What Jazz are you listening to now?

[elmo]

Keith Jarrett's tribute to Fats Waller and Jack De Johnette's to Gene Krupa on a sparkling "Honeysuckle Rose"

https://youtu.be/bKBf7cGdEAA?feature=shared

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

I had to work from home yesterday and dug out the 3CD set of Fletcher Henderson recordings called "A study in frustration." I find this collection to be fascinating and one that compels you to listen to all the discs in chronological order . The pre- Armstrong tracks are curios which make me ponder whether that was actually how the Henderson band sounded in the early 1920s. It almost feels clockwork in it's execution. The addition of Armstong is the shot in the arm the band needed and I find the late 20s and early 30's material to be incredible. The music is historically important yet it is often overlooked how well played this music is. It was a brilliant band . Originally, I loved the recordings from the mid thirties onwards best of all. Now I feel that the band was at its best on the music featured on the second disc. It is weird to think that popular music of that time had the potential to be forward thinking . I am aware that the more "commerical" elements of the band's book were not recorde. What was recorded strikes me as being highly proficient with soloists like Coleman Hawkins imperious.

It was fascinating to read on the Desert island Discs website that Randy Newman is a big fan of Henderson's late 1920's recordings. I was really surprised by this,

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Playing through a box set of Bud Powell's studio sessions from 1957 to 1959 when he's supposedly in decline. I find them full of interest including the two RCA albums which I hadn't heard much before. Brian Priestly somewhat slags these off, ideas beyond his then technical capacity etc, but it's a different Powell, a different feel and I don't get that too much.

Here's Bud playing "She", a George Shearing composition. Unlikely and Lovely.

http://youtu.be/b38NyweUo3o?feature=shared

[Serial_Apologist]

Sonny Rollins/Max Roach "BBC jazz goes to college" 1966. Reading University no less!!

To an audience including just about everyone from the London scene, Scott, Hayes, etc etc.

Although the tapes were apparently wiped (this is a private recording) there is a video clip from the concert in a Ronnie Scott BBC profile from 1968 on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/B6mjjtC2jiI?feature=shared

Phew!!! - Thanks Bluesie - what more is there to say?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Sonny Rollins/Max Roach "BBC jazz goes to college" 1966. Reading University no less!!

To an audience including just about everyone from the London scene, Scott, Hayes, etc etc.

Although the tapes were apparently wiped (this is a private recording) there is a video clip from the concert in a Ronnie Scott BBC profile from 1968 on YouTube.

http://youtu.be/B6mjjtC2jiI?feature=shared

[Ian Thumwood]

Bruce

Good afternoon

I saw Johnny Griffin at the old Mayflower theatre with a local big band. The gig in Goblets was an ad hoc session which was not part of the jazz festival and I wa no aware it had happened until it was over. I was really gutted about missing that.

There used to be a big commnity of jazz musicians in Southampton, My piano teacher had a regular trio for years at Goblets and quite a few professionals would sit in with him. I go nor thinkGoblets exists any more. I only go into Southampton to watch the football these days but even the gigs in Romsey and Winchester have dried up.

[Jazzrook]

Stanley Cowell with Tyrone Washington, Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Reggie Workman & Joe Chambers on the album ‘Brilliant Circles’(Freedom) recorded in 1969:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=BzbkMJsErO0

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

S-A: sorry to hear of Jimmy's passing. RIP. It wasn't that long ago that WOW put on a gig by Tony Kinsey.

I know - he must have gone downhill really fast. I've been a bit busy today - tomorrow I'll try and find time to look up any tributes.

[Tenor Freak]

There was a review on All About Jazz this week regarding a similar set of recordings by a quartet led by Bobby Wellins. I think some of these recordings were made in a similar kind of venue and they also featuee the pinaist Peter Jacobsen who was mentioned in this bored a few weeks back. It is funny how the likes of Tommy Whittle, Spike Wells, Tubby Hayes and Bobby Wellins have gone from musicians who could hear regularly to almost niche musicians who are totally unfamiliar to alot of today's players. More alarmingly, it is noticeable how rate rare gigs seem to be down here these days with the closure of so many pubs. There is a regular gig near the village where I work that is held once a month and I did not realise that a country pub about 5 miles from me puts on blues and jazz once a month, Winchester has never really been a city for jazz as it always strucke as being more concerned with folk. the local BBC station used to run a feature on jazz gigs in the Southampton area throughout the 80s and90s but there has not been any jazz on this station for over 20 years so that live pub gigs are rarely aired in this part of Hampshire. At one point you good easily go to a number of jazz gigs mid-week in Southampton but if it is still happening, the publicity is really low-key. I cannot remember the last time I went to hear jazz in a pub. In the early 1990s I was in Goblets every Wednesday to hear my piano teacher's trio. Strange to think that there were place like Goblets which still had a reputation of live jazz back then. The number of pubs has reduced massively in the last 20 years.

