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jazzdailyblog · 5 months ago
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"Clifford Brown & Max Roach:" A Landmark Jazz Album
Introduction: Released in early December 1954, the album “Clifford Brown & Max Roach” by the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet stands as a monumental achievement in the jazz world. This recording is often hailed as one of the finest examples of bebop, capturing the essence of a genre that was rapidly evolving and gaining popularity during the 1950s. The album not only showcases the

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aneptuniana · 1 year ago
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HEMINGWAY [spotify] - 2h 2min
"how many did you kill, old fish?" - the old man and the sea
"run on for a long time" - bill landford & the landfordaires // "egyptian fantasy" - sidney bechet and his new orleans feetwarmers // "the devil with the devil" - the golden gate quartet // "walk don't run" - johnny smith // "jungle fever" - the mills brothers // "lucky lou" - jody williams // "everglades" - dale hawkins // "west of samoa" - speedy west // "fishing blues" - henry thomas // "tabĂș" - lecuona cuban boys // "beyond the sea (la mer) - django reinhardt // "my blue heaven" - gene austin // "ode to a cowboy" - the dave brubeck quartet // "it's so peaceful in the country" - mildred bailey // "saeta" - miles davis // "what's the use of getting sober?" - louis jordan // "parisian thoroughfare" - clifford brown and the max roach quintet // "i'm a man" - bo diddley // "flamingo" - charles mingus // "i don't want to set the world on fire" - the ink spots // "bird of paradise" - charlie parker // "bad luck and trouble" - lightnin' hopkins // "man of mystery" - chet atkins // "nobody knows you when you're down and out" - scrapper blackwell // "caribea" - moondog // "satisfied mind" - pete drake // "i've got the world on a string" - bing crosby and the dorsey brothers // "i've got you under my skin" - oscar peterson // "along the santa fe trail" - artie shaw // "in a sentimental mood" - benny goodman // "you rascal, you" - cab calloway // "caravan" - dizzy gillespie // "psycho" - eddie noack // "wouldn't mind dying if dying was all" - washington phillips
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cinenthusiast · 2 months ago
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another batch of new-to-me albums, 2024
criola - denis mpunga & paul k. (2017) estudando o samba - tom zĂ© (1976) peace rock - nimbudala (2022) i survived, it's over - rich ruth (2022) bird & diz - charlie parker and dizzy gillespie (1950/1952) sonny side up - sonny rollins (1957/1959) ella & louis - ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong (1956) ellington uptown - duke ellington (1953) endlessness - nala sinephro (2024) in a silent way - miles davis (1969) afro - dizzy gillespie (1954) caravan - art blakey and the jazz messengers (1963) gillespiana - dizzy gillespie (1960) blues-ette - curtis fuller quintet (1959) money jungle - ellington, mingus, roach (1963) in the land of hi-fi - sarah vaughan (1955) soul of things - tomasz staƄko quartet (2001) time of the last persecution - bill fay (1970) slapp happy - slapp happy (1974) clifford brown and max roach at basin street - clifford brown-max roach quintet (1956) sea shells - peggy lee (1958) let freedom ring - jackie mclean (1963) jazz giant - bud powell (1950) wild god - nick cave and the bad seeds (2024) first narrows - loscil (2004) here in the pity - jessica pratt (2024) perceive its beauty, acknowledge its grace - shabaka (2024) good morning kisses - michael farneti (1976) clifford brown & max roach - the clifford brown-max roach quintet (1954) a night in tunisia - art blakey & the jazz messengers (1958) royal flush - donald byrd (1962)
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lboogie1906 · 4 months ago
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Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins (September 7, 1930) leading jazz innovator was born in New York. He was raised by his grandmother who had migrated to the US from the Virgin Islands. He came of age in Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s where he was influenced by the remnants of the Harlem Renaissance and the WWII jazz era.
Music was significant in his household. His brother and sister both studied the violin and piano. He adopted the piano as his instrument. As new jazz forms became popular in the early 1940s, he began playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and progressed to the tenor saxophone by 1946. His inspiration came from jazz greats Louis Jordan, who played alto saxophone, and Coleman Hawkins, who played tenor saxophone.
He and his musician friends created their band and began experimenting with a new jazz style called bebop. By his 18th birthday, he developed a reputation in Harlem as a leading performer of bebop. In 1949, he made his recording debut with Babs Gonzales. In the same year, he recorded with J.J. Johnson and Bud Powell, the great bebop pianist. In the early 1950s, he worked with Miles Davis, who was a rising trumpet performer. He joined the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in 1955.
He continued to build his reputation as an innovative artist and an accomplished musician. His most successful album was Saxophone Colossus in 1956. The first album in which he used a trio of saxophones, drums, and double bass was called Way Out West and was released in 1957. He was recognized as the most innovative tenor saxophonist in jazz. In 1965 he wrote the film score for the movie Alfie. Twenty years later, he released his first solo recording, cleverly entitled Solo Album.
After more than a half-century as a jazz performer, he won his first Grammy Award in 2000 for his performance entitled This Is What I Do. In 2004, he won a second Grammy for the composition Without A Song and the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
He continues to record and perform. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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projazznet · 5 months ago
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Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins Plus 4 ( Full Album )
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 is a jazz album by Sonny Rollins, released in 1956 on Prestige Records. On this album Rollins plays with the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet.
