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jazzy_davePenultimate installment of rare or rarefied jazz -
Graham Collier Sextet - Down Another Road (1969)
On the Nucleus tip, combining jazz with beat driven groves, this LP works well. The track included here is the title cut with John Marshall on drums.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr - Dusk Fire
I’ve constantly returned to listen to this album and feel it should get a mention because it is, to my ears, the best British Jazz LP I am familiar with. Solid from A-B I could have recorded any track for inclusion in this chart the title track is just fine.
Harold McNair - You Stepped Out of a Dream
From 1965 - Jamaican Mcnair leads the way with support from Coleman’s sidemen on this LP. Fairly straight but with hints of subtle world influences (Including Brazilian and 12 bar blues) this LP does have something to offer outside of it’s Island label pedigree.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr - Black Marigolds
Another fine Ian Carr and Don Rendell album.
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Joy Road (1975)
The cinematic feeling to this grooves makes this track the best in this Strata East label LP.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr Quintet - Pavanne
Recorded in 1968. and or a live one take recording this LP showcases the naked talent of the Quintet. The sleeve notes (Written by Carr go to great lengths describing the atmosphere of Lansdowne studios for the Live gig / recording…”A group of lovely girls with big smiles and twinkling legs had already begun to converge on our drummer…” (Ian Carr 1969) For me the twinkling legged girls look best in my mind when I listen to ‘Pavanne’ a Tompkins / Carr modal composition that has a faint trace of an African vibe (Particularly in the opening sequence).
Michael Garrick Sextet - Song By The Sea (1965)
Line up is Michael Garrick (piano), Ian Carr (trumpet, flugerhorn), Joe Harriott (sax), Tony Coe (sax, clarinet), Coleridge Goode, Dave Green (bass), Colin Barnes (drums).
"Song By The Sea" is a gentle killer that goes down well with coffee in the morning.Apparently inspired by a poem by Laurie Lee.
John Taylor - Pause
There are several tracks on this album that have really grown on me. The track included here is ‘Pause’ which was written originally for the B.B.C Jazz club (according to Taylor’s sleeve notes) and features Kenny Wheeler.
Ian Carr - Summer Rain
Worth checking for the gatefold alone this LP represents Carr's departure from modal jazz and his first steps in the paddling pool of prog / fusion. The track Summer Rain is a soaring yet mellow groove, Sounds great on headphones.
Polish Jazz Quartet - Przechadzka pustymi ulicami (Promenade through empty streets)
From 1964. I've enjoyed this LP for a long while but today,though the headphones, it sounded better than ever. The track "Przechadzka Puustymi Ulicami" (Promanade through the empty streets) is a piano / sax led modal piece with a smokey vibe that grooves bang on point.
Neil Ardley - Persephone's Jive
Themed on a series of Greek Folk tunes, this 1970 LP is segmented into three sections (More or less one for each artist under the ultimate influence of Ardley) Ian Carr’s contribution (Incorporating pretty much the original Nucleus line up) is great. I really like ‘Persephone’s Jive’, an intense upbeat stomp that's really more Friday night than a Sunday groove...By this point in the LP the Greek Folk tune theme gets a little more hectic and abstract .
Finally for this excursion , a long track to end with -
Neil Ardley - A Symphony Of Amaranths
Amaranths are everlasting flowers, and A Symphony of Amaranths is dedicated to two immortals who produced the greatest orchestral jazz music - Duke Ellington and Gil Evans. The whole work is based on their initials - the notes DE and GE - and A Symphony of Amaranths is the second in a trilogy of works begun with The Greek Variations and followed by Kaleidoscope of Rainbows that all use a sequence of notes to provide the foundation for composition and improvisation. The album, recorded in 1971, was the first recording ever to receive an Arts Council award. Scored for a large jazz orchestra (effectively the New Jazz Orchestra, which Neil Ardley had directed in the 1960s) with added woodwind, harp and strings, A Symphony of Amaranths is the most romantic and harmonically dense piece of music that Neil Ardley ever composed.
This 1972 Lp plays host to numerous British Jazz players. Norma Winstone features on Three tracks, 'Will you walk a little faster' was on the Peterson comp, however 'After Long Silence' and 'She weeps over Rahoon' are both warm and emotive. The tracks fade into one another on the LP, so they have been recorded here as one long track. Both tracks are fairly straight poem renditions (After Long Silence by W.B Yeats) (She Weeps over Rahoon by James Joyce) Nevertheless they seem to work well as a concept.
Enjoy.
Graham Collier Sextet - Down Another Road (1969)
On the Nucleus tip, combining jazz with beat driven groves, this LP works well. The track included here is the title cut with John Marshall on drums.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr - Dusk Fire
I’ve constantly returned to listen to this album and feel it should get a mention because it is, to my ears, the best British Jazz LP I am familiar with. Solid from A-B I could have recorded any track for inclusion in this chart the title track is just fine.
Harold McNair - You Stepped Out of a Dream
From 1965 - Jamaican Mcnair leads the way with support from Coleman’s sidemen on this LP. Fairly straight but with hints of subtle world influences (Including Brazilian and 12 bar blues) this LP does have something to offer outside of it’s Island label pedigree.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr - Black Marigolds
Another fine Ian Carr and Don Rendell album.
