notoriously Romantic
My One And Only Love / Lynne Arriale – The Eyes Have It ♦ Make Someone Happy / Lorez Alexandria – Star Eyes ♦ Destiny / Amina Figarova – Come Escape With Me ♦ Little Girl Blue / Thad Jones – Detroit/New York Junction ♦ I Wish I Didn’t Love You So / Jimmy Scott – Falling In Love Is Wonderful ♦ Ask Me Now / Sonny Fortune – Four In One ♦ I’ll Be Seeing You-As Time Goes By / Joe Augustine – Swinging On A Star ♦ Can You Read My Mind / Bobby Hutcherson – Skyline ♦ Love For Sale / Carmen McRae – Woman Talk ♦ Till There Was You / Gene Ammons – The Gene Ammons Story: Gentle Jug ♦ Good Morning Heartache / Johnny Adams – Good Morning Heartache ♦ I’m Glad There Is You / Scotty Barnhart – Say It Plain ♦ Polka Dots & Moonbeams / Horace Parlan – Arrival ♦ Goodbye Porkpie Hat / Jake Langley – Here And Now
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notoriously Bebop
Blue Train / John Coltrane – Blue Train ♦ Mustang / Donald Byrd – Mustang ♦ West Coast Blues / Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery ♦ Love Your Spell Is Everywhere / Curtis Fuller – Blues-ette ♦ Poinciana / Ahmad Jamal – At The Pershing ♦ Sonnymoon For Two / Milt Jackson – Statements ♦ Blue Rondo A La Turk / Dave Brubeck – Time Out ♦ Speak No Evil / Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil ♦ Punjab / Joe Henderson – In ‘N Out ♦ Wee Dot / Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland
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Requisites
Forest Flower & Soundtrack: This 1967 release was recorded when Charles Lloyd brought his band to Monterey for an unprecedented performance. A set of far-reaching, sophisticated progressive jazz that was rich and accessible was what a floored audience heard that day. The hippie and college-aged audience were witness to superb interplay, melodic gifts that skirted the edges of what was going on at the time, pushed the boundaries and the talents of this young band. This is decidedly one requisite for the budding initiate of jazz.
Personnel: Charles Lloyd – saxophone, Keith Jarrett – piano, Jack DeJohnette – drums, Cecil McBee – bass
Record Date: September 8, 1966
Songs: Forest Flower – Sunrise, Forest Flower – Sunset, Sorcery, Song Of Her, East Of The Sun, Sombrero Sam, Voice In The Night, Pre-Dawn, Forest Flower ‘69
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Jazz In Film
ZIG-ZAG: aka False Witness is a competently directed 1970 film by Richard A. Colla, starring George Kennedy, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach.
A dying man frames himself for the kidnapping and murder of an industrialist so his wife and daughter can benefit from the reward money. However, his plan goes awry when he is cured! Though an ingeniously plotted thriller, it lets itself down by failing to compel interest in its two-dimensional characters.
The music is composed, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson and features pianist Artie Kane, saxophonist Buddy Collette, bassist Joe Mondragon, drummers John Guerin and Victor Feldman with Anita O’Day making an appearance.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Steve Davis was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on April 14, 1967 but was raised in Binghamton, New York. He grew up with jazz music being played in the household listening to his father’s record collection and his grandparents played. With mentors Doug Beardsley and Al Hamme, he was fortunate to play with his peers Kris Jensen, Tony Kadleck, Tom Dempsey, Dena DeRose and John Hollenbeck among many others.
He went on to study jazz under Dr. Jackie McLean at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford in Connecticut. While in school, Davis also gained valuable experience sitting-in and gigging with Hotep Galeta, Nat Reeves, Don DePalma, Larry DiNatale and others at The 880 Club. A recommendation to Art Blakey saw Steve joining the Jazz Messengers at Sweet Basil in New York City in 1989. Following Blakey’s death, he joined the Hartt faculty in 1991 where he continues to teach today, and taught at The Artist’s Collective in Hartford.
He gained further international recognition playing with McLean’s sextet for five years and for four in Chick Corea’s Origin. Trombonist Steve Davis has played and recorded with Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson’s New Jazztet, Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, Roy Hargrove, Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss.
Davis has been a member of the cooperative sextet One for All since its inception in 1996, alongside Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber and Joe Farnsworth. He also currently plays with Larry Willis’s Quintet, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band/Septet, leads The Steve Davis Quintet and remains a fixture on the New York and Hartford jazz scenes.
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