What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Avishai Cohen Trio - From Darkness
Qobuz 24/96




Great piano trio jazz album.

Very energetic playing, with a well recorded bass (which the leader deserves).
This shouldn't be your last album before going to bed.

[joel_hifi]

Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father

Clearly not doing it in the right sequence tonight but needed to shake it up a bit after the quiet Bossa

Recorded 1963/64, Blue Note BST-84185

Horace Silver – Piano
Carmell Jones, Blue Mitchell – Trumpet
Joe Henderson, Junior Cook – Tenor Saxophone
Teddy Smith, Gene Taylor – Bass
Roger Humphries, Roy Brooks – Drums

[bart]

Originally Posted by PHC1

A nice evening alto saxophone/quintet listen. A solid performance from new talent. No doubt we will see more albums from this young man.

Smooth, round, confident and engaging alto sax playing with a nice attack and enough bite when called for.

Following your suggestion and playing Nicholas Brust - Frozen in Time.
His tone reminds me of Robert watson, who played alto sax with the Jazz Messengers in the 80s.
Good album.

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father

Clearly not doing it in the right sequence tonight but needed to shake it up a bit after the quiet Bossa

Recorded 1963/64, Blue Note BST-84185

Horace Silver – Piano
Carmell Jones, Blue Mitchell – Trumpet
Joe Henderson, Junior Cook – Tenor Saxophone
Teddy Smith, Gene Taylor – Bass
Roger Humphries, Roy Brooks – Drums

Fantastic disc Joel.
His 50s-60s albums had so much soul.

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Fantastic disc Joel.
His 50s-60s albums had so much soul.

Great soul indeed

[PHC1]

Good evening gentlemen! Bart, Joel, Jim

Friday Night and in the mood for some hard bop.

But will warm up to it with some Johnny Griffin

[joel_hifi]

Joe Henderson - Page One

Well... back to some Bossa... but IMHO a better balanced act than the earlier Desmond listen... nice way to end the evening session

Edit: not all Bossa, an overall excellent album of some Bossa and great Hard Bop!

Recorded in 1963, Blue Note BST-84140

Joe Henderson – Tenor Saxophone
Kenny Dorham – Trumpet
McCoy Tyner – Piano
Butch Warren – Bass
Pete La Roca – Drums

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Good evening gentlemen! Bart, Joel, Jim

Friday Night and in the mood for some hard bop.

But will warm up to it with some Johnny Griffin

Serge, enjoy it

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Serge, enjoy it

Thanks Joel!

What a great album! First Blue Note recording for Johnny Griffin and it was recorded by no other than Rudy Van Gelder himself at his Hackensack NJ studio back in 1956.

With a roster like this, how could it not be great?

Johnny Griffin - tenor sax
Wynton Kelly - piano
Curly Russell - bass
Max Roach - drums


The listener will have front row center with this album. RVG had an amazing talent of recording the performers and their instruments with amazing depth and in such a holographic way that the listener feels like he is present at the live venue and sitting next to the stage.

Johnny Griffin tenor sax sounds BIG, smooth and tuneful. The sax swirls and billows the tunes from the stage. Johnny simply dominates and owns the stage on many tracks. It is a treat.


Max Roach plays the drums with fiery zeal and illuminates the stage with his cymbal work while Curly Russell anchors the tunes with his bass.

Wynton Kelly's piano playing is powerful and hard bop stylish.

The whole quartet plays very much in sync and one can appreciate the synergy between the performers on this album.

It is a very groovy album.

Analog warmth, musicality, smoothness and groovines in just the right doses.

This album is always a treat.

[PHC1]

Had my compass set due Hard Bop this evening but the winds changed so I tacked the sails and set course due Bop and Cool Jazz instead. I'm glad I did as there was an interesting find on the horizon...


Hunting for more Rudy Van Gilder recordings and Blue Note Label, I saw a ship flying a Gil Melle flag...

Gil Melle

A true renaissance man, Gil Melle began his career as a post-bop baritone saxophonist who also composed and painted, later branching out into a wide variety of artistic and scientific fields.

He abandoned jazz fairly early on in his career, choosing to compose a number of film and television scores and experiment with electronic music instead.

Then again, Melle's music wasn't strictly jazz -- it was a hybrid of jazz, drawn from Duke Ellington in particular, and classical music, which he called "primitive modern."

That "primitive modern" music was on display on a series of albums for Blue Note and Prestige in the late '50s.

Following that series, Melle only released records sporadically, but he kept amazingly busy, composing scores, pioneering electronic music, building specialized computers and synthesizers, painting, piloting, and restoring automobiles and planes, as well as keeping an antiquarian microscopical instrumentation collection.







Allmusic review:

"Like the modern art that stormed the art world in the '50s, Patterns in Jazz is filled with bright, bold colors and identifiable patterns that camouflage how adventurous the work actually is.

On the surface, the music is cool and laid-back, but close listening reveals the invention in Melle's compositions and arrangements of the standards "Moonlight in Vermont" and "Long Ago and Far Away."

Part of the charm of Patterns in Jazz is the unusual instrumental balance of Melle's bari sax, Eddie Bert's trombone, Joe Cinderella's guitar, and Oscar Pettiford's bass. These low, throaty instruments sound surprisingly light and swinging.

Compared to the two standards, Melle's original compositions are a little short on melody, but they give the musicians room to improvise, resulting in some dynamic music.

Ultimately, Patterns in Jazz is cerebral music that swings -- it's entertaining, but stimulating."