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Luebbert's favorite recordings Jazz John Abercrombie Timeless Cannonball Adderly Something Else! Portrait of Cannonball Spontaneous Combustion Know What I Mean Geri Allen Twenty One Pianist Geri Allen is accompanied by Ron Carter and Tony Williams on this. Everything on this album burns. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Thermo Indestructible! The Big Beat Caravan Moanin' Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibriham) African Piano Clifford Brown Clifford Brown And Max Roach Brown and Roach, Inc. The Begiining And The End Betty Carter Now It's My Turn Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come Town Hall, 1962 This Is Our Music The Art of The Improvisor On Tenor Change Of The Century Ornette! Friends And Neighbors Science Fiction Skies Of America John Coltrane Coltrane's music is strong stuff. If you are unprepared, it will overwhelm you and leave you bewildered. He can play very fast. Listening to Trane, you have to give up the idea that you are going to catch every note as it blows past you. Instead, the notes melt together and give you a composite feeling. There is a lot of evidence that when he was playing his fastest he was playing notes that outline a chord so you can hear him play chords against what his piano player was playing. He invented a new sound for the saxophone He came from a family of black preachers and his saxophone sound emulates a preacher who is feeling the Holy Spirit,especially in his later recording. In every period of his career he had a high keening sound on tenor saxophone. By the early 60's, he had mastered ways of producing multiphonics (notes that sounded two or three notes at once). He was able to bend his notes to find blue sounds at any instant in his lines. He could change his range so quickly that he could honk a low note and scream high in just an eyeblink. He's a portal through which African ideas entered Western music in a very strong way His favorite drummer, Elvin Jones, played polyrhythmically (multiple rhythm streams that maintain more than one pulse at the same time) and with great intensity. Elvin was playing on his drum set what an African drum ensemble with four or five drummers would play. Elvin was always changing the flow of the rhythm as Trane soloed and would change his accompaniment for each soloist in the band. He and his quartet played like they were having a four way conversation, where everyone had space to say something at any moment. Trane would go high and Elvin would cymbal bash to send him higher. Elvin would roll and Trane would play a repetitive rolling pattern to match Elvin's figures. Elvin would play a pattern on his low drums and Trane would honk low to get down there with him. At the strongest moments, all four men would together spin the music like a giant man getting ready to throw a huge weight for miles. His sound was very vocal. He wasn't trying for the clean sound that Westerners idolize. He was willing to moan, sob, shout and scream with his horn. These are my favorite Coltrane recordings, with the ones I love most on top. I like the middle and late periods of his career best so there are more albums from that part of his career towards the top. Afro-Blue/Impressions Live performances with his mid-60's quartet (Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison) in Europe in 1963 A Love Supreme Transition Crescent Coltrane (Impulse AS-21) Live at Birdland Expression The tunes from this are from Coltrane's last two recording session recorded shortly before he died in 1967. Carl Sagan's crew at Jet Propulsion Laboratories compiled an album that was attached to the Voyager space probes which would represent the best musical utterances of all of humanity, because the Voyagers were going to be the first man-made objects to leave the solar system. I've always felt that Ogunde from this album should have been one of the recordings that was included. It is a short performance, less than 5 minutes. I feel when I listen to this that Coltrane was trying to sum up his entire life in this one short performance. His sound is incredibly large and lyrical and centered, with a huge vibrato. Soloing, he shows his incredible mastery of harmony and rhythm, floating away from the theme and then returning to it twice. He ends the piece with a seemingly endless flow of fast pitches that he breathes at a whisper. No one has shown this kind of mastery of the tenor saxophone in the 33 years since Trane's passing. Offering and Expression both share a similar kind of plan. They both start with lyrical, out of tempo melodies, that Coltrane varies very freely. The drummer, Rashied Ali, rolls lightly in accompaniment and Alice Coltrane plays arpregiated harp-like piano. After several repetitions of the main themes, Ali swells up like a storm and Coltrane turns to duel with him. Coltrane plays circular roll-like figures in the middle of his horn that sound like he's imitating Ali's drum figures. He constantly breaks free of these loops and screams high or drops low on his horn, sometimes seeming to play in the high, low and medium registers all within the same beat. At the end of each duel, Alice and Jimmy Garrison re-enter and Coltrane returns to the main theme of