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Permalink Reply by XEagleDriver on July 21, 2010 at 11:08pm

Steve,

Thanks for the music vector. I've already added those three albums to my Amazon Wish List. Once I am no longer at work (the song preview feature won't work on their LAN?) I will demo and probably buy shortly after.

Cheers,
XEagleDriver

Permalink Reply by Steve Scaggs on July 22, 2010 at 7:12am

I hope you like them XEagleDriver. I'll be throwing some more out there that I think are worth a listen. And if you have any suggestions, share the wealth.




It's All About The Music.

Permalink Reply by Steve Scaggs on July 22, 2010 at 6:16pm

OK ,check these out.
Jodi Proznick Quartet- Foundations
Sachal Vasandani- Eyes Wide Open
Eliane Elias- Everything I Love

Jodi Proznick is a bass player, and not a bad one. But I think her writing and arranging are better. Cut one is Joni Mitchell's "Help Me". With the easy way it starts you'll say "Oh yeah I remember that" but where the sax and piano take it will really put a smile on your face. Cut 4 "Reaction" is an original tune and you will play this more then once. This thing really moves. I bought this on CD Baby. 2006

Eyes Wide Open is Sachal first disk. I first heard him on a Mack Ave. sampler disk. At first listen you'll think "Sinatra". But keep going and your mind will change. This is male vocals at it's jazzy best. There are some standards and original tunes here, but all in all I find this album just plane enjoyable. Hope you do too.

Eliane Elias has been around since the eighties and has a large body of work. This disk came out in 2000. But her work on piano and vocals along with Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette and others makes this one of my favorites. Plus her voice just does it for me.

It All About the Music.
Steve

Permalink Reply by XEagleDriver on July 24, 2010 at 9:04am

Thanks for the additional album recommendations. I will recriprocate when I get home (at work now).

I have been a Eliane Elias fan since ~1990 with her "So Far So Close" album, but lost track of her more recent releases over the past several years. My daughter is engaged to a Brazilian fella, so while researching your recommendation I also saw several recordings of her playing Brazilian tunes which have sparked my interest as well.

XEagleDriver

Steve Scaggs said:

OK ,check these out.
Jodi Proznick Quartet- Foundations
Sachal Vasandani- Eyes Wide Open
Eliane Elias- Everything I Love

Jodi Proznick is a bass player, and not a bad one. But I think her writing and arranging are better. Cut one is Joni Mitchell's "Help Me". With the easy way it starts you'll say "Oh yeah I remember that" but where the sax and piano take it will really put a smile on your face. Cut 4 "Reaction" is an original tune and you will play this more then once. This thing really moves. I bought this on CD Baby. 2006

Eyes Wide Open is Sachal first disk. I first heard him on a Mack Ave. sampler disk. At first listen you'll think "Sinatra". But keep going and your mind will change. This is male vocals at it's jazzy best. There are some standards and original tunes here, but all in all I find this album just plane enjoyable. Hope you do too.

Eliane Elias has been around since the eighties and has a large body of work. This disk came out in 2000. But her work on piano and vocals along with Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette and others makes this one of my favorites. Plus her voice just does it for me.

It All About the Music.
Steve

Permalink Reply by Steve Scaggs on July 24, 2010 at 11:52am

That's great, glad I could help. If you get a chance go to CD Baby .com and look for Daniel Santiago's Metropole.
I think he's in the modern creative jazz section. He's a guitar player from Brazil. Really nice band and the kid can play.

XEagleDriver said:

Thanks for the additional album recommendations. I will recriprocate when I get home (at work now).

I have been a Eliane Elias fan since ~1990 with her "So Far So Close" album, but lost track of her more recent releases over the past several years. My daughter is engaged to a Brazilian fella, so while researching your recommendation I also saw several recordings of her playing Brazilian tunes which have sparked my interest as well.

XEagleDriver

Steve Scaggs said:

OK ,check these out.
Jodi Proznick Quartet- Foundations
Sachal Vasandani- Eyes Wide Open
Eliane Elias- Everything I Love

Jodi Proznick is a bass player, and not a bad one. But I think her writing and arranging are better. Cut one is Joni Mitchell's "Help Me". With the easy way it starts you'll say "Oh yeah I remember that" but where the sax and piano take it will really put a smile on your face. Cut 4 "Reaction" is an original tune and you will play this more then once. This thing really moves. I bought this on CD Baby. 2006

Eyes Wide Open is Sachal first disk. I first heard him on a Mack Ave. sampler disk. At first listen you'll think "Sinatra". But keep going and your mind will change. This is male vocals at it's jazzy best. There are some standards and original tunes here, but all in all I find this album just plane enjoyable. Hope you do too.