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Clifford Brown – trumpet – except Count Your Blessings
Max Roach – drums
Richie Powell – piano
George Morrow – bass
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jpbjazz · 7 months ago
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LÉGENDES DU JAZZ
CURTIS COUNCE, LA TROP BRÈVE HISTOIRE D’UN GROUPE D’EXCEPTION
‘’While it lasted, the Curtis Counce Group was one of the most exciting ever organized in Los Angeles. Counce picked four men who almost immediately achieved a togetherness only long-established bands seem to have. Today, Carl Perkins is dead, and the members of the group have gone off in different directions... It would be difficult under the best conditions to recapture the feeling of the 1957 quintet. Without Perkins whose unique piano style was basic to the group’s special sound, it is impossible.’’
- Les Koenig
NĂ© le 23 janvier 1926 Ă  Kansas City, au Missouri, Curtis Counce s’est installĂ© en Californie en 1945. En Californie, Counce s’était fait la main en se produisant au cĂ©lĂšbre club Alabam aux cĂŽtĂ©s de grands noms du jazz comme Johnny Otis et Art Farmer. Il avait aussi jouĂ© avec Wardell Gray, Hampton Hawes, Benny Carter, Shorty Rogers et Buddy DeFranco.
Counce avait commencĂ© Ă  enregistrer en 1946 avec Lester Young. Dans les annĂ©es 1950, Counce avait enregistrĂ© avec d’autres grands noms du jazz comme Shorty Rogers, Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne, Lyle Murphy, Teddy Charles et Clifford Brown.
AprĂšs avoir fait une tournĂ©e en Europe avec l’orchestre de Stan Kenton en 1956, Counce avait formĂ© son propre quintet en aoĂ»t de la mĂȘme annĂ©e. Le groupe comprenait le saxophoniste Harold Land (un ancien membre du cĂ©lĂšbre quartet de Max Roach), le trompettiste Jack Sheldon (parfois remplacĂ© par Gerald Wilson), le pianiste Carl Perkins et le batteur Frank Butler. Le groupe avait fait ses dĂ©buts dans un cĂ©lĂšbre club bebop de Los Angeles, The Haig. Le groupe se produisait aussi dans un club appelĂ© la Sanborn House. Land expliquait: ‘’There was another pot down on Sunset: the Sanborn House. We played there quite a while, longer than we did at The Haig, and the group built up quite a following. The Haig was very small, but this was a large club.’’
Seul Ă©lĂ©ment blanc du groupe, Sheldon Ă©tait nĂ© Ă  Jacksonville, en Floride, le 30 novembre 1931. AprĂšs s’ĂȘtre installĂ© Ă  Los Angeles en 1947, Sheldon avait Ă©tudiĂ© la musique durant deux ans au L.A. City College. AprĂšs un sĂ©jour de deux ans dans l’armĂ©e de l’air, Sheldon avait jouĂ© avec Jack Monrose, Art Pepper, Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon et Herb Geller. Il avait aussi fait partie des membres fondateurs du groupe de Joe Maini et Lenny Bruce.
En plus de Counce, la section rythmique du groupe Ă©tait composĂ©e de deux musiciens d’exception, le pianiste Carl Perkins (sans lien de parentĂ© avec le chanteur rock du mĂȘme nom) et le batteur Frank Butler. NĂ© Ă  Indianapolis, en Indiana, Perkins avait fait partie des groupes de rhythm & blues de Tiny Bradshaw et Big Jay McNeely avec qui il avait dĂ©veloppĂ© un solide sens du blues. DotĂ© d’un style peu conventionnel, Perkins jouait souvent avec le bras gauche parallĂšle au clavier. NĂ© le 18 fĂ©vrier 1928 Ă  Wichita, au Kansas, le batteur Frank Butler avait jouĂ© avec Dave Brubeck, Edgar Hayes et Duke Ellington, entre autres.
Aucun des membres du groupe n’était un musicien vedette, mĂȘme si Land avait acquis une certaine cĂ©lĂ©britĂ© durant son sĂ©jour avec le groupe de Max Roach et de Clifford Brown. MĂȘme si l’initiative de la fondation du groupe revenait Ă  Counce, il s’agissait surtout d’un groupe coopĂ©ratif oĂč chacun des membres Ă©tait un partenaire Ă  part entiĂšre. On pourrait mĂȘme dire que la formation Ă©tait une sorte d’anti-groupe, en ce sens qu’il Ă©tait beaucoup plus que la somme de ses parties. Harold Land expliquait: ‘’We were all close friends within the group, so it was a good idea for all of us, because we all liked each other personally as well as musically.’’
Fondateur des disques Contemporary, Lester Koenig avait toujours eu le don de dĂ©nicher des nouveaux talents. Dans la seconde moitiĂ© des annĂ©es 1950, Koenig avait donnĂ© sa chance Ă  une vaste gamme de musiciens prometteurs, dont Ornette Coleman et Cecil Taylor. Le 8 octobre, seulement un mois aprĂšs que le groupe de Counce ait fait ses dĂ©buts au club The Haig, Koenig l’avait invitĂ© Ă  entrer en studio. La chimie du groupe avait Ă©tĂ© Ă©vidente dĂšs le dĂ©part.
