I’ve been listening to Wes Montgomery this morning.  What a great guitar man!

@alexatpos

Thanks! Yes, I know the Hank Jones album. And the Eddie Costa Trio recordings were released on a Fresh Sound set:

https://www.discogs.com/release/10211284-Eddie-Costa-Trio-Complete-Recordings

Also well worth obtaining, those these are available on some streaming platforms. The "House of Blue Lights" album is a pretty spectacular. The piano is close-miked and Costa’s growly lower-register octave excursions are quite thrilling!

@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

https://youtu.be/_Dygr7RaXsI?feature=shared

If these albums have been mentioned, I’ll delete the post, but a search didn’t turn them up. I was digging through my hard drive last night and came upon two incredible Tal Farlow albums I hadn’t listened to in years. I bought the LPs decades ago, then acquired the CDs when they were briefly issued in the late 90’s. I’ve never been without a copy of these. ;-) Lots of Tal Farlow fans have probably heard them but if you haven’t, they’re just wonderful. Xanadu issued the original LPs and the CDs came out on a spinoff label (CoolNote? I have the CDs somewhere). The original LPs, titled "Fuerst Set" and "Second Set" consisted of eight extended tracks recorded at jazz-fan Ed Fuerst’s apartment in 1956, and they caused a bit of a sensation when they first appeared. The trio is Tal Farlow (g), Eddie Costa (p) and Vinnie Burke (b). Farlow, Costa and Burke made some commercial recordings, but nothing like these utterly swinging jams in which they all stretch out and challenge each other. Tal Farlow needs little introduction, one of the greatest jazz guitarists. Costa was a brilliant pianist and vibraphonist who sadly died in a car accident in 1962. He had a very distinctive sound, recognizable on any recording he made. Burke was an excellent bassist who had a long career as a leader and sideman. The sound is very decent mono for the era. Even Vinnie Burke’s bass is well captured.

Fresh Sound issued a 2-CD set of these sessions called "Tal Farlow - Complete 1956 Private Recordings." Unfortunately, all the CD versions are OOP and I can’t find them on any streaming service. But the LPs can easily be found on eBay, and the Fresh Sound set is available on Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1520477-Tal-Farlow-Complete-1956-Private-Recordings

If you love jazz guitar, piano and bass, and haven’t heard these truly legendary sessions, by all means grab a copy of the Fresh Sound release.

ETA - The two albums are on YouTube so you can enjoy them there.  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Otl8MQqJQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBO6heqQtbQ

@alexatpos

I listened to those selections.

They are certainly emotionally intense, but as I don’t speak the language, I’ve no clue regarding what they’re singing about, so I could be missing what it is that you find difficult to tolerate. And just to be clear, this isn’t an oblique way of asking you to disclose this-- I’m merely acknowledging what could be a significantly limiting factor in my experience of the music. 

@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

https://youtu.be/fBhNMDJ82fs?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/w9gOAMz6-Ik?feature=shared

@frogman

I was watching a "reaction video" yesterday by a guy who looked to be in his early thirties. He was reacting to a video from the Fillmore of the Allmans (original line-up) playing "Whipping Post". Not Jazz, but what did he say, among other things?

"It sounds like they’re each playing a different song".

Looks like we have a running theme, here ...

Lovely Pass/Fitzgerald duet, BTW.

@alexatpos

No matter how ’sad’ the music was, I would first think of it as ’beautiful’.

 

I can relate, to a point. Even though I enjoy sad music, some of it can be too much for me, sometimes, depending upon my mood. 

Love Frisell, acman3. And I get what you mean. He is the kind of player that plays with so much nuance of tone and personal sense of time that make audio systems sound inadequate.

Thanks for sharing, Alex and Stuart .

Times change. Jazz changes. Sometimes for the good. Sometimes not. Sometimes a reboot seems appropriate:

https://youtu.be/IBpaSIkmNPU?si=-yfUFhzsNIgrPzeC

Where is Rok2id anyway?

