I'd heard of the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band But I'd never heard the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band. This video is from 2015, which is about 40 years after they were forced to disband, so I'm not sure who we are watching here, but I'd say that these guys know what they are doing.

Plus, it's Li'l Liza Jane...



Note that the sax player throws in Shortnin' Bread for no extra charge. This is a fortuitous coincidence, since it was my world-famous Li'l Liza Jane - Shortnin' Bread harmonica medley that allowed me to meet The World's Nicest Lady Police Officer when she suggested that I stop playing it, but we'll leave that story for another time.

Sunday Morning!

Spawned by the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band, here's The Dirty Dozen imagining the Flintstones meeting the President meeting the Dirty Dozen...

Thanks Phat; you are a gentleman and a scholar. Great wake me up Jazz.

The song reminded me of The Oregon Jazz Band. See the wiki page link below. My father had (and now I have) three vinyl albums of these guys and they are good and fun and very talented. And mostly unknown. Like the gentlemen above. Dixieland Jazz is what I want played at my gravesite when I'm tossed to the worms and bugs, sans coffin.


Oregon_Jazz_Band

because i have a huge man crush on Ron Carter (and Tony Williams, and Tommy Flanagan...and jazz trios with piano, bass and drums). this rhythm section is one degree of separation between several decades of jazz giants.
recorded in 1983 but could have easily been recorded in 1953 or 1963.

Sunday Morning Jazz:

Sunday Morning Wake you up Jazz:

while you could say it's not specifically jazz, this is currently playing while i tie up the last few loose ends for our trip to Spain in a few weeks.

Friday Night in San Francisco
Al Di Meola
John McLaughlin (from electric Miles fame)
Paco de Lucia



if this is something that interests you, here's the full concert from the next night. Bill Graham with the intro.

Acid/Funky Jazz for this Sunday:

this is my mood today, so i'll just drop this here

Thursday afternoon Sunday Jazz.

every hear Japanese Jazz from the 70's? no? well here you go. some great stuff here.



the Terumasa Hino Quartet with Soulful (starting ~5:00) is particularly delicious.

full album

a Wayne Shorter composition, originally released on his album Adam's Apple.
Recorded in October 1966 and released on Miles Smiles in 1967

Miles Davis – Trumpet
Wayne Shorter – Tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Piano
Ron Carter – Double bass
Tony Williams – Drums

Williams and Carter play african based rhythm combinations not yet commonly heard in the world of jazz, including 12/8 compound quadruple meter.

Miles sums it up at the end with a comment to producer Teo Macero:
Herbie's response:


for comparison, the Wayne Shorter version from Adam's Apple recorded about six months before the Miles Smiles version

Wayne Shorter – Tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Piano
Reggie Workman - Bass
Joe Chambers - Drums

For this Sunday Morning Jazz, why not the best-

Got tied up yesterday, so this is Monday jazz to get you going...

It is autumn and this Miles Davis cut has an autumn feel, from one of the best Jazz albums of all time:

Clearing some stuff from my ToDo list:





And, for no particular reason...

(Doesn't really belong in this thread, but I have no other place to put it.)

Amazon series opened with this tune:

Lunch hour jazz:

^^^ I've been studying chord progressions. This from Wikipedia...

Sunday Morning Wake you up Jazz

Sunday Morning Jazz:

time to blow the doors off

Ornette 1960
Album: Change of the Century
Personnel:
Ornette Coleman — alto saxophone
Don Cherry — pocket trumpet
Charlie Haden — bass
Billy Higgins — drums

can't find the complete album on youtube so i'll just piece the songs together

this is fun to watch if only because Herbie GOAT

I was following along until Herbie got there and then all was lost.

Mid-week Jazz so you can put a lid on it: