Jazz for aficionados

Frogman -
The 3 jazz guitar albums you provided links to some days ago (Burrell, Hall, Montgomery) were not in vain. I just ordered the Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar. That seems a special recording and based on what I read about it, others think so too.

Found a brand new Riverside/Keepnews produced reissue from 2008. Hoping the sonics are good on it. It was that version or a ’91 original (CD) release...also Riverside with Orrin Keepnews the producer. Taking a gamble that his involvement in the later reissue will make it good. Degradation of master tapes a concern, of course.

@alexatpos - Listened to several of your Burrrell links (a few more to go) and all the Zawinul/Ben Webster links. Until I heard that Cannonball Adderly stuff Orpheus posted, I didn’t know Zawinul could play like that...didn’t know about his classical music training. Ben Webster has a kind of distinctive sax sound, I think...pretty warm and a little ("loose"?) maybe.

I can hear that Burrell is a good (great?) jazz guitarist but the style is so mellow...kind of a snooze for me. I’m not putting him down in any objective way. Just giving my reaction based on current taste. HOWEVER, that Bean Bags album with so many other players involved (including Tommy Flanagan) seems worth spending time with (and maybe buying). Thanks for it.

Ghosthouse, they were all done live in various places, the banter is time significant; it's what people would have been chattering about at that time.  If memory serves me right, there was a dance called the "Philly Dog", that was danced to the sound of "Mercy Mercy Mercy",and since they were in LA , somebody yelled out "Do the LA Dog"

Enjoy the music.

Hello O!
That’s eggsackly the kind of stuff I like hearing about. So the speculation by that Amazon reviewer is wrong (i.e., it was done in studio before a live audience). At the same time, my estimation of the LP as a Capital Records "product" has gone up. Not only do they come up with a good theme (Zawinul compositions) but they get all but 3 tracks as live recordings. Best I can tell Mystified (Angel Face), One Man’s Dream & Ndo Lima are not live...at least, there’s no crowd noise or applause at the end of each. I think they did a pretty good job with how the tracks are sequenced too.

It ends, just as it opened, with a longer track:  Dr. Honoris Causa (dedicated to Herbie Hancock).  The version here is not with Zawinul but George Duke on keys.  Kind of a spacey mood like the opening 74 Miles Away. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFWMnTvgBk&ab_channel=200FZ

That's a new one for me, although I can hear the kinship to 74 miles away. I'm not sure if I have Cannonball from 72; that has such a different sound, one that I haven't heard from him before. It most certainly sounds closely related to fusion, which was the thing at that time. The more I listen, the more I like it. Thanks for the tip I'll have to get it.


Here's what I was listening to; it's from Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams "Out of This World". Let me know if I'm repeating, because this has been posted before, I just don't know if you're aware of it.


                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNk3qtzNM_s


Enjoy the music.

Ghosthouse, interesting Cannonball clip from his later period. Now THERE’s something one doesn’t hear too often, Cannonball on soprano saxophone. Btw, Mercy Mercy was not recorded in a nightclub; it was, in fact, recorded live in Capitol’s LA studio with a live audience. As the story goes, Cannonball was friends with the owner of "The Club" in Chicago and he wanted to give his friend’s club some free publicity; a pretty well documented "hoax". The giveaway? It sounds like a studio. You would never be able to get sound that good, clear and well balanced, especially the audience sounds, in a nightclub.