Jam Session

1. J.A.T.P. Blues

2. What Is This Thing Called Love?

3. Ballad Medley: All the Things You Are/Dearly Beloved/The Nearness of Yo

4. Funky Blues

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Average customer rating: Great session. Jazz the Prez way more than the Bird way. Not a Barry White record Bird And Other Top Players At Their Best Bird at play

Jam Session Charlie Parker Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Jazz at Massey Hall The Washington Concerts Dig Charlie Parker at Storyville Sonny Side Up ASIN: B000004768 Release Date: 1990-03-21

Tracks:

1. Jam Blues
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. Ballad Medey: All The Things You Are/Dearly Beloved/The Nearness Of You/I'll Get By/Everything...
4. Funky Blues

Customer Reviews:

Great session........2007-04-11

It is great session.
For me it is the best jam session ever recorded at studio. And mainly there play together three best alto players ever - Johnny Hoges, Benny Carter and Charlie Parker and play great. But there is perfect playing by other musicians like Oscar Peterson, Ben Webster or Flip Phillips. This cd includes two blues and two ballads. Highpoint is Funky Blues wroten by Hodges. All musicians play two blues choruses except base, drums and Oscar Peterson plays 3 choruses.
All plays great but Parker's alto solo is superb with accuracy and deep-felt. It's must for every Hodges or Parker fans, but for all who loves great jam sessions with great jazz names too.

Jazz the Prez way more than the Bird way........2006-07-10

This is an absolutly marvellous example of what Jazz was and still should be (not because it's more mainstream than bebop, in any case I love them both). The joy of playing with friends on common grounds, the standards and blues repertoire. I think I own everything Bird has ever played/released or at least I come really near. All the Dial, Savoy, Verve, Benedetti recordings, Bird's Eyes, Live & Broadcasts, Blue Note concerts, recent discoveries, almost everything (more than 150 cds). This album cannot be considered a pure Bird album because he shared the scene with a lot of other sax stars which gave the session a different feeling from a lot of Bird's records. I mean that this album is more Jazz "the Kansas City way" than bebop. It is a session more traditional than bebop. The only true beboppers are Bird, Kessel and Peterson (and Brown of course). The others, Webster, Hodges, Carter etc are more traditional than strictly bebop so the overall sound is more on that side of course. But it's not a complaint, only an obvious consideration. The album is really fresh and entertaining, you can compar eit to a lot of JATP sessions in a sense. So it's not a "revolutionary" album, not one that set a standard or that marked a change in Jazz history, nevertheless it's essential in its way. It is a perect representation of what Jazz was more at Lester Young time than Bird time, but it's very very good. It deserves 5 stars absolutly. Every player shined here and found his time to strecht out and show his bags of tricks fully. One of the highlights is the comping by Oscar Peterson swing machine which gave to the session a fabolous imprinting. The program is damn good. Two very long blues tunes, a very beautiful standard ("What is this thing" one of the standards I love the most) and a ballad medley. Fantastic! And even if Bird is playing more or less his usual cliches and nothing more, he's still Bird! I love this album, for real. Buy it, you will love it for years and years too.

Not a Barry White record.......2006-04-02

I can't remember when I first heard this record, but I bought it on vinyl when I was in college. Back then it was packaged differently and was part of the Norman Granz Jazz At the Philharmonic series. At a time when every fraternity boy on campus owned Barry White records that, in theory, were supposed to render college girls helpless - I thought the Ballad Medley would prove to be a high octane substitute. The results were disappointing on many levels. College girls. Go figure.

Bird And Other Top Players At Their Best.......2005-04-04

This cd is a really nice one to pick up. Not only do you have Bird doing some serious jamming but a whole line-up of the top jazz players of the period: Johnny Hodges, Oscar Peterson, and Ben Webster to name a few. The ballad medley is excellent as each player gets a song to show their stuff on, but the biggest reasons to buy this disc are the songs "Jam Blues" and "Funky Blues" which are really just extended jam sessions where all the players really get to stretch out. I would recommend buying this disc in the newly released box set titled "The Norman Granz Jam Sessions." Not only do you get this disc, but four others with all star line-ups that include Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Buddy Rich to name a few. So do yourself a favor and pick up the box set ASAP. You will not be disappointed.

