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UPDATE January 10, Harry M photo Charlie Rouse 1969 Jazz Expo added Revisiting the Italian Soul Note label and its chest of jazz treasures, this recording is a real oddity : Mal Waldron, Woody Shaw, Charlie Rouse, stellar line up, … Continue reading
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UPDATE Jan.5: Johnny Griffin at Ronnie Scotts, 1969 Harry M photo added. Selection: Latin Quarter (John Jenkins) . . . Artists Johnny Griffin, tenor sax; Sonny Clark, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Kenny Dennis, drums.; recorded Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, … Continue reading
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Coming shortly, the long-awaited Tone Poet, but this is not an original trophy-parade. LJC digs out his non-descript United Artists mid-70s blue label reissue, only to find it sounds fantastic! Not even Van Gelder metal sourced, but, I guess, mastered … Continue reading
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Seasonal Message From LJC Happy Christmas, 2020. I’m looking forward to a better New Year 2021, how could it be any worse? (They’ll think of something!). A lot more music to be covered, and it’s not like I have anything … Continue reading
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Selection: Cry Of Hunger (Billy Harper) . . . Soloists: Baritone Saxophone, Trevor Koehler; Flugelhorn, Howard Johnson ; Tenor Saxophone , Billy Harper. Artists Billy Harper, flute, tenor saxophone; Bruce Ditmas, drums; Dave Sanborn, alto saxophone; David Horowitz, synthesizer; Gil … Continue reading
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UPDATED December 16, 2020: Harry M photo added foot of post – Art Farmer (1970) Horace Silver (1968). Head to Head: Blue Note original, Toshiba Japan reissue. Japanese reissues are cheaper and more readily available, but are they worth it? … Continue reading
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Selection: Croquet Ballet (Harper) . . . Artists Billly Harper, Tenor saxophone; Virgil Jones, trumpet; Joe Bonner, piano; David Friesen, bass; Malcolm Pinson, drums; recorded July 21 & 22, 1975 at Barclay Studios, Paris, France, recording engineer Peter Dobler, cover … Continue reading
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UPDATE III: December 3, 2020, both rips replaced with new and comparable copies, made yesterday on the same equipment on the same day. This eliminates the problem of the old USB rip being out of pitch with the MM33. UPDATE … Continue reading
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A special feature of this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival (13-22 November 2020), is an Esquire Covers Club event, celebrating the great British jazz label Esquire (1947 – 64). I thought this might be of interest to LJC readers. In … Continue reading
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LJC wandering off the beated track again, with modal power-tenor Billy Harper. Selection: Love On The Sudan (Harper) . . . Artists Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Everett Hollins, trumpet; Armen Donelian, piano; Wayne Dockery, bass; Malcolm Pinson , drums; recorded … Continue reading
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Selection: Everything Happens to Me (standard) . . . Artists Sahib Shihab, baritone sax; Allan Botschinsky, trumpet; Bent Axen, piano; Niels-Henning Pedersen, bass; Bjarne Rostvold, drums; Pedro Biker, vocals; recorded in Denmark, 1963. Plagiarism Alert! Marc Myers (JazzWax) picks up … Continue reading
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Despite listing seventeen of Freddie titles at LJC, my favourite Blue Note trumpeter, Ready For Freddie was unintentionally overlooked, An omission no longer. Selection: Areitis (Hubbard) – Youtube digital upload, vinyl rip to be added at later date, so you … Continue reading
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UPDATE October 16: added my Liberty reissue labels to the post. UPDATE October 11: Harry M photos added to foot of post, the young Wayne Shorter, modelling striped pants, very 60s. Filling in the gaps of records LJC mysteriously missed … Continue reading
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UPDATE 14/9/20: Harry M photo – Elvin Jones, 1970 Some thoughts on piano jazz and the place of “piano artistry”, launched from another “inessential album”, the music of Phineas Newborn Jr. , who at the time was considered by some … Continue reading
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Apologies, initial post went horribly wrong, new WordPress block-editor, missing text, now reinstated, and rip. Selection: Nice ‘n Greasy (Johnny Acea – pianist on Don Wilkerson’s “Elder Don”) YouTube has the whole album Approaching 200,000 views Artists Tommy Turrentine, trumpet; … Continue reading
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UPDATED September 3: Harry M has the photos, Hampton Hawes at Montreux, 1971 From the LJC backlog of draft reviews, an “inessential album” according to All-Music, nevertheless it has something to offer, and prompts a closer look at an original … Continue reading
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UPDATED with Youtube uploads of a potpourri of other tracks Selection: Kingside Breakthrough (Wakeman) . . . Audio note: As I am not currently able to access vinyl, the above selection is a 320kb MP3 reduction, from a 16-bit WAV … Continue reading
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Sixties hyperbole! Blue Note titles which end in a shreik-mark!!, full list over 30 below post! (now even fuller thanks to Ed) Update August 15: Super Summer Bonus! Artist photos from 1968-73 courtesy of The Jazz Paparazzi, Harry M, Selection: … Continue reading
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J.R. Monterose: “The best tenor you never heard” Selection: The Third (Donald Byrd) . . . I’m not sure of the origins of the above rip, which may be a CD rip made some time ago for phone-listening!. When I … Continue reading
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Selection: All The Things You Are . . . All The Things You Are – a jazz standard from the 1939 Broadway musical Very Warm for May, Jerome Kern, music, Oscar Hammerstein II, libretto, though the verse is rarely heard. … Continue reading
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In 1982, the combined forces of Decca/Telefunken (TelDec) and Georg Neumann Gmbh launched a German compilation of classical music tracks demonstrating the new analog mastering process – Direct Metal Mastering:(10 For Sale from €7.87). The DMM process entered the Blue Note chain … Continue reading
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Straying out of Modern Jazz Quarantine, vacillating between bop, hard-bop, post bop and hip-bop, LJC breaks his own rules again, venturing into the genre of European jazz rock of the early ’80s Germany, nein-bop. It’s a record probably unknown to … Continue reading
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Another slightly unusual A:B comparison post: a direct cut-to-disk modern recording, with some of the best of current British jazz musicians, up against a Van Gelder mastered fifty year old Blue Note vinyl, with some of the best mid-Sixties players, … Continue reading
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UPDATED June 7, 2020 – Harry M hits the spot-focus, photos Kenny Barron 1970 & Jack de Johnette 1969 added to foot of post. Selection: Tetragon (Henderson) . . . Artists Two Henderson sessions, eight months apart, recorded at Plaza … Continue reading
