What are you listening to? August 2024

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Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House, Vol. 1 & 2 (1956)

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Randy, are you aware of this?

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Work (Complete, Volumes 1-6), by Miles Okazaki

70 track album
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The complete compositions of Thelonious Monk on solo guitar, in six volumes. This is the first time the complete Monk songbook has been recorded on a single solo instrument.
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I am, but I've been afraid to tackle a 6-volume set.

I follow Miles online and have watched dozens of clips of him working through Monk. Each clip I've seen sounds like I should just go ahead and get it. But I haven't ... yet.
 
Booker Ervin - The Freedom Book (1963)


How does an album get listened to by JazzyRandy? Glad you asked.

I'm working on a project and a person of ancillary interest is A Philip Randolph. Online this morning, I came across a mention that the anniversary of APR organizing/chartering The Freedom Trains (to carry people from many states to DC for the March On Washington in 1963. On a train from New York was Lee Morgan, Max Roach and a few other musicians. They set up and played music on the trip. You can read about it here.
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That led me to listen to Freedom Ride by Roach, which led me to Booker Ervin's album.
 
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Cedric Hanriot & Jason Palmer - City of Poets (2014)

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“City of Poets” came about as the result of a Franco-American jazz exchange jointly organised by the French-American Cultural Exchange and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. ...Written in the main by Palmer and Hanriot it comprises of a suite inspired by “Hyperion Cantos”, the four novel science fiction series created by the American author Dan Simmons (born 1948). Simmons’ various characters lend their names to the titles of the individual movements which are presented as a series of ‘tales’. With its theme of pilgrimage Simmons’ work has been described as a “futuristic Canterbury Tales”.

Meanwhile the music is based around the “Seven Modes of Limited Transposition” created by the French composer Oliver Messiaen (1908-92)

Honed on the road in the US, the UK and France the music to be heard on “City of Poets” is rich, fresh and vibrant and the standard of the playing exceptional, with regard to both the ensemble passages and the many blazing solos. ... This is music that simultaneously manages to be both highly intelligent and highly exciting.
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It should actually read as from TheJazzMann.com, with two n's.
 
The Foreign Exchange - Love In Flying Colors (2013)

On the 20th anniversary of this duo-collective dropping their first album, I decided to listen to a 5star (according to AllMusic) different album from them. 4.5 stars from me, but I'm a stingy android.

a few words the AllMusic.com review uses to describe this album...
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Once the serene strings on the closing "When I Feel Love" fade out, it's clear the title is absolutely descriptive, ... "Better," in which Phonte rhymes matrimony with acrimony and sings of being healed. ... chamber folk-soul ballad "Listen to the Rain," ... the speedy drum'n'bass ballad "Call It Home," where the spirit starts to lift and turbulence is counteracted with optimism ... Love in Flying Colors is about the rush and delight of falling in love. ... Phonte, who has developed into an exceptional singer, is supported by several co-lead and background vocalists used in a variety of imaginative ways... make R&B this open-hearted, joyous, and musical. ... This crew is elite.
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John Zorn - Naked City (1989)


A concoction of noisy Rock and raucous Jazz delivered in a machine-gun spray where each song/cut gets in, says its piece, and gets out without waiting for you to think about what just happened.

In addition to Zorn on alto saxophone, the band includes Bill Frisell on electric guitar, Wayne Horvitz on piano/keyboards, and (on some songs) vocalist (screamer) Yamatsuka Eye.

26 tracks in 56 minutes. Opens with tracks titled "Batman" and "The Sicilian Clan", has "Snagglepuss" and "Igneous Ejaculator" in the middle, and closes with "Contempt" and "Graveyard Shift". Mixed in all this are riffs of movie music that may or may not be familiar to you.
 
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Paul J. Smith/Oliver G. Wallace - Walt Disney's People and Places: Switzerland & Samoa (soundtrack 1956)

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Vinyl Spin of the Day.

One of Walt's lesser known film projects was a travel series called "People and Places". Between 1953 and 1960, he released 17 of these shorts to accompany his feature films, each one usually dedicated to a single country. They were critically acclaimed, winning numerous Oscars over the years.

This unusual and quite hard-to-find two sided LP features the third and seventh films. The special inner sleeve has the liner notes that would normally appear on the back. The composers were drawn from those who had already created film or cartoon soundtracks for Disney. Switzerland came from the pen of Paul J. Smith (Snow White, Cinderella, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea). Oliver G. Wallace (Samoa) had composed the scores for Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp as well as the pop hit "Hindustan".

Each score effectively mixes atmospheric orchestral pieces with actual field recordings, enabling you to enjoy a trip around the world without leaving your chair or even turning on your big screen.

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