Archive for 2009

JdL Quartet en concert à Conflans…

In Events on November 12, 2009 at 1:41 pm

JdL Quartet en Concert

Bobby Few (piano), Serge Lamboley (batterie),

Hervé Czak (Contrebasse), Jacques De Lignières (Saxophones)

Samedi 21 Novembre, Jazz au Confluent, Conservatoire de musique, 74 rue Désiré Clément, 78700 Conflans Ste Honorine

JdL Quartet en concert à Conflans… …Le sax alto se vit dans le jazz à l’ombre de l’oiseau Parker, dont la pyrotechnie aérienne est devenue la référence absolue et incontournable des altistes. Or, il existe au moins une autre voie, celle tracée par le moins connu Art Pepper, musicien californien dont la vie tourmentée se reflète dans un timbre fragile, voire écorché mais dynamique, qui le rapprocherait d’une forme expressioniste. C’est plutôt dans cette direction que se pencherait Jacques de Lignières, un musicien dont le style, de prime abord détendu à la limite de la nonchalance, révèle vite un goût pour les tensions, et une envie de la note et de la phrase qui en dit plus sur la vie intérieure… On y entend pousser jusqu’à la plainte, celle qui puise dans le langage du blues. Sa composition Temps incertain est exemplaire de cette dualité. Sur un rythme à la légèreté façon habañera se déploie un thème sur fond de canevas harmonique aux changements déstabilisants comme le suggère le titre. La référence à Pepper, on la retrouve explicitement dans la reprise d’un lancinant blues en 5 temps, Las Cuevas de Mario (Pepper’s Caves). Déjouant la difficulté du métrique, la solide assise rythmique fournie par Hervé Czak à la contrebasse permet au pianiste Olivier Léger de développer son jeu puissant au son perlé dans de belles envolées. JdL est un arpenteur de la culture musicale, bien au-delà des confins des grands standards : il n’hésite pas à s’inspirer, par exemple, d’un Prélude de Chopin pour en extraire une “jazz waltz”: Lost Prelude, chargée d’émotion ; ou encore à nous convier à partager un bon couscous modal et « caravanesque » à souhait dans l’ambiance d’un bon petit resto nord africain : l’écriture d’Hotel de la Gare vient d’un temps où JdL s’y produisait souvent à Paris… On y met le cap plein sud, darbouka à l’appui, pour un voyage où Serge Lamboley peut donner libre court à son imagination et sa maitrîse des polyrhythmies. Enfin, JdL est un musicien généreux et ouvert, comme en témoigne l’énergie qu’il consacre depuis deux ans maintenant à l’initiative Jazz au Confluent, une association de bénévoles qui organise tous les ans une quinzaine de concerts de qualité à entrée libre. Alan Fell

Bobby Few_De Lignières

Le Projet Ethiopiques

In Events on October 26, 2009 at 12:01 pm

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Cinq Compositions de Mulatu Astatké, trois venant de l’album Ethio Jazz Vol.1, puis deux venant de l’album Ethiopiques Volume 4.

Ethio Jazz Volume 1

1) Mulatu

2) Tsome Diguwa

3) Yekermo Sew

Puis sur un second album:

Ethiopiques Volume 4

4) Sabyé (My Saba)

5) Yékèrmo Sèw ( A Man of Experience and Wisdom)

Ils sont dans la Box et/ou dans la librairie

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Mulatu Asatké

In Bio on October 26, 2009 at 11:40 am

Mulatu Playlist sur Deezerdeez

mulatu

Mulatu Astatke (ou Astatqé) est un musicien et arrangeur éthiopien, né en 1943 à Jimma en Éthiopie. Il est connu comme étant le père de l’Éthio-jazz.

Percussioniste de formation, Mulatu Astatke joue notamment du vibraphone et des congas. Après de courtes études scientifiques à Birmingham en Angleterre, il intégre à la fin des années 1950 le Trinity College of Music de Londres pour étudier la clarinette et la composition, puis part à New York, et Boston, où il a été le premier étudiant africain au Collège de musique de Berklee. Il en a ramené des influences jazz et musique latine pour les mélanger à la musique traditionnelle éthiopienne. Dans les années 1970, il joue avec de nombreux artistes de jazz américain dont Duke Ellington. En Éthiopie, il produit des chansons pour d’autres artistes, notamment Mahmoud Ahmed.

Après le succès de la collection Éthiopiques éditée par Buda Musique à partir de 1999, et celui du film Broken Flowers de Jim Jarmusch en2005, dont il signe une partie de la musique, il entame une importante seconde carrière internationale. Mulatu Astatke enseigne également auMassachusetts Institute of Technology de Cambridge près de Boston dans le Massachusetts .

Depuis quelques années Mulatu Astatke se produit régulièrement avec deux groupes : l’américain Either/Orchestra et l’européen The Heliocentrics.

Le MySpace de Malatu

Gamme Ethiopienne

In Scales, Technics on October 23, 2009 at 12:16 pm

notePour notre prochain Projet…. la Gamme Ethiopienne:

1,  2,  b3,  4,  5,  b6,  b7,


The Ethiopian scale consists of 7 different notes. Notice how that when you ascend the scale Bb, Eb, and F natural notes are played, and when you descend the scale F#, E natural, and B natural notes are played. This concept is also seen in the Melodic Minor Scale.
Formula: WS, HS, WS, WS, HS, WS, WS

ScaleEthiopianHS = half step (one fret)
WS = whole step (two frets)

Recado by Djalma himself

In Uncategorized on October 13, 2009 at 10:25 am

This is Djalma Ferreira, Com Orgao e Orquestra – Baile de Formatura (no date), for Discos Drink, featuring the organ of Djalma Ferreira, his orchestra and the always above the average arrangements of Maestro Nelsinho. Baile de Formatura is how we call the graduate balls, which is the album theme. Reading the back cover, I could also learn that Djalma Ferreira is the owner of Discos Drink and probably Drink nightclub. Tracks include Recado ! This is one of the very first recording of Recado, but no date on the album. (fm Loronix)

Listen Recado Here

Baile de Formatura

Fréquentation du site

In Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 at 7:49 am

Merci à tous pour vos visites, la fréquentation du site augmente régulièrement et sûrement, pour preuve, le nombre de visites mensuel ci-dessous.

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Visites venant du monde entier.

jazzatelierworldEncore merci

Well You Need’nt (Jimmy Smith)

In Media on September 28, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Well You Need’nt avec Jimmy Smith au Piano et Kenny Burrell à la guitare

venant de l’album Second Coming de Jimmy Smith.Well You neednt

Leon Russell & The Carpenters plays This Masquerade

In Uncategorized on September 26, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Leon Russell
from http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/jun06/dawson57.htm
Leon who?

Check the song here

Well, actually, his real name is Claude Russell Bridges and if you are a long time resident of Tulsa, you may have known him or his family. Nothing ringing a bell yet? Well, let’s go back to his lyrics above. I’ll bet that as soon as you hear the first notes of his beautiful composition, “A Song for You,” you will recognize it immediately. You have your choice of artists because it has been recorded by vocalists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Andy Williams, Aretha Franklin, Simply Red, Christina Aguilera and Michael Buble (just to name a few). Recently, it was impeccably performed again by American Idol, Elliott Yamin, in the 2006 American Idol Finals.

One reviewer has described Leon Russell as “pop music’s most anonymous big shot.” Always just below the radar, Leon has written and worked with some of the greatest names in music. Beginning a study of classical piano at age three, he soon became proficient on several instruments. At age fourteen, he began playing backup for Jerry Lee Lewis in a Tulsa nightclub (he had to fib about his age to land the job). A couple years later he moved to Los Angeles where he continued his career as a session player for artists and producers as varied as Glen Campbell, the Byrds, Herb Alpert, Phil Spector and Snuff Garrett.

Leon’s first major songwriting hit came in 1970 when legendary artist, Joe Cocker recorded his song, “Delta Lady,” and Leon became the organizer of Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour. Also in 1970, Leon released a self-titled solo album that included his haunting number, “A Song for You.” One fan who heard Leon’s album was a young arranger named Richard Carpenter. “A Song for You” became the title cut of the Carpenters 1972 recording — one of the strongest albums of their star-studded career. Richard later commented:

I heard this song on Leon Russell’s debut album and thought immediately it would be a good vehicle not only for Karen’s lead, but for our overdubbed “choral” sound as well.1

But how, you might wonder, did Richard Carpenter even know enough about Leon Russell to seek out and listen to his debut album? The answer is that this was not the first time the Carpenters had struck gold with a Leon Russell song. Their self-titled third album released in 1971, had also included a unique and mystical Russell masterpiece called “Superstar.” Richard recalls:

Karen and I came home from the studio relatively early one evening in early ‘71. She went to bed, but I tuned in The Tonight Show. The host, Johnny Carson, was championing a then relatively unknown performer named Bette Midler. One of the songs she sang was “Superstar.” It was quite a bit different than what my arrangement turned out to be, but I knew it could be a hit. As the lyric never mentions the word “Superstar,” I had to quiz a few people about it to find out its name in order to get a lead sheet or recording. It turned out that Leon Russell and Bonnie Blamlett had written it for Rita Coolidge and the Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen recording and tour. The album was on A&M and I owned a copy of it, but never got around to playing it. I opened the album, familiarized myself with the piece and constructed my arrangement; a perfect song for Karen and the Carpenters’ sound.2

The rest — as they say — is history! The Carpenters’ version of “Superstar” went to #2 on the Billboard Charts and propelled the brother-sister duo into Grammy history as Best Pop Vocal Group in 1971. “Superstar” has since been covered by a plethora of artists including Luther Vandross, Joe Cocker and Ruben Studdard. (It is, incidentally, one of the only successful songs in history that does not contain the title anywhere in the song!)

The vulnerable lyrics and delicately crafted melodic structure of Leon’s songs make them an arranger’s dream — adaptable to any genre and timeless in their musical and lyrical impact. Let’s look at one more Russell masterpiece…the song entitled, “This Masquerade” which also, by the way, became a Carpenters hit in 1973. (Did Richard know a great songwriter when he found one, or what?)

“This Masquerade” is another intricate tapestry of words, melody, harmony and rhythm that has been recorded by artists of every genre. The Carpenters were not the only ones to score with this song. George Benson won Record of the Year at the 1976 Grammys with his version. Artists as varied as Vic Damone, Robert Goulet, David Sanborn, Doc Severnsen — and even Cybill Shepherd — have recorded their own renditions.

220CarpentersThe musical depth and craftsmanship of “This Masquerade” is stunning! If you visit a digital Internet download site like iTunes, you will even find classical arrangements of this song. Music theorists have Internet discussions about musicality employed by the composer. Like a ten-carat diamond, it is exquisite from every facet.

If you are an aspiring songwriter who has never studied the work of Leon Russell, you are definitely missing out! Take time to discover and examine the panorama of styles and techniques in his amazing songs. Leon has set the bar very high for all who come after him and his songs remind us why we wanted to become songwriters in the first place.

Now in his sixties with a flowing mane of white hair, Leon still travels the country with his incredible band. Check out his website at leonrussell.com and make note of his tour schedule. If he comes within a hundred miles of you, don’t miss the chance to hear this genius musician live. His like will not pass this way again.

This Masquerade – Solo from George Benson

In Technics on September 26, 2009 at 10:09 pm

This Masquerade – Guitar Solo from  George Benson, as played by Georgie in Breezin’ is posted here in the Box, also the song is here

Breezin' George Benson

Breezin' George Benson

Leon Russell Bio

In Bio on September 26, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Leon RussellIl est l’un des plus grands artistes cultes de l’histoire de la musique. Excellent musicien de studio et ami intime, entre autres, de J.J. Cale et de George Harrison, il partagea en 1970 avec plus de 40 musiciens et choristes sur scéne la tournée americaine de Joe Cocker [MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN ]; il participa en1971 au célèbre Concert for Bangladesh et sollicita l’aide de George pour ses chansons “Hummingbird” et “Shoot Out The Plantation” pour son disque “Leon Russell”, sorti le 24 avril 1970.

Il a fondé à Tulsa son propre studio d’enregistrement baptisé “the Church Recording Studio” repris depuis par Steve Ripley, son ancien ingénieur du son et fondateur du groupe country

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Leon Russell

“the Tractors”.

This Masquerade (Leon Russell)

In Album on September 21, 2009 at 8:17 pm


“This Masquerade”
Single by George Benson
from the album Breezin’
B-side “Lady”
Released 1976
Format 7″ single
Genre R&B/Jazz
Length 3:18
Label Warner
Writer(s) Leon Russell
Producer Tommy LiPuma
George Benson singles chronology
This Masquerade
(1976)
“Breezin’”
(1976)


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . ”This Masquerade” is a song written by Leon Russell.  The song appeared on the B-side of the single for Russell’s 1972 hit “Tight Rope“.

The Carpenters version was released on their album Now & Then (1973), and performed on TV withElla Fitzgerald, the medley in which it was sung was subsequently released on the compilation album As Time Goes By.

The song has also been recorded by many other artists. The Carpentersrecorded a version of the song and released it on their 1973 Now & Then album, as well as on the B-side of “Please Mr. Postman” in 1974. Shirley Bassey has also recorded this song, first released on her 1982 albumAll By Myself. Other artists to perform it include Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘77, No MercyRobert GouletHelen ReddyBob Berg and Kenny Rogers. The song was also a top-ten pop and R&B hit for jazz guitarist/vocalistGeorge Benson, who recorded it on his 1976 signature album Breezin’. It reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Hot Soul Singles chart. Benson won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year with his version of the song. SaxophonistDavid Sanbornalso recorded the song on his 1995 “Pearls” project.Leon Russell’s version is part of the soundtrack for the Exorcist director William Friedkin’s psychological thriller film Bug. The Bug Soundtrack is released on May 22, 2007. It also appeared in the movie The Pursuit of HappynessXX

This Masquerade Lyrics (Leon Russell)

In Lyrics on September 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm

Are we really happy with this lonely game we play
Looking for words to say
Searching but not finding understanding anyway
We’re lost in this masquerade

Both afraid to say we’re just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We’re lost inside this lonely game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
every time I see your eyes
No matter how hard I try
To understand the reason why
we carry on this way
We’re lost in a masquerade

We could just start over
but it’s oh so hard to do
When you’re lost in a masquerade


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György Ligeti – Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes

In Uncategorized on September 8, 2009 at 9:18 pm

Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes

Le Poème symphonique pour 100 métronomes est une œuvre musicale du compositeur hongrois György Ligeti composée en 1962.
Le morceau nécessite un chef d’orchestre, et dix exécutants afin d’opérer une préparation manuelle minutieuse. Chacun des cent métronomes est placé sur la scène, remonté et ajusté à une certaine vitesse. Une fois qu’ils sont tous remontés, ils sont lancés aussi simultanément que possible. Les exécutants sortent de la salle, et alors seulement le public peut rentrer ; il s’installe alors que les métronomes battent la mesure. Les métronomes s’arrêtent les uns après les autres et laissent percevoir de plus en plus nettement la périodicité des battements. Ensuite, seuls quelques-uns battent ; ce sont ceux qui ont été réglés aux vitesses les plus lentes. La pièce se termine après que le dernier métronome a battu seul quelque temps. La pièce dure un peu moins d’une vingtaine de minutes.
Ligeti ne répéta pas ce type d’expérience, mais plusieurs de ses pièces instrumentales qui ont suivi ont exploité cette modification lente d’un paysage sonore.
La pièce a été créée à Hilversum, aux Pays-Bas, en 1963, et a été un énorme scandale. Le concert filmé par la télévision hollandaise ne fut jamais diffusé, remplacé par un match de football. La pièce a été très rarement jouée en public depuis, principalement à cause de sa difficulté de réalisation. Elle a en revanche été enregistrée à plusieurs reprises.
En 1995, le sculpteur Gilles Lacombe invente un dispositif qui facilite considérablement son exécution, puisque la pièce peut être jouée automatiquement, sans l’intervention d’exécutants.

