Jazz for aficionados

This is a re - post because I had to alter it for a friend and the system wont let you edit after 30 minutes. 

alex,

I enjoyed all 5 of your links and my favorite, of course, is Grant Green.

I cannot even find the words to describe his rendition of that song. You can feel Grant’s feelings in every chord. From the same album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBTvy8As0cQ

I have the 2 disc set "The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark"

Here is a couple from the compilation.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzpPuKEK3RM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdeMa5NMmc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOC02sTckI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTVeNF3t6s


alex I would have loved to meet Grant Green and even more become an acquaintance of his like our OP. I was fortunate enough to see Lou Donaldson at least a half dozen times and converse with him. Green played on a few of Lou’s studio recording sessions. Lou and I talked about Grant Green, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Big John Patton and Art Blakey to name a few.


Most of our conversations centered on sports especially boxing. Lou is a big fan of boxing and baseball. I miss him as he has not been gigging for the last 3 years. He is 93 now. He told me he was at the Polo Grounds in NY when Bobby Thomson hit "The Shot Heard Round The World" Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZuVXYa43E

Maybe that was Lou who jumped up with that cigar in his mouth! just kidding but Lou was in attendance and I believe him. Lou, who was born in 1926, would have been a strapping young man of 25 years old at the time. Three years later he was the altoist in Art Blakey’s live 2 disc set "A Night At Birdland" along with Clifford Brown, Horace Silver and Curly Russell. Every time listen to this 2 disc set I think of Lou "Sweet Papa" Donaldson.

I see you saw the photo of Mr. Lou and I on my Facebook page. He certainly is a character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4H54s6mEk

When I was around German classical players who also , among themselves played jazz , this seemed to be their favorite .
I suspect because it is difficult and these guys could play anything.

https://youtu.be/c0Olxorz1fU
I’m sure I know less than anyone on here, but just starting out , God put my hand on this recording of Sonny Stitt , who is still my # 1 jazz man and if I could only have one jazz recording this would would be it .
P.S. I wish I good find more of Shadow Wilson .

Thank you pjw.

Today's listen:

Gene Ammons  --  BOSS TENOR

Ray Barretto on Conga

Notes:
..."his playing is a perfect (albeit weird) assimilation of two seemingly widely opposed ideas of playing the Tenor saxophone.  Gene somehow manages to sound like he comes right out of both Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, the two farthest poles in the business of playing the Tenor Saxophone"....LeRoi Jones

I thought Jones was a writer / Poet.   Everyone's a critic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vl4_f8Emtw  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK85sqy8OLg  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnAQylm5kqg  

Cheers