What jazz have you been listening to today?

[intet_at_tabe]

You realy surprice me at times, Mat :tiphat::clap::banana::trp:

On topic:

It´s been almost a year since, I listened to this album the last time by Lyle Mays, better known from The Pat Metheny Group recordings, than his own solo recordings, on his album "Street Dreams", by Geffen Records 1988.

The musicians:

Lyle Mays - piano, keyboards, synclavier, synthesizers and percussion
Bill Frisell - guitars
Steve Rodby - el. bass and double bass
Marc Johnson - double bass
Peter Erskine/Steve Gadd/Steve Jordan - drums
Victoria Randle - percussion

 

[intet_at_tabe]

McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clark and Al Foster playing *The Night Has A Thousand Eyes*.

sir Corno Dolce :clap::banana::trp:

Are you creating a new collection of CD´s beside your Keith Jarrett collection, now with McCoy Tyner? Very impressive, and I feel grateful on your behalf that you suddenly found or rediscovered, whatever - McCoy Tyner.

Like I stated earlier, it´s been great to read your posts to Mat and CT about McCoy Tyner.

 

[Mat]

Surprise? Why Intet? After all, there's soprano saxophone playing some really good music on that CD.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Surprise? Why Intet? After all, there's soprano saxophone playing some really good music on that CD.

Well Mat :tiphat:, perhaps surprice is not the right word, what I meant was thank you for introducing this band to us that I have never heard of, this "quintet" and constellation - 1 piano and 4 saxophones is highly rare in jazz.

I noticed at once, like you mentioned the soprano saxophone and figured this was what you initially fell for, but then I guess these guys are professional classical educated musicians first, and it always catch my interest, when gifted musicians from another style of music make what is known as "cross over" music, here obviously playing jazz songs by Gershwin.

The famous Norwegian jazz musician JAN GARBAREK (tenor and soprano saxophone, synthesizers, samplers, percussion, flute, bass saxophone and the sopranino), the last instrument which is a soprano saxophone, but shaped like the tenor and the alto saxophone, only much smaller, and from what I know very difficult to play. The size of it is almost like the toy saxophone, you can buy in plastic in a shop for children.

Well, too easy to get sidetracked this morning to JAN GARBAREK having slept almost 8 hours straight.

JAN GARBAREK made a trio album a couple of years ago as a jazz musician "In Praise Of Dreams" by the ECM Records 2004, but the trio he originated had KIM KASHKASHIAN (viola) and MANU KATCHE (drums). Rare trio for jazz as well. But very beautiful music.

I can´t judge though whether it´s jazz or classical music, so I guess like your introduction of the ASQ, it´s sort of cross over music. That is if your suggestion is "cross over" music at all, or just a band of gifted musicians, who like jazz as well.

Anyways Mat, do me a favour and tell me, what label this ASQ quartet recorded on, and what year it was released - please, I must achieve it and listen to it.

On topic:

"In Praise Of Dreams", by JAN GARBAREK TRIO, look above.

 

[Corno Dolce]

*Minha* by Eliane Elias.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Christian Minh Doky on his quartet album "Appreciation", by Storyville Records 1989.

Christian, in the USA called Chris, like his big brother Niels Lan Doky - paino, 50-50 Danish and Vietnamese.

The musicians:

Christian Minh Doky - double bass
Thomas Clausen - piano
Larry Schneider - tenor saxophone
Ben Perovsky - drums

 

[Corno Dolce]

*Cosmic Messenger* by Jean-Luc Ponty.

 

[Mat]

Anyways Mat, do me a favour and tell me, what label this ASQ quartet recorded on, and what year it was released - please, I must achieve it and listen to it.

Your wish is my command, Intet:tiphat:

 

[Mat]

Finally. After a week of waiting it finally arrived. :clap::clap::clap:

Here's what I have been listening to:

American clarinetist, Brad Terry (b.1937) is an estabilished even legandary artist, also admired for his unique ability to whistle jazz. During his 30-year long career he scored many hours and succesess, and so, admiration. He has played with scores of distinguished jazzmen, notably Dizzy Gillespie, Buck Clayton, Budyy Tate, Steve Swallow, Red Mitchell, Eddie Gomez, Tom Harrell... Brad is also an experienced, socially oriented jazz educator, who led workshops and clinics in many countries including Poland.

