Antti Alanen: Film Diary: My jazz record of the week project

At Digelius: a record launching concert by Hans Olding-Jaska Lukkarinen Quartet. Hans Olding (gtr), Karl-Martin Almqvist (tenor sax), Mattias Wellin (bs), Jaska Lukkarinen (dr). Please do click to enlarge!

Digelius Music. Laivurinrinne 2, 00120 Helsinki, +358 9 666375, info@digelius.com – A world class jazz record store since 1971. CEO: Ilkka "Emu" Lehtinen. Wikipedia article on Digelius in English. The store is at the Viiskulma (the Five Corners) where five streets meet, easily accessible by foot, tram, or bus. There is even a taxi station right by the store.

Last year instead of buying a Friday wine bottle from Alko I decided to switch into purchasing a Friday jazz record from Digelius.

I am a jazz ignoramus, and happy to take advantage of the situation. I now get to hear the all-time great jazz records for the first time selected by Emu Lehtinen himself.

There is no system in the selection. There are classics (Miles Davis: Kind of Blue), spiritual discoveries (John Coltrane: Crescent), inspired tributes (Amarcord Nino Rota produced by Hal Willner), and Nordic gems (Jan Johansson: Jazz på svenska, Juhani Aaltonen & Henrik Otto Donner: Strings). A record that I would never have found otherwise is Duke Ellington 1940 the double lp. They say Ellington's instrument was his orchestra, in which each player was an individual. In 1940 his orchestra was perfect.

The realm of jazz is vaster than I knew, and there is no end in sight in this project.

2014
22.8. Charlie Parker: Great Quartets & Quintets
29.8. Charlie Parker: A Studio Chronicle (5 cd)
5.9. Eddie Condon: Jam Session Coast-to-Coast (Eddie Condon and His All Stars / Rampart Street Paraders)
12.9. Bill Evans Trio: The Village Vanguard Sessions
19.9. Charlie Haden: The Ballad of the Fallen
26.9. Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives and Sevens (4 cd)
3.10. Billie Holiday: Lady Day – The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 (10 cd)
10.10. –
17.10. –
24.10. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
31.10. The Gil Evans Orchestra: Out of the Cool
7.11. The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django
14.11. –
21.11. Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano
28.11. Miles Davis:
– Cookin'
– Relaxin'
– Workin'
– Steamin' (4 separate cd's)
5.12. –
12.12. Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
19.12. Duke Ellington: Original Album Classics:
– Such Sweet Thunder
– Far East Suite
– "And His Mother Called Him Bill" (3 cd)
26.12. –

2015
2.1. The Best of Chet Baker Sings
9.1. Yusef Lateef: The Blue Yusef Lateef
16.1. John Coltrane: Blue Train
23.1. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
30.1. Juhani Aaltonen & Otto Donner: Strings
6.2. The Young Tuxedo Brass Band [Jazz Begins, funeral and parade music]
13.2. –
20.2. The Ben Webster Quintet: Soulville
27.2. Jazz in Polish Cinema (4 cd)
6.3. John Coltrane: Africa / Brass
13.3. –
20.3. –
27.3. Duke Ellington 1940 (2 lp)
+ The Very Best of Duke Ellington (cd)
3.4. Clifford Brown & Max Roach
10.4. Duke Ellington: The Complete Orchestral Suites
– Creole Rhapsody
– Black, Brown and Beige
– Nutcracker Suite, etc. (5 cd)
17.4. M. A. Numminen: Swingin kutsu
24.4. Lester Young: Jammin' the Blues
30.4. John Coltrane: Crescent
8.5. –
15.5. Keith Jarrett:
– Fort Yawuh
– Death and the Flower (2 cd)
22.5. B. B. King: From the Beginning (2 lp)
29.5. Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around
5.6. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin'
12.6. –
19.6. Charles Mingus:
– Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
– Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
26.6. Ornette Coleman:
– The Shape of Jazz to Come
– Change of the Century
– This Is Our Music
– Free Jazz
– Ornette! (a box of 5 cd's)
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14.8. Jan Johansson: Jazz på svenska
21.8. Various artists: Amarcord Nino Rota (lp, prod. Hal Willner)
29.8. Steve Lacy with Don Cherry: Evidence
4.9. Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron
11.9. Art Tatum – Ben Webster The Album (1956)
18.9. Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant
25.9. Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
2.10. –
9.10. –
16.10. Anita O'Day:
– Trav'lin' Light
– Waiter, Make Mine Blues
23.10. Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery: Complete Live at the Half Note (2 cd)
30.10. Herbie Hancock: Takin' Off
6.11. Charlie Haden:
– Études
– Old and New Dreams
– A Tribute to Blackwell
– Silence
– First Song (5 cd)
13.11. Art Pepper: The Art of the Ballad
20.11. Sonny Rollins: The Bridge
27.11. The Oscar Peterson Trio: We Get Requests
5.12. Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Trios
12.12. –
19.12. Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds: Blue Hour. The Complete Sessions. Master Takes
23.12. Steve Lacy: Solos Duos Trios (6 cd).
– Only Monk
– More Monk
– Sempre amore
– Communiqué
– The Flame
– The Window

