I missed it at the time, but one of jazz's great innovators died recently:

Giuffre Obituary

Really gutted to read the news this morning - a hero of mine, and a pioneer of the chamber jazz style that led to the likes of ECM. If you love that label as much as I do, you owe it to yourself to hear Giuffre's trio recordings with Bley and Swallow. ECM boss Eicher loved these recordings so much he bought the master tapes and reissued them on ECM as the Jimmy Giuffre 3's "1961". Not a complete surprise as Giuffre had suffered from Parkinson's disease for a long time, but still very sorry to lose him.

Nigel

Nigel,

Yes sad but not surprising and not too bad an innings at 86.

1961 on ECM is a wonderful record with wonderful cover photos particularly on the vinyl.


I don't know if you have them but these two albums might interest you with the same line up but many years later under Paul Bley's name.

Adrian





Album review here

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25658

Hi Adrian

Yes, I have both of those - actually I first got into Giuffre when a friend of mine bought tickets to see the trio in Manchester, at about the time those albums were released. It remains one of my fondest memories of live music in any genre. I keep meaning to get the live album on Hat Art from the same trio - and any othe Giuffre I can lay my hands on!

Regards
Nigel

Coincidence, I have not heard about him, before, but ordered the 1961 CD as a conseqeunce of Adrian posting it. And now, I read that he had died, recently. Hmhh...

Hi Stefan - I can't imagine you'll be disappointed with 1961, but I'll be very interested to read what you make of it. Meanwhile...

... please don't order any more CDs!

Nigel

Oops: wrong thread...

Can't promise, Nigel
Meanwhile... I continue my session with Jon Surman:

quote:

Originally posted by droodzilla:
Hi Stefan - I can't imagine you'll be disappointed with 1961, but I'll be very interested to read what you make of it. Meanwhile...

... please don't order any more CDs!

Nigel

A lot of jimmy's work is 'unsung'.

He was a stalwart side man who made a lot of mainstream jazz 'names' sound good on some famous LP's from the 50's / 60's aswell

Sad that he never got quite the amount of recognition he deserved.

regards
Geoff