With that Charles Gayle gig pending (I'm off to Liverpool tomorrow) – here's something from the mighty William Parker who will be appearing with the saxophonist (plus our own Marc Sanders). From the 2005 album, 'Sound Unity,' this is 'Wood flute song.' A booting track – Hamid Drake flashes throughout and Parker anchors down deep – to let the two horns flow. Rob Brown is becoming a favourite of mine, a fluent and exciting alto player. I don't know the trumpeter Lewis Barnes but he's damn good. Drake takes a busy solo, yet has plenty of space to explore – a clear recording, live from the Vancouver International jazz festival in 2004. There is something delightfully infectious and warming about Parker's music, as is his contribution to the myriad of bands he leads/plays in. 'This album is of the God-Head; enough said.'
Mal Waldron covered a lot of ground... here he is in a duo with Marion Brown on the old ballad 'I can't get started' run together with 'Now's the Time.' Brown leads in on solo alto – a heartfelt purity here, one of those performances where you feel as if you are listening over someone's shoulder. Then a bounce into the old riff blues, joined by Waldron in a dance across time – in several senses.
Another duo, sax and piano, from some time back. Joe Albany and Warne Marsh recorded together in 1957, an informal session at the home of recording engineer Ralf Garretson. I upped a track from this album a few months ago and mentioned Albany's daughter, Amy - who has written a fascinating book about her father. This is the Clifford Brown line 'Daahoud,' given an elegant and sprightly reading that has plenty of sinew underneath... Masterful...
Mark Sanders is the third member of the trio, with Charles Gayle and William Parker, who are imminently touring in the U.K. Here he is with The Number – Keith Tippett, Gary Curson and John Edwards. 'Collective 2' is the first,long track from their album 'The making of quiet things.' Curson blows some wide-ranging alto as the group wrap round each other - Tippett is a fiery battering pianist with a large sonic range but he leaves plenty of space here when the flow demands. Edwards is an amazing player -I've seen him several times over the last couple of years in varying situations and he is always breathtaking. Sanders displays his range throughout - I'm looking forward to seeing him up close with the two guv'nors from New York tomorrow night...
Note: there is a replay of selections from this year's Vision Festival on BBC Radio 3/Jazz on Three here... Available for a week - and a great program - cured my hangover yesterday morning...
And a brief mention of the passing of Joe Zawinul and the English writer/critic Richard Cook. Darcy has a very good post here....
Etnobofin has some further thoughts and good links here...
Richard Cook was one of our best music journalists – here's the Independent obit - as well as co-editor of the jazz recordings bible with Brian Morton - always at my side when writing this blog...
In the Videodrome...
Warne Marsh with Tristano et al New York 1964
Joe Morris in Toronto
Roy Campbell does the Fire Waltz
Keith and Julie Tippett a couple of months ago...
Fascinating video of Keith Rowe...
Mark Wastell et al at the Termite...
William Parker
William Parker (b) Rob Brown (as) Lewis Barnes (t) Hamid Drake (d)
Wood flute song
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Mal Waldron (p) Marion Brown (as)
I can't get started
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Joe Albany/Warne Marsh
Joe Albany (p) Warne Marsh (ts) Bob Whitlock (b)
Daahoud
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The Number
Keith Tippett (p) Gary Curson (as) John Edwards (b) Mark Sanders (d)
Collective 2
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Many thanks for this post. I didn't realise that Charles Gayle was playing Liverpool. The most jazz that we usually get here is the Merseysippi Jazz Band!
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... Merseysippi! Dear God, I seem to remember then from a long time ago - the trad era... Oh play that thing! The yug dug a dug of a banjo etc.... where's my duffle coat? Mind you, starting from that base I got to explore the real stuff - Morton, Armstrong etc and then onwards to many other styles/musics...
I say it's a bit of a jazz cultural backwater here but then I've just remembered that the Wayne Shorter Quartet are playing at the Liverpool Philharmonic next January
Thanks for some challenging, intriguing music—in all your postings. I really enjoy your commentary as well. I share your tremendous regard for the late Richard Cross, a copy of whose book is almost always near at hand, tattered as my copy is.
SMALL DETAIL--THE ALBANY/MARSH POSTING APPEARS TO BE A REPEAT OF THE WALDRON/BROWN TRACK.
Whoops - thanks for spotting the mistake - I've now amended it. Thanks for comments as well
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