Hard Bops Cafe has been compiling some rather solid collections, i suggest looking them up on ytube.
great background music while you're gettin' stuff done.



00:00:00:00 AP81574 - Hank Mobley & Lee Morgan - High and Flighty
00:06:11:00 AP81577 - John Coltrane - Blue Train
00:16:37:00 AP81593 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
00:23:14:00 AP81595 - Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly - Automn Leaves
00:34:07:00 AP81600 - The Three Sounds - Tenderly
00:38:46:00 AP84003- Art Blakey - Moanin'
00:48:09:00 AP84013 Jackie McLean - Hip Strut
00:59:12:00 AP84014 - The 3 Sounds - Besame Mucho
01:03:08:00 AP84017 - Horace Silver Blowin' the wind away
01:07:46:00 AP84018 - Walter Davis Jr. - Smake it
01:12:51:00 AP84021 - Kenny Burrell - Birk's Work
01:24:18:00 AP84025 - Lou Donaldson - Lou's Blues
01:28:10:00 AP84028 - Horace Parlan - C Jam Blues
01:35:10:00 AP84033 - Dizzy Reece - Once In A While
01:41:06:00 AP84034 - Lee Morgan - These are soulful Days
01:50:20:00 AP84036 - Lou Donaldson - Blues for J.P.
01:57:45:00 AP84038 - Jackie McLean - Francisco
02:07:12:00 AP84046 - Duke Jordan - Right to Jordan
02:10:46:56 AP84047 - Art Taylor - Syeeda's Song Flute
02:17:13:56 AP84051 - Jackie McLean - Quadrangle
02:21:51:26 AP84063 - Kenny Dorham - 'Philly' Swing
02:27:22:56 AP84066 - Lou Donaldson - A Foggy Day
02:34:42:00 AP84069 - Stanley Turrentine - Up At Minton's
02:45:01:00 AP84071 - Grant Green - Green Street
02:51:40:00 AP84073 - Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap
02:56:36:00 AP84078 - Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special

Nice. You were MIA for a minute. Hope all is well in redeyeland.

It finally clicked for me with Sco. That last concert. Protocol is a nasty track

a hard reboot of the system should be required protocol
*glitch*

nice

yeah, that's an exceptional group. so ****ing tight
Miles was 60 blowing like that

And the bassist looks what, 16? Absolutely immense stuff

i'm pretty sure that bassist is Darryl Jones, who is currently playing bass for the Stones.

this **** is bonkers

Toots got a google doodle today; it's his 100th birthday.

I think he is on guitar here with the great Grappelli

you might not think it is, but i do
may i present to you the greatest incidental jazz track in the history of human kind

I'm with you on this one. This is a great track. Trying to assign it a genre would be futile imo. If it's incidental jazz, I'm good with it.

You may not believe this, but this is the best cover of a Sonny Boy II interpretation in the history of the Fillmore East.

^^^ what a chill and entertaining show, the little bit I've watched so far. I came here to post the link as well, but nice to see it's already posted.


In the meantime, here's another band a work friend turned me onto yesterday.

it's all about the rhythm of the keyboard, bass, and syncopated drums.
mentally swap out the guitar(s) for a sax with the same boundless passion (think Trane, Stitt, Ornette, Pharoah, etc.)

yes Gregg, but Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, and Butch Trucks are the backbone for the entire thing. for this particular exercise i'm ignoring the fact there are Gregg vocals on the track.
Skydog is the hinge. he's the one you swap out for one of the giants of reed instruments in the jazz hypothesis.

almost positive i've posted this before, but don't care if it's a repeat
listen to it at least once a month

Knower

i wish i could find these as a single video, but a playlist will have to do.

Wynton at Harvard: "Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music"

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...B1VPuaA8_7FdRE

i hope everybody listens to this

yeah, it's really good.

sorry for quoting a couple of my own posts, but i thought it to be the right thing to do when i did it, so there

as for the Wynton at Harvard series posted above: i was really disappointed in the way Wynton seemed to be simply reading lines for the first time off the teleprompter during several of the clips.

for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, i painfully recommend you FF through the speaking bits
the musicking bits are world class

Kokoroko
on the fringe but i think it 'qualifies' as jazz. either way, lovely stuff