For GFBurke, but also for anybody else -
In addition to Sonny Clark doing 'Deep Night' on Cool Struttin', along with all those Miles & Trane classics GFB knows already, can I also offer for starters:
'I was doing all right' (Gershwin!) and 'You've changed' both by Dexter Gordon on 'Doin' Alright' (Blue Note)...
'Chet Baker in New York' (by... oh yes, ... Chet Baker!), especially 'When lights are low'...
And most things by Tina Brooks (why not?)
?
Sweetbooness is really the man to ask & I hope he might feel like chipping in here.
Oh - And if this thread has to have something to do with clothes to belong here then just look at the LP sleeves!
Dexter's Mac.
Chet's Blazer.
Sonny's skirt.
Yes, I just may chime in later.
Take a listen to one of your fellow countrymen, if you haven't already, a saxophonist named Spike Robinson.
Call my taste vanilla but I've been enjoying Cannonball Adderley with strings
No, no,
I like Cannonball too.
Never heard him with strings.
Any good?
'Something Else' with Miles is what comes to mind first.
Obvious, but good.
(IMVHO)
Thanks for the reco's !! I will definitely be checking these out.
I also have a recommendation, more in the 60s-70s soul direction: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. It is modern (recorded I think 2004) but captures a very Motown 1968 sound and she has a great, smoky singing voice.
Some other suggestions:
Bobby Watson: "Love Remains"
Art Farmer "Blame it on My Youth"
Oliver Nelson: "Blues and The Abstract Truth"
Sonny Rollins: "Saxophone Colossus"
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: "Free For All"
Freddie Hubbard: "Hubtones"
Charles Mingus: "Mingus Ah Um"
Joe Henderson: "The State of the Tenor"
Charlie Parker: "The Complete Dial Masters"
Thelonius Monk: "Genius of Modern Music" Volumes 1 and 2
Tom Harrell: "Live at the Villiage Vanguard"
And so on . . . .
Listening now to a nice radio program on a local station (syndicated around the country) called Dick Carr's Big Bands, Ballads, and Blues. Highly recommended if within listening distance.
These are some things I have listened to in the past few days.
Ike Quebec- Blue and Sentimental
Wardell Gray- Wardell Gray
Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band- Rumba Para Monk(Monk's music to a Rumba beat)
Dinah Washington- The Jazz Sides
Coleman Hawkins- Meets Duke Ellington
Max Roach- Plus Four(Love Letters)
Roy Haynes-Out of the Afternoon(One of the 10 best jazz albums of the 1960s, and little known)
Charles Mingus- Mingus at Antibes
Harry Edison- The Swinger
Booker Ervin- The Song Book
Barney Wilen- New York Romance
Serge Chaloff- Blue Serge
Tommy Flanagan- Thelonica
Jimmy Witherspoon-The Spoon Concerts
Sarah Vaughan/Billie Eckstine-Irving Berlin Songbook
Anita O'day-With The Three Sounds
Cannonball Adderly/Bill Evans-Know what I Mean
Porgy and Bess with Louis Armstrong and Ella is a classic.
Also, theres a song I heard once called...South American Joe? By (someone) and the hotdogs, or something to that effect. That was very good. Maybe someone knows the song? I think there is only one recording in existence.
I cant get cab calloway and Minnie the moocher out of my head