this is our music = perfection.

Cool stuff! Very jealous of you having a store nearby with great records like those for ten bucks!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

I never knew it was there until today. I think collectors keep some stores to themselves...

Stumbled on your channel - great videos. Your excitement about jazz is really apparent and infectious!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Great. I try to call it like I see it. I get detractors, the Music Matters fanboys, trolls, fools who spout their non existent knowledge. I've covered audio for Soundstage, 6Moons, Darko, Positive Feedback and now Stereophile for over 20 years. I have some level of experience. I call it like I see it. Thanks.

Ken is spot on when he states Free jazz is more popular in Europe. Many of the free jazz musicians were far better received overseas than in the US. The late great Jimmy Guiffre remarked, that after he played a free jazz set in a bar in NY, he received a payment of only 39 cents after he had finished. Some Free jazz classics:- Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity Gato Barbieri - In Search Of The Mystery Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisors Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch Charles Gayle - Tranin' On Trane Joe Harriott - Abstract David Murray - Live In Berlin Tony Oxley - The Baptised Traveller Sam Rivers - Dimensions & Extensions Sun Ra - Atlantis James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad To Be In America? John Zorn - The Great Gundown Many of these albums are hard to find now but worth tracking down. Good luck!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Great list. Thank you.

@StuntrockConfusion

4 жыл бұрын

Out to Lunch is straight up modern jazz, so are qute a few of those. most of the greatest free jazz records are european or japanese. Spiritual jazz and free indeed tend to be cnfsed, as with free improv and modern.

Hi Ken, love Coltrane, Coleman, Shepp & Marion Brown (amongst others). I have been listening to free jazz since the early 80s. Have most all of the originals. Why do so many of the jazz buffs on youtube dislike free jazz? Because they don't understand it? Neither do I, still trying. Greetings from Michigan and happy new year!

You are amazing and informative....your energy has brought this old time rock n' roller over to the other side....many thanks...keep it up!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I really appreciate that.

What a great video Ken! You dispell a lot of preconceptions about free jazz.

Thanks for the info ken ,great video have to check those stores out!

Thank you Ken. Great information to digest.

always enjoy your videos, thanks man!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

Cecil Taylor!!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

I can' get with Cecil. What am I missing?

@fu2588

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 He's been so praised by many free jazz icons, you'd give it a few chances. I think he's got that wall of sound thing going on, like late Trane. He plays like Beethoven on steroids!! Great video btw, always on point. Cheers

@fu2588

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 This is worth checking out too kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYlkp7qIntbXl6g.html

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Ignacio Algañaraz Which album would you recommend?

@fu2588

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Personally Unit Structures was too much for me. After some time someone recommended me Conquistador, and it finally kicked in. He's got some Ornette blend there that makes it more appealing to me. Hope it's of your like Ken!

Ken, Your voice is perfect now, I can hear everything, thanks man.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pascal, It's funny. My other mic s a $150 Sony. The mic used for this video cost $25!

Nice segment. Thanks

Hallo Ken, I found a website in Holland, we speak almost the same language, they have a few on Impulse/cornbread, the cheapest is €33, you can count in us dollars, this is payable but expensive. The records I want are to expensive. If I count which this money I can buy a lot of records. Last year I bought a few on Analogue productions and Music Matters. I don't do this anymore. I wanted Horace Silver his finger poppin'. I called to the record shop where I go in Gent and luckaly it was not availeble anymore. Now I found a nice version on jazz images for €16,99. Maybe the sound is not the same but I'm happy with this. Greetings. Pascal.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Your happiness is all that matters. And Jazz Images have great photos!

Awesome collection! Thanks for sharing!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting..

Interesting analogy regarding Yoko. It was always my understanding that a lot of the players on ASCENSION were already playing free (Brown, Shepp, Sanders, Tchicai). Certainly Cecil Taylor & Sun Ra were playing out earlier than Coltrane.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Im saying that perhaps Alice enabled John to evolve. She was a wonderful musician in her own right. There's a clip of her playing bop piano way before she met Trane, she's quite adventurous.

@scottguerin5741

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 I think your analogy is spot on. Betty Davis is another spouse/girlfriend that changed the direction of their boyfriend/husband.

@dextergilford1498

4 жыл бұрын

scott guerin All spouses should have that impact in the other’s life and development.

You know those things in life that you can have great respect for and appreciate, but not like. Weeeeell....maybe I'm just not there yet. Yet another informative, educational, and entertaining video. Thanks Ken, you are an incredible asset to the JVC. Cheers!

Just found you Chanel. Hi from Sweden BTW. Great video. I listen to alot of free, esp from Europe. Love Coltranes later. Interstellar Space is a fav. Duo Exchange is one free jazz record that spins slot here. Thanx for the video. Now on to your other videos.

Nice video, Ken, thanks. Now I’m going to have to track down a copy of “This Is Our Music”!

Nice finds and enjoyable show Ken

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Daniel I appreciate it

Some time ago I bought the Ornette Coleman Atlantic box, this is great and specialy the ' free jazz' record, with a headphone. Thanks for the information. But these Impulse records, you can't find this in Belgium.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

And not many of the Impulse have been reissued. It's weird...

