Share your favourite Jazz

[Cousin Hepcat]

I’ve been reading some great comments from everyone here regarding the music. I wanted to let you know about two recent acquisitions to my library that I highly recommend.

Kenny Burrell’s “Soul Call” (Prestige)
Harold Land Sextet “West Coast Blues” (Fantasy-Dist.)

Jazzman,

Listening to Kenny Burrell’s “Soul Call” audio clips from Amazon right now... LOVIN' it! Thanks man, gonna have to check eBay for this one on vinyl. Good taste.

Favorite jazz guitar LPs:

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Grant Green - "Idle Moments"
Wes Montgomery - "Portrait of Wes"
Kenny Burrell - "Midnight Blue"

Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat

 

[SWTroopers]

Kenny Burrell’s “Soul Call” (Prestige)

Kenny Burrell, excellent choice!

I'd also like to add Jimmy Smith to the mix. Great Hammond B3 jazz!

Marc

 

[Dixon Cannon]

I just thought of this...

Dave Brubeck! Especially that crazy, 'UnSquare Dance'! Man that cat is hep! I dig it, man! -dixon cannon

 

[Jazzman]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions regarding artists and albums.

I have a story I'd like to share as I had the great opportunity to meet Dizzy Giilespie once.

In 1988 my wife and I were traveling to the South Pacific and we were waiting at LAX for our connecting flight. My wife had fallen asleep as it was around 2:00am. I happened to be reading a biography of Luis Bunuel (great film maker by the way) when I looked up to see Mr. Gillespie at the ticket counter checking in with his trumpet case. It turns out he sat three rows in front of us. As we were disembarking in Papetee, I stopped to shake his hand and speak with him briefly (he was staying onboard to continue on to Auckland). He was a polite and gracious man who spoke softly and it was a wonderful moment for my wife and I.

I just wanted to share that with everyone as I’m sure there are a lot of Dizzy fans here.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

In the Jazz vein...

Long before there was Rap, there was one cool daddy cat, who was known throughout the realm as the Hip Aristocrat - Lord Buckley! "The coolest, hippest, most soulful cat dat evah padded two feet across mudda oith"

-dixon cannon

 

[Jazzman]

I wanted to pass these tips along regarding Jazz (Swing in paticular) and OTR (Old Time Radio). You may be well aware of this (I haven’t explored all of the lounge yet) but thought if you weren’t, you’d really enjoy it.

Kingdom Of Swing:

http://www.live365.com/stations/yankaroo

Crimetime:

http://www.live365.com/stations/otrnow

I believe you can listen for free by just clicking the “Play” button on each page. I move between these two stations and they pretty much cover everything for me. There are other stations running comedy and drama as well to so just search around under the “OTR” designation. It really sets the mood in my place.

By the way, I have a 1949 bakelite Sylvania radio in great condition and I’m just trying to figure how to run the stations through it as that would be the really authentic sound! Any suggestions?

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

By the way, I have a 1949 bakelite Sylvania radio in great condition
and Im just trying to figure how to run the stations through it as that would be the
really authentic sound! Any suggestions?

If it has FM, Best Buy sells short range FM retransmitters for iPods.

If it's AM only, there are kits for that online:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showpost.php?p=55151&postcount=33

Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat

 

[Jazzman]

Thanks very much Cousin. I'll look into this.

 

[artdecodame]

These two ladies aren't always exactly "jazz" as much as "early popular/theatrical-style" singing, but I've always loved Marion Harris and Libby Holman. Both had interesting lives and unique voices.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/marionharris.html

And more forgotten songbirds/artists:
http://www.dgarrick.com/

 

[K by the bay]

Thanks Hepcat. It says he's also a bandleader in White Christmas.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Glad to see this thread resurrected ...

On one of my rare listenings to Duke Ellington, i heard (for the first time in a number of years) the original recording of Cottontail. Ben Webster! Such *almost* unbelievable force. How did the horn stand up to his onslaught?

bk

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Glad to see this thread resurrected ...

On one of my rare listenings to Duke Ellington, i heard (for the first time in a number of years) the original recording of Cottontail. Ben Webster! Such *almost* unbelievable force. How did the horn stand up to his onslaught?

bk

AND, though a lot of people bash the r&b-tinged records he sometimes made in the early 50s, I think thats great stuff.... Man, from those Mercury sides he did with Johnny Otis, the stark loneliness of his huge tenor sound playing "stardust" in a DEEP echoing studio, with NO acompaniment other than the bass, is The END!! He OWNS the song, Great to listen in the light-up juke with all the lights out... (Sorry Frankie, hope second best is good enough...)

And that poor Selmer tenor sax got passed on to Dexter Gordon after Ben was done with it, for another good onslaught (the one he used in the movie Round Midnight) I wonder where that horn is now... HMMMMM............

man I gotta get back to work (Fedora Lounge is evil, Evil...)

Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat

 

[Wild Root]

I really dig Lester Young... I'm sure you guys have seen "Jammin' The Blues" before but, who could see it enough times right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_hNtvghs2k&search=lester young

Also enjoy Coleman Hawkins stuff from about 1933-1948 that's good stuff!

=WR=

 

[The Duke]

I really dig Lester Young... I'm sure you guys have seen "Jammin' The Blues" before but, who could see it enough times right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_hNtvghs2k&search=lester young

Also enjoy Coleman Hawkins stuff from about 1933-1948 that's good stuff!

=WR=

that's true great video.

here's a cool clip I found on youtube

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I really dig Lester Young... I'm sure you guys have seen "Jammin' The Blues" before but, who could see it enough times right?


=WR=

Lester's the man! I just got Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio. That is a stunning album.

Jammin' the Blues is good. Wish they hadn't dubbed it, though.

The recent DVD release of Jammin' also has all the available film of Charley Parker - some with Hawkins - and some of the Miles Davis Miles Ahead recording sessions with Gil Evans. Again, mostly unfortunately dubbed. There is a rendition of Hot House with Dizzy which is great and is live, as it were. And all the Davis stuff is not dubbed.

bk

 

[Wild Root]

I love this one! It's a true Frankie Classic!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olrL12XZuq0&mode=related&search=

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[The Duke]

I love this one! It's a true Frankie Classic!!!



=WR=

yea, more great lindy hop!

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

MP3: Swing High (complete)

Here's an MP3 of the complete version of Tommy Dorsey's "Swing High" from 1941, one of his hottest numbers! Another truly outstanding (as usual) arrangement by Sy Oliver.

If you haven't heard it before, or if you ever need a little pick-me-up, just click the link in the signature of any of my posts... (Just cleared up some webspace to replace the short excerpt with the full piece)


Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat

 

[Wild Root]

I've got that 78 too! It blew me away when I first put it on! The "Sentimental Gentleman of swing" was known for his soft romantic stuff but, man, that band could really go to town when they felt like it!

=WR=

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

I've got that 78 too! It blew me away when I first put it on! The "Sentimental Gentleman of swing" was known for his soft romantic stuff but, man, that band could really go to town when they felt like it!

Great minds think alike lol

Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat