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Post by gst on Nov 12, 2015 17:20:52 GMT
I was just listening to Sonny Criss' version of Summertime and was comparing it to some of my favorite versions. I particularly like Freddie Hubbard's take on the song found on the album of the same title. With lyrics I like Louis’ and Ella’s version and of course Sam Cooke's.
Anybody else have a favorite version?
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 12, 2015 21:27:06 GMT
miles and Gil on Porgy and Bess - marvellous, marvellous, marvellous...
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Post by gst on Nov 13, 2015 14:45:18 GMT
miles and Gil on Porgy and Bess - marvellous, marvellous, marvellous... Excellent choice. Definitely in my top 5. I also pulled up this Chet Baker version...not my cup of tea... |
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 13, 2015 14:57:10 GMT
Oddly enough, I also found another Chet version done with a guitar trio and taken much slower. Neither have the emotional impact of the Miles/Gils version. And the quartet version you provide a link for seems to merely skate on the surface. If I'm not mistaken these Barclay tracks were recorded in Paris and are also available as Chet Baker Plays Standards...
In fact, I've just found the Criss version. I don't know Criss at all as a player but I have to say, in first hearing, that shrill sax tone doesn't appeal to me at all. Maybe I have been brainwashed by Miles's version with Gil Evans. That has become my "standard"...
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Post by alunsevern on Nov 14, 2015 10:46:33 GMT
And I thought I had another version and indeed last night I found it: Summertime by Stan Getz on West Coast Jazz, recorded appropriately enough in August 1955 with Shelly Manne, Leeoy Vinnegar, Conte Candoli, and Lou Levy. Mine is on a mono Verve Japan repress from, I imagine, the early 80s, although I can't find a date on it to substantiate that. It still isn't quite up there with Miles and Gil but it is very fine.
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Post by saxoblues on Dec 10, 2015 16:26:19 GMT
Albert Ayler on My Name is Albert Ayler : Superbe
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Post by gregorythefish on Dec 11, 2015 15:01:05 GMT
i want to second saxo's vote.
i seem to recall hearing a version with archie shepp that i really loved, but i could be mistaken.
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Post by saxoblues on Dec 11, 2015 15:27:05 GMT
i have the Chance to Play with Archie Shepp 4 times , and we played Summertime , but Albert is my Hero
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Post by gregorythefish on Dec 12, 2015 3:53:11 GMT
that. is. so. cool. do you have any recordings or video of this? what instrument do you play?
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Post by saxoblues on Dec 12, 2015 7:09:24 GMT
 I Play Tenor and Sopran sax. I have a non official recording ;-) ( Me and Archie in 2004 ) |
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Post by alunsevern on Dec 12, 2015 11:04:35 GMT
cOngratulations, Saxo, and welcome. An impressive pedigree!
I have never heard the Ayler version and will seek it out.
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Post by gregorythefish on Dec 12, 2015 15:29:00 GMT
so neat! i would love to hear it!
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Post by gst on Dec 16, 2015 16:58:15 GMT
Is this the version?
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Post by saxoblues on Dec 17, 2015 9:57:30 GMT
yes gst!!!!
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Post by bassman on Dec 21, 2015 9:43:38 GMT
And I thought I had another version and indeed last night I found it: Summertime by Stan Getz on West Coast Jazz, recorded appropriately enough in August 1955 with Shelly Manne, Leeoy Vinnegar, Conte Candoli, and Lou Levy. Mine is on a mono Verve Japan repress from, I imagine, the early 80s, although I can't find a date on it to substantiate that. It still isn't quite up there with Miles and Gil but it is very fine. Hi Alun, Also on Verve, there's another Stan Getz version with Gary Burton playing vibes, recorded in 1964 by Rudy Van Gelder. I don't know if it has ever been released on vinyl, but it is on a CD called "Nobody Else But Me". Very fine music. |
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