Nothing but jazz...

VSOP... wow, I haven't heard that in a while. I wore the grooves out of their live album ("The Quintet") back in college. Those guys were on fire that night.

On a similar note, I picked up Herbie's "Empyrean Isles" last week, and have been playing it almost nonstop ever since. It's basically the VSOP band minus Wayne Shorter, but recorded much earlier (1964) when they were young & hungry. This is the album with "Cantaloupe Island", arguably the definitive Blue Note funk jam. But what's really interesting is that they go off in so many other directions on this album, and nail each one. The liner notes say: "It's as if Hancock had set out to present changes, modal, funk and free playing and delivered each at its apex." I can't argue with that.

Nice to see some other jazzheads around here.
 
Brother, can you spare a han

As proof, that jazz isn't dead, here's "News From Verona" from the Portico Quartet that demonstrates jazz is continually evolving

Notice the right hand side of the video, the gentleman is playing a pair of hangs (pronounced as "han")

The hang is a new instrument develop in Sweden and is a cross between a steel drum, gong, steel pan, drum, etc.
 
Charles Mingus

Yeah, so Duke Ellington tossed Charles out of the band for chasing someone down the hall with a fire ax.

Now, hear the passion and intensity of Mingus "For Harry Carney"
 
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