Deep Focus Jazz: Episode 1 - The State of Jazz in 1972 and Two Overlooked Albums

[@TM-fx2pi]

I’m a Smooth Jazz guy. I can’t really grasp the straight jazz stuff yet but I’m trying. I be watching for sure. Thank you and Happy Birthday!

[@jimmyrios1816]

I’m a 62 year old Jazz fanatic and I definitely dug this Jazz episode. Well done Brother keep them coming.

[@Universityofvinyl]

Thank you

[@robbiedetroitstigermanviny8883]

I'm turning 58 in July and it took me this long to find Jazz. Be careful it is addicting and there is a deep deep deep rabbit hole ahead. Looking forward to it.

[@JazzBums]

Loved this! Looking forward to this series and seeing what you uncover! - Mike

[@Universityofvinyl]

Thank you Mike!

[@brianmedeiros6845]

For someone who may have closed the door on Jazz I’m sitting in my listening room experiencing the sound of a record I picked up yesterday took a gamble The Horace Silver Quintet You Gotta Take a Little Love Blue Note in Mint Condition enjoying every minute of it! Thank You

[@Universityofvinyl]

Very nice!

[@Universityofvinyl]

Nice!

[@boydsargeant7496]

Thanks for the Jazz, I’m a big fan and I will follow you on these!

[@seekingathread]

Like this series Tim. I will have to snatch that Lee Morgan next time I see it. I came across it a few times but not very cheap.

[@Universityofvinyl]

Hi Dom...got lucky and it was well below Discogs median..

[@jazzpill2523]

Love it Tim!

[@tomdemaline8869]

YES ! ! ! I just got my Rock and Roll and Blues brain and body to enter the Jazz rabbit hole. I just have a very very small collection so far but I can tell you that Coltrane is my favorite of all time with Miles a very close second. Thanks Tim I can't wait to see where you go with this.

[@francescotenti193]

Great video! Jazz! Something that in my youth I would have never considered, Van Halen, The Stones, Clapton.....were my focus. For several years now most of my purchases are jazz. I'm glad you started this new chapter and give ideas on how to develop and increase our knowledge of this fabulous music which, in most part, is well recorded and sounds great even in modest systems like mine.

[@RandellGreer]

Hi Tim, enjoyed this video. I'm even older than you and just this past year started going down the straight jazz rabbit hole. Like you, I'm a big Steely Dan fan so seemed like a logical progression. I found Scott Wilson's Pressing Matters YT video on "Top 10 Jazz Records for Beginners" very helpful as a starting point and ended up getting all his suggestions except the Billie Holiday album. Coincidentally, I also found a NM copy of Pat Metheny's debut album around the same time that you featured it on a recent episode and have since added a couple more since then. Also on the fusion side, the Chick Corea/Return To Forever albums are worth a listen IMO. I'm looking forward to your future dives into the jazz pool!

[@tylerchisman9434]

Hi Tim! I am a new sub and was found out about your channel one of the Waxed's recent streams. Glad to have found these jazz-focused videos. I'll be on the lookout for both titles when I am out digging. I'll have to add them to my playlist to listen to also. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!

[@Universityofvinyl]

Hi Tyler - thanks for reaching out!

[@johns126]

Great Tim ! I am just starting a small Jazz collection so very green when it comes to the genre. Ready to learn more 👏

[@MrLovell1971]

Tim awesome jazz pickup and review you are definitely a music lover. I’m still after that masterpiece. Lee Morgan was definitely a key player he body of work is massive . Tim check out his album Six Sense it features Jackie McLean and Frank Mitchell , Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins it’s sounds great very underrated album .

[@jamesf1525]

Jealous of your Cornwalls. I had a pair years back. Best speakers ever. Big fan of Lee Morgan and Blue Note/VanGelder.

[@markpocock183]

I'm not a fan of Sonny Rollins free jazz records, but look forward to giving this one a listen. Thanks for digging into jazz!

[@jabensergei]

In What Direction Are You Headed? Has very strong classic rock jam part started from 10.40 up to 14.30, electric piano * contrabas * drums. And of course Croquet Ballet, both tracks are fenomenal! Thanks Tim.

[@FleagleSangria]

Oh nooo, we should have seen this coming :(. Steely Dan will drive any sane rock n roller to the precipice of jazzzz. Before long you will be hanging out with those jazz bums! lol, jk Tim. Im old rocker that loves jazz also. And a Dan fan also. Been listening to jazz now pretty steady, yet slowly, for about 25 yrs now. Jazz, for me, is a very different but just as rewarding experience. It was kind of confusing or maybe a better word is overwhelming to me at first due to the vast amount of titles, artists, sub genres etc. I finally just decided to start at the beginning with Louis, Duke, Basie, ragtime and vocalists such as Billie, Sarah, Sinatra etc. Then eventually I realized it is easier to learn the labels and kind of go from there. Who plays with whom and are they better at sessions or leaders etc. I do think it worthwhile to go back into history and at least listen to say Atomic Basie, Louis Armstrong Hot Fives And Sevens, Ellington Live At Fargo, The Ellington Era Volume One: 1927-1940 (or something similar), some Verve Billie Holiday etc just at least to say one has given a listen to the great legends of jazz. There is a 4 or 6 volume set if Ellingtons mid to late 40’s best stuff on a French label that sounds very good if you run across them in your hunts. Jazz is a fascinating journey. One that I have found kind of organizes my thoughts and day, yet also is rewarding in enjoyment. Sometimes I have to kind of study what exactly the more “advanced” stuff is trying to say through theory, history and the musicians themselves. Jazz for me is unique in that way. May sound eletist but Ive found it to be more cerebral and a bit of a puzzle to solve. And there are some great jazz albums still coming out. From this year that I think are not too far out there and have something to say: Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music Kendrick Scott- Corridors Walter Smith III - Return to Casual The Circling Sun - Spirits You have hit it at a great time for jazz reissues also as we seem to be in a second golden era of vinyl jazz releases. Happy belated birthday and Good luck on the new jazz journey!

