Miles Davis Quintet Plays "'Round Midnight":
I've linked to a YouTube clip of the second Miles Davis Quintet before -- this was the famous quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams that played together from 1964-1968. But last time the clip covered the band when they had just formed in 1964. Here's an excellent performance of the group playing late in their tenure; the tune is 'Round Midnight, and the place and time is Stockholm, 1967.
So I must be a square, though not from Delaware.
Something else that ought to be thought about, given the time and place of this recording, is the effect that the cultural cold war had upon the Soviet's fall. The cultural cold war may have been the most elegant covert op ever effectuated by the CIA. We buried them.
Thanks Professor Kerr, Davis is a personal favorite of mine, as well as Shorter, Carter and Williams. Hancock to to lesser degree, though. It's a shame that YouTube forces 16bit single channel sound compression though.
Geez, now that I'm talking about him I feel the need to go back and listen to some of Shorter's early-mid 60's Blue Note records and re-assess. . . .
Sorry about the delay, Twn. I got tied up for a couple of days installing an open-source codebase onto a server for a friend, and ended up having to do some PHP tweaking unexpectedly. I'm not a PHP geek, so it required more effort than it should have. (amazing how the breeze freebie favors for friends, never seem to end-up being a breeze, eh?). Hopefully, you check your posts for back-filled replies.
There were two very distinct phases to Weather Report; pre-Pastorius and post-Pastorius. Some of their early work was out on the edge for its time, and still can give people fits. Throughout Weather Report's life though was intense percussion. Dom Um Romao was thoroughly whacked.
This is Shorter on Soprano though, so it isn't exactly relevant to your remark about his tenor sax.
Weather Report - 1972 (the date is suspect, because external references mention that Mouzon left the band in '71)
http://tinyurl.com/49bnjm
Joe Zawinul - keyboards
Wayne Shorter - sax
Miroslav Vitous - bass
Alphonze Mouzon - drums
Dom Um Romao - percussion
Here's another early Weather Report on YouTube, but the provenance is desperately lacking. It's live in Tokyo, January 13, 1972. (I cheated...)
http://tinyurl.com/5v37es
Some of the live from Tokyo performance was edited for length and released on "I Sing The Body Electric" (again, I cheated-same ref). "The Moors" or "Vertical Invader" are the cuts I'd recommend for showcasing Shorter. Shorter wrote "The Moors".
The minimalist tag on Shorter is not really correct. Some of the Davis work from the same era, could easily be tagged 'minimalist' too, and if anything Shorter was much more intimately intertwined with the base music/beat, than was Davis at that time. Davis tended to solo with cross tempo playing that drifted in and out over several bars at a time. Awesome stuff, and its influence can be heard in Shorter's music. From "Sweetnighter", "125th Street Congress" is a fine example.
As for Blue Note and Shorter; "Speak No Evil" was a release I picked-up in a discount bin for $0.99 in '72 or '73. I ended up losing it in the division of spoils during a relationship break-up. Funny things can happen to music collections that have been intermingled come break-up time, but I'm a pretty amicable guy, and she was very attached to the release. Discretion and Digression...
A bit more context here though, because I sense a possibility that we will comment upon the same music thread started by Professor Kerr in the future.
I am full spectrum when it comes to music genres. Some fairly contemporary musicians that I respect: JayZ, Thurston Moore, Kid Rock, Alanis Morissette, Dave Feusi (if you understand this one, I am impressed), Ice Cube, 54 Nude Honeys, Greg Graffin, SCOTS, and Nickleback, to name just a few.
One of the more eclectic parts of my upbringing was The Music. My mother was an accomplished amateur flautist, as well as piano player, who was comfortable playing Protestant Hymns, Boogie Woogie, And classical. My father was an avid music fan, who leaned hard into big bands (Ella #1), and Vegas lounge (Prima, primo), but had a poor kept secret love of early Rockabilly. My professional training was primarily percussion,m but also included many years of keyboards (piano is percussion, btw). I even participated in Jr. Orchestras as a percussionist, at different times sitting 1st chair at snare, bass drum. timpani, and the odd ball addenda that is a part of different scores. When I returned from my stint in SE Asia, I chilled a bit drumming two traveling bands over a several year period, concentrating on University bar locales. The genre for this would best be described as Rock.
When I first became old enough to make my own decisions regarding personal music, the Jazz I preferred was Coltrane, Davis, and Dave Brubeck (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUklDXdH2o">Joe Morello</a>. was too cool for words to describe).
There is much more, but this provides enough context. Don't worry about hurting my feelings, regarding personal music preferences, I'm pretty much immune to the criticisms.