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Post by Doom Girl on Aug 15, 2022 16:21:35 GMT
OMG- rummaging through my vinyl record collection I now discover that I ALREADY HAVE at least some of the tracks on the new NICE PEOPLE album. They are from Fantasy 3235 The Paul Desmond Quartet, featuring Don Elliott.
Things like this happening suggest one has TOO MANY records in one's collection.
Be that as it may, the Fantasy album is quite interesting as a period piece. Its liner notes are by the comedian Mort Sahl and the album has a striking cover painting, of elephants (?), by Peggy Tolk-Watkins and is supposed "to represent the first serious attempt to fuse primitive art with modern jazz" Arghhh
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 18, 2022 8:11:50 GMT
This is great!
Doug Webb - Caught in the Webb
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Post by jazzhead on Aug 27, 2022 13:25:15 GMT
I heard Mark Murphy - Desafinado (off key) earlier on JazzFM. Never heard it before. Bloody love it!
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Post by bassman on Aug 27, 2022 14:55:02 GMT
I heard Mark Murphy - Desafinado (off key) earlier on JazzFM. Never heard it before. Bloody love it! [ ... ] The point is that he's never off key but he is grotesquely out of time (behind the beat), much in the vein of Billie Holiday et al. but even more extreme. These cats are doing it on purpose, just to be difficult!
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Post by bassman on Aug 30, 2022 15:22:43 GMT
The Flip Side of Desafinado (update)My first encounter with Stan Getz was the Verve single "Desafinado" B/W "Jazz Theme from Dr. Kildare" (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight*), and it was the B side that I found particularly appealing at that time. To this day, I have been trying to research some of the session details, to little avail. Getz was backed by an unidentified orchestra, in NYC, on June 15, 1962. That's all. On the label, Pete Rugolo is identified as arranger. The Verve single is the only remaining source, and no stereo version of this take has survived. There is, however, an alternate stereo take included on "The World of Stan Getz" (Verve V6S-200) - again, no details are given. The mystery remains.
*) ... by Jerry Goldsmith. I don't care for the original, but the Rugolo version feat. Stan Getz is something else.
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Post by jazzhead on Sept 8, 2022 12:27:25 GMT
I've been listening to Paul Bley's Turning Point. I can't believe the studio tracks on this album were recorded in 1964. I've posted two below. His playing at times reminds me of, I'd say Monk, but I think Andrew Hill would be a better comparison. Another great pianist that I love.
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Post by Doom Girl on Sept 8, 2022 15:46:27 GMT
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Post by Doom Girl on Oct 1, 2022 17:56:23 GMT
Hawk with Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley and Eddie Locke:
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Post by Doom Girl on Oct 1, 2022 22:25:36 GMT
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Post by bassman on Oct 2, 2022 6:41:31 GMT
Nice Impulse from you, Doom Girl. Has caused me to take "The Hawk Flies High" (Riverside) from the shelf after quite some time.
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Post by dg on Oct 2, 2022 16:13:34 GMT
This is the Hawk in the 'sixties. He has modified his tone quite a bit, I think - most notably, less vibrato. Sounds to me similar to Coltrane's ballad style. This is a beautiful tune, from an old Hollywood movie, and a beautiful cover. Gorgeous playing by Flanagan. The Hawk Flies High is mid- to late-fifties I think - quite different.
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Post by bassman on Oct 3, 2022 8:17:27 GMT
[ ... "Love Song ..." video ] This is the Hawk in the 'sixties. He has modified his tone quite a bit, I think - most notably, less vibrato. Sounds to me similar to Coltrane's ballad style. This is a beautiful tune, from an old Hollywood movie, and a beautiful cover. Gorgeous playing by Flanagan. The Hawk Flies High is mid- to late-fifties I think - quite different. Here's a good example from "The Hawk Flies High", just to illustrate Hawk's late-fifties ballad style. Plus a stellar lineup including JJ on trombone. And listen to Hawk's re-entry (3:20) after JJ's solo!
(The only thing that detracts from "The Hawk Flies High" is the fact that "Sancticity" was patched together from different takes, it seems. There's a glaring edit right after the opening theme when JJ's solo seems to start on the wrong beat, and a couple of similar instances later on.)
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Post by Doom Girl on Oct 10, 2022 13:24:51 GMT
In 2017, Australian sax player Andrew Butt released a version of The Love Song from Apache on an album called BLUEBERRY ASH, here accompanied by Toby Wren, guitar, Kellee Green, piano, Peter Walters, bass. Nice homage to Hawkins. I was interested to see that the song was written by Johnny Mercer, with David Raskin. Mercer is one of the best of the classic American lyricist/songwriter/singers.
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Post by dg on Oct 30, 2022 16:54:57 GMT
Bassman...Comparison of Monk's "Ruby, My Dear" recordings provide a good opportunity to compare Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane's styles and to appreciate how similar they were, especially since these are versions which were recorded literally days apart, 'tho they are on albums released years apart! Comparisons of Monk's playing also lend some credence to claims that Monk was able to infuse his original tunes, which he probably played hundreds of time during his career, with new and vital meanings each time. Incidentally, I have just finished reading Robin Kelley's masterful tome on Monk - "The Life and Times of an American Original," in the later edition with added material. This is a scholarly work with all of the trappings - a hundred pages of notes, appendices and all. In its great detail it is difficult to read at times, but, in the end, presents a brilliant and comprehensive picture of the man - with an emphasis on his dedication to his own pathway, his encouragement of young musicians - including of course Coltrane - and his devotion to his family and friends. Monk - here was a good man beset over the years with fierce criticism of his work, the effects of racism - including harassment and arrests - and physical and psychological ailments and yet forging his pathway with courage and dignity. Though perhaps not as entertaining as Troup's "autobiography" of Miles or Dizzy's "To Be, Or Not...To Bop", or as analytical of the music as Pettinger's "How My Heart Songs" on Bill Evans, it is a jazz book well worth reading.
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Post by bassman on Oct 31, 2022 17:09:46 GMT
Kosta Lukács was an unknown genius who died young. I had the improbable privilege of playing a couple of gigs and recording a few commercials with him around 1973. He was of Roma (Gypsy) origin, and he was a monster guitarist without any technical or stylistic limitations. Sadly, his discography is lamentably short.
This LP is of a semi-commercial kind, with tracks measuring just over 2 minutes. Lots of Wes Montgomery echoes here, of course. But when Wes was playing octaves, Kosta was playing chords!
But make no mistake. While he's doing the Wes here, he was able to do the Hendrix just as well ...
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