Jazz for aficionados

Cool, acman3. You are welcome, of course. If you read the All About Jazz review, EST was mentioned so hopefully Alboran Trio will work for you as well. Yeah, I could hear how prominently the bass figured...both in terms of composition/performance as well as how he’s mic’d. The AAJ write up called it out so knew it wasn’t just imagination.

BTW - Here’s more "jazz from Italy". Over 50 years old but and still fascinating to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJq3j4rA0o0

Herbie Hancock’s solo in Autumn Leaves (it starts around 8:45) is amazing. Geez what a talent.

For how old this is, the sound is remarkably good.  

My favorite band in all of jazz.  That quintet was magic.  Great clip.  Tony Williams was 19 years old!

Forget anything else said or written about Miles, the fact remains he sure knew how to gather talent around himself. I stumbled onto that 1964 footage after watching a short one where Ron Carter describes how he got recruited by Miles. What a charmer RC seems. "Well!...."

watch it here (very short)....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzHDKtTI1rw

Celebrating "Oscar Pettiford" today. While Mingus is one of my "go to" musicians, for all of his many incredible compositions, when just singling out the bass, Oscar Pettiford is my favorite.

Unfortunately, you won't find as many Oscar Pettiford records as Mingus, but I savor what I have. There is nothing "objective" about my choice; Frogman, the professional musician would be the one to make an "objective" comparison in regard to the two bassists.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5EwGijmqKc


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6u8j1jnJso


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6LinT-DJI


While Mingus resonates with me, Oscar Pettiford resonates deeper.



Born September 30, 1922 Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States Died September 8, 1960 (aged 37)
Copenhagen, Denmark Genre Jazz, bebop, third stream, Instruments Double bass, cello.
Years active 1942–1960 Labels Debut, Bethlehem, ABC Records

Associated acts Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Barnet, Earl Hines, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Art Tatum, Johnny Hodges, and Kenny Dorham. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom.


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


Blue Brothers Oscar Pettiford


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gKcfKdeQ4


Tricotism; Lucky Thompson, OP, and Skeeter Best.



   

frog, your comment suggests I share a little personal musical history - "If the listener doesn’t like Classical, Baroque music in particular, chances are he won’t like it."

As mentioned previously, I grew up in a house with a fair bit of recorded music.  Dad played records of jazz from the '30s and '40s while mom listened to pop singers of the day, mixed with only a little light-classical.  My own interests in music began with rock and roll (Bill Haley, Little Richard, Elvis), then folk, then jazz, but I had practically no exposure to classical music.

Early on in college I happened to hear some of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and was fascinated by it.  To me the polyrhythms were similar enough to some jazz lines to make a connection, as well as the "call and response" element.  So I began listening to other music by Bach, and that lead to other Baroque composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, etc.  Eventually that lead me to Beethoven, Mozart, and many others.

My point in sharing this is to suggest there can be a tie between jazz and classical, as well as my own wonderment that my appreciation for classical evolved from jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSRIDtwsfM

All this contributed to my appreciation for a wide variety of music, even some opera and country western which I once discounted totally.  Today I can find something to enjoy in just about every genre, the exceptions being rap, hip-hop, and heavy metal. ;^)