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Post by dmgrl on Oct 12, 2023 16:49:36 GMT
I’ve been going through a lot of Pharoah Sanders’ albums and having a blast. Currently listening (again) to Pharoah’s First that I’ve just bought for £1.99 on iTunes. If you have never heard this album, buy it and go in blind. Have you heard Pharoah's IZIPHO ZAM ?
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Post by bassman on Oct 12, 2023 16:51:51 GMT
I’ve been going through a lot of Pharoah Sanders’ albums and having a blast. Currently listening (again) to Pharoah’s First that I’ve just bought for £1.99 on iTunes. If you have never heard this album, buy it and go in blind. Before listening, I'll have to get through that spelling test: Pharoah, Pharaoh, Pharao? (All of these versions available on Discogs)
Anyway, I'm going to listen on Youtube for a start (€ 0.00)
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Post by jazzhead on Oct 13, 2023 9:34:22 GMT
I’ve been going through a lot of Pharoah Sanders’ albums and having a blast. Currently listening (again) to Pharoah’s First that I’ve just bought for £1.99 on iTunes. If you have never heard this album, buy it and go in blind. Have you heard Pharoah's IZIPHO ZAM ? Yeah, not my bag.
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Post by bassman on Oct 21, 2023 15:31:36 GMT
Timeless modernism
Listening to these 1975 tracks, you would not expect them to stem from someone who was two years older than Teddy Wilson, would you? Timeless piano playing, up to the moment. Considering this kind of advanced approach by a historic icon, there was only one group that was even more amazing: The Ellington-Mingus-Roach triumvirate.
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Post by jazzhead on Oct 27, 2023 15:15:30 GMT
Listening to Jimmy Woods Sextet - Conflict. I forgot how bloody good this album is.
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Post by dg on Oct 29, 2023 20:08:01 GMT
I discovered this little gem on a dirt-cheap DMG compilation album, 100 ESSENTIAL TRACKS FROM THE GOLDEN ERA - Sims and Cohn offering a little tune for all the "golden era" hepcats and chicks to groove on. I love the sound of the two tenors together. Osie Johnson, drums, Major Holley, bass and Mose Allison, piano.
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Post by bassman on Oct 30, 2023 7:35:01 GMT
I discovered this little gem on a dirt-cheap DMG compilation album, 100 ESSENTIAL TRACKS FROM THE GOLDEN ERA - Sims and Cohn offering a little tune for all the "golden era" hepcats and chicks to groove on. I love the sound of the two tenors together. Osie Johnson, drums, Major Holley, bass and Mose Allison, piano. [ ... ] It pays off to listen to the entire "You 'n' Me" album. "Alamo" has been my favourite track for many years.
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Post by heavyp on Nov 11, 2023 18:20:37 GMT
Being in a baritone mood lately, with plenty of Pepper Adams and cats !
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Post by bassman on Nov 11, 2023 18:48:05 GMT
Being in a baritone mood lately, with plenty of Pepper Adams and cats !
I would suspect the music is the same as on Savoy MG-12083. I love the crazy cover art on this one - one of the very, very few Savoy covers I dig.
BTW this is yet another example of the fantastic sound (bass, cymbals ...) RVG was able to achieve when he was NOT recording for Alfred Lion.
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Post by dg on Nov 11, 2023 23:24:27 GMT
Being in a baritone mood lately, with plenty of Pepper Adams and cats !
Add some Pepper to a Byrd and you have a tasty meal indeed. I’m listening now to an original mono (“High Fidelity”) release of Donald Byrd’s ROYAL FLUSH (BLP 4101), with Pepper Adams, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, and a 21-year old Herbie Hancock on piano - his first appearance on a Blue Note release. Rudy’s recording of the music is of course superb. Byrd and Adams worked frequently together on the New York club scene and developed a rare rapport, compared in Leonard Feather’s liner notes to “Diz and Bird” and “Mulligan and Baker,” although that might be a bridge too far (IMHO). They did however produce some fine music together. Adams has a somewhat hard, crisp sound on the big horn, quite different from Mulligan, to my ear. My bandmate would sometimes let me play his baritone, and you need some big lungs to rule this behemoth. I haven’t had this record off the shelf for some time, and I was surprised by its weight - Blue Note sure didn’t skimp on the vinyl!
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Post by heavyp on Nov 12, 2023 11:44:40 GMT
Being in a baritone mood lately, with plenty of Pepper Adams and cats !
I would suspect the music is the same as on Savoy MG-12083. I love the crazy cover art on this one - one of the very, very few Savoy covers I dig.
BTW this is yet another example of the fantastic sound (bass, cymbals ...) RVG was able to achieve when he was NOT recording for Alfred Lion.
Exactly ! I've been looking for it for ages but it rarely comes up and fetches quite high prices. This BYG stereo pressing is an heavy one, too which is quite unusual for this label
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Post by bassman on Nov 16, 2023 13:25:18 GMT
A Roy DuNann masterpiece
What a pity the bits and pieces of “Presenting Red Mitchell“ existing on Youtube are in inadequate sound. I refrain from offering a link because it’s the sound that matters just as much as the music. Roy DuNann, 1957, with just two AKG mics in action … but what a SOUND! Highly reminiscent of “Way Out West“, which was recorded a few days earlier. Do listen to the stereo version if you can. Looking at the cover art decades ago, the meaning of “double bass“ began to dawn on me … glassbeadrecords.com/cdn/shop/files/IMG_2591.jpg?v=1684000181
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Post by sztiv on Nov 16, 2023 13:57:42 GMT
Timeless modernismListening to these 1975 tracks, you would not expect them to stem from someone who was two years older than Teddy Wilson, would you? Timeless piano playing, up to the moment. Considering this kind of advanced approach by a historic icon, there was only one group that was even more amazing: The Ellington-Mingus-Roach triumvirate. This is wicked. Reminds me of her cover of Gershwin's 'It ain't necessarly so'.
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Post by heavyp on Dec 9, 2023 15:56:30 GMT
Pharoah Sanders – Live In Paris (1975) (Lost ORTF Recordings)
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Post by dg on Dec 9, 2023 19:13:14 GMT
Pharoah Sanders – Live In Paris (1975) (Lost ORTF Recordings) Beautiful interpretation of the Billy Eckstine classic, a tune much loved by Coltrane - on SOULTRANE, LIVE AT BIRDLAND, AFRO BLUE IMPRESSIONS
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