What Jazz are you listening to now?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

A old tape of a concert by the Herbie Hancock Quartet at the Barbican c.1998. I think it was part of the Barbican's "America" celebration, they also had Max Roach with a gospel choir.

Anyway, this is Herbie playing straight jazz and it's very good, but made more interesting than usual by Craig Handy on tenor. He seems at times to be trying to take the music (out) in a direction Herbie does not want it to go. It's almost a reverse of the Miles set up. HH's choice obviously, but I found Handy quite intriguing and I'm not familiar with him at all.


BN.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Gigolo’
Lee Morgan with Wayne Shorter, Harold Mabern, Bob Cranshaw & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1965)

[Ian Thumwood]

A old tape of a concert by the Herbie Hancock Quartet at the Barbican c.1998. I think it was part of the Barbican's "America" celebration, they also had Max Roach with a gospel choir.

Anyway, this is Herbie playing straight jazz and it's very good, but made more interesting than usual by Craig Handy on tenor. He seems at times to be trying to take the music (out) in a direction Herbie does not want it to go. It's almost a reverse of the Miles set up. HH's choice obviously, but I found Handy quite intriguing and I'm not familiar with him at all.


BN.

I don't know why Craig Handy is not better known. I first heard him on a Betty Carter album from the mid 90's but there is a really weird album he made a few years back with an organ and tuba in the line up which celebrates Jimmy Smith in the most unlikely to line ups. It is really good fun - a bit like the John Scofield tribute album to Ray Charles. Handy was also a member of The Cookers that toured the UK a few years ago. He is a really good player and another tenor saxophonist who is frequently over-looked.

[Ian Thumwood]

This is pretty special. Live concert performance by the late, lamented Thomas Chapin. Recommended for Bluesnik who will be staggered by the shear creativity and good nature of this wonderful music. Shame Chapin's discs are so hard to get these days. Wish I had been switched on to him when he was alive but he somehow slipped me by.

[burning dog]

[Joseph K]

Gonna post this here:

[Quarky]

Gonna post this here:

Good idea - the best item of music I have heard all weekend!

[Stanfordian]

‘Moanin'’
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons & Jymie Merritt
Blue Note (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘Dippin'’
Hank Mobley with Lee Morgan, Harold Mabern Jr, Larry Ridley & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1965)

[Quarky]

So What from Kind of Blue, Davis et al.

Jazz never got any better than that, and I don't think it ever will.

[burning dog]

[Jazzrook]

Last Exit's exhilarating 1988 studio album 'Iron Path'(ESP) with Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell & Ronald Shannon Jackson.
A worthy companion to Sharrock's 1991 'Ask The Ages':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nt7rOHA5c

JR

[Stanfordian]

Lester Young - ‘The President plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio’
Lester Young with Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown & J.C. Heard
Norgran Records (1952)

[Joseph K]

[Stanfordian]

‘Jug’
Gene Ammons with Richard Wyands, Clarence Anderson, Doug Watkins, JC Heard
Prestige (1961)