Comments on: Watching Some Original Original And Not So Original Jazz Vinyl

By: billsf

billsf — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:30:40 +0000

I just listened to a wonderful Shorter track on a JJ Johnson CD. The track is a Johnson original titled In Walked Wayne. It’s the only piece he appears on on the disc, but it’s a marvelous track, with Wayne backed by brass. Worth hunting for on Spotify or another streaming service.

By: Joe L

Joe L — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:01:14 +0000

Per Woody’s comment – I would include “The Young Lions” on Vee Jay. Often overlooked because it does not have an identified leader (I bought my original copy for cheap out of a “various” bin), it’s great stuff.

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:41:50 +0000

The Wayne Shorter Vee Jay sessions are on the same level as his Blue Note sessions…Essential!

For a moody rainy-day Shorter give Glengary GlenRoss soundtrack a spin.

By: Marvin Goffe

Marvin Goffe — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:21:54 +0000

I had to pull out Juju and my all time favorite Wayne Shorter record Speak No Evil with my boss Ron Carter in it. It took a while for Wayne Shorter to grow on me when I first started listening to him but then he’s amazing skill songwriting ability when he turned the Jazz messengers around the way he really made Miles group click, and all of the other work that he did especially his Vijay stuff is just so amazing. It’s really sad that he’s gone now, but we have his records to listen to forever.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:04:57 +0000

Another good Wayne Shorter album to check out is Second Genesis. It was the second session he did for Vee Jay records. It was recorded October 11, 1960 but remained unreleased until Vee Jay finally released it in 1974. It’s a sax quartet featuring Shorter obviously as well as Cedar Walton, Bob Cranshaw, and Art Blakey. Killer stuff.

By: Rudolf A.

Rudolf A. — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:52:27 +0000

Art, I may have been too harsh regarding Frank Morgan, but he was given, by some critics at the time, the epithet “the Charlie Parker of the West Coast”, which is a way of “selling” an artist to the public.
For my ears and appreciation, he was one in the lot of those, who were ably continuing and deepening the Bird’s heritage, like Charlie Mariano, Phil Woods, John Jenkins.

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:03:17 +0000

Rudolf, I respect your vast knowledge of the Jazz artform. However I believe you grossly short changed Frank Morgan. If you listen to his limited early recordings and realize that Clifford Brown wanted him before Harold Land – his playing is proof of his ability. He was not a ” product of a marketing campaign” and he could hold his own with the best.

By: Rudolf A.

Rudolf A. — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:31:25 +0000

The Frank Morgan album is special because it features, what I believe, the last four recorded tracks by Wardell Gray. The other tracks with the Machito Rhythm section are of limited interest. Frank Morgan, the Charlie Parker of the West Coast, was more the product of a marketing campaign, who could not compare with his compères on the East Coast or Chicago.

By: maarten kools

maarten kools — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:41:29 +0000

Shorter: so many many after Blue note (his later solo BN’s are all good too), but to stick with one, for the sake of not having to type my fingers blue (by the way, these sentences do not really help), i would say (To avoid the great Weather Report, wich on itself would be enough to be a Laureate,
one of his later projects (2007) with long time (still living) friend and co- musician Herbie Hancock:
The Joni Letters. (as in Mitchell)

two songs of it:
(And yes, it’s probably the last song Tina Turner recorded, and you wonder why she never made a jazz album )… Dave Holland on bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaRx52OD8IY&list=PLNVGKTi8j9j53bgQVGVsNkMsNIY7VVmtm&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OASMDXQ42Ug

By: billsf

billsf — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:30:38 +0000

Footprints…Live is a great disc featuring a wonderful quartet. Outside/ Inside jazz. Right now it is only on CD but will soon be issued on vinyl.