Since I don't have the hardware to rip and upload lucha for the masses I thought I'd at least toss some jazz out there in the hopes some of you young 'uns stop listening to crap.

Jelly Roll Morton—I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say

For those who don't know Morton is arguably (Duke Ellington aside) the best and most important composer and arranger in jazz history. He didn't invent jazz, as he liked to claim, but you can make a case he invented modern American music. He was incredibly colorful and an evil human being— a braggart, pimp, pederast, thief and genius who understood small-group dynamics and how they would play on record before pretty much anyone else. His 1920s recordings are the only ones that rival Louis Armstrong's for power and influence, and he was very much to composing and arranging what Armstrong was to solo improvisation; early in his career he never sang, but late in his life (he died of a knifing) he did, and when it's just him and his piano it's some of the most brooding mournful beautiful music you'll ever hear. This is from a small group session in 1939, among his last, and is a tribute to Buddy Bolden, the New Orleans cornetist credited by some with inventing jazz. (We don't know as there are no records.) One of the great things about Morton's latter-days records (not this one but others) is that he could do uncanny musical impressions of people who left no recorded legacy. Anyway, listen to this, you'll like it.

hXXp://www.sendspace.com/file/13gal1

I'm reading a Mingus bio and apparently Morton was his primary influence throughout life both musically and in terms of life itself.

Speaking of Mingus, enjoy...

http://www.mindmined.com/audiofun/teomacer...ons_mingus.html

This is true as far as I know. Here's another version of the same song, also from 1939, this time with Morton alone at the piano.

Jelly Roll Morton— Buddy Bolden's Blue

hXXp://www.sendspace.com/file/hk5kmu

People in the early 1900's falsely claiming to have heard Buddy Bolden play for some reason reminds me of dumbass kids 80 years telling their friends that they owned a Neo Geo.

Quality idea for a thread and a great fucking song. I can't wait to go home and participate in this.

I'm downloading the song now and can't wait to hear it.

Since you know quite a bit about Morton, is there a CD of his music that you would recommend? I remember hearing about a boxed set coming out a couple of years ago, but the name escapes me.

You can literally not go wrong with Jelly Roll Morton. Anything you get will be good. That said, I'd recommend these in particular:

"New York 1928-1930: Great Original Performances." This is from Robert Parker's excellent line— he's the king of cleaning up shitty-sounding old records.

"Last Sessions: The Complete General Recordings." These are, well, his last sessions, and have some of his most brilliant solo stuff. There's a disc from Milestone called 1923-1924 that has his early piano solos but I'd pick this, not because it's better but because it features him singing.

"Birth of the Hot." If you could only get one disc, this would be the one you'd want: these are his most classic and influential small-group recordings.

There are eight or so volumes of the Library of Congress recordings; I'd pick one up to go with these. Take all that in and you'll have a pretty good bead on him. Alan Lomax's biography (based on the Library of Congress recordings) is worth reading, too, though it should be taken about as seriously as Hulk Hogan's autobiography as a historical document.

I just snagged one of those free Rapidshare accounts and I'd like to keep it so do me a favor and download some good jazz.

Don Byron— Freddie Freeloader

Here's Don Byron's reinterpretation of the ridiculously overfamiliar Miles Davis chestnut "Freddie Freeloader." This is off last year's Ivey-Divey, which is a pretty fucking great record. Never miss the chance to see Byron live if you like music; he can be slow to warm up but once he does he BURNS with fire!

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23157351/10_Freddie_Freeloader.mp3

And here's another one:

Krystof Komeda— Astigmatic (live)

Komeda is the great genius and visionary of Polish jazz. He's a pianist probably best known for scoring Roman Polanski movies (and for dying tragically young in 1969), but his masterpiece was a record called Astigmatic; nearly 50 years later there's still nothing at all like it. It's a pretty self-contradictory piece built around a few simple themes and variations that grow suffocatingly intense through incessant repetition, yet remain melodic and lyrical; it's a large-scale piece along the lines of some of the stuff John Coltrane or Charles Mingus were doing in the mid-60s, but it's both a lot more restrained and in some ways free. Anyway, this is a live version. You want this! Tomasz Stanko, the trumpeter, took up Komeda's crown as the king of Polish jazz, by the way; I have some choice stuff of his I can throw up if anyone's interested.

