Jazz On The Beach 150 & Blues Beach 58
Jazz On The Beach 150 & Blues Beach 58
Milton Nascimento, new releases, hard bop, Miles, back to the blues
This week’s Jazz On The Beach features two tracks by the Brazilian songwriter and ‘voice of God’ Milton Nascimento who turns 82 year old this October. The first is Cais from his new collaboration with bassist and vocalist esperanza spalding on Milton + esperanza (Concord Jazz, August 9th). First recorded in 1972 on Clube Da Esquina, this song has been beautifully re-arranged by spalding at a gentler pace and features her vocals and bass playing along with pianist Leo Genovese, guitarist Matthew Stevens and drummer Eric Doob, with synths played by Corey D. King and strings arranged by Samuel Kardos and performed by Orquestra Ouro Preto.
The second track, Tarde, was recorded half a century ago for saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s Native Dancer (Columbia, 1975), that highlighted Nascimento’s songs and voice and became a hugely influential album for a great many jazz musicians - esperanza spalding included. Alongside Shorter’s soprano saxophone are pianist Herbie Hancock, organist Wagner Tiso, bassist Dave McDaniel and drummer Roberthino Silva. On both songs Nascimento voice sounds wonderful, age has only made it even more special.
New releases this week include pianist Aaron Parks’ Delusions from Little Big III (Blue Note, October 18th) with fellow band members guitarist Greg Tuohey, double bassist David Ginyard Jr and new drummer Jongkuk Kim. Parks and his wife Maria recently moved to Lisbon and only last week welcomed their second child. There’s New York based singer Vanisha Gould’s very timely Demure from her upcoming album of original songs She’s Not Shiny, She’s Not Smooth (La Reserve/Cellar Live) performed with pianist Chris McCarthy, double bassist John Sims and drummer Jongkuk Kim once again.
There’s the killer funk of Driptorch from Parlor Green’s In Green We Dream (Colemine, July 19th) featuring former Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio guitarist Jimmy James along with drummer Tim Carman of GA-20 and Hammond organist Adam Scone of The Sugarcane 3. Also, the Brazilian ten piece Nomade Orchestra’s exciting Peixeira Amolada & Quebra Queixo from Terceiro Mundo (Nublu, Oct 11th), and a second track from Finnish quartet Superposition with Huia from Superposition II (We Jazz, July 19th) featuring the saxophonists Linda Fredriksson & Adele Sauros, drummer Olavi Louhivuori and bassist Mikael Saastamoinen.
There’s always room for classic hard bop on the playlist and this week there’s tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s Society Red (his nickname) from Doin’ Alright (Blue Note, 1961) with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Horace Parlan, double bassist George Tucker and drummer Al Harewood. And opening the show is Horace Parlan’s title track from Up And Down (Blue Note, 1961) with tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, guitarist Grant Green, and the same rhythm section as above of double bassist George Tucker and drummer Al Harewood.
Following on from last week’s 1612 Overture from the Ronnie Scott Quartet on 10” vinyl, here’s another 10 incher, this time featuring tenor saxophonist Don Rendell Quintet’s Manumission (Gearbox Records, 2010) recorded for a BBC Jazz For Moderns radio series session and broadcast in 1962 from the BBC Maida Vale Studios. The quintet is completed by alto saxophonist Graham Bond, pianist John Burch, double bassist Tony Archer and drummer Ted Pope, and this is a deeply swinging and a very British jazz sounding performance in the best possible way.
And finally, still sounding revolutionary is the Miles Davis Quintet’s Walkin’ from The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel (Columbia, 1995) recorded at the Chicago club during their first set on December 22nd 1965, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams sabotaging their comfort zones to play something completely new.
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Blues Beach
After its holiday excursion into country last time, Blues Beach is back to the blues with another playlist of classics and a few of those that should be. There’s John Lee Hooker’s Shake It Baby recorded with jazz musicians for Impulse Records, Tony Joe White’s swamp rock cover of Slim Harpo’s Scratch My Back, the ill fated Red Devils Goin’ To The Church and the raucous 1950 version of Rollin’ And Tumblin’ featuring Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Leroy Foster as the Baby Face Leroy Trio, plus new releases from Memphis Royal Brothers feat. Bobby Rush, East Kent’s Dave Ferra and Ronnie Baker Brooks.
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The results of last week’s poll asking if you wanted to hear another Blues Beach Goes Country show sometime soon or stick to the blues were finely balanced. But the ayes just about have it, and there will be a second edition sometime in the autumn.
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