Jazz for aficionados

*****Speaking of baritone sax, here are couple of albums that I like, perhaps they are not mentioned before...*****

All the clips were very nicely done. The Randy Weston / Cecil Payne was just a tad too laid back for my taste. I would have liked a little more dynamics. Their clips were better suited for listening while doing something else. But, well played. Love Weston. I have a lot of his stuff.

If Leo Parker was not famous, he sure deserved to be more well known. I am sure there are plenty of noise-makers that are more famous. At least he rated a RvG production.

I am not familiar with Serge Chaloff, but it was a nice piece of music.

I wonder if playing the baritone limits a player's solos in any way? Would it be like Miles on Tuba?? :)

Thanks for the post.

Cheers

Here's something really different from "Grant Green"; he could come from so many different directions that it boggles the mind, this is from a movie score he did,

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

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

While this is nice, I couldn't find what I was looking for on that LP; try other cuts from "The Final Comedown"

This is it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah2pkB0rCHc&list=PLfWNpbMTJWM8amiDFzDY3Kv3sdmgD_Y3b

Enjoy the music

Serge Chaloff's music and playing deserves to be mentioned more, like so many forgoten jazz names. Hopefully more people might here it and lake it. Here are couple of facts, together with few links.
'The best baritone saxophonist most listeners have never heard of, whose rather incredible talents combine Harry Carney's tone and Cecil Payne's vocabulary.
Chaloff was born in Boston on November 24, 1923. His father was a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra while his mother, Margaret, taught music at the Boston Conservatory of Music, over time educating an illustrious series of pianists including Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, and Richard Twardzik. Chaloff himself studied piano and clarinet before teaching himself the baritone sax in emulation of Jack Washington and Harry Carney. Charlie Parker was also a monumental influence.
Chaloff nevertheless remains best known for his stint with Woody Herman's Second Herd, which he joined in late 1946. Alongside tenors Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Herbie Stewart he vaulted to jazz immortality the following year via the Jimmy Giuffre composition "Four Brothers," a landmark recording extending each of the saxophonists a solo turn.
In 1954, he signed to George Wein's Boston-based Storyville to cut The Fable of Mabel, recorded with local luminaries including alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and trumpeter Herb Pomeroy, and a year later the label also issued his collaboration with altoist Boots Mussulli. After completing work on Boston Blow-Up!, a loose but impassioned Stan Kenton-produced date for Capitol, Chaloff relocated to Los Angeles, where in 1956 he assembled pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Philly Joe Jones to record his masterpiece Blue Serge, a gripping, evocative set that ranks among the finest jazz recordings of its era. But by the time of its release Chaloff was confined to a wheelchair, partially paralyzed as the result of a spinal tumor. The cancer spread, and he died July 16, 1957, at the age of just 33.'

https://youtu.be/Yxyx9U-8R_I

https://youtu.be/GSnSSeMHUI4

https://youtu.be/FrgsundqISs

https://youtu.be/eZge-q63EQs

I put Serge Chaloff's "BLUE SERGE" in my cart on Amazon. The reviews were excellent, so I'll take a chance. He seems to have lived the stereotypical Jazz life, Drug addict etc....

The reviewers on Amazon did mention the Baritone as being difficult to play. One said, he could play it like a Tenor!

Thanks for the clips and info on Chaloff.

Cheers

*****Here's something really different from "Grant Green*****

Truer words have never been written!! ::(

*****he could come from so many different directions that it boggles the mind,*****

Well, this is one direction he should not have come from. Never heard of the movie, but when you mentioned soundtrack I knew it was some of that "Blaxploitation" junk. Hollywood's saddest chapter.

Sorry, I just couldn't get pass the movie genre. So sad to see a Jazz great like Grant doing this sort of thing, but I guess it paid well.

The music, like the movies, is sterile and empty of feeling. The early 70's were a very mixed bag. Some Great stuff, but also a lot of Junk-Jazz. Many guys selling their names and reputations to get paid.

Cheers