Jazz: America's Music
Today I purchased Blue Train by John Coltrane (on the blue note label) -Excellent and beautiful flowing Jazz work. Complimentary and solo work by an ensemble of trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, and of course percussion, with the ethereal tones of John Coltrane’s tenor sax. Listening to this album rekindle my interest in Jazz – American’s Music. It reminded me of the Ken Burns documentary on Jazz that premiered on PBS in 2001 (which also inspired a CD set and a single CD, The Best of Ken Burns Jazz, that I have). But I digress. My collection of Jazz music is small but I would like to enhance it so best recommendations on that would be welcome and helpful to everybody else as well.
Additionally this post is for just a general discussion of Jazz. Below is a list of the Jazz artists that are mentioned in the context of The Best of Ken Burns Jazz CD set. It is not intended as an inclusive list by any means and is made in alphabetical order, although the first person should be place number one on the list anyway. This jazz list does not include newer artists, Diana Krall just for an example. So it needs brought up to date, which I hope others will do.
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Sidney Bechet
Art Blakey
Dave Brubeck
Omette Coleman
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillesepe
Benny Goodman
Herbie Hannock
Coleman Hawkins
Fletcher Henderson
Billie Holiday
Charles Mingus
Theionious Monk
Charlie Parker
Sonny Rollins
Sarah Vaughn
Lester Young
Jazz deserves some fun and worthwhile discussion on these forums. So, Take it Away…………….
-Zeno
https://youtu.be/kCDMQqDUtv4?si=AntXsoHD...
Les McCann died a couple days ago at 88. This has been a perennial favorite.
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Les McCann & Eddie Harris live Montreux '69
not sure what else the album should be compared to
Swiss Movement
Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone
Les McCann – piano, vocals on "Compared to What"
Benny Bailey – trumpet
Leroy Vinnegar – bass
Donald Dean – drums
Spoiler
string post because nothing compares to watching another moving song live
Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam , Les McCann Compared to What, and Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
what other songs might you suggest have been as impactful?
lazilly quoting posts from another thread
Les McCann was one of the living giants
RIP Les
https://youtu.be/qbYNTcHtdu0?si=4TUjnjYE...
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Just saw that this has been released. Charlie Parker playing a $199.00 plastic sax.
https://youtu.be/W9PoFl3VnmQ?si=CBQU9OVE...
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Ornette Coleman also played the Grafton sax
Ornette Coleman – alto
Don Cherry – cornet
Charlie Haden – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
May '59
Spoiler
extra value is what you get
when you ear Cherry cornet
if you aren't familiar with the names Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, please research their discography
pretty sure you've heard them before
if you aren't familiar with the names Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, please research their discography
pretty sure you've heard them before
You mean this Charlie Harden, Jack Black's father-in-law?
https://youtu.be/t4k_InRXP-g?si=Ch0lg75D...
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yep, and research should not stop short after a single citation
also prefer his work on the double bass
yep, and research should not stop short after a single citation
also prefer his work on the double bass
Not research yet. In the old days here in the Boston area, you could listen to Classical music in the morning, Ron Dela Chiesa playing the Great American Songbook in the Afternoon, and Eric in the Evening doing jazz until midnight. Unfortunately, those days are long gone. Now local PBS radio stations are all talk. But that was an education.
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Talk is very overrated.
and the companion piece
Ornette Coleman - alto
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet (same as a cornet)
Charlie Haden - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
October '59
Spoiler
polyrhythmic Higgins and Haden
while Coleman and Cherry give a master class in plastic instruments
worth a listen with headphones
suggest at a minimum once focused on each instrument
horns are quick to fill the ears
but skin and gut maintain rhythm
the genre of free jazz sprouted from a place of structure
what you hear here is a foundational shift
Eric Dolphy - alto, bass clarinet, flute
Idrees Sulieman - trumpet
Rune Öfwerman - piano
Jimmy Woode - bass
Sture Kallin - drums
Stockholm Sessions Nov '61
Spoiler
could you squeeze any more emotion from a flute
was around the same time Dolphy was recording with Trane
John Coltrane - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
Eric Dolphy - Alto Saxophone/Flute/Bass Clarinet
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Reggie Workman - Bass
Elvin Jones - Drums & Cymbals
also Nov '61
I’d rather smoke a joint.
https://www.wbgo.org/show/wbgo-journal/2...
I plumbed some of this building back in the early/mid 90s when it was built.
