Traktormusik

Ross and Mulligan

Annie Ross chose some great company to perform on her first solo album after leaving legendary trio Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross--Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, and Chet Baker. Nice stuff.

Collaboration

Shorty Rogers with the Andre Previn orchestra, plus a Jim Flora cover--works for me.

Escalator Over the Hill

Quick, name an album featuring Linda Ronstadt, Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Gato Barbieri, and Jack Bruce. That would be the three-record big band jazz/avant garde not-opera "Escalator Over the Hill" a "Chronotransduction" by Carla Bley and Paul Haines, recorded between 1969 and 1971. Sure it's an unlistenable pretentious mess, but it's the perfect recording to out-snob a snob. Dig it!


 

Mat Mathews - Accordion Solos

Bernie's Tune


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Weird Nightmare

Directed by Raymond Douglas Davies in 1993, Weird Nightmare documents the making of the Hal Willner's 1992 Mingus tribute record Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus.
In multiple parts, just follow the numbers …

Jazz from Italy, 1959

Cool jazz from Italians Basso/Valdambrini quintet. Of course I have never heard of them before because I am slowly trying to overcome the snobbish attitude that jazz needs to be played by Americans or it sounds like a re-creation. I liked this, so who knows, maybe there's hope for me yet.

Basso Valdambrini Quintet - Parlami D'Amore Mariù:

Two For The Seesaw score

The score to 'Two For The Seesaw' by Andre Previn. Available thanks to In-Flight Entertainment.


Everybody's Got A Radio

Good Neighbors

North meets South (America) on the 1957 album The Good Neighbors Jazz featuring Brazilians Moacir Peixoto and Casé, with Major Holley and Jimmy Campbell of Woody Herman's Big Band.. Simple yet satisfying.