the pieces, each time like the sun breaking through storm clouds and shining like glory. The fourth piece on the album, "To Be" is one of the few performances where Coltrane is recorded playing flute. I've heard that he was playing a flute that he inherited from his friend Eric Dolphy for this. His young friend, Pharoah Sanders, accompanies on flute. The piece maintains a single slow mysterious mood for all of its 15 minute length. I don't usually listen this much, since it's not as substantial a piece of music as Ogunde, Offering and Expression. Live at the Village Vanguard Live At the Village Vanguard Again Live In Japan Ascension Interstellar Space The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Africa/Brass My Favorite Things Living Space Blue Train Giant Steps Ballads Duke Ellington and John Coltrane Bye, Bye Blackbird Lush Life The Stardust Sessions Coltrane's Sound Soultrane Mating Call (with Tadd Dameron) With Miles Davis Round About Midnight Workin' Cookin' Steamin' Relaxin' Milestones Miles '58 Kind Of Blue Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Trio Music: Live In Europe Remembering Bud Powell With Stan Getz Captain Mavel Miles Davis Bitches Brew The Sorcerer Miles Smiles Nefertiti My Funny Valentine Filles de Kilmanjaro Miles Smiles Miles In The Sky E.S.P. In A Silent Way Miles '58 Milestones Kind Of Blue Miles Ahead Round About Midnight Someday My Prince Will Come Workin' Cookin' Relaxin' Steamin' Porgy And Bess Sketches Of Spain Walkin' Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch Live At The Five Spot, Vol 1 and 2 Last Date In Europe, Vol 1, 2, 3 Out There With John Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard The Village Vanguard Sessions Coltraneology With Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents The Charles Mingus Quartet With Ornette Coleman Free Jazz With Oliver Nelson Blues And The Abstract Truth Screamin The Blues Straight Ahead Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band 3 disc set of the recordings the Orchestra made in the early 40's when bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster were in the band. Many of Ellington and Strayhorn's greatest compositions were heard first on these recordings: Ko-Ko, Blue Serge, Jack The Bear, Harlem Air Shaft, Concerto For Cootie, Cottontail, Sepia Panorama, Warm Valley, Main Stem, Johnny Come Lately, Raincheck, Chelsea Bridge, Perdido, My Little Brown Book, I Got It Bad, Bojangles (A Portait of Bill Robinson), I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got. 66 compositions in all. The Queen's Suite And His Mother Called Him Bill This is a tribute to arranger Billy Strayhorn that Ellington recorded shortly after Strayhorn died. Strayhorn composed many of the Orchestra's greatest compositions: Take The A Train, Day Dream, Johnny Come Lately, U.M.M.G., Blood Count This One's For Blanton A duet with bassist Ray Brown. They play many of the tunes Ellington wrote specifically for Jimmy Blanton. The Far East Suite Afro-Eurasian Eclipse Booker Ervin The Freedom Book The Song Book The Blues Book With Randy Weston African Cookbook With Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um Blues and Roots Oh Yeah! Bill Evans Sunday At The Village Vanguard Waltz For Debbie Moonbeams Affinity (with Toots Theilmans) How My Heart Sings Quintessense The Tokyo Concert With Cannonball Adderly Know What I Mean Portrait of Cannonball With Miles Davis Kind Of Blue Miles '58 Jazz At The Plaza Stan Getz Captain Marvel Another World Getz accompanied by pianist Andy Laverne, bassist Mike Richmond, and drummer Billy Hart. This is one of Getz's best bands. I especially love Sabra, a blues with a bridge composed by Andy Laverne. Getz's ideas are inexhaustible on this performance. This was released on Columbia Records and may gone out-of print. Serenity The Peacocks (w Jimmy Rowles) Soul Eyes The Dolphin Dizzy Gillespie The Quintet - Live At Massey Hall The Giant (out of print) The Eternal Triangle (with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt) Dexter Gordon Our Man In Paris Go A Swingin' Affair Manhattan Symphonie The Apartment The Jumpin Blues The Panther Tower of Power Sophisticated Giant David Grisman Hot Dawg Jim Hall Jim Hall Live! Something Special With Sonny Rollins The Bridge With Bill Evans Intermodulation With Michel Petrucianni The Power of Three Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Speak Like A Child Gershwin's World The Prisoner Chameleon With Miles Davis My Funny Valentine Four And More Miles Smiles The Sorcerer Nefertiti E.S.P. Miles In The Sky Live At The Plugged Nickel With Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil Adam's Apple Etcetera Barry Harris Magnificent! Roy Haynes Te Vou! Hampton Hawes The Seance All Night Session Vol 1 All Night Session Vol 2 All Night Session Vol 3 Vincent Herring The Days Of Wine And Roses Joe Henderson Page One Mode For Joe The State of the Tenor, Vol 1 The State of the Tenor, Vol 2 Inner Urge In 'N Out The Kicker Lush Life-The Music of Billy Strayhorn So Near, So Far-The Music of Miles Davis With Kenny Dorham Una Mas With Horace Silver Song For My Father With Larry Young Unity David Holland Conference Of The Birds Freddie Hubbard Ready For Freddie Blue Spirits Hub-tones Bobby Hutcherson Happenings