Jazz for aficionados

@curiousjim 

You can't go wrong with those Ben Webster suggestions from Alek. Also get your hands on the Kid and Brute.

The Kid Illinois Jacquet playing Flying Home. This recording is known by all jazz aficionados as one of the first and best examples of the Be Bop language put on wax. And seek out more of the "Creole Kid" Jean Baptiste "Illinois Jacquet". You wont be disappointed. 

(1) The Kid And The Brute - YouTube

Also get your hands on the album "The Soul of Ben Webster". This 15 minute blues from that session is one of my favorite jazz songs from any artist ever put on wax.

(1) Charlotte's Piccolo - YouTube

The Kid and Brute (again!!)

(1) The Kid And The Brute - YouTube

@mahgister 

I know how much you like Sadao Watanabe. I dont know if you have this or heard of it but its a great live recording with Sadao in the company of Ron Carter on bass, Hank Jones on piano and the great Tony Williams on the kit.

Sadao plays blistering choruses and solos throughout....

Ron Carter - playlist by Paul Irishman | Spotify

(1) Ron C̲a̲r̲t̲e̲r̲, Hank J̲o̲n̲e̲s̲,̲ Sadao W̲atanabe,̲ Tony Wi̲l̲l̲iams ̲– Ca̲r̲n̲a̲v̲al (19̲8̲3̲)̲ - YouTube

Also wanted to ask if you know about the great Belgium jazz guitarist Rene Thomas. He was a great friend of Sonny Rollins and played with him when Sonny toured Europe in the 50s and 60s. They also played together at Jazz Middlheim in Antwerp. 

Jazz Middelheim 2023 in Antwerp - Dates (rove.me)

(1) René Thomas ‎– Guitar Genius ( Full Album ) - YouTube

My next show this Saturday night at the hallowed grounds of the Village Vanguard NYC. 

Front Page - Village Vanguard

This is the trio I'll be seeing

(1) BIMHUIS TV Presents: Bill Stewart Trio feat Larry Grenadier and Walter Smith III - YouTube

Thanks very much ...

I know this Ron Carter album with Sadao... Sadao never studied formally , it is a self taught player who do the best when he go minimally... It is most of the times... I like him as much as other player minimalistic too as Shorter or Desmond for example on many albums...

I like the tone texture of the sax more in his melodic flowing than in its stimulating for sure harmonic explosions... Trumpet is no more my best instrument in jazz with piano, i added bass ( because of my high end headphone clearer rendition, my past speakers were limited in a way my headphone are not they sound like speakers+good subs it is the best purchase of my life ) and sax.... I appreciated more jazz musicians than ever ...Even Hammond  organ and especially guitar and even trombone with the great Steve Turre who i admire a lot ...

I already know these albums of Sadao though...

But i did not know at all the belgian guitarist really... I dont remember him...

I will explore then thanks...😊

Wow! i love him right now... I just let him play... Thanks ...i am in love with some guitar sound...This is one.... Django Reinhardt influence is behind him way more than Wes Montgomery but he play completely in his own way , amazing... ( i own a big box of Wes by the way which i listen often )...

I just realized that i own at least one album of Chet Baker with Thomas... ( i forgot because i have 100 albums of Chet Baker, i discovered jazz thanks to him 30 years ago 😊 )

@mahgister

I know how much you like Sadao Watanabe. I dont know if you have this or heard of it but its a great live recording with Sadao in the company of Ron Carter on bass, Hank Jones on piano and the great Tony Williams on the kit.

Sadao plays blistering choruses and solos throughout....

Ron Carter - playlist by Paul Irishman | Spotify

(1) Ron C̲a̲r̲t̲e̲r̲, Hank J̲o̲n̲e̲s̲,̲ Sadao W̲atanabe,̲ Tony Wi̲l̲l̲iams ̲– Ca̲r̲n̲a̲v̲al (19̲8̲3̲)̲ - YouTube

Also wanted to ask if you know about the great Belgium jazz guitarist Rene Thomas. He was a great friend of Sonny Rollins and played with him when Sonny toured Europe in the 50s and 60s. They also played together at Jazz Middlheim in Antwerp.

Jazz Middelheim 2023 in Antwerp - Dates (rove.me)

(1) René Thomas ‎– Guitar Genius ( Full Album ) - YouTub

This Rene Thomas seems to me a genius after more than thirty minutes in this album...  ...The last time i fell under a guitarist spell so hard it was under frogman recommendation : Pat Martino....

Thanks ....