Great weekly jazz show out of UK. Podcasts here. Good for a listen anytime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZm7fXuEqA&ab_channel=MusicVoice Very nice! Would fit perfectly in a movie.
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I contrasted this with Billie Holiday for my son, trying to make the point that “art” can take many forms. Then I found myself just blown away at exactly what I was trying to make a case against. Oh well.
1975 CTI outtakes!
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My fav CTI track. Freddie and George playing out of their skins and Billy Cobham flailing.
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Great stuff. I’m fond of this one
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I need to take a shower after this one.
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Very intense, beebop on steroids take on a jazz standard. I love it!
Hard bop. Enjoy!
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I love this little story related to the drummer Elvin Jones.
“Many years later”, the tenor saxophonist Bradford Marsalis recalled, “a lot of younger musicians were hanging around with Elvin Jones, and they were talking about, ‘Man, you know, you guys had an intensity when you were playing with Coltrane. I mean, what was it like? How do you play with that kind of intensity?’ And Elvin Jones looks at them and says, ‘You gotta be willing to die with the mother&*()%.’ They started laughing like kids do, waiting for the punchline, and then they realized he was serious. How many people do you know that are willing to die—period? Die with anybody! And when you listen to those records, that’s exactly what they sound like. I mean that they would die for each other.”
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Seems quite accurate.
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Here’s some more frantic intensity from Coltrane. It takes a while to kick in, and when it does, there’s no turning back.
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Not as hard driven, but similar time period:
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There’s something about jazz bands led by the drummer. Here’s Billy Cobham’s band playing their famous Red Baron.
Well constructed jam. Percussion is the key, but what makes it is when all fall in line.
I bet the red sleeved keyboard is a Nord.
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Didn’t read all the posts, so I apologize if this has been mentioned. It’s very good.
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As mentioned in the clip you posted, imagination, fill in the blanks, creativity. What it’s all about.
quite enjoying this
The track Russel and Eliot in particular stands out, although there’s a lot of good stuff all throughout that album.
Long interview with Lateef, goes through some of the origins of many of the songs off this album and more broadly about him. Kinda cool to read after getting really rather familiar with the album.
Here’s the bit about Russell & Eliot, although I’d recommend giving it a listen for yourself and engaging with it before hearing what Lateef has to say. Nice story around it tho.
Thank you. That composition was inspired by an experience that I had in grade school, in about seventh or eighth grade at the Russell grade school on the corner of Russell and Elliot. Diagonally across from the school was a spiritualist church. The windows were painted so you couldn’t see in, but I could hear the sounds of the music. Sometimes I would stop there and listen. That piece is the outcome of the experience of listening to musical, spiritual, and vocal sounds coming from inside the church. When the idea came to write Yusef Lateef’s Detroit , of course “Russell and Elliot” was an experience that left a strong impression that found its way to the album.
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