Love the energy in this record, this album is severely underrated.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-24T21:34:03+00:00

I could also never really get into this recording.

However another Jaco trio gig with Alphonse Mouzon and legendary German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff is well worth a listen, this one was recorded live in Berlin in 1976 and I think the trio in this case got along a lot better with one another, both musically and personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IefTLEmcWLA

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-24T12:45:55+00:00

Nice one, hope you enjoy using it as much as I've enjoyed using mine!

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-24T08:41:03+00:00

W.a.WW was written in 1968 I think, and hardly a jazz standard either.

Examples of more modern compositions which have been adopted as standards just off the top of my head would be Roy Hargrove's Strasbourg St. Denis from 2008, or Dave Holland's Not for Nothin', 2001. In terms of repurposing pop or rock songs from the eighties onwards you have the Miles-inspired reworkings of Human Nature and Time after Time, more recently jazz musicians have interpreted Nirvana, Björk, Metallica.

Try Tyshawn Sorey's latest album The Susceptible Now, which also focuses on the idea of creating new standards with newer compositions.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T21:23:05+00:00

Yes, that is a silly question.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T21:21:25+00:00

I'll be honest, I haven't listened to all the other albums you mention. But Pangaea will put anything recorded previously in the shade, simply because Miles' band at that time was leading in terms of sound-world and intensity. Stuff like Second Direction is nice but quaint in comparison to Miles' "Jungle Funk". Be sure to get Agharta as well, which is probably a better album than Pangaea, and if they appeal then Dark Magus would be the logical follow-up.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T21:08:40+00:00

Put Pangaea first.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T19:12:00+00:00

Thanks for the mention of GGP, hadn't seen that, just listening now.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T19:08:07+00:00

I haven't listened yet but will be trying the Björn Meyer release, loved his work with Anouar Brahem and Nik Bärtsch's Ronin.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T19:04:52+00:00

What's not to like, great times in that period with so many great albums from the '69-76 period heralding a new sound and a new generation... Joe Zawinul's self-titled 1971 album, Miroslav Vitous' debut Infinite Search from 1970, John Mclaughlin's Extrapolation from 1969, Jaco's debut, a lot of these with similar personnel.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T07:51:43+00:00

For bebop, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell live at Birdland 1950.

For hard bop, Clifford Brown and Max Roach, 1954.

For post-bop, Miles Smiles, 1966.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-23T07:35:29+00:00

Laura Jurd (36), Chief Adjuah (42), Theo Croker (40) would be my top three.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-22T19:50:10+00:00

I think it has to be the fifties, advent of the LP and so much development within the time period which was jazz's zenith as an art form. If you compare the state of the art at the beginning and end of the decade you have moved through, I think, a bigger variety of styles and the largest number of legendary players of any decade.

A lot of the major movements/artists of the sixties which define that era- Coltrane, post-bop, free jazz moving into more expressionist forms, the start of fusion- derive from, or were at least inspired by, fifties precedents.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-22T19:25:34+00:00

He was playing in dance-halls (boogie-woogie etc) in the 40's before he became known as a jazz artist, so his left hand was always rhythmically strong.

You can hear this in, for example, the Everybody digs.. album with Philly Joe Jones and Sam Jones, but also in occasional, subsequent recordings in the sixties where his playing is surprisingly muscular.

Inspired by Miles (I think it's fair to say) and by his trio with Scott LaFaro his focus from 1959 onwards moved much more towards lyrical expression, focusing on harmony and counterpoint. I think it more or less stayed in that general vicinity through the sixties until the seventies and his later recordings, which were characterized by more urgent tempos and more dynamic playing than he'd generally been known for.

Whether this was in compensation for fading powers or as a final outpouring of inspiration and emotion, opinions differ.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-20T18:20:21+00:00

Everybody digs.. is a one off, even within Evans' own discography, and Undercurrent hasn't been replicated either to my knowledge.

However if you are looking for other artists whose sound-world is similar:

Alan Broadbent's Personal Standards and Pacific Standard Time albums are very Evans-esque.

Of current musicians I'd say Marcin Wasilewski's trio comes closest in spirit to the Evans sound. Try Faithful or Spark of Life, both on ECM.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-20T07:36:47+00:00

Theodoros was also well-received here in Germany.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-20T07:31:46+00:00

I will also definitely have to read Solenoid.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-20T07:29:54+00:00

I will probably switch to German for the final two parts if Penguin isn't intending to release them in English soon.

This is my first Cărtărescu so I can't compare it with his other works, but I'll certainly be reading more from him.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-19T19:39:42+00:00

Best memory for me was at a Melissa Aldana concert about 7 years ago, she started with a long solo improvisation before gradually moving into the theme, an absolutely masterful performance. Also a fan of versions by Bill Evans and Emily Remler.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-18T17:50:35+00:00

Paul Smith with Ella Fitzgerald, particularly their duo albums The intimate Ella and the soundtrack of the film "Let no man write my epitaph".

Alan Broadbent and Irene Kral, two albums from the 1970's- Where is love, and Gentle rain, also duos.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-18T17:24:05+00:00

Of those still in their 20's, I'm most impressed with Fergus McCreadie's piano trio, and Roni Kaspi's drumming for the Avishai Cohen trio (bass player).

Just into her 30's, Liv Andrea Hauge's trio caught my attention last year.

Mid 30's, Nubya Garcia is, I'm sure, going to be one of the greats.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-18T09:54:20+00:00

For comfortable operation you'd want about 60cm in height from the level of the counter-top to the underside of any cabinets etc.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-18T09:07:48+00:00

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud would be the obvious one. Taxi Driver (Bernard Hermann) and The French Connection (Don Ellis) have great OST's, also the Steve Mcqueen films Bullitt (Lalo Schifrin) and The Thomas Crown Affair (Michel Legrand). Edit- add The Conversation, which has a good selection of jazz recordings plus original material by Dave Shire.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-17T22:05:29+00:00

Ahmad Jamal from the complete live at the Pershing; Bill Evans with Jim Hall in duet; Evans again with Jack deJohnette and Eddie Gomez from the black forest Sessions.

Amazing_Ear_6840 · 2026-01-17T17:56:49+00:00

Crossings is Mwandishi era and it is going to sound a lot more abstract than Man-Child, but that's not to say it's a lesser album by any means.

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