Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Gypsy Folk Tales (1977)
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- Tracklist:
A1 Jodi 0:00
A2 Cami 10:18
A3 Miwako 17:15
A4 Gypsy Folk Tales 21:45
B1 Time Will Tell 29:26
B2 Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady 36:28
B3 Hawkman 44:26
B4 Malibu 55:00
Credits:
Art Blakey - drums
Dennis Irwin - bass
Dave Schnitter - tenor saxophone
Bobby Watson - alto saxophone
Walter Davis - piano
Valeri Ponomarev - trumpet - Hudba
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-Gypsy folk tales- : Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Valeri Ponomarev (tp) Bobby Watson (as) David
Schnitter (ts) Walter Davis Jr. (p) Dennis Irwin (b) Art Blakey (d)
New York, February 14, 17 & 28 & March 1, 1977
I had the opportunity of listen to these guys ( except James Williams for Davis ) live in a club in Madrid ( Balboa Jazz ) 3 days one after another and 3 sets a day!.Years before, in this club I saw the less know Messengers too : Olu Dara, Carter Jefferson, Cedric Lawson and Stafford James.At the end of the decade this vynil was released in Spain and during these gigs they sold in the club a lot of them!. The group sounded really great. As years went by I had the opportunity of playing with Schnniter many times and we used to play Jodi too but in a funk groove!. Years later I had the opportunity of playing with Ponomarev too!What a fortunate guy I am!
Oh yeah Carter Jefferson, very underrated musician. He was outstanding
Saw this marvellous very (similar) line-up in Holland in 77/78, at “Nick’s Jazz Cafe” in Laren, Holland. Valery and (music director) Bobby Watson were simply electrifying! What an incredibly driven band. A few years later, still with Bobby but now on trumpet a very young Wynton Marsalis. Mr Blakey’s band members over the years, from start to finish, were truly incredible, and of the highest order of the very best of talented Jazz artists. This type of exceptional dedicated Jazz is sorely missed. Sadly it’s not here anymore! Like those classic composers of the past. And to be honest this fabulous Jazz has become a thing of the bloody past! So you up-loaders your task is to keep that “flame” burning! Thanking you all & Cheers!
There is TONS of great jazz music being made today! I mean, Bobby Watson is still with us and making great records! That's just one example. You just have to look around, Ronald!
@@BrianKrock Of course Brian; i don dispute that. And thankfully a few from those exiting jazz Artists are still around. Trends, fashions, tastes do change, as they should do. But, and this purely my personal taste, is that the excitement, the invigorating drive they’re once has, has diminished. I watch - smallsLIVE - channel everyday and find rarely a group that i like. What you hear now is not from sheet music (as most is that comes out of Smalls) but pure improvisation. I’m probably biased because i grew up with Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley etc, etc, etc, and that is/was very exiting Jazz. Good talking to you, be well & Cheers!
@@ronaldunkel2681 Likewise, cheers to you as well! Blakey and the Messengers were *most certainly* reading sheet music, by the way. Especially in these groups with 3 or 4 horns, the arrangements are quite meticulously worked out. The idea that sheet music and pure improvisation are at odds with one another is untrue. All of the artists you mentioned (Silver, Adderley) wrote down their compositions in order to expedite the process of sharing them. One exception is Mingus, who famously didn't write out his charts.. but he is an outlier for having done that.
@@BrianKrock i saw Art Blakey, for the first time live in 1959, with Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter. Then again in 1980 and 81 with Bobby Watson alto/musical director (the last with a young Wynton instead of Valery) For 10 years during the 70’s till very esrly 81 i never saw a gig were sheet music was being used. On the piano just a A4 list with the tunes they were going to play. Only the big bands like Basie/Ellington used of course sheet music but not the soloists. Of course they practised to a musical/structural concept. But again i never once saw sheet music on a music-stand. Now don’t get me wrong because there is some very good jazz is performed. But in my nostalgic moments i reflect on times past, like be-bop/bop/hard-bop/mainstream. The reason that their legacies (recordings) from all those jazz giants from the past are uploaded on CZcams and for that i’m grateful, Brian. Cheers!
Just listened to Jack Teagarden again. I bet fans said the same about him too in the 70s.
