Storms/Nocturnes JLU 29.v.11

[hackneyvi]

...well i started out listening to the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet and then this blew me away ... just the fluency and the drive from Mingus ...

but the chamber jazz trio that really explored improvised chamber music was the Jimmy Giuffre Paul Bley Steve Swallow group ... this is Where were we a really beautiful track to my ears ..

but back to the thread here are Garland Keezer Locke

Hard to know what to say about Mingus, what does he sound like? It's a bit like a parent counting time for a child, the certainty with which he nearly whispers. Influential but unobtrusive, the definition of decorous. Somehow, I thought Mingus was a difficult guy but his playing seems so 'modest'.

Where were we? - The melody's almost "Food, glorious food"!, guitar's so feathery it has the breath of a flute; wind instrument, anyway.

Garland Keezer Locke - on the performances I've heard so far, I feel I like Garland (and the whole group) on the Keezer / Locke tunes more than his own. There's a lovely, full-hearted version of Swords of Whispers on the same page you link; is it too fullsome? I like its 'openness', its American breeze.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

hackneyvi that feathery windy guitar is Steve Swallow playing bass ....

here is another kind of Mingus with drummer Danny Richmond drums, Eric Dolphy sax/bs clarinet and Ted Curson trumpet ... among many other attributes Mingus was an absolutely exemplary bass player and dedicated musician who played in context ; and an angry iconoclast who savagely criticised and caricatured the racial attitudes of the America he knew ... but mostly he created his own contexts, the Norvo Trio was in his earlier career ...

[hackneyvi]

hackneyvi that feathery windy guitar is Steve Swallow playing bass ....

here is another kind of Mingus with drummer Danny Richmond drums, Eric Dolphy sax/bs clarinet and Ted Curson trumpet ... among many other attributes Mingus was an absolutely exemplary bass player and dedicated musician who played in context ; and an angry iconoclast who savagely criticised and caricatured the racial attitudes of the America he knew ... but mostly he created his own contexts, the Norvo Trio was in his earlier career ...

In the end, I deduced it must be the bass but what an incredible sound from a bass guitar!!

The only Mingus I've knowingly heard / had before were his discs with Duke Ellington and Joni Mitchell. By coincidence, this afternoon, I went to see Shadows by John Cassavetes at the NFT which turned out to have discreet incidental music by Mingus. What a fine film! The first Cassavetes I've seen.