tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72076066683331914342024-03-18T09:27:34.738+09:00barabara soundsmusic by any other name would sound as sweettaro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-50768806746732224782014-06-20T12:07:00.000+09:002014-06-20T12:21:18.754+09:00RIP Horace Silver
Sadly, this time it seems to be true. So many superb tracks and albums to choose from. This is the one that is probably getting the most play today...
But, as a tribute from this side of the planet, I'll repost this — but in a live version...
RIP Horace Silver. And thanks for all the great music.taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-44183345394600480562014-01-17T01:44:00.003+09:002014-01-17T11:04:21.503+09:00Sadao Watanabe Quartet – live in France
Motherlode!
Not here, but over at Private Press, where Katonah has just posted some outstanding live (TV studio) footage of the Sadao Watanabe Quartet shot in France.
With him he's got Takehiro Honda on piano, Yoshio Suzuki on bass, and Fumio Watanabe on drums. They're all really on fire, especially Honda.
Katonah reckons it's from 1970. I think it's later, maybe 1973, sincetaro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-83458054143766511332013-12-25T09:12:00.002+09:002013-12-26T14:14:20.862+09:00Shibuya Jazz Classics - Sleep Walker collection
barabara sounds sez:
Just in time for Christmas, another bundle of tip-top J-jazz, all culled from the excellent label that was Columbia-Takt. This compilation was put together by the guys of Sleep Walker. Eleven gems for the holiday season. Not the first time it's been seen in the blogosphere I believe, but too good not to post.
Enjoy! And best wishes to one and all for the taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-210397198528807392013-12-18T01:51:00.003+09:002013-12-18T12:25:23.604+09:00Horace Silver - the Tokyo Blues
Damn. And blessings.
It seems it was a hoax.
Great news to wake up to.
And glad to keep this up as a post...
Happy Blues from Tokyo…
And lots more about this great album over here…
taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-32138684458306045852013-11-19T15:39:00.000+09:002013-11-20T08:34:31.497+09:00Doug Hammond - Spaces
barabara sounds sez:
More excavated Tribe sounds. It's been over 20 years since Disk Union brought this out here – and it was originally recorded ten years before that, back in 1982. But – like the David Durrah/qpsm album I posted – it kind of fell through the crack into the abyss of oblivion, at least it did on these shores. And that is really too bad. Because like taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-45920375466280143012013-10-30T01:25:00.000+09:002014-01-19T14:13:22.600+09:00Elvin Jones "Special Quartet" - Tribute To John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
barabara sounds sez:
Elvin Jones played a lot in Japan, but this live session from 1992 (recorded at Shinjuku Pit Inn) was a little bit special: a) because it featured a version of the full Love Supreme suite; b) because instead of sax the lead instrument was a trumpet; and c) it was Wynton Marsulis. And he really blows beautifully!
As for the rest of taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-46049386799718070432013-09-30T02:24:00.000+09:002013-12-26T00:13:51.913+09:00qpsm*unit - great symbolisms
barabara sounds sez:
Time to get spiritual with an album that that emerged from the Tribe/Ra stable a few years back (4 to be precise). It barely raised a ripple in the general consciousness over here [UPDATE: or anywhere, going from the comments so far]. Time to rectify that a bit...
As a member of the Tribe crew from back in the day, David Durrah should need little taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-6914207998373804722013-09-24T01:47:00.000+09:002013-09-29T14:38:24.935+09:00John Coltrane on Open Culture
Open Culture sez:
The great jazz saxophone player John Coltrane was born 88 years ago today. To mark the occasion we present this rare document… Coltrane's handwritten outline of his groundbreaking jazz composition, A Love Supreme…
Lewis Porter (author of JC: His Life and Music) sez:
This is something very unusual. It's not the way he usually improvises. It's not really taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-23978633655781892732013-08-06T17:54:00.000+09:002013-08-07T11:22:15.532+09:00Mal Waldron - Mal Waldron [Thanks a million, MALsan]
barabara sounds sez:
The late great Mal Waldron toured Japan quite a lot, especially from the 1980s. The 10 tracks on this album were recorded between 1995 and 1999. All feature Mal playing solo live, though you'd hardly know it until you hear the applause at the end of track 9.
