Any Straight-Ahead Jazz Lovers Left? Let's Talk!!

[Bounty Killah]

Since we've got a bunch of jazz heads in here I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I first heard this recording back in the 90s and it completely blew me away. Joe Morello's version of Theme From Mission Impossible has this crazy drum solo that sounds like multiple drummers at the same time. The song only credits him as the drummer. Can someone tell me definitively if this is a single session/recording and if only one man is doing all of this percussion at the same time?!?



Produced by Joe Morello and Tom Jung

Joe Morello ~ Drums
Greg Kogan ~ Piano
Ralph Lalama ~ Saxophone/Flute
Gary Mazzaroppi ~ Bass

This is from the Going Place album released date 1993. The drum solo is Morello alone. Check allmusic.com

 

[Rezn8]

It took years to get some of these albums.
Here's a few more..

Fam, your collection is loaded with stone-cold GEMS!!!! And I envy you on the vinyl. When they are well-cared for, NOTHING sounds better. My compliments to you!!!

 

[Kubrick]

Sons of Kemet
Theon Cross
Nubya Garcia
Christian Scott Atunde

All have recent albums that are really bringing new life to the genre.

Bro, I recently discovered the Sons of Kemet "Your Queen is a Reptile" album recently and I can not stop playing it.

 

[Rezn8]

You've been trapped on a desert island, but you've got the ability to play some music. Which albums do you absolutely need to have with you to survive? I need the following with me:

Michael Brecker is in beast mode on this!!

Bergonzi is one of the greatest tenor players ever, and very few people have heard of him.

A very young Chick Corea and amazing drum work by Grady Tate on this. Plus, Stan being Stan.
An underrated all-time classic album here.

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[THE DRIZZY]

Great post. I will contribute in the future.

 

[Charlemagne]

Something that happened to me a few months back.

We were at a heathcare professionals mixer. It was a family type of event so wives and kids were there. We were at the table with this physician I know very well and his family. They had a local jazz band and they were playing the standards. Straight, No Chaser etc. My friend's son and daughter start going on this little rant about "why are they playing all of this bougie white people music?" Then his wife said, "yeah, I know right?" I almost fell out of my seat. Sadly, most black kids today to not associate jazz as being black music.

Recorded music has only been around for the masses for 80 or so years. earlier generations only had 10, 20, 30 years of recorded music history to be knowledgeable of. We are now expecting 25-year-olds to know their own music, plus 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s. Black folks have to decide what the canon is - and that's an ever-evolving process for a still very young ethnic group. I'm a jazz head, like, fr fr. like when my father passed away when i was 7, i inherited the record player and all his records in my bedroom - duke, count, fatha, oscar, errol, john, miles, horace, yusef, rashad roland, thelonius, art, eric, mccoy, ahmad, etc. and that's all i listened to. i was a 9-year-old jazz nerd. i had to make a decision though with my daughter - is it more important to me that she be up on Prince and Stevie and ATCQ, PE and De La, or Miles and John and Herbie. I chose Prince and Stevie and ATCQ, PE and De La. Of course she's been exposed to all the music i listen to and she would not think jazz is white people music, but i was very intentional that Prince and Stevie and golden age hip hop were engrained into her cultural memory. there is only room for so much.

 

[mangobob79]

Great points, fam!!! A few years ago, I saw a master class on jazz improvisation being taught by Barry Harris who is one of the last living bebop-era musicians on the scene. It was awesome hearing him share his knowledge on the music -- until they panned the camera around. Even though they were in a large lecture hall, it quickly became apparent that the only black face in that entire room was Barry's. A while later, I saw a Q & A session between college music students and Sonny Rollins. All of the students asking questions were white. FINALLY, a young black woman came up with a question for Sonny, so I started to get excited. But, as soon as she started speaking it was obvious that the young woman is British. I don't know any young African-Americans who listen to or know much about Blues. Sadly, it looks like jazz is going in the same direction. Who is the young late-teen or twenty-something up-and-coming African-American jazz star today? Remember, Wynton was eighteen when he came on the scene. If they're out there, I don't know who they are. I'm afraid we're rapping our culture away. And BTW, your dream band would be a killer!!!

i like Christian Scott & Kamasi Washington

 

[mangobob79]

I grew up in the 1970's listening to the cats that most Jazz purists hated(Bob James/CTI....etc)

Since then i've bought hundreds and hundreds of original(or 2nd) pressings of classic Jazz albums.