Blimey...that closed pub website took me down a rabbit hole and for the life of me I couldn't remember the name of that wine bar on Above Bar: Goblets. <thanks> Ian. Do you remember the time that Johnny Griffin was there? 1995 or so as he was an acquaintance of one of the local Southampton jazzers Tony Baker(?)

Where I grew up, in west London, there were tons of gigs in pubs here and there and I don't just mean the Bull's Head. You would see ads in free gig guide leaflets for pub gigs by the likes of Bill Le Sage, Duncan Lamont, Don Rendell etc and I saw Stan Tracey at the Turk's Head once. I was too young and naïve to realise what riches were on the doorstep as I was really only interested in American artists at the time, though I did see Jimmy and Alan Skidmore doing a tenor-duo gig at the Bull's Head.

S-A: sorry to hear of Jimmy's passing. RIP. It wasn't that long ago that WOW put on a gig by Tony Kinsey.

[Ian Thumwood]

There was a review on All About Jazz this week regarding a similar set of recordings by a quartet led by Bobby Wellins. I think some of these recordings were made in a similar kind of venue and they also featuee the pinaist Peter Jacobsen who was mentioned in this bored a few weeks back. It is funny how the likes of Tommy Whittle, Spike Wells, Tubby Hayes and Bobby Wellins have gone from musicians who could hear regularly to almost niche musicians who are totally unfamiliar to alot of today's players. More alarmingly, it is noticeable how rate rare gigs seem to be down here these days with the closure of so many pubs. There is a regular gig near the village where I work that is held once a month and I did not realise that a country pub about 5 miles from me puts on blues and jazz once a month, Winchester has never really been a city for jazz as it always strucke as being more concerned with folk. the local BBC station used to run a feature on jazz gigs in the Southampton area throughout the 80s and90s but there has not been any jazz on this station for over 20 years so that live pub gigs are rarely aired in this part of Hampshire. At one point you good easily go to a number of jazz gigs mid-week in Southampton but if it is still happening, the publicity is really low-key. I cannot remember the last time I went to hear jazz in a pub. In the early 1990s I was in Goblets every Wednesday to hear my piano teacher's trio. Strange to think that there were place like Goblets which still had a reputation of live jazz back then. The number of pubs has reduced massively in the last 20 years.

[burning dog]

Complete Tubby Hayes at the Hopbine 69.

https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-hopbine-69

[Serial_Apologist]

Just looked up the Hop Bine in Wembley. Apparently Tommy Whittle organised weekly jazz nights there in the '60s: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/middles...y_hopbine.html

BTW the Way Out West group has organised a series of gigs down at the Turk's Head in Twickenham: https://wowjazz.org/gigs/

Sorry to have missed that Jimmy Hastings gig on St Pat's.

Jimmy has passed away, according to Jon Altman just now on the Jazz in Britain site. Same age as me - born 1945.

[Jazzrook]

Very few Tubby recordings with a guitarist as far as I know; also a reminder just how good Louis Stewart was, though I never actually got to see him.

Have been trying to find the recent CD reissue of Stewart’s acclaimed solo album ‘Out On His Own’.
Seems to be only available from Livia Records in Dublin:

https://liviarecords.com/product/out-on-his-own/

JR

[Tenor Freak]

Tubby Hayes with Louis Stewart, Kenny Baldock & Spike Wells playing ‘The Syndicate’ live at the Hopbine pub, Wembley,1968:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=WiBqe9rStA0

JR

Just looked up the Hop Bine in Wembley. Apparently Tommy Whittle organised weekly jazz nights there in the '60s: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/middles...y_hopbine.html

BTW the Way Out West group has organised a series of gigs down at the Turk's Head in Twickenham: https://wowjazz.org/gigs/

Sorry to have missed that Jimmy Hastings gig on St Pat's.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tubby Hayes with Louis Stewart, Kenny Baldock & Spike Wells playing ‘The Syndicate’ live at the Hopbine pub, Wembley,1968:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=WiBqe9rStA0

JR

Very few Tubby recordings with a guitarist as far as I know; also a reminder just how good Louis Stewart was, though I never actually got to see him.