bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Jon Taylor (ten/flt/harm/vcl), Jim Birkett (gtr), Jeremy McMurray (pno), Andy Champion (bs), Bill Shield (dms). Good, honest, straight down the middle swing from Leeds based Jon Taylor. From the opening "Zing Went The Strings of my Heart" to the penultimate "Cheek to Cheek" Jon Taylor dug in and swung out on tenor, flute. and blues harp. His sax playing relates to the tough tenor...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Changing a few elements of a well known musical format may be all that is needed to create a new and fresh sound. Makin' It, Oliver Lake has taken the old saxophone organ trio popularized in the 1950s by the likes of {{Ike Quebec = 10490}} and made it into a new vehicle for 21st century improvised music. He has replaced the tenor saxophone--the instrument traditionally associated with this combo--with...
Buns O'Plenty (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
A Blue Note collection with a bossa nova influence. 1. Horace Parlan - Congalegre 2. Charlie Rouse - Back Down to the Tropics 3. Big John Patton - Latona 4. Duke Pearson - Sandalia Dela 5. Ike Quebec - Loie 6. Cannonball Adderley - Sambop 7. Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia 8. Grant Green - Mambo Inn 9. Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues 10. Eliane Elias - Waters of March (Aguas de Março) 11. Andrew...
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
. ” A smile in the Evening ” 01. Bill Laswell Sacred System - Bati Book Of Exit (Dub Chamber 4) (Roir, 2002) 02. Harold Budd - the Plateaux of Mirror Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) 03. Ahmad Jamal - My latin Picture Perfect (2000) 04. Jose James - Love The Dreamer (Brownswood, 2007) 05. Aphex Twin - nanou2 DrukQs (2001) 06. telepopmusik - yesterday [...]
Racing blog - Sport - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
CHELTENHAM 1.30-COE (NB) 2.05-DIAMOND HARRY 2.40-MASSINI'S MAGUIRE (NAP) 3.20-MASTER MINDED 4.00-LOUGH DERG 4.40-AMORE MIO 5.15-QUEL ESPRIT HUNTINGDON 1.45 CHALICE WELCOME, 2.20 CALL ME A LEGEND, 2.55 WELL SAVED, 3.35 HEAD TO KERRY, 4.15 LEO MCGARRY, 4.55 MUHTENBAR, 5.30 HOPEAND KEMPTON...
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
Hard news this week. We open with Viet Nam-era testimonies conducted by Wallace Terry with musical accompaniment. New work from Grace Jones. And we close with 13 versions of "Nature Boy" featuring John Coltrane, Nat King Cole, Maria Bethania, Jacky Terrasson, Abbey Lincoln, Ike Quebec, Phillippe Mall, Kevin Mahogany, Claudia Acuna, Alex Wilson, Nnenna Freelon, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
A good month for tenor saxophone connoisseurs, April 2008, with a second Rudy Van Gelder re-master released alongside Ike Quebec's signature Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note, 2008). The Soothsayer may be comparably less of a benchmark in Wayne Shorter's discography, and remains to some extent overshadowed by its close contemporary Speak No Evil (Blue Note, 1964), but it's a solid and enduring album--despite...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Ill health and "personal problems" prevented Ike Quebec (1918-63) from becoming the star he could otherwise have been. The tenor saxophonist straddled 1940s swing-to-bop with as much style as his near contemporary, Dexter Gordon. His warm, weighty, approximately out-of-Coleman Hawkins playing was tailor-made for the hard bop era which followed--but he spent most of the 1950s silent, with...
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
It's cloudy and chilly here in Springfield, Massachusetts. However, it's the first day of Spring, the first day of "March Madness", and therefore all is right with the world. Let's put Old Man Winter away for now and celebrate with a podcast of tunes with Spring in their title. Click here to enjoy: Ike Quebec - Title Track from It Might as Well Be Spring . For my money, THE most underrated...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Playlist Cloudland Blue Quartet – Souvenir XVI Freddie Redd - Music from "The Connection” Lee Morgan - Leeway Art Blakey - Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World Vol 1 Art Blakey - Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World Vol 2 Hank Mobley - Roll Call Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap Donald Byrd - Royal Flush Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental Various – Blue Note Playlist on Shuffleplay...
Havering On (Free subscription) | 01/26/2008
The label began life in 1939, founded by two men in their early thirties, both born in Germany, Alfred Lion who had moved to New York City in 1938 and Francis Wolff who made the move as World War 2 began. The name derives from the emblematic ‘blue note’ of jazz and the blues. The first Blue Note recording session, was supervised by Lion, was at WMGM Studio in New York City on Friday 6th...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/04/2007
This is quite a painful disc to listen to. Not because of the music--which is beautiful--but because of the events surrounding it. Recorded in October 1962, it was to be tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's final album. Less than four months later he died of lung cancer. This fact rather sticks in the mind like a house guest who has outstayed his or her welcome...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 08/13/2007
A quick post - Zao (and here ) sent me a request for a re-up of Ike Quebec's 'Blue and Sentimental.' So here it is... Plus another track from the same 1961 album, 'That old black magic.' He does so well – some straight-up tenor juju here. Ike Quebec is a very appealing old school swinger – backed by crisp guitar from Grant Green and the old Miles bass and drum team of Philly Joe and Paul...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 07/20/2007
Something to ease into the day with as the monsoon returns to God's Little Acre – Ike Quebec from 1961, a stone classic session. This is 'Blue and Sentimental.' Led in by Grant Green's chording, a big-hearted tenor saxophone slow-dance through the old Basie tune. Quebec was not a big name as such, but a very appealing and thoughtful player with buckets of soul and a strong melodic conception....
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 06/09/2007
Playlist Adrian Belew - Side Three David Sylvian - Snow Borne Sorrow Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat Jakko - The Bruised Romantic Glee Club Marillion - Somewhere Else Killers - Sam's Town Thom Yorke - The Eraser Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations Dido - Life For Rent Shadow Gallery - Room V Cloudland Blue Quartet - Souvenir XIV Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions Kenny Dorham...
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