See, another reason I like my turntable is that I can just reach over and hit one button and it will replay side B of The New Miles Davis Quintet for the tenth time in […]
Category: daily best music in the world
DBMITW: all Elvin, all the time
This current Elvin binge really snuck up on me. It’s easy to lazily categorize his playing as a style– but then you listen to something like this, which we’ve all heard a thousand times, and […]
DBMITW: Trio Jeepy
I feel like I’ve been pretty unimaginative with my filler lately, but what am I going to do that’s better than this? That’s from Branford Marsalis’s late 80’s record Trio Jeepy, with Milt Hinton and […]
DBMITW: Jazz at the Philharmonic
This is from a Jazz at the Philharmonic album from 1949 that I dug out of my father’s record collection back in the early 80’s, and I’ve been carrying it around ever since. It’s got […]
DBMITW: more Cecil
This is from my other favorite Cecil Taylor record, Looking Ahead!, with Denis Charles on drums. Charles plays his cymbal (in 1950’s, at least) in a way you would have a hard time getting away […]
DBMITW: Cecil Taylor
Here’s another old free jazz favorite from my LP stacks. Andrew Cyrille is on drums. And the title (CONQUISTADOR!) has an exclamation point, which I like.
DBMITW: A Message From Trane
This swings in that avant driving your 1970 Buick Elektra off a cliff at 90 mph kind of way. It’s from a record I used to listen to a lot, but which has been languishing […]
DBMITW: Tootie Heath
OK, there’s always time to do one of these. Here’s Tootie Heath playing with Dexter Gordon: Tootie was living in LA when I was in school down there- my combo leader Dwight Dickerson was in […]
DBMITW: Lonely Woman
Maybe I shouldn’t be posting this so close to the release of my own CD with this tune, but it’s too good let go. Would you have the nerve to do what Paul Motian does […]
DBMITW: Mingus
I am one lazy blogger- but what am I going to write that’s 2% as good watching Eric Dolphy during Johnny Coles’ solo? If that isn’t enough for you for today, go read Andrew Hare’s […]
DBMITW: Elvin Jones
I was going to include this as an example in the jazz percussion post, but it really needs its own entry: It feels wrong- totally point-missing- to bring it up, I couldn’t help noting the […]