Jim Hall Gears in 1993

In Gear, Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 at 9:05 am
Jim Hall gear - Blue Note NY - March 9th 1993 01 par chimsrichalds007

Jim Hall’s amplifier and speaker rig for his gig at the Blue Note March, 9 1993

Walter Woods Mi 100 amp
Harry Kolbe ported speaker cabinet
Alesis Microverb
Digitech Whammy WH1

from:http://www.flickr.com/photos/chamesrichalds007/3731821089/in/set-72157621484896053/

Recado Bossa Nova lyrics

In Others on July 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Djalma Ferreira

By Jaime Valle

No Strings have perls in a velvet glove
The thing I long for is the gift of love
No ring of gold but a dream to unfold
When all the stars have flown and we’re alone

The gift of love is a precious thing
A touch of magic on a day in spring
The golden dream every dreamer pursures
remember darling never refuse the gift of love

For love can be a melody that lingers
Or slip like April wine right through your fingers,
So kiss me sweet till our secret star
Illuminates the way to Shangrila
Whatever fate may be fall all I know
is the gift of love is the greatest gift of all

(also in the library)

In Uncategorized on July 4, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Petit Break au Soleil, bonnes vacances à tous…

jazz-sax on beach

Recado Bossa Nova lyrics…

In Chords, Technics on July 1, 2009 at 10:04 pm

No Strings have perls in a velvet glove
The thing I long for is the gift of love
No ring of gold but a dream to unfold
When all the stars have flown and we’re alone

The gift of love is a precious thing
A touch of magic on a day in spring
The golden dream every dreamer pursures
remember darling never refuse the gift of love

For love can be a melody that lingers
Or slip like April wine right through your fingers,
So kiss me sweet till our secret star
Illuminates the way to Shangrila
Whatever fate may be fall all I know
is the gift of love is the greatest gift of all.

For the file: please contact: http://www.box.net/shared/e8zyytbh1r, or Grab the lyrics here

recado bossa paroles

Dippin’s – Hank Mobley

In Album on June 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Hank Mobley - Album: Dippin’
Recording Date: Jun 18, 1965
Label: Blue Note

Titles:

  1. The Dip 7:57dippin
  2. Recado Bossa Nova 8:11
  3. The Break Through 5:52
  4. The Vamp 8:21
  5. I See Your Face Before Me 5:29
  6. Ballin’ 6:51

Personel: Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Harold Mabern (piano); Larry Ridley (bass); Billy Higgins (drums).

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on June 18, 1965. Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler. Liner Note Author: Bob Blumenthal. Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1965).

Review cduniverse:
With DIPPIN’, Hank Mobley is clearly entrenched in his “hard” period, as his more muscular, yet still round, tone and his penchant for funky grooves dominate the session. As on many other Mobley sides, Lee Morgan and Billy Higgins return to lend their respective touches, which once started the flame burning with Morgan’s “The Sidewinder.” Pianist Harold Mabern and bassist Larry Ridley round out the group. It is Mobley, however, who blows strongest here, strengthened by a long string of powerful dates like this one.

Like most post-”Sidewinder” Blue Note dates, DIPPIN’ kicks off with a near-rip-off of the popular Morgan hit from 1963. Here, “The Dip” satisfies the requisite funkiness with a spirited quasi-Latin beat from Higgins and a Horace Silver-esque melody. The following “Recado Bossa Nova,” one of the session’s most memorable cuts, captures the Brazilian style that caused such a stir with equal amounts of taste and bluesy grunge. Later, the date’s only ballad, the classic “I See Your Face Before Me,” offers a respite with one of Mobley’s smokiest performances on record. Finally, the closer “Ballin’” is a joyous waltz that ends the session on a swinging blast.

Review Thom Jurek, AMG:
Dippin’ is one of Hank Mobley’s finer moments, even considering that his entire Blue Note catalog is masterful, particularly his 1960s dates that reveal the depth and dimension of his understanding of harmonic invention — all in the name of groove and swing, of course. This date, recorded on a single day in June of 1965, netted four Mobley originals as well as two covers. The band included trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Larry Ridley, and drummer Billy Higgins. The two-horn front line always served Mobley well. Here, with Morgan, the groove commences from the first notes of the title cut that opens the set. The short bluesy lines burst from the horns, and are turned inside out with elegant yet knotty lines that move the tune almost into pop territory but never venture far from the blues. The sprightly “Recado Bossa Nova,” written by Djalma Ferreira, moves the band outside its comfort zone rhythmically, but Mobley’s horn chart is brilliant. Higgins and Ridley keep the bossa groove natural and steaming as the soloists begin taking the tune apart and putting it back together. There is one ballad on the set, “I See Your Face Before Me” composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. On it, Mobley does his best Ben Webster, blowing low and smoky and sweet, but the truth is that it doesn’t belong on a program with so many hard bop swingers. The rest of the session is a pure joy and a fine document of Mobley’s abilities as a bandleader and composer. The 2006 Rudy Van Gelder Edition on CD features spectacular sound, but contains no bonus material.

Recado Bossa Nova solo

In Scales on June 24, 2009 at 11:11 am

De l’album Dippin’ le solo de saxophone ténor de Hank Mobley:

Solo Recado (Hank Mobley)

Autre solo, celui de Lee Morgan

Solo Recado (Lee Morgan)

Recado Bossa Nova Chords

In Chords on June 22, 2009 at 10:07 am
recadorecado bossa nova score accord

Rythmes Bossa Nova

In Technics on June 19, 2009 at 10:42 pm

3 variations de base concernant  la Bossa Nova:

Bossa Nova rythme1

BossaNova2BossaNova3Vous trouverez d’autres rythmes et les fichiers midi sur le site du groupe Batida

Fichers midi:   Bossa1 Bossa2 Bossa3

Recado Bossa Nova – Hank Mobley

In Album on June 19, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Harold Mabern Jr (piano), Larry Ridley (bass), Billy Higgins (drums).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. June 18, 1965.
(from: "Dippin" Blue Note 4209)
Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan appeared to be inseparable. They first teamed up, in November 1956, for the spirited young trumpeter’s Savoy label debut. Morgan was 18, a veteran of Dizzy Gillespie’s Big Band and a firebrand performer. Mobley, seven years his senior, distinguished himself blowing in a highly personalized manner that frequently ran counter to the Hard Bop stampede of the time. Nonetheless, Mobley’s stance never excluded him form the best games in town, being sufficiently adaptable to score frontline employment with top draw bands of Art Blakey, Max Roach, Horace Silver and Miles Davis. Three weeks after the Savoy set, Morgan repaid Mobley in kind, sharing trumpet duties with the ubiquitous Donald Byrd on a Blue Note date, ‘Sextet’ (1540).
And, that’s the way their comradeship continued. In all, Morgan guested on seven of Hank Mobleys Blue Note outings, whilst the tenorist is to be hear on three Lee-led efforts for Alfred Lion. A founder Jazz Messenger, Mobley returned to HQ, in the spring of 59, to briefly partner Morgan for the period between Benny Golson’s departure and Wayne Shorter’s arrival. And, is on the two volums of At The Jazz Corner Of The Word’ (4015/16) direct from Birdland’s bandstand, that foreveer remains testament to their Blakey-driven process.

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Recado bossa nova, hank mobley, jazz messenger, art blakey, lee morgan

Hard Bop à Montmartre, Jacques de Lignières

In Events, Live on June 18, 2009 at 9:28 am

Jeudi 02 Juillet  22 H 00 : Hard Bop, Bebop,… Free et Orient!jdl
Au Jazz Club: Autour de Midi… de Minuit, 11 rue Lepic, 75008 Paris, en dessous de Montmartre, métro: Blanche.

Jacques de Lignières et son JDL Quartet avec Bobby Few

JDL Quartet nous convie à un voyage original, autour des compositions de Jacques de Lignières et de Bobby Few, d’incursions chez Thelonious Monk et Art Pepper, avec quelques moments venant d’Orient, pour notre plus grand plaisir !

Bobby FEW (piano), Hervé CZAK (contrebasse), Serge LAMBOLEY (batterie), Jacques de LIGNIERES (saxophones)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRXUkzWM8g
www.myspace.com/jdlquartet
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Hard bop à Saint Germain, La Huchette

In Events, Live on June 16, 2009 at 11:24 am

La Huchette, Saint Germain

JDL Quartet, Jacques de Lignières à La Huchette, Saint Germain en Layes, Jazz Live, 52 rue des Louviers, réservation: 01 30 61 07 89

le 26 Juin 2009, 20h30

le 3 Juillet 2009, 20h30

saint germain en layes, bebop, jazz club

JDL Special eDition

In Events on June 15, 2009 at 8:28 am

Affiche 13/05/06

Bobby Few Piano – Jacques De Lignières Saxophones - Serge Lamboley batterie - Hervé Czak Contrebasse. Autour de Midi

Jazz Garden Party à St Nom

In Events on June 12, 2009 at 4:18 pm

garden

And the beat goes on…

Après le dernier feu allumé à Conflans mi-Mars, nous vous invitons à raviver la folie lors d’une petite “Jazz & Salad Party” à St Nom la Bretèche  le Samedi 13 Juin à partir de 17h00 et jusqu’à tard dans la nuit !

GParty

Grilles d’accords

In Chords on June 11, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Cold Duck Time

Cold Duck Time

Canyon Lady

Canyon Lady

Chords Cold Duck Time, Canyon lady

Grilles d’accords

In Chords on June 11, 2009 at 7:17 am
Chitlins con carne

Chitlins con carne

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat

Well You Needn't

Well You Needn't (AABA)

The Jody Grind

The Jody Grind

Chord summary sheet, scores,  Jody grind chords, well you needn’t chords,chitlins con carne chords, Good bye pork pie hat chords score, accords, grilles

2 Concerts au New Morning à ne pas manquer Juin09

In Events on June 10, 2009 at 7:42 pm
samedi 20
à 21:00
AZUQUITA Y SU MELAO – 1ère partie : VANNY JORDAN
AZUQUITA (voc, perc)
VANNY JORDAN
Grand Sonero hors norme à la carrière bien remplie, Azuquita est entouré de 11 musiciens qui font revivre plus de quarante ans d’une carrière internationale riche de rencontres. Plébiscité par les plus grands noms de la salsa, de Ruben Blades à La Fania all stars en passant par Oscar D’leon ,il s’affirme comme l’un des Soneros les plus prolixes de sa génération !
mardi 30
à 21:00
LARRY CARLTON TRIO
LARRY CARLTON (g)
TRAVIS CARLTON (b)
GENE COYE (dms)
Le légendaire guitariste de studio californien Larry Carlton ! Son style : une fusion élégante de jazz-rock, pop et bossa nova, ses succès interplanétaires : ‘I Am A fool’, ‘Rio Samba’, ‘Last nite’…

2009 Festival Jazz in Marciac : le programme

In Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Toutes informations sur le site JazzinMarciacVendredi 31 Juillet
Sonny Rollins
Samedi 01 Aout
Ann Hampton Callaway
& The Barcelona Jazz Orchestra
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Feat. Wynton Marsalis
Dimanche 02 Aout
Sixun
SMV
Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten
Lundi 03 Aout
Omara Portuondo
Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club


Lundi 03 Aout
The Sensational Nightingales Gospel en exclusivité europeenne
Mardi 04 Aout
Jan Garbarek Group
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Mardi 04 Aout
The Sensational Nightingales Gospel en exclusivité europeenne
Mercredi 05 Aout
Jacky Terrasson Trio
Ahmad Jamal


Jeudi 06 Aout
Marcus Roberts
Wyton Marsalis
“The Passionate Music of Sidney Bechet”
Vendredi 07 Aout
Daniel Humair “Baby Boom” invite Vincent Peirani
Dave Douglass Brass Ecstasy

Hommage à Lester Bowie

David Krakauer
& Klezmer Madness
Samedi 08 Aout
Milton Nascimento & Belmondo avec l’Orchestre de CNR de Toulouse
Laurent Cugny  “Enorous BandD”
“Remenbering Gil Evans, Lumire and O.N.J.”
Avishai Cohen


Dimanche 09 Aout
Guitar Conference
Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield , Pat Martino…
Jim Hall Trio
+ Special Guests Kenny Barron & Dave Holland
Lundi 10 Aout
Emile Parisen Quartet
Manu Katche


Joshua Redman


Mardi 11 Aout
Latches
Thomas Dutronc


Caravan Palace

Mercredi 12 Aout
Monty Alexander Trio
An All Star Celebration of Lionel Hampton
Jeudi 13 Aout
Biel Ballester Trio
Roberto Fonseca


Yuri Buena Avantura
“Cita Con LA Luz “
Vendredi 14 Aout
Tuxedo Big Band
“Come Dance With Me”
Bareelona Jazz Orchestra
“Come Dance With Me”
Ray Gelato Giants
“Come Dance With Me”
Samedi 15 Aout
Orquestra Salsa de Reyes
“Baïla Con Migo”
Lation Giants
“Baïla Con Migo”

Tough decision

In Uncategorized on June 5, 2009 at 4:56 pm

I drop the “J” in the title! What a tough decision! Let ’s me know…

Kenny Burrell Biographie

In Bio on June 3, 2009 at 8:44 am

burrellNé à Detroit (Michigan), dans une famille de musiciens, Kenny Burrell apprend à jouer de la guitare sur l’instrument d’un de ses trois frères. Dès la fin des années quarante, le jeune autodidacte, qui écoute les disques de Charlie Christian et de Django Reinhardt, se produit dans les clubs locaux avec des vedettes de passage, avant de rejoindre l’orchestre de Dizzy Gillespie en 1951, puis de former son propre groupe. Parallèlement à ces activités, il se met à étudier la guitare classique et, en 1955, remplace Herb Ellis au sein du trio d’Oscar Peterson.

Excellent technicien et pur styliste dont l’art est fortement ancré dans le blues, Kenny Burrell, lorsqu’il s’installe à New York l’année suivante, est aussitôt sollicité pour de nombreuses séances d’enregistrements, notamment aux côtés du trompettiste Kenny Dorham, de l’organiste Jimmy Smith, des saxophonistes John Coltrane et Coleman Hawkins, ou du clarinettiste Benny Goodman, entre autres.

Sa connaissance de toutes les formes et de tous les styles de guitare l’autorise à participer à de nombreux spectacles new-yorkais ; il se produit ainsi à plusieurs reprises en trio au Village Vanguard (célèbre club de jazz de la ville), ainsi que dans la plupart des grands festivals mondiaux, où il revient régulièrement. Il est également professeur d’histoire du jazz à l’université de Los Angeles.

