Let’s do some more guided listening. Here’s Art Blakey playing a little Quincy Jones groove arrangement with a nine piece ensemble: Plenty, Plenty Soul, from the Milt Jackson album of the same title. The form […]
Category: listening
Daily best music in the world: 1-5 of ten albums
Reprinting this from my Facebook page— I encourage you to head over there and add me as a friend. There’s a thing going around where musicians list ten albums that were most important in their […]
Favorite albums: Trio Jeepy
Records that were important in my development, that might be in yours, too. Should be a major recurring feature, but very difficult for me to write. My problem is I don’t have much intelligent or […]
Listening to Keith Copeland
Let’s listen some more. This is Charlie Rouse playing After the Morning, a tune in 3/4 by John Hicks. The great Keith Copeland, who left us too soon, is on drums. This is normal modern, mainstream […]
Listening to Kenny Clarke
Let’s do a little guided listening. I caught this on Portland’s excellent jazz station, KMHD— If you don’t have a good station locally, and you probably don’t, you should be streaming KMHD live 24/7. The tune […]
Very occasional quote of the day: soloing
“My idea of a drum solo is that you play like you sing. It comes from different things you listen to. And the beauty is always in the simple things.” — Kenny Clarke, from 1984 […]
Paul Motian podcast
Here’s one you’re going to want to follow: Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet. The caretaker of Paul Motian’s recorded archives has made a podcast that includes selections from his recordings— released and unreleased, live performances, rehearsal […]
Three minutes
Following our “3½ minutes” playlist, here are some recordings of songs/tunes that are three minutes long. We are definitely into more of a pop format now, though there are a few jazz examples— mainly vocal numbers, […]
Listening: Miles Davis — In A Silent Way
This guy’s copy is in a little too good condition for my taste. Following another Twitter conversation begun by Ethan Iverson, I listened to Miles Davis’s album In A Silent Way, always one of my favorites, three […]
3½ minutes
Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson had a fun riff going over on the Twitter, which was to find iconic jazz tracks that were basically exactly 3½ minutes long; he was limiting it to music released […]
Very occasional quote(s) of the day: over and over again
This is the one I had… “When we were young, we had our seven jazz albums next to our bed and played them over and over again.” — John Scofield “When I was young, I’d […]
Very occasional quote of the day: new music
“And I said, ‘How about you? Who’s your favorite drummer?’ He said, ‘Tony Williams.’ And I didn’t know who Tony Williams was, so the next day I went to a record store, and on the […]