That's Jaaazz!
More smooth listening for that intimate soirée, when you get that broad over from the double-wide, what with her "husband" still stamping license plates for the government. A six pack of Coors, a bucket of slaw, and this. What could possibly go wrong? You dog you! Down boy!
Bags & Trane is a swell pairing - "Trane" (as we hep jazzbos call him) is cooled off a little by the sweat-free Milt Jackson on vibes, and "Milty" (as absolutely no-one calls him) is fired up a little by him. And hey - isn't that Connie Kay on traps? Wasn't he on Astral Weeks?
Charlie Byrd is better-known for bossa, but this smoky late-nite session is perfect consolation after that broad tips the slaw over your head and stalks back to her double-wide. Dames, huh? Time to break out that emergency bottle of Seagram's 7!
Thanks to Peanuts Molloy for the Charlie Byrd - did you get that sack of soup greens I sent you?
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A little late on the comment, but many thanks for these Farquhar. I had the Byrd album, but lost it in the federal flood, a/k/a Katrina. Jackson's performance with other stars is always a treat (his album with Ray Charles is a classic).
ReplyDeleteNever too late, pmac, and always appreciated. I'm only sorry that Peanuts Molloy can't join in, because he's in solitary.
DeleteNo, not in solitary just alone. In the outhouse actually, prepping the greens for tonight’s mirepoix. (A surprise package of peas plopped thru the door, postmarked Coventry.)
DeleteKeeping me company on the record machine is Jim Hall’s magnificent Concierto LP. Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, the Rodrigo piece arranged by Don Sebesky. And what a line up: Jim, Chet Baker and Paul Desmond with Roland Hanna on piano, Ron Carter on bass plus - surprise, surprise - Steve Gadd behind the drum kit. Recorded mid ’75 at the same time he was brightening up Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”. Busy man. For more read his interview with Ben Sidran in “Talking Jazz”.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy
Anyway. Charlie Lee Byrd. There’s a lot more to Charlie than Bossa but you have to seek it out. He was a big fan of Django but it doesn’t really show. He studied classical guitar with Sophocles Papas and was a pupil of Segovia. That does show. And it was following a trail of “if-you-like-that-you’ll-like-this” that lead me to Carlos Barbosa-Lima (also a Segovia & Jobim man) playing ragtime on the geetar, so thanks for that Charlie.
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Charlie could become a bit, erm, bland with the “Great Guitars” chaps altho’ always listenable, but his high spot for me (after the incomparable “Blues for Night People”) is “Guitar / Guitar” with Herb Ellis. What an album - short but toot sweet.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
A nice pair. Thanks!
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