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Watch "Sister Moon - Sting feat. David Sanborn | REMOTE SESSIONS" on YouTube

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / My hunger for her explains everything I've done / To howl at the moon the whole night through / And they really don't care if I do / I'd go out of my mind, but for you / Sister Moon

Good night y'all 🌜😴

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The Great Jazz Trio – Blue Minor

Hank Jones – piano George Mraz – bass Billy Kilson – drums Keiko Lee – vocal TOKU – vocal, flugelhorn

[mostlymonk]

Round Midnight

Hank Jones Trio

Hank Jones – piano David Wong – bass Billy Kilson – drums

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Hank Jones Trio

Blue Minor

Hank Jones – piano David Wong – bass Billy Kilson – drums

[charminggreekdemigod]

Hank Jones Trio: Round Midnight

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Steps Ahead

Steps Ahead Montreux Jazz Club, Montreux, Switzerland 1 July 2016 1. Bowing To Bud 2. Pools 3. Island 4. Copland 5. B Is For Butterfly 6. Lush life 7. Time Is Now 8. Union Pacific Mike Mainieri - vibraphone Eliane Elias - piano Donny McCaslin - tenor saxophone Marc Johnson - bass Billy Kilson - drums

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bluenoterecords: 25 years ago #OTD in 1994 trumpeter #TimHagans was in the studio recording his album "Audible Architecture" with saxophonist Bob Belden, bassist Larry Grenadier & drummer Billy Kilson. Hear Belden's tune "Blues in My Neighborhood" on #Th… https://t.co/960Ih49Tsx http://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl/status/1207062470210265089 BlueNoteVinyl

bluenoterecords: 25 years ago #OTD in 1994 trumpeter #TimHagans was in the studio recording his album "Audible Architecture" with saxophonist Bob Belden, bassist Larry Grenadier & drummer Billy Kilson. Hear Belden's tune "Blues in My Neighborhood" on #Th… pic.twitter.com/960Ih49Tsx

— Blue Note Collector (@BlueNoteVinyl) December 17, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/BlueNoteVinyl December 17, 2019 at 05:18PM via IFTTT

[mosaicrecords]

Michael Cuscuna: Cruising with Blue Note 2019

Well, this year, I took the plunge and went on the 3rd annual Blue Note Jazz Cruise. Don Was and I were interviewed by Mark Ruffin and the seven-day cruise was full of talks and performances in a number of excellent venues. It was great to meet a lot of Mosaic fans and catch up with old friends, some of whom like Geoffrey Keezer and Billy Kilson I hadn’t seen in decades. And food and wine was wonderful!

-Michael Cuscuna

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[projazznet]

Bob James, Kirk Whalum – Soweto

The track Soweto came from the pairing of jazz piano maestro Bob James, and acclaimed saxophonist Kirk Whalum for their ‘Joined At The Hip’ album. Whalum wrote the track, which also features Jeff Golum on guitar, Chris Walker on bass and Billy Kilson on drums. Exotic and evocative jazz!

[largemaxa]

Dave Holland  Quintet - Extended Play: Live at Birdland

Extended Play: Live at Birdland is surely one of the most important jazz albums of the last 20 years. It documents a classic lineup of bassist Dave Holland's quintet featuring some of the finest players spanning two generations: underheralded elder statesman vibraphonist Steve Nelson, saxophone wunderkind Chris Potter, trombonist Robin Eubanks, and drummer Billy Kilson. What makes this band so significant is that it featured what was the most up-to-date idea of freedom-within-structure in mainstream jazz up until the rhythm section innovations of Vijay Iyer: its range of sounds and feels provided an ideal contemporary environment for improvisation and interaction. And there's enough memorable improvisation on top of those resources to make the album worth returning to years later.

If there's one track that should be in the running for the next space capsule launch, it's "The Balance", which opens the album. From the gently propulsive feel to the long, poignant lines of the melody, it perfectly expresses what's emotionally possible in contemporary jazz; and more than that there's simply a "sheen" to the entire track that I will forever associate with the emerald green album cover. The melody sets up a perfect atmosphere for Potter's excellent solo, his best on the album. Eubanks' work here is solid and representative: he's relatively consistent throughout the album, and what's most memorable in his playing is the strong rhythmic interaction with Billy Kilson's drums.

I've tended to overlook other tracks in comparison, but it's really the variety of different atmospheres showcasing the players that makes this such a substantial effort. While they don't have the same ethereal charisma as "The Balance", they maintain the aforementioned "emerald green sheen" in other ways: there are the more "jazzy" numbers like "High Wire" (Potter's contribution) and "Claressence"; the ostinato-heavy, borderline rock-inflected "Juggler's Parade", "Prime Directive", and "Metamorphos" (composed by Eubanks); and then there's "Free for All", which perhaps represents the band's sound - its curiosity and intelligence - in a way that's second only to "The Balance" (and certainly less moody). If there's anything holding the disk back, it's too much reliance on the Potter-Eubanks double solo technique, a tendency towards overheatedness (like the second half of "Free for All" and "Metamorphos"), and the general risk of unmemorability in parts of solos; but none of these factors is particularly gratuitous here when compared to the landscape of contemporary jazz.

While it's true that this is a classic album, I returned to it recently mostly to check out Steve Nelson: over the past few years I've fallen in love with his playing, finding him to be one of the few jazz musicians whose playing merits the adjective "exquisite". While the texture of the vibrophone as a chordal instrument (as opposed to the standard piano) is one of the key elements of the group's sound, the subtler merits of Nelson's playing are easily lost on a casual listen (or a high-school-listen) amidst the larger sounds of Potter and Eubanks. Listening intently with him in mind, I found that "The Balance", "High Wire" and "Prime Directive" have good solos, but his best work is on "Claressence".

Strangely, even on this targeted listen, his solos did seem to be a sort of "bonus" feature, seeming less necessary to the epochal qualities of the disc when compared to Holland's writing, which provides the freedom and overall sound, Potter's saxophone, which provides the fireworks, and Kilson's texturally engaging drumming. But I suspect that that his presence as a master really gives an intangible, more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts quality to his overall contribution, serving to elevate the band's purpose and sound.

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(https://open.spotify.com/album/7h6nalY85ttyd14UooNfjY?si=6XrYontfS_O6AIdHmhrHVgから)

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Dave Holland Big Band: What Goes Around  

From the album What Goes Around (2002) Dave Holland: Double Bass Antonio Hart: Alto Sax, Flute Mark Gross: Alto Sax Chris Potter: Tenor Sax Gary Smulyan: Baritone Sax Robin Eubanks, Andre Hayward, Josh Roseman: Trombones Earl Gardner, Alex Sipiagin, Duane Eubanks: Trumpets, Flugelhorns Steve Nelson: Vibraphone Billy Kilson: Drums

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Hank Jones' The Great Jazz Trio

Blue Note, Tokyo, Japan, 2009-02-18  

Hank Jones(p) David Wong(b) Billy Kilson(ds) Hank Jones "The Great Jazz Trio" Live at Blue Note Tokyo 2009-02-18 wed. - 02-24 tue. Part 1 01 Opening 02 On Green Dolphin Street (Includes interview of Hank Jones) 03 Interface 04 interview of Hank Jones 05 Blue Minor 06 Round About Midnight Part 2 01 Opening 02 Wave (Includes interview of Hank Jones) 03 Coming Home Baby 04 interview of Hank Jones 05 I Got Rhythm 06 In A Sentimental Mood