Jazz for aficionados

O-10:

Alice Coltrane:

I liked the "Blue Nile' the best. Probably because of the guys playing on the set. Both cuts were easy on the ears.

I have noticed that if you use the mouse to skip ahead on the music, you find that one point sounds the same as any other point. Like you are not missing anything.

No Beginning, middle, or end.

Her harp is nice. I like it.

Cheers

Today's Listen:

Various -- THE SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION OF CLASSIC JAZZ

This is the 'Revised' remastered edition, released in 1987. The original was released in 1973 on LP. The sound quality on this set is much improved.

This is a 5 CD set. Starts with Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton, and ends with Ornette Coleman and The World Saxophone Quartet.

The sound quality on the early stuff is AMAZINGLY good. The later stuff is good also.

The package is typical Smithsonian. Well done with many nice touches. Great detail on all the tracks. Includes the soloists, and the order of their solos. Date and place recorded and personnel.

A 102 page booklet. Repeats the liner notes of each disc and includes great pictures. The historical information is priceless in itself.

They didn't miss many of the greats. Below is a link to the tune list.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Smithsonian-Collection-Of-Classic-Jazz/release/457754

The sound on the 1973 release was not good. The Scorr Joplin tune 'maple leaf rag' is a recording of a piano roll made before electric recording. Sounds just fine here.

No filler. All great tunes. Even includes two(2) versions of O-10's favorite, 'East St. Louis Toddle-Oo' by Duke Ellington! :)

All Jazz people should have this.

I am becoming a fan of these complilations. Like the '50 Greatest Jazz Tunes' I posted about earlier. Sometimes you just don't feel like an entire CD of Coltrane, or anyone else.

Cheers

Rok, I was inspired by the book "Three Wishes", to find songs written in honor of "Pannonica De Koenigswarter" . Although there are twenty songs written in her honor, and I'm sure everyone has many different versions of "Nica's Dream" written by Horace Silver, I could find only one other tune that I liked. Maybe you or Frogman can find other songs written in her honor that you like.

"Pannonica" by Monk captures the essence of a beautiful fluttering butterfly, which is what the lady of jazz was named after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSHkPCW8dN4

Enjoy the music.

Interesting woman. Born a Rothschild. This article tells of her relationships with various Jazz players.

http://www.icrates.org/baroness-nica-the-musical-legacy-of-pannonica-de-koenigswarter/

Cheers

Thanks Rok, that was quite an article. Rumors about her and Monk, were just that, "Rumors", unless Monk's wife Nellie was in on the affair; but you can never stop "animalistic" people from having such thoughts. She was a very special lady.

Enjoy the music.