Official Jazz thread

[Sinner]

 

[omgitswes]

Just a heads up, there's a great documentary series on Netflix right now called Ken Burns: Jazz. 


Spans jazz from its inception to its current incarnation.  Really, really well done, highly recommended for anyone who knows about, or wants to learn about, jazz.   

Thanks, I'll check it out.


There's this saxophonist that has been getting a lot of love on npr's site lately called Melissa Aldana from Chile. Here's her live set at Berklee.



Also is there any other sites to get current jazz news other than NPR?

 

[omgitswes]

Also she won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition

 

[demarco]

some brazilian jazz for dat ***:

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Working with Red Bull Music Academy, Chairman Mao has dropped a new mixtape with a selection of choice cuts from the Impulse label's catalog. Link & description below.

http://www.egotripland.com/chairman-mao-across-135th-street-impulse-records-special-audio/

Impulse Records was one of the most storied and important jazz labels of the 1960s – a haven for different generations of forward thinking musicians as reflected by its slogan (“The New Wave of Jazz is on…”). In “Impulse-ive Moods,” the latest episode of his “Across 135th Street” program, Jeff “Chairman” Mao selects a few personal favorites from the label’s catalog. While the spiritual big poppa of Impulse artists, John Coltrane, is of course represented (with Live at Birdland’s “Your Lady”), so too is the work of his collaborators (Elvin Jones & Jimmy Garrison’s baritone-sax heavy “Half and Half”) and the new breed experimentalists Trane mentored (Albert Ayler’s meditative “Our Prayer”; Archie Shepp’s take on Duke Ellington’s “Prelude to a Kiss”). Elsewhere, Yusef Lateef springs Middle Eastern sounds on a receptive South Philly crowd, Charles (“Such nimble fingers” – [emoji]169[/emoji] Guru) Mingus drops that bass to the delight of Gang Starr Foundation fans, Roy Haynes snaps skulls and snares, and Pharoah Sanders spreads love the Impulse way.

 

[Sinner]

Heard this song, but not this version, on TV the other day... can't get away from the classics. 

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Ella Fitzgerald - Stomping at The Savoy (ft. Ambassador Satch aka Satchmo)

Good post Sinner. This was always my favorite vocal version... I always play jazz when I cook big dinners & scuffle mode always finds this song...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Mcoy Tyner - Peresina

This album, Expansions is a great album.

 

[omgitswes]

The music from Cowboy Bebop was unreal.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind & I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl


Can't believe she's playing piano as she's singing this emotionally. It's enough to deliver such an emotional vocal performance but t play the piano also? Also needed to post a little suga...








Van Morrison - Moondance

Always play this album during the fall...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Branford Marsalis - Again Never, Teo, & Serenata (classical piece from Pulcinella)

What a talented family. Again Never is such a powerful song. That scene in Mo Better Blues when Bleek tries to come back & can't play... Just sad... Also included Serenata from Pulcinella...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans Quartet - Elsa

Great album, great song.

 

[Sinner]

^ Ehhhh... my kind of jazz.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Thelonious Monk - Round About Midnight






Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat & Duke Ellington's Sound of Love

 

[Sinner]

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Bola Sete - Bettina






Lou Donaldson - Ode To Billie Joe & Musty Rusty

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Bill Evans Trio - My Foolish Heart

Such a beautiful song. Diana Krall does a great live version of this too...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Gretchen Parlato - Live at Lotos Jazz Festival 2013

Listening to this while at work... She might be my favorite jazz vocalist/singer out right now (of the new breed)... Her band is really good too...

01 Butterfly (Herbie Hancock / Jean Hancock / Bennie Maupin)
02 Juju (Wayne Shorter)
03 Alô Alô (Paulinho da Viola)
04 Come to Me (Björk)
05 If It Was (Alan Hampton / Gretchen Parlato)
06 Like Someone In Love (Johnny Burke / Jimmy Van Heusen)
07 Weak (Brian Alexander Morgan)
08 Magnus (Gretchen Parlato)
09 Still (Alan Hampton)

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Vince Guaraldi- Autumn Leaves (2 versions) & Thanksgiving Theme

Vince Guaraldi's done several versions of this song over the years... Each one is very unique. 2 of my favorite iterations.

Also included the Thanksgiving Theme for the upcoming US holiday...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Grant Green - Ain't It Funky Now & Fancy Free (Live at the Lighthouse '72)

 

[Kimchi Papi]

The Meters - Cissy Strut

I know this ain't jazz, but I had to post this song. 'Nawlins has given birth to such great American music (not to mention some of the world's best cuisine). This is one of my all time favorite songs. If you can, give this song a couple of listens first to the song as a whole, then listen to each of the instruments individually. There is so much precision from each of the dudes in the band. It's insane...

 

[Kimchi Papi]

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

 

[Kimchi Papi]

J.A.M - New Things

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Marcina Arnold - Forefathers

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Whitefield Brothers - Safari Strut

Something a lil different...