La premiĂšre piĂšce que le groupe avait enregistrĂ©e Ă©tait ‘’Langslide’’, un thĂšme de hard bop de Land. Perkins et Sheldon avaient Ă©galement collaborĂ© au rĂ©pertoire du groupe avec deux compositions: ‘’Mia’’ et ‘’Sarah.’’ La session comprenait aussi une reprise de la composition ‘’Big Foot’’ de Charlie Parker que le saxophoniste avait enregistrĂ©e sous le titre d’’’Air Conditioning’’ et de ‘’Drifting on a Reed’’ pour les disques Dial. Le groupe Ă©tait revenu en studio le 18 octobre pour enregistrer une derniĂšre piĂšce: ‘’Sonar’’ de Gerald Wiggins et Kenny Clarke.
PubliĂ© sous le titre de The Curtis Counce Group, le premier album de la formation Ă©tait paru au dĂ©but de 1957 et avait remportĂ© un succĂšs immĂ©diat. Le critique Nat Hentoff du magazine Down Beat Ă©tait si enthousiaste qu’il avait accordĂ© quatre Ă©toiles Ă  l’album. Mais le groupe ne faisant pas de tournĂ©es et se produisant surtout dans la rĂ©gion de Los Angeles, il Ă©tait demeurĂ© trĂšs peu connu sur la scĂšne nationale. MĂȘme si Land se rappelait que le groupe s’était dĂ©jĂ  rendu jusqu’à Denver, au Colorado, il ne s’était rien produit Ă  son retour dans l’est. Bien que la formation soit trĂšs populaire Ă  Los Angeles, elle n’avait pu rivaliser avec son principal concurrent, le quintet de Chico Hamilton.
À la fin de 1957, le groupe avait publiĂ© un deuxiĂšme album qui est aujourd’hui considĂ©rĂ© comme un classique, You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce. D’abord publiĂ© avec une blonde pulpeuse portant un dĂ©colletĂ© plongeant sur la pochette, l’album avait Ă©tĂ© rĂ©Ă©ditĂ© plus tard avec une illustration beaucoup moins provocante. L’album avait Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ© dans le cadre de diffĂ©rentes sessions tenues en 1956 et 1957. En plus de la piĂšce ‘’Sonar’’ qui faisait partie des sessions de l’album prĂ©cĂ©dent, le groupe avait enregistrĂ© une version swing de ‘’Stranger in Paradise’’ lors de la seconde session du 15 octobre 1946. Outre la piĂšce ‘’Big Foot’’ mentionnĂ©e plus haut, l’album comprenait Ă©galement deux piĂšces qui avaient Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©es le 22 avril 1957: ‘’Too Close for Comfort’’ et ‘’Counceltation.’’ Cette derniĂšre piĂšce Ă©tait une composition de Counce. À l’époque, Counce Ă©tudiait la composition avec Lyle ‘’Spud’’ Murphy. ‘’Counceltation’’ Ă©tait une piĂšce expĂ©rimentale basĂ©e sur le systĂšme Ă  douze tonalitĂ©s de Murphy. La piĂšce Ă©tait intĂ©ressante, mĂȘme si elle Ă©tait un peu trop cĂ©rĂ©brale et acadĂ©mique pour ĂȘtre apprĂ©ciĂ©e par un large public. L’album comprenait Ă©galement une autre composition de Counce intitulĂ©e ‘’Complete’’ qui avait Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©e en mai. Une version du standard ‘’How Deep is the Ocean’’ faisait partie de la mĂȘme session. Quant au classique ‘’Mean to Me’’ souvent associĂ© Ă  Billie Holiday, il avait Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ© en septembre.
Lorsque l’album avait Ă©tĂ© publiĂ© Ă  la fin de 1957, le groupe semblait promis Ă  un brillant avenir. Malheureusement, une sĂ©rie d’évĂ©nements malheureux avaient contribuĂ© au dĂ©clin du groupe: la mort du pianiste Carl Perkins Ă  l’ñge de vingt-neuf ans en 1958 d’abord (il avait Ă©tĂ© remplacĂ© par Elmo Hope), puis la baisse de popularitĂ© du jazz dans les clubs de Los Angeles Ă  la fin de la mĂȘme dĂ©cennie.
Expliquant le dĂ©clin du jazz Ă  Los Angeles Ă  la fin des annĂ©es 1950, l’historien Ted Gioia Ă©crivait dans son ouvrage West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960, publiĂ© en 1998:
‘’The great flowering of modern jazz on the West Coast, which had begun in the mid-1940s on the street of Central Avenue, had reached a dead-end, financially if not creatively. It’s place in Southern California music culture was now taken over by innocuous studio pop records, the nascent sound of surf music, and the steadily growing world of rock and roll. In retrospect, the music being played by Harold Land, Sonny Criss and Teddy Edwards... {and that had been played by the Counce groups}, and the few other straggling survivors of the modern jazz revolution stands out as the last futile effort to hold onto the grounf painfully won over a decade and a half of jazz proselytizing in the Southland, of attempts to spread the gospel of a rich, complex and deep music, a music now on the brink of being drowned out by the amplified sounds of garage bands, three-chord wonders somehow made into media stars.’’
