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Dizzy Gillespie Quintet + Buck Clayton All Stars + Jimmy Rushing

Jazz Plus Plus: Jimmy Rushing - Newport à Anvers (1959) https://jazzplusplus.blogspot.com/2020/03/jimmy-rushing-newport-anvers-1959.html

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Thelonious Monk Trio

Thelonious Monk – piano Gene Ramey – bass Art Blakey – drums with horn section Idrees Sulieman – trumpet; Danny West – alto sax; Billy Smith – tenor sax

The story goes that Monk said about this tune, ‘I swing more playing one note than some other MFs do using the whole damn keyboard.’ Some say that he had a particular MF in mind, a pianist who famously opined that Monk’s improvisation abilities were ‘limited.’ Say some, that MF once tried swinging on this song using ‘the whole damn keyboard’ which kind of ruined it…or so goes the story.

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Wynton Kelly and Gene Ramey, Sonny Rollins “Volume I” session, Hackensack, New Jersey December 16, 1956 by Francis Wolff.

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Unveiling Innovation: The Legacy of Lennie Tristano's Self-Titled Album

Introduction: Lennie Tristano’s self-titled album, often known as “Tristano,” released in February 1956, is considered a landmark in jazz history. This album, Tristano’s debut for Atlantic Records, was a trailblazing work that pushed the boundaries of jazz music with its inventive use of technology and breakthrough approach to composition and improvisation. A Controversial Masterpiece: Upon…

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「トリスターノとパーカーやガレスピーについて語り合ったことはあったが、そのレコードを聞いたようには記憶していない。パーカーのイミテーターは多すぎたので、僕自身パーカーには近づかないように気を使ったが、レニー（トリスターノ）も、僕の吹奏の中に変なものがまじるとすぐ見破った。はっきりいい切ることはできないが、レニーはパーカーをきいたり、近づかないように僕を指導していたようだった。はっきり断言できないのは、僕自身も自分の意思で近づかないように心掛けていたからである」

---------- Lee Konitz（LP解説：油井正一　より）

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