Des collaborations prestigieuses au service d’une guitare polymorphe

En dehors des albums sous son propre nom publiés par le label Blue Note (voir jazz, labels de), se détachent de son importante discographie ses collaborations avec Jimmy Smith — Back at the Chicken Shack (1960) et Midnight Special (1960) — et avec l’arrangeur Gil Evans — Guitar Forms (1965) —, sa participation au quintette de Bill Evans— Quintessence (1976) — et un hommage à Duke Ellington — Ellington Is For Ever (1975 pour le premier volume, 1977 pour le second).

Prodige de la mise en place rythmique, Kenny Burrell se distingue également par la finesse et la précision avec lesquelles il exécute de somptueuses lignes mélodiques, par la relative sagesse de ses improvisations d’où surgissent parfois d’intenses fulgurances et par un son plein et chaleureux. Il est incontestablement l’un des meilleurs guitaristes de cette génération formée à l’école du hard bop. (Extrait MSN Encarta)

Discographie (Rollingstone)


Chitlins Con Carne

In Technics on June 2, 2009 at 2:55 pm

Kenny Burrell is one of the groovyest players around. His playing is very “fundamental” and clear and thus ideal material to learn from. Less is more said Miles Davis.

The chord C7sharp9 is used instead of C7/9/13.  Note that this is not the case throughout the whole song, somewhere in one third of Kenny’s solo he uses more notes than the blues scale alone, using notes of the mixolydian mode(s). His comping changes accordingly using 9 chords and 13 chords. 

Here are the changes: 

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Chitlins Con Carne (Midnight Blue)

In Album on June 2, 2009 at 2:38 pm

MidnightBlueStrictly speaking (from Jazz.com), “Chitlins Con Carne” is double-talk. Since chitlins are  pig guts and carne is meat, “Chitlins Con Carne” means meat with meat. This track, though, is so tasty, we’re willing to cut Kenny Burrell some slack. No doubt he was thinking of Blue Note + bossa nova, which Chef Kenny combines to culinary quintessence. Spice with Ray Barretto’s conga, simmer over Stanley Turrentine’s heated tenor sax, stir frequently with Chef Kenny’s funky guitar, and you’ll get a mouthwatering stew more delicious than meat with meat. Best served with beer con cerveza.

Musicians: Kenny Burrell (guitar), Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Major Holley (bass), Ray Barretto (conga), 

Composed by Kenny Burrell,  Recorded: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 7, 1963. 
The tune has been covered by numerous artists, including Sonny Cox, Jimmy Dawkins, Big John Patton, Otis Rush, Horace Silver, Junior Wells and, perhaps most famously, Stevie Ray Vaughan on The Sky Is Crying (1991). It is included in Hal Leonard’s Real Book, Volume I and the All Jazz Real Book by Chuck Sher.

Mise à jour

In Uncategorized on May 21, 2009 at 12:10 am

Hello & Bonsoir,

Il est temps de vous tenir informer de tous les changements du site.

  • Comme vous l’avez constaté un tout nouveau design minimaliste, qui réorganise toute la page. Les deux derniers articles figurent en haut de page, tous les liens et widgets sont en bas de page.
  • En bas de page, le sommaire des pages du site. Vous y trouverez une toute nouvelle page: Conflans Sainte Honorine dans laquelle se trouve une gallerie photo de notre show à la MJC.  C’est le seul accès à cette page, il faut le savoir! Mais c’est la seule solution possible avec le template gratuit de WordPress.
  • Aussi: Le redesign de la page: Jazz Netvibes in Paris. Le lien d’accès se trouve en bas de page, à droite, dans la liste des liens. Vous y trouverez des enregistrements complets, des LPs (vinyls) qui ne sont plus commercialisés, avec une quality Hifi (320 kBps) que vous pourrez télécharger. Prenez le temps de consulter ces blogs, il y a de véritables pétites, pour tout les gouts! Egalement une selection des concerts et évenements de la région parisienne. Dites moi ce que vous en pensez.
  • Band In A Box: Ici aussi, quelques nouveaux enregistrements et nouvelles versions (accessible à partir de la page: Library.
  • La fréquentation du site augmente régulièrement. Plus de 4500 visites, et une moyenne mensuelle en constante augmentation.courbe
  • Simplification de la liste des liens.
  • L’accès au Archives chronologiquement (bas de page)
  • RSS Feed: Si vous souhaitez recevoir automatiquement tout nouvel article de ce blog, vous pouvez désormais vous syndiquez, vous inscrire (cliquez sur le lien RSS Feed, et l’inclure dans votre lecteur RSS.)

That’s All Folks… pour aujourd’hui. Bonne Jam

Chitlins con carne Solos…

In Chords, Scales, Technics on May 6, 2009 at 2:11 pm

2 versions faisant date de Chitlins con carne, celle de Kenny Burrell  et celle de Stevie Ray Vaughan. Les solos sont ci-dessous.

Jazz Streams

In Uncategorized on May 4, 2009 at 2:54 pm

425px-Jazz-stylesFrom the Blues and Ragtime to Hip Hop, a nice tree explaining how the Jazz streams come from.

Band in a Box Songs

In Media on April 23, 2009 at 1:27 pm

Les accompagnements [Band in a Box] et Midi de nos morceaux préférés….. se trouvent désormais dans la librairie  cliquez sur le logo: BIAB

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My Jazz World: Un Blog Soul, Funk, Groovy….

In Album, Media on April 19, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Je recommande à tous un Blog  fantastique, une ressource fabuleuse de LPs, vynils que l’on ne trouve plus, ou qui n’ont pas été ré-édités: Jazz Funk, Groove, Soul, …. des disques, des musiciens oubliés ou non, que des pros, la plupart de ces disques sont entièrement téléchargeables.  

Il y a des pépites, des pépites et des pépites!! :  Dr Lonnie Smith, Rusty Bryant, Stanley Turrentine… Howard Robert…. David Liebman… Cecil McBee… et bien d’autres.

—> My Jazz World

Le Brésil est également à l’honneur, de même que de nombreux musiciens japonais. A découvrir.

Bravo  & mille merci à Smooth qui met en ligne sa collection privée de LPs (plus de 2000!) jour après jour.

In Uncategorized on April 19, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Monk Montgomery says…

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ようこそ Hiroko!

In Uncategorized on April 10, 2009 at 5:55 pm

ようこそひろ子。サックス奏者、ストレート神戸からやって来て、彼女は自分のエネルギーと喜びを、ジョークと神戸をもたらします…鍵、スタジオジャズ/ソウルで数泊…と、記憶喪失…再びようこそ

… Bienvenue à Hiroko. Saxophoniste, venant tout droit de Kobe, elle nous amène son énergie,et sa joie, et les blagues de Kobe… déjà quelques soirées à la Clef, atelier Jazz / Soul … et à l’amnésia… Encore une fois Bienvenue! 

JazzImproveTv

In Technics on April 8, 2009 at 6:30 am

Need to check this more for the sax and keyboards, but already prett good guitar lessons here at JazzImproveTv, Kenny Burrel’s licks and Larry Carlton 335 Blues.

jazzImprove TV

Concert – MJC Conflans Sainte Honorine, 13 Mars 2009

In Events on April 6, 2009 at 8:26 pm
concert MJC Conflans Mars 2009

Le Jazz/Soul Atelier La Clef, au grand complet: Marie Bar au piano, Christophe Goe à la batterie, Ronan Len à la Basse, Alexandre Bra, Hervé Del et Jérémie Men au Sax, Stéphanie Desfon à la flûte, Heervee Lee à la guitare, lors du festival de jazz de Conflans Sainte Honorine, Mars 2009.

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Jam session à Conflans Sainte Honorine

In Events on April 6, 2009 at 8:24 pm
JAM Conflans Mars 2009
JazzenVille de Conflans St Honorine

JazzenVille de Conflans St Honorine

Jazz au Confluent – 6eme Anniversaire

In Events on April 6, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Happening Ely Ribéra 13/03/2009

Dans le cadre du 6eme anniversaire de Jazz au Confluent, et du festival JazzenVille de Conflans Sainte Honorine, Ely Ribéra réalise un happening, peinture à l’huile sur le thème du Jazz, en présence des nombreux participants et de tous les élus locaux, sur la musique du Jazz/Soul Atelier de la Clef, Le Blues du Pinceau. Paroles de Dan Duparc et musique création de Jacques de Lignières. Dan Duparc à la batterie, Jacques de Lignière au Sax, Marie Bar au piano, Heervee Lee à la guitare, et Ronan Len à la Basse.

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Charles Mingus – Bio

In Bio on April 4, 2009 at 1:26 pm

One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer. Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church– choir and group singing– and from “hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when [he] was eight years old.” He studied double bass and composition in a formal way (five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional techniques with the legendary Lloyd Reese) while absorbing vernacular music from the great jazz masters, first-hand. His early professional experience, in the 40’s, found him touring with bands like Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Lionel Hampton.

Eventually he settled in New York where he played and recorded with the leading musicians of the 1950’s– Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Art Tatum and Duke Ellington himself. One of the few bassists to do so, Mingus quickly developed as a leader of musicians. He was also an accomplished pianist who could have made a career playing that instrument. By the mid-50’s he had formed his own publishing and recording companies to protect and document his growing repertoire of original music. He also founded the “Jazz Workshop,” a group which enabled young composers to have their new works performed in concert and on recordings.

Mingus soon found himself at the forefront of the avant-garde. His recordings bear witness to the extraordinarily creative body of work that followed. They include: Pithecanthropus Erectus, The Clown, Tijuana Moods, Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Cumbia and Jazz Fusion, Let My Children Hear Music. He recorded over a hundred albums and wrote over three hundred scores.
Although he wrote his first concert piece, “Half-Mast Inhibition,” when he was seventeen years old, it was not recorded until twenty years later by a 22-piece orchestra with Gunther Schuller conducting. It was the presentation of “Revelations” which combined jazz and classical idioms, at the 1955 Brandeis Festival of the Creative Arts, that established him as one of the foremost jazz composers of his day.

In 1971 Mingus was awarded the Slee Chair of Music and spent a semester teaching composition at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In the same year his autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, was published by Knopf. In 1972 it appeared in a Bantam paperback and was reissued after his death, in 1980, by Viking/Penguin and again by Pantheon Books, in 1991. In 1972 he also re-signed with Columbia Records. His music was performed frequently by ballet companies, and Alvin Ailey choreographed an hour program called “The Mingus Dances” during a 1972 collaboration with the Robert Joffrey Ballet Company.

He toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, Canada, South America and the United States until the end of 1977 when he was diagnosed as having a rare nerve disease, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis. He was confined to a wheelchair, and although he was no longer able to write music on paper or compose at the piano, his last works were sung into a tape recorder.

From the 1960’s until his death in 1979 at age 56, Mingus remained in the forefront of American music. When asked to comment on his accomplishments, Mingus said that his abilities as a bassist were the result of hard work but that his talent for composition came from God.

Mingus received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Smithsonian Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation (two grants). He also received an honorary degree from Brandeis and an award from Yale University. At a memorial following Mingus’ death, Steve Schlesinger of the Guggenheim Foundation commented that Mingus was one of the few artists who received two grants and added: “I look forward to the day when we can transcend labels like jazz and acknowledge Charles Mingus as the major American composer that he is.” The New Yorker wrote: “For sheer melodic and rhythmic and structural originality, his compositions may equal anything written in western music in the twentieth century.”

He died in Mexico on January 5, 1979, and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges River in India. Both New York City and Washington, D.C. honored him posthumously with a “Charles Mingus Day.”

After his death, the National Endowment for the Arts provided grants for a Mingus foundation called “Let My Children Hear Music” which catalogued all of Mingus’ works. The microfilms of these works were then given to the Music Division of the New York Public Library where they are currently available for study and scholarship – a first for jazz. Repertory bands called the Mingus Dynasty, Mingus Orchestra and the Mingus Big Band continue to perform his music. Biographies of Charles Mingus include Mingus by Brian Priestley; Mingus/Mingus by Janet Coleman and Al Young and Myself When I Am Real, by Gene Santoro.

Mingus’ masterwork, “Epitaph,” a composition which is more than 4000 measures long and which requires two hours to perform, was discovered during the cataloguing process. With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, the score and instrumental parts were copied, and the piece itself was premiered by a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller, in a concert produced by Sue Mingus at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, ten years after Mingus’ death.

The New Yorker wrote that “Epitaph” represents the first advance in jazz composition since Duke Ellington’s “Black, Brown, and Beige,” which was written in 1943. The New York Times said it ranked with the “most memorable jazz events of the decade.” Convinced that it would never be performed in his lifetime, Mingus called his work “Epitaph,” declaring that he wrote it “for my tombstone.”

The Library of Congress was presented with the Charles Mingus Collection in 1993, including autographed manuscripts, photographs, literary manuscripts, correspondence, and tape recordings of interviews, broadcasts, recording sessions, and Mingus composing at the piano.

Reprinted from More than a Fake Book © 1991 Jazz Workshop, Inc.

Wikipedia entry

The Jody Grind (Horace Silver)

In Bio on April 2, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Silver’s bands, like Art Blakey’s, served — and is still serving — as one of the great training grounds for young jazz musicians in the ’60s. “The Jody Grind” features a youthful Woody Shaw joining his brash trumpet sound with the fiery James Spaulding on alto and flute and the forgotten (unfortunately) Tyrone Washington, who contributes a hard-edged tenor. Silver, as usual, composed all the tunes, and nearly all of them are memorable.

Silver is a master at stripping melodies and rhythms down to their essentials. But that doesn’t mean that his tunes are simplistic. For example, the great “Mexican Hat Dance,” as the title suggests, cooks up a spicy Latin beat that is very hummable. After you listen to it a few times, though, you realize that the infectious melody is composed of some tricky twists and turns that the horn players negotiate flawlessly.

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat (Charlie Mingus)

In Scales, Technics on April 2, 2009 at 12:13 pm

Analysis: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Goodbye Pork Pie hat is a 12-bar form consisting of three four-bar phrases, in the key of F minor. The melody tends to outline an F blues scale. when viewed as four-bar phrases, the first and second phrases of the melody are not as similar to each othar as you’d expect in a traditional blues.

I think it’s open to interpretation, but you would probably not be wrong to look at this as a basic blues form with unusual turnarounds. The first chord of the first phrase is the i (minor). The first chord of the second phrase is the iv (minor). Where we go wrong is on the thirs phrase–instead of arriving solidly at the V on beat on of bar 9, we detour through two other chords to arrive there at the top of bar 10. But that does set up tht return to i in bar 11, which is quite blues-like. I think that in spite of the chord complexity, the phrasing of the melody argues in favor of blues.

