Rok, three excellent clips! While I have never questioned your taste in music, nor ever thought they needed to "improve" as O-10 suggests they have, I certainly think they have expanded; a perhaps subtle but important distinction. If liking that baritone solo in "Let There Be Swing" is not proof of this, I don't know what is 😎.
I particularly liked the Mabern "Afro-blue". Porter sounds fantastic; and, rarity of rarities, a tasteful horn-like scat solo kept short and with no wrong notes! Eric Alexander! Man, that guy can play; amazing tenor solo. Thanks for the great clips.
BTW, as you yourself pointed out the "Que Viva Harlem" band is a band of students. In many ways, given the changes in the place of jazz in our culture, the schools are the "street" of the past. There is a lot of really great stuff going on in some of today's Jazz schools and this shouldn't be dismissed. Two of the best, North Texas State and University of Miami (my alma mater):
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUitSU5-8mQ[/URL]
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtxehQPK3g[/URL]
I particularly liked the Mabern "Afro-blue". Porter sounds fantastic; and, rarity of rarities, a tasteful horn-like scat solo kept short and with no wrong notes! Eric Alexander! Man, that guy can play; amazing tenor solo. Thanks for the great clips.
BTW, as you yourself pointed out the "Que Viva Harlem" band is a band of students. In many ways, given the changes in the place of jazz in our culture, the schools are the "street" of the past. There is a lot of really great stuff going on in some of today's Jazz schools and this shouldn't be dismissed. Two of the best, North Texas State and University of Miami (my alma mater):
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUitSU5-8mQ[/URL]
[URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtxehQPK3g[/URL]