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My Favorite Things

Russ Neff over at My Favorite Things brings us another mix for a Monday.

Resolution – Brad Goode – Toy Trumpet
Feelings – Monty Alexander Trio – Montreux Alexander
No Hype Blues – Deep Blue Organ Trio – Goin’ To Town
Dippermouth Blues – Wynton Marsalis Hot Seven – Higher Ground
Road Song – Pat Martino – Remember
Mean What You Say – Eddie Daniels Quartet – Mean What You Say
Dear Old Stockholm – Hal Galper Trio – Agents of Change
Josefina – Gerald Wilson Orchestra – New York, New Sound
You Don’t Know What Love Is – Eldar – Live At The Blue Note
Besame Mucho – Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Solo
listen to it here.
Enjoy!

Andrew Hill – Compulsion!

A couple from Andrew Hill courtesy of destination-out.com, a great place to find some tracks you’ve never heard or paid enough attention to before.

Compulsion & Premonition
AH, piano; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; John Gilmore, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Cecil McBee, bass; Richard Davis, bass (on “Premonition”); Joe Chambers, drums; Nadi Qamar, percussion; Renaud Simmons, conga.

Hill recorded a series of albums for Blue Note in the mid-Sixties that cemented his reputation, at least among those that heard them; 1964’s Point of Departure is probably the central text (and has more or less remained in print for the duration), but others like Smoke Stack, Andrew!, Black Fire, and Judgment! (designer Reid! Miles! dug himself some exclamation points) are also crucial documents, and most of these have been reissued in recent years. Despite this steady stream (among them Pax, also from ‘65, just out last month; a Mosaic Selects 3-CD collection compiling Hill’s late Sixties work, plus a planned three-disc solo set from the Seventies), Compulsion, Hill’s free-est, most out-there session of the time, remains stubbornly unavailable on CD. The four tracks were available on an earlier, “complete” Moasic box set on Hill, which is long out of print.

Live Jazz Thursday

A little late in the day I know but…

The Ryan Oliver Quartet is in tonight at The Rex. Tomorrow brings the Holly Clark Trio at 6:30 followed by the Brandi Disterheft Sextet at 9:30pm. Saturday the house is full with the Chris Hunt Tentet + 2, the Fender Rhodes Trios and the George Koller Quintet.

The Dominion on Queen has the Karen Manion Quintet out in support of there latest CD. The Darryl Orr Quartet is in Friday followed by the Brian Collins Trio Saturday.

Friday the Ron Davis Quartet is in at The Red Guitar with the Mark Eisenman Trio taking over Saturday.

Cheers!
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JazzTV – Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – Hot House

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Did you miss the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal this year? Want the inside scoop on what went down, and who was burnin’? Andrey Henkin and John Kelman joined forces over at AAJ to bring you there journal covering all 12 days of the festival. Highlights, let downs, and traffic reports. The next best thing to being there. Check it out at allaboutjazz.com

Chet Baker Jazz Festival Announced

The Chet Baker Jazz Festival commemorates the legacy of Chet Baker and the newly formed Chet Baker Foundation. This FREE festival begins just before the Labour Day week-end at Yonge/Dundas Square with two special Concert Gala Fundraisers at the Music Hall on the Danforth. The festival will be an annual celebration which will spread to Europe in the next year.

The Chet Baker Jazz Festival features world class artists such as Riccardo Del Fra, Tony Purrone, Randy Brecker, Harold Danko, Hilario Duran, Jane Bunnett, Guido Basso, Pat Labarbera, Kevin Turcotte, the Canada Pops Orchestra and many more.

The festival includes jazz workshops, dancing, film screenings, theatrical performances as well as great food/beverage vendors, a concessions area, and arts & crafts vendors.

There are two Concert Gala Fundraisers held at the Music Hall on September 1st and 3rd. The concept of the September 1st concert was inspired by Chet Baker’s ‘Last Great Concert’ which took place in Funkhaus, Hannover, Germany. Chet Baker’s band was backed by a 50 piece orchestra. This took place two weeks before his death in Amsterdam. Players such as Herb Geller, Harold Danko, Cameron Brown and Bob Mover who played with Chet Baker will be included in the fronting band. The September 3rd concert is a reflection of Chet’s history with Latin, samba, bossa nova and Brazilian music. It will be a historic event as multiple Grammy Award-winner Randy Brecker and Juno recipients Hilario Duran and Jane Bunnett all share the same stage for the first time.

Sept. 1st, 3rd: 8pm, Sept. 2nd: 2pm-11pm – Yonge/ Dundas Square – FREE

Sept. 1st, 3rd – Concert Gala Fundraisers – Music Hall – 147 Danforth – $30-60

Check out chetbaker.org for more information.
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