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Last.FM Milestones10000th track: (26 Nov 2010)
Ahmad Jamal - Autumn Leaves
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around april 2010, jazz really clicked for me and i got kinda obsessive about it. so far i've even bought about half a dozen books i'm still working my way through... i'm really glad though and look forward to delving even deeper into all kinds of jazz.

here's an interesting rundown of jazz musicians in my top 100 of all time (almost 6 years in total):
22 Miles Davis
39 John Coltrane
65 Thelonious Monk
88 Ahmad Jamal
and then a few more:
145 Charlie Parker
152 Herbie Hancock
211 Charles Mingus

and here's a list of the jazz musicians in my top 100 of just the past year:
2 Miles Davis
7 Thelonious Monk
10 John Coltrane
14 Ahmad Jamal
33 Charlie Parker
65 Eric Dolphy
70 Charles Mingus
71 Ornette Coleman
83 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
96 Sun Ra

i went from zero jazz musicians in the top 20 overall to four in last year's top 15! that's a pretty big jump

to be fair, Herbie Hancock would probably be higher, but his songs are too long so they don't tally up as frequently.
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Quinta fui ao show de Ahmad Jamal no Bridgestone Music Festival. Grande mestre. Já tinha visto um grande show de jazz antes, Jimmy Cobb em quinteto executando o “Kind of Blue”. A grande diferença de se ver um band leader no palco é perceber como ele conduz as coisas todas. Dava pra se sentir dentro do estúdio com os caras ao imaginar essa mesma dinâmica desenrolando-se numa sessão de gravação. Jamal chamava os solos um a um nos intervalos entre seus ataques ferozes ao piano. Improvisação violenta por toda a parte e quase não sobra nada de mim pra contar a história. Tinha um ingresso extra e levei o índio, cujos gritos de ovação e entusiasmo confirmaram minhas suspeitas de que seria um bom uso para a entrada.

Show paralelo foi o do espetacular baterista do quarteto, Herlin Riley. O sujeito estava em chamas e mandava solos diante dos quais não se podia fazer nada além de olhar incrédulo e rir muito sem saber exatamente do quê. …

An couple hours of various covers of Ellington compositions. Decided to throw in several different versions of Duke playing Solitude as an example of the changes he'd make to his own compositions depending on the setting. Next week--spotlight on Duke's rhythm section & vocalists.

Swing Plus #57
4/21/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1-Hot & Bothered – Mercer Ellington 1984
2-Solitude – Duke Ellington 1946
3-Everything But You – Eugenie Baird
4-I’m Beginning to See the Light – Al Casey
5-I Like the Sunrise – Mel Torme
6-Azure – Artie Shaw
7-Rockin’ In Rhythm – Charlie Barnet 1940
8-Rocks in My Bed – Joe Turner
9-Warm Valley – Marty Paich
10-Solitude (alt) – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach 1962
11-I’m Just a Lucky So & So – Ella Fitzgerald
12-Main Stem – Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
13-Mood Indigo – Sidney Bechet 1941
14-It Don’t Mean a Thing – Stuff Smith
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Thu 9 Apr – Tom Moon - 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List

Thanks to Books & Books, in Coral Gables, FL for hosting Tom Moon!! It was a great and fun event - with a full house - and I enjoyed it a lot!! Wish we could have extended it to a patio party with spinning by Mr. Moon.... Lô Borges, Milton, Elis and much more....

Also, I assume the author had a good time at his former residence town, while being able to review some of his old friends – who seemed to be in line for an autograph, as myself. Books & Books – bring on the vinyls....

Very participative audience, which was allowed to interrupt with questions and remarks at any point of the presentation. This could have meaned opening a can of worms but, actually, most of the remarks were indeed appropriate and smart. Only impact was that most likely the playlist that author Moon had planned to spin was affected and reduced. But anyways…

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Hey listeners,

It’s that time of the month again, or thereabouts.

A* steps in to fold this month digging deep exploring new waters and delving into unchartered territories. Kicking off with The J.B’s & IG Culture’s Black, A* masterfully sets the tone with an all round funk, brukish & latin affair.

The Reel People collective fly in like Flynn featuring Omar on Outta Love before this mix glides into the future with the likes of Model 500 & Kaidi & Dego’s supreme Move Over. Look out for Pleasure’s Straight Ahead remixed by the ever progressive Kyoto Jazz Massive & a new cut by South London based collective, Insomniax ; ).

Carl Craig’s Landcrusing seems as future proof as a sun stroked 69’ SL Mercedes, & on a decidedly Latin tip, Peven Everett blows through setting the pace with Put Your Back Into It. Jose Gonzalez…

Well, it's that time again: the time when the new year is so close you can't possibly hold off compiling a "Best of" list for the year you haven't quite moved out of yet. End-of-the-year lists aren't a perfect art, because most people continue to find albums from any given year that will eventually become personal favorites. Still, I like to compile lists at the end of each year, if only to have a snapshot of what really excited me at that point in my life, however different such lists might look if I updated them to reflect my current tastes. Here's what's good for 2008:

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28. Pentemple - O))) Presents...
sunnO))) live with drums! Not sure about the name-change for this particular release, but the traditional sunnO))) formula works beautifully with drums (something we sort of already heard with the Boris collaboration).

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IL RITORNO DEL JAZZ CLUB DI BOLOGNA E DI ALBERTO ALBERTI
(1984-1988)
L’Assessore Soster fu quindi costretta nel febbraio 1984 ad accettare la collaborazione del Jazz Club di Bologna (direttore artistico Alberto Alberti) per quella che sarà l’ultima, ma senz’altro la più apprezzata, stagione di Filippo Bianchi quale direttore artistico di Jazz in Bologna. I nomi di Mc-Coy Tyner, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Jay McShan di nuovo richiamano schiere di appassionati. La rassegna ’84 - ’85 è affidata dalla Soster direttamente al Jazz Club pur con fondi veramente esigui ed il pubblico torna ad affollare la sala Europa per il grande ritorno del mitico Dizzy Gillespie. Seguiranno Chet Bakere Cedar Walton, Illinois Jacquet e Red Norvo, e tanti altri jazzisti famosi.
La stagione 1986 fu affidata ancora al Jazz Club dal nuovo Assessore Riccomini, con un budget ben più importante; si aprì con Sarah Vaughan e proseguì con una serie di concerti prestigiosi. …