Jazz for aficionados
Excellent report on this evening's PBS News hour on the New John Coltrane release. Filmed in the beautiful van Gelder recording studio. Includes short interviews with Ravi and McCoy, and clips of the great man himself playing. Nice to see a national program give so much time to Jazz. Guess I will have to get it now. The hype always gets me,. Cheers |
rok2id I am lucky as I live on Long Island about 30 minutes from John Coltrane's last residence which I often go and stroll around the yard and peer into the windows. They are in the process of repairing the interior of the house allowing the public inside. https://www.pbs.org/video/look-inside-coltrane-home-long-island-unxyca/ |
rok, I caught that last evening. I agree, nice to see such coverage on a national network. And the advantage with PBS was it ran longer than 30 seconds!! For those who missed it, watch here - https://www.pbs.org/video/lost-coltrane-1531524781/ |
Thanks for that link frog. Here's another link to Webster, this time with Gerry Mulligan, another major favorite of mine. I just happened to play this album recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dRqDktqWUY alex, this is the only Handy album I have - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrppyREk4FA Interesting that there was so much disagreement about the sax intro on the Mingus Big Band album. I have a couple of those Mingus tribute band albums but not that specific one so can't reference the line up if Handy played on that one or not? |
It was in the Winter of 59; although the temperature was around 0, I had a hot date by my side to keep me warm. We went to a small intimate club where they had a jazzy jukebox; "Speak Low" and "Sonny's Crib" were our favorite jams, and we punched them repeatedly. At that time I only knew the titles of the records and that the music was fantastic; fast forward to today; Sonny's Crib is one of the best albums in my collection, but there is a very good reason for that; this album was recorded in 1957 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on the Blue Note Label, and the most fantastic aspect of this recording is the cast of players; this may have been the only time they were ever even in the same room together; Donald Byrd, on trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; John Coltrane, tenor; Sonny Clark, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Art Taylor, drums; with that lineup the music had to be stellar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd_0FuenDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciRcd-CRa8 |
