What is spinning?

[-Jar-]

MTT recorded a smokin' RITE OF SPRING back in the 70's on DG (I can't recall the orchestra off the top of my head, probably London Symphony..). I first had it on cassette of all things back when I was in high school (a great tape, it also had Eugen Jochum's CARMINA BURANA on it, another classic performance). I finally found both reissued on CD (separately), but the MTT is one of my favorites, if not my #1 version of the RITE. I haven't heard much of his Mahler except for 6 & 7 (the 6th I saw him do live with the Cleveland Orchestra and the 7th is from his previous cycle with the London Symphony on RCA).

-jar

[bobsticks]

...and so much good music bein' spun out there.
'Round these parts Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess gets the nod today, to be immediately followed by Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.

Good listening to all

[jrhymeammo]

Coltrane and Monk sounds good. That reminds me, when I first got a dog from a shelter he tore up about 4 records. One of them happend to be Thelonious Monk with Coltrane. Likeily, he was only interested in outersleeve, so I will play it later. Now I keep them all in a closet, and he's a greatest dog a man could ask for.

Leon Thomas in Berlin w/ Oliver Nelson, Recorded Live at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. I need to find a cleaner copy.

Gotta love the song "Umbo Weti". Arthur Sterling starts this track off with a very simple line of theme melody which is dangerously addictive. Leon plays alongs with the voice that he does until Oliver comes on. His sax makes my agnostic/atheistic mind becomes a bit spiritual for some reason. Following track is "The Creator has a Master Plan"
Ah Damnit, I really hate it when this record is over cuz reality hits. I think I'll play:

Don Shirley, Concert Series Vol 7 to chill me out
Bobby Tiimmons Trio - From the Bottom

Peace.

[dean_martin]

Coltrane and Monk sounds good. That reminds me, when I first got a dog from a shelter he tore up about 4 records. One of them happend to be Thelonious Monk with Coltrane. Likeily, he was only interested in outersleeve, so I will play it later. Now I keep them all in a closet, and he's a greatest dog a man could ask for.

Good for you for not giving up on the dog!

With all this jazz talk, I think I'll pull this out tonight:

[Woochifer]

John Coltrane - One Up, One Down: Live at the Half Note

Great live album released last year and originally recorded in 1965, one of the last sessions with the "classic" Coltrane quartet with Tyner, Jones, and Garrison. It was taken from a recently discovered broadcast tape of this performance, which originally aired live over local New York radio. Double CD with a total of four songs. Not quite as over-the-top in the improvisational explorations as Live In Japan (which spread six songs over four CD), but it definitely hints at directions that Coltrane would explore over the next couple of years with some different band members on board.

The tape that this was taken from had some dropouts, and the two discs are each limited to the one-hour time frame of the original live broadcasts meaning that they fade out while the band was still playing. But, it's interesting to hear the DJ announcing that "next week" at the Half Note, Horace Silver would play, and "tomorrow night" tune in from 10pm-midnight for big band sounds. Quite a time for FM radio!

[jrhymeammo]

Will be playing The Glory of Alberta Hunter in the memeory of my late friend Sam Sharpe. Sam was her nephew, and I miss hearing him talk about the past. He always had a great smile much like his auntie.


The Last of the Whorehouse Paino Players
Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage
Fats Navarro - Memorial Album

Man, I'm spinning wax today like I just bought a new system.
peace,
-JRA

[Stone]

This would be a lot better with more upbeat songs, and not as many ballads. The faster songs are a lot of fun, especially "Since U Been Gone" (just ask Ted Leo if you don't believe me).



Not their best, but this has some great, rocking songs like "Tongue" and "Static."

[JohnMichael]

Will be playing The Glory of Alberta Hunter in the memeory of my late friend Sam Sharpe. Sam was her nephew, and I miss hearing him talk about the past. He always had a great smile much like his auntie.



Man, I'm spinning wax today like I just bought a new system.
peace,
-JRA

I have always enjoyed Alberta Hunter. I only have one of her albums so I need to get shopping. I was happy to read someone else on AR enjoys her music.

[bobsticks]

I think I originally tried to join the party today at around 9:00a.m.
So here we are at a little after six and I'm just getting a moments peace...Right. Anyway, the clear wnner for today is the new RVG remaster of Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. Listening to Burrell on the cut "Why Was I Born?" reminds me of what I want to do when I grow up...

Cheers

[Woochifer]

Miles Davis - The Complete B!tches Brew Sessions

Haven't listened to this in a few months, and even longer since I strung all four discs together in a row and heard the whole boxed set through in its entirety. Wow! What an amazing burst of creativty and ingenuity. So much of jazz music was impacted by these seminal sessions.

I could literally just put "Spanish Key" into a loop and listen to that session all day. I get totally mesmurized every time I hear that tune with its dizzying array of overlaying soloists and syncopations.

As a side note, this album has fairly mediocre sound quality, a byproduct of the multitude of overdubs used during the mixdowns and overdubs. But, the power of the music is still overwhelming. I just feel sorry for the hardcore audiophiles that choose to limit their musical choices based on the sound quality, because they would ignore an album like this one and totally miss out on yet another side to Miles Davis' greatness.

[basite]

also spinning dave brubeck's all-time greatest hits lp alot,
and johnny guitar watson is played alot too.

[daviethek]

[QUOTE=Woochifer]Miles Davis - The Complete B!tches Brew Sessions

Haven't listened to this in a few months, and even longer since I strung all four discs together in a row and heard the whole boxed set through in its entirety. Wow! What an amazing burst of creativty and ingenuity. So much of jazz music was impacted by these seminal sessions. I]


Wow, I just don't know.I love Miles too and I've given that record a bunch of chances and I still come back to the same conclusion that Miles veered off the road into a ditch with electric music. He had so much more to discover yet in acoustic free jazz. Radical guys like Ornette Coleman and Sonny Stitt sound better now IMO. Maybe its because they were acoustic.

