Jazz for aficionados

Today's Listen:

Cedar Walton  --  COMPOSER
with/Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Vincent Herring, Ralph Moore, Victor Lewis

Notes:  Primarily celebrates Walton as player and composer.  He played with Blakey and wrote the tunes, 'Mosaic' and 'Ugetsu', both titles of Blakey albums.  Speaks of his dignity, humble demeanor and the respect he commands in the world of Jazz.

Sounds like he was a serious musician.

All tunes by Cedar Walton.  Notes by Christian McBride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1iJuefI2M  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_ff_eHYL4  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpbPsipV04  

Cheers

pjw, I like “Red Clay”. I have always had mixed feelings about most (not all) CTI recordings. Red Clay is one that I like a lot ....with some relatively minor reservations. You asked for my take:

It stays closer to the vibe of the classic hard bop recordings with just a kind of “peek” into the over produced, not quite straight-ahead Jazz, not quite Funk, not quite Soul vibe of some other CTI’s. Something that gives them, for me, a somewhat “lite” character.
Freddie sounds great. One of my reservations, and one of the reasons that I like early Freddie so much is that while he was by then (Red Clay) a much more fully formed stylist, at the same time he was starting to show something that has often been a little annoying for me me from that point forward in his career. Lots of Freddieisms on that record. Little pet licks and trumpetistic (?) inflections that he would use in just about every solo; a signature sound, but comes across as a little cliched at times. And, a kind of relentless quality; always on fire. Some would would say I’m nitpicking, but I usually enjoy pre-CTI Freddie best. Lastly, Joe Henderson sounds amazing as always, but he shouldn’t be playing the flute; doesn’t sound very good. And, even though he can do no wrong in my book, Herbie is not entirely convincing playing organ.

***** rok, Buy yourself a notebook .*****

Why, whatever for?

Cheers

Btw, I didn't mean she had to have the score in front of her, she has it in her head.   But rest assured it was in front of her once upon a time.
And,
her job is not to show what the composer thought, but HER sense of what he thought.   And everyone has a different sense.   Otherwise we would only need one player.

And Jazz musicians and Classical players, apples and oranges.  You only have to listen to the several attempts by classical players to play Jazz on recordings.   And these are Jazz standards.   Written down.

Wynton being a brilliant exception.

Cheers

This is a post from an old subject, from another thread, but it gut my attention, I believe it deserves the second look.
If anybody of you guys have 3 mil usd to spend, this might be a good way to contribute with some legacy for future generations

Speaking about music collections...

https://vimeo.com/1546186

This album is different from all the albums I have by Horace Silver. What do you think about it?


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTy8kM3Hak