Wow, it was warm last night! And going to be really hot today. Sigh. It won’t last, thank goodness. Fall will be here soon enough.
Starting off with a disc I pulled from storage, “Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group” Oktav cd. The one fault that this disc has is that it is not twice as long as it is!
A soggy morning. We dodged a really severe thunderstorm last night–did not get the high winds predicted nor the tornado we were on ‘watch’ for, but it sure is soggy out there. And warm.
Starting the day off with one of the very first LPs I ever owned, gifted to me by one of the Peace Corps volunteers my father directed in Swaziland, my brother thinks it was Chris Matthews (who was one of the volunteers) but I’m not sure that’s accurate.
Slide Hampton Octet “Sister Salvation” Atlantic Records mono LP
A dry cool morning. We are entering my favorite weather period, fall. I could do without the high winds that seem to be a new feature to the season–there’s a giant beech tree that has become hollow we will have to cut down–big dollars to do that will have to come from somewhere. . . .
Starting off wtih “Strings” by Pat Martino on Prestige/OJC cd. This album is fierce–partly it’s the way it was recorded and partly it is the intensity that Pat and Joe Farrell bring to their heads and solos.
Retired early bone tired, and up early to a sweetly cool morning. A neighbor had a large party last night and the quiet is welcome this morning, as every morning.
I couldn’t resist, as an obsessive Coltrane listener, pre-ordering the new Mono Atlantic box set, which arrived yesterday. Interestingly this cd box set (mirroring the LP version) uses French original covers, which are nice to have. I’m listening to “Giant Steps” and it definitely sounds great.
Great bands here! Excellent playing in great sound for the era.
Sidney Bechet, soprano sax
Muggsy Spanier or Wild Bill Davison, cornet
Albert Nicholas or Edmond Hall, clarinet
George Brunis or Jimmy Archey, trombone
James P. Johnson
Joe Sullivan or Ralph Sutton, piano
Danny Barker, guitar
George “Pops” Foster, bass
Baby Dodds or Freddy Moore, drums
and
Albert Snaer, trumpet
Sidney Bechet, soprano sax
Buster Bailey, clarinet
Wilber DeParis, trombone
James P, Johnson, piano or James Toliver, piano
Walter Page, string bass
George Wettling, drums
Nice and cool this morning and no rain overnight! I had a busy day yesterday and slept like a log. Had a nice walk in the dark with Tobi and a freshly-batteried flashlight.
Staring off “Outward Bound” with Eric Dolphy Quintet on the Prestige Remasters by Rudy Van Gelder cd.
Now on to something quite different, that sounds so much more impactful than the last time I listened to it, due to system improvements.
Barney Wilen & Dièse 440 “Live In Paris 8 Janvier 1983” Marge cd
Recorded on January 8, 1983, at the Théâtre du Forum des Halles in Paris and features Wilen on tenor saxophone collaborating with electronic musicians Michel Bertier, Guillaume Loizillon, and Claude Micheli.
An almost cold morning. While in the back yard Tobi luckily did not notice four deer in the trees just beyond our cleared back yard and he obediently came inside for breakfast and I avoided another confrontation of curiosity . . . .
Starting off with a Savoy/Denon cd, a sort of Dixie/Swing session that I have not heard in a long time.
Emmet Berry and Joe Wilder, Buster Bailey and Vic Dickenson, Bucky Pizzarelli et al as 7th Avenue Stompers, “Fidgety Feet”
I have long been a Trummy Young fan. This disc has fun sides that feature Roy Eldridge, Buster Bailey, Buck Clayton, Slam Stewart, Cozy Cole et al . . . including a session with Ike Quebec.
