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There seems to be a current trend among record companies
to re-release vintage recordings under the title of a collection
or series. Supposedly this gives the listening public a chance to
broaden its knowledge in a certain area.
So, I decided I might as well do a little plugging of music I
enjoy. United Artists (UA) has started a jazz series called The
Douglas Collection. To its credit, UA has not resorted to the
volumes gambit. Instead each album in the collection focuses
on an individual who played an important part in the
progression of jazz, such as Billie "Lady Day" Holiday, King
Pleasure, Duke Ellington-Charlie Mingus-Max Roach, Art
Blakey and the Jazz Messangers and John Coltrane.
Unfortunately, with the exception of the
Ellington-Mingus-Roach disc, which was recorded in 1962, the
rest of the records are undated. As close as I can tell, it appears
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that the albums were recorded between the early 1950's and
the mid 1960's.
Lady Day
Di!!ie Holiday's Lady Love is a delight Recorded before two
audiences, side one offers Billie backed by piano, bass and
drums. She opens with Rodgers and Hart's standard Blue
Moon," sr.d moves through six more numbers with "My Man"
and a request, "I Cover the Waterfront," highlighting that side.
"Lady Day" changes grooves on side two, moving into a jam
session with some excellent jazz musicians.
Moody's Mood For Love features King Pleasure. During
jazz's infancy, brass and reed instruments were used to imitate
the human voice. Scatting or scat singing reversed this process
by using wordless vocal improvisation to imitate the
instruments.
Pure Pleasure
. Influenced by some of jazz's great saxophonists (Lester
Young, James Moody, Charlie Parker and Stan Getz) Pleasure
combines word with scatting to devalope a unique and
different style of performing. '" -
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Money Jungle features Ellington on piano, Mingus on bass
and Roach on drums. Ellington also wrots all the charts on the
album.
Side one opens with the title song headlined by Ellington's
driving piano. The Duke's lilting piano and Mingus' flitting
string bass set the mood for "Fleurette Africaine."
Hauntingly beautiful "Solitude" is included on side two, as
well as the powerful Ellington big-band standard "Caravan"
which is superby handled by the trio.
Recorded live at the Rennaisance in Hollywood, 3 Blind
Mice features Art Blakey and the Jazz Messangers. Blakey's
drumming is characteristically fine and the Jazz Messangers,
lead by talented Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on
trombone and Wayne Shorter on tenor, provide solid support.
The inner beauty given to side one's oldie "Blue Moon" by
Hubbard's trumpet is inspiring. Side two is the better of the
two sides. Tenor man Shorter steals the spotlight on "Plexis",
while everyone gets their lick in on "Up Jumped Spring."
Benny Carter's "When Lights Are Low" features a nice solo by
trombonist Fuller.
Some years back I was talking with a friend of mine who
supposedly knew something about jazz. I happened to
mention John Coltrane. His response was "Who dat?" To
which my tempered reply was "Man if you don't know, there
ain't no way to tell you."
Trane time
Along with such great names as Louis Armstrong, Lester
Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, tenor
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untimely death in T 967.
Coltrane Time features Trane and friends: Cecil
Taylorpiano, Kenny Dorhamtrumpet, Chuck Israelsbass and
Louis Hayes drums, in some excellent "cool" jazz.
The album includes four cuts, all well worth the listening
time, "Shifting Down," "Just Friends", "Like Someone in
Love" and "Double Clutching."
Trane does some exceptionally nice work on "Shifting
Down" and "Double Clutching."
The United Artist's Douglas Collection provides an
interesting, entertaining and informative insight into the
various jazz artists featured. An additional positive point is the
inclusion of a discography of each featured artist, for those
people who would like to study an artist in more depth.
The only bad aspect of the Douglas Collection is that I
doubt if any of the local record stores will think the Lincoln
jazz audience is large enough to warrent stocking it. I hope I'm
wrong.
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daily nebraskan
friday, december 8, 1972
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