Le groupe avait enregistrĂ© un dernier album pour les disques Contemporary avant de disparaĂźtre en 1958: ‘’Carl’s Blues.’’ L’album Ă©tait particuliĂšrement bien nommĂ©, en particulier parce qu’il contenait une composition de Perkins intitulĂ©e ‘’C Blues’’ qui avait Ă©tĂ© une des derniĂšres piĂšces que le pianiste avait enregistrĂ©e avant sa mort. La piĂšce Ă©tait Ă©galement un des faits saillants de l’album.
Le matĂ©riel qui faisait partie de l’album avait Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ© en trois sessions. Parmi les piĂšces figurant sur l’album, on retrouvait aussi une composition de Sheldon appelĂ©e ‘’Pink Lady’’, et des versions des standards ‘’I Got Rhythm’’ et ‘’Love Walked In’’ ainsi que du classique d’Horace Silver ‘’Nica’Dream.’’ Les derniĂšres piĂšces de l’album avaient Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©es le 6 janvier 1958 lors de la derniĂšre apparition de Perkins avec le groupe. Pour l’occasion, Gerald Wilson avait remplacĂ© Sheldon sur deux piĂšces. Les autres piĂšces Ă©taient un solo de batterie de Butler intitulĂ© ‘’The Butler Did It’’ et une performance mettant en vedette Land avec la section rythmique du groupe sur une piĂšce intitulĂ©e ‘’I Can’t Get’’ dans lequel il dĂ©montrait ses talents d’improvisateur. L’album comprenait Ă©galement la piĂšce ‘’La Rue’’, une composition que Clifford Brown avait Ă©crite pour sa femme, Emma La Rue Anderson.
Carl Perkins est mort le 17 mars 1958 cinq mois avant son 30e anniversaire de naissance. Autre victime d’une consommation excessive de narcotiques, Perkins Ă©tait l’ñme du groupe de Counce. Sa mort avait Ă©ventuellement entraĂźnĂ© la disparition de la formation. Lorsque Les Koenig avait publiĂ© le troisiĂšme album du groupe quelques annĂ©es aprĂšs que les piĂšces aient Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©es, il avait dĂ©clarĂ©:
‘’While it lasted, the Curtis Counce Group was one of the most exciting ever organized in Los Angeles. Counce picked four men who almost immediately achieved a togetherness only long-established bands seem to have. Today, Carl Perkins is dead, and the members of the group have gone off in different directions... It would be difficult under the best conditions to recapture the feeling of the 1957 quintet. Without Perkins whose unique piano style was basic to the group’s special sound, it is impossible. It is tempting to wonder how the band would have been received had it been based in New York; certainly it would have give some of the more famous groups of the fifties a run for the money.’’
L’album ‘’Carl’s Blues’’ n’avait cependant pas Ă©tĂ© le dernier album du groupe. Un mois aprĂšs la mort de Perkins, Counce avait tentĂ© de refaire surface avec une nouvelle Ă©dition de son quintet dans le cadre d’une session pour les disques Dootone de Dootsie Williams qui avait donnĂ© lieu Ă  la publication d’un album au titre plutĂŽt ambitieux intitulĂ© Exploring the Future. Seuls Counce, Land et Butler faisaient partie de l’édition originale du groupe. Le trompettiste Jack Sheldon avait Ă©tĂ© remplacĂ© par le SuĂ©dois Rolf Ericsson. NĂ© Ă  Stockholm le 29 aoĂ»t 1927, Ericsson s’était installĂ© aux États-Unis en 1947 et avait travaillĂ© avec plusieurs groupes, dont ceux de Charlie Barnet, Elliot Lawrence et Woody Herman. Il avait Ă©galement Ă©tĂ© membre des Lighthouse All Stars d’Howard Rumsey en 1953. En remplacement de Carl Perkins, on retrouvait un pianiste de New York nommĂ© Elmo Hope qui avait jouĂ© et enregistrĂ© briĂšvement sur la CĂŽte ouest Ă  la fin des annĂ©es 1950.
NĂ© en juin 1923, Hope Ă©tait un ami d’enfance de Bud Powell. Il avait aussi participĂ© activement Ă  la scĂšne du jazz new-yorkaise dans les annĂ©es 1940 et au dĂ©but des annĂ©es 1950, mĂȘme s’il Ă©tait demeurĂ© trĂšs peu connu du grand public. MĂȘme si le jeu de Hope n’était pas aussi orientĂ© vers le blues que celui de Perkins, il excellait dans le style hard bop dont le groupe de Counce avait fait sa marque de commerce.