Walter Davis smashing that piano, he composed a lot of the songs on the album as well, wish he stayed with Blakey a while longer
Great music Pedro!! Thanks for posting this terrific jazz album. Art is truly a genius at jazz drumming and is a legend to say the least
Pedro, u have an excellent taste, thank u for posting!
Valery, Bobby & Dave are a great front line.
Super tight and impressive album. Excellent playing all around. The first full song (after drum solo) really smokes!
Tremendous performance this is truly ground breaking art and company are at their apex in this performance 🎭 ✨
Mind blown!! Smokin hot..
I bought yesterday, at an Ebay auction, the CD "IN THIS KORNER". Then I get a note from the seller; "Gee, thought I had it... guess not... I'm sending you a compendium: "This is Jazz Art Blakey 28" on Columbia" Grrrrrrrrr.... I must have 20-30 Messengers & you're sending me a freaking COMPENDIUM??? You know what you can do with your freaking compendium? But... that's not what I wrote, since he's allegedly sending me a check too... DAMN! I love the latter day Messengers. And don't forget Bobby Watson! I freaking love Bobby & still haven't forgotten or forgiven the brothers Marsalis from tossing Bobby from The Messengers... at least, I suspect that's how it went down. Clue me in if I have it wrong,
Cool stuff
My favorite Messegers, the forgotten 1970s waifs who played some of the most progressive, difficult, thrilling music of the modern era, courtesy of Walter Davis Jr, who seemed to draw as much upon Pucinni arias as upon his heroes Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk for these compositions. When they played the 2nd half of a Newport Concert at Carnegie Hall there was no comparison with the tired, formulaic music of the Horace Silver Quintet on the first half. Art couldn't even get a record deal in the U.S., so I had to send American cash to England, Holland and Italy to pick up these rare recordings. The '50s Messengers with Mobley and Byrd are the only ones who compare with Schnitter and Hardman (or the Russian trpter) of the '70s group. The tune I'm hearing is "Jodi." It's a sin this music hasn't been reproduced on CD and that the composer and players have not gotten their fair due.. I saw Schnitter upstage M. Brecker and Bill Hardman easily get th ebetter of F. Hubbard
There is an import CD on Amazon for $15, apparently put on CD in 2016. I agree with the rest of what you said. This is a very good album from one of the less easily found periods of the band. Thanks CZcams and OP! This is the first place I heard this album.
@@5791grw I have had this on vinyl for many years, and, thanks to Spotify, I typed in Art's name & there it was, as blissful as the day I bought it & was again in exctasy as if for the first time...We always remember that first time.....
Yeah, the first tune, Jodi, is just about the killingest thing he every recorded - but there are also so many others.
The Puccini comparison intrigues me. Is there a specific piece or pieces that might have influenced Walter?
Who was the piano player for the Messengers in the late 70s? I saw them in Santa Cruz, Ca and remember the piano player breaking known laws of physics. Any idea who that might of been, around 78? Thanks!
Art Blakey's E? Jazz Messengers! Incredible!!
Thank you for posting this.
Great post Pedro
This is the first Messenger's album I've seen that I didn't have, and I started collecting just after this was released. Sadly, I lost a lot of my albums in a move, and I lost all the A's and B's (alphabetically listed by artist last name)
That stinks! What are you going to do?
That's a sadly. Seeing it all coming back to you in maybe unexpected ways.
Luv' "Jodi"!
The Disc !
Saw AB & the JMs on their tour to support this at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. They ripped it up on the title track!
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very tight
Yeah!!
크으으으 good
🙏
Smokin'! Other than Mr. Blakey, I don't know the line up. Doesn't really sound like Freddie... Kenny Garrett had to be influenced by the Sax players...Thanks for posting, I've unintentionally neglected The Jazz Messengers...I've got some catching up to do.
This is mamalón
Hey Pedro, acabo de comprobar que la foto que has subido es del disco doble que yo incité a publicar a Marfer junto con el otro vinilo. Y ahí están mis humildes comentarios ....¡Qué pequeño es el mundo¡Salud!
Technically, there were several drummers that were perhaps a notch or two above Blakey.
But for swing,imagination and the ability to drive a band like a man possessed,no one could match Mr.Blakey.
Badly recorded... At times it sounds as if Art Blakeys muffled drum beats in an adjacent room
Still you gotta admit the songs are tight!
Nice solos , but I can do without the parts where they all robotically play the same thing. Very uncool.