Re: (TV) Jazz

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

Jay--

Your brother probably has all the Monk, Coltrane, and Miles he could 
ever need, right?  If not, Monk's _Brilliant Corners_ has always been 
a favorite of mine, although anything from the Riverside years is 
fantastic. (_Thelonious Alone_ is a fine one, but the complete 
Riverside box has all the alternate takes of "'Round Midnight." Maybe 
the reissue does, too.)

I'll stop myself from listing stuff he probably has.  Charlie Haden 
(from Ornette Coleman's classic quartet) did a fantastic duet album 
with Hampton Hawes called _As Long As There's Music_.  Mellow and 
Moving.  Although Haden's mellowed progressively over the years,

Rahsaan Roland Kirk did some fine work with three saxes at once, a 
one-man horn section.  _We Free Kings_ is a great introduction, and 
his stuff goes farther out from there.  I've heard of a fine box set 
of the later years, called something like _Dog Years in the Fourth 
Ring_.  Haven't heard it myself, though.

In another Ornette reference, John Zorn's Spy vs. Spy is an 
experiment in playing Ornette tunes in a sort of hardcore style, 
quadruple time with two drummers, a boatload of other musicians, and 
himself and Tim Berne on alto.  Which brings us to...

Tim Berne's Paraphrase is a great improv trio with two releases on 
Tim's Screwgun label (http://www.screwgunrecords.com/). I generally 
prefer the first one, _Visitation Rites_, although _Please Advise_ is 
good, too.  Lately I've been way into the ambling noirishness of 
_Ornery People_, a duet CD with Michael Formanek on bass (on Little 
Brother records, but available from Screwgun).  For all of these, 
though, your brother would have to like free improv.  Berne's group 
Bloodcount has a great reputation, too, but I haven't gotten hold of 
any yet.  (I may succumb today, since there's a great jazz store a 
few doors up.)

Going back to Zorn, how about any of the Masada releases, which is 
Zorn's post-Klezmer quartet with Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, and Greg 
Cohen (yep, the same one that's been in Tom Waits's band).  I've 
vastly enjoyed _Beth_, but the various live ones are reputed to 
smoke.  I saw them live about four years ago, and they tore the roof 
off the sucker.

Hope this helps somewhat,
Maurice


At 10:10 AM -0500 2/29/00, jpontrelli@nallmiller.com wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an obscure jazz masterpiece or two for a BDay present?

Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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