Jazz for aficionados

Today's Listen:

Marcus Roberts -- ALONE WITH THREE GIANTS

Roberts plays solo piano. The Giants are Jelly Roll Morton, Ellington and Monk.  Jelly probably would have named it, THE Giant,  plus Ellington and Monk.

Are the tunes are just wonderful.  Even the pianos sound exceptional.  They are listed in the notes.  Both Steinway Concert Grands and Young Chang 52" Uprights were used.

Why was this done?  Only The Frogman knows for sure.

One tune from each composer:

Black and Tan Fantasy - Ellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCcuwHd9S2Y  

The Crave - Morton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3a12m_U7M  

In Walked Bud - Monk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r15Ri5nSA6k 

Excellent Disc.  Ain't got it  git it.

Which tune was played on the upright?  No peeping!  The winner gets the loan of all my Bey Sister CDs.

Cheers

Frogman, here you are about the Bill Evans Record Store Day release:
http://www.resonancerecords.org/release.php?cat=HCD-2019

Mari Boine:

Compelling.   Could not turn away.  What does it have to do with Native American music, I'm not sure.  Great pictures also.

Some of the folks that commented said the music was from the Sami people who live in Lapland.  I think that's up above the Artic circle. Reindeer folks.

I have seen several performances live, by Indians in New Mexico.  Didn't sound anything like this.   Guys get in a small circle with drums, and the beat never changes.   Very simple stuff.  The dancing is the thing.

Now, if some of our more political correct folks want to demonstrate their moral superiority by doing the outrage thing, this would be the time.  A Norwegian, singing 'indian' music, in  Norway, with a full band backing.  Not an Indian in sight.

Cheers

Frogman, your answers to my questions tell me that you are "phaking the phunk". As I stated, this was in 69 and that does make a difference. There were a number of thriving jazz clubs in St. Louis at that time. My friend was well known among "aficionados", and "hard core" jazz fans, "No phaking the phunk" with them; you had to be able to get down with the real deal, they were the fans who overflowed the clubs when "Trane" came to town.

As I recall, my phone bill was through the roof; we didn't have these plans where you can call and talk as long as you want, we had to pay for every single long distance call. He was calling other musicians for the artists he wanted in St. Louis. There's a pianist who I used to talk to a lot, who could play Silver's tunes as good as the man himself. Usually I came to where he was playing before he went to work so we could rap.

This pianist had a photographic portfolio with almost all the jazz artists of that time frame who we discuss a lot on this thread. When ever anybody came to St. Louis and wanted a jazz pianist, they called him. I often asked him why he stayed in St. Louis as good as he was. (this was something he knew without me telling him) I never got a good answer, but a friend of his, who had known him since grade school, told me, there ain't no way he was going to leave that "super fox" he was married to, while he went out on the road. The same condition might have existed with Eddie Fisher.

Now that I think back, the conversations with the selected musicians were loose and casual, as if he (my friend) had no doubts that these cats could jam, and jam they did, to a packed house.

St. Louis was, and still is "a blues town"; jazz addicts have to suffer from one fix to the next, meaning you could find blues all over the place, but not jazz; that's why when somebody like him was playing any where in St. Louis, that house was packed.

I want to thank you Frogman, for helping me to answer my own question.





Enjoy the music.
 

"Compelling. Could not turn away. What does it have to do with Native American music, I'm not sure. Great pictures also."

Rok, I've never been on or to a "reservation", or anywhere that was exclusively "Native American"; consequently, I thought that "was" Native American music. This link tells whatever anyone wants to know about a "reservation".


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation


Rok, I would imagine each tribe would have "at least" slightly different music; but back to what I posted, it sounded "hypnotic" to me; to use my favorite word; I was mesmerized. I've got what might be the first CD Mari Boine put out, I bought it many years ago, now I see I'm going to have to buy more.

Count me out of any discussion of whatever anybody is talking about; the name of this thread is "Jazz For Aficionados"; while we wonder wide and far in regard to music, if anyone wants to discuss Native American affairs, I suggest they find another conducive forum.



Enjoy the music.