Jazz for aficionados

****You people are not Jazz aficionados at all. If you were, you would post some Jazz, at least every now and then.

You are ruining this thread.****

Last two days:

O-10, Alex, Acman, pryso, mary_jo, frogman:

Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, John Gilmore, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Sun Ra, David Benoit, Plas Johnson, Clifford Jordan, Roy Hargrove, McCoy.

Rok:

Bach, Baroque duet

😊

Since Marqmike did not post any music under the name he listed, here is some that I have found

' The Dale Bruning Quartet'

https://youtu.be/JTB1LNPt3q0

Nsp, perhaps you might like this album as well, its King Curtis, but with jazz line up....

https://youtu.be/PGBGWDDhOAQ

I am glad that you like David Benoit, fro.

Plas Johnson is now in my jazz book...

"Georgia On My Mind"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onEDS2kksp0

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TvjYUktOU&list=PLUKytyI4ZRowSgKKG1hKzjQm9R-byjXFU


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82BifytoYY&start_radio=1&list=RDEM52m8L7DLKL3lllUvXX49hA


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gmGL5SqhaY&list=RDEM52m8L7DLKL3lllUvXX49hA&index=2


     

Fabulous!  I recently almost posted some Chestnut as an example of piano player with “soul”, but decided to leave the subject alone.  Mahogany sounds wonderful.  In case anyone didn’t pick up on it, the “tune” is lyrics added to Bird’s famous solo on “Parker’s Mood”.  Thanks for the clip; this one I’m buying.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wa7El-k3jQ

That was my point precisely on the subject.

Charlie Parker's sax is the only one I can distinguish with one note.

It has been said that a loud clap of thunder could be heard when he died.

"Bird still lives."

There was an interesting study done a few years ago that showed that what makes a player’s tone recognizable to a listener the most is what in audio might be referred to as the “leading edge” of a note. In music, the way a player starts the note. If you record a musician playing one single note and then electronically remove the start (leading edge) of the note it then becomes very difficult to tell that player’s tone apart from another’s. Of course, when listening to a player making music the player’s style is recognizable by much more than tone. Still, interesting. Imagine Brubeck’s “Take Five” with Eric Dolphy on alto instead of Desmond 😱

Today is Rahsaan’s birthday.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvGcZrPPtM

Genius.

Raasan Roland Kirk;


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4RgOoHKw_s

frogman
Thanks for posting the McCoy Tyner "Reaching Fourth" . Was not aware of it and it's going on my buy list!

acman3
Thanks for digging up more cuts featuring John Gilmore. I own the Bley album from which you posted and also own the Blue Note John Gilmore lp posted by orpheus10. Now I have to locate them and give them a listen.

alexatpos
Yes I did like that slow blues cut you posted from King Curtis. thx.

Lucky Thompson is an artist I've been listening to a lot lately. He was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane. (that's something I didn't know)

Thompson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and moved to Detroit, Michigan, during his childhood. Thompson had to raise his siblings after his mother died, and he practiced saxophone fingerings on a broom handle before acquiring his first instrument.

He worked in rhythm and blues and then established a career in bebop and hard bop, working with Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Gillespie and Milt Jackson.

Ben Ratliff notes that Thompson "connected the swing era to the more cerebral and complex bebop style. His sophisticated, harmonically abstract approach to the tenor saxophone built off that of Don Byas and Coleman Hawkins; he played with beboppers, but resisted Charlie Parker's pervasive influence. He showed these capabilities as sideman on many albums recorded during the mid-1950s, such as Stan Kenton's Cuban Fire!, and those under his own name. He recorded with Parker (on two Los Angeles Dial Records sessions) and on Miles Davis's hard bop Walkin' (which was outstanding) Thompson recorded albums as leader for ABC Paramount and Prestige and as a sideman on records for Savoy Records with Jackson as leader.

Thompson was strongly critical of the music business, later describing promoters, music producers and record companies as "parasites" or "vultures". This, in part, led him to move to Paris, where he lived and made several recordings between 1957 and 1962. During this time, he began playing soprano saxophone.

Thompson returned to New York, then lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1968 until 1970, and recorded several albums there including A Lucky Songbook in Europe. He taught at Dartmouth College in 1973 and 1974, then completely left the music business.[1]

In his last years he lived in Seattle, Washington. Acquaintances reported that Thompson was homeless by the early 1990s, and lived as a hermit.

Thompson died from Alzheimer's disease in an assisted living facility on July 30, 2005.

