Curtis Counce-You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce
https://www.discogs.com/release/2544505-Curtis-Counce-You-Get-More-Bounce-With-Curtis-Counce
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Good choice! I’ve had that CD at least 15years and still listen to it. Love the combination of Jack Sheldon (Trumpet) and Harold Land (Tenor saxophone) terrific chemistry. My choice for "little known gem" (So many I could name 😊) "Constellation" by Sonny Stitt. He alternates between Alto and Tenor saxophones with superb accompanying by pianist Barry Harris. Nice mixture of Hard bop and ballads. Charles |
@charles1dad @wharfy on the Duke Pearson cd. Stanley Turrentine, Grady Tate, James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard, Gene Taylor, Jerry Dodgen, Garnett Brown. With those guys I knew! |
"Little known" is pretty subjective... you mean, to the general public? To most Jazz fans? To most audiophiles? How are you defining this? If the Counce release qualifies, then is "Hear Ye Hear Ye" by Red Mitchell Harold Land Quintet any "better known"? If the Peterson, Pederson, Pass trio counts, then what about "The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live"? Ulf Wakenius plays brilliantly on this release but his name is nowhere as familiar as that of Joe Pass. Does this make it "little known"?
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@stuartk i mean just to the general public. I do this we all can discover more and respect the contributions |
@stuartk i definitely understand. No problem. I just want to discover more. What are your top 3 favorite albums. |
@stuartk thanks for you suggestions. |
Chet Baker is a musical genius for sure at least for me ... Am i alone ? I read this very exact description : «Baker’s inimitable trumpet sound, blown as if he’s barely exhaling, the phrasing a mix of drowsy musing and impulsive flurries that hardly jolt his hypnotically flatlining dynamics.»
This album is really with his best .... Thanks ... My two favorite jazz players are Bill Evans and Chet Baker , two brothers who play around and never too near and never too far from the melodic line ...Baker more minimalist and Evans more expansive ...They are unsurpassed and imitated by many ....
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Just now, these are the first three that spring to mind: Kenny Garrett: "Songbook" Bill Evans: the Village Vanguard recordings with LaFaro and Motion Chick Corea and Gary Burton: "Crystal Silence" These are recordings that I return to over and over but I wouldn't categorize them as my top 3 favorite Jazz recordings. I couldn't possibly restrict my list of favorites to just three.
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@stuartk i own songbook but will try Bill Evans and Chick Corea for sure thanks. |
Everyone knows S. Turrentine for his Blues-soaked workouts but my favorite of his is actually more straight ahead, and as such, is perhaps not so well known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWKdQEnfcI&list=PLE1SK0O9FkE6WskguWMTWEFvrz0UZiJOU |
@stuartk @mahgister will take a listen. |
Lew Tabackin/Toshiko Akioshi Big Band. All their albums are top jazz band ... This one is one of the best known... I concur ... It is not so much unknown that an album who deserve to be more well known ...But i dont think it is well known... For me well known is common name in jazz ...Miles Davis , Chet baker, etc Brad Meldhau ... Etc Who knows Jan Johansson piano trio albums or solo one , one of the most creative in swedish jazz history ? Who said that there is no great jazz musician in Sweden ? 😁 not me... All his albums deserved to be known out of Sweden ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D5HlKLh34&t=15s Jazz for me became after the war a universal musical expression worldwide...As classical became ... It is why half of my jazz listening is out of North America where jazz is born ...
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Discogs listings For T. Akioshi /L.Tabackin Big Band releases: https://www.discogs.com/artist/257337-Toshiko-Akiyoshi-Lew-Tabackin-Big-Band
One of L. Tabackin’s excellent releases as a leader w/ Hank Jones, Victor Lewis, Dave Holland: |
You're welcome! I also enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbu7qFxEZ7Y and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9rnMGRhYQI
FYI, those Mosaics are, sadly, all out of print.
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stuartk, the album you recommended with flute is astonishingly good ... I am tempted to say that his flute mastery exceed sax ... Tabackin live in Japan and was married to a japan musician , flute playing in Japan produce supreme masters from the Zen school , we can hear something of their sound in Tabackin playing phrase ... Thanks for the recommendation ... Especially because i am not a flute lover ...But i like to provoke my innate taste to go on new road...
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@alexberger reminds a little of Ahmad Jamal slightly |
You’re welcome. I’m not a flute-lover, either, mahgister but I do like Tabackin’s playing. ;o) He’s recorded at least one album of all flute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tAOck1SqI&list=OLAK5uy_lbfCZRneKkpiljYWBJ478KR-sPYmcXTpQ&index=3
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