What jazz music are you listening to?

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by Mack

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After The Storm - Norman Brown

I enjoyed that album thanks! Didn't realise Motown had a jazz label in the 90s...

And I couldn't help but think of... the great George Benson!

[Formerly YB-2]

Lee Mogan, "Cornbread". Excellent recording & pressing.

[bart]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin'
Qobuz 24/192




I found this review worth reading:

This time capsule, recorded in 1959 in Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, NJ, living room and left undisturbed in the Blue Note vaults until now, contains the essential DNA of the first flowering of hard bop in the late '50s. All the genre hallmarks are present: There are intricate chase-scene originals and clever arrangements (the standard "Close Your Eyes") and brash blues-inflected outbursts that light up the solos. And yet, transcending those individual traits, defining not just the notes but the very spirit of the endeavor, is a quality that doesn't get discussed enough in jazz—precision, as in persnickety dotted i's and crossed t's.

At times it's downright startling hearing these five musicians nail the details to the wall. They're hardly "just coolin'" here; they're attentive to the small nuances of tunes that might have been written the morning of the session. You can detect the commitment in the pitch-bending doiiiits and the staccato single-note jabs, in the explosion of a long-cresting press roll and the deliberate, nothing-extra stride of a Blakey-trademarked medium-tempo swing. You can hear it in the way trumpeter Lee Morgan and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley phrase together, adding grace notes that are almost inaudible but key nonetheless. And you can't miss it in the thrillingly open lanes where the solos happen. Blakey was revered for the communication he cultivated between musicians; using a repertoire of hits and jabs, he pulled his collaborators into rich, sometimes boisterous discussions, a mode of interplay that in many ways defines hard bop.

There are plenty of examples on this record, but perhaps the most crystalline comes during Morgan's first few choruses on "Jimerick," a blazing uptempo blues. He begins with a short inversion of the theme, first restating it in a lazy way. Then he articulates more aggressively, as though trying to establish consensus on the tempo. Blakey picks that up, and jabs out an even sharper response from the metal rim of the snare drum. That unleashes some mean Morgan double-time bebop; what began as a single-note bugle call becomes an intricate conversation. Each element of that conversation is notable for its clarity, and each new soloist contributes to it in a different way—check the unhurried, wonderfully lucid way Mobley carves up the opening "Hipsippy Blues." The tune is one of three originals Mobley wrote for the date, and if it's familiar that's because it was included on a monumental live recording captured a few months later—At the Jazz Corner of the World, a fiery and complex document that's become part of the "essential listening" jazz canon. Just Coolin', which is apparently the only other recording of this short lived incarnation of the group, might be a step below that in terms of intensity. But only a step. © Tom Moon/Qobuz

[ehoove]

Born 2 Groove
Euge Groove
Great sax play by a local to me musician!
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Regards,
Jim

[Formerly YB-2]

"Poppin'" with Hank Mobley. Very nice recording.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Formerly YB-2

"Poppin'" with Hank Mobley. Very nice recording.

Streaming it now Glenn.
One of the few albums of Mobley I don't own.

[Formerly YB-2]

Bart - a great line-up. Sad bad about Sonny Clark. Too many 'could have been great' jazz artists went down the same way the 2nd half of the 20th century.

[Antonmb]

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Masterpieces By Ellington
Columbia Masterworks (1951)/Analogue Productions (2014), vinyl

[Mack]

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Breakthrough - Julian Vaughn

[Antonmb]

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis - Live in Cuba
Blue Engine (2010), via Qobuz

Very entertaining and brilliant technical performances, if not terribly original.