Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from February 7, 2023 Favoriting

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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

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Favoriting February 7, 2023: Jimmy Giuffre Jubilee

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Ictus   Favoriting Thesis  Verve  1961    0:02:47 (Pop-up)
Jim Giuffre And His Orchestra  Big Boy Pt. 1   Favoriting Big Boy (Part 1 & Part 2)  Modern  1952  10", 78 RPM  0:05:07 (Pop-up)
Giuffre / Konitz / Connors / Bley  Blues In The Closet   Favoriting IAI Festival  IAI  1978  Guiffre & Konitz duo  0:08:33 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  On inventing his own sound   Favoriting Jazz Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre: A Look Back  N/A  1994  https://www.npr.org/2008/04/28/90004452/jazz-clarinetist-jimmy-giuffre-a-look-back  0:13:42 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Mobiles - Movement 1   Favoriting Piece For Clarinet And String Orchestra / Mobiles  Verve  1961    0:14:29 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Flight   Favoriting Flight, Bremen 1961  hat ART  1992  recorded November 23, 1961 at Sendesaal Radio Bremen / Germany  0:15:32 (Pop-up)
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars  Four Others   Favoriting Sunday Jazz A La Lighthouse, Vol. 1  Contemporary  1953  Composed by and featuring Jimmy Giuffre, mono  0:21:09 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy Giuffre  Four Brothers   Favoriting The Four Brothers Sound  Atlantic  1959    0:30:09 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4  Drive   Favoriting New York Concerts  Elemental  2014  recorded at Wollman Auditorium at Columbia University, New York City, May 19, 1965; Don Friedman, Barre Phillips, Joe Chambers  0:33:29 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Voodoo   Favoriting The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Atlantic  1957  mono  0:41:36 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet  Two For Timbuctu   Favoriting In Person  Verve  1960  live at the Five Spot Café, New York, August 1960  0:44:27 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Me Too   Favoriting 1961  ECM  1992    0:51:24 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy Giuffre  Dervish   Favoriting Music For People, Birds Butterflies & Mosquitoes  Choice  1973    0:59:15 (Pop-up)
Karl Berger  On Jimmy Giuffre   Favoriting Creative Music Studio Benefit Concert - 1977-01-15, The Church of the Covenant, Boston, MA  No Label  1977  https://youtu.be/KfMWLCvlDzs  1:02:43 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Mobiles - Movement 4   Favoriting Piece For Clarinet And String Orchestra / Mobiles  Verve  1961    1:03:32 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Topsy   Favoriting Western Suite  Atlantic  1960    1:05:02 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Cry, Want   Favoriting Fusion  Verve  1961  mono  1:16:26 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Deep Purple   Favoriting The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet  Atlantic  1956  mono  1:21:35 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy Giuffre  The Five Ways   Favoriting Free Fall  Columbia  1963  mono  1:29:16 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 4  Dragonfly   Favoriting Dragonfly  Soul Note  1983    1:39:35 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Four Brothers   Favoriting Hollywood & Newport 1957-1958  Fresh Sounds  1992  recorded Live at Stars of Jazz, KABC TV, Hollywood, January 7, 1957  1:44:46 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Mobiles - Movement 3   Favoriting Piece For Clarinet And String Orchestra / Mobiles  Verve  1961    1:47:24 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Scootin' About   Favoriting Graz Live 1961  ezz-thetics REVISITED by Hat Hut  2021  recorded live October 27, 1961 (at Großer Saal der Arbeiterkammer) by ORF Graz  1:48:13 (Pop-up)
 
Sonny Stitt  Uptown   Favoriting Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements  Verve  1959  featuring Jimmy Giuffre, mono  1:57:43 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Sonic   Favoriting Thesis  Verve  1961    2:03:02 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley and Steve Swallow  On The Jimmy Giuffre 3   Favoriting ECM50 | 1961 Carla Bley and Steve Swallow on Jimmy Giuffre 3  N/A  2021  https://youtu.be/DKxACz7B0IM  2:07:44 (Pop-up)
Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre  Cork 'N' Bib   Favoriting Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre  Verve  1959    2:09:53 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  Whirrrr   Favoriting Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961  hat ART  1993  recorded November 7, 1961 at Mozartsaal, Liederhalle Stuttgart / Germany  2:19:43 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy Giuffre  Four Brothers   Favoriting Jimmy Giuffre  Capitol  1955    2:27:20 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4  Syncopate   Favoriting New York Concerts  Elemental  2014  recorded at Judson Hall, New York City, September 3, 1965; Joe Chambers, Richard Davis  2:30:43 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3  The Swamp People   Favoriting Trav'lin' Light  Atlantic  1958  mono  2:38:58 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre  Mobiles - Movement 2   Favoriting Piece For Clarinet And String Orchestra / Mobiles  Verve  1961    2:44:20 (Pop-up)
Creative Music Studio Workshop Ensemble  Untitled   Favoriting Creative Music Studio Benefit Concert - 1977-01-15, The Church of the Covenant, Boston, MA  No Label  1977  https://youtu.be/KfMWLCvlDzs; Jimmy Giuffre, Ingrid, Karl Berger, Ed Blackwell, Patty Price  2:45:54 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 7:03pm
Observations:

