Jazz - What's your bag, man?

[Derek]

Now I’m sad
I’ve several of her recordings
She never gained the success of her peers, mores the pity, a great talent.


Now Playing "Abbey is Blue".

[Ivor]

I might have known you'd be a fan D.
Here's a batch of clips... http://ckuik.com/Abbey_Lincoln

[Gerry D]

Reviewed by Phil Johnson
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Perhaps surprisingly, saxophonist Sheppard’s debut for ECM offers much more of his own house style than it does the label's.

After the dramatic soundscape opening to “La Tristesse Du Roi”, Kuljit Bhamra’s tablas provide a familiar galloping rhythm for the subtle guitar atmospherics of John Parricelli and Eivind Aarset, followed by the leader’s melodious tootling.

And so it goes: beautifully played, easy on the ear, international jazz-folk fusion, with the masterly double bass of Arild Andersen a constant stand-out.


I agree.

[Seán]

On the TT:



A wonderful Ellington suite, my favourite piece is his Sonnet for Hank Cinq which is a sonnet for Henry the Fifth.

[Fran]

Sean, that's one of the albums in that 5 cd set recommended a while back. I'd agree 100% with what you said.

Anyhow, on the table tonight:



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Fran

[Fran]

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[Modest]

[Fran]

[Seán]

Back to Back and Side by Side Hodges and Ellington were wonderful together and no one could bend a note like Johnny.

This evening, spinning at thirty three and a third revolutions per minute and emitting a glorious sound while doing so is:

[mcq]

Listening tonight to two of Tomasz Stanko's greatest albums, Leosia and Litania (both available on ECM). Utterly wonderful music from one of the great musician-composers of our time. Stanko's trumpet-playing comes from Miles and much of his work seems to be very much infuenced by what the great man was working on in the mid- to late-Sixties (to my mind, Nefertiti is a big influence) but there's so much more to Stanko's music than pastiche. It really is music that begs to be savoured at length and over time. Deeply satisfying and built to last.