^ I've got that pair and 'on the corner' on (again japanese) 180gm vinyl pressings from a couple of years ago, I passed on the copy of Dark Magus tho' (still can't get my noggin round that blighter).
Sounds idyllic tho' Hepcat -Miles, Rio and the botanical gardens. The best I'll manage today is Miles, Acton and pub
I quite get Dark Magus, especially Liebman on alto-sax, in the few quiet clear jazz moments, its like you're entering a tranquil clearing in a dense forest.
Still, you can give me Straight No Chaser and Milestones any time.
This week the following albums have been spinning at Bergman towers:
Basil Kirchin - Abstractions of the industrial north (avant brit)
Pharoah Sanders & Latin Jazz Quartet - spotlight on (under the radar Sanders album, goes great with cocktails)
Norma Winstone - Edge of time (scatty)
John Coltrane - Greensleeves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbKRBhlgnM
Koop - Waltz For Koop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSyjM5XB-A
In the car this morning, Sidney Bechet, the 10 disc Membran 'Petite Fleur' box set. Good fun. Some of it is proof that pop was just as inane eighty years ago as it is now, but plenty of the cuts are absolute barn burners.
It is very easy to forget how utterly modern and hip the music of the late 20s and 30s actually was.
All that lindy-hopping and swing, this was the real birth of the teenager and not the 1950s as the ad men would have us believe.
Gene Krupa - Big Noise From Winnetka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gvJnhTY2s
I'm always coming back to the Sonny Rollins Alfie soundtrack. Great Sunday night music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wzB68zQeI
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Some of that lindy hopping and swing dancing is just insane. Plenty of good old clips on youtube. Lots of aerial acrobatics going on.
I'm currently, once again, suffering through the vocal passages of School Days. It just won't grow on me. I give it time, revisit it, still the same outcome.
The club, or ballroom scene was extremely vibrant too in the 30s and war years: some of those clubs would hold up to 5,000 people - so the music had to be played loud above the chatter and chinking of glasses.
Cal Tjader - Pantano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOqPbKh6fs
Shorty Rogers and His Giants... namely the track Bunny
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
What did he play? French horn? Gives everything that cool almost David Alexrod sou d but obviously before Alexrod did it
Well, he was the original arbitrator of the cool: French horn and ages before Chet Baker.
He also manages to look excatly like the lead singer of Vanilla Fudge