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Title: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Gurn Blanston on June 12, 2015, 06:16:31 AM
Seems like a good place for this, especially for people looking for recommendations to listen to.

Thread duty:

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Damn, that's good!

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 12, 2015, 06:38:18 AM
Well played, O Gurn!

I've been listening again to a juicy adaptation which I like every bit as well as the original:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Xrs135MAvJc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 12, 2015, 08:06:03 AM
"Doin' the Voom Voom," "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears," & "Bruise" from:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 19, 2015, 11:36:19 AM
(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag92/NikF65/PSX_20150619_203133_zpsebpysfuw.jpg)

e: Krupa with Willie Smith on alto sax and Hank Jones on piano.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Leo K. on June 21, 2015, 08:57:27 AM
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The Red Garland Quintet, a total mood experience. Aces!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 21, 2015, 06:20:06 PM
Not all that exciting
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 21, 2015, 07:27:02 PM
Quote from: Leo K. on June 21, 2015, 08:57:27 AM
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The Red Garland Quintet, a total mood experience. Aces!
Oooh! I don't have any Red Garland Quintet recordings (or anything by him that isn't led by Miles). I see this session produced two other albums? Presumably all mandatory listening?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on June 21, 2015, 07:41:22 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 21, 2015, 07:27:02 PM
Oooh! I don't have any Red Garland Quintet recordings (or anything by him that isn't led by Miles). I see this session produced two other albums? Presumably all mandatory listening?

Garland never made any album that wasn't worth listening to IMHO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Leo K. on June 22, 2015, 10:04:22 AM
Quote from: Brian on June 21, 2015, 07:27:02 PM
Oooh! I don't have any Red Garland Quintet recordings (or anything by him that isn't led by Miles). I see this session produced two other albums? Presumably all mandatory listening?

The other album I have is Soul Junction, and wow, it's fantastic. Definitely mandatory if you're a jazz-piano affictionato. Aces!

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It's how I'm starting my morning today :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 22, 2015, 10:39:05 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 22, 2015, 12:11:45 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 23, 2015, 12:08:27 PM
The greatest damn jazz guitar (and bass) ever. (I own the original LP, but usually listen to the FLAC)

(http://losslessjazz.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Joe-Pass-Niels-Henning-Orsted-Pedersen-Northsea-Nights-1999-FLAC.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on June 25, 2015, 08:48:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/xBUm3htPHGw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 27, 2015, 07:17:38 AM
Just came in. Listening to disc 1. Awesome stuff!!!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 29, 2015, 12:11:17 PM
Just received this. I really liked at least one of the tracks on the radio, but now I'm having trouble getting excited about it.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Rom1sDqTL._SY450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 01, 2015, 08:18:42 AM
Here's what I'm planning to take on my July Fourth road trip to visit the parents.

- Cookin' / Workin' / Steamin' / Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

plus these albums, which I've never heard before:

- Blues in Orbit, Duke Ellington
- Monk: Live at the It Club
- Complete studio recordings by the Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach quintet

and a Clark Terry box set that contains:
Serenade to a Bus Seat (w/ Griffin, Kelly, Chambers, Philly Joe Jones)
Duke with a Difference
In Orbit (w/ Monk)
Out on a Limb
Color Changes
Everything Follows
All American

I've never heard any of these before, either - only Clark Terry I've got is in the Duke Ellington big band.

Being a jazz beginner is fun!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 02, 2015, 11:15:56 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on July 01, 2015, 08:22:47 AM
Some really good stuff there.  How far is you road trip?
About 9 hours total.

EDIT: Oops! "Everything Follows" should in fact be "Everything's Mellow", the Clark Terry album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 11, 2015, 11:18:45 AM
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Cool recording. Recommended.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 12, 2015, 03:56:08 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 19, 2015, 03:39:55 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/334/MI0003334872.jpg)

John Taylor memorial listening - very sad
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 19, 2015, 12:08:43 PM
Dave Douglas - Mountain Passages (2005)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J8JKDN5DL._SX355_.jpg)

Elliott Sharp - Octal book 3 (2015)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KqLhwKz2L._SX355_.jpg)

Gerald Clayton (2013)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81N61FSDWML._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on July 20, 2015, 03:04:23 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on July 15, 2015, 12:56:54 PM
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a lot of great stuff on this.
But onestly I'm not sure what to think of the other Mosaic select with his piano solo work. Hill's music often isn't immediate but I guess that at the moment it's my least favorite album of him, but in general (with few exceptions, like his solo renditions of Black Monday and Erato) I vastly prefer where he plays with a band to his solo stuff that I find too much dispersive.

At the moment I'm listening a lot to Gigi Gryce. I had listened to a couple of albums of him in the past but I didn't realize how good he was, especially as a composer he's truly one of the best in the hard bop tradition, right there with Horace Silver and Benny Golson. I don't know why he's not more celebrated, and I don't know why sophisticated but memorable tunes like Shabozz, In a meditating mood, Up In Quincy's room, The infant song and others are not standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPgJubrSVtw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPgJubrSVtw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrA6mgWa7r4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrA6mgWa7r4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xaxOH9v74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xaxOH9v74)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 04:26:56 AM
Took me a while to get into Hill's solo piano music as well ... but I ended up where I find all of his recordings worthwhile. There are some fabulous captures of concerts around, too - alas, while the Palmetto albums have considerable merits, I find that only his final album on Blue Note really managed to capture some of the (often dark and brooding) excitement his late bands created. His discography in the later decades is so sketchy, the live recordings really add a lot to the picture.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on July 20, 2015, 04:57:25 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 04:26:56 AM
Took me a while to get into Hill's solo piano music as well ... but I ended up where I find all of his recordings worthwhile. There are some fabulous captures of concerts around, too - alas, while the Palmetto albums have considerable merits, I find that only his final album on Blue Note really managed to capture some of the (often dark and brooding) excitement his late bands created. His discography in the later decades is so sketchy, the live recordings really add a lot to the picture.

Quote from: sanantonio on July 20, 2015, 04:50:05 AM
.  His later records are extremely good and I try not to focus solely on the Blue Note years.

;)

of his later stuff, I'm listening a lot to The day the world stood still and it's great as the rightly celebrated Time lines and Dusk. I don't know why it's so rarely mentioned, probably the reason is simply that a huge amount of great jazz falls into oblivion. Some pieces like Ghetto echoes, Flying in the sky or the catchy Hermano frere (a vocal piece and one of the most accessible pieces of his whole career) are worth of his best music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 05:36:32 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on July 20, 2015, 04:50:05 AM... the Blue Note years.
Well, they started with "Black Fire" and ended with "Time Lines"  ;)

You'd miss out on the early Warwick trio album like that though, which is fascinating enough! There's also a 45 with Von Freeman and Pat Patrick from the early days - look here:
https://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/andrew-hill-on-ping-1003/
https://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/andrew-hill-on-ping-1003-after-dark/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on July 20, 2015, 06:01:46 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 05:36:32 AM
Well, they started with "Black Fire" and ended with "Time Lines"  ;)

You'd miss out on the early Warwick trio album like that though, which is fascinating enough! There's also a 45 with Von Freeman and Pat Patrick from the early days - look here:
https://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/andrew-hill-on-ping-1003/
https://crownpropeller.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/andrew-hill-on-ping-1003-after-dark/

there's some stuff difficult to find that I'd really like to listen, like Sittin' in at Jorgie's Jazz Club with Johnny Hartman, Earth prayer with Russel Baba and the rest of this live recorded in 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-jUZbT4UMI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-jUZbT4UMI)
I can't find any mention of it, even here
http://go54321.tripod.com/ah/andrewhill.html (http://go54321.tripod.com/ah/andrewhill.html)

that is the most complete discography of him I'm aware of.
And I've read also that Hill apparently composed an opera, but I can't find any information about it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 06:31:16 AM
Don't know those either ... and yeah, too bad there's no real Hill discography/sessionography online.

@sanantonio: I know of course ... and I'm in the same boat as you, those early records are such a great bunch one keeps forgetting to pay more attention to the middle and late Hill!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 20, 2015, 11:08:38 PM
Definitely look for "Conflict", yes! (And while you're at it, look for Woods' other Contemporary album and Joe Gordon's "Looking Good", too  ;))
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 21, 2015, 12:32:55 PM
I love that Gerald Clayton cover! It definitely makes me curious about the music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 22, 2015, 02:08:38 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 21, 2015, 12:32:55 PM
I love that Gerald Clayton cover! It definitely makes me curious about the music!

Good stuff! Check samples.. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 23, 2015, 12:53:43 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on July 23, 2015, 11:52:07 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61oROtAcp7L.jpg)
Oooh, I don't know this one. Would it be in the Riverside box?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on July 23, 2015, 07:16:36 PM
Terje Rypdal, Waves

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5125CCtim7L._SY355_.jpg)

Classic ECM "cool weather jazz."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 23, 2015, 11:33:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81R4JGlq87L._SY300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419%2Bzm%2BzptL._SY300_.jpg)

Chick Corea / Gary Burton - Crystal Silence

Miles Davis - In Europe (aka Miles In Antibes)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 24, 2015, 07:48:57 AM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on July 23, 2015, 07:16:36 PM
Terje Rypdal, Waves

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5125CCtim7L._SY355_.jpg)

Classic ECM "cool weather jazz."

Great to set this! Big Terje Rypdal fan here. I think I own every album except his latest ones. I prefer his earlier work by a very large margin, especially his work with The Chasers and Vitous/DeJohnette.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on July 24, 2015, 07:57:54 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 24, 2015, 07:48:57 AM
Great to set this! Big Terje Rypdal fan here. I think I own every album except his latest ones. I prefer his earlier work by a very large margin, especially his work with The Chasers and Vitous/DeJohnette.

Yeah, it's good stuff. I have the second collaboration with Vitous/DeJohnette (To Be Continued), and I like it just as much as Waves.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 24, 2015, 10:05:44 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on July 23, 2015, 02:53:30 PM
I would think so; but since I don't have that box I cannot check.
I guess I should have asked if it's a Riverside recording, since the box is meant to be complete.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 24, 2015, 07:05:19 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on July 24, 2015, 07:57:54 AM
Yeah, it's good stuff. I have the second collaboration with Vitous/DeJohnette (To Be Continued), and I like it just as much as Waves.

Yep. Good stuff indeed. 8) I remember reading a review of the first Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette on Amazon and the reviewer basically complained that Rypdal didn't play guitar the way he wanted him to (i. e. melody-based type of playing). Rypdal isn't always about that. Sometimes Rypdal just wants to provide atmospheric overtones and apparently this is beyond some people's comprehension. If someone doesn't understand it, then don't listen to it. Problem solved.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 24, 2015, 07:39:00 PM
Brand new arrival, taking it for a first spin.

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Cookin'!!

Is it just me or does "This Here" sound a LOT (both in tones and in rhythm) like another standard tune, the name of which escapes me?? Help, anyone?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 25, 2015, 01:07:23 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zi5Bz9g9L._SY300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B52HM65NL.jpg)

Chick Corea / Gary Burton - Duet

John Carter - Castles Of Ghana

becoming aware of and catching up with the John Carter discography has been one of my most exciting and rewarding finds of recent times

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 26, 2015, 10:31:36 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 27, 2015, 05:04:54 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on July 28, 2015, 04:19:03 AM
What an interesting and strong and refreshing combo and set.  All original works by Mehldau (who's written for Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, among others).  And hats off to the Nonesuch engineers who recorded this the way jazz trios should be recorded, warm and close but not too close. 

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 28, 2015, 04:50:53 AM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on July 28, 2015, 04:19:03 AM
What an interesting and strong and refreshing combo and set.  All original works by Mehldau (who's written for Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, among others).  And hats off to the Nonesuch engineers who recorded this the way jazz trios should be recorded, warm and close but not too close. 

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Yes, dig it much as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on July 28, 2015, 05:24:35 AM
Quote from: Henk on July 28, 2015, 04:50:53 AM
Yes, dig it much as well.

Yelp! The "Days of Dilbert Delaney" is in my head.  Perhaps the only way to release myself from its intoxicating spell is to infect others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jom8WS_z1A
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 28, 2015, 12:23:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MbWw1NAML._SS280.jpg)

Wonderful stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 28, 2015, 06:21:58 PM
Quote from: Henk on July 28, 2015, 12:23:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MbWw1NAML._SS280.jpg)

Wonderful stuff.

Dizzy absolutely smokes It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing). Never heard anything like it before or since.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 30, 2015, 05:15:55 PM
Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Pleyel Concerts Vol. 2

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Into the early hours with this stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on July 30, 2015, 07:48:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/AKFlQnvXujo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bob_cart on August 01, 2015, 10:23:15 AM
Not sure if it counts as jazz, but there it is:
https://www.youtube.com/v/LZh4521P5Hg
if the flash thingy doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZh4521P5Hg

EDIT: Thanks sanantonio!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 02, 2015, 11:22:21 AM
Pat Metheny Group, Offramp

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6107wSL49tL._SY355_.jpg)

This is a highly praised album, but it has yet to click with me. Interesting sounds and all that, but my brain hasn't managed to make sense of them. Will keep trying.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 02, 2015, 03:27:33 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 02, 2015, 11:22:21 AM
Pat Metheny Group, Offramp

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6107wSL49tL._SY355_.jpg)

This is a highly praised album, but it has yet to click with me. Interesting sounds and all that, but my brain hasn't managed to make sense of them. Will keep trying.

Offramp is one of my favorite PMG albums. The title track is certainly 'out there' but I find it hard for anyone to not enjoy a song like James, Eighteen, or Are You Going With Me? as these seem immediately accessible. Perhaps you're still in the throes of understanding their style? Is this your only exposure to Metheny?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 02, 2015, 05:48:53 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 02, 2015, 03:27:33 PM
Perhaps your still in the throes of understanding their style? Is this your only exposure to Metheny?

That's basically it. The only other Metheny I have is 80/81, which is quite different stylistically. As I said, I'll keep trying with Offramp.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 02, 2015, 09:42:13 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on August 02, 2015, 05:48:53 PM
That's basically it. The only other Metheny I have is 80/81, which is quite different stylistically. As I said, I'll keep trying with Offramp.

I can't stand 80/81 and this is a shame because many of the songs have great potential but it's Michael Brecker's erratic playing that constantly leaves me cold and/or disengaged with the music. He's not a lyrical player or someone that I believe meshes well with Metheny. A complete misfire IMHO. You should check out Metheny's Watercolors at some point. This is pre-PMG, but there are several musical elements that point this album into the direction he would later go in with pianist/composer Lyle Mays.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 03, 2015, 04:56:01 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Byrd-in-hand-cover-folder.jpg)

Personnel
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Walter Davis, Jr. - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Art Taylor - drums

Recorded May of '59 at Rudy Van Gelder studios.

My main listening will be focused on Sam Jones morning. He recorded with the likes of Monk, Peterson, Adderly, and Evans and I wanted to isolate him a bit and try to hear what they appreciated about his talent.  For those that really enjoy Adderly's Somethin' Else album, Jones was the bassist on it as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 03, 2015, 07:08:41 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 03, 2015, 05:20:46 AM
Sam Jones was a great bassist.  He worked often with Louis Hayes, and they were a dynamite rhythm section on plenty of Riverside recordings, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton and many others.  If you get the chance, check out Oscar Peterson's Blues Etude, which has Jones and Hayes on the first half - excellent.

The guy has an incredible resume for sure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2015, 02:42:33 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SzlmsVIbL._SX300_.jpg)

Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 04, 2015, 03:44:44 AM
Starting the day with THAT Mancini sound:

(http://eil.com/images/main/Henry-Mancini-Combo-475344.jpg)

Some of the personnel

Pete Candoli (trumpet)
Dick Nash (trombone)
Larry Bunker (vibes)
Shelly Manne (drums)
Art Pepper (clarinet) ;)
Johnny Williams piano and harpsichord -This really gives it an "Avengers" sound at times, Karl. ;D

Mancini over the recent years has become a favorite of mine.  His casual swing and even his lounge-ish or even his easy listening are all "good stuff" in my corner.  Though my favorite works tend to come from tv or movie work he did, I am yet to spin one of his lps outside of these that I was not glad to have on my shelf.  The one above is more of a swinging sound and he covers such compositions as Moanin' and Tequila.  I believe you can find it on cd. 

(http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS558196-01B-BIG.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 04, 2015, 03:49:01 AM
Quote from: Bogey on August 04, 2015, 03:44:44 AM
Starting the day with THAT Mancini sound:

(http://eil.com/images/main/Henry-Mancini-Combo-475344.jpg)

Some of the personnel

Pete Candoli (trumpet)
Dick Nash (trombone)
Larry Bunker (vibes)
Shelly Manne (drums)
Art Pepper (clarinet) ;)
Johnny Williams piano and harpsichord -This really gives it an "Avengers" sound at times, Karl. ;D

Mancini over the recent years has become a favorite of mine.  His casual swing and even his lounge-ish or even his easy listening are all "good stuff" in my corner.  Though my favorite works tend to come from tv or movie work he did, I am yet to spin one of his lps outside of these that I was not glad to have on my shelf.  The one above is more of a swinging sound and he covers such compositions as Moanin' and Tequila.  I believe you can find it on cd. 

(http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS558196-01B-BIG.jpg)

Good morning, Bill!  Looks quite enticing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 04, 2015, 06:40:33 AM
Did the artist himself perhaps not know his actual birthdate?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 04, 2015, 03:47:01 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 04, 2015, 06:34:37 AM
Born today - Armstrong often stated that he was born on July 4, 1900, a date that has been noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it was not until the mid-1980s that his true birth date (http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/about/faq.htm#LA5) of August 4, 1901 was discovered by researcher Tad Jones through the examination of baptismal records.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG : JAZZ PROPHET (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/louis-armstrong-jazz-prophet)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71-Z4kkzkpL._SY355_.jpg)

;)

No one better!  Time for some of this to mark the date:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515WQkEyqQL._SS280.jpg)

That is the nice thing about Pops' recordings.  You can grab anything off the shelf and it is always a treat.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2015, 08:08:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61OHaflQKaL._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KkEqkY-sL._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on August 04, 2015, 08:17:18 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 04, 2015, 06:54:31 AM
It is possible.  My own mother thought her birthday was different from what records showed, which we only discovered after her death.  Back in the early decades of the 1900s I guess it wasn't as big a deal as we have grown used to since then.  Also, and I don't know if this is relevant, but both Armstrong and my mother were born in Louisiana.

My mother born in 1928 always insisted she was born on the fifth night of Chanukah.  In fact, while the fifth night of Chanukah fell on her English (secular) birthday in 1930, among other years, it occurred a week or more later than her secular birthdate in 1928.  And in fact it was only her birth certificate that confirmed the English date was correct...but at one point I wondered if perhaps she was in fact born in 1930.
This was in Boston.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 04, 2015, 09:24:42 PM
Now:

(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/60/1a/52601ab721684a2d479788ee9c582cfd.jpg)

An absolutely gorgeous album, which, in my own view, is a collection of jazz-inflicted lullabies with a modern rhythmic/harmonic feel. The improvisational aspect of each of these songs is more or less an extension of a song's main melody, which is what I like and love to hear the most in terms of improvisation. All the best jazz musicians have a lyricism in their playing and, while Eick's career is really just begun considering he's still pretty young, I can hear an immense musical personality on the rise. Skala is the second of the three albums released under his own name so far.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 05, 2015, 12:31:52 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 04, 2015, 09:24:42 PM
Now:

(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/60/1a/52601ab721684a2d479788ee9c582cfd.jpg)

An absolutely gorgeous album, which, in my own view, is a collection of jazz-inflicted lullabies with a modern rhythmic/harmonic feel. The improvisational aspect of each of these songs is more or less an extension of a song's main melody, which is what I like and love to hear the most in terms of improvisation. All the best jazz musicians have a lyricism in their playing and, while Eick's career is really just begun considering he's still pretty young, I can hear an immense musical personality on the rise. Skala is the second of the three albums released under his own name so far.

I consider this almost a definition of jazz, it's also mine, any jazz I listen to can be characterized that way. So free jazz is not real jazz, but about creating structures, an ascetic practure (although in many cases it doesn't sound so, like late Coltrane and in our times, Vandermark, Brötzmann and all those guys), which is pretty dull for the listener.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 05, 2015, 06:21:12 AM
Quote from: Henk on August 05, 2015, 12:31:52 AM
I consider this almost a definition of jazz, it's also mine, any jazz I listen to can be characterized that way. So free jazz is not real jazz, but about creating structures, an ascetic practure (although in many cases it doesn't sound so, like late Coltrane and in our times, Vandermark, Brötzmann and all those guys), which is pretty dull for the listener.

I hate free jazz. I never understood the attraction (not that this style has a huge following to begin with). Good jazz music, IMHO, should be melody-based and when it is, it seems that everything else just falls into place and sounds beautiful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 05, 2015, 06:51:57 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 05, 2015, 06:21:12 AM
I hate free jazz. I never understood the attraction (not that this style has a huge following to begin with). Good jazz music, IMHO, should be melody-based and when it is, it seems that everything else just falls into place and sounds beautiful.

Completely agree.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on August 05, 2015, 08:57:49 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 05, 2015, 06:55:01 AMFree jazz can be very good (but none of it is really 100% free, the band feeds off of each other's riffs, etc. - Ornette Coleman for instance); of course it can also be mediocre.  Just like the other kind. ;)


"Free jazz" to me means any music where improvisational direction and content is not restricted. This does not imply chaos, atonality, and 'free time', nor does it imply one-chord vamps for days, but can contain and utilize either or both when desired. Free playing can be any combination of any available elements available at any given time. Form, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, articulation, written music .. extremes, moderation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on August 05, 2015, 05:55:13 PM
I like all kinds of jazz, whether it is melodic or wild and free. Sometimes free jazz can be very emotional and even lyrical. Sometimes it is just the strength and the determined push of the players that I find attractive. I also like some of the modern jazz from Chicago scene or those associated with Fred Anderson and his Velvet Lounge club, like Hamid Drake of Harrison Bankhead. They can unite wild and lyrical sides of jazz music into very organic sounds.

However, recently I've been leavening more toward quieter jazz. One of the albums that I've put a few times over the past few days was
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 07, 2015, 08:43:48 PM
Matt Criscuolo has cultivated a sax sound so unique it's virtually unclassifiable. NO ONE has anywhere near his sound: I might say it's sweetly honeycombed, but then there's the tartness; I might say it's sassy, but then there's the fanciful lyricism; I might also dub it "spreading the sauce on liberally", but then there's the right-on-the-dot intonation. 

Hearing it is best.

His solos are daringly technical with a Coltrane-channelling "free" flavor at times but nothing strays too far from the lyrical base. It's a winning mish-mash.

Guitarist Tony Purrone provides ideal foil. The give-and-take between the two is great fun to hear.   




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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bob_cart on August 08, 2015, 03:30:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/tsd_DWOJFwU
Probably the best piano player, the best trio and one of the best improvisations/compositions ever. Enjoy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 08, 2015, 05:11:04 AM
Seeing a jazz forum I haunt does not have any problem discussing The Chairman in their 50 threads, I thought I would roll listening to this beauty on vinyl here:

(https://www.jbhifi.com.au/FileLibrary/ProductResources/Images/118290-L-LO.jpg)

The key to enjoying Sinatra for me is not only his vocals, timing, and the "attitude" he brings, but those arrangements by the likes of Count Basie, Nelson Riddle, and Billy May (and others) that back him.  In fact, this has led me to seek out their likes on their own albums.  Whenever I see one of theirs in the bin, I grab it.  Hey, if they were good enough for Frank....

(https://jazzinphoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/photo-john-dominis-frank-sinatra-come-dance-with-me-with-count-basie-sunglas.jpeg)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GDpl5AklT7Q/TEsIdb7jLyI/AAAAAAAAC1M/pOmxYO6G0p4/s1600/frankorchestrarobertfarnon.jpg)

(http://www.metromediaradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FS_MAY-STUDIO-2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 08, 2015, 02:23:47 PM
Iconic at every level and every way:

(http://www.mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Herb-Alperts-Whipped-Cream-And-Other-Delights-AM-LP-1965.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on August 08, 2015, 06:25:35 PM
Just like the title suggests, it is a staring forward blues affair.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 09, 2015, 04:57:22 AM
(http://www.hotplatters.com/images/2-84.jpg)

What a set!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 09, 2015, 05:50:56 AM
Nice, Bill!

Haven't heard that one, but I am sure it's great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 09, 2015, 05:59:04 AM
Quote from: George on August 09, 2015, 05:50:56 AM
Nice, Bill!

Haven't heard that one, but I am sure it's great!

If you see it in your used bins go ahead and grab it.  However, I do not know how it would line up with your other big set.  Ellington is a difficult puzzle to put together when compiling his recordings.  Like another said on Amazon about one of the box sets:

Compiling and issuing a definitive Duke Ellington compilation is not an easy task, simply due to the fact that Duke recorded for at least a dozen record companies from 1924 to 1940. Hence, major label reissue projects are usually lacking: buy a Columbia set and you miss all of the great early 1940's recordings with Ben Webster; buy an RCA set and you miss all of the great tunes recorded for Brunswick and Okeh during the 1930's.
This set, released by the English label Proper, attempts to correct these omissions. The most rewarding part is an entire CD of rare and seldom-reissued material from 1932 through 1938, most of which was originally recorded for the Brunswick label. Great recordings of "Stompy Jones", "Reminiscing in Tempo", "Echoes of Harlem", "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", and "Pyramid" that date from this time period are included in this set.
Another problem encountered in working with Ellington material is the massive amount of reworkings and re-recordings that he produced over the years. This set includes one version of each of Duke's major early works ("East St. Louis Toodle-oo", "The Mooche", "Black and Tan Fantasy", etc.) and most of these tunes are included here in their first recorded version.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 09, 2015, 07:27:34 AM
Quote from: Bogey on August 09, 2015, 05:59:04 AM
If you see it in your used bins go ahead and grab it.  However, I do not know how it would line up with your other big set.  Ellington is a difficult puzzle to put together when compiling his recordings. 

Indeed!

QuoteLike another said on Amazon about one of the box sets:

Compiling and issuing a definitive Duke Ellington compilation is not an easy task, simply due to the fact that Duke recorded for at least a dozen record companies from 1924 to 1940. Hence, major label reissue projects are usually lacking: buy a Columbia set and you miss all of the great early 1940's recordings with Ben Webster; buy an RCA set and you miss all of the great tunes recorded for Brunswick and Okeh during the 1930's.
This set, released by the English label Proper, attempts to correct these omissions. The most rewarding part is an entire CD of rare and seldom-reissued material from 1932 through 1938, most of which was originally recorded for the Brunswick label. Great recordings of "Stompy Jones", "Reminiscing in Tempo", "Echoes of Harlem", "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", and "Pyramid" that date from this time period are included in this set.
Another problem encountered in working with Ellington material is the massive amount of reworkings and re-recordings that he produced over the years. This set includes one version of each of Duke's major early works ("East St. Louis Toodle-oo", "The Mooche", "Black and Tan Fantasy", etc.) and most of these tunes are included here in their first recorded version.


Good stuff. I have and enjoy that Proper set. It could use a proper remastering.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on August 11, 2015, 12:12:18 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71E4CXEAdEL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 12, 2015, 05:49:10 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 28, 2015, 06:21:58 PM
Dizzy absolutely smokes It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing). Never heard anything like it before or since.

This is such an insult to Gillespie. Dizzy never changed his music. Despite this his music always sounded fresh. He forms the counterpoint in jazz to Miles. But because Dizzy didn't need to change, I think he was a greater musician than Miles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 12, 2015, 07:35:26 AM
Quote from: Henk on August 12, 2015, 05:49:10 AM
This is such an insult to Gillespie. Dizzy never changed his music. Despite this his music always sounded fresh. He forms the counterpoint in jazz to Miles. But because Dizzy didn't need to change, I think he was a greater musician than Miles.

???

Oh boy...another translation error on your part, Henk. ;D When I say smoked, this means Dizzy absolutely ripped this piece of apart with his virtuosity. In other words, he owned this piece of music. It's a compliment, not an insult.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 12, 2015, 07:43:23 AM
FYI, comparing Dizzy with Miles is beyond comprehension IMHO. It really doesn't make sense to compare apples with oranges. I like Miles much more than Dizzy and not because I think Miles was a better musician. Quite the contrary, Dizzy had much more technical chops than Miles ever did, but this, at the end of the day, doesn't really matter as I think Miles' music, especially during his bebop and foray in modal jazz was much more interesting compositionally than anything Dizzy has done. But this is a matter of personal preference and it's certainly not a contest nor is this even worth arguing over because both musicians excelled at different things.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 12, 2015, 07:52:34 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 12, 2015, 07:43:23 AM
FYI, comparing Dizzy with Miles is beyond comprehension IMHO. It really doesn't make sense to compare apples with oranges. I like Miles much more than Dizzy and not because I think Miles was a better musician. Quite the contrary, Dizzy had much more technical chops than Miles ever did, but this, at the end of the day, doesn't really matter as I think Miles' music, especially during his bebop and foray in modal jazz was much more interesting compositionally than anything Dizzy has done. But this is a matter of personal preference and it's certainly not a contest nor is this even worth arguing over because both musicians excelled at different things.

Interesting point. But I didn't write "better" but "greater". And let's not forget that jazz is mainly about melody and improvisation. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on August 12, 2015, 08:59:31 AM
Quote from: Henk on August 12, 2015, 05:49:10 AM
This is such an insult to Gillespie. Dizzy never changed his music.

I disagree with this a lot. Gillespie changed his music a lot through the years. He played bebop, he then started to play stuff influenced by cuban music, then he played third stream stuff, he played electric funk and I don't even know his discography in depth.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on August 12, 2015, 09:06:22 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 12, 2015, 07:43:23 AM
FYI, comparing Dizzy with Miles is beyond comprehension IMHO. It really doesn't make sense to compare apples with oranges. I like Miles much more than Dizzy and not because I think Miles was a better musician. Quite the contrary, Dizzy had much more technical chops than Miles ever did, but this, at the end of the day, doesn't really matter as I think Miles' music, especially during his bebop and foray in modal jazz was much more interesting compositionally than anything Dizzy has done.

The difference is that Davis had a lot of composers,  arrangers and producers working for him. But Gillespie was a interesting writer. Lorraine for instance is one of my favorite tunes ever, even if is less famous than his standards.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 12, 2015, 09:25:52 AM
Quote from: escher on August 12, 2015, 08:59:31 AM
I disagree with this a lot. Gillespie changed his music a lot through the years. He played bebop, he then started to play stuff influenced by cuban music, then he played third stream stuff, he played electric funk and I don't even know his discography in depth.

Gillespie added stuff to his style, not change it. Gillespie himself did also say he didn't feel the need to find out new stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 12, 2015, 01:19:47 PM
(http://www.pelleasmusique.com/uploads/2/9/4/0/29404045/s385570525864201351_p167_i2_w640.jpeg)

I have since found out that this is a "gray market" release, but I like the music. Transfers are a bit muffled, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 12, 2015, 10:42:58 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 12, 2015, 07:35:26 AM
???

Oh boy...another translation error on your part, Henk. ;D When I say smoked, this means Dizzy absolutely ripped this piece of apart with his virtuosity. In other words, he owned this piece of music. It's a compliment, not an insult.

It was the second sentence that was confusing to me. I you had wrote it more clear, I would probably also have understood the first one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 13, 2015, 07:39:35 AM
Quote from: Henk on August 12, 2015, 07:52:34 AM
Interesting point. But I didn't write "better" but "greater". And let's not forget that jazz is mainly about melody and improvisation. ;)

Interesting point? I've never said anything bad about Dizzy nor will I. All I said was I prefer Miles. There's plenty of melody and improvisation in Miles' music. He's one of the most lyrical trumpeters in jazz history. Anyway, there's really no use in me trying to defend what I like. I like some of Dizzy's music, but he really doesn't do much for me compositionally. Fantastic player, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 13, 2015, 07:41:11 AM
Quote from: Henk on August 12, 2015, 10:42:58 PM
It was the second sentence that was confusing to me. I you had wrote it more clear, I would probably also have understood the first one.

It's American slang, Henk. You're Dutch and I'm American, so there's bound to be something lost in translation. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 13, 2015, 08:17:07 PM
Fresh, well-crafted, and nuanced in a most catchy manner. It's unabashedly jazz though delicately sprinkled with "world" overtones, an obvious tool which functions as catalyst for some strikingly original writing. Whatever his secret Avital and his band make much of their talents and the final product is bristling with both sophistication and, well...fun!!




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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on August 14, 2015, 03:31:46 PM
I never tire of Herbie (but admit I'm less interested in the funk stuff).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 14, 2015, 08:42:01 PM
Melodically strong with a sprinkling of avant-garde. Alternately soulful and headstrong. And man can that bassist play! (Drew Gress)




(http://img15.nnm.me/1/1/5/8/3/d453a94fffff3f524310e927e18.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 14, 2015, 09:47:33 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 13, 2015, 07:41:11 AM
It's American slang, Henk. You're Dutch and I'm American, so there's bound to be something lost in translation. :)

True.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 15, 2015, 06:05:37 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 15, 2015, 05:24:32 PM
Drew Gress is one of the best bassists; he and Scott Colley are both really good and just about anything they are on is worthwhile.  I will look for this on Apple Music or Spotify.

I know a little about Colley but this is my first exposure to Gress. Definitely on my radar now.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 16, 2015, 06:05:47 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 13, 2015, 11:09:36 AM
George Shearing : born today in 1920 (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/george-shearing-born-today-in-1920/)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VZxMy-PpL._SX355_.jpg)

He made two albums with singers, this one with Peggy Lee and The Swingin's Mutual with Nancy Wilson - both excellent.



One of my favorites from Shearing that I have on the shelf is from his quintet called Latin Escapade.  One artist that appears on both this and the Peggy Lee effort above is the amazing Armando Peraza (front left).  His percussion work takes this and other Shearing efforts to a whole new level IMO.  Shearing must have appreciated his work as well as he played on over 20 of his albums.

(http://www.chipboaz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/cal%20tjader%20armando%20peraza.jpg)

On this link you will find a wonderful article written about Shearing and his Latin jazz that has a must read on Peraza and his work with Shearing. 

http://www.chipboaz.com/blog/2011/02/16/george-shearing-and-latin-jazz-more-than-a-footnote/

I know we are always just tossing links on to this site, but this one is a must.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413AP7KT-uL.jpg)




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 16, 2015, 06:06:48 AM
Thread duty:

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/waNkKdnBtEQ/hqdefault.jpg)

I heard this one described as "spooky exotica".  Cannot agree more.   If you enjoy Mancini, but do not have this one, grab it when you can.  Like the back of the lp says, " To those who long for balmy tropic breezes and gently swaying palms, this album is dedicated."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 16, 2015, 08:26:06 PM
Kenny Dorham and Jackie McLean together.

Dorham is a magic-maker. Unorthodox but never willful.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on August 17, 2015, 06:11:49 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on August 16, 2015, 08:26:06 PM
Kenny Dorham and Jackie McLean together.

Dorham is a magic-maker. Unorthodox but never willful.



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Never cared for Jackie McLean at all. Razor-sharp attack and grating tone. I do like Dorham a lot, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 20, 2015, 06:33:35 AM
Anybody else have the 2003 Pacific CD release of Chet Baker & Crew? I notice a huge drop-off in sound quality between side A and side B. It's almost like it goes from stereo to mono. Is this normal? Did I somehow get a bootleg of the real CD? (I ordered through Amazon.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on August 20, 2015, 06:43:18 AM
Quote from: Brian on August 20, 2015, 06:33:35 AM
Anybody else have the 2003 Pacific CD release of Chet Baker & Crew? I notice a huge drop-off in sound quality between side A and side B. It's almost like it goes from stereo to mono. Is this normal? Did I somehow get a bootleg of the real CD? (I ordered through Amazon.)

Which listing did you get?  The lead off Amazon listing is an Amazon CD-R.
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TD
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zhNTLa1TL._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on August 20, 2015, 07:18:55 AM
I am finding I like "psychedelic" Miles, and the cover art is certainly fun.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 20, 2015, 07:22:30 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on August 20, 2015, 07:18:55 AM
I am finding I like "psychedelic" Miles, and the cover art is certainly fun.

Aye.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on August 20, 2015, 07:42:18 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 20, 2015, 07:25:47 AM
I forget the artist's name, but Miles also used his artwork on On the Corner.  I think of this period of Miles not so much psychedelic as "radical-chic-funk".  I almost expect to see Leonard Bernstein somewhere in the background.

Corky McCoy.  He was friends enough with Miles to be a roommate for a time
Wikipedia has a sketchy article on him
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_McCoy
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 20, 2015, 08:41:48 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on August 20, 2015, 06:43:18 AM
Which listing did you get?  The lead off Amazon listing is an Amazon CD-R.
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TD

Maybe it is a CD-R. I'll look when I get home.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 21, 2015, 09:32:26 PM
The Duke and Ella live on the French Riviera box. From the d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins International Jazz Festival, 1966. Duke gets the lion's share, here, but everyone is swinging and the sound is delightfully good - Granz himself was at the recording helm.




(http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/bmmg/ent/L731453903326.JPG)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 22, 2015, 04:07:50 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on August 21, 2015, 08:36:10 AM
I like to check the ECM records website for news, hoping they will develop a streaming service.  It looks like they are developing a new website, which encourages my speculation of a streaming service.  However, I read some sad news, of the recent passing of the great Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi.  He has been a regular member of Paul Motian's bands since 1997, and is a pianist well worth checking out.

Sad to hear. His latest recording is on my playlist.

(http://cf-images.emusic.com/music/images/album/158/692/15869274/600x600.jpg)

It's not so easy to listen to, because he murmers a lot while playing, but it's rewarding. Extraordinary stuff, great music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 22, 2015, 07:22:41 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on August 21, 2015, 09:32:26 PM
The Duke and Ella live on the French Riviera box. From the d'Antibes-Juan-les-Pins International Jazz Festival, 1966. Duke gets the lion's share, here, but everyone is swinging and the sound is delightfully good - Granz himself was at the recording helm.

Whoa! Is this a pretty essential box? I don't have much Ella.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 22, 2015, 08:52:41 AM
Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin'

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Robert on August 22, 2015, 10:07:52 AM
Marilyn Crispell

On Tour 1992

Santuerio
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 12:21:47 PM
Oy, Robert!

Kind of Blue quintet prior to their landmark recording:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61e0FUojC8L.jpg)

I believe you GOTTA LOVE Mile and the lads to grab this one as the sound is very problematic in places.  However, with the Evans, 'Trane, Adderly, Chambers, and Cobb line up, there is just not much out there. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Robert on August 22, 2015, 01:20:23 PM
Quote from: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 12:21:47 PM
Oy, Robert!

Kind of Blue quintet prior to their landmark recording:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61e0FUojC8L.jpg)

I believe you GOTTA LOVE Mile and the lads to grab this one as the sound is very problematic in places.  However, with the Evans, 'Trane, Adderly, Chambers, and Cobb line up, there is just not much out there.
Hi Bill
I have this disc.  I like this a lot.  The interaction is wonderful.  You have to remember that in the fifties there was not much live recording.  Cherish it for what it is.

Robert..
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 06:03:52 PM
Quote from: Robert on August 22, 2015, 01:20:23 PM
Hi Bill
I have this disc.  I like this a lot.  The interaction is wonderful.  You have to remember that in the fifties there was not much live recording.  Cherish it for what it is.

Robert..

Indeed I do.  I have some Miles on the shelf that sounds like it was recorded from a phone booth down the block from the club he was playing....and LOVE it!  However, I wanted others here to know what to expect upon a purchase.  And, always a better place here with you on board Robert.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 22, 2015, 06:24:58 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 22, 2015, 07:22:41 AM
Whoa! Is this a pretty essential box? I don't have much Ella.

Essential for sure. Ella is on...so on...and the sense of occasion is palpable - from everyone!. It's a seven-CD box with a bonus eighth disc of rehearsals. And well recorded since Granz was the man at the controls. Of course it's OOP which won't help those itching to own it. 

One thing that might help somewhat is there's a two-disc set of highlights from this festival/box, though unfortunately it only skims the surface. Link below.

Below that is the Amazon link for the box with samples.




[asin]B0000047FT[/asin]

[asin]B00000AFEM[/asin]

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 06:34:36 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on August 22, 2015, 06:24:58 PM
Essential for sure. Ella is on...so on...and the sense of occasion is palpable - from everyone!. It's a seven-CD box with a bonus eighth disc of rehearsals. And well recorded since Granz was the man at the controls. Of course it's OOP which won't help those itching to own it. 

One thing that might help somewhat is there's a two-disc set of highlights from this festival/box, though unfortunately it only skims the surface. Link below.

Below that is the Amazon link for the box with samples.




[asin]B0000047FT[/asin]

[asin]B00000AFEM[/asin]

Wow, would love to have the biggie here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on August 22, 2015, 06:35:29 PM
Quote from: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 12:21:47 PM
Oy, Robert!

Kind of Blue quintet prior to their landmark recording:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61e0FUojC8L.jpg)

I believe you GOTTA LOVE Mile and the lads to grab this one as the sound is very problematic in places.  However, with the Evans, 'Trane, Adderly, Chambers, and Cobb line up, there is just not much out there.

Potential caveats aside...wow, what great cover art! Never seen this before.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 22, 2015, 07:29:50 PM
Quote from: Bogey on August 22, 2015, 06:34:36 PM
Wow, would love to have the biggie here.

I got lucky and stumbled on it at a Barnes & Noble one day many years ago. Up till then I hadn't even known of its existence.

One thing that isn't visible is the innards of the box. Despite the esoteric "White Album" exterior the insides are all dolled up. The jewel cases themselves are custom done in four colors with stylish graphics etched in them.

And the booklet (book!) is all kinds of "wow". It has a very festive and lively look and layout with lots of interesting commentary and plenty of great pics. And lots of color.

All this plus great music!


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 23, 2015, 05:20:32 AM
Thanks!  I may look around for it a bit.  I'm guessing a reissue is not coming soon.

Thread duty:

Another live cd of Miles that I bought due to some Bill Evans tracks (5 to be exact) with Davis:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zOGY4hhbL.jpg)

The Evans tracks were recorded in '58 with
Davis
Coltrane
Chambers
and Philly Joe Jones

This disc moved up into a a semi-nut price, but I was wondering if these recordings have been reissued on another set.  Between  Davis and Coltrane, one could spend a pretty penny on just their live recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 23, 2015, 05:41:33 AM
More wonderful art for you here, Bruce and one of my favorite cds from my jazz collection:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81W6ZNExTTL._SX522_.jpg)

The songs are from a number of performances.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on August 23, 2015, 08:03:22 PM
Quote from: Bogey on August 23, 2015, 05:41:33 AM
More wonderful art for you here, Bruce and one of my favorite cds from my jazz collection:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81W6ZNExTTL._SX522_.jpg)

The songs are from a number of performances.

Oh my goodness, yes. Believe it or not, I don't recall ever seeing this cover, either! (PS, first thing I thought of: could also be cover art for Poulenc's La voix humaine, his one-act, one-character opera about the woman who breaks up with her lover and strangles herself with the telephone cord.)

These old covers - I guess, for Verve, especially - are just great.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 24, 2015, 12:54:36 AM
I like those covers a lot. I only have one of them -

(http://i.imgur.com/J2dmPtK.jpg)

If anyone is unaware of it, this site has some further (and great) examples of David Stone Martin's work: http://www.birkajazz.com/archive/stonemartin.htm


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on August 25, 2015, 10:34:46 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/ciqI9PXmZWU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on August 28, 2015, 09:02:50 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/1fC0dKHrqSM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on August 30, 2015, 10:55:23 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KB5K0E13L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SKYIO on August 30, 2015, 11:02:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedVpRzF900
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on August 30, 2015, 12:55:41 PM
Scott Henderson: Vibe Station (2015)

By GLENN ASTARITA (allaboutjazz.com)

Guitarist Scott Henderson is one of a select few artists who raised jazz fusion from the embers in the 80s, namely with the band, Tribal Tech. Indeed, this unit proffered a much needed uplift via a far-reaching perspective and armed with a torrential improvisational credo on numerous fronts. Since then, the guitarist has performed with other high-flying units but as a solo artist, he often kicks out the jazz rock, fusion and blues rock jams within the power trio format. Henderson's searing wizardry is vividly perceptible on Vibe Station, as he often converses with himself by modulating distortion-based tones on his electric guitar and by creating a polychromatic aural feast with variable currents and intensity levels.

Henderson wreaks havoc on his guitar amid howling bottleneck notes, multihued chord voicings and ungodly hype-mode licks atop the rhythm section's slamming grooves and agile progressions. He often harmonizes with bassist Travis Carlton and during a variety of movements the trio summons an Armageddon with supple and heightening choruses within the prog-metal domain.

The title track "Vibe Station," is centered on jazz and funk motifs, countered by the leader's gravelly phrasings, blazing runs and shock-therapy type cadenzas. Henderson uses an electric sitar or perhaps some electronics-based sampling process on the humming and buzzing jazz fusion fest "Manic Carpet," abetted by his fervent call and response dialogue with drummer Alan Hertz during the bridge. And the jazz influences resurface with a Thelonious Monk-like primary theme and prickly bop lines on "The Covered Head," as the band surges into a lofty and tempestuous improv segment, revved up by Henderson's caustic shadings, weeping breakouts and supersonic single note riffs.

"Dew Wot?" is another piece where the tide shifts and momentum builds upon a twirling and shuffling cadence, seguing into a hot n' nasty blues rock foray, contrasted with knotty time signatures, used as a passageway into an interminable abyss. Ultimately, Vibe Station should be deemed essential listening for Henderson's legion of admirers, along with curious students and others not thoroughly acquainted with his formidable legacy.

Track Listing: Church of Xotic Dance; Sphinx; Vibe Station; Manic Carpet; Calhoun; The Covered Head; Festival of Ghosts; Dew Wot?; Chelsea Bridge.

Personnel: Scott Henderson: guitar; Travis Carlton: bass; Alan Hertz: drums.

Record Label: Self Produced


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 31, 2015, 11:27:32 AM
"Hackensack"

[asin]B0000AVHBS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 02, 2015, 01:15:58 PM
Not just swing, but daringly original musicianship along with impressive compositional chops and exquisite taste. Shaw knew when to make his presence felt but also when to lay back for others to shine. It's all about the quality of the piece, not hotdogging.

The recordings are mostly live to catch the appropriate fire.




[asin]B00005PJBJ[/asin]   
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on September 03, 2015, 11:39:15 AM
Disc 2.
[asin]B00005UVPE[/asin]

BTW Somebody know why you need to put some character above an Asin picture?

I try to get my album cover pics somewhere else on the internet than Amazon, but can't find a good alternative. When I copy a picturelink on Amazon, this first time it goes wrong, I need to copy twice, pretty annoying.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 03, 2015, 11:48:15 AM
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure, with Dolphy, Davis, etc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 03, 2015, 12:43:55 PM
Yes, his Sixties work was outstanding, as is Nefertiti and his Arista/Freedom album, Spiral.  I've never seen him live - would have loved to in the Sixties, but was still living in England then, and I don't think he toured the UK?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 03, 2015, 01:49:30 PM
(http://eil.com/images/main/Bill-Evans-Interplay-417169.jpg)

Last night, enjoyed this recent acquisition. My girlfriend, who usually doesn't enjoy jazz, actually enjoyed it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 03, 2015, 02:13:27 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on September 03, 2015, 12:53:09 PM
Actually, according to the obituary in The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/apr/23/guardianobituaries.obituaries2) he did :

In 1990 Hill came to Britain ...

I was speaking of the Sixties, when I was still in Manchester.  I left for America 12 years before 1990.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 03, 2015, 05:25:40 PM
^ cool album - I read the review in Guitar Player about that record and got it within a couple of days and was very pleased - although I think it is two times as good - at least - as anything else he's done ......  it's his "hit"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 03, 2015, 10:46:23 PM
In my Solitude by Branford Marsalis.

I am really enjoying these solo sax performances recorded in San Francisco's beautiful (and beautiful sounding) Grace Cathedral. The acoustic is wonderful, but not overly reverberent. Unfortunately it was a live recording, but this is not too annoying--just that the theme of solitude would have worked better in an empty venue and without applause intruding between each piece (And I could have done without an idiot audience member's watch beeping at one point).

MAI is a piece that apparently was written for shakuhachi  (of which I am a huge fan) or written to mimic shakuhachi effects on the soprano saxophone (he mostly plays tenor on this disc). It is an amazing performance in any case.

Most of the pieces are contempletive and slow, but so far MAI takes the cake on this disc.

I used to play alto in high school, and this disc makes me want to pick it up again. (If I played, there would be no problem with applause  :laugh: )

(http://www.marsalismusic.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/cover/release/image/feature/inmysolitude_cover.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 04, 2015, 01:26:39 AM
a couple of oldies but goodies before heading off to the college:

(http://s18.postimg.org/ijwllogzt/sor_chck.jpg)

Makes good 5 a.m. music.  They had to be a little stoned, tho'.

(http://s23.postimg.org/7bytciuah/backs.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 04, 2015, 06:48:40 AM
Not on par with the 'Time' series, but an enjoyable listen nonetheless.


[asin]B00GXEXZWW[/asin]


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on September 04, 2015, 10:41:11 AM
Quote from: NikF on September 04, 2015, 06:48:40 AM
Not on par with the 'Time' series, but an enjoyable listen nonetheless.


[asin]B00GXEXZWW[/asin]

Fantastic album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on September 07, 2015, 12:13:05 AM
(http://cf-images.emusic.com/music/images/album/156/918/15691861/600x600.jpg)

This really is a great recording. Try it. Released this year. Calm stuff, but totally not boring.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 07, 2015, 05:33:03 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on September 03, 2015, 05:39:51 PM
The version of "Cafe" that's on it is the best he's done, I think.  But I also like Magico and Folk Songs.  I am a fan, I've got 35 of his recordings.

+1 Love Gismonti's music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 10, 2015, 03:52:58 AM
I don't often provide music for listening to at work, but this morning I brought along this.

[asin]B00000IL28[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 11, 2015, 09:18:37 PM
Saxophonist John Ellis and his talented band of sidemen, each of whom could be the frontman.



[asin]B000065TM3[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 12, 2015, 04:49:06 PM
Artie Shaw and his Gramercy 5: Six Star Treats.

[asin]B001ASJ3R2[/asin]

For years I enjoyed some of the Gramercy 5 stuff, but after watching a documentary about Shaw shown via the BBC (about ten years ago?) I heard their version of 'Don't Take Your Love From Me' for the first time. As a result I bought this box set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 13, 2015, 03:13:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hBcF7nJcL._SS280.jpg)

Ahmad Jamal - Chamber Music Of The New Jazz (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on September 14, 2015, 10:19:20 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512gq7PY2UL._SS280.jpg)

mp3 album available here (http://www.amazon.com/Paintings-Jazz-Orchestra-Harvey-Aardvark/dp/B001V9ZYS2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1442254684&sr=1-1&keywords=paintings+for+jazz+orchestra).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: escher on September 14, 2015, 01:13:44 PM
Quote from: NikF on September 12, 2015, 04:49:06 PM
Artie Shaw and his Gramercy 5: Six Star Treats.

[asin]B001ASJ3R2[/asin]

For years I enjoyed some of the Gramercy 5 stuff, but after watching a documentary about Shaw shown via the BBC (about ten years ago?) I heard their version of 'Don't Take Your Love From Me' for the first time. As a result I bought this box set.

great stuff. I remember especially a great version of Yesterdays.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on September 15, 2015, 06:09:38 AM
Richard Nelson (composer/arranger, and guitarist) & The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NyUdp-VnL._SS280.jpg)

mp3 album available at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014JXH6HI/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 18, 2015, 07:07:51 AM
Here's what I'm bringing on my weekend road trip:

- Night at Birdland, Vols. 1* & 2* - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- The Hawk Relaxes* - Coleman Hawkins & Co.
- The Hawk Flies High* - Hawkins, J.J., Hank Jones, etc.
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball & Co.
- Preservation Hall Hot Four with Duke Dejan
- Masterpieces by Ellington* - Duke Ellington Orch.
- Lionel Hampton and the Golden Men of Jazz (Telarc '80s)
- The Great Paris Concerts* - Duke Ellington Orch.

*never heard these before
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 18, 2015, 07:42:29 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on September 18, 2015, 07:19:03 AM
I haven't heard the Preservation Hall Hot Four, I assume they play trad Nola jazz, which is usually enjoyable.
You assume correctly. Here's a track from the album on YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdB1bwA9hLU) Duke Dejan is the fellow singing. Recorded when he was 88 years old!

Thanks for the list. I am of course fairly new to jazz (abt. 2 years, which I guess isn't "new," but compared to classical...), so it's all still a lot of exploring what's to my taste and what isn't.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 18, 2015, 10:30:29 AM
Oops, forgot one! Looks like I also have Eldar Djangirov: Live at the Blue Note, with Roy Hargrove, Marco Panascia (b), and Todd Strait (d).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 18, 2015, 04:08:25 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511R9gw2xdL._SS280.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71d2o4KUjXL._SX280_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 22, 2015, 12:15:27 AM
last night:

[asin]B0125PLWOA[/asin]
[asin]B00YB9BLZY[/asin]


earlier this morning:

[asin]B000P6R8JU[/asin]


right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS4xIinMr80#t=274
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 22, 2015, 06:39:58 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/947/MI0001947745.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 25, 2015, 07:10:23 AM
Quote from: James on September 25, 2015, 06:53:57 AM
(http://eil.com/images/main/Jimmy-Smith-Off-The-Top-301674.jpg)
Whoa. I haven't heard anything by Jimmy Smith or Stanley Turrentine yet, but George Benson, Ron Carter, and Grady Tate...what a lineup.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 25, 2015, 07:11:17 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on September 21, 2015, 08:08:34 AM
New on MusicaKaleidoskopea

(https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cropped-mk2.png)

EBERHARD WEBER AT 75 (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/eberhard-weber-at-75/)

This past January marked Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday.  His recordings for ECM in the early 1970s were in large part responsible for defining the ECM sound and Euro-Jazz in general.  His style bridged jazz, classical, minimalism, chamber jazz and included some ambient elements.  He regularly recorded with other ECM artists such Gary Burton (Ring, 1974; Passengers, 1976), Ralph Towner (Solstice, 1975; Solstice/Sound and Shadows, 1977), Pat Metheny (Watercolors, 1977), and Jan Garbarek (10 recordings between 1978 and 1998).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Eberhard_Weber.jpg/220px-Eberhard_Weber.jpg)

Thanks for this post, David. I have to say my favorite recording that Weber has appeared on was Ralph Towner's seminal masterpiece Solstice. It just wouldn't have been the same without him filling out the low end.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on September 26, 2015, 11:57:20 AM
~
[asin]B000F9TCNW[/asin]

Excellent pianist, released a new recording this year as well. This one is from 2006.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 27, 2015, 12:15:16 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B52HM65NL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 02, 2015, 03:08:38 AM
Love "The Cats" and "Castles of Ghana"!

Here, stuff bought while in Paris in the past couple of days:

[asin]B0155EKJGK[/asin]
[asin]B005ZTDWR4[/asin]
[asin]B00G6T4MBM[/asin]
[asin]B00CAMIX82[/asin]
The second has Géraldine Laurent again as the sole horn ... her own new disc seems to only be released in two weeks, guess what I bought was a review copy that made its way to Gibert (the best place I know to buy jazz ... and the upper floor of the new jazz/classical store looked pretty great as far as classical is concerned, but I didn't want to spend the entire two and a half days in there).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 02, 2015, 06:59:21 AM
a gift I just got:

[asin]B00JSR5B8C[/asin]
very nice indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 02, 2015, 08:28:39 AM
'nother new one, glad I finally found it:

[asin]B000CSUMB2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 03, 2015, 06:52:44 AM
Great music for cleaning the house, packing a bag, and knocking out stuff on the to-do list:

[asin]B0000062F9[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 07, 2015, 03:22:49 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5104SrVC4JL._SX300_.jpg)

Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 08, 2015, 01:56:39 PM
Tethered Moon:

[asin]B00000DC32[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 12, 2015, 10:36:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BHs1do4UL._SL300_.jpg)

Miles Davis - Big Fun
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 12, 2015, 11:51:17 PM
lately, amongst others:

[asin]B00000DC32[/asin]
[asin]B003KZZ4TE[/asin]
[asin]B0046EDAPS[/asin]
[asin]B00004U04T[/asin]
[asin]B000003N6L[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 13, 2015, 05:01:10 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71wNAvc2U2L._SX300_.jpg)

Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 13, 2015, 11:24:48 PM
Not really familiar with Kikuchi at all so far ... only know this and the great one on ECM (Paul Motian's final recording, I think). Got to look for more!

Last night, I gave a second listen to this new release of a fantastic solo concert by Sal Mosca 1992:

[asin]B00VNVXGNI[/asin]
Highly recommended!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 15, 2015, 03:18:19 AM
Johnny Hodges Septet: Blues A-Plenty.

[asin]B007U8TEZW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 15, 2015, 06:56:58 AM
Quote from: NikF on October 15, 2015, 03:18:19 AM
Johnny Hodges Septet: Blues A-Plenty.

[asin]B007U8TEZW[/asin]
Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, Strayhorn, Woodyard...well this looks really cool. is it as good as it sounds?

Also literally, because that's a nice album cover.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 15, 2015, 07:21:15 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 15, 2015, 06:56:58 AM
Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, Strayhorn, Woodyard...well this looks really cool. is it as good as it sounds?

Also literally, because that's a nice album cover.

Yeah, what a line up... It's certainly undemanding music (although it bears close listening) and hardly groundbreaking. However, if you enjoy Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, et al during the late fifties (and with the addition of such as Jo Jones and Ray Brown on the bonus tracks) then there's every chance you'll slip into enjoying how simply cool it all is.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: jochanaan on October 15, 2015, 04:36:06 PM
Miles Davis, Jean-Pierre, live @ Montreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-ynijVAcA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-ynijVAcA) 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 15, 2015, 06:28:17 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41bG1mIZm5L._SS280.jpg)

Carmen McRae Sings Monk (lyrics by Jon Hendricks a.o.)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 16, 2015, 06:12:12 AM
Big fan of those Verve recordings by Hodges, Webster, Edison etc. - the official reissue including the Hodges album (even with two alternate takes that, alas Mosaic were unaware of when they released their 1956-61 Hodges box) is this here: http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Webster-J-Hodges-Sweets-Edison/dp/B000001EEQ/
It contains a wonderful album by Webster (with Harold Ashby on second tenor), the Hodges one and Harry Edison's "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You". Webster is the common link. "Sweets", also by Edison, obviously, is another wonderful album with Ben and Sweets on Verve.

Now playing:

[asin]B00S1MJZKK[/asin]
Lou Donaldson - Here 'tis (Blue Note, 1961) - definitely one of my top organ jazz albums, thanks to Baby Face Willette and Grant Green (less so to Poppa Lou, whose recordings I enjoy but usually don't estimate *that* highly). Just got the SHM CD (now OOP it seems) from Japan, which contains a previously unissued ten minute blues.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 16, 2015, 06:43:50 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 16, 2015, 06:12:12 AM
Big fan of those Verve recordings by Hodges, Webster, Edison etc. - the official reissue including the Hodges album (even with two alternate takes that, alas Mosaic were unaware of when they released their 1956-61 Hodges box) is this here: http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Webster-J-Hodges-Sweets-Edison/dp/B000001EEQ/
It contains a wonderful album by Webster (with Harold Ashby on second tenor), the Hodges one and Harry Edison's "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You". Webster is the common link. "Sweets", also by Edison, obviously, is another wonderful album with Ben and Sweets on Verve.

Now playing:

[asin]B00S1MJZKK[/asin]
Lou Donaldson - Here 'tis (Blue Note, 1961) - definitely one of my top organ jazz albums, thanks to Baby Face Willette and Grant Green (less so to Poppa Lou, whose recordings I enjoy but usually don't estimate *that* highly). Just got the SHM CD (now OOP it seems) from Japan, which contains a previously uniss

Was unaware of the first one. But both look interesting. Thanks, man.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 17, 2015, 03:28:54 AM
just gave a first spin to this:

[asin]B00WFKXPKK[/asin]
wonderful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on October 17, 2015, 08:04:29 PM
Nice album, but nothing groundbreaking. Just come comfortable trio playing.

[asin]B000007TFI[/asin]

The first part is pretty good. The second is so so.

[asin]B00005L8ZJ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 17, 2015, 09:08:05 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G6RvvK7vL._SX300_.jpg)

Evan Parker - The Snake Decides
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 18, 2015, 07:23:03 PM
I listened to a lot of jazz on this weekend's road trip, by the likes of Monk (Live at the Jazz Workshop), Davis, Harry "Sweets" Edison, etc.

But one really great experience was my 2nd and 3rd listens to this masterpiece:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/627/MI0001627484.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Of course, you've probably all heard it many more times than I. But listening to it once Friday and once Sunday really brought some interesting ideas to my mind. This is Mal Waldron sounding a lot like Mingus, isn't it? The direct, heated emotion; the penchant for dissonance; the complex compositions with clear classical influences. Cello, like on Tijuana Moods. And of course the saxophones of Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin, who also feature on Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. Dolphy here seems tamer than usual, or is it just me?

This album reminds me of another musical figure. Schumann. Maybe Mal Waldron did not have a Florestan and Eusebius, but a very similar dynamic is at work here, isn't it?

One more though. "Warm Canto" is, of course, remarkable even in the context of this remarkable album. Dolphy on clarinet is a rare and beautiful thing. And the melody is strikingly beautiful - but for all its beauty and strikingness, it's hard to figure out exactly what the melody means. It suggests a number of different emotions. It's Brahmsian in that way. My favorite part of the song, though, now, may be the big "pause," after all the improvised sections are over, but before Dolphy returns with the main theme, when Ron Carter and the rhythm section play the simple unadorned bass line several times over. No melody, no improvising, no adornment, just the bass line. Not many songs do that. I can't think of any others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 18, 2015, 10:29:08 PM
Love "The Quest"! Love Dolphy!

Last night:

[asin]B000007Y6B[/asin]
Deeply fascinating stuff ... the Beckett strain of ECM Records, that was first fully developed on Paul Bley's album "Ballads". Standstill music that is over at the moment it starts.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 19, 2015, 10:31:04 AM
before:
[asin]B001BOX2XQ[/asin]
now:

[asin]B0000026KN[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 20, 2015, 01:13:49 PM
last night also this one, and more of "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway":

[asin]B00005A7CY[/asin]

tonight:

Two of Allen Lowe's new discs - intriguing stuff as always: "Where a Cigarette Is Smoked by Ten Men" (featuring an amazing clarinet player by name of Zoe Christiansen) and "Man with Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson?" (featuring among others Gary Bartz and DJ Logic).

In between the two, my latest disc by Barney Wilen:

[asin]B00009SEP1[/asin]

And now, to cap things off, the new one by nonagenarian Bob Dorough:

[asin]B00TNOZ3J2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2015, 10:04:08 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HJ5Y5D5WL.jpg)

Sun Ra - Atlantis (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 22, 2015, 11:58:48 AM
first listen - only bought this a few weeks ago, but I love Stéphan Oliva's music:

[asin]B0013A0EHK[/asin]
an "tribute to harlem piano stride", as it says on the back of the cover, with François Raulin and Stéphan Oliva on pianos, Laurent Dehors on clarinets (b-flat, bass and contrabass), Christophe Monniot on saxophones (sopranino, alto and baritone) and Sébastien Boisseau on bass - the programme includes pieces by James P. Johnson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and W. C. Handy
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 22, 2015, 12:45:10 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 19, 2015, 10:31:04 AM
before:
[asin]B001BOX2XQ[/asin]

Great recording.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 22, 2015, 01:29:11 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q8nhAwEAL._SX300_.jpg)

Gary Burton et al - Like Minds (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 22, 2015, 11:07:36 PM
Quote from: Henk on October 22, 2015, 12:45:10 PM
Great recording.
Yep! My favorite from Holland's will likely remain "Jumpin' In", because of the great mix there with Julian Priester, Kenny Wheeler and Steve Coleman - and the intriguing drumming of Steve Ellington's - those quintet albums are terrific! But this one and the trio album with Coleman are both very good, too. And the duo of Coleman's with Holland on DIW is wonderful, too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 23, 2015, 04:14:45 AM
now playing, for the first time (I've known the actual album for a while):

[asin]B00ZJ5QXDO[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 23, 2015, 11:38:13 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 22, 2015, 11:07:36 PM
Yep! My favorite from Holland's will likely remain "Jumpin' In", because of the great mix there with Julian Priester, Kenny Wheeler and Steve Coleman - and the intriguing drumming of Steve Ellington's - those quintet albums are terrific! But this one and the trio album with Coleman are both very good, too. And the duo of Coleman's with Holland on DIW is wonderful, too!

Thanks! Downloaded "Jumpin' In". :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 23, 2015, 02:20:33 PM
afternoon and evening listening:

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this is an unauthorized release, I've had most of the music digitally, but not the unedited versions of the tunes actually released on "Our Man in Jazz" - Rollins top form, amazing music!

and now, just about to wrap up my first listen to this:

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"sephardic exotica for young moderns" - love this group!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 23, 2015, 04:16:43 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 22, 2015, 01:29:11 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q8nhAwEAL._SX300_.jpg)

Gary Burton et al - Like Minds (1998)

Great album and seriously undervalued I think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 23, 2015, 06:46:38 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 23, 2015, 04:16:43 PM
Great album and seriously undervalued I think.

Yes indeed. I've loved everything I've heard of the Burton / Corea partnership in whatever setting or group.

Unfortunately the Burton album I was playing earlier today was far, far less interesting:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81jHFlvDRiL._SX300_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 24, 2015, 08:27:02 AM
first spin of a new arrival:

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alas, they picked a drummer that doesn't match (Cindy Blackman) with her boring (though virtuosos, I guess) rock style ... but good to see Kendrick is still around, his 90s album left room for hope (that here might be an individual voice in the process of taking shape ... guess the new one still gives the same promise, no idea if he'll ever really get there)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 24, 2015, 05:03:59 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 23, 2015, 04:14:45 AM
now playing, for the first time (I've known the actual album for a while):

[asin]B00ZJ5QXDO[/asin]
Worth buying this? I love the actual album, and have heard good things about this new reissue. Are the missing tracks worth it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 25, 2015, 10:04:00 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 24, 2015, 05:03:59 PM
Worth buying this? I love the actual album, and have heard good things about this new reissue. Are the missing tracks worth it?
In my opinion it definitely is! Over in Europe it can be had new for as little as 10€ anyway, so not much consideration needed ... but yeah: it does contain the entire concert on the first two discs (and on disc three the LP version again, duplicating about half the tracks, and then adding an interview which I've not listened to yet), and as Garner was a fabulous live performer and really aware of how to pace a show, it's great to have all of it, just as he conceived it (admittedly, the LP edit did very good, but it's still not the whole picture).

Today, so far ("Music Man" from the Mosaic box):

[asin]B00C2WF7NY[/asin]
[asin]B002XVZ1M6[/asin]
[asin]B004MAM00M[/asin]
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/909/MI0001909709.jpg)

(the "Konitz Meets Giuffre" and "Pice for Clarinet and Orchestra/Mobiles" albums from the later)

And right now:

[asin]B00K3Q0TNY[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 25, 2015, 02:51:52 PM
some more amazing music by Giuffre to end the day:

[asin]B00015T1QS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 26, 2015, 01:47:44 PM
(http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/0/image/500x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_236192_3_1_3_5_8_6_6_10_1_152176.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 28, 2015, 06:14:38 AM
Roy Eldridge from this box.  1950 recording.  I love this 1940s Pre-bop super-bluesy sound. 

[asin]B0087PI57K[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 29, 2015, 10:06:54 PM
Never heard of Martial Solal.  Have now.  Man-crush :-*

[asin]B00000JA92[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 29, 2015, 10:20:35 PM
Lee Konitz. My moribund love of jazz has sprung back to life. Merci Beaucoups, Disques Vogue!

[asin]B00L9EL9HE[/asin]

  As per the others, from this box:

[asin]B0087PI57K[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 30, 2015, 03:14:05 AM
Busted out this old fave.

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  Playing this reminds me why I didn't used to like classical music.  I'm listening to the second track, "The Eternal Triangle."  It's as raw and spontaneous as a bar-room brawl.  Really thrilling. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 30, 2015, 03:39:31 AM
First listen.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on October 30, 2015, 05:24:24 AM
Getting kinda lonely over here :(

[asin]B0000062F9[/asin]

Well, Monk's cheering me up ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 31, 2015, 08:00:42 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81O8b%2BOf0AL._SX300_.jpg)

David Torn - Cloud About Mercury

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GTuM786nL._SY300_.jpg)]

Jimmy Raney - Wisteria

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VCWC9BQML._QL70_.jpg)

Bobby Watson - Love Remains
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2015, 03:15:25 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on October 28, 2015, 06:14:38 AM
Roy Eldridge from this box.  1950 recording.  I love this 1940s Pre-bop super-bluesy sound. 

[asin]B0087PI57K[/asin]

Solal is terrific! Looking for his many fine albums can keep you busy for some years (and make you poorer - lots are OOP).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2015, 12:53:18 PM
.
[asin]B000P289EW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 01, 2015, 05:46:27 PM
Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

(http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/AJAZ_15__16898__01152009113829-6561.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 02, 2015, 05:21:12 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 01, 2015, 05:46:27 PM
Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

(http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/AJAZ_15__16898__01152009113829-6561.jpg)

  Great choice!! 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 02, 2015, 05:29:05 AM
This has been in heavy rotation for me this week

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 02, 2015, 06:21:40 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 01, 2015, 05:46:27 PM
Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

(http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/AJAZ_15__16898__01152009113829-6561.jpg)
If you watch the 2015 German movie "Phoenix," it's not a great movie, but it is a good one, and you will never hear the song "Speak Low" again without thinking about the movie. The way "Speak Low" is used in the final scene...however uneven the rest of the film is, that is utterly unforgettable.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 02, 2015, 01:44:18 PM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 02, 2015, 05:21:12 AM
  Great choice!!

Definitely. At Ease with Coleman Hawkins and Today and Now are two other albums of his that I rate highly.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 02, 2015, 06:33:28 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NCpU5EbSL._SX300_.jpg)

Kenny Wheeler - Song For Someone

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31C5G615E1L._QL70_.jpg)

Bill Connors - Swimming With A Hole In My Body
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 03, 2015, 11:48:14 AM
That Kenny Wheeler disc is good!

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[asin]B00NY4TW76[/asin]
And Alexandra Grimal is good, too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 03, 2015, 12:27:13 PM
another one ... quite a band, but Grimal holds her own:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 03, 2015, 04:18:48 PM
Lionel Hampton from

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 05, 2015, 01:35:59 PM
Motian again:

[asin]B000024YZD[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 05, 2015, 11:54:20 PM
heard him live and had a short but pretty deep talk with Roy Campbell a few years ago after he played in duo with Joëlle Léandre at the now defunct Sept Lézards in Paris ... one of my fondest jazz memories, for sure ... so it seems right to finally have this disc in the player (it was released this year, but several months back):

[asin]B00PV5OQ4K[/asin]

Oliver Lake is probably the one US jazz musician I've heard most often (with Trio 3, Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer, with a great local rhythm section, with those two guys and Nils Wogram, with a tough NY trio behind him where he didn't play the flute, tellingly - and unfortunately ...) - William Parker I'm ambivalent about ... he is on some discs I enjoy greatly, but I'm not too big on either his playing nor his own bands/projects, but I keep listening, and here, he fits in very well (and of course he and Roy Campbell went back quite some).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 06, 2015, 12:50:48 AM
saw the duo live, but they sempt tired ... took them half an hour to get into full gear, and a quarter of an hour later, their set was through ... nice to hear them in great form here:

[asin]B00UCOUCUM[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 06, 2015, 04:07:22 AM
before:

[asin]B00VJ28294[/asin]

now:

[asin]B0106WM6KS[/asin]

next up (fifth and last of my Intakt catch-up, all 2015 releases, all duos):

[asin]B011AMSODG[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on November 06, 2015, 04:22:03 AM
Jon Ballantyne Trio : Sky Dance

I saw Ballantyne, solo, last summer in Rochester and was singularly impressed.  This recording, done in his comparative youth, 1988, no less so.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 06, 2015, 08:22:50 AM
their second one in the series:

[asin]B00VUVDJJW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 07, 2015, 09:05:27 AM
Love this stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xflrp4yM2o8
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 08, 2015, 02:56:28 PM
(http://img05.shop-pro.jp/PA01017/643/product/62992466.jpg)

Lester Young - Pres On Keynote
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 08, 2015, 10:24:16 PM
Listened to this album today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61UTSNr1uNL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mm6RclVSL._SL1096_.jpg)

Very good!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 08, 2015, 11:47:44 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h83tk8SIL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81sBdND9DpL._SL1167_.jpg)

:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 10, 2015, 01:05:57 AM
clifford brown, on Vogue.  This isn't the cover, but best I could find (without much trouble)

[asin]B004GIJ5NA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 10, 2015, 03:28:37 AM
Never heard of Jimmy Raney til I got this box.  Good, but the low key back up band is wicked good, too.

