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One of the lesser known influential jazz trumpet players of the day. Played in bands with some of the greats, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and two of my personal favorites, Charlie Parker and Art Blakey. Kenny made quite a few albums with his own band, this one back in 1960. Only six tracks here, which was customary for jazz albums of the era. Longer tracks of course. Only one did nothing for me. The older I get, the more I appreciate this type of music. Classical and Jazz are the only genres I can say that about. Nothing available from this album on youtube, so I included a short bad clip of a live performance. Not sure when it's from.
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
Worst Track - Tonica
Best Track - This Love Of Mine
1) A Waltz - **
2) Monks Mood - **
3) In Your Own Sweet Way - **
4) Horn Salute - **
5) Tonica - *
6) This Love Of Mine - **
3's - 0
2;s - 5
1's - 1
Rating - 1.8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pu7mTRrfvw
Another jazz casualty...and he was straight-arrow--died of congenital kidney disease. He's important enough and underrated enough to post his wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Dorham
I know him for "Blue Bossa" but here's some others as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M69YdmAJoLs << from a '63 Joe Henderson recording. Has become a "go-to" Latin staple for Gringo and Latin bands alike. Lovely tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-8NrXv06Go << from the Quiet Kenny album...and wasn't he just that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ohyYeAoaDA << BN put him with stellar folks for this live gig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myLXPUBB_w << he was comfortable in that Latin mode--a little rip of "Manteca" but nothing serious (I'm sure Dizzy approved).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV7wZ3hfERw << "Straight Ahead" and it was
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CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:i agree, Ray would fit in the 'soul/r&b' genre, thats the thing i dislike about genres, you know labelling artists, my Jackie Wilson 'listening to' in the 'soul/r&b' genre would have been just as fitting here. i get so confused sometimes over which genre to put my reviews into because of that reason.
How do you fit Neil Young into a 'genre'? he's done just about everything,except heavy metal/classical, whereas genres are justified for the likes of PF, Stones, Macca, Madonna, and a million other artists.
Thinking way outside the box (maybe off the playground entirely) but could a Multi-genre Forum be established for such artists as you have mentioned? If a certain artist does a certain piece, it could get talked about in that whatever genre with a STRONG pointer to an artists's heading in multi-gen? Just a thought (you listening, Bill Nelson?)
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CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:'in the chapel in the moonlight' would have to be my favourite Deano song ever,great talent was Deano!
Here 'tis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV7wZ3hfERw << I wish he hadn't needed to turn himself into a joke but we all do the necessary to get over...
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JazzyRandy Wrote:I listened to two jazz albums today:
Tom Harrell Roman Nights 2010
Scott Colley Architect Of The Silent Moment 2007
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I got the Harrell earlier this year and it's grown on me tremendously since my first few listens. At first I thought it was competent, but it didn't thrill me much. Now, it's one of my top 5 albums of the year. Two songs are excellent: "Let The Children Play" and "Agua". Another four are very very good. Only two leave me lukewarm, but none are bad.
I got the Colley about a month ago. I've only heard it a few times, but so far it's not a big favorite. Two songs stand out, the title song and "Masoosong". Another two or three have the potential to stand out. Only two really turn me off.
Tom Harrell is the schiz in hard-bop trumpet. Since '76 (with him taking the '90's off),his recordings are consistently excellent, as critics and audience agree. Here's AMG on this piece: http://www.allmusic.com/album/roman-nights-mw0001962996 Here's the lovely title piece in a duo setting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZYWS_h0BI << It's called a trumpet but looks like a fluegelhorn, something Art Farmer would be real familiar with.
Scott Colley Unusual to have a bass player as group leader; even more unusual to have a non-Belgian harmonica player. Here's a couple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHOnvZl6f0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Yxeau_LSQ << a live perf last year--a wee bit different. AMG on Architect...: http://www.allmusic.com/album/architect-...0000560077
Here's about that mouth-music player: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A9goire_Maret
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Rediscovered my love for Miles Graham, after hearing 'I'll Never Let You Down' on Graham Norton show BBC Radio 2!
https://soundcloud.com/milesgraham/illneverletyoudown
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Tiggi Wrote:![[Image: 511d0gEVKzL._SL500_AA300_.jpg]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511d0gEVKzL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
10 discs of vintage Blues from the '30s, '40s, & '50s by the likes of Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, and the list goes on.
Sound quality's a bit skronky, but that's to be expected with a lot of this material.
A real treasure trove of earlyish Blues, and it's a very cheap set.
