What Jazz are you listening to now?

[JBS]

This landed today, so at least the first CD tonight.

The set contains two series of concerts.
CDs 1 through 4 give three successive nights at the Festival Mondial du Jazz, Antibes/Juan-les-pins, July 26, 27, and 28, 1963.
CDs 5 and 6 give two sets (identified in the track listing as 1st Concert and 2nd Concert) played at the Paris Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, October 1, 1964.

In Antibes, George Coleman was on tenor saxophone; in Paris the saxophonist was Wayne Shorter.
Otherwise the musicians were the same in both series:
Ron Carter bass
Tony Williams drums
Herbie Hancock piano
And of course MD on trumpet.

A slight source of amusement is the opening announcement in French, by which the pianist's name becomes les tres Francais  "Erbie Ancock".

[brewski]

A fantastic concert from jazz singer Jill Scott at the 2008 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. I can't believe I have never heard her. The band is superb, too.

-Bruce

[San Antone]

A fantastic concert from jazz singer Jill Scott at the 2008 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. I can't believe I have never heard her. The band is superb, too.

-Bruce

I have been a fan of Jill Scott since her first record, released in 2000, Who is Jill Scott, Words and Sounds, Vol. 1.  Here's a clip - it is informed by jazz, but really is r&b, or what they called then neo-soul.

I have enjoyed all of her later releases and look forward to her new music that is jazz in all aspects since she is a fantastic singer and gifted songwriter.

[SimonNZ]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Charlie Byrd.

[T. D.]

The Mobley 1950s Blue Note Mosaic is a favorite, but this is pretty good as well. Listened this weekend.
Following up with this:


The recordings with Konitz from the Confucius Restaurant, Manhattan (available on various releases) are really special.

[brewski]

I have been a fan of Jill Scott since her first record, released in 2000, Who is Jill Scott, Words and Sounds, Vol. 1.  Here's a clip - it is informed by jazz, but really is r&b, or what they called then neo-soul.

I have enjoyed all of her later releases and look forward to her new music that is jazz in all aspects since she is a fantastic singer and gifted songwriter.

Thanks! From these comments and others elsewhere, I need to catch up. She is really something; I've watched that Rotterdam show twice already.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

[KevinP]

[SimonNZ]

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

A delightful combination of guitar and organ in well-paced selection of numbers.

[KevinP]

This isn't music, and as a talk radio/podcast, perhaps it doesn't belong here, but it's really good.

This one (there's a follow-up I haven't heard yet) is a pannel discussion on J J Johnson on his centenial year. Mostly on him as a trombonist but also touching on him as a jazz and third stream composer and arranger. I have some of this (and love it), but there's more than I knew about which I now need to explore.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWknKAlpn8
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I left a comment there, which is an anecdote that I know I shared here before, albeit years ago. I remember because Bogie found it particularly funny.

[KevinP]

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[T. D.]

[SimonNZ]

[KevinP]

Duke Ellington, Private Collection vol.10, containing the most complete studio version of Black, Brown and Beige. Even that claim relies on it being completed by a version of 'The Blues' made a few years later.

'The Blues' was always my least favourite part of the 1943 studio recording. But I've come to like this version, with a male vocalist.

[San Antone]

Duke Ellington, Private Collection vol.10, containing the most complete studio version of Black, Brown and Beige. Even that claim relies on it being completed by a version of 'The Blues' made a few years later.

'The Blues' was always my least favourite part of the 1943 studio recording. But I've come to like this version, with a male vocalist.

Thanks for this, I wasn't aware of this recoding of B,B,&B, but it is yet another incomplete version: "Removing a couple of sections from the original score -- the wartime march that ended the 1943 version is gone, and the "Beige" section is drastically truncated --"

The only complete version by Ellington I know of is the Carnegie Concert of Jan. 1943. The Mahalia Jackson recording is vastly edited, more than this one in the Private Collection.  But the version I prefer for completeness and audio quality is the one released in 2020 by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.