[asin]B000003EKD[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 11, 2015, 10:27:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/9XlJvWORC9U

(A Christmas tune?  Who knew!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 11, 2015, 11:26:07 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81SLlYoASFL._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2015, 01:30:20 PM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 10, 2015, 03:28:37 AM
Never heard of Jimmy Raney til I got this box.  Good, but the low key back up band is wicked good, too.

[asin]B000003EKD[/asin]

Raney worked with one of Stan Getz' finest ever bands ... amazing live recordings from the Storyville and some studio cuts, too. Blue Note pulled together the complete Roost Sessions by Getz on a terrific 3CD set that is OOP but if you ever get the chance, don't hesitate! It opens with quartet studio dates with Al Haig and Horace Silver, then goes on for more than an entire disc with that live material (Al Hagi again on piano), then goes on with some more studio dates with either Raney or Johnny Smith on guitar, and ends with three cuts that have Getz sitting in with the Basie orchestra.

The Getz/Raney unit produced another album, "Stan Getz Plays" on Verve. That one should be easier to find. If you're inclined to get lotsa Getz, it's also part of the Hip-O-Select 3CD set "Quintets: The Clef and Norgan Studio Albums", which pulls together all the music Getz made with Bob Brookmeyer in his band, "Plays", and a short session (2 tracks) with the wonderful Tony Fruscella who joined as Brookmeyer's replacement.

EDIT: you might also consider Raney's own "A" (originally on Prestige, official reissue again OOP, I'm afraid).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 11, 2015, 03:46:42 PM
Thanks, Ubu!  I have a jazz collector colleague who is a compulsive collector.  I'll try to remember to ask him about it when I next talk to him about music.
   Meanwhile, I have my new Monk Live 10 CD box 8)

TD: Miles Davis disc from this:

[asin]B001G8P3KC[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2015, 08:59:51 PM
San Francisco Jazz Collective. Consistently outstanding jazz, absolutely some of the finest of today.



(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81wq5%2BlxJRL._SL1500_.jpg)


[asin]B00OGTYFJI[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2015, 10:10:43 PM
sad morning listening, in memory of a giant:

[asin]B001PSQGQI[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 11, 2015, 10:42:46 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O8-HFNeDL.jpg)

Very good - a real box of delights
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 12, 2015, 08:13:06 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 11, 2015, 10:42:46 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O8-HFNeDL.jpg)

Very good - a real box of delights

Indeed!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 12, 2015, 09:10:49 AM
Billie Holiday is the best, of course!  8)

[asin]B00004VXG2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 12, 2015, 11:14:32 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gGyMeRCfL.jpg)

some heavy sh*t!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 12, 2015, 02:59:47 PM
Never heard of him.  He sure put together an all-star band, however.
[asin]B00000JABH[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 12, 2015, 10:52:21 PM
Renaud is an okay piano player at best, but he enabled some mighty fine music! Renaud had travelled to NYC in 1953 and produced several fine dates, usually taking care of the piano himself, with the likes of Al Cohn, J.J. Johnson, Oscar Pettiford, Tal Farlow ... Fantasy had two volumes of "Birdlanders" discs out with the material, which once triggered a short discussion over at the Organissimo forum - you'll find some more information there, though it's hard to read:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/62206-the-birdlanders/

Playing now, discs 4 & 5 of:

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"sprezzatura" is the keyword Ted Gioia uses in his book "West Coast Jazz" to describe Rogers, and I guess there's no better ... not a fan of his in respect of having to own all his albums (he simply made too many), but this JSP five disc set compiling the early tracks (arrangements for Herman, Kenton etc.) and his own leader dates up to 1954 is outstanding! (There's also a Fresh Sound 3CD set with, I think, some overlap, don't have it, but Jordi Pujol from Fresh Sound, no matter what odd PD reissues he does in between, really knows his way around  Californian jazz)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 01:34:03 AM
listening to a couple of nice Jazz albums tonight:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Omr6-fIaL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NSXfI7VVL.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ahROzpPRL._SL1119_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Pad5qrAnL._SL1056_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:20:17 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 12, 2015, 10:52:21 PM
Renaud is an okay piano player at best, but he enabled some mighty fine music!

  Yeah, he was the weak link in his own band! (at least on this disc) Kind of ridiculous. The other musicians are clearly superior, but it feels like the spark is missing--they never quite step it up (except maybe in the first track, where Lionel Hampton really cooks).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
Finally got into my new Monk box (ten discs live).  The discs are in cool looking, relatively solid gatefold sleeves.  Unfortunately, they are in so tight I actually ripped the first one I tried to extract >:( :'(
Still, happily listening now 8)
[asin]B00IU5AH3W[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 13, 2015, 05:25:46 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
Finally got into my new Monk box (ten discs live).  The discs are in cool looking, relatively solid gatefold sleeves.  Unfortunately, they are in so tight I actually ripped the first one I tried to extract >:( :'(
Still, happily listening now 8)

[asin]B00IU5AH3W[/asin]

That is a fabulous album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 02:55:11 PM
Feeling a bit Jazzy lately I guess :):

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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71T8O60JjiL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NSXfI7VVL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 13, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 02:55:11 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71T8O60JjiL._SL1500_.jpg)

My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 04:00:45 PM
Quote from: Brian on November 13, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.

Yes its a very good album - I hadn't really paid much attention to it before.
Just playing it again now for a back to back listen :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 04:02:25 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 02:55:11 PM
Feeling a bit Jazzy lately I guess :):

Looks like you have good material to indulge that feeling :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 04:36:55 PM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 04:02:25 PM
Looks like you have good material to indulge that feeling :)

Thanks  Mookalafalas - I don't own much Jazz but im pretty pleased with the selections from the box-sets I bought the last few years.
I was really happy to see yourself and some of the other guys interested in the Disques Vogues box too - some great stuff in this one :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 07:40:06 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 04:36:55 PM
Thanks  Mookalafalas - I don't own much Jazz but im pretty pleased with the selections from the box-sets I bought the last few years.
I was really happy to see yourself and some of the other guys interested in the Disques Vogues box too - some great stuff in this one :)

Yeah, I just got that a week or two back, and so far I'm delighted with it. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 13, 2015, 08:18:48 PM
Quote from: Brian on November 13, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.

Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia gets my vote, fwiw (and Calcutta Blues imo his single finest moment). May even play it again later.

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But right now:

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Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 10:27:25 PM
Afternoon listening:

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One of the best albums from the Blue Note box I think :)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 14, 2015, 08:03:04 AM
Not sure which Brubeck album I'd pick if I needed to ... love "Jazz Impressions of Japan" very much, from the Columbia years (and many others), but ultimately, I think I'd go with some of the early Fantasy quartet material (mostly live recordings).

Before, disc 3 from this:

[asin]B00WNII7YS[/asin]
That 1973 band was effin' powerful!

Now playing:

[asin]B00WTNT30O[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 14, 2015, 03:01:45 PM
Good morning :) - current listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L06CaghsL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/812YyIoFtKL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 14, 2015, 04:38:15 PM
.[asin]B00R244CSI[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 14, 2015, 09:51:43 PM
Had such a lazy day - just relaxing and listening to some Jazz :)
Currently playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ni3MPbs0L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71i4LRAf36L._SL1058_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 15, 2015, 03:45:06 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on November 13, 2015, 05:25:46 AM
That is a fabulous album.
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
Finally got into my new Monk box (ten discs live).  The discs are in cool looking, relatively solid gatefold sleeves.  Unfortunately, they are in so tight I actually ripped the first one I tried to extract >:( :'(
Still, happily listening now 8)
[asin]B00IU5AH3W[/asin]

Agreed!(http://thorness.co.uk/2953-small_default/size-55cm-rude-boy-ska-two-tone-pork-cotton-pork-pie-hat-.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 15, 2015, 03:56:29 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 14, 2015, 03:01:45 PM
Good morning :) - current listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L06CaghsL.jpg)

Spectacular listening!  Was refiling some recent vinyl spins and threw this one back on the turn table:

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As solid an album as there is on my shelf when it comes to clarity of sound and allowing for individual instruments to shine through. The percussion and flute work here is top of the line and placed perfectly throughout. Not surprised to see Enoch Light's name as a producer here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2015, 05:50:33 AM
some of this (the earliest, 1947 recordings from Town Hall and Carnegie Hall for now):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on November 15, 2015, 11:11:19 AM
I have been working my way through this double vinyl set recently....


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on November 15, 2015, 11:15:56 AM
Quote from: James on November 15, 2015, 06:04:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/w-zm1KvLF1E

James, I presume you didn't see this.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,25319.msg931330.html#msg931330
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2015, 12:49:47 PM
completist that I am, spent a fortune last year to get the complete Basie Roulette studio sessions Mosaic box ... which skips the singer collaborations, which I mostly missed so far (the Vaughan/Basie without Basie I've had for a while, same for the great one with Joe Williams and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) ... to the current Japanese reissue series (offering all of Basie's Roulette albums) was welcome for gap-filling - right now, this one is playing:

[asin]B00WV0KZ9I[/asin]
had been completely unaware, it's a small group date with Joe Williams singing and Freddie Green playing some nice guitar (including some solos, alas he's very low in the mix), Basie is on organ, George Duvivier on bass (a bass player very good in working with organ - though I mostly prefer organists taking care of their own bass lines), ex-Lunceford mainstay Jimmy Crawford on drums, and on some tracks, Harry "Sweets" Edison does his thing (by 1958 he was a fixture in the studio scene I think, providing all those trumpet fills on Sinatra's finest albums etc.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2015, 01:14:38 PM
brooding music, as often with Blake, but most enjoyable:

[asin]B00TQ3DPCC[/asin]

btw, CAM Jazz has just reissued his Black Saint/Soul Note albums (in a box, as they've been doing with the BSSN catalogue for a while)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 15, 2015, 02:25:04 PM
Morning listening - good stuff:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71udGBctk6L._SL1112_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mm6RclVSL._SL1096_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 15, 2015, 05:43:42 PM
Bongo pioneer Jack Costanzo drums on at 96
The legendary Latin-jazz percussionist, fondly known as "Mr. Bongo," will perform Friday at Dizzy's with the Bi-National Mambo Band, under the direction of Bill Caballero


(http://cdn.sandiegouniontrib.com/img/photos/2015/11/13/B8821696Z.1_20151113211059_000G5G5IQ4P.3-0_r900x493.jpg?122770e84b36f1c039d5c4c2ca15c2d8bc4ecd52)

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/nov/14/jack-costanzo-dizzys-jazz-profile/

Thought I would roll out this beauty:

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"Remember, stop when it isn't fun.....Slow and relaxed.  That is the way to learn bongos.....As the swingers say, "You're wailing!"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 18, 2015, 08:41:57 AM
good stuff:

[asin]B002V9P8XW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 18, 2015, 10:31:24 AM
even better, I think (though other than with "Pieces of Old Sky", this is a first listen):

[asin]B005CM9E2G[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 18, 2015, 08:48:05 PM
Disk 5, a mixture of Freedom Suite sessions and S. Rollins Meets the Contemporary Leaders sessions. High-level inspiration.



(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/485/MI0002485267.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 18, 2015, 10:08:00 PM
last night also this one - adaptions of early music by Blaser, with the late Paul Motian:

[asin]B004NIZIQ6[/asin]


and this morning:

[asin]B0002739UO[/asin]
terrific the first time, terrific all the way since then!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 21, 2015, 03:51:49 AM
First cup of coffee did not even make a dent to get me moving in real time speed, so....

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 23, 2015, 12:38:22 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bLglqYvHL._SY300_.jpg)

The Misled Children meet Odean Pope

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P818g2e7L._SY300_.jpg)

Muhal Richard Abrams - Blu Blu Blu
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 23, 2015, 07:09:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aTHEdB8jL._SY300_.jpg)

Muhal Richard Abrams - Mama and Daddy

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T2408JVNL._SY300_.jpg)

Andrew Hill - Nefertiti

(http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/461f261782f20d29999b317c4387a4f0/2084904.jpg)

Oliver Nelson - Afro/American Sketches

^well, I really don't understand the lukewarm review the Penguin Guide gave that one, which I think is an absolute masterpiece
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on November 23, 2015, 07:14:15 PM
Last week listened to CD 3 which is the original edited release, and was not impressed.
Now finishing the full concert on CDs 1 and 2, and like it a lot.
[asin]B00ZJ5QXDO[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 23, 2015, 09:55:02 PM
Ellington and Strayhorn small groups from this:

[asin]B014S1LH9O[/asin]

  Sound is poor on some tracks, but the piano playing is sublime.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 24, 2015, 05:21:20 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on November 23, 2015, 07:14:15 PM
Last week listened to CD 3 which is the original edited release, and was not impressed.
Now finishing the full concert on CDs 1 and 2, and like it a lot.

[asin]B00ZJ5QXDO[/asin]

Most interesting
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 24, 2015, 05:48:54 AM
You cannot have too many of these jazzy Bond cover albums in my opinion, and there are a ton!

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The vocals on this "attempt" make it for me, but I cannot find any credits for this cast of singers. Almost atmospherically space age in their presentation at times. The From Russia with Love theme is worth hunting this down alone. But then again, that is my all time favorite Bond film based on its simple plot line: Kill Bond.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 24, 2015, 11:09:41 AM
found a used copy of the real CD of this, not one of those on-demand-CDRs (which is what the a-link offers):

[asin]B004JU1B4Q[/asin]
very good, as expected!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 24, 2015, 11:33:09 AM
The music I'm packing for tomorrow's Thanksgiving road trip to the family abode:

- Complete Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea (I like the original album more than Jeffrey does, so I'm excited to hear the complete concert)
- Harry "Sweets" Edison 7-album box set (inc. Buddy & Sweets, Ben & Sweets, Pres & Sweets, and I forget the others)
- Giants of Jazz at Victoria Hall (Diz, Stitt, Kai Winding, Monk, McKibbon, Blakey)
- all the Pittsburgh Symphony/Manfred Honeck albums I own physical copies of

Have never heard the complete Garner or any of the Sweets, but the Giants live dates is one of my favorites. (It's actually hit-or-miss, but when Stitt gets revved up on CD2, he delivers simply god-level playing.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 24, 2015, 11:59:18 AM
disc 2 of the double disc edition (already have the previous "Deluxe Edition" and didn't feel like duplicating the fine live set from summer 1965 again, this is the fifth or sixth time I buy this album, somehow Universal really didn't get it right here):

[asin]B014T4JOM2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 24, 2015, 04:34:51 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61F7apxzj7L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

Muhal Richard Abrams - Rejoicing With The Light
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 24, 2015, 05:13:27 PM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on November 23, 2015, 07:14:15 PM
Last week listened to CD 3 which is the original edited release, and was not impressed.
Now finishing the full concert on CDs 1 and 2, and like it a lot.
[asin]B00ZJ5QXDO[/asin]

Listened to most of the full concert earlier on Spotify and really enjoyed it. Thanks for alerting me to this!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 24, 2015, 08:37:51 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nOEfztVmL._SY300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

Don Pullen - Ode To Life
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 25, 2015, 12:56:03 AM
Art Tatum on Vogue.  The "American" box has worse sound than the other vogue box, but it's OK.  With performances like these, it is simply a blessing to have them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 25, 2015, 03:41:31 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 25, 2015, 12:56:03 AM
Art Tatum on Vogue.  The "American" box has worse sound than the other vogue box, but it's OK.  With performances like these, it is simply a blessing to have them.

What material is that anyway? I'd assume Decca recordings from the thirties? Does the booklet disclose the original label the music was released on? (I don't think the box contains any proper Vogue/Swing recordings, rather it's stuff that Vogue licensed for European (or French) distribution. They had some nice things there for sure, but for someone with a large jazz collection, this second box is a bit of a let-down and much of it isn't rare at all, while they could have easily done another box of proper Vogue material that is much scarcer.

Anyway, the first one was a quality job, I bought it despite already owning 95% or more of it, so I won't blame anyone for getting the second one!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 25, 2015, 04:17:41 AM
A morning with Miss Peggy Lee. The first lp features Nelson Riddle and truly swings.  On the second lp, Jack Marshall (conductor of The Munsters' theme music)and  from Jayhawk state next door is featured as the conductor on my favorite Lee album and one that I will wear out.

(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/t31.0-8/11221547_1691932784353072_2603252637048986989_o.jpg)   (https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/12265772_1691932791019738_7813410999634216173_o.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 25, 2015, 04:52:26 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 25, 2015, 03:41:31 AM
What material is that anyway? I'd assume Decca recordings from the thirties? Does the booklet disclose the original label the music was released on? (I don't think the box contains any proper Vogue/Swing recordings, rather it's stuff that Vogue licensed for European (or French) distribution. They had some nice things there for sure, but for someone with a large jazz collection, this second box is a bit of a let-down and much of it isn't rare at all, while they could have easily done another box of proper Vogue material that is much scarcer.

Anyway, the first one was a quality job, I bought it despite already owning 95% or more of it, so I won't blame anyone for getting the second one!  :)

The Booklet says recorded live for "Gene Norman's 'Just Jazz' concert" 1949 and 1947, mostly,-- some 1950.  About half were originally released through Vogue (Jazz-disques), others through Modern (music) Recordsand Discovery Records. 
   Sound is rough at times, but the life stuff occasionally gets pretty exciting.

  In the other Vogue box the recordings up to 1950 are rather poor and the later ones (lots around 1953) quite good.  Most of this box is 1950 or before. I probably shouldn't have bought it, but as soon as I saw it I pounced.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 25, 2015, 05:09:47 AM
well, musically, it contains lots of very good stuff, no doubt ... found this through another discussion board:

Listing of albums included, from http://www.francemusique.fr/agenda/sortie-cd-jazz-america-disques-vogue-40-chefs-d-oeuvre-du-jazz-en-20-edition-limitee:

LE PROGRAMME :
1. Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn / New Stars - New Sounds Vol. 2 (+ Serge Chaloff)
2. Stan Getz Quartet / The Stan Getz Quintette - Jazz At Storyville
3. Art Tatum From Gene Norman's Just Jazz / Gene Norman's Just Jazz Vol. 3 / Frank Bull And Gene Norman's Blues Jubilee
4. Charlie Christian At Minton's / Charlie Christian - Dizzy Gillespie At Minton's
5. Dixieland Jubilee Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 (Lu Watters - Kid Ory / Albert Nicholas)
6. Charlie Parker Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
7. Originators Of Modern Jazz / A Date With... Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 (Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker - Fats Navarro  - Red Norvo - Hank Jones - Howard McGhee - James Moody - Buck Clayton - Hot Lips Page)
8. Erroll Garner Trio Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
9. Kings of Boogie Woogie (Albert Ammons - Meade Lux Lewis - Blind John Davis)
10. Mahalia Jackson Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
11. The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet (+ John Lee Hooker)
12. Wynonie Mr Blues Harris / Earl Bostic His Alto Sax And His Orchestra
13. Jelly Roll Morton - Piano Solos
14. Dave Brubeck Quartet Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
15. Miles Davis - Young Man With a Horn Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
16. Red Norvo - Men at Work Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 / George Shearing Quintet
17. Gerry Mulligan Quartet Vol. 2 / Vol. 3 / Vol. 4
18. Chet Baker Quartet Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
19. Sidney Bechet And His Blue Note Jazzmen Vol. 3 / Vol. 4
20. Lester Young Les Chefs-d'œuvre de Lester Young Vol. 1 / Vol. 2

So, for instance, disc 1 looks like Mercer recordings, discs 15 and 19 contain Blue Note recordings (definitively in the case of Bechet, quite surely for Miles), the (musically) brilliant air-checks on disc 4 were released on Esoteric/Period, the Getz seems to be from his amazing live recordings done by Roost, discs 6-8 probably are taken from Dial sessions etc. The sound I'd not dare to judge, but with the people/sources involved I'd expect it to be okay in general (of course the quality of original sources have to be take into account, and granted, a UK EMI recording from the early thirties done under perfect studio conditions will sound worlds apart from air checks done at a noisy jazz club or platters produced by independent labels in rented studios that you would have paid by the hour).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 25, 2015, 01:43:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51b5NY8bZDL._SS280.jpg)

Idrees Sulieman - Now Is The Time

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510DCXmhkhL._SS280.jpg)

Clifford Brown - Memorial Album
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 25, 2015, 07:55:59 PM
More from this quality group. Lots of good things going on. Lots to enjoy.

No asin image, so link to Amazon here (http://www.amazon.com/Live-2006-Concert-Original-Compositions/dp/B00OJO2XAS/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1EFZ0GFZZMCZG812KCBV)



(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71dkCOu4cfL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 26, 2015, 10:10:49 AM
received yesterday, finally:

[asin]B013YKN6IU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 26, 2015, 12:50:03 PM
have heard her live several times in various set-ups (including some of her own bands/projects), but own very few recordings of her so far (just bought two duos with Stephen Crump on Intakt as well):

[asin]B00E9E4I6U[/asin]

might actually catch her live again on saturday (with the Tom Rainey Trio, also including Ingrid Laubrock)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 27, 2015, 04:57:21 AM
From '61

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/900/MI0001900920.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elvin Jones my all time favorite jazz drummer? He's definitely in the conversation.

As for this first recording(?) of My Favorite Things, definitely one of the watershed moments for Coltrane.  In fact, the whole album seems to be.  Not my favorite version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein title song (that belongs to the live version that was caught on tape at Birdland in '62), but one that I enjoy.  It would be interesting to dig up the edited version that got a lot of play on the radio back in the day.  If anyone can dig this up, please post it here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 11:56:41 AM
Quote from: Bogey on November 27, 2015, 04:57:21 AM
From '61

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/900/MI0001900920.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elvin Jones my all time favorite jazz drummer? He's definitely in the conversation.

As for this first recording(?) of My Favorite Things, definitely one of the watershed moments for Coltrane.  In fact, the whole album seems to be.  Not my favorite version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein title song (that belongs to the live version that was caught on tape at Birdland in '62), but one that I enjoy.  It would be interesting to dig up the edited version that got a lot of play on the radio back in the day.  If anyone can dig this up, please post it here.

I love this one too - great recording! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 11:58:56 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71O6rdt-KKL._SL1093_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Sn2zapb4L._SL1075_.jpg)

This album had become my favourite Miles Davis - early MD is the best! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 12:29:02 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZbeuvLiL._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 27, 2015, 01:24:59 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 11:58:56 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71O6rdt-KKL._SL1093_.jpg)

This album had become my favourite Miles Davis - early MD is the best! :)

Quote from: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 12:29:02 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZbeuvLiL._SL1300_.jpg)

Both GREAT to have. 

You got 5 minutes, Conor?   8)

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4559170/cannonball-adderley-somethin-else
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 01:37:03 PM
Quote from: Bogey on November 27, 2015, 01:24:59 PM
Both GREAT to have. 

You got 5 minutes, Conor?   8)

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4559170/cannonball-adderley-somethin-else

Good stuff - nice to read more about Somethin' Else
Thanks! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 27, 2015, 01:58:37 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/123/MI0000123198.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Gonna listen to all the DCC early Jazz Miles Davis CDs in the coming week. This one is (chronologically) first.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 27, 2015, 02:10:30 PM
^ As wonderful as all the early Miles albums are, my personal favorites of the pre-Columbia years are - significantly, I think - the four that feature a vibraphonist in the band: Blue Moods, Quintet/Sextet, Bags Groove and With The Modern Jazz Giants.

Actually I think i'll join you all and play one right now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71dMdgxahbL._SX355_.jpg)

Teddy Charles on this one, Milt Jackson on the other three.

(and this is reminding me its been too long since I've played any Teddy Charles albums)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on November 27, 2015, 02:13:27 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 12:29:02 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZbeuvLiL._SL1300_.jpg)
Good stuff - I think it's time to revisit it as it's been some 18 months.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 27, 2015, 02:15:03 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 27, 2015, 02:10:30 PM
^ As wonderful as all the early Miles albums are, my personal favorites of the pre-Columbia years are - significantly, I think - the four that feature a vibraphonist in the band: Blue Moods, Quintet/Sextet, Bags Groove and With The Modern Jazz Giants.


Quintet/Sextet I have, and I plan to listen to it when it comes up chronologically.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 02:17:46 PM
Excellent guys - happy listening! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 27, 2015, 02:34:13 PM
(http://991.com/NewGallery/Miles-Davis-Quintet--Sextet-286264.jpg)

As promised, now spinning this beauty...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 27, 2015, 04:29:32 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71-vUp5ZRqL._SL1143_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mm6RclVSL._SL1096_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 27, 2015, 11:03:51 PM
Just got home from work. Grabbed a cup of vodka and lime and got the urge for some jazz.

[asin]B001AHIW98[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 28, 2015, 01:54:07 AM
mostly live right now...

last night:

in between:

[asin]B0044CO696[/asin]

this afternoon:

tonight:

tomorrow night:

Monday night:

Tuesday: complete exhaustion
Wednesday: x-mas dinner from work
Thursday: shutdown of all functions but those needed for survival

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 28, 2015, 04:12:43 AM
Quote from: North Star on November 27, 2015, 02:13:27 PM
Good stuff - I think it's time to revisit it as it's been some 18 months.

I pulled mine off the shelf for a listen as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 28, 2015, 04:15:07 AM
http://guity-novin.blogspot.ca/2013/11/record-album-covers.html

If you are into album cover design, you might enjoy this article.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 02:14:22 PM
This morning:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/818Jv04o2yL._SL1143_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mm6RclVSL._SL1096_.jpg)

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 07:29:38 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518lMcpNoqL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Pad5qrAnL._SL1056_.jpg)

Been enjoying the Weather Report box this weekend and remembered I had this JP solo album - its pretty good :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2015, 07:31:13 PM
^Have you heard Joni Mitchell's Hejira album? Jaco plays a very prominent role on that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 08:03:07 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 28, 2015, 07:31:13 PM
^Have you heard Joni Mitchell's Hejira album? Jaco plays a very prominent role on that.

Hey Simon, I haven't heard Hejira yet but I do have a copy of it in my collection as I bought this box-set last year:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81fJ-g%2B8r2L._SL1500_.jpg)

Thanks for the reminder - I will have a listen to Hejira soon :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2015, 08:09:19 PM
Well done, that box is an excellent overview of the essential Joni through her golden decade of one masterpiece after another from her third album on.

Let me know what you think of Hejira - its one of my desert island discs
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 08:22:58 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 28, 2015, 08:09:19 PM
Well done, that box is an excellent overview of the essential Joni through her golden decade of one masterpiece after another from her third album on.

Let me know what you think of Hejira - its one of my desert island discs

Thanks, will do mate :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 09:27:58 PM
One more for the road :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NrQSmX7zL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 29, 2015, 04:16:49 PM
(http://kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/miles_new_quintet_dcc_front.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 29, 2015, 04:45:59 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BG1R-S8nL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 29, 2015, 11:26:26 PM
Listening to this box again today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mm6RclVSL._SL1096_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815LEa-bhtL._SL1154_.jpg)

Ok, I think I made the point that I really love this box already - no need to post it again ;D

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 30, 2015, 12:47:44 AM
started a few hours ago, now halfway through, and enjoying it immensely (as I expected):

[asin]B011MICBTQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 30, 2015, 04:56:20 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on November 28, 2015, 07:29:38 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518lMcpNoqL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Pad5qrAnL._SL1056_.jpg)

Been enjoying the Weather Report box this weekend and remembered I had this JP solo album - its pretty good :)

  I played that JP album some time ago, from the same box.  I have a big sub-woofer, set for classical. When I put on the JP, it was like vesuvius going off in my listening room.  I was actually scared, and had to bolt over and turn down the woofer ???  I'd never heard a Pastorius solo album and quite enjoyed it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 30, 2015, 10:04:56 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 30, 2015, 04:56:20 AM
  I played that JP album some time ago, from the same box.  I have a big sub-woofer, set for classical. When I put on the JP, it was like vesuvius going off in my listening room.  I was actually scared, and had to bolt over and turn down the woofer ???  I'd never heard a Pastorius solo album and quite enjoyed it.

:o ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on November 30, 2015, 11:31:29 PM
Earlier:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iZmOYXgTL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Sn2zapb4L._SL1075_.jpg)

Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71L6JH7VeVL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fjo6Rv2iL._SL1213_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 02, 2015, 10:07:53 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71RptR1CUAL._SL1083_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)

Have'nt listened to this album much before - its really great! :D

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 02, 2015, 11:46:43 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ioQhWZUmL._SL1050_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZ%2BQzRsEL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 03, 2015, 05:18:41 PM
(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/relaxin_dcc_front.jpg)

Second spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 03, 2015, 05:52:42 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PurlnKD%2BL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 03, 2015, 11:05:08 PM
Quote from: George on December 03, 2015, 05:18:41 PM
(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/relaxin_dcc_front.jpg)

Second spin.
Quote from: George on December 03, 2015, 05:52:42 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PurlnKD%2BL.jpg)

Good stuff - happy listening George :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 03, 2015, 11:08:47 PM
Very happy its Friday night again :)
Tonights listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KyISGRZCL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 03, 2015, 11:59:41 PM
Really like this MD box - one more before bed:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n2OJdrQkL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 04, 2015, 03:03:43 AM
this one ... started with the first one a couple of days ago, now much of the rest (skipping the sideman albums for the moment, they're part of previous boxes):

[asin]B011MICAQK[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 04, 2015, 04:00:23 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 03, 2015, 11:05:08 PM
Good stuff - happy listening George :)

Thanks, right back-atcha!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 04, 2015, 08:10:03 AM
first spin, very good:

[asin]B00S8XJ84K[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 04, 2015, 01:41:52 PM
earlier:

[asin]B014I67JIM[/asin]

now:

[asin]B011AMSODG[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 07:25:15 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81Oggy6-kKL._SL1369_.jpg)

Currently on Disc 1 - for an old live recording this one has pretty nice sound.
Great music as you would expect :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 08:16:01 PM
I've got nothing better to do today so I decided to give MD's Modal Jazz another shot - I find this period of his output a bit perplexing. I want to and should like it but I find it quite boring :-[.
But I will give it another try to see if I changed my mind :)
Just making some High-Rez versions of the Modal albums now and playing this album while I work:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713xaBjIk1L._SL1090_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71i4LRAf36L._SL1058_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 04, 2015, 08:35:02 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 08:16:01 PMI've got nothing better to do today so I decided to give MD's Modal Jazz another shot - I find this period of his output a bit perplexing. I want to and should like it but I find it quite boring :-[.

You find Kind Of Blue boring? ??? It's okay we can still be friends, Conor. ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 08:50:04 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 04, 2015, 08:35:02 PM
You find Kind Of Blue boring? ??? It's okay we can still be friends, Conor. ;D

Oh, I really like kind Of Blue! - maybe I am using the term Modal jazz incorrectly?. Miles albums after Seven Steps To Heaven and before In A Silent Way are the ones I find a bit boring.
Not sure what kind of Jazz this is described as?

I am trying one of the albums I "struggle" with now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Kzw6jP6vL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71i4LRAf36L._SL1058_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 10:43:20 PM
I read up a bit more and it appears I was using the term Modal Jazz incorrectly - oops!.
I quite enjoyed E.S.P. so I decided to give another of the more abstract albums (for want of a better word) a shot:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71xIye36iFL._SL1137_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71i4LRAf36L._SL1058_.jpg)

Not bad :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2015, 11:55:42 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 04, 2015, 08:50:04 PM
. Miles albums after Seven Steps To Heaven and before In A Silent Way are the ones I find a bit boring.


The Second Quintet albums? I had mixed feelings about them when I first started listen to Miles, but later (and now) feel its his best band and each document of that group is in its own unique way essential.

playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Er8RsyvmL._SX300_.jpg)

John Surman / John Warren ‎- Tales Of The Algonquin
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 05, 2015, 02:09:27 AM
Sheesh, that's some of the best music around if you like jazz  ;D

Seriously, it took me a while to warm to KoB myself, when I started exploring jazz in my teens ... "Workin'" was the other MD album the school library had, and that one immediately clicked with me ... took some reading and some more exploring to realize why KoB was such a revered album - and by that time I must have owned more than half of Miles' Prestige output (namely the recordings with Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, and of course the others with Coltrane/Garland/Chambers/Jones) ... and also I fell for "Milestones", which is the album - along with Cannonball Adderley's glorious "Somethin' Else" - where Miles starts exploring the stuff that was brought to perfection on KoB.

Thread duty - another first spin, another impressive disc (the Schweizer-Bennink is effin' hilarious!)

[asin]B00VXWO7US[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 05, 2015, 12:45:58 PM
Funny how these things work - I loved KoB from the first notes of the first listen, can still remember exactly where I was. But Somethin Else is an album that, while I have nothing against, has little emotional resonance with me, even after dozens of plays over dozens of years.

I might try and play it again tonight to see if I can pinpoint where the personal disconnection may lie.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 05, 2015, 01:26:24 PM
Hey guys, thanks for your replies - I do like KOB , as Simon pointed out its the Second Quintet recordings I have been struggling with a bit.
But I made some progress already - I listened to E.S.P. and Miles Smiles last night and enjoyed them so its probably just a matter of being in the right mood to appreciate the music. I find the Second Quintet stuff a bit more abstract and exploratory than the earlier albums. Its been my opinion that these albums are a little unfocused but like I said it probably just wasn't the right time to listen to them.
I was feeling pretty laid back this weekend so the music meandering around a bit didn't bother me the same as it has in the past :)

Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Vdh3xpnjL._SL1086_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RUolff2ZL.jpg)

Another Jazz purchase I struggled with a bit - I got it 3 years ago and haven't listened to it much. I thought the Free Jazz album was pretty awful truth be told ;D.
But Change of The Century is a pretty cool album - I will explore this set and the Second Quintet MD recordings a bit this week I think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 05, 2015, 03:44:26 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81x9Xfm20uL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 05, 2015, 08:05:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SzlmsVIbL._SX300_.jpg)

Don Cherry - Brown Rice (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on December 06, 2015, 09:01:39 PM
Sonny Stitt. Very distinctive sax sound. Much to my liking.



(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/436/MI0001436969.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 06, 2015, 10:52:28 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cfR1cqvOL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 10:51:00 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/818TKQG0J9L._SL1300_.jpg)

Later:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81-5Lgx6ydL._SL1094_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:23:43 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/812YYkSJXZL._SX300_.jpg)

Rashaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:24:00 PM
~
[asin]B00SM3VALA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:29:24 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:24:00 PM
~
[asin]B00SM3VALA[/asin]

This looks pretty interesting - an Electric Bass player?
Lots of the stuff people post here I don't know about as Ive only been listening to Jazz for about 4 years :o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:30:43 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:23:43 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/812YYkSJXZL._SX300_.jpg)

Rashaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear

Hey Simon,
I have this recording as part of the Atlantic Jazz box I bought a couple of years back but I don't think I heard it yet :-[.
Must rememdy this soon! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:35:56 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:29:24 PM
This looks pretty interesting - an Electric Bass player?
Lots of the stuff people post here I don't know about as Ive only been listening to Jazz for about 4 years :o

Yes, Marcus Miller, he played with Miles Davis in the 80s and wrote compositions for his albums. Really a terrific bass player and quite famous for a jazz artist.

This recording soothes the soul. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:36:17 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:30:43 PM
Hey Simon,
I have this recording as part of the Atlantic Jazz box I bought a couple of years back but I don't think I heard it yet :-[.
Must rememdy this soon! :)

Is that this box:?:

(http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/images/v95000/articles/816lUr1zNnL._SL1379_.jpg)

Not sure just at this second what else Atlantic have in their Jazz catalogue, but that seems some unusual choices for a 20cd overview.

...but unusual is good! Not just the usual suspects...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:45:34 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:36:17 PM
Is that this box:?:

(http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/images/v95000/articles/816lUr1zNnL._SL1379_.jpg)

Not sure just at this second what else Atlantic have in their Jazz catalogue, but that seems some unusual choices for a 20cd overview.

...but unusual is good! Not just the usual suspects...

Yes that's the one - haha, yes its a pretty mixed bag as a box set :o.
I really like some of this box - I think my favourite albums (so far) has been Herbie Mann's Memphis Underground and Freddie Hubbards Backlash.
Some of the stuff I really disliked though ;D - I don't think Ill be listening to the Mose Allison record or Roy Ayers Virgo Vibes again any time soon!.
I can see from that handy image you posted that I still haven't listened (properly) to 3 or 4 of the albums :).
Is the Roland Kirk album a good one?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:46:54 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:35:56 PM
Yes, Marcus Miller, he played with Miles Davis in the 80s and wrote compositions for his albums. Really a terrific bass player and quite famous for a jazz artist.

This recording soothes the soul. :)

Good stuff I never heard of him before - does he play on Star People or Decoy? (I have those albums as part of the Miles Davis collection box).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:53:48 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:45:34 PM
Is the Roland Kirk album a good one?

Very good, though for some reason I don't put it on as often as I should.

Of the Miles albums that Marcus Miller plays on Tutu probably showcases him best. Its a sound very much situated in its time - the mid 80s, but I have a soft spot for it - and Miles is really playing constantly on Tutu, unlike some of his other Warner albums where he just occasionally adds a splash or two of colour.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:56:22 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 07, 2015, 11:46:54 PM
Good stuff I never heard of him before - does he play on Star People or Decoy? (I have those albums as part of the Miles Davis collection box).

Had to search for the album. He plays on Star People. Probably also Decoy, but I can't find that album now.

He plays on most of his (Davis') 80s albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 12:01:12 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 07, 2015, 11:53:48 PM
Very good, though for some reason I don't put it on as often as I should.

Of the Miles albums that Marcus Miller plays on Tutu probably showcases him best. Its a sound very much situated in its time, but I have a soft spot for it - and Miles is really playing constantly on Tutu, unlike some of his other Warner albums where he just occasionally adds a splash or two of colour.

Thanks Simon - I do have a copy of Tutu knocking around somewhere but I think I only listened to it once before (I remember I thought it was good just that I haven't got back to it yet).
I think I need to listen to Tutu and The Inflated Tear soon! :)

Quote from: Henk on December 07, 2015, 11:56:22 PM
Had to search for the album. He plays on Star People. Probably also Decoy, but I can't find that album now.

He plays on most of his (Davis') 80s albums.

Thanks Henk - I must admit to really liking the Electric Bass on Miles Davis later albums. I thought Star People and Decoy were pretty good albums, It would be cool to give them a spin again along with Tutu.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 08, 2015, 12:08:31 AM
Darryl "The Munch" Jones plays bass on Decoy (and You're Under Arrest), who I know better from Sting's first two jazzy solo records (before Sting became an insufferable "m.o.r." a-hole). I'm also learning just now that he took over as bassist for The Rolling Stones after Bill Wyman left.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 08, 2015, 12:10:00 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 12:01:12 AM
Thanks Simon - I do have a copy of Tutu knocking around somewhere but I think I only listened to it once before (I remember I thought it was good just that I haven't got back to it yet).
I think I need to listen to Tutu and The Inflated Tear soon! :)

Thanks Henk - I must admit to really liking the Electric Bass on Miles Davis later albums. I thought Star People and Decoy were pretty good albums, It would be cool to give them a spin again along with Tutu.

Tutu contains compositions of Miller.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 08, 2015, 12:42:46 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VrVSKQOcL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 08, 2015, 01:53:08 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51reuFPykzL._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 08, 2015, 03:55:46 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rAwlVlJwL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on December 08, 2015, 05:32:38 AM
Disc II.  Wow.  Quiet, ambling, relaxed, fun.  Fantastic sound.  Really like they are in the room.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/413qriVwDQL._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 10:01:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 08, 2015, 12:08:31 AM
Darryl "The Munch" Jones plays bass on Decoy (and You're Under Arrest), who I know better from Sting's first two jazzy solo records (before Sting became an insufferable "m.o.r." a-hole). I'm also learning just now that he took over as bassist for The Rolling Stones after Bill Wyman left.
Quote from: Henk on December 08, 2015, 12:10:00 AM
Tutu contains compositions of Miller.

Good stuff - thanks for the info guys :)
I am copying Tutu, Amandla, Decoy and Star people to my music player and will listen to them soon too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 11:40:20 PM
As promised now listening to this album:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ej-Za2DzL.jpg)

Sounds good - I like it :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 08, 2015, 11:44:15 PM
Tutu I think?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 11:53:46 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 08, 2015, 11:44:15 PM
Tutu I think?

That's the one :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 11:57:51 PM
Just listened to a few tracks from Tutu and now listening to this compilation (I changed my mind and was feeling like listening to some older style Jazz) :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UeuYQfq1L._SL1216_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 09, 2015, 04:00:43 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 08, 2015, 11:57:51 PM
Just listened to a few tracks from Tutu and now listening to this compilation (I changed my mind and was feeling like listening to some older style Jazz) :):

:)

TD:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 09, 2015, 08:36:21 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 08, 2015, 01:53:08 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51reuFPykzL._SS280.jpg)
That is a great album.

I listened to this today, which sounded like your regular Sanders' recording. No big surprises here.

[asin]B000024Y5J[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 09, 2015, 10:58:10 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L06CaghsL.jpg)

Another one from the Atlantic Jazz box - really like this :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 09, 2015, 11:10:52 PM
Listened to a few albums from the Blue Note box today (see below)
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71scG95YfPL._SL1077_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)

Like a lot of the people here im a box-set freak and if I had to choose I would say this is one of the top 2 or 3 boxes in my collection - I think I like almost everything in this box and its a very handsome physical object too.
It seems to have gone OOP now and is selling for silly prices which is a shame but im pretty sure the individual albums are not at all rare :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 09, 2015, 11:18:02 PM
^Its good to see Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond in there.

playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ThYyo2EBL._SX300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 09, 2015, 11:26:17 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 09, 2015, 11:18:02 PM
^Its good to see Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond in there.

Yes that's a good one - I played it just a couple of days ago :)

Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71RUuKQQREL._SL1300_.jpg)

Henk's post upstream reminded me about his album - Im not sure I listened to it a lot.
Ill give it a refresher listen now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on December 10, 2015, 05:43:02 AM
Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Pleyel Concert Vol. 2

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on December 10, 2015, 06:41:21 AM
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Anything Goes: The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter.

[asin]B00000K277[/asin]

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 10, 2015, 11:34:12 AM
Quote from: Artem on December 09, 2015, 08:36:21 PM
That is a great album.

Yeah, it is. Wasn't really interested in Dolphy till I saw him live playing on television with a Charles Mingus group. His appearance stroke me and I got his playing more. Still need to explore him more and listen more closely though to really connect.

Quote from: Green Destiny on December 09, 2015, 11:26:17 PM

Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71RUuKQQREL._SL1300_.jpg)

Henk's post upstream reminded me about his album - Im not sure I listened to it a lot.
Ill give it a refresher listen now.

Need to listen to that one also more closely. Could be one of the best jazz albums all time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 10, 2015, 07:08:57 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 10, 2015, 11:34:12 AM
Yeah, it is. Wasn't really interested in Dolphy till I saw him live playing on television with a Charles Mingus group. His appearance stroke me and I got his playing more. Still need to explore him more and listen more closely though to really connect.
Similarly, for me it was Mingus Live at Antibes album that made me appreciate Dolphy playing, followed by the Five Spot live recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 10, 2015, 11:52:22 PM
Friday evening has come around again :)
Tonight listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NkR2OGP8L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/816lUr1zNnL._SL1379_.jpg)

Another one from the Atlantic Box - I plan to give The Inflated Tear a spin tonight too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 11, 2015, 07:16:52 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 10, 2015, 11:52:22 PM
Friday evening has come around again :)
Tonight listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NkR2OGP8L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/816lUr1zNnL._SL1379_.jpg)

Another one from the Atlantic Box - I plan to give The Inflated Tear a spin tonight too.

That's a great one for blue posts as well! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 11, 2015, 12:55:47 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 11, 2015, 07:16:52 AM
That's a great one for blue posts as well! :)

Good idea - ill post it there soon :)
Edit: I see you posted it there already - thanks! :D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 11, 2015, 12:57:47 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71XLQirVZYL._SL1300_.jpg)

Another Jazzy kind of day!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 11, 2015, 02:02:04 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519en2qUWPL.jpg)

Earlier:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71l1gURK%2BOL._SL1300_.jpg)

Various Jazz albums for the rest of the day I think - Happy listening guys :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2015, 02:23:39 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71cUTI8dhiL._SY300_.jpg)

George Benson - Live At Montreux
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 11, 2015, 11:45:59 PM
I wasn't going to post again but then I received the Weather Report box-set I ordered a couple of weeks ago this afternoon.
Australia Post don't usually deliver on the weekend but apparently they are doing so this month till Christmas so it was a nice surprise!.
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71w-Y-IsRYL._SL1000_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61evafTga6L.jpg)

I read elsewhere on the net that the early WP albums were quite different to the ones made after Pastorius joined the group.
I finished the first side of the concert already and I agree it sounds a bit different to the later WP stuff but I think I really like it.
Just giving Disc 1 another spin now :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 12, 2015, 03:28:40 AM
lately:

[asin]B00TUCD9CA[/asin]
(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/john_carter.jpg)
(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/Medicine-Buddha-CD-image.jpg)
[asin]B00K0NAU34[/asin]
[asin]B00187PN60[/asin]
[asin]B00W4L0MWO[/asin]
[asin]B01543DFZO[/asin]
[asin]B00PTLLLI0[/asin]

and Allen Lowe's five fine new releases (http://allenlowe.com/man-with-guitar-wheres-robert-johnson)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 12, 2015, 11:34:57 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 12, 2015, 03:28:40 AM
lately:
[asin]B01543DFZO[/asin]

Thinking of getting this one for Christmas - how do you rate it KU? :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 12, 2015, 11:39:05 AM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XTW17QRYL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61evafTga6L.jpg)

Listening to this album for the first time - love it! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 12, 2015, 01:44:57 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yr655HqNL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ODn%2BdTHSL.jpg)

Edit: I bought this box last year and only gave it a cursory listen - I was really impressed by the Shakti album this morning. I love Mahavishnu orchestra and this is a little bit different but I really liked it. Wonderful!.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 12, 2015, 04:07:29 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 12, 2015, 11:34:57 AM
Thinking of getting this one for Christmas - how do you rate it KU? :)

It's pretty good actually. Not without some dragging spots (even Peter Erskine who wrote the liners says so), but it's great to have some real live material by this band, as it's quite different from their studio output (which I enjoy less compared to earlier incarnations of WR). Anyway, if you're into WR or jazz-rock or Zawinul in general, it's definitely worth getting!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 12, 2015, 04:18:59 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 12, 2015, 04:07:29 PM
It's pretty good actually. Not without some dragging spots (even Peter Erskine who wrote the liners says so), but it's great to have some real live material by this band, as it's quite different from their studio output (which I enjoy less compared to earlier incarnations of WR). Anyway, if you're into WR or jazz-rock or Zawinul in general, it's definitely worth getting!

Thanks for your reply. Your favourable opinion of the box adds to what I read about it elsewhere.
Its not a particularly expensive set from the Amazon MP so I will definitely be getting this one in future I think! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 13, 2015, 03:15:00 AM
the latest delivery from Lithuania's great NoBusiness records, had to dig up the turntable first (it's usually covered with recently acquired CDs ...)

(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/NBLP84.jpg)
(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/the_delaware_river.jpg)
(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/Philadelphia-Movement-image.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 13, 2015, 08:45:49 AM
(http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51d48726e4b070747bd7afe1/t/56594e82e4b0fad364ea615b/1448693379520/?format=500w)

Allen Lowe - In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: We Will Gather When We Gather
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 13, 2015, 11:53:34 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DXijggZUL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ODn%2BdTHSL.jpg)

Probably not a very "Jazzy" album either in fact maybe I shouldn't really post it here?
I just listened to this one yesterday for the first time - it blew me away!.
Going to listen to it again :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 14, 2015, 11:32:52 AM
amazing "found footage" from one of bebop's original piano greats that nearly was forgotten several times:

[asin]B00R3TFL3M[/asin]
and the best about it: there's a second disc of music from that great night!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 14, 2015, 12:27:46 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGL6j3CnL.jpg)

Lovely!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 14, 2015, 04:59:42 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81EnkbqOAtL._SL300_.jpg)

Art Taylor - Taylor's Wailers (1957)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411RWH9G9QL.jpg)

Clark Terry - Serenade To A Bus Seat (1957)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71OrdrhXrHL._SX300_.jpg)

Clark Terry - Color Changes (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 14, 2015, 11:12:45 PM
Earlier:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yr655HqNL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ODn%2BdTHSL.jpg)

Several listens today - my favourite album in the box :)

Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81oXhz8x71L._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 15, 2015, 07:19:53 AM
Quote from: George on December 14, 2015, 12:27:46 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGL6j3CnL.jpg)

Lovely!

An amazing recording. All of those Bill Evans Trio albums (w/ Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian) are outstanding and essential listening for any fan of the piano trio format.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 15, 2015, 07:47:58 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 15, 2015, 07:19:53 AM
An amazing recording. All of those Bill Evans Trio albums (w/ Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian) are outstanding and essential listening for any fan of the piano trio format.

Indeed!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 15, 2015, 10:59:47 AM
For the journey to work today :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91rGX0PxKyL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 15, 2015, 11:24:38 AM
disc two - fascinating of course - Parker, to me, is one were having but the master takes will never be enough!

[asin]B00UBZLIHI[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 15, 2015, 04:53:52 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/719qqXP6s6L._SX300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WiPWoqNVL._SY300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AH3BHS7RL._SX300_QL70_.jpg)

Johnny Griffin - A Blowing Session (1957)
Introducing Johnny Griffin (1956)
Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Lookin' At Monk (1961)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 15, 2015, 11:21:27 PM
I really lost my mind for Jazz this time around - so much good Music to listen to :)
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/718lQmBem1L._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on December 16, 2015, 09:43:56 AM
Gerry Mulligan: Pleyel Concerts Vol. 1

[asin]B000007WAK[/asin]

Having been listening to volume two of this quite recently, it was a pleasant surprise to find the first volume arrive in the post today.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 16, 2015, 06:18:40 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PWFVEK6HL.jpg)

Johnny Griffin - The Kerry Dancers (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 16, 2015, 10:27:30 PM
Now Playing :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f964Cdv4L.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 17, 2015, 05:42:20 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 16, 2015, 06:18:40 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PWFVEK6HL.jpg)

Johnny Griffin - The Kerry Dancers (1962)

Excellent album (the best I can remember). Griffin is quite underrated IMHO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 18, 2015, 12:47:06 AM
Friday evening again! - Now Playing :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SjoT5XiHL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81vX0uAys5L._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 18, 2015, 01:53:07 PM
This mornings listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NXNFKPYHL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 18, 2015, 03:36:13 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 17, 2015, 05:42:20 PM
Excellent album (the best I can remember). Griffin is quite underrated IMHO.
Not in my house - he's a favourite! That album is definitely amongst his four or five most beautiful ones!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 18, 2015, 11:30:25 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ffXtkGAHL._SL1056_.jpg)

Another first listen - great! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 19, 2015, 12:06:23 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PYh0pMAML._SY280_.jpg) (https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41BCGTRyoZL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513qC%2BN7NhL._SY280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RJH1ECF7L.jpg)

Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown (1979)

Bud Powell - Blues In The Closet (1956)

Don Byron - Tuskegee Experiments (1991)

Joey Baron - Tongue In Groove (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 19, 2015, 10:16:46 PM
This afternoon's listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ViujXJljL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 20, 2015, 11:35:35 PM
This afternoon:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OPWxGaJIL._SL1390_.jpg)

Brilliant :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 21, 2015, 12:31:16 AM
yesterday, spent some time going through a couple of recent acquisitions and then revisiting some of my top 2015 releases:

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[asin]B008GYC63Q[/asin]

[asin]B00YB9BLZY[/asin]
[asin]B00PX8DGC8[/asin]
[asin]B00VUVDJJW[/asin]

and right now what's probably my jazz album of the year:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81BUubuSRAL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 21, 2015, 03:06:09 AM
the swan song by a great melodicist:

[asin]B00Q5OCUB2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 21, 2015, 04:22:27 AM
another favourite of 2015:

[asin]B011AMSODG[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 21, 2015, 02:06:01 PM
more 2015 wrapping up listening:

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discs 2 and 3 with the outtakes - fascinating for sure

now:

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Berlin 1973 on disc 3 - love the raw power of that band!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 22, 2015, 01:18:51 AM
finally got all three of Tim Berne's Snakeoil discs on ECM (r.i.p. discplus) - playing the first one now:

[asin]B0066GT7CY[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 22, 2015, 06:55:40 AM
went on with Berne:

[asin]B00EBJ61PO[/asin]
[asin]B00TQESBZC[/asin]

now:

[asin]B00PX8DEFC[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Wakefield on December 22, 2015, 03:29:50 PM
One of the most addictive things I have listened to the last time.  :)

Renaissance Goes Jazz - Live

[asin]B00B2KW11S[/asin]

Markus Becker - piano
Michel Godard - serpent, tuba, electric bass

Capella de la Torre
Annette Hils - bassdulcian & recorder
Johannes Vogt - lute & theorbo
Peter A. Bauer - percussion
Katharina Bäuml – shawms & musical direction

QuoteReview
The result in this live recording is entirely unexpected and brilliant, capturing the flavor and zest of the Renaissance's addictive mix of old and ancient instruments, providing an elusive, ingenious musical experience that refuses to be genre-ized. --Laurence Vittes, Huffinton Post, September 2014

They sound something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UxYOYWQBISo

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 22, 2015, 03:46:28 PM
finally, finally!

[asin]B00WJDPSA8[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: jochanaan on December 22, 2015, 04:12:19 PM
Basie: Hayburner. 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 23, 2015, 11:20:37 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 22, 2015, 03:46:28 PM
finally, finally!

[asin]B00WJDPSA8[/asin]

Again and again and again - fantastic album indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 23, 2015, 09:43:06 PM
My Jazz album of the week :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ni3MPbs0L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 24, 2015, 02:45:19 PM
This morning's listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ViujXJljL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514HOVgwgxL.jpg)

From:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 24, 2015, 04:37:24 PM
Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81rvc9WDufL._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 24, 2015, 06:24:54 PM
Another mellow one - the family is arriving soon so Id best be off now!.
Enjoy your Christmas people :):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AXQ4KmT-L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZ%2BQzRsEL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 24, 2015, 06:47:15 PM
(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/steamin_dcc_front.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 25, 2015, 03:45:34 AM
all morning long:

(http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org/img/cd2cover.jpg)

more info:
http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org/cms-archive-selections-volume-2.html


now:

[asin]B001J23SWA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 25, 2015, 01:48:56 PM
Now Playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511U62crf0L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81nKojOuuFL._SL1408_.jpg)

Have'nt listened to this album before possibly - it sounds great so far! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 25, 2015, 03:33:30 PM
Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X6udVVo%2BL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Pad5qrAnL._SL1056_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 25, 2015, 09:57:22 PM
Still in the mood for something mellow:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71kiDA7Y95L._SL1201_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Pad5qrAnL._SL1056_.jpg)

Having a great Christmas holiday so far - hope everyone is enjoying theirs too :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 26, 2015, 02:38:02 AM
Those are three wonderful albums!

Wilen was amazing indeed - what teenager can hang in there with Miles and do a bunch of fairly convincing Monk covers (hardly anyone can ever do a really convincing Monk cover anyway ... guess Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron come closest).

There's a live recording from Club Saint-Germain with Kenny Dorham and Duke Jordan (plus one of the Rovère bros on bass and a young Daniel Humair on drums) that's truly magic, a couple of years later. The initial (RCA) album was titled "Barney", on CD it was expanded and "More Barney" was added ... two pretty full discs of terrific, moody hard bop. They were rare and expensive for many years but have recently been reissued in Japan - carpe diem!
Barney: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICP-3978
More Barney: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICP-3979
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 26, 2015, 03:22:25 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 26, 2015, 02:38:02 AM
Those are three wonderful albums!

Wilen was amazing indeed - what teenager can hang in there with Miles and do a bunch of fairly convincing Monk covers (hardly anyone can ever do a really convincing Monk cover anyway ... guess Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron come closest).

There's a live recording from Club Saint-Germain with Kenny Dorham and Duke Jordan (plus one of the Rovère bros on bass and a young Daniel Humair on drums) that's truly magic, a couple of years later. The initial (RCA) album was titled "Barney", on CD it was expanded and "More Barney" was added ... two pretty full discs of terrific, moody hard bop. They were rare and expensive for many years but have recently been reissued in Japan - carpe diem!
Barney: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICP-3978
More Barney: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SICP-3979


Cheers KU and thanks for the recommendations - I will check them out :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 26, 2015, 03:26:29 PM
This mornings listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81FG8OskI%2BL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 26, 2015, 06:26:25 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61d5wNLJ1kL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on December 27, 2015, 05:03:11 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 26, 2015, 06:26:25 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61d5wNLJ1kL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)

Conor, really try to track down this Brubeck cd.  If you enjoy his sound, this is probably my favorite as a complete album.  There are two volumes, but the second is by far my favorite of the two.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/366/MI0000366393.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2015, 12:42:06 PM
a late one by what was one of his finest trios (Brown/Thigpen):

[asin]B00T6XDGMQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 27, 2015, 01:06:00 PM
Quote from: Bogey on December 27, 2015, 05:03:11 AM
Conor, really try to track down this Brubeck cd.  If you enjoy his sound, this is probably my favorite as a complete album.  There are two volumes, but the second is by far my favorite of the two.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/366/MI0000366393.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Hey Bill - I was able to find copies of the Jazz at the College of the Pacific volumes 1 & 2 and have added them to my wish-list.
I really like the Jazz goes to college album so its likely I will get the other 2 soon :).
Thinking of expanding my Brubeck studio album collection by picking up this box too (it looks like it may be going for OOP soon so I may have to prioritize getting a copy of this!):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81nPq3iZjcL._SL1261_.jpg)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 27, 2015, 01:58:12 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/918KG8fwM-L._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Jegr1crkL.jpg)


I've been listening to Jazz pretty solidly for about the last 6 weeks. I don't think my interest level has been this high before!. I may have to get some new recordings otherwise im going to run out of stuff to play :o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2015, 02:09:38 PM
If you want to delve into Brubeck deeply, I'd really recommend getting whatever you can (and as much as possible) of the early Fantasy recordings with Desmond! They're an incredibly fine bunch and beat much of the more routine-like performances on Columbia (favourites there include some live albums, too ... there was hope the studio box would be followed by a live one but I don't hold my breath).

These contain material from various recordings (often not even fully documented, Fantasy was sloppy about that), some of it live (and in amazing quality for the era, 1950-54 roughly):

[asin]B000000XFI[/asin]
[asin]B000000XFK[/asin]

This is another live recording which I like even more than the aforementioned "At College of the Pacific" - Desmond is on fire here, burning as hot as the hottest bebopper ever would, no idea why but I'd like to hear the story behind (I'm sure there was one):

[asin]B0038M61KA[/asin]

As a bunch, these five discs are some of the very best Brubeck (and Desmond) there is, though the later rhythm section with Wright/Morello was on another level and allowing the music to take different directions ... but these early sides are so fresh and the chemistry between Brubeck and Desmond often verges on the magic!

As a word of warning: Fantasy seems to be selling CD-Rs in the US (I only ended up with one so far - ordered via aIT, actually)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 27, 2015, 02:20:02 PM
Still the rains come down and it will likely freeze tonight.  A potent combo.  Much prefer these two other potent combos :

[asin]B0000046KH[/asin]



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on December 27, 2015, 04:11:15 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2015, 02:09:38 PM
If you want to delve into Brubeck deeply, I'd really recommend getting whatever you can (and as much as possible) of the early Fantasy recordings with Desmond! They're an incredibly fine bunch and beat much of the more routine-like performances on Columbia (favourites there include some live albums, too ... there was hope the studio box would be followed by a live one but I don't hold my breath).




Truth!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 27, 2015, 06:07:22 PM
That Michel Legrand disc reminded me that I want to watch The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg again.

But playing now, joining in the Brubeck love again:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61uKR7LiL6L._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 27, 2015, 09:59:40 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2015, 02:09:38 PM
If you want to delve into Brubeck deeply, I'd really recommend getting whatever you can (and as much as possible) of the early Fantasy recordings with Desmond! They're an incredibly fine bunch and beat much of the more routine-like performances on Columbia (favourites there include some live albums, too ... there was hope the studio box would be followed by a live one but I don't hold my breath).

These contain material from various recordings (often not even fully documented, Fantasy was sloppy about that), some of it live (and in amazing quality for the era, 1950-54 roughly):

[asin]B000000XFI[/asin]
[asin]B000000XFK[/asin]

This is another live recording which I like even more than the aforementioned "At College of the Pacific" - Desmond is on fire here, burning as hot as the hottest bebopper ever would, no idea why but I'd like to hear the story behind (I'm sure there was one):

[asin]B0038M61KA[/asin]

As a bunch, these five discs are some of the very best Brubeck (and Desmond) there is, though the later rhythm section with Wright/Morello was on another level and allowing the music to take different directions ... but these early sides are so fresh and the chemistry between Brubeck and Desmond often verges on the magic!

As a word of warning: Fantasy seems to be selling CD-Rs in the US (I only ended up with one so far - ordered via aIT, actually)

Thanks for your detailed post - still deciding whether I need to get more Brubeck/other Jazz recordings at this stage but I appreciate your input :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 27, 2015, 10:05:35 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71W48Ss9ZQL._SL1097_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fjo6Rv2iL._SL1213_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 28, 2015, 02:39:55 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 27, 2015, 09:59:40 PM
Thanks for your detailed post - still deciding whether I need to get more Brubeck/other Jazz recordings at this stage but I appreciate your input :)

Well, these three you need, let me tell you!  ;)

Seriously, no overlap between these and the Columbia box, and Desmond in those years was hardly ever coasting, he's really amazing on these early recordings!

Also, on a different side, the disc compiling (all? most?) of Brubeck's early trio sides on Fantasy, pre-accident, is pretty nice, too - those kinda Wagnerian solos young Brubeck used to play are pretty fascinating. He's the opposite of what "jazz" was supposed to be in so many ways and he always stuck to his ideas and ideals, it's quite amazing that he had such huge success.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 28, 2015, 06:04:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 27, 2015, 06:07:22 PM
That Michel Legrand disc reminded me that I want to watch The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg again.


So glad you love that film, Simon.  Music and film both are outstanding, most moving. 

Edit: BTW, if you haven't seen Agnes Varda's The Gleaners and I, hesitate no more, please.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 28, 2015, 12:35:25 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 28, 2015, 06:04:31 AM
So glad you love that film, Simon.  Music and film both are outstanding, most moving. 

Edit: BTW, if you haven't seen Agnes Varda's The Gleaners and I, hesitate no more, please.

I have seen The Gleaners And I, which was superb. But I'm missing the connection. Does that also use Legrand's music, which I didn't realise?

(actually come to think of it Varda's Cleo From 5 To 7 also uses his music, as well as having Legrand play himself as a character. Must see that one again as well)


edit: and while I'm thinking of it I may as well give this another spin, as I haven't heard it this millenium:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513LYrbfcyL._SX300_.jpg)

Miles Davis / Michel Legrand - Dingo soundtrack
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 28, 2015, 04:17:00 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 28, 2015, 12:35:25 PM
I have seen The Gleaners And I, which was superb. But I'm missing the connection. Does that also use Legrand's music, which I didn't realise?


Agnès Varda is Jacques Demy's (the director of Umbrellas) widow.  Don't miss her Le Bonheur while you're at it! 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 28, 2015, 11:59:38 PM
Tonight's listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/717sxOt3e%2BL._SL1075_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg)

Disc 2 :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 29, 2015, 12:59:58 AM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 28, 2015, 04:17:00 PM
Agnès Varda is Jacques Demy's (the director of Umbrellas) widow.  Don't miss her Le Bonheur while you're at it!

*love* that one! Here's a great write-up about it, also stressing the importance of the music (Mozart mainly) in the film:
http://celluloidwickerman.com/2014/06/09/mozart-in-le-bonheur-1965-agnes-varda/

As for Demy ... have the big French DVD box here, but rarely ever watch DVDs at home. Have seen "Lola", "Les Parapluies" and "Les Demoiselles" on the big screen though, and that's always so much more fun! (Same with "Le Bonheur" btw - I rarely buy DVDs as I know it takes me ages to watch them, but that Demy box I just had to get)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 29, 2015, 01:14:02 AM
Okay, you guys have talked me into it: I'll be getting Le Bonheur when I go to the video store tomorrow.

playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513HWwyZQBL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

Stanley Turrentine - The Spoiler (1966)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G2HTBSZPL.jpg)

Charles Lloyd - Dream Weaver (1966)

featuring a 20 year old Keith Jarrett
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 29, 2015, 04:38:02 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 29, 2015, 12:59:58 AM
*love* that one! Here's a great write-up about it, also stressing the importance of the music (Mozart mainly) in the film:
http://celluloidwickerman.com/2014/06/09/mozart-in-le-bonheur-1965-agnes-varda/

As for Demy ... have the big French DVD box here, but rarely ever watch DVDs at home. Have seen "Lola", "Les Parapluies" and "Les Demoiselles" on the big screen though, and that's always so much more fun! (Same with "Le Bonheur" btw - I rarely buy DVDs as I know it takes me ages to watch them, but that Demy box I just had to get)

That was a superb article, thank you; I printed it out and added it to my Varda file. She will be 88 this year!  I know I will weep when she is gone, like I did for Rohmer.   
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 29, 2015, 12:45:11 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 29, 2015, 04:38:02 AM
That was a superb article, thank you; I printed it out and added it to my Varda file. She will be 88 this year!  I know I will weep when she is gone, like I did for Rohmer.  

My favorite director, as it happens. And a friend of mine has just this week agreed to a few viewing sessions where I introduce him to the Six Moral Tales.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on December 29, 2015, 06:52:58 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 29, 2015, 12:45:11 PM
My favorite director, as it happens. And a friend of mine has just this week agreed to a few viewing sessions where I introduce him to the Six Moral Tales.

We're in the wrong thread for this discussion, of course, but who knows, maybe it will do some good (ie, proselytizing) here!  I love him as well; prob. like his seasons series the best.  Funny thing is I've spoken to two French women and one Frenchman (college students) who knew him not. (bad) luck of the draw, maybe...but also made me wonder if perhaps they don't appreciate him as much as he is esteemed à l'étranger.  That's ok, they practically discovered Poe, Faulkner, et al. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 29, 2015, 10:03:52 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71XuUXLjeVL._SL1396_.jpg)

Been listening to Giant Steps and Blue Train this week - great albums. The more I listen to solo Coltrane the more I like him :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 29, 2015, 11:03:11 PM
Cant get enough of this album too:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VYXH4QPQL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 30, 2015, 12:39:40 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81zb9ivo8VL._SX300_.jpg)

Kenny Drew - By Request (1985)

never mind the terrible cover - this is a superb disc

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 30, 2015, 02:16:41 PM
first spin of some new arrivals - just completed:

[asin]B00QU4R44A[/asin]
vivid and energetic post-Coltrane jazz with Mine going into some free stuff, while Masabumi Kikuchi and Motohiko Hino keep a great Tyner/EJ groove

now:

[asin]B00MNPBBVM[/asin]

(edited as first pic wouldn't show with the link I'd picked)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 30, 2015, 03:22:35 PM
ending the day with another new arrival from Japan:

[asin]B00MNPBFOK[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 30, 2015, 05:35:39 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fqQnmPxmL._SX300_.jpg)

Kenny Drew - By Request II (1985)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 30, 2015, 09:55:47 PM
Listening to selections from these 2 albums today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71l5CRfS4hL._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 31, 2015, 01:04:28 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iQmmK%2BVxL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 31, 2015, 01:05:20 PM
Happy new year everyone :) - first play of 2016:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg)

Disc 1
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on December 31, 2015, 07:29:20 PM
Listening to selections from this set:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O8-HFNeDL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2016, 01:59:38 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51IrtRHUk5L._SS280.jpg)

Don Ellis - Electric Bath (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 01, 2016, 07:24:44 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/901/MI0002901890.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

The Giuseppi Logan Quintet
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 01, 2016, 07:53:39 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on December 31, 2015, 07:29:20 PM
Listening to selections from this set:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O8-HFNeDL.jpg)

A lovely set. Of course, I am referring to the music.  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 01, 2016, 08:32:38 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/356/MI0000356527.jpg)

Joe Williams at Newport '63 - with Clark Terry and Coleman Hawkins as main soloists in a stellar band also including Howard McGhee, Zoot Sims and Junior Mance
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2016, 03:48:41 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D0MiCI2KL._SY300_.jpg)

Leo Smith - Divine Love (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 01, 2016, 06:17:30 PM
Quote from: George on January 01, 2016, 07:53:39 AM
A lovely set. Of course, I am referring to the music.  ;)

:)

This morning:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71l5CRfS4hL._SL1300_.jpg)

Still listening to these 2 live albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2016, 07:04:16 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Qt9%2Bk6OsL._SY300_.jpg)

Julian Priester - Love, Love (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 01, 2016, 07:07:48 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/814YVgYIS6L._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 01, 2016, 07:45:16 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/504/MI0000504564.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2016, 08:55:35 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516V2KEWT0L.jpg)

Chick Corea - Tones For Joan's Bones (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 02, 2016, 05:36:36 AM
Quote from: George on January 01, 2016, 07:45:16 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/504/MI0000504564.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Quote from: George on January 01, 2016, 07:07:48 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/814YVgYIS6L._SL500_.jpg)

Great stuff, Joe! Do you enjoy Paul Desmond's solo recordings? Now, he's the epitome of Cool Jazz. 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 05:41:58 AM
Fantastic listening and good morning, daddy o's:

(http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/5/21/albumcoverStanGetz-JJJohnson-AtTheOperaHouse.jpg?1211356774)

From Chicago (1-4) and Los Angeles (5-10) in 1957.  And for the record,
Oscar Peterson on the piano
Herb Ellis on guitar
Ray Brown on bass
Connie May on drums

One of my favorite things to do when listening to  jazz that was recorded live is taking the time to find photos of the venue that the performers played at for the recording.  Not bad digs for these performances.

Chicago's Civic Opera House
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/BOAauditorium.jpg)

Shrine Auditorium in L.A.
(http://venuestoday.s3.amazonaws.com/img/Shrine-Theater-Stage-and-Seating-eecue_28840_jil3_l.jpeg)

Funny, I cannot find one photo of Getz and J.J. together.  You would think that someone would have snapped a shot of the two on stage. Maybe someone here can dig up a pic. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 05:51:42 AM
Quote from: George on January 01, 2016, 07:45:16 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/504/MI0000504564.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Not sure if you found this out, George, but with Brubeck recordings, my system really comes through.  I do not know how many times I have grabbed on of his lps (especially Time Out) to demonstrate the sound I can squeeze out of my components. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 02, 2016, 07:08:09 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 05:51:42 AM
Not sure if you found this out, George, but with Brubeck recordings, my system really comes through.  I do not know how many times I have grabbed on of his lps (especially Time Out) to demonstrate the sound I can squeeze out of my components.

Time Out has had a lot of CD masterings. I have the latest one from 2012 and it sounds great! My previous CD (the 1997 mastering) was loud and harsh.

I was surprised to find out that IMO Time Further Out might be the better album of the two, musically.

