Jazz for aficionados
Usually I am buying much more music during winter days, its colder and there are less things to do outside during nights, but now its becoming too hot to go anywhere, except perhaps for night swimming, so I did some shopping, filling the blanks in my collection. This two albums did not have previously. Art Farmer and Benny Golson Jazztet, 'Here and now' and 'another git together' https://youtu.be/x698uMu7Wb4?feature=shared https://youtu.be/qObwZMm_Jvo?feature=shared |
@Acman3, Sorry, but I do not understand ’clicking the chain looking object and paste heading.’ Can you please explain me better? I am writing on my laptop and if I pass over the links with my mouse and press the right key I can use the option ’go to link’ and than it opens (instead of just clicking the link like before) If that is not possible for you, let me know how I can post them again. If only the Russians would stop interfering with peace loving jazz crowd.... But I see that your links are blue...and working....its just that my hacker skills are not match for yours... |
I confess, there are some albums that I am not posting before I buy them.So, this one is quite obscure, I know that he made one album, there is some mentioning that he did two. Earl Anderza ’Outa Sight’ from 1962. https://youtu.be/LYKmm3tXX7I?feature=shared https://youtu.be/XT7PPE2RXOM?feature=shared https://youtu.be/tv71OI2PtxA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/dEftjqt9_uU?feature=shared
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I could not even choose the one (line up) I like the most, yet alone the 'greatest', but definitely prefer the one from the KOB to the 'Second GQ'.Pity that they did not record more. For me, the difference is in the sheer beauty of expression of the first group. Of course, I am aware that beauty 'lies in the eye of the beholder' as well as the passage of time between them, but still, to my young ears, no contest |
I like his sound more than Shorters. In his autobiography, Miles said “He was a hell of a musician, but Tony [Williams] didn’t like him. Tony wanted somebody who was reaching for different kinds of things, like Ornette Coleman.” Williams, Hancock and Carter wanted to play freer, “and they felt that George got in the way. George could play free if he wanted to; he just didn’t want to. He preferred the more traditional way.” But Miles has only praise for the tenorist.' |
Frogman, no need to explain yourself, I fully understand your point. (and I would dare to say, even perspective in which Miles headed in that period of time) I have not respond on your previous, longer, post about second quintet, because we have spoken about that subject in the past. I might add, jokingly, that I have expected more of myself, because, since than obviously I have not made much progress listening wise and I still prefer more 'accessible' music aldo I appreciate what the artist (Miles in this case) wanted 'to say'...but, it (still) seems that 'beauty' of the tone more affects my affinity towards some music... |
@tyray Dont be shy, there are not many people posting here anyway...which is perhaps strange,because there are so many views of this thread... For our regular crew (and others too) this is another Howard McGhee’s album worth mentioning: ’Sharp Edge’ from 1961 with G.Coleman, Junior Mance, Tucker and Cobb. Published on Black Lion label (the one I have) https://youtu.be/1_VtXjJoKB0?feature=shared https://youtu.be/AWJdfo0DNKU?feature=shared https://youtu.be/u2dx9PpXCxU?feature=shared
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@frogman , nice words...and yes, best to him, where ever hi is. Perhaps one day Rok will share his name, so that we can have one drink in his memory... Orpheus also liked lady vocals, do not know if we have ever mentioned this singer, but I just got this album and I like it...also, its very good sounding cd Betty Roche 'Lightly and Politely' https://www.allmusic.com/album/lightly-and-politely-mw0000619973
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Lenghty post, but interesting story. Could not share a link, so I copy pasted it.