So let’s take this apart one phrase at a time…

| F7 Db7 | Gb B7 | Eb7 Db7 | Eb7 F7 |

The usual turnaround for a minor key would be i – III7 – ii – V or possibly some tritone substitutions for some of those chords. The turnaround in the first two bars is similar, but different. The motion is still circle-of-fifths (Db Gb B), but the B chord is a tritone sub for i rather than for V, which is what makes this odd. The motion from B7 to Eb7 probably can’t really be called a cadence–up a third is just about the weakest possible root motion. I think it’s right to look at the second turnaround as setting up the iv chord in bar 5. The first chord (Eb7) is problematic to analyze. The melody in the third bar is extremely close to the first bar. Eb7 as a sub for F7 is unconvetional, but one possible interpretation. So, to place these two turnarounds above each other, we have

| F7 Db7 | Gb B7 |

| Eb7 Db7 | Eb7 F7 |

They are similar, but the second one subs Eb7 for F7, and Eb for Gb (a minor third sub for a dominant chord is more familiar, Coltrane did it a lot). The F7 sets up the iv chord in bar 5 very strongly.

| Bbmi7 Db7 | Gmi C7alt | D7b5 G7 | Db7 Gb |

Standard blues would have two bars of iv followed by two of i here. Mingus gives us the iv, and sets us up to expect the i, not just with the C7, but the melody also really sets up a cadence that we get denied. What we do get in bars 7 and 8 is circle of fifths root motion, and some parallelism (bar 8 echoes bar 7 down one half-step, very familiar in Charlie Parker’s blues changes).

| B7 Bb7 | C7 Eb7 | F7 Db7 | Gb B7 ||

This is truly the difficult one to justify in traditional theory terms. What a traditional blues progression would have here is V, iv, then two bars of i. Mingus delays the appearance of the dominant one bar (that’s one way to look at it). He does deliver us a “cadence” sort of by having Gb in bar 8 resolve to B7 at the top of bar 9. But I sure don’t “hear” that as a cadence. What I think is going on instead is a reversal of the iv and V chord. To me the last four bars function like

| iv | V | i | i ||

Viewed this way, the B7 is a dominant sub for the Bb (iv). Eb is a legitimate sub for C7 (Coltrane-style), and we do land at the i in the right spot, and additionally revisit the first turnaround from the first phrase. What I don’t have a great deal of comfort for is the B7 -> F7 “cadence” from the bottom of the form to the top. That would be weak in most cases. It seems to work out okay here though.

Bobby Few et Jacques de Lignières

In Events, Live, Media on March 26, 2009 at 10:38 am


autour de midi, jazz club à paris, montmartre, hardbop, bebop

Jacques de Lignières – Bio

In Bio on March 26, 2009 at 12:22 am

A propos de Jacques de Lignières
JdL Quartet se produit dans plusieurs clubs parisiens (le Petit Journaljdl Montparnasse, le Franc Pinot, Autour de Midi …) et dans quelques festivals (Jazz à St Piat, May Jazz, Jazz au Confluent…) avec Claudine François au piano, actuellement Olivier Léger, Stéphane Benveniste à la contrebasse, puis Xavier Barloy, actuellement Hervé Czak , Bertrand Perrin à la batterie, actuellement Serge Lamboley, et toujours JdL ! Mais également avec des guest stars : Bobby Few, Frédéric Delestré…

JdL Quartet en concert à Conflans…
…Le sax alto se vit dans le jazz à l’ombre de l’oiseau Parker, dont la pyrotechnie aérienne est devenue la référence absolue et incontournable des altistes. Or, il existe au moins une autre voie, celle tracée par le moins connu Art Pepper, musicien californien dont la vie tourmentée se reflète dans un timbre fragile, voire écorché mais dynamique, qui le rapprocherait d’une forme expressioniste. C’est plutôt dans cette direction que se pencherait Jacques de Lignières, un musicien dont le style, de prime abord détendu à la limite de la nonchalance, révèle vite un goût pour les tensions, et une envie de la note et de la phrase qui en dit plus sur la vie intérieure… On y entend pousser jusqu’à la plainte, celle qui puise dans le langage du blues. Sa composition Temps incertain est exemplaire de cette dualité. Sur un rythme à la légèreté façon habañera se déploie un thème sur fond de canevas harmonique aux changements déstabilisants comme le suggère le titre.
La référence à Pepper, on la retrouve explicitement dans la reprise d’un lancinant blues en 5 temps, Las Cuevas de Mario (Pepper’s Caves). Déjouant la difficulté du métrique, la solide assise rythmique fournie par Hervé Czak à la contrebasse permet au pianiste Olivier Léger de développer son jeu puissant au son perlé dans de belles envolées.
JdL est un arpenteur de la culture musicale, bien au-delà des confins des grands standards : il n’hésite pas à s’inspirer, par exemple, d’un Prélude de Chopin pour en extraire une “jazz waltz”: Lost Prelude, chargée d’émotion ; ou encore à nous convier à partager un bon couscous modal et « caravanesque » à souhait dans l’ambiance d’un bon petit resto nord africain : l’écriture d’Hotel de la Gare vient d’un temps où JdL s’y produisait souvent à Paris… On y met le cap plein sud, darbouka à l’appui, pour un voyage où Serge Lamboley peut donner libre court à son imagination et sa maitrîse des polyrhythmies.
Enfin, JdL est un musicien généreux et ouvert, comme en témoigne l’énergie qu’il consacre depuis deux ans maintenant à l’initiative Jazz au Confluent, une association de bénévoles qui organise tous les ans une quinzaine de concerts de qualité à entrée libre.
Alan Fell

Vous avez dit “Hard Bop”?

In Bio, Others on March 25, 2009 at 12:37 am

 

bluesawayLe hard bop prend source dans un mouvement de reconnaissance par les noirs américains de leurs origines, appelé Black is beautiful (« Le Noir est beau ») : un retour aux sources de la musique, à l’Afrique et, en même temps, une réaction agressive (musicalement parlant) au cool jazz (d’où le terme « hard ») surtout dominé par les blancs. L’auteur américain David Rosenthal nota aussi que le hard bop était un développement naturel pendant une époque où des musiciens d’envergure (Tadd Dameron, par exemple) travaillaient et dans le jazz et dans le rhythm and blues.

Même si la plupart des acteurs de ce courant ont fait leur apprentissage dans le style bebop (d’où le terme « bop »), ce genre musical incorpore les influences du rhythm and blues, du blues et du gospel, notamment dans les jeux du piano et du saxophone.

Les morceaux de hard bop ont généralement un tempo plus lent que le bebop, et si le hard bop en reprend les innovations harmoniques, la part du rythme y est nettement plus marquée, sans doute en raison de la contribution majeure des batteurs Max Roach et Art Blakey. On y découvre d’ailleurs pour la première fois des batteurs compositeurs.

Le hard bop est généralement pratiqué par un quintet composé d’une section rythmique (pianiste, batteur et bassiste) et de deux “soufflants” — communément un saxophoniste ténor et un trompettiste — qui interprètent ensemble un thème entourant une série de solos improvisés tour à tour par chacun des musiciens sur l’harmonie du morceau.

 

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Une première apparition des caractéristiques du hard bop se reconnaît dans le quintette fondé en 1954 par le batteur Max Roach et le trompettiste Clifford Brown, rejoints en 1955 par le saxophoniste ténor Sonny Rollins. Toutefois, on considère que le premier représentant de ce style fut le groupe des Jazz Messengers créé par le batteur Art Blakey et le pianiste Horace Silver en 1955. Ce dernier formera en 1956 son propre quintette.

En 1955 également, le trompettiste Miles Davis embaucha le saxophoniste John Coltrane (Sonny Rollins ayant décliné l’invitation) dans son quintet, au côté de Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (basse) et Philly Joe Jones (batterie). À cette époque, Coltrane était encore un musicien inconnu.

En 1957, c’est au tour de Sonny Rollins de créer son ensemble — dans lequel on retrouvait Silver, Monk, Chambers — et d’inaugurer l’apparition du trombone dans le hard bop avec Jay Jay Johnson.

Blue Note et Prestige sont les principaux labels qui produisirent des groupes de hard bop et, pendant cette période, le graphisme des pochettes d’albums évolua fortement.

Le soul jazz se développa à partir du hard bop. Le saxophoniste alto Jackie McLean réussit une fusion du hard bop et du jazz modal pendant les années 60 et celles qui suivirent.

 

Quelques Hard Bopers…

 Pepper Adams  Cannonball Adderley • Nat Adderley • Gene Ammons   Dave Bailey • Donald Bailey • Ray Barretto  Kenny Barron  George Benson  Art Blakey  Joanne Brackeen  Nick Brignola  Tina Brooks  Clifford Brown  Ray Brown  Ray Bryant  Rusty Bryant  Kenny Burrell • Frank Butler • Don Byas  Donald Byrd • Conte Candoli • Paul Chambers  Ray Charles  Sonny Clark • Kenny Clarke • Jimmy Cleveland • Jimmy Cobb • Ornette Coleman  John Coltrane  Junior Cook • Bob Cooper • Curtis Counce •  Sonny Criss • Miles Davis  Walter Davis, Jr.  Lou Donaldson  Kenny Dorham  Kenny Drew • Teddy Edwards  Booker Ervin • Art Farmer  Tommy Flanagan  Ricky Ford  Frank Foster  Curtis Fuller • John Gilmore • Benny Golson  Dexter Gordon  Wardell Gray  Benny Green  Grant Green  Johnny Griffin  Gigi Gryce • Herbie Hancock  Roy Hargrove  Barry Harris  Eddie Harris  Louis Hayes  Jimmy Heath  Joe Henderson  Billy Higgins  Elmo Hope  Freddy Hubbard • Bobby Hutcherson • Milt Jackson  The Jazz Crusaders  The Jazz Lab  The Jazztet •  J.J. Johnson • Elvin Jones  Hank Jones  Philly Joe Jones  Clifford Jordan  Duke Jordan • Wynton Kelly • Harold Land  Jake Langley  Victor Lewis  Lighthouse All-Stars  Erica Lindsay  Melba Liston Les McCann  Jackie McLean  Charles Mingus  Blue Mitchell  Hank Mobley  T.S. Monk  Thelonious Monk  J.R. Monterose  Wes Montgomery  Ralph Moore  Lee Morgan • David “Fathead” Newman • Horace Parlan  Duke Pearson  Houston Person  Bud Powell • Ike Quebec • Freddie Redd  Dizzy Reece  Jerome Richardson  Max Roach  Sonny Rollins  Frank Rosolino  Charlie Rouse • Tom Scott  Woody Shaw  Travis Shook  Wayne Shorter  Horace Silver  Jimmy Smith  Lonnie Smith  Marvin “Smitty” Smith  Mike Smith  Sonny Stitt • Art Taylor  Clark Terry  The Three Sounds  Bobby Timmons  Stanley Turrentine  Tommy Turrentine • Cedar Walton  Doug Watkins • Mark Whitfield • Richard Williams • Larry Young.

Horace Silver – The Jody Grind (Album Review) 1966

In Album on March 24, 2009 at 3:54 pm

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Jody Grind

  • Release Date: 1966 11 01+1966 11 23
  • Running Time: 40:40
  • Label: Blue Note

Following the subtly modern bent of much of The Cape Verdean Blues, Horace Silver recommitted himself to his trademark “funky jazz” sound on The Jody Grind. Yet he also consciously chose to keep a superbly advanced front line, with players like trumpeter Woody Shaw (retained from the Cape Verdean session), altoist/flutist James Spaulding, and tenor saxophonist Tyrone Washington. Thus, of all Silver’s groove-centered records, The Jody Grind winds up as possibly the most challenging. It’s also one of the most underappreciated; Silver’s piano playing is at its rhythmic, funky best throughout, brimming over with confidence and good cheer, and evoking memories of the classic feel of his early-’60s quintet. His compositions have a similarly bright overtone, which (as the liner notes allude to) was becoming increasingly rare in mid-’60s jazz as the fury of the avant-garde and the Civil Rights upheaval began to seep into jazz’s wider consciousness. The title cut is a playful, overlooked classic on the funky side of hard bop; Silver kicks it with a tasty groove, giving the rest of the musicians plenty to play off of. The whole group absolutely burns through “Grease Piece,” a terrific hard swinger full of smoking solo statements from just about everyone on down to drum whiz Roger Humphries. Really, the whole album is packed with great grooves and tight solos, epitomizing the best virtues of Silver’s music. For those who have digested classics like Song for My Father, Blowin’ the Blues Away, and Finger Poppin’, The Jody Grind is one of the best places to go next. Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Tracks:

Title Composer Time

1 Jody Grind Silver 5:53
2 Mary Lou Silver 7:12
3 Mexican Hip Dance Silver 5:56
4 Blue Silver Silver 6:00
5 Grease Piece Silver 7:34
6 Dimples Silver 7:18

via Horace Silver Jody Grind Album Review, Songs, Rating .

Spyro Gyra – Morning Dance

In Bio on March 21, 2009 at 7:26 pm

Spyro Gyra est un groupe américain de jazz-rock fusion formé au début des années 1970 dans la ville de Buffalo, dans l’état de New York. Il a connu de nombreuses versions différentes, les seuls membres actuels issus de la formation d’origine étant le saxophoniste alto Jay Beckenstein et le pianiste/claviériste Tom Schuman. Ils sont actuellement épaulés par le guitariste Julio Fernandez, le bassiste Scott Ambush et le

morning-dance batteur/percussionniste Bonny Bonaparte. Avec plus de 25 albums au compteur et 10 millions de copies vendues, ils forment l’un des groupes de jazz fusion les plus vendeurs aux États-Unis. Leur musique combinant jazz et éléments de funk, R&B ou pop (avec quelques influences caribéennes notables), ils sont de ce fait considérés comme l’un des groupes ayant forgé le son du smooth jazz, ce qui leur vaudra parfois les critiques de puristes qui leur reprocheront leur approche trop mélodique et donc leur manque d’improvisation, cas classique de tous les artistes ou groupes appartenant à ce genre. Toutefois, ils sont reconnus comme des musiciens de talent, notamment pour leurs prestations live et accumulent les récompenses aux Grammy Awards, aussi bien dans les catégories Jazz fusion, Pop instrumentale que R&B instrumental.

The Jody Grind

In Album on March 20, 2009 at 5:10 pm

The Jody Grind  is a 1966 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, led by jazz pianist Horace Silver.the_jody_grind_cover

Jazz Giant Marton Esquie once spoke concerning this album.”I really love many aspects in the Experimental Constructionist’ view of this album and its entire contents.”

Track listing 

  1.  “The Jody Grind” – 5:53
  2.  “Mary Lou” – 7:12
  3.  “Mexican Hip Dance” – 5:56
  4. “Blue Silver” – 6:00
  5.  “Grease Piece” – 7:34
  6.  “Dimples” – 7:18

    Personnel

    Label:  Blue Note

    Pork Pie Hat

    In Others, Picture on March 20, 2009 at 4:49 pm

     

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    Jazz musician Marcus Miller wearing a pork pie

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    Lester Young and his Pork Pie Hat

    The pork pie hat  originated in the mid 19th century. Originally referring to a type of woman’s hat, it gets its name from its resemblance to a pork pie.

    The pork pie hat was a staple of the British man-about-town style for many years. Pork pie hats are often associated with Jazz, Blues and Ska musicians and fans. Charlie Mingus wrote an elegy for jazz saxophone great Lester Young  called “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” and the story said i wrote this tune during the night just after Lester’s death. Many artists have performed this tune, including Jeff Beck and Joni Mitchell.

    Chromatic semitones table

    In Scales, Technics on March 19, 2009 at 5:20 pm

     

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    Premier Show le 13 Mars au festival Jazz en Ville de Conflans Ste Honorine!

