Jazz for aficionados

Alex, it's amazing how you always have good jazz that I don't have in my collection.

I will buy Leo Parker's album when I have the quid. (you can tell what kind of movies I've been looking at)

Nope, never heard of him.

o10, you posted the exact Giuffre track that lead me to his music, and that number remains my favorite decades later.

You will certainly remember that I've commented on and posted links to performances from "Jazz on a Summer's Day" several times.  Including recently to O'Day's stand out numbers.

Regarding "Flamingoes", Toni was good but I remain loyal to Gil Evans' instrumental version -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJ8P-aeZhE
Regarding Ornette, I remember how radical I considered his music when he came on the scene.  Now if I listen to any of those early albums they sound almost conventional.  So that's a good perspective on how our tastes and perceptions can change over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIIyCOAByDU&list=PLLfQmEMiqjKdrJLwKLZzOsLHCEZsBx3I-

Rok, I'm listening to Quincy; "sounds" a little like "In living Color", remember the fly girls. The music is nice, but not nice enough to get my shekels.

Ice Tea lives in Beverly Hills; you never see Rappers with canes, mine is brand new, but I guess this still counts me out.

Two records mentioned make for interesting parallels. Two completely different genres and styles of both the music and production values; the focus here being the production values.

Quincy Jones’ “Back On The Block” has been one of my “guilty pleasure” records. It showcases the talents of possibly the best pop producer that ever lived. The fact that he was first and foremost a great jazz composer/orchestrator (and trumpet player) was undoubtedly one the things that make him such a great crossover/pop producer. A master at using all that modern studio techniques had to offer to create funky ear-candy that had a lot of musical integrity. Regardless of what one thinks about the music, what he did with the production serves that music to an extraordinarily high degree. Taken on its own terms “BOTB” is a great and fun record which happens to also be a great audiophile showcase; it SOUNDS great.

”Desmond Blue” is also a great record.  One of the first things that I posted here.  Desmond’s playing is superb as always. IMO, this record’s production values are also extremely high and the use of a string orchestra and woodwinds in beautiful lush arrangement serve the music extremely well. Very tasteful orchestrations that match Desmond’s playing style beautifully to the degree that Desmond reacts to and shapes some of his improvisations around those orchestrations. This interplay can be heard easily. In that sense the orchestrations are essential for this record. Beautiful record. Btw, I don’t believe that the strings were “added”. The record was conveived with the orchestrations and I don’t believe there is a version without strings.

On "Lonely Woman", I like this version better;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4uPfcgZmew