Jazz

NathanRicaud said:
I'm really enjoying it so far! I'll let you know if it's my favourite Brubeck live recording yet! Brubeck stands out so much on Balcony Rock though, like his piano playing is at the centrepiece on this cut to the max. Love it!

This is so random by the way, but every time I see you, I think straight away "That's the guy who's favourite album is D'angelo's Voodoo and Al' Green's Call Me! 😍" lmao! Because D'angelo Voodoo is one of my favourite albums ever! I was actually just spinning the record earlier today in the morning! And I love Al Green's Call Me so much; it's definitely my favourite album of his. So I whenever I see you, I'm like "I really like this guys' music taste, seems like he could be pretty similar to me"!
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yesss, I’ve noticed that our tastes are pretty in line! People who love Voodoo as much as I do are all great people in my book! We’re also close to the same age as well so we probs grew up with similar influences that led us down the same path of expanding our music tastes. Seems at a glance you listen to way more varied music than I do though, my tastes have been really stuck in jazz + indie/psych rock for years now and I still feel like I’m just scratching the surface! I listen to other stuff of course but only focus on a couple genres at once to actively discover artists and albums in! I admire the breadth of your music taste!
 
NathanRicaud said:
Yeah, Brubeck is an excellent pianist! Jazz At Oberlin sounds like an iconic album for what it did for jazz! I'm definitely going to check that one out and cannot wait too! Thanks for the recommendation and background info on that one! 🤝😊

I'll probably then look into Jazz At The College Of Pacific afterwards! It would be great if MoFi did One-Step Supervinyl pressings for either of those two live albums! I'd buy it and would be more than happy paying the premium price for them! Especially with how glorious the Bill Evans, Charles Mingus and Thelonius Monk One-Step pressings sound! 🎯
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As much as I’d like a quality pressings of those two albums (Oberlin and College Pacific) I just don’t see it happening any time soon, especially Mofi haha! I have original 10” pressings of them that are sufficient. Not audiophile quality by any means. I think both are on colored vinyl too if I’m not mistaken. Which is kind of cool for an early 50’s pressing.
 
NathanRicaud said:
Yeah, Brubeck is an excellent pianist! Jazz At Oberlin sounds like an iconic album for what it did for jazz! I'm definitely going to check that one out and cannot wait too! Thanks for the recommendation and background info on that one! 🤝😊

I'll probably then look into Jazz At The College Of Pacific afterwards! It would be great if MoFi did One-Step Supervinyl pressings for either of those two live albums! I'd buy it and would be more than happy paying the premium price for them! Especially with how glorious the Bill Evans, Charles Mingus and Thelonius Monk One-Step pressings sound! 🎯
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For Brubeck, I have the speakers corner at Carnegie and Brubeck Time, the analog spark and all three are great. On Carnegie, the sequencing is different than some of the digital versions (when they released the record they moved 2 tracks) and so the momentum feels different -- but the playing is great.

The Brubeck/Bennett is a really good record. It has some great moments, neat historical context, with good -- but not spectacular sound quality.

The only repress I'd avoid is College of the Pacific -- ojc I think? (I'd have to look) which was a let down in terms of sound.

As someone mentioned, originals are pretty easy to find at cost effective points in the US (no idea in AUS) and have great sound.
 
HuddieLedbetter said:
Just finished a documentary on Amazon, The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News and while mostly the story of a very talented and somewhat challenged photographer, it has a lovely sense of the artist, time period, and a well documented apartment that had folks like Zoot Sims and Monk pass through... It's a neat time capsule I'd not a great documentary -- and some beautiful photography.
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I watched this a couple of weeks ago, it's absolutely fantastic. I love the scene with Monk and how he was teaching etc. Really good doc.
 
Bit of an odd one here and one which likely won't go anywhere but worth a punt. I have been trying to hunt down all of the Downbeat Jazz Record Review books for a while now and currently have 3 of them. I bought another a couple of days ago which is actually one I already have. Its volume 3 which covers 1958 record releases and has all the reviews from that year. I essentially would like to swap it for another in the series, this early one tends to be trickier to find than the later editions but I would still be open to a straight swap. Not sure if anyone here has some of these and would be interested? Here's a pic of my first copy, as I said I will likely wait for the second to come and swap that one.

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Selaws said:
Bit of an odd one here and one which likely won't go anywhere but worth a punt. I have been trying to hunt down all of the Downbeat Jazz Record Review books for a while now and currently have 3 of them. I bought another a couple of days ago which is actually one I already have. Its volume 3 which covers 1958 record releases and has all the reviews from that year. I essentially would like to swap it for another in the series, this early one tends to be trickier to find than the later editions but I would still be open to a straight swap. Not sure if anyone here has some of these and would be interested? Here's a pic of my first copy, as I said I will likely wait for the second to come and swap that one.

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Which volumes are you looking for/which do you already own? The books are awesome. I only have volume 5 and not looking to swap it but might help to know which you already own!
 
So still journeying with A Love Supreme. I don’t think I realized that he had released so many albums on impulse before it. Did anyone here start with A Love Supreme. I’m wondering if building up to it would help. I’ve never struggled with any of the Prestige or Atlantic stuff. It kind of looks like maybe he just felt freer at Impulse and also he started building the quartet shortly after... I wonder if context is part of what I’m missing. I also want to sit with the liner notes next time I listen to psalm as I did not ever notice the recitation of the poem bit.
 
