Saturday, May 16, 2020

Thad Jones, The Mel Lewis Orchestra - All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (Live)

Album: All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (Live)  Disc 1

Styles: Jazz, Hard Bop 
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:36
Size: 112,0 MB
Art: Front

(13:22)  1. Back Bone
( 4:22)  2. All My Yesterdays
( 5:51)  3. Big Dipper
( 4:49)  4. Mornin' Reverend
(14:25)  5. The Little Pixie
( 5:45)  6. Big Dipper

Album: All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (Live) Disc 2

Time: 76:51
Size: 177,2 MB

( 4:38)  1. Low Down
( 5:25)  2. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
(10:08)  3. Ah, That's Freedom
( 4:28)  4. Don't Ever Leave Me
( 6:15)  5. Willow Weep for Me
( 5:51)  6. Mean What You Say
(12:45)  7. Once Around
( 4:02)  8. Polka Dots & Moonbeams
( 5:49)  9. Mornin' Reverend
( 4:25) 10. All My Yesterdays
(12:59) 11. Back Bone

Offering: Live at Temple University (Resonance Records, 2014), Getz/Gilberto '76 (Resonance Records, 2016), Moments in Time (Resonance Records, 2016)...and these are just the most recent (not to forget several Wes Montgomery) releases. Resonance Records steps up (again) and releases what can only be considered the apotheosis of live jazz performance, All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard. Before even considering the music, there is the captured ambiance. Recorded by a then 19-year old amateur engineer, George Klaban, the period technology may be lacking by today's standards. Maybe even Klaban's amateur status could call things into question. However, the results provide the listener with a very intimate listening experience that only lacks the smell of just-lit Lucky Strikes and Cutty Sark on the rocks. Klaban's gig pack included a Crown Professional two Track stereo tape recorder, an Ampex four-input mixer and six mics (Neumann U67, Bayer and AKG professional mics and an Electro Voice 654 Dynamic, the last used for the bass). Klaban details that he placed one mic each for the reeds, trombones, and trumpets, the fourth for the bass, the fifth for the piano and the last for the leader, Thad Jones. The result of this alchemic paradigm is a presence, not in the audience, but up over the middle of the band looking (hearing) down (a physical impossibility given the compressed confines of the Village Vanguard).

Nonetheless, the sound and atmosphere is electrically charged and immediate. The sound is spacious enough to get up and walk around in, passing through all of the sections. It is musical arrangement as subatomic metaphor...each musical element interacting with and against one another to produce a compounded product of rare substance and beauty. It is immediately evident that there is something special taking place. Queue up the first performance of the Thad Jones composition and arrangement "Back Bone" and listen. Alto saxophonist Jerry Dodgion spits out an unaccompanied blues chorus of spurred on with shouts and encouragement from the band with Thad Jones himself anticipating the entry of the whole band with a grand, "Yeah!" This is unbridled joy in music making. Evidence of Bill Basie is all over the charts, in both the riffing and solos. Altoist Jerome Richardson introduces "Little Dipper" twice and pianist (and Thad Jones' brother) Hank Jones channel the spirit of the still living Count Basie. This is, simply, what live music is all about: invention, spontaneity, improvisation, and spring freshness. Hear from where all big band since has come. ~ C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/all-my-yesterdays-the-debut-1966-recordings-at-the-village-vanguard-thad-jones-resonance-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Thad Jones – flugelhorn; Mel Lewis – drums; Hank Jones – piano; Richard Davis – bass; Sam Herman – guitar; Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute; Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone; Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute; Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone; Snooky Young – trumpet; Jimmy Owens – trumpet; Bill Berry – trumpet; Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet; Bob Brookmeyer – trombone; Jack Rains – trombone; Garnett Brown – trombone; Cliff Heather – trombone


Dee Dee Bridgewater - This Is New

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:25
Size: 140,8 MB
Art: Front

( 3:47)  1. This Is New
( 5:36)  2. Lost In The Stars
( 6:31)  3. Bilbao Song
( 4:56)  4. My Ship
( 5:38)  5. Alabama Song
( 4:54)  6. The Saga Of Jenny
( 3:54)  7. Youkali
( 5:50)  8. I'm A Stranger Here Myself
( 4:17)  9. Speak Low
( 4:40) 10. September Song
(11:15) 11. Here I'll Say

JazzSet host Dee Dee Bridgewater has a new album: This is New, a collection of songs by German composer Kurt Weill. The CD, released in Europe at the end of May 2002, is now out in the US and worldwide! Dee Dee's interest in Weill dates to her performance at a centennial tribute concert in Poland in March of 2000. https://www.npr.org/programs/jazzset/ddcd.html

Personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater - Vocals; André Ceccarelli - drums; Ira Coleman - double bass; Thierry Eliez - Hammond organ, piano; Minino Garay - percussion; Antonio Hart - flute, alto saxophone; Daniele Scannapieco; Denis Leloup - trombone; Juan José Mosalini - bandoneon; Louis Winsberg - guitar; Bernie Arcadio - String Arrangements; Cecil Bridgewater - Arranger, conductor

This Is New