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legaleagle  06 Jun 15 12.05pm |
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That's for viewing today then!
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 Jamesey Wandsworth 06 Jun 15 4.16pm |
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Quote black eagle. at 06 Jun 2015 11.44am
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Quote black eagle. at 06 Jun 2015 4.14am
Art lakey and jimmy Smith are also hero's, albums like the big beat and night in Tunisia by Blakey are classics. as are albums like the Sermon and Back to Chicken Shack by the great Jimmy Smith. Some of the art work and pictures on the album covers are awesome to. By the way if you don't have it there is a very good book on Bud powell which i bought a few years ago and also Horace Silvers autobiography is very good also. Thanks for the info, Black Eagle. Might well look up the Silver book. Went to Paris in the '60s hoping to hear Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon or any other American musicians who were playing there but without success. Happy memories of bygone days but we still have the Blue Note recordings thanks to two men.
Dexter could really play as could Wayne shorter. i think drummer Kenny Clarke and trumpeter the late Donald Byrd lived in Paris for a while. in fact i think Clarke emmigrated to paris. you will love Silvers book,he is my fav piano player followed by Bobby Timmons and a few others.
Klook was based in Paris in those days and the band was a Euro-American outfit which included Tony Coe, Ronnie Scott himself, Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Zoot Sims, Kenny Clare (yes, two drummers) and many more brilliant jazzers.
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black eagle.  south croydon. 07 Jun 15 10.38am |
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Quote Jamesey at 06 Jun 2015 4.16pm
Quote black eagle. at 06 Jun 2015 11.44am
Quote Jamesey at 06 Jun 2015 8.45am
Quote black eagle. at 06 Jun 2015 4.14am
Art lakey and jimmy Smith are also hero's, albums like the big beat and night in Tunisia by Blakey are classics. as are albums like the Sermon and Back to Chicken Shack by the great Jimmy Smith. Some of the art work and pictures on the album covers are awesome to. By the way if you don't have it there is a very good book on Bud powell which i bought a few years ago and also Horace Silvers autobiography is very good also. Thanks for the info, Black Eagle. Might well look up the Silver book. Went to Paris in the '60s hoping to hear Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon or any other American musicians who were playing there but without success. Happy memories of bygone days but we still have the Blue Note recordings thanks to two men.
Dexter could really play as could Wayne shorter. i think drummer Kenny Clarke and trumpeter the late Donald Byrd lived in Paris for a while. in fact i think Clarke emmigrated to paris. you will love Silvers book,he is my fav piano player followed by Bobby Timmons and a few others.
Klook was based in Paris in those days and the band was a Euro-American outfit which included Tony Coe, Ronnie Scott himself, Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Zoot Sims, Kenny Clare (yes, two drummers) and many more brilliant jazzers.
Art Farmer is a great trumpet player also. i think the two most important bands are Art Blakeys Quintet the one with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan. and the Horace Silver Quintet the one with Blue mitchell trumpet and Junior cook tenor Sax.
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| legaleagle 07 Jun 15 11.48am |
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Having now watched the doc,reminds me, can we have an honourable mention for Thelonious Monk's "genius of modern music", vols 1 and 2, both melodic and innovative and years before the other stuff...
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| Jamesey Wandsworth 07 Jun 15 4.28pm |
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Promise I'll stop spouting now about the wonderful musicians I've heard in my own life! "legaleagle" as you mention the supreme composer, Monk, I went to see Charlie Rouse at the Bulls Head in Barnes in the '80s. It couldn't have been long before his passing but he was of course Monk's minder and collaborator and played tenor on many of his later recordings. His sax style had changed quite a lot since his Monk period but it was a privilege to be in the same room as a player who had accompanied and helped a jazz genius.
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| black eagle. south croydon. 07 Jun 15 4.31pm |
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Quote legaleagle at 07 Jun 2015 11.48am
Having now watched the doc,reminds me, can we have an honourable mention for Thelonious Monk's "genius of modern music", vols 1 and 2, both melodic and innovative and years before the other stuff...
as is monks brilliant corners album.
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| legaleagle 07 Jun 15 4.34pm |
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Charlie Rouse did a nice latter day album called "Brasil" For Monk,I really like "At Town Hall".Monk,big band style! Edited by legaleagle (07 Jun 2015 4.34pm)
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| black eagle. south croydon. 07 Jun 15 4.40pm |
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Quote Jamesey at 07 Jun 2015 4.28pm
Promise I'll stop spouting now about the wonderful musicians I've heard in my own life! "legaleagle" as you mention the supreme composer, Monk, I went to see Charlie Rouse at the Bulls Head in Barnes in the '80s. It couldn't have been long before his passing but he was of course Monk's minder and collaborator and played tenor on many of his later recordings. His sax style had changed quite a lot since his Monk period but it was a privilege to be in the same room as a player who had accompanied and helped a jazz genius. You carry on Jamesey this is a great thread,Jamsey did you ever see the great Sonny Stitt in concert,for me he is one of the very best alto sax players alongside Jackie Mc'clean.
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| legaleagle 07 Jun 15 7.00pm |
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Saw Sonny Stitt and Red Holloway at the Greyhound in Croydon! Must have been about 1980-81 ish
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 07 Jun 15 7.14pm |
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This thread has me a little interested, I know Davis and Coltrane stuff quite well.
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| Joe Bloggs Nr Norwich 07 Jun 15 7.37pm |
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Many years ago their was a programme by John Grierson in which he introduced excerpts from Documentaries and It seemed to me that most weeks during the course of the series that he would make reference to Monk. I have loads of stuff by Monk and recently picked up a pristine vinyl album in Lisbon. One of the main points to come out of the Blue note programme was that Europeans are seen to be more avid followers of Jazz than the land of its birth. On a trip to Scandinavia I was thrilled to find that our hotel room was the "Ben Webster" a big favourite of mine. I started listening to jazz at a young age The Pres. Mulligan.Kenton.Parker.Tatum even Pee wee hunt,I enjoy most forms of music with the caveat that I miss out on music that needs an electricity supply rather than pure musicianship ! and I cannot abide Les Paul. Anyway its good to know that some guys on here are into jazz.
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| Joe Bloggs Nr Norwich 07 Jun 15 7.50pm |
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One other comment regarding jazz is that I went to an event at the south bank where Sonny Stitt-Willie"The Lion" Smith of stride piano fame and other artists were featured in a Premier of a film about Harlem Jazz Musicians ,sorry cannot recall the full title---it was also on dvd and cd.
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