am.
In summer 1999 I saw Cecil Taylor perform in an outdoor (free) concert at Columbia. Completely blew us away with a 90 minute improvisation.
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
I think that the mood in the second track "something sweet, something tender" is the most beautiful and primeval yet futuristic I have ever heard in jazz - Dolphy was years ahead of his time
Thelonious Monk, Ask me now
This is the trio version from 1951(?)and shows Monk at his most virtuosic,playful and typical - a superb track
Thelonious Monk, Newport 1963
I really love Monk's "Blue Monk" and I think this is the greatest ever performance of it, 11 minutes of absolutely superlative teamwork and concentration which as usual sounds loose and relaxed - I credit Frankie Dunlop's drumming for much of the success here. Many experts say that the 1951 trio version with Art Blakey on drums is the definitive one, but I prefer this!
I think that the mood in the second track "something sweet, something tender" is the most beautiful and primeval yet futuristic I have ever heard in jazz - Dolphy was years ahead of his time
Thelonious Monk, Ask me now
This is the trio version from 1951(?)and shows Monk at his most virtuosic,playful and typical - a superb track
Thelonious Monk, Newport 1963
I really love Monk's "Blue Monk" and I think this is the greatest ever performance of it, 11 minutes of absolutely superlative teamwork and concentration which as usual sounds loose and relaxed - I credit Frankie Dunlop's drumming for much of the success here. Many experts say that the 1951 trio version with Art Blakey on drums is the definitive one, but I prefer this!
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Corylss, I hope to make it over to that thread in the coming days. I've been on a very serious jazz kick recently. It's time to once again dig back into the classical music collection. Right now, I'm listening to a box set of 1950's Blue Note recordings on the Mosaic label of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan.
Disc 1 & 2 of 4.
Disc 1 & 2 of 4.
It'll be forty years tomorrow. Coltrane's use of alcohol and drugs early on in his professional life had finally caught up, at age 40, when he died of liver cancer. What a great jazzman! He would have been 80 y.o. this Tuesday.
It's a vid on "My Favorite Things," which everyone probably knows but it's also his greatest commercial success:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXWKwUYGKg
It's a vid on "My Favorite Things," which everyone probably knows but it's also his greatest commercial success:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXWKwUYGKg
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Oscar Peterson/Gershwin, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck/Time Out, Art Tatum, Ellington, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Bill Evans, Monk, and too much more to list!
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I also listen to Cecil Taylor, but not too much recently. My favorite of his is Conquistador.
Lately, I've been on a Chick Corea kick. I've got his 10-DVD set recorded for his 60th birthday. Every performance is superlative!
I also have Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage and Oliver Nelson's inappropriately named Straight Ahead in heavy rotation.
Lately, I've been on a Chick Corea kick. I've got his 10-DVD set recorded for his 60th birthday. Every performance is superlative!
I also have Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage and Oliver Nelson's inappropriately named Straight Ahead in heavy rotation.
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I hope this won't offend the more echt-jazz buffs on this thread, but I've gotten sort of a kick out of this oldtime radio CD:
http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000060P7J ... d_i=507846
Rather amazing, the way they could effortlessly mix klezmer with swing in those days.
http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000060P7J ... d_i=507846
Rather amazing, the way they could effortlessly mix klezmer with swing in those days.
Good music is that which falls upon the ear with ease, and quits the memory with difficulty.
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Last night
Art Pepper meets the rhythm section.
Red Garland
Paul Chambers
Philly Joe
classic art.....
BENNY GOLSON
ONE DAY FOREVER
A MUST HAVE...Golson in my opinion one the most underrated writers in jazz. plus a great player..A major contributor to this genre. ..If your not familiar with him, he has plenty available. Plus his work with ART FARMER JAZZTET....check him out.....
Art Pepper meets the rhythm section.
Red Garland
Paul Chambers
Philly Joe
classic art.....
BENNY GOLSON
ONE DAY FOREVER
A MUST HAVE...Golson in my opinion one the most underrated writers in jazz. plus a great player..A major contributor to this genre. ..If your not familiar with him, he has plenty available. Plus his work with ART FARMER JAZZTET....check him out.....
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Not sure if it strictly qualifies as jazz . . . but listening with delight to The Enchantment by Chick Corea & Béla Fleck.
Cheers,
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Cheers,
~Karl
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This cd, ‘Can I Persuade You’, recorded in 2001, is a tribute to the late Julie Cavadini, who wrote a number of pieces for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
Two of Cavadini’s songs for the orchestra are presented here: ’A Simple Wish’, is a lovely piece featuring Scott Wendholt on trumpet, the other track, ‘Can I Persuade You’, features lead saxophonist, Dick Oatts. There are also contributions by Jimmy Giuffre and former alumni Bob Mintzer, an unusual arrangement of Ellington’s, ‘Sophisticated Lady’ by another former member Garnet Brown and an arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s, ‘ESP’ by yet another former band member Ed Neumeister. Finally, an arrangement by Bill Holman of Just Friends' completes the set. This is a terrific cd and is available from Planet Arts
Two of Cavadini’s songs for the orchestra are presented here: ’A Simple Wish’, is a lovely piece featuring Scott Wendholt on trumpet, the other track, ‘Can I Persuade You’, features lead saxophonist, Dick Oatts. There are also contributions by Jimmy Giuffre and former alumni Bob Mintzer, an unusual arrangement of Ellington’s, ‘Sophisticated Lady’ by another former member Garnet Brown and an arrangement of Wayne Shorter’s, ‘ESP’ by yet another former band member Ed Neumeister. Finally, an arrangement by Bill Holman of Just Friends' completes the set. This is a terrific cd and is available from Planet Arts
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"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Cheers,
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Cheers,
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The latest cd from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, it's 'Up From the Skies'.
With the exception of the title track the compositions and arrangements were written by the pianist and composer in residence, Jim McNeely:
With the exception of the title track the compositions and arrangements were written by the pianist and composer in residence, Jim McNeely:
Seán
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"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
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