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Track selection: The Maze (Hancock) As I discovered on a recent visit to the Hampton Court Maze, grandchildren in tow, the way out of a maze can be as hard to find as the centre. Twenty minutes of fruitless search and blind … Continue reading
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Selection: It Ain’t Necessarily So Selection 2: Summertime Selection 3: Gone Artists: Miles Davis With Gil Evans Orchestra Johnny Coles, Bernie Glow, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal (trumpet) Miles Davis (flugelhorn, trumpet) Joe Bennett, Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak (trombone) Dick Hixson (bass trombone) … Continue reading
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Track Selection: Piger, which apparently translates as “Girls” in ..umm.. Scandinavian. (Shihab) . Incredible music, amazing, Danish jazz  from 1962, Sahib Shihab, improbably on alto, but Lars/Lasse Gullin pushes him off baritone as the local star on the big beast … Continue reading
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Pictures updated September 14, 2022 Track Selection 1: Swing 39 (Reinhardt) . . . Selection 2: Nuages (Reinhardt) . . . Track List A1 Swing 39 A2 Vamp A3 Menilmontant A4 John’s Groove A5 Bag’s Barney Blues B1 Swingin’ Parisan … Continue reading
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Selection: Birks Works (Gillespie) A favourite Gillespie tune which haunts the corridors of bop along with A Night in Tunisia, given a good outing here by Byrd and Coltrane tearing through the changes. Artists Donald Byrd (t) John Coltrane (ts) … Continue reading
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(Note: LJC readers personal collection pictures have been copied to a permanent page under Jazz Trivia/Other Collectors/LJC readers collections) IKEA record storage, LJC 2012 . . . London Evening Standard Friday 15th February, 2013 Its not often an advertisement in a … Continue reading
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Track Selection : Infra-Rae (Mobley) Artists Donald Byrd (t) Hank Mobley (ts) Horace Silver (p) Doug Watkins (b) Art Blakey (d) NYC, April 5, 1956. Messengers Chronology (selected): Ritual (1957); Art Blakey Big Band (with Coltrane! 1957);Â Au Club St Germain, … Continue reading
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(Images updated May 27, 2016) Track Selection: Better Git It in your Soul (Mingus) Too much to choose from, so Side One, Track One. Artists Jimmy Knepper (trb) John Handy (as, cl) Booker Ervin (ts) Curtis Porter (ts, as) Horace Parlan … Continue reading
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Selection: Summertime (Gershwin, Heyward) Whilst the dreamy title track became an (edited-down) radio “hit”, and consumes almost one side of the record, I prefer the more audacious Summertime, as Coltrane turns up the heat, and rips up the conventional changes of this … Continue reading
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Donald Byrd RIP.  Byrd’s nephew has reported his uncle Donald Byrd’s death, though it has yet to be confirmed.  Byrd was said to have died earlier this week, on Monday 4th February, 2013, at the age of 80, at his home in Delaware. He joins … Continue reading
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 Track Selection: Main Stem (Ellington) . Kicking off the shoes with the very catchy Ellington composition, Main Stem (1942). The title refers, I believe, to the trunk of the Mississipi River, which runs from New Orleans to St Louis. It’s like the … Continue reading
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Track Selection 1: I’m an Old Cow Hand (Mercer) Selection 2: Solitude (Ellington) Artists Sonny Rollins (ts) Ray Brown (b) Shelly Manne (d) recorded Los Angeles, CA, March 7, 1957, engineer Roy duNann, produced by Lester Koenig. Selections: Rollins delighted in cheesy material … Continue reading
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Track Selection:  Medley: Hag – Cymbalism – Oleo (10:45) . . . Haynes kicks off as he intends to continue, relentless propulsion, fizzling with brio and drive, sticks dancing on the cymbals,  head-nodding double-time to keep up, as Strozier pulls up … Continue reading
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