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Post by alunsevern on Dec 21, 2015 15:30:16 GMT
Quite right, bassman -- i had forgotten that version - despite the fact that i have the CD...
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Post by alunsevern on Dec 31, 2015 14:43:41 GMT
And guess what! Another version thatI had scandalously forgotten -- Bill Evans, with the dancing bass of Chuck Israels and the fleet propulsive percussion of Paul Motian transform this into a lithe, swinging mid-tempo ballad. It perhaps won't be to everyone's taste but it is a joyful version thatI never fail to enjoy.
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Post by bassman on Jan 3, 2016 11:37:40 GMT
And guess what! Another version thatI had scandalously forgotten -- Bill Evans, with the dancing bass of Chuck Israels and the fleet propulsive percussion of Paul Motian transform this into a lithe, swinging mid-tempo ballad. It perhaps won't be to everyone's taste but it is a joyful version thatI never fail to enjoy. Oh for sure, Alun! How my heart sings at the thought ...
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Post by alunsevern on Jan 4, 2016 10:00:45 GMT
Mine too, bassman! Enjoy.
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Post by sztiv on Dec 1, 2017 8:05:44 GMT
First deep frost of the winter this morning here in Bristol.
Jazz and Gershwin go together like a horse and carriage and I've a small collection of Summertime on vinyl. Now I'm going to hunt down the Getz, Evans and Ayler.
One of the more interesting versions is from a German repress of an LP from 1968 Vitor Assis Brasil – Trajeto WMLP-0061. Vitor Assis Brasil doesn't seem to be very well known outside his native Brazil which is a shame.
I can only find the whole LP on youtube, Summertime starts at 32'00" but check out his versions of Mercy Mercy and Round About Midnight.
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Post by sztiv on Dec 1, 2017 16:32:50 GMT
..and then there's the version by Eraldo Volonté from the album My Point of View. My copy is a 2011 reissue on Rearward – RW 139 LP of the original 1963 release on Durium. Nothing on Yewtoob so the best I can offer is this link.. www.kudosrecords.co.uk/track/rw139lp/1/eraldo-volonte-summertime.htmlNot sure I have any other instrumental versions but then it kind of always had words courtesy of DuBose Heyward.
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Post by nicknick on Dec 2, 2017 12:59:47 GMT
I like this version:
Joe Harriott Quartet - Cool Jazz With Joe (Melodisc, 1954). Joe Harriott (alto saxophone, Dill Jones (piano), Jack Fallon (bass), Phil Seamen (drums) Recorded in London, February 1954.
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Post by jazzhead on Dec 14, 2017 12:19:35 GMT
Duke Ellington's version of Summertime is probably my favourite:
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Post by clifford on Dec 14, 2017 16:12:48 GMT
"Summertime" is used as the refrain on the sidelong title track of the Art Ensemble of Chicago LP "Certain Blacks." It was actually recorded as a Chicago Beau + Julio Finn album, but since the original four members of the AEC participated, it was released under the group's name. They did not get paid... same as it ever was.
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Post by pjd on Dec 16, 2017 18:56:10 GMT
miles and Gil on Porgy and Bess - marvellous, marvellous, marvellous... I'm in agreement with Alun on this one. Miles and Gil, definitive. I just now listened to "Summertime" on the Eric Kloss Prestige album In the Land of the Giants. And there are giants on this album: Booker Ervin and the massive rhythm section of Byard, Davis and Dawson. They also cover "So What". A very good date from 1969.
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