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23159194/01_Astigmatic.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23160477/02_Kattorna.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23167830/03_Svantetic.mp3

Here's more stuff:

Charles Mingus and the Jazz Workshop All-Stars— Live at Birdland, 10/26/1962

This is from a show some nut recorded off the radio back in the days that ended up getting released as a bootleg on Yadeon. It's relatively obscure because of shitty promotion. It is of course awesome as the great Mingus was at the height of his powers.

The lineup: Charles Mingus (ldr), Eddie Armour (tp), Charles McPherson (as), Pepper Adams (bars), Jaki Byard (p), Charles Mingus (b), Dannie Richmond (d), Symphony Sid Torin (mc).

Symphony Sid~!

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23168884/03_Monk__Bunk_And_Vice_Versa.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23169159/04_O.P.O.P..mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23169347/05_The_Search.mp3

John Coltrane— Live at Birdland 2/23/1962

From the same record. The lineup: John Coltrane (ss, ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Elvin Jones (d). I've heard this quartet was alright as things went.

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23173555/01_I_Wanna_Talk_About_You.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23173964/02_Inchworm.mp3

Any ICP orchestra?

Hey Kevin, who was the coked out dude you mentioned in another thread? I'm intrigued by the idea of coke induced jazz.

No ICP, but I can hook Harpo up.

Eddie Palmieri— Lucumi, Macumba, Voodoo

Eddie Palmieri is one of the fucking kings of salsa. He is a master pianist, a brilliant showman and bandleader, and a tremendous songwriter. My grandparents used to go to his shows to dance. The thing you have to realize is that even though he was born in Puerto Rico, he's a New Yorker and this is cosmopolitan New York music— influences from all over Latin America, bop influences, rural PR influences, all kinds of shit. Eddie loves Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner and Motown. This is a real gumbo, but it's sophisticated music meant to be played for people dressed up and out on the town to spend a little money and have fun. I just say this because people listen to salsa as if it's noble savage music and not a refined form of art jazz, something you can listen to contemplatively or dance your ass off to with your best girl while in your finest suit.

Anyway, I'll drop another couple of records here but this one's a corker. It has one of Eddie's periodic halfhearted attempts at crossover success, this time an unbelievably shitty disco track (his bizarre attempt at Phil Spector pop in the 1960s was equally unsuccessful) but it also has Columbia Te Canto, a wonderful five-part suite that ranges from quasi-Romantic interludes to deranged old-man warbling to some of the most explosive Stax-style horns you'll ever hear to a heartfelt cry of love for Columbia. I've seen Eddie Palmieri live a few times and he is just the most brilliant fucking genius in the whole world, everyone should hear this tune as loud as they can play it.

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23175362/01_Lucumi__Macumba__Voodoo.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23175446/02_Spirit_Of_Love.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23175726/03_Colombia_Te_Canto.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23176112/04_Mi_Conga_Te_Llama__Medlay_.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23176243/05_Highest_Good.mp3

EDIT: Eddie Palmieri and Lalo Rodriguez— Unfinished Masterpiece

Like the above, this one's from the mid-70s. I don't know why, but Palmieri hated this record, considered it unfinished and didn't want it released. High standards. Great record, but if you want to just sample something DL Kinkamache, it's got a good beat and you can bug out to it.

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23176757/01_Un_Puesto_Vacante.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23176967/02_Kinkamache.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23177122/03_Oyelo_Que_Te_Conviene.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23177388/04_Cobarde.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23177722/05_Random_Thoughts.mp3
hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/23177993/06_Resemblance.mp3

Much obliged. Awesome stuff.

That's pretty much my favorite Mingus line-up.

Got any good Charlie Rouse? I'm looking for that hard to find session w/Hubbard, Cranshaw, Tyner, and Higgins. Also the one with Red Rodney. Charlie's totally underrated.

Hey, this is kinda slipping down the page, but I gotta say, this stuff is pretty awesome. (Though Rapidshare's download limits are not.)

Cheers, Cook.

Yanno, hell, I like this thread, so I'll contribute a little (kinda):

rapidshare.de/files/23379326/Grisman1995-08-06D1T08.m4a.html

David Grisman Quintet (Grisman- mandolin, Enrique Coria- guitar, James Kerwin- bass, Matthew Eakle- flute, Joe Craven- percussion/fiddle/mandolin) in a show from August of '95. It's not the least bit traditional jazz, but jazz is a big part of the overall motif, along with bluegrass and a big Latin influence. Anyway, this is about 5 minutes at a psychotic pace with equally insane soloing from Eakle and it's really great.