[daviethek]

Would be eternally grateful if someone would burn Horace Silver's " Silver&Brass" for me. I am guessing it is a 1976 release. Not particularily great but one of those "Fond Memories" for me. I can't find it on CD. Getting a bit nostalgic. Spinning *****es Brew again. Still ain't gettin it. dk

[JoeE SP9]

Just got finished listening to Wars Greatest Hit's. Currently listening to Johnny Frigo with Bucky & John Pizzerelli on Live From Studio A In New York City (Chesky JD1). Had to edit this. Just Friends just ended. When Butch Miles hit his bass drum hard it sounded real. WOW!!!!

[nobody]

Oddly enough...I just listed to this....


War -The World is a Ghetto

fantastic...and well recorded as well...seems like most all their stuff was...

[JoeE SP9]

Oddly enough...I just listed to this....


War -The World is a Ghetto

fantastic...and well recorded as well...seems like most all their stuff was...

I've got that one also. I agree, most of their stuff was well recorded. A lot of stuff from that era was not.

[bobsticks]

Cool and mellow tonight with Blue Note Trip:Jazzanova, an upbeat compilation full of great beats. With the likes of Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, and Art Blakey it seems almost like an eerily appropriate comp of "What's Spinning?" snippets for the week...
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Cheers to all

[nobody]

I've liked a few of those jazz remix albums...the first Verve one was really good...

...and speaking of Lee Morgan...just picked this up this afternoon...


Lee Morgan: Candy

Gotta run now though...Saturday night and all...

[bobsticks]

Christy Moore~Live at the Point some very lighthearted Irish folk music, of questionable appropriateness in the workplace, that nonetheless makes for a good morning listen.

Cheers

[Woochifer]

Building on the jazz remixed theme (sort of) ...

Masters at Work (Little Louis Vega & Kenny Dope Gonzalez) - Nuyorican Soul

Outstanding amalgamation of Latin jazz, classic soul, hip-hop, and house music. Masters at Work are some of the best club DJs and remixers around, and will occasionally make forays into original productions. This album was probably their most original work. Made a lot of crossover inroads onto mainstream radio stations, but they did not ever follow this album up.

[Woochifer]

Cool and mellow tonight with Blue Note Trip:Jazzanova, an upbeat compilation full of great beats. With the likes of Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, and Art Blakey it seems almost like an eerily appropriate comp of "What's Spinning?" snippets for the week...
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Cheers to all

Outstanding choice (and not just because I also have that CD). A lot of great cuts from Blue Note's oft-maligned 70s-era catalog. I would also recommend Jazzanova's Playlist compilation on Compost Recordings. The music is similar with a bit more bossa nova and house music thrown in. Unlike that Blue Note compilaton, this album mostly consists of current artists from the Compost label, concentrated largely in Germany, Poland, and Hungary.

Wow, I just don't know.I love Miles too and I've given that record a bunch of chances and I still come back to the same conclusion that Miles veered off the road into a ditch with electric music. He had so much more to discover yet in acoustic free jazz. Radical guys like Ornette Coleman and Sonny Stitt sound better now IMO. Maybe its because they were acoustic.

Yeah, Miles could've continued in his acoustic vein, but Miles was one of those out-of-the-box thinkers and that's what makes him the iconic figure that he is. Miles also alienated a big group of fans when he turned his back on bebop in the late-50s. When he started into the In A Silent Way sessions he wryly predicted that it would "scare the sh!t" out of the traditionalists. B!tches Brew confirmed the direction that he had pointed towards with In A Silent Way.

As much as it confirmed the worst fears of many, it also revolutionized jazz by rewriting the vocabulary and acknowledging that jazz does not function in an academic vacuum that keeps looking back to the past to move forward. This is no different than when bebop reinvented jazz by purposely making the music undanceable. Sure, big band might have had some more growth had practitioners such as Dizzy Gillespie applied their talents in that direction, but musicians don't live in a vacuum and will rebel against the existing paradigm when it gets stifling. B!tches Brew is a seminal album, but also a great listen in its own right.

Even Ornette Coleman took free jazz in an electric direction by the early-70s. Same atonality and group improvisation structure, but now with electric instruments. Proteges like Ronald Shannon Jackson would take that mantle and explore a litany of new directions (Jackson's Red Warrior album is basically a heavy metal band playing free jazz).

[jrhymeammo]

Started college again this week, and I'm already slammed. Gotta read about 200 PAGES a night. I got up around 6 this morning just so I can listen to one album.

Can't remember who triggered my interest, but I just took out Verve's Unmixed 2. Thank you.

Wish I had time to warmup my valves this morning, but SS put a huge smile on my face with extra 30-45 minutes of sleep.

Ipod/Grado is making my ears bleed while walking to/from school. I'm starting to think traffic noise sounds better than 320kbp files. Maybe I'll waste my money on tube buffer between Ipod and headphones.

[Bernd]

Last night spinning round and round among others were:

"Bo Ramsey - In the Weeds"

"Mark Harvey - Past Dew".

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

Beth Orton~Comfort of Strangers which, in a manner of speaking, sounds like a good idea...

Cheers

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[Bernd]

The Karl Wallinger talk inspired last nights listening.....

"World Party - Private Revolution"

"Mike Scott - Still Burning"

and this gem..

from 1986 recorded at the San Siro Stadium in Milan. Includes a fantastic Version of " Savage Earth Heart" and a Prince Medley.


And to finish off.....

"Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose"

Peace

Bernd