What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

Pianist Paul Plimley(1953-2022) & bassist Lisle Ellis(b. 1951) playing Ornette Coleman’s ‘Kaleidoscope #1’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=-T3V9zv340s

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Title track from altoist Jimmy Woods Contemporary album "Awakening" from 1961/62. A remarkably strong record with some real effort put into it and everyone playing above their game, notably Gary Peacock, the bass is superb & everywhere, and drummer Milt Turner, ex Ray Charles (What D'I say was him), perfect. I think Woods made a just few other records, Conflict was one, Land, Elvin Andrew Hill etc, and otherwise with Gerald Wilson, but then left music.

http://youtu.be/kjwhwzLX1BI?feature=shared

[Jazzrook]

Title track from altoist Jimmy Woods Contemporary album "Awakening" from 1961/62. A remarkably strong record with some real effort put into it and everyone playing above their game, notably Gary Peacock, the bass is superb & everywhere, and drummer Milt Turner, ex Ray Charles (What D'I say was him), perfect. I think Woods made a just few other records, Conflict was one, Land, Elvin Andrew Hill etc, and otherwise with Gerald Wilson, but then left music.

http://youtu.be/kjwhwzLX1BI?feature=shared

Jimmy Woods also appeared on trumpeter Joe Gordon’s excellent 1961 Contemporary album ‘Lookin’ Good!’ with Dick Whittington, Jimmy Bond & Milt Turner.

Here’s ‘A Song For Richard’:

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

JR

[elmo]

Jimmy Woods had a very interesting contemporary fellow West coast alto player - Earl Anderza who only made one album "Outa sight" in 1962 although he features on two tracks with Dupree Bolton, Hadley Caliman and pianist Roosevelt Wardell on Bolton's album "Fireball". Well worth tracking down

Here is Earl on 'Benign' From Outa Sight with Jack Wilson, Jimmy Bond and Donald Dean

https://youtu.be/Ig6MAgypo8k?feature=shared

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

Never heard of Earl Anderza but I think that track has some brilliant alto playing on it regardless of the obvious Parker influence I could find little about him on line but he apparently went to prison for a serious crime and not the usual drug bust. This explains why he disappeared from the scene.

[Jazzrook]

Never heard of Earl Anderza but I think that track has some brilliant alto playing on it regardless of the obvious Parker influence I could find little about him on line but he apparently went to prison for a serious crime and not the usual drug bust. This explains why he disappeared from the scene.

Some information about Earl Anderza can be found here:

https://www.saxontheweb.net

Just search for Earl Anderza

I did write a review of Anderza’s excellent ‘Outa Sight’ on Amazon who seem to be deleting many of my jazz record reviews without explanation.

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Some information about Earl Anderza can be found here:

https://www.saxontheweb.net

Just search for Earl Anderza

I did write a review of Anderza’s excellent ‘Outa Sight’ on Amazon who seem to be deleting many of my jazz record reviews without explanation.

JR

Shame as I buy my cds based on your recommendations

[Serial_Apologist]

Just now "Unison" (I think it was) by Jason Yarde's trio Yah from 2008, on 'Round Midnight: astonishing playing, by anybody's standards - almost Dolphy class.

[Jazzrook]

Hank Mobley with Lee Morgan, Andrew Hill, John Ore & Philly Joe Jones playing ‘No Room For Squares’ in 1963.
The intro and outro always sounds very Zappaesque to me.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Xcq_zg-Zw5k

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

No Room for Squares is one of Mobley's best and more progressive albums. It is shocking that it was not released for about 20 years because it is far superior to some of his albums like Roll Call. Wierd to see how good some unleashed material really is. This album is a cracker.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Roberta Flack who passed recently. Prompted to listen to this by Richard Williams' little Blue Moment Moment tribute. From her "First Take" debut album on Atlantic 1969, "Compared to What" with Ron Carter heavily featured throughout the album after he left Miles. Punchy horns from the New York cream...Joe Newman etc

http://youtu.be/wDUk9Lsy_yQ?feature=shared

[Ian Thumwood]

Roberta Flack who passed recently. Prompted to listen to this by Richard Williams' little Blue Moment Moment tribute. From her "First Take" debut album on Atlantic 1969, "Compared to What" with Ron Carter heavily featured throughout the album after he left Miles. Punchy horns from the New York cream...Joe Newman etc

http://youtu.be/wDUk9Lsy_yQ?feature=shared

I heard some of this album on Last Word. Alhough o am sure I have heard her Vienne, I did not realise her history. The debut album is jazz in my opinion.

[elmo]

Hank Mobley with Lee Morgan, Andrew Hill, John Ore & Philly Joe Jones playing ‘No Room For Squares’ in 1963.
The intro and outro always sounds very Zappaesque to me.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Xcq_zg-Zw5k

JR

The interaction between Mobley and Philly Joe on 'Three way split' is wonderful.

The Mobley album "Straight no filter" is a selection of tracks from various sixties sessions not issued at the time. 'Chain Reaction' Hank's take on Trane's Impressions is an interesting track after a really marvellous solo by McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan and Hanks solos are built on rhythmic fragments seemingly unrelated but I think work really well and together with Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins they generate an exciting version of Trane's classic. I think the Hard Bop musicians referred this way of playing as "Peckin"

https://youtu.be/hJQuL0rw4h0?feature=shared

elmo

[Serial_Apologist]

'Chain Reaction' Hank's take on Trane's Impressions is an interesting track after a really marvellous solo by McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan and Hanks solos are built on rhythmic fragments seemingly unrelated but I think work really well and together with Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins they generate an exciting version of Trane's classic. I think the Hard Bop musicians referred this way of playing as "Peckin".

I hadn't heard of the term, but it would make sense given that hard bop improvisers tended to create tension and surprise by phrasing in accordance with phrase structures of a tune, leaving breathing spaces, and then subventing or overriding the structures at unexpected moments to provoke responses, while always keeping the background continuum in the listener's mind, the sheets-of-sound approach evolved by Coltrane at that time meant longer lines, less breaks to allow for moment-by-moment responding, less release leading inevitably greater build ups of energy and tension. Come to think of it this was probably the main difference between the - in other respects - equally radical approaches of Coltrane and Rollins - I hadn't thought about it in this way before. If I'm right people such a Joe Henderson, Archie Shepp, Wayne Shorter (after joining Miles) and Benny Maupin would represent a halfway-point between these two approaches, with someone like Evan Parker taking this yet further. Pressing a point, maybe the prodding in style of horn playing in early Funk (notably James Brown's unit) was a way of applying "peckin'" in a new context. .

[Jazzrook]

The interaction between Mobley and Philly Joe on 'Three way split' is wonderful.

The Mobley album "Straight no filter" is a selection of tracks from various sixties sessions not issued at the time. 'Chain Reaction' Hank's take on Trane's Impressions is an interesting track after a really marvellous solo by McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan and Hanks solos are built on rhythmic fragments seemingly unrelated but I think work really well and together with Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins they generate an exciting version of Trane's classic. I think the Hard Bop musicians referred this way of playing as "Peckin"

https://youtu.be/hJQuL0rw4h0?feature=shared

elmo

Wonderful track, elmo.

Here’s Hank with Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Charli Persip playing ‘Peckin’ Time’ in 1958:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=3iRkKgm7RaE

JR