    In Events on March 14, 2009 at 8:44 am

     

     

    6ème JAZZENVILLE

    DE CONFLANS SAINTE HONORINE

     

    Du vendredi 06 mars au samedi 14 mars 2009

     

    Marraine du festival : Elisabeth Caumont

    MJC – LES TERRASSES

    Avenue du Pont – Conflans sainte Honorine

     

     

    ° Vendredi 13 mars 2009

    Lieu : MJC de Conflans

    °  20h30 - Concert (Entrée gratuite)

    Atelier SOUL / JAZZ de La Clef à Saint Germain en Laye

    °  21h30 - Concert (Entrée gratuite)

    H’R BLUES SEXTET

    °  22h30 - Concert (Entrée gratuite)

    Atelier JAZZ de La Clef à Saint Germain en Laye

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    100 Best Hardbop Recordings

    In Album on March 10, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    A collection of  what is known to be the best Hardbop recordings: 

     

    • Wardell Gray – Los Angeles All-Stars – Jan. 21, 1952 Prestige2
    • J.J. Johnson – The Eminent J.J., Vol. 1 – June 22, 1953 Blue Note3
    • Miles Davis Walkin’ – April 29, 1954 Prestige4
    • Elmo Hope – Elmo Hope Quintet – May 9, 1954 Blue Note5
    • Art Farmer – When Farmer Met Gryce – May 19, 1954 Prestige6
    • Sonny Rollins – Movin’ Out Aug. – 18, 1954 Prestige7
    • Horace Silver – The Jazz Messengers – Dec. 13, 1954 Blue Note8
    • Clifford Brown – Study In Brown – Feb. 23, 1955 EmArcy9
    • Kenny Dorham – The Jazz Prophets – April 4, 1956 Chess10
    • Art Blakey – The Jazz Messengers – April 6, 1956 Columbia11
    • Johnny Griffin – Introducing Johnny Griffin – April 17, 1956 Blue Note12
    • Max Roach – Max Roach Plus Four – Sept. 17, 1956 EmArcy13
    • The Lighthouse All-Stars – Music For Lighthouse keeping – Oct. 2, 1956 Contemporary14
    • J.R. Monterose – J.R. Monterose – Oct. 21, 1956 Blue Note15
    • Clifford Jordan – Blowing In From Chicago – March 3, 1957 Blue Note16
    • Clark Terry – Serenayde To A Bus Seat – April 1, 1957 Riverside17
    • Ray Bryant – Ray Bryant Trio – April 5, 1957 Prestige18
    • John Coltrane – Blue Train – Sept. 15, 1957 Blue Note19
    • Lee Morgan – The Cooker – Sept. 29, 1957 Blue Note20
    • Ornette Coleman – Something Else – Feb. 10, 1958 Contemporary21
    • Jimmy Smith – The Sermon – Feb. 25, 1958 Blue Note22
    • Cannonball Adderley – Portrait of Cannonball – July 1, 1958 Riverside23
    • Lou Donaldson -The Blues Walk – July 28, 1958 Blue Note24
    • Thelonious Monk – Misterioso – Aug. 1, 1958 Riverside25
    • Dizzy Reece – Blues In Trinity – Aug. 24, 1958 Blue Note26
    • Jerome Richardson – Midnight Oil – Oct. 10, 1958 Prestige27
    • Art Blakey – Moanin’ – Oct. 30, 1958 Blue Note28
    • Frank Rosolino – Free For All – Dec. 22, 1958 Specialty29
    • Horace Silver – Finger Poppin’ – Jan. 31, 1959 Blue Note30
    • Art Blakey – At The Jazz Corner of the World – April 15, 1959 Blue Note31
    • John Coltrane – Giant Steps – May 4, 1959 Atlantic32
    • Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um – May 5, 1959 Columbia33
    • Curtis Fuller – Blues-ette – May 21, 1959 Savoy34
    • Donald Byrd – Byrd In Hand – May 31, 1959 Blue Note35
    • Harold Land – The Fox – Aug. 1, 1959 Contemporary36
    • Walter Davis, Jr. – Davis Cup – Aug. 2, 1959 Blue Note37
    • Benny Golson – Groovin’ With Golson – Aug. 28, 1959 Prestige38
    • Jimmy Heath – The Thumper   - Sept. 1, 1959 Riverside39
    • Bobby Timmons – This Here is Bobby Timmons – -Jan. 13, 1960 Riverside40
    • The Jazztet – Meet The Jazztet – Feb. 6, 1960 Chess41
    • Hank Mobley – Soul Station – Feb. 7, 1960 Blue Note42
    • Art Blakey – The Big Beat – March 6, 1960 Blue Note43
    • Barry Harris – At The Jazz Workshop – May 15, 1960 Riverside44
    • Freddie Redd   - The Connection – June 13, 1960 Felsted45
    • Tina Brooks – True Blue – June 25, 1960 Blue Note46
    • Teddy Edwards – Teddy’s Ready – Aug. 17, 1960 Contemporary47
    • Jackie McLean – Jackie’s Bag – Sept. 1, 1960 Blue Note48
    • Booker Ervin – Cookin’ – Nov. 26, 1960 Savoy49
    • Kenny Drew – Undercurrent   -Dec. 11, 1960 Blue Note50
    • Stanley Turrentine – The Blue Hour – Dec. 16, 1960 Blue Note51
    • Freddie Hubbard – Hub Cap – April 9, 1961 Blue Note52
    • The Jazz Crusaders – Best of the Jazz Crusaders – May 1, 1961 Pacific Jazz53
    • Dexter Gordon – Doin’ Allright – May 6, 1961 Blue Note54
    • Horace Silver – Doin’ The Thing – May 20, 1961 Blue Note55
    • Gene Ammons – Boss Tenors – Aug. 27, 1961 Verve56
    • Sonny Clark – Leapin’ & Lopin’ – Nov. 13,   Note57
    • Don Byas – Tribute To Cannonball – Dec. 15, 1961 Columbia58
    • Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off – May 28, 1962 Blue Note59
    • Wes Montgomery – Full House – June 25, 1962 Riverside60
    • Blue Mitchell – The Cup Bearers – Aug. 28, 1962 Riverside61
    • Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue – Jan. 7, 196 3Blue Note62
    • Joe Henderson – Page One – June 3, 1963 Blue Note63
    • Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder – Dec. 21, 1963 Blue Note64
    • Grant Green – Solid – June 12, 1964 Blue Note65
    • Wayne Shorter   - Speak No Evil – Dec. 24, 1964 Blue Note66
    • Hank Mobley – Dippin’ – June 18, 1965 Blue Note67
    • Lee Morgan – Cornbread – Sept. 18, 1965 Blue Note68
    • Horace Silver – Cape Verdean Blues – Oct. 1, 1965 Blue Note69
    • Larry Young – Unity – Nov. 10, 1965 Blue Note70
    • Joe Henderson – Mode For Joe – Jan. 27, 1966 Blue Note71
    • George Benson – George Benson Cookbook – Aug. 1, 1966 Columbia72
    • Sonny Criss – This Is Criss!  - Oct. 21, 1966 Prestige73
    • Lee Morgan – The Procrastinator – July 14, 1967 Blue Note74
    • Duke Pearson – The Right Touch – Sept. 13, 1967 Blue Note75
    • Lonnie Smith – Think!  -July 23, 1968 Blue Note76
    • Rusty Bryant – Rusty Bryant Returns – Feb. 17, 1969 Prestige77
    • Les McCann   -   Swiss Movement – June 22, 1969 Atlantic78
    • Houston Person – Goodness!  - Aug. 25, 1969 Prestige79
    • Louis Hayes – Ichi-Ban – May 5, 1976 Timeless80
    • Nick Brignola – L.A. Bound – Oct. 17, 1979 Night Life81
    • Art Blakey – Straight Ahead – June 1, 1981 Concord82
    • David “Fathead” Newman – Still Hard Times April 14, 1982 Muse83
    • Joanne Brackeen – Fi-Fi Goes To Heaven – Oct. 1, 1986 Concord84
    • Marvin “Smitty” Smith – Keeper Of The Drums – March 1, 1987 Concord85
    • Bobby Hutcherson – Cruisin’ The ‘Bird – April 15, 1988 Landmark86
    • Ray Brown – Bam Bam Bam – Dec. 1, 1988 Concord87
    • Ricky Ford – Hard Groovin’ – Feb. 24, 1989 Muse88
    • Erica Lindsay – Dreamer – March 3, 1989 Candid89
    • Roy Hargrove – Diamond In The Rough – Dec. 1, 1989 Novus90
    • Benny Green – Lineage – Jan. 30, 1990 Blue Note91
    • Ralph Moore – Furthermore- March 3, 1990 Landmark92
    • Ray Brown – Moore Makes Four – May 22, 1990 Concord93
    • Mike Smith – On A Cool Night – Jan. 1, 1991 Delmark94
    • T.S. Monk – Take One – Oct. 16, 1991 Blue Note95
    • Tom Scott – Born Again – March 1, 1992 GRP96
    • Travis Shook – Travis Shook – Jan. 1, 1993 Columbia97
    • Kenny Barron – Other Places – Feb. 1, 1993 Verve98
    • Jimmy Smith – Damn! – Jan. 24, 1995 Verve99
    • Horace Silver – The Hardbop Grandpop – Feb. 29, 1996 Impulse! 100
    • Jake Langley  - Doug’s Garage – Nov. 10, 1999 Radioland

     

    A courtesy of Hardbop Homepage (http://hardbop.tripod.com/index.html

    If you feel like patting your feet, pat your feet

    In Others on March 5, 2009 at 12:44 am

    “We’d like to have you all join in with us on this one and help us find the groove by patting your feet, or popping your fingers, or clapping your hands, or shaking your heads . . . or shaking whatever else you want to shake.”

    –Horace Silver
    Doin’ the Thing, Blue Note, 1959.

    “If you feel like patting your feet, pat your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.”

    –Art Blakey
    At the Jazz Corner of the World,
    Blue Note, 1959.

    Joe Henderson – Bio

    In Bio on March 4, 2009 at 11:15 pm
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    Joe Henderson

    Tenor Saxophone
    April 24, 1937 — June 30, 2001

    “Joe Henderson is always in the middle of a great solo.”

    –Richard Cook & Brian Morton

    Joe Henderson was born in Lima, Ohio, on April 24, 1937. Lima is fifty miles south of Toledo, Ohio, sixty miles north of Dayton, Ohio, sixty miles east of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and about a hundred and twenty miles from Detroit–which is probably the reason why Joe went to Detroit to live and study.

    He finished high school in Lima, and gives credit to a home town drummer, John Jarette, who advised him to listen to Charlie Parker, among others. Getz was the one who got through to him first because of his sound, taste and simplicity; however, later, Charlie Parker became his great inspiration.

    There were a couple of piano players around Lima who gave him a working knowledge of the piano, namely Richard Patterson and Don Hurless. They were older fellows who went to school with his older brothers and sisters. Incidentally, there were fifteen brothers and sisters, and there being no night baseball or T.V., this might have possibly accounted for such a large family.

    Joe’s first saxophone teacher, Herbert Murphy, was responsible for his embryonic understanding of the instrument. Joe was still in high school, and he did quite a bit of writing for the school concert band and also for various “rock” groups that came through Lima.

    “My older brother James T. encouraged me to go to college to cultivate the talent he thought I had. I went to Kentucky State College for one year, then to Wayne University in Detroit where I met Yusef Lateef, High Lawson, Donald Byrd and all the other motor city musicians.”

    In Detroit, Joe studied with Larry Teal at the Teal School of Music, learning theory, harmony and the finer points of saxophone playing. He also studied flute and string bass at Wayne University. During the latter part of 1959, he formed his own group. Prior to his army induction, he was commissioned by “UNAC,” an organization similar to NAACP or the Urban League, to do a suite called “Swing and Strings” which showcased some originals arranged by him, played by an orchestra comprised of ten members from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra combined with the local dance band of Jimmy Wilkins, the brother of Ernie Wilkins.

    1960 found Joe Henderson in the United States Army Band at Fort Benning, GA. He had competed in the army talent show and won first place with a 4 piece combo, which qualified him for the all army entertainment contest. Later he was chosen at Fort Belvoir, Virgina, to tour with a show around the world to entertain troops. This tour led him to Okinawa, Korea, Japan, Panama, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, England and other countries. While in Paris, he sat in with Kenny Clarke and Kenny Drew.

    In the late summer of 1962, a bearded young 25 year old tenor saxophonist, slight of build, with might in his fingers, rolled into New York town in a sleek black Mercedes-Benz. He was just discharged from the United States Army in Maryland where he had concluded a two year hitch. The first stop was at a party at a friend’s place (saxophonist Junior Cook) where I was introduced to this bearded, goateed astronaut of the tenor sax. Later I suggested that we go down to see Dexter Gordon who was headlining the Birdland Monday night “Jazz Jamboree.” Boarding the “A” train, we were at 52nd Street and Broadway some twenty five minutes later. Once inside Birdland, Henderson was introduced to one of the “swingingest swingers” in jazzdom’s history, Dexter Gordon. “Long Tall Dexter” asked the young man if he’d like to play some.

    Minutes afterward, the musical astronaut was on the launching pad, and the count down was in progress with a three man crew (rhythm section) behind him. There was a thunderous (Art Blakey type) roar from the battery man, and the saxophonist was off and soaring his (lyrical) way to new heights on a Charlie Parker blues line. At the end of the chorus (and I do mean 15 to 20), there was a warm and exhilarating applause for Joe, and as for Dex, sitting on the side, he looked “gassed.”

    Here’s hoping that the young gentleman from Lima, Ohio, can cash in on all of his wonderful talents–his arranging, composing and tenor “saxophoning” extraordinary. Here’s hoping that his skies remain blue and his horizon clear, and that he receives his due, and that all who hear him will support the boy from “Soulsville.”

    –KENNY DORHAM, from the liner notes,
    Page One, Blue Note.


    A selected discography of Joe Henderson albums.

