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Post by Terry J on Oct 18, 2017 10:52:36 GMT
I went to a great concert last night at the Royal Festival Hall featuring Joss Stone with a symphony orchestra. Apparently last year she was the singer at a concert by Bert Bacharach, so we had plenty of Bacharach numbers. She was best though singing with just a guitar accompaniment on ‘Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LImojJ1ugsUHer former gauche delivery between numbers has at last gone and she now comes across as a modest and sincere lady. Here is a good example of this, where she sings in a friend’s bedroom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mwuINlj3Y
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Post by richardd on Oct 19, 2017 18:08:48 GMT
I have just returned from a visit to the NEC + overnight stay away, hence the lack of a track from me for the past two days. Catching up on my mail etc., I happened across Ahmad Jamal's new album "Marseille" which is gaining some rave reviews in the music press - www.allaboutjazz.com/marseille-ahmad-jamal-jazz-village-review-by-roger-farbey.phpJamal, now 87 years of age is joined by percussionist Manolo Badrena, drummer Herlin Riley and James Cammack bass. There are some nice original compositions on the album but our selected track is an upbeat re-imagining of "Autumn Leaves" www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98rHQI8y5Q
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Post by richardd on Oct 20, 2017 15:33:15 GMT
Continuing a brief deviation from Blue Note and remaining with octagonarians for today's track, we home in on this 1993 live presentation headed by the then 85 year old Lionel Hampton accompanied by some equally elderly, but still able to swing with the best, sidesmen; Junior Mance - piano Benny Golson - tenor saxophone Al Grey - trombone Jimmy Woody - bass Clark Terry - trumpet "Sweets" Edison - trumpet Panama Francis - drums. What a blast! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xuRtR3pbI&list=PLDOx7nx0z2hhPgq_7f19CLhp1fzvFxgOk
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Post by Terry J on Oct 21, 2017 16:09:10 GMT
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Post by richardd on Oct 21, 2017 19:07:29 GMT
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Post by Terry J on Oct 25, 2017 11:25:13 GMT
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Post by Terry J on Oct 25, 2017 16:04:22 GMT
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Post by richardd on Oct 26, 2017 19:13:38 GMT
Back after a few days of being overtaken by events! It is always nice to discover someone of whom has hitherto been unknown. In this case, my discovery is baritone saxophonist (+ multi instrumentalist) and New York native, Nick Brignola. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Brignola Unlike his contemporaries Gerry Mulligan (West Coast) and Harry Carney (an Ellingtonian), Brignola ploughed a very different furrow, being one of a select few to pursue the hard bop scene on this instrument. His proficiency is ably demonstrated on this 1983 (scarce) album "Signals ....In From Somewhere" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE_PG95llE&t=339sFurther investigation needed methinks.
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Post by richardd on Oct 27, 2017 15:37:48 GMT
A touch of Left Field today and a rare one at that. The details are best quoted from the Trunk Records site: " Bonkers one this. A few years ago there was single from the film Dr Terror's House Of Horrors that lots of people wanted. It was issued by CBS. Lots of people wanted it all because they all thought it was this bit of music, from the scene where Roy Castle and the Tubby Hayes Quintet play the Voodoo track. Watch this clip if you can be arsed, and the whole infamous scene starts at about 4.50 (and please note Jimmy Deuchar's Mellophonium) *Clip no longer available on Youtube but link below this text is for audio - R. However, when one copy of this rare single surfaced (and sold later for about £800 a week before it was bootlegged) everyone realised it was a bit crap, and had Roy Castle singing on it, when all anyone really wanted was the instrumental afro voodoo number. Fast forward to mid 2009, and out of nowhere I get an email from a good jazz man known as Simon Spillett. He is overseeing the recently unearthed Tubby Hayes archive. This is a set of reels and records taken care of first by Tubby's mother, and then later passed on to Tubby's last girlfriend. In amongst these reels is the original session for this super Voodoo scene. Simon emailed me the tracks, and I got extremely excited - it was the killer tune, the missing music that music people have been waiting for. A few weeks later the tracks were remastered, and a very limited 7" ep was designed, the idea being to make sure we can make enough money so Tubby's girlfriend can afford to fly abroad and see her family. The tracklisting is as follows: Side One: Voodoo Side Two: Give Me Love* Bailey's Blues The historic Brit jazz line up: Tubby Hayes (tenor saxophone, flute); Shake Keane (trumpet); Jimmy Deuchar (mellophonium); Terry Shannon (piano); Freddy Logan (bass); Allan Ganley (drums); Kenny Lynch (vocal*) There are 666 numbered copies, an evil number indeed to enhance the evil nature of the session. The record will not be repressed, which again is a bit evil". As you would imagine, this limited pressing sold out almost immediately but good old Youtube provides us with a glimpse of this 1964 recording - "Bailey's Blues": www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXYYTYxYsr8
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Post by richardd on Oct 28, 2017 14:06:33 GMT
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Post by richardd on Oct 29, 2017 22:18:51 GMT
Another Blue Note/LJC link today with bassist Paul Chambers leading a sextet featuring Donald Byrd (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor saxophone) Horace Silver (piano) Kenny Burrell (guitar) Philly Joe Jones (drums) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, September 21, 1956. The album entitled "Whims of Chambers" londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/paul-chambers-whim-of-chambers-1956-blue-note/There are two playable tracks from the album: - "Dear Ann"
- "We Six"
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Post by richardd on Oct 30, 2017 18:45:04 GMT
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Post by richardd on Oct 31, 2017 21:34:53 GMT
Tonight, being Halloween, (and for those who may be offended, I apologise!) I have chosen to play another track from Tubby Hayes' Voodoo Session EP. This time, the (perhaps) apt "Voodoo Blues" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqyr2fmwhBY
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Post by Terry J on Nov 1, 2017 0:58:59 GMT
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Post by richardd on Nov 2, 2017 20:43:37 GMT
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