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

I used to be a baker. Mornings when it was my turn to mix, I’d have a couple hours to enjoy working alone, before the other guys showed up. One such morning, I was playing Jack DeJohnette’s "Tin Can Alley" when my boss and his girlfriend (not Jazz fans) walked in. First thing she said : "It sounds like they’re all playing different songs". Never made sense to me but then, I wasn’t hearing it through her ears.

Saw Bill Frisell last night. I was reminded how far my system is from live music!

A college age guy next to me told his Dad " Its like their all playing a different song except together". Their communication and joy of playing together was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6u0Z90t94

@tyray ,

Since I am not the target audience for this album, I gave Black Radio 2 a wide berth.  Although there are some okay bits, I don’t think I will be rushing out to buy a copy. 😎

Listening to Bent Jaedig, The Free Spirit.  It’s a well recorded live album.

@curiousjim,

I finally got around to listening to the album. The album is called, (The) Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2 and it has 16 songs with Anthony Hamilton, Brandy, Common, Dwele, Emeli Sandé, Faith Evans, Jill Scott, Lalah Hathaway, Luke James, Lupe Fiasco, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Marsha Ambrosius, Norah Jones, Patrick Stump, as well as Bilal, Eric Roberson, Jazmine Sullivan, Jean Grae and Macy Gray appeared on a deluxe version of the album. That’s a lot of guest artists to put on 1 album and it sounds like it too, in a good way.

I was very impressed with the musicianship. The young folks would consider it as Jazz as I think that is who it is targeted to. This album has a lot of ’meat on the bones’ and takes awhile to listen to with a fresh, up to date take on jazz. It’s definitely a keeper to be put in rotation. Robert Glasper Experiment · Black Radio 2

@curiousjim

There’s something about the way he pounds those keys and you can tell that his bass player and drummer seem to enjoy playing with him as well.

Probably because he so clearly enjoyed what he did. It’s as though he was immersed in a constant process of discovering new delights. With no evident (to me) technical limitations, he was free to instantly play whatever came into his head. Playing music was, for him, just that -- "play". 

@stuartk 

I pretty much like all of his recordings.  There’s something about the way he pounds those keys and you can tell that his bass player and drummer seem to enjoy playing with him as well.

Here is a Spiritual Jazz album that I have on constant rotation:

Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - On The Beach (1968)

https://youtu.be/Q_Yfd4me6hs?si=6UzizwsZUrinjh5P

A very unheralded guitar slanger that some may know and most know nothing about.

Stanley Jordan plays Eleanor Rigby

Stanley Jordan Trio - Return Expedition (Live in Montreal 1990)

Les Paul & Stanley Jordan INSANE Jam

@curiousjim 

Petrucciani said: "I play with a lot of balls" and he was certainly a very powerful player. But what I experience listening to him, more than anything, is an overflowing, exuberant joy. 

My personal favorite remains "The Complete Concert in Germany" I bought in Paris.   

I just listened to Michel Petrucciani, Live-Montreux Jazz Festival (1993) (HD) again and it was like hearing it for the first time.  I closed my eyes and just smiled.  What a wonderful album!

@frogman,

It was Michael Brecker - Tales From The Hudson - Man, thank you so much kind sir!

Michael Brecker - The Mean Time - Is just icing on the cake.

There has been quite a bit of M Brecker posted by me and others.  This is the last Brecker I posted.  Perhaps this is it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l85qqhvqGAA36q_ctKF3ZoE3cqpktgknc

Check this out as well.  His last.  Both are great:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBWjcVWYw1waf3zkCkkNGNAWVR4109BLh&si=7ExrySWN3xPhBleX

Someone posted a youtube Michael Brecker music audio a while back and I tried to find it but couldn’t. If anyone can find that link for me it would be much appreciated. As I mentioned in another thread I get a lot of ’new’ music here that I have never heard and that muscc audio is exactly what I was talking about and I like to bookmark them.

@frogman

Interesting. Detached or aloof are probably the last two characteristics I would think of. I find his playing to be very direct and committed.

This points to the challenge of dissecting esthetic experience and attempting to describe it verbally. I didn’t mean indirect or uncommitted. He’s clearly neither.

It’s probably best to avoid interpreting my experience in terms of what I think he’s doing or where he’s coming from, as I can’t know those things. My mistake!

