Here's another:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BItWR-BAY[/youtube]
Unreal live performance.
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Here's another:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9BItWR-BAY[/youtube]
Unreal live performance.
Tharmas
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My son turned me on to the fact that Django Reinhardt spent some time touring with Duke Ellington in the 1940s, so I've been poking around the internet looking for example cuts. Here's a blues riff they recorded live.
[youtube]Yz7I01zrbbY[/youtube]
[youtube]Yz7I01zrbbY[/youtube]
Tharmas
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I looked him up. Jeez he's 89 years old and as far as I can tell, still touring. Last album release 2019.
Yep. I didn't realize he'd released something last year, though. I was into Marseille from 2017 for a while, it's a very good album.
Here's a spoken word collaboration he did on that record with a popular French artist, I believe from Marseille:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmSJYD88wVw[/youtube]
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Charlie Rouse, Unsung Hero -- an album and a half of material recorded for Epic in the early 60s, rereleased in 1990 in Columbia's Jazz Masterpiece series. A fine cd of crisply played tunes. The ballads are as good as the cookers. My favorite tracks are There Is No Greater Love and two uptempo Rouse originals, Lil' Rousin' and Rouse's Point. (If you're new to jazz, Rouse was Monk's sax player for most of the 1960s. A colossal player.)
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Holst's Planets, rearranged for jazz band
My son sent me this link. If you scroll down on the page, there are samples of each movement played by the arrangers jazz band. Very cool stuff for those of us who like both classical and jazz.
https://www.jlevymusic.com/sheet-music/the-planets-reimagined-study-scores
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My son sent me this link. If you scroll down on the page, there are samples of each movement played by the arrangers jazz band. Very cool stuff for those of us who like both classical and jazz.
https://www.jlevymusic.com/sheet-music/the-planets-reimagined-study-scores
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Never heard the trombone played with such finesse.
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There’s an interesting back story to this. In 1968 Danny Scher, jazz aficionado and senior at Palo Alto High School, decided to try to convince Thelonious Monk, who was in residence at the Jazz Workshop in nearby San Francisco, to bring his quartet to Palo Alto to play a concert in the school auditorium. Surprisingly, Monk, who was broke, agreed to the gig, for $500. If you remember your history, 1968 was a tumultuous year in America, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, the police riot in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson’s resignation as president, and riots in black ghettos throughout the country.
In this climate Scher advertised the concert in the black neighborhoods of Palo Alto, against the advice of the town’s police department, and of course promoted it in the lily-white high school and neighborhoods of Palo Alto. The concert created quite a buzz. One of the school custodians agreed to have the piano tuned if he could tape the concert – so we have a recording, now remastered. The concert came off without a hitch and was a success. Incidentally, Danny Scher graduated from Stanford with an MBA and went on to work as a manager and promoter for Bill Graham at the Fillmore in San Francisco for a quarter century.
[For some reason I can't get the youtube tags to work]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3G8WopextI
In this climate Scher advertised the concert in the black neighborhoods of Palo Alto, against the advice of the town’s police department, and of course promoted it in the lily-white high school and neighborhoods of Palo Alto. The concert created quite a buzz. One of the school custodians agreed to have the piano tuned if he could tape the concert – so we have a recording, now remastered. The concert came off without a hitch and was a success. Incidentally, Danny Scher graduated from Stanford with an MBA and went on to work as a manager and promoter for Bill Graham at the Fillmore in San Francisco for a quarter century.
[For some reason I can't get the youtube tags to work]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3G8WopextI
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Not listening to anything in particular at the moment, but I'm going to plug our local jazz program and it's host.
https://kjzz.org/content/1675/blaise-lantana
Our public radio station here in Phoenix is K-Jazz. The call letters are KJZZ. The night show (after 7pm) is classic jazz hosted by a woman who is a true jazz lover and also not a half bad musician. I listened to her show for a long time, but last year I got to hang out at the station during her shift, talk at length with her, and even produced an hour of her show. A week later, she invited me to one of her gigs, and could not have been nicer. I thought I liked jazz and had an above-average knowledge of the music, but she blew me out of the water. If you get the chance, listen online. She does a really great show.
https://kjzz.org/content/1675/blaise-lantana
Our public radio station here in Phoenix is K-Jazz. The call letters are KJZZ. The night show (after 7pm) is classic jazz hosted by a woman who is a true jazz lover and also not a half bad musician. I listened to her show for a long time, but last year I got to hang out at the station during her shift, talk at length with her, and even produced an hour of her show. A week later, she invited me to one of her gigs, and could not have been nicer. I thought I liked jazz and had an above-average knowledge of the music, but she blew me out of the water. If you get the chance, listen online. She does a really great show.
This one slipped by me. Sounds Bill Evans'esque - a lot of use of space.
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Played as I drove today:
1) Someday My Prince Will Come (1961) - probably the most ignored Miles Davis album from the early 60s, in spite of being his first studio release after the double whammy of Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain. I hadn't read much about it, but I resisted getting it because the title cut is a Disney song, and I'm not much into jazz stars taking treacly pop and bopping it. Then I heard that Coltrane guests on the album on two tracks, that it was the last time he went into the studio with Miles, so I got it. It's a nice, solid album, with Miles playing ballads with a mute -- if you like that sound, this is good of kind. It could use maybe one more uptempo track to goose it. Coltrane's two appearances throw the thing into high gear.
2) Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) is a celebrated Pepper session where his backup is Miles' rhythm section of the day (Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones.) I've owned this for years, but until today it never impressed me -- I considered it facile and pastel. Today I gave it another spin and boy, did it cook. What seemed facile before now seemed lyrical and unsprung, with Pepper coming up with endless embellishments, inspired by the steady background Miles' crew gave him. Deserves its stellar rep.
1) Someday My Prince Will Come (1961) - probably the most ignored Miles Davis album from the early 60s, in spite of being his first studio release after the double whammy of Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain. I hadn't read much about it, but I resisted getting it because the title cut is a Disney song, and I'm not much into jazz stars taking treacly pop and bopping it. Then I heard that Coltrane guests on the album on two tracks, that it was the last time he went into the studio with Miles, so I got it. It's a nice, solid album, with Miles playing ballads with a mute -- if you like that sound, this is good of kind. It could use maybe one more uptempo track to goose it. Coltrane's two appearances throw the thing into high gear.
2) Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) is a celebrated Pepper session where his backup is Miles' rhythm section of the day (Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones.) I've owned this for years, but until today it never impressed me -- I considered it facile and pastel. Today I gave it another spin and boy, did it cook. What seemed facile before now seemed lyrical and unsprung, with Pepper coming up with endless embellishments, inspired by the steady background Miles' crew gave him. Deserves its stellar rep.
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Vince Guaraldi’s claim to fame is writing and performing (with his trio) the music background for the Peanuts TV specials. Vince was actually quite a good jazz composer and although you may not have paid much attention to this music as a kid, it’s worth a listen:
[youtube]fAzoGOgFPig[/youtube]
Recently I’ve been listening to his album “Jazz Impressions of ‘Black Orpheus’” (which by the way is a movie well worth seeing).
[youtube]kV6Zo1OZnFY&list=OLAK5uy_msl06-IplrxD7D5_OZHfzYkUU6eFNS18g[/youtube]
He died at age 48.
[youtube]fAzoGOgFPig[/youtube]
Recently I’ve been listening to his album “Jazz Impressions of ‘Black Orpheus’” (which by the way is a movie well worth seeing).
[youtube]kV6Zo1OZnFY&list=OLAK5uy_msl06-IplrxD7D5_OZHfzYkUU6eFNS18g[/youtube]
He died at age 48.