I HATE RAPIDSHARE AND I HATE YOU CEVIN KOOK!

Bobbins will get his music. If Rapidshare is a bad deal I'll put this stuff up on Sendspace. Here is Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy doing The Mooche~! Our foremost free soprano saxophonist and free pianist disciples of Monk interpreting Ellington, Monk's greatest influence, is worth hearing. If you have no idea what I'm talking about please download this music, as it's good.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ydcta3

Unfortunately I don't have much Charlie Rouse worth hearing, as I've always written him off as a guy who worked with Monk during Monk's self-parody phase— if there's some great Rouse to be heard, I'd love to hear some!

Hey Kevin Kook! Finally a subject i can approach you about without having you wipe the floor with me! (not saying you aren't an upstanding guy of course)

i saw mention of Krzysztof Komeda and immediately thought of the Atavistic Unheard Music Series find of the Tom Prehn Kvartet. I wasn't sure if i should post any since the material is pretty free .. but then after seeing mention of Steve Lacy i figured i was in good company. The guitarist of the Chicagoland experimental-avant rock group Rope recommended this one to me. (on side note .. any Oxbow fans be sure to check out Rope's newest full length which features Eugune on vocals on 3-4 songs ... anywho) The material was recorded 1963 but still sounds astounding fresh .. not falling into the aged sound of the free jazz from only briefly before this time. i'll upload a couple tracks later .. but its early in the morning and i still haven't slept.

This sounds great! Let's have some.

Mal Waldron rules! If you want to hear great Rouse, check out Waldron's two live @ the Vanguard albums: The Git-Go and Seagulls of Kristiansund. The line-up on both is Waldron, Rouse, Woody Shaw, Reginald Workman, and Ed Blackwell. Pretty much a dream line-up. I'd upload some if I could but at the moment I only have internet access at work.



Yeah, Rouse is way underrated. Even if Monk's play devolved at that time period, Rouse's work is actually worth hearing. Some of his interpretations are really warm and robust, different from the rest of Monk's tenor sidemen. Post-Monk, Sphere is really a lot of fun. As is the Rouse/Red Rodney album. Prior to Monk, Rouse did really excellent work w/Clifford Brown and Oscar Pettiford.

Classic jazz is great stuff but people sleep on the new players out nowadays. Not the smooth jazz stuff but the real hard bop shit. Greg Osby Banned In NY, Stefon Harris Black Action Figure, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano... Bill Frissell... well maybe not Bill Frissell. F'real check these guys out and don't sleep. They're not Bernie Williams type wack.

I like Osby's more recent stuff more. I'll put up some of this stuff later— Osby, Jason Moran, Chris Potter, and Ken Vandermark are all really strong guys, and they're hardly alone. It's a good time for jazz right now.

I bet a lot of these folks would like Jason Moran. Black Stars and Facing Left espescially I would guess. Any jazz piano marks should check out Jacky Terrasson... especially Smile or A Paris where he rips up Mo Better Blues.

I don't think i've heard anything by Chris Potter.

I don't dig Jason Moran at all but do have love for Jo Ann Daugherty, William Parker, Babatunde Lea, and Julie LaMontagne.

Chris Potter— Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard

Really strong straightahead sax player's set at, well, the Village Vanguard. Potter won the Jazzpar Prize a few years ago, and he's a hell of an expressive player, free yet disciplined. This is a zip file of the thing.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5jy7cy

Kevin, I've just started getting into jazz. So far all I've got has been Miles Davis, John and Alice Coltrane, and an LP from the Harlem River Drive band. This topic couldn't have been better timed.

Alice Coltrane is another one of my underrated favorites. Sure, her career really fell off but her first four albums are all pretty great and her comeback from a few years ago was good too.

Seeing Greg Osby mentioned I'm tempted to upload one of the songs from my bootleg of Phil Lesh's concert on 5/19 with Osby and John Scofield. But it occurs to me that that would be just a tag tangential.

Nice stuff, he seems to have a bit of a John Gilmore influence.

Damn, I miss good Chicago jazz clubs.

Like I said, I've just started getting into the genre. First things I got were Kind of Blue, J.Coltrane's First Meditations and then Alice's World Galaxy. Going through the three of them, with no real sense of context except from some wikipedia entries, was mental. For a start it's spanning three decades in three records. But musically, all I could think listening to Kind of Blue was that the source of the sound seemed so unknown, like far-off trumpet notes travelling through the wind. When I got to First Meditations, it was so much more earthy and opaque, it was much more concrete music than the Miles; all rolling valleys and greens and browns. Then World Galaxy like, combined those anonymous aspects of Blue with the lushness of Meditations, and put this real sparse, alien twist on the whole thing. It's great.

