I mean, if I'm doing a Black History Month tribute, I can't NOT feature an album from the illustrious Blue Note label, can I? The answer, of course, is no. Hail no. And as a trumpeter myself, of course I had to profile one of my favorite trumpeters of all time. Enough chit chat; to [...]
Here at Raggy Waltz, we're open about our rather biased approach to record collecting and listening. West Coast is the best the coast. Prestige and Blue Note albums are constantly pontificated on amongst most jazz record collectors, so why continue the trend here if you can read it elsewhere? Long live Fantasy, Pacific Jazz, and [...]
The appearance of an original Blue Note record has caused a stir in the Raggy Waltz office. The excitement coupled with the all-around greatness of the album made a write-up necessary. To the music we go! The Music The Tune: Scrapple From The Apple Recorded: 23 May, 1963 in Paris, France Personnel: Dexter Gordon- Tenor [...]
Regular readers of my blog know that while I'm a jazz record collector as well as a jazz fan in general, I'm a huge Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck fan. HUGE. This passion for their music has resulted in me scouring the internet for rare music, photos, information, anything pertaining to Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck. I've [...]
For the past few posts, I've been using the sub-genres of jazz to explore and rediscover my record collection. We looked at 'arranger jazz', and then moved to live jazz, specifically 'jazz club jazz'. In the last post, we stepped into the Village Vanguard, a New York City jazz club. Before leaving the state, we're [...]
The Music Tune: Too Much Sake Recorded: 14 July, 1962 in New Jersey Personnel: Blue Mitchell- Trumpet Junior Cook- Tenor Sax Horace Silver- Piano Gene Taylor- Bass John Harris Jr.- Drums Look out world- here's my first post featuring a Blue Note album! An original (ish) at that? That's right, and it was within my [...]
