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Post by Doom Girl on Aug 19, 2021 16:57:10 GMT
Interesting choices Mr.Jazzhead,sir. The Hawkins Trio tune has some tasty drumming. The link to Duke is rather tenuous but definitely there. In the early part there are nanosecond references to Take the A Train, in the latter part I detect Satin Doll. A clever piece which rewards close listening. The Shipp tune ...IMHO, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing (much), but that's OK, tho I prefer Cecil Taylor and Jimmy Lyons
I've been listening a lot lately to Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games double album, which I finally acquired, after seeing the post by the LJC. A complex album, as is the great book which it references. Both the Jordan album AND the Hesse book - highly recommended for whiling away the time during isolation! Also recommended - the original Belgian Professor T series, definitely not the British. I'm awaiting the German - interesting to see the various depictions of rather severe OCD.
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 19, 2021 17:13:42 GMT
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 20, 2021 16:10:34 GMT
I've just stumbled across a Mal Waldron album on Spotify that I've never heard until now. For those that don't use Spotify, they have a section called Release Radar, that shows you a load of artists that have new recordings out. Anyway, the Spotify version is called Modal-Air. A quick Discogs search tells me it was originally called Les Nuits De La Negritude - Reflections In Modern Jazz. Released in 1965: www.discogs.com/Mal-Waldron-Les-Nuits-De-La-Negritude-Reflections-In-Modern-Jazz/release/8364029The Spotify tracklist isn't in the same order as the original release: That album also goes by the title Quiet Temple. Here's the Black Lion Vault Remastered version:
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 21, 2021 6:04:05 GMT
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Post by Doom Girl on Sept 3, 2021 20:01:32 GMT
As I have written before, in times of stress and strife, I find balance and solace in the music of John Coltrane. I am constantly astonished by the range of styles he displayed through his career. One of my favorite pieces, among so many, remains Olé, from the album of the same name, with “George Lane”(Eric Dolphy), flute, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, McCoy Tyner, piano, Elvin Jones, drums and Reggie Workman and Art Davis, bass.
Here is Pharoah Sander’s wonderfully intense interpretation of Olé, from HEART IS A MELODY, with William Henderson, piano, John Heard, bass and Idris Muhammad, drums – an excellent band. I like Sander’s incorporation of vocalization into his playing on this track; and still haven’t quite figured out what he is doing in the last minute or so.
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Post by alunsevern on Sept 8, 2021 8:24:27 GMT
Jazzhead, There seems to be a huge number of Mal Waldron recordings that have simply disappeared over the years. Of the obscurities and odditiesI have been able to find I don't think any have disappointed. Alexander Hawkins: I have heard a little but only really scratched the surface. I first bought his solo CD SONG SINGULAR because of the good reviews it got. Then I bought LEAPS IN LEICESTER, an improv set with the great Evan Parker. Given Parker's impossibly large discography there may have been other duo sets with Hawkins since then -- who knows? Since then Hawkins has found a place in Parker's quartet line-up and the recent record I have most enjoyed is ALL KNAVERY & COLLUSION: The Evan Parker Quartet. Another piano improviser from the younger generation that Parker has recorded great work with is Paul G Smyth. Calenture & Light Leaks is a terrific duo session.
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Post by Doom Girl on Sept 8, 2021 18:30:08 GMT
Jazzhead, There seems to be a huge number of Mal Waldron recordings that have simply disappeared over the years. Of the obscurities and odditiesI have been able to find I don't think any have disappointed...... It's an impressive discography: "His appearances on record...include more than 100 albums under his own name and more than 80 as a sideman." He was an excellent musician.
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Post by Doom Girl on Sept 8, 2021 18:57:56 GMT
After again being blown away by Pharoah Sanders I have sought respite with some of my (relatively recent) classical recordings - an Ondine release, BACH: KEYBOARD CONCERTOS by Russian pianist Anastasia Injushina, with the Hamburger Camerata. This has one concerto by JS Bach, one by CPE Bach and two by JC Bach. I am especially enamored of JC's sprightly piece in D major. Did you know that JS Bach had 20 children? Injushina has a delightful way of playing the left hand parts which make me not miss the harpsichord at all.