Alice Coltrane is pure gold!!! Plus Pharoah Sanders been regulary in her line up!!! Pure gold

Ken, these reissues on jazz images, 'misterioso' & ' the jazz messengers' sound good just like 'a blowing session' & 'kind of blue' do, the 'giant steps' one I sold it. For us, in Europe, they are interesting, they are cheap, €16,99. And by the way very nice pictures.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Pascal, we sell those Jazz Images reissues at Jazz Record Center. The covers are beautiful but I don't know re the sound quality.

@pascaldemeuleneire8581

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Ken, they sound good, exceptioneel Coltrane's Giant steps, I bought, I listen to it and I put it on a place, I went to Gent and I sold it, but I told the owner of the shop it sounds bad.

@pascaldemeuleneire8581

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455 Ken, where I life there are no record shops, I order my stuff in Gent. If I go it costs me €26, bus,train & tram. Als I'm 4 to 5 hours on the road. Mostly I asked the last time if they can send it to me by post, this is €6,50 more, but it is easier.

Great dig in Queens Ken. Rarely see those Black Saint titles. I would agree starting with early Ornette is a good jumping off point instead of digging into the ESP-Disk catalog straight away.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!

I agree with your assessments. For me Ornette Coleman was harder to get into than Coltrane’s stuff, but Coltrane set the stage. Coltrane could be out there, but their was a rhythms that he was always building up to. With Ornette, sometimes from start to finish, you couldn’t call it. Once you get into it when it’s good, it’s good. Black Saint records is amazing. Alice Coltrane stuff is amazing, but the originals are hard to come by. Don’t forget about the one person that some say rivals Coltrane, Billie Harper. Harper’s stuff is really hard to come by in any decent quantities. I loved Coltrane’s later stuff. It’s probably Ornette’s stuff that was Harder, but once I got it I got it. You are right Alice was more universal, let’s also not forget about the great Pharoah Sanders. You are getting me started Ken and I have been checking out Down Beat.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Harper is the hardest to find! Leon Thomas kills the Sanders' records for me. The yodeling drives me nuts. But the vibe is beautiful.

Awesome Ken! You know I like free jazz, but I really like your explanation of free jazz for those who are not (yet) in to free jazz. Noise can contain so much beauty, you just have to open up your mind. As most JVL’ers know I’m in love with conference of the birds. There’s an interplay between reeds on the record. It’s an interpretation of birds singing to eachother. You could call it noise, but I think it’s one of the most beautiful pieces I know.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know it literally meant that. Cool!

@jurrienvanrooy7469

5 жыл бұрын

Ken Micallef Jazz Vinyl Lover The liner notes describe how birds would congregate each morning outside Holland's London apartment and join with one another in song.

Ken, my writing in English is not that good, but you will understand what I wanted to say. If I buy one on Analogue productions or Music Matters, they sound very good, but I can buy 4 records, who sound good, with that money. Greetings.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I understand.

awesome

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

great name, LBZ!

Ken, pay your attention to Ganelin Trio, it was ex USSR free jazz ensamble, but something special in terms of music and sound. On russian means: to be continued

Huh.. strange to see the Ganelin Trio all the way across the pond. Ganelin is considered the father of Lithuanian jazz. His trio with Chekasin and Tarasov is legendary in our neck of the woods. In some circles they are considered geniuses of free jazz. I've heard stories from my father of him going to their concerts in the 70s and 80s and the jazz craze that they caused for a while as finding decent music in the USSR was difficult.

More free jazz videos! - Mike

Ken, you know what is also affordable in Europe is wax time ( jazz wax), but I don't like these reissues. I once bought 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane', the sound was good but there was a bonus track of 4 years earlier and Duke Ellington even didn't play on it. You have to put bonus tracks on it which have something to do with the same session. That's my opinion.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

yes, wax time and jazz wax...ugh. don't get me started. Bonus tracks are nice but not a deal breaker for me.

I'd like to cop the Rosewell Rudd record on Impulse! I have never seen it for sale anywhere.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

I heard that.

You know why they call it Free Music? Because nobody gets paid. Great video title by the way.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly funny. Thank you.

Nice video, just trying to get into jazz but don't know a great deal about it. Have a small jazz collection which I am currently growing.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jimmy, this is a good time to get started. Lots of used record stores, and new reissues that aren't too expensive. You can't go wrong with anything on Blue Note, Prestige, Verve.

@JimmyTheSaint

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up Ken, I have bought a few jazz albums on vinyl, recommended by other youtubers. Really love Miles Davis Kind of Blue and also Cannonball Adderley something else. I also have the soundtrack to the movie Taxi Driver which is really enjoyable, music by Bernard Herrmann.

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

@@JimmyTheSaint Taxi Driver soundtrack is brilliant. Waxworks recently reissued the soundtrack with the complete score. double LP.

Wonderful video. What is your opinion on Pure Pleasure reissues of Strata East albums?

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

holy crap, I didn't know they reissued Strata East! They do good work so I imagine those are killers.

Ken, they just deliverd Art Blakey: the jazz messengers & Thelonious Monk : misteriosi, both on jazz images. I hope they sound good because Giant Steps on jazz images sucks, the sound is terrible.

About the bonus tracks. I don't care. This is not necesary, but if it is of the same session, ok. But not a track of 4 years earlier, like these Coltane/Ellington, and Ellington don't play on it.

€33 is 37 us dollar.

Preach on, man! And let me hold $20. God damn!

@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455

5 жыл бұрын

hold $20?