What jazz have you been listening to today?

[gord]

today i listened to charles mingus-the black saint and the sinner lady (cd)
dexter gordon- our man in paris (lp)
louis armstrong-the complete town hall concert (lp)
all three are great albums. gord

 

[teddy]

Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden. Two of the greats

teddy

 

[OLDUDE]

I've been listening to an album on Spotify by Johhny Varro (listed as a latter day Teddy Wilson),with his Swing 7.With personnel as follows he can hardly go wrong.
Johnny V (p)
Tommy Newsome (tr)
Ken Peplowski (cl,alto)
Dan Barrett (tbn)
Randy Sandke (tr)
Frank Tate (b)
Jos Ascione (dr)
Cheers John

 

[White Knight]

Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter-- The Best Of The Blue Note Years; Jackie Mclean--Freedom Suite; John Coltrane-- trane's blues; Lee Morgan-- Search For The New Land.

 

[gord]

joe henderson-the blue note years (4cd box set) gord

 

[White Knight]

gord, that sounds like a really great joe henderson set. Might I ask as to whether you bought it from Amazon.com and for how much?
At any rate, enjoy. I've gradually been getting into more of his stuff lately via last.fm and now that my son fixed the youtube.com audio system, thru that venue as well. And I really like the way he plays.

 

[White Knight]

Coltrane: "Alabama" and "Blue Train" via youtube.com

 

[gord]

hi steve, the joe henderson set i bought a few years ago in an estate sale in buffalo ny for the unbelievable price of 3 bucks. it is probably long deleted now, but you can buy used copies on ebay etc, but not for 3 bucks though. gord

 

[gord]

june christy-big band specials-capitol
june christy-the misty miss christy-capitol
eartha kitt-shorty rogers giants-st.louis blues-rca

 

[White Knight]

hi steve, the joe henderson set i bought a few years ago in an estate sale in buffalo ny for the unbelievable price of 3 bucks. it is probably long deleted now, but you can buy used copies on ebay etc, but not for 3 bucks though. gord

No gord, I should think not!

 

[White Knight]

Again, via last.fm as my youtube audio is down again. I listened to:
Mccoy Tyner--"After The Rain"
Thelonious Monk--"Straight, No Chaser"
Sonny Rollins--"St.Thomas"
Charles Mingus--"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
Ornette Coleman--"Street Woman"
Miles Davis--"Flamenco Sketches"
Eric Dolphy--"G.W."
Wayne Shorter--"Speak No Evil"
John Coltrane--"Moment's Notice"
Hank Mobley--"Dig This"
Lee Morgan--"Afreaka"
Charlie Parker--"Bird of Paradise"

 

[White Knight]

Wayne Shorter--The Classic Blue Note Recordings, Disc 1
John Coltrane--"Alabama" and "Equinox"

 

[gord]

arturo sandoval-i remember clifford-grp
paul chambers -first bassman-suite beat
joe lovano-celebrating sinatra-blue note gord

 

[gord]

today i got my three red garland albums out.
the red blues with eddie lockjaw davis- status (lp)
reds good groove with pepper adams and blue mitchell-jazzland (lp)
soul junction with john coltrane-prestige (cd)
all three are great hardbop albums. gord

 

[teddy]

Louis and Big T A'int Misbehaving

teddy

 

[White Knight]

Jackie Mclean--Let Freedom Ring
John Coltrane--trane's blues
Lee Morgan--The Sixth Sense

 

[gord]

red norvo-just a mood-the red norvo small bands-rca
nagel heyer-uptown lowdown-a jazz salute to thebig apple-heyer records
you will know the answer to this steve,why do they call new york the big apple. gord

 

[White Knight]

Actually, gord, I had always thought it is because we have so many apple varieties that we grow and export from upstate New York. However, according to wikpedia, it was first coined by a New York sportswriter in the 1920's because we get "most of the sap".
I still really don't know. What's your understanding of it?

 

[gord]

hi steve,i have no idea why new york is called the big apple. i have the feeling it is something to do with jazz and jazz musicians though.maybe someone else knows the answer to this question. gord

 

[teddy]

• I was interested to see these other areas also had their nicknames. The only one I am aware of in Britain is The Smoke meaning London which I believe was a Tobyman or tramps name for it. I believe in America you call tramps - bums- which over here has atotally different meaning teddy
• The Big Apricot - Metropolis (fictional: DC Comics)
• The Big Peach - Atlanta
• The Big Easy - New Orleans
• The Little Apple - Manhattan, Kansas also used by some East Africans for Nairobi
• The Big Guava - Tampa, Florida
• The Big Durian - Jakarta
• The Big Lime - Key Largo
• The Big Scrapple - Philadelphia
• The Big Chip - Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
• The Big D - Dallas
• The Big Burrito - Overland Park, Kansas
• The Big Onion - Chicago
• The Big Tomato - Sacramento
• The Big Mango - Bangkok. The term is also used for Cairo. Both Cairo and New York are sister cities.[25]
• The Big Chilli - Bangkok[26]
• The Big O - Omaha
• The Big Lychee - Hong Kong
• The Big Orange - Tel Aviv
• The Big Schnitzel - Vienna