This is wild; a melody composed seemingly entirely of wrong notes, alternating with a groovy pentatonic vamp. That’s actually a hallmark of Don Pullen’s thing; bright, happy tunes, and a whole lot of playing the […]
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Daily best music in the world: Bennie Maupin — Ensenada
Here’s a beautiful piece, Ensenada, from Bennie Maupin’s 1974 album The Jewel In The Lotus, with Billy Hart on Drums and Freddie Waits on marimba:
Ornette live in ’58
Here’s something remarkable: Ornette Coleman recorded live in LA in 1958, just before his big national exposure in New York. The band includes the musicians in his famous quartet: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy […]
Daily best music in the world: Ornette live — 1973
I’ll be out for a couple of days here— playing at the Jazz Station in Eugene tonight with flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny, attending a memorial service for my partner/wife’s mother, and having my own birthday with […]
DBMITW: Cherry / Blackwell / Gurtu / Wolcott / Shankar
From the same YouTube user who posted yesterday’s Ed Blackwell videos, here’s a totally amazing concert recording of Don Cherry playing in Neuwied, Germany, with Ed Blackwell, Lakshmi Shankar, Colin Wolcott, and Trilok Gurtu, probably […]
Daily best music in the world: Samba in 3
Or is it Bossa in 6? And I’ve never gotten a definitive answer on the genre name of this mostly-instrumental, piano trio, jazz-influenced, lounge-oriented form of Bossa/Samba, which we’re listening to here. Right now I’m […]
Daily best music in the world: Mozambique
Melao Para El Sapo, a New York-style Mozambique by Eddie Palmieri. I’m finding that my page of Mozambique from 2013 is holding up pretty well as a method for getting some basic fluency with this […]
Daily best music in the world: two drummers
The Modern Drummer website has a decent little list of great double-drumming tracks. I was ready to come down on them for not including the Butthole Surfers, but no, there they are— a bold choice for […]
Daily best music in the world, again: TOM TOMS, MAN
Here’s Billy Cobham playing with Ray Barretto in 1973. The tom toms are just outrageous— really exciting: You never hear that sound any more— Steve Gadd just wiped everybody else out for fusion tom tom […]
Daily best music in the world: Hal Galper Trio
Here’s my brother, John Bishop, playing with Hal Galper, with Jeff Johnson on bass, at The Blue Whale in LA: Post by The Hal Galper Trio.
Billy’s best
Here’s some more essential Billy Higgins listening for you. I hesitate to declare anything the best— because a) the man played on over 700 albums, of which I have been exposed to, what, 5-7%? And […]
1/2 of a concert with 3/5 of the Four & More band
First I want to acknowledge that headline… that just happened… OK… Does it seem like we’re in a Billy Higgins trough right now? I don’t feel like he’s getting talked about a lot— the current […]