Ave...
I'm listening to this album over and over:

https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/7573155-Mal-Waldron-Quintet-Featuring-Gigi-Gryce-And-Idrees-Sulieman-Mal-1

The "Yesterdays" theme fascinates me...
Does anyone know who composed it?...
Thank you...

On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 17:43:22 UTC+1, MELMOTH wrote:
> Ave...
> I'm listening to this album over and over:
>
> https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/7573155-Mal-Waldron-Quintet-Featuring-Gigi-Gryce-And-Idrees-Sulieman-Mal-1
>
> The "Yesterdays" theme fascinates me...
> Does anyone know who composed it?...
> Thank you...

Yesterdays was written by Jerome Kern in 1933. Billie Holiday sang this well - she catches the irony.

I'm not much of a fan of Mal Waldron, but that's just me.

I'm quite lowbrow - I like listening to jazz (Woody Shaw today) and young singer-songwriters. The sounds of the 2020s. Here's a couple I've been listening to recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CU-p2fiCs&t=1083s. Crumb the Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausQKndtQ9w. I know the singer Hilda Dahlgren - she's very poetic.

Andy Evans a pensé très fort :
> Yesterdays was written by Jerome Kern in 1933. Billie Holiday sang this well
> - she catches the irony.

> I'm not much of a fan of Mal Waldron, but that's just me.

Mal Waldron was influenced above all by *Ellington*, *Monk* and, of
course, *Mingus*... My three favorite jazzmen !...
What's not to like about Mal Waldron ?!...I'm not asking...

In article <65172d78$0$6106$426a74cc@news.free.fr>,
MELMOTH <theomonk@free.fr> wrote:
>What's not to like about Mal Waldron ?!...I'm not asking...

Andy's view of jazz pianists is definitely his own....

(I'd add a smiley but Andy doesn't like those either. And damn,
that one really needed a smiley....)

On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 21:22:49 UTC+1, Todd M. McComb wrote:
> Andy's view of jazz pianists is definitely his own....
>
> (I'd add a smiley but Andy doesn't like those either. And damn,
> that one really needed a smiley....)

Oh, I don't know...... My favourites are pretty mainstream:

Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Onaje Alan Gumbs, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Thierry Eliez, Andrew Hill, Kenny Barron, Horace Parlan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.....

In article <478b741a-cdd0-4b5a-a644-edeb74d1aca3n@googlegroups.com>,
Andy Evans <performanceandmedia@gmail.com> wrote:
>Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans,
>Onaje Alan Gumbs, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Thierry Eliez, Andrew
>Hill, Kenny Barron, Horace Parlan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.....

So a lot of crossover....

I'll take Andrew Hill from that list for today....

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:41:59 -0700, Andy Evans wrote:

> On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 21:22:49 UTC+1, Todd M. McComb wrote:
> > Andy's view of jazz pianists is definitely his own....
> >
> > (I'd add a smiley but Andy doesn't like those either. And damn,
> > that one really needed a smiley....)
>
> Oh, I don't know...... My favourites are pretty mainstream:
>
> Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Onaje Alan Gumbs, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Thierry Eliez, Andrew Hill, Kenny Barron, Horace Parlan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.....

Some of my favorite Jazz is Scott Joplin, but it's
usually recorded in a spiritless way.

Op zondag 1 oktober 2023 om 04:42:51 UTC+2 schreef Pluted Pup:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:41:59 -0700, Andy Evans wrote:
>
> > On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 21:22:49 UTC+1, Todd M. McComb wrote:
> > > Andy's view of jazz pianists is definitely his own....
> > >
> > > (I'd add a smiley but Andy doesn't like those either. And damn,
> > > that one really needed a smiley....)
> >
> > Oh, I don't know...... My favourites are pretty mainstream:
> >
> > Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Onaje Alan Gumbs, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Thierry Eliez, Andrew Hill, Kenny Barron, Horace Parlan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.....
> Some of my favorite Jazz is Scott Joplin, but it's
> usually recorded in a spiritless way.

Recently RCA has released "The complete works for piano" played by Dick Hyman, on 3 discs.
Are these recordings less spiritless?

On Sun, 01 Oct 2023 01:44:31 -0700, Gerard wrote:

> Op zondag 1 oktober 2023 om 04:42:51 UTC+2 schreef Pluted Pup:
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:41:59 -0700, Andy Evans wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 21:22:49 UTC+1, Todd M. McComb wrote:
> > > > Andy's view of jazz pianists is definitely his own....
> > > >
> > > > (I'd add a smiley but Andy doesn't like those either. And damn,
> > > > that one really needed a smiley....)
> > >
> > > Oh, I don't know...... My favourites are pretty mainstream:
> > >
> > > Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Onaje Alan Gumbs, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul, Thierry Eliez, Andrew Hill, Kenny Barron, Horace Parlan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner.....
> > Some of my favorite Jazz is Scott Joplin, but it's
> > usually recorded in a spiritless way.
>
> Recently RCA has released "The complete works for piano" played by Dick Hyman, on 3 discs.
> Are these recordings less spiritless?

Yeah, I've got the new CDs and theres plenty of spiritlessness
there. The worst part is Hyman's own revisions of the rags.

I would love to hear the Gladiolus Rag played with flexible
tempo, accelerandos, crescendos and flexible pedaling in the
second section like I've heard itplayed in person.
Steadiness is boring.