Bird at play.......2002-09-26

This album comes as a pleasant surprise on several levels. I thought my collection of Charlie Parker recordings was as complete as it needed to be--most of the Dial and Savoy masters and alternate takes, lots of air shots, the fabled solos on "Embraceable You" and "Night in Tunisia," and of course the historic Massey Hall concert, later billed as the "World's Greatest Jazz Concert." But as impressive as all those recordings are, they distance the listener in ways that may fuel the cult aura surrounding Bird and contribute to his legendary status but hardly atone for my inability to see and hear him performing live. The truncated solos of the 78 rpm recordings, the very "lo fi" audio, the predictable bebop repertory all served to provoke and tantalize as much as satisfy curiosity about his genius.

"Jam Session" is the only album I've heard that presents Charlie Parker in familiar company with room to stretch out and with microphones capable of capturing the moment with the versimilitude expected by today's listeners. Supported by Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown and sharing solo space with 4 progenitors of the saxophone, all of whom would ironically outlive him, Bird sounds both relaxed and in control, a musician who doesn't need to prove anything to anybody, but just playing for the fun of it. It's a rare, humanizing glimpse of a legend who proves no less mortal than his bandmates.

Average customer rating: A Splendid Blend of East and West the greatest dixieland ever !! Good Schtuff Jam Session Coast to Coast - Eddie Condon You can't go wrong listening to Eddie Condon

Jam Session: Coast to Coast Jammin' At Condon's Eddie Condon Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bixieland: Treasury of Jazz The Classic Sessions: 1927 to 1949 Midnight in Moscow: The Roaring Twenties Jazz Ultimate/Coast Concert Jack Teagarden's Big Eight/Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers ASIN: B00007JGTD Release Date: 2003-01-21

Album Description

This 2-CD set contains two long out-of-print Eddie Condon recordings originally released by Columbia in the mid-1950s. "Jam Session" was his first on the Columbia label, and features four tracks (1-4) recorded by Condon in NYC, and six (5-10) recorded in Hollywood by The Rampart Street Paraders, a group of former Bob Crosby bandmates assembled by Paul Weston. "Jammin' At Condon's" was Condon's first "solo" LP for Columbia (the first album he did for them in which he didn't share the record with another act). The highlight of this album is the 13-minute rendition of "How Come You Do Me Like You Do."

Customer Reviews:

A Splendid Blend of East and West.......2007-03-03

To the best of my knowledge, this is the only CD available with the Rampart Street Paraders, a group of former Bob Crosby Bobcats, under the direction of Matty Matlock, which has made this format. Their LPs, often featuring Abe Lincoln on trombone, are classics and, although these LPs have not come over to CD's, this at least gives the jazz fan an idea of how good they were. Billy Butterfield is particularly outstanding on trumpet. What need we say about the Eddie Condon group? Long established as the best of the east, their arrangements are always spirited and solid. Do give this a listen!

the greatest dixieland ever !! .......2007-02-07

I had this in Vynil LP version some 50 years ago and thought I would never find it again so I copied it on CD. The new CD version is better though and I think it is the best Dixieland jam session ever recorded by champion Eddie Condon !!

Good Schtuff.......2006-08-17

Back in the mid fifties, the first recording I had ever heard of "Dixieland Music" (at that time I didn't know about Chicago-style Jazz)was Jammin' At Condon's. That began a life-long love affair with traditional jazz. It was wonderful to listen to this CD because the sound quality of the music is so much better than the original LP - which I had transferred to tape, cd, mp3, computer and iPod. I own dozens of TradJazz Cd's but this one is far and away the best.

Jam Session Coast to Coast - Eddie Condon.......2006-05-28

I purchased the original LP of this dual album in the 1950s when I served in the Air Force. It is the finest album of dixieland music I ever heard--and I heard a bunch of them. The quality of the recording (not the music--it was perfect) was not up to Columbia's standards. The needles would not track. But I taped it on reel-to-reel and still enjoyed it. I have kept the album intact for 50 years--hoping someday to find a tape recording of it. Then TODAY I discovered it was available on CD. I can't tell you how pleased I am. Tom Barnard

You can't go wrong listening to Eddie Condon.......2003-03-10

Eddie Condon's groups were always a fun-loving, free-swinging journey into Chicago/New York style dixieland. He always fronted the best possible players; Ed Hall, Cutty Cutshall, "wild Bill" Davidson, Billy Butterfield, Peanuts Hucko, Bud Freeman and when you listen to them you knew they were having fun. This "twofer", originally cut on two albums in '54 & '55 on Columbia, finally made his music available to the public on a national basis on a popular label. I remember buying "Jammin' at Condons" after only listening to the first cut, "There'll be some changes made". I just had to have this wonderful sound (no HI FI, Stereo, nor Surround Sound) to play on my RCA Victrola. I never regretted it and, if you've never heard Condon's bunch, you'll never regret picking up this CD. I guarantee it!