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Joy Road (1975)
The cinematic feeling to this grooves makes this track the best in this Strata East label LP.
Don Rendell & Ian Carr Quintet - Pavanne
Recorded in 1968. and or a live one take recording this LP showcases the naked talent of the Quintet. The sleeve notes (Written by Carr go to great lengths describing the atmosphere of Lansdowne studios for the Live gig / recording…”A group of lovely girls with big smiles and twinkling legs had already begun to converge on our drummer…” (Ian Carr 1969) For me the twinkling legged girls look best in my mind when I listen to ‘Pavanne’ a Tompkins / Carr modal composition that has a faint trace of an African vibe (Particularly in the opening sequence).
Michael Garrick Sextet - Song By The Sea (1965)
Line up is Michael Garrick (piano), Ian Carr (trumpet, flugerhorn), Joe Harriott (sax), Tony Coe (sax, clarinet), Coleridge Goode, Dave Green (bass), Colin Barnes (drums).
"Song By The Sea" is a gentle killer that goes down well with coffee in the morning.Apparently inspired by a poem by Laurie Lee.
John Taylor - Pause
There are several tracks on this album that have really grown on me. The track included here is ‘Pause’ which was written originally for the B.B.C Jazz club (according to Taylor’s sleeve notes) and features Kenny Wheeler.
Ian Carr - Summer Rain
Worth checking for the gatefold alone this LP represents Carr's departure from modal jazz and his first steps in the paddling pool of prog / fusion. The track Summer Rain is a soaring yet mellow groove, Sounds great on headphones.
Polish Jazz Quartet - Przechadzka pustymi ulicami (Promenade through empty streets)
From 1964. I've enjoyed this LP for a long while but today,though the headphones, it sounded better than ever. The track "Przechadzka Puustymi Ulicami" (Promanade through the empty streets) is a piano / sax led modal piece with a smokey vibe that grooves bang on point.
Neil Ardley - Persephone's Jive
Themed on a series of Greek Folk tunes, this 1970 LP is segmented into three sections (More or less one for each artist under the ultimate influence of Ardley) Ian Carr’s contribution (Incorporating pretty much the original Nucleus line up) is great. I really like ‘Persephone’s Jive’, an intense upbeat stomp that's really more Friday night than a Sunday groove...By this point in the LP the Greek Folk tune theme gets a little more hectic and abstract .
Finally for this excursion , a long track to end with -
Neil Ardley - A Symphony Of Amaranths
Amaranths are everlasting flowers, and A Symphony of Amaranths is dedicated to two immortals who produced the greatest orchestral jazz music - Duke Ellington and Gil Evans. The whole work is based on their initials - the notes DE and GE - and A Symphony of Amaranths is the second in a trilogy of works begun with The Greek Variations and followed by Kaleidoscope of Rainbows that all use a sequence of notes to provide the foundation for composition and improvisation. The album, recorded in 1971, was the first recording ever to receive an Arts Council award. Scored for a large jazz orchestra (effectively the New Jazz Orchestra, which Neil Ardley had directed in the 1960s) with added woodwind, harp and strings, A Symphony of Amaranths is the most romantic and harmonically dense piece of music that Neil Ardley ever composed.
This 1972 Lp plays host to numerous British Jazz players. Norma Winstone features on Three tracks, 'Will you walk a little faster' was on the Peterson comp, however 'After Long Silence' and 'She weeps over Rahoon' are both warm and emotive. The tracks fade into one another on the LP, so they have been recorded here as one long track. Both tracks are fairly straight poem renditions (After Long Silence by W.B Yeats) (She Weeps over Rahoon by James Joyce) Nevertheless they seem to work well as a concept.
Enjoy.
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Date: 2016-04-24 03:26 pm (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2016-04-25 02:21 am (UTC)thanks
British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz. azz in Britain is usually said to have begun with the British tour of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919. It reached Britain through recordings and performers who visited the country while it was a relatively new genre, soon after the end of World War I. Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands. From the late 1940s British "modern jazz", highly influenced by American bebop, began to emerge and was led by figures such as John Dankworth and Ronnie Scott, while Ken Colyer, George Webb and Humphrey Lyttelton emphasised New Orleans, Trad jazz. From the 1960s British jazz began to develop more individual characteristics and absorb a variety of influences, including British blues, as well as European and World music influences.
wow!
Date: 2016-04-25 06:27 am (UTC)thank you!
...herein lies a dong with the luminous nose!
https://youtu.be/OFkPGZFsOMw
(embed disabled) Poem by Edward Lear narrated by Ivor Cutler (narrator) with Erich Gruenberg (violin) Charles Tunnell (cello) Frank Ricotti (vibraphone) Stan Tracey (piano, celeste) Karl Jenkins (Elec Piano) Alan Branscombe (harpsichord) Sidonie Goossens (harp) Jeff Clyne (bass) Joe Hiseman (drums) concucted by Neil Ardley
shine on!