Showing posts with label Jimmy Gourley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Gourley. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Stan Getz - Live in Paris 1959

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1959/2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:22
Size: 179,9 MB
Art: Front

( 9:00)  1. Cherokee
( 6:11)  2. All the Things You Are
( 4:08)  3. Lover Man
( 3:36)  4. Special Club
( 6:17)  5. Round 'Bout Midnight
(10:04)  6. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
( 5:08)  7. Tenderly
( 5:01)  8. The Squirrel
( 7:20)  9. Yardbird Suite
( 7:08) 10. Too Marvellous for Words
( 7:03) 11. Topsy
( 7:21) 12. Over the Rainbow

A fantastic live performance from Stan Getz recorded in Paris at the end of the 50s, and with maybe a bit more of an edge than some of his other European concerts! One of the key factors here is the budding modernist Martial Solal on piano who makes a nicely surprising partner for Stan  in a group that also features Jimmy Gourley on guitar, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums certainly something of a French pick-up group, but one that's top shelf all the way through! Stan's got a wonderful sharpness to his tone with that growing sense of fullness that would mature in the 60s, but still also this link that maybe goes a bit back towards Lester Young too  spun out on long takes of familiar tunes, very well-recorded as on other selections in this series. Titles include "The Squirrel", "Yardbird Suite", "All The Things You Are", "Topsy", "Tenderly", "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "Round Midnight", and "Special Club".  © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/889508/Stan-Getz:Stan-Getz-Live-In-Paris-1959

Personnel:  Tenor Saxophone - Stan Getz; Bass – Pierre Michelot; Drums – Kenny Clarke; Guitar – Jimmy Gourley ; Piano – Martial Solal

Live in Paris 1959

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Jimmy Gourley, Barney Wilen - Double Action

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:20
Size: 131.2 MB
Styles: Bop, Jazz-blues
Year: 1999/2006
Art: Front

[8:45] 1. Goodbye
[3:26] 2. Blues For Gene
[3:23] 3. Four And Six
[3:13] 4. Summertime
[4:39] 5. C.T.A
[4:59] 6. Denzil's Best
[8:29] 7. Embraceable You
[7:27] 8. Body And Soul
[4:03] 9. Tafira Alta
[4:05] 10. Autumn Leaves
[4:45] 11. Blue Lester

Bass – Dominique Lemerle; Drums – Philippe Combelle; Guitar – Jimmy Gourley; Tenor Saxophone – Barney Wilen. Recorded the 23 December 1987 at "Théâtre Jean-Marie Serraut" Paris.

Gourley was born in St. Louis in 1926. He met saxophonist Lee Konitz in Chicago when both were members of the same high school band. He credits Konitz with encouraging him to become a serious musician. Gourley's father started the Monarch Conservatory of Music in Hammond, Indiana, though he didn't teach, and he bought Gourley his first guitar. Gourley took his first guitar classes at the school. He became interested in jazz while listening to the radio, enjoying in particular Nat King Cole. For his first professional experience as a performer, he dropped out of high school to play with a jazz band in Oklahoma City.

From 1944–1946, Gourley served in the U.S. Navy. After he returned to Chicago, he met guitarist Jimmy Raney and wanted to play like him. He worked in bars and clubs with Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Anita O'Day, Sonny Stitt, and Gene Ammons. Through the G.I. Bill, he received tuition for three years to any college in the world.

Beginning in 1951, Gourley spent the rest of his life in France, working with Henri Renaud, Lou Bennett, Kenny Clarke, Richard Galliano, Stéphane Grappelli, Bobby Jaspar, Eddy Louiss, Martial Solal, and Barney Wilen. He played with American musicians who were passing through, including Bob Brookmeyer, Clifford Brown, Stan Getz, Gigi Gryce, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Bud Powell, Zoot Sims, Lucky Thompson, and Lester Young.

Double Action   

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Jimmy Gourley - Our Delight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:52
Size: 141.6 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues guitar
Year: 1995/2006
Art: Front

[4:37] 1. Our Delight
[4:46] 2. Maybe You'll Be There
[6:01] 3. Here's To Alvy
[5:18] 4. I Wish I Had The Blues Again
[5:29] 5. North American Samba
[5:54] 6. I Never Told You
[6:12] 7. That Tired Routine Called Love
[4:52] 8. That Old Devil Called Love
[4:02] 9. Pepee's Dance
[5:43] 10. Pass It On
[5:14] 11. This Is New
[3:39] 12. By Myself

A bebopping guitarist with a solid enough rhythmic edge for R&B, Jimmy Gourley came from a family background that more than just leaned toward conservatory training. Gourley's father actually founded the Monarch Conservatory of Music itself, located in Hammond, IN. Gourley was still popping pimples when he began bumping up against would-be boppers: one of the guitarist's high-school mates was none other than Lee Konitz, a wizard on the alto saxophone but at that point toting a tenor to high-school band class.

