大阪ジャズ同好会第41回例会持ち寄り(2020年2月9日)『ジャム・セッションの名演』①

February 12,2020

『ジャム・セッションの名演』前半4人のお気に入りをご紹介します。

・竹村氏(短いコメントも転載しております)

1.Midnight At Minton’s

Here is Don Byas and Joe Guy and Thelonious Monk play “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”.
Midnight At Minton’s:
Joe Guy (tp) ,Don Byas (ts) ,Thelonious Monk (p) unknown (b) Kenny Clarke (ds)
Live “Minton’s”, New York, 1941
ビバップ誕生の聖地、ミントンズ・クラブでの貴重な実況録音

2.Charlie Christian in Minneapolis

Here is Charlie Christian plays “ I got rhythm”.
Jerry Jerome (ts),Frankie Hines (p), Charlie Christian (g), Oscar Pettiford (b),
Live “Harlem Breakfast Club”, Minneapolis, MN, September 24, 1939
ミネアポリスのハーレム・ブレックファースト・クラブでの、アフターアワーズ・ジャムセッション。

3.Jazz from a Swinging Era

Here is Buck Clayton and his All Stars play “Into The Blues Bag”.
Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Earl Warren (as) ,Bud Freeman (ts), Sir Charles Thompson (p), Bill Pemberton (b), Oliver Jackson (ds)
Paris, March 12, 1967
バック・クレイトン・ジャムセッションの最後のオールスターズでのパリ公演。

・K氏

Buck Clayton Jam Session

Here is Buck Clayton All Stars play “All The Cats Join In”.
Buck Clayton, Ruby Braff, Billy Butterfield(tp), J.C.Higginbotham(tb),
Tyree Glenn(tb, vib), Coleman Hawkins, Julian Dash(ts), Kenny Kersay(p) ,Steve Jordan(g) ,Walter Page(b), Bobby Donaldson(ds) NYC March 5,1956
ソロの順番
Hawkins(ts)-Glenn(vib)-Braff(tp)-Higginbotham(tb)-Glenn(vib)-Braff(tp)- Higginbotham (tb)-Butterfield(tp) -Glenn(tb) -Clayton(tp)-Dash(ts)-Kersy(p)

当日、本録音は約2分短いバージョンもあると解説されました。以下添付します

・H氏

The Historic Mocambo Session ’54

Here is Shotaro Moriyasu plays ”I Want To Be Happy”.
守安祥太郎(p),宮沢昭(ts),鈴木寿夫(b),清水 潤(ds)
July 27-28,1954

植田紗加栄(著)
「そして、風が走りぬけて行った―天才ジャズピアニスト・守安祥太郎の生涯」をご紹介されました。

ブログ作成者もモカンボセッションをリストアップしておりました。1曲追加させて下さい。
Here is Shotaro Moriyasu plays ”Strike Up The Band”.
守安祥太郎(p),宮沢昭(ts),鈴木寿夫(b),清水 潤(ds)
July 27-28,1954

・Y瀬氏

Lionel Hampton And His Just Jazz All Stars
2月の放出例会の持ち寄り、ジャムセッションとは無縁と思いこみ、「聴きに徹しようか」と思っていたのですが、実はジャズの目覚めは18歳を迎える昭和28年(1953年)の正月、一族の子らが集う席へ遠縁の大学生が持ち込んだSP2枚の表と裏の計4面にわたる「スターダスト」でした。すっかり魅了され、繰り返し聴いて長年の愛聴曲となったのですが、ハンプトンのイントロで始まり、ウイリー・スミス(as)、チャーリー・シェイバース(tp)、バーニー・ケッセル(g)ら初めて名を知る名手が音を紡ぎ、やがて圧倒的なハンプトンのソロに。これこそ、まさにジャムセッションだったのですね。

Here is Lionel Hamton All Stars play “Star Dust”.
Lionel Hampton And His Just Jazz All Stars:
Charlie Shavers (tp) Willie Smith (as) Corky Corcoran (ts) Lionel Hampton (vib) Tommy Todd (p) Barney Kessel (g) Slam Stewart (b) Lee Young (d)
CA Civic Auditorium,Pasadena, August 4, 1947

Y瀬氏はSPレコード2枚(表裏4面)を神戸ジャズサロン(2018年2月例会)にご持参されていました。当日撮影した写真を添付します。

Shotaro Moriyasu(6)

February 20.2016

Bibliography：’He Played Like a Breeze Through Our Lives’:The Life of the Genius Jazz Pianist Moriyasu Shotaro
The Author:Sakae Ueda

In those days , it is said that Jazzmusician was doing drugs at a considerable frequency.