Malheureusement, l’album Exploring the Future Ă©tait d’une qualitĂ© d’enregistrement nettement infĂ©rieure Ă  celle des albums prĂ©cĂ©dents du groupe. De toute Ă©vidence, la mort de Perkins et le dĂ©part de Sheldon avaient grandement altĂ©rĂ© la cohĂ©sion de la formation, mĂȘme si la qualitĂ© de la production aurait pu ĂȘtre rehaussĂ©e si certaines piĂšces avaient fait l’objet de quelques prises supplĂ©mentaires. Quatre des huit piĂšces de l’album avaient Ă©tĂ© Ă©crites par Hope et Ă©taient indĂ©niablement de style hard bop.
La premiĂšre piĂšce de l’album, intitulĂ©e ‘’So Nice’’, comprenait des solos d’Ericsson, de Land et de Hope. L’album comprenait Ă©galement une reprise du standard ‘’Move’’ de Denzil Best, qui Ă©tait essentiellement composĂ©e d’un solo du batteur Frank Butler. L’album comprenait aussi deux ballades, le standard ‘’Someone to Watch Over Me’’ sur lequel Counce interprĂ©tait un magnifique solo, et ‘’Angel Eyes’’, sur lequel Ericsson, Land et Hope avaient Ă©galement livrĂ© leurs propres solos. MalgrĂ© ces prouesses techniques, on avait un peu l’impression que le groupe vivait sur du temps empruntĂ© et que l’enthousiasme des dĂ©buts n’était plus lĂ .
Il s’agissait du dernier enregistrement du groupe sous la direction de Counce. Deux autres sessions avaient Ă©tĂ© organisĂ©es avec sensiblement le mĂȘme alignement par la suite, mais sans Counce, qui avait Ă©tĂ© remplacĂ© par Leroy Vinnegar. La premiĂšre session Ă©tait dirigĂ©e par Hope et avait eu lieu le 31 octobre 1957. Le Elmo Hope Quintet, qui Ă©tait composĂ© de Stu Williamson Ă  la trompette, de Land au saxophone tĂ©nor, de Leroy Vinnegar Ă  la contrebasse et de Butler Ă  la batterie, avait enregistrĂ© trois piĂšces pour les disques Pacific Jazz: ‘’Vaun Ex’’, ‘’St Elmo’s Fire’’ et ‘’So Nice.’’ Les trois piĂšces Ă©taient des compositions de Hope. Que le producteur Dick Bock ait dĂ©cidĂ© ou non d’enregistrer un album complet avec le groupe, aucune autre piĂšce n’avait Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©e (ou Ă  tout le moins publiĂ©e). Deux des trois piĂšces de la session avaient finalement Ă©tĂ© publiĂ©es sur des anthologies au cours de l’annĂ©e suivante. Au dĂ©but des annĂ©es 1960, les trois piĂšces avaient Ă©tĂ© publiĂ©es sur une rĂ©Ă©dition des oeuvres du batteur Art Blakey. La qualitĂ© d’enregistrement de ces trois piĂšces Ă©tait de loin supĂ©rieure aux enregistrements du groupe de Counce avec les disques Dootone.
Sur ces enregistrements, Land et Butler avaient souvent dĂ©montrĂ© une complicitĂ© dĂ©concertante qui donnait parfois l’impression Ă  l’auditeur qu’ils communiquaient par l’entremise d’une sorte de tĂ©lĂ©pathie. Il faut dire que Land et Butler faisaient partie du groupe depuis les dĂ©buts. Comme Land l’avait expliquĂ© plus tard: ‘’We’ve always been close friends, and we were born on the same day of the month in the same year {Butler le 18 fĂ©vrier, et Land le 18 dĂ©cembre 1928}... and even our wives get sick and tired of our talking about how ‘’in tune’’ we are with each other {rires}.’’ Le fait saillant de l’album Ă©tait la composition de Perkins ‘’Grooveyard’’, une piĂšce qui Ă©tait trĂšs influencĂ©e par le gospel et le blues.
En rĂ©alitĂ©, pour avoir une meilleure idĂ©e du talent du groupe Ă  cette Ă©poque, il est sans doute prĂ©fĂ©rable de se rĂ©fĂ©rer Ă  des albums de Land comme ‘’Harold in the Land of Jazz.’’ Comme l’écrivait Bob Gordon dans son livre ‘’Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s’’publiĂ© en 1986:
‘’Perhaps the definitive recordings from this period came under the leadership of Harold Land for Contemporary records. Harold in the Land of Jazz (reissued later as Grooveyatd) is significant both as the first album released under Harold Land’s name and as Carl Perkins’s last recording. The sessions were held on 13 ans 14 January 1958, and the musicians were Rolf Ericsson, Land, Carl Perkins, Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Butler. These Contemporary recordings combine the fire of the Dootoo recordings and the recording quality of the Pacific Jazz Session.’’
En 1989, grĂące au dĂ©vouement d’Ed Michel des disques Contemporary, un cinquiĂšme album du groupe avait Ă©tĂ© publiĂ© sous le titre de Sonority. Dans ses notes de pochette, Michel Ă©crivait:
‘’I always feel like I’m being given a treat when I get to work in materials from the Contemporary vault (not only because one of the things I’d hoped for in my salad days was to grow up to turn out something like Les Koenig): but this batch of Curtis Counce previously-unreleased takes strikes some sort at special nerve. They were all recorded around the time I was starting out in the record business (for Contemporary’s down-the-street rival Pacific Jazz, run by the estimable Richard Bock), and featured players I was hearing with great regularity at the time on the active and exciting L.A. scene. And ‘’active’’ and ‘’exciting’’ are appropriate words to describe things.’’