What a great "find" Tiggi has brought us. Rave reviews from critics and listeners. This is juke-box style presentation--you don't know what's gonna come next. If you want to scale up from this box--say, you're driving from Chicago to LA (Australians and Canadians are invited to use their long-drive benchmarks)--more than 2000 miles all the way--and are old-fashioned enough to do CDs, this will sustain--100 musicians, 52 discs--2 artists per disc so some dupe with Diggin'...Not pimpin' Amazon (got my own literary issues with them lately), just for the info and opinion. Still, they set the benchmark for new at $.60/artist. And if a new set, a free Hohner harmonica. http://www.amazon.com/ABC-Blues-Robert-J...+the+blues
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Mr.Soul Wrote:^ Nice one Tiggi. I'll need to consider purchasing that. 'The Sky Is Crying' is one of the best blues songs I know. 'Dust My Broom' is also a classic.
Meet Juniour Kimbrough, a Mississippi bluesman who wasn't first signed to a record label until the early 90s, by which time he was well into his 60s. Sadly, he died only 6 years after releasing his debut album 'All Night Long' in 1992. Oh, and he had 36 children!
[video=youtube;z8kdVKvTmls]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8kdVKvTmls[/video]
'Work Me Baby'- (amazing song which isn't available on youtube)
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/s...0me%20baby
Much as I dislike labels as too limiting, Mr. Kimbrough and RL Burnside exemplify what's called "Northern Mississippi trance Blues". Most think of "Delta" when thinking Mississippi; this is way different. Some tunes from both gents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzuk-vJmpY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Taae2zLfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm06GowX3gU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MhPxRbgXkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7PdxdXzskU << 20 years later, on French TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALi97_vqkU << wish they'd back a little with the rhythm--the essence get through though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54PV_921LtU << good song solo snippet, with convo
The North Mississippi All-Stars use elements of this with a Rock edge. Not really the same though they are excellent and feature Mr. Burnside's son, Duwayne. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/north-mis.../biography
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JazzyRandy Wrote:Jackie McLean Fire & Love 1997
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Jazz fans are probably familiar with McLean from his innovative and exciting 60s Blue Note albums. I have a few of those and love them. (That reminds me, I need to pick up those I don't own.) What many people may not know is McLean continued to make quality jazz through the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Later in his career, Jackie was joined by his son Renee, with Jackie playing the alto sax and Renee manning the tenor sax. This album features septet including Steve Davis on trombone. The music is delicious hard-bop with some sprinklings of post-bop and a hint of outside playing. "Mr. E" and "Optimism" get the album off to a rollicking start and the album is balanced with uptempo tunes and a couple/three of ballads. It's definitely an exercise of Fire and Love.
Couldn't find anything from that disc. How about a delicious set with Mal Waldron--these are a hard-bop fan's delight.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC2iBCd_psk << Now here's a happening Quartet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ2OB52iQN0 << Mr. Waldron left his very successful big band behind for a while to do this tour...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldDKkcF0TLc << I find these renditions mildly cliched...which is a good thing. Re-enforcement of themes for me and mine, and a great all-in-one-place learning tool for budding players. Win-win for the Big Picture folks and thoroughly enjoyable for all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKUEzir9joQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3iWmsAVlE << This'll tear your heart out and stomp on that sucker. Trust me.
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Mr.Soul Wrote:
Rickie Lee Jones: 'Balm In Gilead' (2009)
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I have ruthlessly stripped out all of Mr.Soul's description of this fine album to tell you of her newest. But a digression: Ms. Jones herself. She is unparallelled in American music in showing us so many differenta aspects of the same person/persona. Rough comparos to Tom Waits may apply. Ms. Jones every album differs and recently she brought us a disc of covers--imaginatively re-imagined covers. Admittedly, she's an acquired taste but once you do acquire, you are fan+. Here's the rabid description: http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-devil-...0002404588 and some tunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huglp30mYSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIdmC7z7Ow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Bnzahm-S8
BONUS: Full album http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-devil-...0002404588
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Mr.Soul Wrote:[video=youtube;QooCN5JbOkU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooCN5JbOkU[/video]
Amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, relaxing, timeless or instrumental. Words simply cannot describe this song.
It's truly incredible what one man, namely Peter Green, and his guitar can do to a listener.
I have an alternate, very harsh view of this song. Aimless, harmless noodling, a band warm-up song--no better. These guys did so much other stuff individually or group including softer material that was so much more pointedly musical...I just don't get the adulation for this toss-off. "Operators are standing by to take your calls..."
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