In the late 40s, there was a rumor that there was a "hermit," disenchanted and disillusioned with the world, supposedly "out-of-sync" with society, living in California in a cave under one of the L’s in the Hollywood sign. No one really cared about this strange man, until one night in 1947, when someone tried to enter backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles. Nat King Cole was playing there, and the man said he had something for Cole. Of course, the employees didn't let the strange man see Cole, so he gave whatever he had with Cole's manager. What he had was a song sheet, which Cole would later take a look at. Cole liked the song and wanted to record it, but he had to find the strange man. When asked, the people who saw the man said he was strange, indeed, with shoulder-length hair and beard, wearing sandals and a white robe. Cole finally tracked him down in New York City. When Cole asked him where he was staying, the strange man declared he was staying at the best hotel in New York - outside, literally, in Central Park. He said his name was eden ahbez (spelled all in lower-case letters). The song he gave Cole was titled, "Nature Boy." It became Cole's first big hit, and was soon covered by other artists through the years, from Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan to Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, most recently. Of course, the media went crazy about the strange, mysterious man who handed Nat King Cole, one of the biggest hits during that time. Everyone went out to try to find out more about him. What little they found was that he was once an orphan, who never stayed at one place very long, living in various foster homes. He explained he just never fit in and was always searching, for something. ["They say he wandered very far... Very far, over land and sea..." They found out he would hop freight trains and walked across country several times, subsisting solely on raw fruits and vegetables, then one day he completely vanished. ["A little shy and sad of eye... But very wise was he..."] He finally showed up again in the Hollywood hills. When a policeman stopped the strange, long-haired man with beard, sandals, and robe, ahbez simply replied, "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are." ["And then one day... One magic day he passed my way..."] He then showed up backstage at Nat King Cole's concert in Los Angeles, to present him with the song, "Nature Boy." No one seems to really know why he selected Cole, there were some rumors that he came out of hiding when he began to hear about the racism going on and trouble throughout the world, and he thought "King" was the best person at that time to pass his message along. ["While we spoke of many things... Fools and Kings..."] When he was asked about racism, he replied, "Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters." It was that theme of love that he continued to talk about, what was missing in the world, and what would be needed in the future if we are to survive. ahbez would eventually get his message out, especially after the counter-culture finally caught up with him and the hippie movement began, when other artists such as Donovan, Grace Slick, and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson sought him out. He also wrote songs for Eartha Kitt and had another song recorded by Sam Cooke. In 2009, Congressman Bill Aswad recited the last lyrics of the song before the Vermont House of Representatives at the passing of his state's same-sex marriage bill in '09. Author Raymond Knapp described the track as a "mystically charged vagabond song" whose lyrics evoked an intense sense of loss and haplessness, with the final line delivering a universal truth, described by Knapp as "indestructible" and "salvaged somehow from the perilous journey of life." ["This he said to me... The greatest thing you'll ever learn... Is just to love and be loved in return."]
"George Alexander Aberle (April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995), known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Oriental mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruits, and nuts. He claimed to live on three dollars per week. In the mid 1950s, he wrote songs for Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, and others, as well as writing some rock-and-roll novelty songs. In 1957, his song "Lonely Island" was recorded by Sam Cooke, becoming the second and final Ahbez composition to hit the Top 40. In 1959, he began recording instrumental music, which combined his signature somber tones with exotic arrangements and (according to the record sleeve) "primitive rhythms". He often performed bongo, flute, and poetry gigs at beat coffeehouses in the Los Angeles area. In 1960, he recorded his only solo LP, Eden's Island, for Del-Fi Records. This mixed beatnik poetry with exotica arrangements. Ahbez promoted the album through a coast-to-coast walking tour making personal appearances, but it sold poorly. During the 1960s, ahbez released five singles. Grace Slick's band, the Great Society, recorded a version of "Nature Boy" in 1966 and ahbez was photographed in the studio with Brian Wilson during a session for the Smile album in early 1967. Later that year, British singer Donovan sought out ahbez in Palm Springs, and the two wanderers shared a reportedly "near-telepathic" conversation. In the 1970s, Big Star's Alex Chilton recorded a version of "Nature Boy" with the photographer William Eggleston on piano. The song was finally released as a bonus track on the 1992 Rykodisc re-release of the album Third/Sister Lovers. In 1974, ahbez was reported to be living in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland, and he owned a record label named Sunland Records, for which he was recording under the name "Eden Abba." From the late 1980s until his death, ahbez worked closely with Joe Romersa, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles. The master tapes, photos, and final works of eden ahbez are in Romersa's possession. Ahbez died on March 4, 1995, of injuries sustained in a car accident, at the age of 86. Another album, Echoes from Nature Boy, was released posthumously." |
As Acman said, this is just a ’sweet recod’...got it lately, very nice Rosemary Clooney with Duke and his orchestra, album is called 'Blue Rose' from 1956. |