Les quatre albums du groupe de Counce qui avaient Ă©tĂ© publiĂ©s Ă  l’origine par les disques Contemporary, ont Ă©tĂ© rĂ©Ă©ditĂ©s en 2006 dans le cadre d’un double CD publiĂ© sur Ă©tiquette Gambit Spain. Le groupe avait aussi enregistrĂ© un album dans le cadre de la Craft Recordings Acoustic Sound Series, mais il n’avait jamais Ă©tĂ© publiĂ©. DĂ©crivant la production du groupe, l’historien du jazz Ted Gioia Ă©crivait dans son ouvrage West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California publiĂ© en 1992: ‘’The Curtis Counce quintet is one of the great neglected jazz bands of the 1950s. The reasons for his neglect are difficult to pinpoint.’’ Dans son livre ‘’Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s’’, Bob Gordon dressait Ă©galement un portrait du groupe de Counce. Gordon prĂ©cisait: ‘’Jack Sheldon on trumpet, Harold Land on tenor saxophone, Carl Perkins on piano, Curtis Counce on bass and Frank Butler on drums made up the original powerhouse group whose aggressive and hard-hitting style of jazz certainly belied Grover Sales wrap that ‘’many West Coast Jazz... recordings... today strike us as bloodless museum pieces...’’ Tentant d'expliquer l'Ă©chec, ou du moins la disparition, du groupe de Counce, Gordon poursuivait:
‘’It is hard to understand why the Curtis Counce Group failed to achieve the recognition - either popular or critical - it deserved. Perhaps it’s because the group was so difficult to piegeonhole. As a Los Angeles-based group it couldn’t remotely be identified with the West Coast school. Stylistically, the Curtis Counce Group fit quite naturally with such groups as the Jazz Messengers or the Horace Silver Quintet, but such a comparison tended to upset the East Coast-West Coast dichotomy that then figured so prominently in jazz criticism. So, stuck as they were thousands of miles from the centre of editorial power, the musicians in the group turned out their own brand of hard-swinging jazz in relative obscurity. It wouldn’t be fair to say they were totally ignored by the influential critics, but they were seldom evaluated at their true worth.’’
Victime d’une crise cardiaque le 31 juillet 1963, Curtis Counce se trouvait dans l’ambulance qui le transportait vers un hĂŽpital de Los Angeles lorsqu’il avait poussĂ© son dernier soupir. Il avait seulement trente-sept ans.
Ont survĂ©cu Ă  Counce son Ă©pouse Mildred, sa fille Celeste et un fils. Le fils de Counce, qui Ă©tait nĂ© le 10 avril 1961, avait Ă©tĂ© placĂ© en adoption par sa mĂšre biologique. Curtis connaissait l’existence de son fils, mais en raison de sa façon de vivre, il n’avait jamais fait partie de sa vie. Le fils de Counce, dont on ignore le prĂ©nom, est dĂ©cĂ©dĂ© le 23 janvier 2022.
Contrebassiste remarquable, Counce Ă©tait Ă©galement un excellent soliste. Malheureusement, sa mort prĂ©maturĂ©e l’avait empĂȘchĂ© de rĂ©aliser son immense potentiel.
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SOURCES:
CERRA, Steven. ‘’Remembering The Curtis Counce Group.’’ Steven Cerra, 26 mai 2018. ‘’Curtis Counce.’’ Fandom, 2024. ‘’Curtis Counce.’’ Wikipedia, 2024. SALVUCCI, Richard J. ‘’Curtis Counce: You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!’’ All About Jazz, 18 novembre 2023.
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Kenny Dorham, (August 30, 1924, Fairfield, Texas, United States - December 5, 1972, New York, United States), was an enormous and magnificent trumpet player while he lived. Gifted with a lyrical phrasing in the hardbop style of music, he was always characterized by a spectacular trumpet phrasing. His musical beginnings were neither more nor less as an outstanding trumpet player in 1945 in the orchestra of two bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine. The magnificent work developed in those formations, earned him that Charlie Parker himself incorporated him to his quintet during the years 1948 and 1949. His next job was with drummer Art Blakey, who incorporated him into his newly formed combo "The Jazz Messengers".
At that time he formed a small group he called "The Jazz Prophets" and when Clifford Brown died, the great drummer Max Roach called him to take his place in his quintet, which he did during 1956 and 1958. In spite of this formidable competition, Dorham always kept the bar high and his time in the quintets of Charlie Parker first and Max Roach later on, elevated him to the top of the hard bop trumpet players' podium.
Kenny Dorham left for posterity a song entitled "Blue Bossa" that has become part of the repertoire of modern jazz classics and, together with numerous arrangements for other musicians, earned him a well-deserved reputation as an efficient and inspired composer.
