This last few posts have prompted me to find albums by Sphere (the Monk tribute band which featured Rouse) on Tidal. Not easy. The so-called artist page is a mess with lots of non-relevant material.
So far I’ve found Live on Tour, Complete Live at Umbria Jazz…and that’s it. The albums on Elektra and Verve seem to be missing.
edit: have found Pumpkin’s Delight (Red).
What It Is? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 1 is a live album by drummer Ed Blackwell. It was recorded in August 1992 at Yoshi’s in Oakland, California, and was released by Enja Records in 1993. On the album, Blackwell is joined by saxophonist and flutist Carlos Ward, cornetist Graham Haynes, and bassist Mark Helias. The album, which is the companion to What It Be Like? Ed Blackwell Project Vol. 2, is one of Blackwell’s last recordings; he died in October 1992.
Don‘t quite know what to think Till Brönner‘s Oceana. There are very good musicians on this album, particularly the singers: Carla Bruni (well, agreed, debatable), Madeleine Peyroux (who I value very much), and Luciana Souza. The album starts with a nice first track, but the second track, Till Brönner (the German Chat Baker) singing This Guy‘s in Love with You is just YAK. When the track started, my wife immediately asked: is this Jazz? The other tracks are better, at least I think. I battled my way through this album, just because I have it in my library. Still undecided if I should delete it from my library. The recording is very good, though.
Thelonious Monk - Paris (23 Feb) 1964 ORTF Concert. I have read that Monk was down with his illness during this concert. Rouse and company stepped up with the extended solos when needed- wonderful.
There have been a few sporadic French releases, a 2CD/2LP set (1989) and a couple of Vol. 1 , Vol.2 from CDs 2007 and a 2CD US (2002) set from Thelonious Records. It sounds like the concert was well recorded- It is time for a ‘deluxe’ reissue of this one?!
this index (the links are live on the youtube source) is from the ‘comments’ section (by: @TT-gj7iiTT-gj7ii**)**
00:00 Four In One
11:07 I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
23:10 Straight No Chaser
31:43 Drum Solo (Ben Riley)
34:34 Well, You Needn’t
43:40 Epistrophy
48:36 Blue Monk
59:31 Sweet And Lovely
1:16:32 Hackensack
1:24:57 Rhythm-A-Ning
1:35:04 Bright Mississippi
1:42:29 Epistrophy (reprise)
Recorded on May 7, 1964, and released on the Blue Note label. This album features Joe Chambers’ recording debut. Although it features performances by Hubbard’s recent collaborators Ronnie Mathews and Eddie Khan, it was a departure in style from his work with Mathews and the Jazz Messengers.
Not for the timid;
A legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves’ private tape library, roars into the station June 21, 2024. For the first time, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, & William Parker —three lions of the Black American jazz avant-garde— are finally heard together on record, presented here across three audiophile-quality LPs for two brutalizingly joyous hours of real ju-ju & musical mastery.
The trio of Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, & William Parker gave only seven public performances between 1985 & 2013, & released no recordings. Their June 1991 two-night stand at the short-lived Lower East Side venue Webo, long referenced as a signal event in New York free jazz’s 1990s resurgence, has been a topic of discussion among close followers of the music for decades. In the uncompromising grassroots spirit of the 1970s New York Musicians Organization & loft jazz movements from which they had emerged, the band produced & promoted the Webo concerts themselves. Photography and audio recording were not allowed at the concerts, & this official recording, commissioned by the artists, was never released —until now.
So vivid was the lore surrounding Webo that it topped the list of recordings sought by Black Editions Archive from Graves’ private collection. The tapes maximally substantiate eyewitness accounts describing extra-sensory levels of communication within the band, & the extraordinary clarity & impact of their performance. From William Parker’s liner notes: “Imagine a village or choir of drummers, horn players & strings. You can hear the bass & drums churning with a call & response, a melodic-rhythmic propulsion. In reality there is only one drummer, one bass, & one saxophone.”
[Source; Bandcamp]
Great reminder to play this again.
When I was at school, around 1964, a friend had volume 1 (volume 2 was much harder to find) and we played it all the time, while admiring the thick cardboard sleeve and the inner showing other Blue Note releases.
Upojenie is a 2002 collaboration between singer Anna Maria Jopek) and guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in Warsaw, Poland. It features Jopek’s compositions and traditional folk song arrangements, as well as some of Metheny’s tracks, such as “Are You Going with Me?” and “Follow Me”. It was released outside of Poland in 2008.
I played the new Metheny album Third eye III today, which now is making some sense to me, as it comes to life on my main HP system (SPL Phonitor SE and Heddphone 2GT), as all the detail is pulled out of this busy music on this relatively Hi End HP system.
But I really feel Metheny’s playing is inspired on Upojenie and the blistering guitar syth solo on the second half of “Are You Going With Me” is brilliant. For me this is the last Metheny album that stands out.
Play “Are You Going With Me” at full volume!
Ptah, the El Daoud is the third solo album by American jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, released on Impulse! Records in September 1970. The album was recorded in the basement of her home in Dix Hills, New York, in a session on January 26, 1970.
Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Gil Fuller featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Pacific Jazz label
New Kenny Burrell, live 1977 session at Sandy’s. Good listen, big bass from Reggie Johnson, Alan Dawson on drums.
Sam Rivers is a major figure in contemporary American music, an authentic jazz original. “Celebration” was recorded live at The Jazz Bakery (Culver City, CA) in September, 2003 to celebrate Sam’s 80th birthday. Each member of the Sam Rivers Trio (Doug Matthews and Anthony Cole) is fluent on multiple instruments which makes for a broad canvas for Rivers to paint his compositions. (Source: Bandcamp)
Sam also did an 80th Birthday tour of the UK, including his trio and a UK big band. I got to see him at the gig they did in Bath and had the opportunity to chat with him after the concert, when he signed some LPs. A nice, friendly guy.
He played just about everything on that gig - including violin and piano.
Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) that came together with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music, with a number of influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock and noise.
She Sleeps, She Sleeps is the trio´s fifth album and displays an intriguing cocktail of dark and brooding, hypnotic slowcore jazz.
released January 15, 2016
(Source: Bandcamp)
Dexter Gordon, saxophone; Bud Powell, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums | Our Man In Paris | Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series
“If [Our Man in Paris] is not in your collection, it should be. Gordon is one of the all-time best boppers, and Paris is arguably his best recording.” [Marc Davis, writing for All About Jazz - Source: Wikipedia]
Listening to the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series version, remastered by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio. Great sound quality, Gordon’s saxophone and Clarke’s drums in particulay sound amazing. The kind of record that leaves me wanting more when the final notes have faded.
Claude
@Sailor I am a Till Brönner fan. I haven’t listen for a while to his music but will play the album tonight. Agree on Madeleine Peyroux by the way: very nice. Iver
