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I was not familiar with her but I am now.......very, very nice. Thanks, Andre.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/art...
Straight No Chaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0RVM...
Live in Concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaFU...
with Aretha Franklin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_DU...
with the Oscar Peterson Trio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X4d2...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/art...
on recording Sonny Rollins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYmhJ...
on Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnzMI...
on Thelonious Monk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ--X...
on Cannonball Adderley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vpC...
on Bill Evans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Scs...
(the series' introduction is always the same)
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That sounds like a great book. I haven't read it but I bet someone here has. Let us know your opinion once you have finished it.Don't forget to cite the author, Mario, as shown below.
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Giant Steps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4V_u...
a jam session with Alphonso Horne (tp), Evan Sherman (dr), Dan Stein (bs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n22v...
Are you kidding me!!!!!! He is a child jazz prodigy. Thanks for that link, Andra.
These are the records to look for if you are a collector.Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz
by Rick Kennedy(no photo)Synopsis:
Some of the earliest performances by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Bix Beiderbecke were preserved on recordings produced at Gennett Studios, an independent company in the small city of Richmond, Indiana. In a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, many of America's earliest jazz, blues, and country musicians were captured on wax discs. It was here that Hoagy Carmichael's timeless "Stardust" debuted as a dance stomp. In 1915, the Gennett family, the enterprising owners of Starr Piano Company, created a small record division to supplement their income. In the early 1920s Gennett's victory in a landmark patent case involving the mighty Victor Records changed the competitive nature of the young record industry. The Gennetts made music history by recording young jazz pioneers in the Midwest and folk musicians from the Appalachian hills at a time when major record labels in the East couldn't be bothered. Gennett featured such country music stars (then known as "old-time" musicians) as Gene Autry, Chubby Parker, and Bradley Kincaid and early blues artists Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Roosevelt Sykes. During a period of rigid segregation, Gennett freely recorded black musicians. Ultimately issuing discs with several different labels, Gennett had a major impact, particularly on the emerging jazz movement, both in the United States and abroad. Today these recordings are valued collector's items, and some have been reissued in anthologies on LP and CD. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy is the first detailed account of the people and events behind this unique company. Personalized by anecdotes from musicians,employees, and family members, it traces the colorful history of this innovative business until its demise during the Great Depression.
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Tomorrow Is The Question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjVUR...
with Sonny Rollins :
Sonnymoon For Two (live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhXlw...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/art...
Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist and composer who was one of the most powerful and contentious innovators in the history of jazz, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 85.
The cause was cardiac arrest, a family representative said.
Mr. Coleman widened the options in jazz and helped change its course. Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm while gaining more distance from the American songbook repertoire.(Source: NY Times)
For full article, visit the following link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/art...
The life of the Divine Sarah, one of the greats in vocal music history.Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan
by Leslie Gourse(no photo)Synopsis
Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan’s vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here is ”The Divine One” as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her. By her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years thereafter, she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits (among them ”Broken Hearted Melody,” ”Make Yourself Comfortable,” and ”Misty”).But life offstage was never smooth for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched by her exuberant appetite for excess: three failed marriages, financial difficulties through many changes in management, late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine. In Sassy, though, we also see the feisty and unpretentious woman who worked hard all her life to support her parents and adopted daughter, and who came to savor the hard-won independence and worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/art...
The Crusaders
Street Life (featuring Randy Crawford, voc.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMFWF...
Chain Reaction (live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlff...
Spiral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUs1h...
Keep That Same Old Feeling (live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q73Hk...
I missed that one, Andre...thanks for the post.
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Music - anytime, Jill.
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Soul Shadows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GKlc...
Live, this time with Bill Henderson on vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hzqa...
From the same album: Rhapsody and Blues (but live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQxK...
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Abraham Laboriel needs no introduction...
Listen To Your Brother (live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVznt...
Trying out his new fretless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSri...
A how-to with the master:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfNo...
Having fun at the Wyn stand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5rfW...
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RIP 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.
He died while on his way to a cardiology appointment, Russell Gloyd, his producer, conductor and manager for 36 years, said. Mr. Brubeck lived in Wilton, Conn.