Lee Newman said:
So still journeying with A Love Supreme. I don’t think I realized that he had released so many albums on impulse before it. Did anyone here start with A Love Supreme. I’m wondering if building up to it would help. I’ve never struggled with any of the Prestige or Atlantic stuff. It kind of looks like maybe he just felt freer at Impulse and also he started building the quartet shortly after... I wonder if context is part of what I’m missing. I also want to sit with the liner notes next time I listen to psalm as I did not ever notice the recitation of the poem bit.
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Coltrane was very much the poster child for Impulse! (initially it was Ray Charles). Im halfway through this fantastic book which might be of interest to you.

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Lee Newman said:
So still journeying with A Love Supreme. I don’t think I realized that he had released so many albums on impulse before it. Did anyone here start with A Love Supreme. I’m wondering if building up to it would help. I’ve never struggled with any of the Prestige or Atlantic stuff. It kind of looks like maybe he just felt freer at Impulse and also he started building the quartet shortly after... I wonder if context is part of what I’m missing. I also want to sit with the liner notes next time I listen to psalm as I did not ever notice the recitation of the poem bit.
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A Love Supreme is the album that really exploded my interest in jazz. I think I started with Kind of Blue, of course, and dug it, but didn't really go much deeper after hearing Bitches Brew next and thinking it was intriguing but too abstract for me at the time. Then I think My Favorite Things really put it's nails in me and made me keep going. I listened to A Love Supreme and Ah Um and from there I was down the rabbit hole. A Love Supreme showed me, I think, that all this technical mastery of instruments and brilliant improvisational skills that I thought jazz was about could be used to evoke more than just respect for the musicians abilities, that it could voice something deeper that really spoke to me. Mingus said you better get hit in your soul and damn if that isn't what happened to me.
 
I've got this cool piece of jazz history I want to share here because, frankly, this might be one of the only circles I'm a part of that might appreciate it! I picked this up at an Assistance League thrift store, in all likelihood paid more for it than I should have, but there you go. Here are pics and I'll provide a bit more detail below.

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I was able to find online the following description of what I think is this same program: "Ellison Greenstone, New York, [1946], Duke Ellington, Original Vintage Concert Program, SIGNED by Duke Ellington on the front wrap; undated but a program advertisement for "the recently published book ‘Duke Ellington’, written by Barry Ulanov and published by Creative Age Press" (first edition published in1946), the presence of vocalist, Marion Cox, in the orchestra, and a program photograph depicting Ellington at Carnegie Hall announcing the premier of his Deep South Suite (written in November, 1946,) almost certainly dates the program to that year. Very good, in original pictorial folio wraps, staple bound, 16 pp, 12" by 9", binding is tight, rubbing to wraps, small spot to rear wrap, pages are lightly creased and age toned, extensively illustrated with b&w photos"

My copy has the following autographs:
Duke Ellington
Freddy Guy
Oscar Pettiford
Johnny Hodges
Harry Carney
Sonny Greer
David Bascob
Harold Baker
Al Sears
Jimmy Hamilton
Russell Procope
Ray Nance
Shelton Hemphill
Claude Jones
Lawrence Brown
Francis Williams
Tyrell Glenn
Kay Davis

Kind of cool to recognize this is over 70 years old! Beyond that, well, I don't know, definitely interesting from a jazz history perspective, but I don't know much (if anything) about most of the musicians in the program.
 
Russ I said:
I've got this cool piece of jazz history I want to share here because, frankly, this might be one of the only circles I'm a part of that might appreciate it! I picked this up at an Assistance League thrift store, in all likelihood paid more for it than I should have, but there you go. Here are pics and I'll provide a bit more detail below.

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I was able to find online the following description of what I think is this same program: "Ellison Greenstone, New York, [1946], Duke Ellington, Original Vintage Concert Program, SIGNED by Duke Ellington on the front wrap; undated but a program advertisement for "the recently published book ‘Duke Ellington’, written by Barry Ulanov and published by Creative Age Press" (first edition published in1946), the presence of vocalist, Marion Cox, in the orchestra, and a program photograph depicting Ellington at Carnegie Hall announcing the premier of his Deep South Suite (written in November, 1946,) almost certainly dates the program to that year. Very good, in original pictorial folio wraps, staple bound, 16 pp, 12" by 9", binding is tight, rubbing to wraps, small spot to rear wrap, pages are lightly creased and age toned, extensively illustrated with b&w photos"

My copy has the following autographs:
Duke Ellington
Freddy Guy
Oscar Pettiford
Johnny Hodges
Harry Carney
Sonny Greer
David Bascob
Harold Baker
Al Sears
Jimmy Hamilton
Russell Procope
Ray Nance
Shelton Hemphill
Claude Jones
Lawrence Brown
Francis Williams
Tyrell Glenn
Kay Davis

Kind of cool to recognize this is over 70 years old! Beyond that, well, I don't know, definitely interesting from a jazz history perspective, but I don't know much (if anything) about most of the musicians in the program.
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This is amazing -- thank you for sharing...and you didn't overpay. As for the musicians, you are going to have a wonderful time with Google. That's an amazing lineup.... Heck, Johnny Hodges is a whole lifetime of jazz.
 
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