Author Topic: What Jazz are you listening to now? (Read 294659 times)

king ubu · « **Reply #2340 on:** August 06, 2017, 04:15:25 AM »

another disc picked up in Munich last week ... a trio featuring the "Godparents of Philly Jazz" Trudy Pitts (org) and Mr. C (d), with Carl Lockett on guitar

king ubu · « **Reply #2341 on:** August 06, 2017, 05:49:25 AM »

A cute slab of "exotica" from 1960, with a very strong bassist (Victor Sproles) to make up for some of the deficiencies ... it's nice, don't get me wrong, but it's more Tristano than anything Eastern ... (unless that is referring to the US east coast, who knows)

king ubu · « **Reply #2342 on:** August 06, 2017, 06:31:03 AM »

Now we're talkin'!

George · « **Reply #2343 on:** August 06, 2017, 11:39:34 AM »

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2344 on:** August 07, 2017, 02:19:34 AM »

Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Satch and Josh (1974)

Ghost Sonata · « **Reply #2345 on:** August 07, 2017, 04:10:02 PM »

The very picture of 'bedroom eyes' :

Ghost Sonata · « **Reply #2346 on:** August 07, 2017, 05:28:48 PM »

Jazzmatazz Magic (though perhaps not everyone's cuppa tea) :

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2347 on:** August 08, 2017, 01:40:43 AM »

Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Scratch and Josh Again (1978)

king ubu · « **Reply #2348 on:** August 08, 2017, 02:45:42 AM »

Quote from: Ghost Sonata on August 07, 2017, 04:10:02 PM

The very picture of 'bedroom eyes' :

Ha! Probably rather a mixture of various substances ... love her Verve albums!

k a rl h e nn i ng · « **Reply #2349 on:** August 08, 2017, 09:02:32 AM »

Quote from: ritter on August 03, 2017, 11:38:33 AM

In an unbearably hot summer evening in Madrid, some very cool music:

Jeanne Moreau in memoriam.

Aye, I thought I knew that face!

king ubu · « **Reply #2350 on:** August 08, 2017, 11:21:19 PM »

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 08, 2017, 09:02:32 AM

Aye, I thought I knew that face!

Knowing the face will not do - gotta know the movie!

Some recently played ones:

Hardman didn't have many chances to really shine, and he makes very good use of it on his Savoy album ... there's a jazz messengers mood to it and he seems to channel his successor in that group, Lee Morgan, here and there, but this does not diminish the fun a bit. Sonny Red is a musician I'm quite ambiguous about, but I love his Chicago album (Red-Jordan-Timmons, with Wilbur Ware and Dannie Richmond completing the line-up) as well as his seventies album on Mainstream (currently available in Japan, carpe diem!) - anyway, Red is excellent here as well, and so is pianist Ronnie Mathews, who really would deserve to be much better known!

The Mastersounds disc has the group without their most famous sidekick, brother Wes Montgomery on guitar ... this is a fine, groovy, tightly-knit band, the album far from being a masterpieces, but nonetheless quite enjoyable. Monk Montgomery's electric bass gives it a sound that's very different from MJQ, which is a whole different animal anyway, although they share their instrumentation.

king ubu · « **Reply #2351 on:** August 09, 2017, 10:23:32 AM »

Ooh, big goof: that's JENKINS-Jordan-Timmons of course .... Jenkins as in John, another of those so-so post Parker alto players of the fifties ... like him rather less than Red but his Savoy album is very much alright, while I've always foubd his one on Blue Note (co-led with Kenny Burrell no less) a bit of a let-down. Time to revisit ...

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2352 on:** August 09, 2017, 03:34:01 PM »

Bill Perkins - On Stage (1956)

Spineur · « **Reply #2353 on:** August 09, 2017, 05:48:50 PM »

Melody Gardot

"Love me like a river" is one of my favorite songs of hers.

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2354 on:** August 11, 2017, 01:46:15 AM »

George Shearing - Rare Form (1966)
Chet Atkins - After The Riot At Newport (1960)

^a couple of Gary Burton sideman dates I hadn't heard before, and both a lot of fun

Denny Zeitlin - Live At The Trident (1965)
Charlie Haden and Jim Hall - s/t (1990)

best listen yet to the Haden / Hall concert album, which I think is a quiet masterpiece

king ubu · « **Reply #2355 on:** August 11, 2017, 03:30:58 AM »

Played these two in the morning:

The Garrick is lovely and indeed has an enormous charm! With Rendell, Carr and Jim Philip, there's three excellent winds players, and with Coleridge Goode and Trevor Tomkins an excellent rhythm section. This is a BBC session from 1969, Garrick himself can be heard on acoustic and electric, harpsichord and celesta. The Jazz Couriers is an ok-sounding live recording, Tubbs switches to vibes at one time, and him and co-leader Ronnie Scott have a solid rhythm section to back them up.

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2356 on:** August 11, 2017, 09:00:14 PM »

Count Basie and Zoot Sims - Basie and Zoot (1975)

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2357 on:** August 12, 2017, 04:21:33 PM »

Duke Jordan - Flight To Japan (1976)

Ghost Sonata · « **Reply #2358 on:** August 13, 2017, 04:51:33 AM »

Just FYI, lotsa early jazz recordings here (only 25 classical recordings) - a lot of fun : the George Blood Collection on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

SimonNZ · « **Reply #2359 on:** August 14, 2017, 02:16:49 AM »

Bob Brookmeyer - Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1962)
Arif Mardin - Journey (1974)

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