We are live!
Avatar 7:06pm
Observations:

It’s a Jimmy Giuffre Jubilee!!
Avatar 7:06pm
Observations:

🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
WR:

Hi, That 1952 big band Big Boy certainly took me by surprise. Is it really Deviance I'm listening to, I wondered. And arrived here to find it is. Great context.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
doctorjazz:

Giuffre fan here, looking forward to this!
  7:29pm
Dean:

Love, love, love Giuffre. That ECM double CD reissue is a gem.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
doctorjazz:

Speaking of love, I'm LOVING this chocolate babka from Breads in NYC!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Drive" by "The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4"
Pretty amazing he was able to go from cool West Coast jazz to this kind of free improv (recorded the day after my birthday that year).
  7:41pm
Listener Gregory:

Good evening, deevs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @7:29
I have most of my Guiffre recordings on vinyl-is the 2 CD set you're referring to called Jimmy Guiffre 3, 1961? That's the only one I have on CD (great album)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Voodoo" by "The Jimmy Giuffre 3"
Early Jim Hall, these are great! Giuffre pulling away from West Coast Jazz (but still in it).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:41
Hey LG!
  7:45pm
Dean:

Yes, doctorjazz. There's also interesting stuff on the hat offshoot ezz-thetics.
  7:46pm
Dean:

1961 is a reissue of Fusion and Thesis.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @7:46
That's the one. (haven't listened to it in a long time, due for some playing time).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Two For Timbuctu" by "The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet"
This is another side of Jim Giuffre I don't remember. Burning.

according to discogs:
Bass – Buell Neidlinger
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Giuffre
Drums – Billy Osborne
Guitar – Jim Hall
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Me Too" by "The Jimmy Giuffre 3"
Speaking of the devil...Paul Bley, piano, Steve Swallow, bass (still playing a stand up back then)
Avatar 7:53pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:44
Hola, @doctorj! This is something.
  7:53pm
Dean:

There are at least a couple recordings on Owl featuring the same trio with Swallow on electric bass.
Avatar 7:55pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Dean @7:53
I have those Owl recordings. They got heavy rotation at my house when they came out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @7:53
Don't have the Owl recordings, likely didn't give a Hoot when they came out...
  8:05pm
Listener Gregory:

The high tone of these comments is always reassuring.
  8:10pm
Dean:

I wisely acquired those Owl discs.
  8:14pm
Listener Gregory:

Some listeners felt their recordings were just screeches and tossed them in the barn. No accounting for taste.
  8:15pm
Listener Gregory:

Topsy is a Count Basie hit, no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:15
Yup!
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
doctorjazz:

Strikes me as unusual that ECM reissued Verve recordings of Giuffre-I don't think of them as a reissue label (they do repackage their own artists and reissue, but I haven't seen them reissue other labels).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Deep Purple" by "Jimmy Giuffre"
Very cool track!
  8:24pm
Doug Schulkind:

Double Jimmy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
doctorjazz:

Jimmy Rowles, celesta (checked it on Doscogs). Lovely sound!
  8:29pm
Dean:

ezz-thetics recently "revisited" Free Fall. I think it's just a remastering, but I could be wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "The Five Ways" by "Jimmy Giuffre"
I have a Columbia "2 eye" of this, in stereo.
  8:34pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, maybe the Verve recordings were never fully released?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
doctorjazz:

Not sure, LG, David played from one of the 2 albums on the ECM CD set, Fusion, from his 1961 Verve mono LP (show off...😉)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "The Five Ways" by "Jimmy Giuffre"
Also Paul Bley and Steve Swallow here.
  8:41pm
Listener Gregory:

Ah, Giuffre’s famous fusion period!
  8:42pm
Dean:

Thesis and Fusion were both issued on LP in 1961, no question.

From the ECM liner notes: "[T]he Giuffre/Bley/Swallow trio was a formative influence on Manfred Eicher's musical thinking....

