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Happy birthday David Sanborn (7/30). I had to run to the store for bananas and peppers (not banana peppers) this afternoon and heard about it on Jazz Sunday on WCBE.

I’m neutral on Sanborn. I don’t dislike him but I wouldn’t say I’m a fan. He’s fine. It turns out we share a birthday, though, so here’s to ya, Dave.

Caught some Ella.

This was new to me. Pretty cool. I thought it was interesting.

And now happy birthday Kenny Burrell (7/31). He’s still alive and kickin’ at 92.

That brought me home. 

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11 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Happy birthday David Sanborn (7/30). I had to run to the store for bananas and peppers (not banana peppers) this afternoon and heard about it on Jazz Sunday on WCBE.

I’m neutral on Sanborn. I don’t dislike him but I wouldn’t say I’m a fan. He’s fine. It turns out we share a birthday, though, so here’s to ya, Dave.

Caught some Ella.

This was new to me. Pretty cool. I thought it was interesting.

And now happy birthday Kenny Burrell (7/31). He’s still alive and kickin’ at 92.

That brought me home. 

I heard him play live in 2020 right before Covid started.  He’s lost most of his chops, it was almost painful to watch considering how explosive he used to be.  I’m more of a straight ahead jazz fan, but I had to see Sanborn at least once!

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17 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

Great performance.  This was in Berlin, but same crew.  Alan Dawson steals it.

Completely agreed on the album I linked.    Was blown away by it.

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Somehow I've been sleeping on Hank Mobley my entire life. Like, I knew of him of course, just never dug in before. Bummer because I've missed out all these years, but great because now I can go through the whole damn discography and it's all fresh.

 

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Love Mobley's tone and particularly this album which was recently reissued as a Blue Note Classic.

Don't miss his work as a sideman.  Horace Silver's 6 Pieces of Silver is great.

 

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Have any of you fine gents read a good book on the making of Kind of Blue? I was thinking about making that a book I read next month to celebrate the 65th anniversary of my favorite jazz album. I've heard good things about the Ashley Kahn book about the making of it. There's also a new book by the Sinatra biographer James Kaplan that focuses on Miles, Coltrane, and Evans called 3 Shades of Blue. 

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Different strokes I guess, but I find that unlistenable.  

To be fair, I tuned into her more recent stuff, and she is indeed, very talented.  Clearly channeling Amy Winehouse.  

On the subject of kickass female leads, here's a new favorite of mine:

 

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Different strokes I guess, but I find that unlistenable.  
To be fair, I tuned into her more recent stuff, and she is indeed, very talented.  Clearly channeling Amy Winehouse.  
On the subject of kickass female leads, here's a new favorite of mine:
 

Ha, I did the same thing. Sounded like Adele Winehouse to me.
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8 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

Different strokes I guess, but I find that unlistenable.  

To be fair, I tuned into her more recent stuff, and she is indeed, very talented.  Clearly channeling Amy Winehouse.  

On the subject of kickass female leads, here's a new favorite of mine:

 

 I hear you.  The point is how many ten years could ever sing like that?  And it as definitely jazz which is the theme here. 
 

Her newer stuff keeps getting better and she’s obviously had jazz influences as well as artists like Adele and Amy Winehouse.  She did a cover of You Say at 15 that’s unbelievable.  Personally I think she’ll become a huge star.  Her parents managed and limited her career but she’s about to turn 19 and is now doing original music to go with the covers.  

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Huntertones... I posted a cover on the covers thread. Great sound and some really tight playing.

 

 

This is what happens when you let your trombone player become a human beatbox and your trumpet player picks up a sousaphone 🤣🤣

 

 

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That's Jon Lampley on the trumpet.  He's on Colbert's Late Show band and works with Cory Wong as well.

There's a cool thing going on right now, in that there's about 30 or 40 musicians all floating around with different projects within the Jazz/Pop/Funk fusion wave.

Here's Jon with Dirty Loops.

 

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On 12/19/2024 at 8:07 PM, VABuckeye said:

 I hear you.  The point is how many ten years could ever sing like that?

Honestly, I wish they wouldn't.  It smacks of being groomed for stardom.  Maybe I'm wrong.  I wish parents would just let their kids feel out different musical avenues along with theater, sports, whatever.  Breadth is as important as chops at that age.  

But, as was said, different strokes.  Some kids are super focused, maybe she is too.

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She was exposed to talent shows at a very young age.  It seems that when it was apparent that fame was coming her family really limited her exposure to mostly doing YouTube videos.   She signed with Republic but releases were limited.  She's 19 now so if her career takes off now if the time though her style isn't what one would consider modern music IMO.  She also doesn't sound anything like that now.

