Monterey, ain't in Catalonia, Spain, it's in California, USA, so really doesn't belong on this thread.

Sorry, I hadn't realised you're rules were so strict, It's here now though, so, did you listen to it?

There's no strict rules, just common sense. If a thread is titled, "Jazz from Catalonia."

It's basic common sense not to stick a clip of something entirely unrelated in that thread.

Did I listen?

I did for a minute.

A clip that's been on YouTube for seven weeks and has had 690 views in the time it's been available and no one has been assed to add a comment, tells its own story.

But if you liked it, that's fine by me.

Calm down, as you list you're interested in Tenor Sax and Jazz, I thought a new take on Steve Mackay might be of interest to you?, and how many views do you expect avant garde Jazz to get?

Calm down?

Don't be silly, I've been very patient with you.

The point of this thread being called "Jazz From Catalonia," is that it's for just that and has been visited by a few thousand people, because they are interested in it.

You brought the topic back to the head of the board, with a post containing a link to something not the least bit connected with the topic. How daft was that?


Now you're back, not with an apology, but an excuse.


Anyway, "Avant Garde?" That? You must be joking.

Sorry, but I'm done with wasting my time responding to any more of your posts.

Then stop it

What's you're problem with Mike Watt playing freestyle with old Bebop men and them describing themselve's as "avant garde jazz ?"

This is an earlier version of "Someday My Prince Will Come," uploaded this month but from a performance in 20ll, which I've not seen before. There's some scat singing in the vocal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57YTIpYLM6c


It's very noticeable how much Andrea Motis' voice has matured in just two years, to this recorded in 2013, which I linked early in the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCaGOvbPL4

A new video has been posted today !

Here's Andrea, Joan and Josep (guitar) at the Samois-sur-Seine Festival last month. Nice trumpet solo from Andrea.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CvgqL7TuY

Here's another one that I don't think we've had before though it was posted 3 months ago.....

Cheek To Cheek featuring Rita and a new singer, Ruth Marguena.........well, I don't seeing her before

Otherwise Eva on sax, Andrea on trumpet, Carla on guitar plus the usual backers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNHL95VQ8RU

Very good those. Noticed a new female drummer on the second.

Abril Saurí

Still playing tenor, piano,and avoiding questions , are you Mr Reilly?

An open-air Barcelona concert by the Eva Fernandez Group, in front of an appreciative audience. Another version of "Teach Me Tonight."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0rAtKY9y8

another little girl

New upload.
Andrea Motis plays and sings Fats Waller's, "Jitterbug Waltz."

I've long been impressed with the guitar playing of Josep Taver, who is proficient in anything from Flamenco, through various jazz genres to rock and pop.

Here he gets a solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubW8-utwFP0


Josep Traver biography.

http://www.joseptraver.com/eng/indexeng.html

The latest upload, a big band version of "Just Friends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEbVSBImo10

Perhaps the best known version is that by Chet Baker.

Orchard Music has just uploaded nine tracks from a CD of a live performances recorded at the Casa Fuster Hotel in Barcelona in May 2014.

I really like this old jazz standard.


If you let it run you'll get the rest on "autoplay."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNn3m2HQT_E

A new video, of sixteen year-old Rita Payes, who sings and plays trombone in the Sant Andreu, Jazz band and in a small group..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlajPNM6bTk

No trombone solo in that, but here's one uploaded previously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd_eRDnVsA

terrific instrumental solos

Scott Robinson on Sax.......he's fairly new ?

I have seen him before but not a regular

Yes, he's been on several videos, but not as frequently as Scott Hamilton.

Of the two tenor players, I prefer Scott Hamilton, his is a much less "busy" style and seems to have a better tone and can get more emotion into his improvisations.

Here he is on Andrea Motis' "Moody's Mood For Love" about which we've posted before, as a comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxriapsDes

That's my favourite of all the videos we've had on the thread.......I just love it !



As an aside.......the most influential video on me was 'So What'. After watching that several times I looked up the Miles Davis original, which was something totally new to me........from there I listened to half a dozen Miles Davis albums, Lester Young, Coltrane......and random others as suggested on Youtube

I rarely listen to anything other than Jazz now........

My current favourite which I play several times a day is 'Flamenco Sketches' by Miles Davis........I just play it on loop while I'm working.....time after time......love it !

Miles is my favourite jazz musician, his styles evolved and adapted over the decades, from bebob, through different jazz genres, to what I call his "Rock n' Roll" band.
I've over a dozen of his albums including "Sketches of Spain," you mentioned. Even "Miles Smiles" from his most "way out" period. Many I had on vinyl but some got played so much I replaced them with the CDs


"Milestones," (the title track of one of his albums), has been a favourite with TV documentary makers over the decades, as has, "So What," "Summertime," from Porgy and Bess and part of this track was used in a recent BBC documentary about life in London over a few contemporary Soho street scenes. The producer was no doubt a fan and aware of this clip from a film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKQdp6iGUk

Probably his most recent album I bought, chronologically speaking, was back in 1985, "You're Under Arrest." with which I call his, "Rock n' Roll" band.
Followers would know that was a reference to the fact that he got arrested at the height of his popularity in 1959, for just standing outside the Birdland club in which he was appearing, just having a smoke "with a white woman" and not "moving on," when told by a policeman. He got beaten up for his refusal. There was an outcry in the press and the charges were dismissed.

http://todayinclh.com/?event=jazz-gr...-by-nyc-police

Davis was all about "less is more," On his "You're Under Arrest," album, he plays Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time."

The part between 1.42 and 2.12 contains very few notes, but conveys a lot of emotion. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvChnPVeVI

You can hear his influences in a lot of jazz trumpeters, even at times, Andrea Motis.

I have been listening to the 'Sketches of Spain' album quite a lot but the Flamenco Sketches I mean is the track on 'Kind of Blue'

Shame it wasn't included on the Sketches of Spain album as it would fitted beautifully on there !

I stand corrected! I tend to listen mostly to my favourite tracks from various albums which I download to mp3s years ago. I only transferred the first four tracks on that CD, I must dig it out and listen to the other two!
Sketches of Spain was another collaboration with Gil Evans, like Porgy and Bess.

The latest upload from Joan Chamorro, of a live performance. But the acoustics are terrible.
I didn't rate the alto player, he sounded off-key and better alto sax players might be amused at his exhibitionism. I'd include Andrea Motis in that, who was "relegated" to the trumpet section in this.

Magali did her best with the vocal, but she's the weakest of the four "Chamorro singers."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqAJeZiZS4


This wasn't much of an improvement, so maybe it's the acoustics at the venue.
Rita Pays sounded a bit better. Now sixteen she's visually maturing, but I'd have liked to have heard her play a trombone solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cmKXURZbI