Count me among the "I think Sketches of Spain is one of the greatest recordings of all time" crowd. How anybody can hate on it is beyond me.

ditto
also count me among the "i think tijuana moods is one of the greatest recordings of all time and heavily inspired miles" crowd

Had Miles listened to a pressing of Tijuana Moods?

I remember one of my grad school professors waxing ecstatic about Tijuana Moods. My brother saw Miles five or six times, and my brother preferred the newer stuff. My preference was for the earlier ballads and Sketches of Spain.

Anyway I really like this young Emmet Cohen, and here he is in concert with Lew Tabackin. I had a couple of Lew Tabackin Big Band recordings about 40 some years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/live/_yo0wxG...xI9SQw9WsVXFol

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sketches of spain is primarily an ode to flamenco guitar from the time of francisco franco
i may return when elusively lucid to answer your next question first
but until then let us pause again for a brief interlude

Tijuana Moods was recorded Aug '57

Mingus 3 a month earlier
no link to the full album, so here's a playlist and the first song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz-U...esMingus-Topic


East Coasting happened two weeks later

several years later
with Dolphy in amsterdam

Sunday morning harmonica.

I love all this crazy stuff Howard Levy does in 7:

So plaintive and poignant.

https://youtu.be/sHDld91l5Vc?si=zHZSXV5RIwb28d1o

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John Coltrane
Eric Dolphy
McCoy Tyner
Jimmy Garrison
Elvin Jones
Impressions '61

the beginning of this is amazing

Let's try some nicotine

has anyone worked harder than Oscar?

yo

music, music

realized it had been way too long since last listen
tack quickly corrected, bow intact
an album with four songs on two sides
three author credits and sometimes six musicians including sax

There will be a pop quiz tomorrow on the first side of the first disc. Be prepared.

philosoraptor

my proactive answers to your flop quiz:
george benson
teo macero
the beatles
ornette coleman

spinning this one for the first time in years
withstands the test of time yet again

Paul Chambers
Ron Carter
Tony Williams
Jimmy Cobb
Herbie Hancock
Wayne Shorter
Miles Davis
and several others

a wonderful Pharoah marathon
live Nice '71

oh the music Rudy van Gelder has heard

this one recorded Mon 09 Feb 70
almost three years after Trane passed

Extensions


McCoy Tyner – piano
Gary Bartz – alto
Wayne Shorter – tenor, soprano
Ron Carter – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Alice Coltrane – harp (tracks 1, 3 & 4)

Shorter and Carter played with Miles in the second great quintet from 64-68
Tyner and Jones were the skin and bones surrounding Dolphy and Trane during the classic live at the village vanguard sessions almost a decade earlier
Bartz first met McCoy and Eric while workshopping with Mingus in the early 60s,
and almost nine months after this recording Bartz played alto and soprano on half of Miles' Live-Evil
pretty sure every Miles recording with John McLaughlin also includes Gary Bartz, open to be proven wrong

last but never least is Alice Coltrane
not to harp on the same old topic
but if you have strong recommendations for a more powerful female jazz musician to listen to, please share them

Marian McPartland
Esperanza Spalding
Mary Lou Williams

And I'm leaving out jazz singers: Nina Simone, Billie,Ella, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughn, Diana Krall, Samara Joy. And Nina and Diana also play piano.

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I agree that Ella requires her own category.