CD Recommendations

murray sparkle

Hi,

I just bought 'Listen Here' by Eddie Palmieri, a real latin jazz masterpiece. he has a few guest artists such as Brian Schofield, Regina Carter and others but if you like salsa and latin jazz it's a really good buy. It's available from amazon.co.uk

I also bought the Herbie Hancock solo piano album called 'The Piano' which he recorded in Japan in the seventies. It's only available now on CD. Very very good also and only about stg9 on Amazon.

Has anyone else got any recommendations?

Oh! I am also listening to loads of George Benson jazz guitar stuff from the 60''s also!!!

Setun

George Banson did a recording that I haven't heard too many talk about but was one that I really enjoyed. It was a live gig with Jimmy Smith in 1967 I think. It's called The Boss, and Smith regular Donald Bailey is on drums. Really enjoyed the album but haven't heard much mention of it elsewhere, I'd recommend that to any Benson fan as it shows him in very hard-bop jazz form. Have you heard it?

Interestingly enough he recorded with Miles Davis I think the year after on Miles in the Sky for one track.

Desmo

I bought Concierto by Jim Hall in HMV recently.
Hall is a guitarists guitarist who influenced Pat Metheny apparently and who played with Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans and lots of others since the early 1960s. The above album from late 1970s has Paul Desmond (wheezy saxophone player who played with Dave Brubeck), Chet Baker (underrated dead trumpeter) and Steve Gadd on drums (Stelly Dan drummer). It is beautiful and unexpected. The longest track in a 20 minute Concierto de Aransomething or other which has also been covered by Miles Davis and sounds like Bull Fights with Flamenco. The Jim Hall version of it sounds like a completely different tune after the intro and is long and rambling but flows beautifully. Hall is not flashy; he plays quietly and does not do fast solos but he is highly rated by those who know what he is playing (what notes and why; I know he plays a guitar).

Des

Setun

Sounds v interesting, Desmo. Excellent line-up of musicians.
Did Hall play on "The Bridge" in Rollins group?

Desmo

Daddio wrote:

Sounds v interesting, Desmo. Excellent line-up of musicians.
Did Hall play on "The Bridge" in Rollins group?

Yep; that is him! I have that album and 2 others ("undercurrent" duet with Evans on Piano and "live"). I find it hard to hear them well on my cheap mp3 player and
headphones though because Hall is gentle and subtle. I want to get better headphones from Santy and listen to those albums again.
Concierto leapt out at me straight off though. It is sumptious (or whetever that is if you spell it correctly), even on dire 10euo headphones. I was amazed to see Steve Gadd on drums. I knew he was a fancy drummer and that drummers I knew thought he was teh bees knees buit I had no idea he played on straight jazz albums.

murray sparkle

Daddio, a lot of that George Benson stuff that you mentioned is available on the verve jazz series - they have a Benson disc with a lot of the tracks from 'The Other Side of Abbey Road' and some real Hard Bop stuf also. It usually costs about 9.99 in HMV - Amazon will definitely have it.

Setun

Had the Jim Hall cd in my hand yesterday but couldn't buy it, had to save my €'s for a prez! Damn ye ! Soon though, the album sounds very good. How come you can't get The Bridge or Massey Hall Concert anywhere in town? They're two masterpieces, unusual they're unavailable.

Desmo

I am a dinosaur and like to walk into a shop and look at the CDs and buy them there and then. Downloading is taking over (legal and illegal) but that is a pain for me. I like to see the cover of the CD and I like to store them on a shelf in a room and not worry about backing up MP3s. I find the jazz selections in HMV and Virgin to be a bit sparse. I guess the Irish market is just not there to sustain big displays. They can order stuff I am sure but at that rate you can just buy from Amazon. I prefer to buy stuff in a real shop but that is the way things are going and there is not much to be done about it.

Des

dub45

Loads of Jazz stuff in Tower these days for 9.99 particularly Verve and Blue Note.

Anyone who likes Concierto by Jim Hall should like Guitar Forms by Kenny Burrell (made with Gil Evans) and for anyone who does not know - the Concierto is derived fromthe guitar concerto 'Concierto de Aranjuez' by Rodrigo. It is a lovely piece and it well worthy checking out one of the many many recordings of it.

I think it was the Shadows who had a big hit with a version of it long time ago now!!!