Jazz for aficionados
frogman Your post of Round Midnight. By Bill Evans reminded me of an album I've been listening to lately by his great bassist Eddie Gomez entitled Palermo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy59GYLbGV8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYrvwe4nVcg |
frogmanMonks Jagged and angular Rhythm as you referred to it is what set his music apart from anyone else's and is instantly recognizable. And as you say Charlie Rouse got it due to the fact that he stuck keenly to this rhythmic pattern. Whereas Johnny Griffin just did his own thing rhythmically altering the unique Style of Monk's Tunes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjfoeS8PKEK |
frogman I love Hampton Hawes he's one of my favorite pianists. Pretty much a self-taught player, he is an excellent blues player who can play it any Tempo and never seems to run out of ideas . Hawes was in jail on a heroin sentence when he wrote a letter to then President Kennedy and was the second to last person pardoned by President Kennedy before he was assassinated. Hawes went back to recording for contemporary records and his output for that label is my favorite. Thanks for the posting of the for real album which I don't have and will probably purchase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rUZr6KqoM |
Alex, I'm curious as to how you have collected so many fantastic albums. I've seen people with large collections of which half of would be a waste of space for me, but you have so very many boss albums. We have many of the same artists, but I don't have nearly as many records by them, plus that, all artists have losers, I manage to get the losers. Did you buy most of those records near the time they came out, or later? The bottom line is, how did you manage to acquire so many winners? |