I think it's out of print too, but you can download it a wicked little place I found, orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com.

Speaking of Chicago jazz... here's a fitting little gem from local merchant Dusty Groove

Dusty Groove is just a few blocks from my house. Great store.

Lee Konitz— Live at the Half Note, Disc 1

This is from 1959; Konitz was one of the saxophonists who played with Lennie Tristano, a genius pianist and teacher who was the direct link between Charlie Parker and free jazz. Very intense, abstract stuff, but more focused than the style guys like Ornette Coleman would later evolve; Tristano was at least 20 years ahead of his time. This is a pretty brilliant set with fellow Tristano disciple Warne Marsh on tenor sax, the famous Bill Evans (pianist on Kind of Blue), Jimmy Garrison on bass and Paul Motian on drums— a real all star group.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jdls2u

Perhaps someone could recommend something for someone (namely me) who doesn't care much for the saxophone but enjoys really energetic string bass lines?

Impulse has just reissued Alice Coltrane's Huntington Ashram Monastary and Lord of Lords albums. Both are great.

alright i'm back from the dead .. sorry i didn't get to this sooner i've been a bit busy the past few days. anywho, i also just figured out that sendspace is really fucking easy to use .. thumbs way up for that. as advertised .. tom prehn kvartet. i goofed when i said that prehn was based out of poland when in fact he was danish... however his group was well known in poland and prehn even studied with the excellent polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (highly recomended btw). more info about tom prehn can be found here


Tom Prehn Kvartet : Homme Arm (6:52)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bhhxy2

Tom Prehn Kvartet : Forloeb (11:02)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/x3aimi

you'll definitely notice that these pieces .. especially the second one ... operate less as free jazz (although the idiom is certainly there) and more like 20th century composition. the prior link explains the influence of classical music on prehn's life and you can therefore understand his motivations. so don't expect a peter brotzmann or evan parker .. or even albert alyer style free jazz workout .. but something much more textural and slippery ... parts that just glide in and out of consciousness. enjoy!

Any and all William Parker would make this thread even more righteous than it already is. As would any leads on good souls in ownership of "Lord of Lords".

William Parker and Hamid Drake's 'Piercing the Veil' is one kick-ass bass/drum duet album.

this track features some stupendous bow-work from Parker and a more relaxed Brötzmann on A clarinet. (he does approach his signature skronk at a point, but he never goes totally balls out) overall a great track from an album dedicated to fallen bass legend Peter Kowald. for the want to be jazz erudites out there .. here's the tale of the tape eremite records review

Peter Brötzmann / William Parker / Hamid Drake - Never Too Late But Always Too Early 1 (16:52)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bli2bs

I got this album via a temp gig at Eremite and can attest to its greatness. A lesser known but equally great record from Brotzmann's '04 (has he released anything since?) is Tales Out of Time, a quartet recording of him, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang, and the massive genius Joe McPhee. The call and response between Brotzmann and McPhee is unbelievable: McPhee plays trumpet and cornet on it, which I'd never heard him do and which he handles possibly as well as he does saxamaphone.

Good, good stuff in this thread. My vague ambitions towards some free jazz workrate reports for this section are reignited.

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Good, good stuff in this thread. My vague ambitions towards some free jazz workrate reports for this section are reignited.
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definitely second this ... i'm really enjoying everything posted in here thus far, but my loyalties lie mainly with free jazz/improvisation .. so most of my contributions will focus there .. still excellent thread Mr. Cook. let the workrate reports begin!

hey what happened to this thread?? more jazz action coming your way! more parker! more ra! and more jass??

