The only issue with "Moods" is that its too short. If you enjoyed the Erskine Hawkins album, then you will enjoy this. Overall I find it has that carefree and fun vibe to it. The tunes cover a range of tempos, feels and styles. That said, I wouldn't describe Jordan as an adventurous player. He plays with lots of feeling and makes his notes count. So yes, when I likened this to the Hawkins sides, I was referring to the soulful approach.
The supporting players don't display much in the way of fireworks (save a couple tunes), but the band is tight, tight, tight. They show creativity in subtle ways that often help Jordan to sound better. Lots of harmonizing and tons of fantastic rhythm. If you're looking for something light, fun & swingin - then this is an album for you. I captured this glorious, near-mint mono LP in 24/48 wav and then transferred it to 24/48 FLAC. I hope it helps to kick up your weekend... enjoy!!!
Mercury MG-20249
1959
1. When Your Lover Has Gone 1:37
2. Night Boat 4:55
3. My Man (Cha Cha) 3:06
4. Do Anything 2:43
5. September Song 3:17
6. It's The Talk Of The Town 3:20
7. Smoky 4:55
8. Mariquita 3:47
9.Second Balcony Jump 3:55
https://mega.nz/#!VlBxjSKZ!LiH3EjlJjbL4TGaD1wBoPBAoeq6QTtLlAUlyJ9yCaQs
ReplyDeleteA very nice DR12 on this. My kind of mainstream jazz....just sweet. I was looking at the graphs etc on your torrent. I will have to read up on the analysis and how to do that as I don't really know offhand how to read them. I see these a lot on a couple of vinyl only blogs but never paid much attention. Mostly I have seen them with Adobe and iZotope. I've never used Audacity.
ReplyDeleteReally like this album. Great sound. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it deGallo, your opinion on the rip means a lot to me. Its funny you mentioned the graphs. I have been trying to get my posts "verified" at RuTracker but the guy who mods the jazz section is a real stickler for the rules. I put up three Stanley Bros albums in their Bluegrass forum and those got verified no issue. So the last frontier for verification are those three images you saw. Frankly, aside from the waveform, I can't tell you what the Spectrogram is or the other small frequency sample. I figured out how to get the entire album on screen for each, and that's that. Now I am waiting to see if they approve me. If so, I will slowly go back to my older posts and edit them to include the images. It's a major PITA because I will have to revert them to wav so Audacity can see it.
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lol. Glad you enjoyed the music. I am in a stage right now where I want this kind of vibe in my life. It's not particularly challenging but has a ton of feel to it. My next post will be along the same lines - you will like it although its an older live recording, so not the most glorious hifi.
Thank you - according to Lord Taft Jordan recorded just three long playing albums this being the first. Good to hear Jordan and Barksdale, two fine craftsmen at work and in detail. No fireworks but enjoyable session. Do Anything is Cherry in disguise - Mariquita ? sounds like the song Marcheta.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, poppachubby!
ReplyDeleteThanks poppachubby, welcome back!
ReplyDeleteNicely swinging album - many thanks.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, poppa, thank you! Wonderful swinging session...
ReplyDeleteFive hundred miles south of Toronto we are in the dog daze [sic] of Summer on the western shore of the Chesapeake and humidity-induced torpor has been setting in leaving one sluggish during the day and sleepless at night. Even worse, like you, Poppa, I have been contending with computer issues this Summer and am now anxiously awaiting the diagnosis from my non-profit computer doctor about 200 gigabytes of music that I am hoping will cling to life and regain a healthful state after major surgery for an external drive that just ain't working properly this past month. For a Luddite like me to have a computer that balks at working well after only nine years is, as we say in Beantown, wicked exasperating; they just don’t make'em to last, I guess. (Yep, I still wear socks with holes in them because if you focus on the vastness of the healthy cloth surrounding the hole, the sock still works well and no one’s the wiser if you don’t take off your shoes. My wife looks at my eight-track collection and threatens to throw them out because I don’t listen to them anymore. “Get ye back, demon wench,” I reply to such threats, ”Forget ye that vinyl is now back and even more expensive than compact discs and that wives are replaceable but eight-track tapes are currently not?”)
ReplyDeleteSo I pace the floor awaiting that call to tell me the diagnosis and prognosis and it's slow in coming because you just can’t rush a computer physician who's working pro bono. All of this meandering introduction is a rambling means of expressing the desperate need just south of the Mason-Dixon line for some fine new music, well-played by a tight band without any innovative, genre-shattering flourishes that require heavy analysis and ponderous musing, and also permits one to relax while imagining that a certain air of jazzy sophistication surrounds one to provide “really cool” comfort. Even if you attached this recording to a drone and aimed it precisely for my home, it couldn’t have been a more direct and enjoyable hit than the download that I listen to in the pre-dawn hours before heading to Snoozeland.
If I wanted challenging on such occasions, I’d listen to some later Coltrane or maybe Braxton at his most abstract, but sometimes one just really needs music that “is not particularly challenging but has a ton of feel to it” because music can be so relaxing if it’s well-played and, too, provide therapeutic coolness for the soul while persuading the mind to ward off the mugginess of the day. Not being well-versed in jazz, I had not heard of Jordan before and really enjoyed it. Many thanks for this, Poppa, and I hope you post more like it. Regardless, as with all of the other contributors here, I can always trust your taste and appreciate it greatly.
Feilimid!!! Great to hear from you...
ReplyDeleteFeilimid have you heard this... http://kccryptredux.blogspot.ca/2015/03/erskine-hawkins-hawk-blows-at-midnight.html
ReplyDeleteNowt like a good mono vinyl rip, especially in hi-rez! Really wanna hear this one, Chubbs, as its an album I don't know at all. I have the Mood Indigo CD reissue which features the album of that title along with a Swingville All-Stars session, but I've never even seen this one!! Good to see you back around, too!!
ReplyDeleteNice one, cool, swinging and funny (My Man Cha Cha) thanks Poppa!
ReplyDeleteWonderful sounding rip of an excellent "mood"album! Thanks Poppa.
ReplyDeleteThanks again poppa! Sounds like I'm going to dig this one a lot.
ReplyDeletethis looks great!
ReplyDeletethanks.
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