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Old 11-20-2020, 01:38 PM
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Continuing on with the Alto Sax and Johnny Hodges has not been heard in a while.

Possessor of the most beautiful tone ever heard in jazz, altoist Johnny Hodges formed his style early on and had little reason to change it through the decades. Although he could stomp with the best swing players and was masterful on the blues, Hodges' luscious playing on ballads has never been topped.



In jazz circles and among his immediate peers, Johnny Hodges was referred to as "Mr. Silvertone." And one great jazz story shows the high regard that other players had for his style: A sax player goes to his bandleader and asks for the night off. When the bandleader asks why, the sax player says, "I want to go see Johnny Hodges and try to hear how he gets that sound." The bandleader stuffs a 20 in the sax player's jacket and says, "You're going to hear the right man."

Hodges' lines caressed the notes, and he could play in a totally authoritative fashion without resorting to a lot of upper-register squeakings or faux tenor honkings. He was always 110 percent in the pocket, the epitome of true swing. Even within the mighty Duke Ellington Orchestra, a well-oiled team with superb players, Hodges stood out as something special.



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Johnny Hodges coaxes colorful and harmonically rich tones from his sax indeed.

So of course "Warm and Tender" will hit home like a big slice of moist, triple chocolate cake desert after lunch... Can you handle all that flavor and richness? I was definitely in the mood for it.

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Old 11-20-2020, 04:05 PM
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George Benson - Weekend iin London
Qobuz 24/48




Live album, recorded in '19.
We know the venue, Ronnie Scott's, quite well.
Cozy jazz club.
This album didn't disappoint.
At 76, Benson is still very good, even his voice.

Good band:

George Benson (vocals, guitar)
Randy Waldman (keyboards)
Stanley Banks (bass)
Thom Hall (keyboards)
Michael O’Neill (guitars)
Khari Parker (drums)
Lilliana De Los Reyes (percussion)
Daniel Mifsud, Jade MacRae, and Mahalia Barnes (backing vocals)
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Old 11-20-2020, 04:26 PM
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George Benson - Weekend iin London

Qobuz 24/48









Live album, recorded in '19.

We know the venue, Ronnie Scott's, quite well.

Cozy jazz club.

This album didn't disappoint.

At 76, Benson is still very good, even his voice.



Good band:



George Benson (vocals, guitar)

Randy Waldman (keyboards)

Stanley Banks (bass)

Thom Hall (keyboards)

Michael O’Neill (guitars)

Khari Parker (drums)

Lilliana De Los Reyes (percussion)

Daniel Mifsud, Jade MacRae, and Mahalia Barnes (backing vocals)


Attended several of his concerts over the past 30 years
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Old 11-20-2020, 04:27 PM
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Frank Sinatra - Capitol Years
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During dinner, we put on this set.
136 minutes of Ol' Blue Eyes!

In Frank Sinatra's vast career, the Capitol years are a kind of zenith. Between 1953 and 1961, after Columbia but before Reprise, the star recorded the blueprint for the art of the crooner. This volume of the BD Music collection brings together some of Sinatra's most beautiful songs from his albums Songs For Young Lovers, Swing Easy, In the Wee Small Hours and Songs for Swingin' Lovers. These four masterpieces were conceived between 1953 and 1956 with conductor and arranger Nelson Riddle. The complicity between the singer and the musician gave birth to these marvels of languid romanticism. Sinatra's golden voice finds the perfect setting in Riddle's strings. And on In the Wee Small Hours, the greatest concept-album of all time about the break-up of a love affair, the duo surpasses itself without any fault of taste weighing down the works! Jean-Claude Götting's astonishing comic strip retraces this delightful interlude of 20th century American popular music © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Something (much) more beefier now:

Roy Haynes - Birds of a Feather - A tribute to Charlei Parker
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I had the pleasure of attending a concert with Roy Haynes in 2010, when he performed at Ronnie Scott's.
He was 85 then.
We were awed by the power, alertness and wit of this fantastic drummer.
I see he's still active now at 95!

This is a very interesting album with some excellent musicians. Haynes was still a spring chicken here.

Roy Haynes' 2000 trio outing with Danilo Perez and John Patitucci had a tribute theme at its core. So too does this all-star quintet outing for Dreyfus. Here the subject at hand is Charlie Parker, with whom Haynes played for several years beginning in the late 1940s. Joining the 75-year-old Haynes for this tribute are bassist Dave Holland, altoist Kenny Garrett, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and pianist David Kikoski. Having spent over ten years performing and recording with Haynes, Kikoski is especially in tune with the leader's every move. Some tracks are fairly typical Bird fare: "Moose the Mooche," "Yardbird Suite," "Diverse" (aka "Segment"), "April in Paris." Others, however, are off the beaten track: Billy Reid's "The Gypsy," Gerry Mulligan's "Rocker," Cole Porter's "My Heart Belongs to Daddy." In addition to the often fiery playing, there are a number of unexpected arranging twists. Haynes' take on "Ah Leu Cha" is an intriguing hybrid of the Charlie Parker and Miles Davis versions -- played fairly slow and with a straight repeat on the A section (Parker), but using "Scrapple From the Apple" changes rather than rhythm changes for the solos (Davis). Haynes also lengthens the form of "Now's the Time," Parker's anthemic yet simple blues, giving it a vamp-based flavor that recalls Eddie Harris' "Freedom Jazz Dance." The Cole Porter tune, similarly, becomes an occasion for modal stretching. There's also a blistering exchange between Hargrove and Garrett toward the end of "What Is This Thing Called Love" -- the album's big payoff. Despite these and other subtle touches, Birds of a Feather doesn't quite have the creative spark of Haynes' previous album. That was a working band; this comes across as a casual blowing date, albeit an illustrious and sometimes surprising one.

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Tubes all warmed up and Deep into the groove now.


Tenor Madness is a 1956 jazz album by Sonny Rollins. It is most notable for its title track, the only known recording featuring both Rollins and John Coltrane.




At a time when he was a member of the legendary Clifford Brown/Max Roach sextet, Sonny Rollins was still the apple fallen not too far from the tree of Miles Davis.

Tenor Madness was the recording that, once and for all, established Newk as one of the premier tenor saxophonists, an accolade that in retrospect, has continued through six full decades and gives an indication why a young Rollins was so well liked, as his fluency, whimsical nature, and solid construct of melodies and solos gave him the title of the next Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young of mainstream jazz.

With the team of pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones, staples of that era's Miles Davis combos, Rollins has all the rhythmic ammunition to cut loose, be free, and extrapolate on themes as only he could, and still can.





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Old 11-20-2020, 06:29 PM
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Paul Desmond - Bossa Antigua

Not my favorite Bossa Nova album but still a pleasant one

Recorded in 1964, released on RCA Victor

Paul Desmond – Alto Saxophone
Jim Hall – Guitar
Eugene Wright, Gene Cherico – Bass
Connie Kay – Drums


Joel, a relaxed listen to end the day.
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Based on Qobuz Top Albums selection...

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderfull World




The Popular Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Recorded in 1966, RCA Victor

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Patricia Barber - The Cole Porter Mix

Recorded in 2007, released on Blue Note Records

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