Holy Canoly! Love it! I feel super pumped after hearing this!
I just called this tune at a jazz jam a few weeks ago cause this time of year - I can’t get enough of it. ( During the other seasons, not so much) We tried do something different with it, but still keep that “Summertime and the living is easy vibe”. I like how this goes off the rails! It’s so full of energy and spunk. And then I like how it steps back down into a chill vibe. Very cool.
I didn’t grow up listening to any jazz. I don’t remember being exposed to it at all till I was in my 20’s and I wasn’t necessarily instantly hooked. Music preferences can be deeply influenced by what we hear in our youth. Much like any language, it can go in so deeply to our young minds that we forever have affection and emotional connection for certain songs or styles; even as our tastes expand to new styles.
That’s one of the reasons I love the Bad Plus. They have many incredible originals, but I so appreciate their interesting interpretation of covers from all styles.
This one - Heart of Glass is a pop tune from the 80’s and I especially LOVE the 7/4 groove that happens around 3:30ish.
They bridge my musical worlds so beautifully and uniquely.
Can’t stop listening to them… I wrote that and then realized it was too perfect a set up; I have to post their original Never Stop. Cause I’ll probably never stop listening to the Bad Plus, at least these older recordings. Can’t say yet about the new incarnation with Orrin Evans.
This is one of the bands that did turn me into a true jazz lover. Medeski, Martin and Wood is another which would be in line with the organ theme going. I haven’t listened to them in so long…
PSS - I think I just saw TBP Bassist Reid Anderson the other day at a local coffee shop. 
Just got tickets to see Connie Han here in August. She’s 22 years old and quite a player. She’s normally on a Steinway (she’s recently been named a Steinway artist) but she pretty much takes control of the Rhodes here. This is an original composition.
Lyndol, thanks for sharing this! I just got around to listening to it. Like you, I didn’t grow up on jazz. It was Elvis Presley, country western, and the Beatles (was 11 when they hit the US). When I first started playing, I lived in Louisiana, and we played a lot of old R and B stuff (it wasn’t so old then 
). I learned as much about Sam and Dave and Otis Redding, as I did the rockers. So maybe those roots aren’t so far from jazz. What I like about “Heart of Glass” is that it shows how you can “jazzify” other genres. I’m quite interested in that. One great example is John Scofield’s Country for Old Men. Pretty interesting hearing his version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” Again, thanks.
So funny cause I am working on a video using the Song Jolene as we speak. Love that song, and yes that’s a cool version with Scofield. He was another I used to listen to so much back in the 90’s, saw live so many times. Then everyone’s guitar sounded like him for a while and I was a little over it. It’s about time to start enjoying him again. A Go Go was one of my favorites.
That’s so cool you lived in Louisiana - though my family is Cajun, I am really just now exploring those southern blues roots. It’s all really connection, the music. The boundaries really start to blur when you look into it all.
At the core for me is a love of improvisation and most styles used to incorporate more of it before the 80’s from what I can tell.
Who do you mean by Dave? I’m assuming Sam Cooke?
Ps - this came up just after the Scofield Jolene video. Love this! McCoy and Scofield + Mr PC = the very definition of cool
Lovely one
i really love the version of Antoine Hervé on the album "Summertime " 
, another cool mood
Sam Cooke is another great one, as well as Jackie Wilson and Wilson Pickett. I meant Sam and Dave, as in “Hold On I’m Coming” and “Soul Man.” You probably are ore familiar with their tunes being played by the Blues Brothers.
That is a fine session! Just recently it’s being touted on Apple Music’s jazz selections. I was reading the liner notes, and it’s interesting that the set covers a Coltrane tune but he gives it to Steve Kuhn as a trio piece.
Oh yeah - I know both those songs well, but never new it was Sam & Dave. Glad to give them credit and they are just fantastic! I’ll have to check out more of their music. Their horn lines are just so groovy.
Ok, looks like it’s the same for Jackie Wilson and Wilson Pickett - I know all their songs, but just never knew their names. Glad to make this connection. Fun music, with still that classic 1950s innocent Rock n Roll feel.
I love the short introduction from Oscar on this recording.
Another thing to add to my “Must-Transcribe” list!
That opener really is catchy! Always nice to listen to Lester Young as well. And the video following caught my eye. It’s worth a listen as well–Veronica Swift with a funny Dizzy Gillespie tune.
Been listening to Hank Mobley’s Soul Station (Blue Note 1960). It really is a gem. With Art Blakey, Wynton Kelly, and Paul Chambers, how can you go wrong? Every tune has some licks and phrases that are just perfect for stealing (transcribing). 
Hard to pick just one, but “This I Dig of You” a fine example. Click on the underlined bit starting with “Disfruta de este video . . .”. Apparently you can click and hear it, but it can’t be embedded in another website.
Nice cover for Naima with beautiful vocals.
I had some fun yesterday transcribing from Joe’s solo on this record. It’s a nice example of starting an improvisation with a very simple motif or repeating melodic idea:
I’ve just been listening to Ron Carter and Cedar Walton’s duo version of “My Funny Valentine.” From around 4:15 to the end, Walton offers some very nice touches. 
I just posted a singer’s corner tip titled Bubble Lips and it made me remember one of the old Medeski, Martin and Wood songs I loved - Bubble House. Very simple tune but such a cool organ groove and when you see it live they stretch out the slow build in speed which is easier said than done!
Yes this is fantastic.
I’ve been listening for a transcribe project to work on for My Romance and I like this one: I might give the first solo a try
Awesome… nice recording.
The audio quality is very crisp and clear so it should be perfect for your transcription project.
Good luck and enjoy!
I’ve posted a song by Tierney Sutton before. I love her voice, and apparently she knows her stuff. She’s been teaching since the late 90s and in 2018 became the first full-time professor of vocal jazz at the Jacobs’ School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
This band has been together for 20 years. It shows. I’m especially drawn to the piano of Christian Jacob and have been listening to a lot of his music.
This one is from The Sting Variations. Enjoy
And it’s worth it to let YouTube continue to the next video, “Smile.” She’s always great, and the piano is brilliant.
