#hard-bop

Wayne Shorter playlist I made as a tribute to one of my favorite musicians.

Djhamaradio on Ahmad Jamal Trio’s But Not Me At the Pershing

I made deliberate attempts to understand Jazz. This was because I had fallen head over heels in love with “A Tribe Called Quest’s Low End Theory, a record that owes its Sonics and style to jazz. And because of this I needed to grapple with the source material and grapple with it the same way the originators did. On wax, so I went and bought John Coltrane’s “blue train” and Miles Davis’s “Sketches…

Miles Davis

Round Midnight

@1957 (Late 60s JapanPressing)

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At the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, Davis performed the song "'Round Midnight" as part of an all-star jam session, with the song's composer Thelonious Monk, along with Connie Kay and Percy Heath of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Zoot Sims, and Gerry Mulligan. Davis's solo received an extremely positive reception from many jazz fans, and critics. It was viewed as a significant comeback and indication of a healthy, drug-free Davis (he had in fact been free from heroin addiction for well over a year). Davis' response to this performance was typically laconic: "What are they talking about? I just played the way I always play." George Avakian of Columbia Records was in the audience, and his brother Aram persuaded him that he ought to sign Davis to the label. Davis was eventually signed to Columbia Records, and was able to form his famous "first great quintet" with John Coltrane on saxophone. 'Round About Midnight was to be his first album for his new label.