Jazz - What's your bag, man?

[Fran]

That looks like a great set - nice to have them all in the one place. I think I remembered seeing those in tower... or maybe it was another similar set.


Fran

[Ivor]

I've always liked George Shearing and this is an absolute gem. On vinyl from Oxfam in Parliament Street for €12, very good nick with just a few pops and crackles.

[Seán]

I've always liked George Shearing and this is an absolute gem. On vinyl from Oxfam in Parliament Street for €12, very good nick with just a few pops and crackles.

They used to say of George Shearing that he was the best cocktail pianist in the world and that Oscar (Peterson) was the worst. Incidentally, Shearing made some lovely recordings with our very own Louis Stewart.

[Fran]

[Gerry D]

Both of these last night. Different but both lovely ...

the siblings have long since gone in distinctly separate artistic directions, a state of things clearly delineated by comparing their respective recent projects. Both are small-group settings, but while Wynton goes deep into jazz historicist models and courts conceptualism on He and She, Metamorphosen finds Branford and his dazzling, taut and time-honed band—with Watts, pianist Joey Calderazzo and bassist Eric Revis—simply doing what they do, in more of a post-Coltrane quartet manner, putting forth what may be this band’s finest outing to date. At the risk of simplifying, Wynton’s latest is more about thought-out gestures and compositional thinking, Branford’s more about acting, about the heat of play and interplay.

[Gerry D]

And tonigh, please God, I'll take this ...

[Seán]

Both of these last night. Different but both lovely ...

the siblings have long since gone in distinctly separate artistic directions, a state of things clearly delineated by comparing their respective recent projects. Both are small-group settings, but while Wynton goes deep into jazz historicist models and courts conceptualism on He and She, Metamorphosen finds Branford and his dazzling, taut and time-honed band—with Watts, pianist Joey Calderazzo and bassist Eric Revis—simply doing what they do, in more of a post-Coltrane quartet manner, putting forth what may be this band’s finest outing to date. At the risk of simplifying, Wynton’s latest is more about thought-out gestures and compositional thinking, Branford’s more about acting, about the heat of play and interplay.

I saw the Marsalis Brothers live in the Opera House in Cork in 1981, their flight was delayed and the concert didn't start until midnight. The concert was awesome, such gorgeous music delivered with great energy and subtlety too. They looked like kids but played like veterans.

[Fran]

[cybot]

Whoopieeeeeee! Top five stuff there :-))))

[Seán]

Whoopieeeeeee! Top five stuff there :-))))

For some perhaps, but not for me.