To see how my system comes through, I grab the early Japan for USA mastering of Aja. Perfection. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 02, 2016, 07:09:53 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 02, 2016, 05:36:36 AM
Great stuff, Joe! Do you enjoy Paul Desmond's solo recordings? Now, he's the epitome of Cool Jazz. 8)

I don't. But then I am not Joe either.  :P
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 07:48:45 AM
From 1962:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/617BWSJT7KL.jpg)

From the International Jazz Festival, Columbian-La-Tour, Belgium.  Nat's sextet played to over 40,000 jazz fans that sat in the rain and mud and from the applause I can pick up, loved every note.  The first three songs are high level, but when the band breaks into track 4, Work Song, they hit a stride that is magical.  Worth getting the disc just for this alone.  Also, Yusef Lateef brings the oboe front and center for a crack at Trouble In Mind, an old blues number from 1924.  It's something not to miss.

Here is a link to Work Song from the album. Make sure both your hands are on the wheel when your listening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukMc2WDFds
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 09:40:14 AM
(http://www.elusivedisc.com/images/OJCLP047-Large.jpg)

Love the art work on this one.  I prefer Vol 2 to this album even though they are from the same concert/set.  Not sure how they broke up the two albums, but from what I can find the Vol. 2 (red cover, same artwork) is supposedly just songs they left off the first album, rather than the rest of the show.  I'm surprised that they have not gone back and created one release with the tracks in the order of how they were played.  Who knows, maybe nobody has a list of the playing order anyways, so they would just be guessing.  Either way, get both if you do not have them. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 10:20:01 AM
Moving into some of that retro lounge sound:

Was thrilled to finally find the this #3 to complete this run, as I believe there are only 4 in the "Persuasive Percussion" category. Great bongo sound on this one!

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/12471651_1703776733168677_3637540130063044958_o.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 11:20:26 AM
Nice touch:

(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12321618_10206428199607378_2882590753906040111_n.jpg?oh=6ed5f8f05df873e0a9fa06ddbdb29521&oe=5707FB36)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 12:44:55 PM
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12484872_1703802809832736_8579972291119533700_o.jpg)

Fan of the Third Man Theme? Then track this one down. A nice dash of cha-cha-cha added to it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2016, 01:55:17 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hwtgKUG0L.jpg)

Kenny Drew - Jazz Impressions Of "Pal Joey"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 02, 2016, 05:58:04 PM
Quote from: George on January 02, 2016, 07:08:09 AM
I was surprised to find out that IMO Time Further Out might be the better album of the two, musically.
I never bothered with Brubeck besides Time Out. Should I investigate? Are there any surprises in his discography or is it mostly the same as Time Out?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2016, 07:13:10 PM
Quote from: Artem on January 02, 2016, 05:58:04 PM
I never bothered with Brubeck besides Time Out. Should I investigate? Are there any surprises in his discography or is it mostly the same as Time Out?

Egad! The fame of Time Out has unjustly obscured a great many equally good or superior albums from Brubeck! Investigate!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 02, 2016, 08:06:29 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61x8gk5R60L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fjo6Rv2iL._SL1213_.jpg)

Great! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 03, 2016, 02:08:46 PM
Quote from: Artem on January 02, 2016, 05:58:04 PM
I never bothered with Brubeck besides Time Out. Should I investigate? Are there any surprises in his discography or is it mostly the same as Time Out?
I agree with George - Time Further Out is definitely an improvement on the original. Maybe even a very big improvement.

The best Brubeck Quartet stuff is live, though - At Carnegie Hall is my favorite, because they've grown so accustomed to the crazy time signatures that they can attack them with more confidence, verve, and speed. The difference between "Take Five" as recorded on Time Out and "Take Five" live at Carnegie Hall is like the difference between an orchestra's very first rehearsal and the second night of live concerts. Better tempo, better confidence, better ideas, bolder moves.

The only other studio Brubeck Quartet albums I like a lot are Countdown and the Southern-themed one. Those are Time Out-level quality.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 03, 2016, 02:11:30 PM
Quote from: George on January 02, 2016, 07:09:53 AM
I don't. But then I am not Joe either.  :P
I really don't like Paul Desmond at all.  :( Great minds think alike?!

Quote from: Bogey on January 02, 2016, 07:48:45 AM
From 1962:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/617BWSJT7KL.jpg)

From the International Jazz Festival, Columbian-La-Tour, Belgium.  Nat's sextet played to over 40,000 jazz fans that sat in the rain and mud and from the applause I can pick up, loved every note.  The first three songs are high level, but when the band breaks into track 4, Work Song, they hit a stride that is magical.  Worth getting the disc just for this alone.  Also, Yusef Lateef brings the oboe front and center for a crack at Trouble In Mind, an old blues number from 1924.  It's something not to miss.

Here is a link to Work Song from the album. Make sure both your hands are on the wheel when your listening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukMc2WDFds

Whoa! On to the shopping list!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 03, 2016, 09:53:15 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cfR1cqvOL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2016, 10:03:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z11ELKI3L._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71XImVvVxoL._SX280_.jpg)

Billy Harper - Black Saint (1975)

Tony Williams - Civilization (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 04, 2016, 07:36:07 AM
Ellington - Jazz Party.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on January 04, 2016, 09:20:01 AM
Quote from: NikF on January 04, 2016, 07:36:07 AM
Ellington - Jazz Party.


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The Toot Suite is among the best Ellington. Unfortunately something's gone whacko with Amazon and the track samples belong to some other recording. Oh, well, still great stuff.

Here's a link to part 1 of the suite in case anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHOvV2Sx9Dw


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 04, 2016, 11:36:07 AM
This thread costs me so much money.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 04, 2016, 11:51:04 AM
before: Erich Kleinschuster Sextet & Karin Krog - Vienna 1968 (studio recording)
now: Karin Krog & Arild Andersen - Montreux 1972 (partial show, radio broadcast9
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 04, 2016, 12:58:17 PM
Sheila Jordan (with Harvie S) - Graz, 1992-04-09 (radio broadcast)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 04, 2016, 01:04:10 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 04, 2016, 11:36:07 AM
This thread costs me so much money.

Haha!

Amazon should be paying Rob $1000 a month, just for keeping this site open.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 04, 2016, 04:55:55 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61x8gk5R60L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fjo6Rv2iL._SL1213_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 04, 2016, 05:53:22 PM
That Bill Evans' stuff looks stinking sweet!

Thread duty:

From 1962, an essential.

(http://www.elusivedisc.com/images/mmllp84112.jpg)
I'll tell you what.  This album works on so many levels.  Want to hear the deep groove of a tenor sax played so smoothly that you catch yourself not noticing the rest of your surroundings?  This does it.  Want something that you can put on in the background when having guests over for a nice dinner and conversation?  Again, here you go.  I could see pairing this one with Coltrane's Ballads release and calling it good for the evening. 

Dexter in '62 by Francis Wolf:

(https://jazzinphoto.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/dexter-gordon-during-hisc2a0go-recording-session-englewood-cliffs-nj-august-27c2a01962-photo-by-francis-wolff.png)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 04, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Quote from: Bogey on January 04, 2016, 05:53:22 PM
That Bill Evans' stuff looks stinking sweet!

Thread duty:

From 1962, an essential.

(http://www.elusivedisc.com/images/mmllp84112.jpg)
I'll tell you what.  This album works on so many levels.  Want to hear the deep groove of a tenor sax played so smoothly that you catch yourself not noticing the rest of your surroundings?  This does it.  Want something that you can put on in the background when having guests over for a nice dinner and conversation?  Again, here you go.  I could see pairing this one with Coltrane's Ballads release and calling it good for the evening. 

Dexter in '62 by Francis Wolf:

Bill, you've cost me money again!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 04, 2016, 06:48:47 PM
That was my first Dexter Gordon cd. Very nice album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 04, 2016, 06:58:29 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 04, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Bill, you've cost me money again!!

A pleasure contributing to your library, Brian.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 04, 2016, 09:33:15 PM
That made me pull out this for another listen:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WMbCLxYiL._SY355_.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2016, 12:41:20 AM
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yF4AAOSwZVhWS6tZ/s-l300.jpg)

George Cables - Phantom Of The City (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 05, 2016, 06:01:26 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 04, 2016, 06:30:26 PM
Bill, you've cost me money again!!

Wanna get him back? Just start listening to some old school 50s vinyl with cool album covers. That'll send him out to the shops! ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 05, 2016, 12:35:15 PM
Very, very sad about Paul Bley's death.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 05, 2016, 01:33:08 PM
last one tonight:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2016, 01:45:27 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XJECW0KVL.jpg)

Paul Bley - Open, To Love

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 05, 2016, 02:08:47 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815XyZgvjLL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OnmKZ-MCL._SL1201_.jpg)

Art Blakey - Au Club St. Germain
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 05, 2016, 04:37:57 PM
Conor's next delivery of jazz box sets.  Damn!

(http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/80085000/jpg/_80085310_maersk_triple_e_portoffelixstowe.jpg)

Thread duty:

Recorded in '57, but released in '59.  And if you think it is great due simply to the personnel on the front, then you are spot on.  I thought that Dizzy might get a bit drowned out by Stitt and Rollins, but he soars above them enough that he equals their power throughout.  There is one track, After Hours, that is just soulful blues and brings the session to a quiet and almost "what happened" standstill, but even it is a beautiful piece to hear.  This is from someone just starting to dig Dizzy's sound.  Not sure why it has taken me so long, but there you have it.  This recording is definitely helping me on my journey and encouraging me to discover his other recordings..

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Sonny_Side_Up.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2016, 08:35:16 PM
(http://img0043.psstatic.com/128456602_amazoncom-1-3-ron-carter-music.jpg)

Ron Carter - 1+3 (1978)

(http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/37d852a2585f7a4068976c3fb623eeb1/1474125.jpg)

Mulgrew Miller - The Countdown (1988)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/816o0eUObwL._SX300_.jpg)

Gateway - Homecoming (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 06, 2016, 02:08:39 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 05, 2016, 04:37:57 PM
Conor's next delivery of jazz box sets.  Damn!

(http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/80085000/jpg/_80085310_maersk_triple_e_portoffelixstowe.jpg)


Hahaha  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 06, 2016, 02:11:39 AM
Tonight's listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DkqWRzf2L._SL1050_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815XyZgvjLL._SL1500_.jpg)

On my 3rd straight listen to Disc 1 - features a great live version of Moanin' :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 07, 2016, 01:59:44 AM
Joe Pass Trio: Eximious.

(http://i.imgur.com/wBMbZmS.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 07, 2016, 02:41:04 AM
Today at work:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DkqWRzf2L._SL1050_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71l5CRfS4hL._SL1300_.jpg)

I like listening to stuff on my breaks - it makes the degradation of work more bearable :laugh:
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 07, 2016, 03:10:38 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C2PPG8RZL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BVSTimePL._SL1000_.jpg)

Just received this box-set today and listening to this album for the first time.
I love the Bass - I play (very, very poorly) myself so I am in awe of musicians like Stanley Clarke.
This should be a good box-set I think :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 07, 2016, 03:11:55 PM
Friday morning listen:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ODDbF8nmL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71wO4xk09fL._SL1207_.jpg)

Very nice live album - now playing Disc 1 :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 08, 2016, 02:13:34 AM
I don't mean to hog this thread - I am just very enthusiastic :)
Cant get enough of Jazz at the moment 8)
Tonight's Listening:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WsMR6FxEL._PJautoripBadge,BottomRight,4,-40_OU11__.jpg)

Playing this one for the second time today - great album!.
Friday night again - the sweetest listening night of the week.
Happy Friday's people :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 08, 2016, 01:18:55 PM
playing more Bley - the one on top actually last night but I didn't mention it here yet:

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now these two:

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both from here:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 08, 2016, 01:35:47 PM
^That's making me want to dig out my copy of Not Two, Not One which was one of my favorite Bley discs (and also features Peacock prominently).

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F86E2S96L._SY300_.jpg)


but playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QK0C85EPL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 08, 2016, 04:24:00 PM
Another Jazzy morning :)
Earlier:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TT9nDQS4L.jpg)

Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71nsM1knjQL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 08, 2016, 06:47:53 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A13f6XRdtLL._SL1500_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZ%2BQzRsEL.jpg)

Great album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 08, 2016, 09:15:29 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BR5RzXSSL._SX300_.jpg)

Jackie McLean - New Wine In Old Bottles (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 08, 2016, 10:05:53 PM
Enjoying these 2:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CtTloau9L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71WMtMd2QHL._SL1400_.jpg)

Nice and mellow - perfect for slothing around the house on a lazy Saturday :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 02:43:10 AM
waited over a month for my order (at a marketplace vendor's) to arrive, so straight into the player it goes:

[asin]B00004UD4Z[/asin]
contains the albums "The Sweet Life" (1972) and "The Cisco Kid" (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 04:04:06 AM
(http://www.claudiofasoli.com/index_htm_files/4475.jpg)

Claudio Fasoli (ts, ss), Kenny Wheeler (t, flh), Jean-François Jenny Clark (b) - wonderful album, rec. 1988

(be warned though, the Nueva NC 1002 edition, Milano, 1990, distr. Nuova Fonit Cetra, is bronzed and all three copies I have by now - the third from Mr. Fasoli himself - seem to be in slow decline, with the final tracks unplayable ... a friend helped me out with a burn of the Innowo/New Sound Planet version, that one distr. Novo Records ... weird, but that one seems to be okay indeed)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 09, 2016, 04:42:41 AM
From 1964 (but unreleased until 81(?) )

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uLvocJ1Mzp8/VRTWw6LZzjI/AAAAAAAAGBg/aVGjJEZA0tw/s1600/Cover.png)

The title track (first track) makes you pay attention to what is coming out of your speakers due mainly to Art Blakey's drumming.  However, after this, the album falls into what I consider a fairly forgetful set of mediocrity.  Might have worked out better if Blakey would have been in charge of the whole thing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 05:24:22 AM
some more Paul Bley ... stacked up a few of his fine Steeplechase trio albums a few years ago, when I wrote something about Bley ... and never really came around playing them all that often so far

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 09, 2016, 06:35:12 AM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000280A3.01.L.jpg)

Let me know when this one comes through, KU.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 07:24:44 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 09, 2016, 06:35:12 AM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000280A3.01.L.jpg)

Let me know when this one comes through, KU.

I actually know that one already ... have had a rip for some years and seized the day when I saw the offer ... I love Wardell Gray, even spent 35 or 40 bucks on a special Japanese release of material by this very Goodman combo featuring him.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 09, 2016, 07:39:14 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 07:24:44 AM
I actually know that one already ... have had a rip for some years and seized the day when I saw the offer ... I love Wardell Gray, even spent 35 or 40 bucks on a special Japanese release of material by this very Goodman combo featuring him.

Just dumped in my wishlist.  I have some of Goodman's Yale recordings and love the bit more obscure live stuff from him, especially into the 50's and 60's.  Even though this is '48,would love to give it a go and net some initiation into Gray's sound.  Thanks!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2016, 08:02:13 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 09, 2016, 07:39:14 AM
Just dumped in my wishlist.  I have some of Goodman's Yale recordings and love the bit more obscure live stuff from him, especially into the 50's and 60's.  Even though this is '48,would love to give it a go and net some initiation into Gray's sound.  Thanks!

Oh, I thought you knew it ... it's the small group Goodman co-led with young swedish clarinet player Stan Hasselgard and which features Gray as well. This was Goodman's short flirtation with bop (which can also be heard on the Capitol disc "Undercurrent Blues", Gray is there, too, on a few tracks, and there's of course the one track recorded with Fats Navarro as well). Gray was sort of a proto-mainstream guy, fitting with swing as well as with bop without having to alter his style in the least bit. I adore his playing be it in his own studio recordings or in rough jam sessions alongside Dexter Gordon and others. Very, very sad he died so early (and under what horrendous circumstances).

As for Goodman himself, I'm not that big a fan (I guess if I had to, I'd pick Artie Shaw) but I love his trio/quartet sides with Teddy Wilson/Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton from the late thirties, and there's so much music in his long career that there are good things aplenty really - the Carnegie Hall concert 1938, these sides with Wardell Gray, the band he took to the USSR, the jam session with Count Basie and Lester Young ... I still need his Mosaic box though, I've got a cheapo box somewhere but it's so foogly I really never listen to anything from it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 02:04:38 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/614qPRwFCjL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 03:48:10 PM
Now playing (again):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CtTloau9L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71WMtMd2QHL._SL1400_.jpg)

Brilliant! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2016, 03:53:54 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eiqU8SHPL._SS280.jpg)

I'd forgotten what a big-name lineup this has:

Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
Chick Corea – electric piano
Stanley Clarke – bass
Airto Moreira – percussion
Tony Williams – drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 05:36:45 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 09, 2016, 03:53:54 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eiqU8SHPL._SS280.jpg)

I'd forgotten what a big-name lineup this has:

Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
Chick Corea – electric piano
Stanley Clarke – bass
Airto Moreira – percussion
Tony Williams – drums

That's an all-star lineup for sure! - what did you think of the album Simon?

Now playing:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 09, 2016, 06:26:23 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 03:48:10 PM
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Brilliant! 8)
That is a great album. I love Ike Quebec. He's nice and smooth but never boring.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 06:45:05 PM
Quote from: Artem on January 09, 2016, 06:26:23 PM
That is a great album. I love Ike Quebec. He's nice and smooth but never boring.

Ike Quebec is awesome for sure - I really love the tone he is able to extract from his instrument.
I was reading a bit about him today - its a shame he died so young :(
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2016, 06:54:14 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 05:36:45 PM
That's an all-star lineup for sure! - what did you think of the album Simon?


I was struck this time by how much it sounded like early Return To Forever...then realised that Corea, Clarke and Morea were all on those albums which were being recorded at the same time. Fine by me, I love early RTF.


playing now:

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Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

Damn! Why haven't I heard this amazing album before now?!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 07:59:17 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 09, 2016, 06:54:14 PM
I was struck this time by how much it sounded like early Return To Forever...then realised that Corea, Clarke and Morea were all on those albums which were being recorded at the same time. Fine by me, I love early RTF.

Thanks that sounds like something I would enjoy :)

Speaking of Stanley Clarke - NP:

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The last (unplayed) album in the Clarke box I received last week - as expected I really enjoyed that set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2016, 08:31:56 PM
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Codona - Codona 1 (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 10, 2016, 02:11:01 PM
after a wonderful concert (Julia Fischer/Igor Levit playing Beethoven's Kreutzer and Op. 96), back with Paul Bley:

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foogly covers, but his run of trio records for Steeplechase is pretty darn great ... "Paul Plays Carla" is probably my favourite of 'em, but I have one more to go which is dedicated to the music of Ornette Coleman, so ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on January 11, 2016, 06:29:29 AM
Mahler jazz

https://www.youtube.com/v/nQJIgjZz4Ms
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 11, 2016, 11:58:28 AM
before:

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now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 12, 2016, 05:24:49 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 09, 2016, 02:04:38 PM
Now playing:

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Oh yeah.


In other news...

Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 12, 2016, 03:03:58 PM
Quote from: NikF on January 12, 2016, 05:24:49 AM
Oh yeah.


In other news...

Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges.

[asin]B000094T54[/asin]

For sure! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 12, 2016, 03:10:59 PM
Now playing:

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Later:

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Awesome albums :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 13, 2016, 12:49:26 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vRc5kgPLL._SY300_.jpg)

Freddie Hubbard - Backlash (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 14, 2016, 04:46:43 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/7zaEzHluxEw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 14, 2016, 04:55:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/SFYMC8md0XA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 14, 2016, 06:51:14 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RCvu0qnoL._SS280.jpg)

Donald Byrd and Doug Watkins - The Transition Sessions
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 14, 2016, 11:34:22 PM
Love Doug Watkins - and that two disc set is wonderful!

In the past days started exploring this:

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looking forward very much to playing all of the music in there, the second disc for one, jams by Teddy Wilson with Stan Getz and (separately) Zoot Sims is wonderful indeed, then there's a disc by Teddy Edwards' quartet (which had a few albums out, also one on Atlantic under Castro's leadership), a disc of early free jams with Chico Hamilton, a disc of jams with Oscar Pettiford, a disc by Castro's big band and one by a tentet led by Edwards ... none of it was ever released before, and there's an amazing website put up for this release:
http://www.joecastrojazz.com/

Then, since reading about Pettiford being on the Castro set, I was reminded to finally also get the two new ones by Sonorama (still have their Brew Moore and Albert Mangelsdorff discs on the shopping list) and played the shorter first one last night - lots of wonderful Hans Koller, and based on the Koller/Pettiford quartet with Attila Zoller (g) and - in this case - Kenny Clarke (d) (the longer second disc has the group's regular drummer Jimmy Pratt who also appears on the Castro set alongside Pettiford):

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right now:

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a rag bag of stuff with various groups (mostly German big bands, but on some tracks you get the group with Dick Twardzik (plus horns) who OD'ed a few days later, and you also get Lars Gullin playing two solos
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2016, 01:50:04 AM
next one by OP ... these are recordings from the second ("We Get the Message") and third ("Blues in My Mind") NDR Jazz Workshops, the first alas just about half of what's known to be around (yet it contains both trio features, the second one ("Gone With the Wind", played by OP's dentist Dr. P. Hieber (p), accompanied by Moore (b) and Clarke (d) is added as a ghost track at the end of the CD), the second pretty complete though:

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The group here again is based around the Pettiford/Koller quartet with Attila Zoller and now Jimmy Pratt, the others included are Dusko Goykovich and Roger Guérin (t), Armin Rusch (p) and Michel Hausser (vib). This is about as good as it got in Europe at that time!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 15, 2016, 02:55:45 AM
Just received this Disc today and listening for the first time:

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Lovely album :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2016, 06:46:08 AM
there shall be a sh*tload of aFR sales items be dumped here in the next days ... I reckon I'll have some 'splainin' to do sooner or later and possibly several times  ;D

anyway, first load landed, and out of the parcel comes this one, for starters:

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Prestige recorded the quartet of Charles, Mal Waldron, Addison Farmer and Jerry Segal, probably in hopes to get some of the attention the Modern Jazz Quartet got ... here, they've got Idrees Sulieman along for the ride, a mighty fine trumpet player not documented the way he deserved ... and thus I won't complain'

now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2016, 07:29:02 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/499/MI0003499715.jpg)

Some more Pettiford recordings from Germany, this time from the vaults of SWR (Südwestrundfunk now, SWF/Südwestfunk at that time, I think) - not sure how "lost" all these tracks really were, but they're fine and haven't been available for a while for sure (but I think some have previously been around) ... anyway, things start with a duet, OP/Dusko Goykovich doing "But Not for Me" and the we hear Lucky Thompson (boy do I love his playing!) doing "Sophisticated Lady" (LT on soprano, obviously, that tune lends itself perfectly to the soprano, as Coltrane later found out as well). Next up are a few cuts with Rolf Kühn and Jimmy Pratt - interesting line-up: cl/b/d - Hans Koller joins for one of them. The next date then is the OP/Koller group again, with Attila Zoller and Jimmy Pratt. All of these tracks date from 1959 (February to July), the final five are from December 1958 and thus from the same time as the NDR recodings. These have Koller, OP and Kenny Clarke with Hans Hammerschmid on piano, four saxes on two of the cuts (Rudi Flierl on alto and the massive baritone threesome of Helmut Brandt, Helmut Reinhardt and Johnny Feigl), and with Attila Zoller on the last two cuts instead of the four additional saxes. As with the Baker disc above (which comes from the radio station's vaults), we thus get a lot of variety. And as someone once said, Pettiford never played a bad solo. Whatever situation he found himself in, he was able to cope. A great musician, a terrific bass player, one of jazz' best cello players ... and a huge loss, his young death in 1960.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 15, 2016, 09:20:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/-KGMSALXHPo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2016, 09:43:06 AM
another one from the new arrivals:

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not quite sure yet what to make of the singing on about half of the tracks, but Curson is playing great, and Alain Jean-Marie is always a pleasure
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 15, 2016, 12:21:29 PM
Now playing:

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Been listening to Coltrane a lot this week - love this album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 15, 2016, 01:31:04 PM
Now playing:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2016, 05:49:46 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 14, 2016, 11:34:22 PM
Love Doug Watkins - and that two disc set is wonderful!


I'm not familiar with Doug Watkins. Which albums would you recommend?

playing now:

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Donald Byrd - Byrd In Flight (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 15, 2016, 08:57:50 PM
Afternoon listening - chewing on this set again:

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I think I mentioned before that I don't like the Free Jazz album but I think I really like the others - Don't know if Id want to listen to Jazz like this all the time but its good for something different. Pretty inventive and fun music :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 16, 2016, 01:28:10 AM
Now playing:

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Another one from the Atlantic Jazz box.
Cant say I have paid close attention to this album before - pretty good though (and nothing like Weather Report!) :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 16, 2016, 02:35:58 AM
bootleg alert, but if you don't hunt rare old vinyl, there's no other way to go and the music's pretty essential:

[asin]B000PFU7X0[/asin]
originally on LP as The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet (America) and Coleman Classics Vol. 1 (IAI - that's Bley's label), a terrific early document of Ornette's music that is testament as well to Paul Bley's great ears and supreme musicality
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 16, 2016, 03:32:59 AM
desert island stuff:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 16, 2016, 04:20:40 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 16, 2016, 02:35:58 AM
bootleg alert, but if you don't hunt rare old vinyl, there's no other way to go and the music's pretty essential:

[asin]B000PFU7X0[/asin]
originally on LP as The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet (America) and Coleman Classics Vol. 1 (IAI - that's Bley's label), a terrific early document of Ornette's music that is testament as well to Paul Bley's great ears and supreme musicality

Thanks - this one looks interesting but its a bit too expensive for me at the moment so I will have to pass on it :-[
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 16, 2016, 04:29:03 PM
Now playing:

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Up next:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 16, 2016, 08:04:39 PM
This afternoon:

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Very strange record - I can handle listening to individual tracks every now and then for something a little bit different.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 17, 2016, 01:00:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 15, 2016, 05:49:46 PM
I'm not familiar with Doug Watkins. Which albums would you recommend?

He died young in an accident, but it was him whom Mingus chose to play bass when he made his piano/vocals album ("Oh Yeah", Atlantic) - that's probably as close as you can get to real knighthood (not like all those "Sirs" that crowd the british classical scene  ;)).

Anyway, his other leader album, "Soulnik", is different, more chamber jazz like, cello and flute ... it's nice but I don't feel it does him justice.

As he's "just" the bass player on other folks' albums most of the time, it's not that easy to recommend anything, but he was part of the original Jazz Messengers, along with Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver and Art Blakey, and whatever he made with these guys is easily recommended! The perfect starting point would be "Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers" (initially two 10" LPs, later compiled for 12" and CD) the two discs from Cafe Bohemia as well as the follow-up studio album on Columbia, "The Jazz Messengers" (with Donald Byrd in for KD - this is part of the recent Blakey box released by Sony, just in case, there's more good music in there, although I'd say other than that, none of the albums is essential Blakey, quite, but none of them is bad or half-bad, either).

The group also recorded in various slighlty altered combinations, first as a quartet without Dorham for Mobley's debut session on Blue Note (it was a 10", too bad it wasn't regularly coupled with the two Silver 10"s mentioned above! I have it in the Mosaic box of Mobley's fifties Blue Note sessions), later on with Milt Jackson instead of trumpet ("Hank Mobley & His All Stars" - desert island stuff!), "Hank Mobley Quintet" (w/Art Farmer on trumpet). These are all mighty fine (all on the Mosaic box). Watkins is also on the related Mobley/Lee Morgan Savoy sessions (there's an not-quite-complete two-disc set called "The Birth of Hard Bop").

Besides the one Byrd/Watkins album on the Transition two-disc set, there's yet another one on "Introducing Kenny Burrell" (again in Blue Note's Connoisseur Series, likely OOP, the session isn't prime stuff but nice, you get Burrell with Mobley, Silver, Watkins and Louis Hayes on drums, who was Silver's quintets drummer as he and Blakey split ... Silver kept the band - Byrd/Mobley/Waktins - while Blakey kept the name "Jazz Messengers", which he had used many years earlier for unrelated sessions already) and later on was on "Candy" by Morgan, with Sonny Clark and Art Taylor (trumpet quartet's were quite rare back then).

With Silver, there's some more ... Louis Hayes, as I mentioned was the new drummer after the Silver/Blakey split, Watkins didn't stay that long, but he's on "Six Pieces of Silver", which is mighty good.

Further notable sidemen recordings included various of those loose jams Prestige did with Gene Ammons, but also several albums by Ammons that are more organized, notably "The Boss Tenor" (one of his best) and "Jug" (a personal favorite), work with Pepper Adams, more albums with Donald Byrd (including those made in Paris with Belgian tenor Bobby Jaspar), sessions with Coltrane (my favourite is probably "The Cats", Watkins is great there, but the session with Coltrane, Frank Wess and Paul Quinichette is wonderful, too). He was also at one time part of Red Garland's trio (different topic, I guess - long series of Prestige albums and more, most in trio, I'd start with "Red Garland's Piano" but that one has Paul Chambers), he's on a couple of early Jackie McLean sessions on Prestige ("Lights Out" with Elmo Hope is worth hearing! but they're all if you like JMac),

One finally, one more favourite and stone classic is "Saxophone Colossus" by Sonny Rollins! (Watkins is on more by Rollins, but if it's going to be one, it's that one ... and the Village Vanguard stuff on Blue Note, which has Wilbur Ware - another can of worms ...)

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thread duty:

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Paul Bley Quintet - Barrage (ESP-Disk')
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 17, 2016, 01:23:43 AM
Wow. Thanks for the overview. I'll check some of those out.

I didn't realise he was on Saxophone Colossus. Looking into that I see he's also on Newk's Time, which might be my favorite Rollins album. I'll have to play both again and pay more attention to the bass.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 17, 2016, 04:20:18 AM
I vastly prefer "Saxophone Colossus" (it's amongst my three or four Rollins' favourites), but "Newk's Time" is good, too.

Now playing disc one of this:

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contains a 1963 Don Cherry session (with Joe Scianni, David Izenzon and J.C. Moses, as well as a Paul Bley session with Izenzon and Paul Motian (1964), and some interviews with Sanders, Cherry and Bley
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 17, 2016, 05:21:08 AM
revisiting two more by Bley:

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solos, as well as duos and trios with Hans Koch (various clarinets and saxophones) and Franz Koglmann (trumpet), rec. 1990

and:

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with Koglmann again, as well as Peacock (rec. 1992) - who was the husband of the Annette in question, right before she teamed up with Paul Bley ... this is an hommage to Annette Peacock of course, the great composer and enigmatic performer
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 05:55:50 AM
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t31.0-8/12487217_1708757836003900_8412814413074208502_o.jpg)

I am like a kid at a gumball machine with a pocket full of quarters when it comes to crime jazz or tv/movie jazz.  This one might be my all time best find in the record bins.  The old adage of not judging a book by its cover definitely applies here. Fantastic, I mean, FANTASTIC tv jazz here. These are not the title themes to the shows listed, but rather the background music played during the shows. Tracks like "Forever Frantic" just sizzle and coolness kicks in with the likes of "Beatnik".

Here are the two mentioned above.  Enjoy, Daddy'O:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWzmRc3UZDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vklojEv2TIw

By the way, Space Age Pop Music says about this record that : It's as rare as an honest man in Congress, but worth spending a few years scrounging for.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 18, 2016, 06:42:47 AM
(https://arssacra.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/native-dancer.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 18, 2016, 07:32:09 AM
Terrific film and the music is no less.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 18, 2016, 08:17:35 AM
(http://retro.recordsale.de/cdpix/a/alanelsdonhisjazzband-dixielandfavourites.jpg)


I bought this in a charity shop recently. It was not quite what I expected so I will re-donate it soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 08:30:26 AM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 18, 2016, 07:32:09 AM
Terrific film and the music is no less.

[asin]B002H3ETXW[/asin]

With a nod to Kind of Blue and Plugged Nickel, this just might be my favorite Miles album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 08:41:53 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/169/MI0000169591.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Wow!  A gambit of big band sounds on this cd, but the cut Eugipelliv gives you a "Dragent-like jazz crime theme" (or at least it could pass for that) as well....bongos included!  Here is a sample:

http://www.shazam.com/track/62974272/eugipelliv

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 18, 2016, 12:05:09 PM
Quote from: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 08:30:26 AM
With a nod to Kind of Blue and Plugged Nickel, this just might be my favorite Miles album.

You would not have to work very hard to convince me!  But, have you seen the film?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 18, 2016, 01:29:32 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg)

Just received this one yesterday - listened to it last night before bed and now listening again.
Brilliant! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 18, 2016, 01:31:14 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 18, 2016, 01:29:32 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg)

Just received this one yesterday - listened to it last night before bed and now listening again.
Brilliant! :)

One of my faves! Love that cover as well!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 18, 2016, 01:36:07 PM
Quote from: George on January 18, 2016, 01:31:14 PM
One of my faves! Love that cover as well!

Thanks George - I love the artwork too! (pretty sure its been used on some other albums too as its such a good image?)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 01:46:37 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 18, 2016, 12:05:09 PM
You would not have to work very hard to convince me!  But, have you seen the film?

I have not.  Good?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 18, 2016, 02:54:38 PM
Now playing (again):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 18, 2016, 03:48:12 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 18, 2016, 07:32:09 AM
Terrific film and the music is no less.

[asin]B002H3ETXW[/asin]

Great stuff. Miles playing with a bunch of French jazz musicians. He was quite the icon when lived in Paris.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 04:58:36 PM
(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/t31.0-8/886322_1709091929303824_5213352991275214873_o.jpg)

It's been a labor of love looking for this one in the soundtrack bins, but finally spinning on my turntable. Great tv jazz here by Kenyon Hopkins and featuring Zoot Sims. I have noticed that all the ones I have seen on ebay have the Record Station sticker on them like mine. Love it when I find them with this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 19, 2016, 09:45:28 AM
recently, all from the aFR sales (evil, I tellya!):

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[asin]B0000639AG[/asin]
[asin]B00B2KDCFM[/asin]
[asin]B000053W3U[/asin]
[asin]B000XUP0PW[/asin]
(got into disc 2 of the Stafford last night, will continue listening last thing tonight again)

this one while commuting in the morning - wonderful album, John Jenkins' best, I guess, but it's the entire group and the wonderful Clifford Jordan that make it an entirely successful affair:

[asin]B00F5AHGUC[/asin]


right now, back to them evil sales:

[asin]B0000665C2[/asin]
(Albert Mangelsdorff with Dusko Goykovich, Emil Mangelsdorff, Joki Freund, Hans Koller, Peter Trunk etc)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 19, 2016, 09:53:00 AM
Quote from: Bogey on January 18, 2016, 01:46:37 PM
I have not.  Good?

A must see, in my admittedly francophiled opinion. 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 19, 2016, 10:30:30 AM
I'm a bit less enthralled by "L'Ascenseur" ... it's a stylish, very moody film, Jeanne Moreau is stunning as only she could be back then (beauté amère) and the music is a perfect fit ... but my favourite french movies (and they're amongs my favourite of all movies of course) are the more adventurous ones by JLG, Resnais etc. (still don't know much of Rivette's, and as I don't often watch movies at home, what with the great movie houses offering old stuff here, this will just have to wait until the next big Rivette series will happen ... last one was in the 90s when I was still too young to be into this or to understand, had I caught the films back then)

Now playing another one from the evil sales:

[asin]B007EED5MU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on January 19, 2016, 11:17:05 AM
Recently I contracted an addiction to hires recordings.  I came across the http://www.soundliaison.com/ (http://www.soundliaison.com/) dutch label which only produces jazz recordings.  In their production, I fell in love with http://www.soundliaison.com/studio-showcase-series/3-bach-reflections-wav (http://www.soundliaison.com/studio-showcase-series/3-bach-reflections-wav), a jazz pastiche of J-S Bach music.  Its awsome.  In the rest of their production (I bought everything) I like also http://www.soundliaison.com/studio-masters/1-after-silence-all (http://www.soundliaison.com/studio-masters/1-after-silence-all).  Beautiful soothing music.

The same group that did the Bach jazz pastiche did one on Schubert.  I ordered the CD which is hard to find but did not get it yet...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 19, 2016, 12:26:26 PM
Teddy Edwards - one of the unsung heros of jazz ... the first to ever record a true bop solo on tenor, but then he went missing for way too long until he returned (and that, more or less, sums up the story of his life as a musician, alas ... at one point he also toured with Tom Waits, who sang two songs on one of his albums, as a guest) - wonderful musician:

[asin]B000027UDL[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 19, 2016, 02:16:02 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 19, 2016, 10:30:30 AM
I'm a bit less enthralled by "L'Ascenseur" ... it's a stylish, very moody film, Jeanne Moreau is stunning as only she could be back then (beauté amère) and the music is a perfect fit ... but my favourite french movies (and they're amongs my favourite of all movies of course) are the more adventurous ones by JLG, Resnais etc....

I do moody.  But quite agree it's no match for most of Godard and Resnais. Or Clément.  BTW:  do you like L'Atalante? Prob. watched it more than any other French film, over and over and over. ma petite obsession.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 19, 2016, 05:00:42 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mdToD3YrL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81nKojOuuFL._SL1408_.jpg)

Great concert :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 19, 2016, 05:53:49 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg)

This album is fantastic - so mellow. Love it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 19, 2016, 11:19:58 PM
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 19, 2016, 02:16:02 PM
I do moody.  But quite agree it's no match for most of Godard and Resnais. Or Clément.  BTW:  do you like L'Atalante? Prob. watched it more than any other French film, over and over and over. ma petite obsession.
You bet! I love "L'Atalante", an amazing film! If we're talking older french directors, I also very, very much love Jean Renoir ... and of course Bresson, too!

On the morning commute today:

[asin]B00004GJVO[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 20, 2016, 12:16:50 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71scG95YfPL._SL1077_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iaOmtLMUL._SL1500_.jpg)

Havent listened to this one much before - another all-star lineup
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 12:18:50 AM
"Soul Station" is one of my all-time favourites!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 20, 2016, 12:20:13 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 12:18:50 AM
"Soul Station" is one of my all-time favourites!

I can see why - im a few tracks in now and its brilliant so far! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 12:37:18 AM
from that box, the same more or less also applies to:

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (though I like "Leapin' and Lopin'" and "Sonny Clark Trio" even more ... and the trio album on Time is up there, too)
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard (hope it's both discs!?)
Horace Silver - Song for My Father



not far behind:

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Joe Henderson - Page One
Dexter Gordon - Go
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue


The Monk and Powell material (both volumes for each of 'em, and with Monk the Milt Jackson "Wizard of the Vibes" RVG disc as well!) belongs in every collection!


The Byrd is nice, and I guess a BN classic it is (and the cover's mighty cool, too!) - but not essential to my ears.
The Quebec is wonnerful indeed - but his big classic, I reckon, is "Blue and Sentimental", in a sparse setting with Grant Green on guitar and no piano.


The ones I don't mention aren't bad either ... but for Jimmy Smith and Hubbard, I'd have picked other albums, the Chambers and Donaldson ones could have been replaced by any number of real classics (or better ones by the same leaders, at least in Donaldson's case, but I'm not too big a fan of his)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 01:16:53 AM
^Once again: funny how these things work. I think the Byrd album is more essential than the Sonny Clarke one.

And Moanin' is a fine album, but I've never understood why it gets all the attention in the Blakey catalogue.

Made me want now to play one of my favorites:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HbD%2BMGt4L._SY300_.jpg)

Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 01:47:53 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 01:16:53 AM
^Once again: funny how these things work. I think the Byrd album is more essential than the Sonny Clarke one.
obviously tastes do differ  :)

Quote from: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 01:16:53 AMAnd Moanin' is a fine album, but I've never understood why it gets all the attention in the Blakey catalogue.
I guess one stroing point is the line-up - Benny Golson is a wonderful musician and he hasn't made any other studio album with Blakey, plus he matches Lee Morgan perfectly well (the live recordings from Paris are great as well, I find - but I tend to like almost any classic Blakey album a lot, like 1954-1965 or so). Also, Golson has contributed a couple of true classic jazz tunes and some of them are to be heard on "Moanin'" in what might be their finest outings: "Are You Real", "Along Came Betty", and of course "Blues March". Plus you get arguably the best version of Bobby Timmons' title track.

Anyway, my top favourite Blakey album will I guess always be "Free for All"! And the Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia aren't far behind! Neither are "Destructible!", "Buhaina", "Mosaic", the live albums with Morgan and Mobley ("At the Jazz Corner of the World", as opposed to the later, also fine "Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World", which has the Morgan/Shorter line-up, which again produced several great studio albums). Blakey surely was on a roll in those years! Even the less famous years when he recorded for Columbia, RCA/VIK, Pacific Jazz, Atlantic and Bethlehem yielded some fine ones, notably the VIK "A Night in Tunisia" and the album with Thelonious Monk on Atlantic ... and of course the Columbia dedut is another stone classic, up there with the Cafe Bohemia volumes (although I prefer Kenny Dorham to Donald Byrd by quite a margin ... but he's terrific on those Columbia sessions!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 20, 2016, 07:31:15 AM
Konitz meets Mulligan.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 01:50:14 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mB9PNARpL._SX300_.jpg)

Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1963)

Interesting replaying this now after making a comment about it last night. I still enjoy it, and admire Byrd here as elsewhere being ever unpredictable at a time when many other Blue Note artists were settling into a familiar format of blowing sessions. But the vocal parts which I remember being very gospel now sound one or two steps closer to something like the Swingle Singers (not that I mind that).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 02:02:17 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 01:50:14 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mB9PNARpL._SX300_.jpg)

Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1963)

Interesting replaying this now after making a comment about it last night. I still enjoy it, and admire Byrd here as elsewhere being ever unpredictable at a time when many other Blue Note artists were settling into a familiar format of blowing sessions. But the vocal parts which I remember being very gospel now sound one or two steps closer to something like the Swingle Singers (not that I mind that).

Do you know the albums Max Roach and Andrew Hill made with voices? Both are titled "Lift Every Voice" - the Roach is on Atlantic, the Hill again on Blue Note, its Connoisseur Series reissue contained plenty of bonus material. Not generally too much of a fan of this kind of thing - guess I prefer the blowing session  ;) - but these are both interesting at least! Byrd followed up with a lesser effort, "I'm Tryin' to Get Home", I've got a recent Japanese reissue of it, it's fun but definitely inessential.

I had this on tonight:

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(actually only needed the Wood album from here, the others are on a superior release by Dutton Vocalion, though the tracklist for the Gonsalves/Ashby seems to differ a bit, but I'm too tired to investigate that right now)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 02:17:01 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 20, 2016, 02:02:17 PM
Do you know the albums Max Roach and Andrew Hill made with voices? Both are titled "Lift Every Voice" - the Roach is on Atlantic, the Hill again on Blue Note, its Connoisseur Series reissue contained plenty of bonus material. Not generally too much of a fan of this kind of thing - guess I prefer the blowing session  ;) - but these are both interesting at least! Byrd followed up with a lesser effort, "I'm Tryin' to Get Home", I've got a recent Japanese reissue of it, it's fun but definitely inessential.


Heh. Nothing wrong with a good blowing session, of course - far from it. I recognise the Andrew Hill and must have heard it at some point, but can't remember it now. I'll try and find it for another listen. Ditto the Max Roach, which I haven't heard before. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2016, 12:43:15 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 20, 2016, 02:17:01 PM
Heh. Nothing wrong with a good blowing session, of course - far from it. I recognise the Andrew Hill and must have heard it at some point, but can't remember it now. I'll try and find it for another listen. Ditto the Max Roach, which I haven't heard before. Thanks.

Hill's best music is the earlier albums on Blue Note ... it was his own decision, initally, to hold back most of what he committed to disc for the label after 1967, and by comparison you can kind of hear why, though I'm eternally thankful to Michael Cuscuna for digging it all up and releasing it, with Hill's consent!

The w/voices sessions fall into that time period, too ... but really, I've yet to hear anything by Hill that doesn't give me anything to think about!

My commuting music last night and this morning consisted of this twofer with the unsung Baby Face Willette's two great Argo album (all four of his leader albums are great, "Face to Face" is in my organ top 3, I guess!):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RZFgBbUzL.jpg)

Regarding "blowing sessions", of course one needs to differentiate ... there's blowing sessions (i.e. lots of what Prestige released) and there are well-planned, thought-out sessions that use the same "standard" line-up of hard bop times (t/ts frontline and three-piece rhythm, basically, sometimes as instead of ts, sometimes three horns with tb added or t/as/ts). Most Blue Note albums really couldn't be called "another blowing session".

But I have phases where I tire of hard bop, although it's my bread and butter, my musical home base, so which I keep returning.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 21, 2016, 02:44:11 AM
Quote from: NikF on January 20, 2016, 07:31:15 AM
Konitz meets Mulligan.

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This one looks very appealing - thanks for posting it (may have to pick it up at some stage!) :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 21, 2016, 02:47:48 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81ab4MlcqaL._SL1500_.jpg)

Up next:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71eVl9OQXNL._SL1057_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2016, 03:16:42 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 21, 2016, 02:44:11 AM
This one looks very appealing - thanks for posting it (may have to pick it up at some stage!) :)

It's gorgeous! Actually all the recordings of the original Mulligan Quartet with Baker are wonderful. There was a two CD set in EMI/Capitol/Blue Note/Pacific Jazz' alas very short-lived "West Coast Classics" series, including all of Mulligan's earliest recordings (the first two sessions aren't yet starring the classic t/bari/b/d line-up). Then, there's a disc on GNP Crescendo, also including a great Mulligan tentet session (based on/inspired by the "Birth of the Cool" band, of which Mulligan had been a member of course), and there's a Fantasy disc coupling the Mulligan Quartet's sides with a Chubby Jackson album on which Mulligan is featured.

Alas, I guess all of these are OOP, but there are surely some PD reissues available - for reference, here they are (and do add the Konitz to the list, just though there's no need to mention that again as well):

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[asin]B000000YX1[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 21, 2016, 09:46:37 AM
Our Man in Paris - Dexter Gordon.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 02:57:30 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 21, 2016, 03:16:42 AM
It's gorgeous! Actually all the recordings of the original Mulligan Quartet with Baker are wonderful. There was a two CD set in EMI/Capitol/Blue Note/Pacific Jazz' alas very short-lived "West Coast Classics" series, including all of Mulligan's earliest recordings (the first two sessions aren't yet starring the classic t/bari/b/d line-up). Then, there's a disc on GNP Crescendo, also including a great Mulligan tentet session (based on/inspired by the "Birth of the Cool" band, of which Mulligan had been a member of course), and there's a Fantasy disc coupling the Mulligan Quartet's sides with a Chubby Jackson album on which Mulligan is featured.

Alas, I guess all of these are OOP, but there are surely some PD reissues available - for reference, here they are (and do add the Konitz to the list, just though there's no need to mention that again as well):

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[asin]B000001OTM[/asin]
[asin]B000000YX1[/asin]

Thanks they look nice - maybe ill pick them or some other Mulligan up in future :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 03:02:25 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg)

Later (just arrived today in the mail):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZrF55ASpL._SL1050_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 10:35:01 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OEHqXEY-L._SL1390_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 22, 2016, 11:27:11 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 11:29:07 AM
Quote from: Henk on January 22, 2016, 11:27:11 AM
~
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This is a good one! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 22, 2016, 11:31:31 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511PG8Bm59L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 22, 2016, 11:48:13 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 11:29:07 AM
This is a good one! 8)

It sure is. A masterpiece by Mingus. Each track is a classic imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 22, 2016, 12:45:02 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2016, 12:59:52 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61lDV0KE8WL._SS280.jpg)

The "Standards" Trio - Yesterdays
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 22, 2016, 01:37:16 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 03:02:25 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg)

Playing it now. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 02:34:49 PM
Quote from: Henk on January 22, 2016, 01:37:16 PM
Playing it now. :)

Playing it again now too (its my favourite recording this week!) :D

Up next:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71l5CRfS4hL._SL1300_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 04:50:56 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fxY%2B%2B6p3L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 22, 2016, 07:03:19 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NrQSmX7zL.jpg)

Absolutely love this one.
Next up:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZrF55ASpL._SL1050_.jpg)

The latest arrival to my collection - listened to it a couple of times already: It's very nice as would be expected.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 23, 2016, 02:35:45 AM
just finished a second listen (played it last night already):

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it's short but very good - here's a review:
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2010/01/free-unfold-trio-ballades-ayler-records.html

if you're going to buy it, order straight from the label, Stéphane is doing a great job and needs every penny or cent of zloty you can spare!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 23, 2016, 02:38:12 AM
Putting some fire on with Fred Anderson.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 23, 2016, 02:50:29 AM
tenor bukkake from around the corner of Henk's (live at Nick Vollebregt's Jazcafe, Laren, NL):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 23, 2016, 03:13:19 AM
Well, for the Netherlands that are quite long distances.. :)

NP:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 23, 2016, 07:01:09 AM
Quote from: Henk on January 23, 2016, 03:13:19 AM
Well, for the Netherlands that are quite long distances.. :)
Being Swiss, I can relate to that  ;D

Playing some Belgian music now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 23, 2016, 11:14:19 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DXCZXckeL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2016, 12:57:03 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41a7-5v8iyL._SS280.jpg)

The "Standards" Trio - Tribute, disc one
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on January 23, 2016, 02:18:07 PM
Anyone here going to the Rochester (NY) Annual Jazz Festival in June?  I've been to the last four or five and can say it's well worth it; many a memorable performance and introductions to new performers (new to me, in many cases)!  http://www.rochesterjazz.com/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 23, 2016, 03:54:16 PM
As Rochester is neither in the low countries nor in Switzerland, I doubt that ... but next weekend I'm taking a trip to (Northern) Italy for two concerts: Decoy + Evan Parker at Novara Jazz and Muhal Richard Abrams in Milan's Teatro Manzoni - looking forward very, very much! Never managed to catch MRA live, missed the one Zurich gig I'm aware of ...

Just finished disc 1 of this:

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And now:

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won't get too far as it's time to go to bed ... but will continue tomorrow
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 23, 2016, 04:25:36 PM
This mornings listens:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81UttxtttrL._SL1300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVqryJJyL._SL1353_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 23, 2016, 05:24:56 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81OPWxGaJIL._SL1390_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91ceTZA7ysL._SL1500_.jpg)

:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 24, 2016, 04:31:56 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 24, 2016, 09:11:43 AM
TD
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One of the best to me of 2015.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 24, 2016, 11:00:02 AM
NP
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Ym61FuovL._SX425_.jpg)

2015 release. First track sounds fascinating.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 24, 2016, 06:37:52 PM
I have really been getting into Norwegian jazz recently, and highly recommend these two. The Iro Haarla is a masterpiece of beautiful, expressive melody, while the Henriksen, is extremely inventive, unusual, and otherworldly.

(http://dizw242ufxqut.cloudfront.net/images/product/music/album/image0/vespers-13799994-frntl.jpg)

(http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1349442-02A-BIG.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 25, 2016, 01:22:02 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/810w6rSqEwL._SL1063_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71M70VF%2BvJL._SL1500_.jpg)

Up next:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DkqWRzf2L._SL1050_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517UoDNkxQL.jpg)

It's a public holiday today in Australia - plan to celebrate by relaxing at home with some nice Jazz music :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 25, 2016, 06:52:18 PM
Very nice live recording from a great period for Coltrane. The first disk is a standout for me in this 2 disk set.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on January 25, 2016, 08:15:08 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515hXR4itjL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)

Great album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 25, 2016, 11:11:16 PM
since my last post here:

(http://www.claudiofasoli.com/index_htm_files/7661.jpg)

Claudio Fasoli - The Brooklyn Option (Musica Jazz)

A very good date with a simpatico band including Ralph Alessi whose trumpet blends very nicely with Fasoli's sax - released with italian magazine Musica Jazz and kindly sent to me by Mr. Fasoli himself, as a gift!


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f5rnFqZ8L.jpg)

Martial Solal - Nothing But Piano (MPS)

Nothing but ... understatement of the year! This is everything! Ridiculously good playing by one of the very few true heirs to Art Tatum.


(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uHdn_FAqK8c/TmgwXNIeJ5I/AAAAAAAAB4Y/e3WHLLxMDUU/s1600/DSCN0171.JPG)

Martial Solal/Lee Konitz/John Scofield/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - Four Keys (MPS)

This one's pretty fine as well ... guess I prefer Konitz/Solal in duo (on Horo or Hat) or quartet with b/d (the two albums reissued by CAM Jazz, the Juan-les-Pins set on Steeplechase ...), but this is very nice indeed and Sco's playing comes as a surprise: he uses very little of his usual effects, playing quite straight, actually reminded me a bit of Jim Hall here and there. Don't get me wrong, I do like Sco's gruff later recordings (mostly those with Joe Lovano), but he's not my favourite guitar player (those would be, let me think ... Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Raney, Jim Hall, René Thomas ... also Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, Billy Bauer, Barney Kessel, Oscar Moore ... and of course Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian! and I guess I have forgotten a couple of others ...)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/085/MI0002085880.jpg)

Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (Blue Note)

A top favourite in my house ... Griffin's solo on the title track is one of my favourites, too!


And this morning, played some tracks by/with Paul Bley (including some Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, and the fabulous "All the Things You Are" from "Sonny Meets Hawk", with Bley's essential solo)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 26, 2016, 06:26:06 AM
(http://covers.discorder.com/fullsize/front/4988005886125.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 29, 2016, 01:04:21 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71mlo8E256L._SX300_.jpg)

Pat Martino - Exit (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 29, 2016, 04:47:11 PM
Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71FR2jxxpQL._SL1500_.jpg)

Chet Baker, for me, is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all-time. Such a lyrical approach to the instrument. He never tries to overreach himself in terms of technical proficiency. He always plays what is essential to the music and leaves the blowing sessions to other musicians.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 30, 2016, 12:18:21 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 29, 2016, 04:47:11 PM
Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71FR2jxxpQL._SL1500_.jpg)

Chet Baker, for me, is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all-time. Such a lyrical approach to the instrument. He never tries to overreach himself in terms of technical proficiency. He always plays what is essential to the music and leaves the blowing sessions to other musicians.

Thanks for your comments, just downloaded it and will listen before going to sleep.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2016, 12:58:55 PM
That's made me put this favorite on for another listen:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WFdo8W3XL._SS280.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 30, 2016, 07:16:42 PM
Coincidently, I've been listening to this CD tonight. Getz is more prominent here, but Baker's sound is very nice. I like his later recordings in Europe a lot.

[asin]B00003ZA5Y[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 30, 2016, 08:59:10 PM
Quote from: Henk on January 30, 2016, 12:18:21 PM
Thanks for your comments, just downloaded it and will listen before going to sleep.

I'm one of those people who doesn't like Chet Baker's singing and have cautiously avoided albums with his vocals. Thankfully, he's done a lot of non-vocal jazz and In New York is one of those albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2016, 09:14:59 PM
Its a very limited voice, to be sure. But he picks his songs carefully, not just for his range, but also for the sincerity he seems (to me at least) to bring and  to the ultimate bittersweetness he seems to reveal in what would elsewhere be either up or down.


playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QLdnpPFrL._SY300_.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Yasmina, A Black Woman (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 31, 2016, 07:16:16 AM
(https://artwork-cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/004/343/0000434387_500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 31, 2016, 12:17:52 PM
Apologies to MI, but I'm in the mood this morning for some more of Chet singing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513Y3SUkq3L._SS280.jpg)

Chet Baker - It Could Happen To You (1958)


later:

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Joe Pass - Eximious (1982)


later still:

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Archie Shepp - Four For Trane (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 01, 2016, 02:45:46 PM
Samples from the Harry Bosch series:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018V4PNRG/ref=dm_dp_pl_rdr
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 01, 2016, 06:07:17 PM
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First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 01, 2016, 06:21:14 PM
Post your thoughts as soon as you can, buddy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2016, 11:57:39 PM
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Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 02, 2016, 10:36:11 AM
 
Quote from: Bogey on February 01, 2016, 06:21:14 PM
Post your thoughts as soon as you can, buddy.

Listened to about half of CD 01. The music is as good as the sound is bad. ;D

I hear the original CD issue (with the black cover) sounds even worse!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on February 02, 2016, 10:47:41 AM
Quote from: George on February 02, 2016, 10:36:11 AM
Listened to about half of CD 01. The music is as good as the sound is bad. ;D
That's my recollection of the set, too.  :laugh:
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 02, 2016, 11:51:04 PM
Not sure, but yeah, many people seem to really dislike sound on that Ellington set - the music is beyond any reproach though, that's for sure! I've got it as part of the big RCA Centennial edition (24 discs, LP sized ... one of the most expensive sets I ever bought, but I've never regretted that). I assume the remasterings used for that three disc set would be the same ones as for the big box. The older (black) edition was quite certainly heavily noise-reductioned (the Carnegie Hall reissues on Fantasy/Concord are another example for that, very dull sounding), this newer might have benefitted from some more noise reduction/cleaning up, I guess ... but for me, usually after 15 or 20 minutes I stop being bothered, and I often just switch back to the first track once my ears are aligned.

Last weekend, I traveled to Italy to hear two concerts - turned out to be a terrific experience! In Novara, I heard Decoy & Evan Parker, and then as a Sunday matinee in Milan, Muhal Richard Abrams with his quintet. Here's my write-up, including a few snapshots:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/14653-what-live-music-are-you-going-to-see-tonight/&do=findComment&comment=1474750
longer intial write-up in german:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/showthread.php?56960-2016-Jazzgigs-konzerte-amp-festivals&p=3560333&viewfull=1#post3560333

Lately on the menu here - I failed to post for several days, so quite a list:

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This one's effin' great! Missed it in 2015, but finally got it ... Clean Feed is right now running their annual sales, lots of good music at a very attractive price:
https://cleanfeed-records.com/product-category/stockoff/superstockoff/

[asin]B0157S7MTQ[/asin]
disc one this time, and it was perfect for the day I played it - though probably it's interesting, rather than great

[asin]B00D5P16V4[/asin]
the Simmons album is mighty fine, the Evans one (with Jack Wilson on piano) is a bit on the light side

(http://www.ayler.com/assets/images/recordings/ayldl-075.jpg)

Very nice one, but the Ayler double disc with Johnny Dyani is quite a bit better I find, I really love that one - this here:
http://www.ayler.com/anders-gahnold-flowers-for-johnny.html
like it very much!

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[asin]B00006C77D[/asin]
two classics, of course ... but the Mobley somehow just won't click with me as much as "Soul Station" and - to a somewhat lesser extent - "Workout" do

[asin]B00IMRHQ1Y[/asin]
I love the classic Mangelsdorff quintet albums (Now Jazz Ramwong, One! Tension), but this compilation of early sides is a rag bag, too much of his brother Emil's stiff, non-idiomatic phrasing, too many different sessions represented by just one cut each ... and due to Sonorama's also doing vinyl (and the releases thus being around 40 or close to 80 minutes mostly) it's a bit on the short side as well, which is regrettable, they really could have given the CD folks some more music from these sessions!

[asin]B0131PIFD4[/asin]
This one, though again short, is pretty nice to have indeed - there's not exactly too much Brew Moore around and he's a wonderfully swinging player! The longer tracks are with Scandinavian rhythm players, the - alas pretty short - three tracks with Lou Bennett, Jimmy Gourley and Kenny Clarke can also be found as video on the INA website:
http://www.ina.fr/video/I09220001/brew-moore-kenny-clarke-jimmy-gourley-lou-bennet-zonky-satin-doll-broadway-video.html

also, organ heaven:

https://youtu.be/88UI6EcBWPY

Shirley Scott Trio (with Harold Vick & Art Taylor) - Don't Look Back - 1976
(https://dalstonsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/filueferru.jpg?w=300&h=405)

Played this one twice in a row - finally could pick it up at the Decoy concert in Novara - it's wonderful indeed!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/888/MI0002888069.jpg)

bought this - and Vol. 2 (Vol. 1 is CD only, Vol. 2 LP only, both done during the same session) - at the concert as well ... or rather, still owe Alexander Hawkins some for these, will hear him again on Saturday, with the group of Mulatu Astatke

[asin]B0013816RO[/asin]
had to give it back to its owner ... nice one but not one I'd buy for myself

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[asin]B000W9ELSQ[/asin]
Hod O'Brien is great! Will have to play the second one again soon (it was made 20 years later in 2007, again with a drummerless trio but this time with g/b instread of p/b as on the Criss Cross disc)

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disc two

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first spin last night - Coles is terrific ... as for Wess, I'm mostly not so fond of his alto playing here, but luckily there's plenty of tenor, too! (and the opener of the second disc, live from Yoshi's, is on flute)

[asin]B000005GX9[/asin]
This one - with Grant Green and the Horace Parlan Trio (George Tucker, Al Harewood) I bought while we were on a class trip in Athens, in the nineties ... loved it ever since, "Love for Sale" is killer, but there's plenty of other fine music here!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2016, 01:10:50 PM
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Grant Green - Sunday Mornin' (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 03, 2016, 08:51:31 PM
king ubu, your photos of evan parker and them having pizzas is amazing!  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 03, 2016, 11:15:11 PM
Quote from: Artem on February 03, 2016, 08:51:31 PM
king ubu, your photos of evan parker and them having pizzas is amazing!  ;D

The pizza/negroni one and the one with me on it weren't taken by me ... but yeah, great weekend!  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2016, 11:19:55 PM
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Archie Shepp - The Magic Of Ju-Ju (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 04, 2016, 12:57:41 AM
that's a great one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:07:10 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 04, 2016, 12:57:41 AM
that's a great one!

Yes! I was very impressed!

I'm really just  catching up with the Shepp discography now. Are there any others you'd recommend?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 04, 2016, 03:51:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:07:10 AM
Yes! I was very impressed!

I'm really just  catching up with the Shepp discography now. Are there any others you'd recommend?

easy to answer: basically, all Impulse albums up to a certain point ... Four for Trane, Fire Music, On This Night, New Thing in Newport (shared with Coltrane, of who's set there's better editions, but the Shepp was never expanded or available separately I think), Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (the late 90s Master Editions reissue also contains "Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime", any "Originals" reissue won't contain more than the actual LP album from back when), Mama Too Tight, The Magic of Ju-Ju, The Way Ahead, For Loosers, Kwanza (these two are paired on one of the Impulse 2-on-1 series reissues!) ... at that point, there's also a live album on BASF/MPS (messy sound, never widely available on CD), several on BYG and America (I'm not familiar with all of them, but I'd say if you're really hooked to Shepp and see them for a good price, go get them).

Shepp then returned to recording from Impulse (there's not even a gap, just a flurry of European albums from 1969/70), doing two more that can be found on a recent "2-on-1" reissue, "Things Have Got to Change" and "The Cry of My People", as well as a large ensemble album, "Attica Blues", that's quite exciting indeed!

Up to this point; I'd say that later twofer is maybe the least essential of the Impulse albums, my top favourites would be, in rough sequence: Mama Too Tight, Live in San Fransciso (with the bonus album!), Fire Music, Four for Trane, On This Night and Attica Blues. The Americas aren't easy to find (if at all), the BYG discs were shady from the git-go and reissued on shady CDs at least in part (shady meaning: no royalties paid ever, these labels kept pretending to maintain there was no money in it for anyone ... I'm sure producing avantgarde jazz rekkids never made these guys rich, but they could keep up shop for a while, so .... either way, I need to spend more time with the ones I have, which are just a few).

Later on, Shepp turned into some kind of post Coltrane-traditionalist, I'm ambivalent about lots of his later output, but for one, "Steam" on Enja is excellent, a live trio recording with just bass and drums (Cameron Brown & Beaver Harris) from 1976. Also, the duos with Max Roach are great (for "Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76" you gotta help yourself in the interwebs, "The Long March" on Hat should still be around). I also like his duo album with Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) quite some.

For his "classicist" (sort of, he never turned into a changes player at that!) recordings, others will certainly be better equipped to give guidance ... his discography is really big:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Shepp_discography

For starters I guess I'd try and get "Mama Too Tight" (almost Ellingtonian, if that makes sense), one of the hot and wild ones ("Live in San Francisco" or "Fire Music") and maybe one of the seventies ones ("The Long March" or "Steam").

And of course there's some really early stuff, too - the Savoy album with Bill Dixon was only on CD on a yurpeen PD reissue, the shared one by the New York Contemporary Five (with Shepp) and Bill Dixon (no Shepp there) was reissued officially in the early noughties though. The NYC5 have more recordings out ... I've got the twofer on Storyville that omits one track (I think), would have to look up details.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:24:02 PM
Thanks for that. I played Mama Too Tight a few nights ago and liked it very much. I've made a note of the othrt titles you mention.

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gbHL-0lZL._SS280.jpg)

Grant Green - Matador (rec.1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on February 04, 2016, 11:21:40 PM
Listening to this new arrival for the first time:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FJKzB8hhL.jpg)

Mellow album - perfect for Friday evening :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2016, 12:06:00 AM
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John Coltrane - Om  (rec.1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 01:12:55 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:24:02 PM
Thanks for that. I played Mama Too Tight a few nights ago and liked it very much. I've made a note of the othrt titles you mention.

Just saw that the 2CD reissue of Shepp/Roach "The Long March" is again OOP - on these hatOLOGY titles, you have to move fast (you might note to get the two Santa Cruz ones by Braxton and the two vols of Cecil Taylor's "Garden" in time!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 05:08:18 AM
some Kenny Wheeler ... his tone just tears my heart open:

[asin]B00080Z6IS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 06:11:16 AM
more Taylor and Wheeler, with Riccardo del Fra on bass:

[asin]B00006596T[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 08:06:55 AM
'nother one from the evil aFR sales - glad they're over!

[asin]B0000030F1[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 08:39:19 AM
now some grease before it's time to move over to the kitchen and fix dinner - another one picked up in those evil sales a few weeks ago:

[asin]B00002818A[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2016, 12:53:44 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81gsjUtD90L._SX300_.jpg)

Grant Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 01:23:10 PM
^ good one, 'xept for I don't like Beatles covers by jazzers much ...

here, this one, from the evil sales, just went into the player for the first time, and it starts out very good:

[asin]B000HEWFVQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 02:03:32 PM
next one from the sales and from Chicago:

[asin]B003UOM5NS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 05, 2016, 04:01:05 PM
ending the day with some more vibes:

[asin]B000RO9ZMS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on February 05, 2016, 04:04:06 PM
Now playing:

[asin]B0000691U0[/asin]

Still have this Bill Evans/Jim Hall album in high rotation - love it :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 05, 2016, 05:02:33 PM
Quote from: Green Destiny on February 05, 2016, 04:04:06 PM
Now playing:

[asin]B0000691U0[/asin]

Still have this Bill Evans/Jim Hall album in high rotation - love it :)

I hear if you keep playing it, she'll sink to the bottom.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on February 05, 2016, 06:59:36 PM
Quote from: George on February 05, 2016, 05:02:33 PM
I hear if you keep playing it, she'll sink to the bottom.

Yeah it could happen - I sure did play that recording a lot the last couple of weeks :o ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2016, 01:59:44 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419DYM1SD3L.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Fire Music (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 06, 2016, 03:13:35 AM
another one from the recent aFR sales:

[asin]B006NYQKW4[/asin]
disc two only actually, but that's why I bought it, already have the two Atlantic albums on disc one, but never before heard the Birdland broadcasts that are on disc two - so-so sound, but great music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on February 06, 2016, 07:43:46 AM
Quote from: Green Destiny on January 25, 2016, 08:15:08 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515hXR4itjL.jpg)

Great album!

Listening to it now, sipping thee.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 06, 2016, 07:53:38 AM
hope you're not sipping mee  ;D

latest discs in the player - again, all from them evil sales:

[asin]B0007GB9QQ[/asin]
[asin]B0000010WE[/asin]
[asin]B004INNRF0[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2016, 01:04:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BOU3ezUZL._SS280.jpg)

Grant Green - Green Is Beautiful (1970)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-TSMxX1ZL._SY280_.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Things Have Got To Change (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 07, 2016, 01:04:44 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5114H%2Bedg-L._SS280.jpg)

Grant Green - Talkin About (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 07, 2016, 09:50:52 PM
Tyshawn Sorey's 2014 album Alloy: Very, very beautiful, especially the Feldman-esque piece A Love Song

(http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2014/12/tyshawn-sorey-alloy.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 07, 2016, 11:48:49 PM
lots of Stéphan Oliva on Sunday:

[asin]B000NPE7ZG[/asin]
[asin]B000059QY4[/asin]
[asin]B000027PJG[/asin]
[asin]B00004SYZE[/asin]
with lots of repeated plays of single tracks, and in the case of the last one, of the entire disc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 08, 2016, 01:40:10 PM
more Oliva - first, this one again - it's great indeed:

[asin]B00004SYZE[/asin]

now just ending this here, the same trio live at two concerts in France, a bit later:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M0tgvVRkL._SX425_.jpg)

and then, ending the day with this one, the second Tristano tribute with François Raulin, this time adding two reeds players, two double basses and guitar:

[asin]B000070IKU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 08, 2016, 02:39:37 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NYDSSY08L.jpg)

Grant Green - Carryin On (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 08, 2016, 05:58:41 PM
(http://cdn.discogs.com/_07HTbQlnLq9TgLuNlAUkGCNrpc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1196907-1428814717-8114.jpeg.jpg)

Specifically, "Spiritual" coming in at 20:29 from Sunday, November 5.  Looks as if this and "India" (15:06) were the only two songs played during this set. 

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O8lzYWyieyI/Sx1rfsvlDPI/AAAAAAAACRc/kemyDagv8cQ/s320/disc-4.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on February 08, 2016, 10:43:09 PM
Earlier today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517Q0HlJIoL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ChHjhk0QL._SL1101_.jpg)

Played a few albums from the Getz box since receiving it yesterday - Its great!. Very pleased :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2016, 12:44:53 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FT3JQ8TPL.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Blasé (1969)


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71FidOm9LfL._SY300_.jpg)

Grant Green - Alive (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Green Destiny on February 10, 2016, 12:51:28 AM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rYDKk8BgL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xTPxNs3mL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 10, 2016, 03:25:24 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511sWY2yyTL._SX300_.jpg)

Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique (rec.1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 13, 2016, 04:47:59 AM
Now playing:  Basie.....Count Basie.

(https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/12715984_1717085845171099_6372695248439798194_o.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on February 13, 2016, 08:30:16 PM
Now playing:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q7xSVgMML.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xTPxNs3mL.jpg)

Managed to listen to all of this latest box set already - I am very pleased with it! Definetely as good as the Atlantic Albums box set I bought a few years ago :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 14, 2016, 05:27:45 AM
Some more 'Trane as well:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/908/MI0001908234.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite jazz albums.  When I purchased it some years back, I thought it decent, but now that I have given it my full attention I find that one spin is not enough. In fact, this round I let it move through four full times and gave Blues Legacy a couple more rounds in the ring.  Check it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlMGzDSQog

Oh, and the opening track, "Stairway to the Stars" has unbelievable acoustics.  The engineering on it is soe of the best I have of any jazz on the shelf.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 14, 2016, 05:36:16 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 14, 2016, 08:54:36 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Mosaic_Andrew_Hill.jpg)

disc one
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 14, 2016, 10:50:17 PM
Wanted to mention that earlier: very much love Basie Meets Bond - some mean Lockjaw there! And fun arrangements!

Yesterday night:

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[asin]B00VXMUFOU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2016, 12:16:42 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hiJOH024L._SX300_.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Montreux One (1975)

(http://cdn.discogs.com/ngZbf0XuJqAe7dASnb4E1rQhpgs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-755889-1155586675.jpeg.jpg)

Joseph Jarman - Song For (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2016, 03:29:18 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2016, 12:16:42 AM
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Joseph Jarman - Song For (1967)

Nice! Are you into (early) AAC in general? Roscoe Mitchell's debut on Delmark, the early Art Ensemble albums (under Mitchell or Bowie's names) on Nessa, early Muhal Richard Abrams and Kalaparusha on Delmark? Love this stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2016, 12:17:46 PM
Yeah, I love that Jarman album. AAC I've found uneven generally, some wonderful, some misfires. But I need to investigate further and relisten to the few I have.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 15, 2016, 02:54:21 PM
From 1959

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/75/18/96/751896ee8e50ece2bfbfc6c68233c93d.jpg)

(http://www.danacountryman.com/Drasnin/photos/Bob%20and%20Red2sm.jpg)

Drasnin far left on the flute.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 15, 2016, 05:47:11 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81er2%2BQDqQL._SL1500_.jpg)

(http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401a3fd1bbc35970b-500wi)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 16, 2016, 01:45:05 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2016, 12:17:46 PM
Yeah, I love that Jarman album. AAC I've found uneven generally, some wonderful, some misfires. But I need to investigate further and relisten to the few I have.