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Kenny Dorham, (30 de agosto de 1924, Fairfield, Texas, Estados Unidos – 5 de diciembre de 1972, Nueva York, Estados Unidos), fue un trompetista enorme y magnifico mientras viviĂł. Dotado de un fraseo lĂ­rico dentro de un estilo musical duro como es el hard bop, siempre le caracterizĂł un espectacular fraseo a la trompeta. Sus comienzos musicales fueron ni mas ni menos como trompetista destacado en 1945 en las orquesta de dos mĂșsicos del bebop como fueron, Dizzy Gillespie y Billy Eckstine. El magnifico trabajo desarrollado en esas formaciones, le valiĂł que el mismĂ­simo Charlie Parker lo incorporara a su quinteto durante los años 1948 y 1949. Su siguiente trabajo fue con el baterĂ­a Art Blakey, quien lo incorporĂł a su reciĂ©n formado combo «The Jazz Messengers».
Por aquella época formó un pequeño grupo al que denominó «The Jazz Prophets» y cuando murió Clifford Brown, el grandioso batería Max Roach, lo llamó para que ocupase su lugar en su quinteto, lo que hizo durante los años 1956 y 1958. A pesar de esa formidable competencia, Dorham siempre mantuvo el listón alto y su paso por los quintetos de Charlie Parker primero y de Max Roach después, le encumbraron hasta lo mås alto del podium de los trompetistas del hardbop.
Kenny Dorham, dejĂł para la posteridad un tema titulado «Blue Bossa» que ha pasado a engrosar el repertorio de clĂĄsicos del jazz moderno y junto a numerosos arreglos para otros mĂșsicos, le valieron para ganarse una merecida reputaciĂłn de compositor eficiente e inspirado.
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It's been a bit. I mainly listen to music on my commutes to and from school, so I didn't listen to as much over the summer, but here is my list for summer, June through August
The Soul Children - The Soul Children - Soul
Remain in Light - Talking Heads (as preformed by a mostly cover band with the guitarist from talking heads I saw them live and they did really good also I have already listened to the original) - Post Punk
Animals - Pink Floyd (Covered by Colonial Claypool Flying Frog Brigade also already heard the original same story as previous one) - Prog Rock
Mouth to Mouth - Lipps Inc - Disco
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Doom-ish Prog Metal. Basically, King Gizzard metal, it's very much them and you can tell (in a good way obviously)
Apollo XXI - Steve Lacy - Alternative R&B
Star Booty - Bitch Magnet - Like early early math rock, punk or grunge sounding almost
Light Of Worlds - Kool & The Gang - Funk
My Sound (1993-2004) - Dillininja - Jungle
G I R L - Pharrell Williams - R&B&Pop
The Origin Of My Depression - Uboa - Experimental Stuff I don't even know
Fresh - Sly & The Family Stone - Funk
Incunabula - Autechre - IDM
Phocus - VHS Head - Music made from VHS tapes (weird electronic shit)
Zen, or the Means Without Ends - Heaven Pierce Her - Yeah, this guy listens to Swans, how could you tell? But fr good music a lot of droning with some chill guitar
Isolation - Kali Uchis - R&B
To Smithereens - Gay Beast - Very Noisy Math Rock
Songs EP (Live In Chicago) - Piglet - Math Rock
Ascenseur pour l'Ă©chafaud - Miles Davis - Modal Jazz
Vespertine - Björk - Experimental Pop
The Beggar - Swans - Experimental Rock
Songs For The Terrestrially Challenged - Speaking Canaries - Math Rock
Grievances and Dead Malls - Nero's Day At Disneyland - Experimental Breakcore Shit
From Rotting Fantasylands - Nero's Day At Disneyland - Experimental Breakcore once more
Dream of an Endless Ocean - David Szymanski - Experimental Electronic with a lot of Classical Elements
Don Caballero 2 - Don Caballero - I've already listened to it also math rock
10,000 gecs - 1000 gecs - If you havent listen to the album you wont believe me but. Hyperpop with a shocking amount of nu metal of all things. It goes hard though. Also ska sometimes
Locked Into Phantasy - Laura Bousfield - Experimental Breakcore stuff
When The Pawn - Fiona Apple - Some Kind of Pop and/or Alternative
Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears - Pop of the very 80s variety
Attention Shoppers - Nero's Day At Disneyland - Experimental Breakcore
It Was Written - Nas - Gangsta Rap
A Go Go - John Scofield - Instrumental Funk
Surrender - The Chemical Brothers - Dance (which is one of the least creative genre names)
Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God - Groove Metal
My War - Black Flag - Hardcore Punk with a bit of Mathy stuff
Anthology - Colour - Midwest Emo
The Blues - BB King - Blues
Celebrity Skin - Hole - Grunge
Something Else (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) - Cannonball Adderley - Hard Bop
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder - RnB
100 One Says - 100 Onces - Mathy Rocky
Superunknown - Soundgarden - Grunge
"Bird" Symbols - Charlie Parker - Bop
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet - Bop
Light as a Feather - Chick Corea and Return Forever - Jazz Fusion (re-listening)
Quebec - Ween - Experimental Psych Rock
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Remembering Barry Harris (1929-2021)
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For many jazz fans, among whom we are, maestro Barry Harris, (Detroit, Michigan; December 15, 1929 – North Bergen, New Jersey; December 8, 2021) was one of the best disciples that Bud Powell had. and listening to him, it is difficult to deny that assessment. Barry is one of those musicians who is almost born with a piano under his arm. He studied since he was a child under the watchful eye of his mother in Detroit, where he was born in the middle of the crash of 1929, when the stock market was sinking and people were jumping out of the windows. He studied at Detroit High School and discovered bebop there in 1946 while playing with an amateur orchestra that, at most, won a contest. Professionalism would come to him later, but it would be with a not insignificant position, since he became the regular pianist at the Bluebird club in Detroit. There he played with Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, so if he lacked something to learn, he learned it from the best. He later replaced Richie Powell, who had died in the same traffic accident that killed Clifford Brown, in Max Roach's group while he was developing the idea of ​​his own trio. He recorded albums as a sideman and with his group he played, among others, with Lee Konitz and Roy Eldridge. It was then that he started teaching classes and discovered that he liked the idea. He recorded with the Cannonball Adderley quintet, which he soon abandoned due to incompatibility of musical criteria. He settled in New York and began to dedicate more and more time to teaching, eventually being named professor at the Jazz Cultural Center. In 1987 he made his first trip to Europe to participate in the Boulogne Jazz Festival and, since then, every time he has set foot on the continent he has visited Spain.