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Paris Jam Session Art Blakey Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00006BGTY Release Date: 2002-09-02

Tracks:

1. Dance Of The Infidels
2. Bouncing With Bud
3. Midget
4. Night In Tunisia

Average customer rating:

Jam Session: Coast to Coast Eddie Condon Manufacturer: Columbia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000C9IHF4 Release Date: 2006-04-17

Tracks:

1. Beale Street Blues
2. Medley: Emaline, Don't Worry 'Bout Me, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
3. Riverboat Shuffle
4. Jam Sessions Blues
5. Black & Blue
6. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
7. Ja-Da
8. The Sheik Of Araby
9. Squeeze Me
10. South Rampart Street Parade

Album Description

Remastered reissue CD that looks like vinyl. OLP. 2005.

Average customer rating: a great performance Bud Steals the Show A better album title: Bud Powell Meets the Messengers

Paris Jam Session Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: The Jazz Messengers 1958- Paris Olympia Bird at the Hi-Hat The Big Beat Caravan ASIN: B00000474M Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

1. Dance Of The Infidels
2. Bouncing With Bud
3. The Midget
4. A Night In Tunisia

Customer Reviews:

a great performance.......2007-03-09

This was a hot night in Paris for all concerned. Bud Powell does indeed play beautifully and with fire. It is very exciting to hear him with this great edition of the Messengers on his own tunes "Bouncing With Bud" and "Dance of the Infidels." He solos at length; anyone who loves Bud Powell should really pick this up without reservation. I would like to add to the other reviewers' comments that the other guest, French saxophonist Barney Wilen, was a rare and underrecognized talent, and his solos here on alto saxophone (instead of his customary tenor) are full of imagination, fire and individuality.

Bud Steals the Show.......2006-05-31

The audio mix is far from ideal, and the program is one of those loosely structured sessions that no doubt was a lot of fun for those on hand. For someone who already has a representative selection of Blakey sides from this period, the primary attraction is definitely the presence of Bud Powell. He plays beautifully on both of his turns (the two tracks with Walter Davis Jr. are mostly dismissable), executing with the legendary melodic invention and flowing precision that had begun to elude him about this time (1961). Moreover, the piano is recorded clear and true. Too bad there wasn't more of it.

A better album title: Bud Powell Meets the Messengers.......2001-07-27

An important and exciting Paris meeting in which the great Bud Powell jammed with the likes of Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter Messengers. Highly recommended.

Average customer rating: A perfect jam hard swingin

Count Basie Jam Session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 Count Basie Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Basie Jam #3 ASIN: B000000Z3I Release Date: 1997-06-24

Tracks:

1. Billie's Bounce
2. Festival Blues
3. Lester Leaps In

Customer Reviews:

A perfect jam.......2006-11-09

Brilliant music from multitalented cross-generation group of jazz giants:
Granz style sessions of this sort (particularly at festivals) sometimes went overboard with honkin, screeching and squeeking, but this is rhythmically extremelly potent and yet tasteful affair.
Roy Eldridge gives a great performance for this late a stage of his career, with lot of growling fire and incinerating high tones, Johnny Griffin, one of the fastests guns in modern jazz tenor sax field lets loose with one eye on the glorious jazz tradition. Then there is Milt Jackson who gave blues and energy to the Modern Jazz Quartet, explosive Louis Bellson and the greatest Danish invention since Dreyer and Douglas Sirk: Niels Henning Oersted Pedersen on bass.
Basie sets the tone, playing some more than fine piano, but the whole group is jumping, connecting the present with the past in glorious performances of Parker's "Bilie's Bounce", collective impro effort "Festival Blues" and the brilliant "Lester Leaps In", a heritage of Basie's greatest tenor collaborator...
The shortest song clocks at 11.58, so there is plenty of magnificent mainstream jazz on this heated CD.

hard swingin.......2002-01-29

Everyone is taking long, energetic solos in front of a lively crowd. Johnny Griffin wails on his tenor sax. Roy Eldridge creates some amazing sounds on his trumpet. Bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen swings as hard ever and takes amzing solos. Milt Jackson plays long creative riffs. Louis Bellson takes an awesome solo on "Lester Leaps In" after trading fours. And then, ofcourse, the Count: his performance is too amazing, and on "Lester Leaps In" he begins the song with 4 choruses of own special 'stride' piano which was popular in jazz' early days.

