Happy International Jazz Day! (30th April)

[danny la rouge]

What are you listening to today?

 

[killer b]

thanks danny. i shall listen to joe mcphee's 'nation time'.

 

[scalyboy]

thanks danny. i shall listen to joe mcphee's 'nation time'.

Never heard him before, am listening now on the Youtube - tremendous. Ferocious drumming, fierce everything, I love it. Thanks killer b!

 

[yardbird]

Something British:-

 

[killer b]

Its an incredible album. Free jazz funk for want of a better description... Glad you're enjoying.

 

[danny la rouge]

Here's a Spotify playlist if you're stuck:

https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:danny_la_rouge:playlist:3ZX1uSyjsWKeqzSYnTxQkz

 

[joustmaster]

I will celebrate the day by listening to recordings of David icke

 

[friedaweed]

Some one had to do it.

 

[yardbird]

Music from a past employer -

 

[ska invita]

heres the most recent jazz mix i put together

Soul Vibrations - Dorothy Ashby (1968)
Hoc N Pucky - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (2010)
In Reference Forefathers' Fathers' Dreams - Jazz Warriors (1987)
Forbidden Land - McCoy Tyner (1970)
Mansion Worlds - Pharoah Sanders (1973)
Nine - Jah Wobble & the Modern Jazz Ensemble (2011)
Caribbean Fire Dance - Joe Henderson Quintet(1970)
Trance Dance - Doug Carn (1972)
Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard (1971)
http://mikusmusik.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/j-to-z-pt3-third-eye-throwdown.html
More here if its not enough! http://mikusmusik.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/JAZZ

 

[Sirena]

It has a little audio glitch near the end (cameraman tripping over a wire?) but it is lovely

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Thanks Danny! I think some John Coltrane will be in order later. Probably "Impressions" because I haven't heard that for a while.

Then if there is time I will go kerazy with some Sun Ra or Albert Ayler.

 

[Idris2002]

Jacques Louissier - Bach, the Jazz suites (post-war French Jazz pianist and his famous Jazz arrangements of Bach's major keyboard works).

 

[yardbird]

My Namesake

 

[Meltingpot]

 

[danny la rouge]

Jacques Louissier - Bach, the Jazz suites (post-war French Jazz pianist and his famous Jazz arrangements of Bach's major keyboard works).

Cheers Idris2002, I've long been aware of Louissier but never got round to acquiring any. What albums do you recommend? I'll see if Europa music can get hold of them.

 

[seeformiles]

We did version of this a couple of weeks ago:

 

[seeformiles]

 

[danny la rouge]

I started with:

Then moved onto side one of:

Next I might have Roy Eldridge or Lester Young...

 

[danny la rouge]

[Oscar Peterson]

I used to love Oscar's 80s TV programme. He talked about jazz pianists and explained their styles. I've looked for it on IMDB, but it doesn't seem to be listed.

I have him as a side man on scores of albums, but my favourite album of his is the trio album Night Train, that Hymn to Freedom comes from.

 

[scalyboy]

Its an incredible album. Free jazz funk for want of a better description... Glad you're enjoying.

This one is f---ing STORMING. What energy!

 

[Sirena]

I used to love Oscar's 80s TV programme. He talked about jazz pianists and explained their styles. I've looked for it on IMDB, but it doesn't seem to be listed.

I have him as a side man on scores of albums, but my favourite album of his is the trio album Night Train, that Hymn to Freedom comes from.

The BBC did a documentary on him in the 80s (I think) and his niece made a film.....
(from wiki)
Peterson's niece, television journalist Sylvia Sweeney, produced an award-winning documentary film, In the Key of Oscar, about Peterson in 1992.

 

[Knotted]

Albert Ayler - Live at Greenwich Village

That's a fitting tribute to jazz in it's totality. I'll have to explain why this is so great later.

 

[Fez909]

A bit of Cannonball Adderley for me

Spoiler

 

[danny la rouge]

I started with:

Then moved onto side one of:

Next I might have Roy Eldridge or Lester Young...

Then I went for the CD with Roy's 50s stuff:

Then CD2 of :

Then CD1 of:

Then CD3 of:

Then CD 2 of:

Then:

Now spinning:

 

[Idris2002]

 

[danny la rouge]

Erroll Garner

I love Erroll Garner. Fun fact: Being small, he used to sit on a New York phone directory on his piano stool. He discovered when touring that the Chicago book was too small, so took the NY book with him.

(I love the pronunciation of "Fred' i-Ubar" on that video btw).

 

[killer b]

cracking through the folkways jazz anthology now i'm back from work. currently on chicago no.1

 

[MrSki]

Something I recorded last year.

 

[Meltingpot]