Jazz for aficionados

@alexatpos 

Thanks.

I actually listened to Good Gravy at lunch.  Another killer album!

I’ll listen to the other two, tomorrow morning.

@alexatpos 

I never had a chance (time?) to talk about Joe Gordon, the trumpet player on Shelly Manne and his Men At the Blackhawk.

Volume 1, song 1, Summertime, is one of my favorite versions of that song and the soloing does start with Gordon. I like him a lot as well. On Wiki it says he died in a house fire in Santa Monica California, 4 November, 1963. 

Gordon recorded 2 albums as a leader, Introducing Joe Gordon and Lookin’ Good.

https://youtu.be/bUGk7aa_JCs?si=2pnlUUZdXmWUxxJo

https://youtu.be/A_VPHyssMTU?si=-hv1pJ5IfRdn6pJX

Back to Shelly Manne and his Men at The Blackhawk, Volume 1, song 2, just after Summertime, Richie Kamuca starts off the soloing on the tune "Our Delight" on his tenor sax and then Joe Gordon plays a really great trumpet solo starting around the 4:50 mark and ending at 7:40

Our Delight:

https://youtu.be/qrKJRwpVOyQ?si=jPoyjJK3jT0Y6Xye

I like a lot of the West Coast jazz crew and Harold Land is another great tenor sax player. Land's album, "West Coast Blues" features Joe Gordon on the trumpet along with Wes Montgomery on guitar. The rhythm section is second to none featuring Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

West Coast Blues: 

https://youtu.be/mDsdLnpg41o?si=jIGm-5mK211mLOks

I gotta say, you guys are killin it. There’s a lot of good music being posted here.

From Freddie to Wes...Wow.

To throw in a little latin tinged jam session, here’s the maestro himself. Tito Puente with the queen herself, Celia Cruz.

QUIMBARA-CELIA CRUZ Y TITO PUENTE

The only person I can think of who is a master at and of time signatures like Tito is The Count. Basie that is.

Count Basie and his Orchestra - Sarah Sings and Basie Swings (Part 1, Manchester, 1963)

Even at a young age, I noticed how Wes Montgomery and before him, Count Basie could hold your attention by playing absolutely nothing and just leaving space. As how Wes would put it...Less is more.

Wes Montgomery, TV show in Brussels, Belgium, april 4th, 1965 (colorized)

Wes Montgomery-Four On Six (1965)-Guitarra de Jazz

A few funky jazz reposts of mine: 

Eddie Harris – Is It In

Here’s another one for all you Jazz Funkateers out there. I’ve had this crate dug album for many years and have played the grooves off of it. Eddie Harris mic’d up his sax and created his own sound(s) and groove(s).  Hope y’all enjoy.

Eddie Harris - Is It In - 1974 Atlantic Recording Corp - Jazz-Funk / Soul-Jazz

Kool & The Gang - North, East, South, West - Good Times 1972 

As a kid I loved this track. It was a song that at the time I thought was jazz. Not like my Pop’s jazz, but nonetheless, it was my contemporaries era of funky jazz. It still resonates with me to this day.

Robert ’Kool’ Bell is the electric bass player and band leader of Kool and The Gang. They have been around a very long time. I think the band formed around the same time Sly and The Family Stone did and they’re still active today. This track has a very tight groove. With Kool and the drummer George ’Funky’ Brown holding down the rhythm section. Way ahead of its time

WAR - The World is a Ghetto - City, Country, City - 1972

And this WAR track also, gave me a funky jazz vibe, back in the day.

@pjw81563 

Have you heard Land’s Hear Ye with Red Mitchell? 

How about the later Mapenzi or Xocia’s Dance?

The various Timeless All Stars records with B. Hutcherson and Cedar Walton?

@tyray

I don’t listen to much funky Jazz but Herbie Hancock’s Fat Albert Rotunda is one I enjoy. I tend prefer bluesy to funky, generally. Not that the two can’t intermingle-- clearly they can and do!