Jazz is Alive

[Death From Above]

I don't know if I'm really the one qualified to make this thread go, but I'll give it a shot getting it started. Here's a very spacy beginning.

 

 

http://youtu.be/E2_ziDb6tOo

 

http://youtu.be/wosVm5z7BwM

 

 

[Graham Crackers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFIG-2Grclg 

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach

[jaedmc]

 

I can't seem to find the studio version of this on youtube, but you get the idea. 

 

This version of Everything In It's Right Place has a Burt Bacharach kind of feel which is fascinating concept to me.

 

 

There's some tremendous stuff on Spotify, if you can use that. I went nuts on Charlie Parker. There's a collection of those War Bond concerts that he lead where in between sets they're telling people to purchase war bonds to support the troops. Brilliant shit.

[Death From Above]

 

This is the only thing I've ever heard from these people, but that's pretty great.

[MADCAP]

http://youtu.be/s258UigTmcU

 

http://youtu.be/V1hT2u1jwcs

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[LooseCannon]

I don't like listening to instrumental music.  Does anyone want to pimp some great jazz vocalists?

[Tele-Viper]

(early) Peggy Lee is my favorite. Also, Blossom Dearie, Johnny Hartman, Abbey Lincoln.

[ohtani's jacket]

I don't think anything tops this:http://youtu.be/-4aHWG7aqPMI dig Oscar Brown Jr. too:

 

http://youtu.be/YpewUVqowHEEtta Jones has one of my favourite female voices:

 

http://youtu.be/08IR-eq-RMc

 

Betty Carter too: 

[jaedmc]

A beautiful, soulful performance from Billie Holiday.

[Death From Above]

 

Man this is amazing. Though it's hard to classify really. Certainly not any form of recognizable jazz, but it sure doesn't seem to fit better anywhere else either so here I put it.

 

Vol. 2 Judges was a slightly better overall album at least to my early impressions, but the highs on Vol. 3 are pretty mind blowing.

[Thomas Bugg]

Not trying to turn this post into a shill or anything, but if you look at the Youtube link in my signature I've got an entire library of great contemporary jazz songs uploaded (and expanding).

 

Here's one of the tracks, relaxing yet uptempo enough for the steppers.

 

[Tele-Viper]

RIP, Jim Hall & Chico Hamilton. They made some glorious music together in the 50's:

http://youtu.be/HM3ZDNJlo6o

[Graham Crackers]

RIP Yusef Lateef

[Tele-Viper]

Been on a big Joe Henderson/Kenny Dorham kick:

 

Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Richard Davis (bass), Albert Heath (drums)

 

Joe Henderson (tenor sax,) Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Andrew Hill (piano), Eddie Khan (bass), Pete La Roca (drums)

 

http://youtu.be/rz7fFx0kH0w

Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Ronnie Mathews (piano), Steve Davis (bass), J.C. Moses (drums)
 

[Tele-Viper]

I went and ranked my all-time favorite tenor sax players:

http://bopandbeyond.wordpress.com

[stiffshots]

One of my favorite jazz bassists.  I saw 3/4 of this combo (Holland, Rivers, Altschul) several times in the late Seventies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2TtCtONB5I

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[Tele-Viper]

Speaking of Louis Armstrong, he made my list of all-time favorite trumpeters:

http://bopandbeyond.wordpress.com/

[Spontaneous]

I've always liked Jimmy Giuffre. Very interesting discography.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMDmUNGvnUc

[Tele-Viper]

Dug out this old Blue Mitchell album, which smokes like crazy. Did some reading up on it and apparently it sat in the can for over two decades before being released, which seems crazy to me.

[Tele-Viper]

Sonny Stitt never gets enough love. A killer cut from one of his later records:

http://youtu.be/HnvddAyJGlI

[Tele-Viper]

Raise your hand if you've never heard of Tubby Hayes. Next time the conversation turns to who was the greatest tenor saxophonist of the 50's and early 60's, remember his take on Tin Tin Deo. Every time I hear it, I stand slack-jawed and befuddled. What an incredible musician!

[Tele-Viper]

Free For All turns 50!

[Execproducer]

Lady Day was born 100 years ago today.