Highway One Skyline Components Oblique Keith Jarrett Belonging Personal Mountains Facing You Solo Concerts-Bremen, Lausanne Tokyo 96 Abbey Lincoln People In Me Miles Davis was apparently in the studio when this was recorded in Japan. Three members of his band at the time, saxophonist Dave Liebman, drummer Al Foster and percussionist Mtume accompany Abbey along with a Japanese pianist and bass player. The recording is almost entirely of originals that Abbey wrote. "Dorian (The Man With The Magic)" seems like an homage to Miles. ("The man/who has the magic/has a secret he won't tell"). "Natas" and "Naturally" are great also. The world-class performance on this album is a version of John Coltrane's "Africa". Abbey wrote lyrics for it. Liebman and Foster provide the Coltrane-Elvin Jones energy and Abbey matches it. She's the only vocalist male or female who I've heard capture Trane's intensity in one of their performances. This raises the hair on my back and makes me want to cry everytime I hear it. Booker Little Out Front Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis Black Codes (From The Underground) Levee Low Moan Helen Merrill The Feeling Is Mutual I think this out of print. Too bad because it's glorious. This record introduced me to Hoagy Carmichael's Baltimore Oriole. Also "The Winter Of My Discontent" and Stayhorn's Day Dream. She's accompanied by Thad Jones, Ron Carter, Jim Hall. Dick Katz arranged this and plays the piano. Clear Out Of This World Pat Metheny Bright Size Life (with Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses) Question and Answer The Way Up Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Presents The Charles Mingus Quartet Tiajuana Moods Mingus Ah Um Blues And Roots The Clown Pithecanthropus Erectus Town Hall Concert Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Changes One Changes Two Oh Yeah! Hank Mobley Dippin' Soul Station A Caddy For Daddy The Turnaround No Room For Squares Grachan Moncur III Evolution Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music, Vol 1 and 2 The Black Lion Sessions, Vol 1, 2, and 2 Live At The Five Spot, Discovery! (featuring John Coltrane) Underground Brilliant Corners 5 By Monk By 5 Thelonious Monk And John Coltrane Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery Full House Frank Morgan Reflections Lee Morgan Search For The New Land The Procrastinator The Gigolo Cornbread The Rumproller The Sidewinder Oliver Nelson Blues And The Abstract Truth Screamin The Blues Straight Ahead Oregon Out Of The Woods Crossings 45th Parallel The Essential Oregon Always, Never And Forever Eddie Palmieri Sueno Palmas Arete Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius Art Pepper The Trip Charlie Parker Now's The Time - Verve Records Live at Massey Hall - The Quintet Released in the 70s as "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever" His Savoy Recordings In the 70's released as Bird/The Master Takes/The Savoy Recordings In the 90's, they have re-released the original albums The Charlie Parker Story/Savoy MG-12079 The Immortal Charlie Parker/Savoy MG-12001 His Recordings for Dial Records In the 70's, they were released in the set Charlie Parker on Dial, Volume 1 through 6 In the 90's Stash Records, released many of these on The Legendary Dial Masters, Volume 1 and 2 Swedish Schnaaps on Verve Records Sonny Rollins The Bridge Saxophone Colossus There Will Never Be Another You Tenor Madness On Impulse Sonny Rollins And Company The Freedom Suite Woody Shaw Little Red's Fantasy The Moontrane Rosewood United Archie Shepp Trouble In Mind Live At Donaueschingen Live In San Francisco Wayne Shorter Introducing Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer Speak No Evil JuJu Adam's Apple Schizophrenia The Soothsayer Etcetera Native Dancer (w Milton Nascimento) Footprints Live! Alegria With Miles Davis E.S.P. Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 Miles Smiles The Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles In The Sky Filles De Kilimanjaro In A Silent Way Bitches Brew With Lee Morgan Introducing Lee Morgan Search For The New Land The Gigolo The Procrastinator With Art Blakey The Big Beat Indestructible! Free For All A Night In Tunisia With Milton Nascimento With Weather Report Weather Report Mysterious Traveler Tale Spinnin I Sing The Body Electric Heavy Weather With Joanie Mitchell Mingus With Helen Merrill Clear Out Of Ths World With Dexter Gordon Round Midnight Soundtrack With Michel Petrucianni The Power Of Three Joshua Redman Elastic YaYa3 Cecil Taylor Conquistador Air (Originally titled The World Of Cecil Taylor) Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come Indent Toots Theilmans Only Trust Your Heart Footprints with Bill Evans Affinity McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy Inception Extensions Sahara Asante Enlightenment! Song For My Lady Manhattan Moods (w Bobby Hutcherson) Colin Walcott Cloud Dance Dinah Washington The Bessie Smith Songbook Dinah Jams! The Complete Mercury Recordings Weather Report Weather Report Mysterious Traveler Tale Spinnin I Sing The Body Electric Tony Williams Civilization Native Heart Angel Street Cassandra Wilson Jumpworld Phil Woods Musique Du Bois blog comments powered by Disqus
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