I chose my user name as an homage to Wynton Kelly. My favorite Wynton albums change every day, but recently I've been especially attentive to Four,which features Joe Henderson, and his various recordings with Wes Montgomery.

It's been a while since I've visited this thread and wanted to share a great resource that I may not have mentioned before. NPR has available on line a number of recorded performances, from places like the Village Vanguard. Some are superb, and the sound quality seems quite good.

Right now, I'm listening to Al Foster's group, recorded in March, 2012 (with JD Allen, tenor saxophone, Adam Birnbaum, piano and Dezron Douglas, bass).

http://www.npr.org/event/music/14760...llage-vanguard

Here is the general listing of those recordings.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsuprem...downloads.html

Speaking of Joe-a belated thanks for this list, Wynton. I went on a bit of a Joe-binge after this exchange. Our Thing has turned into one of my perpetual re-listens, and his solo version of "Lush Life", that closes the album of the same name, is pure jazz, a man digging deep into a song and finding nooks and crannies no one else has.

Also, I'm sure you've heard it since, but So Near, So Far is outstanding, a Miles Davis tribute (he did it right after Lush Life, apparently). Joe had similar melodic ideas to Miles (in terms of usage and theory, not necessarily inventiveness), so it works less as a "tribute" than a natural extension. In a quartet setting, and with John Scofield's guitar taking the functional place of the piano (he is brilliant, as usual), this is worthy of repeated listenings.

Since creating that Joe Henderson list - and I have no idea when that was - I did purchase So Near, So Far, and it is another excellent album.

Also since then, I bought the following box set.

I believe that this box set includes Power to the People and Tetragon, but otherwise I was not familiar with the material. Much of it - recorded late 1960s/early 1970s would be best classified as fusion. I am not a huge fusion fan, but I like this stuff too, insofar as it avoids the excess and cliche of much fusion, and is not overly orchestrated.

If anyone is interested, I notice that Amazon is now listing the set - consisting of 8 CDs - for about $80.

A Jazz Great died on Tuesday, December 5: Dave Brubeck

"Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and ’60s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and “Take Five,” the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album’s centerpiece, died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned 92 on Thursday."


Link to NY Times article quoted above:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/ar...anted=all&_r=0

Sad news, indeed.

Brubeck and Paul Desmond always did their own thing, and, as far as I know, didn't belong to any particular jazz 'movement'. These guys are always worth listening to. When I was engaged in an ill-advised and doomed attempt to be a rock drummer in the early 60s, I listened to their 'Time Out' LP over and over, simply trying to keep time and trying figure out what Morello, their drummer, was doing. RIP

Been listening to more Brubeck since the news. He and Morello together were the absolute truth. The other three members of the quartet lay the rhythm while Morello is free to explore it to his heart's content.



Also, I came here to post some of the early Return to Forever recordings:







Chick Corea also recorded many of the songs with Stan Getz in 1972, featuring GOATony Williams on drums:



Return to Forever, Light as a Feather, and Captain Marvel are all worth checking out.

Listening to some Duke Ellington. My dad brought me a sheet music book of his from the States when I was maybe 13. Realized I've never really listened to him.

Interested that you mention sheet music. Recently, I've been searching for a comprehensive fake book of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn compositions. I've been surprised not to find anything. All I've found are collections of 20 tunes or less. I have a ton of fake books that include many of their tunes, but there are scores of others that I don't have, and it's too pricey to obtain them one-by-one. I'd love to have a really comprehensive collection.

bizzarely my previous contribution to this thread has changed videos though has remained the same for cwicemvp quote of my post.

I'm of the opinion that The Black Saint and Sinner Lady is my favourite Jazz album and Mingus is incredible. Gunther Schuller and the orchestra playing Mingus Epitaph runs it ridiculously close, especially brilliant is the version of Better get it in your soul however this is the only video I can find. It's brilliant

Found out they have Stuff concert in Montreux on youtube ,watched it x number of time on DVD but ended up watching it again lol

listening to Pandora and this came on



never heard of him. turns out hes south african and father of ESPN's Sal Masekela

He was quite popular in the 60s with some jazz/easy pop hits. Grazin in the Grass, etc.

These guys used to come to Austin in the 80s with the random Neville brother. Why reading about Morello and Hugh Masekela reminded me of this song, I'll never know. This is about as real as it gets.

This has probably been posted already, but I heard this for the first time the other day and it has to be the most virtuosic sax playing I've ever heard.



I've been listening to a lot of Herbie Hancock's stuff lately, I like the jazz/funk fusion or whatever it's called.

I'll have to go back through this thread and find some new stuff.

Happy Birthday, Miles Dewey Davis III

Blue in Green by Miles Davis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

Blue Note Records, Link worth checking out for Jazz aficionados:

http://www.bluenote.com/

I purchased not too long back: The Best Blue Note Album in the World (yes that's the title). And it is just superb. Two disc album that chronicles the best of Jazz from the 50's to present day. From one of the best Jazz songs ever done, Autumn Leaves by Cannonball Adderley [with Miles Davis] and songs by Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, to Cassandra Wilson doing a wonderful cover of Tupelo Honey, and a blast of funky, hip-hop Jazz: Cantaloop by US3.

If you enjoy Jazz this is a must album IMO - great variety and so enjoyable to listen to.

My Uncle Mike sauntered off into oblivion a few weeks ago. He was quite a character and I listened to the memorial service (via web) and found out that he went on his first date, with the women he later married, to a Jazz Club in Minneapolis. This was probably about 1956 after he got out of the Marines (My Uncle fought in Korea, was wounded and also spent part of this enlistment in occupied Japan).

Anyway, I thought that was pretty cool that he was into Jazz in the 50’s– and he was a music lover and Jazz enthusiast his entire life. He was an adventurous spirit and took his family to Australia in the late 60’s and that is where he spent the rest of this life. So to honor his memory and free flowing spirit I’m posting two Jazz favorites: Straight no chaser (a tribute to how he lived his live) and Milestones.

Straight, No Chaser and Milestones; recorded in 1958, from the Album Milestones.

Miles Davis: Trumpet
Cannonball Adderley: Alto Saxophone
John Coltrane: Tenor Saxophone
Red Garland: Piano
Paul Chambers: Bass
Philly Joe Jones: Drums

A Charlie Rouse Joint. Charlie Rouse in the house.

Joyous declaration of inculpability. No evidence to be found, none at all. You're wasting your time officer.

A tribute to everyone's favorite whore.

Gotta get yourself a boutonniere and dress to the nines like you were Luke Short to fully dig this kind of whoring.

Coltrane walks us through a tonal maze.



Unfortunately now this song thrusts unseemly visages of Henry Kissinger into my head, but Hitchens gets a pass, even for that level of brutality.

Miles Davis and Friends: Dear Old Stockholm

Billy Cobham and Asere - Destinos (easy listening for a Saturday Morning)

I think my City of NOLA has everywhere ousted when it comes to jazz. Just saw some wicked good trio on sat night for freeee

The Epic Kamasi Washington just in case anyone needs reminding there's contemporary jazz worthy of attention.