2016
2.1. New Thing! (2 cd) (Maulawi, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Paris Smith, Travis Biggs, Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, Archie Shepp, Hannibal & Sunrise Orchestra, Amina Claudine Myers, Alice Coltrane, Lloyd McNeill, East New York Ensemble, Robert Rockwell III, Eddie Gale, Stanley Cowell, Steve Davis)
8.1. Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell:
– All Night Long
– All Day Long (2 cd)
15.1. Sun Ra and His Arkestra:
– Jazz in Silhouette
– Sound Sun Pleasure!!
22.1. Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
29.1. Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
5.2. The Roland Kirk Quartet:
– Rip, Rig, and Panic
– Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
11.2. Lee Morgan: Candy (1957)
18.2. Ben Webster, Harry Edison: Complete Sextet Studio Sessions (4 albums:
– Sweets [1956]
– Some of My Favorites [1957]
– Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You [1957]
– Songs for Hip Lovers [1957] (2 cd)
26.2. Duke Ellington: New Orleans Suite (1970)
4.3. The Gary Burton Quartet:
– Duster (1967)
– Country Roads & Other Places (1969) (two albums on one cd)
11.3. –
18.3. Stan Getz: Sweet Rain (1967)
25.3. –
2.4. Chick Corea: Return to Forever (1972)
9.4. Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (1963)
15.4. Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues (1959) special cd with nine bonus tracks
22.4. Erik Lindström Sextet: No Money No Music (1975)
29.4. Ray Charles: Genius+Soul=Jazz. Complete 1956–1960 Sessions with Quincy Jones (3 albums:
– Genius+Soul=Jazz [1960]
– The Genius of Ray Charles [1959]
– The Genius Hits the Road [1960]
and the Quincy Jones sessions from The Great Ray Charles [1956] and The Genius After Hours [1956]) (2 cd)
6.5. Side by Side: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges plus others (1959)
13.5. Jacques Loussier, Christian Garros, Pierre Michelot: The Original Play Bach Vols. 1 & 2 (1959, 1960) (two albums on one cd)
20.5. Django Bates: Belovèd Bird (2010)
27.5. Mal Waldron: Moods (1978)
3.6. Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots (1959)
10.6. Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957) (2016 2 cd reissue with bonus tracks)
21.6. Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues (1974)
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6.8. Carola & Heikki Sarmanto Trio (recorded 1966, published 2004)
13.8. Christian Schwindt Quintet: For Friends and Relatives (1966) (2011 cd issue with three bonus tracks)
20.8. The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (1959)
27.8. John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (1961) lp
3.9. Red Garland Trio: Groovy (1957) – RVG: remastered by Rudy Van Gelder (1924–2016) in 2008
10.9. Miles Davis: Miles Smiles (1967) lp
17.9. Tommy Flanagan Trio: Overseas (1957) lp
24.9. Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else (1958) cd – RVG: remastered by Rudy Van Gelder in 1998
30.9. –
7.10. –
14.10. Tomasz Stańko: Balladyna (1978)
22.10. The Essence of Louis Armstrong (Phontastic, Sweden, 1987) lp: A 1: Reminiscin' with Louis 1947, 2: Cake Walking Babies (1925), 3: St. Louis Blues (1925, Bessie Smith), 4: Sugarfoot Stomp, 5: Heebie Jeebies, 6: Big Butter and Egg Man (1926), 7: Hotter Than That (1927), 8: West End Blues (1928), 9: Muggles (1928), B 1: Just a Gigolo (1931) *, 2: Evn'tide (1936), 3: Darling Nellie Gray (1937), 4: Struttin' with Some Barbecue (1938), 5: I Double Dare You (1938), 6: Jeepers Creepers (1939), 7: Some Day (You'll Be Sorry) (1947), 8: Mack the Knife (1955).
28.10. –[Dylanology]
4.11. –
12.11. –
19.11. Django Reinhardt: Vol. 6: 1940: Nuages
26.11. Sinikka Oksanen – Antero Stenberg: Radio Sessions 1959–1966 (Artie Music 2005)
3.12. Charles Lloyd: Forest Flower, live at Monterey
9.12. – [Dylanology]
16.12. –
23.12. Albert Ayler: Goin' Home