The songs performed are the
1. quick paced blues- "Billies Bounce" (Charlie Parker)
13'35"
2. the more relaxed "Festival Blues" (Basie, et al)
11'54"
3. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) based off of Ive Got Rhythm 16'06"

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Jam Session With Booker T. Jones At Fantasy Studio, CA, 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival Manufacturer: SRC RECORDS ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000R32A9Y

Product Description

THIS IS A LIVE IN THE STUDIO JAM SESSION WITH BOOKER T JONES AT FANTASY STUDIO, CA. 1970 - THE SONGS HAVE INTRO AND TALKING BEFORE EACH SONG,SONGS DO HAVE FEEDBACK DUE TO A LIVE STUDIO RECORDING, CD IS MADE IN SPAIN - SRC RECORDS IN MINT CONDITION- SEE TRACKS BELOW: JAM WARM UP 99 1/2 PROUD MARY TRAVELIN' BAND BORN ON THE BAYOU DOWN ON THE CORNER 99 1/2 REPRISE I PUT A SPELL ON YOU FINAL JAM

Average customer rating: listening to him watching the devil die Authentic blues flavor Mr.Cotton did it in the kitchen with a six string razor

I Watched the Devil Die Chris Cotton Manufacturer: Yellow Dog Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Great American Yard Sale Conqueroo Delta Hardware Blackwater Nothing But the Water ASIN: B0007UVXLS Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

1. Morgan City, Mississippi
2. Come On
3. I Watched the Devil Die
4. Dying Crapshooters Blues
5. Thats It
6. Im So Glad
7. Was it low?
8. Black Night
9. Louis Collins
10. Blues for Big Bill
11. Bill Bailey
12. Goin Back Home

Amazon.com

Ex-Blue Eyed Devils singer-guitarist Cotton pursued his muse from his Bay Area home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, for this solo debut. What he found in the Delta with some aid from producer Jimbo Mathus--who played guitar on Buddy Guy's last few albums and leads his own rockin' Knockdown Society--and guitar ace Big Jack Johnson was the inspiration to blend the essence of old-time string band music and pure country blues with his folk-inclined sound.

Cotton's not much of a storyteller, but his fleet picking style, delightfully raggedy vocal cords, and taste for flat-four rhythms propelled by loose-tuned snare drums create a juke joint party feel that makes for easy listening and serves covers of Skip James's "I'm So Glad" and John Hurt's "Louis Collins" well. The best cut is Cotton's own "Black Night," where his howlin' warnings about a cuckolded husband get slicing support from Johnson's thick fills and keening slide. And the album ends with the poignant wish "Goin' Back Home," where Mathus's slide resonator guitar helps brings Cotton's pining lyrics to life. --Ted Drozdowski

Album Description

An aural portrait that owes a debt to Southern bluesmen and Americana pioneers alike, Chris Cotton's Yellow Dog Records debut sounds like a house party caught on tape - world-weary men effortlessly strumming their guitars and bass, while passing around a jug of whiskey for sustenance. The barrelhouse piano, is, of course, pushed up against one wall; Cotton's gravelly voice reigns over the debauchery. The scene is timeless - harkening back to days when the distinction between blues and country was hopelessly blurred.

Former Blue Eyed Devils frontman Cotton traveled to Clarksdale, MS to record I Watched the Devil Die at producer Jimbo Mathus' vintage-equipment studio, housed in the city's historic WROX radio building. Employing Memphis and Clarksdale sidemen including special guest Big Jack Johnson, Cotton and Mathus concocted a modern-day jam session with all the boisterous spirit of a classic down-home revival.

