“ONLY YOU”

Feels like a PORTISHEAD day

YOU and LEE

Never heard of this Lee album and if you love Lee playing with backing horns / ensemble then you'll love this! 

Arr. by Jimmy Giuffre

Fats Navarro

Back to classics

What have you been listening to...

Bjork's Newest Album - VULNICURA

I LOVE DIGABLE PLANETS

Harold Land

It's Been Too Long!!

Just a great album!

Glad I brought this one back into the rotation!

Oh man!  This is a swinging album!  Never thought he could sound great without Clifford!

All the horns are really killing it on this one and Philly sounds great!

Really Loving this album.!

I'm back after a month!

" The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) " - Astor Piazzolla w/ Paquito D'Rivera

" I Took Up The Runes " - Jan Garbarek

" Jazz Samba " - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

" Verklärte Nacht " - Los Angeles Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta

" Kind of Blue " - Miles Davis 

" Great Love Themes " - Cannonball Adderley Quintet (w/ Strings) - 1966

The first track is enough to get you to respect this man if you haven't already.

Some recent tunage

Just Beautiful!

Thanks Pete McGuinnes for turning me onto this!

What I listened to the last few days...

The one thing that stood out of this album was "CHEROKEE" and I believe it's Charlie Mariano.  Just great sound!

Thanks Jeff Zelnick who turned me on to this album!  Nice and short and sweet..just too short!

Thanks Allen Won for turning me onto this amazing musician over a decade ago.  Bravo!

I'd say TOP 10, what's yours?

Stan Getz - "FOCUS" -comp/arr. by Eddie Sauter 1961

Lee Konitz  & the Gerry Mulligan Quartet - 1953

Productive Day?

Had the chance to play my Legend 1 mouthpiece by CEWinds some more.

Recorded a sample of "Cherokee"(Db)  for Facebook's JAM OF THE WEEK group.

Played through CHEROKEE in 12 keys a few times.  Some of the easier keys like C concert gave me more trouble than the simpler ones..Ughhhh

LISTENING

Brad Mehldau from THE ART OF THE TRIO, VOL. 1 - "I Fall in Love Too Easily"

Booker Little from BOOKER LITTLE - "Opening Statement"

Brecker Brothers from THE RETURN OF THE BRECKER BROTHERS - "Spherical"

Count Basie & His Orchestra from BREAKFAST DANCE AND BARBECUE - "Let's Have a Taste"

What I listened to today...

Charlie Christian - "I GOT RHYTHM" - from Guitar Wizard

Johnny Hodges - "MAIN STEM" - from Impulsively Ellington(Disc 1)

Miles Davis - "IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON" - from Dig

Miles Davis - "DENIAL" - from Dig

Buddy Rich - "STRAIGHT NO CHASER" - from Burning for Buddy

Practice Session...

Today I played the rubber SIG model by CEWINDS.  Really loving it!!!!

I played over some patterns in 12 keys.

EXAMPLE: GABD, BbCDF, EbGBb, AbBbCEb and then resolved down the half step.

Played over "Nancy with the Laughing Face"

Listened to - 

JOHN COLTRANE - "NANCY WITH A LAUGHING FACE" - from Ballads

JAMES MOODY - "NANCY WITH A LAUGHING FACE"  - Young at Heart

LEE KONITZ - " I'LL REMEMBER APRIL",  "THESE FOOLISH THINGS" and "TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS" - from Revelation

What I did today...

I had a good 2 hours to sit down and play some tenor.

I have been testing out the CEWinds.com  mouthpieces for awhile now. ( The Legend 1 and 2 and the Sig)  They are all great pieces just wish I could afford them all.

Today I played a lot on the Legend 2 piece and went through "Dedicated to You" from that Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane album.  I posted a sample on my Audio/Video page.

Also listened a lot to some tracks I haven't enjoyed in awhile.

Sonny Rollins - A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD - "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" 

Sonny Rollins - NOW'S THE TIME - "I Remember Clifford"

Brecker Brothers - THE RETURN OF THE BRECKER BROTHERS - "Spherical"

I listened to these over and over today.