Can put any playing now Jazz stuff here if you want....
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Can put any playing now Jazz stuff here if you want....
Quite Bizarre, just listening to Ben Webster (Gentle Ben)..... were you reading my mind !!!!!
Anything, from this man does it for me.
Of course...... loads more I love[emoji41]
Peter
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Ellen Andrea Wang - Blank Out..
Spacious, Minimalist, Bass and great Vocal..
Bloody Fine! :)
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Larry Carlton Sapphire Blue
Oh nice thread. My current fave is Hank Mobley Soul Station on vinyl reissue.
Listening to Holly Cole Trio Don't Smoke in Bed
Wish I could find it on Vinyl....
Larry Carlton eponymous album Japanese remaster
next up Robben Ford Talk to your daughter
Listening to Kind of Blue as I type. Tend to listen to it at least once a week every time I change something, it's one of my references. Heard a different CD of it once and nearly sold my speakers, so there are different quality CD masters out there.
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Talk to your Daughter is a fabulous album.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy831
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That is kind of worrying as I bought it on vinyl must be a year ago and it is currently still sealed. I guess i'll find out when I eventually get around to playing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Shaun, Great shout!! Hank Mobley's 'Soul Station' is just a bloody fantastic record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haselsh1
Hank Mobley – tenor, Wynton Kelly – piano, Paul Chambers – bass, Art Blakey – drums... all on their A game, great playing and wonderful tunes.
A heads up for the ultimate SQ reissue of this title is the Music Matters 45rpm cut, a work of art, reproduced with passion and love..of course at a price (£50) but it's a classic record that warrants it IMHO,
arguably better sounding and certainly cheaper than an original Blue Note W63rd copy, which in good nick will set you back a cool £2,000 !
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Adam, loving your quote "Lack of passion is fatal". Personally I think without passion there is no point.
Also, another of my absolute faves, Lee Morgan 'Sidewinder', again, on vinyl reissue.
Shaun, the "lack of passion is fatal" quote applies to all things Matey, I constantly have to remind colleagues in the work place of that quote, as they mutter "nearly Friday" on Monday morning!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Haselsh1
Lee Morgan's 'Sidewinder' is a cracking date, Tenor giant, Joe Henderson is on fire! Coincidentally check the link on this post...enjoy!
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...led-Him-Morgan
Blue Maqams (ECM, 2017) with Anouar Brahem (oud), Dave Holland (double bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Django Bates (piano).
http://www.berghofer.com/photos/wp/2017/blue_maqams.jpg
There are nine albums by Anouar Brahem in my collection.
Oh yeah, Joe Henderson, what an absolute genius and what about his album 'Double Rainbow' again, on vinyl.Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTLOWER
Yes Adam, it is amazing how something you used to be so passionate about can become so sodding tedious.Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTLOWER
Re. Lost in Paris Blues Band.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haselsh1
Anyone know if this available on Vinyl at a reasonable price!
As usual Vinyl £44.00 / CD £10.90.
Got a great CD Transport, but always try the Black stuff first.[emoji41]
Peter
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Unlikely. But try eBay. Cd is better bet
I have the Double rainbow date on CD rip but I'd live to have it on vinyl..Quote:
Originally Posted by Haselsh1
Good shout Shaun..it's a great recording
.Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTLOWER
Prompted by your post Adam I went and got the 2013 remaster of this. Really good, alive and 'present'. Whatever they were recording this album with in 1960 was just right. Would love to hear what this album sounds like on your 45 and 33 albums. You have both in that little LP collection of yours? :eyebrows:
Was trying to find out if for the 2013 remaster the engineers had access to the original master tapes or was it an LP rip? To my ears it sounds like the masters.
In anticipation of this new “Jazz and Blues” area, I’ve been spinning the following:
First the Blues, as it was my first love
Elmore James – ‘The Sky is Crying’
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Son House – ‘The Original Delta Blues’
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[B]Big Joe Williams – ‘Sings the Blues’
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and the Jazz:
Bix Beiderbecke – ‘Riverboat Shuffle’
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Jan Garbarek – ‘Visible World’, ‘Legends of the Seven Dreams’ and ‘Twelve Moons’
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Nina Simone – ‘Released’
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and in memoriam
Fats Domino – ‘Blueberry Hill’
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(OK, so it’s not blues nor is it jazz, but it was the start of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and ‘fats’ Domino took the sobriquet 'Fats' from the boogie-woogie pianist Fats Waller.)
RIP Fats.
Oh yes, Jan Garbarek 'Twelve Moons', what a fantastic album and I think it features Eberhard Weber on bass doesn't it. What an absolute musical genius. I love this as an alternative to Brian Eno's ambient music.
Hi Edward, I'm pretty damn sure the original recording engineer, The LEGENDARY Mr. Rudy Van Gelder, remastered his own original tapes for those 2013 CD reissues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwardlon
Only Rudy Van Gelder was to really know how these sessions were to sound, so it completes the circle for the man himself to do the remasters. As we all know the dreaded remaster by other engineers
have seriously messed up some great recordings. Interestingly the first CDs in the 1980's from Blue Note were, I believe, lifted directly from cleaned up Vinyl rips and sounded bloody terrible,
produced with little care and thought and just desperate to get them on the CD medium as quick as possible, not remastered and not touched by RVG himself.
If your are unfamiliar with RVG, i beg you to just internet search him, truly an astonishing body of work. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at Englewood Cliffs Studio in the late 50's to the late 60's!!
RVG was an absolute perfectionist. You can hear Miles Davis on a particular RVG session requesting if Miles himself could just move a Mic a tad...RVG was having none of it!
