Jazz: America's Music

wishing you would have been aware enough to scrub innerplanetary snow off the wings before arrival

I have always had questions about Sun Ra

such as - what? and why? and who? are all those people on stage? is this a song?

the where i got - outer space

this human
being

Henry Mancini

always a fan of jazz adjacent onry man songs

still have that and several other Grant Green cds
mostly exploring because of Tyner and Jones
thank you for the listen to them again inspiration

McCoy Tyner is a genius who plays everything all at the same time. Grant Green just grooves. It's a wicked combo.

Also poor Tyner has to comp for himself during his solo because Grant Green has gone off for a smoke.

pretty sure that's exactly the way McCoy would have wanted it
what a talent

probably closer to jazz with this much sax, so dropping it here

what a powerhouse lineup, and we actually get to watch them play

Jim Lang

I had forgotten about this

the way Monk slides aside to provide Charlie Rouse ample space to expand upon his lonely thoughts is only obvious

on the record stating listening to any tenor coveted by Thelonious is good enough for me

We were talking about this a couple of months ago

yeah, brilliance

btw, that village gate piece reminds me...

Miles may not even be my favorite artist, but that might be the greatest album of all time.

davis not my fav artist by miles, but he is the influence for pretty much all of them

buckle up folks

1 Blue'N'Boogie #1 [00:00]
Drums – Art Blakey
Organ – Jimmy Smith
Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt
Vibraphone – Gary Burton
Trumpet – Clark Terry, Howard McGhee
Bass – Al McKibbon
Piano – George Duke

2 So What [28:16]
Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon, Flip Philips, James Moody, Zoot Sims
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Bass – Larry Ridley
Drums – Tony Williams
Tenor Saxophone, Whistle – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Trombone – Kay Winding
Trumpet – Harry Edison
Guitar – Chuck Wayne

3 Blue N' Boogie [53:35]
Guitar – B.B. King, Kenny Burrell
Tenor Saxophone – Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims
Drums – Roy Haynes
Trumpet – Clark Terry, Joe Newman

4 Medley: What's New / Since I Fell For You / The Man I Love [01:08:55]
Guitar – B.B. King, Kenny Burrell
Tenor Saxophone – Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims
Drums – Roy Haynes
Trumpet – Clark Terry, Joe Newman

I caught Victor Wooten and his brothers (The Wooten Brothers) in concert about a month ago, and they played a song called John Coltrane that I had never heard before. It just has one of those classic, catchy jazz harmonies. Here is the original by Cliff Jordan and his band.

I was fortunate to see the Branford Marsalis Quartet in concert recently as well, and I never really dove into his catalog until now. Just last month Branford's quartet released Belonging, a full album interpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 album of the same name.

Here is one of the tracks, Spiral Dance, which has been a daily play for a couple weeks now.

the entire album, named after Hermann Hesse's anti-fascist novel, is incredible

hard to believe it was recorded in '73, a nostalgia piece that sounds at least ten years younger, hearkening back to the days when Jordan was playing with Mingus and Dolpy

also helps to have Billy Higgins providing those crisp clean cymbals
seems he recorded with damn near every great alive, including Trane (on the album Like Sonny, coincidentally dedicated to another), Ornette, Dexter, Herbie, Monk, Grant Green, and over a dozen albums with Lee Morgan including The Sidewinder

in non-sequential order Sam Jones played double bass as if on adderal alongside Nat and Cannonball brass early in his career, then recorded seven albums with Oscar Peterson, four with Grant Green, four more with Blue Mitchell, almost ten with Red Garland, one with Sonny Red, five with Sonny Stitt, two with Red Rodney, and On Green Dolphin Street with Archie Shepp

guess some may say he was a colorful feller with a passive alliteratin fetish masked by numerology