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Ibrahim Maalouf.....Beirut...when I saw him at the Sage Gateshead a couple of years ago he ended the concert with this...stunning!
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Playing ^ now. You might also like her album Lilies.
Have that to on vinyl
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Australian jazz band, The Vampires:
Info and samples: https://thevampiresmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pacifica
Lots more on Youtube:
Info and samples: https://thevampiresmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pacifica
Lots more on Youtube:
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Two different Impressions!
These are two of my favorite guitarists, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. This is Wes Montgomery playing "Impressions," live, in 1965, and then Pat Martino playing "Impressions" about ten years later. You can hear the Wes Montgomery influence in Pat Martino's playing but then how he took it in his own original direction.
Wes Montgomery died young of a heart attack in the mid-to-late 1960s, I think. This 1965 Belgian TV recording is similar to a recording that is on what is considered what of the better jazz recordings of all time, "Smokin' at the Half Note," which of course was recorded live in NYC. That recording is probably what influenced Pat Martino's directions in this song. The thing YouTube did for me was to get to see Wes Montgomery play in addition to listen to him. He was known (among many other things) for using his thumb instead of a flat pick. He said he practiced that way so he wouldn't disturb the neighbors. So the the below clip is him playing live on Belgian TV, rather than the incredible cut from Smokin' at the Half Note. I have seen many if not most of the jazz greats play live, but I am too young to have gotten to see Wes Montgomery play live. In Wes Montgomery's last few years he was controversial among jazz fans because he put out a series of very polished and highly produced but for his ability rather simplistic albums, and finally got to make some money.
Pat Martino had a brain aneurysm and brain surgery in the late 1970s, I think. Amazingly, in not too long a period of time, he learned to play again by learning of off his excellent earlier recordings. He was playing professionally again by about 1982 and he is still one of the best jazz guitarists today. It just goes to show you, there is not much you can do to make up the ground for the innate ability that some people have. I think I hear a little different personality in his pre-surgery and post-surgery recordings which makes it all the more fascinating, but Wes Montgomery continues to be a strong influence in his playing. This version of Impressions is a few years or maybe four or five years prior to Pat Martino's brain aneurysm.
This tune is a modal tune, shifting the same Dorian mode up and down a whole step throughout the song, similar to Miles Davis's recording of So What. Dorian mode is a sequence or scale of notes spaced apart as if you were playing all white keys on the piano from D to D. I think John Coltrane wrote Impressions and I think Miles Davis got a lot of help from Bill Evans in writing So What, though they are both harmonically and melodically simple tunes, quite a change from the ultra-complex acoustic jazz periods that preceded this new style. I think the chords are formed by "stacking fourths" instead of the conventional jazz and classical harmonies based on a foundation of major and minor scales and chords. This presented unique challenges to the soloist because instead of the chord changes forcing a layer of interest upon the soloing (if the soloist can keep up and stay within the chord changes harmonically), the soloist is challenged to come up with creative ideas against a relatively static harmonic background.
Enjoy!
These are two of my favorite guitarists, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. This is Wes Montgomery playing "Impressions," live, in 1965, and then Pat Martino playing "Impressions" about ten years later. You can hear the Wes Montgomery influence in Pat Martino's playing but then how he took it in his own original direction.
Wes Montgomery died young of a heart attack in the mid-to-late 1960s, I think. This 1965 Belgian TV recording is similar to a recording that is on what is considered what of the better jazz recordings of all time, "Smokin' at the Half Note," which of course was recorded live in NYC. That recording is probably what influenced Pat Martino's directions in this song. The thing YouTube did for me was to get to see Wes Montgomery play in addition to listen to him. He was known (among many other things) for using his thumb instead of a flat pick. He said he practiced that way so he wouldn't disturb the neighbors. So the the below clip is him playing live on Belgian TV, rather than the incredible cut from Smokin' at the Half Note. I have seen many if not most of the jazz greats play live, but I am too young to have gotten to see Wes Montgomery play live. In Wes Montgomery's last few years he was controversial among jazz fans because he put out a series of very polished and highly produced but for his ability rather simplistic albums, and finally got to make some money.
Pat Martino had a brain aneurysm and brain surgery in the late 1970s, I think. Amazingly, in not too long a period of time, he learned to play again by learning of off his excellent earlier recordings. He was playing professionally again by about 1982 and he is still one of the best jazz guitarists today. It just goes to show you, there is not much you can do to make up the ground for the innate ability that some people have. I think I hear a little different personality in his pre-surgery and post-surgery recordings which makes it all the more fascinating, but Wes Montgomery continues to be a strong influence in his playing. This version of Impressions is a few years or maybe four or five years prior to Pat Martino's brain aneurysm.
This tune is a modal tune, shifting the same Dorian mode up and down a whole step throughout the song, similar to Miles Davis's recording of So What. Dorian mode is a sequence or scale of notes spaced apart as if you were playing all white keys on the piano from D to D. I think John Coltrane wrote Impressions and I think Miles Davis got a lot of help from Bill Evans in writing So What, though they are both harmonically and melodically simple tunes, quite a change from the ultra-complex acoustic jazz periods that preceded this new style. I think the chords are formed by "stacking fourths" instead of the conventional jazz and classical harmonies based on a foundation of major and minor scales and chords. This presented unique challenges to the soloist because instead of the chord changes forcing a layer of interest upon the soloing (if the soloist can keep up and stay within the chord changes harmonically), the soloist is challenged to come up with creative ideas against a relatively static harmonic background.
Enjoy!
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New CD purchase. It came with a '24 bit remastered, limited edition sticker' on the cellophane wrap.
Cool Jazz. Sound is very good, indeed.
Details: https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/76770/john-coltrane/ballads-mini-lp-gatefold-replica
Cool Jazz. Sound is very good, indeed.
Details: https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/76770/john-coltrane/ballads-mini-lp-gatefold-replica
A "you are there" live album. A MUST have. GREAT SOUND.
Less than $10 on Ebay for vinyl.
CDs more scarce but well priced- https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Best-of-Newport-in-New-York-72-Volume-1-CD-5OVG-The-Cheap-Fast-Free-Post/352654481246?_trkparms=ispr=1&hash=item521bd8575e:g:OfMAAOSwzyBbkk6R
and https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Best-o...199001?hash=item2867ebced9:g:zgoAAOSwcMZboP-o
Less than $10 on Ebay for vinyl.
CDs more scarce but well priced- https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Best-of-Newport-in-New-York-72-Volume-1-CD-5OVG-The-Cheap-Fast-Free-Post/352654481246?_trkparms=ispr=1&hash=item521bd8575e:g:OfMAAOSwzyBbkk6R
and https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Best-o...199001?hash=item2867ebced9:g:zgoAAOSwcMZboP-o
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Basie Jam - one of my first jazz vinyl's from way back in the late 80's which I literally retrieved from the garbage of my college's radio station, the vinyl was worn when found and I have kept it clean for many years. Finally pulled the trigger on a cd version and could not be happier.
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Listening to CD1, now. Sounds fine to me. Cost me, new, less than $US10,(Ebay) delivered to Australia from the UK.
Album details: https://www.discogs.com/Charles-Mingus-Eight-Classic-Albums/release/3664024
Same set is issued on several music labels. Mine is on the Reel To Reel label.
Album details: https://www.discogs.com/Charles-Mingus-Eight-Classic-Albums/release/3664024
Same set is issued on several music labels. Mine is on the Reel To Reel label.
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