The album was put together as an homage by producer Ito Hideharu of taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-75843180885779521062013-07-03T00:17:00.001+09:002013-07-03T00:29:37.433+09:00Ronnie Mathews - Trip To The Orient
barabara sounds sez:
Ronnie Mathews leading a trio on East Wind, recorded and issued in 1975. By then, he'd been around for almost 20 years, working with some of the major players but never making much of a name for himself. This was just his second album as a leader (the first was back in '63, on Prestige with Freddie Hubbard in the band).
No doubt because it was on a "minor" taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-40538688897906599082013-05-19T00:01:00.000+09:002013-12-26T14:14:56.660+09:00Japanese Jazz 1950s–1980s [listen to 和ジャズ・ディスク・ガイド」
barabara sounds sez:
Just change my name to Taro Urashima…
And, for my local friends: 大変お待たせしました…
Yes, here we go again, back from a long siesta — and kicking back into the groove with a j-jazz comp that emerged earlier this year. It's a sampler, a taster to whet your appetite, especially for those who have got their hands onto the essential primer on the j-jazz golden age (in Japanese it'staro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-77469642820325336032013-05-18T22:54:00.000+09:002013-05-20T13:20:23.473+09:00Teruo Nakamura - Unicorn
barabara sounds sez:
Another classic TBM side from 1973, and probably the best thing that Nakamura ever laid down. Which is all thanks to the company he keeps here. It is (as TJ points out) a bit of a mixed bag, and I'm with those who say Umma Be Me, soulful and funky though it is, doesn't really belong on the album. But the other tracks more than make up for it, especially the final taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-89653546362316401312012-12-01T00:39:00.000+09:002013-05-20T17:12:16.155+09:00Hideto Kanai Quintet - Concierto de Aranjuez
somebody (can't find the link now) sez:
A progressive, daring jazz date. The title track is an impressive answer to the earlier versions by Miles Davis and Jim Hall.
barabara sounds sez:
Damn right it is. Listen to Miles… and then to Hall... and then wrap your ears around Kanai and his quintet. They're not kind-of sort-of "thereabouts": they're absolutely "taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-27893222914457977692012-10-22T14:37:00.001+09:002013-05-20T17:18:17.785+09:00Samurai Era — 15 lost grooves from the land of the rising sun
barabara sounds sez:
Another compilation, but this time highlighting the wealth of homegrown jazz talent that has emerged at this end of the planet. Despite the subtitle, few of the 15 tracks here are actually "lost" — and weren't even in 1999 when this album came out. In fact a number of them were/became club standards, not least Teruo Nakamura's TBM classic Umma Be Me (which is of taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-46635991696992165292012-09-28T00:41:00.000+09:002012-09-29T14:19:12.565+09:00Masabumi Kikuchi Slash Trio – Slash 2゜
barabara sounds sez:
Not drowning, just waving. And plotting my next move.
9.28. Time for a new move. Just the one track for now…
Let's see what happens!
dusty sez:
Go for it!taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-64376548821677307702012-08-31T02:04:00.000+09:002012-09-03T02:23:40.068+09:00Jazz Supreme – Modal Blue Sketches
barabara sounds sez:
Jazz Supreme Numero Cinco, and it's yet another cracker – another belting line-up in the tried-and-true vein. It starts out like it means business with the one and only Dave Brubeck, moving on into Duke Pearson and then the wonderful Harold McNair. Then come the heavy hitters: Wayne Shorter, Leon Thomas and Mingus, via Ray Russell and Ahmad taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-14257227397921441442012-08-28T01:43:00.000+09:002012-08-29T07:50:14.531+09:00Jazz Supreme - Spiritual Love Is Everywhere
barabara sounds sez:
The fourth in the Jazz Supreme series, and it follows pretty closely the template of the previous volume, featuring a succession of heavy-hitting tracks (mostly) from that golden age of 70s spiritual jazz, spiced with a few tasty numbers from the early 60s, and even before that. It kicks off — obviously and appropriately — with Pharoah and barely lets up, taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-58803665678321617902012-08-19T09:31:00.000+09:002012-08-28T11:27:29.197+09:00Jazz Supreme - Modal Waltz-A-Nova
barabara sounds sez:
Album #3 in the Jazz Supreme series strikes a rather different balance of sounds. This time around there are none of the contemporary club jazz artists (unlike the first two albums). Instead we get a classic selection of tracks by the likes of Roy Haynes, McCoy Tyner, Oliver Nelson, Elvin Jones and — one of the standouts — Walt Dickerson.
