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Urban75 Album of the Year 1961

Knotted said:
OOps yes, I did listen to Africa/Brass as well, forgot it somehow! Yes the first side at least is very interesting. Probably my second favourite of the year.

I think of the Monk + Trane album as more of a Monk album. I prefer it to all the Trane albums but I'm more into Monk anyway.

There's also a Milt Jackson and John Coltrane album. Milt Jackson being out of the Modern Jazz Quartet so I was looking forward to that one, but it turned out to be a bit disappointing.
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Agree about Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane being a Monk album, I was just mentioning it as featuring Coltrane.

I'd forgotten about the Jackson/Coltrane album, but remember that I was also disappointed.

And if we're going for a complete list of albums from 1961 on which Coltrane appeared, he also made a "guest appearance" on Miles Davis' Someday My Prince Will Come, although Hank Mobley was the main tenor player in Miles band by then.

So that's, what, eight albums featuring Coltrane released this year...
 
Second Joan Baez album and probably one of her best. Definitely more in the Folkways mode than her later work (not Folkways though).

 
Two Wanda Jackson albums this year. Very different to each other. Right or Wrong is a poppy/country album and There's a Party Goin' On is more rock 'n' roll. Both recommended and my notes for Party is just "cracking", I certainly had a whale of a time with it so possibly my favourite rock 'n' roll album of the year.

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Knotted said:
Changing tack. Another new thing to me is Baby Face Willette. Chunky organ jazz funk before jazz funk was a thing.



I really enjoyed that.
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love some hammond action! also featuring guitarist Grant Green who has his debut album, Grants First Stand, out in 1961, the album is in trio also with Baby Face Willette on organ it and Ben Dixon on drums - same line up just without the sax player.
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It was followed by another, Green Street, later in the year. First Stand is the better of the two I think

(ive got a good as it gets killer hammond album for when we do 1971 from Charles Earland)
 
Supposedly the first guitar distortion pedal (Gibson Maestro Fuzz-Tone) was available in 1962...1961 is standing on the precipice...
 
Four samba albums.

Frist Leny Adrade album A sensação. It's big and brassy and she's got a big voice. Sample here

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First Erlon Chaves album - Em Tempo de Samba. Maintains that samba percussion with an instrumental sound that's both big and dreamy. Very much a dance album. Sample here

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Second Elza Soares album - A Bossa Negra. Makes for a more rich and sophisticated dance floor. If you listen to one of these make it this one. Sample here

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And also Sandra - Samba 35mm. Not sure if it's '61 or '62. But it's a relatively smooth affair. Sample here

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ska invita said:
love some hammond action! also featuring guitarist Grant Green who has his debut album, Grants First Stand, out in 1961, the album is in trio also with Baby Face Willette on organ it and Ben Dixon on drums - same line up just without the sax player.
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Grant Green - Grant's First Stand

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It was followed by another, Green Street, later in the year. First Stand is the better of the two I think

(ive got a good as it gets killer hammond album for when we do 1971 from Charles Earland)
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and theres a third organ album!
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Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper

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also with Ben DIxon on drums and Grant Green on guitar - his first recording supposedly

...its pretty standard fare, but i think its interesting to know there was this little hammond scene going on here
 
ska invita said:
cool live clip with some interesting playing techniques


these fellas had an album in 1961 (you can guess how it goes)...im guessing the name Soggy Bottom Boys from Oh Brother Where Are THou was based on these Foggy Mountain Boys
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I had a listen to the Flat & Scruggs LP but it was a bit too relentless.
 
ska invita said:
cool live clip with some interesting playing techniques


these fellas had an album in 1961 (you can guess how it goes)...im guessing the name Soggy Bottom Boys from Oh Brother Where Are THou was based on these Foggy Mountain Boys
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Let's not forget Hank Williams.
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Just in case you're sick of all the bop, there's a Jack Teagarden dixie album out!

 
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Another jazz-hammond record and this one is special ....I've read that Ray Charles was key in creating hype around the hammond in jazz at this time and it cant get much better than this. All star line up: "Charles is accompanied by two groups drawn from members of The Count Basie Band and from the ranks of top New York session players." with big band arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. So not only wicked hammond licks but full power big bang horns on top.

One of my all time favourite albums is Jimmy Smtih - The Cat <another hammond vs big band album -this Ray Charles one is not as inventive as that but its a firing record:



A1 From The Heart 0:00
A2 I've Got News For You 3:36
A3 Moanin' 8:11
A4 Let's Go 11:31
A5 One Mint Julep 14:16
B1 I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 17:24
B2 Stompin' Room Only 21:10
B3 Mister C 24:56
B4 Strike Up The Band 29:29
B5 Birth Of The Blues 32:06
 
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ska invita said:
Another jazz-hammond record and this one is special ....I've read that Ray Charles was key in creating hype around the hammond in jazz at this time and it cant get much better than this. All star line up: "Charles is accompanied by two groups drawn from members of The Count Basie Band and from the ranks of top New York session players." with big band arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. So not only wicked hammond licks but full power big bang horns on top.

One of my all time favourite albums is Jimmy Smtih - The Cat <another hammond vs big band album -this Ray Charles one is not as inventive as that but its a firing record:



A1 From The Heart 0:00
A2 I've Got News For You 3:36
A3 Moanin' 8:11
A4 Let's Go 11:31
A5 One Mint Julep 14:16
B1 I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 17:24
B2 Stompin' Room Only 21:10
B3 Mister C 24:56
B4 Strike Up The Band 29:29
B5 Birth Of The Blues 32:06
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love that album. Used to have it and play it to death in my early youth. Quite surprised it's 61 tbh. Would have guessed it a lot later.
 
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