Joachim Mencel (b.1966) A graduate of Katowice Academy of Music - Jazz Department, is one of the most subtle, rich sounding and full of ideas young pianist on the Polish jazz scene. Winner of International Competitions: Jazz Improvisation - Katowice '86, Jazz Pianists - Kalisz '91, he was also among Thelonious Monk Competition finalists (Washington D.C. '98) and participated in many important jazz festivals. Performed as soloist at the famous clubs in England, Hungary, Germany and Denmark. Cooperated with such jazzmen as Zbigniew Namysłowski, Janusz Muniak, Jarek Śmietana, Dave Friedman, Charlie Mariano and Deborah Brown. On this CD, both partners, though separated by age-gap, reach a deep mutal understanding trough their excellent skills and sensivity, telling a story about Spring. Among more or less known melodies, there are also two Joachim's tunes.

By Andrzej Schmidt
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[intet_at_tabe]

Your wish is my command, Intet:tiphat:

Of topic with a remarkable friend:

Mein Got, mein lieber freund Mat :tiphat::clap::clap::clap::claprofoundly overwhelmed with helmetless head lowered towards the dust in front of your feet. Duce point :trp::trp::trp::trp:

Thank you so much, rescued twice in less than 24 hours :grin::grin: AWESOME Mat, that´s what I call a detailed presentation of the album.

Of course this means that you from now on, like you already have continued with Brad Terry :clap::clap::clap::clap:will have to continue, giving liner notes presentation on your forthcoming entries - all of them, like I have tried myself for 8 months. It gives the reader much more fun.

Thank you, my dear honourable Mr. Extraordinaire friend. I will find the album, and give you a feed-back.

pm for you about my speakers.

On topic:

Tommy Smith - tenor saxophone, with his personal favourite tenor saxophone player Joe Lovano on TS´s album "Evolution", by ESC Records 2005.

The musicians:

Tommy Smith and Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
John Scofield - guitars
John Taylor - piano
John Patitucci - double bass
Bill Stewart - drums

 

[Corno Dolce]

*Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit*.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Bob James, the Godfather and master of smooth jazz on his double album "1, 2, 3 and BJ 4" the first four albums in a collection box found yesterday in another second hand shop in Aalborg, where I have never been.

Smooth jazz, what does it realy mean towards Bebop, Contemporary Jazz or Free Jazz? Some say that some of the muzak you hear quietely playing in a supermarket, is smooth jazz.

I completely utterly disagree. Bob James, born in Marshall Missouri, USA in 1939 in his day was a very innovative keyboardian, a master on his instrument and looking at the musicians on this collection album of the first four albums of his, you would know that smooth jazz was not for ameteurs, not muzak played for consumers in a super market, but seriously composed innovative jazz music, that combined more than one jazz tradition, except the improvised department, but more so fusion.

Bob James studied and finish his exams and master in music at the University of Michigan 1962, the next year he moved to N.Y.C., where he first teamed up with Maynard Ferguson on piano and became the pianist and arranger and the leader of the band behind Sarah Vaughan the next year.

He used to be a rather agressive jazz pianist playing small clubs in the 1960´s, which can be heard on the album "Explotions", by ESP Records 1965 but the idea of smooth jazz was more to built a big sound picture in fusion with many instruments involved.

In 1973, BJ got a contract with the record label CTI Records, where he met and played with Erik Gale, Grover Washington Jr., Hank Crawford, Stanley Turrentine, Steve Kahn and Earl Klugh, which led to the recording of his first solo projects playing keyboards and piano. In 1977 he founded his own record label and studio Tappan Zee, though he three times later for shorter periods of time was engaged with CBS Records as the anchor man in severel groups, decided for by the CBS because of his huge knowledge in arranging the music the best way.

Among his albums after the first four albums in smooth jazz are:

"The Genie: Themes and Variations From The TV Series Taxi", CBS 1983
"The Swan", CBS 1984 with Steve Kahn (guitars) and Marcus Miller (el. bass).

