What jazz have you been listening to today?

[Mat]

David Hazeltine Trio - A Time For Love

 

[Corno Dolce]

Chet Baker's *Last Great Concerts* recorded just before his tragic death by being pushed out of a hotel window in Amsterdam.

 

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"Eyes Of The Heart" by Keith Jarrett and his band The American Quartet, ECM Records 1979.

Musicians:

Keith Jarrett - piano, soprano saxophone, osi drums (finger drums), tambourine and percussion
Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, tambourine and maracas
Charlie Haden - double bass
Paul Motian - drums, percussion

Eyes Of The Heart - as we all know it - means, one thing is the brain but always keep your heart present.

 

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The album "The Survivors Suite" by Keith Jarrett and The American Quartet, released by the ECM Records 1977. Almost 50 minutes in all, which at the time in our history was a true LP (long play). Only two songs on the album "Beginning" and "Conclusion".

The musicians:

Keith Jarrett - piano, soprano saxophone, Bass recorder, celeste, Osi drums
Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, percussion
Charlie Haden - double bass
Paul Motian - drums, percussion

Such a magnificent album.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Brad Mehldau Trio Live Vols. I & II.

 

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Good ole´ "blue eyes" Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert Sinatra, born in Hoboken, New Jersey 1915-1998) on the double album "My Way - Best Of", by Warner Music 1997.

None other than Frank Sinatra made the song "My Way", composed by Paul Anka the hit it will always remain as.

But on this particular album, all the hits from an incredible singing career of Frankie Boy are there: Fly Me To The Moon - The Lady Is A Tramp - New York, New York - I Get A Kick Out Of You - The Girl From Ipanema - September - In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning - Moon River - Night And Day - Send In The Clowns - Let´s Face The Music And Dance - Mack The Knife - and of course - My Way etc. etc. 48 songs in all.

You´re highly missed Frank Sinatra.

 

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Now here´s an album, I bought way back in the day, simply because it was the latest release of a new Keith Jarrett album. I did not listen to it or looked on the inner cover before buying it, as I assumed it was with his Scandinavian Quartet mentioned above, because we were in the middle of the 1970´s.

The album is "Arbour Zena", by the ECM Records 1976.

The musicians:

Keith Jarrett - piano
Jan Garbarek - tenor and soprano saxophone
Charlie Haden - double bass
Members of the String Orchestra, Radio Symphony Stuttgart, Germany
Conductor Mladen Gutesha

The album has 3 movements, composed like a classical Symphony:

1) Runes (dedicated to the unknown) 15:20 - quite and searching
2) Solara March (dedicated to Pablo Casals and the sun) 9:40 - mature and reaching for
3) Mirrors (dedicated to the teachers of Keith Jarrett) 27:47 - Le Grande Finale

Enjoy it guys!!

 

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Now for something completely different. Gary Burton and his new band on the album "Next Generation", by Concord Records 2005 introducing the new (in 2005) multi talented musicians like the guitarist Julian Lage and the pianist Vadim Neselovskyi.

Gary Burton as his personal and musical friend for 40 years Chick Corea both have this genuin wish to find, nurse and send on new talented jazz musicians like Miles Davis did all his career. On this album 4 new not so known but very talented jazz musicians.

The musicians:

Gary Burton - vibraphone
Julian Lage - guitars
Vadim Neselovskyi - piano
Luques Curtis - el. bass
James Williams - drums

I attended the Gary Burton Band once in Frankfurt, Germany in mid. 1980´s, while searching for a German politician during the day. I almost bumped into this concert accidently, because I had been told my target was there at the concert. He was, but so was the Gary Burton Band, almost identical to the band he had on the album "Cool Nights", by GRP Records 1987.

The musicians on this album and at the concert in Frankfurt were:

Gary Burton - vibraphone
Bob James - keyboards
the late Bob Berg - tenor saxophone
Wolfgang Muthspiel - guitars
Will Lee - el. bass
Peter Erskine - drums (he was replaced by a German drummer at the concert, Ralph Hubner known for his work with another German, Eberhard Weber).

 

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Antonio Carlos Jobim with friends on the album "Songbook", Verve Records 1996.

The friends are:

Ella Fitzgerald
Joe Henderson
Stan Getz
Elis Regina
Astrud Gilberto
Pat Metheny
Wes Montgomery
Joao Gilberto
Oscar Peterson
Sarah Vaughan
Dizzy Gillespie
Toots Thielemanns

 

[Mat]

The Thomas Harding Trio playing classical music

 

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The trio album "Gateway II", by the trio of the same name Gateway, ECM Records 1978.

The musicians:

John Abercrombie - guitars, el. mandolin
Dave Holland - double bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums, piano

 

[Corno Dolce]

*Being There* by the Tord Gustavsen Trio.

 

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The German Eberhard Weber and his Trio, playing his own invention - the el. upstanding 5 string bass and synthesizers on the album "Chorus", ECM Records 1985.

The two other musicians:

Jan Garbarek - tenor and soprano saxophone
Ralph Hubner - drums

Pat Metheny once said about Eberhard Weber: His compositions are made of and into colours.

 

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Herbie Hancock on his four CD box set: The Herbie Hancock Box - A definitive retrospective box spanning 34 tracks from 17 years sampling 25 albums of Herbie´s vast musical world from 1973-2002.

Herbie plays with Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Chick Corea, Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson, Mike Clark, Wah Wah Watson ...et al., by Sony Music Entertainment, 2002.

 

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The Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim with friends on her album "Butterfly Dreams", Milestone Records 1973, remastered by Fantasy Records 1987.

The musicians:

Flora Purim - vocals, percussion
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
David Amaro - acoustic/el. guitars
George Duke - el. piano, piano, clavinet, synthesezers
Ernie Hood - zither
Stanley Clarke - double bass, el. basses
Airto Moreira - drums, percussion

 

[methodistgirl]

I was thinking about Louis Armstrong with Hello Dolly.
judy tooley

 

[Mat]

Jean-Luc Fillon

 

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I was thinking about Louis Armstrong with Hello Dolly.
judy tooley

Ms. Judy :tiphat:

Now that´s a classical Louis Armstrong song with his very hoarse voice. I believe most people around our western hemosphere LOVE this song, like another hit from Louis "What A Wonderful World".

 

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The album "Three Guitars" regarding two very well known american acoustic/el. guitarists Larry Coryell - John Abercrombie - and in addition the brazilian lady Badi Assad.

I saw part of a concert from the French music channel Mezzo last night with this trio. Badi Assad a true sight of beauty delievered from the God´s in Brazil. She can sing like Flora Purim, dance like Cassandra Wilson and play the acoustic guitar like the two famous gentlemen in the trio and then some weird percussion instruments, almost resembling spoons from a kitchen drawer.

It was great to watch Larry Coryell playing his Ovation guitar post his rehabilitation from drugs and with short grey hair. Both Coryell and Abercrombie must be around 60 years of age, but they can still play.

 

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Al Di Meola and his band on the album "Cosmopolitan Life" with some Russian and Mexican musicians, by Ole Records 2005.

The musicians:

Al Di Meola - acoustic/el. guitars
Leonid Agutin - vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
Albert Fedosev - keyboards, piano, Hammond B3 organ, percussion
Anthony Jackson/Julio Hernandez/Oleg Tarkhov/Sergey Korolev - double bass, el. bass
Vinnie Colaiuta/Arthur Gazarov/Lee Levine - drums
Richard Bravo/Gumbi Ortiz - percussion
A Brass band