Great video. Those Contemporary releases, particularly up to 1963, are incredible. Pretty much anything is worth picking up if you see it. And the sound quality is magnificent, including early stereo of which they were innovators and masters. And dollar for dollar, OPs way better value for the collector than Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside etc. Just start getting hold of Shelly Manne records (rarely if ever released a bad one) and go from there.
I love all kinds of music - rock, soul, folk, country, bluegrass, jazz, blues - but after watching your vids I always think jazz is the queen/king of all genres !
Harold Land album at 19:50 is fantastic with the short-lived Carl Perkins on piano (who composed the song Grooveyard that you're playing --- an absolute monster on piano). The album cover with the Watts Towers (built over a 30 year period by Italian immigrant laborer Sabato "Simon" Rodia gets discussed in Charles Mingus's memoir, Beneath the Underdog) is worth the price of admission. Land continued to record as a leader in the '60s and '70s and I believe also taught in the UCLA system in the '80s and '90s.
Terrific Stuff...Thank You.....dig that Harold Land Watts Towers lp Cover shot....i also like Jimmy Woods "Conflict" 1963 with Carmell Jones, Harold Land & Elvin Jones........Duane Tatro's "Jazz For Moderns" 1954-55 with that great Futuristic Car lp cover shot
@@TheJazzShepherd Yeah, me too! Although I've got some nice goodies in the mail lately. Per your video's I picked up Ike Quebec-Soul Samba on CD. The original mono vinyl cost is crazy! I also got a NM mono of Miles-Workin' from Europe. It took a long time to get here but it sounds amazing!
i just got what must be a repress of the 1988 OJC way out west - it sounds fantastic and what an album i really love most of what i have heard on contemporary ... especially the poll winners / art pepper stuff ... especially the album he made in the mid 70s after prison - living legend . the songs he wrote on there are great. almost everything they recorded sounds amazing too - dunann was a genius
Hello to you, love your site. Some of the musicians mentioned feature in 1958 movie : I want to live, ( club scene )staring Susan Hayward. Musicians : Art Farmer, Shelly Manne, Frank Rosalino, Bud Shank etc.
Hi dan. Great west coast stuff. Love harold lands the fox on hi-fi jazz with the great trumpeter dupree bolton (check out youtube frank evans frankly jazz from los angeles in the sixties with curtis amy and dupree!) Curtis amy on pacific jazz...use to hang out at shellys manne hole in the sixties in los angeles and always saw shelly's band. Great memories!..Checkmate and Boss Sounds( with the underated frank strozier are two really nice manne albums.
@@reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551 all his albums are great. Love his powerful solos on booker ervin's Exhultation album on prestige and his playing on shelly manne's Boss Sounds on atlantic. Evidently he ended up playing piano at a concert in new york years ago and i think is still with us quietly living somewhere back east. I wish someone would bring him back for one more session with a stellar group like herbie, holland, dejohnette etc.!!!
@@TheJazzShepherd the sixties in l.a. were wonderful for jazz. Saw miles(with herbie,shorter, carter, williams), monk, ornette,konitz, bill evans,lloyd, etc.but there are also so many up and coming young musicians now (zoe obadia, veronica leahy, etc.) Jazz is alive and well.
@@moisesarellano8963 Several times, he often came to Europe from the end of the 70's (France and Switzerland) until his tragic death too in 1984. He was a good friend of mine with the years. Same as the deaths of Rosolino and Kamuca and a few others. Shelly told me that that night when Joe's appartment fired, Joe played really fabulously, one of the best night he ever heard him play (at the Shelly's Manne Hole). 3 hours later, he was dead ... Hey, that's a HUGE SHOCK !
@@reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551 That's a great anecdote. I believe that as a producer you should have lots of them you should share those in a channel :) Our friend Dan here is doing great by talking about this amazing music, it is good to meet new people like you through his channel. Cheers!!
@@moisesarellano8963 Thanks a lot Man. Well, as I knew a lot of those guys VERY WELL and close, yes, I have a lot to day but I still don't know if people will be interested to see and hear me ... It seems that you are a huge fan too !
Hi Dan another great informative set I’m trying to make a list of all these albums it’s hard keeping up it would be great if you could suggest two must have at the end of each section but are they all must haves!! Thanks again Tony
Super video ! There's a real story about how all this in Jazz happened, by accident I should say. Too long to explain but one day I'll. 99 % of those musicians which are catalogued as "Jazz West Coast players" come all from the East coast ! So it's very funny how people (critics are the first responsible to write all those very wrong infos) don't really know and, mix up the total thing.
I have some of Barney Kessels early stuff, including an old Contemporary 10inch, I love his early playing, but after his studio career his stuff was not so great, so I would recommend stick to the early stuff, later he started his strange sweeping technic and became a little sloppy and to me was always to much ahead of the beat. I remember as I studied in NY in the early 90´s they where collecting money to buy Barney a wheelchair, not a good ending, no money left after such a career, don't play jazz for the money.
