5/4: It's Morello/Desmond/Brubeck/Wright Day! Some jazz in 5/4

Tom Kraemer memed at me and some others:

May the Five Quarters Be With You...

Max Roach Quintet: "As Long as You're Living"


Max Roach Quintet: "Driva' Man" (follows an excerpt from "Love for Sale")


Art Pepper Quartet: "Las Cuevas de Mario"


Don Ellis Orchestra: "Arcturus"


Charles Mingus Band: "Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi USA"


Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "The Village"


Oregon: "If"


Dave Brubeck, Joe Morello, Gene Wright: "Countdown"


Brubeck Quartet: "Castilian Drums"


Brubeck Quartet: "Far More Blue"/"Far More Drums"/"Castilian Blues"/"Castilian Drums"

the Brubeck Quartet on Jazz Casual with Ralph Gleason (1961 at KQED for National Educational Television/NET) (perhaps sadly, "colorized")

...OK, the one you were really waiting for...

Saturday Music Club: Third Stream Music...some more of the best...

Brubeck Quartet:  "40 Days"


Bill Smith, Dave Brubeck, Gene Wright, Joe Morello: "The Unihorn"


The Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: on Jazz 625


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Three Little Feelings"; "The Jasmine Tree"


Toshiko Akiyoshi and John Lewis: "Willow Weep for Me"


Carla Bley and Steve Swallow: "Soon I Shall Be Done with the Troubles of This World"


Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Steve Swallow, Walter Perkins: "Some Time Ago"


Monk Quartet: on Jazz 625


The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: "Long Yellow Road"


Teo Macero and His Orchestra: "Sounds of May"


Mulligan Sextet: "Festive Minor"

Saturday Music Club: there's always room for some 3rd Stream Music:

Charles Mingus Band: "Minor Intrusion"

• Charles Mingus - bass, piano
• John LaPorta - clarinet, alto saxophone
• Thad Jones (credited on original issue as "Oliver King") - trumpet
• Teo Macero - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Jackson Wiley - cello 
• Clem DeRosa - drums, tambourine

Toshiko Akiyoshi: "The Village"


Susana Raya: "The Wind"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Plastic Dreams"

from the 1971 album; John Lewis on harpsichord

Brubeck Quartet: "Unisphere"

Dave Brubeck (p), Paul Desmond (as), Eugene Wright (b), Joe Morello (d); Helsinki, October 6, 1964.

Bob Prince and His Orchestra: "Germination"


Paul Bley: "Ida Lupino"


Teo Macero and His Orchestra: "T.C.'s Groove"


George Russell Smalltet: "Ezz-thetic"

George Russell (bandleader/composer), Barry Galbraith (guitar), Bill Evans (piano), Art Farmer (trumpet), Hal McKusick (bass clarinet), Milt Hinton (bass), and Joe Harris (drums).

Hamilton Quintet: "In a Sentimental Mood"

Eric Dolphy (alto sax); Nate Gershman (cello); John Pisano (guitar); Hal Gaylor (bass); Chico Hamilton (drums)

Saturday Music Club: 3rd Stream: George Russell; Ran Blake/Jeanne Lee; Lennie Tristano; Oregon; Air; Ellington/Roach/Mingus; Brubeck/Braxton/Konitz/Haynes/Six; Taylor/Braxton Quartet; Sextet of Orchestra USA: Lewis, Dolphy, Hall, Golson, Schuller, Duvivier

George Russell Smalltet including Bill Evans: "Ye Hypocrite, Ye Beelzebub"

 

George Russel Sextet with Sheila Jordan: "You Are My Sunshine" 

Sheila Jordan on how this version arose.

Ran Blake and Jeanne Lee: "Something's Coming"  

Ran Blake and Jeanne Lee: "Laura"  

Lennie Tristano: "Requiem"

 

 

Lennie Tristano Sextet: "Wow"

Oregon: "Redial"  

Oregon: "Dark Spirit" 

Air: "Midnight Sun"

 

 

Air: "Ragtime Dance"

Ellington, Roach and Mingus: "Money Jungle"

Brubeck, Konitz, Braxton, Haynes and Six: "All the Things You Are"

Cecil Taylor/Anthony Braxton Quartet  

Sextet of Orchestra USA (Lewis, Dolphy, Hall, Golson, Schuller, Duvivier): "The Stranger"