Here are pictures of some of my records...

It took years to get some of these albums.
Here's a few more..

 

[mangobob79]

Miles Davis
Fathead Newman
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Jimmy Cobham
Mccoy Tyner
Hank Crawford
Grant Green
Jimmy Cobham
Cannonball Adderley
Wes Wes Wes !!!

 

[Rezn8]

CLASSIC DOCUMENTARIES

A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM





1959: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED JAZZ







CHARLES MINGUS: MINGUS 1968






DIZZY GILLESPIE:TO BOP OR NOT TO BE - A JAZZ LIFE






KEITH JARRETT: THE ART OF IMPROVISATION






WAYNE SHORTER: THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNKNOWN






CHARLES MINGUS: TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG







TRUMPET KINGS: THE HISTORY OF JAZZ TRUMPET






PIANO LEGENDS: THE HISTORY OF JAZZ PIANO






BILLIE HOLIDAY: SENSATIONAL LADY






THE JAZZ BARONESS: THE PATRON SAINT OF BEBOP










THELONIOUS MONK: AMERICAN COMPOSER






DEXTER GORDON: MORE THAN YOU KNOW






THE MAKING OF KIND OF BLUE






MILES AHEAD: THE MUSIC OF MILES DAVIS






MILES DAVIS: CALL IT ANYTHING






RUDY VAN GELDER: PERFECT TAKES






SAINT JOHN COLTRANE: A LOVE SUPREME






YUSEF LATEEF: BROTHER YUSEF







A PORTRAIT OF MAL WALDRON




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[Rezn8]

PRESENT-DAY ICONS & YOUNG LIONS

ESPERANZA SPALDING -- Bassist / Vocalist

JOEY ALEXANDER -- Pianist

KAMASI WASHINGTON -- Tenor Saxophonist

JOEL ROSS -- Vibraphonist

NUBYA GARCIA -- Tenor Saxophonist

JEREMY PELT -- Trumpeter

CHRISTIAN SCOTT ATUNDE ADJUAH -- Trumpeter

ROBERT GLASPER -- Pianist

JAZZMEIA HORN -- Vocalist

KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE -- Drummer/Composer

WARREN WOLF -- Vibraphonist/Pianist

MARQUIS HILL -- Trumpeter















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[Wobble Wobble]

Respect to you all. It is vital that we teach the youth that it is our music, that improisation is the heighest, and that these men and women were masters of their craft. Just recently I was asked what my favourite Jazz album was. Without hesitation I say Miles Davis Sketches of Spain, but if you dn't consider that Jazz, then I'd go with Miles and Coltrane in Stockholm 1960/61.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk has been mentioned once here, but the brother was the real deal. He could do it all, from Dixieland/Trad all the way to Free. That flute in Ludacris' "Number One Spot"? That's Rahsaan Roland Kirk...

Here he takes Burt Bacharach and Hal David and flips it, quotes Coltranes "A Love Supreme". Behind the gimicks, everything he did had a purpose.

 

[the artist]

Johnny Hartman and James Moody....

I start my days with...

Moody was my dude. Got to hang with him for a few days during his last year or so of life. Told me tons of stories. I called him Mr. Moody when I first met him and he said to me, "call me Moody, only white people have to call me Mr."

 

[Rezn8]

Moody was my dude. Got to hang with him for a few days during his last year or so of life. Told me tons of stories. I called him Mr. Moody when I first met him and he said to me, "call me Moody, only white people have to call me Mr."

You were blessed to spend time with one of our masters fam!! I know you'll always treasure that experience!! I know he and Dizzy were almost like brothers, so I know the stories were incredible.

 

[Rezn8]

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[the artist]

You were blessed to spend time with one of our masters fam!! I know you'll always treasure that experience!! I know he and Dizzy were almost like brothers, so I know the stories were incredible.

Cherished indeed. Helped him track down an old army buddy when he was in town and then took him over the man's house. We went thru photo albums from their military days. He told me stories of how the "army band" would come and listen to them rehearse and steal their ideas yet they weren't allowed to leave their area to watch the military band rehearse.

He also said that the reason he got his big break was because Dizzy's original soloist didn't show up the day of a gig and Dizzy pointed to him to solo. He did and the rest was history because people began asking about "the kid" in the band.

 

[PsiBorg]

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