Great topic. My contribution: ANYTHING by Bobby Hutcherson. I saw him at the Blue Note in Japan. He was up in age at that time. I was gob smacked by him and his band. I own most of his albums. Not a dud in the bunch ...
Share some under appreciated jazz album titles
I’ve been on a journey to discover more older jazz albums deeper down the catalog that share two traits; I like/love the music and the recording shines, quite possibly unexpectedly. By that I mean, I probably have a bias that leads me expect recordings from the fifties and sixties to be less detailed or “audiophile” than more recent recordings. I’m finding this bias to be truly misguided to say the least.
Please share some of your favorite lesser known jazz gems with both traits. To roll the ball… Dave Brubeck “In Time”, Johnny Hodges “Not So Dukish” and “Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges”
Yes, I’ve been on a Johnny Hodges kick lately
happy listening everyone
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I lost interest in "straight ahead" jazz at a certain point---I came up in "audiophile land" and all of us had the same records, I think. I had taken a plunge into the Vertigo Swirls a little more than a decade ago, and crossed paths with someone who asked me if I liked "spiritual jazz"-- I thought it referred to gospel, little did I know. Started buying various Strata-Easts, Nimbus Wests, Impulses (and Chad reissues of Impulses). Something less cacophonous than "free jazz" but still unpredictable and unrestrained. I got a kick out of watching the TV series Bosch and seeing the protagonist chase Horace Tapscott records. I was enormously gratified to interview Cecil McBee recently as he reached his 90th year on the planet. Some of his work is more straight ahead, but he is on so many great records and he always finds a hidden line within a composition that adds, never detracts. I can read music, but my playing days are long behind me. And though I did a huge amount of work in the industry as a consigliere, very little of it involved music that I listened to, with a few exceptions. Today, all those roads converge for me-- |
The jazz for aficionados thread actually has a whole lot more music there other than straight ahead or avant garde, fifties and sixties jazz. You would be surprised. Even the OP orpheus10 posted a ton of other worldly music other than straight ahead or avant garde jazz. And don’t mind @stuartk, he means no harm, he can sometimes come across as a curmudgeon and very cantankerous but he’s really not, and that does come with age. In fact he has a very wide music pallette and has posted many varieties of music on that thread alone. |
I was doing the grocery store run last night and WCLK 91.9 Jazz radio station played this song Gregory Porter - Insanity (Lyrics Video) ft. Lalah Hathaway off of Take Me To The Alley album 2016 and I was enthralled with his jazz chops. For some reason there aren't to many, and let me be clear jazz male singers with outstanding chops. Yeah, of course there's Cole, Sinatra, Bennet etc. But to me they all got there jazz vocal licks from listening to and studying the original crooner himself Billy Ekstein. Who started his own band around 1944(?) which included Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Crooning his but off while singing to and with Bebop! Go figure. |
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