    • Page One, 1963, Blue Note.
    • Our Thing, 1963, Blue Note.
    • In ‘n Out, 1964, Blue Note.
    • Inner Urge, 1964, Blue Note.
    • Mode For Joe, 1966, Blue Note.
    • Relaxin’ at Camarillo, 1979, Contemporary.
    • Lush Life, 1991, Verve.

    from: http://hardbop.tripod.com/henderson.html

    Charlie Mingus – Discography

    In Bio on March 4, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    As bandleader

    • Baron Mingus – West Coast 1945-49 (1949, Uptown)
    • Strings and Keys (duo with Spaulding Givens) (1951, Debut)
    • The Young Rebel (1952, Swingtime)
    • The Charles Mingus Duo and Trio (1953, Fantasy)
    • Charles Mingus Octet (1953, Debut)
    • The Moods of Mingus (1954, Savoy)
    • The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus (1954, Bethlehem)
    • Jazzical Moods (1954, Bethlehem)
    • Mingus at the Bohemia (1955, Debut)
    • The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955, Debut)
    • Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956, Atlantic)
    • The Clown (1957, Atlantic)
    • The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus (1957)
    • Mingus Three (1957, Jubilee)
    • East Coasting (1957, Bethlehem)
    • A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957, Bethlehem)
    • Blues & Roots (1959, Atlantic)
    • Mingus Ah Um (1959, Columbia)
    • Mingus Dynasty (1959, Columbia)
    • Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959, United Artists)
    • Pre Bird (1960, Mercury)
    • Mingus at Antibes (1960, Atlantic)
    • Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960, Candid)
    • Reincarnation of a Love Bird (1960, Candid)
    • Tonight at Noon (1961, Atlantic)
    • Vital Savage Horizons (1962, Alto)
    • Tempo di Jazz (1962, Tempo di Jazz)
    • Town Hall Concert (1962, Blue Note)
    • Oh Yeah (1962, Atlantic)
    • Tijuana Moods (1962, RCA)
    • The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963, Impulse!)
    • Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963, Impulse!; sometimes referred to as Five Mingus)
    • Mingus Plays Piano (1963, Impulse!)
    • Soul Fusion (1963, Pickwick live)
    • Revenge! (live 1964 performance with Eric Dolphy, 32 Jazz; previously issued by Prestige as The Great Paris Concert)
    • Town Hall Concert (1964, Fantasy)
    • Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vol. 1 (1964, Ulysse Musique)
    • Charles Mingus Live In Oslo 1964 Featuring Eric Dolphy (1964, Jazz Up)
    • Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Stockholm 1964 (1964, Royal Jazz)
    • Charles Mingus Sextet Live In Europe (1964, Unique Jazz)
    • The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus (1964, America)
    • Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy CORNELL March 18 1964 (2007, Blue Note)
    • Mingus In Europe (1964, Enja)
    • Mingus In Stuttgart, April 28, 1964 Concert (1964, Unique Jazz)
    • Right Now: Live At The Jazz Workshop (1964, Fantasy)
    • Mingus At Monterey (1964, Mingus JWS)
    • Music Written For Monterey 1965. Not Heard… Played In Its Entirety At UCLA, Vol. 1&2 (1965, Mingus JWS)
    • Charles Mingus – Cecil Taylor (1966, Ozone)
    • Statements (1969, Joker)
    • Paris TNP (1970, Ulysse Musique)
    • Charles Mingus Sextet In Berlin (1970, Beppo)
    • Charles Mingus (1971, Columbia)
    • Charles Mingus And Friends In Concert (1972, Columbia)
    • Charles Mingus Quintet Featuring Dexter Gordon (1972, White Label)
    • Let My Children Hear Music (1972, Columbia)
    • Passions of a Man (1973, Atlantic)
    • Mingus At Carnegie Hall (1974, Atlantic)
    • Changes One (1974, Atlantic)
    • Changes Two (1974, Atlantic)
    • Mingus Moves (1974, Atlantic)
    • Village Vanguard 1975 (1975, Blue Mark Music)
    • The Music Of Charles Mingus (1977, Bayside)
    • Stormy & Funky Blues (1977)
    • Cumbia & Jazz Fusion (1977, Atlantic)
    • Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977)
    • His Final Work (1977)
    • Something Like a Bird (1979, Atlantic) (Mingus does not play on this session)
    • Me, Myself An Eye (1979, Atlantic) (Mingus does not play on this session)
    • Epitaph (1990, Columbia) (Mingus does not play on this session)
    • Mingus Mysterious Blues (1990, Candid) (Mingus does not play on this session)

     

    As a sideman

    • Robbins’ Nest (with Illinois Jacquet) (1945, Toho)
    • Mellow Mama (with Dinah Washington) (1945, Delmark)
    • Hot Piano (with Wilbert Baranco) (1946, Tops)
    • Ivie Anderson and Her All Stars (with Ivie Anderson) (1946, Storyville)
    • Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra 1948 (with Lionel Hampton) ((1948, Weka)
    • Lionel Hampton in Concert (with Lionel Hampton) ((1948, Cicala Jazz)
    • The Red Norvo Trio (with Red Norvo) (1951, Savoy)
    • Move (with Red Norvo) (1951, Savoy)
    • Miles Davis at Birdland 1951 (with Miles Davis) (1951, Beppo)
    • Jazz in Storyville (with Billy Taylor) (1951, Roost)
    • The George Wallington Trios Featuring Charles Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach (1952, Prestige)
    • Spring Broadcasts 1953 (with Bud Powell) (1953, ESP)
    • Inner Fires (with Bud Powell) (1953, Electra/Musician)
    • Jazz at Massey Hall (aka. The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever) (with Charlie Parker) (1953, Debut)
    • Introducing Paul Bley (with Paul Bley) (1953, Debut)
    • Explorations (with Teo Macero) (1953, Debut)
    • The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (with Oscar Pettiford) (1953, Debut)
    • Ada Moore (with Ada Moore) (1954, Debut)
    • Mad Bebop (with J.J. Johnson) (1954, Savoy)
    • The Eminent J.J. Johnson (with J.J. Johnson) (1954, Blue Note)
    • Evolution (with Teddy Charles) (1955, Prestige)
    • Relaxed Piano Moods (with Hazel Scott) (1955, Debut)
    • The John Mehegan Trio/Quartet (with John Mehegan) (1955, Savoy)
    • Very Truly Yours (with Jimmy Scott) (1955, Savoy)
    • The Fabulous Thad Jones (with Thad Jones) (1955, Debut)
    • New Piano Expressions (with John Dennis) (1955, Debut)
    • Easy Jazz (with Ralph Sharon) (1955, London)
    • Blue Moods (with Miles Davis) (1955, Prestige)
    • The Word from Bird (with Teddy Charles) (1956, Atlantic)
    • New Faces (with Jimmy Knepper) (1957, Debut)
    • Money Jungle (with Duke Ellington and Max Roach) (1962, Blue Note)

    Charlie Rouse – Bio

    In Bio on March 4, 2009 at 12:59 pm

     

    Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 - November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. 

    Charlie Rouse was in Thelonious Monk’s Quartet for over a decade (1959-1970) and, although somewhat taken for granted, was an important ingredient in Monk’s music. Rouse was always a modern player and he worked with Billy Eckstine’s orchestra (1944) and the first Dizzy Gillespie ig band (1945), making his recording debut with Tadd Dameron in 1947. Rouse popped up in a lot of important groups including Duke Ellington’s Orchestra (1949-1950), Count Basie’s octet (1950), on sessions with Clifford Brown in 1953, and with Oscar Pettiford’s sextet (1955). He co-led the Jazz Modes with Julius Watkins (1956-1959), and then joined Monk for a decade of extensive touring and recordings. In the 1970s he recorded a few albums as a leader, and in 1979 he became a member of Sphere. Charlie Rouse’s unique sound began to finally get some recognition during the 1980s. He participated on Carmen McRae’s classic Carmen Sings Monk album and his last recording was at a Monk tribute concert.

    ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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    How much for a vintage Fender Pro Reverb nowdays?

    In Gear on February 26, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    eBay Selling Price History for Blackface Pro Reverb (US Dollars)

    Average eBay selling prices for amps in very good or better condition and with no or only common maintenance changes (caps, resistors, speakers, wires/cords).

    Blackface.

    Avg Model Year Price $

    Year

    Qty sold

    Avg Price $

    1964

    1

    662

    1965

    33

    1,647

    1966

    40

    1,495

    1967

    28

    1,450

    4 Years

    102

    1,524

    Avg Monthly Price $

    Month

    Qty sold

    Avg Price $

    2009-06

    4

    1,375

    2009-05

    3

    1,200

    2009-04

    3

    1,620

    2009-03

    4

    1,482

    2009-02

    8

    1,234

    2009-01

    10

    1,463

    2008-12

    2

    1,313

    2008-11

    5

    1,695

    2008-10

    3

    1,330

    2008-09

    3

    1,892

    2008-08

    4

    1,480

    2008-07

    1

    1,625

    2008-06

    5

    1,609

    2008-05

    2

    1,713

    2008-04

    3

    1,499

    2008-03

    6

    1,782

    2008-02

    7

    1,764

    2008-01

    3

    1,350

    18 Months

    76

    1,523

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    Silverface

    Avg Model Year Price $

    Year

    Qty sold

    Avg Price $

    1967

    1

    1,192

    1968

    24

    981

    1969

    8

    936

    1970

    1

    999

    1971

    6

    635

    1972

    10

    710

    1973

    13

    787

    1974

    10

    729

    1975

    5

    673

    1976

    10

    646

    1977

    3

    691

    1978

    22

    579

    1979

    11

    566

    13 Years

    124

    746

    Avg Monthly Price $

    Month

    Qty sold

    Avg Price $

    2009-06

    5

    768

    2009-05

    3

    783

    2009-04

    5

    752

    2009-03

    4

    784

    2009-02

    5

    806

    2009-01

    6

    714

    2008-12

    4

    881

    2008-11

    7

    698

    2008-10

    3

    729

    2008-09

    6

    728

    2008-08

    2

    700

    2008-07

    6

    677

    2008-06

    3

    763

    2008-05

    4

    837

    2008-04

    3

    764

    2008-03

    14

    793

    2008-02

    12

    652

    2008-01

    2

    1,006

    18 Months

    94

    752

    Pro Reverb vintage  price (silverface)

    Pro Reverb vintage price (silverface)

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    Owner Manual Fender Pro Reverb 1972

    In Gear on February 26, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Rare! a full copy of the 1972 Owner manual of the Fender Super Reverb and Pro Reverb amplifiers, which is  very light compaired to today’s specs books!

    But just good enough to play isn’t it? Click down here:

    Fender Pro reverb manual 1972

    Fender Pro reverb manual 1972

    If you have any other copy of older issue, drop me a mail, Thousand thanks

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    Bohemia after Dark (Album review) Cannonball Adderley (1955)

    In Album on February 25, 2009 at 9:27 am

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    • Label : Savoy Jazz
    • Orig Year :  1955
    • CD Universe Part number : 5588877
    • Catalog number: 17166
    • Release Date: Feb 11, 2003
    • Studio/Live : Studio
    • Mono/Stereo : Mono
    • Additional Info Bonus Tracks; Remastered

     

    Review

    Savoy Jazz reissues are always unpredictable and this CD by Cannonball Adderley is no exception. This music has appeared on earlier CDs, including Discoveries and The Summer of ‘55, though the ever-changing total times for each track and mysteriously switching take-numbers make one wonder whether or not to keep earlier editions. In any case, valuable music by Cannonball and brother Nat Adderley (on cornet) is present, including a strong cover of Oscar Pettiford’s “Bohemia After Dark,” a barely disguised reworking of “Sweet Georgia Brown” (“With Apologies to Oscar”) and the leader’s catchy “Caribbean Cutie.” The Adderley brothers, who were making their major league jazz debut in the studio, hit one out of the park with their potent performances. The supporting cast is a good one, with Donald Byrd, Kenny Clarke, Jerome Richardson, Paul Chambers and either Horace Silver or Hank Jones on piano. If one does not already own the double-disc set The Summer of ‘55, this CD can be considered essential for any bop fan. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

    Tracks

    Track Title Composers Performers Time
    Bohemia After Dark Oscar Pettiford Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (6:05)
    Chasm Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (4:22)
    Willow Weep for Me Ann Ronell Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (6:22)
    Late Entry Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (3:15)
    Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (9:12)
    With Apologies to Oscar Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Clarke (5:43)
    We’ll Be Together Again Frankie Laine, Carl Fischer Cannonball Adderley (6:56)
    Caribbean Cutie [Take 1][Alternate Take][*] Cannonball Adderley Cannonball Adderley (5:16)

    Credits

    Cannonball Adderley (Sax (Alto)), Nat Adderley (Cornet), Hank Jones (Piano), Jerome Richardson (Flute), Jerome Richardson (Sax (Tenor)), Horace Silver (Piano), Steve Backer (Executive Producer), Donald Byrd(Trumpet), Ozzie Cadena (Original Session Producer), Paul Chambers (Bass), Kenny Clarke (Drums), David Alan Kogut (Art Direction), Dan Marx (Series Producer), Paul Reid III (Mastering), Paul Reid III (Reissue Engineer), Lew Herman Smythe (Liner Notes)

    Morning Dance (Spyro Gyra/Jay Beckenstein)

    In Album on February 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    Morning Dance is the title of the second studio album by  Spyro Gyra, released in 1979. The album cover shows an intricate and detailed colour illustration of a woodland scene with dancing fairies and other insects, being spied upon by a young woman.

    Morning Dance is Spyro Gyra’s most commercially successful album. The title cut became a major radio hit (Billboard #24 pop, #1 adult contemporary.)

    Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene. Among their most successful hit singles are “Shaker Song” and “Morning Dance”, which received significant play on popular music radio stations, and are still frequently heard nearly 30 years later on jazz and easy listening stations.

    Their music, which has been influential in the development of smooth jazz, combines jazz with elements of R&B, funk and pop music. Although generally considered to be more “jazz” than “smooth”, Spyro Gyra have been praised as skilled instrumentalists and for their live performances, which average nearly 100 per year.

    With the exception of alto saxophonist, songwriter & founding bandleader Jay Beckenstein and keyboardist Tom Schuman the personnel has changed somewhat over time as well as between the studio and the live stage.