[@brianmedeiros6845]

Thats great new territory. I once thought I didn’t like Jazz but have determined not all Jazz is the same. I tend to prefer primarily piano along with other instruments. I’ve recently discovered AHMAD JAMAL RSD Emerald City Nights and picked up an original of Trio The Awakening very interesting story of the owner a famous poet from Brown University Providence RI. paid over my range of 300 for a NM condition. A note AHMAD was from Massachusetts. So a glass of wine and some piano Jazz I’m in Heaven! By the way got you something for your birthday hopefully Richard Thompson can sign it? No Hints Lol Thank You

[@nycrhythmcom-Vnylperv9pmfriday]

subbed great info on your channel

[@Universityofvinyl]

Thanks for the sub!

[@MAB_Audio_Nut]

I think if I was going to start this series with Lee Morgan I would start with his best two albums IMHO which are The Sidewinder (1963) Search for the New Land (1966 Recorded in 1964) if your just looking at 1972 it makes sense but for anyone interested in Lee Morgan I would start with those two.

[@Universityofvinyl]

I really wanted to look at these two titles from two of the greats which just happened to come out in '72. No argument on those two epic titles of Lee's....

[@MAB_Audio_Nut]

@@Universityofvinyl Chick Corea had a great album out in 1972 also

[@latheofheaven]

Wow... You mean you *DON'T* just listen to XTC, Steely Dan, and Dylan...?!! 😲 What was that expression... Let's see now... Something to do with and old dog... 😀 Heh, J/K there mate! No, that's great that you are expanding out in having these videos about Jazz, I'm sure they will be great! I frigg'n love Herbie and I have just about bloody everything he's ever done (BTW, if you get a chance to score the Analog Productions 2-45 of his Head Hunters, Bro... the sound quality will blow your pants off!) But, I think it's Sextant that is just a little too disjointed for my taste. Don't get me wrong, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, one of *THE* most experimental and forward looking Jazz albums of it's time, is one of my all time favourites. But, like In a Silent Way, what he does is he very masterfully has an underlying 'Groove' if you will that very brilliantly ties all the other disparate elements together, so that to me anyway, there is an overall impression of cohesiveness, despite the experimentation. But, if it is Sextant I'm thinking about, I feel it lacks that and does not really have an underlying 'Groove' that holds it together, at least for my taste. BTW, FWIW, and you likely already know this being that you are the DEAN of the university... But, the early 1970 era black 'B' label pressings can sound quite good. I have some early Herbie, and an excellent Cannonball Adderley Somethin Else, and I believe a very early A Love Supreme that sound quite good with that label. And, they are fairly affordable. Oh, that reminds me... IF Amazon still has it for around $22 or so, *I MOST HIGHLY* recommend the recent OJC pressing of Miles Davis Cookin' The sound is bloody fantastic! Even on the Steve Hoffman Forums they were saying that it is very close to the much more expensive pressings like the Analog Productions one and others. GRAB that one if you can! I don't know if you will find this interesting, but although I do indeed love a lot of Jazz, there are certain kinds that I really do not care for. I am also just as narrow in my 'taste' with Jazz as I am with other genres. I do love an extremely wide variety of stuff from Goth to Industrial to Ambient to Prog to Funk (Love that George Clinton!), etc, etc... just about whatever, but within each genre, even each group, I am very particular as to what I actually like. For me it is SUPER rare to like almost everything an artist does. The only cases out of over 2500 vinyl albums and over 8000 FLAC albums that come to mind where I pretty much like everything they do is Zeppelin (not counting In Through the Out Door) and Ozric Tentacles. That's about it. There are some groups where I like ALMOST everything they do, like Herbie and some others. Anyway, sorry to go on... I sure hope you are not ready to hang yourself yet... 😕 But, I was just going to say that with Jazz the kinds I don't care for are if the horns are too dominant, like trumpet. I couldn't really quite get into the Morgan and many others similar to that. And, I don't like improvisations, whatever the instrument, if they play short, repetitive phrases over and over. I like a nice long 'Flow' where the player (like Coltrane and Miles usually, and especially Charlie Parker) will almost do a 'dance' around the melody that winds throughout the background, not just sticking to the exact timing of the rhythm, if you get what I mean. That is one reason (or many) that I detest someone like Kenny G for example. Frank Zappa's lead playing is very much along these lines, I REALLY dig his style! Anyway, sorry Tim to be so long winded. But, it's because *YOU* have inspired me man! 😁👍

[@jimmccloskey4254]

Nice vid but if you don't wish to mention the store's name, how about their address. Good hunting in the world of Jazz.

[@Universityofvinyl]

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