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Post by Kapitan on Oct 10, 2020 12:06:38 GMT
Odd that there isn't one, with the Cap'n on board and all. To my knowledge nobody else was really a jazz fan, and honestly I haven't listened to much jazz lately, myself. But I'll be glad to chime in now and again if you're interested.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 10, 2020 12:11:38 GMT
Toots Thielemans is great. One name stood out among the guests on that album: Kenny Aronoff? He's primarily known as a great rock studio drummer, having played on albums for the likes of Joe Cocker, Jon Bon Jovi, Mick Jagger, John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, and yes, even Brian Wilson. But not much jazz that I've ever heard of, anyway.
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2020 20:13:31 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 14, 2020 20:20:28 GMT
I love McCoy Tyner's extended solo. He's among the greats of all time, easily one of my five favorite jazz pianists.
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Post by jk on Oct 18, 2020 21:24:31 GMT
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Post by jk on Oct 25, 2020 15:32:18 GMT
I linked this at Hoffman earlier today. Upon reflection, "The Train And The River" is a great Sunday tune -- the sort of stuff one might whistle on one's way to church, perhaps... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jimmy_Giuffre_3
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 25, 2020 16:47:04 GMT
Thanks for sharing. That's quite an odd configuration for a jazz combo: bass, electric guitar, and woodwinds. Of the trio, I'm only familiar with guitarist Jim Hall. I see that Jimmy Giuffre was a North Texas graduate: North Texas is a very respected school for jazz musicians.
In Giuffre's bio on wiki, it says of this song: "They had a minor hit in 1957 when Giuffre's "The Train and the River" was featured on the television special The Sound of Jazz. This trio explored what Giuffre dubbed "blues-based folk jazz"."
Giuffre also became known for his groups exploring free jazz, apparently in a more quiet and introspective style than did Ornette Coleman's groups of around the same time.
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Post by jk on Oct 28, 2020 21:55:45 GMT
This is a track I heard just once on French radio in '67. It's "A Bluish Bag" from Shelly Manne's Jazz Gunn, an album of music from the 1967 film Gunn. What blew me away was Monty Budwig's hell-bent-for-leather walking bass line, which is played with the bow instead of plucked. Astonishing! Shelly Manne - drums Conte Candoli - trumpet Frank Strozier - alto saxophone Mike Wofford - piano Monty Budwig - bass
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Post by jk on Nov 1, 2020 22:14:06 GMT
I've just embarked on listening to this album. It's by the lineup of Mahavishnu Orchestra that I saw in Amsterdam in early 1975. Ye gods, what musicianship! I had to smile at Jean-Luc Ponty during the pre-concert meditation, where they all stood together in silence for a couple of minutes. J-L’s eyes were certainly raised heavenwards but with an expression of “How long are we going to have to stand around like this?” So no, I don't think he was really happy there. What a joy to see him smiling from a Zappa album cover not long after. We were sitting behind two gents with a pipe. They had this large cloth which went over their heads so that they made the most of the contents of their pipe. Hilariously, most of the smoke leaked out of the back of this setup and straight into my face! According to the indefatigable JH: "McLaughlin must have gigantic hands; I experience the same sort of discouragement [as another EH poster] every time I pick up a guitar and try to play those picked arpeggios. He could hook his left thumb under on chords where I can barely get my thumb to peek out over the back of the neck. He really is the greatest guitar player of all time, I think. A little more taste than some of the other fusion monsters (although that's gone a bit downhill recently IMO), unbeatable speed, unsurpassed harmonic knowledge, and total mastery of rhythm. Superhuman." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visions_of_the_Emerald_Beyond
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2020 13:54:01 GMT
My favorite John McLaughlin moment is from his work on Miles Davis's spectacular Jack Johnson album. A particular moment of note is this badass riff!
There is about a 15 second transition from the previous section, and then around 18:45 you'll hear the riff enter.
Amazing band on this album: Miles, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, McLaughlin, Dave Holland, to name a few.
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Post by jk on Nov 3, 2020 11:37:15 GMT
My favorite John McLaughlin moment is from his work on Miles Davis's spectacular Jack Johnson album. A particular moment of note is this badass riff!
Wow, yes. I bought this album a while back, although I can't remember the source that recommended it. * I must fish it out some time (this holds for just about all my CDs, LPs, tapes, etc). Indeed, I have three Miles albums on CD: this one, Sketches of Spain and Birth of the Cool. * It occurs to me now that I was introduced to one of its themes in a combination with Suicide's "Ghost Rider" as performed by Gary Lucas's band Gods and Monsters. Sketches of Spain was prompted by Prendergast's book The Ambient Century and Birth of the Cool by a magazine article.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 3, 2020 12:35:57 GMT
Indeed, I have three Miles albums on CD: this one, Sketches of Spain and Birth of the Cool. Great choices, all, and three very different styles of music from Miles. If you were ever to expand on it while keeping with the different-style approach, A Kind of Blue (a super talented sextet doing mostly modal blues) and Miles Smiles (the "second great quintet" with a remarkable gift for group improvisation and complementary playing) would be fine choices.
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Post by jk on Nov 3, 2020 15:03:06 GMT
Indeed, I have three Miles albums on CD: this one, Sketches of Spain and Birth of the Cool. Great choices, all, and three very different styles of music from Miles. If you were ever to expand on it while keeping with the different-style approach, A Kind of Blue (a super talented sextet doing mostly modal blues) and Miles Smiles (the "second great quintet" with a remarkable gift for group improvisation and complementary playing) would be fine choices. Thanks for the tips. Actually my son owns and often plays A Kind of Blue -- indeed, an extraordinary album. I'll look out Miles Smiles some time.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 3, 2020 18:19:11 GMT
To be fair, Miles Smiles is just my favorite of that era. Consensus seems to hold the others--Nefertiti, ESP ... and I think there's one more?--are roughly equally good. (They are all good, but I disagree! For me, Miles Smiles is one of his few best overall, much less best of that band.)
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 4, 2020 20:12:50 GMT
Enjoying the one-off collaboration album Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, featuring, well, them, and released in 1958. It isn't Blakey's greatest band, but as usual, it's a very good one, and included tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who later joined Monk's group.
I love this version of "Evidence," which is almost the epitome of Monk: it throws you off kilter the first time you hear it; you struggle to get your balance! One can only imagine trying to play along for the first time. Yet when Griffin's solo kicks in, it's a straight-ahead burner! Blakey is also a great drummer, and Monk comps behind solos--check him out as much as Griffin during the latter's solo--like no one else. He's the greatest, in my opinion, at that art.
Historical note, shortly after this album was recorded (but well before it was released), Monk regained his cabaret card and began his residency at the Five Spot with the band that included John Coltrane and brought him (or brought him back) significant popular attention.
Edit - if you check out "In Walked Bud," Griffin tears it up there, too! What an exciting player he was.
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