Hi Dan . Your words 'The African American's have a different edge' That in my opinion precisely defines the differences, notional or not, between the west coast cool players and the east coast camp. Many of the cool school of musicians emerged out of highly talented session men working for the Hollywood Studios or in bands like Stan Kenton's, who's brief was to churn out fairly sanitised, orchestrated jazz music that appealed to a majority white audience. In time, through integation, that 'different edge' did start to creep into west coast music and great coloured musicians had the opportunity to be recognised for their art. These days I don't play many Albums recorded in the early days of the West Coast because I don't get the same buzz I used to from them. Right now the exceptions are Hampton Hawes and Art Pepper whose music I play a lot and are forever on a high in my opinion . ('High' is perhaps the wrong word ito use in their case ???) Your Pacific and Contemporary sessions were great to see and hear. Keep 'm coming Best regards
People love Ar Pepper , I have never gotten too into him!! Yes , the black experience here creates that edge, some thing the white guys at best could only sympathize with!!
Strange Dan you're not so keen on Art P He is at his absolutely blistering best on a live Album ' Blues for The Fishermen' by The Milcho Leviev Quartet on Mole Jazz Label 1980 . LP is very cheap on Discog.
@@discus276 I have just never connected with him as a listener, I donr dislike him, just have never had that moment that crystalizes your love of a musician!!
Dan, similarly, I don't go for Paul Desmond's work but I really like altoists Charles McPherson, Lee Konitz, Hal McKusick, Sony Stitt , Bud Shank, Oliver Nelson and of course Bird and many others.
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Your channel is a fantastic joy and good luck to your warriors from a life long Suns fan
Great video. Those Contemporary releases, particularly up to 1963, are incredible. Pretty much anything is worth picking up if you see it. And the sound quality is magnificent, including early stereo of which they were innovators and masters.
And dollar for dollar, OPs way better value for the collector than Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside etc. Just start getting hold of Shelly Manne records (rarely if ever released a bad one) and go from there.
appreciate it, for showing and telling the story about all these recordings.
Your welcome I enjoy it
I love all kinds of music - rock, soul, folk, country, bluegrass, jazz, blues - but after watching your vids I always think jazz is the queen/king of all genres !
Yeah , well JAZZ is kind of the KING if you ask me!!
thnx for watching!!
Dan,how have you had the time to listen to everything???!!!Another fantastic presentation!
a luxury afforded by being a DJ and werking 15-29 hours a week.... you can put in another 60 hours at home listeining n learning
Just picked up the Hampton Hawes volume 1 C3545. Another great recommendation!
Hampton is a special player
Harold Land album at 19:50 is fantastic with the short-lived Carl Perkins on piano (who composed the song Grooveyard that you're playing --- an absolute monster on piano). The album cover with the Watts Towers (built over a 30 year period by Italian immigrant laborer Sabato "Simon" Rodia gets discussed in Charles Mingus's memoir, Beneath the Underdog) is worth the price of admission. Land continued to record as a leader in the '60s and '70s and I believe also taught in the UCLA system in the '80s and '90s.
Terrific Stuff...Thank You.....dig that Harold Land Watts Towers lp Cover shot....i also like Jimmy Woods "Conflict" 1963 with Carmell Jones, Harold Land & Elvin Jones........Duane Tatro's "Jazz For Moderns" 1954-55 with that great Futuristic Car lp cover shot
I love that album cover too!! The Tatro and the Land lp
Love the stories you weave into discussing all of the releases. Great job once again, Dan!!!
thnx Buddy!! Cant wait for this shit to be over!!
@@TheJazzShepherd Yeah, me too! Although I've got some nice goodies in the mail lately. Per your video's I picked up Ike Quebec-Soul Samba on CD. The original mono vinyl cost is crazy! I also got a NM mono of Miles-Workin' from Europe. It took a long time to get here but it sounds amazing!
Wonderful video. I picked up the Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee recently and really enjoy it!
that is a great record!
i just got what must be a repress of the 1988 OJC way out west - it sounds fantastic and what an album
i really love most of what i have heard on contemporary ... especially the poll winners / art pepper stuff ... especially the album he made in the mid 70s after prison - living legend . the songs he wrote on there are great. almost everything they recorded sounds amazing too - dunann was a genius
Hello to you, love your site. Some of the musicians mentioned feature in 1958 movie : I want to live, ( club scene )staring Susan Hayward. Musicians : Art Farmer, Shelly Manne, Frank Rosalino, Bud Shank etc.
I do not think I have ever seen that movie!!
Hello to you, Saw this movie in Brighton, UK ( 1959 )
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Great video as always. Do you remember which Hampton Hawes album you’re playing starting at 15:10?
No I sure do not remember...... sorry man
Hi dan. Great west coast stuff. Love harold lands the fox on hi-fi jazz with the great trumpeter dupree bolton (check out youtube frank evans frankly jazz from los angeles in the sixties with curtis amy and dupree!) Curtis amy on pacific jazz...use to hang out at shellys manne hole in the sixties in los angeles and always saw shelly's band. Great memories!..Checkmate and Boss Sounds( with the underated frank strozier are two really nice manne albums.