Discography
Accent On Tenor Saxophone (Urania, 1954; reissued by Fresh Sound)
Tricotism (Impulse, 1956)
Brown Rose (Xanadu, 1956)
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? (Candid, 1961)
Lucky Thompson Plays Jerome Kern and No More (Moodsville, 1963)
Lucky Strikes (Prestige, 1964)
Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (Prestige, 1965)



I have 3 of his albums, but I will have to acquire more; as can be heard here, he plays with "Deep Passion", the kind of music I can listen to non stop.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAxzwnfeXEM


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XrhG2956Uo


That sax is so smooth and mellow.

The whole album," Modern Lore" Is awesome. Took a little Bill Frisell turn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRkPleU1IBE

Joshua Redman

This is one of my all time favorite albums as well as favorite tunes; the title is most appropriate, they have been told that Ike has terminal cancer.

Everyone has a "Heavy Soul", and you can hear it in the music; especially Freddie Roach's organ.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwc1bTn7Fd8

orpheus10
We talked about and posted on Lucky Thompson several months ago I think frogman started the post, he is great & played with many other greats in 40's including M Davis and C Parker !
Another of his albums I recently purchased:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUbe9PFhqs

another:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XW6TTB9d0NQ

Thanks nsp, I'll add those to my collection.

rok2id
How about Big John Patton with two horns:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1r-gU2S5GrM

I also like this with Bobby Hutcherson:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwW6yA2wD0

Yes Mary-Jo, you can sense it in his music, you are fortunate to be able to hear and appreciate that quality in his playing.

orpheus10

I need to add several L Thompson titles to my collection and I think this will be one of them:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKneiZNNXs

That Ike Quebec you posted was indeed very soulful , I have several titles of his and have addded your selection to my buy list.

nsp, I am fortunate to own that LP, and the tune you posted is my favorite on that album.

This is absolutely the best time to be a jazz aficionado; "You Tube" gives us so many choices that we were unaware of, like this "Carmell Jones" for example;


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHCfcDQUYPI


During my most active collection period, I missed out on some of the best West Coast players, now I have to play "catch up".

Nsp,one that first John Patton clip, one of the sax players is Fred Jackson.
I have mentioned him long time ago, but since we are always repeating some music after all, guess nobody will object.

He recorded two albums as a leader, of which one was issued, but both can be found on cd edition of 'Hootin N Tootin' album, from 1962.

https://youtu.be/nhW5nAyWGw4

https://youtu.be/EJV4fDQigAU

https://youtu.be/-lH7Eq2bq3c

He also recorded with Baby Face Willette, I think thats how he ge the chance to record album as a leader. 

https://youtu.be/QXmidrngYnU

Unfortunately, he did not get any success, and he has disappered from scene. Perhaps somebody knows more about him?

My previous font also dissapered....have no idea how and why....

Mary-jo, I posted this album sometime ago before you joined us, so I decided to post it again for you and anyone who hasn't heard it.

This is one of the first albums I ever purchased; it's by Johnny Smith on guitar, and features three tenors; Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Paul Quinichette.

There is not one bad cut on the entire album.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNpc-hFkCs

’Big’ John Patton – Spiffy Diffy, great!

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Thank you Orpheus for Johnny Smith, I appreciate it and really like it. Impossible to fail with such great players. : )

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Fred Jackson, Teena Hootin’ `N Tootin’, huh, thumbs up. As if the instrument cries, it makes me sad.

Such a good music. You all are not normal.

Not.

But who wants to be normal? And what is normal after all.

Wish you nice afternoon with the good music by your side.

I surely know what I will listen today.

AlexI googled Fred Jackson and determined after the 60's h e left jazz to make a living playing R&B. He reco rded with numerous non-jazz artists but not as a leader.
His relaxed, bluesy and very emotional style  is very apparent on Hootin n Tootin. I own a vinyl 45rpm copy and need to give it a listen.Baby FaceWillette was similar. A couple of albums in the discography, then iilness forced him off the scene.

Baby Face Willette created all new music that I was fortunate enough to hear just before his illness and death.

I had a discussion with another professional keyboard player, and I was telling him how good "Face" was.

"He was good, but he wasn't that good", was his response.

When I went to the record store searching for this "new music", that I assumed Face had recorded, it wasn't to be found; therefore, I had to settle for "He was good, but he wasn't that good".

If Face had gotten this music I heard live recorded, it would have put him at a different level,and given him a lot much more recognition.

Baby Face Willette. I guessed your good friend was an organist, but I guessed Larry Young. 

O-10, don't want to stir up bad times, but I had read Baby Face died in prison from pneumonia. Is that legend or truth? Not much information on him since mid 60's.