What I do know: I find his playing unengaging on an emotional level. I have the same experience with Jim Hall and Weather Report, to name two other examples.

@tyray

There’’s a tune Glasper did with Norah Jones, Let It Ride, that’s pretty good. Pretty sure it is not on an album yet, but I could be wrong.

Another young jazz lion...Robert Glasper - So Beautiful (Live At Capitol Studios) (Official Video)

It’s good to see young folks not only playing jazz but coming to the shows and supporting the new artists. These are 2 videos of the same song with a whole lot of improvisation with at time, different band members.

Chief Adjuah aka Christian Scott - West of the West

Chief Adjuah (Christian Scott) | Max Mucha | Elé Howell |Cecil Alexander| Morgan Guerin | Richard Howell

Al Dimeola's new album TwentyFour. 

Contrasts indeed. From gut bucket straight ahead blues jazz to Kenny Burrell’s and Gene Evans produced ethereal stringings.

I’ve loved the guitar since I was a kid listening to Duane Eddy playing "40 Miles of Bad Road" and "Pepe". Then one day I saw an LP with a bright red Gretsch on the cover and I thought I might see what someone else played on the guitar Eddy used.
I was amazed at the sounds coming from Chet Atkins’s fingers, completely unlike the single note twang of Duane Eddy. My dad even liked it and let me play it on his Fisher stereo. I started trying to learn finger style playing after that and left old Duane behind.
In my freshman year in college a friend turned me on to jazz and I started to listen to Joe Pass, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Smith and my favorite, Kenny Burrell.

Which takes me to my pick for "Aficionados".
Burrell recorded a brilliant album called "Guitar Forms" with arrangements by Gil Evans. The tunes range from a Gershwin prelude transcribed for a classical guitar, to a version of Greensleeves which begins as a classical guitar solo, then Burrell switches to electric as Evans and the orchestra come in with a powerful swinging arrangement. There are also small group tracks and two beautiful Gill Evans arranged big band tracks.

Still my favorite record of all, Kenny Burrell, "Guitar Forms"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp50jQ_mPAg&list=PLvxWibFr0wiLXaegSULNzwUcrz5c4K5Pm

And see what reviewers had to say about these pure silver interconnects:
https://silversolids.com/revbuysB.html

Interesting. Detached or aloof are probably the last two characteristics I would think of. I find his playing to be very direct and committed. The beauty of music in that it can cause different reactions.  (Btw, one of the few players who can improvise without piano or guitar and the harmony of the tune remains always clear).

https://youtu.be/dYoRS4rEqCQ?si=rrS4QNT3Fj6oURyr

https://youtu.be/Xm-9qQu8yKA?si=jYhcs1NXcBa0SgTQ

@frogman

For me, Pharoah’s version is the most immediately appealing but is it too rapturously beautiful? Does he skate around the anguish ?

Is Coltrane more courageous ?

More obsessively driven to wring out every nuance?

As always, I find Rollins rather inscrutable. That’s not the right word, exactly. I always get the sense his intellect is more involved than his emotions but of course, I can’t know this for a fact. I don’t know how else to describe what sounds to me like detachment/aloofness. Maybe it’s me who lacks the sensitivity to pick up on what he’s expressing.

Speaking of contrast, same song, soprano sax, Curtis Amy

https://youtu.be/NbcDLg1gdv4?feature=shared

Contrasts indeed! Well, let’s contrast 😊

First, one should look at the song’s lyrics. For me: melancholy, tenderness, feeling of the blues (obviously, “You don’t know what love is/Until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues”). Should be played as if spoken. Is the player telling the story of the song?

Sonny: Love Sonny. Love that sultry, velvety tone and it mostly works for me, but gets a bit notee (notey?).

Pharoah: Great! Incredibly expressive owing a lot to Trane’s approach to that melody and Trane’s tone. He doesn’t improvise and sticks to playing the melody. Said it all with just the melody. Love that.

Phil: I normally love Phil Woods, but this is not my cup of tea. Way too many notes (notey?) and no tenderness at all. Yuck! In fairness, the tune is one of those tunes with a chord progression that is really satisfying for players to improvise over. Sometimes leads to over playing.