Great to have taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-23959242066716329962012-08-13T08:42:00.001+09:002012-08-28T11:26:32.045+09:00Jazz Supreme - Spiritual Waltz-A-Nova
barabara sounds sez:
More supremely jazzy sounds from this great series. This was actually the very first of the excellent Jazz Supreme comps, and it sets the tone perfectly. A brilliant blend of classic and club, drawing from the back catalogs of Strata-East, Black Jazz, Tribe and interspersing them with righteous sounds from more recent times.
Among my favorites: Abdultaro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-20544257031962970842012-08-06T16:39:00.001+09:002012-08-28T11:25:58.623+09:00Jazz Supreme – Fender Rhodes Prayer
barabara sounds sez:
Summer nights, balmy and subtropical. Some spiritual vibes to mellow out once the heat of the day is done... One of my alltime favorite comps, this is a tasty shuffling of classic 70s jazz and newer clubbier sounds – some better known, others a lot more obscure – put out some five years back as part of a series given the exceptionally cool title Jazz taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-83803617279771966922012-07-18T07:38:00.001+09:002012-07-18T14:23:32.827+09:00The Pentagon
barabara sounds sez:
Straightahead down-the-line jazziness from this not-quite-supergroup which came together to record in Japan back in 1976. Not the most challenging or progressive side ever issued by the East Wind label, but still well deserving of several listens. As before, this one has seen the light of day a couple of times before in the blogosphere — but taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-67631004440028790812012-07-11T20:58:00.000+09:002012-07-18T14:26:37.500+09:00NØ NUKES JAZZ ORCHESTRA
barabara sounds sez:
Out today.
"…a jazz driven manifest powered by Fear, Despair, Anger and Hope."
Full details (in Japanese) here..
3.11- A year has passed since the tsunami hit Fukushima to cause an unexampled disaster. Meanwhile, for the whole year, a remarkable bassist/composer/arranger, Jyoji Sawada has kept asking himself, what can jazz do, what kind of music, melody, can a taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-21368194987473144052012-07-09T15:40:00.001+09:002012-07-18T14:25:30.791+09:00Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos - Get Up!
barabara sounds sez:
Not the first time this has been seen in blogoville, but that's no reason to hold back. And not perhaps the ultimate Count Buffalos — my vote has to go to the magnificent Side 1 of Electrum (which you'll find hosted over at OIR). Or even Bakishinba (another of Bacoso's gems). But still most excellent and worthy of your time. Plus I seriously rate the album taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-69582815566338264722012-07-01T00:02:00.000+09:002012-07-02T01:50:22.893+09:00Marvin Peterson - Hannibal in Antibes & the Soulmasters in Concert
barabara sounds sez:
High time I posted some Hannibal. The finest littlest-known trumpet free-funkster ever. So, making up for lost time, here are two sides, both live — except the second (the first chronologicly) is from when Marvin Peterson hadn't yet adopted his alternate name. In Antibes is from 1977, recorded in the south of France and released on enja, and he's at his jazz peak. In taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207606668333191434.post-76758077734695117572012-06-09T14:01:00.000+09:002012-06-09T22:51:26.093+09:00Dee Dee Bridgewater – Afro Blue
barabara sounds sez:
Dee Dee's first, she was just 23 and she sounds as beautiful as she looks. What a debut. And what a great band she had behind her too, led by the Bridgewater brothers and with Sir Roland too. But this show is all about Dee Dee, especially her take on the title track. Far too good to be OOP. Dusty doesn't disapprove...
dusty sez:
One of the greatest jazz vocal taro nombeihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07570885192809406745noreply@blogger.com24