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Today's JAZZ playlist

Clifford Jordan Quintet - Two Tenor Winner

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Organ-ic Home Cooking

Dennie said:
Another fitting title for this Thanksgiving Day.... :thmbsp:


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Home Cookin' -- Remastered CD

Jimmy Smith

1960/2004 Blue Note Records

Soul Food, Chicken Grease, and Hammond B-3 soul, April 20, 2000
By Sean K Hur (New Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Home Cookin (Audio CD)

Wow, now here's a good work for you hammond b-3 fans. The small 3 personal group that basically epitomizes the Jimmy Smith sound in his blue-note years are here. With the added tenor saxophone work of Percy France, you got a great combination of soul food for you ears! Like the title of the album, there is a great deal of blues entwined inside every track. Highlights on the album were immediately the really driving "I Got a Woman," a great Ray Charles standard that Kenny Burrell, another fine jazz guitarist really shines. There are points when it seems that this is more a blues-jazz group, there isn't much in terms of be-bop flashiness, which may turn off some arrogant jazz types. It seems that Jimmy Smith's greatest work isn't in the spitty organ leads he pumps, its the subtle organ bass lines that sound incredible. THERE IS NO BASS PLAYER IN HIS GROUP! Every track reveals a good blues sensibility that the hammond b-3 organ seems to lend itself too. Jimmy Smith's album here helps to bridge a great gap between the intellectual and heady jazz of the era with the low-down chicken house organ sounds... Incredible, and this album is one of his best!

All compositions by Jimmy Smith except as indicated

"See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 6:35
"Sugar Hill" (Kenny Burrell) - 5:19
"I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) - 3:55
"Messin' Around" - 5:55
"Gracie" - 5:54
"Come on Baby" (Burrell) - 6:50
"Motorin' Along" (Jimmy McGriff) - 5:09

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

"Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) - 4:19
"Apostrophe" (Percy France) - 6:35
"Groanin'" (Jack McDuff) - 8:10
"Motorin' Along" [alternate take] (McGriff) - 5:02
"Since I Fell for You" [alternate take] (Johnson) - 6:27

Recorded on July 15, 1958 (tracks 7, 8, 11, 12), May 24, 1959 (tracks 3, 10) and June 16, 1959 (tracks 1, 2, 4-6 & 9).



Jimmy Smith – organ
Percy France - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 4-6 & 9)
Kenny Burrell – guitar
Donald Bailey – drums
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Great Album-I found my LP at an old book store that had a box of records for 50 cents each. Also,most of the Modern Jazz organists like Jimmy Smith-Don Patterson,Richard Groove Holmes,Big John Patton,and Baby Face Willett,often did without a Bass player-instead employing Guitarists like Kenny Burrell and Grant Green. Whereas Albert Ammons and Shirley Scott frequently used a Bassist (at least on the albums I own)-go figure? :scratch2:
 
Finally picked this up. Wycliffe Gordon has become one necessary muthafucka if you ask me...

Wycliffe Gordon Dreams Of New Orleans

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In the spirit of the season:

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If this needs any introduction, well, I think you need to get out more. LOL! Seriously, anyone who loves Christmas music and great vocals should have this in their collection.
 
Asimov said:
Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream

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Great choice, I'll join you.... :thmbsp:

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Monk's Dream -- Remastered CD

Thelonious Monk Quartet

1963/2002 Columbia Legacy

My Favorite Monk Record January 26, 2003
By G. McCoy
Format:Audio CD

I won't gush about how it's the best thing since sliced scrapple, but it's pretty stinking good. A well-recorded selection of Monk originals and covers, Charlie Rouse blowing the roof off, and the whole band moving like an elastic waistband make it a very listenable set. It's a happy record, really, unlike many jazz records; this band loves playing this music, and it really shows. It also features Rouse at the top of his game as Monk's foremost collaborator/interpreter on sax; at times, Rouse and Monk seem almost telephathic. If you haven't heard Monk on record, make no mistake: like all Monk records, this isn't your grandpa's dance music. But it's one of Monk's most accessible sessions in that all the tunes are both inventive and 'right on,' and unlike most other Monk records, it's a happy swinger throughout, or at least as much as that is true of any Monk record. The band takes its chances, but they all seem to pay off. There are no clunkers here.
Jazz nazis (if it takes one to know one, fine; I used to be one) will sneer that it isn't odd or inaccessible enough to be a classic, but that doesn't mean you have to miss this enjoyable record. If Monk's music is a language all its own, then this is one of his better conversations.


All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated.

Side one

"Monk's Dream" - 6:26
"Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green) - 4:29
"Bright Mississippi" - 8:34
"Five Spot Blues" - 3:15

Side two

"Bolivar Blues" - 7:30
"Just a Gigolo" (Julius Brammer, Irving Caesar, Leonello Casucci) - 2:29
"Bye-Ya" - 6:01
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules LeMare) 7:48

2002 CD Reissue

The 2002 CD Reissue added the following bonus tracks.

"Monk's Dream" [alternate take] - 5:16
"Body and Soul" [aternate take] (Eyton, Green, Heyman, Sour) - 5:12
"Bright Mississippi" [alternate take] - 10:23
"Blue Bolivar Blues" [alternate take] - 6:12

On the original “Columbia Jazz Masterpieces” CD issue on Columbia/CBS Records (CK 40786), the song “Bye-Ya” clocks in at 6:03. The 2002 re-mastered edition on the Columbia/Legacy imprint (CK 63536) contains a version which runs only 5.25.

The most obvious difference between the versions is the longer arrangement before the piano solo (which starts at 2.46 on the original CD but at 2.07 on the Legacy version). It is difficult to tell if the shorter version is an edit or a completely different take.



Thelonious Monk - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
John Ore - bass
Frankie Dunlop - drums
 
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