Booker: I like it, but not nearly as much as Sonny’s version while having similar tone concepts.

My favorite and the classic. Beginning to end, like someone speaking about a lost lover. Pretty amazing. Trane really was a genius:

https://youtu.be/YHAKe26KqG4?si=R3DSVNrAprv_G6h0

You don’t know what love is
Until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues
Until you’ve loved a love you had to loose
You don’t know what love is

You don’t know how lips hurt
Until you’ve kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you’ve flipped you’re heart and you have lost
You don’t know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart fears
The thought of reminiscing
And how lips have taste of tears
Loose the taste for kissing

You don’t know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live, yet never dies
Until you’ve faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don’t know what love is

You don’t know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live, yet never dies
Until you’ve faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
How could you know what love is, what love is
What love is

For the sake of contrast:

Sonny Rollins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLFlJIqiMLc

Pharoah Sanders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaLidIjAw0

Phil Woods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9-jK_kSOo

Booker Ervin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkjNOS0igXY

Listened to "John Coltrane Quartet Ballads" today flipping sides over and over.

Elvin Jones' brushes, climbing cymbal mallets and rolls on within and nearly all the lead outs are pure genius. Rising like a Phoenix to remind us this was not an "easy listening  session" - actually complex when I listen to what's happening with the time signatures and rhythms of Tyner, Garrison and Jones underneath Trane. 

I do consider this one of the best jazz albums of all time, so I am biased. 

Enjoy this track for a reminder of what (for me) rings true to this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHAKe26KqG4&list=OLAK5uy_lELmp3lItqC6VDTGJLkvFuFBidfOH_WrQ&index=2

@pryso 

Here is a straight to YT link for the ad in case others don't use Google search to watch embeds. 

Thanks again. I have watched this 3x already! 

@pryso 

Thank you. Did not know that. Most excellent.

Man, this is very good. I hope my kid does the same when that time comes.

Found it -- https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=2001+VW+Jetta+%22Great+Escape%22+commercial.&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:31ff5fdc,vid:5Ymk3WVJ7pY,st:0

I think now there is 6 recordings albums of title "virtuoso"...

 I know only 4... Top each one...

In this article they said 6...

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/joe-pass-virtuoso-by-c-michael-bailey

Happy new year and big health and perfect hearing and some good  surprize to come this year  for you...

@mahgister, I was surprised to find a total of 3, and you say there’s a 4th? Way cool...

Nice!  Thanks, pryso.

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https://www.charlesmingus.com/mingus-discography

@msbel, some years ago Mingus' Haitian Fight Song was used in a commercial.  A younger man comes to pick up an older man (his father?) from what appeared to be a care facility.  Then they hit the highway and that music was perfect as an expression of the old guy's freedom.

As a long time Mingus fan I liked it before that, but it produced a commercial I was always happy to see -- a rare situation.

@mahgister, I was surprised to find a total of 3, and you say there’s a 4th? Way cool...

@acman3, Wow! Thanks! I see on wiki there many different version than the original 5 song album release. The 2001 Expanded Edition has total of 22 songs! Check it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_Moods ’Charlie’ Mingus. Lol!

@acman3 

Oh yes, oh yes/ Perfect way to start the day. Thanks for that ... 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aGsVqF-URXc

Back at you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFleiE81-E

Never been able to sit still while listening to this - more gyrating in some weird dance - which I believe is the intent. 

Mingus' lead in is one of his best. And throughout more out front that most of his later arrangements of the same tune ... 

Danny Richmond drumming like a swinging jet engine 

Jimmy Knepper is phenomenal 

You know this one.

@frogman

I’m afraid I can’t shed any light on the "Cisco" discrepancy but I’m looking forward to buying the Remler release!

The Virtuoso series highlighted Pass’ solo chord melody playing. Here’s one of several that featured his single-line playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBf4kKoqnDc&list=OLAK5uy_mDghlHcFxACNnunc0A6IpNpIFtA5sGoHQ&index=2

I own the 4 albums virtuoso and i never hear  something on par with these improvisations...

Marvellous !