One good thing about old age is that I was able to see this group (and many others) at Basin Street East. I believe the other group was the Bobby Scott Trio... not sure, though. That's the bad thing about old age...lol
This is like watching Aaron, Mays, Clemente, Mantle, and Robinson play ball........!!! What a thrilling time machine. Scorching energy here, with ideas, joy, and passion. Brownie was and is one of the giants of the game!!
The nice thing about Jazz, is that stars never mind and have never minded sharing the lime light. All contribute their own specialness, yet sound amazing together as well.
You mean ‘in character’ right? Surely not in playing! By the time you’re 75 you’ll be lucky if you can even pick up an instrument! Sonny Rollins at 75 was definitely an exceptional case.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst Unfortunately Sonny, more or less for 30 years, is playing the same thing, and with sidemen waiting the end of the choruses without end. I loved so much Sonny with Max Roach and then Jim Hall and Don Cherry in the sixties. I'm ashamed to tell that for the birthday of this great great man !
Clifford Brown ( gone to soon ) he was MAGNIFICENT ❗️I have Sarah Vaughan music and Helen Merrill mp3. I recently purchased a record player and I purchased Sarah V and Helen M records. The main ingredient that made me fall in luv with their music beside their voices were the sound of CLIFFORD BROWN Trumpet 🎺 I had no idea until I read the albums information.
First Bird and Diz, then Cliff and Sonny! Way up there among the greatest bebop artists ever, Brown and Rollins are here playing a jazz standard with some very difficult to master chord changes. Both versions advertised well worth buying on CD. When in 1963 my trumpet playing partner told me the greatest trumpet players who ever lived were Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown, I said, "Who?"
Wow, long intro, really stretching out on that vamp. Brownie tearing things up, then Rollins ‘Oh yeah I can do that too’. Roach like a machine on the ride
Finding out that the pianist Richie Powell is Bud's little brother and even though Bud didn't teach him, he got to watch/listen to Bud practice; it give the piano parts a good deal of context harmonically and historically.
I love Brownie, and Max and Sonny are great, but I was struck with how tasty Richie Powell's playing is here. He's not Bud, of course, but he was a promising talent who died much too young
Have to disagree with both of you; Bud and Richie were miles apart. I honestly like Richie more, but Bud Powell's playing was very sax like (hence why he was often called the Charlie Parker of the piano) whereas Richie's is heavy and thick, very blues influenced. I think Richie was a million times better of a sideman, though.
@womb0womb0 I agree pretty much with you, yet Diz historical importance hard to underestimate. You can hear Louie Armstrong in every solo almost of Diz. His showmanship, like during the 50s and 60s both were exporting jazz around the world. I'd argue that both Diz and Armstrong were important in teaching advanced ideas in the all-important cultural and political realms of US socialolical history too.
Great performance, great tune... though I don't think the difficulty level of the changes has much to do with it (@pvelectric). There's a tricky spot or two but I'll Remember April isn't exactly Giant Steps. And Sonny's little embellishment on the melody (1:47) gets me every time -- he's great.
23/12/2021: I'll remember Muskoka and Arrowhead-the flat slopes I couldn't climb, the ditch that swallowed us whole-I'll remember sweating through my Filson shirt
The pedal intro has echoes of Mulligan/baker/ konitz. version. Unintentional probably but Chet's playing of the head isn't a million miles away. Both great stuff.
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take nothing away from sonny but i preferred harold land in this quintet i think hefit well with brownie .only an opinion .rollins was a great player.thanks
@exjazzbassbaz I agree. I thought this album (Live at Basin St.) went downhill after the first 3 tracks. That is to say, the rest of the album was pretty good, but just not as good as what the superb first three tracks had set up. BTW, this is actually the alternate take of "I'll Remember April", and not part of the album. The first take that was on the album was just pure bliss. It was simply a far, far better version. Not coincidentally, it was also the 3rd track of the album..
I believe harold was the best fit tenorwise for this quintet, sonny was the best substitute possible for LAND. Sonny fit pretty darn well though, I mean talk about some serious sax playing.
Härligt dynamisk musik av Brown, Rollins och Roach. Powell hänger som vanligt inte med och har inte mycket att bidra med. Synd att Clifford lierade sig med honom (även med tanke på bilolyckan).
