Jazz for aficionados

Orpheus -
Very pleased you liked Sugarcane's Keyzop.  

He was part of the duo, Don & Dewey way back.

His is another sad story of a musician.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_%22Sugarcane%22_Harris

Some of his discography is available on CD...but not that much.  See how little Amazon has vs his output.

Keyzop isn't on CD but I was fortunate enough to find a good vinyl copy  and at a decent price.  I have a few other of his recordings on vinyl.  

Among others, Harris played in Zappa's band.  
http://www.united-mutations.com/h/sugarcane_harris.htm

Don't be put off by the FZ name.  Try to ignore the (deserved) stereotype image based around juvenile bathroom humor.  Don is on several Zappa albums.  As a good example of how Zappa used him, I love his solo during"Little House I Used to Live In" on Burnt Weenie Sandwich.  Track starts at 19:13 at link here.  Harris' solo starts at 24:28.  It soars.

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

As you say, enjoy the music.






  

Green & Clark::

The Amazon reviewers beg to disagree.

Cheers

****but not near the level I have been accustomed from by either artist.****

How so?  Could you expound on that please.  Thanks.

Ghosthouse, while I didn't like the Zappa band, I found another cut by "Sugercane" that I did like;


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XAAB_kGR8



Enjoy the music.

Frogman, the first time I heard Grant Green was in 58 before he became a professional, which means I heard him far beyond his discography, that means I'm very well acquainted with just about everything about his music.



Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-]
Mosaic released a four-disc box set titled The Complete Blue Note With Sonny Clark in 1991, rounding up everything that the guitarist and pianist recorded together between 1961 and 1962. Blue Note's 1997 version of the set, The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark, trims Mosaic's collection by two discs, offering only the quartet sessions (the Ike Quebec sessions, Born to Be Blue and Blue and Sentimental, are available on individual discs). In some ways, this actually results in a more unified set, since it puts Green and Clark directly in the spotlight, with no saxophone to complete for solos, but it doesn't really matter if the music is presented as this double-disc set, the four-disc box, or the individual albums -- this is superb music, showcasing the guitarist and pianist at their very best. All of the sessions are straight-ahead bop but the music has a gentle, relaxed vibe that makes it warm, intimate, and accessible. Grant and Clark's mastery is subtle -- the music is so enjoyable, you may not notice the deftness of their improvisation and technique -- but that invests the music with the grace, style, and emotion that distinguishes The Complete Quartets. Small group hard bop rarely comes any better than this.


There is a possibility that I'm not accustomed to this "gentle relaxed vibe that makes it warm and intimate". Since I prefer his driving hard bop, it's just a matter of taste and opinion.




Enjoy the music.