Heading south, Gourley went on his first tours in commercial outfits combing the territory of Louisiana and Arkansas. From 1944 through 1946 he shipped out with the Navy. When he returned he picked up a job in Chicago replacing the equally fine guitarist Jimmy Raney in a combo led by the somewhat obscure Jay Burkhart. In the late '40s Gourley was still keeping Windy City company but the names became more prominent, including singers Anita O'Day and the duo of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral.

The '50s would be best described as the guitarist's French period. Basing himself out of Paris, Gourley was associated mostly with Henri Renaud as well as his own house band stints at various clubs. Excellent recording sessions during this period present the guitarist in the company of tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce, trumpeter Clifford Brown, drummer Roy Haynes, and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, not to mention homeboy Konitz. There was a dash back to Chicago during this decade but Gourley primarily spent his time in Paris, a long run as one of the local accompanists at the Blue Note allowing him the opportunity to continue associating with the cream of the jazz crop.

Gourley shows up on in one classic film on jazz, the noted 'Round Midnight, his featured number perhaps asking a question directly about his career, "How Long Has This Been Goin' On?" About a decade later, his own liner notes described him as "still searching, still stumbling" in a session involving his regular trio with drummer Philippe Combelle and bassist Dominique Lemerle. The guitarist is considered one of the most accomplished members of the jazz expatriate community. ~bio by Eugene Chadbourne

Our Delight

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Jimmy Gourley - The Left Bank Of New York

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:57
Size: 118.9 MB
Styles: Bop, Guitar jazz
Year: 1986/2007
Art: Front

[5:44] 1. Au Tobou
[5:07] 2. Time On My Hands
[4:50] 3. Salute To The Bandbox
[6:07] 4. Speak Low
[5:43] 5. Bamoun Beauty
[4:05] 6. Airegin
[6:03] 7. Toot's Suite
[3:38] 8. You're Not The Kind
[4:21] 9. When We Were One
[6:14] 10. The Peacocks

Jimmy Gourley lived in France for so long (since 1951) that it is often assumed that the American guitarist is French. The 1986 Left Bank of New York set was the first time he had an opportunity to record in the United States. Six of the ten selections feature Gourley in a trio with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Victor Lewis, including Johnny Griffin's excellent original "When We Were One," Sonny Rollins' "Airegin," and Jimmy Rowles' "The Peacocks." The other four selections add trumpeter Don Sickler and tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore and are actually more exciting, partly due to Sickler's transcriptions and also due to the vintage material (including two Gigi Gryce songs). All in all, this is an excellent recording, one of Grouley's most satisfying. ~Scott Yanow

The Left Bank Of New York

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Jimmy Gourley - The Jazz Trio

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:10
Size: 126.3 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 1983/2006
Art: Front

[5:25] 1. Montagne Madness
[5:38] 2. Shameful Roger
[5:27] 3. Orgy Valley (Orgeval)
[6:11] 4. You Go To My Head
[5:25] 5. Ladybird
[4:57] 6. Wrong Man Blues
[6:03] 7. I Thought About You
[5:27] 8. Day By Day
[5:27] 9. Orgy Valley (Alternate Take)
[5:06] 10. Ladybird

A bebopping guitarist with a solid enough rhythmic edge for R&B, Jimmy Gourley came from a family background that more than just leaned toward conservatory training. Gourley's father actually founded the Monarch Conservatory of Music itself, located in Hammond, IN. Gourley was still popping pimples when he began bumping up against would-be boppers: one of the guitarist's high-school mates was none other than Lee Konitz, a wizard on the alto saxophone but at that point toting a tenor to high-school band class.

Heading south, Gourley went on his first tours in commercial outfits combing the territory of Louisiana and Arkansas. From 1944 through 1946 he shipped out with the Navy. When he returned he picked up a job in Chicago replacing the equally fine guitarist Jimmy Raney in a combo led by the somewhat obscure Jay Burkhart. In the late '40s Gourley was still keeping Windy City company but the names became more prominent, including singers Anita O'Day and the duo of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral.

The '50s would be best described as the guitarist's French period. Basing himself out of Paris, Gourley was associated mostly with Henri Renaud as well as his own house band stints at various clubs. Excellent recording sessions during this period present the guitarist in the company of tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce, trumpeter Clifford Brown, drummer Roy Haynes, and trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, not to mention homeboy Konitz. There was a dash back to Chicago during this decade but Gourley primarily spent his time in Paris, a long run as one of the local accompanists at the Blue Note allowing him the opportunity to continue associating with the cream of the jazz crop.

Gourley shows up on in one classic film on jazz, the noted 'Round Midnight, his featured number perhaps asking a question directly about his career, "How Long Has This Been Goin' On?" About a decade later, his own liner notes described him as "still searching, still stumbling" in a session involving his regular trio with drummer Philippe Combelle and bassist Dominique Lemerle. The guitarist is considered one of the most accomplished members of the jazz expatriate community. ~ Eugene Chadbourne

The Jazz Trio