Mark Murphy - RAH
Jimmy Rushing - Five Feet of Soul
Mike Osborne - Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970
Jimmy Witherspoon with Brother Jack McDuff - The Blues is Now
Guten Morgen - heute mit Hazel Scott und ihrer Version von Chopins Valse cis-Moll, 1946 mit unbekannter "rhythm accompaniment" für Bob Thieles Label Signature aufgenommen: https://youtu.be/ML_Gdgno7kM
Guten Morgen - heute mit Hazel Scott und ihren Version von Chopins Valse cis-Moll, 1946 mit unbekannter "rhythm accompaniment" für Bob Thieles Label Signature aufgenommen: https://youtu.be/ML_Gdgno7kM
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was born on this day in 1928 in Tampa, FL. He and his brother Nat worked as teachers when they went to NYC in summer '55 to check out the jazz scene. The rest is history, as they say.
A favourite performance of mine, "Work Song", live in Japan 1962 w/Nat, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes:
youtu.be/rjQygkQ8WbM
Another favourite by Cannonball Adderley with a mighty good groove: "Sack o'Woe", live at the Lighthouse in 1960 with Nat Adderley, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes:
"Nardis" was composed by Miles Davis in 1958 specially for Cannonball Adderley's first album as a leader, "Portrait of Cannonball". He was still with Miles, hin quintet yet to be founded. Blue Mitchell (t), Bill Evans (p), Sam Jones (b), and Philly Joe Jones (d).
Everybody knows "Somethin' Else", right' But not everybody gives Cannonball Adderley his due as an innovator, introducing the electric piano and funk rhythms, paving ways for others to follow. He also had his politics figured out. Walk tall!
Bill Berry was born on this day in Benton Harbor, MI (died November 13, 2002 in L.A.) - here he is, fronting his great mid-seventies big band and taking a fine solo on "The Bink/And How":
Vocal jazz doesn't get much better than this! Finally found the expanded Japanese 2 CD reissue from 2007. Carmen McRae, "The Great American Songbook - Recorded live at Donte's" in 1971 w/Jimmy Rowles, Joe Pass, Chuck Domanico and Chuck Flores.
A little night music - not to be belittled, methinks. Ginette Doyen playing Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" recorded for Westminster in ... 1952 I think? It's my only recording by Doyen so far, but I wouldn't want to be without it!
Taking a week's break from #JazzBirthdays – will be at Lucerne Festival listening to some brilliant orchestras (Berlin Phil, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Boston SO), conductors (Blomstedt, Mälkki, Nelsons, Petrenko) and soloists (Mutter, S. Meyer, I. Kanneh-Mason, discovering some new people (Mao Fujita) and pieces (John Williams' 2nd violin concerto, Enno Poppe, Unsuk Chin ...). #Paradise indeed, as this year's edition is titled!
#NowListening to "For Jemeel - Fire from the Road (2004-2005)", a 3 CD set released earlier this year, dedicated to the late Jemeel Moondoc, who was part of the quartet documented here, Steve Swell's Fire Into Music, with William Parker and Hamid Drake.
The good stuff is served by Ernestine Anderson tonight. Live recordings from 1987 (all her tracks from three albums she guests on) and 1990 (the full "Live at the 1990 Concord Jazz Festival, Third Set" album).
Ich war gerade mit Bertrand Chamayou am Ufer des lac de Wallenstadt, bald geht es in Alpentäler und dann nach Genf, und später nach Venedig, Neapel und Rom. Eine umwerfende Einspielung der Années de pèlerinage von Franz Liszt -