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On his visits he usually appears in a trio and does not miss the opportunity to teach some classes. Precisely in that context, Barry Harris was in Seville in the fall-winter of 2000 to teach at the seminar organized by the management of the Teatro Central of Seville and to perform in the jazz sessions of the Sevillian Jazz Festival where the members of Apoloybaco were able to enjoy with fullness of the wisdom, wisdom and mastery of the great Barry Harris.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hMAjCF_uUs The second recording as a leader by piano master Barry Harris, it was recorded live in San Francisco with the trio formula (the one preferred throughout his long career) and with Sam Jones on bass and Luois Hayes on drums. A beautiful recording. Read the full article
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Max Roach: The Architect of Modern Drumming
Introduction: The Rhythmic Visionary In the realm of jazz drumming, few names echo as resoundingly as Max Roach. An architect of modern drumming, Roach’s contributions extend far beyond the drum set; they are ingrained in the very fabric of jazz history. This blog post embarks on a rhythmic journey through Max Roach’s life, exploring his innovations, impact on jazz, and enduring legacy. Early

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1981 MAX ROACH & tap dancer HAROLD NICHOLAS of the NICHOLAS BROTHERS
MAX ROACH DAY JANUARY 10, 1924 – AUGUST 16, 2007
A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO AN ALL-TIME JAZZ GREAT
Drummer Max Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in Newland, North Carolina.
Roach, who grew up in Brooklyn, started on the drums when he was ten and studied at the Manhattan School Of Music.
He was in the house band at Monroe’s Uptown House in 1942, getting opportunities to jam with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie who both recognized his forward-looking talents.
Roach made his recording debut with Coleman Hawkins in 1943 (and was on Hawkins’ pioneering bop sessions the following year), worked with the Benny Carter Orchestra, and played on 52nd Street with Gillespie.
With Kenny Clarke (who was the first bop drummer) in the service, Roach built upon his innovations and was quite busy during the second half of the 1940s including working with Stan Getz, Allan Eager, Hawkins, the Charlie Parker Quintet (1947-49), Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet (1949-50) and virtually every name in modern jazz including with Parker and Gillespie at the famous 1953 Massey Hall Concert.
He co-founded the Debut label with Charles Mingus in 1952 and worked with Louis Jordan, Red Allen, the Lighthouse All-Stars and Jazz At The Philharmonic.
During 1954-56, Roach co-led a pacesetting quintet with Clifford Brown that by late-1955 included Sonny Rollins; after Brown’s tragic death other members of the group included Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, Booker Little, Tommy Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, George Coleman, Stanley Turrentine, Clifford Jordan, Julian Priester and Roach’s wife singer Abbey Lincoln.
One of the most respected and skilled jazz drummers of all time (and a master at using space as he built up his solos), Roach continued leading groups for the remainder of his life including a long-time quartet with Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Tyrone Brown, the all-percussion group M’Boom, the Uptown String Quartet, and special duo albums with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton and Archie Shepp.
Here is Max Roach accompanying and interacting with dancer Harold Nicholas in 1981.
-Scott Yanow
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Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was a jazz trumpeter. He died in a car accident, leaving behind four years’ worth of recordings. He was a composer of note: his compositions “Sandu,” “Joy Spring,” and “Daahoud” have become jazz standards.
His first recordings were with R&B bandleader Chris Powell, following which he performed with Tadd Dameron, J. J. Johnson, Lionel Hampton, and Art Blakey before forming his group with Max Roach. The Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet was a high-water mark of the hard bop style, with all the members of the group except for bassist George Morrow contributing original songs. His trumpet was originally partnered with Harold Land’s tenor saxophone. After Land left in 1955 to spend more time with his wife, Sonny Rollins joined and remained a member of the group for the rest of its existence. In their hands, the bebop vernacular reached a peak of inventiveness. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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