2017
30.12. –
7.1. –
13.1. Dollar Brand Quartet: Africa – Tears and Laughter (1979) (lp)
20.1. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1961) (lp)
27.1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1970) (2 cd)
4.2. Duke Ellington: Piano Reflections (1953)
11.2. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: In a Mellotone (tracks from 1940–1942, compilation by Nat Hentoff in 1956)
17.2. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
24.2. –
3.3. –
10.3. –
17.3. –
25.3. Eero Koivistoinen: For Children (1970) (2007 lp reissue)
1.4. The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin: The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
15.4. Billie Holiday: 5 Original Albums (5 cd, 2016)
– Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
– Body and Soul (1957)
– Songs for Distingué Lovers (1957)
– Stay with Me (1958)
– All or Nothing at All (1958)
21.4. Miroslav Vitouš: The Bass (1972)
28.4. –
5.5. –
13.5. Joe Henderson: Page One (1963) The Rudy Van Gelder Edition 1999
15.7. Kenny Dorham: Jazz Contrasts (1957)
18.7. Freddie Redd: Six Classic Albums (4 cd, 2013)
– Introducing Freddie Redd (1955)
– The Music from The Connection (1960)
– Shades of Redd (1960)
– Gene Ammons: All Star Sessions (1956)
– Howard McGhee: The Music from The Connection (1960)
– Rolf Ericson and His American Stars (1956)
24.7. John Coltrane: Ballads (1962)
John Coltrane: Impressions (1963)
John Coltrane: Live at Birdland (1963)
John Coltrane: Ascension (1965)
John Coltrane: Meditations (1966)
4.8. Lee Konitz: Very Cool (1957) lp
12.8. John Coltrane: Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard (1962)
19.8. Fats Waller: The Joint Is Jumpin' (compilation made in 1987)
26.8. Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1951) (2001 reissue, Rudy Van Gelder)
26.8. Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (1952) (2001 reissue, Rudy Van Gelder)
2.9. The Booker Ervin Sextet: Heavy!!! (1967) (1998 cd reissue with a bonus track)
12.9. Jazz on Film: Biopics (6 cd, covering 10 soundtrack albums)
– The Gene Krupa Story (1959) with Gene Krupa
– The James Dean Story (1957) Johnny Mandel & Bill Holman version with Chet Baker, Bud Shank
– The Five Pennies (1959) with Red Nichols
– St. Louis Blues (1958) with Nat "King" Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson
– The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) with Carmen Cavallaro
– The Glenn Miller Story (1954) with Louis Armstrong, Barney Bigard, "Trummie" Young
– Young Man with a Horn (1950) with Harry James, Hoagy Carmichael, Doris Day
– Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) with Dick Cathcart, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald
– The James Dean Story (1957) original Leith Stevens score transfer
– The Benny Goodman Story Vol. 1–2 (1956) with Benny Goodman, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Stan Getz
Sunday 22.10. shock news: Emu Lehtinen is dead, at two days' notice of diagnosis.
Selected by Emu, purchased posthumously:
27.10. Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1957) selected by Emu
11.11. Horace Parlan: Up & Down (1961) selected by Emu
18.11. John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966) selected by Emu
29.11. John Abercrombie: Timeless (1975) selected by Emu
2.12. Charlie Rouse: Unsung Hero (1961) selected by Emu
16.12. Charlie Mingus: Pre-Bird (1960) (1999 re-release) selected by Emu
23.12. Eero Koivistoinen Quartet: Illusion (2017) not selected by Emu
30.12. Kenny Burrell: Soulero, incorporating The Tender Gender (1967) selected by Emu

2018
5.1. Erroll Garner Plays Misty 3 (original recordings 1953–1954), the last one selected by Emu.
Selected by the Digelius staff after Emu:
13.1. Riitta Paakki Trio: Riitta Paakki Trio (2000)
13.1. Peggy Lee: It's a Good Day. Original Recordings 1941–1950 with Benny Goodman & Dave Barbour (2002) bonus disc selected by myself

20.1. DDT Jazzband: Vintage (recorded in 1982 at MTV Music Studio, album released in 1995)
– Rick Wahlstein, trumpet
– Fred Andersson, clarinet
– Carl G. Nyman, clarinet
– Raimo Näätänen, trombone
– Christer Sandell, piano
– Pentti Mutikainen, bass
– Pekka Mesimäki, banjo, guitar
– Christian Schwindt, drums
TRACK LISTING:
1. Tiger Rag, 2. Jazz Me Blues, 3. Creole Love Call, 4. Memphis Blues, 5. When I'm On My Journey, 6. Naughty Sweetie (Blues Foxtrot), 7. Rockin' Chair, 8. Working Man Blues, 9. Bourbon Street Parade, 10. Stevedore Stomp.

