Quiet JAZZ recommendations

Some great stuff on these two double albums.

A best of Chet Baker or collaborations with Art Pepper, Stan Getz and/or Gerry Mulligan are well worth seeking out.

Thorsten - Glad you liked 'Ballads'. I'll try my luck on one more in a slightly different vein.

Basically 4 takes of a slow blues with the 3 trumpeters taking their turns

at solos. The solos in all 4 takes are quite different which makes for interesting

listening. The sound quality is brilliant (even on Spotify - listening at work as I type).

The 1st 3 takes end a bit abruptly as Clark Terry wants to carry on but the rhythm section stops.

The first 2 soloists were apparently working off 8 bars but Terry wanted 12 - unfortunately

the band kept forgetting that until the last take. All 4 takes are excellent.

There are 2 more numbers to round out the album; 'Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams', which is nice

but may be a bit more up tempo than you are looking for. But the last track, a ballad medley,

returns to the slow and sublime, and is pretty special imho.

Lots of other good recommendations have flooded in - you are going to be happily busy.

Enjoy

Sam

Thank you!

Ordered...

Everything on vinyl...no more CD-player...

Excellent suggestions above! Please, please , please try Bill Evans' trio recordings with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. Waltz for Debbie is available in a version with superb alternate takes for a miserly £6:20 on Amazon UK!  Oh, and Sunday at the Village Vanguard.

This may be a bit too mushy for you, but for me, still a fine album.

Oh wow, on vinyl?! That's hard! I have about 200 jazz records I could recommend that are chilled...

Most of the recordings I mentioned are available on 2nd hand vinyl somewhere.

@Vlad - I think the Waltz For Debby version you mention is on CD only. I have it and unfortunately the alternate takes are placed right int he middle which means you basically hear a song repeated which annoys me. Far better to do what the Verve people did and put the takes at the end.

I have Sunday at the Village Vanguard on 180g reissue and it is excellent.

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

You're right, I'm thinking of the CD re-issue. I didn't find the pairing of takes quite so annoying, but I could listen to Bill Evans all day!

Sorry, the picture link did not work. Clark Terry -Clark After Dark

Have it already!!!

An excellent home-grown album, Barbara Thompson - Songs From The Centre Of The Earth.

Only the saxophone sings!

Thanks for including me in such great company, Frank!

I was thinking that since MusicLover asked about sax, I'd shamelessly suggest these two albums which feature one of the very best saxophonists on the planet, Paul McCandless from the group Oregon (not to mention oboe, English horn, bass clarinet, and all manner of flutes). Also features two more of the greatest musicians on the planet, bassist Steve Rodby from the Pat Metheny Group, and drummer Mark Walker from Oregon.

All the best,

Fred Simon

Thanks, will check them out.

"Dreamhouse" is very good.

Add this to you list ML. I put it on for it's first listen for sometime this morning & thought that it fits your requirements perfectly!

Originally Posted by MusicLover:

Thanks, MusicLover!

Thorsten,

Blissful ignorance by Meadow.

Chris

edit: They're awesome live and if you google the above, you'll find some footage. Also googling their label, Edition Records, should give you lots of info, more choices, gigs, stylish photography etc.