STEVE FISHWICK & ALEX GARNETT
Trumpeter Steve Fishwick and saxophonist Alex Garnett need no introduction, having been at the forefront of jazz in the UK for decades. They are set to tour their new release, Marshian Time Slip, in March with New York bassist Mike Karn and Matt Fishwick on drums.
The album is the result of a fifteen year association between Alex Garnett and the Fishwick brothers, Steve and Matt, and you can read Eddie Myer's review of the music here.
Just ahead of the tour, we asked Steve and Alex to pick their all time favourite top ten albums, each taking five a piece.
The album is the result of a fifteen year association between Alex Garnett and the Fishwick brothers, Steve and Matt, and you can read Eddie Myer's review of the music here.
Just ahead of the tour, we asked Steve and Alex to pick their all time favourite top ten albums, each taking five a piece.
STEVE FISHWICK
KENNY DORHAM - Jazz Contemporary
K. D. at the peak of his powers, amazing composing, experimental arranging, freewheeling improvisation, incredible recorded sound. A must have for Dorham fans.
LEE MORGAN - Expoobident
A lesser known Chicago date for VeeJay records, with Art Blakey, the under-recorded Eddie Higgins on piano and Clifford Jordan on Tenor. The fattest of sounds from Morgan, cocky swagger mixed with pixie-like cuteness and heartfelt ballads. Some of Morgan's best playing on disc.
WOODY SHAW - For Shaw
Woody's penultimate date for Columbia records featuring an extended line up including some great playing by pianist Larry Willis and trombonist Steve Turre. There are some tracks with strings, and a forward looking and intense harmonic concept throughout the album.
K. D. at the peak of his powers, amazing composing, experimental arranging, freewheeling improvisation, incredible recorded sound. A must have for Dorham fans.
LEE MORGAN - Expoobident
A lesser known Chicago date for VeeJay records, with Art Blakey, the under-recorded Eddie Higgins on piano and Clifford Jordan on Tenor. The fattest of sounds from Morgan, cocky swagger mixed with pixie-like cuteness and heartfelt ballads. Some of Morgan's best playing on disc.
WOODY SHAW - For Shaw
Woody's penultimate date for Columbia records featuring an extended line up including some great playing by pianist Larry Willis and trombonist Steve Turre. There are some tracks with strings, and a forward looking and intense harmonic concept throughout the album.
JOHN COLTRANE - Coltrane's Sound
One of the Coltrane records I keep coming back to again and again. Just a perfect mix of intensity and melodic playing. A perfect album in every way, covering many moods and taking the listener on a very satisfying musical journey indeed. A great example of Coltrane taking well wornchord sequences and standards and finding something fresh and new in them, along with some memorable originals.
CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS
Somehow the mix of smaltzy (all be it quality smaltz) and Bird's perfect playing (many of his solos are just miniature masterpieces) makes for the most memorable music.
One of the Coltrane records I keep coming back to again and again. Just a perfect mix of intensity and melodic playing. A perfect album in every way, covering many moods and taking the listener on a very satisfying musical journey indeed. A great example of Coltrane taking well wornchord sequences and standards and finding something fresh and new in them, along with some memorable originals.
CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS
Somehow the mix of smaltzy (all be it quality smaltz) and Bird's perfect playing (many of his solos are just miniature masterpieces) makes for the most memorable music.
ALEX GARNETT
Obviously there are many many albums that have affected and influenced me even haunted me over the last few years I have at least 3000 titles in my own collection but I have endeavoured to select these five as those that seem to crop up on the turntable more than others.
STANLEY TURRENTINE - Look out!
As a young man growing up on the London scene I got to know the personality and playing of the amazing Dick Morrissey. I saw Dick playing many times with his own quartet but more often as a guest with some top American stars or at least three other Tenor pl)yers. He was never flustered and he always came out on top with his incredible tone and sense of swing. Dick was kind enough to give me some guidance when I was grappling with the tenor saxophone and told me that Turrentine was a big influence on him and that if anything I should definitely check out this record. It was Stanley Turrentine‘s first record for Blue note as a leader in 1960 and features an extremely swinging rhythm section. The quality of the recording is diamond stand)rd in my opinion.Every tune on this one is a bomb and I know every single note of it intimately.
STANLEY TURRENTINE - Look out!
As a young man growing up on the London scene I got to know the personality and playing of the amazing Dick Morrissey. I saw Dick playing many times with his own quartet but more often as a guest with some top American stars or at least three other Tenor pl)yers. He was never flustered and he always came out on top with his incredible tone and sense of swing. Dick was kind enough to give me some guidance when I was grappling with the tenor saxophone and told me that Turrentine was a big influence on him and that if anything I should definitely check out this record. It was Stanley Turrentine‘s first record for Blue note as a leader in 1960 and features an extremely swinging rhythm section. The quality of the recording is diamond stand)rd in my opinion.Every tune on this one is a bomb and I know every single note of it intimately.
