神戸ジャズ愛好会(2017年7月)

July 11.2017

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昨日、神戸ジャズ愛好会に参加しました。
Harry James(1939年)からMiles Davis(Bitches Brew)まで幅広いジャズが楽しめました。お二人のベテラン会員の方がSidney Bechetの演奏を合計6曲も紹介されました。以下詳細を記載致します。

T氏の選曲
(1) Blackstick(American Rhythm)
(2)Mon Homme
Bill Coleman (tp); Sidney Bechet (ss) ;Big Boy Goodie (ts) ;Charlie Lewis (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (ds)
Paris, France, October 20, 1949
Sidney Bechet Dial LP 301 Blackstick With Sidney Bechet

(3)Nelly Gray
(4)Old Grey Bonnet
(5)Apex Blues
Marcel Bornstein (cor); Jean-Louis Durand (tb) ;Andre Reweliotty (cl); Sidney Bechet (ss); Yannick Singery (p); Zozo D’Halluin (b); Michel Pacout (ds-5),Wallace Bishop(ds-3.4) September 7, 1951. Paris
Sidney Bechet　Dial 302 Sidney Bechet With Wally Bishop’s Orchestra

N氏の選曲
(6)Blues Final
Aime Barelli, Miles Davis, Hot Lips Page, Kenny Dorham, Bill Coleman (tp); Russell Moore, Big Chief(tb); Hubert Rostaing (cl); Sidney Bechet (ss)Pierre Braslavsky(ss); Charlie Parker (as); Don Byas ,James Moody (ts); Hazy Osterwald (vib); Toots Thielemans (g); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (ds)
May 15, 1949 .Paris

映像コーナーで下記ビデオが上映されました。
Here is Jam Session from the Timex All-Star Jazz Show(1959)
Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Vic Dickenson, Jo Jones, Duke Ellington, George Shearing,Shelly Manne, among others.
January 7, 1959.

最後になりましたが、小生は「1940年代のジャズ」というテーマに沿って下記のレコードをご紹介しました。再生時にはオーディオパークのCDで聞いて頂きました。

(1)Opening~stopmpin’ at The Savoy(1:25)
(2)Swedish Pastry(3:47)
Benny Goodman, Stan Hasselgard (cl); Wardell Gray (ts); Red Rodney(tp);Wardell gray(ts);Mary Lou Williams (p); Billy Bauer (g); Clyde Lombardi (b); Mel Zelnick (ds); Glen Adams (mc).
Broadcast, WNEW “The Benny Goodman Show” broadcast,
NYC, June 26, July 3,1948

(3)Fat Girl (2:19)
Fats Navarro(tp); Leo Parker(bs);Tadd Dameron(p); Gene Ramey(b); Denzil Best(ds)
NYC January 29, 1947

(4)Progression(3:02)
Lennie Tristano(p);Lee Konitz(a) ;Billy Bauer(g); Arnold Fishkin(b); Shelly Manne(ds)
NYC, January 11, 1949

Stan Getz and Allen Eager on Savoy(5)

January 06.2017

Allen Eager remains one of the unheralded giants of the tenor sax in the 1940s.

He could swing in an eerily similar fashion to Lester Young

Also Wardell Gray was an equally early Lester Young exponent on the West Coast.

Last Year I had read an interesting interview about “Teddy Reig’s All Stars(1947)”

Marty Napoleon who was known as the pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All Stars talks with JazzWax.

June 02, 2011
Interview: Marty Napoleon (Part 2)
I got a call from Teddy Reig , the producer at Savoy. He asked me to play the session with Shelly Manne, Kai Winding, Allen and Eddie Safranski. Allen could play beautifully but he was a strange guy.
In the studio, he refused to play anything everyone suggested. He kept saying the stuff was too square. So we recorded four tracks that were based on the chord changes to other things. Like O-go-Mo was based on Idaho.

 

Kai Winding (tb) Allen Eager (ts) Marty Napoleon (p) Eddie Safranski (b) Shelly Manne (ds) Teddy Reig (director) NYC, January 22, 1947
“O-Go-Mo”, “Mr. Dues”,”Oh, Kai (as Kai’s Day)”,”Saxon”

Even Japan we can hear four recordings on Spotify.Go here and here, and here and here

日本でも無料のSpotifyで4曲を聞くことが可能になりました。

Please refer to “original-jazzville/jojo” about his all recordings.Go here

Allen Eagerについては大阪梅田の兎我野町にあったジャズ喫茶「JOJO」のマスターが連載されているブログが最も参考になります。こちらをクリック

 

Here is Allen Eager Quartet play “Rampage”.(1946)

Here is Allen Eager plays “Jane’s Bounce”(1947)

Stan Getz and Allen Eager on Savoy(4)

January 06.2017

Photo above of Kai Winding

When Stan Getz was 18 years old ,Savoy’s producer Teddy Reig first hired him as sideman of Kai Winding.

Today I want to post about the recording before his leader’s work in Savoy Records.

In December 12. and 14.1945 Teddy Reig produced Kai Winding’s leader work.

Kai named his band “Kai’s Crazy Cats” and The members were Stan Getz(ts) ,Shorty Allen (p), Iggy Shevack (b) ,Shelly Manne (ds).

They recorded four tunes ,”Sweet Miss”“Loaded”“Grab Your Axe, Max”“Always”.

Stan played superb performance at “Grab Your Axe, Max”.

Fortunately we can hear their recordings(including alternate takes) on YouTube.

Recently All recordings were uploaded to YouTube.

Here is Kai Winding Quartet and Stan Getz play “Sweet Miss”.

Here is “Sweet Miss (alternate take)”.

Here is Kai Winding Quartet and Stan Getz play “Loaded”.

Here is “Loaded (alternate take)”.

Here is Kai Winding Quartet and Stan Getz play “Grab Your Axe Max”.

Here is “Grab Your Axe Max (alternate take)”.

Here is Kai Winding Quartet and Stan Getz play “Always”.