Mar 092020
 

aaand we’re back!  actually, still insanely busy, but all work & no play…  anyway, here’s a fun bit of piano jazz that was up on dime a few years ago, the sort of thing that reminds you why piano jazz is so enduring, and with a number of old favorites (including one of mine:  tea for two).  oh, and nhop on bass & art taylor on drums didn’t hurt either!  one caveat, there is a bit of fm hiss.  didn’t notice it until i put on the headphones; seems to come and go.

despite being so busy, it’s not been all work — i’ve also found time to get out a bit, including last wednesday for a night of john coltrane, presented by four exceptional irish jazz musicians.  set one was a selection of coltrane’s compositions, and set two was ‘a love supreme’, played right through.  it was phenomenal.  when they finished, there was that little silence before the clapping starts, which you only get when something was really above and beyond.  i felt as if i had been put through the wringer.  a big tip o’ the hat to ronan guilfoyle (bass), michael buckley (sax), conor guilfoyle (drums), leopoldo osio (piano).


barry harris trio
théâtre de boulogne-billancourt, france
may 23, 1987

barry harris (piano)
niels-henning ørsted pedersen (bass)
art taylor (drums)

01 oblivion (bud powell) 7:20
02 like someone in love (jimmy van heusen, johnny burke) 11:49
03 tea for two (vincent youmans, irving caesar) 8:45
04 i’ll keep loving you (bud powell) 6:51
05 i want to be happy (vincent youmans, irving caesar) 4:45
06 monk medley (thelonious monk) 8:55
07 buttercup (bud powell) 7:01
08 salt peanuts (dizzy gillespie, kenny clarke) 4:00
09 un poco loco (bud powell) 6:34
10 dusky n’ sandy (bud powell) 9:10
11 how high the moon (morgan lewis, nancy hamilton) / ornithology (charlie parker) 3:24

tt 1:18:34

fm > yamaha tx-330 > audacity (wav) > wavelab > flac (level 8, sector-align)
broadcast : les légendes du jazz, france musique, december 15 & 16, 2018
cosmikd


sample: t05 i want to be happy.mp3
download: BarryHarris_1987-05-23_Boulogne-Billancourt_France.zip


Jun 082016
 

Yusef Lateef - 1970-07 CD Front Insertwell, following through on the ahmad jamal – yusef lateef show… i was going to upload an absolutely amazing show from 6 dec 2008 that mbutchko shared on dime a day or two after the show (yes, mbutchko who recently has shared some phenomenal pharoah sanders shows that got me started on a jamal-lateef-sanders kick again!).  but that is available on line at metarecords.com, which appears to be the label of adam rudolf, one of the musicians that night.  you would be well advised to follow those links & check it out, maybe buy it (i plan to, now that i realize it’s out there).

however, here’s another fine show, from the 1970 montreux jazz festival.  this has been shared elsewhere, including on inconstant sol and ubu roi (not once but twice).  but the links are all dead, so here’s a fresh share.

if you want more yusef lateef – and, sure, who doesn’t? – inconstant sol is still sharing ‘yusef lateef in europe 1971‘, three shows from 20-21-22 oct 1971.

www.yuseflateef.com


yusef lateef
montreux jazz festival
montreux, switzerland
july 1970

yusef lateef – tenor sax, flute, oboe
barry harris – piano
bob cunningham – bass
albert “tootie” heath – drums

1. yusef’s mood (yusef lateef) 9:54
2. these foolish things (harry link, holt marvell, jack strachey) 8:57
3. soul flute (6:11)
4. the road back (yusef lateef) 7:00
5. stone henge (yusef lateef) 11:50
6. off minor (thelonious monk) 5:49
7. (blues) (14:26)
8. vibration (yusef lateef) 8:52

tt: 73:04

fm? > ? > cdr > eac > flac


sample: t4 the road back.mp3
download: YusefLateef_1970-07_Montreaux_Jazzfest.zip