Jason Finch
Turku-based academic (Professor of English, Åbo Akademi U), London-born -- books, cities, trams, metros, old VWs, jazz, blues, hip-hop, THFC, England cricket, STL Cards
- This is straight up one of my top five albums of all time in any genre. A total must. #5albums50s60s1 m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDs... 'Mr P.C.' is the only person but JC to appear on the whole album: on bass, Mr Paul Chambers. Greetings from #copenhagen, sometime home of numerous great jazzers.
- Blistering start to a superb album. Three of the 2GC plus the great Freddie, rarely heard to better advantage. The saxless format means interplay between trumpet and piano over the lead, comparable with Monk Quartet albums but spacier, Miles-style. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgv... #5albums50s60s1
- Happy birthday to #steviewonder who turns 75 today. For a change, here he is doing a fantastic jazz solo as a sideman for #herbiehancock (who turned 85 a month ago). m.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFH... A favourite tune from the magnificent Man Child, released half a century ago this year.
- Today's offering from me in #5albums50s60s1 is, like the Art Blakey one, an absolutely foundational hard bop LP. Joyful indeed. Sadly, both pianist Richie Powell (younger bro of Bud) and trumpeter Clifford Brown would be dead a year later, killed in the same car crash. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dnK6...
- Peak sophisti-Miles in #5albums50s60s1. A transitional album, with wonderful piano work and composing from Englishman Victor Feldman, plus the rhythm section of the 2nd Great Quintet emerging. m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-W9... Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven
- Missed no. 8 in my alphabetical #Top10Japan the other day, I think. It's this, again in that legendary OGWT session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLzs... Another that I've loved ever since I first heard it, which was on Oil on Canvas in late 1984 at 14. Swing
- Razor-sharp Jerry Wexler production for Atlantic Records, and what a tune, co-written by the great King Curtis. 'The wonders of spring Don't mean a thing Without you, baby' #5albums50s60s1 m.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DO... Aretha Franklin, Aretha Now
- This is the LP in #5albums50s60s1 that I've listened to most, overall. More compact and tidy than the wonderful live bootlegs from the same period, but the synergy between Monk and Rouse is just as complete. Super super album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-iQF... Thelonious Monk Quartet, Monk's Dream
