Jazz for aficionados

Alex, Donald Byrd has one of the longest records in jazz history of producing consistent high quality jazz albums; but even when he left the "jazz reservation" he was still producing high quality music. Such a long record makes it easy to overlook some of his best.

I'm enjoying this "Paul Chambers" album big time; that's because I don't have it in my collection. Chambers perspective on this album takes me back to a more laid back time. My ability to go back in time, enables me to enjoy jazz much more than someone who can only hear through a present, 2016 perspective; someone who was not only alive at that time, but was quite active in listening to and collecting jazz, can surround themselves with scenes of the jazz nightclubs, and events at that time.

Middle 50,s to 61, was the time John Wright's album "South Side Soul", depicts the south side of Chicago; and to this day, they honor him and his album, on a certain day in the summer; that's because all they have left of that place and time is his album; that's the power of music.

When I go back to that time and place in Chicago, I enjoy the music that was created then, so much more.


Enjoy the music.

I just recieved a Grant Green CD, titled "His Majesty King Funk", and there is a picture of Grant Green that looks like the Grant Green I remember; anyway, this reads as follows:

"Throughout the Seventies and Eighties, Grant Green had become the forgotten man of jazz guitar. Overshadowed by such virtuosos as, first, Wes Montgomery, and later George Benson, Green was reduced to performing pop material with mediocre groups at the time of his death in 1979.

Some of his best recordings remained unissued until the Eighties, and were then only available in Japan in limited quanties."


That explains a lot of things for me; I've got all of these boss CD's by Grant Green, now the question is "Why aren't they LP's"? That's the way so many other people that I have in my collection are, the point is, if these albums were made back when, why didn't I have them in my collection "back when". This also coincides with some clown on "Agon" that's been saying that Grant Green had albums that couldn't be released because they were substandard. That also goes a long way to explain his economic troubles.

Right now, steam is coming out of both ears, so I'm not going to expand on the above paragraph; I'm going to put the CD in, and hear what it sounds like.


Enjoy the music.

 

I belive you will find it pleasing. I have that album for a long time now (edition with Donald Byrd's album on single cd) and I like it. I even like that Byrds alubum, no matter that on moments it sounds more like a soul/pop effort, melodies are quite 'catchy', still there are some fine playing.
Green
https://youtu.be/Dce3qcQ6qeE
Byrd
https://youtu.be/4oRJpv-SAb4

This is good party music, not great Jazz.  I always heard a sameness to all this 'soul-Jazz', esp if it was heavy on guitar and B-3.  Not much different from R&B.   Just better musicianship.


Please don't say when you listened to this you could see yourself on the March in Selma. :)  No jammin' there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dce3qcQ6qeE&list=PL8RdfaZOB1PIS6UQv66jbDoDuTuAv-Ksu

If there was money to be made, his music would have been released on LP.  Remember Talks and walks?

The notes you quote state why his stuff was not released.  Wes et al.

Cheers

Money in whose pocket Grant Greens or Blue Note?
Business people have devious ways of figuring the bottom line

Enjoy the music.