It does require time and perseverance, I guess. Took me a while to wrap my mind around it for sure. Some is in-yo-face brilliant ("Thème de Yoyo" on one of their Pathé albums for one ... there's also a Monteverdi thing there, on the other of the Pathés I think?), but lots of it is ... let's put it like this: less obvious.

This is, I think, because of the underlying concepts that deal with time and space in a much different way from NY jazz and free jazz. Things are opened up, empty spaces that can be handled in any number of ways. This is music that kind of opens up possibilities and then allows things to happen, rather than forcing anything (which is what the firebrands from NY do, Shepp, Sanders and the like). This creates a whole different type of intensity (that can become just as burning ultimately, see for instance Roscoe Mitchell's recent Nessa album in tribute of Fred Anderson), a different type of concentration and focus. And I guess I love this very much by now. It can also mean that recordings very slowly unwrap, it can mean (partial) failure in that options are opened up but then nothing really happens (or that nothing is IT which happens). It's an approach to freedom in music that I very much enjoy - not working on energy levels and build-ups mostly, or rather just making use of such techniques at the time when they are fitting in.

Latest plays here:

[asin]B00VXMUFOU[/asin]
[asin]B00024HW4Q[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 16, 2016, 01:46:14 AM
by the way, that Getz/Gilberto pic is a still from this most charming TV cap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 16, 2016, 02:03:18 AM
^Thanks for the above. Following up on one of the recommendations now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711WYUprXgL._SX300_.jpg)

Roscoe Mitchell - Sound (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 16, 2016, 10:52:41 PM
(http://cdn.discogs.com/bVHuhN4VHRdHwM-TwYUVHBtVy2M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-1852400-1332179841.jpeg.jpg)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People In Sorrow (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 18, 2016, 12:37:38 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IOASzijcL._SY300_.jpg)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2016, 03:39:47 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 18, 2016, 12:37:38 AM
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Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)

Yowzah! There's that one amazing tenor solo by Roscoe Mitchell on this!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2016, 10:07:53 AM
returning home from work, I found my recent Clean Feed order (from their still running sales) in the mailbox - put this into the player right away:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/276/MI0003276085.jpg)

never heard anything by Adam Lane before, but a friend kept insisting I check him out, so I ordered some of his discs that were on sale ... pretty lively stuff somewhere between Mingus, free jazz and early 20c classical music - interesting, to say the least, and upon first impression pretty good indeed! (The other two I bought are a meeting with Ken Vandermark - whom I remain ambiguous about -, Magnus Broo and the amazing Paal Nilssen-Love, and another Full Throttle two CD set with some more familiar names in the line-up: Nate Wooley, Talyor Ho Bynum, Matt Bauder).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 19, 2016, 02:08:38 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BWZjkvLmL.jpg)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances à Sophie (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 20, 2016, 05:10:31 AM
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Here is one that set me back only $0.99 and is a gem! I am having difficulty dating this lp, so any help appreciated. Definitely some cuts that worthy of top shelf in my collection, like the sample I attached titled Cha-Cha-Cha Des Thons. You will not be disappointed with this two minutes or so of music that should get your foot tapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrkscyZ0Cw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 20, 2016, 07:02:36 AM
@Bogey: this might be of help:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html (http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 20, 2016, 01:46:20 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41H0lGFyFoL._SY300_.jpg)

Chick Corea / Gary Burton - Hot House (2012)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 20, 2016, 09:36:14 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 20, 2016, 07:02:36 AM
@Bogey: this might be of help:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html (http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html)

Many thanks, KU!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 20, 2016, 11:47:41 PM
Sure! the site isn't focused on jazz, but plenty of jazz labels (or tangential ones such as Kapp) are included, so it's often pretty interesting to dig around there some!

Started with this last night:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91m38jqUwxL._SL400_.jpg)

The first album included, "Jazz Mission to Moscow" (with Marky Markowitz, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, the great Eddie Costa a.o.), I already have in a Japanese reissue, but the other two are new to me, "Soviet Jazz Themes" (with Nat Adderley or Carmell Jones, Harold Land, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul or Herb Ellis - some mighty good Land here, and this guy's always a pleasure to hear anyway!), and "Jazz at Liberty" (with Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Woods, Sims, Nick Brignola), which was a one-sided LP (but the Fresh Sound set includes four alternate takes of three of the four masters). On this last one, there's sonic issues as you get them with not-that-good vinyl rips, I guess, wobbly piano (John Bunch is on the keys, he was actually part of the "Jazz Mission" band when it visited Russia, but in the studio they - luckily! - got Eddie Costa) and dull sound on the drums etc. Either way, if you buy these, you know what you're in for, so all's well, and the music is really good, all the way through.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 21, 2016, 01:12:12 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NMS2NDNPL.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Reaching Fourth (1962)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61DPbQULv7L._SY300_.jpg)

Egberto Gismonti - Sanfona (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on February 21, 2016, 11:08:43 AM
~
[asin]B014JC16CK[/asin]

Amazing recording.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 21, 2016, 05:57:39 PM
This one is all over the place as I believe it is just songs lifted from previous recordings. I cannot identify a theme within the album except to say it is Mancini, so who needs a theme!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 21, 2016, 11:03:07 PM
lately:

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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416fQkT4tZL.jpg)

in other words: still obsessing about Stéphan Oliva - love his music!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/428/MI0003428589.jpg)

Very good music in less-than-ideal (but perfectly acceptable) sound ... have the first of the three albums in a proper Savoy/Denon reissue, but not the other two (Orrin Keepnews goofed here, he put out an official disc with the same contents as disc one of the Fresh Sound, which is the entire first album and half of the second ... yet the third, pairing Bill Barron and Booker Ervin's tenors, might be the best of the bunch ... the first has a quintet with Ted Curson, with whom Barron recorded more later on that is of a different, freer nature and pretty effin' good, like "Tears for Dolphy", expanded reissue on a Black Lion CD in the nineties, or "The New Thing and the Blue Thing" on Atlantic, probably recently in the cheapo (pseudo-)Japanese reissue series by Warner, I've got it on an older Koch CD. Kenny Barron, Bill's younger brother, is on all three albums, Curson also on the second that adds Jay Cameron on baritone sax and offers a more arranged setting that doesn't gel perfectly, I find.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/564/MI0000564968.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/563/MI0000563940.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/766/MI0002766310.jpg)

some Andrew Hill, a favourite in this house - followed by some unreleased material (the earliest I've got of his):

Andrew Hill Quintet - WNET-TV Broadcast - New York City (USA) - February 11, 1971
Woody Shaw (t), Carlos Garnett (ts), Andrew Hill (p), Victor Sproles (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Grass Roots > Bayou Red (12:15)

Andrew Hill Trio - Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (USA) - 1972
Andrew Hill (p), unknown (b, elb), Roy Haynes (d)
five unknown titles

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/908/MI0001908073.jpg)

discs one and two of the Hill Select ... only just coming to grasps with his solo music really - or rather: hearing it differently this time than ever before (posting stuff on the interwebs daily allows me to track that my last bigtime binge Hill listening has been in January 2011, but then I focused on the 1966-66 albums, which still form the finest part of his discography, I'd say, thogh towards the end of his initial Blue Note tenure, 1969-70, he reached another peak).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 22, 2016, 12:29:06 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613lgFGGdBL._SY300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Asante (1970)

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Tony Williams - Life Time (1964)

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Hubert Laws - Afro Classic (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 23, 2016, 10:42:54 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71XOibAuiDL._SX300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Trident (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2016, 12:06:28 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/912/MI0001912649.jpg)

On the commute this morning ... one of a handful of Blue Note classics I always have with me!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2016, 07:15:39 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/890/MI0001890085.jpg)

another favourite!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 24, 2016, 01:28:27 PM
I'll follow you and have a listen to that as well:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513jVw7wvFL._SS280.jpg)

There are a couple of other Big John Patton albums that are often played favorites here at work, including Let Em Roll which includes Bobby Hutcherson.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2016, 01:46:45 PM
I'm on the hunt for just about every bit ever recorded by Patton!

Today's further listening included:

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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bclLU_8fK0I/SkmC6D8mifI/AAAAAAAACcs/0IlG7dpc6w8/s1600/Front.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/651/MI0000651482.jpg)

and right now this new acquisition (from the on-going sales at Clean Feed):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/753/MI0003753062.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2016, 11:00:19 PM
on the morning commute ... afro-jazz from Sweden:

(http://bp1.blogger.com/_JPpwjBxR5jc/RsXqUHK6n0I/AAAAAAAAAoc/Bv6xGPuKqAY/s1600/cover.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2016, 01:48:16 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BF%2B-3IK3L._SY300_.jpg)

Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert By The Sea

my first time hearing the two-disc edition
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 25, 2016, 01:49:39 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 25, 2016, 01:48:16 PM
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Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert By The Sea

my first time hearing the two-disc edition

Is there a two-disc edition only or is yours a three disc set (with the old one as the third.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2016, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: George on February 25, 2016, 01:49:39 PM
Is there a two-disc edition only or is yours a three disc set (with the old one as the third.)

Ah, sorry. The first two discs from the three-disc set.

I'm already starting to get a sense of how the original selection was made: it was (at least partly) those louder tracks that could stand up in ballance against the over-miked audience, or without the perfectly captured scattered applause at the wrong moment which is stopped quickly. The band still sounds as lo-fi as it ever did (which never really mattered much, its such a fun record), but I feel like I can pick out individual audience members.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 27, 2016, 01:05:23 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/7192n5mMwxL._SY300_.jpg)

Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on February 27, 2016, 02:25:08 PM
 Charlie Christian from this box.

[asin]B014S1LH9O[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 28, 2016, 04:03:14 PM
Earlier:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n6JR3DrSL._SY300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment

Now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81c5-jEbv0L._SL300_.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - The Duke Ellington Songbook
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 29, 2016, 12:58:45 AM
lately:

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another new arrival from Oliva, reuniting the trio that made "Novembre" almost 20 years earlier

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Mosaic_Andrew_Hill.jpg)
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[asin]B0002Y4TRO[/asin]
[asin]B00GN5IZRQ[/asin]
[asin]B0000CDL61[/asin]
exploring the 1967 and 1968 sessions mostly, playing them up and down and down and up ... but more casually also some later ones that will be listened to in-depth soon as well

[asin]B00000JPNI[/asin]
[asin]B0000047B7[/asin]
discs 7-9 from the Kirk box, minus "Rip, Rig & Panic" - that is: a fun singles session, "Gifts and Messages", "I Talk with the Spirits", "Slightly Latin"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 29, 2016, 12:30:13 PM
before:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bzYlU64wL._SX425_.jpg)

now:

[asin]B002PW6J60[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2016, 01:31:00 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rIyYRwtJL._SS280.jpg)

Jim Snidero - Blue Afternoon (1989)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 02, 2016, 01:46:53 AM
lately:

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[asin]B000000YR8[/asin]
[asin]B001AXFRJU[/asin]
[asin]B000009QKD[/asin]
[asin]B0002KQO0I[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2016, 01:52:17 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 02, 2016, 01:46:53 AM

[asin]B0002KQO0I[/asin]

I remember the first time I heard "Tanya" from One Flight Up the same way - the same vividness the same youthful excitement - that I remember the first time I heard Kind Of Blue.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 02, 2016, 12:59:44 PM
Quote from: George on February 01, 2016, 06:07:17 PM
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First spin.

Quote from: Bogey on February 01, 2016, 06:21:14 PM
Post your thoughts as soon as you can, buddy.

Having finished this three CD set, the other day, I feel compelled to backup my earlier comment about the sound. While the sound is certainly far from ideal, it is, as they say, serviceable. I heard recently that for this material, this mastering is as good as it gets, sound-wise. And the music is as superb as it's reputation claims.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2016, 12:38:05 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a%2BTpAZZJL._SX300_.jpg)

Buddy Rich - Swingin New Big Band (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 03, 2016, 03:23:51 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 02, 2016, 01:52:17 AM
I remember the first time I heard "Tanya" from One Flight Up the same way - the same vividness the same youthful excitement - that I remember the first time I heard Kind Of Blue.
Ha, I'm one of those that KoB didn't hit right away ... took me quite a while really. "Workin'", "Bags Groove" (and the entire Miles/Bags/Monk date), "Walkin'", "Milestones", Cannonball's "Somethin' Else" - that stuff worked for me right away, KoB didn't. Probably thirteen-years-old me wasn't ready for that kind of solemn music quite yet.

Same, some years later, with "One Flight Up". My favourites remain "Doin' Alright" and "Our Man in Paris", followed by "Go" and "A Swingin' Affair", but nowadays, "One Flight Up" is up there, too. It's a whole different animal than KoB, although it may be Dexter's one modal jazz album - anyway, when I first heard it it sounded somewhat messy/lacking focus to me. But that was nearly 20 years back, when I got the (then) new box with his complete sixties Blue Note sessions.

This morning, on the commute:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ETEAhl0DL.jpg)

and then the first tracks from this:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Griff_%26_Lock.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2016, 12:42:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516xYdlj-BL._SS280.jpg)

Ray Brown - Soular Energy (1984)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ab5qpzprL._SS280_.jpg)

Elvin Jones - Live At The Village Vanguard (1974)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N4QxO3K5L._SY300_.jpg)

Anthony Braxton - For Alto (1970)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Xw9SkzQhL._SY300_.jpg)

June Christy - Something Cool (1955)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61AtZv3KIcL._SS280.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - J Mood (1986)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VPHDFC5ZL.jpg)

Mel Torme - Swings Shubert Alley (1960)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wEDW8KoeL._SS280.jpg)

Shelly Manne - At The Black Hawk, Vol.3 (1959)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cvd5G-OCL._SS280.jpg)

Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields (1976)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L0eVsFN%2BL._SY280_.jpg)

James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (1983)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XHQ2WV0ZL.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - For Olim (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2016, 12:51:54 PM
Still no one else? Starting a new post, rather than editing the above for the tenth time:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DtBy%2BU8jL._SY300_QL70_.jpg)

Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on March 05, 2016, 01:00:39 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 05, 2016, 12:51:54 PM
Still no one else? Starting a new post, rather than editing the above for the tenth time:

I know how you feel - if no one else is participating I kind of feel like im spamming the thread too :-[ - don't think youre really doing anything wrong though. Im reading all your postings so please continue :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 05, 2016, 01:32:12 PM
I'd prefer you doing new posts each time as it shows on the start page and would make me check in more often, too ... since my previous post:

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Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones & Billy Higgins - live in Oslo, 1975:
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/jazz-i-munch-museet/FMUS20005075/18-07-1975#

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The McLean I played from the Mosaic box collecting his great 1964-66 Blue Note sessions ... and in addition to the things mentioned, also some African music by the Funkees, by Mahmoud Ahmed, and the second (Congolais Rumba) set of the "Golden Afrique" series of 2CD sets

The Harriott started today's listening, the ones after it have all just arrived and are my first 2016 jazz new releases ... the Fire one is great, the Truffaz good fun but not exactly all that deep (the main drawing point to me was the presence of Rokia Traoré), the Smith is pretty good but sounds a bit too tidy for my tastes, as far as organ jazz is concerned

Tomorrow, I'm off for Warsaw for five days of Peter Brötzmann:
http://pardontotu.pl/?event=5-nights-with-peter-brotzmann-75th-birthday-anniversary&event_date=2016-03-06
Looking forward immensely!

This afternoon, I also watched a tv recording of his early seventies trio with Fred Van Hove and Han Bennink and then Last Exit from the mid eighties (Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson) - our kitten loved the big when Bennink was playing "trumpet" through a long hose with a funnel at the end, which he kept swirling through the air at the same time ... good kitten, but I wouldn't dare bringing it to Poland, it's half black ... either way, political circumstances notwithstanding, I'm sure it's a good place that Brötzmann will play at and I'm also certain that it's a good thing to support such cultural initiatives, even more so in such dark times as Poland seems to slip in head over heel right now (I'm all for catholic tastes, but not for catholic antisemitism and rightist xenophobism, not to use the n-word ...).

After that, I also had a 2001 Archie Shepp recording going on mostly in the background while packing my stuff - with Amina Claudine Myers, Wayne Dockery and Ronnie Burrage ... not too mcuh a fan of late Shepp, but this was quite alright.

Now listening to the Five Spot 1961 live recordings by Eric Dolphy with Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis and Ed Blackwell, a favourite recording of mine for aroudn 20 years by now ... to be found in its entirety on discs 6-8 of this wonderful box:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2016, 04:32:44 PM
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Ben Webster - Music For Loving (1955)

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Chris Connor - s/t (1956)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on March 05, 2016, 06:25:53 PM
Quote from: Autumn Leaves on March 05, 2016, 01:00:39 PM
I know how you feel - if no one else is participating I kind of feel like im spamming the thread too :-[ - don't think youre really doing anything wrong though. Im reading all your postings so please continue :)

No, please don't stop posting, guys! This is the first thread I read every time I come to GMG!! And even though I haven't been listening to much jazz lately it never leaves my affections. I enjoy all of the posts!


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on March 05, 2016, 06:32:12 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on March 05, 2016, 06:25:53 PM
No, please don't stop posting, guys! This is the first thread I read every time I come to GMG!! And even though I haven't been listening to much jazz lately it never leaves my affections. I enjoy all of the posts!

Yeah I enjoy all the postings too so the more the merrier I say.
If I was to make a complaint about serial posting it would be that I don't think its necessary to keep posting the same album over and over again (like we need a track by track update or something) but that is certainly not the case here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2016, 08:01:24 PM
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Clark Terry - s/t (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 05, 2016, 10:44:44 PM
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Starting the day with a full (78 min) CDR of Cal Tjader's earliest recordings, compiled by a friend who's into Tjader bigtime - he made cover art with all the info and dubbed this "Vol. 1: Trios 1951 - Quartets 1953-54 - Sideman dates". This is fun stuff, and some (or most) of it unknown to me otherwise. The material is culled from four Galaxy 78s (later on Fantasy 10" LP 3-9), from two Savoy singles (later compiled on an EP) as well as an EP. The sidemen dates are culled from more Galaxy/Fantasy sides (three titles, with Vido Musso among others), two 4 Star (with Nich Esposito on guitar) and one Fentone 78 (Charles "Mingus" Mingus Presents His Symphonic Airs - this can of course be found on the great Uptown CD dedicated to all of' Mingus' early sides, recorded in LA in the forties for Fentone, 4 Star, Excelsior and other long forgotten labels, some of which's catalogues were acquired by Uptown in order to be able to release that disc full of fun music and with an amazing booklet).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 06, 2016, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 05, 2016, 10:44:44 PM
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Starting the day with a full (78 min) CDR of Cal Tjader's earliest recordings, compiled by a friend who's into Tjader bigtime - he made cover art with all the info and dubbed this "Vol. 1: Trios 1951 - Quartets 1953-54 - Sideman dates". This is fun stuff, and some (or most) of it unknown to me otherwise. The material is culled from four Galaxy 78s (later on Fantasy 10" LP 3-9), from two Savoy singles (later compiled on an EP) as well as an EP. The sidemen dates are culled from more Galaxy/Fantasy sides (three titles, with Vido Musso among others), two 4 Star (with Nich Esposito on guitar) and one Fentone 78 (Charles "Mingus" Mingus Presents His Symphonic Airs - this can of course be found on the great Uptown CD dedicated to all of' Mingus' early sides, recorded in LA in the forties for Fentone, 4 Star, Excelsior and other long forgotten labels, some of which's catalogues were acquired by Uptown in order to be able to release that disc full of fun music and with an amazing booklet).

That looks fantastic.  If you have a chance, can you dig up any youtube links that have a track or two from these recordings for me.  Would love to hear it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 06, 2016, 04:28:37 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 06, 2016, 11:18:46 PM
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Al Haig Trio - Esoteric (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 06, 2016, 11:56:27 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 06, 2016, 04:25:13 AM
That looks fantastic.  If you have a chance, can you dig up any youtube links that have a track or two from these recordings for me.  Would love to hear it.

I'm on vacation in Warsaw (five nights of Peter Brötzmann - had a piece of his 75th birthday cake last night and a lengthy chat with him, too!) and such things are too cumbersome on the smartphone for me to handle. Will try to chech youtube on Friday or over the weekend, if I forget, do give me a nudge!

@Simon: that Al Haig is amazing! Hope it has both LPs (Esoteric and Vogue)?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2016, 12:12:47 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 06, 2016, 11:56:27 PM
I'm on vacation in Warsaw (five nights of Peter Brötzmann - had a piece of his 75th birthday cake last night and a lengthy chat with him, too!) and such things are too cumbersome on the smartphone for me to handle. Will try to chech youtube on Friday or over the weekend, if I forget, do give me a nudge!

@Simon: that Al Haig is amazing! Hope it has both LPs (Esoteric and Vogue)?

Just the Esoteric album, but that was still wonderful.

Very cool that you're hanging out with Brotzmann. I don't think I posted it here but I was playing Machine Gun just a few days ago. What did you talk about, and what was he like?

playing now:

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Ran Blake - The Short Life Of Barbara Monk (1986)

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Clark Terry - Everything's Mellow (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2016, 06:06:49 PM
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Ran Blake - Something To Live For (1999)

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Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

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Ralph Towner - Anthem (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2016, 08:56:10 PM
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Sun Ra - God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (1979)

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Ran Blake - Horace Is Blue (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 09, 2016, 04:41:23 PM
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Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vasconcelos - Duas Vozes (1984)

RIP Nana Vasconcelos
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 10, 2016, 05:41:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/9WMI-4qjKks
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 10, 2016, 05:47:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/1IBIOlu-DFM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2016, 12:17:34 PM
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Bill Evans - Koln Concert

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Horace Silver - In Pursuit Of The 27th Man (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 10, 2016, 07:17:31 PM
mmmmm.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on March 11, 2016, 03:38:35 AM
I'd never played this before.  Impressive lineup for sure.  Playing more relaxed than hot, but some occasionally sweet licks, especially from Teddy Wilson.  Goodman's Clarinet sound is crazy warm and nuanced. 

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 11, 2016, 01:18:49 PM
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Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on March 11, 2016, 03:34:01 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 11, 2016, 01:18:49 PM
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Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown (1954)

  That brings back warm memories. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 11, 2016, 05:48:02 PM
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Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 12, 2016, 01:03:50 PM
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Gary Burton - New Vibe Man In Town (1961)

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Nat King Cole - After Midnight (1956)

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Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969)

(including the Shorter compositions "Water Babies", "Capricorn" and "Sweet Pea" that would also appear on Miles' Water Babies album)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 13, 2016, 10:12:05 AM
Page and Rugolo on a Mercury Hi-Fi. Perfect!


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 13, 2016, 10:18:46 AM
Last night's listening of my most recent acquisition.  As the cover indicates, bongos are front and center on this one.     

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 13, 2016, 02:48:05 PM
home from amazing the Brötzmann trip since Friday night (report in German and lotsa bad smartphone pics here (http://forum.rollingstone.de/showthread.php?56960-2016-Jazzgigs-konzerte-amp-festivals&p=3585452&viewfull=1#post3585452) - might try and do an english write-up later on, too) ... lotsa stuff waited for me upon arriving at home, and I also bought some new stuff in Poland, notably half a dozen more from the wonderful "Polish Radio Jazz Archives" series.

The one on top, by ZA mystery group The Syndicate was played while on the plane home, the others since:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 13, 2016, 03:22:52 PM
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Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Native Sense
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: jochanaan on March 13, 2016, 05:40:47 PM
Earlier today via YouTube: The Ron Miles Trio - Mind Police. ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 13, 2016, 09:19:41 PM
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Miles Davis - Water Babies, side one

the three Wayne Shorter compositions mentioned above, recorded during the Nefertiti sessions
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 14, 2016, 01:52:46 AM
Need to add a comment to the long post above, didn't have time yesterday ... those Polish Radio Jazz Archives releases are mighty nice, the Jazz Jamboree however don't really succeed in grouping it all in a sensible way (the Komeda and Namyslowski sets are both spread over two of the volumes), the Griffin is from the same festival (the 1963 edition), yet Vol. 2 of the compilations holds two more tracks (nearly 40 minutes more) from one of his (several, I guess) sets there.

It's definitely great to have almost three hours of new prime Johnny Griffin though, that's for sure, and Kenny Drew is mighty fine as well! Much of the music comes with the rhythm section of the Pim Jacobs Trio (that is: Wim Overgaauw-g, Ruud [not Rudi!] Jacobs-b), which by turn is heard accompanying Pim's wife, Rita Reys, on the first of the Jamboree 1963 discs (a 40 minute set of 13 tunes, pretty effin' nice! Do look for the two Reys release on Freshsound if you're interested in her, one's a double). The absence of drums is no issue for the little giant of course, his own time is rock solid (as can be heard in his unaccompanied cadenzas (which are also familiar to those who know his 1958 live recordings with Monk). Some tracks have Griffin/Drew with another rhythm section in the more common format (b/d).

Several of the other releases are brand new ... and many of them on Resonance Records, which has brought us some fine historical finds already. The new Larry Young set is a double disc (in the same format/packaging as the recent Sony Sets by Erroll Garner and Weather Report), the booklet looks nice, with some fine photos, but I've not read any of these booklets yet, had so many things to do over the weekend, I just listened to the music in the background. The finest cuts on the Young set present him with the Nathan Davis Quartet, including its leader on tenor, Woody Shaw on trumpet and Billy Brooks on drums. This is a seriously great addition to the all-too-small Larry Young discography!

The one that really blew me away though is the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis set, which comes with a huuuuge booklet - it contains music from the very first public appearances in 1966 by this new big band at the Village Vanguard, and while the playing may be somewhat sloppier than on their Solid State recordings, it also has the extra edge and raw excitement of the live gig (similar to the fantastic TCB release of their 1969 concert in Basel/Basle, Switzerland). I love that band very much anyways, the Mosaic box with all their Solid State recordings and that Basle 1969 set are perennial favourites in my house. All the greater to have this new 1966 set to add to it (note that some of it was on an unauthorized - single - disc released by Alan Grant before).

The Wes Montgomery is already the third one put out by Resonance, and this might be my favourite of the three - it's a set by Wes with the trio of Eddie Higgins, in a very relaxed live setting. (I was a bit disappointed by last year's two-disc-set "In the Beginning" to be frank, but that may have been because of too high expectations on my end.)

The new ones by Getz/Gilberto and Stan Getz come from the same gig, Joanne Brackeen is on piano - fine band, but I need to listen to these while not already falling asleep ...

The Blue Mitchell/Sonny Red is the latest from Uptown's, a recording from the Left Bank Jazz Society holdings. Uptown is of course another label that has brought to the fore some amazing stuff. This is a pretty mellow set (though Red as usual has that slighty bitter, somewhat stinging tone, not unpleasant at all), notably with a fine performance by Joe Chambers on drums (one of the most musical of drummers in jazz).

The Chris McGregor is a wonderful album, a full big band from 1963, including musicians such as Kippie Moeketsi (playing lots of clarinet here!), Nick Moyake, Barney Rachabane, and Dudu Pukwana. It's on the short side (just a bit over half an hour), but it's very sweet to have it available in a proper edition finally!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 14, 2016, 08:37:22 PM
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Dave Holland - The Conference Of The Birds (1973)

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Art Blakey - Holiday For Skins Vol.1 (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 15, 2016, 03:04:40 PM
finally, here's my english report on 5 Nights with Peter Brötzmann - 75th Birthday Anniversary:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/14653-what-live-music-are-you-going-to-see-tonight/&do=findComment&comment=1481726
I hope I didn't make too many awkward translation mistakes (I first wrote a report in German, as linked a couple of posts further up)

Ending the day with some Eric Dolphy:

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the Paris 1964 recordings
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 15, 2016, 06:24:34 PM
^Great blog post - thanks very much for sharing it. Looks like a great time.

playing now:

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Elvin Jones - Poly-Currents (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on March 15, 2016, 08:35:05 PM
Ahmad Jamal, The Essence Part 2. Every note AJ plays tells a story. Every...single...note...




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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 16, 2016, 09:04:06 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/FJrUBEtoNQU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 16, 2016, 11:33:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/077dbTqosUA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 16, 2016, 12:42:36 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 16, 2016, 01:52:04 PM
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Benny Goodman - Live At Carnegie Hall 1938

I've never quite loved this set as much as the guidebooks tell me I should. Plenty of strong tracks, but much of it I find it more "time capsule" than "timeless" - unlike, say, the trio sessions with Krupa and Wilson.

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Ron Carter - Blues Farm (1973)

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Bobby Hutcherson - Solo / Quartet (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 17, 2016, 12:17:24 AM
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lately, lots of South African stuff while commuting ... tracks from various albums and compilation albums that I've put onto my memory card ... amongst them The Drive, The Heshoo Beshoo Group, Gwigwi Mrwebi, Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi, The Soul Jazzmen (with Duku Makasi and Tete Mbambisa), The Soul Giants (with Dennis Mpale and Barney Rachabane), The Movers (with Lulu Masilela), and more
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 17, 2016, 02:43:29 PM
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Gary Burton - Generations (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2016, 02:05:41 PM
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Mal Waldron - Mal/4 (1958)

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Jaki Byard - Here's Jaki (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 20, 2016, 01:35:22 AM
Love Mal Waldron and Jaki Byard!  :)

Here, into disc 3 of this wonnerful box:

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alas, there's an issue with one loud skip (CD player skip) that's on the JATP disc (it's disc 9, that famous early concert with Nat on piano - I've got it on two other editions and from my first impression the one included on Hip-O-Select's "Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote & Mercury Recordings" sounds quite a bit better indeed, they might have used the much older remaster from the "Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic 1944-49" box from the nineties again (that box is a treasure trove, nonetheless).

and then there's the issue with the final disc (#12), the second DVD, containing a documentary that, alas will, stop around 1:15 or 1:19 hrs (both these problems were reported by the one amazon customer feedback over on amazon.it, and my box has them, too, however I already received a reply from a guy at Universal that he'll try and find out if there's indeed a correct DVD availalbe, the CD I don't mind much).

as for the contents, this is an LP-sized box, containing ten discs of music and two DVDs, a hardcover book with plenty of photographs and a long note telling the story of Nat's life (I've not read much yet) - discs 1-8 contain a genereous career overview (the main drawing point for me, I have various single discs, as well as the "Riffin'" and the Capitol Transcriptions three-disc sets), disc 9 has that JATP concert, disc 10 is a disc of rarities (outtakes etc.), and the DVDs are made up of some TV stuff (#11) and the aforementioned documentary (#12)

it's been very cheap over at aDE as well as JPC for a few weeks now, guess it didn't really sell all that well, but who knows:
http://www.amazon.de/Nat-King-Cole-Autobiography-Ltd-Edt/dp/B00ZGUI6BE/
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/nat-king-cole-nat-king-cole-his-musical-autobiography/hnum/7766359
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 20, 2016, 08:32:13 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/453/MI0003453691.jpg)

starting to explore this Tzadik box set, reissuing most of Hasidic New Wave's recordings for Knitting Factory, and adding a disc of rarities and live recordings - just starting with the second album

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 20, 2016, 09:42:01 AM
next one:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/004/MI0002004271.jpg)

enjoyable music, for sure!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 21, 2016, 05:00:25 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 16, 2016, 01:52:04 PM
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Benny Goodman - Live At Carnegie Hall 1938

I've never quite loved this set as much as the guidebooks tell me I should. Plenty of strong tracks, but much of it I find it more "time capsule" than "timeless" - unlike, say, the trio sessions with Krupa and Wilson.


Excellent take on this set.  When I bought it, I though it would be a water shed listening experience, but I found I enjoyed all the other Goodman I had on the shelf more so. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 21, 2016, 11:54:46 AM
"Honeysuckle Rose" remains a unique experience nonetheless!

Now playing:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/769/MI0002769653.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 21, 2016, 01:31:38 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/887/MI0001887209.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2016, 02:50:28 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/573/MI0001573829.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Dizzy Reece - Blues In Trinity (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 21, 2016, 06:41:48 PM
Listened to these two new purchases tonight:

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On the first listen the Third Plane didn't sound particularly inspired. Evans' disk was better.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on March 21, 2016, 09:28:56 PM
Mingus, Mysterious Blues. Some great moments for trombone, here.



(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/162/MI0002162706.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 22, 2016, 09:28:12 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on March 21, 2016, 09:28:56 PM
Mingus, Mysterious Blues. Some great moments for trombone, here.



(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/162/MI0002162706.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Wow, never heard of this. Looks well worth investigating.

On my commute today I'm giving a first listen to "Jazz at Massey Hall" ... you know, the Bird/Diz/Bud/Mingus/Roach concert.
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Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on March 22, 2016, 10:40:31 AM
Quote from: Brian on March 22, 2016, 09:28:12 AM
Wow, never heard of this. Looks well worth investigating.

Oh, yes, Mingus for sure found a home with Candid for 2-3 weeks in 1960! Candid gave him license to do whatever he wanted and Mingus, itching to record his "Original" Faubus Fables, let 'er rip with the the spoken dialogue which Columbia nixed on Ah Um.

Faubus being the then racist Arkansas governor. It's on the disc below.

Footnote: DO NOT get any other CD edition of this disc: the one below is the one to get. An earlier CD was cut from an inferior source and is in junk sound (I had it :(). 




[asin]B0051GHQSW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 23, 2016, 11:49:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/JaCCxBIoEZc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 23, 2016, 05:03:35 PM
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Eddie Lockjaw Davis et al - Very Saxy (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 23, 2016, 11:07:56 PM
(http://www.flatinternational.org/assets/volumes/168/img01.jpg)

Malombo Jazz Men & Early Mabuza Quartet
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 24, 2016, 02:37:33 AM
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Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 24, 2016, 07:00:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/VUVuX3lLrdg
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 24, 2016, 09:13:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/jWc1piqXYOA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 24, 2016, 11:46:22 AM
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more Komeda ... if I had known about this I'd have ordered before traveling to Warsaw, you can pick up the releases from Polish radio somewhere at the Palace of Culture - but shipping is cheap so I've ordered the five volumes of "Krzysztof Komeda w Polskim Radiu" and the first spin was most enjoyable ... today had the above two in the mailbox, ordered via amazon and its marketplace (I've known "Astigmatic" for years and it's excellent, but "Crazy Girl", which is really just a compilation of - very good! - tunes from two years of Jazz Jamboree shows was mostly new to me, just a few short tracks are duplicated between what I've already bought earlier)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 24, 2016, 12:32:23 PM
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Wonderful, of course!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 24, 2016, 02:41:42 PM
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EuwU5sNiL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 25, 2016, 05:23:23 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 24, 2016, 12:32:23 PM
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Wonderful, of course!

All their efforts are top shelf!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 25, 2016, 10:49:01 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 25, 2016, 05:23:23 AM
All their efforts are top shelf!

Alas there aren't many - and this one's brand new, and most welcome indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 25, 2016, 01:29:44 PM
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Lalo's lp from 1967....nobody better!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 25, 2016, 02:41:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CCZVCdlgL._SS280.jpg)

Ken Colyer - Club Session With Colyer (1956)

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Miles Davis - Bootleg Series Vol.1 (disc one)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 26, 2016, 09:01:54 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/DepcSX5YDro
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2016, 01:23:42 AM
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Abdullah Ibrahim - Yarona (1995)

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Oliver Nelson - Sound Pieces (1966)

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Chico Freeman - Destiny's Dance (1982)


three absolutely knockout records
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2016, 08:47:50 AM
Bob Bain.  Worth your time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77EnFTmOZCs

Thanks to Gib Shell for this link.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on March 27, 2016, 12:37:19 PM
On a serious Steve Coleman binge ~

Playing CD 1 Genesis

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Powerful and expansive.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2016, 01:55:51 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 27, 2016, 01:23:42 AM
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Abdullah Ibrahim - Yarona (1995)

Such a gorgeous album! Have to revisit it right now, after seeing your post!

Other than that, spent the last few days listening to Andrew Hill's 1969-70 recordings for long hours - fascinating stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2016, 07:02:21 PM
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Chico Freeman - Kings Of Mali (1977)

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Denny Zeitlin - Slickrock (2004)

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John Surman - A Biography Of The Rev. Absalom Dawe (1995)

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Bobby Watson - Love Remains (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2016, 05:54:08 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 28, 2016, 05:58:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/JzUpvl0U4JU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2016, 12:52:42 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/495/MI0000495102.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2016, 01:25:27 AM
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McCoy Tyner - Soliloquy (1991)

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Gary Bartz - There Goes The Neighbourhood (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 29, 2016, 07:34:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 29, 2016, 01:25:27 AM
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Gary Bartz - There Goes The Neighbourhood (1990)

Interesting title, given the accompanying cover image and the events that would occur 11 years later.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 29, 2016, 07:35:38 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 29, 2016, 08:08:16 AM
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1712/cover_30341312112010.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 29, 2016, 07:46:43 PM
This. Is. Awesome.

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Bill and others - if you like the live Cannonball series, and if you're ok with a recording that is, in part, technically a bootleg, definitely jump at this! Most of the four sets preserved here range from "pretty good" to "borderline great", but in the last 3-4 tracks of CD2, the band kicks it up to the highest of high gears, that exalted level you can only get in the all-time-great live performances. Especially I'm thinking of CD tracks 7 and 8, "Tengo Tango" and "Easy to Love," where Cannonball lays down two of the most awe-inspiring, lightning-fast solos I've ever heard. Darn near made me late for work because I couldn't get out of the car!

"Tengo Tango" and "Easy to Love" were on the original Riverside album that this is "borrowed" from, although about 70% of the 2CD set above was not on the Riverside version:

https://www.youtube.com/v/wdMptqTm4hc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 29, 2016, 10:28:15 PM
re: Cannonball, check out this site:
http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/
the discography, though album-based (never a good idea, methinks) is really helpful ... the Tokyo recordings are some of my favourite of his, and he's a favourite in my house, bigtime!

re: Cannonball in Japan 1963 ... official releases wise, there's also this (omitted on the site above, alas):
http://www.allmusic.com/album/dizzys-business-mw0000094873
I guess with that and "Nippon Soul", you'll have most of the material, but I don't have time for a track-by-track check right now.

thread duty - played twice last night:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/183/MI0003183217.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2016, 10:53:12 PM
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McCoy Tyner - Infinity (1995)

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Tom Harell - Visions (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 30, 2016, 10:02:27 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 30, 2016, 11:54:30 AM
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If anyone had told my proud teenage-self I'd ever voluntarily listen to an album sounding like this, he'd have been declared mad right there and then ... but hey! Marcus Miller was great even back then, don't think I ever heard anything by him pre-Miles (he plays on three tracks, other musicians include Onaje Allen Gumbs, as well as the late great Masabumi Kikuchi on one track - it's his presence that made me curious enough to buy this in the first place).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 31, 2016, 06:37:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/ehs7ZDPGTj4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 31, 2016, 07:23:09 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/wcf455NwMOY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 31, 2016, 10:10:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/KmFfy56nSzY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 31, 2016, 01:21:00 PM
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Jim Hall - These Rooms (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on March 31, 2016, 05:48:23 PM
Exploding Star Orchestra - We are all from somewhere else.

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Really excellent large ensemble recording from 2007. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 01, 2016, 09:28:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/dcJ66kzsJe4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 01, 2016, 01:43:43 PM
Suitable music for a Friday evening; Count Basie....


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2016, 02:04:43 PM
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Jimmy Raney - In Three Attitudes (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on April 01, 2016, 06:14:44 PM
Starlicker - Double Demon

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Superb small group improvisations (cornet, vibes, drums).

Rob Mazurek (cornet), John Herndon (percussion), and Jason Adasiewicz (vibraphone) are deeply rooted in the Chicago and international avant garde, jazz and post-rock scenes. Starlicker expel sound with pervading energy and other-worldly delicacy. Mazurek leads, composes for and performs with the critically acclaimed Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground, Smarcho Paulo Underground, and Sound Is Quintet. Herndon, of the post rock collective Tortoise, creates waves of rhythm and maintains an abstract pulse uniquely his own. Adasiewicz is a Chicago mainstay and Down Beat magazine rising star, and plays in his own Sun Rooms Trio, Exploding Star Orchestra, Rolldown, and Loose Assembly.
Review
Chosen as one of the 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2011! The cornetist Rob Mazurek, the vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and the drummer John Herndon make up this trio, steeped in ecstatic free improvisation and the dynamics of experimental rock. Their cohesion, intense and unforced, comes across with articulate bluntness. --Nate Chinen, NY Times, December 2011

Top Ten Jazz of 2011 pick! A high octane Chicago trio featuring Tortoise drummer John Herndon, Exploding Star Orchestra cornetist Rob Mazurek and vibraphone powerhouse Jason Adasiewicz (who released the excellent Spacer with his own ensemble this fall), this recording takes the vibraphone trio into a new orbit with a relentless drive toward invention. --Chris Barton, LA Times, December 2011
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on April 01, 2016, 06:20:14 PM
First listen.
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Already have his newest CD (on ECM)
Based on these two,  I will probably be getting the intervening pair (Treveni II and Dark Nights).

Found about him via a mention here on GMG.  Do not remember who it was but I do owe them a thank you.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 02, 2016, 12:40:41 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/615464HEA3L._SY300_.jpg)

Stanley Turrentine / Oliver Nelson - Joyride (1965)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IHnYt8yNL._SX300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Sahara (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 02, 2016, 04:15:44 AM
lately:

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(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/004/MI0002004506.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 02, 2016, 03:02:16 PM
music from Ethiopia (Vols. 2 and 3 of the great "Éthiopiques" series on Buda Musique) most of the afternoon - and now this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/808/MI0002808995.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 02, 2016, 03:05:40 PM
^Haven't played Science Fiction in a while - will try to put it on later.

But right now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61a-lN-r0KL._SS280.jpg)

Gary Burton - Common Ground (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on April 02, 2016, 04:11:46 PM
Now paying:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A1CyjDg9L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81DYRFb9u3L._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 03, 2016, 12:40:19 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71m-yvSnSnL._SX300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Fly With The Wind (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 03, 2016, 01:18:48 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81S8n19BJyL._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 03, 2016, 01:21:58 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MvoUNaENL._SY300_.jpg)

Kenny Barron - Green Chimneys (1983)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 03, 2016, 02:12:02 AM
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/616vQz4eFnL._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 03, 2016, 07:24:20 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/854/MI0000854951.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 03, 2016, 08:29:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 03, 2016, 01:21:58 AM
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Kenny Barron - Green Chimneys (1983)

I'm curious about the Criss Cross label? Does anybody have any favorite releases from this label?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 03, 2016, 02:18:12 PM
^That may have been the first one I've heard (and was very impressed by), so I'd also be interested in recommendations others may be able to give.

playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71rpsENUf%2BL._SY300_.jpg)

Gary Burton - Guided Tour (2013)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 03, 2016, 03:09:27 PM
If you dig Hugo, (well, I guess if you're here, I cannot imagine you do not) be sure to put this gem on your wishlist. Plenty of jazzy numbers such as Ellington's A Train all with heavy doses of bongos throughout!

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/12967277_1737572349789115_551238747657516105_o.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 03, 2016, 04:30:24 PM
More Hugo listening. T.H.R.U.S.H. agents, beware!

(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/12916197_1737587929787557_6124346733710803657_o.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2016, 09:00:06 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/710PxciQGOL._SX300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Sama Layuca (1974)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 06, 2016, 12:45:53 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QbHBYcZKL._SY300_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Atlantis (1975)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71-inzf4AvL._SX300_.jpg)

Woody Shaw In My Own Sweet Way (1989)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 06, 2016, 02:16:52 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BLxJoTZlL._SS280.jpg)

Jimmy Rushing - Who Was it Sang That Song? (1967)
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Post by: king ubu on April 07, 2016, 02:14:17 AM
that's definitely not Mr. Five by Five on the cover though  ;D

played this a couple of times last night:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/783/MI0002783316.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 07, 2016, 03:04:35 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XRTDJX6QL._SX300_.jpg)

Pat Martino - Remember (2006)
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Post by: HIPster on April 07, 2016, 04:15:34 PM
Sun Ra - Lanquidity

[asin]B00004XSLJ[/asin]


This 1978 session, coming relatively late in Sun Ra's creative history, is another extraordinary venture into uncharted musical terrain. As the name suggests, it's a liquid and languid musical state, from the lounge area of Ra's cosmos, but it can also be resiliently funky and subtly dissonant in ways unheard outside the orchestra's precincts. The rhythm section of electric bass, two guitars, and three drummers creates deep pulsing grooves for Sun Ra's assortment of ethereal organs and synthesizers and a horn complement of two trumpets and five reeds that are used sparingly for maximal effect. There are some elements of commercial crossover funk and even Miles Davis's electric period, but this is highly original music, an acid jazz prototype in which groove and electronica intersect with muted brass and a heady assortment of reeds and percussion. Sudden squiggles of funk guitar mix with strong improvisation from Sun Ra and his regular soloists, like saxophonists John Gilmore and Marshall Allen, who are always ready to bend the music into some new pitch zone. The lyrical title track bears a resemblance to Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," and "There Are Other Worlds" is supplemented by overdubbed "Ethnic Voices" and additional percussion and electronics, creating an eerily engaging tapestry. Recorded in a New York studio with the sound further improved by Evidence, this is unusually well recorded for Sun Ra music of the period, a warm bath in music both lush and exotic. --Stuart Broomer
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Post by: NikF on April 07, 2016, 08:18:38 PM
Billy Bauer: Plectrist.

[asin]B00004VXG2[/asin]
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2016, 03:15:25 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eapv%2BZToL.jpg)

Jimmy Raney - The Master (1983)

Artem was asking about the Criss Cross label upthread, and looking into this disc I note that I've also heard Raney's Wisteria on the label, which I remember being particularly good. This one is okay too, but Wisteria was better.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512e5uMPeFL.jpg)

"The Gary Burton Quartet In Concert" (1968)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2016, 03:03:14 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aJXSV9teL._SY300_QL70_.jpg)

Stephane Grappelli - Young Django (1979)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2016, 03:18:29 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DSHWG5PDL.jpg)

Howard Roberts - The Real Howard Roberts (1977)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aC1KbWojL._SX300_.jpg)

Gary Burton - Something's Coming (1964)
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Post by: kishnevi on April 10, 2016, 05:21:35 PM
This afternoon
[asin]B009439HBC[/asin]
[asin]B00O4PFBEM[/asin]
Avital is the bassist on the Cohen CD, and Cohen the trumpet on Avital's CD, but Avital is more "world music" oriented in New Song.  I seem to have all the CDs in which Cohen is the lead.  Now I will be getting the more numerous output of Avital (in which Cohen is featured)

Edit:  no, I don't have all of Cohen's stuff.  Not even most of it, although I have to sort out which is Avishai the trumpet player and which is Avishai the bassist.  But that will be fixed by and by.
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2016, 02:19:46 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513RC62BYQL.jpg)

Jeanne Lee and Mal Waldron - After Hours (1994)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2016, 03:30:19 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SU1kaOYpL._SY300_.jpg)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Return Of The 5000 Lb. Man (1976)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31bT9Pi1BFL._SX300_.jpg)

Anthony Braxton - Town Hall, 1972
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Post by: James on April 11, 2016, 06:33:55 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DDuBD3joL.jpg)
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Post by: king ubu on April 11, 2016, 12:35:38 PM
most of the day spent with these:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/891/MI0000891224.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/896/MI0001896082.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JdGGwZUpL._SY400_.jpg)

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/044/MI0002044956.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2016, 09:08:45 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71nuT-CeCHL._SX300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JDCsnBAaL._SX300_.jpg)

Ran Blake and Jeanne Lee - You Stepped Out Of A Cloud (1989)
Bennie Maupin - The Jewel In The Lotus (1974)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RFKA1yrvL._SY300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FCJZHSS0L.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues (1974)
Jane Bunnett - Spirits Of Havana (1991)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519-s4QMjuL._SX300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81q7Lqlw3cL._SL300_.jpg)

Bobby Bradford and John Carter - Comin' On (1988)
Joe Locke - For The Love Of You (2009)
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Post by: king ubu on April 12, 2016, 11:16:43 AM
still in bed today, not bad, just a cold that won't go away and way too exhausted to consider going outside ... will try to drag myself to the office again tomorrow, but today, the musical menu consisted of these:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/587/MI0000587919.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/745/MI0003745971.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/371/MI0000371951.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/188/MI0000188900.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/497/MI0000497870.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/148/MI0000148706.jpg)

In between the last two, also the "High Frequency" session that, as with "Jacknife", got a catalogue number back in the day but was never actually released ... they both appeared one and a half decades later when Cuscuna started mining the archives of Blue Note, as did "Consequence" and "Infinity" - the later actually is one of the best of Lee Morgan's sessions I find, and it's pretty odd from this backward perspective to see that it and the even better "Procrastinator" didn't get a release back then ... at least "Search for the New Land" did come out, albeit delayed (they tried to double up the surprise success of "The Sidewinder" by doing "The Rumproller" and bringing that one out first ... didn't work, but hey, "The Sidewinder" was the first jazz release to become a crossover hit, can't duplicate that anyways).

All McLean sessions I played from "The Complete Blue Note 1964-66 Jackie McLean Sessions" box released by Mosaic in the early nineties, a beloved set in my possession for nearly 20 years now. These recordings under McLean's name from 1964-66 (the five other than "Consequence", which is very good but more conventional, "Infinity" is up there though) are to me some of the very best jazz has to offer, and McLean's best recordings, all things considered. I do love the 1963 albums as well though, but I feel like these 1964-66 albums offer a further consolidation and show what McLean was really about, while the 1963 albums stress some aspects but aren't as good an overall representation of his.
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2016, 03:28:52 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z9RVWAS2L._SY280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M9AH9GT4L._SX280_.jpg)

Cuong Vu - It's Mostly Residual (2005)
Michael Musillami - Dachau (2005)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vyMhx13gL._SX280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61jWF9edrIL._SY280_.jpg)

The Bad Plus - Blunt Object Live In Tokyo (2006)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar (2007)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-rfXFPIHL._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Qo1dx-GUL._SS280.jpg)

Tony Malaby - Tamarindo (2007)
Joelle Leandre - Joelle Leandre Project (2000)
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Post by: James on April 13, 2016, 10:17:56 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTEtjke1L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 13, 2016, 11:47:56 AM
tonight's programme:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/944/MI0002944139.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/514/MI0000514114.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/519/MI0000519180.jpg)

discs 1 and 2 from the first (Piano Improvisations Vols. 1 & 2)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2016, 02:21:58 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hQ1z-DHqL._SS280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/716ZuyTX0nL._SX280_.jpg)

Joe Locke - Force Of Four (2008)
The Bad Plus - The Rite Of Spring (2014)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71FdpsrJnBL._SL280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J-WUzv9DL.jpg)

Massimo Urbani - The Blessing (1993)
Bill Frisell - Have A Little Faith (1993)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 14, 2016, 03:00:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zoU666JhL._SS280.jpg)

Gary Burton and Eberhard Weber - Passengers (1977)
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Post by: HIPster on April 14, 2016, 05:49:57 PM
Paul Motian Band - Garden of Eden

[asin]B000CQQGZU[/asin]

Outstanding late-career masterpiece from Motian!

Love this disc. :)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 15, 2016, 02:13:32 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kHKoeQIXL._SX300_.jpg)

David Hazeltine - Modern Standards (2004)
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Post by: Bogey on April 16, 2016, 04:27:53 AM
Well, I had Other Worlds and Strings Aflame on the shelf for some time, but I could not seem to find any Esquivel in tip top shape to add to the run until last Sunday at the record show. With some trading and a discount for being a frequent flyer with a certain dealer, I walked away with these near minty beauties for 26 bones. We are suppose to get walloped with snow today, so time to take a sonic vacation listening to one of the best ever.

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/13041228_1741689809377369_3731449144345537425_o.jpg)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Esquivelphoto.jpg)
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Post by: James on April 16, 2016, 07:36:55 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/812hizjwIML._SL1425_.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 16, 2016, 02:54:39 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QpgU9WMsL._SS280_.jpg)

Mike Mainieri - Man Behind Bars (1999)
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Post by: James on April 16, 2016, 03:50:26 PM
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/8/89/Lenny_Breau_-_Five_O'Clock_Bells.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150515082053)
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Post by: king ubu on April 17, 2016, 05:40:18 AM
before:

Gato Barbieri
Bijou Café, Philadelphia, PA
24., 25. oder 26. April 1980
88 Min / SBD


now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/046/MI0002046889.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 17, 2016, 03:01:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414ocUuUCnL._SS280_.jpg)

Mike Mainieri - Crescent (2010)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2016, 03:23:29 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lX0AHbAyL._SY300_.jpg)

Marty Ehrlich - Song (2001)
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Post by: James on April 18, 2016, 06:57:17 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519H1K9RNBL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 18, 2016, 07:00:15 AM
this is growing on me ... enjoyed it the first time around, but it gets better:

[asin]B0188EOHOY[/asin]
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Post by: James on April 18, 2016, 07:09:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/jmW4ShXnywo
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Post by: James on April 18, 2016, 07:28:46 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/48cTUnUtzx4
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Post by: James on April 18, 2016, 07:57:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/vWu9iS-Vplc
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Post by: James on April 18, 2016, 08:06:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/h6QMFGRh47A
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Post by: king ubu on April 19, 2016, 12:55:31 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NmMoeXoQL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 20, 2016, 03:25:17 AM
.
[asin]B00LSYYKCG[/asin]
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Post by: king ubu on April 20, 2016, 10:23:30 AM
got my long-expected Motian/Kikuchi delivery finally:

[asin]B00000IX7E[/asin]
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 20, 2016, 02:32:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fGVqEsIbL._SS280_.jpg)

Mike Mainieri - Northern Lights (2006)
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Post by: king ubu on April 20, 2016, 10:02:34 PM
went on with these last night:

[asin]B0009K1YDS[/asin]
[asin]B004LE10SM[/asin]

and finally this one:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81d8QuxskjL._SY355_.jpg)

all three in the mail yesterday, the Waldron/Brown not exactly cheap but I'd been eyeing it for some time ...
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 21, 2016, 01:40:23 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51queZqR8zL._SY300_.jpg)

Brad Goode - Nature Boy (2006)
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Post by: HIPster on April 21, 2016, 06:44:08 PM
Myra Melford - Above Blue

[asin]B00000IJCC[/asin]
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 22, 2016, 02:58:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-rO3U94uL._SS280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513z-d8q79L._SS280.jpg)

Joe Locke and David Hazeltine - Mutual Admiration Society 2 (2009)
Les McCann and Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 23, 2016, 02:51:13 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/712/MI0001712524.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Terry Gibbs - s/t (1956)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HrLK77hxL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

Samo Salamon - Kei's Secret (2006)
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Post by: Autumn Leaves on April 24, 2016, 01:18:27 AM
Now playing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cfR1cqvOL.jpg)

Felt like something mellow and trippy - this album would seem about right.
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Post by: king ubu on April 24, 2016, 02:16:29 AM
just finished my first spin of this:

(http://instantjazz.com/uploads/cds/Sustain_and_run.jpg)

Roscoe Mitchell - Sustain and Run (Jazz Ao Vivo Na Fabrica)

impressive solo concert, brings back memories of the one solo concert I caught of his, several years back
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Post by: Spineur on April 24, 2016, 09:13:32 AM
Jazz guitar (classical & baritone electric), and piano.  Nice for a sunday evening
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 24, 2016, 05:05:17 PM
(http://i.rymimg.com/lk/f/l/bb7ec0fdc0aacb518a35082a12d8e773/4101286.jpg)

Terry Gibbs - Plays The Duke (1957)

edit: not recommended - the TG album I played yesterday was way better
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Post by: king ubu on April 24, 2016, 10:57:34 PM
Re: Terry Gibbs: absolutely check out his big band, aka his "Dream Band" - and that, it is, with the line-up of stellar West Coast musicians: Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson, Bill Holman, Joe Maini, Al Porcino, Mel Lewis, Pete Jolly ... arrangements by Holman, Al Cohn, Marty Paich, Manny Albam ... there are six volumes on Fantasy, some of them only released decades after being recorded - I guess I'd start with volume one. "Swing Is Here" (Verve) has been reissued in Universal's "Originals" series and features the same band, though in a somewhat more restrained setting (shorter tunes, probably more accurate playing - but when a big band's on fire, I don't care if the playing gets lose, actually in many cases I really love that, for instance on the awesome new Thad Jones/Mel Lewis set out on Resonance).

Thread duty - late last night:

[asin]B000024FVN[/asin]
Not an essential album, but one that really grew on me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 25, 2016, 04:23:31 PM
Quote from: king ubu on April 24, 2016, 10:57:34 PM
Re: Terry Gibbs: absolutely check out his big band, aka his "Dream Band" - and that, it is, with the line-up of stellar West Coast musicians: Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson, Bill Holman, Joe Maini, Al Porcino, Mel Lewis, Pete Jolly ... arrangements by Holman, Al Cohn, Marty Paich, Manny Albam ... there are six volumes on Fantasy, some of them only released decades after being recorded - I guess I'd start with volume one. "Swing Is Here" (Verve) has been reissued in Universal's "Originals" series and features the same band, though in a somewhat more restrained setting (shorter tunes, probably more accurate playing - but when a big band's on fire, I don't care if the playing gets lose, actually in many cases I really love that, for instance on the awesome new Thad Jones/Mel Lewis set out on Resonance).


Thanks for the recommendations. Will look into those.

playing now:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ue941is9L._SY280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61bz2jQXR9L._SS280.jpg)

Jason Adasiewicz - Sun Rooms (2010)
Bill Frisell - Quartet (1996)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RPX16pMxL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31dg54Mwg1L._SS280.jpg)

Ravish Momin - Climbing The Banyan Tree (2006)
Myra Melford - Life Carries Me This Way (2013)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lPUTLfPfL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711fR0LByPL._SX280_.jpg)

Sam Newsome - Monk Abstractions (2006)
Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (2007)
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Post by: king ubu on April 25, 2016, 10:22:29 PM
Love Adasiewicz! That "Sun Rooms" album is good, I've got another one, too - the one you depicted on CD, the other on LP, bought after an amazing concert at the end of a tour with the "Living by Lanterns" band he co-leads with Mike Reed, and which also includes Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomeka Reid, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock and other favorites of mine.

As for me, I'm still trying to get to grips with Prince's death, playing stuff from various of his albums, also played some more Albert Ayler (the rehearsal session from 1968 with the great "Thank God for Women" on disc six of the "Holy Ghost" box).
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Post by: Henk on April 26, 2016, 12:26:57 PM
On the background. Nice stuff by Zorn.
[asin]B00X6MOB40[/asin]
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 26, 2016, 09:01:04 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qxxgk9awL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Pxg%2BR6k1L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

Ravish Momin - Miren (A Longing) (2007)
Myra Melford - Alive In The House Of Saints (1993)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81IqWovYNLL._SY280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61J66CTZqtL._SY280_.jpg)

Sam Newsome - The Straight Horn Of Africa (2014)
Bill Frisell - Where In The World (1991)
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 27, 2016, 01:58:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512W8cy6qsL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71bVULULr8L._SX280_.jpg)

Joe Locke - Lay Down My Heart (2013)
Thelonious Monk - 5 By Monk By 5 (1959)
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Post by: king ubu on April 27, 2016, 10:34:21 PM
last night:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/491/MI0000491645.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/167/MI0000167416.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/533/MI0002533318.jpg)


the night before:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/505/MI0000505604.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/248/MI0000248824.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 28, 2016, 01:27:20 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514HtbZXZ8L._SX280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81mNA2N8YRL._SL280_.jpg)

Bill Frisell - Ghost Town (2000)
Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 28, 2016, 12:28:49 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/641/MI0001641919.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/580/MI0003580535.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 28, 2016, 02:22:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FHwxgSOQL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rue%2BWTG5L._SX300_.jpg)

Steps Ahead - Modern Times (1984)
Bill Frisell - Blues Dream (2001)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4139S53JD5L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mr8RCibgL._SY280_.jpg)

Ran Blake and Anthony Braxton - A Memory Of Vienna (1988)
Alex Cline - The Constant Flame (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 29, 2016, 01:57:06 AM
first listen this morning:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61DlymbmILL.jpg)

pretty good! the Japanese reissue is still available, though not as cheaply as it originally was ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 29, 2016, 05:24:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/poZWg-pVboE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 29, 2016, 05:33:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/3u5lW99YygU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 29, 2016, 05:59:05 AM
(http://direct-ns.rhap.com/imageserver/v2/albums/Alb.321994/images/500x500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 29, 2016, 03:08:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dCFJHLjYL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A1n%2BKJvnpUL._SX280_.jpg)

Terry Gibbs Dream Band - Vol.6 One More Time (rec.1959)
Wally Rose - Ragtime Classics (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on April 29, 2016, 06:49:25 PM
Rez Abbasi - Snake Charmer

[asin]B0007VAQZ6[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 29, 2016, 09:51:45 PM
This LP.

(http://vinyl-west.de/catalog/images/eddielockjawdavis-thecookbookus.JPG)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 29, 2016, 09:52:57 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61tzGy%2BTroL._SX280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bApcOdQcL.jpg)

Bill Frisell - Is That You? (1990)
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree (1989)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sNVPyycKL._SY280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JQB9YSOXL._SY280_.jpg)

John Zorn - The Big Gundown (1985)
Alex Cline - Sparks Fly Upward (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 30, 2016, 07:21:19 AM
Hope you enjoyed the Gibbs! That band's a monster!

Love the Tapscott dearly.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 30, 2016, 11:37:10 AM
I have a few of the Tapscott LPs, but will have to check this one out. Thanks
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 30, 2016, 02:00:47 PM
Quote from: king ubu on April 30, 2016, 07:21:19 AM
Hope you enjoyed the Gibbs! That band's a monster!

Love the Tapscott dearly.

The Gibbs was superb - thanks for the recommendation.

It was the first time I'd heard the Tapscott, and it was a knockout. First time I'd heard any Tapscott in fact, so it was a great introduction (though I'm already a big fan of John Carter, who also appears.

Been trying to do more "first-listen" exploring of more recentish jazz, and finding some great stuff. The Ravish Momin albums and the Alex Cline albums in particular became instant favorites.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 30, 2016, 02:35:00 PM
Glad to hear that about Gibbs! The entire series is worth hunting down if you enjoy this kind of music, no idea how difficult that may be these days (I often realize how lucky I am to have been collecting jazz since my high school days in the 90s ... so much of the great 50s and 60s jazz has been around for so long, it was quite easy to grab so many great albums even with my small budget back then, as Fantasy would just keep all these Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary etc. albums in print forever!)

Re: Carter ... the Mosaic Select with the Revelation sessions has just gone OOP ... but the two Flying Dutchman albums are around, one on Ace and the other one in a superb reissue by International Phonograph (who also did Tapscotts magnificient debut, "The Giant Has Awakened", also originally on Flying Dutchman - alas the reissue is OOP ... International Phonograph is the current label of Jonathan Horwich, one of the guys behind Revelation back in the sixties and seventies and his reissues are splendid, other than the two mentioned also one each by Bill Dixon and by Julius Hemphill, plus a very good one by Clare Fischer and one by Jeremy Steig which I've not spent nearly as much time with yet as I should).

Also, there's a great live concert by Carter/Bradford out on DarkTree records!

And Carter's "Echoes from Rudolph's" has been reissued by NoBusiness (operating out of Lithuania, another great, small label, focussing on both reissues of classic free jazz albums - often extended, as is the case with the Carter! - as well as recording new albums by both legendary older guys as well as younger musicians - and they did a few new Bradford albums (the group he co-leads with saxophonist Frode Gjerstad), as has Chuck Nessa on his fine label.

Good times for Carter/Bradford fans indeed!

I'd love to hear more of Carter's work as a leader though, have his "Castles of Ghana" and "Dance of the Love Ghosts" in addition, but that's it already.

As for Tapscott, his solo recordings can be totally mesmerizing, but of the official "Tapscott Sessions" on Nimbus West (no connection to Nimbus the CD-R label) I have only Vol. 8 so far, alas. I need to get more, really! Also need to pick up the recordings of Tapscott's larger arkestra, eventually.
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 30, 2016, 02:59:34 PM
^Great info as always, KU. Thanks again. ("Castles Of Ghana" is a favorite of mine and gets played pretty regularly)

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JdToJbaIL._SS280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fs63nIS5L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

Joe Locke and David Hazeltine - Mutual Admiration Society (1999)
Bill Frisell - East/West (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 30, 2016, 11:56:07 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 30, 2016, 02:59:34 PM
^Great info as always, KU. Thanks again. ("Castles Of Ghana" is a favorite of mine and gets played pretty regularly)

always happy to provide a little jazz fix  ;D

"Castles of Ghana" is desert island stuff for me as well, besides the great Carter/Bradford (there's two out on Hat Hut btw, one a Revelation album that was also part of the OOP Mosaic Select, the other a much later recording), it's my favourite Carter so far - but as I said, I really need to explore more there. Wish his recordings were easier to find!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 01, 2016, 12:32:08 PM
Wadada Leo Smith - Tabligh

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 01, 2016, 02:48:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-PCu7fEPL._SS280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51s6BDMUcSL._SS280.jpg)

David Hazeltine - The Classic Trio (1997)
Bill Frisell - Further East / Further West (2005)

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Trevor Watts - The Deep Blue (2009)
David Sanchez - Cultural Survival (2008)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/618cCMKaY4L._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZKcWYOG8L._SS280.jpg)

Charlie Hunter - Songs From The Analog Playground (2001)
Adam Lane - New Magical Kingdom (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 02, 2016, 06:09:16 PM
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Gerald Wilson - New York New Sound (2002)
Bill Frisell - Richter 858 (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on May 03, 2016, 08:37:39 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/M0-sRmTFOMo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 03, 2016, 12:42:28 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/221/MI0002221768.jpg)

arrived today - had to get it, eventually, although I didn't expect it to be earth-shattering ... but seems pretty nice (that's three tunes in), with Ortega doubling up on alto, tenor, baritone, flute and clarinet - but mostly so far sticking to his regular alto for his improvisations - which sound quite like Lee Konitz here, at spots
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 03, 2016, 03:47:40 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/After_Hours_with_Joe_Bushkin.jpeg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZkPkRyL8L._SX280_.jpg)

Joe Bushkin - After Hours (1951)
Lee Konitz - Subconscious Lee (1950)

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Wilbur De Paris - That's A Plenty (1959)
George Lewis - Jazz Funeral In New Orleans (1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 04, 2016, 02:13:02 PM
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Joe Locke - Love Is A Pendulum (2015)
Bill Frisell - The Intercontinentals (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 06, 2016, 06:35:53 AM
Just heard the sad news that Johannes Bauer has died, a few weeks shy of 62 (confirmed on the website (http://www.connybauer.de/en/) of his brother and co-'bonist Conny) - very sorry to hear this.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/376/MI0002376433.jpg)

Playing this duo concert recording of theirs, recorded live in 1993
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 06, 2016, 03:18:14 PM
I'm not familiar with Johannes Bauer, I'm a little ashamed to say - I'll try and play some later

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WtbMnma7L._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31-nN2kSkQL._SS280.jpg)

Stanley Turrentine / The Three Sounds - Blue Hour (1961)
Bill Frisell - Nashville (1997)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61FbJSVJsEL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513WzViFRfL._SS280_.jpg)

Ken Vandermark - In The Abstract (2014)
Steve Lacy - School Days (rec.1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on May 06, 2016, 11:54:31 PM
Quote from: king ubu on May 06, 2016, 06:35:53 AM
Just heard the sad news that Johannes Bauer has died, a few weeks shy of 62 (confirmed on the website (http://www.connybauer.de/en/) of his brother and co-'bonist Conny) - very sorry to hear this.

Playing this duo concert recording of theirs, recorded live in 1993
A relation of Kunst Bauer?  0:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on May 07, 2016, 01:30:21 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/pSI4qH9E9ySoRQK0UHNymD3_ZQY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-507693-1365772015-8175.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/KQ5OsmHA8D3b4eLW-5u2dlhOVpo=/fit-in/600x1200/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-507693-1365772068-3172.jpeg.jpg)

with Gordon Beck, Dave Macrae, and some of Alan Holdsworth's more interesting playing
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 07, 2016, 03:42:50 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 06, 2016, 11:54:31 PM
A relation of Kunst Bauer?  0:)

Sorry, I don't get the joke - a google search brings up weird christian crap such as this (https://www.christliche-kunst-bauer.de/?id=3206), with which I want no relation whatsoever.

Thread duty:

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(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/023/MI0004023217.jpg)

The first one, by Marie Krüttli, is from last year, but I only just got it (and her 2014 trio album - I think her only two records so far), the Alessi was recorded two years ago but is brand new (why is ECM often so slow?) - and this is my first listen (to both - already played Krüttli's trio record a few days ago but think I failed to mention it here).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on May 07, 2016, 05:39:17 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 07, 2016, 03:42:50 AM
Sorry, I don't get the joke - a google search brings up weird christian crap such as this (https://www.christliche-kunst-bauer.de/?id=3206), with which I want no relation whatsoever.
It was Art Farmer's pseudonym on a Teo Macero album. See here (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz-musician-pseudonyms-by-aaj-staff.php?&pg=2).  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 07, 2016, 06:32:07 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 07, 2016, 05:39:17 AM
It was Art Farmer's pseudonym on a Teo Macero album. See here (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/jazz-musician-pseudonyms-by-aaj-staff.php?&pg=2).  8)
Oh, I see - was totally unaware of that!  :)

Now playing, a disc from 2013 with a good friend on tenor, picked up from the sales bins today:

(http://kellers10.ch/media/albums/cover-two.jpg)

Keller's 10 - Two (Unit, 2013) - good stuff, clever arrangements and making use of the sonic palette on offer (2 t/flh, tb, btb/tuba, as/fl, 2 ts/bcl, p/fender rhodes, b, d/perc - the leader is conducting)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 07, 2016, 07:06:10 AM
next one, pulled from the bins together with the Keller, never heard it before - about darn time!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/519/MI0001519971.jpg)

Gato Barbieri - In Search of the Mystery (ESP-Disk', 1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 07, 2016, 03:26:18 PM
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The Three Sounds - Elegant Soul (1968)
Pago Libre - Wake Up Call (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 08, 2016, 01:45:41 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/023/MI0004023841.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/502/MI0002502454.jpg)

both of these first spins ... very much enjoyed the Iyer/Smith, was pretty distracted and need to relisten to the Gale soon ... now, an old friend:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/943/MI0001943903.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 08, 2016, 08:42:24 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EgkgSvXfL._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KcoLpiGsL._SS280.jpg)

Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian - s/t (2006)
Don Byron - Bug Music (1996)

(http://www.recordmania.net/media/covers/EJN77210.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EJ26Q7QYL.jpg)

Per Henrik Wallin - One Knife is Enough (1982)
Charles Gayle - Touchin On Trane (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on May 09, 2016, 06:45:27 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 08, 2016, 08:42:24 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EgkgSvXfL._SS280.jpg)

How did you like that one?

I saw it at a local shop recently. I'm always curious about a record with Ron Carter on it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 09, 2016, 07:45:18 PM
Quote from: Artem on May 09, 2016, 06:45:27 PM
How did you like that one?

I saw it at a local shop recently. I'm always curious about a record with Ron Carter on it.

It was just a first listen, but I really liked that one. Its understated and at a constant simmer rather than ever boiling, but without ever being too gentle or easy. All three musicians are well captured and showcased, but Frisell is clearly leading - if that makes a difference. The song selection you'll see at a glance looks overly eclectic, but they nevertheless achieved something beautifully consistent.

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ian-TvSkL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61o7sSW-6RL._SX280_.jpg)

Gianluigi Trovesi - Dedalo (2007)
Jimmy Lyons / Sunny Murray / John Lindberg - Jump Up (rec.1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 10, 2016, 12:56:17 AM
"Touchin' on Trane" and "Jump Up", are, as they say, "da shit"!

Anyone just remotely interested in this kind of music, and anyone into Jimmy Lyons (in many ways the true heir to Charlie Parker, I think ... Eric Dolphy was another but his flame stopped burning way too soon) should consider this great box set:
http://ayler.com/jimmy-lyons-the-box-set.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 10, 2016, 03:38:01 AM
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Greg Osby - Banned In New York (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on May 10, 2016, 06:04:34 AM
Sketches in Spain.  First time in a long time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 10, 2016, 12:53:01 PM
Herlin Riley. New Direction.