There seems to be a great team and structure around her.  She works with Toby Gad a lot and he has an impressive catalog.  Jimmy Z plays sax at many of her performances.   It will be interesting to see where the career goes of someone who was discovered at the age of 7.  She's now 19.

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8 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

That's Jon Lampley on the trumpet.  He's on Colbert's Late Show band and works with Cory Wong as well.

There's a cool thing going on right now, in that there's about 30 or 40 musicians all floating around with different projects within the Jazz/Pop/Funk fusion wave.

Here's Jon with Dirty Loops.

 

Yeah that dudes good. Love his sound

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I have this killer Miles Davis “bootleg” (or whatever, I downloaded it years ago and I’m not sure if I’ve got the recording info filed away somewhere but I’m listening to it now) and I decided to Google it. I found a release on discogs.com that matches it but the songs are in a different order.

https://www.discogs.com/release/469656-Miles-Davis-John-Coltrane-Konserthuset-Stockholm-March-22-1960

On my disc the song order is:

1. On Green Dolphin Street
2. All Blues
3. So What
4. Fran Dance
5. Walkin’ > The Theme

I don’t know the lineage of this show/my recording but it smokes. Coltrane tears it up. Wynton Kelly on the keys too. Holy crap. I haven’t listened to this in some time. I just pulled it out of a box the other day. I gotta spread the love. I’ll have to do some research into this if want to figure out where this comes from but for now it’s worth it just as a standalone recording of an incredible performance.

Here’s the discogs version:

 

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https://archive.is/zcYed
Jack DeJohnette, Renowned Jazz Drummer Who Played on Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew,’ Dead at 83
 

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Grammy-winning musician played with trumpeter’s “electric period” band in addition to stints with Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Charles Lloyd, and his own lengthy career as bandleader

 Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83.
Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was congestive heart failure. “He was very comfortable and at peace,” Clancy tells Rolling Stone. “He was surrounded by his wife, Lydia, family, and friends. He was an NEA Jazz Master, and his legacy will go on for generations.” 
The Chicago-born DeJohnette spent his childhood playing piano before moving to drums at the age of 18, ultimately creating a legacy of recordings that landed him at Number 40 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list.
“That relatively late start didn’t hold him back: an early stint with Chicago avant-garde institution the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians led to live work with John Coltrane and a position in Charles Lloyd’s chart-topping quartet,” Rolling Stone wrote of DeJohnette. 

 After performing in groups led by saxophonists Jackie McLean, Stan Getz and Joe Henderson (including appearing on the latter’s 1969 LP Power to the People) and a stint in the Bill Evans Trio — as featured on the Grammy-winning 1969 album Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival — DeJohnette was enlisted to join Miles Davis’ group for a fruitful stretch in that jazz legend’s career.
In 1969, DeJohnette replaced Tony Williams as drummer in Davis’ band just as the trumpeter was about to embark on his “electric period.” Joined by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Chick Corea and bassist Dave Holland, that formation with Davis was later dubbed the Lost Quintet as they never actually recorded in the studio together, but played a now-legendary run of European shows together, as captured on 2013’s Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2. 

In the studio, DeJohnette and a larger ensemble accompanied Davis as he began to explore the jazz-rock genre, resulting in albums like his 1970 masterpiece Bitches Brew and — later, after DeJohnette had already exited the group — Circle in the Round and Big Fun. DeJohnette also played on a portion of “Yesternow” off Jack Johnson, as well as Davis’ jazz-funk LP On the Corner, which marked DeJohnette’s last recordings with Davis. 

DeJohnette’s stint with Davis and his ever-changing lineups of the time also include live albums from 1970 concerts from both the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, a 1969 gig from the Newport Folk Festival documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4, and Davis’ jazz-fusion live/studio classic Live-Evil.

“It was great to play with Miles, because Miles loved the drums,” DeJohnette explained to Jazz.com in 2009. “Everything came from the drums. He liked boxing, he was a big boxing fan, and he saw drums in jazz as having similar aspects.” 

Following his tenure with Davis, DeJohnette spent the Seventies in groups led by Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, and Freddie Hubbard, as well as embarking on his own lengthy career as a bandleader that began with 1969’s The DeJohnette Complex. Other notable LPs include his Gateway albums alongside Dave Holland and guitarist John Abercrombie, 1992’s Music for the Fifth World, and 1992’s genre-shift Peace Time, which was awarded the Grammy for Best New Age Album.

As Rolling Stone noted of DeJohnette in the Greatest Drummers list, “As a bandleader and composer, DeJohnette fuses all that he’d learned — A.A.C.M.-honed experimentation, Coltrane’s integrity, Davis’s pugilistic groove — with his own innate knack for turning a memorable tune.” 

 

 

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