Jazz On The Beach 102 & Blues Beach 33
Jazz On The Beach 102 & Blues Beach 33
Miles Davis, The Great Jazz Trio, Blues Guitar Instrumentals
Before Miles Davis’ second great quintet with pianist Herbie Hancock, double bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams finally came together with the addition of Wayne Shorter in the spring of 1964, the tenor saxophone chair was occupied for just under a year by George Coleman. He was a terrific player and participated on Seven Steps to Heaven (Columbia 1963), the live In Europe (Columbia 1963), and the two albums taken from the Lincoln Center concert of February 1964: My Funny Valentine (the slower tempos, Columbia 1965) and Four & More (the uptempo ones, Columbia 1966).
This week’s Jazz On The Beach features the exciting version of So What from Four & More, taken at a much faster speed than the Kind of Blue original, but nothing like the hyper tempos that were soon to come with the new direction (and especially, the repertoire) that Shorter would bring.
Also this week, yet another version of Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise, (the sixth on JOTB so far) from the album Someday My Prince Will Come by The Great Piano Trio featuring Hank Jones, double bassist Richard Davis and drummer (and brother) Elvin Jones. It was recorded in New York in 2002 and released the following year on Eighty-Eight’s, a label set up by my Sony Music colleague, the record producer Yasohachi ‘88’ Itoh. Most of the titles on the label were beautifully recorded live in the studio in both Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and analogue tape simultaneously, and first released as hybrid Super Audio CDs in the most deluxe quality slipcases I’ve seen, with vinyl and standard CD versions following. If you see one, grab it fast…other artists given the Eighty-Eight’s treatment include Don Friedman, Lonnie Plaxico, Eddie Henderson, Marlena Shaw and Will Boulware & Rainbow.
Plenty of excellent new releases too on this week’s show including pianist Ben Winkelman’s Fort Tilden (Heartbeat, OA2 Records), saxophonist Emma Rawicz’s Rangwali (Chroma, ACT), bassist David Duffy Quartet’s Connected (Where The Branches Begin, Jazzville) and the greatly missed trumpeter Jamie Branch’s Borealis Dancing (Fly Or Die Or Fly Or Die (World War), International Anthem).
This week’s Blues Beach is a guitar instrumental special featuring some of the finest string wranglers, tone benders, chicken pickers, fretboard burners and twine whiners. If you love guitars (and the people who play them), then this is for you.
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