[asin]B018V7NBQS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 10, 2016, 09:34:03 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Green_Shading_into_Blue.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DjNq-A1PL._SS280_.jpg)

Arlid Andersen - Green Shading Into Blue (1978)
Gerry Hemingway - The Whimbler (2005)

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Marilyn Mazur - Circular Chant (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 11, 2016, 08:55:21 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51P7iDR0osL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 11, 2016, 11:18:32 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WBTUWtGAL._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 11, 2016, 01:03:50 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/602/MI0003602773.jpg)

Happy 80th Birthday to Carla Bley - props for hanging in there and making all that great and highly individualistic music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2016, 04:22:26 PM
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Egberto Gismonti - Zig Zag (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 12, 2016, 06:21:57 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 11, 2016, 11:18:32 AM
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On my shopping list - first impressions?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 12, 2016, 09:08:46 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 12, 2016, 06:21:57 AM
On my shopping list - first impressions?
Most beautiful version of "Some Other Time" at the end of disc one ... had that on repeat for a while before proceeding with disc two. Impression: it's a wonderful addition to the huge Evans catalogue, particularly in light of this trio only having one other album out (the live one from Montreux on Verve). The music has a cautious feel, as if they're really careful with things, kind of feeling their way through it - but it's lovely indeed and that tentative quality makes it seem even more precious really.
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Post by: Spineur on May 12, 2016, 10:57:54 AM
First spin of this classic.  Great as expected !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 12, 2016, 02:36:24 PM
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Marc Johnson - The Sound Of Summer Running (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 13, 2016, 03:04:22 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nlVjAtqaL.jpg)

as Carla Bley, he's just celebrating his 80th birthday ... I have no use at all for his later jazz rock band "Passport" (way too polished and hardly anything that really catches me) - played some of disc four (some sideman cuts but mostly some great live rarities) of this very fine set, now some of the Red Norvo trio with Mingus and Farlow from this (some of it is a bit too sweet I find, but the best of it is amazing):

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TMlywOuQL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 13, 2016, 08:55:20 AM
Spiritual Unity

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 13, 2016, 03:07:55 PM
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Steps Ahead - s/t (1983)
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Post by: HIPster on May 13, 2016, 03:24:09 PM
Planetary Unknown

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 13, 2016, 07:07:15 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 12, 2016, 02:36:24 PM
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Marc Johnson - The Sound Of Summer Running (1998)

The only recording session where Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell are playing opposite of each other. Pretty good album.

Interesting factoid: Metheny was responsible for getting Frisell his first gig with Paul Motian.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 14, 2016, 06:43:41 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0004/028/MI0004028977.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 14, 2016, 07:06:48 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 14, 2016, 06:43:41 AM
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Hi king ubu, looks very cool!  Wow.  How's the sound quality on this?

BTW - in addition to your jazz postings in this thread ( always excellent!  :)), I have been following your recent 17th and 18th century vocal recital postings with great interest.  Many thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on May 14, 2016, 10:56:44 AM
Not the best Evans cd. It feels like he wanted to get out of the recording studio as fast as possible. He's really banging through most of the tunes here. 3 out of 5 stars.[asin]B009K6GLF8[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 14, 2016, 11:57:32 AM
Quote from: HIPster on May 14, 2016, 07:06:48 AM
Hi king ubu, looks very cool!  Wow.  How's the sound quality on this?

BTW - in addition to your jazz postings in this thread ( always excellent!  :)), I have been following your recent 17th and 18th century vocal recital postings with great interest.  Many thanks.
I have phases where I just *need* that kind of vocal music ... guess I'm in the middle of one of them right now. (And I just bought a pile of Glossa and Atma releases ... also some Onyx vocal discs (one each by Amanda Roocroft and, and several by Christiane Stotijn) with later repertoire. I need to dig deeper there, love Schubert but again don't know that much yet, and need to dig into Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, and Wolf songs, too. And the entire French repertoire. And R. Strauss. And Berg, Webern ... have heard bit of all of it, but the days are just too short.

This Basie set is a bootleg/public domain reissue of some older series of releases (several LPs on Phontastic), which probably have been hard to come by for a long time (I wasn't even awre of their existence). I got into disc two, sound is fine and the music is wonderful! This is the NT band before some key members started leaving the ship (Joe Newman, Al Grey, Billy Mitchell), and it's in excellent playing mood - truly a joy to hear! Here's a short post about it:
http://www.jazzwax.com/2014/01/count-on-the-coast-basie-58.html
For me, up to around 1959 or 1960, NT Basie is a safe bet (I still prefer anything with Lester Young on board, but then it's kinda pointless to compare), after that, there's still plenty of fine msuic, but I don't feel the urge to have it all on my shelves (for one, do yourself a favour and get "Basie Meets Bond" on United Artists if you can, it was officially reissued by Capitol/EMI/Blue Note at some time, and it's a truly burning date - some mean Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on it!)

As for listening, I guess I'll go on with Basie tomorrow again, when I can blast it loudly ... so no proper thread duty here  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 14, 2016, 02:54:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MhH3QlNcL._SS280.jpg)

Milt Jackson - Vibrations (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 14, 2016, 09:06:34 PM
Now playing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rYDKk8BgL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xTPxNs3mL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 14, 2016, 09:44:47 PM
That Coltrane record sure was nice - my Jazz listening is a bit sporadic I guess but I will listen to some more albums:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51n2OJdrQkL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81HjgJeoLML._SL1500_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rqzWjmkUL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ujt6C3LxL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71dFfKovRmL._SL1199_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KMrradV5L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 15, 2016, 03:31:42 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 14, 2016, 06:43:41 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0004/028/MI0004028977.jpg)

continuing with disc three now
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 15, 2016, 02:50:39 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51D7GwsrAHL._SS280.jpg)

Pat Metheny - Speaking Of Now (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 15, 2016, 11:31:00 PM
Now playing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/717IW6pAScL._SL1425_.jpg)

listening to this one again - great album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 16, 2016, 01:54:49 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/696/MI0000696948.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 16, 2016, 12:31:32 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/248/MI0003248100.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 16, 2016, 10:33:59 PM
yesterday's late night listen (disc one from the Parlan Mosaic box):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/931/MI0002931646.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 17, 2016, 02:47:04 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CfwRMqP8L._SY300_.jpg)

Michael Marcus - Speakin Out -(2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 17, 2016, 11:57:57 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/589/MI0001589190.jpg)

Continued with Horace Parlan last night - the rest of disc one and disc two of the Mosaic set compiling his fine Blue Note albums.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/309/MI0002309363.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 18, 2016, 02:08:26 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ALpXgO2eL._SS280.jpg)

Kenny Barron - Landscape (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 20, 2016, 01:02:44 AM
Tonights Jazz Listening:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71TbKiFjQ8L._SL1300_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31CNJ0FBCML.jpg)

Ahh, I think my tastes in Jazz are probably a bit conservative - The Jackie McLean album rubbed me up the wrong way mostly.
Playing a John Coltrane record now - this is more my thing :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 20, 2016, 03:05:41 PM
^Each to their own, of course, and that doesn't make you conservative, but what was it that was doing the rubbing?

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516wkRSWzHL._SS280_.jpg)

Kenny Barron / Barry Harris - Confirmation (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 20, 2016, 03:18:41 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 20, 2016, 03:05:41 PM
^Each to their own, of course, and that doesn't make you conservative, but what was it that was doing the rubbing?

Hey Simon - I think the McLean album was a bit too playful/experimental for me. I feel the same way about Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
I didn't dislike the album a lot it wasn't too bad - probably more like it was just trying my patience a bit.
Ill probably give the album a try again when im in the mood for something different - I almost never give up on stuff :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on May 20, 2016, 09:45:36 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yUNTqJNZL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on May 21, 2016, 12:24:38 AM
Tonights listening:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91RHOuPjm1L._SL1500_.jpg)

Im probably not the best at following recommendations but I have to thank MI for making this one - I love this album!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41VB15z6IgL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ChHjhk0QL._SL1101_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71cHSnMMvGL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 21, 2016, 02:04:41 AM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lr0eBgeJL._SS400.jpg)

terrific set by this group last night ... ran to the CD stand afterwards to buy this and two more
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 21, 2016, 02:44:13 AM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yAVhjf5wL._SS400.jpg)

and now the new one, too ... wonderful stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 21, 2016, 04:47:59 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/714t8cm9bQL._SL400_.jpg)

more music from Scandinavia - just bought this, first impression is very good indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 21, 2016, 09:08:44 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511vVt%2B60xL.jpg)

Another first spin - and wow, this is mighty impressive! Sonny Rollins (in trio with Henry Grimes and Pete La Roca) is on fire, and it seems Silver's quintet (the classic Blue Mitchell/Junior Cook line-up) is doing its best to keep up (and pretty well succeeds).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 21, 2016, 09:22:03 PM
Coltrane. Disc 2 from this impressive (musically and aesthetically) Impulse box:




(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/838/MI0001838955.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)



Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Quartet-Complete-Impulse-Recordings/dp/B00000DHZ9/ref=sr_1_8_twi_aud_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1463892137&sr=1-8&keywords=coltrane+impulse


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 22, 2016, 12:22:54 AM
the box is *somewhat* botched ... they started releasing those more complete two-disc sets shortly after, but ... there are several buts:

1) Ballads (Deluxe) - the two-disc set with the session reel on disc two is mostly just alternates of one track and the bonus material overall isn't all that essential
2) Coltrane (Deluxe) - the two-disc set is wonderful, BUT: they included "Inch Worm" in the version with Duke Ellington (while the 8 CD "classic quartet" box has the correct track)
3) A Love Supreme (Deluxe) - that's kinda like Universal/Vivendi/feghers showing us the finger multiple times ... the initial two disc set was magnificent in that it contained the great Antibes/Juan-les-Pins concert first time on any official release ... it also contained two of the titles of that long-lost session with Archie Shepp ... and I so fell in love that I retain it
4) A Love Supreme (Complete Masters) - now, if you never got that two-disc edition (see 3), you're perfectly fine with buying the three-disc edition of this - it has the bonus studio material on disc two and the concert on disc three. For those sentimental bastards such as me who will keep the two-disc edition, there's also a two-disc edition of the "Complete Masters" set that does omit the live concert ... and HELLYEAH the additional two takes with Shepp are definitely worth it! The alternates from the actual quartet date are the same as on the older deluxe set
5) A Love Supreme (once again, same old, same old) - not announced quite yet and might never happen, BUT the fact that a leaked tracklist contained some more studio material that is probably also on the session reel in possession of the family (just in case: all of these Deluxe sets are based on such reels that were handed over by Impulse to Coltrane so he could revisit the recordings at home) ... so we might eventually get one more edition with all the burps and farts and false starts added that were omitted from the "Complete Masters" set

Me, I have bought "A Love Supreme", I think, five times by now. I had the old "Impulse Master Edition" disc, than the box, then re-bought the single disc (wanted it on standalone), then the Deluxe, now the Complete Masters ... and of course I also had the Antibes on a bootleg disc (Charly/Le Jazz). After all, Coltrane is God, kind of  ;)

Thread duty:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/719/MI0003719804.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 22, 2016, 07:42:50 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/984/MI0001984655.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 22, 2016, 09:06:04 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/682/MI0003682451.jpg)

had this next to the player for a while, to revisit (it's one of International Phonograph's glorious reissues in glossy mini LP foldout format) - alas turns out a memorial listen

Jeremy Steig (1942-2016)

http://www.jeremysteig.info/jeremysspirit-E.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 22, 2016, 02:15:49 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/611/MI0001611662.jpg)

Playing a variety of tracks from the first discs of this set ... gotta revisit the Massey Hall concert (on most of disc two and all of disc three - this box has the dubbed and undubbed versions) again within the next days!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 22, 2016, 02:53:44 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ikZwgd5hL._SY280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615cUqT1dPL._SS280.jpg)

Kenny Barron - Other Places (1993) and Sambao (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 23, 2016, 07:43:19 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/782/MI0002782747.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 25, 2016, 02:17:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/610S9wGTnQL._SS280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515M9JJ76ML.jpg)

Kenny Barron / John Hicks - Rhythm-A-Ning (1989)
The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol.1: 1933-35
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 25, 2016, 10:55:42 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/997/MI0001997867.jpg)

Barney Wilen died 20 years ago yesterday.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 26, 2016, 10:27:43 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WyPd85QsL._SX280_.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 27, 2016, 08:15:10 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 26, 2016, 10:27:43 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WyPd85QsL._SX280_.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots (1960)
I listened last night - what a lot of crazy fun that album is.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on May 27, 2016, 08:32:06 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 27, 2016, 08:15:10 AM
I listened last night - what a lot of crazy fun that album is.
Day before yesterday would have been even more appropriate, though.  0:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 27, 2016, 09:35:24 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 27, 2016, 08:32:06 AM
Day before yesterday would have been even more appropriate, though.  0:)
Why's that?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on May 27, 2016, 09:48:17 AM
"Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 27, 2016, 10:53:52 AM
Quote from: North Star on May 27, 2016, 09:48:17 AM
"Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"
Oh of course  :-[ :P
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on May 27, 2016, 06:20:15 PM
Good recording. Quite minimalistic with Baker being accompanied by bass and guitar.
[asin]B000027LIV[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 27, 2016, 08:57:28 PM
Bud Powell, Bud!



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 27, 2016, 10:04:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71it0jsClFL._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 28, 2016, 12:24:05 PM
earlier:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KzC1pqFLL.jpg)


now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/486/MI0002486060.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 28, 2016, 03:12:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lO69jL4aL._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M2MY0DKCL.jpg)

Ravish Momin - Five Nights (2005) and Sound Dissolving Sound (2000)

Mentioned to a friend that Ravish Momin was one of the most interesting/exciting/original artists I've heard in recent jazz. He sampled a bit and then purchased three discs immediately - including the two above I'm hearing now for the first time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 29, 2016, 12:42:40 AM
That's cool, so you have friends that buy the discs you want to hear yourself and then lend them to you?  :)

Playing this one, from the big Mingus Debut box:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/695/MI0000695737.jpg)

Indeed offering "relaxed piano moods" - but it's pretty cute, really!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 29, 2016, 01:16:53 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 29, 2016, 12:42:40 AM
That's cool, so you have friends that buy the discs you want to hear yourself and then lend them to you?  :)


Heh, sometimes - but the same friend currently has one of my Messiaen boxes on loan.

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yhMV346WL._SS280.jpg)

Michael Portal - Dockings (1997)

^Really nice to be surprised by "Ida Lupino", one of my favorite standards, without having realized it was on the disc

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJfoJRVyL._SS280.jpg)

John Lindberg - The Catbird Sings (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 29, 2016, 03:46:55 AM
That's cool!

Now playing the next Debut session with Mingus - the second one led by Thad Jones, which is brilliant (quartet w/Mingus, Roach and pianist John Dennis):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/458/MI0002458712.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 29, 2016, 02:48:10 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xCnW7vZIL._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517s3MkbcHL._SS280.jpg)

Louis Armstrong - The California Concerts, disc one (rec.1951)
Oscar Peterson - At The Stratford Shakesperean Festival (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 29, 2016, 04:40:55 PM
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Heart's Reflections

[asin]B004TB6G4A[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 29, 2016, 11:34:59 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gOpYNMRsL.jpg)

Amalgam - Prayer For Peace (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 30, 2016, 05:33:01 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81LYBW2UtVL._SY300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K5SMZXTSL.jpg)

Keith Jarrett - El Juicio (The Judgement) (rec.1971)
Steve Marcus - Tomorrow Never Knows (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 31, 2016, 08:51:10 AM
in the mail from Japan today:

(http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/9/albumcoverSpontaneousMusicEnsemble-Karyobin.jpg?1199871859)

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 31, 2016, 06:15:27 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/486/MI0002486772.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ic4McivzL._SY300_.jpg)

Hamiet Bluiett - Birthright (1977)
Benny Carter - Further Definitions (1962)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41b1pmN7CGL._SS280.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Sketchbook (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 01, 2016, 02:48:44 PM
(http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400/110973.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713xRX%2BRh7L._SX280_.jpg)

Bill Goodwin - Solar Energy (1981)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella In London (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2016, 03:57:47 AM
(http://www.hearthedifference.net/images/IMG_2126.jpg)

Later today, gonna spin this new purchase!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2016, 11:59:26 AM
(http://www.hearthedifference.net/images/IMG_2126.jpg)

As promised, fully enjoying this one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 02, 2016, 02:16:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51v9m8ZX5EL._SS280.jpg)

Chet Baker - Chet Baker and Crew (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 02, 2016, 06:36:06 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 02, 2016, 02:16:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51v9m8ZX5EL._SS280.jpg)

Chet Baker - Chet Baker and Crew (1957)
Can I ask about the sound quality? I ordered a copy of this through Amazon directly and it turned out to be a CD-R. The first four tracks sound great, but then the sound inexplicably becomes slightly muffled for the rest of the disc. It's weird because the first half is one of the finest-sounding jazz albums I had heard at the time, but then the rest was frustrating. Did you experience this with your copy?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on June 02, 2016, 06:37:48 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 02, 2016, 06:36:06 PM
Can I ask about the sound quality? I ordered a copy of this through Amazon directly and it turned out to be a CD-R. The first four tracks sound great, but then the sound inexplicably becomes slightly muffled for the rest of the disc. It's weird because the first half is one of the finest-sounding jazz albums I had heard at the time, but then the rest was frustrating. Did you experience this with your copy?

You didn't ask me, but my copy sounds fine. A shame you didn't receive an original OJC of this recording. I'd be asking for my money back if I were you.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 02, 2016, 06:51:11 PM
Yeah, I didn't notice anything like that, either. Sorry to hear they sold you a dud.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 03, 2016, 02:24:55 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/179/MI0000179912.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xmP8nhYxL.jpg)

Last night, those two fine ones by Johnny Griffin's (CD-Rs, too, btw ... sucks!) - also, lots of Mingus lately ... today, so far:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/404/MI0002404447.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/736/MI0000736698.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/162/MI0002162706.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 03, 2016, 03:04:18 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71oF0QwVjKL._SX300_.jpg)

Charlie Byrd - The Guitar Artistry Of Charlie Byrd (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 04, 2016, 04:52:30 AM
Mingus, Paris 1970 - before the concert on DIW (Oct 28, can't find a good cover), now the studio session, three days later:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2BOA1aRNGL._SL400_.jpg)

Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 04, 2016, 08:09:46 AM
More Mingus ... from the marginal:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/241/MI0002241298.jpg)

to the magisterial:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/849/MI0001849088.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 04, 2016, 11:51:22 AM
Benny Goodman....


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fx-qaeJnL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 04, 2016, 03:05:07 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71NZKardKQL._SX300_.jpg)

Howard Rumsey - Sunday Jazz a la Lighthouse, Vol.1 (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 05, 2016, 04:22:35 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DlDpbREjL._SX300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71M0mkVhf6L._SY300_.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - At The Golden Circle Stockholm, Vol.1 (1966)
Hank Crawford - From The Heart (1962)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71fd0uzUNOL._SY300_.jpg) (http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c8f8577a97e8cb2ffa802d51106b3326/2955983.jpg)

Johnny Dyani - Witchdoctor's Son (1978)
Booker Ervin - Lament For Booker Ervin (1975)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510Ydxy7wuL._SY300_.jpg) (https://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/457bc7a4b54fdf0cdafc1cb5d7c172f0/3326449.jpg)

Booker Ervin - The Freedom Book (1964)
Joe Harriott - Abstract (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 05, 2016, 11:30:43 PM
Dyani! Booker! Harriott! Wonderful stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 05, 2016, 11:51:27 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 05, 2016, 11:30:43 PM
Dyani! Booker! Harriott! Wonderful stuff!

Yeah! The Dyani is another desert island disc for me. The Lament and Abstract albums I was hearing for the first time, and they were particularly impressive among today's listening. The others were also fine, but I'll be playing those two again in the very near future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 06, 2016, 01:31:17 AM
"Freedom Book" might be the one Ervin album for me ... but "Lament" is great as well. He was very consistent actually and it pays off to hunt his albums (Prestige, Candid, Savoy, Pacific Jazz, a strong one plus some sideman ones with Horace Parlan on Blue Note).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 06, 2016, 10:59:53 AM
Miles Davis Quintet
7-25-69 Antibes


CD 1

[asin]B008YCMM2A[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 06, 2016, 11:04:05 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 06, 2016, 01:31:17 AM
"Freedom Book" might be the one Ervin album for me ... but "Lament" is great as well. He was very consistent actually and it pays off to hunt his albums (Prestige, Candid, Savoy, Pacific Jazz, a strong one plus some sideman ones with Horace Parlan on Blue Note).
I might have to do this - over the past month I've been listening to lots of Mingus as well as Mal Waldron's masterpiece The Quest, and Booker Ervin is not just great but, as you say, very consistent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 06, 2016, 01:11:51 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 06, 2016, 11:04:05 AM
I might have to do this - over the past month I've been listening to lots of Mingus as well as Mal Waldron's masterpiece The Quest, and Booker Ervin is not just great but, as you say, very consistent.

Oh, yes, "The Quest" is great!

Regarding the other albums you played, the Ornette, for me, is desert island stuff, amongst his best (and that means amongst the best there are). I really love that trio, and the two RVG discs are a fine testament (too much of his stuff from around that time is hard to get/only on boots ... and he even prevented the two Impulse albums from getting any proper reissue, yet "Crisis" is another one of his very best and it seems there would be more music from that concert - too bad!)

Harriott I fell in love with quite early, got my start with "Free Form" - probably still my favourite. I'm still buying his stuff, trying to get as much as I can!

The Dyani series of albums on Steeplechase is brilliant - and wherever Dudu Pukwana turns up, I'm doubly interested. With John Tchicai, I actually spent a few hours not too long before he died, including drinking coffee and having some sweets while sitting in our kitchen ... most generous and gracious soul!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 06, 2016, 03:52:29 PM
Still not sure why, but the Stockholm albums don't have the same emotional response for me that many other of the early Ornettes do.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414m3HAWK0L._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61mbOBRgipL._SS280.jpg)

Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)
Marc Copland / David Liebman - Impressions (2002)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51sgg1Ids7L._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516vLYLF-BL._SX280_.jpg)

Jackie McLean - Live At Montmartre (1972)
^I think this may be the first time I've heard a version of "Parker's Mood" other than the original (not including the "Kansas City" vocalese versions)
Howard McGhee - Maggie's Back In Town (1961)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X20TN9KYL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Xh%2BDe907L._SS280.jpg)

Sonny Murray - An Even Break (1970)
Oregon - Music Of Another Present Era (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 07, 2016, 10:36:03 AM
"Motion" is another top favourite here ... and the Murray has one of the greatest album titles of all times!

Playing some vinyl ... earlier:

(https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hines_earl~_hines65~~_101b.jpg)

Now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/065/MI0002065390.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 07, 2016, 11:35:15 AM
playing another LP:

(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/Philadelphia-Movement-image.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 07, 2016, 04:30:21 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51otkxZ8iSL._SY280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5124GE-KWAL._SS280.jpg)

Gato Barbieri - Chapter Four: Alive In New York (1975)
Norma Winstone - Edge Of Time (1972)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61URdpL5vwL._SY280_.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/989/MI0003989689.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Mike Westbrook - Metropolis (1971)
David Liebman / Richard Beirach - Forgotten Fantasies (1977)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/407/MI0002407689.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sonny Simmons - Music From The Spheres (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2016, 08:29:30 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81PwKfOBZHL._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2016, 08:44:47 AM
(http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/084733.jpg)

Gene Shaw - Debut in Blues
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2016, 03:53:09 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zlLA8wdeL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BsFDEX2qL._SS280.jpg)

Jimmy Rushing - Five Feet Of Soul (1963)
Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2016, 09:49:03 PM
That Chaloff is again desert island music for me! His one, perfectly shaped, mature statement ... at least on album duration - I like all his recordings, there are too few of them anyway, but I hear a leap into new heights here. And having such a great rhythm section won't do any harm either!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 09, 2016, 11:34:09 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cnocgoxfL.jpg)

Charlie Parker - In Sweden 1950 (Storyville) | Arrived today, as great as I hoped! Not too many essential Bird recordings I have left to discover I think, so this is a major feast indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 09, 2016, 03:17:14 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513FHw3no4L._SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41MKWAM03NL.jpg)

Kenny Burrell / Coleman Hawkins - Blusey Burrell (1963)
Nat Adderley - Little Big Horn (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 10, 2016, 04:41:14 AM
Made use of the sale NoBusiness had running for repeated customers ... got a rather clumsy parcel today, as so often wrapped into cut-up vinyl covers of other releases of theirs (an LP parcel is on its way as well) ... this is the first I put into the player, energetic but with plenty of melody and poignancy:

(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/Ted-Daniel-CD-image.jpg)

Ted Daniel is on trumpet, flugelhorn, a French hunting horn and a Moroccan bugle (there's a picture in the booklet were he plays, I guess, that hunting horn), Daniel Carter on tenor, Oliver Lake on alto and soprano, flute, piccolo and cow bell, Richard Pierce on bass and Tatsuya Nakamura on drums and quarter drums. The recording is from November 1975 and includes pieces by Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Sunny Murray, Albert Ayler ("Ghosts") as well as by the leader.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 10, 2016, 06:13:55 AM
Next one ... the late Marco Eneidi visiting Bay Area again:

(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/hellbent_cd_book_sp-1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 10, 2016, 11:20:49 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SwALx8XGL._SX300_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tWWXvPiTL._SS280.jpg)

Jan Allan - 70 (1970)
Derek Bailey/ Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Calvin Weston - Mirakle (2000)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415VV0BA2KL.jpg)

Marc Copland - And... (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 11, 2016, 02:50:27 AM
Big delivery today, both from NoBusiness and Not Two ... gotta love those labels and what they do!

Playing this brand new one, from the start:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81kG2Bd46UL._SL400_.jpg)

the musicians heard (in various small combinations, solos/duos/trios, a pair of quartets/quintets each and one septet) are:

Savina Yannatou (voc)
Michel Godard (tuba, serpent)
Ben Dwyer (g)
Agustí Fernández (p)
Torben Snekkestad (ss, reed trumpet)
Michael Niesemann (as, ob)
Per Texas Johansson (ts, cl)
Peter Evans (t)
Julius Gabriel (bari, ss)
Maya Homburger (v)
Fanny Paccoud (vla)
Lucas Niggli (perc)
Ramón López (perc)
Barry Guy (b)

I saw the full band (sans Evans, not sure he's a fix member of the group) in action in November and that was amazing - the programme of the full band is out on Intakt now and they'll perform it in autumn again - will try and be there, Guy's large ensembles always put on a terrific show! Upcoming dates can be found on the homepage of Lucas Niggli: http://www.lucasniggli.ch/english/0400_daten/index.asp
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 12, 2016, 02:45:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4126KGD7F8L.jpg)

Helen Humes - Songs I Like To Sing (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 12, 2016, 10:39:07 PM
Saw a terrific concert by Elina Duni and Jean-Paul Brodbeck on Friday night ... for those that read German:
http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/06/elina-duni-jean-paul-brodbeck-zurich-10.html

Obviously had to revisit some Billie Holiday, notably the 1941 session with Chu Berry on which she did both "Gloomy Sunday" and "I Cover the Waterfront". And played this several times later the same night (actually half night through):

[asin]B00000DBYV[/asin]

And then more Holiday lately, from this set (I have an edition in a jumbo jewel case, booklet is there though, it's a great one), which I think is generally somewhat underrated (next to the glorious early recordings on Brunswick/Vocalion/Columbia and the somber later ones on Verve):

[asin]B000003N36[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 12, 2016, 11:48:30 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cxpxMxbrL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XJD5HHDDL._SX280_.jpg)

Michael Garrick - A Lady in Waiting (1994)
John Stetch - Green Grove (1999)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414CJAKCARL.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71J6ZyhOV7L._SX355_.jpg)

The Feel Trio ‎– Celebrated Blazons (1994)
Joe McPhee - As Serious As Your Life (1996)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51euolaTvnL._SS280.jpg)

Lee Konitz - Satori (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on June 15, 2016, 12:57:29 PM
I just received this disc--wow! The musicians are practically in the room with me! My only quibble is that the piano and drums are panned hard left/right--if each have recorded in stereo and equally spread lt/rt, then the sound would be a bit more spacious, but it still sounds remarkably good in this SACD remastered version.

(https://img.discogs.com/kXjbO_OKTryqnS6cj9_BfCzPA6I=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8573168-1464303876-1394.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 15, 2016, 01:37:38 PM
^The over-wide stereo seperation on some late 50s Prestige and Blue Note albums can on occasion annoy me to the point of reducing my enjoyment of an otherwise excellent album - particularly so here at work, where with the added issue of bad speaker placement some have to be stopped because they just sound wrong.

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517lVIkNKpL._SX300_.jpg)

Rene Marie - Vertigo (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 15, 2016, 02:05:41 PM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on June 15, 2016, 12:57:29 PM
I just received this disc--wow! The musicians are practically in the room with me! My only quibble is that the piano and drums are panned hard left/right--if each have recorded in stereo and equally spread lt/rt, then the sound would be a bit more spacious, but it still sounds remarkably good in this SACD remastered version.

(https://img.discogs.com/kXjbO_OKTryqnS6cj9_BfCzPA6I=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8573168-1464303876-1394.jpeg.jpg)

Thanks for reporting! I have my eye on that CD. Amazon still lists theirs as "usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks."  :(
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on June 15, 2016, 02:21:39 PM
Quote from: George on June 15, 2016, 02:05:41 PM
Thanks for reporting! I have my eye on that CD. Amazon still lists theirs as "usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks."  :(
I bought mine from a seller on Discogs for less than 1/2 the Amazon price, and he shipped the same day!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 15, 2016, 02:46:49 PM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on June 15, 2016, 02:21:39 PM
I bought mine from a seller on Discogs for less than 1/2 the Amazon price, and he shipped the same day!!

Wow!! Nice grab!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on June 15, 2016, 03:27:22 PM
I'm a jazz newbie, so can someone recommend some contemporary artists similar to Miles Davis both in style and instrumentation--also recorded in audiophile sound? Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 15, 2016, 04:12:30 PM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on June 15, 2016, 03:27:22 PM
I'm a jazz newbie, so can someone recommend some contemporary artists similar to Miles Davis both in style and instrumentation--also recorded in audiophile sound? Thanks.

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby - analogue productions - gold CD

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard - XRCD

Any of the Coltrane albums on DCC
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on June 15, 2016, 04:42:12 PM
Quote from: George on June 15, 2016, 04:12:30 PM
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby - analogue productions - gold CD

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard - XRCD

Any of the Coltrane albums on DCC

Thanks, but aren't they rather old recordings, too? I meant recent recordings, preferably SACD.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 15, 2016, 04:50:03 PM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on June 15, 2016, 04:42:12 PM
Thanks, but aren't they rather old recordings, too? I meant recent recordings, preferably SACD.

Sorry, I am not into new stuff and I don't have a SACD player.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on June 15, 2016, 05:27:45 PM
Quote from: George on June 15, 2016, 04:50:03 PM
Sorry, I am not into new stuff and I don't have a SACD player.

ECM would do in a pinch!  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 15, 2016, 07:20:32 PM
I'd add Chet Baker, but I'm not sure there're many audiophile CDs of his music out there, although there're plenty or regular CDs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on June 15, 2016, 08:43:36 PM
Quote from: George on June 15, 2016, 04:12:30 PM

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard - XRCD
I have this one.  Lots of multiple takes.  Not my favorite Bill Evans, but still a nice listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 16, 2016, 11:07:17 AM
Quote from: Spineur on June 15, 2016, 08:43:36 PM
I have this one.  Lots of multiple takes.  Not my favorite Bill Evans, but still a nice listen.
You need the 3CD box (K2 remaster) in session/recording order ... best edition there is (and there's vinyl of it, too):
https://www.discogs.com/de/Bill-Evans-The-Complete-Village-Vanguard-Recordings-1961/release/5144833
The programming of the old CDs is annoying indeed!


Thread duty:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/439/MI0000439578.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 16, 2016, 01:15:11 PM
Rounding out the afternoon with one of my favorite piano solos ever.

http://www.youtube.com/v/O7D3TGk2rhw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 16, 2016, 04:42:08 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/060/MI0000060719.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Conte Candoli - Conte Candoli Quartet (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 16, 2016, 04:52:47 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 16, 2016, 11:07:17 AM
You need the 3CD box (K2 remaster) in session/recording order ... best edition there is (and there's vinyl of it, too):
https://www.discogs.com/de/Bill-Evans-The-Complete-Village-Vanguard-Recordings-1961/release/5144833
The programming of the old CDs is annoying indeed!

Best programming of the sessions perhaps, but it is not the best sounding mastering for this special music. Not by a long shot. The Complete set you cited was mastered using some (unnecessary) dynamic compression. Even the original OJC CDs sound better than the Complete set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 17, 2016, 03:44:49 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/513/MI0003513983.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uuwPwZEhL._SS280.jpg)

Chris Connor - The George Gershwin Almanac Of Song (rec.1957)
Jane Ira Bloom - The Nearness (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 20, 2016, 06:40:23 AM
First listen to this one:

(http://www.birkajazz.com/graphics2/blakeyHardbopColumbia.jpg)

Featuring the amazing song title "Stanley's Stiff Chickens"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 21, 2016, 02:02:26 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41bNSkzOCDL._SY300_.jpg) (http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/2275d4ec853734c67e97d2aab82b481f/1462301.jpg)

Noah Howard - The Black Ark (1973)
Lee Konitz / Martial Solal - Star Eyes: Hamburg 1983
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 21, 2016, 05:07:53 AM
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out.

[asin]B000025SPM[/asin]



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 21, 2016, 07:24:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XQ7Q95C8L._SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lEiCb9X5L._SY280_.jpg)

Oregon - Distant Hills (1973)
Howard Riley - Duality (1982)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51i1mo-D8zL.jpg) (https://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/516809e92a0058c17d8e4c1684717887/1817398.jpg)

George Russell - Jazz In The Space Age (1960)
Mike Westbrook - The Cortège (1983)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51j2tDbhUJL.jpg)

Chris Connor - Sings Lullabys For Lovers (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 22, 2016, 06:01:46 PM
This remains an obscure rarity...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Selections_from_Lerner_and_Loewe%27s.jpg)

...despite the always-scintillating presence of one "John" Griffin on tenor sax!

This might be the only album ever where THREE musicians are listed on the cover under their less-familiar alternate names.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 24, 2016, 03:59:08 PM
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2yuetnd.jpg)      (http://lab.sekaimon.com/img/fetch/i/141563218275)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 24, 2016, 05:23:43 PM
Plymouth

[asin]B00J364HCE[/asin]

Joe Morris - guitar
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Jamie Saft - keys
Chris Lightcap - bass
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on June 24, 2016, 05:34:07 PM
Landed today, first hearing. Does not disappoint
[asin]B01B66GREY[/asin]
The label, btw, is part of Harmonia Mundi.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 24, 2016, 06:01:44 PM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on June 24, 2016, 05:34:07 PM
Landed today, first hearing. Does not disappoint
[asin]B01B66GREY[/asin]
The label, btw, is part of Harmonia Mundi.

Nice, Jeffrey.  He is a wonderful bass player.

Added to the wishlist.   ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 24, 2016, 06:33:20 PM
Tomeka Reid Quartet

[asin]B013D10GQA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 30, 2016, 12:05:42 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sM1XzlLeL._SX300_.jpg)

Max Roach - It's Time (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 30, 2016, 08:07:40 PM
Kicking off the Holiday weekend with some wine and an old favorite ~

Keith Jarrett Trio - The Cure

[asin]B000025WLQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 01, 2016, 08:44:11 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zdVRmhPeL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/7196qAnPjlL._SY280_.jpg)

Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead (1961)
Max Roach - The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 03, 2016, 12:21:20 PM
Oracle - Gary Peacock & Ralph Towner

[asin]B000024C70[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 03, 2016, 03:53:05 PM
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake - From the River to the Ocean

[asin]B000NQR7N4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on July 03, 2016, 09:39:46 PM
Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins. An entertaining session, on the lightish side. Hawkins sounds as if he's played with Ellington all his life, and his distinctive timbre is a pleasure.



[asin]B000VS6ONS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 05, 2016, 07:44:20 AM
Joe Pass: Eximous.

[asin]B00004SAZL[/asin]


Joe Pass: For Django.

[asin]B00000I44J[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 05, 2016, 09:28:15 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on July 03, 2016, 09:39:46 PM
Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins. An entertaining session, on the lightish side. Hawkins sounds as if he's played with Ellington all his life, and his distinctive timbre is a pleasure.
One of my all-time favorites there - maybe "lightish" but just so freaking charming, and they're clearly having a blast. Love the opening mambo, in which Hawk appears last because he reportedly wandered into the studio while they were playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 05, 2016, 12:33:10 PM
Same here - love that one dearly! Hawkins was on a roll (the last one, really) in 1962, his band with Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley and Eddie Locke recorded another magnificient album for Impulse (and more elsewhere) ... and the way he so easily and naturally blends in with a prime group of Ellingtonians is just wonderful. Also love the one track where Ray Nance switches to violin, but I really love the entire album!

Playing this one, bought from Hazel Miller in Ravenna, two weeks ago,during the two nights with Louis Moholo:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jvxN-cj8L._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on July 05, 2016, 04:03:14 PM
Quote from: Brian on July 05, 2016, 09:28:15 AM
One of my all-time favorites there - maybe "lightish" but just so freaking charming, and they're clearly having a blast.

Yes, for sure. There's a definite sense of "good buds just hanging out and making great sounds" in these sessions.

QuoteLove the opening mambo, in which Hawk appears last because he reportedly wandered into the studio while they were playing.

Great story! :) Overall Hawkins's timbre really adds another dimension to the "Duke sound". I'd really like to have heard more from this combination!


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on July 05, 2016, 04:06:11 PM
Quote from: king ubu on July 05, 2016, 12:33:10 PM
Same here - love that one dearly! Hawkins was on a roll (the last one, really) in 1962, his band with Tommy Flanagan, Major Holley and Eddie Locke recorded another magnificient album for Impulse (and more elsewhere) ... and the way he so easily and naturally blends in with a prime group of Ellingtonians is just wonderful. Also love the one track where Ray Nance switches to violin, but I really love the entire album!

More +1.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on July 06, 2016, 02:41:01 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-in8AhRuL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 06, 2016, 10:56:13 AM
Duke Ellington: Live at The Blue Note.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on July 07, 2016, 02:49:20 AM
I'll see your Ellington and raise you....

(https://thejazzloop.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/money-jungle.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 07, 2016, 05:46:14 AM
Quote from: Bogey on July 07, 2016, 02:49:20 AM
I'll see your Ellington and raise you....

(https://thejazzloop.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/money-jungle.jpg)

That's at a perfect height to volley back

Duke Ellington: Jazz Party.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 07, 2016, 06:00:00 PM
In a Ducal mood ~

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8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 07, 2016, 06:03:04 PM
(http://www.margaretwhiting.com/album%20covers/starry%20eyed.jpg)

Margaret Whiting - Sings For The Starry Eyed (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 08, 2016, 04:15:53 AM
Chris McGregor ... started last night with:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UYN-fnEvL.jpg)

Then, today, so far - just the Bremen 1971 portion from the "Bremen to Bridgewater" set, so far:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BdYVjk1mL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cgFV%2BQIJL.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/718/MI0001718579.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/993/MI0001993051.jpg)

lined-up next is (the amazing concert from the 1971 Berlin Jazz festival):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/009/MI0000009948.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 08, 2016, 03:30:23 PM
continuation of the long McGregor/BoB day:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/348/MI0000348476.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/520/MI0002520629.jpg)

a broadcast that's in circulation includes some more material from the Bremen 1973 gig on "Travelling Somewhere" - messy stuff, but highly enjoyable ... the Willisau from a few days later is a classic, of course

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/718/MI0001718579.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Da8irVM-L._SL500_.jpg)

now the 1975 Bridgwater material on the former ... and the later, from Toulouse 1977, has started to really grow on me, it seems - as with the Willisau, the CD version is expanded to include a well-rounded lengthy set of great music

ending the day now on a more quiet note:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/462/MI0003462484.jpg)

this was his first again official performance in ZA, 23 years after he chose exile - wonderful playing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on July 08, 2016, 09:13:09 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 09, 2016, 03:20:46 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OdEZzwYTL._SL400_.jpg)

Love this trio, wish I had more of their recordings ... this one is a recent acquisition, directly from the great Polish label NotTwo. Borgman and Morris both have one of the most stunning sound on their instrument, and Charles is yet another favourite of mine - that light touch that never gets lightweight, light even when he's stomping - gotta love it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 09, 2016, 05:28:04 AM
Returning to Chris McGregor and South African jazz ... now the Blue Notes box, released by Ogun in 2008:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/904/MI0001904455.jpg)

Disc one contains a Durban concert from 1964, from just before their departure to Europe (and exile) with Nick Moyake's wonderful tenor making the group a sextet (it was Ronnie Beer that took the trip, but he left shortly thereafter, moving to Ibiza and working as a ship-builder, it seems) ...

The second set is two discs, titled "Blue Notes for Mongezi", dedicated to the group's trumpet player Mongezi Feza - Mongs was the first to leave this planet, in 1975, and this tribute was recorded spontaneously in a rehearsal room by the remaining four Blue Notes (Dudu Pukwana on alto, Chris McGregor on piano, Johnny Dyani on bass, Louis Moholo on drums) - the music was partly released on Ogun 1976, but the two-disc version is virtually complete (the session went on for three and a half hours, without any words being exchanged - just music).

Third comes "Blue Notes in Concert", originally subtitled Vol. 1, but no follow-up was ever released. Again, the LP version (from 1978) was expanded for the CD version of this 1977 recording from London's 100 Club. We still hear the quartet here.

The fourth and last set pays tribute to the second Blue Note to leave planet earth, "Blue Notes for Johnny", and features the trio of Pukwana, Dyani and Moholo, recorded in 1987. The CD version contains a few (rather shortish) bonus tracks.

The next departures, then, were the final blow: in 1990, both McGregor (in May) and Pukwana (in June) die. That was the end of the Blue Notes ... yet Bra Louis is still going strong - and it was an immense pleasure hearing him (again) on two nights in Ravenna, a few weeks ago!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on July 09, 2016, 05:58:02 PM
OK, is it Jazz? well it is Jazzy and I just love this artist Zaz aka Isabelle Geffroy, I think it is nearer to Jazz than other genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3G50jBRuU   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3G50jBRuU) 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 10, 2016, 01:09:44 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZtuvOrmgL._SL400_.jpg)

Still with Blue Notes for Mongezi - this is enormously fascinating stuff, deep, angry, sad, aggressive, tender - over two and a half hours, split into four segments (there's actually only one split, after 78 minutes, when the reel had to be changed, and that's where you have to change CD, too, then it goes on for another 78).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 10, 2016, 08:16:04 AM
After the Mongs tribute, I started on a Harry Miller detour - which has Louis Moholo throughout ... and as much as I love The Blue Notes, purely as a rhythm section, Miller/Moholo, for me, are extremely hard to beat! That free swing is just amazing, the way they drive the music as hard as it gets, yet keep things wide open at the same time.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oouvYz6aL.jpg)
first only the 1973 portion, the rest later on - great disc!

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8RrxWAXb0ak/VhzqipsrYtI/AAAAAAAABGQ/s7MwZ7-81NY/s1600/HMChildrenA.jpg)
from the Harry Miller Collection on Ogun

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/629/MI0000629787.jpg)
November 1975, live from Bremen - smoking hot stuff!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/837/MI0000837650.jpg)
a compilation of mostly studio tracks from 1975-77 (with some more Feza on the first two cuts, after that, alas, it's Mark Charig ... he's mighty fine, but Mongs' wonderfully puckish, playful yet forceful, unique voice is missed!), to cap things off, there's one live track from 1976

after that, the Chateauvallon set from the first disc depicted above (from 1976) fits in nicely ... then on with the Ogun album by Isipingo, that wonderful band ... recorded live as well, same line-up as Chateauvallon (Charig, Malcolm Griffiths, Mike Osborne, Keith Tippetts, Miller, Moholo):

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VX6ZgnbKREA/TOzdx7BEoLI/AAAAAAAAAGE/cojXZne7lkA/s1600/isipingo.3.jpg)

then on we go with more from the Ogun Miller set, the first recorded 1977 in duo with Radu Malfatti (who played with the Brotherhood at that time):

(http://parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/096097.jpg)

by then, I guess it'll be soccer/dinner break (allez les bleus!) - and then the day shall end, probably, with the fourth album from the Ogun set, recorded in January 1978 with Willem Breuker and Trevor Watts on various reeds, Keith Tippett, Miller/Moholo and the voice of Julie Tippetts:

(http://music.geocities.jp/softsjp/HARRYMILLERINCONFERENCE.jpg)

there's one more that would round up the proceedings, let's see if the heat will keep me awake:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ee20c4miL.jpg)
this is the brand new follow-up to the one depicted on top, starting out with a great track from 1978 with Bernie Holland's free-flying guitar (and Trevor Watts & Alan Wakeman on reeds plus Miller/Moholo), then continuing with three tracks each from 1978 (Watts, Wakeman, Tippett, Miller, Moholo) and 1982 (Dave Holdsworth, Alan Tomlinson, Watts, Miller, Moholo)

Some great music on all of these albums ... what a great bass player he was, Harry Miller!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 10, 2016, 03:44:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nQbptSDNL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - At The Opera House (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on July 11, 2016, 02:47:27 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 10, 2016, 03:44:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nQbptSDNL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - At The Opera House (1958)


Bet it's fabulous!

TD:

(http://www.losslessjazz.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Billie-Holiday-Lady-in-Satin.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 11, 2016, 02:50:45 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 10, 2016, 03:44:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nQbptSDNL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - At The Opera House (1958)

Good stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 11, 2016, 12:58:41 PM
(http://music.geocities.jp/softsjp/BLUENOTESINCONCERT.jpg)

The Blue Notes in Concert (100 Club, London, 16 April 1977 - Dudu Pukwana, Chris McGregor, Johnny Dyani, Louis Moholo)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 12, 2016, 03:49:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z6OZR8oqL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Z17UnlvtL._SY280_.jpg)

Glenn Spearman - Smokehouse (1993)
Annette Peacock - I'm The One (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 12, 2016, 10:41:02 PM
"I'm The One" is effin' fantastic!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 13, 2016, 09:36:18 AM
yesterday:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/412a5K3piBL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5124538CoNL.jpg)

Two live documents from 1979, the first one with Frank Wright replacing an indisposed McGregor ... it's intense and loud and free, yet melodic and concise ... Dyani/Moholo are wonderful, Dudu picks up from there, while Wright kinda waits and then jumps in with all his blistering, thundering might. The second one has the group in its regular guise again, a few days later ... and is even better, I think, with a long and incredible version of "Funk Dem Dudu" toward the end.


now (and yeah, it has to be that big this one time! just look at it):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812yQLToGDL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 13, 2016, 11:37:07 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5127Mm87XkL._SX300_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HWWPTm0uL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Larry Young - Lawrence Of Newark (1973)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1968)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519eyC7jv-L._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4169QvNpuEL._SX280_.jpg)

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Fanfare For The Warriors (1974)
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MvT2%2BoOKL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xqUJ3toRL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

John McLaughlin - Qué Alegria (1992)
The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 14, 2016, 07:59:09 AM
Earlier: Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite....


(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/691/MI0001691166.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 14, 2016, 08:00:19 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 13, 2016, 09:36:18 AM

now (and yeah, it has to be that big this one time! just look at it):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812yQLToGDL._SL1500_.jpg)

Super portrait  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 14, 2016, 09:29:49 AM
Quote from: aligreto on July 14, 2016, 08:00:19 AM
Super portrait  8)
Indeed! Too bad I have it in CD-size only ... but then the CD - as is often the case with Ogun CDs - contains much more music, which is really cool (it has the full first set of the Paris solo gig in question, plus the same bits from the second as on the LP, which only had the middle three of eight tunes that make up the first, so it's a substantial addition, even more so as the eight tunes are all played as a seemless medley).

Now, taking another Blue Notes-inspired detour:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/928/MI0001928160.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/977/MI0001977193.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BQfRr11GL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 14, 2016, 09:30:20 AM
(http://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2170-2.jpg)

Now enjoying a first listen to a new audiophile mastering of this classic album by Mobile Fidelity.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 14, 2016, 04:45:58 PM
(http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/7/0/herbie-hancock-head-hunters-hybrid-multichannel-sacd-analogue-productions-new-17809eb6f5a2be9c1dfd99a296becfc0.jpg)

First listen to this classic, on an Analogue Productions audiophile SACD.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 15, 2016, 04:33:21 AM
returned from a big jazz shopping spree ... found the new Betty Davis one with recordings from 1968 & 1969 in the mailbox and played that one (the track I knew, "Politician Man", remains the best, I guess) ... now on to the new jazz discs:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Vintage_Duets_Cover.jpg)

oh, forgot: in the morning, before going shopping, I played this one:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/853/MI0001853983.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 15, 2016, 05:58:11 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/946/MI0000946074.jpg)

Next one from the haul ... gotta love Zerbe anyway, so all the nicer to find a new album of his "Blech Band" (brass band), featuring Willem Breuker and several GDR jazz greats ... the second half of it (after an Eisler piece and Zerbe's title track) is taken by a suite Zerbe composed for a play on a distant relative of mine, who goes by the charming name of "King sh*t" (Suite in sieben Sätzen aus König K. - stage music for a play titled "König Kacke", an adaption of Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" by Jürgen Holtz). Recorded in 1992 in Berlin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 15, 2016, 06:46:11 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/559/MI0001559321.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 15, 2016, 07:53:03 AM
(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/nefertiti_mfsl_front.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 15, 2016, 08:14:51 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/278/MI0002278118.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 15, 2016, 09:04:56 AM
(https://audiofidelity.net/sites/default/files/HancockThrustSlipcaseMockLowRes.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 15, 2016, 09:09:25 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/060/MI0000060870.jpg)

with Don Pullen on the organ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 15, 2016, 11:19:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61pSI0BS%2BgL._SX280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gc%2BOTl5TL._SY280_.jpg)

Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo (1980)
Dave Douglas - Charms Of The Night Sky (1998)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XrFGYrlGL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JIcnPGI-L._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Billy Eckstine - No Cover No Minimum (1961)
Jean-Michel Pilc - Welcome Home (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 16, 2016, 01:30:17 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617UD5Aw9UL.jpg)

Very good indeed - glad to have snatched it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 16, 2016, 02:44:28 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/811/MI0002811177.jpg)

A very nice one by the late, lamented Don Friedman - and a rather unusual one in that his trio (George Mraz and Billy Hart, this time around) is amended by a frontline with horns: Pepper Adams and Jimmy Knepper, as the album's title already suggests ... they start out with Sonny Rollins' "Audubon" (from the very early session with J.J. Johnson on Prestige), then it's standards and pop (Getting Sentimental Over You, Alfie, Laura, Beautiful Love), more bop (Groovin' High), some Ellingtonia (Prelude to a Kiss, I Got It Bad - those form the second part of a medley with Alfie and Laura coming first), and an Adams original (Hellure). The CD ends with with three alternate takes (Sentimental, Beautiful Love, Audubon).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 16, 2016, 04:13:50 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/780/MI0003780267.jpg)

In the mail today ... about time I got that one! I don't really find the p/b duo an attractive format, but with Haden, I enjoy it very, very much - and from first impression, this is as good as I was hoping!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 16, 2016, 05:00:01 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0004/000/MI0004000751.jpg)

Gorgeous ... and how's that, having Kippie Moeketsi AND Dudu Pukwana on the same album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 17, 2016, 01:25:07 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/834/MI0000834841.jpg)

Spent last night at a friend's, mostly listening to music by Chris McGregor, his Blue Notes and his Brotherhood of Breath, also some Harry Miller (all stuff I recently mentioned here, except for the trio album pictured above, which arrived just in time for me to bring it to my friend's, too, where we gave it a first spin together), and to cap things off the new reissue of John Surman's "Morning Glory" (seems the previous FMR was a boot, actually, the new one on Fledg'ling is clear).

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yP5SMab6L.jpg)

Now continuing with some Mike Osborne:

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61uIeYRZ3RL._SL400_.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/833/MI0003833167.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2016, 01:32:07 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41gCxZPqepL._SX280_.jpg)

Enrico Rava and Ran Blake - Duo En Noir (2000)

^I love small venue live recordings where you can hear the waiters busing the tables and the cash register ringing...and the indifferent audience carrying on conversations, seemingly oblivious to the amazing performance being captured.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51l9FJ7vCUL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Jean-Michel Pilc - Follow Me (2004)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 17, 2016, 04:57:46 AM
That "Duo en noir" is great indeed! (But I tend to disagree ... while I love a good atmosphere during a concert, those morons that keep talking should step outside ... I've had talks with musicians and it seems most don't enjoy that at all - this is part of the jazz myth, I guess, which always includes a somewhat degrading view of jazz as "entertainment" and not really serious enough that you ought to shut up and pay attention. But then I guess this all - including the discussion about it - is part of jazz' history, so ...)

Before, a pretty noisy one:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/806/MI0001806938.jpg)

Now, one I dearly love, ever since I first played it:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71tS8Kv-r3L._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2016, 01:52:50 PM
Quote from: king ubu on July 17, 2016, 04:57:46 AM
That "Duo en noir" is great indeed! (But I tend to disagree ... while I love a good atmosphere during a concert, those morons that keep talking should step outside ... I've had talks with musicians and it seems most don't enjoy that at all - this is part of the jazz myth, I guess, which always includes a somewhat degrading view of jazz as "entertainment" and not really serious enough that you ought to shut up and pay attention. But then I guess this all - including the discussion about it - is part of jazz' history, so ...)


Oh, I'd hate it if I was actually there, but I find it facinating on a cd where its a quieter part of the background detail and provides a sense of the venue, not right in my ear from the next tables and obscuring the music.

Sometimes its even kind of surreal and funny: The Miles Davis Plugged Nickel box has a clearly indifferent yakking and drinking audience, and you're left to wonder if they're not going to pay attention to the Second Quintet, and to these performances, then who will they?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 17, 2016, 02:00:30 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 17, 2016, 01:52:50 PM
Oh, I'd hate it if I was actually there, but I find it facinating on a cd where its a quieter part of the background detail and provides a sense of the venue, not right in my ear from the next tables and obscuring the music.

Sometimes its even kind of surreal and funny: The Miles Davis Plugged Nickel box has a clearly indifferent yakking and drinking audience, and you're left to wonder if they're not going to pay attention to the Second Quintet then who will they?

Okay, I see your point! And re: Plugged Nickel - the music on that box is so amazing, it's really hard to believe that there were folks not getting it and chatting on ... I'd probably be silent for three days after such a night - and then I'd be yakking away for three other days  ;D

Ending the weekend with some smooth stuff by a favourite tenor saxophone player now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41apybD7AuL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2016, 03:20:06 PM
I remember commenting on another forum that one fascinating and unique aspect of the  complete Plugged Nickel set is observing how a band overcomes fatigue brought on at least partially by audience indifference and the obligation to play older material - hearing them start out each tune as if saying "here we go with Walkin' again" and whip themselves into greater excitement and inspiration in the face of these external factors (only to be undermined again and again by the most scattered of applause).

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41mTCqVsLOL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - Live At Mister Kelly's (rec.1958)

^Lots of fun on this one! New and humourous lyrics all over the place, a completely forgotten "Joe Williams Blues" that includes bits of dozens of other songs all without missing a beat or breaking a sweat, a "Summertime" with ironical commentary about how easy the living is this particular summertime, etc. Recommended.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/419ty2VId3L._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51j%2BtU0-mYL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Mike Westbrook - Fine 'n Yellow (2010)
The Vandermark 5 - Airports For Light (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 18, 2016, 12:54:56 PM
Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder....


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vkYBxd89L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 18, 2016, 07:16:10 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 14, 2016, 07:59:09 AM
Earlier: Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite....


(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/691/MI0001691166.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Wonderful! Love that album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 19, 2016, 01:25:57 AM
Yeah! Johnny Hodges' last chorus ... sad, poignant, beautiful.

Late Ellington is often so much better than it's usually given credit for.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 19, 2016, 10:46:24 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81HMHeCck5L._SL400_.jpg)

Rhoda Scott, and now Keith "Garage" Jarrett - Mr. Hippie tells you to crank it up loud, good thing: you won't hear coughing and shuffling this time  :P

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/673/MI0003673657.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 19, 2016, 12:41:05 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/875/MI0000875845.jpg)

another new arrival, which had been on my shopping list for quite a while ... very good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 19, 2016, 03:43:11 PM
Now:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jCQyJcF3RUQ/TMGXTYkyYfI/AAAAAAAABq8/sLb18o2o98M/s1600/charles+lloyd+the+water+is+wide+front.jpg)

One of my favorites from Lloyd. Great support from musicians like Mehldau, Abercrombie, and Higgins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 20, 2016, 10:30:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51siW3OeseL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41T%2BLExm7CL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Steve Harris and Zaum - Above Our Heads the Sky Splits Open (2004)
Lauren Newton - Filigree (1999)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61GYJTB1iGL._SY280_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51IpTOnvMjL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

David Murray - Creole (1998)
Terell Stafford - Centripetal Force (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 22, 2016, 12:02:38 PM
Ellington: Three Suites -


(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/568/MI0001568269.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 22, 2016, 07:55:19 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 22, 2016, 12:02:38 PM
Ellington: Three Suites -


(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/568/MI0001568269.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Great album. One of my favorites from The Duke.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 22, 2016, 09:15:40 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 19, 2016, 03:43:11 PM
Now:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jCQyJcF3RUQ/TMGXTYkyYfI/AAAAAAAABq8/sLb18o2o98M/s1600/charles+lloyd+the+water+is+wide+front.jpg)

One of my favorites from Lloyd. Great support from musicians like Mehldau, Abercrombie, and Higgins.

Ever heard Big Sur Tapestry by Charles Lloyd? I heard it on Rise, the late night/early morning jazz show on KPFK (HELL A area) a couple months ago. Lovely, fascinating music, with some Eastern music influences and instruments (don't remember what). It is only available on LP, and I just received it in the mail today (from Amazon marketplace seller). Can't wait to give it a spin!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 23, 2016, 12:45:42 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51siZnxuIeL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51IbzvDNCjL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

David Murray - Sweet Lovely (1980)
Jean-Michel Pilc - Live At Iridium, New York (2005)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61hSoF%2BZu5L._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TqXC4lHeL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Live At The Village Vanguard, disc one (1999)
Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes From The Underground (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 08:45:53 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 22, 2016, 09:15:40 PM
Ever heard Big Sur Tapestry by Charles Lloyd? I heard it on Rise, the late night/early morning jazz show on KPFK (HELL A area) a couple months ago. Lovely, fascinating music, with some Eastern music influences and instruments (don't remember what). It is only available on LP, and I just received it in the mail today (from Amazon marketplace seller). Can't wait to give it a spin!

Very cool. Nope, never heard that piece. I'm mostly familiar with Lloyd's ECM output from the 90s and early 00s. My favorite Lloyd album is Voice in the Night with John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Billy Higgins. One of the great sessions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 23, 2016, 08:57:45 PM
Thanks--I added it to my wishlist along with The Water is Wide. I love the ECM label, and have been really enjoying some of their more recent Nordic jazz offerings--Iro Haarla, Mathias Eick, Trygve Seim, and such. I will enjoy exploring more of Lloyd's recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 23, 2016, 09:00:39 PM
Recent acquisition: Red Garland Revisited!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/165/MI0000165483.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 09:11:00 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 23, 2016, 08:57:45 PM
Thanks--I added it to my wishlist along with The Water is Wide. I love the ECM label, and have been really enjoying some of their more recent Nordic jazz offerings--Iro Haarla, Mathias Eick, Trygve Seim, and such. I will enjoy exploring more of Lloyd's recordings.

Yes, ECM is a wonderful label. Love Mathias Eick! His album Skala impressed me greatly. I also enjoyed his, and Trygve Selm's, work on the Manu Katche album Playground. Check that album out if you have haven't already. Also, LOVE Tomasz Stanko. His album Suspended Night is in my 'Top 10' desert island jazz albums list. Enjoy those Lloyd albums (whenever you decide to take the plunge).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 23, 2016, 09:22:33 PM
Yes, thanks Skala is on my wishlist. For some reason this type of music is especially enjoyable in late autumn and winter when I have a month off for self-actualization (spent mostly on deserted Northern California beaches with my wife).

You should really listen to Vepsers by Iro Haala, featuring both Eick and Seim, playing Iro's sublimely beautiful ballads, with her accompanying on piano or harp.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 09:34:11 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 23, 2016, 09:22:33 PM
Yes, thanks Skala is on my wishlist. For some reason this type of music is especially enjoyable in late autumn and winter when I have a month off for self-actualization (spent mostly on deserted Northern California beaches with my wife).

You should really listen to Vepsers by Iro Haala, featuring both Eick and Seim, playing Iro's sublimely beautiful ballads, with her accompanying on piano or harp.

Thanks, but I believe I own Haarla's Vespers already (along with her other album on ECM Northbound). Good stuff the best I can remember. Yeah, I can certainly hear how this Nordic jazz stuff can be great during that particular time of year.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 24, 2016, 11:55:32 PM
(http://st.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/05/40/BVCJ-37324.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/810di7hEvuL._SY300_.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi / Lew Tabackin - Insights (1978)
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 25, 2016, 08:21:43 AM
(http://www.hifitest.de/images/testbilder/big/schallplatte_columbia_speakers_corner_herbie_hancock_man_child_bild_1378206669.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 26, 2016, 02:23:51 AM
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Flora Purim - Butterfly Dreams (1974)
Larry Coryell - Spaces (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 26, 2016, 03:19:15 PM
Ben Monder - Amorphae

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Ben Monder: electric guitar, electric baritone guitar
Pete Rende: synthesizer
Andrew Cyrille: drums, percussion
Paul Motian: drums

Guitarist Ben Monder first recorded for ECM as a member of the Paul Motian Band on Garden of Eden in 2004, and Amorphae was originally conceived as a series of duets for Ben and Paul. A first exploratory duo session was recorded in 2010. After Motians death the following year it was decided to expand and complete the project with another highly influential and innovative drummer, Andrew Cyrille, adding also Pete Rende on synthesizer on two pieces.

So here we hear Monder solo, in duo with Motian, in duo with Cyrille, and in trio with Cyrille and Rende. This range of expressive options casts light upon Monders musical concepts and their adaptability. A guitarists guitarist, Monder is also a master of texture and unusual voicings, creating what one reviewer has called detailed sonic landscapes of mystery and power.

All the music on Amorphae is his, apart from, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin, the Rodgers & Hammerstein chestnut from the musical Oklahoma!, performed here by Monder and Motian.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2016, 08:52:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/B1YdM26ddlS._SX300_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CHsxdnmVL._SY300_.jpg)

Louis Sclavis - Clarinettes (1985)
Tommy Smith - Forbidden Fruit (2005)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518sWIkqjWL._SY300_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ls92NjaLL._SY300_.jpg)

David Murray - The Hill (1987)
Wynton Marsalis - Live At The Village Vanguard, disc two
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 29, 2016, 07:54:02 PM
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Phil Woods - Live From The Showboat (1977)
Rich Halley - Mountains and Plains (2005)

(https://img.discogs.com/JL93f88c4erIh-EoYWbjFpLaxFc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1200292-1200250810.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41WE53HF9HL.jpg)

Joe Harriott / John Mayer - Indo Jazz Fusions (1967)
Gerry Hemingway - Waltzes, Two-Steps and Other Matters Of The Heart (1999)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uRsZ8PlVL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella In Hollywood (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 02, 2016, 09:09:25 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81NmzL6G6IL._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on August 03, 2016, 05:33:30 PM
My guess is prolly not the last either. 

Quote from: George on July 25, 2016, 08:21:43 AM
(http://www.hifitest.de/images/testbilder/big/schallplatte_columbia_speakers_corner_herbie_hancock_man_child_bild_1378206669.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 03, 2016, 08:46:05 PM
Quote from: toledobass on August 03, 2016, 05:33:30 PM
My guess is prolly not the last either.

No way Jose.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on August 04, 2016, 03:42:59 PM
I got turned on to this recently. Never knew Getz played ANY Shorter so was surprised to hear it.


https://youtu.be/4MTB-eqyk9o (https://youtu.be/4MTB-eqyk9o)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 04, 2016, 04:00:11 PM
Quote from: toledobass on August 04, 2016, 03:42:59 PM
I got turned on to this recently. Never knew Getz played ANY Shorter so was surprised to hear it.


https://youtu.be/4MTB-eqyk9o (https://youtu.be/4MTB-eqyk9o)

Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on August 04, 2016, 04:01:55 PM
Crazy huh?

Quote from: George on August 04, 2016, 04:00:11 PM
Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2016, 04:03:47 PM
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Sarah Vaughan - Live At Mr Kelly's (1957)

there must be something in the water at Mr Kelly's that makes singers forget the lyrics (but leaves them happy to improvise)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on August 04, 2016, 04:49:24 PM
I love that recording!

Quote from: SimonNZ on August 04, 2016, 04:03:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Pg1bAc92L._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Sarah Vaughan - Live At Mr Kelly's (1957)

there must be something in the water at Mr Kelly's that makes singers forget the lyrics (but leaves them happy to improvise)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 04, 2016, 05:44:43 PM
(http://991.com/NewGallery/John+Coltrane+Traneing+In+417163.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 06, 2016, 07:32:28 AM
Joe Pass - Ira, George And Joe.

(http://i.imgur.com/ouY7YpL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 06, 2016, 11:32:18 PM
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Art Pepper - Saturday Night At The Village Vanguard (1977)
Bobby Hutcherson - In The Vanguard (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 06, 2016, 11:42:26 PM
Quote from: NikF on August 06, 2016, 07:32:28 AM
Joe Pass - Ira, George And Joe.


The greatest jazz guitarist ever, IMO. I will have to check out this disk. I would heartily recommend Northsea Nights with Niels Hening Orsted Pedersen.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Northsea_Nights.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 07, 2016, 12:11:45 AM
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This is so very good! Remember not really getting into the first two of the four albums back in the day, but what did I know about J. Giuffre/P. Bley/C. Bley/A. Peacock and their Beckett jazz, looking for "non-events" back then? I would have probably pretended to adore "Godot" and "Fin den partie" (though I think that would have only been a few years later, at that time I was rather avidly reading Camus) - but you know how teenagers are, right?

Anyway, played the first album thrice in a row last night, went on with the second one then, to which I return now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on August 07, 2016, 06:19:37 AM
Reaching back to explore some early recordings in my jazz collection. Love this kind of stuff.  Of course the King Oliver music and the Hot Fives and Sevens are pinnacle for me from this era, but these more obscure gems are not to be missed.  John R. T. Davies has done an outstanding job with the sound so time to sit back and enjoy some vintage jazz recordings.

(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/um4AAOSwIzNXPb4w/s-l500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 07, 2016, 02:49:23 PM
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Charlie Byrd - At The Village Vanguard (1961)
Kenny Burrell - A Night At The Vanguard (1959)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4185AJ32S5L.jpg) (https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hhmieGyqL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Junko Onishi - Live At The Village Vanguard (1994)
Paul Motian - Live At The Village Vanguard Vol.3 (2010)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519DSfgBZcL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51y%2BWBDf66L._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Joe Lovano - Live At The Village Vanguard (1995)
Thad Jones / Mel Lewis - Live At The Village Vanguard (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 10, 2016, 01:55:59 PM
@Simon: somehow, new stuff gets lost if you keep editing ... I know having a soliloquy can be disheartening, but still, new posts might encourage new feedback to stuff you mention! Just a thought ...

Now playing this astonishing disc of duets by the late great Marion Brown with the constantly shifting rock that was (is, at least on rekkid) Mal Waldron:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/493/MI0002493823.jpg)

Pretty monk-ish btw, starting with a short take of "Blue Monk" (short is 7 minutes), continuing with Waldron's "A cause de Monk" (and in the next tune by Brown, "To the Golden Lady in Her Graham Cracker Window", Brown quotes Monk again), then we get a beautiful version of Tyner's "Contemplation", followed by "Hurry Sundown" by Clarence Williams and Swee' Pea's "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", before the CD ends with a nearly 16 minute second take of "Blue Monk". They did a follow up, "Much More", also worth looking out. Come to think of it, I'll play that one to end the day, I guess:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/545/MI0001545640.jpg)

This starts with Waldron's classic "Soul Eyes" and then proceeds with standards: "Someone to Watch Over Me", "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm", "My Funny Valentine", "I Can't Get Started" seguing into Bird's "Now the Time" (aka The Hucklebuck, or some such), "The Inchworm", and finally "My Old Flame". Two masters with nothing to proof, just making beautiful music together.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on August 10, 2016, 03:26:48 PM
After midnight, jazz rules...

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2016, 12:18:23 AM
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Martial Solal - Live At The Village Vanguard (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 11, 2016, 03:00:57 AM
Nice! I love Solal!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 11, 2016, 11:02:35 AM
Mal Waldron (and Archie Shepp) fans will love this--Left Alone Revisited: A Tribute to Billie Holiday:

(http://pxhst.co/avaxhome/a4/08/000b08a4_medium.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2016, 05:45:01 PM
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Gerry Mulligan - At The Village Vanguard (1960)
Benny Green - Testifying : Live At The Village Vanguard (1992)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614KwHteyfL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Bebo Valdés / Javier Colina - Live At The Village Vanguard (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 12, 2016, 04:17:24 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61elfWx63mL._SS500_SS280.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/610YkInkKtL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau - Quartet (2007)
The Great Jazz Trio - Live At The Village Vanguard (1977)

^Thats an astonishing version of "Naima" on that GJT album
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on August 14, 2016, 06:13:36 PM
So glad he came down from Saturn to live, and play, amongst us for a while.  For my late night groove:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 15, 2016, 08:04:25 PM
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Chris Connor - In Person: Live At The Village Vanguard (1959)
Woody Shaw - Stepping Stones: Live At The Village Vanguard (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2016, 03:31:31 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QwkCqnMrL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Bobby Hutcherson - Solo / Quartet (1982)

RIP

this is now one of my favorite albums of his - if anyone hasn't heard it check out at least the first three tracks where he overdubs himself playing vibes, marimbas, xylophone, chimes and bells - but the whole album is wonderful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn98uMA_CxA&list=PLhoS73lM8EEtOsYxr4Jto2lqrtR6iNzLh
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2016, 11:59:55 PM
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Bobby Hutcherson - Natural Illusions (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on August 17, 2016, 12:15:13 PM
Its only 10pm and I am already listening to Lou Donaldson

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 17, 2016, 02:30:03 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/10hFCBAbPbPkDtler3LH5QKv514=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4461889-1365530158-4619.jpeg.jpg) (http://images.vervemusicgroup.com/images/local/300/A0945E84673348A5BF63B13748913E8D.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings Broadway and These Are The Blues (both 1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 18, 2016, 12:53:56 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aI9WUJpCL._SL1400_.jpg)

(yeah, needs to be that big, it's such a cool cover!)
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Post by: king ubu on August 18, 2016, 01:14:48 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514HAHGTVYL.jpg)

next one ... and no matter how awesome Albert Stinson is, I think I'll always have a preference, if only as slight one, for "Happenings" (were I enjoy Cranshaw much more than I usually do, btw)
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Post by: Spineur on August 18, 2016, 01:32:21 PM
Quote from: NikF on August 06, 2016, 07:32:28 AM
Joe Pass - Ira, George And Joe.