Customer Reviews:

listening to him watching the devil die.......2005-03-15

As one of the privileged folks to get an advance preview of the new album, I just want to say, f***ing awesome! This is easily Chris' best album to date. Black Night is an absolute masterpiece of live blues. Yet the album is also breaking out of the restrictions of 12 bars into uncharted territory. It's a new Chris, yet beatifuly blended with the best of the old Chris. Vocally he covers new ground as well, like the heartfelt and soul stirring IM SO GLAD. I feel an autobiographical flavor to the new songs like Morgan, Mississippi or in Come On, where he admits to never having killed a man. I love it!Kind of reminded me of a rapper admitting he's not in a gang but he can still flow. All in all, a pleasure to listen to from the first track to the last. Keep up the good work and see you at the cd release party

Authentic blues flavor.......2005-03-12

I Watched the Devil Die is a great down-and-dirty blues album. Whether you're a blues enthusiast or new to the genre, this is a must-have album. A mix of original songs and covers, Chris brings his own flavor to to the set. Chris plucks the guitar with so much intensity he breaks strings, while his voice captures pain, desperation, and longing with true authenticity. The recordings sound live, not heavily mixed, making the album feel like an authentic down-and-dirty gem from a true bluesman.

Mr.Cotton did it in the kitchen with a six string razor.......2005-03-09

"...the human word is like an outworn, battered timbal upon which we beat melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity." -Flaubert

Which is my big ol' ham-fisted way of saying when it comes to Real Blues or what The Straight People (More Sugar!)call blues I ain't so sure I got my homework done enough to know what the heckfire i'm talkin' about. However in the spirit of MY Real Blues (and Mr.Cotton's) to hell with the damned stars and bring on the dancing bears!

I just finished listening to Chris Cotton's new CD titled I Watched The Devil Die. I'm awful sorry to say the best language I could come up with at the final note (without my usual swearing) was WOW! You'll be adding your own abundant and imaginative expletives after you hear it for your self. I'm at least honest enough to admit I know about enough about Piedmont style and other finger pickin' styles to keep my mouth half shut about Mr.Cotton's technical skill. On the other hand the fellow I work with is versed. His word as nail-hit-on-head upon listening was Exceptional! Most finger-pickin' sorts have sounded high-brow, tight and too pretty clean to my mud and woods tuned ears. Mr. Cotton despite his dangerous knowledge makes it roll out and around the ol' dirt road just as natural and rockin' as can be not forced faux and special. Mr. Cotton covers some of the masters works here. Mr. Willie McTell's Dyin'Crap Shooters Blues, The Mississippi Sheiks' That's it, and of course Mr's Hurt and James with Louis Collins and I'm So Glad. But this man's a fine songwriter too. Six of the twelve here are his and fit quite comfortably up against the old
timers. Each song sounds like it was played (not performed) at a late night pickin'party among good friends. The song Black Night sticks out for the help and heft of Mr. Big Jack Johnson's after-hours slide and as well for Mr. Cotton's xtra fine band's joyful playing on such a dark and menacing song. Mr. Jimbo Mathus' production here as usual brings you in to the room and sets you nicely in the hot seat front and center of the action goin' down live and naked and steamin' in the Mississippi midnite hour. I just gotta hope Yellow Dog Records P.R. Machine is fired up to overheatin' overdrive on this disc 'cuz if work this good isn't hailed in all the so called blues mags and beyond then sombody someplace ain't payin' attention.
Of course most folks don't Listen cuz they're too busy bein' dazzeled by the stars and wouldn't Hear great music if it was a dancing bear bitin' their ass.

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Paris Jam Session ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Freedom Rider Free for All ASIN: B000BR2OLK Release Date: 2005-12-13

Album Description

Japanese pressing has been remastered. Emarcy. 2005.

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Garage Sale The Bonedaddys Manufacturer: Combotempo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Worldbeatniks To Jam Is Human, to Gig Divine ASIN: B0001DMVPI Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Como se llama, Mama?
2. Personal Assistant
3. Dog Bite
4. God Bless The Water
5. Hold My Breath
6. Too Experienced
7. In Deep
8. Tighten Up
9. I'm Only Human
10. Living Rock
11. Volunteered Slavery
12. Say Bo (with BO DIDDLEY)

Jazz Music:

1. Jazz at the Philharmonic at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 [Live]
2. Jazz-Club: Guitar
3. Jazz-Club: Violin
4. Jazz 'Round Midnight: Big Band
5. Jazz Samba
6. Jazz Samba Encore!
7. Joe Pass at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 [Live]
8. Jousts
9. Just for Fun
10. Let the World Sing (A Royal Wedding Suite)

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