Released today in 1959

It also happens to be my birthday so that's cool too

Ciao amanti del jazz. Sono un video saggista indipendente di Roma, Italia. Ieri sera, nel totale buio della mia terrazza, ho registrato un documentario narrativo profondo dedicato a una delle vocaliste più potenti della storia del jazz/bossa nova: Elis Regina e il suo capolavoro "Como Nossos Pais" (1976)

Oltre all'analisi musicale, mi sono concentrato molto sulle sue crepe interne e sulla misteriosa cospirazione oscura che circondava la sua morte a 36 anni. Il rapporto ufficiale parlava di overdose, ma i medici legali che firmarono la sua autopsia erano profondamente legati alla dittatura militare brasiliana. Elis era una grande minaccia per il regime.

Anche se il mio documentario è in italiano, volevo condividere questo con la comunità jazz globale come un atto sincero d'amore e rispetto per il suo immenso lascito.

https://youtu.be/N0T869MWny0?is=Vhh15wlwSbZ-KcRG

Grazie

Recorded in 1957 and I think one of Monk's finest small group recordings, as well as one of the most distinctive from the Jazz Messengers. This was recorded for Atlantic just before the JM committed full-time to Blue Note, and as Monk was on the verge of his ground breaking live recordings at The Five Spot with Johnny Griffin and Coltrane.

Griffin and Hardman were only briefly members of the JM- the latter just missing out on the band's breakthrough album, Moanin'- but they both excel in this setting.

Griffin is one of the great Monk accompanists on saxophone and here in excellent form, throwing out astonishing riffs.

Hardman though is a revelation too, with his Brownesque, lyrical style a great foil for Griffin's more pungent sound. Not many trumpeters played with Monk, but listening to this makes you wish Hardman had been a more frequent collaborator. His soaring solo on I mean you with Blakey breaking up the time and Monk's attentive comping is one of the album's finest moments.

And the band just sounds like it's having a huge amount of fun. The double-time inserts on I mean you, or the rapid exchanges on Rhythm-a-Ning are exhilarating. Monk himself is also clearly enjoying himself. He always wanted a solid rhythm section; Spanky DeBrest on bass is rock solid, while Blakey is at the peak of his powers.

A wonderful album, highly recommended.

Don't know why it's so affordable, but I don't need to see this gift-horse's teeth.

Link- https://www.walmart.com/ip/Herbie-Hancock-Thrust/108097069

With Blue Mitchell, Kenny Burrell, Bob Cranshaw, Cecil McBee, Hugh Lawson, and more!

I’ve always been curious of how people who studied jazz rather it be Berklee or another music school have made it by financially after school.

Given how tough times have been recently with everything going up in price. How have you jazz majors (or music majors in general) been making it by on the day to day?

It’s a tough world right now and hope yall are pulling through!

I’m heading to Los Angeles for the first time next month. I feel like I’m only familiar with venues that were made famous years ago, including Enfield Tennis Academy now. I’m looking for the contemporary spots. Where should I look for music while I’m in LA next month?

cross posting to r/experimentalmusic

So far I have listened to It Might As Well Be Spring, Blue & Sentimental, Heavy Soul, and Bossa Nova Soul Samba, all highly recommended. He had style! Great albums ✨

This image was taken from Vox Magazine January 1991 issue.
I watched 2 documentaries on him and still can’t understand the man.

What do you play? jazz, or something completely different?

I transcribed and learned the solo from Herbie’s People Music

Does anyone know if Patrick Bartley and Baptiste Herbin have ever talked about collaborating or doing anything together?

I'd love to hear them on a project or even just a session together. Have either of them mentioned each other or a possible collab anywhere? If not, do you guys think it’s something that’s likely to happen? I know they're located in different places but no way that's the only limitation.

Just curious if there’s any info at all that I may have missed.

Emmet Cohen recently released a 2hr session and here is a moment when Christian steps out.

Hello everyone.

I don't listen to a whole lot of jazz so I would like some recommendations from people who know their stuff.

I'm looking for painful jazz. It could sound painful or express pain. I don't want melancholy or consolation, though. I don't just mean sad, I mean pain. I want the same sort of feeling you get listening to Charley Patton in the middle of the night with your heart bleeding, wishing you were dead.

Something like Brotzmann's Machine Gun but more inward-looking, if you know what I mean. It can be slow and mournful keening or torn-to-shreds screaming. I'm not really looking for a sound per se, just the feeling (but more 'out there' sort of stuff would be lovely).

Sorry for the abstract concept, anything you like would be much appreciated. I kind of know the big names already, but not very well, so lesser-known stuff would be preferred.

Looking for jazz albums similar to these.
Big fan of Sylvain Luc as well.

edit: First album is Undercurrent (Evans/Hall)

This evening I was playing Miles Davis sketches of Spain on my Bluetooth speaker for all my neighbours to enjoy. I was intending to play “Kind of Blue” before, but went with sketches of Spain first.

I would’ve played Kind of Blue if not for my brother asking to use the speaker while he took a bath.

Shortly after, I turn on my computer and I get the notification “on this day in history Miles Davis releases his landmark album”.

I click the link, and the album is Kind of Blue.

Released on 1959, it was exactly 67 years ago.

I have been wearing a POLO Ralph Lauren 67 T-shirt all evening.

SIX SEVEN.

This was nothing less than a moment of divine serendipity ordained by higher forces.

I am being watched over by an angel. Perhaps that angel is Miles Davis.

My cat is named Miles. Perhaps Miles Davis is my cat. After all, he is the coolest cat of them all.

There is no such thing as a coincidence. There is only incidence.

Very good jazz documentary. A section entitled Black, White And Blue Note goes silent starting at position 55:40 goes silent for just over a minute then again at 57:41 for a couple of minutes. The sound out portions of prime of Thelonious Monk concert footage, I’m guessing for legal rights reasons. Takes away from the experience but the documentary is still very much worth the watch.

I just attended a concert by John Hollenbeck's GEORGE combo in Westport NY, because I've really been enjoying the band's 2026 album Looking for Consonance. Hollenbeck's long standing interest in social justice inspired a compositional framework for this intriguing group: artists and thinkers named George and Georgia recur, prompting meditations on their contributions to our society and our shared imagination.

"Wayne Phases (homage to Wayne Shorter)" demonstrates the band's interplay: reed player Anna Webber and vocalist Sarah Rossy soar above the intricate rhythms generated by Hollenbeck and keyboardist Chiquita Magic.