Jazz - For all the jazz lovers

Don Ellis - Chain Reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHxgCfsY2Q4

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Chain Reaction

"Do you think Jazz needs saving?"

Or did it die in 1959?

With cameo by Tennishu (Marcus Tenney) from Butcher Brown.

I didn't know where to post this. Peggy Lee certainly has jazz roots but also worked in the pop and easy listening genres, but I love her early stuff a lot. This article is amazing with lots of details about her life. Worth the read, if you're into the 30s - 50s era music scenes.

I found this bit especially interesting:

In considering the arc of her career, and particularly the difficulties of broadening her audience in the late 1960s and beyond, she might be usefully compared to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who suffered from the same problem, and tried aggressively to overcome it as Lee did. Davis, by the late 1960s, found there were fewer places to play jazz and that the audience was growing older, as young people flocked to rock. Davis managed this mid-life artistic, professional (and personal) crisis by changing the way he dressed, adopting the hip, new clothing styles of the late 1960s that disdained the Brooks Brothers establishment look that Davis had previously cultivated. He adopted rock influences openly in his music. As a result of this, he was able to market his music by playing in rock venues and thus gave himself a new lease on life as a relevant artist, even though he lost a good many older fans.

I've not thought to compare Peggy Lee to Miles Davis before but this makes some sense.

Dave Grusin – Hatari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Npg8rqyDE

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It's that time of year again - my chance to share my favorite free-to-download jazz trio Christmas set. Enjoy!

The Believers were:

• Donny Schwekendiek, piano
• Neal Heidler, bass
• Barry Puhlovski, drums

Nathan Davis Quintet - That Kaycee Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52JFmKhAA8

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That Kaycee Thing

I missed this post from 2021 but it's still really nice. Compact but informative, especially if you're a newer fan of "Newk".

Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Billy Childs, piano
Larry Klein, up bass
Stephen Houghton, drums
Buck Clarke, percussion

This album is available for free streaming on Bandcamp, and you can buy it there too, of course. Really nice set, from 1980 (I think).

Apparently it's a good day to share Freddy's music. :)

Freddie Hubbard - First Light

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

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Freddie Hubbard - First Light

Phrygian Five by the Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv-_c0W-q0

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Phrygian Five

Are jazz guitarrists able to play a song in a "solo guitar" setting without arranging in advance, just from a lead sheet?

I'd appreciate any advice from jazz guitarrists on how to develop this skill.

As a beginner guitarrist, I can appreciate the craft that goes into playing a bassline, chord melodies, all at the same time on just six strings, while also stablishing a groove. It would blow my mind if people can improvise all that on the spot.

I think you can tell from these that I am buying a lot of music from the late 50's / early 60s lately.

Us3 - Hand on the Torch -- A fantastic merging of 50s Blue Note jazz and 90s hip-hop sounds. They had a big hit with the first track, Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) but all of the tracks are really interesting and funky groovy. If you dig 50s Blue Note sounds and also hip-hop beats, it's still very worth a listen, IMO.

Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof -- I don't know / haven't listened to this yet but it seems to have been a fairly common thing to have jazz combos cover songs from popular movies, back in the 60's at least. Love everything else in my collection from Cannonball and Nat Adderley though so I'm sure this won't disappoint. Also features Charles Lloyd, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

The Horace Silver Quintet - Finger Poppin' -- One of the classic albums by this combo: Horace (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Gene Taylor (bass), Louis Hayes (drums). These guys has so much swing and yet still stretched out and explored new sounds. From 1959, the year famous for being the last for Jazz.

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis Again -- More from this duet. I've listened to my scratchy, skipping copy of the first Ella and Louis album so many times, I just had to check out this second go around. From the first listen, I already know I'll do the same with this one.

I just picked up this LP and I'm digging it. Three tracks, recorded live in 1961, with Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones. It's a bit further out there than I'm used to but it's fine. There's not a boring measure in the 35 1/2 minutes here.

"The Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature" was recorded live at a concert held at the Sonja Henie/Niels Onstad Center For The Arts, on April 28, 1969 at Høvikodden; near Oslo, Norway. The concert was sponsored by Ny Musikk, the Norwegian Branch of the International Society For Contemporary Music of which I [the person who uploaded the album] am a member. The essential concepts which inspired the creation of 'Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature' lay in philosophical and socio/musical areas. Its socio/musical object was to create a pan/stylistic electonic tape; a tape composed of fragments of many different styles of music, avant-garde jazz, ragas, blues, rock, serial music etc., treated electronically. And to have this tape serve as a palate upon which non-electronic musical statements of a pan-stylistic nature could be projected. The wedding of non-electronic pan-stylism to electronic pan-stylism was meant to convey the cultural implosion occuring among the earth's population, their coming together. Also it is meant to suggest that man, in the face of encroaching technology, must confront technology and attempt to humanize it; using it to enrich his collective soul...not to only his purse...to explore inner, as well as outer space. The philosophical concept which the title itself suggest is based upon a casual remark made by Turid Aarstad, a friend, who stated te following: 'Nature likes those who give in to her but she loves those who do not'. It suggests a human soul will come under a special cosmic law when it is willing to devote itself, without compromise to the elevation of man. It implies that though nature might seem to resist the efforts of the soul who will not bend or give in short of its goal, nature is perhaps only testing the truth of a soul's belief in itself, its belief in its essence. It suggest that nature will reward a dedication to one's essence in some special way, especially when one's essence is in consonant and in tune with the part of nature having to to with the spiritual enrichment of man. The voices heard on the Electronic Sonata are of a 70-year-old African and his two sons. An Africat lute is being used. It was recorded by American filmmaker Cal Floyd in Feb. 1967 in the Nile headquarters region of North Uganda while Mr. Floyd was on a relief mission for UNICEF. The recordings are used with Mr. Floyd's kind permission. The Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature is the first jazz composition to be recorded live featuring musicians performing simultaneously with a pre-recorded electronic tape. The electronic tape was composed in the Electronic Music Studios of the Swedish Radio in Stockholm. Engineer Gøte Nilsson of that establishment gave his invaluable assistance in both the areas of engineering and composition. " - George Russel -

Musicians: Jan Garbarek - tenor sax Manfred Schoof - trumpet Terje Rypdal - electric guitar Jon Christensen - drums George Russel - piano Red Mitchell - bass

Recording Engineer - Gøte Nilsson, Bjørnar Andresen Cover Textil Print - Anna Russell Photograph of Textil - Barry Savenor RUSS-HIX Music Publ. Co (BMI) 1976 Strata-East Records USA

I have a copy of this LP and could never get tired of it. RIP Mr. Baker.

Classic

From 2020, a nice 30's-style swinging number to brighten up the mid-week.