     

     

    Morning Dance Spyro Gyra

    Morning Dance Spyro Gyra

     

    Track listing and personnel

    1. “Morning Dance” (Jay Beckenstein) – 4:11

    • Jay Beckenstein: Alto Saxophone
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano
    • John Tropea: Electric and Acoustic Guitar
    • Jim Kurzforder: Bass
    • Ted Reinhardt: Drums
    • Rubens Bassini: Congas and Percussion
    • Dave Samuels: Marimba and Steel Drum

    2. “Jubilee” (Jeremy Wall) – 4:31

    • Jay Beckenstein: Alto Saxophone
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano & Synthesizers
    • John Tropea: Electric Guitar
    • Will Lee: Bass
    • Steve Jordan: Drums
    • Rubens Bassini: Congas & Percussion
    • Randy Brecker: Trumpet Solo
    • Dave Samuels : Marimba

    3. “Rasul” (Jeremy Wall) – 3:57

    • Jay Beckenstein: Soprano and Tenor Saxophone
    • Jeremy Wall: Acoustic and Electric Piano
    • Rick Strauss: Guitar
    • Jim Kurzdorfer: Bass
    • Ted Reinhardt: Drums
    • John Clark: French Horn

    4. “Song for Lorraine” (Jay Beckenstein) – 3:59

    • Jay Beckenstein: Soprano Saxophones
    • Tom Schuman: Electric and Acoustic Pianos
    • Chet Catallo: Guitar
    • Jim Kurzdorfer: Bass
    • Eli Konikoff: Drums
    • Gerardo Velez: Congas, Bongos, and Percussion
    • Suzanne Ciani: Synthesizers
    • Lani Groves, Diva Grey, Gordon Grody: Vocalists

    5. “Starburst” (Jeremy Wall) – 4:50

    • Jay Beckenstein: Tenor Saxophone (Intro)
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano & Synthesizers
    • John Tropea: Guitar
    • Will Lee: Bass
    • Steve Jordan: Drums
    • Rubens Bassini: Congas, Timbales & Percussion
    • Michael Brecker: Tenor Saxophone Solo

    6. “Heliopolis” (Jay Beckenstein) – 5:34

    • Jay Beckenstein: Tenor Saxophone (Intro)
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano & Synthesizers
    • John Tropea: Guitar
    • Will Lee: Bass
    • Steve Jordan: Drums
    • Rubens Bassini: Congas, Timbales & Percussion
    • Dave Samuels: Marimba
    • Tom Schuman: Rhodes solo

    7. “It Doesn’t Matter” (Chet Catallo) – 4:27

    • Jay Beckenstein: Soprano Saxophones
    • Tom Schuman: Electric and Acoustic Pianos
    • Chet Catallo: Guitar
    • Jim Kurzdorfer: Bass
    • Eli Konikoff: Drums
    • Suzanne Ciani: Synthesizer
    • Jeremy Wall: Synthesizer
    • Gerardo Velez: Congas
    • Lani Groves, Diva Grey, Gordon Grody: Vocalists

    8. “Little Linda” (Jeremy Wall) – (4:27)

    • Jay Beckenstein: Alto Saxophone
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano, Acoustic Piano and Percussion
    • Rick Strauss: Guitar
    • Jim Kurzdorfer: Bass
    • Ted Reinhardt: Drums
    • Rubens Bassini: Bongos and Percussion
    • Dave Samuels: Vibraphone

    9. “End of Romanticism” (Rick Strauss) – 5:00

    • Jay Beckenstein: Soprano Saxophone
    • Jeremy Wall: Electric Piano
    • Rick Strauss: Electric & 12-String Guitar
    • Jim Kurzdorfer: Bass
    • Ted Reinhardt: Drums
    • David Samuels: Marimba
    • Tom Schuman: Synthesizers Solos
    • John Clark: French Horn

     

    Caravan (Duke Ellington)

    In Album on February 21, 2009 at 11:35 am

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    Caravan” composed by Juan Tizol and first performed by Duke Ellington in 1937. Tizol also composed “Perdido” for the Ellington band. The lyrics were written by Irving Mills, but as many versions are instrumental he is sometimes not listed. The song is variously seen as the first Latin jazz song or as a Mideastern influenced jazz song. Its “exotic” sound made it of interest to Exotica musicians so it was covered by both Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. It has appeared in two Woody Allen films, Alice and Sweet and Lowdown. Even rap musicians Redman and Busta Rhymes sampled the song heavily in their 1998 song “Da Goodness” (from Redman’s album Doc’s da Name 2000).

     

    First version

     

    The first version of the song was recorded on December 19, 1936, performed by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators in Hollywood. Two takes were recorded, of which the first (Variety VA-515-1) was published.

    It is noteworthy that on the Barney Bigard 78 recording, the composer of the song is listed on the record label as “Juan Tizol”.

    Performers:

    •  Cootie Williams (trumpet),
    •  Juan Tizol (trombone),caravan1
    • Barney Bigard (clarinet),
    • Harry Carney (baritone sax),
    • Duke Ellington (piano),
    • Billy Taylor (bass)
    • Sonny Greer (drums).

     

    Canyon Lady (Joe Henderson)

    In Album on February 21, 2009 at 9:52 am

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    Speaking of charisma, Henderson brings a ton of it to 1973’s Canyon Lady. Many of the small, narrow minds who comprise the jazz media would have us believe that Henderson’s electric Milestone output of the 1970s was a waste, but in fact, the tenorist was a wealthy of creativity during that decade-and Canyon Lady is a fine example. Henderson brings Latin overtones to the haunting title song and his own “Las Palmas,” and his passionate playing on the ballad “Tres Palabras” has a rather Gato Barbieri-ish quality. Canyon Lady isn’t outright Latin jazz a la Cal Tjader or Tito Puente, but the Latin element is definitely there.

    • Audio CD (August 19, 1997)
    • Original Release Date: October 1973
    • Label: Ojc
    • ASIN: B000000Z3Y

    Content:

    • Tres Palabras (10:09)
    • Las Palmas (9:56)
    • Canyon Lady (9:06)
    • All Things Considered (8:37)

     

    Players:

    • Hadley Caliman – Flute, Sax (Tenor) 
    • George Duke – Bass, Percussion, Piano, Drums, Piano (Electric) 
    • Joe Henderson – Sax (Tenor), Remixing 
    • Mark Levine – Piano 
    • Julian Priester – Trombone 
    • Luis Gasca – Bass, Percussion, Piano, Trumpet, Arranger, Conductor, Drums, Flugelhorn 
    • John Heard – Bass 
    • Ray Pizzi – Flute 
    • Francisco Aguabella – Conga 
    • Oscar Brashear – Trumpet 
    • Nicholas Ten Broeck – Trombone 
    • Vince Denham – Flute 
    • Carmelo Garcia – Timbales 
    • Eric Gravatt – Drums 
    • John Heart – Bass 
    • John Hunt – Trumpet 
    • Victor Pantoja – Conga 
    • Jim Stern – Engineer

    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Norman Granz’ Jazz At The Philharmonic: Paris, 1960l Adderley Quintet, The – Norman Granz’ Jazz At The Philharmonic: Paris, 1960 (Bohemia after Dark)

    In Album on February 21, 2009 at 8:48 am
    • Label: Pablo Records

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    • Catalog#: PACD-5303-2
    • Format CD, Album
    • Country US
    • Released 1997

     Credits

    • Bass - Sam Jones 
    • Cornet - Nat Adderley 
    • Drums - Louis Hayes 
    • Piano - Victor Feldman 
    • Producer - Norman Granz 
    • Saxophone [Alto] - Cannonball Adderley

    Notes : Recorded at Salle, Paris on Nov. 25, 1960. Previously unreleased. 
    Total playing time: 56:46bohemia-back

    Songs:

     

    • Introduction by Norman Granz
    • Jeannine
    • Dis Here
    • Blue Daniel
    • The Chant
    • Bohemia after Dark
    • Work Song

    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

    In Album on February 20, 2009 at 10:08 pm
    • Label: Emidisc (2), Capitol Recordsmercy
    • Catalog#: C 048-50 710, 1C 048-50 710
    • Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
    • Country: Germany
    • Style:  Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop

    Credits:

    Bass - Victor Gaskin 
    Cornet - Nat Adderley 
    Drums - Roy McCurdy 
    Piano - Joe Zawinul 
    Saxophone - Cannonball Adderley

    Racklisting:

    • Introduction
    • Fun Written-By - Nat Adderley
    • Games   Written-By - Nat Adderley
    • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy   Written-By - Josef Zawinul*
    • Sticks Written-By - Julian Adderley*
    • Hippodelphia   Written-By - Josef Zawinul

    • Sack O´Woe  Written-By  Julian Adderley

    Listen Here – Eddie Harris

    In Album, Bio on February 20, 2009 at 10:01 pm
    • Date de sortie d’origine: novembre 1992
    • Label: Enja
    • ASIN : B000025TZM

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    Liste des titres

    • 1. Funkaroma
    • 2. I Need Some Money
    • 3. Listen Here Hi Life
    • 4. People Get Funny When They Get a Little Money
    • 5. Is It In?
    • 6. How Can I Find Some Way to Tell You
    • 7. Walkin’ the Walk
    • 8. Fusion Jazz Dance

    La Clef

    In Events, Media on February 19, 2009 at 3:49 pm

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    Bobby Few biographie

    In Bio on February 18, 2009 at 9:55 pm

     

    Bobby Few

    Bobby Few

    Bobby Few was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in a family of musicians: his father always listened to jazz, his mother played violin and his uncle the trumpet.

     

    He came from a very religious family (his grand father was a Baptist minister) which, without a shadow of a doubt, nourished his music spiritually.

    Bobby Few was only 7 when he studied piano and later musical theory and composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He had two private teachers of splendid reputation.

    At 16, he started playing in jazz clubs in Cleveland, his hometown.

    One evening, he met Ella Fitzgerald who was so touched by his tender age that she encouraged him to pursue his path.

     

    Soon after, Bobby Few created his own trio and played throughout the USA.

     

    In the early 60’s, urged by Albert Ayler, Bobby Few went to New York. There, he made a first record with Booker Ervin “The In Between” (BLUE NOTE) then a second one with Albert Ayler intitled “Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe” (IMPULSE), both recently reedited.

    He also played with Brook Benton, a rhythm and blues singer, with whom he toured the world. Later, Bobby Few became Benton’s musical director. Moreover, he played in the 60’s at the Playboy club where they had a marvellous experience.

    Then, concert after concert, Bobby Few worked with many prestigious artists such as Archie Shepp, Kenny Clarke, Frank Wright, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Sunny Murray, Roland Kirk, Nat Adderley, Frank Foster, David Murray, Bill Dixon, Albert Ayler or Steve Lacy with whom he toured the world from 1980 until 1992.

    During his rich and fruitful career, Bobby Few also took part in more than 70 recordings: the latest untitled “Kindred Spirits”, produced by Box Holder Records (New York), will be released in April 2005.

    Bobby Few has lived in Paris since 1969, a town where he found his artistic and intellectual equilibrium. Since 1993, he has directed his own trio and quintet.

    His musical influences are deeply rooted in jazz with musicians such as Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner or Cecil Taylor… However classical music has also played an influential role. Few says: “Classical music is one of the avenues leading to jazz because it gives a direction in the harmonic progressions of jazz.”bobbyfew

    Thus, Bobby Few’s music is therefore the fruit of his numerous musical experiences. He is motivated by eclecticism, new sounds and new musical colours. He has succeeded in making us understand that music is universal. Thanks to his music, he sends us a message of peace, altruism and spirituality: he unites all peoples, whatever their colour, culture or origin.

    The Key to Jazz” à Conflans Ste Honorine

    In Events on February 10, 2009 at 10:55 pm

     

    “The Key to Jazz” à Conflans Ste Honorine

    Organisé par : Festival Jazz de Conflans
    Type : Musique/Arts - Concert
    Où : Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
    Quand : vendredi 13 mars de 20:00 à 23:00

    Mercy Mercy Mercy

    In Live on February 10, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Acid Jazz jackets

    In Album on February 10, 2009 at 9:48 pm

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    Charles Mingus – Ah Um – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

    In Album on February 10, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Mingus Ah Um est un album de jazz signé Charles Mingus mis sur le marché en 1959. 

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    Il est le prolongement du mouvement

     d’évolution vers le bebop, puis le free-jazz, entammé avec Pithecanthropus Erectus 3 ans auparavant. Produit par Atlantic Records, cet album reste l’un des plus importants de Charles Mingus, et aura une influence majeure sur les artistes qui suivront.

    Musiciens 

    • Contrebasse : Charles Mingus
    • Saxophone : Booker Ervin and John Handy
    • Trombone : Willie Dennis and Jimmy Knepper
    • Piano : Horace Parlan
    • Batterie : Dannie Richmond

    Titres 

    • 1. Better git it in your soul
    • 2. Goodbye pork pie hat. (Hommage à Lester Young)
    • 3. Boogie stop shuffle
    • 4. Self-Portrait in three colors
    • 5. Open letter to duke
    • 6. Bird calls
    • 7. Fables of faubus
    • 8. Pussy cat dues
    • 9. Jelly roll
    • 10. Pedal point blues
    • 11. GG train
    • 12. Girl of my dreams

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    Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions (Well you Needn’t)

    In Album on February 10, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk’s first sessions as a bandleader were recorded between 1947 and 1952, and released on Blue Note records as a series of 78 RPM singles. These singles were then compiled in later years–with additional performances from the sessions–into long-playing album formats. As Monk’s reputation and fame grew, the sessions were recompiled again and again into more complete configurations. This article details various releases of these sessions.

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    Thelonious Monk, foreground, performing at Expo 67in Montreal. (Credit: Library and Archives Canada)

    The Sessions

    The Blue Note recordings were made over the course of six different sessions. “Versions” refers only to the number of eventually-released performances; other takes may have been recorded.

    All compositions by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted.

     

    Session 1: October 15, 1947

    1. Humph
    2. Evonce (Idrees Sulieman – Ike Quebec) [2 versions]
    3. Suburban Eyes (Ike Quebec) [2 versions]
    4. Thelonious


    Session 2: October 24, 1947

    5. Nice Work If You Can Get It (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) [2 versions]
    6. Ruby My Dear [2 versions]
    7. Well You Needn’t [2 versions]
    8. April In Paris (Vernon Duke – E. Y. Harburg) [2 versions]
    9. Off Minor
    10. Introspection

    Session 3: November 21, 1947

    11. In Walked Bud
    12. Monk’s Mood
    13. Who Knows? [2 versions]
    14. ‘Round Midnight


    Session 4: July 2, 1948

    15. Evidence
    16. Misterioso [2 versions]
    17. Epistrophy (T. Monk – Kenny Clarke)
    18. I Mean You
    19. All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern – Oscar Hammerstein)
    20. I Should Care (Cahn – Stordahl – Weston)[2 versions]

    Session 5: July 23, 1951

    21. Four in One [2 versions]
    22. Criss Cross [2 versions]
    23. Eronel (Monk – Sulieman – Hakim)
    24. Straight, No Chaser
    25. Ask Me Now [2 versions]
    26. Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronnell)


    Session 6: May 30, 1952

    27. Skippy [2 versions]
    28. Hornin’ In [2 versions]
    29. Sixteen [2 versions]
    30. Carolina Moon (B. Davis – J. Burke)
    31. Let’s Cool One
    32. I’ll Follow You (R. Turk – F. Ahlert)


    Personnel

     

    • Thelonious Monk - piano
    • Art Blakey - drums (sessions 1, 2, 3, 5)
    • Shadow Wilson - drums (session 4)
    • Max Roach - drums (session 6)
    • Gene Ramey - bass (session 1, 2)
    • Bob Paige – bass (session 3)
    • John Simmons - bass (session 4)
    • Al McKibbon - bass (session 5)
    • Nelson Boyd - bass (session 6)
    • Milt Jackson - vibraphone (4, 5)
    • Idrees Sulieman - trumpet (session 1)
    • George Taitt – trumpet (session 3)
    • Kenny Dorham - trumpet (session 6)
    • Danny Quebec West – alto saxophone (session 1)
    • Sahib Shihab - alto saxophone (sessions 3, 5)
    • Lou Donaldson - alto saxophone (session 6)
    • Billy Smith – tenor saxophone (session 1)
    • Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone (session 6)
    • Kenny “Pancho” Hagood – vocal (session 4, songs 19 & 20)

    Singles

    Blue Note 78 rpm series (12 inch 78 rpm)

    BN 543 Well, You Needn’t (BN314-0)/ ‘Round About Midnight (BN321-1) 

     

    Thought of the Week

    In Others on February 10, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. — Henry David Thoreau

    Jazzed in Cleveland – Pianist Bobby Few

    In Bio on February 6, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    Jazzed in Cleveland - Pianist Bobby Few

    Story filed January 28, 2004

    He was one of Cleveland’s leading jazz pianists in the 1950s and ‘60s, and later, Bobby Few became one of the most respected and busiest pianists in Europe. After moving to Paris in the late 1960s, Few has performed on more than 50 jazz albums.

    via Jazzed in Cleveland – Part 82 – Pianist Bobby Few.

    Did you said Soul Jazz?

