Another night in, another night watching a live stream from Kansas Smitty's studio.
Not quite the same as advertised but in many ways an equally enjoyable experience. I wasn't familiar with Noah Stoneman but his organ grinding fitted perfectly into the hard bop Blue Note setting along with Harper, Archer and the great Caruso. This is the fine thing about Smitty's they can perm just about any combination of musicians from their seemingly bottomless pool and come up with the goods.
A Grant Green number - Jean de Fleur - got things rolling and, not surprisingly, Dave Archer was well featured. One of the great standards followed - Give me the Simple Life. It's a number that hasn't been done to death in the jazz world which made it such a breath of fresh air. Harper's solo brought Sonny Rollins to mind.
Brazil was described as Afro-Cuban which may have been poetic liberty geographically speaking but it had that driving Latino beat which I guess is, in many eyes and ears, more or less indigenous to most places south of Acapulco.
A few Joe Henderson tunes kept the Blue Note flag flying as did Horace Silver's Sister Sadie.
Another BN classic album provided the finale - If from Larry Young's Unity.
With live streams like this and many others from around the globe (and The Globe) I could end up as an armchair jazz person!
Lance
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Lance, you're the last person on Planet Jazz who'll settle for an armchair view. I'll see you at the next audience-admitted gig!
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