Cecelia Bartoli's wonderful Decca release SACRIFICIUM. This has Cecelia singing songs written originally for the castrati voice - works by Porpora, Leo, Araia, Vinci, Graun, Caldara, R. Broschi (Farinelli's brother), Handel and Giacomelli. This relatively little known repertoire has so much beautiful music in it. It is worth seeking out the deluxe version of the album which has a book with a lot of information about this period and style of music. Bartoli's voice is, as usual, heavenly.
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Post by jazzhead on Sept 11, 2021 0:01:40 GMT
Jazzhead, There seems to be a huge number of Mal Waldron recordings that have simply disappeared over the years. Of the obscurities and odditiesI have been able to find I don't think any have disappointed. Alexander Hawkins: I have heard a little but only really scratched the surface. I first bought his solo CD SONG SINGULAR because of the good reviews it got. Then I bought LEAPS IN LEICESTER, an improv set with the great Evan Parker. Given Parker's impossibly large discography there may have been other duo sets with Hawkins since then -- who knows? Since then Hawkins has found a place in Parker's quartet line-up and the recent record I have most enjoyed is ALL KNAVERY & COLLUSION: The Evan Parker Quartet. Another piano improviser from the younger generation that Parker has recorded great work with is Paul G Smyth. Calenture & Light Leaks is a terrific duo session. I bought a Mal Waldron bundle of albums on iTunes years ago. Since then I've been buying them on cd and vinyl. And like you, I've not been disappointed. The first time I heard Alexander Hawkins play, was on the recent Anthony Braxton Quartet (Standards) 2020 box set. Been playing some of his albums on Spotify and Bandcamp. Not that familiar with Evan Parker. He is a bit of a dick though. Just google Evan Parker the wire, and read The Wire's article on Evan Parker's comments on the pandemic and AIDS denier, Lynn Margulis. Evan has lost his [expletive] mind. He actually said these things: "A few weeks later the UK’s Jazzwise magazine published an interview with Evan, conducted by Daniel Spicer, in its April issue, in which he further expounded on his views on the pandemic, describing it as a “sham”, “complete and utter bollocks”, intended to “harvest DNA and sell vaccines”, while the vaccine itself was “a piece of software they are injecting into you”. He also claimed the entire pandemic was the work of a group of billionaire eugenicists “looking for massive depopulation, by hook or by crook”." www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/follow-the-science-evan-parker-s-views-on-pandemic-and-brexitEarlier I read the Downbeat review of trumpeter Alex Sipiagin's album, Upstream. I have it on atm. Love it. Apart from, Magic Square. Have a listen:
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Post by bassman on Oct 8, 2021 15:05:04 GMT
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Post by jazzhead on Oct 9, 2021 9:29:04 GMT
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Post by alunsevern on Oct 20, 2021 7:58:37 GMT
For all its flaws (described by Cook & Morton, who nevertheless rate it ***/*), I keep returning to "Money Jungle". [....] I'll admit to struggling with this LP and I have often wondered whether it is the sound that I find off-putting (my copy is an HMV mono UK original). Has anyone heard the Tone Poet reissue? Is it an improvement in terms of sound quality? You're right about CARAVAN, though, bassman -- it's a terrific version.
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Post by bassman on Oct 20, 2021 13:36:29 GMT
For all its flaws (described by Cook & Morton, who nevertheless rate it ***/*), I keep returning to "Money Jungle". [....] I'll admit to struggling with this LP and I have often wondered whether it is the sound that I find off-putting (my copy is an HMV mono UK original). Has anyone heard the Tone Poet reissue? Is it an improvement in terms of sound quality? You're right about CARAVAN, though, bassman -- it's a terrific version. According to this review, the Tone Poet version is "about as good as the album will get fidelity wise."
I personally own an old United Artists mono version which is extremely bad soundwise, a 1987 CD produced by Michael Cuscuna, and a 2002 version engineered by Ron McMaster, which is my favourite.
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Post by alunsevern on Oct 20, 2021 14:25:45 GMT
^^^ Thanks, bassman. Ah -- you may be right: perhaps mine is the United Artists mono too. I'll have to check.
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Post by bassman on Oct 20, 2021 15:53:25 GMT
^^^ Thanks, bassman. Ah -- you may be right: perhaps mine is the United Artists mono too. I'll have to check. Mine is a German pressing, UA 69015. About four minutes into the opening track, someone must have noticed that the groove width would not match the intended length of Side One, and abruptly reduced the volume. And they didn't even care to give it another try...
("It's the most way-out track anyway, no one will notice. Let's just wrap it up and call it a day ...")
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