(http://i.imgur.com/ouY7YpL.jpg)
Just got this CD after King Ubu comment.  Blues isnt very far.  Nice !
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Post by: king ubu on August 18, 2016, 01:36:25 PM
Quote from: Spineur on August 18, 2016, 01:32:21 PM
Just got this CD after King Ubu comment.  Blues isnt very far.  Nice !
Must be a mix-up, as I don't know that one (and so far my Pass preference goes for his early recordings on Pacific Jazz ... also for his great contributions to some of Gerald Wilson's sides on Pacific records).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 18, 2016, 05:07:01 PM
"Happenings" is certainly one of the most striking Blue Note covers.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gerDpXoHL.jpg)

Mose Allison - Back Country Suite (1957)
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Post by: king ubu on August 18, 2016, 11:32:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516K1sBun8L.jpg)

Going on with my very favourite of Hutcherson's albums, "Stick-Up!"
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Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2016, 12:54:38 AM
Just took out the Mosaic Select, starting with the first one:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/746/MI0003746930.jpg)
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Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2016, 02:18:53 AM
(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/bobbyhutcherson_innerglow.jpg)

Next one from the Mosaic Select, and another excellent album, this time with trombone (but no flute) - the horns are Oscar Brashear (he's terrific!), Thurman Green and, for the last time, longtime sidekick Harold Land (he's terrific all the time anyway) ... these albums are mighty fine indeed, more after grooves and a unified band sound than the great solo, but there's plenty of those, too. An unjustly neglected chapter of Hutcherson's long Blue Note career - one that's definitely worth hearing!
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Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2016, 04:02:27 AM
(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/bobbyhutcherson_waiting.jpg)

Continuing with Hutcherson ... albums 3 to 5 (of 5) on the Mosaic Select are built around his then working band of Manny Boyd (ts, ss, fl), Hutcherson (vib, mar), James Leary III (b) and Eddie Marshall (d) - that's the four above on the cover of the fine album, which adds George Cables (keys) and Kenneth Nash (perc), and on the title track Hadley Caliman and Mguanda Dave Johnson on flutes. The second one has Larry Nash on keys in addition to the core band, and is a moody affair of mostly ballads, including some haunting Hutcherson originals (among them "Same Shit", which for some odd reason had to be named "Same Shame").

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/747/MI0003747316.jpg)

Beautiful music in ugly covers, alas ... which is true for the fifth of the albums, "Knucklebean", which adds Freddie Hubbard, Hadley Caliman and Cables to the working band.

(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/bobbyhutcherson_knucklebean.jpg)
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Post by: Spineur on August 19, 2016, 11:01:01 AM
The kind of easy listening that suits me perfectly this evening

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Post by: Spineur on August 19, 2016, 02:40:07 PM
Next
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 19, 2016, 05:41:12 PM
I think I'll climb on board the Hutcherson love train, a little later in his career:



(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71dkCOu4cfL._SL1500_.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2016, 06:14:23 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vh4F0eU3L.jpg)

Bobby Hutcherson - For Sentimental Reasons (2007)
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Post by: NikF on August 20, 2016, 11:26:53 AM
Fred Astaire: Complete Norman Granz Sessions.

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The 1952 re-recordings Fred made with Oscar Peterson, Charlie Shavers, Ray Brown, Kessel etc. Glorious mono, a fairly close mic on the vocal, warm and intimate and moments of surprisingly swinging charm.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 20, 2016, 11:46:43 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 06, 2016, 11:42:26 PM
The greatest jazz guitarist ever, IMO. I will have to check out this disk. I would heartily recommend Northsea Nights with Niels Hening Orsted Pedersen.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Northsea_Nights.jpg)

Sorry, man - I've been away from the internet for a while and so I didn't see this reply.
Yeah, Joe's great and he's probably my favourite player too. I have a copy of the Northsea Nights and it's indeed very cool. In fact, it's one of those gigs (like some of the Ella stuff Simon has been listening to/posting) that I'd love to have been there for.
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Post by: SimonNZ on August 20, 2016, 02:36:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617uai56wxL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings, disc one
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 21, 2016, 09:55:04 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 20, 2016, 02:36:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617uai56wxL._SS500_SS280.jpg)

Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings, disc one

How's the sound on that? I have read they used some excessive noise reduction.
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Post by: HIPster on August 21, 2016, 10:23:02 AM
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue

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One of my favorite Blue Note's.

RIP
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Post by: SimonNZ on August 22, 2016, 03:56:46 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bOfphN0EL._SS280.jpg)

Toots Thielemans - Only Trust Your Heart (1988)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 22, 2016, 10:36:25 PM
Quote from: George on August 21, 2016, 09:55:04 AM
How's the sound on that? I have read they used some excessive noise reduction.

Sorry, missed this. The sound seened very good to me, but then I've never been a Basie collector, and only a too-seldom listener, so I don't have a clear memory of other issues I may have heard.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TCb-vbGYL._SX300_.jpg)

Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennin - Balls (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 23, 2016, 03:13:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 22, 2016, 10:36:25 PM
Sorry, missed this. The sound seened very good to me, but then I've never been a Basie collector, and only a too-seldom listener, so I don't have a clear memory of other issues I may have heard.

The material forms part now of the new (second) Lester Young/Count Basie set by Mosaic - I don't have it yet, but it seems it sounds good (probably as good it gets):
http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-MD-CD
It's already on backorder, guess that's a good sign. Will definitely get it, even though I probably have almost everything that's on it. Loren Schoenberg has written the notes, and it's really hard to imagine someone more apt for that job.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 23, 2016, 06:32:21 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51y8BvyJbCL._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61yUNXdyc1L._SS500.jpg)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle (1973)
Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 25, 2016, 06:14:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51EWYqE9dwL._SS500.jpg)

Lester Young and Teddy Wilson - Pres and Teddy (1959)
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Post by: Brian on August 25, 2016, 06:18:59 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 25, 2016, 06:14:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51EWYqE9dwL._SS500.jpg)

Lester Young and Teddy Wilson - Pres and Teddy (1959)
Never heard of this album before but wow do I need it.

Discovering jazz is like being set loose in a sweet shop...
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Post by: SimonNZ on August 25, 2016, 08:34:46 PM
Another giant of the jazz world gone...

RIP Rudy Van Gelder

Looking now through the massive list of albums he produced/engineered/recorded and just what a large percentage of those are classic/essential sessions is dizzying.

This appears to be his first, and I'm playing it now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61o8uQGL%2BRL._SS500.jpg)

Gil Melle - New Faces, New Sounds (1953)

http://dgmono.com/rvg-discography/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pap on August 26, 2016, 07:28:00 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 06, 2016, 11:42:26 PM
The greatest jazz guitarist ever, IMO. I will have to check out this disk. I would heartily recommend Northsea Nights with Niels Hening Orsted Pedersen.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Northsea_Nights.jpg)
incredible duo indeed.
Here they play one of the fastest versions of Donna Lee with no drummer to support them;[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30bdy5b5-c[flash=200,200]
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Post by: SimonNZ on August 26, 2016, 03:03:49 PM
Another early RVG from 1953:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mlh3Kh70L._SS500.jpg)

Sal Salvador - Quintet

(recorded Christmas Eve '53, apparently)

and now this, recorded three days later:

(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/Urbie_Green_-_Septet_1953_Blue_Note_front_10.jpg)

Urbie Green - Septet

and from June of '53:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/758/MI0002758669.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elmo Hope - Introducing The Elmo Hope Trio / New Faces, New Sounds

and between that and his first session RVG was involved in this:

(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/New_Faces_New_Sounds_kenny_drew.jpg)

Kenny Drew - Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio / New Faces, New Sounds
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Post by: George on August 26, 2016, 04:18:31 PM
(http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue73/images/davis1.JPG)(https://cdn.cloudpix.co/images/miles-davis/miles-davis-kind-of-blue-mono-kind-of-blue-cf5b117b68266e27c03f3b65b85b19d5-large-1475452.jpg)

First spin . . . in Mono.
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Post by: Brian on August 26, 2016, 08:39:08 PM
Just listened for the first time ever (!) to Bird and Diz. Honestly, I was most taken with Monk's work on the album. The two title artists are more flash and less soul - at least on my first listen and on this particular outing. Time may change my opinion.
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Post by: aligreto on August 27, 2016, 01:05:27 PM
The Billie Holiday Songbook....


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Post by: Andante on August 27, 2016, 01:38:38 PM
Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli

https://www.youtube.com/v/VpmOTGungnA
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Post by: Karl Henning on August 27, 2016, 02:10:25 PM
Quote from: Andante on August 27, 2016, 01:38:38 PM
Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli

https://www.youtube.com/v/VpmOTGungnA

A sweet classic!

Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

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Post by: SimonNZ on August 27, 2016, 02:43:30 PM
(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/2008_09_14_1190_edited-1.jpg)

Gil Melle - Quintet, Vol. 2 (1953)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/405/MI0001405299.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Kenny Dorham - Quintet (1953)
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Post by: king ubu on August 28, 2016, 07:34:05 AM
just returned from Mulhouse ... spent four wonderful days at Météo festival, hearing, in sequence:

:: Wednesday 24th ::

afternoon (at L'Entrepôt):
- Zeena Parkins solo - harp & electronics ... and histrionics - great stuff!
- Clayton Thomas/Anthea Caddy - bass & cello used to produce sounds that reminded me of LaMonte Young and other drone music

evening (always at Noumatrouff):
- Louis Minus XVI - a french quartet of 2 sax, elb, d - rhythmically fun, punchy stuff, but the honking macho saxophones got tiring after a while
- Sophie Agnel/Joke Lanz/Michael Vatcher - Agnel's carte blanche trio in its first performance that worked out amazingly well - her on piano, inside and on keys, Lanz doing some extremely well-fitting sampling and other turntables stuff, and Vatcher on drums/percussion - was pure joy seing them react to each other and to their own performance, big grins all around
- The Thing & Joe McPhee - "ladies, motherfuckers, jazzfans!" - that was Mats Gutafsson's welcome message to kick off a high-energy set, him on tenor and baritone, McPhee on tenor and pocket trumpet, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten on double and electric bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums ... extremely concise, to the point, yet with lots of room for blowing - two highlights in a row, quite exhilarating really


:: Thursday 25th ::

children's concert (short solo sets at Bibliothèque Grand'Rue, 11:30)
- Per-Ake Holmlander - a fun bit of solo tuba ... he ended with a high-speed version of Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim's "Jabulani"

noon (12:30, always at Chapelle Saint-Jean):
- Alexandre Babel solo - a short percussion set - seemed to lack direction or purpose or focus - the sounds themselves were interesting but not quite enough to keep the attention up

afternoon sets I skipped for once (Hélène Breschand in duo with Kerwin Rolland - harp and effects, and then Mathias Delplanque, more electronics in solo), did some sightseeing around Mulhouse instead and took a much-needed nap

evening:
- Agustí Fernández/Kjell Nordeson & dieb13 solo - two half-sets, first a duo of piano and drums/vibraphone, which was pretty great, as I hoped it would be, Fernández being one of the most amazing free form improvisers of these times ... then a DJ set, not quite up to Joke Lanz the night before, but still good ... he sampled Ornette's "Lonely Woman" for a moment, and added some more jazz that I didn't recognize, it was pretty good really
- Mats Gustafsson Nu Ensemble - the piece they performed was announced by Gustafsson as an homage to Little Richard ... which only made sense insofar as singer Mariam Wallentin - fine voice, but somewhat of an accent - sang bits of blues and r & b clichés most of the time ... McPhee was on board again, so was bass clarinetist Christer Bothen - whose noon solo gig I had missed on Wednesday, he played after a duo set by "Luft" which consists of Gustafsson and Erwan Keravec on bagpipes, but it was too early for me to catch -, then Anders Nyquist was on trumpet, Holmlander on tuba, Fernández on piano, Haker Flaten and Jon Rune Strom on double basses, Nordeson and Nilssen-Love on drums, and dieb13 on turntables again ... I enjoyed the variety of the music, was expecting more of a blaringly loud blow-out, which it was clearly not ... it was well-paced and kept me interested all the way through, the only thing I found a bit annoying was Wallentin's accent ... if they include blues-clichés as vocals, if they want to pay respect, why not have her sing in her own language? I dislike that we live in the age of "everybody thinks s/he can speak english" ... would be a nice language, but people don't give a shit, yet it has to be english nonetheless, all of the time
- Ventil - an Austrian quartet - rather quintet if you include the video artist - doing more drone or rather semi-drone sounds ... it was loud and intense, synths and guitars with effects, and hard-hitting beats ... but after 10 or 15 minutes, I had quite enough of it and went outside where you could still hear it, but without your guts being shaken through ... I actually do like that feeling, but this was just not really my stuff


:: Friday 26th ::

children's concert:
- William Parker - he was great with the kids but in fact hardly played ... he had with him a pocket trumpet, a shakuhachi and the silly red/black-painted bass that he seems to take with him when traveling, alas on that instrument he produces no sound at all, no volume, no body, no resonance, just flat tones that die as soon as he plucks or bows them - anyway, it was great how he got some of the kids to interact, but doing a kangaroo jump in 7 - "hap-py hap-py kan-ga-rooh" and then right back to 1 with no break - proved a little too complicated

noon:
- Joachim Badenhorst - next highlight there ... the young Belgian clarinet player did a wonderfully haunting set, using some loops early on, playing clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor - of the church concerts I heard - I missed but the first with Luft and Bothen mentioned above - easily the best

afternoon (Église Sainte-Geneviève)
- Áine O'Dwyer - church organ (and bells) ... a meditative, slowly-evolving, captivating set ... there were drones again, long-held single notes or chords, but also intense parts, she ended it by coming down the stairs and dancing - turning around herself - through the aisles all the way from the back to the alter, clanging a bunch of long bells ... at the beginning, the also threw down the sheets of music from the gallery, on which the organ is placed
- Mike Majkowski - another solo, this time on double bass ... alas not on the level of the organ set, lacking ideas and coherence, it felt like stitched together fragments, sometimes even as if he was practising ... which could be a great thing of course, but alas it was just so-so

evening:
- Hamid Drake/William Parker/Pat Thomas - while I'm no fan of William Parker's, when he's alongside Hamid Drake, he can do no wrong, I guess ... his bass still didn't sound - all there was was amplification -, but this trio set with a piano player so far completely unknown to me, Pat Thomas, was very good indeed - powerful, and when Drake changed to his frame drum and started singing, Parker switched to gimbri, and it got truly haunting ... however, that gimbri sounded about as great as his bass - I really don't get the point about William Parker, I guess, but I'll keep trying)
- Green Dome - this was Zeena Parkins's big project, with two bearded contemporary hipsters on piano/effects and drums, funny enough both called Ryan ... didn't really work for me, was too much after the effect, also probably too notated to really allow the music to loosen up and breathe some - but her solo set was really good, and I'm glad I kept through this one too and stayed on for the closing set of the night ...
- Zeitkratzer: Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music" Parts 1-4 - now this was the odd one out that no one could really tell how it would end up ... Zeitkratzer is a mid-sized ensemble led by pianist Reinhold Friedl I guess, and he was after all the one that had most of the work in this amazing 66 minute set ... Frank Gratkowski - hey, where's my sheet music? - was on clarinet, Hild Sofie Tafjord did her best - wasn't always enough, I thought - on french horn, Hilary Jeffery was on trombone, them lined up between the piano on the far left, and the drums in the middle of the stage, played by Maurice De Martin, on his right there were four strings: Ulrich Phillipp on double bass, Elisabeth Fügemann on cello, Burkhard Schlothauer on viola and Lisa Marie Landgraf on violin ... the music was reminding me again of minimal music, I thought of various recordings of "In C" in the process - the horns and strings kept on churning out the same notes again and again, with some slight changes, some short soloist escapes by the trombone, the horn, some fills by the drums to add to the steadily prodding, walking, stomping beat ... the piano was playing around wildly for much of the duration though, as if forming a kind of counterpoint or anti-thesis to the rest ... this was, I guess, the unexpected - at least from my side - highlight of that night


:: Saturday 27th ::

noon:
- Clayton Thomas - another double bass solo ... though Parker only had played one short final piece on bass actually ... Clayton Thomas had been heartily recommended to me by a friend from Berlin who has heard him often while he was still living there, as the duo with Anthea Caddy gave really no idea at all how he was as a bass player, I was very curious, and the solo set indeed turned out pretty well ... he used the bow, different kinds of mallets and drumsticks and other objects and put together a really nice set that had the focus and successfully managed to create those larger arcs that Majkowski didn't really achieve

now this was a very busy closing day (which was why I skipped the children's concert by the same Erwan Keravec on bagpipes ... heard a few tones while passing by the library, which is right next to the chapel) ... at 14:30, there were two events, an open air concert and a short conference with Roscoe Mitchell - I picked the later, and it was pretty interesting actually. Alexandre Pierrepont, who has written a book on the AACM, did a (rather too long) introduction and then started asking a few questions (thankfully mostly just in english) and it was pretty interesting to hear Mitchell talk, though it was all a bit on the polite side (except for an Italian lady in the audience that kinda implied AACM had a racist policy going on) and Pierrepont could have really prepared a few more focussed questions to not just have Mitchell talk some (which was nice enough, he has plenty of stories to tell and is willing to share his insights, too - after all he is teaching as well)

afternoon (at La Filature) - just one set:
- Der Verboten - this is a quartet that took shape at Météo a few years ago, if I understood correctly - Franz Loriot on viola, Antoine Chessex on tenor sax, Cédric Piromalli on piano and Christian Wolfahrt on percussion ... they performed a long-form improvisation in the wonderful room with its very fine acoustics ... glad I rushed there, it was excellent

evening (there was a free concert at 7 p.m. first, then the main event, as usual at 9):
- Native Instrument - Stine Janvin Motland on voice and electronics and Felicity Mangan using field recordings and adding more electronics - this turned into an almost danceable set, many of the older jazzheads disliked it, many left even though it was just 30 minutes short ... the duo kinda attempted to adapt vocally and electronically the sound of their nature, one being from Norway, the other from the land of OZ - the resulting soundscape was a times almost danceable, and really interesting

- Sonic Communion - the main event, pt. 1 - this is a collective of Jean-Luc Cappozzo on trumpet, Douglas Ewart on various horns and little instruments - sopranino sax, wooden flute, bells, english horn ..., Joëlle Léandre and Bernard Santacruz on double basses and Michael Zerang on drums ... they struck a chord together - or rather more than just one, and a free one, too, of course ... a lovely set that to me showed with ease how naturally European improvisers and American jazzers can find together and create something that is common - I guess in this case it was mostly the French fitting into a kind of AACM/Chicago frame, but that was done without them negating their own voices ... as for voices, of course Mme Léadre did some singing in the end, and it got quite hilarious indeed - dada lives!
- Roscoe Mitchell Trio - the main event, pt. 2 - actually, together with The Thing/McPhee the concert that made me book a hotel and a festival pass ... Mitchell again teamed up with two Europeans, two brits this time, namely Mark Sanders on drums and the one and only John Edwards on double bass - best bass player there is currently, for any kinds of free and energy playing ... Mitchell had with him his alto, soprano and sopranino saxophones, and he was fully THERE from the very first second, not dominating, not imposing, but just THERE, with the brits giving him great support and getting their solo and duo spots, free-wheeling and driving the music hard, while Mitchell engaged in his circular-breathing for long stretches ... they even came back for a short encore, and one needn't be afraid that the level went down, they just picked up again where they had left off and added a couple more minutes - stellar closing concert to a mighty fine festival


And on Saturday, another former concert-going friend, now in a wheelchair and alas not in a condition to attend concerts regularly, passed by to say hello (and spend some time with other friends, they're all a couple of decades older than me and have attended concerts together since the seventies) and asked me if I would go to Willisau next week and told me there was a John Zorn special ... indeed, six bands on Saturday afternoon and evening, starting out with the mighty Masada itself ... so on the train back home, I booked a room and bought tickets online ... damn!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 28, 2016, 08:27:42 AM
Great that you enjoyed the festival and that you are already looking forward to the next one  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 28, 2016, 08:41:33 AM
Quote from: aligreto on August 28, 2016, 08:27:42 AM
Great that you enjoyed the festival and that you are already looking forward to the next one  8)
;D

actually the three concerts (plus one short solo concert by John Edwards - gotta catch that opportunity even though it means getting up early that Saturday morning) plus the one night will probably cost me more than hotel, festival pass and train fair to Mulhouse ... but yeah, I'm excited about this chance to catch a large dose of Zorn/Masada (book 3 actually, wasn't even aware that book 2 has been concluded) and as I am able to squeeze it in over a weekend, that's all the better!

the line-up for Saturday (three sets at 2 p.m., three at 8 p.m., Edwards will be at 11 a.m. and I'll catch Mat Maneri/Randy Peterson and Joachim Kühn Trio on Sunday at 2 p.m., closing concert) is the following:

Masada Quartet

John Zorn (as)
Dave Douglas (t)
Greg Cohen (b)
Joey Baron (d)

Banquet of the Spirits plays Masada — The Book Beriah

Shanir Blumenkranz (b)
Tim Keiper  (d)
Brian Marsella (keys)
Cyro Baptista (perc)

Cleric plays Masada -The Book Beriah

Matt Hollenberg (g)
Nick Shellenberger (keys, voc)
Dan Kennedy (b)
Larry Kwartowitz (d)

Simulacrum

John Medeski (org)
Matt Hollenberg (g)
Kenny Grohowski (d)

Gyan Riley and Julian Lage play The Bagatelles

Gyan Riley (g)
Julian Lage (g)

Asmodeus plays The Bagatelles

Marc Ribot (g)
Trevor Dunn (b)
Tyshawn Sorey (d)
John Zorn (cond)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on August 28, 2016, 09:26:04 AM
Thank you for this inspiring review.  You make everyone wish they would have attended this festival.  The only jazz festival I attend once in a while is "Jazz a Vienne".  Each time it was great fun.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on August 28, 2016, 01:22:48 PM
Quintette du Hot Club de France: Stéphane Grappelli -- violin; Django Reinhardt, Pierre "Baro" Ferret, Marcel Bianchi -- guitars; Louis Vola -- double-bass

                                                                       Chicago


https://www.youtube.com/v/B0pWQP0YgYE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 28, 2016, 02:11:09 PM
(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/tal_farlow_quartet.jpg)

Tal Farlow - Quartet (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Parsifal on August 28, 2016, 02:20:39 PM
Count Basie/Lester Young
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 29, 2016, 04:30:23 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/663/MI0000663226.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XO3azLbLL._SS500.jpg)

Billy Taylor - Cross Section (1954)
Ellery Eskelin - Arcanum Moderne (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 29, 2016, 10:12:29 PM
Quote from: Spineur on August 28, 2016, 09:26:04 AM
Thank you for this inspiring review.  You make everyone wish they would have attended this festival.  The only jazz festival I attend once in a while is "Jazz a Vienne".  Each time it was great fun.
It's definitely a festival worth considering! Tickets are fairly cheap (actually several of the concerts are free - all of those noon Chapel solo ones, as well as some of the late afternoon ones) and the hotel I had was okay and cheap, too. The atmosphere is great, very relaxed, and it's all walking distance (okay, the heat made me use the tramway a couple of times, plus there's a free shuttle to and from Noumatrouff, which is a bit further out, but we still walked to/from there a few times). Anyway, it's of course a festival for those with a pretty adventurous taste in jazz and improvised music (and electronics). I plan to go there again if the programme will be interesting enough in the next years ... this year it was McPhee/The Thing and Roscoe Mitchell that made the decision easy, but as you can read above, there were several other highlights (and the two mentioned did keep up to expectations, if not surpassed them).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 30, 2016, 06:59:39 PM
(http://www.birkajazz.com/graphics2/leaBarbaraRiverside.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/I7S9TS7o-5s3vZsZ8Dtdu1GWK58=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3320034-1441212432-7712.jpeg.jpg)

Barbara Lea - A Woman In Love (1955)
Lou Mecca - Quartet (1955)

^Lea does an introductory verse for Love Is Here To Stay that I hadn't heard before, even from Ella who usually included all the openings in her Songbook recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/v/WhzmruwFDoY

(what's the name for that bit at the start of showtunes, before the song proper starts, that are often left off? There's a specific term for it, but I can never remember)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/845/MI0001845748.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LIUjyUfaL.jpg)

James Moody - Wail Moody Wail (1955)
Mundell Lowe - Guitar Moods (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 31, 2016, 04:54:53 AM
Albums I'm bringing for the car on my road trip through the Pacific Northwest over the next 8 days (stars* indicate first listens!):

- Monk: The Complete Prestige Recordings (have only heard 1 of the 3 CDs)
- Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concerts (a great Bogey pick!)
- Lionel Hampton and His Golden Men of Jazz at the Blue Note (Telarc)
- Mingus at Antibes
- Basic Basie Vols. 1* & 2*
- Sweets Edison: Patented by Edison* and Sweetenings*
- Monk: Live in Geneva '66*
- Hawkins/Eldridge/Hodges Alive!* and Hawkins Alive! at the Village Gate*
- Cannonball: What Is This Thing Called Soul*
- Al Grey: Last of the Big Plungers* and Thinking Man's Trombone*
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2016, 04:54:15 PM
^great driving (or any time) music there!

played at various points of the day - another knockout string of first-listen RVGs, these ones all from 1956 (continuing to skip over the more famous sessions I already know):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41F45CQSX1L.jpg) (http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/hickory_house_jutta_hipp.jpg)

Jutta Hipp - With Zoot Sims
Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House

(https://img.discogs.com/JeK0CLvMBd5od-Q6FpbX_3GdMc8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4860603-1377744109-9159.jpeg.jpg) (https://www.highfidelity.net/images/product_images/original_images/aprj_7080.jpg)

Randy Weston feat. Cecil Payne - With These Hands
Phil Woods and Donald Byrd - The Young Bloods

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Inside_Hi-Fi.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/oxhKfs7PMFjMoTyf7zerfr6Qzj8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4128288-1356240103-5601.jpeg.jpg)

Lee Konitz - Inside Hi-Fi
Randy Weston - Trio and Solo

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/086/MI0000086110.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LplzQ8tzL.jpg)

Jon Eardley - The Jon Eardley Seven
Bennie Green - Walking Down
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 01, 2016, 07:00:13 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/890/MI0001890085.jpg)

Easily makes it into the ten most played albums of the past ten years (and I guess of my life)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 01, 2016, 02:09:07 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/909/MI0001909306.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y%2B6yNdpQL._SY300_QL70_.jpg)

Art Farmer - Farmer's Market
Hank Mobley - Mobley's Message
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on September 01, 2016, 03:34:37 PM
Part of the jazz revival of the 40s. sure the video and audio are crap but these two are the original performers and composers when they played in the Bob Crosby Orch.

                              Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc - Big Noise From Winnetka

                     https://www.youtube.com/v/M4vlmYd9KYY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 02, 2016, 03:21:38 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DCaTwcohL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WJ1HPFEEL.jpg)

Gene Ammons - Funky (1957)
Thad Jones / Prestige All-Stars - Olio (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 03, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZAuK5iz2L._SS500.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/766/MI0000766806.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ray Draper - Tuba Sounds (1957)
Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar - Flute Flight (1957)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/254/MI0000254680.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sabu - Palo Congo (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 04, 2016, 02:20:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/311TNXDS5AL.jpg)

Barbara Lea - In Love (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 04, 2016, 11:58:37 PM
in love with Lea's voice, too  ;D

you might want to check out Lee Wiley, eventually ... not sure what's currently the best way to get hold of her old recordings (which are the best), there was a set on Definitive (with the usual abysmal sound and crappy documentation) as well as four volumes -  "Completist's Ultimate Collection" Vols. 1-4 - on Devil's Music, a label that has disappeared a long time ago) - in addition, she can be heard with Eddie Condon rather regularly (for instance on his Town Hall concerts), and she has two late (mid-50s) albums out on RCA, both of which are worth hearing ... but the easiest way to get started, I guess, is with this (which in the bigger scheme of things is more like an extended footnote, but an interesting one that is well worth bothering with):
http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/store/11.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 05, 2016, 03:26:09 PM
Thanks KU, wasn't aware of her, listening now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/804/MI0002804478.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Lee Wiley - A Touch Of The Blues (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 05, 2016, 10:11:31 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 05, 2016, 03:26:09 PM
Thanks KU, wasn't aware of her, listening now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/804/MI0002804478.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Lee Wiley - A Touch Of The Blues (1958)
I think that one's actually the slightly lesser one of the two RCA albums. The other was reissued by Mosaic in their "Singles" series and is pretty gorgeous, but this one's not half bad either  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 07, 2016, 01:00:57 AM
(http://www.popsike.com/pix/20111202/290640526773.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61oBXLcg6%2BL._SS500.jpg)

John Jenkins and Kenny Burrell - s/t (1957)
Barbara Lea - s/t (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 09, 2016, 05:16:58 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wHYYbNBXL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 09, 2016, 10:10:10 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61UaVZCzwTL.jpg)

TCB released a Zurich gig from around two weeks later ... seems there the audience was mostly died-in-the-wool jazzfans, and they didn't dig the singer much - he eventually broke the ice, but the atmosphere is rather tense. This concert from Paris is relaxed in typical sublime King Cole manner.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 09, 2016, 12:06:24 PM
earlier:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HnMD5LGdL.jpg)

Sonically not perfect (seems they just took the radio broadcast that's in circulation, rather than trying to deal with the German radio station that did the recording), but musically it's white hot! Too bad they cut off Junior Cook, but somehow fits the picture I have of the Woody III agenda (also this was the Hayes/Shaw Quintet, as far as I know, there again ...)

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/329/MI0003329255.jpg)

Beautiful stuff! A quartet of viola, cello, double bass and percussion
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 09, 2016, 02:58:44 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xOxUFoEYL._SS500.jpg)

Gene Ammons - The Big Sound (1958)

Despite the high billing Trane is only on track two - a rare appearance on alto

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ugeh3JpxL.jpg)

Lee Morgan - Candy (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 10, 2016, 03:01:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y89MZ9B5L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3uUt6bUg3RP33NXSrqccY7yTHZs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4817312-1457061908-7252.jpeg.jpg)

Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp (1958)
Shirley Scott - Great Scott! (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 11, 2016, 09:30:37 AM
failed to report the continuation of the Zorn insomnia, two nights back - thus it went:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/365/MI0003365777.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/311ReVqSIcL.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/914/MI0002914199.jpg)

and the night concluded on a somer note with this recent release that has finally arrived:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41tlm%2BpHu-L.jpg)

yesterday, most of the afternoon was spent with this great new release - it's kind of a history lesson (second disc is mostly music though, but the late Jayne Cortze has a great appearance reciting a poem of hers):

(http://images.cdbaby.name/r/a/randyweston_large.jpg?v=77d22727-39b5-4763-9f9d-920750a78da9)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 11, 2016, 01:59:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kbrxwPs-L._SX466_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dkQRXkk%2BL._SS500.jpg)

The Three Sounds - Bottoms Up (1958)
Jerome Richardson - Midnight Oil (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 12, 2016, 01:21:29 AM
That Richardson is mighty fine!

Not too big on Gene Harris/The Three Sounds, though ... but "Blue Hour" with Stanley Turrentine is a classic!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 12, 2016, 02:06:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Utox1MK6L._SL400_.jpg)

This one's simply fantastic - strongly recommended by a friend, got it today, gave it three spins already - it's short but oh so sweet!

Also gave this beauty another listen:

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-69QuL_JH59Y/V6bLszaSDkI/AAAAAAAAHEA/monAef_nqpoTV3pP5tkz3serTazA0l6xQCLcB/s1600/JL10.jpg)

And played two bought in Mulhouse - the first is with Per-Ake Holmlander on tuba (in trio with trumpet and drums), the second is a percussion (rather: cymbals) solo disc by Christian Wolfahrt - both very good:

(http://www.borguez.com/uabab/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cover2.jpg)
(http://christianwolfarth.ch/media/bakery/images/item86/Scheer-Cover_jpg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 12, 2016, 04:21:36 PM
(http://images.cdbaby.name/j/a/jamesdanderfer2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 12, 2016, 10:32:45 PM
Quote from: king ubu on September 12, 2016, 01:21:29 AM
That Richardson is mighty fine!

Not too big on Gene Harris/The Three Sounds, though ... but "Blue Hour" with Stanley Turrentine is a classic!

As light and undemanding as they often are, I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Three Sounds.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71giCuN%2B7tL._SY355_.jpg)

Red Garland - All Kinds of Weather (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 13, 2016, 01:46:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 12, 2016, 10:32:45 PM
As light and undemanding as they often are, I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Three Sounds.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71giCuN%2B7tL._SY355_.jpg)

Red Garland - All Kinds of Weather (1958)

Yeah, but I found it pretty dull ... but then some of the albums again aren't half bad, Donald Bailey on drums is always worth hearing - on the expanded "Live at the Lighthouse" disc.

Red Garland is another case though ... love his playing and can easily go through several hours of his mid/late fifties trios without ever being bored!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 13, 2016, 05:16:11 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51W%2BOuQN4SL._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WN7dg4tXL._SY355_.jpg)

Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette (1959)
Walter Davis, Jr. - Davis Cup (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 14, 2016, 10:09:08 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/377/MI0002377850.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 14, 2016, 04:19:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51r1lQ12YfL._SS500.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/077/MI0000077558.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sonny Red - Out Of The Blue (1960)
Gigi Gryce - Saying Somethin' (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 14, 2016, 05:18:56 PM
(http://www.elusivedisc.com/images/jvcxr-0018.jpg)

Maiden spin
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 15, 2016, 11:51:25 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 14, 2016, 04:19:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51r1lQ12YfL._SS500.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/077/MI0000077558.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sonny Red - Out Of The Blue (1960)
Gigi Gryce - Saying Somethin' (1960)
I've never heard of Sonny Red, but wow, that is a heck of a group he's with.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 15, 2016, 12:00:22 PM
Just arrived today.  Perfect for winding down after a long day at work.

[asin]B004A90AAM[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2016, 05:13:05 PM
Quote from: Brian on September 15, 2016, 11:51:25 AM
I've never heard of Sonny Red, but wow, that is a heck of a group he's with.

The critics seem to have liked that album much more than I did on my first listen. I'll have to give it another try in the near future.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/r-6L9Z2AAMlmnXuuVb9SK0Pw0sk=/fit-in/592x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3271367-1323297673.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/668/MI0000668299.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ken McIntyre - Stone Blues (1960)
Lem Winchester - Another Opus (1960)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2Bv1sGvxgL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61E228GGCVL.gif)

Ken McIntyre and Eric Dolphy - Looking Ahead (1960)
Oliver Nelson and Lem Winchester - Nocturne (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 16, 2016, 04:38:11 AM
(http://direct-ns.rhap.com/imageserver/v2/albums/Alb.146927/images/500x500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 16, 2016, 07:07:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/zLukR6J-06o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 16, 2016, 11:34:15 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 15, 2016, 05:13:05 PM
The critics seem to have liked that album much more than I did on my first listen. I'll have to give it another try in the near future.
Red has a tone that certainly won't appeal to everyone ... I kinda like him but would never consider him a favourite. The Blue Note  album has some cool tunes though and I always enjoy Wynton Kelly, that's for sure! There's more Redd on Riverside/Jazzland, with the likes of Blue Mitchell and Grant Green (the CD twofer by Fantasy played with colours in its title), and one co-led with Clifford Jordan (on another twofer by Fantasy, that one also contains Jordan's fine "Mosaic" with Kenny Dorham). Guess that Jordan twofer would be ny next (and fully endorsed) recommendation. There's also a pretty good (not great) recent disc on Uptown presenting a live show by the Red/Mitchell group from the sixties.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 17, 2016, 04:25:16 PM
I'll give those Clifford Jordans a play. Thanks.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KKKWM3R6L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515MCnaB80L._SS500.jpg)

Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)
The Latin Jazz Quintet with Eric Dolphy - Caribé (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 06:14:37 PM
I see some people listening to some John Zorn. Great stuff guys.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 06:26:54 PM
I've been listening to a lot of ECM recordings lately. Mainly Terje Rypdal, Pat Metheny Group, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Tomasz Stanko, Mathias Eick, John Abercrombie, Charles Lloyd, among others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 06:27:58 PM
Quote from: Spineur on September 15, 2016, 12:00:22 PM
Just arrived today.  Perfect for winding down after a long day at work.

[asin]B004A90AAM[/asin]

Pieranunzi is like the Italian Bill Evans. Such a tasteful player.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 17, 2016, 06:30:31 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 06:26:54 PM
I've been listening to a lot of ECM recordings lately. Mainly Terje Rypdal, Pat Metheny Group, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Tomasz Stanko, Mathias Eick, John Abercrombie, Charles Lloyd, among others.

Any stand-out favorites? (love ECM)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 07:14:48 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 17, 2016, 06:30:31 PM
Any stand-out favorites? (love ECM)

Sure, yeah. I can certainly try. :) A shortlist:

Pat Metheny Group: Offramp
Pat Metheny Group: First Circle
Terje Rypdal & The Chasers: Blue
Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous, Jack DeJohnette: self-titled
Bill Frisell Band: Lookout For Hope
Paul Motian Trio: It Should've Happened A Long Time Ago
Paul Motian Trio: I Have The Room Above Her
Tomasz Stanko: Suspended Night
Jan Garbarek: Rites
Egberto Gismonti: Sanfona
Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek: Magico
Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song
Kenny Wheeler Quintet: The Widow In The Window
John Abercrombie Quartet: Arcade
John Abercrombie Quartet: The Third Quartet
Marc Johnson: Bass Desires
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires: Second Sight
Mathias Eick: Skala
Charles Lloyd: The Water Is Wide
Ralph Towner: Solstice
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 17, 2016, 07:47:35 PM
^Some great albums there. Others I haven't heard, but have made note to hunt down. Thanks!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on September 17, 2016, 07:59:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 17, 2016, 07:47:35 PM
^Some great albums there. Others I haven't heard, but have made note to hunt down. Thanks!

Thanks, I hope you enjoy what you find. 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 18, 2016, 01:01:31 AM
An old (2010) ECM favourites list that I have handy:

Abercrombie/Holland/DeJohnette – Gateway
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Nice Guys
Lester Bowie – The Great Pretender
Circle – Paris Concert
Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman/Erik Friedlander – Abaton
Jack DeJohnette – Oneness
Bill Frisell – Lookout for Hope
Iro Haarla – Northbound
Charlie Haden – Ballad of the Fallen
Dave Holland – Conference of the Birds
Italian Instabile Orchestra – Skies of Europe
Keith Jarrett – Whisper Not
Steve Kuhn – Life's Backward Glances (3CD set)
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins – Which Way Is East
Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams – Playing
OM – A Retrospective (in Ermangelung der anderen Alben... immerhin ist ,,Cerberus" ganz drauf!)
Julian Priester – Love, Love
Enrico Rava – Quartet
Dewey Redman – The Struggle Continues
Sam Rivers – Contrasts
Hal Russell – The Hal Russell Story
Tomasz Stanko – Litania
Ralph Towner – Batik
Kenny Wheeler – Gnu High

JAPO:

Dollar Brand – African Piano
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 18, 2016, 03:58:34 PM
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Stanley Turrentine - Up At Minton's (1961)
Dodo Greene - My Hour Of Need (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 19, 2016, 09:01:42 PM
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Curtis Fuller - Cabin In The Sky (1962)
Count Basie - And The Kansas City 7 (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 20, 2016, 06:12:40 PM
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Don Wilkinson - Elder Don (1962)
Freddie Roach - Down To Earth (1962)

a couple of below average selections today, alas
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 21, 2016, 05:14:55 PM
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Horace Silver - The Tokyo Blues (1962)
Chico Hamilton - Passin' Thru (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 22, 2016, 02:03:07 PM
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Bought as footnote to the Dudu Pukwana discography ... but this is a nice indeed footnote! Stuckey is quite a fine organ player and the supporting cast on the first two thirds of the disc is Phil Lee (g) and John Marshall (d). The last third is by the trio of Stuckey, Terry Smith (g) and Martin Hart (d) - and those tracks are certainly not without interest, even though Dudu is absent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 22, 2016, 02:20:50 PM
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First listen to what has the reputation as one of the best of Teddy Edwards' albums ... and Edwards is a dearly beloved musician around these parts!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 22, 2016, 04:11:10 PM
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Coleman Hawkins - Desafinado (1962)
Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Parsifal on September 22, 2016, 04:38:11 PM
Currently listening to my Erroll Garner recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 23, 2016, 08:05:25 AM
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Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra - All My Yesterdays
Julian Lage - Arclight
Wes Montgomery - One Night in Indy
Ralph Alessi - Quiver
Masabumi Kikuchi - Black Orpheus
Sonny Rollins Trio/Horace Silver Quintet - Zurich 1959 (Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series 40)
Jean-Marc Foltz/Stéphan Oliva - Gershwin
Ran Blake - Chabrol Noir
Joe Lovano - Classic! Live at Newport
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 23, 2016, 04:50:17 PM
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Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal (1963)
John Patton - Along Came John (1963)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 24, 2016, 12:52:17 AM
That Patton is da shit, as dey say! One of the top organ jazz albums!

Here, first listen to Vol. 4 of the great Tubby Hayes Archive series put out by a small label called Savage-Solweig (after it's two founders, Solweig was Tubby's last wife, she died last year):

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Excellent, as I had expected!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 24, 2016, 06:30:06 AM
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The Newport 1960 set, followed by various concert and TV appearances in 1961/62 - glorious, needless to say (and in spite of more than half a dozen of bonus tracks originating from the same October 1961 and May 1962 concerts as Frémeaux' previous "Live in Paris" 3CD set, no overlap - same repertoire of course, but no repeated performances).

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Art Farmer - Live at Boomer's (2 Vols., reissued in Japan in 2015 - and re-pressed, I think, due to good sales, in 2016 again)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 24, 2016, 10:46:46 AM
Towner, Muthspiel, Gregorian

Travel Guide


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 24, 2016, 06:51:36 PM
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Gloria Coleman and Pola Roberts - Soul Sisters (1963)
Solomon Ilori - African High Life (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 25, 2016, 01:29:11 AM
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Gloria Coleman and Pola Roberts - Soul Sisters (1963)
Solomon Ilori - African High Life (1963)

cool beans (both)!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 25, 2016, 03:32:20 AM
halfway into this by now - and enjoying it a lot:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ludwigii on September 25, 2016, 02:02:48 PM
Gus Viseur ‎– De Clichy À Broadway

Jazz In Paris – 88

Gitanes Jazz Productions ‎– 018 430-2


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 25, 2016, 04:29:20 PM
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Sonny Stitt - Now! (1963)
Don Wilkerson - Shoutin' (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 25, 2016, 10:56:31 PM
Quote from: ludwigii on September 25, 2016, 02:02:48 PM
Gus Viseur ‎– De Clichy À Broadway

Lovely disc! (And needless to say I'm a huge fan of the Jazz in Paris series, anyways!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 26, 2016, 03:42:24 PM
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Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison - Illumination (1963)
Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello (1963)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ludwigii on September 27, 2016, 07:12:25 AM
Quote from: king ubu on September 25, 2016, 10:56:31 PM
Lovely disc! (And needless to say I'm a huge fan of the Jazz in Paris series, anyways!)

Really a nice disc  :)
A virtuoso accordionist: I am reading up on him.
These are my first jazz listens and I would like to start with this series.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 27, 2016, 03:27:45 PM
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Joe Henderson - Our Thing (1963)
Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on September 28, 2016, 01:40:13 PM
One of my hands-down favorites from '65 with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, et al.  Superb engineering, great separation and the band so free to be whatever it wanted to be.  A listener might be convinced this was classical music at some points.  Wasn't a fan of Williams' later fusion material, still he died way too young.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 28, 2016, 03:53:23 PM
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Ben Webster - See You at the Fair (1964)
Clark Terry - The Happy Horns Of Clark Terery (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 30, 2016, 01:28:38 AM
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First spin - going to hear the group live in November at Jazzfest Berlin - enjoying this first listen a lot!


Quote from: ludwigii on September 27, 2016, 07:12:25 AM
Really a nice disc  :)
A virtuoso accordionist: I am reading up on him.
These are my first jazz listens and I would like to start with this series.

Hm, not sure about that plan (meaning I might consider starting with US jazz, as that's where it's from and where, at least in the first five or six decades, it mainly happened ... Viseur is a minor figure - which should not detract from the quality of that album, I really love it! - and most Europeans at that stage and well into the late 50s and early 60s, were content to follow the american lead, and in some cases it shows, in a way that you get the feeling, if you really pay attention, that they are very fluent in an idiom that is still not theirs ... that started to change in the sixties, with free improv and other developments, and I really think to this day, people like Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, Evan Parker and others make music that is not made (cannot be made) by American musicians - and it's their own thing, through and through, no matter if you like it or now.

Anyway, if you do want to pursue with the Jazz in Paris series, some of my many favourites include:

26 Barney Wilen – Jazz sur Seine
(with Milt Jackson on piano and Kenny Clarke on drums - simply the best! Wilen was kid of Americans and he really understood jazz ... his debut - "Tilt" on Vogue, can be found in the great first "Jazz on Vogue" box, in case you happen to find that, I think it's OOP by now - included a slew of Monk covers, he had played with Miles as a teenager on "L'Ascenseur pour l'echaufaud" ... how's that for precocious?! I think the album was reissued on vinyl by SAM Records, just in case)

16 René Thomas – The Real Cat
27 Bobby Jaspar – Modern Jazz au Club St.-Germain
(the Belgians ... both mighty fine players! Jaspar went to the US to play with J.J. Johnson and his tone on tenor got hardened out a bit - in a good way, I think ... alas he died in the early 60s - there are more recordings of his on Vogue etc, but this is one of his finest - I think there's a SAM LP reissue of it, too, in case - there's also a second Thomas album in the series)

10 Slide Hampton – Exodus
(an underrated player and composer/arranger ... this is one his early 60's albums with his midsized group - Octet/Tentet - that was maybe the highpoint of his career)

08 Chet Baker – Broken Wing
(this was pulled later, I think - very good late 70s album with Phil Markowitz, JF Jenny Clark and Jeff Brillinger)

23 Sonny Criss – Mr. Blues pour flirter
(great stuff, with Georges Arvanitas)

04 Donald Byrd – Byrd in Paris (live)
05 Donald Byrd – Parisian Thoroughfare (live)
(there are vinyl reissues of these - or one of them - out on SAM Records, I think - Bobby Jaspar is there, too!)

28 Lucky Thompson – Modern Jazz Group
73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet All Stars
(Lucky Thompson is a favorite in this house ... his Paris recordings are uniformly good - there are more on other labels, there's good online discography available here: http://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson/)

34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke
35 Eddie Louiss – Bohemia After Dark
(organ fiesta ... in the later collector's edition, another mighty good Louiss album was reissued - as for Scott, this is one of her very best, and it's indeed just a duo, to this day her usual playing format, she is amazing!)

67 René Urtréger joue Bud Powell
(the young piano player that toured with Miles when Wilen was on board ... this is his first album and it's all Bud - and he really pulls it off!)

65 Bernard Pfeiffer – La vie en rose
93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays Standards
(a nutcase virtuoso piano player, closer to guys like Johnny Guarnieri than to modern jazz - but wow, what a ride he takes you on!)

07 Bill Coleman – From Boogie to Funk
(another album that falls into the mainstream category - very good though, with Budd Johnson on tenor)

39 Kenny Clarke Plays André Hodéir
70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir
97 André Hodeir – Jazz et jazz
(left field jazz ... third stream, voices, whatever - I like it - the Klook Plays Hodeir is kinda standard by comparison, very good, that one!)

If you're into lush tenors, look for Guy Lafitte ("Blue and Sentimental", there's a later one, too, also good but not as lush) and Don Byas (you can buy anything by/with Don Byas if you like him, but be careful for overlap, he recorded a lot in France and there's no good editions that really include it all, alas)

More very fine ones from the initial round (some quickly mentioned in passing above):

49 Jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer)
50 Jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas)
54 Various – Clarinettes à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Maurice Meunier, Hubert Rostaing)
55 Various – Saxophones à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Sonny Criss, Michel de Villers, Hubert Fol)
57 René Thomas – Meeting Mister Thomas
85 Bobby Jaspar – Jeux de quartes (all flute and vibes, just in case - no tenor, alas)
96 Max Roach – Parisian Sketches (this is very, very good but I already had it elsewhere)
105 Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
106 Guy Lafitte – Blues...
107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand – Communications '72

If you're into guitar (acoustic), look for Henri Crolla's discs (first, I guess: 89 Henri Crolla – Quand refleuriront les lilas blancs?) if you're into guitar (electric) absolutely look for Elek Bacsik's albums (not just the René Thomas ones).

If you're into guitar - of course you can check out the Django discs ... I have opted for the Frémeaux complete edition eventually, but kept the JiP discs. The one with Friends isn't essential, most of the others are. (I'm less enamored with Grappelli if he's without Django ... he's too polished for my taste, but his encounter with Stuff Smith - who's the pure opposite and my favourite jazz fiddler of all times, I think - is fun and his Cole Porter album is very good as well.)

The "hors série" double discs started gloriously with a Sacha Distel package that is very much worth hearing:

01 Sacha Distel – Jazz Guitarist

others worth considering/looking for:

03 Jean-Claude Fohrenbach – Fohrenbach French Sound
05 Alain Jean-Marie – Afterblue
06 Anachronic Jazz Band – Anthropology (04 auf der Rückseite!)
07 Bernard Peiffer – Improvision
08 Rhoda Scott – Paris-New York

(Fofo is odd stuff, partly with tapes, electronics, but also some very solid tenor sax ... Jean-Marie is wonderfully introspective piano from much more recent vintage, Anachronic Jazz Band does Bebop tunes in dixieland arrangements, oddball but lotsa fun, Peiffer is even more of lotsa fun, and Rhoda Scott's two disc set contains more of her very best recordings)

the later "Collector's edition" consisted of partly reissues from the first run (above), with original cover art this time, and it also included a few new items, for which I went:

Multi Interprètes – Jazz Boom N°1 (a fun compilation with Distel, Urtreger, Lafitte etc. - not sure the tracks were ever available elsewhere)
Quincy Jones – I Dig Dancers (this was part of a box by Mosaic Records, but they missed the bonus tracks, alas - not important really, but still too bad)
Eddy Louiss – Orgue (glorious!)
Nathan Davis – Rules of Freedom (very, very good!)

Note that I skipped the Chet Baker offerings that were in the series (one in the initial run, another one with Bobby Jaspar in the collector's edition) - I have the stunning Complete Barclay box of his, so I don't need any of it ... best are the album with Dick Twardzik (not in the JiP series), I guess the one with Jaspar should be considered first rate, too, while the other one ("Plays Standards") is kinda moody - it was made with Gérard Gustin on piano (don't know him otherwise) just after Twardzik had ODed.

I have put together extensive lists on this German forum (you will understand the lists without reading German of course):
http://forum.rollingstone.de/foren/topic/jazz-in-paris/

This is lots of info, I know ... and lots of recommendations. However, I think many of these are OOP anyway, so just try your luck!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 30, 2016, 09:20:09 AM
I'll definitivly will dig into this !

TD: Lavin
Lucas Niggli, drums
Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 30, 2016, 04:09:50 PM
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Milt Jackson - Jazz N Samba (1964)
Lionel Hampton - You Better Know It (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on September 30, 2016, 09:37:33 PM
Now playing:

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Just lounging around at home with this record playing at the moment - very mellow and making me feel nice and relaxed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on September 30, 2016, 10:36:19 PM
Now playing:

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Find this one really strange but I certainly like it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 01, 2016, 11:35:59 AM
This morning's listening:

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From:

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Ahh, this forum is good value sometimes - it makes me laugh/smile ;D
This mornings listening is covering similar ground to yesterday - feeling like listening to some Jazz/Fusion :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 01, 2016, 02:03:15 PM
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John Patton - Oh Baby! (1965)
Sonny Rollins - On Impusle (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 01, 2016, 05:08:07 PM
Now playing:

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I didn't like a couple of albums in this box-set (yet) but the majority of it is pretty good; this album being one of the better ones.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 01, 2016, 08:19:09 PM
Now playing:

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Feeling lazy today - just sitting outside in the sun and listening to music.
Wanted to hear something a bit languid so this album would appear to be a good fit.
Edit: Actually that album wasn't as laid back as what I thought - the Drummer is in overdrive in particular and does his best to liven things up.
Quite enjoyed the album today - I will give some more of Miles's second quintet albums a spin soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on October 02, 2016, 02:37:03 PM
Quote from: Conor71 on October 01, 2016, 08:19:09 PM
Now playing:

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Feeling lazy today - just sitting outside in the sun and listening to music.
Wanted to hear something a bit languid so this album would appear to be a good fit.
Edit: Actually that album wasn't as laid back as what I thought - the Drummer is in overdrive in particular and does his best to liven things up.
Quite enjoyed the album today - I will give some more of Miles's second quintet albums a spin soon.
Love that album, Conor.  :)

You might be interested in this ~
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 02, 2016, 11:43:09 PM
Quote from: HIPster on October 02, 2016, 02:37:03 PM
Love that album, Conor.  :)

You might be interested in this ~
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Hey mate,
yes this one looks very nice - I will keep it in mind (I promised myself I wouldn't buy anything for a while but maybe in future we'll see) :).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 02, 2016, 11:47:31 PM
Now playing:

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I love this group :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ludwigii on October 03, 2016, 06:21:44 AM
Quote from: king ubu on September 30, 2016, 01:28:38 AM

Anyway, if you do want to pursue with the Jazz in Paris series, some of my many favourites include:

...

This is lots of info, I know ... and lots of recommendations. However, I think many of these are OOP anyway, so just try your luck!

Thanks for the precious advice.
I will continue with the series Jazz in Paris.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 03, 2016, 03:20:55 PM
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Sam Rivers - Contours (1965)

the RVG discography I was following (and playing the albums less familiar to me) stops for some reason at 1965, and I don't seem to be able to find one that continues

so after this its back to more random and serendipitous exploring in my jazz listening
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 03, 2016, 11:25:17 PM
Today's listening:

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and

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 04, 2016, 02:28:16 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 03, 2016, 03:20:55 PM
...

the RVG discography I was following (and playing the albums less familiar to me) stops for some reason at 1965, and I don't seem to be able to find one that continues

so after this its back to more random and serendipitous exploring in my jazz listening

Have you tried this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gelder_Studio#List_of_recording_sessions

Or maybe also this (sorted by release date, as it's album-, or rather release-based, not session-based):
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/252966-Rudy-Van-Gelder?limit=500&page=1

I assume the one you are referring to is this here:
http://dgmono.com/rvg-discography/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 04, 2016, 02:53:39 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 04, 2016, 02:28:16 AM
Have you tried this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gelder_Studio#List_of_recording_sessions

Or maybe also this (sorted by release date, as it's album-, or rather release-based, not session-based):
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/252966-Rudy-Van-Gelder?limit=500&page=1

I assume the one you are referring to is this here:
http://dgmono.com/rvg-discography/

Aha! Thank you very much for those!

No idea why I couldn't find the Wikipedia one on my own - that's kind of embarrassing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 04, 2016, 01:49:41 PM
Hmm...there's quite a lot of stuff on that Wikipedia list that for some reason wasn't on the previous discography I was using. Oh well, more listening to explore. For example:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/865/MI0001865310.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elmo Hope - Meditations (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 04, 2016, 09:37:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 04, 2016, 01:49:41 PM
Hmm...there's quite a lot of stuff on that Wikipedia list that for some reason wasn't on the previous discography I was using. Oh well, more listening to explore. For example:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/865/MI0001865310.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elmo Hope - Meditations (1954)

Yeah, the internet's for free ... that earlier discography seems to be mainly for heavy duty vinyl geeks (is it focussed to all that was ever released in mono? that would explain the cut-off date in the mid sixties) ... putting together a thorough listing (even better with details about participants and tracks and releases etc.) would probably mean several years of research. Don't (or very rarely) get that on the net (and if you do, it's usually focussed on musicians, such as the work by Noal Cohen and Mike Fitzgerald, who do also rely on participants from all over the world).

Now playing:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/757/MI0001757196.jpg)

As great as ever!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 05, 2016, 12:20:05 AM
This evening's listening:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71udGBctk6L._SL1112_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/718yZVgFr%2BL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 05, 2016, 01:35:55 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/The_Billy_Taylor_Trio_with_Candido.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zcjqld%2BEL._SS500.jpg)

The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido - s/t (1954)
Thad Jones - The Fabulous Thad Jones (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 06, 2016, 12:45:36 AM
Now playing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71-vUp5ZRqL._SL1143_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/718yZVgFr%2BL._SL1500_.jpg)

Listening to this album again - the version I own has some killer Live tracks on it.
This group was certainly a force to be reckoned with!.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 06, 2016, 01:23:45 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/996/MI0003996265.jpg)

Just got this, first impression is it's nice but after the excellent opener (a bluesy version of Dylan's "Masters of War") does not quite hold up interest all the way through.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 06, 2016, 01:52:42 PM
(http://www.darkbrownrecords.com/shop/image/data/records/jk/jazz/MG12022_f.jpg) (http://bluestouch.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RLP203-300x295.jpg)

Ernie Wilkins and Frank Wess - Flutes and Reeds (1955)
Randy Weston - Get Happy With The Randy Weston Trio (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 07, 2016, 02:21:26 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/047/MI0002047545.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/987/MI0003987063.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elmo Hope and Frank Foster - Hope Meets Foster (1955)
Hank Jones - Quartet-Quintet (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 08, 2016, 02:43:06 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/454/MI0001454267.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/29OC5OLAv11BSK17h-r3VURK13s=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2517603-1288372674.jpeg.jpg)

Gene Ammons - The Happy Blues (1956)
Art Farmer and Donald Byrd - 2 Trumpets (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 09, 2016, 06:41:14 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/456/MI0003456853.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/008/MI0002008001.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/499/MI0003499050.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/900/MI0000900931.jpg)

the one on top is Jacques Coursil's "Trails of Tears"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 09, 2016, 01:21:23 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/588/MI0000588541.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51543DieQkL.jpg)

Gil Melle - Gil's Guests (1956)
Webster Young - For Lady (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 10, 2016, 03:21:34 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/508/MI0002508018.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/585/MI0000585298.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Teddy Charles - The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957)
Teo Macero / Prestige Jazz Quartet - Teo (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 11, 2016, 02:02:02 PM
Diek de Graaf and friends inspired by JSB


(http://www.soundliaison.com/images/BachReflections300shadow.png)

A soundliaison release (very high fidelity)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 11, 2016, 07:04:56 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512qB7thubL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/TPG5WAxK-CEwFCTnuPokJMdbi08=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2067753-1305435682.jpeg.jpg)

Idrees Sulieman - Roots (1957)
Steve Lacy - Soprano Sax (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 12, 2016, 02:54:35 PM
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/8/88/Mose_Allison_-_Local_Color.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130223190625) (http://www.ifmusic.co.uk/images/product_images/wessashby.jpg)

Mose Allison - Local Color (1957)
Dorothy Ashby and Frank Wess - In A Minor Groove (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 14, 2016, 03:16:55 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Young_Man_Mose.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/054/MI0000054628.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Mose Allison - Young Man Mose (1958)
Tiny Grimes and Coleman Hawkins - Blues Groove (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 15, 2016, 06:18:05 AM
The box came in yesterday.  Started my listening.  Excellent selection of European Jazz.
In the end, there isnt too much duplication with what I have.  It will take a while to get through this.

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I am toying with the idea of getting the American box as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 15, 2016, 01:46:37 PM
(https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5297275/il_570xN.366123286.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/499/MI0001499852.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Shirley Scott - Shirley's Sounds (1958)
Tiny Grimes and J.C. Higginbotham - Callin' The Blues (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 16, 2016, 01:59:06 PM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RM6X0NBQL._SY300_QL70_.jpg) (http://p0.storage.canalblog.com/09/57/500408/63167689_p.jpg)

Steve Lacy - Reflections (1958)
Willis Jackson - Blue Gator (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 17, 2016, 12:45:07 PM
Some very early Ellington....


(http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt184/Aligreto/Vinyl%20Covers%20-%20non%20classical/IMG_0002_zpsm4h43z6u.jpg?t=1476650672)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 17, 2016, 02:25:56 PM
(https://images.hhv.de/catalog/new_shop_405x405/00183/183025.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61WB%2BlBRewL.jpg)

Shirley Scott - Scottie Plays The Duke (1959)
Yusef Lateef - The Fabric Of Jazz (1959)

^That might well be the best Shirley Scott album I've heard
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on October 17, 2016, 05:30:25 PM
(https://bongorama.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/731453713024canvasheight500.jpg?w=829)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 18, 2016, 03:05:58 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/-IREX7llO5crObZiKnkPSmxOu6Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3176980-1319215757.jpeg.jpg)

Art Taylor's - Taylor's Tenors (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 19, 2016, 02:49:56 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 17, 2016, 02:25:56 PM
Shirley Scott - Scottie Plays The Duke (1959)

^That might well be the best Shirley Scott album I've heard

Have you heard the albums she made with Stanley Turrentine? There are several, on Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse ... the finest, I think, are "Hustlin'" (Blue Note, with Kenny Burrell, Bob Cranshaw and the unsung Otis "Candy" Finch), "Blue Flames" (Prestige, same band sans Burrell) and the live recordings on "Queen of the Organ" (Impulse, same line-up without Burrell - the early 90s GRP CD contains plenty of bonus tracks and may be my one favourite Scott release).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 19, 2016, 12:35:09 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 19, 2016, 02:49:56 AM
Have you heard the albums she made with Stanley Turrentine? There are several, on Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse ... the finest, I think, are "Hustlin'" (Blue Note, with Kenny Burrell, Bob Cranshaw and the unsung Otis "Candy" Finch), "Blue Flames" (Prestige, same band sans Burrell) and the live recordings on "Queen of the Organ" (Impulse, same line-up without Burrell - the early 90s GRP CD contains plenty of bonus tracks and may be my one favourite Scott release).

I've heard some of them. I know Blue Flames, but will check out Queen Of The Organ and Hustlin. Never Let Me Go was one of my favorites of the two together.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 19, 2016, 01:12:46 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 19, 2016, 12:35:09 PM
I've heard some of them. I know Blue Flames, but will check out Queen Of The Organ and Hustlin. Never Let Me Go was one of my favorites of the two together.

I really just mentioned my favourites ... but "Never Let Me Go" and - to my ears even more so - "Dearly Beloved" are mighty good, too, as is the Prestige CD-twofer with two more albums. But I like the extra spice added by Kenny Burrell on "Hustlin'" (he's one of my top favourite jazz guitarists) and even more I love the added sweat and grease on the live recording.

As news of Claus Ogerman's death in March has now been officially put out, I've spent the last three hours digging for CDs and playing tracks he arranged for the likes of Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Jimmy Smith, Tom Jobim (the debut album) ... and then proceeded with this one in its entirety:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/628/MI0001628526.jpg)

Now proceeding with this (only four tracks by Ogerman, the rest by Don Sebesky and one by João Donato):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/830/MI0001830570.jpg)

After that, I will end up the day with this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/264/MI0002264509.jpg)

Actually, this (for those who knew: unexpected) re-appearance of Ogerman as arranger was, if memory doesn't play tricks on me, the album that finally had me dig Ogerman, kind of ... my rigorous teenage self would not give vocalists much credit and looked down on any "pop" kind of arrangements or "with strings" settings (the Clifford Brown album being a notable exception). But as I knew Diana Krall from very early on (my dad brought home her second album before she got any bigger press, the third was the Nat Cole tribute that was kind of a breakthrough, I think) and liked her and kept following her, I grew to really really love her first diva rekkid (as I call 'em), arranged by Johnny Mandel, and also bought the follow-up with Ogerman ... it's a classy affair, for sure, and the title track is just gorgeous (though all in all, I still prefer the Manel-arranged "When I Look In Your Eyes", it just has the better/more fun tunes, I find).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 19, 2016, 01:59:06 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/DBzdgPk00_P7UZ8OHRixMJACsi4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3404450-1329096075.jpeg.jpg)

Arnett Cobb - Movin' Right Along (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 20, 2016, 12:15:18 AM
Enjoying to see all these oldies/goodies being played, Simon!

I know almost all of them to various degrees ... i.e. love Lateef and his early albums bigtime, occasionally play some Gator Tail, love Lacy but these early albums feel more like a good preamble to things to come ... Cobb is a bad m-f on tenor ... and the Art Taylor one is wonderful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 20, 2016, 12:24:23 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 20, 2016, 12:15:18 AM
Enjoying to see all these oldies/goodies being played, Simon!

I know almost all of them to various degrees ... i.e. love Lateef and his early albums bigtime, occasionally play some Gator Tail, love Lacy but these early albums feel more like a good preamble to things to come ... Cobb is a bad m-f on tenor ... and the Art Taylor one is wonderful!

That's interesting. I hardly know Lacy's albums at all, but the one of Monk covers really piqued my curiosity. Which are your favorites of his?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 20, 2016, 12:54:55 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 20, 2016, 12:24:23 AM
That's interesting. I hardly know Lacy's albums at all, but the one of Monk covers really piqued my curiosity. Which are your favorites of his?

He has quite a huge discography ... first things that come to mind are some of his Hat albums (I have them in their hatOLOGY incarnations, mostly OOP I think): "School Days" (a sixties date with Roswell Rudd in a piano-less quartet with Henry Grimes and the great Denis Charles, again with Monk material), "Clinkers" (a mighty fine solo album), "N.Y. Capers & Quirks" (a great trio album with Charles again, and Ronnie Boykins on bass), and maybe the top recommendation of all, "Morning Joy", featuring a gorgeous live recording of the quartet with Steve Potts on alto sax (and Jean-Jacques Avenel/Oliver Johnson bass/drums ... John Betsch was the other longtime drummer of Lacy's)

There are two boxes out on CAM Jazz collecting his Soul Note/Black Saint album, which include some favourites. The first box collects solo/duo/trio albums:
http://www.camjazz.com/boxsets/steve-lacy.html
The two Monk solo albums and the two duos with Mal Waldron are great, "Sempre Amore" particularly outstanding ... the trio albums are fine, too (I'm not very familiar with "The Flame" yet, didn't know it before the box appeared, but love "The Window").

The second has larger groups (quartet/quintet/sextet/octet):
http://www.camjazz.com/boxsets/steve-lacy-quartet-quintet-sextet-octet.html
This again contains a few great albums, including three fine all star albums with Roswell Rudd, George Lewis, Misha Mengelberg (two albums of Herbie Nichols tunes and "Trickles" sans piano) ... "Vespers" is excellent as well, but the singing of Lacy's wife Irène Aebi (she also plays some cello occasionally) is a taste most will likely never quite acquire ...

Some crucial sideman recordings were made with Mal Waldron on Enja ("Hard Talk", "Moods", "One-Upmanship"), and the epic live recordings from the Dreher (four CDs, again on Hat) are top tier as well. While in Italy he also made some good music with Giorgio Gaslini (the Gaslini Intégrale double disc sets on Soul Note/CAM are highly recommended, there were four of them ... the CAM box of Gaslini's later albums is worthwhile but nowhere nearly as essential as those early recordings or his Monk and Ayler solo albums later on).

I was lucky enough to be there when Lacy performed solo in Zurich in 2003 - one of the most touching concerts I ever witnessed. I have not yet dared to re-listen to it (it's out on Intakt: http://www.intaktrec.ch/171-a.htm)

Hope this helps ... I guess I'd try for some of the Hats (including, if you have the chance, the Dreher set with Waldron), and depending on how much you want, go for one or both of the Soul Notes and then maybe add those Enjas w/Waldron.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 20, 2016, 09:33:49 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/389/MI0000389044.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 20, 2016, 12:57:11 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/538/MI0001538014.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/334/MI0003334976.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/449/MI0002449749.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 20, 2016, 01:25:55 PM
Thanks again, KU. Great you got to see Lacy live.

playing now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/656/MI0000656822.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/527/MI0001527551.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Betty Roche - Singin' And Swingin' (1960)
Gigi Gryce - The Rat Race Blues (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2016, 06:07:56 AM
Two favourites there! Roche has made but three albums, alas, but all are worth looking for. She was with Ellington for a while, but there aren't that many (or easily found) recordings either. Chant du Monde's "Precious & Rare" series has a Roche-set on offer with all three albums plus added singles - this is PD territory, of course, but you get a full booklet with photos, labels, notes and full information - I'm quite a fan of this series. Here's a link:
https://www.amazon.fr/Complete-1941-1961-Betty-Roche/dp/B00B7TRZTM

Here, last night I closed off the day with this:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YnlWZJm6L.jpg)

And now, this one is blasting:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/042/MI0002042458.jpg)

This Konnex disc contains five tracks by the quartet, so should have been renamed "5,5,4," - but the bonus track is just 1:39 short ... then, however, there follows a 23:10 track by S.M.E. in the line-up of Nigel Coombes, violin; Roger Smith, acoustic guitar; John Stevens, drums - not sure if that one has ever been released elsewhere before, it's from 1992 while the main session dates from 1979 (the main date was also reissued - with other Parker/Steven bonus material - by Emanem (http://www.emanemdisc.com/E5027.html), but I don't know that disc).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 21, 2016, 06:09:17 AM
I don't care if you think it's unimaginative of me:  the only jazz I have been listening to for two weeks, has been three Thelonious Monk albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2016, 06:45:53 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 21, 2016, 06:09:17 AM
I don't care if you think it's unimaginative of me:  the only jazz I have been listening to for two weeks, has been three Thelonious Monk albums.

Well, as long as you don't call me unimaginative when I stick to jazz for a while and don't listen to any classical ...  ;)

Seriously, Monk is always a pleasure, one of my musical fixtures, ever since I started listening seriously (the others of that same top rank are Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Basie, Lester Young, Dolphy, Ellington ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 21, 2016, 06:52:44 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 21, 2016, 06:45:53 AM
Well, as long as you don't call me unimaginative when I stick to jazz for a while and don't listen to any classical ...  ;)

Seriously, Monk is always a pleasure, one of my musical fixtures, ever since I started listening seriously (the others of that same top rank are Miles, Coltrane, Mingus, Basie, Lester Young, Dolphy, Ellington ...)

Over the years I have dipped an infrequent toe into the sea of Jazz;  my investigation of Monk emerged from the chance of running across (and reading through) the Robin Kelley bio.  But he rapidly became both a listening obsession and a composer/performer hero.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2016, 06:59:25 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 21, 2016, 06:52:44 AM
Over the years I have dipped an infrequent toe into the sea of Jazz;  my investigation of Monk emerged from the chance of running across (and reading through) the Robin Kelley bio.  But he rapidly became both a listening obsession and a composer/performer hero.

That's cool! Haven't read but some chapters of the Kelley book so far, but it's very thorough and still very readable. For me, jazz was the main thing since my early teens (Bob Dylan the other main thing, some funk and trip-hop running along, it was the 90s and I wasn't looking for complete social isolation  ;D - seriously, I still enjoy listening to some of the music from those years, Portishead for instance) - anyway, classical was in the shades ... I dug some early music (Machaut, Dufay, Ockeghem ... probably about a CD each, that's what the school library would yield), my latin teacher had me grow a fascination for Monteverdi's "Orfeo" (the Gardiner recording was in the library), I went to the opera occasionally but would rarely listen at home (one I did buy was "Salome", the HvK recording, still on the shelves but quite obviously no longer a favourite, now that I dug into classical so much deeper). I also had some of those Hat Hut releases early (the two Soviet Avantgarde discs of piano music, some Morton Feldman, some Cage, some Haubenstock-Ramati ...) - so it was like, 98% jazz, the rest split up between rock/pop and early and 20c classical, I guess  :)

But Monk ... he was one of the first I bought a book on and started to collect systematically (Coltrane, Miles and Mingus were the others, later also Ornette ... with Dolphy it was easier, some stray discs plus the big Prestige box ... and of course the glorious recordings with Mingus).

What Monk have you been listening to?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2016, 07:09:27 AM
(https://dalstonsound.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/filueferru.jpg?w=300&h=405)

One more by Evan Parker - before I'm off for a musical evening at a friend's who asked me to bring some stuff by Evan Parker ... this one is plain brilliant, a spontaneous one-off by Parker (ts) with Peter Evans (t), Alexander Hawkins (p), John Edwards (b) and Hamid Drake (d). The group what had never performed in this line-up ... but the music gels right away, is playful and serious, light-hearted and heavy, groovy and free ... just the way I like contemporary improvised music, I guess!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 21, 2016, 07:32:07 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 21, 2016, 06:52:44 AM
Over the years I have dipped an infrequent toe into the sea of Jazz;  my investigation of Monk emerged from the chance of running across (and reading through) the Robin Kelley bio.  But he rapidly became both a listening obsession and a composer/performer hero.
Yes, which albums have you been listening to?

I'm with you both; in jazz, if I had to choose "composer/performer heroes," they would be Monk and Mingus.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 21, 2016, 07:40:57 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 21, 2016, 07:32:07 AM
Yes, which albums have you been listening to?