Eliane Elias has been around since the eighties and has a large body of work. This disk came out in 2000. But her work on piano and vocals along with Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette and others makes this one of my favorites. Plus her voice just does it for me.

It All About the Music.
Steve

Permalink Reply by Gary Walker on July 26, 2010 at 11:53am

I haven't posted to this string so far, because though i'm a lover of jazz, i haven't really kept up with the new offerings. i'm more a lover of vintage jazz. but you could easily do worse than Bill Evans "You must Believe in Spring" and Kieth Jarrett's "Standards Live" with Jack Dejonnette and Gary Peacock. And honest to God, Desmond's Skylark needs to go on your bucket list as does MJQ's"Dedicated to Connie".
I'll leave off all the Jazz Samba stuff that I don't listen to much, but I couldn't live without.

Permalink Reply by Steve Scaggs on July 26, 2010 at 2:39pm

Nothing wrong with the vintage stuff Gary. As a matter of fact ,you mentioning MJQ will make me dig thru my vinyl pulling out some old gems. Jarrett, DeJonnette, and Peacock have put out a lot of music and I have a few that make it to the rotation from time to time. But keep the vintage music coming. For those that don't know, it will be new music. For those of us that do, it's the memory jogger we need.

Permalink Reply by Gary Walker on July 26, 2010 at 5:38pm

A reasonably new one that I really enjoy is Christian McBride's "Kind of Brown"

Permalink Reply by Steve Scaggs on July 27, 2010 at 6:43pm

I have that one too Gary. I saw him play a good part of this disk at an outdoor set last summer. He's played with a lot of artist's and has a lot of music out there.

Here's my three suggestions for the week.

Marilyn Scott- Nightcap
Pat Metheny Group- Speaking of Now
Christine Jensen- Look Left

Marilyn Scott is jazz vocals the way it used to be. Think Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson,Dinah Washington. Not in the sound of the voice ,but the way she puts a song over. You feel the passion the heartache and joy that she sings about. For female jazz vocals this is a must have. The songs are all standards but brand new the she does them. Plus the band is no slouch. These cats really set the mood.

Speaking of Now came out in 2002.With the Pat Metheny Group I always feel like I get two or three tunes in each song. The changes and phrasing he writes takes you here there and back again. If you have a reveling system that lets you hear way back into the music,listen to Lyle Mays when he's not soloing. Listen to Pat when he's not soloing. Follow Steve Rodby on bass. There is so much going on I'm still hearing new stuff.

Christine Jensen comes out of Canada. A sax player that may be an acquired taste to some. A fiery no holes bared player with outstanding command of her instrument. Great melodies and imagination. The band is tight and runs right along with her. Worth a listen.

Permalink Reply by Ron Marcoux on July 29, 2010 at 6:04am

Here are a few

Mike Garson's Jazz Hat
Stone in the Water - Stefano Bollani
Quartet Live - Burton, Metheny, Swallow, Sanchez
New York Blue - Valerie Joyce
Saffronia - Lyambiko

Permalink Reply by XEagleDriver on July 29, 2010 at 8:52am

Glad the door to some older jazz is open! I bought a lot more regularly when David Sanborn had a Sunday evening radio program of up and coming artists in the early 80s.

Your request made me think which albums do I most frequently return too. So beyond the near "holy trinity" of Jazz (Coltrane's Blue Train, Miles' Kind of Blue, and Dave Brubeck's Time Out), here is the first batch of recommendations:

1) Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russell Malone, - Album of same name. Three accomplished and superb musicans where the whole is even greater than the sum of the parts!
2) Pieces of a Dream - No Assembly Required, a SACD it is one of my favorite MC music demos, superb MC engineering and mix, a fun and lively listen.
3) Tierny Sutton, - Dancing in the Dark, a sultrey voice, really captures the essence of Sinatra even as a female vocalist.

Cheers,
XEagleDriver

P.S. I ordered Steve's first three recommendations and am anxiously awaiting their arrival!
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Steve Scaggs said:

Nothing wrong with the vintage stuff Gary. As a matter of fact ,you mentioning MJQ will make me dig thru my vinyl pulling out some old gems. Jarrett, DeJonnette, and Peacock have put out a lot of music and I have a few that make it to the rotation from time to time. But keep the vintage music coming. For those that don't know, it will be new music. For those of us that do, it's the memory jogger we need.

Permalink Reply by Ron Marcoux on July 30, 2010 at 7:56am

Here are a few more that get spun quite often

Siver's Blue - Horace Silve Quintet
Offbeat - Claire Martin
Chiaroscuro - Towner/Fresu
Home Row - Bill Carrothers

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