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Back when th' IoF© was the hip place to hang, Sundays were the time to rock the Daks, a pastel cardigan, Penny Loafers, and kick back on the patio with a Daiquiri and some cocktail jazz on th' Consolette™. Like, Populuxe, daddy-o!
Today we honor that tradition by featuring a fine album by Charlie Rouse, who played sax with Thelonious Monk but here falls back into his Sunday slacks and delivers nine smuthely swingin' sides, ably abetted by [discogs rsrch musicians pse ed].
This album, recorded in [ed?] goes some way to disproving the commonly-held notion that all jazz is shit. It's swell, and you'll dig it! Also, it'll make a change from Davis and John.
Free! With every download - this swell Art cover! Yours to keep whatever you decide!
If you were called upon to make the argument that not all jazz is shit, what album would you play to your justifiably suspicious audience?
ReplyDeleteI think one of the Suites by Duke Ellington. The Queen's Suite or Uwis Suite
ReplyDeleteThe Queen's Suite is incredible.
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Grab it while it's still Sunday!
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anything by Monk.
ReplyDeleteDave Brubeck
ReplyDeleteArt Ensemble of Chicago - 'A Jackson in Your House'
ReplyDeleteIt's risky, but I agree.
DeleteAgreeing with Babs is always risky.
Delete"First Time! The Count Meets The Duke" - Duke Ellington and Count Basie (1961)
ReplyDeleteMingus - Ah Um
ReplyDeleteANON RF: As I am completely lacking in imagination this morning, I have to go with Take Five or Kind Of Blue. Or anything by Bill (Claude Debussy) Evans. Even Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea. Mostly non-threateningly complex.
ReplyDeleteA great one I discovered this year is Paul Desmond - Glad to Be Unhappy
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing album cover. And there are so many too many, but Kind of Blue
ReplyDeleteArt Tatum,Steve Marcus' The Lord's Prayer,Revolutionary Ensemble' The People's Republic,Monk,Duke,Charles Lloyd,Marian McPartland
ReplyDeletethe list is endless
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In your own words, it's this one:
ReplyDelete"Airy, zen-like minimalism. Not only are there no keyboards, but there's no drummer. Bass, guitar, reed, and that's it. Bearing in mind there was no click track back then coming over the non-existent headphones, the way these guys kept to the (often complex) beat is nothing short of telepathic. There have been other drummer-free combos (The Hot Club Of France, for one), but they've tended to compensate for the lack of percussive timekeeping with strong rhythm guitar/keyboards. Here, the musicians are continuously floating around each other, keeping that invisible beat between them. None of them is plodding away like a metronome - they're playing with the beat, dancing with it, passing it around, never nailing it down. And they're having an incredible time, reveling in each other's virtuosity. What a gorgeous sound!"
You know it!
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
The Ramones "Rocket To Russia".
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DeleteAh, the REAL test used to be out there in the Billboard Hot 100. Check out "Take Five" in October of 1961...the Dave Brubeck did a flying dropkick on Connie Francis to knock her "(He's My) Dreamboat" to the mat, put a sleeper hold on the Duals "Stick Shift," and if I recall correctly, an atomic death drop took out Jose Jimenez' "The Astronaut," as they clawed their way up to #25. I wanna note this is the SINGLE edit, which cuts symphony-long album cut down to a tolerable less than three minutes. No record should be longer than three minutes!
ReplyDeleteSimilarly Lee Morgan's Sidewinder...at ten minutes too long for the charts, but chopped down to 3 minute single and there it is, fighting for a place in the mid-80s with "The Jolly Green Giant" by the Kingsmen, and in a great bit of news for my metaphor, it's above "The Crusher" by Novas....proving jazzbo's "can do the eye-gouge."
Ike Quebec's 'Blue And Sentimental'. Impossible to dislike, easy to love. Or this here Charlie Rouse album.
ReplyDeleteGreat Quebec lp, but the one I listen to a bit more is Bossa Nova Soul Samba.
DeleteThat's because you like Mexican music. Arrrrrriba!
DeleteMaybe the early Gerry Mulligan Quartet stuff. I've got a 10" vinyl LP somewhere...
ReplyDelete10 seconds in & I'm already hooked!
ReplyDeleteUndervalued, that's what this album is. But not by us!
DeleteAbsolutely love Charlie, but it only fills half a CD (yeah, I still burn 'em for my portable listening pleasure). Any suggestions in a similar vein for the other half? (I've already got my share of Dave Brubeck & Miles)
DeleteToots ‘the flutes’ Hedges - Live with The Slim Murgatroyd Big Band, performing the work of Kenny G at The Village Vanguard 2024. Waddayamean you never heard of it, not all great Jazz was from last century.
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Thanks Farq, cool album. As for a not all jazz is shit album recommendation, Kind Of Blue might work...
ReplyDeleteKOB (actually Kind Of White) has been referenced so many times here, including by me, it's one of those "no need to mention ever again" albums. I have three versions in my iTunes, but rarely listen. The most over-hyped album of all time, the Abbey Road of jazz, and generally the first or second jazz album bought by anyone under fifty. Always somewhere at the top of jazz album lists compiled by white people.
DeleteWell if it has to be only one, then I would go with The Blues And The Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson. But Reunion Cumbre by Mulligan - Piazolla comes very close...
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