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On the last, Monk plays only on the title track (but, there are two takes, and thus different solos).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 21, 2016, 07:52:41 AM
Karl, be sure to stop by the Monkastery thread!
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,24811.0.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 21, 2016, 09:38:08 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 21, 2016, 07:48:37 AM
It is hard to go wrong with Monk.   ;)  His recorded output is consistently excellent.  It really comes down to which tenor you like better - for me, I've always liked the Charlie Rouse recordings eventho many people are critical of him, unfairly so, imo.

Also, the early Blue Note recordings are mandatory, imo, and often overlooked in favor of the Riverside and later Columbia stuff. 

Bottomline - it is all fantastic music

;)

Yes.  I love Rouse's playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2016, 05:07:50 PM
(https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/y/young_larry_testifyin_101b.jpg) (http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/122/122395_1_f.jpg)

Larry Young - Testifying (1960)
Etta Jones - Something Nice (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 22, 2016, 05:53:13 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 19, 2016, 01:12:46 PM
I really just mentioned my favourites ... but "Never Let Me Go" and - to my ears even more so - "Dearly Beloved" are mighty good, too, as is the Prestige CD-twofer with two more albums. But I like the extra spice added by Kenny Burrell on "Hustlin'" (he's one of my top favourite jazz guitarists) and even more I love the added sweat and grease on the live recording.

As news of Claus Ogerman's death in March has now been officially put out, I've spent the last three hours digging for CDs and playing tracks he arranged for the likes of Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Jimmy Smith, Tom Jobim (the debut album) ... and then proceeded with this one in its entirety:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/628/MI0001628526.jpg)

Now proceeding with this (only four tracks by Ogerman, the rest by Don Sebesky and one by João Donato):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/830/MI0001830570.jpg)

After that, I will end up the day with this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/264/MI0002264509.jpg)

Actually, this (for those who knew: unexpected) re-appearance of Ogerman as arranger was, if memory doesn't play tricks on me, the album that finally had me dig Ogerman, kind of ... my rigorous teenage self would not give vocalists much credit and looked down on any "pop" kind of arrangements or "with strings" settings (the Clifford Brown album being a notable exception). But as I knew Diana Krall from very early on (my dad brought home her second album before she got any bigger press, the third was the Nat Cole tribute that was kind of a breakthrough, I think) and liked her and kept following her, I grew to really really love her first diva rekkid (as I call 'em), arranged by Johnny Mandel, and also bought the follow-up with Ogerman ... it's a classy affair, for sure, and the title track is just gorgeous (though all in all, I still prefer the Manel-arranged "When I Look In Your Eyes", it just has the better/more fun tunes, I find).

Speaking of jazz recordings with string arrangements, do you know Harold Land's album Lazy Afternoon? If you don't, you should...

https://www.youtube.com/v/2xlflIl5-kU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 22, 2016, 05:55:05 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 21, 2016, 07:40:57 AM
[asin]B000UDQR4U[/asin]

[asin]B007R3B5HU[/asin]

[asin]B00LSYYKCG[/asin]

On the last, Monk plays only on the title track (but, there are two takes, and thus different solos).

All great stuff, Karl. Happy listening to you. Love that title track to Bags' Groove.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 22, 2016, 06:08:41 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 22, 2016, 05:53:13 AM
Speaking of jazz recordings with string arrangements, do you know Harold Land's album Lazy Afternoon? If you don't, you should...

https://www.youtube.com/v/2xlflIl5-kU

I have a copy of it thanks to some friend ... but it's been ages since I listened to it. Will have to dig it up.

Either way, I enjoy quite a few w/strings recordings by now ... most notably Ben Webster's! There's also a great recording by Ken McIntyre with a string quartet (I think, at least it's just a few strings players) added.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 22, 2016, 07:45:21 AM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41BwStetw%2BL._SY400_QL70_.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/242/MI0000242171.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 22, 2016, 08:27:53 AM
Django retrospective box CD 2
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 22, 2016, 09:29:57 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/193/MI0003193546.jpg)

Disc three with the albums "Goin' Out of My Head" (one of the few of his that you really don't need, I think ... though some of Oliver Nelson's arrangements are fun and of course Montgomery's playing is perfect as always) and "Tequila" (arranged mostly by the late Claus Ogerman)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 22, 2016, 01:48:19 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/023/MI0002023638.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/090777.jpg)

Larry Young - Young Blues (1960)
Al Sears - Swing's The Thing (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on October 23, 2016, 04:59:13 AM
John Coltrane: Blue Train (1957) A favourite.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0002/418/MI0002418849.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 23, 2016, 12:44:39 PM
more from the Wes Montgomery box ... this one in full:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81qcENWdsOL._SL400_.jpg)

also the Ogerman tracks from "Willow Weep for Me", and the full albums "Movin' Wes" and "Bumpin'"

now two Bill Evans albums arranged by Ogerman (there's one more at least, which I don't have):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/007/MI0001007099.jpg)

to be followed by this (not the original cover, but this is the edition I have):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/412dFekCbrL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 23, 2016, 02:15:21 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/416/MI0002416221.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/527/MI0002527004.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

The Three Sounds - Here We Come (1960)
Budd Johnson - Let's Swing (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 23, 2016, 10:38:16 PM
Budd Johnson was one bad m-f! Hell of a player!

Played more Ogerman (semi-)kitsch/schlock last night:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/519/MI0002519491.jpg)

from this twofer - the Voices album has a great rhythm section and pretty fine arrangements but mostly crappy music, the strings album has better material bus lesser arrangements (Russ Garcia) and a rhythm section not worth mentioning:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/839/MI0001839339.jpg)

ended the day with more crappy stuff ... funky, but not quite enough meat to the bone (Ogerman again, of course):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/948/MI0003948009.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 24, 2016, 06:00:40 AM
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (first spin)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 24, 2016, 03:12:45 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/1tdauMy8w3G64rFbMsyUExbqt5o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3882130-1347951370-4739.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/656/MI0000656820.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Willis Jackson - In My Solitude (1961)
Betty Roche - Lightly And Politely (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 24, 2016, 09:40:14 PM
Quote from: George on October 24, 2016, 06:00:40 AM
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (first spin)

I hope it was a revelation!

What a great album that is, with Roach firing all cylinders on "St. Thomas", with Rollins doing his motivic improvisation on "Blue 7", the perfect ballad artistry of "You Don't Know What Love Is" ...

Desert island album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 25, 2016, 11:04:11 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/389/MI0002389095.jpg)

from the beginning - won't get all that far tonight, but will go on with more in the next days
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 25, 2016, 01:57:02 PM
(https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/ammons_gene_jugjapane_101b.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/339/MI0002339473.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Gene Ammons - Jug (1961)
Jack McDuff - The Honeydripper (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 26, 2016, 12:58:05 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/832/MI0001832677.jpg)

This one has been a favourite for years ... Ervin never fails to deliver, and this is among his two or three best!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 26, 2016, 10:58:26 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71nwm-mkf-L._SL400_.jpg)

Arrived today ... the 20 minute session reel documenting how they arrive at their take of "Freedom Jazz Dance" is a pretty amazing document, for starters! Let's see if there's more intriguing stuff like that. Surely not a set anyone will play regularly, but I like the "fly on the wall" experience.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2016, 01:23:42 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/TgruRrmWV7UqxfTKx9wD29lqrPI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3465249-1331432857.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/zTxWfaqaiDTI451Lp1AL1IVDtzo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-659749-1430339173-8715.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Stimulation (1961)
Walt Dickerson - This Is Walt Dickerson (1961)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 26, 2016, 01:30:37 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/210/MI0000210100.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/710/MI0000710738.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on October 26, 2016, 03:40:29 PM
Jobim: Stone Flower.  Bring back the Bossa-Nova. Smooth and inviting.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/418M4Cdo0GL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 26, 2016, 04:00:07 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 26, 2016, 11:37:39 AM
(https://album-art-storage-us.s3.amazonaws.com/7ef7156aec5fda863c558f71d1224a83d1cc24e4ce272233b00dfb29c66d9d45_500x500.jpg?response-content-type=image%2Fjpeg&x-amz-security-token=FQoDYXdzEN3%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaDN8cFDJ1a4i6gJk9DiKsARaxY1Joev4BE0U%2BD4PRQN9YFa4JClAjmKBOJnUgwv9m2fx7X3zojj3XteDeAde29ydg%2FdM8ANY9n3GTWi21qoabQVfetCfSuhlzNOqsT6cgyk%2B%2BKlb%2Bs4gdETFYSbJebEUINboYBsM2GIa5Fp4CAo06aaNvZw22KY3tfFqHANImw3luSYMnAeiXW21cP32GWtlypKgiOC%2Bd9dCWZcliE%2FcXa5yinA7p%2BN5%2F2KoowYfEwAU%3D&AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAIJU253CWF2RKXM6Q&Expires=1477597002&Signature=grenpcP14NLyYvom7h%2Fl%2Bt5aiFA%3D)

Great listening

Absolutely! I am quite glad I picked up a copy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 26, 2016, 10:23:17 PM
^ "Matita Pere" is the name of yet another excellent Jobim album!

Now playing (blasting actually, doing home office sometimes IS fun!):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/147/MI0000147725.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 27, 2016, 12:26:17 PM
Kenny Burrell Bluesin' sessions

[asin]B00F6XM3MY[/asin]

Nice guitar work
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 27, 2016, 01:11:05 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/984/MI0001984076.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/787/MI0001787033.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Joe Newman - Good n Groovy (1961)
Walt Dickerson - A Sense Of Direction (1961)

and thinking once again that Walt Dickerson deserves to be much more famous than he is
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 27, 2016, 03:25:29 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 27, 2016, 12:15:18 PM
(https://album-art-storage-us.s3.amazonaws.com/5284b3411dd4268ab5b9b312b9cd2ebf796fc808159fbb6b4f4fb416f211a00a_500x500.jpg?response-content-type=image%2Fjpeg&x-amz-security-token=FQoDYXdzEPL%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaDJl4r1KOMQnHt92ejiKsAVowIWrV7BDkY3PsQS9Gc3DudWtUl4A3oM9V6qgRC%2FKyRFco0HXER4wbTY3ysnCwj4yyNVd%2FfRq0Qx0WyqAFlLVSX5y5jEAL3RxEv2jyqDD8M%2BlBrv5dYd%2BPKqqpE8T8AToksTjue0NcrtKmyT62Qn3xudz54z8YZlgoveCtKtgA9Jh9Xi1P7%2BbuYTaJZvsnbJhAzPkWkskcBctHVEy3vPA4fEPMJoM9ptbp5yQo9dnIwAU%3D&AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAJ7YYQTTWFZJGQAEA&Expires=1477685582&Signature=MfGJJGZHKgcKdQtI1K%2Faok9xaMI%3D)

The Complete Sessions box

Nice!

I love the complete sessions box for In A Silent Way.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 27, 2016, 11:37:18 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/iUJ82VB6fQ8Ntkh3mhxhA-4Dlws=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3190584-1319802196.jpeg.jpg) (https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000129578158-tdqx2b-t500x500.jpg)

The Swingville All-Stars - Years Ago (1961)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Sounds Of Africa (1961)

^a couple of five-star albums there, imo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 28, 2016, 09:54:30 AM
Sidney Bechet in Switzerland
A lavishly edited 4-CD box, beautifully restored sound (and a Swiss-made price)
I love Sidney Bechet !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 28, 2016, 12:06:07 PM
(https://s22.postimg.org/r04ezh2m9/TMDCC.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 28, 2016, 12:25:24 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 28, 2016, 12:15:23 PM
Great one.  I was looking over my Sonny CDs and thinking I might do a Rollins marathon soon.  Love his Blue Note sides, especially the pianoless trio stuff like Live at the Vanguard with Wilbur Ware on bass..

Sounds like you got a lot more than me. I just got a delivery today of two used gold Sonny DCC CDs. The only other one I have is the Gold DCC for Contemporary leaders.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 28, 2016, 12:29:26 PM
(http://www.hearthedifference.net/images/1425914027998-1354274417.jpeg)

Now enjoying this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 28, 2016, 01:34:08 PM
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/a/(KGrHqFHJDMFCfle+CcCBQoBehc+Ww~~/s-l500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 28, 2016, 02:46:12 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/064/MI0002064331.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/101/MI0000101102.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ernestine Allen - Let It Roll (1961)
Etta Jones - So Warm (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 28, 2016, 09:38:07 PM
Tigran Hamasyan and his norvegian friends
[asin]B01CZ7OJFM[/asin]
Nice work, in the same vein as Luys I Luso, which is his most impressive album
[asin]B012EJBSNC[/asin]
which I highly recommend
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 29, 2016, 02:42:41 PM
(http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834015431f79b60970c-300wi) (https://img.discogs.com/JJiuN6wRj6XGM4FX9mD1xzX3vBQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3996933-1351792985-9803.jpeg.jpg)

Shirley Scott - Hip Soul (1961)
Stanley Turrentine - Dearly Beloved (1961)

Shirley with Stanley, and Stanley with Shirley
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 30, 2016, 01:44:32 PM
(http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/5-9-16-2/596236.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51P1O8WcWHL.jpg)

Taft Jordan - Mood Indigo (1961)
Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo (1961)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4109T7T8TFL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/mXrfM4qY2ZI_wqjkK2xe90jn1kA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4887052-1418065404-2675.jpeg.jpg)

Ron Carter - Where (1961)
Shirley Scott - Blue Seven (1961)

(https://img.discogs.com/jEpr6SXak7eYvbZ9XFF_iYnEQtc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2696703-1317496221.jpeg.jpg)

The Latin Jazz Quintet - Hot Sauce (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 31, 2016, 12:22:41 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/241/MI0002241308.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 31, 2016, 02:59:03 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Satin_Doll_(Shirley_Scott_album).jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/86A48rGqX7We7hGS1f8QeCwHOLQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7918799-1451664493-1283.jpeg.jpg)

Shirley Scott - Satin Doll (1961)
The Swingville All-Stars - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (1961)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Into_the_Hot.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/523/MI0003523278.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Gil Evans - Into The Hot (1961)
Oliver Nelson - Main Stem (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 12:11:17 AM
Gotta love Johnny Carisi!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 01, 2016, 01:09:19 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 12:11:17 AM
Gotta love Johnny Carisi!

From the Gil Evans album?

Somehow, despite being a really big Miles fan, and despite Miles Ahead being one of my favorites of his albums and Carisi having - I now see - penned the opening track (as well as "Israel" from Birth Of The Cool), and despite having read a number of books on Miles...somehow I've never heard, or at least taken in, Carisi's name before.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 01:25:26 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 01, 2016, 01:09:19 AM
From the Gil Evans album?

Somehow, despite being a really big Miles fan, and despite Miles Ahead being one of my favorites of his albums and Carisi having - I now see - penned the opening track (as well as "Israel" from Birth Of The Cool), and despite having read a number of books on Miles...somehow I've never heard, or at least taken in, Carisi's name before.

Yes, the Evans album is half Cecil Taylor and half Gil Evans' folks playing Johnny Carisi. "Israel" is a dead-classic of course. Carisi remains one of those characters that never got out of the shade, never really got his break ... he did a session for RCA, planned for one of their "Jazz Workshop" albums, but it only appeared around 1990 on a disc called "The Arrangers". Freshsound has compiled a Carisi disc:
http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/johnny-carisi-albums/6085-the-music-of-johnny-carisi-israel.html

And more to read up:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/15063-john-carisi/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 01, 2016, 01:59:26 AM
Thanks for that. I'm going to re-listen to the Gil Evans album with all that in mind.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 09:42:38 AM
It's really not an Evans album ... a very weird one for sure, but musically mighty good! I don't have the story present, but I think Evans had some kind of falling out with the just-born Impulse! (which was a vanity project, sort of, for Creed Taylor, who left after six - or if you count this one, which he didn't produce though: seven - albums to take the lead at Verve, which again had just been bought by MGM (from founder Norman Granz) and offered other opportunities for Taylor. Impulse was unlikely in that ABC-Paramount (the main company of which Impulse was a sub) was a rather conservative label in which the suits pulled all the strings (usually ABC jazz albums have a somewhat restricted, very "produced" feel to them, tight arrangements, short cuts, all very neatly done ... RCA went in a similar direction). Anyway, Impulse was lucky of course to have Bob Thiele (and later Ed Michel) at its head, and obviously it wrote a major chapter of jazz history, recording not just Coltrane but also Sanders, Shepp and other avantgarde musicians. So having Cecil Taylor so early on (in his only appearance for the label) is interesting, for sure. And Evans had his folks play the music of Carisi then (I think he didn't want to have more of his own out on Impulse, but I'm not really sure, memory may play tricks on me), thus offering exposure (and his own, already rather big name) to two talents deserving wider recognition.

Thread duty - another new arrival, part of the Oliver Nelson days going on here:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/979/MI0002979871.jpg)

"Respect" (1967) is a small group date, funky, tight, tough - with Eric Gale or Thornel Schwartz (g), Ron Carter or Bub Bushnell (b) and Grady Tate or Bernard Purdie (d) (I guess the two line-ups are Gale, Bushnell, Purdie for the funky stuff and Schwartz, Carter, Tate for the jazzier ones), it comes with a non-LP-single as a bonus, Smith singing Jimmy Dodd's "Mickey Mouse". "Livin' It Up" offers a more lavish production, still in a funky vein, Oliver Nelson arr./cond., orchestra incl. Conte Candoli, Plas Johnson, Tom Scott, Howard Roberts, Ray Brown, Carol Kaye, Larry Bunker a.o. plus 14 strings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 11:23:37 AM
the other Oliver Nelson disc that arrived today:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/349/MI0002349051.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 01, 2016, 07:16:55 PM
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Jimmy Forrest - Most Much (1961)
Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on November 01, 2016, 08:09:52 PM
CD1
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B01KKYZQP4.jpg)
Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 01, 2016, 11:09:18 PM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on November 01, 2016, 08:09:52 PM
CD1
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B01KKYZQP4.jpg)
Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!

Came into disc two by now ... immensely fascinating stuff! On the one hand, Miles is truly on top of his game, giving pointers and pushing things into the right direction, on the other hand, I was amazed by how relaxed the mood was when these masterpieces were committed to tape. "Freedom Jazz Dance" is a truly amazing study in how this band explored different approaches, how everyone was allowed to try out stuff and then discard it again ...

"Miles Smiles" is my favourite second quintet album, so it's really cool to have the session reels for it in full!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 02, 2016, 05:50:21 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on November 01, 2016, 08:09:52 PM
CD1
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B01KKYZQP4.jpg)
Freedom Jazz Dance
Circle
Dolores

The core of this set is the complete sessions for Miles Smiles, supplemented by the sessions which produced Nefertiti and Water Babies (the individual tracks, not the full LPs) and other sessions done about the same time.
Effect is Musicians at work!

Thanks for the reminder, now enjoying this via Spotify!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 02, 2016, 10:15:15 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/490/MI0000490180.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 02, 2016, 11:39:56 AM
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From the Dolphy Prestige box ... desert island music, most of that box!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 02, 2016, 01:51:07 PM
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one more from the Dolphy Prestige box, and now Miles in mono
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 02, 2016, 02:05:16 PM
(http://img.cdandlp.com/2014/08/imgL/117121353.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/wlMtgdswKfWUfEZtEgLgaZGU71Q=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4625745-1384812269-5168.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny Hodges - Blue Hodge (1961)
King Curtis - Old Gold (1961)

organist Wild Bill Davis seems to think its his name on the cover of that Hodges album

(https://img.discogs.com/I7SYsICB3LP2BZFcTujdE3As7Q8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5807268-1403205472-4325.jpeg.jpg)

Jaki Byard - Hi-Fly (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: North Star on November 03, 2016, 12:05:25 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 03, 2016, 09:57:21 AM
Periodically I need to listen to this classic.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kbxtYqA6ypM/maxresdefault.jpg)

The perfect palate cleanser.
Ditto.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 03, 2016, 03:08:42 PM
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Walt Dickerson - Relativity (1962)
Etta Jones - From The Heart (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 03, 2016, 04:38:49 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 03, 2016, 10:44:44 AM
Expanding my Miles listening to three other classic recordings:

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Created a playlist with Kind of Blue as well and am listening randomly.

Great afternoon set.

;)

May I suggest Sorcerer and In A Silent Way?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 03, 2016, 05:12:13 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 03, 2016, 05:02:55 PM
Both great Miles recordings.  For tomorrow's mix, along with a couple from earlier. 

I like to pick one album from each period.

;)

Ah, Ok. Thought you only had Kind of Blue.

Did you (or anyone else) see Miles Ahead, the fairly recent movie? The trailer looks fun, though I have heard that the movie is not historically accurate.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 04, 2016, 12:47:42 PM
Got this box
[asin]B00004WK09[/asin]
First time I am listening to this Jazz legendary figure !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 04, 2016, 04:15:04 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5115Pdq0N2L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xfT0qqg1L.jpg)

The Three Sounds - Black Orchid (1962)
Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 05, 2016, 02:57:59 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Soul_Summit_orig.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Southern_Comfort_(Frank_Wess_album).jpg)

Not playing: Gene Ammons' Soul Summit and Frank Wess' Southern Comfort, both stopped after one track.

I've hit that era in RVG where he took the over-wide stereo seperation of specific instruments to the extreme I like to refer to as "double-mono", and these two won't sound right with the speaker set-up we have here at work (or, really, anywhere, unless you're sitting in the "sweet spot"). Have to try again at home, but this kind of thing annoys me on headphones as well.

This is better:

(https://img.discogs.com/QXZJ-qtfZA7PefM9gahjEm4khXc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3007629-1418568129-1425.jpeg.jpg)

Etta Jones - Lonely And Blue (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 05, 2016, 03:50:19 PM
Don't remember whether I posted this before (it's a long thread), but I am really enjoying this one, especially the ballads (e.g., I'm afraid the masquerade is over)

Red Garland Revisted:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Red_Garland_Revisited%21.jpg/330px-Red_Garland_Revisited%21.jpg)

This is excellent! Very beautiful melodies and wonderful interplay between the soloists Trygve Seim (tenor sax) and trumpet (Mathias Eick), with highly inventive accompaniment by Ms. Haarla (who actually wrote most of the material). A bit melancholy in places as  you might expect, but very inspirational throughout.

Vespers by Iro Haarla Quintet:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6157V63F-sL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 06, 2016, 12:41:47 PM
Joining in the Miles Davis party:

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Davis' work with arranger Gil Evans is still some of the most remarkable jazz recordings I know and I've cherished this particular collaboration for years. What many people may not know about me here on GMG is that I went through a 15 year jazz phase before I even started to listen to classical music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 06, 2016, 01:15:29 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 06, 2016, 01:12:30 PM
Great one and probably my favorite of his collaborations with Gil Evans.

Thread duty -

A mix of Miles's Second Great Quintet

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Indeed. An excellent one indeed. I like all of those albums from the Second Great Quintet. Sorcerer is my favorite from that particular lineup. A great album except for that last track which is easily deletable and/or ignored. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 07, 2016, 11:59:58 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 07, 2016, 07:01:51 AM
Listening this morning to a mix of John Coltrane and Miles Davis

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kKT-aAKkL.jpg)

No way!

I just ordered this set last night!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 07, 2016, 12:07:26 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 07, 2016, 12:05:07 PM
Those Atlantic sides contain some great music, but I posted the wrong item, since I was actually listening to the newer box in the original mono sound.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/6108EJrnR-L._SY355_.jpg)

Ah, ok. Do you have the heavyweight one as well?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 07, 2016, 12:55:24 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 07, 2016, 12:14:53 PM
Yes.  I bought it when it first came out.  I don't own the mono set but stream it. 

The main difference is that most of the stereo masters have the drums to one side and the sax and piano on the other with the bass in the middle.  The mono recordings have a more natural sound, which after comparison, I prefer.  The problem is that they are only offering expensive vinyl besides downloads or streamingNo CDs that I can findDuh - there is a CD box for $50.00.

Thanks. I see that there are 32 tracks on the Mono set. 86 tracks on the stereo. I generally prefer stereo sound and wanted the extra music, so I went with the Heavyweight set. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 07, 2016, 02:49:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/711wTiD%2BB7L._SL1500_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/caLUDHV3US3BCuThXPiNGuqTPvI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2741779-1439561577-3209.jpeg.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Inception (1962)
Leonard Gaskin - Darktown Strutter's Ball (1962)

(http://pictures1.kyozou.com/pictures/_20/19858/19857216.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/YX08OZ5i4Nq0r1hR2z63KRMJGaM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3235535-1324743575.jpeg.jpg)

Willis Jackson - Bossa Nova Plus (1962)
Larry Young - Groove Street (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 07, 2016, 04:48:42 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 07, 2016, 02:19:38 PM
For sure the Heavyweight box is the one to get if you don't have most of this music already.

Cool.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 07, 2016, 11:52:01 PM
Quote from: George on November 07, 2016, 12:55:24 PM
Thanks. I see that there are 32 tracks on the Mono set. 86 tracks on the stereo. I generally prefer stereo sound and wanted the extra music, so I went with the Heavyweight set.

Some of the mono masters have been lost, it seems (the infamous Atlantic fire, I guess) - so entire albums are missing. The Heavyweight box is great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 08, 2016, 01:13:14 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/2ZD_RzItp2PcNC2fQw_RXPw8Xkg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3283971-1323893689.jpeg.jpg) (http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/12-8-15-2/647597.jpg)

John Wright - Mr. Soul (1962)
Leonard Gaskin - Dixieland Hits (1962)

(http://www.popsike.com/pix/20071202/260188957172.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/XsZyNwaMyzpVsdsMVDOZvOcPiB8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-530515-1223895273.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Landslide (1962)
Ahmad Jamal - Macanudo (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 09, 2016, 08:06:49 AM
So mellow !!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 09, 2016, 12:04:00 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 09, 2016, 10:54:26 AM
When I first heard On the Corner I loved it despite it being something other than jazz.  The music was made up of funk vamps much like what James Brown was doing with extended jazz solos riding over it all.  The Complete On The Corner Sessions is what I am listening to now.

(http://www47.atpages.jp/beaugeste0831//images/O1838.jpg)

Something of a misnomer, the complete sesisons boxed set covers three years of sessions, from March 1972 to May 1975, and contains music with different styles, concepts, approaches and personnel.  This includes plenty of music outside the sessions for the 1972 album On the Corner which were recorded in June and September 1972.   The rest of the box follows Miles through the next few years as he develops this sound with other bands.

Kinda like what they did for the complete Bitches Brew sessions box, right?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 09, 2016, 01:13:13 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/763/MI0003763393.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/NMV9uMLX79mTBh6lbuFArzPVnDw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3060866-1339586709-2356.jpeg.jpg)

Anita O'Day and The Three Sounds - s/t (1962)
Dave Pike - Bossa Nova Carnival (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 09, 2016, 02:43:59 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 09, 2016, 12:19:40 PM
Yep.  The 40th anniversary Bitches Brew box is focused only on the three sessions for the album, with alternate takes, etc.

But some of the material appeared on a later album(s), right?

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 10, 2016, 09:15:10 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 10, 2016, 08:47:02 AM
The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/The_Complete_In_a_Silent_Way_Sessions.jpg)

Features recordings from the sessions that would produce his 1969 album In a Silent Way, as well as transitional pieces from the era.  Besides material previously released on the 1968 album Filles de Kilimanjaro, there are also traccks comprising the trilogy of outtake compilations released by Columbia Records during Miles' 1975–79 recording hiatus: Water Babies, Circle in the Round and Directions.  The box set also includes previously unreleased music.

That's the set that converted me to being a true fan of Miles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 10, 2016, 02:13:16 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Love_Shout.jpg) (https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/burrel_kenn_crashjapa_101b.jpg)

Etta Jones - Love Shout (1963)
Kenny Burrell and Jack McDuff - Crash (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 10, 2016, 05:11:04 PM
(http://www.soundfinder.jp//img/products/102135/1297090800/4d50cc70-4380-4103-b7b0-1698cbb7dc63/514803.jpg)

Disc one. Maiden spin. Lovely! 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 10, 2016, 07:50:32 PM
Quote from: George on November 10, 2016, 05:11:04 PM
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Disc one. Maiden spin. Lovely! 

Great, great box, musically as well as the top-flight engineering. I've always been a big fan of Atlantic's sound. If you haven't heard it George another great Atlantic box is Mingus's complete recordings. A great supplement to the Coltrane.

The link below is for the original - and gorgeous!! - fat Atlantic box which is OOP, but might be worth the outlay for the beautiful presentation. It's been reissued however in a newer slimline "mini-box" for a fraction of the cost.



[asin]B000003446[/asin]


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 11, 2016, 05:51:13 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on November 10, 2016, 07:50:32 PM
Great, great box, musically as well as the top-flight engineering. I've always been a big fan of Atlantic's sound. If you haven't heard it George another great Atlantic box is Mingus's complete recordings. A great supplement to the Coltrane.

The link below is for the original - and gorgeous!! - fat Atlantic box which is OOP, but might be worth the outlay for the beautiful presentation. It's been reissued however in a newer slimline "mini-box" for a fraction of the cost.

[asin]B000003446[/asin]

Thanks, man!

If that is the older version you linked me to, I just may buy it. The price is still fairly cheap. Can you tell me who mastered that set?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2016, 07:27:59 AM
Quote from: George on November 11, 2016, 05:51:13 AM
Thanks, man!

If that is the older version you linked me to, I just may buy it. The price is still fairly cheap. Can you tell me who mastered that set?

Yes, my link is to the original (older) version. The original recordings were produced by Nesuhi Ertegun. Remastering by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 11, 2016, 07:36:42 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2016, 07:27:59 AM
Yes, my link is to the original (older) version. The original recordings were produced by Nesuhi Ertegun. Remastering by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch.

Thanks. I have had some bed luck with Inglot/Hersch masterings before. They tend to have some compression and are bright sounding. But if you say you like the sound, I would certainly take your word for it. Someone else mastered the Coltrane box. Do you like the sound on the Mingus set as much as the Coltrane set? 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2016, 07:01:44 PM
Quote from: George on November 11, 2016, 07:36:42 AM
Thanks. I have had some bed luck with Inglot/Hersch masterings before. They tend to have some compression and are bright sounding. But if you say you like the sound, I would certainly take your word for it. Someone else mastered the Coltrane box. Do you like the sound on the Mingus set as much as the Coltrane set? 

Ok, so I spent some time running comparisons. For my comparisons I chose sessions from each box that were nearly contemporaneous. In 1959 each artist had sessions that ended up being only about three weeks apart. In 1961 each artist has sessions that were about six months apart.

In neither instance could I detect an appreciable difference in sound quality, bearing in mind that both artists have VERY different sounds: Mingus being on the thicker side with his larger, more diverse groups.

Two or three Mingus sessions predate anything in the Coltrane box by a few years. These do sound rougher, but I chalk that up to the technology of the time. In these instances it's not exactly apples to apples with the Coltrane box. But as the Mingus sessions progress in time the sound improves noticeably.

So in my not-very-scientific comparisons I'd say anyone liking the sound on the Coltrane box shouldn't have any problems liking the sound on the Mingus box. I like it, anyway. :)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 11, 2016, 07:47:31 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2016, 07:01:44 PM
So in my not-very-scientific comparisons I'd say anyone liking the sound on the Coltrane box shouldn't have any problems liking the sound on the Mingus box. I like it, anyway. :)

Very good to know! Thanks so much for your effort, buddy!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 11, 2016, 08:07:29 PM
Quote from: George on November 11, 2016, 07:47:31 PM
Very good to know! Thanks so much for your effort, buddy!  :)

You're welcome, bro. It was actually quite fun!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 12, 2016, 05:17:06 AM
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(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/333/MI0002333046.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
(https://i0.wp.com/cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cf399cd-600.jpg?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1)

The last one bought after hearing the band play the closing set at this year's Jazzfest ... it's due out on Clean Feed officially in a few days - recommended!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 12, 2016, 09:52:36 AM
(http://www.soundfinder.jp//img/products/102135/1297090800/4d50cc70-4380-4103-b7b0-1698cbb7dc63/514803.jpg)

Have now worked up to disc six in this set. What an amazing journey. I think I like the slightly more edgy music on this even more than the rest.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on November 12, 2016, 05:06:12 PM
I've been spinning the latest in the Miles bootleg series. I love all the extras that allow a small glimpse into the band's process.

A
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on November 12, 2016, 05:26:22 PM
I do love that kind of stuff, but I only find it interesting after knowing the original material well.

I agree that the "must have" status of this series is diminishing. The first 3 were incredible for me, but Newport and this collection don't have me running into a burning building to save.

A

Quote from: sanantonio on November 12, 2016, 05:19:05 PM
Interesting.  I was wondering if people would get into to that aspect.  That is the first of these boxes that have been coming out for years that I have hesitated buying.  I already have all the other master tracks and have never been that interested in alternate takes and rehearsal snippets. 

It is available in Spotify, so I will give it a listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 12, 2016, 07:01:34 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/8-6d-85ET9epI79ZxUsu5he-qGw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1552060-1282290745.jpeg.jpg) (https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/1926400/bmmg/ent/Illinois-Jacquet-Message-Desert-Winds-L8436019582305.JPG)

Freddie Roach - Mo' Greens Please (1963)
Illinois Jacquet - The Message (1963)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Barefoot_Sunday_Blues.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/366/MI0000366396.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ramsey Lewis - Barefoot Sunday Blues (1963)
Roy Haynes - Cymbalism (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 12, 2016, 07:26:41 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 12, 2016, 05:19:44 PM
Are you referring to the date with Ornette?

No, these performances:

(https://s15.postimg.org/c7301lrh7/book_36_crop.png)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 13, 2016, 07:25:31 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kAU0TyvBL.jpg)

Perfect for a Sunday morning!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on November 13, 2016, 03:42:00 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 12, 2016, 05:19:05 PM
Interesting.  I was wondering if people would get into to that aspect.  That is the first of these boxes that have been coming out for years that I have hesitated buying.  I already have all the other master tracks and have never been that interested in alternate takes and rehearsal snippets. 

It is available in Spotify, so I will give it a listen.

The set is worth at least one listen. May not hold up on repeated listenings. It may actually be of more interest to you, the practical musician,  to hear Miles at work in his secret lab, so to speak.

The Newport set is on its way to me from Rarewaves UK
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 14, 2016, 12:25:23 AM
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Shirley Scott - Drag Em Out (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: DaveF on November 14, 2016, 04:32:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 14, 2016, 12:25:23 AM
Shirley Scott - Drag Em Out (1963)

A rather grim irony in that title considering what's just happened in your part of the world - hope's all's well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 14, 2016, 08:11:29 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 14, 2016, 05:58:23 AM
Listening to another excellent Complete Atlantic box; this one by the classic Ornette Coleman Quartet.

(https://benjamincawthra.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/beauty-is-a-rare-thing-ornette-coleman.jpg)

These CDs are not an account of the music as the recordings were released, but a chronological traversal of the sessions as they occurred.

This box set cannot be praised highly enough.

Ohhhh, that looks tasty!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 14, 2016, 11:05:40 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 14, 2016, 08:34:59 AM
Yes, it is extremely well produced and documented.

Turns out I already have three of the albums on that set, so I will likely pass.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 14, 2016, 01:17:54 PM
Quote from: DaveF on November 14, 2016, 04:32:48 AM
A rather grim irony in that title considering what's just happened in your part of the world - hope's all's well.

Thanks for that. This time around with the earthquakes we're only feeling the tail end of the larger ones down my way. But a bit further north they're taking a seemingly ceaseless barrage, poor people. Luckily the govt. and emergency services are superb at times like these.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 14, 2016, 01:21:21 PM
Quote from: George on November 14, 2016, 11:05:40 AM
Turns out I already have three of the albums on that set, so I will likely pass.

There's eight or nine albums included, AS WELL as plenty of unreleased material, and the chronological order puts things into their proper place, too ... I'd definitely go for it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 14, 2016, 01:26:43 PM
Quote from: king ubu on November 14, 2016, 01:21:21 PM
There's eight or nine albums included, AS WELL as plenty of unreleased material, and the chronological order puts things into their proper place, too ... I'd definitely go for it.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I want to spend some more time with the three I have to gauge my interest in the composer. And when it came time to put the Coltrane box on the shelf, I realized that I didn't have room for it.  :(  So, going forward, I really have to prioritize what I buy (and start getting rid of stuff I don't listen to.) And that second part is really hard for me.

And before someone suggests going digital, thanks, but I am not interested.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 14, 2016, 02:58:16 PM
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Willis Jackson - Loose (1963)
Harold Vick - Steppin Out (1963)

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Ahmed Abdul-Malik - The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1963)
Hank Jones - Here's Love (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on November 14, 2016, 04:05:53 PM
Dexter Gordon; Go! (1962) A fabulous album, extremely enjoyable.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/Go_album_cover.jpg/220px-Go_album_cover.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 14, 2016, 11:42:52 PM
Quote from: George on November 14, 2016, 01:26:43 PM
I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I want to spend some more time with the three I have to gauge my interest in the composer. And when it came time to put the Coltrane box on the shelf, I realized that I didn't have room for it.  :(  So, going forward, I really have to prioritize what I buy (and start getting rid of stuff I don't listen to.) And that second part is really hard for me.

And before someone suggests going digital, thanks, but I am not interested.

That's a line of thought I've long abandoned - so reasonable, you know?  ;D

Seriously, the new editions of these boxes will likely take up shelve space for around three discs, the old editions for five or six, in the case of the Coltrane set rather seven or eight. I have them all in their initial versions, the Coltrane was in fact the first box set I ever got (an x-mas wish when I was 14, I think - it was brand new and it took until mid or late January for the lousy delivery system of local shoppes to finally get it, though it was out in autumn already ...). The Mingus is the most substantial, bookletwise, the Ornette already had a paperback booklet in its initial run but was presented very nicely with those great Lee Friedlander photos of young Ornette. Would hope they found a way to incorporate them into the new package. The Coltrane with the seventh disc in a fake reel-box was kinda silly and wasting space from the git go, but it has a nice booklet and the fact that it's bound doesn't do any harm of course.

Either way, I love all three of those dearly! The Ornette is - musically - monumental, the other two are terrific but the contents do not form such a pinnacle in music history as does the Ornette. He would go on to do other great stuff of course, but as a group of recordings, these really drew the map newly, which can't quite be said of the Coltrane Atlantics, they're merely the kick-off to many great things to come, but these early sessions with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones (and Steve Davis on bass, who was later replaced by Reggie Workman and then by Jimmy Garrison) are like a breath of fresh air, they are different from what followed, and I love them a lot. (The date with Don Cherry - not Ornette, of course, Ornette's band sans leader - isn't entirely succesful alas, Coltrane needed heavier rhythm support, and wasn't ready to delve into these freer ranges, I feel.) The Mingus set is terrific but as he kept recording for many labels during his most important decade (c. 1955-1965), having a box restricted to one label offers only one part of the picture - one of the most important and largest parts though. He didn't record as many albums for any other label during his prime, but the Columbias (two of them), Candids (four plus of them, though only two were released back then) and Impulses (three of them, including the piano solo album), also the United Artist one ("Wonderland"), the Bethlehems (most notably "East Coasting"), the trio album with Hampton Hawes (Roulette) ... all of these belong together, and at the tail end we find the band with Dolphy, Coles, Jordan, Byard and Richmond on their way to Europe (the Mosaic set is wonderful, so are the two Enjas, the Fantasy and Blue Notes from before the departure, the sets from Paris on Revenge and Universal ...) and then upon their return in Monterey (again on the Mosaic) and at UCLA (released, as was the Paris Revenge set, by Sue Mingus, who was involved with the Mosaic set, which contains mostly stuff initially released on Jazz Workshop, Mingus' own label, shipped from their kitchen by Sue - the pre-departure Fantasy set is also on the Mosaic btw, with bonus material).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2016, 01:57:02 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 15, 2016, 01:49:46 AM
I typed too fast.  I haven't listened to that box in years and had created something in my mind based on a faint memory.   ;D
Toupet must've gotten you excited  ;) - seriously, I was hesitant to even mention/correct the mistake, but I guess not everybody reading/lurking here can be presumed to know, so ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 15, 2016, 06:57:08 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 14, 2016, 11:42:52 PM
That's a line of thought I've long abandoned - so reasonable, you know?  ;D

Seriously, the new editions of these boxes will likely take up shelve space for around three discs, the old editions for five or six, in the case of the Coltrane set rather seven or eight. I have them all in their initial versions, the Coltrane was in fact the first box set I ever got (an x-mas wish when I was 14, I think - it was brand new and it took until mid or late January for the lousy delivery system of local shoppes to finally get it, though it was out in autumn already ...). The Mingus is the most substantial, bookletwise, the Ornette already had a paperback booklet in its initial run but was presented very nicely with those great Lee Friedlander photos of young Ornette. Would hope they found a way to incorporate them into the new package. The Coltrane with the seventh disc in a fake reel-box was kinda silly and wasting space from the git go, but it has a nice booklet and the fact that it's bound doesn't do any harm of course.

Yeah, that's just it. I like the older packaging, like on the Coltrane set. Plus, it will have more value when/if I resell it.

QuoteEither way, I love all three of those dearly! The Ornette is - musically - monumental, the other two are terrific but the contents do not form such a pinnacle in music history as does the Ornette. He would go on to do other great stuff of course, but as a group of recordings, these really drew the map newly, which can't quite be said of the Coltrane Atlantics, they're merely the kick-off to many great things to come, but these early sessions with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones (and Steve Davis on bass, who was later replaced by Reggie Workman and then by Jimmy Garrison) are like a breath of fresh air, they are different from what followed, and I love them a lot. (The date with Don Cherry - not Ornette, of course, Ornette's band sans leader - isn't entirely succesful alas, Coltrane needed heavier rhythm support, and wasn't ready to delve into these freer ranges, I feel.)

Yes, they are a breath of fresh air. And as important as I know Ornette's stuff is, I still need to grow in appreciation for his music. The three discs I have (Free Jazz, Shape Of Things and Change of the Century) are stored in a booklet, from the days when I had even less space for music. I plan to pull these discs out and listen to them soon. Listening to Change of The Century at work now via Spotify. Sounds good!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2016, 09:11:17 AM
I think "Coltrane's Sound" has some of his best Atlantic material. Not sure inhowfar "approved" is a category of any relevance there, I'd assume masters were called during sessions and if they were not released in proximity, they could still be released later (a release such as the LP full of alternate takes would be more doubtful in that respect, "Legacy" on the other hand had the best tracks of the lovely but not great album with Milt Jackson ... weird thing there) ... the same happened at Prestige, not just to him, but that was regular business practice: to record as much as you can and then release it in a pace that the market could keep up with (i.e. two albums per year, still a crazy tempo by nowadays' standards - but then in the meantime we saw David Murray do what, a dozen per year for a dozen of years? not quite, but ...). One of my most beloved Prestige's actually is "The Last Trane", which really culled the final unreleased tracks from three sessions ... but most of those tracks were actually better or at least as good as than the ones released earlier on various other albums (I tend to find the splitting of sessions onto various albums and thus albums consisting of material from various sessions a somewhat dreadful thing at Prestige's and wherever else it also happened). I have since given up the original albums in most cases and went with the three gorgeously presented thematic boxed sets (Fearless Leader, Side Steps, Inter ... play? leader dates, sideman dates, co-led dates/jam sessions).

Now playing some easy on the ears stuff as working day slowly comes to an end:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 15, 2016, 10:00:49 AM
Strjon, Arve Henriksen

http://www.arvehenriksen.com/discography/strjon.html (http://www.arvehenriksen.com/discography/strjon.html)



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 15, 2016, 11:40:30 AM
Back to 1964

Horace Silver

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 15, 2016, 12:08:13 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/7YCZgq2ax4Uw-zGPQVfcPmQcQl4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2099587-1263977125.jpeg.jpg)

Mose Allison - Mose Allison Sings (1963)

RIP


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Willis Jackson - The Good Life (1963)
Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly (1963)

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George Braith Soul Stream (1963)
Ronnie Matthews - Doin'The Thang (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 16, 2016, 11:21:48 AM
Thomas Enhco is one of R. Casadessus sons

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 16, 2016, 12:03:31 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 17, 2016, 12:05:16 AM
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Booker Ervin - The Song Book (1964)
A.K.Salim - Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 17, 2016, 12:17:02 PM
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Sad to know him gone ... he retired a while back and alas I never managed to catch him live. This set compiling three Columbia albums recorded 1959/60 has been among my favourites of his for a while.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on November 17, 2016, 06:51:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/qlYXF0gQrKU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 17, 2016, 06:57:53 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/McFarland_Soft_Samba.jpeg) (https://img.discogs.com/9ypOvlY5NGvJ1dVPVUaXSfu_gT8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6464920-1419888626-6763.jpeg.jpg)

Gary McFarland - Soft Samba (1964)
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Spellbound (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 18, 2016, 05:39:02 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 17, 2016, 01:54:47 PM
Yeah, sad loss.  Are those Back Country Suite, Local Color and Tranfiguration of Hiram Brown?  I couldn't remember the titles but remembered the covers:

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Sorry for being too lazy to type album names ... played all three in a row, mighty good (lots of it instrumental). I guess even earlier he was the more interesting piano player, but then I love his songs and his dry delivery.

The musical programme today, so far:

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Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - Time/Life | This really is the final Haden album, if the liner notes (by Ruth Cameron Haden and Carla Bley) are to be trusted (which I do). The LMO is mostly still the edition heard on its previous album "Not In Our Name" (Sharon Freeman and Miguel Zenon have been replaced by Vincent Chancey and Loren Stillman, respectively). The topic at hand this time is environment and the way mankind treats it. We get two great tunes from the Jazz Middelheim festival in 2011 which proved to be one of Haden's final appearances, in his talk one notices already that he has some trouble ... his demise went fast in 2012, alas, but they had two new tunes prepared for the tour (the ones from Middelheim, Bley's arrangement of Davis' "Blue in Green" and of Haden's own 1979 tune "Song for the Whales", which open and close the album). Then we get the LMO's version of the Bley staple "Útviklingssong", which fits in as it was written in reply to a scandal about a planned dam to be built in the north of Norvay ... they took this on tour in 2011 as they played Oslo after Antwerp). Fourth song is an old Bley tune that Haden wanted her to arrange for the band, "Silent Spring", and finally we get the title track, which is Bley's hommage to Haden, written after she was informed of his death by Cameron. Strong solos by Tony Malaby, Chris Cheek, Michael Rodriguez, Curtis Folwkes, Loren Stillman, and Haden itself ... and on the title tune, after a long Malaby workout, everyone gets a chance to blow. On the three 2015 studio tracks, Steve Swallow steps in on bass - both a logical choice and a smart choice, as his sound and trademark delivery is so different and as immediately recognizable as Haden's own playing. A mighty fine last album, I'd say - though it still almost moves me to tears to remember that Haden is gone.

Now I'm back with Wadada Leo Smith:

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Angelica Sanchez/Wadada Leo Smith - Twinde Forest (Clean Feed)
Wadada Leo Smith/Günter Baby Sommer - Wisdom in Time (Intakt)
Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)

The first two are duo albums, the one with Sanchez rather darkish and restrained, really beautiful, stark stuff. The one with Sommer is more playful, Smith involving electronics, yet also letting his ever beautiful tone sing, Sommer also switching to all kinds of devices. This was recorded around the time they played a duo gig in Zurich, which alas I missed. Saw Smith for the first time (twice!) during the Jazzfest Berlin (I still owe a report in the other thread I started, I know - but caught some sh*t and was in bed for almost a week, unable to focus on anything for more than half an hour, really). In Berlin, he played with what he calls his Great Lakes Quartet, consisting of a mighty good young sax player named Jonathon Haffner, bassist John Lindberg and the great Marcus Gilmore on drums. The initial Great Lakes band on the TUM double disc set is pretty enticing, too, though: Henry Threadgill, Lindberg, Jack DeJohnette. This is a first listen, hearing Smith in concert prompted me to order a few recent and not-so-recent recordings of his that I didn't yet have (some on the wantlist for a while, but this one, although I'm a big Threadgill fan, I was totally unaware of so far).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 18, 2016, 09:07:42 AM
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Playing another one by Wadada Leo Smith, this time by a band he calls "Mbira" - the trio consists of Smith (t, flh), Min Xiao-Fen (pipa, voice) and Pheeroan akLaff (d). Recorded in 2007 and released on TUM in 2011.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 19, 2016, 12:28:33 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Chun-King.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/K1-TuYtK6vRgb9eLUDikaIAyedY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4615324-1384765085-2949.jpeg.jpg)

Bobby Timmons - Chun-King (1964)
Lalo Schifrin - New Fantasy (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 19, 2016, 03:26:41 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 19, 2016, 05:01:37 AM
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Wadada Leo Smith - Reflectativity (Tzadik, 2000 - with Anthony Davis & Malachi Favors)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on November 19, 2016, 02:53:22 PM
Chris Barber   Ice Cream - Down by the river side

https://www.youtube.com/v/NA0VhsTjKY0

That's better  :) :) SKAT A BIT
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 19, 2016, 04:47:02 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zDFHlSEHL.jpg)

After an initial spin about two years ago, I decided to try this again. Tonight it clicked instantly and I am really enjoying this!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 19, 2016, 11:12:19 PM
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Jaki Byard - Out Front (1964)
Booker Ervin - The Blues Book (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 20, 2016, 07:33:40 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 20, 2016, 07:37:13 AM
Quote from: George on November 19, 2016, 04:47:02 PM
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After an initial spin about two years ago, I decided to try this again. Tonight it clicked instantly and I am really enjoying this!

The open track is just great, one of the best things he put out. Miles's own favorite too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 20, 2016, 09:38:28 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 20, 2016, 10:21:15 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 20, 2016, 12:41:07 PM
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Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters - Now! Hear! (1964)
George Braith - Extension (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 21, 2016, 11:50:05 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 21, 2016, 10:40:07 AM
Mingus : Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

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The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history.

Love it.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 21, 2016, 12:51:23 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 21, 2016, 10:40:07 AM
Mingus : Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

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The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history.
And - even noting Karl's objection that it is for chamber forces and others' objection that it's a ballet - my nomination for "Great American Symphony"  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 21, 2016, 02:57:11 PM
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Illinois Jacquet and Kenny Burrell - Desert Winds (1964)
Shirley Scott and Kenny Burrell - Travelin' Light (1964)

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Sonny Stitt - Shangri-La (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 21, 2016, 09:11:39 PM
At Basin Street.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 22, 2016, 02:12:15 PM
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Kenny Burrell - Soul Call (1964)
Don Patterson - Hip Cake Walk (1964)

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Oliver Nelson - More Blues And The Abstract Truth (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 22, 2016, 05:14:47 PM
Just got this in the mail from the Amazon:

(https://img.discogs.com/S_mcnuTr0aAumkr4ZT9nyI-Mf0U=/fit-in/320x318/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4438264-1364873667-8938.jpeg.jpg)

I've never been much of a guitar fan aside from Joe Pass and flamenco, but this recording is absolutely beautiful. I don't think I've ever heard such a sweet and warm sound from any guitar. Almost sounds like Hawaiian slack key! The songs are great, and, add the great Stan Getz to the mix, and you have a sure winner! (only $7!!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on November 22, 2016, 08:39:59 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81DFBH%2BsppL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 22, 2016, 10:21:06 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 22, 2016, 05:14:47 PM
Just got this in the mail from the Amazon:

(https://img.discogs.com/S_mcnuTr0aAumkr4ZT9nyI-Mf0U=/fit-in/320x318/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4438264-1364873667-8938.jpeg.jpg)

I've never been much of a guitar fan aside from Joe Pass and flamenco, but this recording is absolutely beautiful. I don't think I've ever heard such a sweet and warm sound from any guitar. Almost sounds like Hawaiian slack key! The songs are great, and, add the great Stan Getz to the mix, and you have a sure winner! (only $7!!)
If you like this "cool" kind of guitar player, some others to check could be Jimmy Raney (he made some amazing recordings with Stan Getz for Roost, under Getz' leadership, there's also an album on Verve that's probably easier to find but the Roost 3CD set by Getz is desert island stuff for those Getz/Raney sessions as well as for the quartet dates with Al Haig and young Horace Silver), Tal Farlow (the Verve albums with Eddie Costa, for starters), Billy Bauer (he played with Lennie Tristano ... and made one Verve album as a leader) ... there are others, but as most of this stuff is likely somewhat hard to get, I stop here  :)

As for Raney, his album "A" on Prestige is highly recommended, and in Universal's "Originals" series there was another reissue of an album with Bob Brookmeyer (and Raney can also be heard on Brookmeyer's Prestige album).

@SimonNZ: love those Booker Ervin/Don Patterson sessions!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on November 23, 2016, 07:26:43 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 23, 2016, 07:22:32 AM
Sonny Rollins : Saxophone Colossus

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51x3-NUzQ4L.jpg)

Bass – Doug Watkins
Drums – Max Roach
Piano – Tommy Flanagan
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

One of the best recordings out there!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on November 23, 2016, 09:46:05 AM
Stanley Turrentine: Salt Song. An old favourite.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UcNikKnPL._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 23, 2016, 11:32:22 AM
Holiday season means a jazzy road trip to visit my family!

Bringing:

- Introducing Wayne Shorter (w/ Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb)*
- Kelly Great (same as above but with Philly Joe Jones)*
- Charles Mingus - complete Candid recordings*
- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
- Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
- Art Tatum Ben Webster Quartet*
- Not So Dukish (Hodges, Eldridge, Nance, Webster, Strayhorn, Woodyard, etc.)*
- Thelonious Monk Quartet in Geneva 1966 (live)
- Oscar Peterson & Jon Faddis*
- Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Live at the Village Gate

*first listens to these
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 23, 2016, 01:52:53 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PgI47s8JL._SS500.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/809/MI0002809994.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce (1964)
Freddie Roach - All That's Good (1964)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/844/MI0003844955.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/393/MI0000393575.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Donald Byrd - I'm Trying To Get Home (1964)
Chuck Wayne - Morning Mist (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 23, 2016, 09:36:18 PM
Quote from: king ubu on November 22, 2016, 10:21:06 PM
If you like this "cool" kind of guitar player, some others to check could be Jimmy Raney (he made some amazing recordings with Stan Getz for Roost, under Getz' leadership, there's also an album on Verve that's probably easier to find but the Roost 3CD set by Getz is desert island stuff for those Getz/Raney sessions as well as for the quartet dates with Al Haig and young Horace Silver), Tal Farlow (the Verve albums with Eddie Costa, for starters), Billy Bauer (he played with Lennie Tristano ... and made one Verve album as a leader) ... there are others, but as most of this stuff is likely somewhat hard to get, I stop here  :)

As for Raney, his album "A" on Prestige is highly recommended, and in Universal's "Originals" series there was another reissue of an album with Bob Brookmeyer (and Raney can also be heard on Brookmeyer's Prestige album).

@SimonNZ: love those Booker Ervin/Don Patterson sessions!

Sounds very interesting. Thanks! Even without the guitarists, anything with Stan Getz is worth hunting down IMO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 24, 2016, 03:32:10 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 23, 2016, 09:36:18 PM
... anything with Stan Getz is worth hunting down IMO.

I tend to agree, however Getz has a huge discography and while there's hardly a bad record to be found, some of them are pretty mediocre, and if you don't want to end up with 50+ discs by Getz, it may make sense to look for particular albums or collections. But that would be a topic deserving its own thread, I guess.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 24, 2016, 12:10:06 PM
(https://jazzinphoto.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/pat-bowie-out-of-sight-1964-1-to-11.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UpOqxSEdL.jpg)

Pat Bowie - Out Of Sight (1964)
Charles McPherson - Bebop Revisited (1964)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/103/MI0000103885.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HjPLl8KkL.jpg)

Booker Ervin - The Space Book (1964)
Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 25, 2016, 05:41:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/N_X_1r1PojY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 25, 2016, 10:26:36 AM
Today's listening programme so far:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/845/MI0000845260.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/496/MI0003496974.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/505/MI0000505013.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iBF9-sTIL.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/671/MI0003671731.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/671/MI0003671013.jpg)

Other than the Kowald/Wadada/Sommer (recordings from 1979 and 1981) all fairly recent and by Swiss musicians that were in the audience last night when Tobias Delius played with his trio called Booklet (Joe Williamson on bass and Steve Heather on drums) and the night before when Ellery Eskelin performed with Christian Weber and Michael Griener - both great concerts! The new Eskelin/Weber/Griener album, also on Intakt, was available after the concert already (it's dated to 2017) and I gave it a first spin already - highly recommended:

(http://www.intaktrec.ch/images/276.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 25, 2016, 01:11:02 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/957/MI0003957292.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AnKf1AjKL.jpg)

Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters - Round Midnight (1965)
Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig And Panic (1965)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31iFP8pYBfL._SL500_.jpg)

Archie Shepp - On This Night (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 26, 2016, 04:39:29 AM
Horace Silver quintet


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 26, 2016, 01:05:26 PM
(https://thejazzword.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/wes_montgomery_bumpin.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Wx0Emm-zeqenwPpdXagAciQCQBA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1256674-1204216356.jpeg.jpg)

Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' (1965)
Cal Tjader - Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vwAUcSBKL._SY355_.jpg)

Hank Mobley - The Turnaround (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 26, 2016, 01:42:30 PM
Been playing 1966 Dylan from the new box (finally landed here on Thursday) ... got 10 or 11 discs in and it's amazing!

Now on to something different, first spin ... loungy stuff, nice enough:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61mkGyIhCsL._SL400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 26, 2016, 01:55:47 PM
Quote from: king ubu on November 26, 2016, 01:42:30 PM
Been playing 1966 Dylan from the new box (finally landed here on Thursday) ... got 10 or 11 discs in and it's amazing!



Lucky, lucky you - I can't possibly afford that at the moment. Hopefully one of the Dylan-fan friends of mine will aquire it. What kind of sound quality / sound-capture is it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on November 26, 2016, 02:02:02 PM
Tiger Rag by The Dutch Swing College Band of the 60s one of Europe's leading ens of that time.

                                                                           Line up.

Oscar Klein Trumpet
Dick Kaart Trombone
Jan Morks clarinet
Arie Ligthart Banjo/guitar,
Bob van Oven bass & Martien Beenen drums.
And of course the one and only Peter Schilperoort on clarinet and baritone sax


https://www.youtube.com/v/sZu-qg13gkI&index=2&list=RDRpnCHfwbzWQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 26, 2016, 02:32:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 26, 2016, 01:55:47 PM
Lucky, lucky you - I can't possibly afford that at the moment. Hopefully one of the Dylan-fan friends of mine will aquire it. What kind of sound quality / sound-capture is it?

Most of it is taken from mono soundboards - pretty decent though drier than it would have sounded had they captured what actually went on in the halls. Four concerts were recorded professionally by Columbia for a planned live album, there are a few stray TV/radio broadcast recordings, and there are, I think six discs of audience recordings from early on. They are grouped at the end of the box, but I re-grouped them in order to have it all in chronological order. 11 discs in, all the AUDs are now behind me (and all the Columbia recordings still ahead).

The actual Royal Albert Hall concert, btw, will also be released separately in a few days (the 1966 Bootleg had the Manchester concert, though they didn't know that back then, I guess).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 27, 2016, 04:07:18 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Dexter_Gordon_-_ClubhouseCD.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/DzRtEhm5Ejcjkv3neCSFtHdTPW0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-712336-1168366185.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse (1965)
Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Intermodulation (1965)

(http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/9-15-15-1/579673.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/409/MI0002409215.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Morris Nanton - Something We've Got (1965)
Bill Evans - A Simple Matter Of Conviction (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 27, 2016, 08:39:05 PM
Now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/691/MI0001691166.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on November 28, 2016, 08:24:22 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 27, 2016, 08:39:05 PM
Now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/691/MI0001691166.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2016, 01:53:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KJ90Q4AHL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FKdP6dZ3L.jpg)

The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (February 17-18 and May 17, 1965 - rel: 1965)
Transition (May 26 and June 10, 1965 - rel: 1970)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NAdmmia5L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vz4Y1TDHacYwKZJ7ViNCbbo0gto=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1178882-1330072890.jpeg.jpg)

Living Space (June 10 and 16, 1965 - rel.(as album): 1998)
Kulu Sé Mama (June 10, 16 and October 14, 1965 - rel: 1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/rVzs19fZS3_mXOVOZi8vHWSpTAE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-890817-1169749809.jpeg.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/31fdc4dde04832ba34d0f24f84d95c70/4864550.jpg)

Ascension (June 28, 1965 - rel: 1966)
First Meditations For Quartet (September 2, 1965 - rel: 1977)

(https://img.discogs.com/pOh3DgyIZzrtPv7I2QSwfv1NfFg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-885346-1306577150.jpeg.jpg)

Meditations (November 23, 1965 - rel: 1966)

^About to start the seventh Coltrane album in a row, and man its been great hearing them all again and in context. These seven are on the RVG list for 1965. There's three others released from sessions that year which weren't recorded at the Van Gelder studios: New Thing At Newport (July 2, 1965 - rel: 1965), Sun Ship (August 26, 1965 - rel: 1971) and Om (October 1, 1965 - rel; 1968). I'll be playing those three tomorrow to complete this overview of Trane '65, and hopefully reading the section on his last years from the Lewis Porter study.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/New_Thing_At_Newport.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/John_Coltrane_-_Sun_Ship.jpg/220px-John_Coltrane_-_Sun_Ship.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/ColtraneOM.jpg/220px-ColtraneOM.jpg)

edit: I realise now that I have to also add to the 1965 discography Live At The Half-Note: One Up, One Down (March 26 and May 7, 1965 - rel: 2005) and Live In Seattle (September 30, 1965 - rel: 1971).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Live_at_the_Half_Note_One_Down_One_Up.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Live_in_Seattle_%28John_Coltrane_album%29.jpg)

edit: Oh, and also the July 26, 1965 live performance of A Love Supreme from the second disc of the 2002 Deluxe edition of that album.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/815/MI0001815673.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Notice of any other '65 omissions welcomed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 29, 2016, 01:41:03 PM
From the sublime to the ridiculous (actually they're both good-natured fun, if unremarkable otherwise):

(https://img.discogs.com/cipR5OUSjxgmr0vfB3i-E9ix57M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1696731-1237585929.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/VVnCAPhi68uRio3GhptmMT4FnfI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4198706-1386976202-4584.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - The Stinger (1965)
Freddie McCoy - Spider Man (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 30, 2016, 12:20:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/p0bvmYqzxkRhzx0lRIeIM3yBaSQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3722830-1341773666-3894.jpeg.jpg) (http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/files/2011/01/Jackie-McLean-Consequence.jpg)

Freddie McCoy - Peas 'n' Rice (1965)
Jackie McLean - Consequence (1965)

(https://img.discogs.com/FJ-5qHaQdtFO3L4xtzHFkFVvxrY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1199998-1352143782-8220.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Rr1PO1G-ljNJZwrhqLt48Hm5gcA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-760467-1274150873.jpeg.jpg)

Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy (1965)
Lalo Schifrin - Once a Thief and Other Themes (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 30, 2016, 01:15:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81rM6ztb-EL._SL400_.jpg)

Into disc three now - the latest one from Laurie ... the usual ugly design (well, ugly is putting it most kindly), sound is acceptable, the rhythm section is nothing to write home about ... but those two guys on the saxophone - wow!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2016, 12:46:34 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/ql01QBvI8PGEFAtgLOOcrkNrPMc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2703864-1319077783.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/111/MI0003111558.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming (1966)
Blue Mitchell - Bring it On Home To Me (1966)

(https://img.discogs.com/Eew4IuXloh4Tanv3wPprFI6l8kw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4597830-1369510103-5751.jpeg.jpg)

Don Friedman - Metamorphosis - (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on December 01, 2016, 04:49:22 PM
Bessie Smith (Sing Sing Prison Blues, 1924) Jazz Legend

https://www.youtube.com/v/cnsp6IS4GEs&list=PL84D44D1BF1F6E120&index=10
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 02, 2016, 01:25:16 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/vK-QM38arcGgwMz1PnK-RRmO2UY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-413013-1425051436-4450.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/UW56L06CHahib16CceuvNxGysYg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1705853-1264722996.jpeg.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Soul Burst (1966)
The Three Sounds - Vibrations (1966)

(https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/a/b9f88e7f82057f492906be06bb11e68c/1932228.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nmh1vwefL._SY355_.jpg)

Ed Thigpen - Out Of The Storm (1966)
Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga (1966)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51t7Nfy3WQL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/qZbb3xGHK_1gEDaFT2eI0hzhXWg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2968518-1309650946.jpeg.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - The Empty Foxhole (1966)
Jimmy Smith - Peter And The Wolf (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 03, 2016, 12:55:54 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/OTCJJ_DMcO1pcDDqTkMeU7TWjEE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2580148-1291483768.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YJ3QWMPWL.jpg)

Wes Montgomery - Tequila (1966)
Larry Young - Of Love And Peace (1966)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/361/MI0002361224.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://stream.cdandlp.net/superflyrecords/catalogue/65208.jpg)

Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (1966)
Gary McFarland and Gábor Szabó - Simpático (1966)

(https://img.discogs.com/chbICM0hnf-qRqcqzU93Z0T_C0Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2797388-1319486068.jpeg.jpg)

Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 03, 2016, 11:48:54 PM
These two in the morning. Each disk has some nice tracks, but overall the albums are uneven.
[asin]B000024Y5J[/asin][asin]B000024RFS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on December 04, 2016, 04:46:41 AM
Georges Arvanitas, 3AM, Cocktail for three

[asin]B01C4MOXMC[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NJ Joe on December 04, 2016, 11:43:27 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fz5l8pilL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on December 04, 2016, 12:07:00 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 30, 2016, 12:20:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Rr1PO1G-ljNJZwrhqLt48Hm5gcA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-760467-1274150873.jpeg.jpg)


Lalo Schifrin - Once a Thief and Other Themes (1965)

Absolute MONEY!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2016, 12:54:58 PM
Quote from: Bogey on December 04, 2016, 12:07:00 PM
Absolute MONEY!

Yeah, he's someone I hadn't paid much attention to before, but there is a growing number of artists I'm hearing in this project that I'd previously overlooked and that I've made note to explore in more depth once I'm finished, and he's one of them. Any favorite albums?

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/84-bwbz9S0XrrRv1zEZCuG21Cb8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-989820-1181377919.jpeg.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - Soul People (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on December 04, 2016, 02:45:42 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 04, 2016, 12:54:58 PM
Yeah, he's someone I hadn't paid much attention to before, but there is a growing number of artists I'm hearing in this project that I'd previously overlooked and that I've made note to explore in more depth once I'm finished, and he's one of them. Any favorite albums?


Mannix Soundtrack
Enter the Dragon Soundtrack
Mission Impossible (tv) Soundtrack
Bullit Soundtrack
Dirty Harry Soundtrack

I also have this cd:

(https://img.discogs.com/i8pRG7sbTHLxaT2Le8E_oELRw9E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1933550-1285763516.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2016, 02:49:52 PM
Thanks, Bogey - I'll check those out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on December 04, 2016, 02:51:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Fjjh7dneL._SX466_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81d2%2BQmBlbL._SX522_.jpg)
Just popped this on my wishlist as well.  You are most welcome.  I'll look into the one you posted as well.  There is always overlap with compilation, but I'm hoping yours has some sweet stuff on it.  Love the Lalo man!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2016, 09:00:39 PM
Quote from: Bogey on December 04, 2016, 02:51:37 PM

Just popped this on my wishlist as well.  You are most welcome.  I'll look into the one you posted as well.  There is always overlap with compilation, but I'm hoping yours has some sweet stuff on it.  Love the Lalo man!

That "Once A Thief And Other Themes" comes from just two recording dates in May '65, so I think its a freshly performed retrospective rather than a round-up of bits from pre-existing soundtrack recordings.

And I see there is another Lalo album on the RVG list for 1966, so I may as well play that now:

(https://img.discogs.com/yWTHjwiFPrizBXsM5M-_LH-NeDI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5743945-1401457636-4336.jpeg.jpg)

Lalo Schifrin - The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade (1966)

followed by:

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/36f46eff9165fccededf78a3a52dcfbe/2559964.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/LHXEy_j-rnatILaRu4reF96qSNk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2126983-1451748592-7974.jpeg.jpg)

Shirley Scott - Roll 'Em (1966)
Gabor Szabo - Spellbinder (1966)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 05, 2016, 12:27:34 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/The_Further_Adventures_of_El_Chico.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4162XSX794L.jpg)

Chico Hamilton - The Further Adventures Of El Chico (1966)
Stanley Turrentine (with Shirley Scott) - Let It Go (1966)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61XG4VCAXML.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/111/MI0002111387.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Don Cherry - Symphony For Improvisers (1966)
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down (1966)

(https://img.discogs.com/1exyr7ud7Yjwuh2a2yor-ukk6EM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1615041-1287096120.jpeg.jpg)

Don Patterson - Soul Happening (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 05, 2016, 11:28:03 PM
too lazy to post in the past few days ... played plenty of new arrivals, first this mighty good 1979 date by Frank Foster, with great Mickey Tucker on piano and some fine guitar solos by Ted Dunbar:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/271/MI0000271583.jpg)

then, bought most of Clean Feed's 2016 output (they're giving 15% reduction for it's their 15th anniversary - mighty fine label):

(https://www.mark-dresser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sedimental-You-1-862x833.jpeg)(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cf382cd-760.jpg)(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cf373cd-600.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/056/MI0004056009.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cf395cd-600.jpg)(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cf-361cd-600x600.jpg)
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cf367cd.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/014/MI0004014532.jpg)

and then also finally sat down to really listen to this amazing set of two Braxton concerts from São Paulo - really fantastic! - then the latest one by Wadada Leo Smith, and the new one by Andrew Cyrille:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vLZg5F_uogk/Vx8jB4pJuCI/AAAAAAAAAX0/wius86XefCQjZwptQSs9e1sdiYRMDNENACKgB/s1600/braxto_anth_anthonybr_111b.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z2G6wGlKL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZdsOoFkwL._SL1400_.jpg)

2016 is a mighty fine year, methinks ... plenty of good new releases, plenty of great archival first releases, and still some welcome reissues coming, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 06, 2016, 01:18:48 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/8gEZ-v6wDrWEHJR_qWD3dcUeT9E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3059601-1313802481.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/165/MI0000165478.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

George Braith - Laughing Soul (1966)
Frank Foster - Soul Outing (1966)

(https://img.discogs.com/um2DpfuFJealSPMXWDhhgjQXkcY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2467928-1327281518.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fsFb1cr2cLA2Yx_7vSjNJW1O0xg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2826292-1302785182.jpeg.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (1966)
Chico Hamilton - The Dealer (1966)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/764/MI0002764157.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BGEEa4kQL.jpg)

Lee Morgan - The Rajah (1966)
Stan Getz - Voices (1966)

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/c9015af6b2be200477ecb99998581d95/1436154.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 07, 2016, 12:10:58 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XNjvYe6f5sOi2HfonwYOrDjVtGE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2991002-1310726570.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/159/MI0000159781.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Pat Martino - El Hombre (1967)
Lee Morgan - Standards (1967)

(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/860/0001860036.jpg)

George Braith - Musart (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NJ Joe on December 07, 2016, 07:10:45 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 05, 2016, 11:28:03 PM
too lazy to post in the past few days ... played plenty of new arrivals, first this mighty good 1979 date by Frank Foster, with great Mickey Tucker on piano and some fine guitar solos by Ted Dunbar:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/271/MI0000271583.jpg)

I saw Ted Dunbar play live many times back in the day.  A fine guitarist indeed.


Quote from: king ubu on December 05, 2016, 11:28:03 PM

and then also finally sat down to really listen to this amazing set of two Braxton concerts from São Paulo - really fantastic!

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vLZg5F_uogk/Vx8jB4pJuCI/AAAAAAAAAX0/wius86XefCQjZwptQSs9e1sdiYRMDNENACKgB/s1600/braxto_anth_anthonybr_111b.jpg)


Haven't seen this before. 

