“I want the music to be hot like my love for you my darling”
This series of releases presenting the history of jazz in Sweden are excellent–I have eleven volumes, all I think Caprice Records have released so far.
Thanks! Sums up my experience with the CD as well.
For me this album is a whole lot of fun. The playing is tight, and the interpretations are strong while being respectful. Fans of 1930’s Raymond Scott, John Kirby, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Carl Stallings Looney Tunes Cartoons will appreciate the album.
Nucleus “Live at the BBC” disc 2 (of 13!)
Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare, meditations on mingus, featuring Bill Frisell among others utilizing the instrumentation designed by Harry Partch on this interesting set of Mingus covers.
And those amazing cloud bowls!
And don’t forget the sound quality is very good.
Wow, interesting that you are hearing this for the first time. I bought it in '72 or so and I still love the electric pianos from Herbie and Chick. . .which was part of the initial draw for me to the album at that time. (And Tony Williams. . .stretching into new territory for him, at least as far as what was released previously, here).
Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens “In Common 3”
Mayhew Quartet featuring special guest Wycliffe Gordon “Mary Lou Williams – the Next 100 Years”
This is a very cool cd.
My description in yesterday’s post wasn’t very clear, typical I suppose. I first listened to Filles de Kilimajaro in the early 70’s. The electric piano on it didn’t do much for me then. I’ve listened many times and returned to it again yesterday, and must say while I do enjoy it more than I did upon an initial listen, the Herbie’s and Chick’s electric piano seems stuck in time to my ear.
Listening to disc 1, Live at Soundscape Interpretations of Thelonious Monk, a 4 CD set, each showcasing a different pianist. Disc one features Richard Muhal Abrams. Fans of Thelonious Monk will be well served with a listen to these interpretations.
Disc 1 features:
Muhal Richard Abrams
Steve Lacy
Roswell Rudd
Charlie Rouse
Don Cherry
Richard Davis
Ben Riley
Another set of Monk interpretations I highly recommend is:
Regeneration, a Black Saint LP release featuring Misha Mengleberg, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, and Han Bennink. A set of Monk and Herbie Nichols interpretations.
Okay. They don’t seem that way to me. In fact the whole album is sort of a world of its own–and the way the two played those pianos is not the way the were generally played by themselves or others thereafter. Sort of maiden voyages before the big cruises.
One of the very first LPs I ever owned–a gift from one of the Peace Corps volunteers my Dad directed in Swaziland. The volunteers were given a box of LPs by Atlantic Records, and this volunteer didn’t like jazz so he gave me the three jazz LPs he got.
Leo Wright “Blues Shout” Atlantic Records (mono).
As you say, and I agree, a world of its own. These days I am considerably more open to electric piano than I was in the 70’s, possibly as I was keenly following the post Coltrane McCoy Tyner as well asnd ECM Keith Jarrett releases.
