Jazz for aficionados

Wassup fellas!  Been awhile.  Don't come around A'gon much anymore but it's cool to see you guys are still going strong!  Very quickly re: the comment of Chris Potter being in the Brecker/Berg/Mintzer school of sax players.  It sounded dismissive of 3 players I admire, and that's fine, it's only an opinion.  But within that group I'd say there's Michael B., and than there's the rest!  Here's a player I definitely consider above the rest; the mighty Anat Cohen!

https://youtu.be/zLBvw50QQ7M

https://youtu.be/TsT8sEqDOxI

https://youtu.be/Q2wTkt9qLDk

"According to Wiki"

With a trumpet, an electric guitar and the firepower of one of contemporary jazz’s most exhilarating drummers – Brian Blade – in his quintet, Wolfgang Muthspiel has plenty of turn-it-up-to-11 potential on tap. The Austrian guitarist has, however, preferred nuances to bravado since he was first saluted as the European John Scofield in the early 90s. He played Ronnie Scott’s with the music from his new quintet’s Rising Grace album, with Brad Mehldau’s piano role imaginatively taken up by local hero Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Scott Colley substituting for the album’s Larry Grenadier.

The gig was often low-key, but the music’s finespun lyricism kept Sunday’s full house rapt. Triad Song, originally a student chord exercise, showed not a hint of the scholarly as Muthspiel’s and Simcock’s guitar and piano vamp swayed under sighs and soft squeals from Ambrose Akinmusire’s trumpet, and the leader unrolled warmly melodic guitar figures and supple sprints. Boogaloo turned from bluesy bass slurs into a probing rhythmic mix that suggested the mid-60s Miles Davis quintet playing Kurt Weill. Flamenco strumming and glowing chords from Muthspiel’s acoustic 12-string prefaced trumpet trances of pining curved notes and short Miles-like ascents, while funky 60s soul-bop vignettes were fragmented by a contemporary rhythmic restlessness. Simcock constantly engaged with the grinning Blade, his clipped, tantalisingly hanging piano figures pushing the drummer’s scurrying patterns toward whiplashed exclamations.

This gives a fairly accurate description of Wolfgang's Quintet, and you can go back to the music I have posted to give them another listen.

This is probably the only new group that thoroughly appeals to me; give them a good listen and tell me what you think?  (if I'm repeating myself, blame it on my youth)

Ghosthouse, this is my favorite Johnny Griffin album (also mentioned here before)

'Studio Jazz Party' from 1960.
https://youtu.be/Wu0qnePU3Os

No offence taken.

As everyone knows by now, I listen to music from a play list; that means that I know I like whatever is playing, but half the time, I don't know what's playing.

I had been listening, and really enjoying this music without knowing what it was, when I finally decided to check the play list and see what it was, that's a walk to the basement; hiking down and back up Mt. Everest.


In a Silent Way is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released July 30, 1969 on Columbia Records. Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in one session date on February 18, 1969 at CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City. Incorporating elements of classical sonata form, Macero edited and arranged Davis's recordings from the session to produce the album. Marking the beginning of his "electric" period, In a Silent Way has been regarded by music writers as Davis's first fusion recording, following a stylistic shift toward the genre in his previous records and live performances.

Upon its release, the album was met by controversy among music critics, particularly those of jazz and rock music, who were divided in their reaction to its experimental musical structure and Davis's electronic approach. Since its initial reception, it has been regarded by fans and critics as one of Davis's greatest and most influential works. In 2001, Columbia Legacy and Sony Music released the three-disc box set The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions, which includes the original album, additional tracks, and the unedited recordings used to produce In a Silent Way.

There is no way I could have liked this album when I bought it in 69, I was just in the habit of buying any new album by Miles; I'm sure I didn't play it anymore after that, but somehow I put it on the play list (is this convoluted or what?) I'll let you figure it out....


              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKt7DTKyJU