Jazz from Geoff
Sadly not information about upcoming jazz at Hedsor Jazz,
but still, something to while away the Jazz Hour you may still like to give
yourselves in this unusual time in our lives. One that we just didn’t see
coming in January. Who knew that when we first wrote 2020 on an email or
greetings card that it would turn out to be such a time of isolation. And a sad
time where we have all become aware that this invisible enemy is an
indiscriminate killer without moral or conscience.
I think most of us feel that it is the inability to share
time with friends and family that is the worst of the new every day. I think we
will all learn again what a joy it is to actually share a common interest in
someone else’s company. How we had taken for granted the simple pleasure of
going with a mate to sink a pint of beer in a pub!
However I do want to try and give you something new to
listen to, and something to watch as well. Not really new, but sound and vision
from times past that you may not have listened to before
First a link to about 6 minutes of music from 2008. The
Clive Burton Quintet at The Fifield Inn on a Sunday evening. The quintet is in
one of its first manifestations, with Zane Cronje on keyboard.
I think last week I overloaded your attention span and
gave you too many links, so I am cutting back this week. I will share however a
bit more Clive Burton Quintet, this time one of the recordings I made in June
2017. Below you will find a link to a DropBox folder for an evening of the
Quintet with added guitarist Jezz Cook. 2 one hour recordings plus the artwork
for a CD cover if you want to keep it.
Last week I reference my listening of “Jazz at the
Philharmonic” CD’s. In the end I succumbed to my own temptation, and purchased
the 10 CD box set.
Wonderful music. I have only managed to play a couple of
the CD’s so far, but have been impressed particularly by the recordings of
Lester Young. You tend to forget how good he was in the 50’s before his
lifestyle caught up with him.
These legendary musicians may not have had the university
education and grooming that many jazz musicians have now, but they had
identifiable character. In the jam sessions that JATP were you can easily tell
Lester Young from Coleman Hawkins for example. If you listen to trumpeter Buck
Clayton or trumpeter Jo Newman, you can tell which was which by their signature
sound. Each musician had something to say, and no matter what their lifestyles were,
they conveyed their view of the tune, of the language of the times that they
were living in, as only each one of them could.
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| Buck Clayton |
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| Jo Newman |
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| Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins |
not the best sound quality, or the best visual quality either, but who cares, the music is terrific!
Do send feedback on both the jazz you listen to and how
you are coping with lock down life to my email address :- Octogeoff@outlook.com
I will have more music to share with you in the weeks to
come. Stay safe, don’t forget to clap for the NHS on Thursdays. Its a different
kind of Thursday night out!
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