    In Bio on January 26, 2009 at 11:01 am

    jazzsoulSoul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often the organ trio which featured the Hammond organ. Important soul jazz organists included Bill Doggett, Charles Earland, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Les McCann, ”Brother” Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Lonnie Smith, Big John Patton, Don Patterson, Shirley Scott, Hank Marr, Reuben Wilson, Jimmy Smith and Johnny Hammond Smith.

    Tenor saxophone and guitar were also important in soul jazz; soul jazz tenors include Gene Ammons, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Eddie Harris, Houston Person, and Stanley Turrentine; guitarists include Grant Green and George Benson. Other important contributors were Alto saxophonists Lou Donaldson and Hank Crawford, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, and drummer Idris Muhammed (ne Leo Morris). Unlike hard bop, soul jazz generally emphasized repetitive grooves, melodies, and melodic hooks.

    Soul jazz was developed in the late 1950s, reaching public awareness with the release of The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, and was perhaps most popular in the mid-to-late 1960s, though many soul jazz performers, and elements of the music, remain popular. Although the term “soul jazz” contains the word “soul,” soul jazz is only a distant cousin to soul music, in that soul developed from gospel and R&B rather than from jazz.

    souljazzindustrySome well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder (1963), Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island (1964) (which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on Cantaloop), Horace Silver’s Song for My Father (1964) (which was musically alluded to by Steely Dan with Rikki Don’t Lose That Number), Ramsey Lewis’sThe In Crowd (1965), and Cannonball Adderley’s Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (1966) (also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams).

    The Soul Jazz vernacular was a major contributer to the evolution of Jazz-Funk in the 1970s.

     

    Soul jazz  

    • Origins: hard bop, rhythm and blues, blues, gospel
    • Cultural origins: 1950s
    • Typical instruments: 
      • Hammond organ, piano, saxophone, guitar, 
      • double bass, electric bass, drums
    • Mainstream popularity: 1950s to 1970s
    • Subgenres: Jazz-funk

    List of Soul Jazz musiciens

    • Cannonball Adderley – sax
    • Nat Adderley - cornet
    • Gene Ammons - sax
    • Curtis Amy - sax
    • Roy Ayers - vibraphone
    • Joe Beck - guitar
    • George Benson - guitar, vocals
    • Lou Blackburn - trombone
    • Billy Butler (guitarist)
    • Earl Bostic - sax
    • George Braith - sax
    • Zachary Breaux - guitar
    • Bobby Broom - guitar
    • Norman Brown (guitarist) - guitar
    • Ray Bryant - piano
    • Rusty Bryant
    • Kenny Burrell - guitar
    • Billy Butler (guitarist) - guitar
    • Arnett Cobb - sax
    • Sonny Cox - sax
    • Hank Crawford - sax
    • The Crusaders
    • King Curtis
    • Eddie Davis (saxophonist) - sax
    • Joey DeFrancesco - organ, trumpet
    • Monica Dillon
    • Bill Doggett
    • Lou Donaldson - sax
    • Cornell Dupree
    • Charles Earland
    • İlhan Erşahin - sax
    • Wilton Felder
    • Ronnie Foster
    • George Freeman
    • Funk, Inc.
    • Maynard Ferguson - trumpet
    • Grant Green - guitar
    • Jabari Grover – Vocals
    • Herbie Hancock
    • Eddie Harris
    • Gene Harris
    • Bill Heid
    • Wayne Henderson (musician)
    • Red Holloway - saxophone
    • Ron Holloway - tenor saxophone
    • Richard Holmes (organist) - organ
    • Stix Hooper
    • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
    • Bobbi Humphrey - flute
    • Fred Jackson (saxophonist) - sax
    • Willis Jackson (saxophonist) - sax
    • The J.B.’s
    • Henry Johnson (guitarist)
    • Plas Johnson
    • Wayne Johnson - guitar
    • Ivan “Boogaloo Joe” Jones - guitar
    • Ronny Jordan - guitar
    • Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    • Earl Klugh - guitar
    • Charles Kynard
    • Ramsey Lewis - piano
    • Bobby Lyle - piano
    • Johnny Lytle
    • Harold Mabern - piano
    • Junior Mance - piano
    • Herbie Mann - sax, flute
    • Hank Marr - organ
    • Pat Martino - guitar
    • Hugh Masekela - trumpet
    • Les McCann - piano
    • Big Jay McNeely sax
    • Wes Montgomery - guitar
    • Dick Morrissey - tenor/soprano sax
    • Ronald Muldrow - guitar
    • Jack McDuff - organ
    • Jimmy McGriff - organ
    • Lee Morgan - trumpet
    • Idris Muhammad - drums
    • Ronald Muldrow - guitar
    • Oliver Nelson - sax
    • David Newman (jazz musician) - sax
    • Johnny O’Neal
    • Maceo Parker - sax
    • John Patton (musician) - organ
    • Duke Pearson - piano
    • Houston Person - sax
    • Sonny Phillips
    • Trudy Pitts
    • Jimmy Ponder
    • Seldon Powell - sax, flute
    • Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
    • Bernard Purdie
    • Ike Quebec - sax
    • Chuck Rainey
    • Joshua Redman - sax
    • Freddie Roach (organist) - organ
    • Joe Sample - piano
    • Marlon Saunders - vocals
    • Rhoda Scott - organ
    • Shirley Scott - organ
    • Horace Silver - piano
    • Nina Simone - vocals
    • Dr. Lonnie Smith - organ
    • Jimmy Smith (musician) - organ
    • Johnny “Hammond” Smith - organ
    • Melvin Sparks - guitar
    • Leon Spencer - organ
    • B.B. Reed - sax
    • Grady Tate - drums
    • Billy Taylor - piano
    • The Three Souls
    • The Three Sounds
    • Bobby Timmons - piano
    • Stanley Turrentine - sax
    • James Ulmer
    • Harold Vick - sax, flute
    • Jr. Walker & the All Stars
    • Winston Walls
    • Grover Washington, Jr. - sax
    • Mark Whitfield - guitar
    • Don Wilkerson
    • Baby Face Willette - organ
    • Jack Wilson (jazz pianist) - piano
    • Reuben Wilson
    • John Wright – piano
    • Larry Young (jazz) - organ
    • Joe Zawinul - keyboards

     

     

    The Electrifying Eddie Harris (Album review) Listen Here

    In Album on January 25, 2009 at 3:32 pm

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    THE ELECTRIFYING EDDIE HARRIS:

    Recorded in New York, New York on March 14-15, 1968.

    Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, New York on April 20, 1967. Includes original release liner notes by Ray Allen, this LP is one of tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris’s most significant albums. Rolling Stone called Eddie’s hit single Listen Here a space funk classic with it’s inventive use of electronic effects also features the groovy Sham Time and the incredible Theme In Search Of A Movie New exclusive liner notes by Mitch Myers audiophile Re mastering from the original master tapes 80 gram HQ vinyl & original artwork”


    2 LPs
    on 1 CD: THE ELECTRIFYING EDDIE HARRIS (1967)/PLUG ME IN.

    Personnel:

    Eddie Harris (tenor saxophone, electric saxophone); King Curtis, David Newman (tenor saxophone); Haywood Henry (baritone saxophone); Melvin Lastie, Joe Newman (trumpet); Jodie Christian (piano); Melvin Jackson (bass); Richard Smith (drums); Ray Barretto, Joe Wohletz (percussion).

    Producer: Arif Mardin.
    Engineer: Phil Iehle.

    Personnel: Eddie Harris (electric tenor saxophone); Haywood Henry (baritone saxophone); Melvin Lastie, Jimmy Owens, Joe Newman, James Bossy (trumpet); Tom McIntosh, Garnet Brown (trombone); Jodie Christian (piano); Melvin Jackson, Ron Carter (bass); Chuck Rainey (electric bass); Richard Smith, Grady Tate (drums).

    Producer: Joel Dorn.

    Tracks:

    • Theme In Search Of A Movie
    • Listen Here
    • Judie’s Theme
    • Sham Time
    • Spanish Bull
    • I Don’t Want No One But You

    Oscar Pettiford Bio

    In Bio on January 25, 2009 at 12:39 pm

     

    • Born: September 30, 1922, Okmulgee, OK
      Oscar Pettiford

      Oscar Pettiford

       

       

    • Died: September 08, 1960, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Active: ’40s, ’50s
    • Instrument: Bass, Cello
    • Representative Albums: “Deep Passion,” “Vienna Blues: The Complete Sessions,” “The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet”
    • Representative Songs: “Bohemia After Dark,” “Little Niles,” “Laverne Walk”

    Biography

    Oscar Pettiford was (along with Charles Mingus) the top bassist of the 1945-1960 period, and the successor to the late Jimmy Blanton. In addition, he was the first major jazz soloist on the cello.

     

    A bop pioneer, it would have been very interesting to hear what Pettiford would have done during the avant-garde ’60s if he had not died unexpectedly in 1960. After starting on piano, Pettiford switched to bass when he was 14 and played in a family band.

     

    He played with Charlie Barnet’s band in 1942 as one of two bassists (the other was Chubby Jackson) and then hit the big time in 1943, participating on Coleman Hawkins’ famous “The Man I Love” session; he also recorded with Earl Hines and Ben Webster during this period. Pettiford co-led an early bop group with Dizzy Gillespie in 1944, and in 1945 went with Coleman Hawkins to the West Coast, appearing on one song in the film The Crimson Canary with Hawkins and Howard McGhee. Pettiford was part of Duke Ellington’s orchestra during much of 1945-1948 (fulfilling his role as the next step beyond Jimmy Blanton), and worked with Woody Hermanin 1949.

     

    Throughout the 1950s, he mostly worked as a leader (on bass and occasional cello), although he appeared on many records both as a sideman and a leader, including with Thelonious Monk in 1955-1956. After going to Europe in 1958, he settled in Copenhagen where he worked with local musicians, plus Stan Getz, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke. Among Pettiford’s better-known compositions are “Tricotism,” “Laverne Walk,” “Bohemia After Dark,” and “Swingin’ Till the Girls Come Home.” ~ Scott Yanow.

    Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) Banyana Children of Africa – Ishmael

    In Album, Bio on January 20, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    Abdullah Ibrahim (born 9 October 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa), formerly known as Adolph Johannes Brand, and as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington.

    He first received piano lessons at the age of seven, was an avid consumer of jazz records brought by American sailors, and was playing jazz professionally by 1949. In 1959 and 1960, he played alongside Kippie Moeketsi with The Jazz Epistles in Sophiatown before joining the European tour of the musical King Kong.

    Children of Africa  

     

     

    Banyana - Children of Africa

    Banyana - Children of Africa

    • Label: Enja Records
    • Catalog#: enja 2070
    • Format: Vinyl, LP
    • Country: US
    • Released: 1976
    • Style: Free Jazz, Soul-Jazz

    Credits: 

    • Bass - Cecil McBee 
    • Drums - Roy Brooks 
    • Piano, Saxophone [Soprano], Vocal - Dollar Brand 
    • Producer - Horst Weber , Matthias Winckelmann

     

    Tracklisting:banyanaback

    • Banyana – The Children of Africa (1:59)
    • Asr (8:14)
    • Ishmael (12:14)
    • The Honey-Bird (6:19)
    • The Dream (6:40)
    • Yukio-Khalifa (10:20)

    Dizzy Gillespie Quintet – An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet – Night in Tunisia

    In Album on January 20, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    Dizzy Gillespie Quintet – An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

    • Label: Verve Recordsnight
    • Catalog#: V6-8401
    • Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
    • Country: US
    • Released: 1961
    • Style: Bop, Soul-Jazz, Latin Jazz

    Credits:

     

    • Bass - Bob Cunningham 
    • Drums - Chuck Lampkin 
    • Piano - Lalo Schifrin 
    • Saxophone, Flute - Leo Wright 
    • Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie

    Notes: Recorded in concert at The Museum Of Modern Art, NYC, February 9, 1961

    Tracklisting:

    • Kush (10:32)
    • Salt Peanuts (7:02)
    • Night In Tunisia (6:40)
    • 11:32 (11:32)

     

    Dizzy Gillespie

    In Bio on January 20, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    John Birks « Dizzy » Gillespie, né à Cheraw en Caroline du Sud le 21 octobre 1917, mort le 6 janvier 1993, était un trompettiste, compositeur et chef d’orchestre de jazz américain.

    Avec Miles Davis et Louis Armstrong, il est l’un des trois plus importants trompettistes de l’histoire du jazz, ayant participé à la création du style Bebop et contribué à introduire les rythmes latino-américains dans le jazz.

    Dizzy Gillespie

    Dizzy Gillespie

     

    Dizzy Gillespie se distinguait en particulier par sa trompette au pavillon incliné vers le haut,il bouchait sa trompette d’un bouchon. Ses joues gonflées à bloc comme celles d’un crapaud, ainsi que sa joie de vivre et son humour ravageur qui sont pour beaucoup dans sa popularité auprès du public. En tant que musicien, il avait une technique époustouflante et une vitesse de jeu impressionnante.

    Il joue avec Charlie Parker dans des clubs de jazz tels que Minton’s Playhouse et Monroe’s Uptown House ( le berceau du bebop ). Ses compositions (“Groovin’ High”, “Woody n’ You”, “Anthropology”, “Salt Peanuts”, and “A Night in Tunisia”) sonnent radicalement différemment du Swing de l’époque. Un de leurs premiers concerts (au New York’s Town Hall le 22 juin 1945) est seulement sorti en 2005. Gillespie enseigne le nouveau style à de jeunes musiciens de la 52e rue, parmi eux … Miles Davis et Max Roach.

    Le groupe se sépare, après un séjour au Billy Berg Club à Los Angeles où le bebop reçoit un accueil mitigé.

    Contrairement à Parker, qui aime jouer dans des petites formations et occasionnellement en tant que soliste dans des big bands, Dizzy Gillespie préfère diriger un big band; il tente l’expérience pour la première fois en 1945, mais le succès n’est pas trop au rendez-vous.

    Après ses travaux avec Charlie Parker, Gillespie mène d’autres petites formations avec des musiciens tels que Milt Jackson, John Coltrane, Lalo Schifrin. Il apparaît également fréquemment en tant que soliste au Jazz at the Philharmonic sous la direction de Norman Granz.

    Le 11 mars 1952, Gillespie quitte les États-Unis pour la France. Il est invité par Charles Delaunay pour jouer au Salon du Jazz. [1] Gillespie qui n’a pas d’autre engagement à Paris en profite pour créer son troisième big band. Grâce à ses succès, il peut enregistrer dans les lieux les plus prisés de Paris (comme au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées). En 1953, il revient aux États-Unis après une série de concerts et d’enregistrements.


    JDL Quartet avec Bobby Few (9 Jan 09) Autour de Midi… de Minuit

    In Events on January 5, 2009 at 10:24 am
    JDL Quartet avec Bobby Few
    Bebop – Hard Bop   

    JdL Quartet nous convie à un voyage original, autour des compositions de Jacques de Lignières et de Bobby Few, truffé d’incursions chez Th. Monk, A. Pepper et dans un folklore revisité au parfum oriental, pour notre plus grand plaisir !

    Bobby FEW (piano), Hervé CZAK (contrebasse), Serge LAMBOLEY (batterie), Jacques de LIGNIERES (saxophones)

    JDL Quartet myspace

    Le site: Autour de Midi