William Parker - "Cathedral of Light" [from: Long Hidden, The Olmec Series] (3:48)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/j0f2mc

Sun Ra - "Dancing Shadows" [from: Nothing Is, 1966] (9:47)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0qfv8b

Evolutionary Jass Band - "Aunt Dot" [from: Change of Scene, 2006] (7:30)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6ext6t

Monk: Live in Oslo (Charlie Rouse is great here)

Art Blakey - Dat Dere

I LOVED this topic when it was active, so I figured I should try and give it some legs again and chip in with some of my favourite pieces. My jazz knowledge is a little short, but I'm really into the soul jazz and anything done with a Hammond B-3. I find it really tough to find a lot of the players I'm into online, so my collection is a little thin, but here goes:


Jimmy McGriff & Richard Holmes - The Preacher's Tune (hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/6owflg)

Jimmy McGriff is one of my favourite Hammond guys, and I see him as on the level with better known players like Jimmy Smith. He has a degree of popularity in the New Jersey/Philly scene where he is based out of and is still cutting albums as recently as 2002. Here he teams up with contemporary "Groove" Holmes for a really solid, busy 7 minute track. McGriff and Holmes were friendly rivals in the early 70's and had some revered organ battles, and their chemistry and desire for gentle one-upmanship shows throughout.


Michael & Randy Brecker, Joe Sample & Joey DeFrancesco - Loran's Dance (hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/3a61n2)

Joey DeFrancesco is a time-displaced student of the B-3, but showed aptitude for the instrument immediately (allmusic claims he was playing paid gigs with the aforementioned Holmes by 10). He comes from a family of jazz musicians and shows great passion for all types of music - a recent Sinatra cover album is proof enough. Here, he joins up with the Brecker brothers and Sample for a more modern, downbeat . DeFrancesco fits in nicely with the general tone, providing some nifty work on the organ and as a fan that's what sticks out for me. Not to sell the other playing short, of course, as it's tight as well.

Just resurfacing this topic from the ashes with a couple of suggestions :

On May 15th 1953, five legendary jazz musicians from the era (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach) assembled at Toronto's Massey Hall for a show many considered the "greatest jazz concert ever". A clash of egos but also true musicianship at work...the recording is availible on Debut Records under the name "The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall".

50 years later, at the same date and at the same venue, an anniversary concert was held with 5 of the greatest names of the past 30 years, reprising tracks performed at the original show. The players :

Herbie Hancock - piano
Roy Hargrove - trumpet
Kenny Garrett - sax
Dave Holland - bass
Roy Haynes - drums

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARraritie...ARhhmassey.html

The mp3's are availible on this website for a limited time.


Also :

John Coltrane Quartet (with Eric Dolphy) - Impressions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUzFbT5JT1M

"Impressions" is by far one of my all-time favorite JC compositions ever...the added presence of avant-garde saxophone player Dolphy gives it a new dynamic.

Blue Monk (live in Oslo, 1966)

Thelonious Monk - piano. Charlie Rouse - tenor. Larry Gales - bass. Ben Riley - drums.

Rouse and Monk were so beautiful together. I really think Charlie's one of the most underrated players in jazz history.

Aw man, awesome stuff. I will repay with Charlie Parker's Complete Live Performances on Savoy (hit the link for track listings). This here is disc 1, with Parker in fucking phenomenal form over a few sets in December 1948. Players are as follows:

Tracks 1-2, Miles Davis, t; Tadd Dameron, p; Curley Russell, b; Max Roach, d
Tracks 3-11, Davis, t; Al Haig, p; Tommy Potter, b; Roach, d
Tracks 12-14, as above with Kenny Dorham replacing Miles Davis
Tracks 15-16, as above with Joe Harris replacing Max Roach

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AK7R8MT9

A much larger file with discs 2-4 will be up later. Oh it is nice.

Damn, I just realized I double posted the 'Blue Monk' performance, so, to make up for it, same quartet, same tour, different city (Paris), different song:

Lulu's Back In Town

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UE1446PH

Discs 2-4 of the Parker set.

Disc 2:
1-4 same as last track on Disc 1
5 All star jam
6-16 (various dates in Feb. 1949)—Dorham, Haig, Potter, Roach

Disc 3:
1-18 (Feb-March 1949)—same group, with Milt Jackson on vibes and Lucky Thompson on tenor on tracks 6-9

Disc 4:
1-6 (Oct 1950)—Claude McLain, ts; Chris Anderson, p; George Freeman, g; Leroy Jackson, b; Bruz Freeman, d

7-11 (Sep. 1947 at Carnegie Hall)—Dizzy Gillespie, t; John Lewis, p; Al McKibbon, b; Joe Harris, d

John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb

Dusseldorf, 1960

I've got about 300+ Jazz CD's at my disposal, including several Mosaic Box Sets, and other cool complete and live sets. Miles Live at The Plugged Nickel among tons of other good stuff.

I'll work to get the master list on-line by the end of the weekend, so people can request albums of interest.