"Over two decades, ECM has documented much of the music of Paul and Carla Bley and Teve Swallow... Now this important reissue pays tribute to the man who gave impetus to all their careers."
  8:43pm
Dean:

^Steve, duh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @8:42
It's great to have someone who actually READS the information available!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
doctorjazz:

Black Saint/Soul Note released much of it's catalog about 10 years ago on "complete..." CD box sets. I got a few of them, missed the Guiffre, though (many of them are still floating around at decent prices).
  8:47pm
Dean:

I'm a fan of liner notes, and I think they deserve credit where due as sources of knowledge and scholarship. Perhaps the best example is Graham Johnson's compilation into a scholarly book of hundreds of pages of notes he wrote for the complete Schubert lieder series he directed for Hyperion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
doctorjazz:

Wonderful Jubilee! Have to cut out for now, will definitely have to catch the rest in the archives! Thanks, David!
Laters, all!
  8:47pm
Listener Gregory:

@Dean, Teve has been unfairly neglected.
Interesting about Eicher.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @8:42
The sound/music of Guiffre in the 60s could definitely be seen as a template for the ECM "sound".
  8:49pm
Dean:

The notes discuss how the sound was perceived as "soft" and, accordingly, derided.
  8:52pm
Listener Gregory:

So long, @doctorj!
Avatar 8:52pm
Observations:

Good article- www.nytimes.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
WR:

↳ Dean @8:42
thanks for that bit of info Dean. Makes sense, nice that they put it in print.
  9:10pm
Listener Gregory:

You have to give credit to Giuffre for not spending a lot of time thinking up names for his groups.
Avatar 9:10pm
northguineahills:

↳ Dean @8:47
I've always read all liner notes of all releases I've bought. I've even cited liner notes in academic settings for non-musical topics (I believe it was grad paper on immigration movements)
Avatar 9:11pm
northguineahills:

to not read liner notes, is a waste of a resource (I read the poetry and other musings as well that are included)
  9:11pm
Dean:

And rightly so, ngh! In law school I wandered over to the Rhetoric Dep't where I wrote a paper about liner notes.
Avatar 9:12pm
northguineahills:

↳ Dean @9:11
I would like to read that!
Avatar 9:13pm
Observations:

Five different sax players on Cork ‘n’ Bib
  9:16pm
Dean:

If I can find it... This was 2003 or so? It was a course on materiality in Early Modern Europe. I wrote about late 20th century early musical reconstructions of important historical events. Liner notes both provide knowledge, e.g., about playing practices, but also promoted a kind of verisimilitude designed to enhance the listener's experience of a long vanished episode.
  9:17pm
Dean:

And speaking of poetry, I have to bow out to attend a poetry workshop I'm taking. Coincidentally, the poem I will workshop tonight mentions Gothic cathedrals!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
WR:

↳ Dean @9:17
laters Dean.
Avatar 9:21pm
Observations:

"The house where Jimmy [Guiffre] and his first wife lived with their pet cheetah."

jazztimes.com...
  9:24pm
Listener Gregory:

I have always read liner notes, but I find that many reissues are rather oppressive with their many-paged booklets. Every time I get a new record by an artist, I don’t feel I need to read a long appreciation of their work. Positive blurbs by other musicians aren’t always very insightful either. Good liner notes are not that easy to write.
  9:24pm
Listener Gregory:

In my humble opinion!!!!
Avatar 9:26pm
northguineahills:

↳ Dean @9:17
write on!
  9:31pm
Listener Gregory:

I only have one brother and have always found that to be sufficient.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
WR:

↳ Observations @8:52
Just finished reading the Times article. From 2014. Interesting insights. When I was making my initial self education exploration into jazz in 70-72 I got pretty much any Jimmy Giuffre LP I could find at reasonable price. I remember some on Atlantic. Wish I had access to my LPs to see what I have. Only remember a couple for sure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:31
I have (had) four brothers. Adds variety and also you can step back and let them fight among themselves.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
WR:

↳ Observations @8:52
Another plus about that NY Times article you linked is the phot of Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre and Juanita Giuffre. Amazing.
Avatar 9:37pm
northguineahills:

I only got into Giuffre when I asked my grandmother to bring me some of my grandfather's records in '96. Unfortunately, his record collection ended in the 50s...
  9:41pm
Listener Gregory:

@WR, sometimes you can stand back and let them fight amongst themselves, but sometimes one of them stands back to let you fight with the others. However, I imagine that a big family can be fun.
Avatar 9:47pm
northguineahills:

↳ WR @9:33
I have two younger identical twin brothers. They are the exact opposite of me in most ways (and more like my parents). I always allowed (and when I was young, encouraged) them to fight amongst themselves...
  9:53pm
Listener Gregory:

Gotta go a bit early. David, I enjoyed this far more than I would have enjoyed the State of the Union address. On behalf of this great country, I thank you! I am pleased to report that the state of Deviance is strong!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:41
Yeah, or when their lawyer makes threatening phone calls.
Avatar 9:58pm
northguineahills:

thanks, david!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
WR:

Great episode! David! So much I had not heard before, by an artist I thought I knew. Thank you! Thank you!
Avatar 10:01pm
Observations:

thank you one and all. I'll be here next week!
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