The 'Fox' is a great album. Also love the Harold Land + Carmell Jones tracks ( CD on Lonehilljazz Label)
that must have been a great place to hang out!!!!
Wow what a memory that must be!
@@reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551 all his albums are great. Love his powerful solos on booker ervin's Exhultation album on prestige and his playing on shelly manne's Boss Sounds on atlantic. Evidently he ended up playing piano at a concert in new york years ago and i think is still with us quietly living somewhere back east. I wish someone would bring him back for one more session with a stellar group like herbie, holland, dejohnette etc.!!!
@@TheJazzShepherd the sixties in l.a. were wonderful for jazz. Saw miles(with herbie,shorter, carter, williams), monk, ornette,konitz, bill evans,lloyd, etc.but there are also so many up and coming young musicians now (zoe obadia, veronica leahy, etc.) Jazz is alive and well.
@@alansenzaki4148 u saw some of the best ever!
The Joe Gordon is one of my favorites is a shame he did not record more stuff :(
He did very young, in the fire of his appartment. Fantastic player. Shelly Manne told me that he never "recovered" of this tragic death.
@@reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551 Did you meet Shelly Manne? I knew about the fired but not the impact on Manne.
@@moisesarellano8963 Several times, he often came to Europe from the end of the 70's (France and Switzerland) until his tragic death too in 1984. He was a good friend of mine with the years. Same as the deaths of Rosolino and Kamuca and a few others. Shelly told me that that night when Joe's appartment fired, Joe played really fabulously, one of the best night he ever heard him play (at the Shelly's Manne Hole). 3 hours later, he was dead ... Hey, that's a HUGE SHOCK !
@@reisserjean-michelakabeeth8551 That's a great anecdote. I believe that as a producer you should have lots of them you should share those in a channel :) Our friend Dan here is doing great by talking about this amazing music, it is good to meet new people like you through his channel. Cheers!!
@@moisesarellano8963 Thanks a lot Man. Well, as I knew a lot of those guys VERY WELL and close, yes, I have a lot to day but I still don't know if people will be interested to see and hear me ... It seems that you are a huge fan too !
Curtis Counces' group albums on Contemporary. As great and swingin' as anything of it's time!
Hi Dan another great informative set I’m trying to make a list of all these albums it’s hard keeping up it would be great if you could suggest two must have at the end of each section but are they all must haves!! Thanks again Tony
def all werth seeking out.... For the most part, anythung on these labels is gonna be high quality!!
Hampton Hawes is a monster. Seems to be a bit underrated by collectors now.
There’s just something Barney K’s music that does it for me
I am with you!!!
Super video ! There's a real story about how all this in Jazz happened, by accident I should say. Too long to explain but one day I'll. 99 % of those musicians which are catalogued as "Jazz West Coast players" come all from the East coast ! So it's very funny how people (critics are the first responsible to write all those very wrong infos) don't really know and, mix up the total thing.
Yea it is suprising to see how many originate in the east!!
I have some of Barney Kessels early stuff, including an old Contemporary 10inch, I love his early playing, but after his studio career his stuff was not so great, so I would recommend stick to the early stuff, later he started his strange sweeping technic and became a little sloppy and to me was always to much ahead of the beat. I remember as I studied in NY in the early 90´s they where collecting money to buy Barney a wheelchair, not a good ending, no money left after such a career, don't play jazz for the money.
Whats that old saying if you want to make a million dollars out of Jazz, go into Jazz with two million dollars.
I laughed out loud!!!
how do you make a small fortune in jazz
start with a large one
Hi Dan . Your words 'The African American's have a different edge' That in my opinion precisely defines the differences, notional or not, between the west coast cool players and the east coast camp. Many of the cool school of musicians emerged out of highly talented session men working for the Hollywood Studios or in bands like Stan Kenton's, who's brief was to churn out fairly sanitised, orchestrated jazz music that appealed to a majority white audience. In time, through integation, that 'different edge' did start to creep into west coast music and great coloured musicians had the opportunity to be recognised for their art. These days I don't play many Albums recorded in the early days of the West Coast because I don't get the same buzz I used to from them. Right now the exceptions are Hampton Hawes and Art Pepper whose music I play a lot and are forever on a high in my opinion . ('High' is perhaps the wrong word ito use in their case ???)
Your Pacific and Contemporary sessions were great to see and hear. Keep 'm coming
Best regards
People love Ar Pepper , I have never gotten too into him!!
Yes , the black experience here creates that edge, some thing the white guys at best could only sympathize with!!
A great response bTW!
Strange Dan you're not so keen on Art P He is at his absolutely blistering best on a live Album ' Blues for The Fishermen' by The Milcho Leviev Quartet on Mole Jazz Label 1980 . LP is very cheap on Discog.
@@discus276 I have just never connected with him as a listener, I donr dislike him, just have never had that moment that crystalizes your love of a musician!!
Dan, similarly, I don't go for Paul Desmond's work but I really like altoists Charles McPherson, Lee Konitz, Hal McKusick, Sony Stitt , Bud Shank, Oliver Nelson and of course Bird and many others.
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