HERBIE HANCOCK - Head Hunters
Even further back - the early eighties in a time before I was really playing any saxophone at all,I was part of a group of young lads interested in the U.S wave craze,body popping and rap scene.One of my friends much older brothers was a percussionist, weʼd go over to his house and try and practice our moves to his drumming. One day he pulled out this record left it on in the room while he went outside for a cigarette. We were all completely blown away from the 1st to the last track. 'Chameleon' still gives me goosebumps today is just such a genius concept.This record is the high end template jazz funk.
SONNY ROLLJNS WITH THE MJQ
Sonny Rollins is without doubt one of the greatest saxophone players alive today, a living legend. I'm privileged to have been able to meet him on more than a few oca)sions .A beautiful human being. It's amazing what a legacy he has left in his recordings and he has influenced decades worth of saxophone players myself included.I have virtually everything Sonny recorded from the late 40s up to 1970 but Iʼve selected this record as an exemplary chronicle of Rollins‘s ethos.It makes me smile to think that this was recorded the same year of the chaotic Miles D)vis collectors items recording for Prestige where Charlie Parker on tenor turns up with Rollins also on tenor. Bird was blind drunk but points a finger at the young Sonny stating ‘from the oyster comes the pearl!ʼ He was right!
Even further back - the early eighties in a time before I was really playing any saxophone at all,I was part of a group of young lads interested in the U.S wave craze,body popping and rap scene.One of my friends much older brothers was a percussionist, weʼd go over to his house and try and practice our moves to his drumming. One day he pulled out this record left it on in the room while he went outside for a cigarette. We were all completely blown away from the 1st to the last track. 'Chameleon' still gives me goosebumps today is just such a genius concept.This record is the high end template jazz funk.
SONNY ROLLJNS WITH THE MJQ
Sonny Rollins is without doubt one of the greatest saxophone players alive today, a living legend. I'm privileged to have been able to meet him on more than a few oca)sions .A beautiful human being. It's amazing what a legacy he has left in his recordings and he has influenced decades worth of saxophone players myself included.I have virtually everything Sonny recorded from the late 40s up to 1970 but Iʼve selected this record as an exemplary chronicle of Rollins‘s ethos.It makes me smile to think that this was recorded the same year of the chaotic Miles D)vis collectors items recording for Prestige where Charlie Parker on tenor turns up with Rollins also on tenor. Bird was blind drunk but points a finger at the young Sonny stating ‘from the oyster comes the pearl!ʼ He was right!
SONNY CLARK - Cool Struttinʼ
This record is endlessly listenable This album seems to have been elevated to a cult status amongst followers of hard bop and for good reason. 1958, what a phenomenal year for the production of fantastic jazz records from many artists.Sonny Clark is a bit of an unsung hero,dying from an overdose at the tender age of 31 having achieved little in the way of a profile on the scene. I love the album Kind of Blue and itʼs perfect balance of personnel and tunes. If that record is the perfect example of blues modality then Cool Struttin' is the perfect example of soul blues.This is also one of my favourite appearances of Jackie McLean he played with a smoothness that he would never repeat and itʼs a joy that it was chronicled.
EDDIE DANIELS - Breakthrough
I first heard this album when I was 16 years old. I was playing saxophone but I was more involved in classical music I wanted to get into improvising, into jazz but was struggling. My first serious saxophone teacher,John Cunningham,played this disk to me during a break at one of our lessons and I was instantly blown away and a huge penny dropped .This album is one of the more successful third stream projects Iʼve heard.Eddie Daniels is at his full powers on this album navigating some incredibly technical classical passages and also opening out into some of the most unbelievable jazz lines Iʼve ever heard. The addition of the London Symphony Orchestra with Eddieʼs quartet combined with GRPs cocaine gloss makes this album shimmer like no other.
This record is endlessly listenable This album seems to have been elevated to a cult status amongst followers of hard bop and for good reason. 1958, what a phenomenal year for the production of fantastic jazz records from many artists.Sonny Clark is a bit of an unsung hero,dying from an overdose at the tender age of 31 having achieved little in the way of a profile on the scene. I love the album Kind of Blue and itʼs perfect balance of personnel and tunes. If that record is the perfect example of blues modality then Cool Struttin' is the perfect example of soul blues.This is also one of my favourite appearances of Jackie McLean he played with a smoothness that he would never repeat and itʼs a joy that it was chronicled.
EDDIE DANIELS - Breakthrough
I first heard this album when I was 16 years old. I was playing saxophone but I was more involved in classical music I wanted to get into improvising, into jazz but was struggling. My first serious saxophone teacher,John Cunningham,played this disk to me during a break at one of our lessons and I was instantly blown away and a huge penny dropped .This album is one of the more successful third stream projects Iʼve heard.Eddie Daniels is at his full powers on this album navigating some incredibly technical classical passages and also opening out into some of the most unbelievable jazz lines Iʼve ever heard. The addition of the London Symphony Orchestra with Eddieʼs quartet combined with GRPs cocaine gloss makes this album shimmer like no other.
Photos taken by engineer Josh Green
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