I don't share much jazz here. I listen to a lot but am not really knowledgeable enough to be presenting it to others. I just know what I like. I like the double-bass stylings & studio overdubbing of Charles Mingus & here he is joined by saxophonist Roland Kirk on several tracks.
Side 1 -
Tonight at Noon
Invisible Lady
'Old' Blues for Walt's Torin
Side 2 -
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Passions of a Woman Loved
Enjoy,
NØ
Tonight at Noon
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ReplyDeleteGood stuff. Plus anytime you get Rahsaan with Mingus it's a bonus. If I remember correctly, the Kirk sessions weren't the smoothest sessions.
Here's two hours of Mingus in Europe in 1964. The fact that this is available makes me love the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9IMOUVJMVs&list=RDy9IMOUVJMVs&start_radio=1
Sorry to hijack your comments, but one of my favorite youtube rabbit holes to fall down are old jazz performance rabbit holes. The Don Cherry rabbit hole is a deep one if you dig Don Cherry. The performances are a great mix of the avant garde, improvisation and world music. Here's a Swedish 1978 documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHgZ1K7V7s
As always, thanks for these. Loved Don Cherry since his time with Ornette. Hope everyone takes advantage of the shares, No hijacking...this is what the comments are intended.
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DeleteDon Cherry with the Organic Music Theatre on Italian Television in 1976. I can't imagine what Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry's lives were like. Jammin' ethno jazz with your parents in Italy on TV in 1976 when your 12/7 years old. Don's wife Moki (also one of the performers) created the backdrops too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3OLnQvl-g&list=RDIu3OLnQvl-g&start_radio=1
And to fit in with your Noon in June, Don and friends in Algiers in 1969:
Noon in Tunisia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojmBfzMZGs
I looked at 'em and they're all incredible! And if I may make my own video link contribution, here is EXTREMELY fuzzy footage of Charlie Haden jamming with The Minutemen in Santa Monica.
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One more example of how creative music is a long and continuous river delta with tributaries and reconnections and underground flow. I mean, the fact that that jam happened is a mount everest moment of American culture for me. Especially because it was reading about Henry Rollins describing riding around with the Minutemen going to flea markets in SoCal to find jazz records by Coltrane and Mingus that made me interested in the Minutemen in the first place. Reading about that in a library book (pre-internet!) is what made me buy Double Nickels! I thought, these sound like weird but interesting dudes.
I've never seen that video with Haden. Now that's jazzpunk.
DeleteOne thing I’ve always regretted about jazz are fans that bring elitist snobbery to the genre. I imagine that could be why you hesitate posting more of it. “I just know what I like” is perfectly legitimate in my view and is every bit as valid as someone who claims some sort of encyclopedic knowledge about the who, what , when, where and why. To my mind whatever you like, from dixieland to swing to big band to avant/free ala AEoC or Sun Ra is justified. Someone on another blog’s chat box recently posted a 320/mp3 of a late period live recording from John Coltrane, only to receive the response ‘thanks, but I can ONLY listen to John Coltrane in lossless.’ I’m not a violent guy, but if I had the opportunity to bury my foot in someone’s asshole…… I guess the message I’m trying to send is it’s your blog, post what you like and ignore the ‘ultras’ who think they know more than us mere mortals. The joy one finds in music will always outweigh someone else’s ‘know it all’ elitism.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, rev.b. My philosophy here has always been "post whatever I want to (that I like". The thing about jazz is, I'm not educated enough about it to write much about it. I'd kinda have to just sez "this is something I like" which is fine, but I usually like to sez a bit more, background, weird info, etc. About jaz I just don't know.
DeleteI only listen to remasters of vintage Charlie Patton 78s in lossless wav format because that's the only way I can really hear the history of the blues in those crackles.
DeleteKidding, of course. Yeah, I'm always baffled when people say things like that in the comments. It's free stuff put out there by people who love music enough to spend the time to expose others to what they love. How can you complain about that? Maybe they should turn off their computers and go outside and play. Speaking of which...
No comments on Mingus? What a pity... I'll try this one which I don't know, although I love what I had a chance to listen to.... Good that you sometimes venture into great jazz, Nø! (That's marquee moon 15/ tonight at noon 1)
ReplyDeleteLooks like you opened the floodgates...At least 4 if we're keeping score (but we're not...I hd enough of that in March).
DeleteHello NØ, thanks for Mingus.
ReplyDeleteJazz is always a good choice in times like these
Greetings
Thanks PETR.
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