26.1. Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio: Clustrophy (2010)
– Mikko Innanen, alto, baritone and soprano saxophones, Indian wooden clarinet, percussion, whistles, toy instruments
– Fredrik Ljungkvist, tenor and sopranino saxophones, clarinet
– Daniel Erdmann, tenor, baritone and soprano saxophones, toy clarinet
– Seppo Kantonen, synthesizers
– Joonas Riippa, drums, percussion, pocket trumpet

3.2. Severi Pyysalo: Autumn Leaves – Severi Comes (1982)
– Pentti Mutikainen, bass– Christian Schwindt, drums
– Ilpo Murtojärvi, guitar– Severi Pyysalo, vibraphone, producer, arranged by

10.2. Heikki Sarmanto featuring Art Farmer & Bertil Lövgren: Many Moons – July '69 (live recordings) (recorded 1969, double cd released 2009)
DISC ONE
– Bertil Lövgren, trumpet
– Juhani Aaltonen, alto saxophone
– Esa Pethman, tenor saxophone, flutes, piccolo
– Heikki Sarmanto, piano
– Teppo Hauta-Aho, bass
– Matti Koskiala, drums
DISC TWO
– Art Farmer, trumpet
– Heikki Sarmanto, piano
– Teppo Hauta-Aho, bass
– Matti Koskiala, drums

17.2. Olli Ahvenlahti: The Poet (1976)
Bass – Pekka Pohjola
Composed by, Arranged by – Olli Ahvenlahti
Cover [Painting] – Kari-Juhani Tolonen
Drums, Percussion – Esko Rosnell
Layout – Jorma Auersalo
Percussion – George Wadenius, Tommy Körberg
Photography By – Timo Kelaranta
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizer – Olli Ahvenlahti
Producer – George Wadenius
Recorded By – Christer Berg
Soprano Saxophone – Pekka Pöyry
Tenor Saxophone – Eero Koivistoinen
Trombone – Bertil Strandberg
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Markku Johansson

24.2. Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela
3.3. Edward Vesala Sound & Fury: Nordic Gallery
7.4. Verneri Pohjola Quartet: Ancient History (2012)
14.4. The Five Corners Quintet featuring Mark Murphy: Chasin' the Jazz Gone By (2005)
21.4. Eero Koivistoinen Kvintetti & Sekstetti: Odysseus (1969)
28.4. Ilmiliekki Quartet: March of the Alpha Males (2003)
19.5. Keep It Light: A Panorama of British Jazz: The Modernists (3-cd) (2017)
9.6. Cool Europa: European Progressive Jazz in Germany 1959–63 (cd [also on 2-lp] (2017)
4.8 Nicole Willis & UMO Jazz Orchestra (2017)
11.8. Antõnio Carlos Jobim: Wave (1967. Van Gelder Studios. Conductor: Claus Ogerman. Bass: Ron Carter. Drums: Bobby Rosengarden. Flutes: Jerome Richardson. Trombones: Urbie Green, Jimmy Cleveland)
18.8. Sinatra / Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings (original recordings 1967, 1969, this compilation 2010)
25.8. Olli Ojajärvi Trio: Out of Mind (rec. 2007, rel. 2009)
1.9. Manuel Dunkel: A Step Forward (2009)
12.11. Juhani Aaltonen Trio: Mother Tongue (2003)
18.12. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1961)
29.12. Timo Lassy: Moves (2018)

2019
NB. I got as a Christmas present a 8 cd Anthony Braxton box set of his Black Saint and Soul Note records, not part of the Digelius project.
NB. I listened to the complete weekly Yle Finnish Broadcasting Corporation series of jazz radio discoveries from week 52/2018 till 25/2019. My weekly jazz quota was filled.

5.1. Pepa Päivinen & Good Romans: Felix Culpa (2018)
14.8. Getz / Gilberto (1964)
24.8. Alder Ego: II (2018)
31.8. Paul Desmond: Desmond Blue (1962)
14.9. Gil Evans: The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964)
21.9. Don Cherry: Complete Communion (1965)
49/2019 Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Ground

50/2019 Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian: Hamburg '72

Jazz record of the week 45/2015

1 comment:

Ville Juutinen said...: This is a very nice selection of jazz records. It's always a matter of taste, but may I suggest that at least one of Stan Getz bossa nova albums from the 60s should be added to your jazz collection.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/stan-getz-the-bossa-nova-albums-by-chris-may.php

Ville Juutinen; 8:12 am

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