Thread: Share your favourite Jazz

Didn't Carter sing, too, in the sessions with Hawkins/Reinhardt/Grapelli? bk

Nice! Is that the version from "Meets The Rhythm Section"? I love that album! Lately I have been obsessed with small group swing from the 30s and 40s. I have been listening to alot of the Keynote and Commodre recordings. It's really fantastic stuff but sadly, alot of it hasn't been re-issued on CD yet.

sorry to report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson he had had a stroke a number of years ago, which affected one hand, but kept on playing afterwards.......quite the trooper. He'll be missed.

Any one into Cal Tjader? I've been listening to some of his Sixties work with Jonny Palmieri and Stan Getz. We was definitely very cool.

Lionel Hampton's Flying Home must be one of my favorites. It turned up note-for-note in a dream I had last night. Anyone else had a favorite record play in eyelid theater? __________________ Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. —Oscar Levant

Lately we've been listening to a lot of Duke Ellington from the late 20s to early 30s. We love the growl trumpet that Bubber Miley introduced to the Ellington Band. Does anyone know of other artists from that time period where the wa wa sound was used (other than Cab Calloway on Minnie the Moocher)? We've also been listening to Django & Grappelli (my favorite of theirs is Minor Swing), Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Benny...

I bought this CD 11 years ago and it's only been over the last year or so that I've begun to love it! I like much of Land's music, especially his work with the Curtis Counce Group, whose You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce is on my shortlist of all-time favorite albums. Land's album features three of the five members of the Counce Group, including the amazing but forgotten Carl Perkins (not the rocker).

If we're talking drummers now, Big Sid Catlett is the one for me. Such a gentle touch for such a big guy. He propels the beat in the groove, without overpowering the rest of the band, better than anyone I've heard.

"Juke Box Saturday Night" by (Glenn Miller's) Modernaires w/ Paula Kelly, 1946 (Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKhamBdCNo ) . Hope everyone's well, - CH

Quote: Originally Posted by Falconetti I'd like to see Kyle Eastwood live.. All the tracks I've heard so far and the clips on u-tube sound and look great. A few years ago I played a show and Kyle and his band were on the same bill. I was pretty impressed with him and his band actually. __________________ The wine you drink has never seen a grape.