This morning from the collection of the first four albums "1, 2, 3 and BJ 4", the musicians are:

Bob James - keyboards
Grover Washington Jr. - tenor and soprano saxophone
Mark Friedman - vibes
Hugh McCracken - harmonica
Eric Gale/Hugh McCracken/Jeff Mironov - guitars
Hubert Laws - flute
Will Lee - el. bass
Gadd/Mason/Newark - drums
Ralph McDonald - percussion
String Orchestra and a Brass Band

 

[Corno Dolce]

*H* by Bob James.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

*H* by Bob James.

I have noticed sir Corno Dolce :tiphat: that you also digg Bob James, and you have more than one album on stock.

When you write a title related to any entry of yours, do you refer to a song or an album, please?

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Intet,

In the case of *H* I referred to the whole album.

Cheers!

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Aloha Intet,

In the case of *H* I referred to the whole album.

Cheers!

Aloha back to you sir :tiphat::clap::clap::clap::clap:

Thank you.

Can you add any info on Bob James? It is rather limited, what I have found in the old files, as you can see.

Btw. Did you manage to achieve the DVD´s on the Standards Trio from the concerts in Japan in the 1980´s, I mentioned some time ago according to info from the ECM? Just curious.

On topic:

Many years ago in 1995, shortly before Keith Jarrett became very ill with a virus, which completely emtied him for any physical power, not even playing his beloved piano for more than two years, I believe post the concerts at the Blue Note on 6 CD´s in 1994 with the Standards Trio, of course not recording nor performing as well with the Standards Trio, Keith Jarrett was invited to play in the very old Opera House - La Scala - in Italy.

He had wanted for this opportunity for some years to do an improvised solo piano concert, mostly because of the history of this famous Opera House and the acoustics, which the Italians had perfected for centuries, since they did not have microphones nor speakers, plugged in an amplifier in the old days.

So the jazz for this afternoon is the album "La Scala", recorded in 1995 by the ECM Records, released 1997.

The special thing to me personally about this album after Part I and II: 72 minutes something in all, is the encore. Keith´s own favourite jazz song - Over The Rainbow - on solo piano.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

After dinner jazz this evening, while the sun sets reaching the level of the horizon, probably in half an hour.

So let´s all remember a great American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald on her 3 CD album "Ella Fitzgerald sings the Duke Ellington song book with his orchestra",
PolyGram 1957/remastered for CD by Verve Records 1992.

The band of course Duke Ellington´s Big Band feat. musicians like Paul Gonsalves, Russell Procope, Cat Anderson, Billy Strayhorn, Harry Carney, Ray Nance, Dizzy Gillespie, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Sam Woodyard, Clark Terry, John Sanders, Jimmy Hamilton, Willie Cook, Jimmy Woode, Johnny Hodges and Britt Woodman.

The recordings 1956 to 1957. 38 songs by The Duke all classics. Both Ella and The Duke ikons in jazz.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Intet,

What extra info might you be looking for? You wrote up a very good intro to Bob James just a few posts ago - you called him the Godfather and master of smooth Jazz. I thought that was a very good and apt description imho.

I just finished listening to the cd *All Around The Town Live* by Bob James.

Thanx for reminding me about the DVD with the Standards Trio in Tokyo. I have yet to receive it.

Cheers,

CD

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Aloha Intet,

What extra info might you be looking for? You wrote up a very good intro to Bob James just a few posts ago - you called him the Godfather and master of smooth Jazz. I thought that was a very good and apt description imho.

I just finished listening to the cd *All Around The Town Live* by Bob James.

Thanx for reminding me about the DVD with the Standards Trio in Tokyo. I have yet to receive it.

Cheers,

CD

sir Corno Dolce

Okay, I will go to his website. As for the Japan DVD´s with Jarrett and the Standards Trio, I was just curious. I have the great luck mostly during the nights in Denmark often to have the opportunity, through the French music channel MEZZO to watch the Standards Trio live in concert.

On topic:

John Patitucci on his album "Now", by Concord Records 1998.

The musicians:

John Patitucci - double bass, 5 and 6 string el. basses
John Scofield - guitars
Chris Potter/Michael Brecker - tenor saxophone
Bill Stewart - drums

 

[intet_at_tabe]

sir Corno Dolce

Here is, what I found of recent info on Bob James at www.bobjames.com :

"On April 7, Bob was awarded the George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. The award and tribute were presented in Toronto to Bob By his longtime friend and musical colleague, Alexander Zonjic."

A question to you. Do you have access to a TV channel for only jazz in the USA?