Wednesday, November 07, 2007
(1:28 PM) | Brad:
Mid-Week Jazz: The Thanks For Waiting Edition
It has been a while, too long, since my last jazz post. I apologize for this. The in-laws have been in town for nearly a month, and the visit has sapped my will to do much of anything. Ah, but brighter days are ahead. They leave tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn. And next weekend I set my sails south, bound for San Diego. So, it's a time for jubilee! A time for jazz!The last time I posted, I was high on a Herbie Nichols kick. I still am. Somewhere there is a disc of him and Monk together. If you have it, let me know. At the moment, though, I'm digging his Love, Glooom, Cash, Love -- recorded just after his Blue Note period. A different vibe than on those: more ceremonious, but also more straight-forward, I think. Two representative slices, since you've waited so patiently:
"Too Close for Comfort", & "Beyond Recall".
After that, from (I think) the first disc of the Live Trane: The European Concerts box-set that I recently picked up, an electric version of "Mr. P.C.". You really need to get this box-set, either through legitimate or illegimate means. It is fabulous. We're talking twenty-six minute variations of "My Favorite Things" and ten-minute versions of "Impressions" -- all w/ Eric Dolphy rounding out the sound. It's amazing.
And last, because a little jazz calls for a lot more, Charles Mingus' epic "Pithecanthropus Erectus".
