Jazz On The Beach 154 & Blues Beach 60
Jazz On The Beach 154 & Blues Beach 60
Miles Davis, Jo Harrop, Louis Stewart & Jim Hall, Blues Beach favourites
On this week’s Jazz On the Beach playlist there are two terrific previously unreleased live performances, starting with The Miles Davis Quintet’s So What recorded at the Festival Mondial Du Jazz in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins on July 26th 1963, with Miles, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, pianist Herbie Hancock, double bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. It’s taken from Miles in France - Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 (Columbia, November 8th) which is being released as an 8LP or 6CD set.
The second is a wonderful version of the Jimmy Van Heusen standard But Beautiful by guitarists Louis Stewart and Jim Hall from The Dublin Concert (Livia Records, September 6th). It was recorded at the Macabi Hall on Boxing Day, December 26th 1982 on a hastily arranged date during Hall’s holiday in Ireland. These two virtuosi are obviously enjoying themselves immensely and are so supportive of each other’s playing, it’s a guitar masterclass.
A few days ago I spoke to the soulful British jazz singer and songwriter Jo Harrop during her preparations for a UK tour that includes a show at The Lighthouse here in Deal on Thursday October 24th (tickets here). Her latest album The Path of a Tear (Lateralize, June), was produced by Larry Klein in Los Angeles and is another great step forward that started with her breakthrough The Heart Wants (Lateralize, 2021). Either side of our conversation there’s a track from each album, The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants and Whiskey or the Truth, both excellent songs co-written by Harrop and superbly performed.
This week’s playlist opens with keyboardist Bill Laurance playing a terrific sounding Rhodes Mk8 piano on Do What You Want from the Rhodes Mk8 Sessions with double bassist Menelik Claffey and drummer Oscar Ogden. These four tracks have just been released together with the 2021 Zeal EP’s three tracks as Do What You Want (Flint Music, August 23rd). Here’s the video:
The day after I played New Jazz Underground’s One Beer (reharm) from their newly released 7” vinyl on last week’s show, they dropped the four track They Can Hate But We Still Swingin..(September 12th), with tenor saxophonist Abdias Armenteros, double bassist Sebastian Rios drummer TJ Reddick performing a fabulous version of The Nearness of You recorded live at Dizzy’s Club, NYC. Armenteros is a monster player already and just gets better and better.
Another first-rate saxophonist is Walter Smith III with Office Party Music from Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note, September 13th) featuring pianist Jason Moran, drummer Eric Harland and double bassist Reuben Rogers (who was born in the Virgin Islands). Smith wrote it after watching the offbeat ‘defiant jazz’ scene in the TV series Severance, and here it is:
There’s a first play for young London band oreglo, who are keyboardist c-sé, drummer Nicco Rocco, guitarist Linus Barry and tuba player Teigan Hastings. The excellent M11 is from their album Not Real People DLC (Brownswood Recordings, September 13th), a remixed and reworked version of their recently released debut EP, with the extra tracks referred to as their ‘DLC’, or ‘extra downloadable content’. But you knew that.
Among the classics this week comes Cedar Walton’s signature Bolivia from Eastern Rebellion (Timeless, 1976) with double bassist Sam Jones and drummer Billy Higgins as well as another welcome appearance for tenor saxophonist George Coleman.
There’s Art Tatum and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster’s Gone With The Wind from The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet (Verve, 1958) with double bassist Red Callender and drummer Bill Douglass, recorded at the great pianist’s final studio session on September 11th, 1956.
And finally, the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson’s magnificent title track from Mode For Joe (Blue Note, 1966) with trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Cedar Walton, double bassist Ron Carter and drummer Joe Chambers.
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The biweekly Blues Beach celebrates its 60th edition with a playlist of some of my favourite tracks that have been played on the show so far. Right from the outset it has has been so much fun to do, and I always look forward to that Thursday 6-7pm slot in the studio to totally relax and just play the blues.
Among the gems here are Clarence Carter’s The Road of Love with Duane Allman’s searing slide solo, Albert King’s Cold Feet featuring the heaviest groove ever, Geoff Muldaur’s beautiful Got To Find Blind Lemon Pt. 1, and classics like Taj Mahal’s She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride and Sonny Boy Williamson II’s Little Village.
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