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Post by dg on Nov 1, 2022 19:12:24 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 ... Some very enjoyable music here, fine technique. The bass player at the "Live in Bremerhaven" video also very good
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Post by jazzhead on Nov 18, 2022 14:07:50 GMT
I've been listening to a lot of Misha Mengelberg recently. I bought the 2 cd version of Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project a while ago and really enjoyed hearing Misha Mengelberg on that. Really like his trio album, No Idea. Two Days in Chicago is great too. Dolphy's Last Date as well. And this album is a blast! Keshavan Maslak Quartet/Kenny Million's Big Time:
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Post by sztiv on Nov 21, 2022 22:18:27 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! I bought that LP when t came out, there's a couple of other great tracks on it I think. Two Kites and Nothing Will Be As It Was if memory serves me well. The other thing I recall about it was that it came with details of a worldwide Mark Murphy appreciation society run by a couple in Middlesbrough UK, which seemed an incongruous place for it and forty years later it still does.
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Post by bassman on Nov 22, 2022 18:30:47 GMT
Remarkable 1957 Hawkins in STEREO
Fifties or sixties Hawk? No matter. Listen to this! Sunrise, yeah. What a brand new bright tomorrow ...
But my favourite version still is Edmond Hall's (listen below). Edmond, not Edmund. And the time was not 1956 either. It was December 7, 1966. How can one get everything wrong in one's upload, especially with the unsung hero of the jazz clarinet?
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Post by dottorjazz on Nov 23, 2022 11:12:56 GMT
dig, dig, dig,'t was unknown to me (Lukacs Kosta)
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Post by bassman on Nov 23, 2022 11:44:26 GMT
dig, dig, dig,'t was unknown to me (Lukacs Kosta) ... and you're right, in Hungarian it's "Lukács Kosta". But Kosta (sometimes Costa) was his first name all the same.
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Post by sztiv on Nov 25, 2022 14:26:25 GMT
Indeed, Tailor Gabriel being perhaps the most famous.
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Post by dg on Dec 1, 2022 22:39:01 GMT
This a track from the album “Ferlinghetti” by Italian trumpet/flugelhorn player Paolo Fresu. The album is a homage to the beat-era poet and owner of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is now 101 years old.
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Post by dg on Dec 2, 2022 15:07:47 GMT
and....
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Post by alunsevern on Dec 3, 2022 12:29:52 GMT
Morning, all. I have just finally retired and at long last now have much more listening time.
I began this morning with Art Pepper's Intensity in what may or not be an original or at least very early stereo pressing. My copy is Contemporary S7607 on the very glossy black and gold label. The vinyl is wafer-thin; the cover is still in the shrink and has a price label on it of $4.98. Obviously, it's old but I am hopeless at identifying originals and I would have thought an original to be on much heavier vinyl. The cover and liner notes say copyright 1963. Anyone have any ideas -- I know there will be people here who know the answer. My guess is that this a a later 60s or early 70s pressing, but apart from the vinyl weight there doesn't seem anything categorical to indicate this.
Right now I am listening to Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner, a record of his that I don't play very frequently and so when do its lovely slithery melodies always come as a surprise. My copy is a Blue Note/Liberty/UA Inc copy with Van Gelder stamped in the dead wax. Again, I've no idea whether it's an original or not. I do love the second side especially. I wish Herbie had done more with a larger ensemble because his layering of instruments and textures is wonderful
But what I have been playing most frequently over recent weeks are the run of seven or eight LPs that Nucleus, the British jazz-rock outfit founded by Ian Carr, made over roughly a five year period from 1970-ish to 1975. I think they're wonderful and find them a curiously effective means of time travelling back to the very early 70s, when I first bought Elastic Rock and Solar Plexus, the first two (actually, that isn't quite true, because We'll Talk about it Later came between them, if I remember correctly, but it was only last year that I managed to find a copy of that). Anyway, any other Nucleus enthusiasts may be interested to know that Be With Records has four titles on vinyl and plans to double that number next year. The ones I have bought are terrific reissues.
Next, prompted by an earlier post above about Misha Mengelberg, I plan to play the two LPs on Soul Note -- Change of Season and Regeneration -- reinterpreting the work of Herbie Nichols and Monk for a five-piece band of free jazz luminaries. Both feature Mengelberg although I think Regeneration is notionally under the leadership of Roswell Rudd. Anyway, these are fantastic records -- fun, hard swinging, detailed, while also doing a marvellous job of honouring the legacy of these two greats.
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Post by gregorythefish on Dec 3, 2022 15:20:11 GMT
congrats, alun! i hope you enjoy yourself!
as for the pepper, if it is not DG, i'd suspect a 70's press as well.
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Post by bassman on Dec 3, 2022 15:29:53 GMT
Hi Alun, this may be a little off topic but "Intensity" itself, recorded in 1960, was not among the earliest Contemporary stereo pressings. I think they started issuing stereo pressings in 1958, on their own label STEREO RECORDS. One of the first ones must have been "Way Out West".
But they actually began *recording* in stereo as early as 1956, I think. The pressings were still in mono but later reissues of the same material were in stereo.
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Post by Doom Girl on Dec 3, 2022 16:36:00 GMT
Beautiful rendition by Fresu, a player previously unknown to me. "A Diosa (better known as No potho reposare) is a song written in 1920 by the composer Giuseppe Rachel... on the words of the...poem in Logudorese language, written in 1915, by...Salvatore Sini." (Wikipedia)
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Post by alunsevern on Dec 3, 2022 17:55:51 GMT
congrats, alun! i hope you enjoy yourself! as for the pepper, if it is not DG, i'd suspect a 70's press as well. Thanks, Greg. Re. the Pepper: it certainly isn't deep groove and I suspect later 70s repress too. Sounds very fine, however.
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Post by Doom Girl on Dec 3, 2022 20:30:05 GMT
Morning, all. I have just finally retired and at long last now have much more listening time. I began this morning with Art Pepper's Intensity in what may or not be an original or at least very early stereo pressing. My copy is Contemporary S7607 on the very glossy black and gold label. The vinyl is wafer-thin; the cover is still in the shrink and has a price label on it of $4.98. Obviously, it's old but I am hopeless at identifying originals and I would have thought an original to be on much heavier vinyl. The cover and liner notes say copyright 1963. Anyone have any ideas -- I know there will be people here who know the answer. My guess is that this a a later 60s or early 70s pressing, but apart from the vinyl weight there doesn't seem anything categorical to indicate this..... We welcome your increased participation and wish you a long, happy and fulfilling life as you enter this new stage of life, a "stage" perhaps regarded as a more rewarding and respected period than it was in the seventeenth century. “With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound” Art Pepper recorded many fine albums, despite his many largely self-imposed stumbling blocks. I especially enjoy some of those recorded after his last sojourn in San Quentin. Two from the mid-seventies I have as original, fairly well recorded Contemporary records are LIVING LEGEND, with the great Hampton Hawes, Charlie Haden and Shelly Mann and THE TRIP, with George Cables, David Williams and Elvin Jones, for which my much younger self apparently paid three dollars and ninety four cents (US) for the new, unused album.
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