’70s Jazz (Good Stuff)

Heard this one tonight, on WBGO, for the first time in a long time. 



It brought this one to mind:



My dad was/is a fan of CTI label artists:



WBGO kicks @ss.  A great cultural resource.


one of my favs from back then



now you've done it. memories rushing by



Please don't post "Breezin'" by George Benson. Yuck, that album put a permanent dent in jazz quality. 


DaveSchmidt said:



 Grrr, his music makes my teeth hurt. And I love jazz. My heroes are Rhaasan Roland Kirk and Charles Mingus. No easy listenin' there.



The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

Grrr, his music makes my teeth hurt. And I love jazz. My heroes are Rhaasan Roland Kirk and Charles Mingus. No easy listenin' there. 

Mine, too. Also Trane, Diz, Bird, Rollins, Blakey, Monk, Miles, Hancock, Dex, Sun Ra and probably a lot of the other names you can regale us with. Good for you.

I also like Benson, Washington Jr. and Mangione. Oh, and this guy:



YouTube, apparently siding with Mr. T, is preventing any embeds of Maynard Ferguson’s version of MacArthur Park. I’ll have to wake myself up with a cup of coffee instead.


DaveSchmidt said:
YouTube, apparently siding with Mr. T, is preventing any embeds of Maynard Ferguson’s version of MacArthur Park. I’ll have to wake myself up with a cup of coffee instead.

  grin 


Hey, DB, loved the Tyner, which I hadn’t heard before. Will listen to the Corea and Jarrett a little later. Right after I turn in my doctoral thesis on Eric Dolphy to Professor T.

The Tyner album cover was perfect for Earth Day. Here’s another, with a worthy song to boot.



DaveSchmidt said:
Hey, DB, loved the Tyner, which I hadn’t heard before. Will listen to the Corea and Jarrett a little later. Right after I turn in my doctoral thesis on Eric Dolphy to Professor T.

Ha! 

 


I knew the Köln concert was a touchstone of modern piano but had never listened to it before. It was wonderful. I loved the tone, which — trigger alert for purists — reminded me of George Winston.

My dad tries to catch Chick Correa every time he passes through these days, but he wasn’t on the household playlist in this thread’s title decade. Good stuff, too.


Time to bring the funk. This brought the Kimmel Center house down as an encore when Michael Brecker joined Hancock onstage not long before his untimely death.



Loved the CTI label, although it did verge on a little to pop for me.  But look at the artists Creed Taylor signed!  A list of absolute superstars.  I remember the album covers and probably cleaned a fair amount of weed on them!

I was doing jury duty and we had to tell the judge if we had any bumper stickers.  I said that I had a WBGO sticker.  A woman leaned over to me and handed me her card...Dorthaan Kirk.  I believe she was the director of fund raising for WBGO.

At the break, of course we chatted.  Most of you know where this is going.  I asked her about her involvement in WBGO and how it started, etc.  And then I had to pull teeth.  She told me that her husband was a musician.  After three more questions I finally said, "You were married to Rahsaan Roland Kirk??!!"  She said that she was.  I'm guessing that she presumed that I wouldn't know who he was so she didn't lead with that.  What a delightful woman.  Completely charming.  What a bonus for doing jury duty.  And Roland Kirk was always a favorite of mine.  Bright Moments!


And who is old enough to have been a member of WRVR?


Thread drift,* but if you or Mr. T can find it, I recommend Kirk's album with Al Hibbler. An excellent companion to the Coltrane-Hartman classic.

Also: the Rip, Rig and Panic/Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith two-fer disc.

*On closer inspection, not a drift, since A Meeting of the Times was recorded in 1972.


This thread brings good memories of the mid 70’s in Brooklyn, walking my babies to the grocery store, and hearing Sonny Rollins practicing on his Willoughby Ave. balcony.


Odean Pope and Alphonso Johnson’s old group.



Alphonso Johnson left Weather Report to make room for some other bassist, named Jaco.


John McLaughlin and Shakti - Jazz meets India

One of the best freaking concerts I ever saw.




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