I went digging thru my cd's, remembered afterwards that I could consult kind people from google. Anyway, Roy Haynes recorded two more albums with Phineas Newborn jr.(that I have) but with different bass player (John Simmons instead of Paul Chambers) 'Piano portraits' https://youtu.be/L2FxHFaCmfo?feature=shared 'I love a piano' |
@curiousjim , no need to thank me, glad to post something that you like. His playing is very 'intense', but he has some 'melodic' albums as well. Troubled man, I read, but great player. Here is one album where he plays as sideman, the album was posted here already, but perhaps that fact was not mentioned- 'Maggie's back in town', by Howard Mcghee. Like that album very much https://youtu.be/PCvgV0Mmj04?feature=shared
While I am writing, here is another obscure pianist and couple of his albums that I like Dodo Marmarosa 'Dodo's back' https://youtu.be/Fi2a4oi3UAU?feature=shared Gene Ammons and Dodo Marmarosa Jug and Dodo https://youtu.be/B8nl87cm-ls?feature=shared
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@mahgister Here is one Thad Jones album that you may like, if you do not have it already. The line up is stellar. 'After Hours' from 1957. with Burell, Waldron, Chambers,Frank Wess and Taylor |
There is a story, I believe written by A.Huxley, where he writes that at one point in time W.Blake met young Constable who was just finishing one of his paintings. Blake, very impressed seeing it, said that painting is a pure inspiration, on which Constable replied that he ment it to be a landscape. I would dare to say that relation between artist, or his work and audience is often not related |
@stuartk If we consider an art as a form of expression (that later becomes 'validated' as such thru different reasons, standards, morals and time) and by looking in many forms of it, it seems to me that there many possible conclusions, as well as there are many different men, (artists) why and how people choose to express themself .(thru some art form). Every art form at some point in time was considered as a 'modern' art and not necessarily excepted, neither by public or by critics, so I think that it would be interesting to know what inner forces exactly drove some of the great artist that made them endure in their work despite all odds. As we all know, there are many of them who failed to gain any recognition during their life and still they did not change the way they create. Of course, there are many others who are or were the opposite example. I admit, I am always more intrigued by the ones who lived and created things following their own rules or mindset, but thats probably because of my romanticism. Blame it on my youth. |
I used to own a bar once. During winter weekdays when there was less people and if I wanted to go home earlier, I would play some jazz music, usually the people would just left their drinks unfinished and just leave. On other occasions, I would put some Chet Baker concert, both on screen and on speakers, just to see the reaction. Even the regulars, more girls than boys, would come and ask for the change of music. Often, they would say that they simply cant endure so much sorrow, which is interesting. No matter how ’sad’ the music was, I would first think of it as ’beautiful’. No need to say that soon I changed my music menu, for the sake of better profit. But, even in the major cities, jazz bars are rare, or there is a lot other music there, with jazz sometimes included...just crossed my mind, back in a day, there was a jukebox in one popular bar that I went often, because the owner wanted for customers to pay for the music...to my surprise, I found out that jukebox had a Led Zeppelin concert and on it was a ’dazed and confused’ song that lasts some 25min...I would play it and went for a walk, 20 minuts later, the bar would be empty...first they removed the cd and not long after the jukebox was gone too...when I think of it, some jazz would cause the same effect, but with less noise |
@stuartk , perhaps I should have correct myself. There is one 'type' of music which often I find too emotional and overwhelming to listen. I guess there are numerous reasons for it, but that is not something that I plan to discusses here, right now. Anyway, it is very archaic form of music and I believe its not singed anywhere else except for the some part of Balkans. I will post the same song, but couple interpretations, you may listen it out of curiosity if nothing else, and tell me what are your thoughts about it |
@dogearedaudio , Nice music. Here is another album of Tal Farlow, with Hank Jones https://youtu.be/q5VLW5gho6A?feature=shared Check this one, od Eddie Costa, if you have not got it already, previously mentioned here as well |
No words needed....Mahalia Jackson, live |
I will skip some of the well known classics of his and post few albums that I like that are perhaps less known.
Milt Jackson Ray Brown Quintet 'Thats the way it is' live at Shelly's Manne Hole. Recently issued edition contains complete concert on 2 cd's. Before it was possible to buy only first concert, the other was available only on vynil https://youtu.be/B9M3QAtQVD8?feature=shared https://youtu.be/2DkeQGBGqDA?feature=shared
'Live at Village Gate' https://youtu.be/luZVbZ-HxF0?feature=shared
'At the museum of modern art' https://youtu.be/DPFBIvVbZvM?feature=shared
'Soul Fusion' with Monty Alexander trio https://youtu.be/ryF1XdInWRM?feature=shared https://youtu.be/wPW72rds1e4?feature=shared
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As for MJQ, these three albums with guests are not so 'typical'. with Jimmy Giuffre https://youtu.be/mpLrgE9aqb0?feature=shared with Paul Desmond https://youtu.be/pc4nlJjwHFE?feature=shared and one also for @curiousjim with Sonny Rollins https://youtu.be/VdKf5n8tvnc?feature=shared
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@stuartk I guess these are more known albums, just in case you skip one... Will pass on ones with Coltrane and Wes Montgomery, perhaps should also this one with Coleman Hawkins, as they are probably the most popular... https://youtu.be/tnTdGw9jDVI?feature=shared Bags Opus album https://youtu.be/7XcFCKBNwVY?feature=shared Plenty, Plenty Soul album https://youtu.be/FcWMWa9RMYY?feature=shared Soul Brothers and Soul Meeting albums, with Ray Charles https://youtu.be/mj8yeMN9bRE?feature=shared https://youtu.be/LhUxhXfrGWI?feature=shared Ballads and Blues https://youtu.be/4h8SDQyz5ww?feature=shared Bags and Flutes |