In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck brought a distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility that won over listeners who had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single.
Mr. Brubeck experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored musical theater and the oratorio, baroque compositional devices and foreign modes. He did not always please the critics, who often described his music as schematic, bombastic and — a word he particularly disliked — stolid. But his very stubbornness and strangeness — the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone — make the Brubeck quartet’s best work still sound original.
(Source: NYTimes)
Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdU5...
(Source; YouTube)
When I read about his death, I instantly began humming "Take Five" and I haven't heard it for years. It obviously is timeless!
Jill wrote: "RIP Dave BrubeckDave 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, a..."
Ummm... Dave Brubeck died in December of 2012.
Glynn I thought so but I too saw this posted as recent news, like last week! Odd how news like this gets recirculated.
How and why does that happen? Poor Betty White has died at least three times this year much to her surprise and then actual deaths are recycled. Next we will hear that FDR has died!!!! Sorry about that folks. Well, at least we got to listen to "Take Five" again on my post.
The great one!!!Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
by Howard Reich (no photo)Synopsis:
Jelly's Blues recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "King Porter Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." However, by the late 1930s, he was nearly forgotten. In 1992, the death of an eccentric memorabilia collector led to the unearthing of a startling archive, revealing Morton to be a much more complex and passionate man than many realized. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Blues is a definitive biography, a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers. (
Ken Nordine is a name not known by many but his voice has been heard by millions. Probably the most mellifluous voice in recorded history (think James Earl Jones X 10) he was the voice-over of choice for radio, television, and film. During the time of the Beat Generation, he made several recordings called "Word Jazz" which were extremely popular. He spoke short stories or poems against a background of soft jazz music. Even though it is not really jazz as we define it in this topic, it belongs here as a unique part of recording history ......... the melding of the music and the spoken word.Below is one of his most famous: What Time Is It?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYpC...
The King of the Vibes!!!!Hamp
by Lionel Hampton (no photo)Synopsis:
Here are Lionel Hampton's off-the-cuff recollections of contemporaries like Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Josephine Baker. And here are rare glimpses into the early careers of stars nurtured by him, such as Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Quincy Jones, Dexter Gordon, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Gregory Hines.
This is the first and only book about Lionel Hampton, Kennedy Center Honoree for lifetime achievements in the arts. Hamp is a must read for the Hampton fans and music lovers everywhere. It is capped by a new, all -- inclusive discography compiled by Vincent H. Pelote, a librarian at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.
The great Satchmo.......was it swing or was it jazz? The terms seemed to be interchangeable in the 1940s.Swing That Music
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Louis ArmstrongSynopsis:
The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong’s Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo/Perseus Books Group). Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong’s life until his 1922 move to Chicago; but Swing That Music also covers his days on Chicago’s South Side with ”King” Oliver, his courtship and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music then called ”swing” but more broadly referred to as ”Jazz,” Swing That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that really ”swings.”
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Louis Armstrong
He is listed in the top 10 of jazz singers but how many people know that?The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Harman Story
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Gregg AkkermanSynopsis:
In The Last Balladeer, author Gregg Akkerman skillfully reveals the life-long achievements and occasional missteps of Johnny Hartman as an African-American artist dedicated to his craft. In the first full-length biography and discography to chronicle the rhapsodic life and music of Johnny Hartman, the author completes a previously missing dimension of vocal-jazz history by documenting Hartman as the balladeer who crooned his way into so many hearts. Backed by impeccable research but conveyed in a conversational style, this book will interest not only musicians and scholars but any fan of the Great American Songbook and the singers who brought it to life.
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Aquarian Moon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKH5a...
Ummh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6ZA...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/art...
I read that Bobby Hutcherson died today.... He was one of the greats. His own recordings as well as guesting on others...
Thanks, Andre for the info and the links.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/art...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IrQk...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpmA2...
