What Jazz are you listening to now?

[eighthobstruction]

yes, it is clean and fabulous....excuse my ignorance, but as modal made so many opportunities for the sax....this type of delivery gave endless op's for breaking [possibly via drums and bass]....just saying, thinking out loud....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The Jazz Crusaders, 1961 "The Young Rabbits" from the Pacific Jazz album "Looking Ahead". I know they get dismissed (sometimes) as rote hard bop, neo Blakey eyc in this period, but hey, there is some great stuff on these early albums, tunes, arrangements, solos and a young enthusiasm and conviction for what they were doing. They could really play.

This track I've had on a tape for years and could not pin down where it was from. I'm sure it was used as an opener for a French jazz program at one time. So good I've now bought the Anthology Pacific Jazz box set for a whole £6.

http://youtu.be/3ACzrBXbGWs?feature=shared

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Jack Dejohnette's birthday two days ago. He'd now 82.

[Ian Thumwood]

Been digging out some old ECM discs including John Surman's .' Amazing adventures of Simon' which was a record that was instrumental in getting me to appreciate contemporary jazz around 1985. It is a record which has really stood up well. The opening track always staggered me as to how Jack DeJohnette's drumming was independent of the synth ostinato and Surman's sax but so in synch at the same time. There was a feature on JRR which asked for memorable sax ballads. I think Fide et Amore fits into that category.

[Jazzrook]

Bill Hardman(1933-90) with Junior Cook, Robin Eubanks, Mickey Tucker, Paul Brown & Leroy Williams playing Benny Golson’s ‘Whisper Not’ recorded in 1989 from the album ‘What’s Up’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JMptjy1_g5o

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

I have had Dave Holland's Another Land another spin this week. I was impressed by the track 'The Village which burns on a really slow fuse yet the trio of Dave Holland, Kevin Eubanks and obed Calvare are burning intensely by the end. Eubanks is imperious but hearing Holland's purring electric bass underpinning this track really reminded me of another DH collaboration with John Abercrombie. I thought the disc was good at the time . My opinion now is that this is a brilliant record.

[eighthobstruction]

....Anthony Braxton/Jacqueeline Kerrod :Duo (Bologna) 2018....I'm listening on CD , but here's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2dWHk6ez0&list=PLmkVlEREul4D3q1diNveu6jr 6nazrG9eY

[burning dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySN6o6vpHTs

A favourite version of Evidence

[elmo]

Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Walter Booker, J C Moses playing "Desire" from the Blue Note album 'Change' recorded 1966

https://youtu.be/9wd_5pV2Vwc?feature=shared

An excellent quartet, wish they had recorded more together. J C Moses was a very fine drummer much admired by Max Roach

elmo

[Jazzrook]

James Newton with Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter & Tony Williams playing Dolphy’s tribute to Monk, ‘Hat And Beard’ live at Town Hall, New York in 1985:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=tmrNv8gdCug

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Arnette Cobb was one of my Dad's favourite saxophonists and was someone whose music I grew up with although more frequently as a member of some of Lionel Hampton's bands. I quite like players like Cobb, Illinois Jacquet and Lock Jaw Davis. They all played with character and I feel there musicianship is overlooked these days. The late 40s boppish records Jacquet made with Joe Newman in the late forties are excellent.

It perplexs me that some of the traits of these musicians are so out of fashion yet the ability to swing like that is almost a lost art. The nearest I have witnessed to that in concert has been James Carter and although he was being hyped alot in the 1990s, I feel he is overlooked these days. I think jazz has become too polite in many respects.

Dave Holland is exceptional. I think he is amazingly consistent on record. Easily one of the best bandleaders in jazz over the last 40 years. He just does not seem to do average. He is also supposed to be a real gent.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

For those preferring something a little more relaxing, "Blues in the closet" by Arnette Cobb from the early 60s Prestige album "Party Time".

I've been listening to Cobb all afternoon and only really thought of him before as a "Flying Home" guy, but he was a superb ballad player and the series of albums he recorded for Prestige & Moodsville after a hellish road accident (crushed legs, flat on his back for a year) are exceptional.

http://youtu.be/MsKWySUiyMY?feature=shared

[burning dog]

classic from 51 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALPmRk3Ht4

[burning dog]

Dayo....Daayo....too piercing man , too piercing....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXE1FPRP7nE

Fair point. It's a power trio with acoustic bass. I have to be in the mood for it.

[eighthobstruction]

Dayo....Daayo....too piercing man , too piercing....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXE1FPRP7nE