Jazz for aficionados

Nice clip. Interesting interview of a great drummer.

A while back I posted about one of the several times that I went to hear Bill Evans at the Vanguard and he was auditioning drummers. This was in the late 70’s/early 80s and I don’t know if that week was when Zigmund also auditioned, but it was Eddie Gomez on bass. The night I was there he auditioned Bob Moses; presumably to replace the great Joe LaBarbera. I remember that Moses played only two tunes before LaBarbera came back on the set. Zigmund mentions he played the whole set and got the gig. . Moses played two tunes ☹️. (I remember he sounded ok, but.....)

Magical music:

https://youtu.be/KJR5emhtMXo

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Sextet
Cannonball(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Yusef Lateef(Tenor, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

CANNONBALL IN EUROPE

Notes: "The international Jazz festival in Comblain-La-Tour was the first big open-air Jazz festival in Europe and one of the few to ever be broadcast on television.  Joe Napoli, a Brooklyn-born soldier who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, wandered into town in December 1944 looking for a little comfort and relief.  He never forgot the kindness extended to him by strangers and revisited Comblain-La-Tour in 1955.  Joe had become a manager and booking agent; when he learned the town needed funds in 1959 to rebuild its church, he came up with the idea of creating a Jazz festival."

Comblain-La-Tour is in Belgium.  The 1962 festival drew 42,000 people.


gemini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUKEqpHGA8

trouble in mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-kHVq0TVM
I kept waiting for "Cleanhead" to start singing.

work song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukMc2WDFds

dizzy's business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4JFB7cIA3E

Yosuf Lateef makes it an entirely different group.

Cheers

frogman I like  "Sareen Jurer" by Evans and co. but the bass solo that starts around 3:20 and ends around 4:50 is a little too long and "heavy" (harsh?) considering the trio context that it is a part of.

I have a lot of trio discs and usually the bass solo, if there is one, is under a minute or so depending on the length of the song and its played with a very soft touch.

Other then the bass solo  "Sareen Jurer" was really good. I don't think Evans ever played and recorded anything that was not above average and mostly really good.

I am partial to this disc I have with Ray Brown on bass.

(5) Bill Evans Bass Face - YouTube

(5) A Child Is Born - YouTube

rok I do not have Cannonball in Europe.

Thanks for posting that I listened to the songs and now I have another disc I need to buy. I would say its a "must have" if you like Cannonball.

The WWII story was good as well.

BTW roc the civilians of Belgium suffered a lot during the Germans Ardennes offensive in December 1944. The SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte murdered over 100 civilians in the village of Stavelot and the surrounding areas as well as the over 80 American G.I.’s at Malmedy which I’m sure you already know.

Comblain-La-Tour looks to be about 50 km west of Stavelot so Brooklyn born Joe Napoli was in a safer village not near the front lines. The Germans never made it over the Meuse River bridges.

pjw, glad you liked “Sareen Jurer”. We’ll have to agree to disagree about the length of the bass solo, however.

Bill Evan’s trios were always unique in, first of all, pioneering the “conversational” style of trio playing. IOW, all the players in the trio “converse” with each other throughout, as opposed to the bass and drums being just (or mostly) time keepers for the piano player; and all are fairly equal protagonists. The bass player always got ample time to solo. In the past, bass players were much more limited as soloists than piano or horn players were and this was the main reason that bass solos tended to be short, if they soloed at all. The bass player that blew the door wide open with the ability to play extended solos at the same level as a piano player was Scott Lafaro also of Bill Evans trio fame, as I’m sure you know. Eddie Gomez continued that tradition. Back to “Sareen Jurer”:

You seem to be saying that simply because it is a bass solo that it should be shorter than the other solos. First of all, the length of a player’s solo is governed by the length of the tune and how many choruses the player plays. A player typically plays an entire chorus of the tune or multiple choruses. Often, the number of choruses that a player plays is not predetermined and is (assuming there are no time constraints) determined instead by the trio’s collective sense that the soloist still has more to say.  Except for Blues tunes which are typically 12 measures long, the vast majority of Jazz tunes are 32 measures long; iow, a chorus is 32 measures. “Sareen Jurer” is kind of a crazy tune and a very unusual Jazz tune, it is 68 measures long; very long tune by any standard. Eddie Gomez soloed for just one chorus of the tune; in keeping with standard practice. I happen to think he plays a very interesting solo on that tune and to play only part of a chorus would be musically awkward.

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