Hi everyone. I'm a very very new member of this group and I'm having a look around. I've noticed this thread about jazz and though I'd contribute a title that I've read a while ago and really really anjoyedThe Jazz Revolution: Twenties America & the Meaning of Jazz
It is definitely about jazz, but I liked the fact that it was a social history that addressed the way jazz influenced people's life in the very early decades.
Fascinating reading.
I'll have to go back and see all the books you're suggesting, guys ^_^
Thanks for posting it correctly, Jill. I think I should choose 'cover' when I post the link?
Sarah.....go to the link below which explains exactly how to do the book citations. It is a big help.http://goodreads.com/topic/show/287892
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There was another album by the same sax player but with another band: "A Caddy For Daddy". The title was funny I thought. The covers pure Blue Note.
I bought both and what do I say, they're still among my favorites.
Hank Mobley is/was a genius, overlooked by too many.
Some non-Jazz fans might have heard of John Coltrane, Bird (Charlie Parker), Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Ben Webster.
Hank Mobley barely ever makes the list.
So here ya go, some terrific Hank Mobley - with Lee Morgan on trumpet (not the first, there it's Donald Byrd), McCoy Tyner and Cedar Walton on piano, Billy Higgins on drums, Ron Carter and Rob Cranshaw on bass - and many others.
Hank Mobley
Far Away Lands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTv_g...
Dippin' (full album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3IqQ...
A Caddy For Daddy (full album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkbXq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Mo...
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He was very familiar with Hank Mobley and loved all of the jazz greats too. We will miss him and his playing of the piano and everything else - but he loved all of the greats you mentioned too. And had quite the record collection.
Your post really brings back great memories.
Great post Andre.
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My favorite solo piano player has always been Monk - though I must admit I can't listen to his solo pieces for longer than 30/40 minutes or so. Just need breaks, that's all.
So here we go, with a toast to your late father, my favorite Monk album, Underground (which has a great cover by the way):
Thelonious Monk (with his band)
Underground (full album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKIE...
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André wrote: "Thank you very much, Bentley.My favorite solo piano player has always been Monk - though I must admit I can't listen to his solo pieces for longer than 30/40 minutes or so. Just need breaks, that..."
Monk is my favorite as well. I actually saw him live and in person a couple of times. It was a treat :)
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Bentley wrote: "Really that must have been great - when and where did you see him?"My memory is fuzzy. I saw him many years ago (in the 70s) upstate NY. I won tickets to a jazz festival at Pace College. They had 3 or 4 stages with lots of great names. I also saw Al Cohn and Zoot Sims together there. I think I also saw Monk on Long Island at the Tilles Center but not sure if that was the place.
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Wow! Glynn, I often wish I could have been there, in one of those small clubs, listening to them play, taking in the atmosphere - though I would have been forced to leave after a couple of songs because I can't stand cigarette smoke. But then he also played concert halls - just a different feeling though.
Here you go, Monk live:
Thelonious Monk live at Berliner Jazztage (1969):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzWjR...
A very funny interview with Thelonious.
The "journalist" doesn't get the vibe and keeps asking stupid questions. Thelonious tries his best staying polite. I like his grin...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAhw...
Interviews with Thelonious Monk often seemed awkward because of his mental condition which worsened in later years.
The 1988 documentary "Straight, No Chaser", produced by Clint Eastwood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqvbq...
André wrote: "Glynn wrote: "Monk is my favorite as well. I actually saw him live ..."Wow! Glynn, I often wish I could have been there, in one of those small clubs, listening to them play, taking in the atmosph..."
Thanks Andre. The concert was great! The interview was strange (it was like the interviewer was told to ask specific questions and there was a lack of communication) but fascinating. I will watch the documentary when I get a chance.
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Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (other topics)The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz (other topics)
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Agua de Beber (from her debut album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVHIj...
In The Moonlight recording sessions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAWGd...
Fever (live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNrY...
It Might As Well Be Spring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWQg...
People Say We're In Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGl82...
From all the singers record companies started promoting when they discovered about the success of Diana Krall, Sophie Milman, a Russian /Canadian singer, really stands out.
As most of the others she mainly keeps to standards but besides being blessed with a terrific voice she also really makes the songs her own.