An optometrist by trade, and in the early years kept his day job and recorded the likes of Coltrane in the evening at his home studio. Just Remarkable.
Anyway i'll do a piece on Rudy Van Gelder on this forum because he is basically the Don!
You are due a visit with your amp over to mine and I will give you wizz through a few of those Music Matters reissues in comparison to the Original Blue Notes. Quite something to hear.
Hank Mobley's Soul Station is one of the Music's great moments.
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Sitting at the Mac
SONNY CLARK - Cool Struttin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
is 'spinning' on Tidal and it just flows. Again another stone wall classic IMHO.
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Arun Ghosh – ‘Primal Odyssey’
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Miles Davis –‘Birth of the Cool’
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Charlie Hayden (with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell) – ‘The Montreal Tapes’
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Jan Garbarek – ‘Madar’
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Loving the Charlie Haden and the ECM Barry. :thumbsup:
Thanks. There's a lot of interesting stuff on the ECM label: Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek to name two.Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTLOWER
I've enjoyed listening to both of these today
Yoko Miwa Trio - Fadeless Flower http://www.yokomiwa.com/discography/fadeless-flower/
Matthew Halsall - https://matthewhalsall.bandcamp.com/...ending-my-love
Agreed Barry, ECM is a great label, the sound quality on the records is on another level!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I always drop an ECM title when seeing what kit can do, it really sorts the men from the boys.
Pat Metheny's Off Ramp and Charlie Haden/ Carla Bley 'The Ballad of the fallen' (cheery ditty!!) are wonderful.
Right now, I'm rather enjoying this classic session:
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Next up:
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:cool:
Marco.
Right now, the Dukester, and IMO one of his best albums, which is also just stunningly recorded. A great album to show off what your system can do!
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Marco.
got that too. great sounding vinylQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
It is indeed! Right now, this:
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Marco.
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George Benson.
Perfect keyboard solo by Jorge Dalto in “Affirmation” [emoji4]Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
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Fleurette Africaine on this Lp is just so hauntingly beautifulQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Top pick Marco
What a great album this is!!! Just Stunning[emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by WESTLOWER
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Cheers, Adam. I certainly enjoyed it! :)
This is what I'm currently listening to, a classic on Blue Note, which is quite different from Monkey Jungle, slightly Mingus-esque and 'out there'. I'm loving the cool 60s vibe...
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Marco.
Now this:
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Marco.
Good egh Peter, she's quite handy with that bass !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boyse6748
That Shorter date is marvelous, I'm going to dig out Wayne shorter's Speak no EvilQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco
music matters 45rpm bizniz !!
Love these sides.
Keep it up chaps. I signed up for a two albums a month subscription thing (the De Agostino Jazz on Vinyl series) precisely because my knowledge of jazz is so limited, and this was a good way to get to know more about it and find new avenues - and it's definitely worked in that regard. (It's also functioned to confirm what I hate ... I once left an Ornette Coleman gig at half time because I was - and remain - convinced he was taking the piss - free jazz, I just can't handle it at all).
Anyway I've had a few new leads here already :)
Haha.. yes imho, I have to agree to an extent a lot of 'free jazz' is having a laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by montesquieu
But it's an interesting subject actually. The "New Music" as it was called at the time, late 50's early 60s,
Was a reflection of social unjust and alienation. We have to remember these musicians knew how to read and play in
The structured and conventional way, so this direction was a decision they took. These were young, mostly men, often very angry and frustrated by society and what America had done and what it had to offer them.
If you take John coltrane for instance, there he was at the height of his career, famous, in demand, relatively wealthy and creatively at his peak. He led the most in demand and highly rated quartet in the genre. After producing arguably his masterpiece, A Love Supreme, he literally over night, disbanded the quartet.
He stated he did not want the confinement of the conventional Jazz set up where the rock and epicentre was the piano, so he basically sacked McCoy Tyner and changed the line up bringing in Rashied Ali, to be the second drummer along side Elvin Jones. (Elvin by the way was having none of this)
The rest is history as Coltrane entered his "free period". He wouldn't acknowledge the word 'Jazz' as that pigeon holed his music and refused to play the club circuit as it confined him to hour long sets, indeed at this time a coltrane horn solo could last an hour easily! But the point is, these were technically gifted, trained sight reading musicians who chose to take that route at a point in their careers. Commercial suicide. The music was slated!! Down Beat, the Jazz journal bible killed them.
People we're outraged.
Some of the recorded avant-garde stuff stands up pretty well 50+ years on as it took no trend so became timeless. There is a fascinating book on the whole 'New Music" movement of the time entitled 'As serious as your life' by female British writer, who loved jazz and went to live In New York, Val Wilmer. She gets up close and really digs deep into these musicians. It's a good read. The coltrane documentary, Chasing Trane, is a great film and touches heavily on his change of direction.
So taking the piss or an expression of art, the soul and energy?
Many years ago, I walked laughing out of a gig by American saxophonist Don Byron, when he started to play a hosepipe
And was accompanied by a chap banging a bent wood saw. I'm pretty sure they were taking the piss!! Although everyone around me seemed to take it very seriously with much goatee stroking..
Having a laugh or did I just miss the point?!
Na.. they were definitely taking the piss!
Glad you're enjoying the new section, Tom. Adam knows his stuff! :)
Right now, another classic, this time from 1961: Kirk's Work, with Roland Kirk and Jack McDuff:
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Awesome! :cool:
Marco.
Going British this morning, home grown
Premier league jazz music
Don Rendell & Ian Carr Dusk Fire
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The title cut is utterly sublime.
Grab the 2for1 CD which also has the LP Shades of Blue