Cary Kilner
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Cary Kilner's Picks: Volume 73
This month, I’ve got some excellent links for you. With Xfinity's “Music Choice” on anytime for a couple of hours (no ads), I can always find something new, something old — always a musical gift. Eddie Daniels – East of the Sun More gorgeous playing from the clarinet master. Nice gentle bossa nova treatment with the clean electric piano. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=92-o5ST5ke4&si=7V8HpmgFyVrkLc_X Roger Kellaway/Eddie Daniels – Duke in Ojai What else can I say! "It dont any better dan dis!" Dig Roger’s sweet stride piano with those moving tenth-chords in the left hand. Eddie is so gorgeous. And Roger leaving space, then jumping into time. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3WNKYYkgM&si=YxzcjEYlE7SsV4K1 Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet – Jorjana #2 and Come to the Meadow A wonderful pianist with his little heard but with a truly unique and atypical group; with not your usual percussion. Edgar Lustgarten on cello, Chuck Domanico on bass, and Emil Richards on marimba and percussion, "blending classical and jazz with their unique sound, as seen on albums like Come to the Meadow.” Recorded very nicely. Previously I shared with you his solo tune, By Myself (https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PWevQrggh9Y) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJ7CQ86OD8&si=rAegBbVcKXZmGvJW https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvKu7vhL3E&si=ws-eggcFMPxCeuPo Denny Zeitlin – The Boy Next Door & I-Thou Absolutely gorgeous standard with another little heard but outstanding pianist who is also a practicing psychiatrist. He and Roger have unique playing styles completely different from the masters to whom we usually listen. Beautiful touch, crisp lines, clean clear harmonies. With Charlie Haden and Jerry Granelli. Then Cecil McBee and Freddie Waits. Check out his other albums. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HWuNW-4yKKU&si=9V_ICjegSyRoMHpP https://youtu.be/lAO_R2UbP54?si=V7A7j3l5X8TzH_VD Bill O’Connell and the Afro Caribbean Ensemble – Wind off the Hudson This is one killing track, given tempo, rhythm section, soloists, dynamics, and the big band. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RXuvUU9Sjj0&si=jtta5PyUzOJK1HpW Ron and Stephen Scott – Cheek to Cheek Some nice Ron Carter to begin, then an enigmatic start – then the groove: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHBjeQ6sf8&si=o6o9x5wdXkAb2NZa Jaden Evans – Turn Out the Stars, Time Remembered and Peri’s Scope Bill Evans' nephew. Although he sure plays nice, you can still hear he’s somewhat derivative. Turn Out the Stars, his classic ballad done very differently but interesting. Peri’s Scope, the so beautiful Bill tune, with a strange introduction then some cooking. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KSsIXSkkzII&si=KEH2L5xz8-tt2d5N https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KafPx5SAXcI&si=bQeJmyBw8_fbKEiT https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7AOe0U5Ak&si=ARh-vXHYQUZio-1F Brubeck Brothers Quartet – Far More Blue Here’s more mainstream jazz nostalgia with an interesting new sound. Note they begin in 4/4, then at 1:45 after the bass solo, they go to 5/4 time that Dave played in the original below. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Gj6dFlnys&si=ovMo1G0VVVHHUQPB Dave Brubeck Quartet – Far More Blue Here’s the original with that beautiful, restrained sound of Paul Desmond. The New Yorker magazine back in the day called his sound that of a dry martini. I was playing in a commercial quartet in White River Junction, Vermont, and the drummer, Joe Morello, whose girlfriend lived in Vermont, sat in with us. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hItKYxjJkwM&si=66AbmMz-8-JuPqZC Caribbean Jazz Project – Nardis & Birds of a Feather They have such a beautiful and different sound and swing! https://youtu.be/U25NXep2JTI?si=XhDonO6SMQTXgzlm https://youtu.be/crHDSJcCL7Y?si=y1fcsGDg6ukPg6z5 Hank Jones – It’s the Talk of the Town This is another gift from a master of solo piano, with his walking tenths. He sounds a lot like the late Dave McKenna here. We heard him previously in his solo that began the first tune on the first Mel Lewis/Thad Jones Big Band. https://youtu.be/f7cWH0YcQe0?si=OqGNH4Kj0xfEp-qf Michael and Pat – This Masquerade I’ve always loved this tune. And with some truly stunning playing by the late, great, Michael Brecker. More nostalgia: I saw him and his brother, Randy, at the Notre Dame festival for college jazz groups in 1968 when I was in the jazz band at Michigan State. Of course, he won best saxophonist Herbie Hancock was a judge. https://youtu.be/ffTAPfVBnAY?si=m19M32rh_rIIjCdy |
