for all you cool daddies:



Joe Henderson & Carmell Jones at the top of their games

I urge you to find/play the entire album, which includes a sweet take on Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman, because it's pretty great

Nice piece on pianist Craig Taborn. It's way long, and Too Very Serious, but contains lots of info on Taborn's compositions, recordings, who he plays/has played with, etc

had the pleasure of hearing him with David Binney, Eivind Opsvik & Brian Blade at Yoshi's in San Francisco 6-7 years ago

drsmooth wrote:Nice piece on pianist Craig Taborn. It's way long, and Too Very Serious, but contains lots of info on Taborn's compositions, recordings, who he plays/has played with, etc

had the pleasure of hearing him with David Binney, Eivind Opsvik & Brian Blade at Yoshi's in San Francisco 6-7 years ago

You've been to Yoshi's in SF Doc?

Wow.

Jazz Track of the Week for Week June 23rd 2017



McCoy Tyner - piano
Avery Sharpe - bass
Louis Hayes - drums
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor sax

Recorded Live circa 1986

Composition - Inner Glimpse

Philly the Kid wrote:Jazz Track of the Week for Week June 23rd 2017



McCoy Tyner - piano
Avery Sharpe - bass
Louis Hayes - drums
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor sax

Recorded Live circa 1986

Composition - Inner Glimpse

Another nice slice, Kid

I've probably posted this before, but Terrence Blanchard's a tale of God's will is really great. Some years ago saw a great performance of his at birdland.

TenuredVulture wrote:I've probably posted this before, but Terrence Blanchard's a tale of God's will is really great. Some years ago saw a great performance of his at birdland.

wasn't familiar with it --

Newk "On Green Dolphin Street" 1968

With Geri Allen passing I had to post :

1. Not sure if you jazz snobs consider this jazz or not, but I’m posting it anyway.

2. Make fun of me if you wish, but 0:33-0:44 kind of stabs me right in the heart

big talent, and Bacharach/David wrote a huge number of arresting pop tunes, often jazzy, including this one. Bacharach in particular cited jazz influences in his songwriting.

EDIT: oooh, oooh! Apparently Stan Getz - after - not one to shy away from making some coin in the business - recorded an album of Bacharach/David tunes. A galaxy of then & eventual jazz stars (Ron Carter, Kenny Burrell, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall (!), Chick Corea) joined him on it. It's....overproduced; pretty sure this didn't do as well as Getz/Gilberto & Girl from Ipanema:

Slowhand wrote:
2. Make fun of me if you wish, but 0:33-0:44 kind of stabs me right in the heart

heart, ears, all the same

Start a Bruce thread and stay in there where you belong, Buckwheat!

Slowhand wrote:

1. Not sure if you jazz snobs consider this jazz or not, but I’m posting it anyway.

2. Make fun of me if you wish, but 0:33-0:44 kind of stabs me right in the heart

Not sure who gets to define "jazz" per se - but I think to most jazz heads - this would not be considered, strictly speaking, jazz. It's lovely - she had a wonderful instrument - and put a lot in to her music when younger -- it's more in the vein of Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, and a tradition more of popular singers with big pipes - doing nice arrangements with strings and orchestras and big bands at times... on occasion some jazzy elements or jazz harmonies/voicings might slip in there...

It would be a bit of a dis to women like Sarah Vaugh, Billie Holiday, Carmen McCrae, Betty Carter, and even white singers like Anita O Day, Chris Connor and Peggy Lee --

People cross-over. Maybe Streisand did a jazz rendition of something in her career as some of the more legit jazz singers I site about may have done some popular tunes and more vanilla arrangements.

At one time - Jazz was the music and art-form of the African American community. It grew out of their experiences - and influences back to Africa. There are places in Africa where they had instruments that foreshadowed Sax and Trumpet - and always the drumming. Plus - the story telling.

All music and art forms start with the people in the village celebrating and having cememonies and rituals. As there is class stratification and there become a higher class in education and affluence, the art forms evolve. The Jazz of the 1900's-1920's and other related forms like Rag and Blues and early Gospel and things that Fats Waller did - was still relatable to the masses of people. Heard at the juke joint or big bands emerging and people dancing all night.

When the smaller combos with a more advanced musical language evolved with bebop and Charlie Parker and Bud Powell and Dizzy - and the next gen with Clifford Brown and Sonny Rollins and on in to Miles, etc... it was no longer something for common people. It was moving toward classical in level of musicianship and complexity.

Other things came around to fill in, from boogie woogie to crooners to blues and all the stuff that fed rock n roll eventually

Most major Jazz festivals today program all kinds of music that strictly speaking isn't jazz at all or connected to that tradition. My own friend who started his own festival had a series called "Jazz Forward" that was more DJ-like and remixy and jazz-ish elements but hip hop elements and other stuff...

I would assert that both jazz and classical traditions have hit a wall. There is no 'next step' for evolving the music. The system we have of 12 tone equal temperament is pretty much exploited fully.

New things - tend to be just new recombinations or expert skills of existing forms and styles and genres. Same in classical world. There's nothing "really new" being invented.

The edges are things to do with micro-tonality, custom instruments - and using AI and other tech or new conceptual frameworks -

That said, a really dope jazz tune played expertly by a really good player, who is particularly inspired - can be wonderful for those of us that appreciate the art form.

PtK wrote:a really dope jazz tune played expertly by a really good player, who is particularly inspired - can be wonderful for those of us that appreciate the art form.

music performed live is always "new", and in my opinion talented jazz musicians are in a position to do more thrilling things with that opportunity than performers of other types of music

Slowhand wrote:

niICE!I'm a huge Booker Ervin fan - as presumably was Mingus, who engaged him for several memorable recorded outings.

For BSG jazz fans in the Philadelphia area next weekend, this Coltrane- themed event sounds pretty sweet:

Celebrating Coltrane in Fairmount Park

Hey Phila. jazz fans - this is drsmooth reporting live from inside the lovely Nash club in not-as- lovely Phoenix AZ. Here to hear Tim Berne's SnakeOil, with Matt Mitchell, Oscar Noreiga, & Ches Smith. No hard liquor, wtf (right temps for a chilly gin gimlet)

So I'm sitting at "bar"
seating at the very back of the club:


no, the damsels in foreground righr are NOT my granddaughters..


anyway, TWO sets for $20!

Turns out Noriega is from Tucson....

Been listening to a lot of Barney Kessel lately. He was good. Real good. Don't think there are many guitar players better in the chord melody style of play.