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Agree, listened to it over the weekend after Blue Hour.
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Not a first listen, but a follow-up based on a mention by dawkinsj.
Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds Blue Hour, Music Matters LP.
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Bill Frisell: Guitar
Gyan Riley: Guitar
Julian Lage: Guitar
Compositions by John Zorn, very well played and recorded.
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The Great Jazz Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.2. I recently added The Great Jazz Trio- Live at the Vilaage Vanguard Vol. 2 after returning to my copy of Vol.1 following a mention by Michael Fremer.
This 1961 Pacific Jazz recording The Remarkable Carmell Jones gets the Tone Poet treatment, and sounds excellent. Pretty straight ahead session with Carmell Jones, Harold Land, Frank Strazzeri, Gary Peacock, and Leon Pettis. Had it not been for the Tone Poet LP reissue it is unlikely this gem would have found its way into my collection. Next up some Miles Davis.
It’s quite a good session. I’ve had it for decades on cd. Carmell Jones should be better known.
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I agree whole heartedly. One much appreciated aspect of the Tone Poet reissue series is that it has exposed me to a handful of sessions I would not typically pursue, The Remarkable Carmell Jones and Katanga! immediately come to mind.
I’m glad that the Tone Poet series is exposing many to unexplored artists. In my case I bought almost every classic cd that Blue Note put out in the digital age from about 1988 to 2010 or so. . . no surprises in this series for me. Their Connoisseur and Pacific Jazz series especially were responsible for expanding my horizons.
The fact that I quit smoking and spent every cent I would have for a two pack a day habit on cds led to my being addicted to cds, and I also quit performing music and replaced the need with recorded music, I ended up buying nearly every OJC, Columbia, RCA, Impulse, Mosaic, Verve, etc. jazz cd released. Marrying a minimalist and living in a small expanded cabin in the woods has meant a large storage unit for my books and cds and instruments. . . a cost I wish I did not have to bear!
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A fantastic live performance I keep coming back to:
Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto “Por Causa De Voce” (featuring Maucha Adnet) Adventure Music cd
Two of a Mind is a fantastic pairing. not having the Speakers Corner edition but an OG stereo RCA pressing, and a mono ORG edition.
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I leaned hard into the BlueNote reissue series from the early 80’s, spending on the Cadre Rouge and Japanese releases frequently available at Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart. At the time my purchases focused on the more edgy reissues, for example, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, and Larry Young. I shied away from the greasy Hammond B3 organ stuff Chicago is so well known for, as well as vocals and soul jazz. I now seek out the more soulful releases on vinyl, such as Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Don Patterson, and Dr Lonnie Smith, to name a few off the top of my head. I’ve many of the BlueNote, Prestige, Argo, Verve, releases. Not all as I’m still rather selective. I picked up most of the Mosaic LP box sets that follow my taste, players exploring new territories, and pushing boundaries. For example. I have all the Nessa, and many Delmark LPs. Anything Sun Ra released on vinyl I most likely have as well. Some are titleless as the Arkestra made them available at concerts in plane vanilla sleeves.
As you I left smoking in the dust and funneled the money into expanding my record collection.
How do you like the mono version?
I find interest in all the different forms except those after the early 'seventies that go too far outside or dilute the jazz with too many other flavors such as rock, electronics or noise–that stuff without the strong jazz tradition elements just doesn’t appeal to me. I also followed releases of J.R.T. Davies reissued material and learned to love early jazz and swing.
I wish I could keep all these at home with me but I can’t and I don’t want to move from this fantastic small home and sylvan location so in the next few years I need to start eliminating the holdings in my large climate controlled storage unit. Having this large archive has been great.
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