Probraly Moriyasu also might have done drugs.

In his later years Moriyasu was a complete manic-depressive illness.

September 1956 , Moriyasu played at jazz cafe “Duet” in Shibuya.

At that night he made a dive suicide in the Yamanote Line Meguro Station.

The cause of his suicide was unknown forever.

If he was alive,what happened to Japan’s jazz scene?

It does not know anyone.

However,Japanese has a duty to convey the contribution of Moriyasu Shotaro.

The whole world jazz fan appreciated his playing on ‘YouTube’.

What a wonderful world!

Shotaro Moriyasu(5)

February 19.2016

When he find a novel code,even in the middle of the night,he had played a big sound on the piano.

His concept about music was severe.

He might have high ideals, such as if he could have noble mind.

To quote the words that he was well-liked,

“In jazz, brass instrument is a man, reed instrument is woman.

The role of the rhythm section make a place for dating of men and women of love.

The rhthm section absolutely must not interfere with two people of love.”

Also he told about solo parformance to Eiji Kitamura who was japanese clarinettist.

“You must use your physical completely.

At that time you are conscious of a great ideas in your head.

When you become in poor condition,a good idea flash into your mind.

You must take care of those flash.

Shotaro Moriyasu(4)

February 18.2016

Practice method of piano MoriTamotsu was interesting.

A finger tarining was stood a finger.

Both arms muscle were training by the ‘Pickles stone’.

Both arms muscle were training by iron array.

His fingers were training with a box of sand.

Because he had known significance of shoulder and arm ,and finger for pianist.

When talking about Moriyasu,his acrobatics performance was a famous topic.

He was a piano in the back ,and sat down under piano.

He stretch out his both arm, and place his fingers on the keyboard, and play.

They were all the placement of the finger reverse.

He mastered the acrobatics performance by practice.
He played always the acrobatics in his live stage.
Why he was such a thing?

For manic depression, when he came to the manic state, he showed off the acrobatics.

Also to please the customer, he played the acrobatics by himself.

His friends stopped his whimsy, but he had been continued stubbornly.

Manic depression seemed to have affected his health.

Shotaro Moriyasu(3)

February 17.2016

At that time, Sadao Watanabe was 21 years old.

He was nine years younger than Moriyasu.

Moriyasu loved Watanabe as his favorite pupil.

The idol of Watanabe was Charlie Parker.

Watanabe had been listening in desperately Bird’s solo.

Unfortunately,he was not able to scacely understand Bird’s solo.

He could not caught chord progression and harmony.

On the one hand Moriyasu had listened to the Bird’s solo from the speakers of the jazz cafe ,and wrote down all chord progression and harmony at an music sheet.

After a few days, Watanabe received musical score from Moriyasu.

Toshiko Akiyosi was talking about Moriyasu.

“We were not knowing well each other.
There was not the fact I had cried at the funeral.
I never got the musical score from Moriyasu.
Rather I was better to give the musical score to other musician.”

The author has interviewed other musicians except Akiyoshi.

At the time Akiyoshi was still immature about piano technique.
Her technique was a considerable difference than Moriyasu.
Received the news of Moriyasu suicide, she was crying was the fact.
She called him “older brother” with adoring.
She had been get musical score from Moriyasu.

 

 

Shotaro Moriyasu(2)

February 16.2016

When he would start to play,he did not tell the song name.

Other pianists did not try to change him.

Also all saxophonists were not in the same league as him.

So,they did not keep up with his complexity chord progression.

The performance of Moriyasu Shotaro never go down in history except “Mocambo Sessions”

There was tenor saxophonist named Akira Miyazawa.

Akira Miyazawa said:”Compared with my childish sax tenar play, Moriyasu Shotaro was terrific.
I was trembling with fear all over because his piano playing was improvisation such as out of the fire.”

Other players were continued to follow Moriyasu desperately.

This jam session was definitely the essence of modern jazz.

Creativity and improvisation were characteristic in Jazz.

50 years ago Moriyasu Shotaro had realized the most high level in modern jazz.