I'm currently awaiting receipt of a cd of this which I once had on vinyl and haven't heard in years:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41SG7JP239L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 08, 2016, 01:02:00 AM
Quote from: NJ Joe on December 07, 2016, 07:10:45 PM
I'm currently awaiting receipt of a cd of this which I once had on vinyl and haven't heard in years:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41SG7JP239L.jpg)

Oooh, that looks tasty! Anthony Davis is mostly familiar to me from various Wadada Leo Smith recordings, guess I'll look for this one, too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 08, 2016, 05:32:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/6Y43wVqrckA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 08, 2016, 06:20:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/J8wE6KvpExk
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 08, 2016, 07:04:46 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/Qe5i-gG-Y4o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 08, 2016, 12:32:09 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ROmfwqhiL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/t31qhMKXcfz69AWKGU23_PQg-mM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2005385-1289461544.jpeg.jpg)

Lou Donaldson - Lush Life (1967)
Boogaloo Joe Jones - Introducing the Psychedelic Soul Jazz Guitar of Joe Jones (1967)

(https://www.allaboutjazz.com/coverart/2010/donaldbyrd_slowdrag_cm.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Bobo_Motion.jpg)

Donald Byrd - Slow Drag (1967)
Willie Bobo - Bobo Motion (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/akJS7w2rKjNOtjuLqmWPD9HqJu0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2146378-1327363710.jpeg.jpg)

Jackie McLean - "Bout Soul (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NJ Joe on December 09, 2016, 06:17:32 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 08, 2016, 01:02:00 AM
Oooh, that looks tasty! Anthony Davis is mostly familiar to me from various Wadada Leo Smith recordings, guess I'll look for this one, too!

Got it yesterday and listening now.  Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 09, 2016, 01:39:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519PBIhmCFL._SX466_.jpg) (http://www.rootdownrecords.jp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/johnny-hammond-smith-soul-flowers-01.jpg)

Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo (1967)
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Soul Flowers (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/C48iBSo_HK5nK6v89xHWT_pX6Eg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2856433-1312236020.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61N3WMQ7A5L.gif)

Jack Wilson - Easterly Winds (1967)
Pat Martino - Strings (1967)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61CnZn2oiTL._SY300_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/uSu3N4Nd-kP97KbS2CHyBvHNk1k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3007453-1328484130.jpeg.jpg)

Jackie McLean - Demon's Dance (1967)
Duke Pearson - Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 10, 2016, 04:54:37 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/6hZuRU_5_qiBbMKhM0iYj7eFrcg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-573183-1445087325-3141.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RVTZUmInL.jpg)

Stan Getz - Sweet Rain (1967)
Donald Byrd - Blackjack (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/5IYB9QIC-Ul-qTAPCAAB0inKpuY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-769709-1351990033-4050.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UNvWMk9WL.jpg)

Lou Donaldson - Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967)
Lee Morgan - Sonic Boom (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2016, 11:56:26 AM
(https://cdn2.dustygroove.com/images/products/p/patter_don~_mellowsou_101b.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31NFZSMJS0L.jpg)

Don Patterson - Mellow Soul (1967)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave (1967)

Never got the fuss about Wave or understood its "classic" status. Still not getting it with this play.

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Lee Morgan - Sixth Sense (1967)
Tyrone Washington - Natural Essence (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 12, 2016, 12:23:21 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/m8958B_3Q2hI-UXbctV7i8hUIm8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1211006-1362873523-5835.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3kuP2g9Ka2ILOaFNyz9weZ5UF4E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1791731-1277247862.jpeg.jpg)

Donald Byrd - The Creeper (1967)
John  Coltrane - Expression (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/JqpoCBr8Gzh_4j1uYIZbWkczUJs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1172049-1198083073.jpeg.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/231db7edc4771fbc518e90b1851e20f2/2844686.jpg)

John Coltrane - Stellar Regions (1967, rel.1995)
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space (1967, rel.1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 13, 2016, 01:04:43 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/uYJ6AFMiMthD5qCwzqjHXoz84LY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2160356-1307588147.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/682/MI0001682166.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Willis Jackson - Soul Grabber (1967)
Jaki Byard - On The Spot (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/uLHXD02wi_HvpJL8DFpLyzw8ZFw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3937548-1362782593-6168.jpeg.jpg) (https://kendrasteinereditions.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/johnny-hammond.jpg)

Sonny Criss - Portrait Of Sonny Criss (1967)
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Gettin Up (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 14, 2016, 12:14:24 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/4mgR05VgaPM6MQEY7v-z3ozw4QM=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5093692-1384293776-3546.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512V8pRM79L.jpg)

Jerome Richardson - Groove Merchant (1967)
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/PkivMf_Uwv3gatcrVPn-rTXf_So=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2769654-1300222150.jpeg.jpg) (https://hardboppers.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/oblique.jpg)

Larry Young - Contrasts (1967)
Bobby Hutcherson - Oblique (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 15, 2016, 12:31:16 PM
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Hank Mobley - Reach Out (1968)
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Dirty Grape (1968)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AOvh7fIFL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/wT3o0czwpyGll2k31PD8R5Huuu4=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3387014-1328912387.jpeg.jpg)

Booker Ervin - The In Between (1968)
Larry Young - Heaven On Earth (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 16, 2016, 01:08:43 PM
(http://www.popsike.com/pix/20110605/250832216708.jpg) (https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/t/turren_stan_commontou_101b.jpg)

Wally Richardson - Soul Guru (1968)
Stanley Turrentine (with Shirley Scott) - Common Touch (1968)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/502/MI0002502454.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/4rAr49LAddroGXOAJh0QjEbQpeM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2909351-1351635323-6040.jpeg.jpg)

Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music (1968)
Elvin Jones - Puttin' It Together (1968)

^wow...how have I never heard (or even heard of) that incredible Eddie Gale album before? That should be as famous as something like Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 17, 2016, 03:13:57 AM
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d_J3wD0wQDY/V-yBssEW1VI/AAAAAAAAHWk/cSwWOz5c1Y0fKgACJofshNSBaR4F4JFKQCLcB/s1600/oneforcisco.png)

First spin ... and as usual with the few Thomas Borgmann recordings I have, I'm mightily impressed by his amazing tenor sound. Seems like a pretty good set that the three played!

Big fan of the Lithuanian No Business (http://nobusinessrecords.com/index.php) label anyway. Will continue with this here next, by Bobby Bradford and Hafez Modirzadeh:

(http://nobusinessrecords.com/skin/records/NBLP96.png)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 17, 2016, 05:40:55 AM
(http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834016767db414e970b-500wi)

more vinyl ... first one by Claude Williamson, second one by Martial Solal - both excellent

(https://img.discogs.com/R1xZJ8waSrAYOnlwMOc0U-a9VUA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3203324-1320336914.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 17, 2016, 06:46:31 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41w30388wFL.jpg)

Next LP spinning ... this has just been reissued by Fresh Sound as part of a larger package of music by/with Jerry Coker ... not for those looking for "best" and "essential", but pretty nice, fersure.

Now the final LP for today (switching back to CD again later on, not stopping to play music) - OM, "Rautionaha" (JAPO, 1976):

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQAncg-Z7D8/U6APIb2vnMI/AAAAAAAAQMI/2nSiFjGT4Rc/s1600/Om+-+Rautionaha+-+cover.JPG)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 17, 2016, 01:11:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/KmzzN7qJFc6dh2oasOCd7a5Jt40=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1344181-1301412167.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AtiAwdvpL._SY300_.jpg)

Paul Desmond - Summertime (1968)
Lonnie Smith - Think (1968)

(https://img.discogs.com/Svcc6m3Po8D1EYM3wo6HnNe8MjA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1250680-1262583963.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611ET2RCG7L.jpg)

Elvin Jones - The Ultimate (1968)
Duke Pearson - The Phantom (198)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on December 17, 2016, 03:57:32 PM
John Beasley-MONK'estra Vol.1

Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau-Nearness
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on December 17, 2016, 06:17:01 PM
A swingin' Yuletide celebration tonight ~

[asin]B0026B6WYY[/asin]

Original Columbia "six eye" vinyl (originally my Dad's).

:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on December 18, 2016, 12:26:33 AM
Quote from: HIPster on December 17, 2016, 06:17:01 PM
A swingin' Yuletide celebration tonight ~

[asin]B0026B6WYY[/asin]

Original Columbia "six eye" vinyl (originally my Dad's).

:)

Very, very nice, both the music and the vinyl  8) 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 18, 2016, 12:20:25 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/SvgT6TPfUn23CbPG1fqWhgercqo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1764675-1241883162.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Hplw8DT308_zh0CWEaI2ScQ5o0s=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1183676-1310157533.jpeg.jpg)

Reuben Wilson - On Broadway (1968)
Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever (1968)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61gdl1yOt7L._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/418SQHWRBML._SY300_.jpg)

Horace Silver - Serenade To A Soul Sister (1968)
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on December 18, 2016, 02:36:13 PM
Joe Henderson: Big Band. Fabulous.

(https://img.discogs.com/nGfbd3pJZZmdJr7U5qlm3ZvRCNg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6895262-1428967524-8136.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 19, 2016, 07:30:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/-9Jf4B_7lAU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 19, 2016, 10:46:22 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z2G6wGlKL.jpg)

Belated best wishes to the 75th birthday!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 19, 2016, 12:35:35 PM
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Heard this group/pogramme live twice, and both were amazing concerts ... first spin of the CD, it works nicely as well, but is completely different (not sure if it comes from live recordings or was made in studio conditions during gigs in Warsaw).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 19, 2016, 01:22:09 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZdsOoFkwL._SL400_.jpg)

This one really grows on me ... may initially sound warm (think Haden, though Frisell himself has done this kinda stuff, too) and rather conservative/restrained for Cyrille fans, but it is full of wondrous detail as far as his drumming goes, and Teitelbaum (on synth and occasionally on piano, too) makes sure things don't ever get too comfortable, while Cyrille is constantly undermining everything anyway - at least if you have ears to listen. Really interesting - and enjoyable - album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 19, 2016, 03:29:40 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/rlHq34xNFVPCQIPn66OrhA8ZaxI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2540821-1289555500.jpeg.jpg) (http://img2-ak.lst.fm/i/u/300x300/17fca433b7d346b6b70c69aaae8eb6ba.jpg)

Don Patterson - Funk You (1968)
Freddie McCoy - Soul Yogi (1968)

(http://p2.storage.canalblog.com/27/90/500408/67927663.jpg) (http://www.voxmusicweb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img7162.jpg)

Boogaloo Jo Jones - My Fire (1968)
Billy Butler - This Is Billy Butler (1968)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Soul_Electricity!.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2vsnMw3L._SY300_.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - Soul Electricity (1968)
Harold Mabern - Rakin' and Scrapin' (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 20, 2016, 04:11:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/lidHlWdPKYE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 20, 2016, 04:19:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/1QiVRmvkwYM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 20, 2016, 10:19:43 AM
earlier, this great recent one got another spin:

(https://i0.wp.com/cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cf-363cd-600x600.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)

now, first spin of this new arrival:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jsR8BeGtL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 20, 2016, 12:38:21 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/L3i6qJOa-L3kkSbdhZTz8VmJymk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1576054-1328486069.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gh4PnnNaL.jpg)

Duke Pearson - Now Hear This (1968)
Lou Donaldson - Say It Loud (1968)

(https://img.discogs.com/36Ukl0apoeKBlFgXUDpGngZya_A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1720783-1352243462-7358.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/068/MI0004068220.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Horace Silver - You Gotta Take A Little Love (1969)
Duke Pearson - How Insensitive (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/nVQXO-VOEcbjP57_ZNbImSvo6kE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1304623-1347779610-3086.jpeg.jpg)

Donald Byrd - Fancy Free (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 21, 2016, 12:36:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XrtWjtBiiSGyHrXciMbdilP4glA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5249198-1388701975-8392.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/WAYTUoHoHhOxzFiL-WhvzihG3Is=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-844824-1166373948.jpeg.jpg)

George Benson - Tell It Like It Is (1969)
Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/lIHZXT8eZ_NE58cy07Lr1Wp_ARE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1811991-1328572231.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/hR4Z12HaMNGRlzNr8U1WAOkFf2o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2068969-1262384102.jpeg.jpg)

John Patton - Accent On The Blues (1969)
Andrew Hill Lift Every Voice (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 22, 2016, 11:15:00 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/wYkgrBQm_dT7JLznnl-dNh2elN8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3389282-1328487023.jpeg.jpg) (http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/AA-M_3028__13526__01152009113144-8553.jpg)

Duke Pearson - Merry Ole Soul (1969)
George Benson - The Other Side Of Abbey Road (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/WWFlU9-8NLnw05sBw6LeLnWeqqs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1603930-1351990623-5335.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/660/MI0001660831.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Lou Donaldson - Everything I Play Is Funky (1969)
Reuben Wilson - Love Bug (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 23, 2016, 08:55:45 PM
(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/b841f599a7aa78e0ed04f45e1975adbf/1815193.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/OfJQcP2PBhnQRs6Xz-UqfvvqfC8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-629221-1140635705.jpeg.jpg)

Quincy Jones - Walking In Space (1969)
Reuben Wilson - Blue Mode (1969)

(https://cdn2.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/ammons_gene_bossisbac_102b.jpg)

Gene Ammons - The Boss Is Back (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 24, 2016, 01:59:06 AM
lately:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/424/MI0002424414.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515khZ-p4eL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ItpCkiJHL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61uT5Lr9jZL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71zG5CfHnrL._SL1200_.jpg)
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cf396cd-600.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91j3oO8pYQL._SL700_.jpg)

right now taking the first plunge (disc 1, Birdland NYC, 1952; disc 2, Munich, 1958) into the new Ellington box from Storyville:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yaVIk96fL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 24, 2016, 12:45:12 PM
^Is that newly discovered/cleaned up Ellington material, or stuff that's been previously available?

now:

(http://stream.cdandlp.net/superflyrecords/catalogue/43856.jpg) (http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401b8d180a722970c-500wi)

Bobby Timmons - Holiday Soul (1964)
Don Patterson - Holiday Soul (1964)

(https://img.discogs.com/pFZTsnTHPc7VghyPTQg4xqkWZKc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2553830-1290170125.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/8Hw_xAFMfLxom6EZI37oPzoRyDQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5245337-1388752468-5574.jpeg.jpg)

Rusty Bryant - Rusty Bryant Returns (1969)
Paul Desmond - From The Hot Afternoon (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/fyxB1zobfQsbglPgYFrVm7JhI0c=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1722925-1290835863.jpeg.jpg) (http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/76/01/500408/70033520.jpg)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Soul Talk (1969)
Joe Jones - Boogaloo Joe (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 25, 2016, 12:21:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/V3fTd0WnUuFo9bI0leE-VE75HBk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3119743-1421390868-4912.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/6O7L3RBapw1jqHWffrMQDE1xAp8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2559477-1290432194.jpeg.jpg)

Larry Young - Mothership (1969)
Billy Butler - Guitar Soul (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/MjHv0RnjSr7ev3ryHsmg89JLV-8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1576034-1309629274.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/yzVuhvYI3Ten2HUHmtP8Jnscr3U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2273229-1370001030-8601.jpeg.jpg)

Gene Ammons - Brother Jug (1969)
Hubert Laws - Crying Song (1969)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41GCP81Q7QL._SX300_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/319TKZDANCL._QL70_.jpg)

Charles Earland - Black Talk (1969)
Andrew Hill - Passing Ships (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 26, 2016, 12:43:33 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Courage_(Milton_Nascimento_album).jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fkXpLWwckDZ8SNcIlL-5gHBPLz8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1465075-1395823058-4579.jpeg.jpg)

Milton Nascimento - Courage (1969)
Duke Pearson - It Could Only Happen With You (1970)

(https://img.discogs.com/REqJFo-OG4fYwFDT2LxHvTN-2g0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1650293-1289380303.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3ZdndtUfCuUyXOfIcfLQBf8-5Jc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3492516-1397494221-1467.jpeg.jpg)

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Right On Brother (1970)
Randy Brecker - Score (1970)

(https://img.discogs.com/IRiUGYzznMrGk9EYNAQk3FogHAA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1350544-1287877780.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/HjsvABNHMPalA7dkvwq9SMakcYg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1950782-1304279501.jpeg.jpg)

Horace Silver - That Healin' Feelin' (1970)
Joe Farrell - Quartet (1970)

(https://img.discogs.com/lKuNfSOlAQKd29Zq3IQfXqDuFCU=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6518481-1421080591-8640.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/qgaA0mexj-Vrk1LW8vdpzLkWeX4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1243746-1351636625-7405.jpeg.jpg)

Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution (1970)
Elvin Jones - Coalition (1970)

(https://img.discogs.com/g0xWEmfKeJ74pWOKXbJs7hh7dp0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1826277-1245962475.jpeg.jpg) (https://bluenoterecords.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hank-mobley-e28093-thinking-of-home.jpeg)

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Tide (1970)
Hank Mobley - Thinking Of Home (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 26, 2016, 12:47:50 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 24, 2016, 12:45:12 PM
^Is that newly discovered/cleaned up Ellington material, or stuff that's been previously available?

As usual with these Storyville boxes it's mostly stuff that was previously out on Storyville - but as I have rather few of their releases, I thoroughly enjoy these boxes (and a few of them contained more new material than others). In this case, all I had was "Munich 1958" which corresponds to disc 2. Disc 3 is short (33 or 34 minutes) but new, the DVD I don't know, all others have titles that may correspond to earlier Storyville releases (I'm sure in the case of "The Jaywalker" as I had a copy of that one previously).

Some details here (but european amazon sites have the better prices for once, I payed little more than 30 this time, not sure I snatched any of the others I have - Duke 1, Webster, Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, George Lewis, Strayhorn, Satchmo - for such an attractive price ... there are other smaller reissues as well that I enjoy, the Griffin or Konitz/Marsh boxes, various 2CD sets etc):
http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/73336/duke-ellington/the-duke-box-2-7cd-dvd

Playing disc six right now ... disc one's from the early fifties when Hodges was away (but I never believed in the story that the band was in bad shape then, have had the Mosaic box with the Capitol recordings for a long time and always loved them), disc two is the one from Munich 1958, disc 3 is more from Gona Lund in 1963 (there's a recent 2 CD set on Storyville with more from - I think - the same gig, a week-long gig where Duke played for dancers in Europe, seems that was the very first time he did that on this side of the pond), then discs 4-7 are from the "stockpile" (more of this on a ten volume Sagajazz series or various Fantasy releases), mostly late 60s to early 70s ... and that's a period that has really grown on me big time. There's so much good stuff there to discover, including newly found sounds, such as Duke adding the flute to the band's roster ... and the later sidemen (if they're not longstanding members such as Carney, Hodges, Brown, Hamilton, Anderson, Gonsalves, Procope etc) are hardly shabby, even though they're not really well-known in some cases - there are a couple of great new sax section additions in Norris Turney and Harold Ashby, for one. Just in case, that Grona Lund 2 CD set as well as the other recent Storyville release (Rotterdam 1969) are not duplicated in this box.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 26, 2016, 01:19:16 PM
Thanks for the info.

btw: after spotting those Ursula Rucker discs in your previous post I went and checked out three of her albums and was instantly impressed. I haven't yet heard Supa Sister or Silver Or Lead, but heard Ma'at Mama and loved it, and especially another one called She Said (do you have that one?). Ruckus Soundsysdom was the other on I heard which was also good for the poetry and vocals, but had just standard drum and bass backing, unlike the much more interesting writing and instrumentation for the others (again: particularly on She Said, which among its great variety includes wonderful use of the flexatone). So thanks for the heads-up!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 26, 2016, 04:20:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 26, 2016, 01:19:16 PM
btw: after spotting those Ursula Rucker discs in your previous post I went and checked out three of her albums and was instantly impressed. I haven't yet heard Supa Sister or Silver Or Lead, but heard Ma'at Mama and loved it, and especially another one called She Said (do you have that one?). Ruckus Soundsysdom was the other on I heard which was also good for the poetry and vocals, but had just standard drum and bass backing, unlike the much more interesting writing and instrumentation for the others (again: particularly on She Said, which among its great variety includes wonderful use of the flexatone). So thanks for the heads-up!

I continue to be very impressed by Rucker! I have those three albums, none of the later ones as they're only digital and I often just can't be bothered (I don't do streaming at all, and I couldn't find any place where I could actually buy those later albums). "She Said" seems to be around as a CD-R, too, but then I'd rather buy MP3 ... I should re-install iTunes to buy some other stuff (though again I loathe Apple's own silly file formats, whatever conversion won't do the files any good but with that sh*t they're selling ... really, I'm not a believer of that church, gimme a break!), so I might end up overpaying for some more Rucker in crappy piles of bits.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 27, 2016, 12:25:40 PM
(http://p6.storage.canalblog.com/63/16/500408/70603002.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/lZSrHwsMYf8U6sW5sh7jfsKjyWg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2326868-1439414918-9296.jpeg.jpg)

Charles Kynard  - Afro-Disiac (1970)
Horace Silver - Total Response (1970)


(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/042/MI0004042332.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a2/e4/28/a2e42835f89f4dea705cc6e9a698ef14.jpg)

Boogaloo Joe Jones - No Way (1970)
Gene Ammons - The Black Cat (1970)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41fd2ibYnCL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/MYPB5vZ8SjE3meyaS8nIe9vsz8E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2185133-1282281736.jpeg.jpg)

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar (1970)
Fats Theus - Black Out (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 28, 2016, 08:11:39 AM
(https://i1.wp.com/cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cf388cd-600.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81dY9yCT6vL._SL1500_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611c2JEjZQL.jpg)

A trio of new ones ... first spin in the case of Lindberg and Imbert, the Dresser is one of my favourite 2016 new releases in jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 28, 2016, 12:21:32 PM
(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0003/315/0003315405.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/spScbuZyjqw3ZdfjG4KesQimC04=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1073219-1190093936.jpeg.jpg)

George Benson - Beyond The Blue Horizon (1971)
Bernard Purdie - Purdie Good (1971)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/840/MI0003840809.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/C6EMESIHEU645h_vklAG-yGLKt0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2601828-1328562169.jpeg.jpg)

Elvin Jones - Genesis (1971)
Reuben Wilson - Set Us Free (1971)

(https://img.discogs.com/0ROMkqbS2CelSYw_dxublLVrGmw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1421953-1315442424.jpeg.jpg)

Lee Morgan - The Last Session (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 28, 2016, 01:06:11 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0004/056/MI0004056009.jpg)

Eric Revis Trio - Crowded Solitudes (2016, with Kris Davis & Gerald Cleaver)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on December 28, 2016, 02:39:05 PM
Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Desert island jazz, an album I would never want to be without.

(https://img.discogs.com/WpGdZuXN7h4UodhtZSxcB5q-g6g=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1431157-1270651196.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on December 28, 2016, 07:06:11 PM
Esbjorn Svensson Trio -
Behind The Yashmak,
Car Crash,
Dodge The Dodo
With Esbjörn Svensson -  Piano,
Dan Berglund - Doublebass,
Magnus Öström - Drums,
From the Daniel Behner Jazz à Juan Festival - Juan-Les-Pins France.
A fantastic trio and a great bass intro on the first number



https://www.youtube.com/v/_1iM4Im4Yqo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 29, 2016, 12:04:47 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/JvKTh4BDDPvnB_a-3CuKEYHMMj0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6398396-1418247537-1034.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/788/MI0003788944.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Grant Green - Visions (1971)
Elvin Jones - Merry-Go-Round (1971)

(http://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f0883401675f04074a970b-600wi)

Sonny Stitt - Black Vibrations (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 29, 2016, 05:24:25 PM
Quote from: Dee Sharp on December 28, 2016, 02:39:05 PM
Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Desert island jazz, an album I would never want to be without.

(https://img.discogs.com/WpGdZuXN7h4UodhtZSxcB5q-g6g=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1431157-1270651196.jpeg.jpg)

One of the greatest recordings in the history of, well, recordings! Unbelievable!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 29, 2016, 05:26:11 PM
King Ubu,

What do you think of that Tyshawn Sorey (Inner Spectrum of Variables)? I have listened to the first CD, and I do think it is interesting, but not really compelling enough for a second listen, at least right now (tons of unheard CDs and LPs around here!). Alloy was a much more satisfying recording IMO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 30, 2016, 07:30:46 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 29, 2016, 05:26:11 PM
King Ubu,

What do you think of that Tyshawn Sorey (Inner Spectrum of Variables)? I have listened to the first CD, and I do think it is interesting, but not really compelling enough for a second listen, at least right now (tons of unheard CDs and LPs around here!). Alloy was a much more satisfying recording IMO.

I like it quite a bit ... I guess it shows quite some Zorn influence (i.e. Masada String Trio), but I have no clue what it is ... jazz, classical, lounge - in the end it doesn't matter. But I'm quite sure that a few years back I wouldn't have much patience with it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 30, 2016, 11:26:40 AM
Interesting. I like it too, but I'm overwhelmed with new CDs and LPs to listen to, including this--Joe Pass Live at Long Beach City College, a Pablo LP.

(https://img.discogs.com/iY_GwjDq269RIZr_ZOhUEzRcovE=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1220320-1274618590.jpeg.jpg)

I bought this LP several months ago but finally got around to listening to it last night. I was blown away by his virtuosity and artistry as usual. A nice program encompassing a diversity of styles and moods in a very good venue. I ran it through my ADC to make a FLAC recording on my PC--first one ever on my new ADC (as opposed to my old CD-recorder, which died after 15 years).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 30, 2016, 12:36:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lskFGjQ%2BL._SX466_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/v5EocKpftMgCfNE0mnD6JtY9b4Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-876902-1276350172.jpeg.jpg)

Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song (1971)
Charles Earland - Soul Story (1971)

(https://img.discogs.com/2IY2_y-5xWC5s0jWr9FL_HvufDM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1073217-1322811973.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Fire_Eater_(album).jpg)

Idris Muhammad - Peace And Rhythm (1971)
Rusty Bryant - Fire Eater (1971)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wf0xHVrgL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510rjtkvTDL._SY300_.jpg)

Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (1971)
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Breakout (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 31, 2016, 01:01:18 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/-XXmU4ASqaDsu2EwSrlpq8Rc_ms=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8528770-1463424715-5750.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/JDWpzDXBaPYW8EXwrRDAwFCO6oU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1406693-1473649452-8476.jpeg.jpg)

Astrud Gilberto and Stanley Turrentine - Gilberto With Turrentine (1971)
Boogaloo Joe Jones - What It Is (1971)

(https://img.discogs.com/488nVu39MOmBJf2N-wARcT7olpk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1242448-1204126242.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/zLWQ_4US3ZSTdYcCbPlJLjgfX1o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2980072-1310218827.jpeg.jpg)

Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In (1971)
Kenny Burrell - God Bless The Child (1971)

(https://img.discogs.com/-BtiB69YXDnV3xt_gtPmkhyIOmo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1155460-1278208986.jpeg.jpg)

Leon Spencer - Louisiana Slim (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 01, 2017, 04:03:16 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71h2kTvCVPL._SL1400_.jpg)

Made my way through this set for the first time in the past days ... I'm ambiguous about Jarrett, but really enjoyed the first two concerts (Modena and Ferrara), found Torino somewhat boring if not rather dreadful but still not without interest, and Genova somewhat lacking in organic development. These come from an interesting and difficult point in time. These are Jarrett's final gigs before his forced break of two years, and he was already feeling the fatigue, as he writes in his liner notes. Also it seems these are the final "long form" concerts he played (i.e. one "piece" per set/concert).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2017, 01:41:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/zYlL7DSf7mZNJlVy02ebHvoS0bQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2362547-1454979007-4937.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Kss4IxquXxCJfsdp3bJco46MyBg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1881120-1249818196.jpeg.jpg)

Art Blakey - Child's Dance (1972)
Jackie and Roy - Time and Love (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/pXonucrT29WYyJrXPk4H2HCC7Z8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1557489-1233667849.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/zNv0PpYHiN_7xyGNV3NABj2EdWw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-736174-1475929665-9047.jpeg.jpg)

Joe Farrell - Outback (1972)
Randy Weston - Blue Moses (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/ujkjf-w3kDaGEF9zyY5CfchBISw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-598800-1156302792.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/qOqPbdokvtrgIPJOu18wCvF_PF0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-499479-1125318899.jpg.jpg)

Milt Jackson - Sunflower (1972)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - He's Coming (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/9yp7Chw5wrEV5GBgGBpXEVPV-CU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5503439-1425717719-6168.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fTvecghJIxji9bjtBaX3oM94BA8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1613506-1369949078-4204.jpeg.jpg)

Hubert Laws - The Rite Of Spring (1972)
Horace Silver - All (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2017, 12:51:41 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/ChBC3ggFSSjCDh0OhuYGsmhFXhA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1179749-1254428280.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/YvhvJ5yYaiIu8pb1KKi5gvhNGe8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1073200-1193125659.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Ca'Purange (1972)
Bobby Hutcherson - Natural Illusions (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/V4NZKzINqMQg-53OQudbM6rUD3c=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1156601-1269335443.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vVM59uTqj9JHzwwBhwMTn2mcpiU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1152315-1392479188-4813.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Tangerine (1972)
Joe Farrell - Moon Germs (1972)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51S18hfSTkL._SY300_.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/a/3895c6e2b8f0e21d1aec4f7f50f761bc/1367590.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Generation (1972)
Airto Moreira - Free (1972)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yTwT%2BC-1L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/OHiGYWjXE9_qaQtUDAuESVvcHPo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2899376-1306483288.jpeg.jpg)

Ronnie Foster - The Two-Headed Freap (1972)
Freddie Hubbard - Sky Dive (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 02, 2017, 09:01:36 PM
Another LP I just unwrapped (dirty for a new, sealed disc!)--John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Some great stuff here, including a couple I had on my CD The Gentle Side of John Coltrane (one of my desert island discs).

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41gYXgBUjxL._SY355_.jpg)

I don't know Hartman's story (will look it up), but it seems he had the voice and the talent to have been a household name...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 02, 2017, 09:37:12 PM
Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaca: Tokyo Adagio. A masterpiece. Preferably over a nice dinner with my wife accompanied by a good bottle of red wine!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/875/MI0003875865.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 03, 2017, 08:05:57 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 02, 2017, 09:37:12 PM
Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaca: Tokyo Adagio. A masterpiece. Preferably over a nice dinner with my wife accompanied by a good bottle of red wine!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/875/MI0003875865.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Great artwork on that one  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2017, 01:24:17 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 02, 2017, 09:01:36 PM

I don't know Hartman's story (will look it up), but it seems he had the voice and the talent to have been a household name...

In my teens I asked a jazz expert at a cd store to recommend me a vocal version of "Lush Life" and he immediately set me up with a Johnny Hartman compilation album, calling him among other superlatives "a singer's singer", a title that still strikes me as the perfect way to describe his great yet understated talent.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61NkELVtzeL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/7cKPaN_x3uL0i1mykykVemlMbJU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-502968-1362816254-9546.jpeg.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - Goin Down Slow (1972)
Eumir Deodato - Prelude (1972)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/225/MI0000225683.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414FGy92cTL.jpg)

Charles Earland - Intensity (1972)
Elvin Jones - Mr. Jones (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/Z9b5VJGp76B3n3nJUq982JzMEz4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9383195-1479677425-2680.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41nlSXH8WOL._SX300_QL70_.jpg)

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Snake Rhythm Rock (1972)
Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson - Cherry (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/fhKXFVPqO1mQ_u28U7kWBgbGbGY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1341253-1278209069.jpeg.jpg)

Leon Spencer - Bad Walking Woman (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 04, 2017, 08:46:43 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/r594pxUjcz4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 04, 2017, 12:59:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Ai5emyIoMXWia2cWERNUld7sdWU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4544694-1367933188-5826.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/8vNxclYYJOvOBeNuYp3ZPqfT4pg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-621401-1322586810.jpeg.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Primo (1973)
Eric Gale - Forecast (1973)

(https://img.discogs.com/vkf-vsU5iQJDu6KeEUqKmDoXRMI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1452535-1313519418.jpeg.jpg)

Don Sebesky - Giant Box (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2017, 02:37:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518aW%2Bdm94L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/mTyB7EU87V0RLyfYE5vW3cAL5Y4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7644548-1445803661-4525.jpeg.jpg)

George Benson - Body Talk (1973)
Airto Moreira - Fingers (1973)

(https://img.discogs.com/qowAY6amI_oAHtgHm67w2v0sPRA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-633122-1149086125.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/nHvDa2nNYPYTRsxpCqmC8OdEeao=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3211420-1320672937.jpeg.jpg)

Hank Crawford - Wildflower (1973)
Ron Carter - All Blues (1973)

(https://img.discogs.com/_f6yTgaIkQEz4y-X0PvhfM1tsNM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1024336-1197463084.jpeg.jpg)

Gábor Szabó - Mizrab (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 06, 2017, 06:51:22 AM
Preparing a two hour Monk portrait for a small online radio station ... so lots of Monk lately. Lots of tracks from here and there, but also some full albums:

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p532/ubu-roi/BirdAndDiz_Mercury_zpsmfvjzho7.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JMY4JvVgL.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/518/MI0000518268.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/557/MI0001557278.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/497/MI0000497619.jpg)

Right now, what remains my favourite of his solo albums:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VTufLfiFL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 06, 2017, 02:22:31 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/3esCGfKOuVfhSgrGO2xanPa03IY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1153645-1249656686.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/5xhHj6rSBisZ8nnAa9WX7RQ1fyQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-586613-1452604247-2413.jpeg.jpg)

Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
Grover Washington - Soul Box Vol.1 (1973)

(https://img.discogs.com/2J-65wtIGmTGCVSqJM_xzvtRpcg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1162815-1225853815.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/efsWFUOtsQhbNwr3XrWXrMw7_Q8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8269863-1458349902-9125.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Higher Ground (1973)
Ron Carter - Spanish Blue (1974)

(https://img.discogs.com/8tBcs-wxSTumx3wht14VK1iZ9Kg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1106354-1209312014.jpeg.jpg)

Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 06, 2017, 05:30:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517v1SPpEuL.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 07, 2017, 01:14:46 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/wEu56bS6Tx9vBd21BJOBZxakeSo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1667328-1301962448.jpeg.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/dfffdb45538435832dbf6d21cf1556b1/3627279.jpg)

Grover Washington - Mr Magic (1974)
Paul Desmond - Skylark (1974)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KamoX%2BBCL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/97z17_xfkRCb9qPTsA_0xDos4JI=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5762333-1475100314-4958.jpeg.jpg)

Idris Muhammad - Power Of Soul (1974)
Roy Kral and Jackie Cain - A Wilder Alias (1974)

(https://img.discogs.com/fBjrbN0DqpBVRdH-HurW3Y8PwlA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1496688-1297970888.jpeg.jpg)

Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 07, 2017, 07:17:57 PM
Quote from: George on January 06, 2017, 05:30:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517v1SPpEuL.jpg)

First spin.

What did you think?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 07, 2017, 07:33:20 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 07, 2017, 07:17:57 PM
What did you think?

Loved it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 08, 2017, 11:59:08 AM
Quote from: George on January 07, 2017, 07:33:20 PM
Loved it!

Yeah! Even though it was originally just a stopgap roundup of unreleased pieces from wildly disparate sessions, I've always enjoyed that collection.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/m7oVbGXUXVW7oUA_QsRz0emfEJU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-770996-1397396365-6781.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QRjXdSh3L._SX425_.jpg)

Milt Jackson - Goodbye (1974)
George Benson - Bad Benson (1974)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617jl1nMpML.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3neH6HI8idUw1HBjHHnG1Y_oNwQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1528063-1232299784.jpeg.jpg)

Joe Farrell - Upon This Rock (1974)
Don Sebesky - The Rape Of El Morro (1975)

(https://img.discogs.com/8joS9nfy8Nj9YXgaVL9Z5LK5HIQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3713152-1455023620-5109.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Concierto_Jim_Hall.jpg)

Milt Jackson - Olinga (1975)
Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 08, 2017, 12:07:02 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 08, 2017, 11:59:08 AM
Yeah! Even though it was originally just a stopgap roundup of unreleased pieces from wildly disparate sessions, I've always enjoyed that collection.

Yeah, the title track is incredible!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on January 08, 2017, 01:34:34 PM
I just received this SACD--wow, the musicians are practically in the room with me!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dL-kFSZYL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 08, 2017, 09:50:05 PM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZYqXRWDmL._SS500.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Dh9%2BGUVxL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zQVukDhAL.jpg)

After the incredible concert on Saturday, I felt like revisiting the few Malcolm Braff recordings I've accumulated in the past years ... and I have ordered several missing ones, filling some gaps.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2017, 01:36:09 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/730/MI0001730288.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/304/0000304790.jpg)

Lalo Schifrin - Towering Toccata (1976)
Grant Green - The Main Attraction (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 10, 2017, 12:04:28 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513owJZWNfL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71STJHN-dRL._SL1200_.jpg)

Last night, revisited the fourth (and last) of my current Braff holdings - more are on the way now, inspired by the glorious concert last weekend. Then gave a very first spin to the recent (2016) Les McCann - and that one is very good indeed! Looking for more of those Live in Paris releases, some of which are DL only ... and stumbled over one that has Barney Wilen playing - took crappy amazon music half an hour to load last night, but I was finally able to download it and have played the first half (up to the first - of four - tracks with Wilen) on the commute to the office this morning (the Bennett trio consists of him on organ, Jimmy Gourley on guitar and Kenny Clarke on drums - fine group):

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51L3mbgsOSL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 10, 2017, 12:34:58 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/cVQZC4VFi-ieNZq36MDq4N4zilI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-800320-1395592772-4473.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/The_Fox_(Urbie_Green_album).jpg)

Ron Carter - Yellow And Green (1976)
Urbie Green - The Fox (1976)

(https://img.discogs.com/aP0PTTl4aMQBvyI_Vm59pkaNFZs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1007438-1428075202-3519.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/yl5tYEH1wRBbYfH1ZCOBsZcTIog=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1451954-1287878024.jpeg.jpg)

George Benson and Joe Farrell - Benson and Farrell (1976)
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Percussion (1977)

(https://img.discogs.com/oo6odaKB21Lft2X8o4y9_oArxIY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1877252-1315556497.jpeg.jpg)

Ron Carter - Peg Leg (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 11, 2017, 06:16:20 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/YefLht-j7-c
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 11, 2017, 06:45:02 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/YfRwLwHB60Q
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 11, 2017, 07:13:58 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51W013M9B1L._SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 11, 2017, 11:03:57 AM
Quite necessarily cool.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ieJax3lytak
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 11, 2017, 12:43:37 PM
a small parcel with new Ellingtonia (I guess in the range of discs 125-129...) has arrived today, and this one is getting its very first spin:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/799/MI0003799117.jpg)

glorious indeed - prime Ellington!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 11, 2017, 01:08:14 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Q8BHQ_-fBBwNAQ8yFueblDdzMiQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2551460-1290056893.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ze7zqg9Eb58pllaigI8Ysbjs-es=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3377013-1327984906.jpeg.jpg)

Eric Kloss - Now (1978)
Don Patterson - Why Not (1978)

(https://img.discogs.com/sD-iDaKQh9TiraFuD7HB5mkwsTM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6663886-1473874219-5045.jpeg.jpg)

Houston Person - The Nearness Of You (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on January 11, 2017, 04:02:52 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 11, 2017, 06:45:02 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/YfRwLwHB60Q

Did you ever hear the British equivalent of Kenton "Ted Heath" he really was one of the top big bands of that era
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 11, 2017, 09:32:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51771cm1z3L.jpg)

On the morning commute ... love LH&R, no one even gets close to what they did!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 12, 2017, 03:03:22 AM
Quote from: Andante on January 11, 2017, 04:02:52 PM
Did you ever hear the British equivalent of Kenton "Ted Heath" he really was one of the top big bands of that era

Off my radar completely; will investigate, thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 12, 2017, 12:08:15 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/RnMgZ1pfKGRHwpFHXMgdChzynHg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2320933-1295928674.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/125/MI0000125075.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Bobby Hutcherson - Conception: The Gift Of Love (1979)
Ron Carter - New York Slick (1979)

(https://img.discogs.com/YhYzKqruy0yk6r_uZrVVERbzF04=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1154599-1249814041.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/bEeHbZH89eVJ136l9-NhUOB-O7Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2188940-1405764271-8826.jpeg.jpg)

Yusef Lateef - In A Temple Garden (1979)
Art Farmer - Yama (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 12, 2017, 05:17:03 PM
Now:

(http://www.audiophilereferencerecordings.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/7/8742.jpg)

One of my favorite younger jazz trumpeters. This is an amazing album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 13, 2017, 12:42:57 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/303/MI0000303512.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/FXXXNBVlHPOn_E7YSA-gos7KHyM=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2191760-1299271457.jpeg.jpg)

Ron Carter - Parade (1979)
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (1979)

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/774c7b1d98048fb6f0a5397a1982df54/1660121.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/699/MI0001699759.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ron Carter - Pick 'Em  (1980)
McCoy Tyner - 4x4 (1980)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/736/MI0001736522.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/prhEt6dwE16xddyP5PG-y_7O-8c=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2276527-1431165541-7519.jpeg.jpg)

Ron Carter - Patrão (1980)
McCoy Tyner - Horizon (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 14, 2017, 01:05:35 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/86dKuejiW2_xvaw7nqajV3OPTLA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1802841-1428435011-5576.jpeg.jpg) (http://images.eil.com/large_image/SONNY_STITT_IN+STYLE-472816.jpg)

Ray Barretto - La Cuna (1981)
Sonny Stitt - In style (1981)

(https://img.discogs.com/gJWMilGymZ0B_jvdxmAqwT-Mi9Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2357628-1437569193-5799.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Earth_Jones.jpg)

Chet Baker / Jim Hall / Hubert Lawes - Studio Trieste (1982)
Elvin Jones - Earth Jones (1982)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/810/MI0002810461.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ron Carter - Etudes (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2017, 11:58:41 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/Otd7F8ilPolzh5oBW3n2QHVJOQE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2827436-1414894525-3087.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/007/MI0002007214.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Willis Jackson - Nothing Butt (1982)
Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner - Love and Peace (1982)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/477/MI0001477925.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Malachi Thompson - Spirit (1983)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 15, 2017, 06:52:27 PM
Listening to this album yet again:

(http://www.audiophilereferencerecordings.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/8/7/8742.jpg)

(http://jazz-insights.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mathias_eick_photo-1.jpg)

Eick's trumpet tone reminds me of the great late Kenny Wheeler and, like Wheeler, his note choice and the emotion behind what he's playing really tugs at the heartstrings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 15, 2017, 07:19:15 PM
Quote from: Aguest on January 15, 2017, 07:06:44 PM
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lccy2YF7MwM/maxresdefault.jpg)

One of my favorite jazz saxophonists. Such remarkable consistency in his style and playing through his entire musical life.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 15, 2017, 08:54:45 PM
Just finishing up this incredible album from Wheeler:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81atTUk1rGL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 16, 2017, 07:42:02 AM
Another amazing album from Wheeler:

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/deer-wan1.jpg?w=764)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 16, 2017, 09:52:36 AM
Now:

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One of the great big band arrangers/leaders of all-time. Fantastic album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 16, 2017, 01:55:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/vKW_LUYY1dEWAeOq0rVpai_jKvg=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1707718-1365885867-7096.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Ivo2uRlyiBXE0_pT43kfalxDLqc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2209705-1437329333-7874.jpeg.jpg)

George Benson - Pacific Fire (1983)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya: Home (1983)

(https://img.discogs.com/Z5vu8qQtruIlCD0geNAlDmEmvfY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2509202-1287907543.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/OmrHtluz7f_ZtzRvz-p-a-bMS5k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2645000-1433177012-4043.jpeg.jpg)

Kenny Garrett - Introducing Kenny Garrett (1984)
Claudio Roditi - Red On Red (1984)

(https://img.discogs.com/PfuJcRpGd-y8WakM-RACBr3STWM=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4637436-1370685360-6687.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/iNPglth_TFXtmh4wQjwenhlcgeQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2117231-1391772658-6354.jpeg.jpg)

Kenia - Rio/New York (1984)
George Benson - I Got A Woman And Some Blues (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 16, 2017, 10:37:59 PM
Quote from: Aguest on January 16, 2017, 10:28:49 PM
Last hour I've been watching lots of Lenny Breau on Youtube, he's such an impressive guitarist with such a tender expressiveness  :D


https://youtu.be/TZKUcGTmvos (https://youtu.be/TZKUcGTmvos)

Yeah, he was a fine, fine player. :) You ever listen to Ted Greene? Or even Danny Gatton?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 17, 2017, 02:23:28 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 16, 2017, 01:55:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Ivo2uRlyiBXE0_pT43kfalxDLqc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2209705-1437329333-7874.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya: Home (1983)

Oooooh! Love that one!

Played these two brand new ones last night, both very enjoyable:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TK5oOHaZL._SX450_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vBk8jzVDL._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 17, 2017, 01:13:54 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 17, 2017, 02:23:28 AM
Oooooh! Love that one!


Yup, that one went immediately on to the list I'm getting together of best of the project / must relisten.

now:

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/ca043ca75113ed1d2a84c210aae6144e/2400455.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/a2yHI8y5w7Lj9UJt4biGi-C0rrU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-676982-1338253789-2765.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well (1985)
Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw - Double Take (1985)

(https://img.discogs.com/B6LM2UsQRDZqQJWFTxekeSzhcoQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3108889-1360695609-5705.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DYvAUlxjL._SY300_.jpg)

Tom Harrell - Moon Alley (1986)
Clifford Jordan - Royal Ballads (1986)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/278/MI0002278199.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/199/MI0000199440.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Michael Weiss - Presenting Michael Weiss (1986)
Jimmy Knepper - Dream Dancing (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2017, 07:26:37 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 15, 2017, 08:54:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81atTUk1rGL._SL1200_.jpg)

Listening to this one yet again. Gorgeous and the interplay between Wheeler, Taylor, Abercrombie, Holland, and Erskine is just unbelievable.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on January 18, 2017, 10:06:24 AM
Difficult to believe this album was released posthumously considering this array of musicians and how good it sounds to modern ears (at least mine, which are probably not so modern) !

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 18, 2017, 02:47:05 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/cj7MvNz-pFGJkfqDJRiYTYrRMpE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3389958-1328532062.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/2jnADKEYfJzzFTVtrU0Za_KOK50=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2515941-1288265735.jpeg.jpg)

Carmen Lundy - Good Morning Kiss (1986)
Mark Murphy - Living Room (1986)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/935/MI0001935177.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ray Anderson - It Just So Happens (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 19, 2017, 10:45:39 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/-TaaCkjoITQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 19, 2017, 12:10:30 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/502/MI0001502006.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Imagination_(Woody_Shaw_album).jpg)

Hank Jones and Red Mitchell - Duo (1987)
Woody Shaw - Imagination (1987)

(https://img.discogs.com/Hj4--__N-uk-1O28i2Apy8ZHL14=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2277957-1441972912-7351.jpeg.jpg)

Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff - Steppin Up (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2017, 03:04:29 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/162/MI0004162503.jpg)

The Three Sounds - Groovin' Hard: Live at teh Penthouse 1964-1968 (Resonance, 2016) | CD was only just released, LP already in November or December ... can't say I'm a big fan of most of their output, of course "Blue Hour" with Stanley Turrentine is wonderful, but their trio albums tend to bore me rather quickly, my favourite being the rather late-in-the-game "Live at the Lighthouse" with the late great (enormously underrated!) Donald Bailey on traps - the live setting adds to my enjoyment for sure, and so it does here. We get ten tracks almost equally divided between three line-ups, always with Gene Harris (of course!) and bassist Andy Simpkins, while we hear the original drummer Bill Dowdy (1964) and two later step-ins, Kalil Madi (1966) and Carl Burnett (1968).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 20, 2017, 07:18:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/pWTLqmV3-z4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2017, 08:53:17 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/317/MI0003317176.jpg)

First listen - great fun!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2017, 01:23:38 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/3f06Zn9UGao7Fp-ucGkrlheELLo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4837448-1429049085-3118.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Ket-McWjQ9D6nNFgIHyS81Xa-qo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4230644-1359201543-4186.jpeg.jpg)

Kirk Lightsey and Marcus Belgrave - Kirk 'n Marcus (1987)
Woody Shaw - Solid (1987)

(https://img.discogs.com/mh7uh38iqlmXsnQOrifmDggIWcQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3644634-1338654573-9115.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510nbI4UHGL.jpg)

Franco Ambrosetti - Movies Too (1988)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 21, 2017, 01:04:31 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/699/MI0000699778.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/001/MI0002001046.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jim Snidero - Mixed Bag (1988)
Jimmy McGriff - Blue To The Bone (1988)

(https://img.discogs.com/uw1qlolsFO3jqlzDk7kaMSK71gU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1591738-1230747351.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VOwa8OhbL.jpg)

Donald Byrd - Harlem Blues (1988)
Tommy Flanagan - Jazz Poet (1989)

(https://img.discogs.com/Lu39gpGFIPeWPT4mX9IQ8LdvNRk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1593261-1245176604.jpeg.jpg)

Don Cherry - Art Deco (1989)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 22, 2017, 08:53:48 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LMVLnUcqL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eaVSUptCL.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/042/MI0002042134.jpg)(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/237/0001237676.jpg)

A long (late) Monk afternoon here ... the first two Columbia albums are presenting the finalized quartet formula at its finest, and I just love the fun and energetic propulsion that Fraknie Dunlop on drums brought to the group! The third of these has Monk work out "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", solo transpositions and then transformations to, adding his own chords, re-working the tune until it sounds like Monk - mesmerizing! As a bonus, three live quartet versions from Europe, 1961-1964, are added. The fourth is a compilation of 1961 (Copenhagen and Stockholm, one cut each, both concerts were released in more complete form), 1963 (Monterey, one cut) and 1964 (four cuts, three from the same Paris gig on Feb 22, the fourth from an unknown date, but the personnel listing having Larry Gales on bass suggests it's from late in the year).

Now onto this old favourite (in it's newer incarnation):

(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/761/0000761549.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2017, 12:59:22 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/682/MI0001682119.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51S8uP3rNaL.jpg)

Hank Crawford - Night Beat (1989)
Kenny Barron - Invitation (1990)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/218/MI0002218457.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51jKN6%2BeD6L._SY355_.jpg)

Bill Doggett - The Right Choice (1991)
Kenny Barron - Lemuria-Seascape (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 22, 2017, 06:00:25 PM
Now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cQh-tnYKL._SY450_.jpg)

A new acquisition. Sounds wonderful so far. Great group of musicians backing Wheeler, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 22, 2017, 10:02:35 PM
(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/307/0000307109.jpg)

Last night the Monk at Newport 1963 set (with Pee Wee Russell, that nutty guy whose music I love so much), this morning then the final few tracks from Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard 1957 (the RVG two-disc set).

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/960/MI0003960620.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 23, 2017, 05:04:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/gFbv9EqjJXY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2017, 04:04:12 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/UjAnhPYg1yvM9zuqbeMrxOjHkas=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1909313-1251762194.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/QT5zsTFsdaOT4zhVsMDgs52dPfg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8465276-1462133599-7914.jpeg.jpg)

Dianne Reeves - I Remember (1991)
Jimmy Ponder - To Reach A Dream (1991)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513nyTMgB8L.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/797/MI0003797570.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Elvin Jones - Youngblood (1991)
T.S.Monk - Take One (1991)

(https://img.discogs.com/fZyCCQ2FIXJ_7PQmVvyy0PMtl9U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6393026-1418125810-3137.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71g2W0pdNeL._SY450_.jpg)

Jim Hall - Youkali (1992)
Shirley Scott - A Walkin Thing (1992)

(https://img.discogs.com/wi2O99ueMxB4V7Swcxh2KAL_9XA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7947188-1452207786-2117.jpeg.jpg)

Hubert Lawes - My Time Will Come (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 24, 2017, 06:25:05 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/oXgy12TT_t4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 24, 2017, 06:38:05 AM
(http://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2147-2.jpg)

Last night, third or fourth time listening to this one. It's quickly growing on me.

On the other hand, Filles De Kilimanjaro isn't really clicking for me. Does that one take awhile to appreciate?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 24, 2017, 08:34:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/OMTXjmVd6AI
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2017, 11:47:35 AM
Quote from: George on January 24, 2017, 06:38:05 AM

On the other hand, Filles De Kilimanjaro isn't really clicking for me. Does that one take awhile to appreciate?

Filles de Kilimanjaro was the first Miles album I purchased/heard back when i was 15, so it has a sentimental attachment for me, though I do also feel it has much to recommend it objectively. Its seldom listed as anyone's favorite of the second quintet, but on the other hand its seldom dismissed either - except to call it "transitional", a term I've personally never liked for any of Miles' work. It's more of an understated 1am album in comparison to a lot of the other work the band did, perhaps closer in mood to the following In A Silent Way (and two of the tracks replace members of the old band with members of that album to come), so I'd say persevere but with out the expectation of it sounding like the others and you should warm to it at least a little more.

playing now:

(https://img.discogs.com/pEiliGKNgh5Ouyze9GcUl5TvVL8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5676431-1468330049-5039.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/699/MI0000699776.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Bill Barron - Higher Ground (1993)
Jim Snidero - Blue Afternoon (1993)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71TC52-SfqL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/7NE7ry-WzB7gUxGBICgXv2_iiqw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4482625-1368691112-5113.jpeg.jpg)

Hank Jones - Upon Reflection: The Music Of Thad Jones (1993)
Teodross Avery - In Other Words (1994)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/472/MI0001472397.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sonny Fortune - Four In One (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 24, 2017, 11:59:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 24, 2017, 11:47:35 AM
Filles de Kilimanjaro was the first Miles album I purchased/heard back when i was 15, so it has a sentimental attachment for me, though I do also feel it has much to recommend it objectively. Its seldom listed as anyone's favorite of the second quintet, but on the other hand its seldom dismissed either - except to call it "transitional", a term I've personally never liked for any of Miles' work. It's more of an understated 1am album in comparison to a lot of the other work the band did, perhaps closer in mood to the following In A Silent Way (and two of the tracks replace members of the old band with members of that album to come), so I'd say persevere but with out the expectation of it sounding like the others and you should warm to it at least a little more.

Thanks. I am listening to it again now at work and enjoying it more.
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Post by: king ubu on January 24, 2017, 09:43:53 PM
I lurve "Filles"! "Mademoiselle Mabry" is one of those silent pieces of genius, so typical of Gil Evans ... there's that moment towards the end where you can actually hear quite clearly what's behind it: Jimi's "The Wind Cries Mary". Goosebumps each time I hear that again!
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Post by: king ubu on January 25, 2017, 09:05:49 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 25, 2017, 11:45:12 AM
Had not been aware of this disc at all, but stumbled over it last week when I looked for the two Red albums by JoeHen (finally had to get them in real):

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Henderson guests on three tracks with the Todd Coolman trio (leader on bass, Renee Rosnes on piano and Lewis Nash on drums), rec. 1991, rel. 1995 on Double-Time Records.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 25, 2017, 12:13:25 PM
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Sonny Fortune - A Better Understanding (1995)
Don Sickler - Night Watch (1995)

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Steve Turre - Rhythm Within (1995)
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Post by: king ubu on January 26, 2017, 11:44:29 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 26, 2017, 07:59:03 PM
Ed Bickert: At the Garden Party.

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Post by: SimonNZ on January 26, 2017, 08:33:05 PM
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Sonny Fortune - From Now On (1996)
Hank Crawford - Tight (1996)

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Carlos Garnett - Resurgence (1996)
Renee Rosnes - As We Are Now (1997)
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Post by: king ubu on January 27, 2017, 01:30:40 AM
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Mention of this set on another forum had me take it off the shelves after way too long a period in time where I may have played a few stray tracks from it (like the wonderful one by Randy Weston), so now it will be the entire set:

Wildflowers - The New York Jazz Loft Sessions (Knit Classics, 3 CD, 1999)

CD 1 has cuts by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (with Chris White and Jumma Santos), Ken McIntyre (he gets two tracks - with Richard Harper, Andrei Strobert, Andy Vega), Sunny Murray + Untouchable Factor feat. Byard Lancaster (with Khan Jamal, Fred Hopkins, David Murray), Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill's Air (with Fred Hopkins & Steve McCall), Sonelius Smith's Flight to Sanity (with Byard Lancaster, Art Bennett, Olu Dara, Benny Wilson and Don Moye), Anthony Braxton (with George Lewis, not *that* but the real Michael Jackson, Hopkins, Barry Altschul and Phillip Wilson), and Marion Brown (with Jack Gregg and Jumma Santos)

CD 2 then has Wadada Leo Smith (with Oliver Lake, Anthony Davis, Wes Brown, Paul Maddox and *that* Stanley "I'll punch yo face" Crouch), Randy Weston (with Alex Blake and Azzedin Weston), Michael Jackson (with Lake, Hopkins, Wilson), Dave Burrell (with Stafford James and Harold White), Ahmed Abdullah (with a great, great band: Charles Brackeen, Mashujaa, Leory Seals, Richie Evans, Rashid Sinan), Andrew Cyrille + Maono (Ted Daniel, David Ware, Lisle Atkinson), Hamiet Bluiett (with Dara, Butch Campbell, Billy Pastterson, Jooni Both, the late Charles "Bobo" Shaw and Moye), and Julius Hemphill (with Abdul Wadud, Bern Nix, Wilson and Moye).

CD 3 starts with normal-length three tracks (as all the rest of the set, roughly 5-10 minutes, one is shorter, a few are 10 or 12, the Maono track is an excerpt of a long performance, the Sonelius Smith misses the beginning due to technical problems) by Jimmy Lyons (with Karen Borca, Hayes Burnett and Henry Letcher), Oliver Lake (with Jackson, Hopkins and Wilson), and David Murray (Dara, Hopkins, Crouch - that's the shortest track, just 2:45 minutes). Then we get two long tracks by Sunny Murray + Untouchable Factor (same line-up as already listed, incl. Lancaster) and Roscoe Mitchell (at 25 minutes the longest, and what an amazing one! he is accompanied by Jerome Cooper and Moye).

The fact that several musicians turn up on several tracks (Hopkins, Moye, Jackson, D. Murray, Dara, Lake) shows how many of these musicians were part of the same scene(s) - and it helps forming a rather coherent, if very diverse and adventurous whole of this set. Amazing stuff, for sure!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on January 27, 2017, 10:48:22 AM
Not for everyone, but those attuned and turned on to the celestial vibrations emanating from Saturn, birthplace of the artist*, will appreciate it :

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*though some claim it was Alabama.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2017, 07:53:56 PM
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Jack Sheldon - Playing For Change (1997)
Ron Carter - The Bass And I (1997)

Might have to call it an end with the RVG project at this point. There are a few more new albums, but they're mostly on obscure labels and I can't find them. But the majority of his time from here until his death was spent on reissue/remaster work.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2017, 11:04:31 PM
Time for another listen to this, then:

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Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2017, 06:55:24 PM
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Miles Davis - Live at Paul's Mall, Boston 1972
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Post by: George on January 28, 2017, 07:42:55 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 28, 2017, 06:55:24 PM
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Miles Davis - Live at Paul's Mall, Boston 1972

Have not heard that. How is it?

Also, could I ask your opinion on these albums? I don't have them, nor have I heard them:

Blue Moods – 1955 – 26 minutes

Quiet Nights – 1963 – 27 minutes

Big Fun – 1974 - compilation

Get Up With It – 1974

Water Babies – 1976 (recorded in 1967)

You're Under Arrest – 1985
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2017, 08:18:50 PM
Quote from: George on January 28, 2017, 07:42:55 PM
Have not heard that. How is it?

Also, could I ask your pinion on these albums? I don't have them, nor have I heard them:

Blue Moods – 1955 – 26 minutes

Quiet Nights – 1963 – 27 minutes

Big Fun – 1974 - compilation

Get Up With It – 1974

Water Babies – 1976 (recorded in 1967)

You're Under Arrest – 1985

First time I'd heard that Boston, 72 bootleg. Originally, I think, a radio broadcast, but the sound isn't broadcast quality. It's post Bitches Brew funky meanderings with lots of pedal effects. I enjoyed it, but won't feel the need to play it again anytime soon.

Blue Moods is actually a favorite of mine, in my opinion an unfairly neglected album at least as good as the best of his Prestige work. I love all four of the early albums he made with vibes as part of the ensemble, and this one especially. Very relaxed tempos and very moody/introspective arrangements.

Quiet Nights, legend goes, was released without Miles' okay, rounding up unused and substandard bits from various sessions/experiments with Gil Evans. Though not actually bad, it is unanimously considered the least interesting album to have their names together, and I myself haven't felt the need to revisit in two decades.

Water Babies is really interesting. Like Filles it mixes tracks by the second quintet (Shorter-penned outakes from the Nefertiti sessions he would later record for his own Super Nova album) and tracks with Corea and Holland in the band looking forward to In A Silent Way. Not at all a mere album of leftovers.

You're Under Arrest I've personally never cared much for. A few people, though only a few, say its his best album of the eighties. Other say Aura, but my vote would be Tutu. Arrest I find equal parts undemanding and kitschy (and not the good kind). The two pop covers, which again some like, are for my money the closest he ever came to Easy Listening.

Big Fun and Get Up With It I need to hear again. I remember finding both fascinating last time I heard them, but no longer have a clear picture.

playing now:

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The Swingle Singers and The Modern Jazz Quartet - Place Vendome (1966)
Mal Waldron - Meditations (1972)

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Gabor Szabo - 1969
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Post by: George on January 29, 2017, 04:46:04 AM
Thanks, Simon!

Seems like there's always more Miles out there to discover.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on January 29, 2017, 07:37:10 PM
Earlier today
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A deliberately retro excursion into Cuban music, done well. 
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Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 29, 2017, 08:09:52 PM
Quote from: Ghost Sonata on January 27, 2017, 10:48:22 AM
Not for everyone, but those attuned and turned on to the celestial vibrations emanating from Saturn, birthplace of the artist*, will appreciate it :

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*though some claim it was Alabama.

Maybe not for everyone, but everyone should at least give it a chance (listen all the way through) at least once. Along with Pharoah Sander's Karma, it is one of my favorite "out"/"free jazz" recordings.
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Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 29, 2017, 08:14:50 PM
This is really a great record (I'm callin' them "records" these days!  :P ) ). Mine is the original LP, with great sound quality and nearly silent surfaces after a cleaning with the Keith Monks machine.

I have some of her later recordings, but, naturally her voice is a bit higher here, but no less enjoyable. The material ranges from lighthearted and funny "Loads of love" to poignant ("Ten cents a dance"). Really a must-have for lovers of great vocal recordings.

Shirley Horn: Loads of Love 1963

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 29, 2017, 08:55:50 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 29, 2017, 08:14:50 PM
This is really a great record (I'm callin' them "records" these days!  :P ) ). Mine is the original LP, with great sound quality and nearly silent surfaces after a cleaning with the Keith Monks machine.

I have some of her later recordings, but, naturally her voice is a bit higher here, but no less enjoyable. The material ranges from lighthearted and funny "Loads of love" to poignant ("Ten cents a dance"). Really a must-have for lovers of great vocal recordings.

Shirley Horn: Loads of Love 1963

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Shirley Horn is one of my favorite jazz vocalists. Such a pure, emotionally vulnerable, heart-warming voice.
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Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 29, 2017, 09:17:13 PM
Yes, agreed, she's up there on my list--not quite as high as the Divine One (Sarah Vaughan).

Lately, I've been enjoying Abbey Lincoln too, although I must admit I didn't like her at first. Her cover of the song "Should've been" is priceless IMO.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2017, 02:40:12 PM
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Duke Jordan - Flight To Denmark (1973)
Emily Remler - This Is Me (1990)

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Emily Remler - Firefly (1981)
Joe Pass and Red Mitchell - Finally (1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2017, 03:24:52 PM
From my RVG project: a list of some of the albums that particularly impressed me on first listen for one reason or another, and which I'd like to relisten to sooner rather than later. Comments welcomed if you're familiar with any of them (sorry if it seems like a long list, its just a fraction of what I played - to the extent that a great many not listed here have already been half forgotten or blurred together):

Sal Salvador - Quintet
Tal Farlow - Quartet
Billy Taylor - Cross Section
Barbara Lea - A Woman In Love
Lou Mecca - Quartet
Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House
Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp
Chico Hamilton - Passin' Thru
Steve Lacy - Reflections
Shirley Scott - Scottie Plays The Duke
Betty Roche - Singin' And Swingin'
Larry Young - Testifying
Walt Dickerson - A Sense Of Direction
The Swingville All-Stars - Years Ago
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Sounds Of Africa
Shirley Scott - Blue Seven
The Swingville All-Stars - Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Kenny Burrell and Jack McDuff - Crash
Roy Haynes - Cymbalism
Booker Ervin - The Song Book
A.K.Salim - Afro-Soul/Drum Orgy
Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters - Now! Hear!
George Braith - Extension
Oliver Nelson - More Blues And The Abstract Truth
Freddie Roach - All That's Good
Donald Byrd - I'm Trying To Get Home
Booker Ervin - The Space Book
Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata
Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig And Panic
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Morris Nanton - Something We've Got
Lalo Schifrin - Once a Thief and Other Themes
Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga
Ornette Coleman - The Empty Foxhole
Jimmy Smith - Peter And The Wolf
Larry Young - Of Love And Peace
Gary McFarland and Gábor Szabó - Simpático
Lalo Schifrin - The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music
Chico Hamilton - The Further Adventures Of El Chico
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down
Chico Hamilton - The Dealer
Jackie McLean - "Bout Soul
Duke Pearson - Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band
Lee Morgan - Sixth Sense
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Stanley Turrentine (with Shirley Scott) - Common Touch
Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
Donald Byrd - Fancy Free
Lee Morgan - The Last Session
Don Sebesky - Giant Box
Gábor Szabó - Mizrab
Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me
Ron Carter - New York Slick
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres
Ray Barretto - La Cuna
Chet Baker / Jim Hall / Hubert Lawes - Studio Trieste
Malachi Thompson - Spirit
Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya: Home
Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well
Franco Ambrosetti - Movies Too
Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif
Bill Doggett - The Right Choice
Jim Hall - Youkali
Hank Jones - Upon Reflection: The Music Of Thad Jones
Renee Rosnes - As We Are Now
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 30, 2017, 04:41:34 PM
Today:

Miles Davis - On The Corner - man, what a challenging listen
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on January 31, 2017, 11:37:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/v1mJKpbVB1Q
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Post by: Brian on January 31, 2017, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 30, 2017, 03:24:52 PM
From my RVG project:
I've thought about doing a "desert island producer" poll where you can only take one producer's work with you to the desert island, with Alfred Lion, Norman Granz, Teo Macero, Bob Weinstock, Orrin Keepnews, etc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 31, 2017, 03:17:35 PM
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Count Basie - Basie's In The Bag (1967)
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Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 31, 2017, 04:56:28 PM
Heard this great recording on the radio today--added to wish list. My collection is woefully lacking in Ben Webster--not for long!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 31, 2017, 05:22:28 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on January 31, 2017, 05:01:48 PM
One of my favorite Miles records.  I remember when it first came out, I loved it but all my friends (other jazz players) put it down.  I didn't care; I would leave it on 24/7; just there all the time.  Still love it.  The On the Corner Complete Sessions is great, too.

Can you please tell me what you like about it? And/or what I must be missing?
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Post by: George on February 01, 2017, 02:27:18 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on January 31, 2017, 06:06:47 PM
Listen to it like you would James Brown.

OK, will do, thanks!
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Post by: Brian on February 01, 2017, 06:24:53 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 31, 2017, 04:56:28 PM
Heard this great recording on the radio today--added to wish list. My collection is woefully lacking in Ben Webster--not for long!

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Any album where Ben Webster joins forces with Coleman Hawkins, Harry Edison, Johnny Hodges, or Oscar Peterson is essential!

- Ben & Sweets
- Sweets
- Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
- Blues-a-Plenty
- Not So Dukish
- Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson

I want to hear the collabo album with Joe Zawinul and Philly Joe Jones, too...
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Post by: Spineur on February 01, 2017, 12:05:55 PM
Quote from: Brian on February 01, 2017, 06:24:53 AM
Any album where Ben Webster joins forces with Coleman Hawkins, Harry Edison, Johnny Hodges, or Oscar Peterson is essential!

- Ben & Sweets
- Sweets
- Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
- Blues-a-Plenty
- Not So Dukish
- Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson

I want to hear the collabo album with Joe Zawinul and Philly Joe Jones, too...
Another mellow jazz album (with string orchestra)
"The Warm Moods"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2017, 03:25:13 PM
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Kenny Burrell - Then Along Came Kenny: Live At The Village Vanguard (1996)
Chet Baker and Philip Catherine -  Chet's Choice (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 02, 2017, 08:36:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/DmRkZeGFONg
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Post by: James on February 02, 2017, 09:08:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/SqyepMYvUac
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Post by: SimonNZ on February 02, 2017, 12:36:29 PM
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Jim Hall - All Across the City (1989)
Peter Beets - New York Trio (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 02, 2017, 11:12:52 PM
Re Webster/Tatum: the edition depicted above is one of the many euro PD reissues ... Tatum is amazing ad I think both the Pablo Solo and Group Masterpieces boxes are still available (the later of which, as its crown, containing the album with Webster - the LPs were initially released on Verve but Granz took them with him and reissued them al on Pablo, later Fantasy made two boxes and those were again reprinted bby Universal Italia).

Other than that, Brian's list is good, you cN add "Soulville" to it (again with Peterson). And I also really love the 1965 Copenhagen live recordings with the Kenny Drew Trio! (Three sets on three LPs, later on two CDs with the middle set split up).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on February 03, 2017, 09:32:44 AM
Often, a little bit o' everything is quite a bit o' nothing:

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Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2017, 01:21:55 PM
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Barney Kessel - Easy Like (1956)
Jimmy Raney - Raney'81 (1981)

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Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin - Songs (1981)
Tim Warfield - A Whisper In The Midnight (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on February 03, 2017, 06:44:04 PM
All Jazz Weekend Chez Le Fantôme

Now:  [asin]B0000047CS[/asin]

And tomorrow I'm joining the march 'cause I've had all I can stand and can't stand no more.  Sure hope I don't get my head clubbed-in.  I'm too old for this actually, but also too old for Repiglican Oppression.  1970 redux.
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Post by: Artem on February 04, 2017, 03:23:47 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 01, 2017, 03:25:13 PM
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Chet Baker and Philip Catherine -  Chet's Choice (1985)
This is a great album. Chet Bakes has been my recent discovery. His 1980s stuff is great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 04, 2017, 12:50:05 PM
Quote from: Artem on February 04, 2017, 03:23:47 AM
This is a great album. Chet Bakes has been my recent discovery. His 1980s stuff is great.

Yeah! I'm going to have to try and hear more of his later albums, which I'm largely unfamiliar with, so any recommendations welcomed. As I indicated a little bit upthread there were two in the RVG project I heard - She Was Too Good To Me from 1974 and Studio Trieste from 1982 - both of which I though were unexpected knockouts.

now:

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Terry Gibbs - It's Time We Met Terry Gibbs (1965)
Warne marsh - Star Highs (1982)

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Joe Maneri - Coming Down The Mountain (1997)
Eberhard Weber - Pendulum (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 05, 2017, 01:06:22 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2017, 12:50:05 PM
Yeah! I'm going to have to try and hear more of his later albums, which I'm largely unfamiliar with, so any recommendations welcomed. As I indicated a little bit upthread there were two in the RVG project I heard - She Was Too Good To Me from 1974 and Studio Trieste from 1982 - both of which I though were unexpected knockouts.
I only have a few of his disks, but out of them I really like Candy and Broken Wing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 05, 2017, 06:32:59 AM
Miles Davis - Water Babies

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2017, 12:09:55 PM
Quote from: Artem on February 05, 2017, 01:06:22 AM
I only have a few of his disks, but out of them I really like Candy and Broken Wing.

Will check those two out. Thanks.

now:

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Joe Puma - It's A Blue World  (1999)
Kirk Lightsey - Isotope (1983)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51c7m7Uab-L._SX355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617LiL16MpL._SS500.jpg)

Ellery Eskelin - One Great Day (1996)
Terje Rypdal - What Comes After (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 06, 2017, 04:13:56 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2017, 12:50:05 PM
Yeah! I'm going to have to try and hear more of his later albums, which I'm largely unfamiliar with, so any recommendations welcomed. As I indicated a little bit upthread there were two in the RVG project I heard - She Was Too Good To Me from 1974 and Studio Trieste from 1982 - both of which I though were unexpected knockouts.

There's lots of fine late Chet Baker ... the one most outstanding album may be "Crystal Bells" (CD reissue on Igloo). Others I really like include "Strollin'" and "Peace" (both Enja), somewhat earlier "Broken Wings" (reissued in Universal France's "Jazz in Paris" series), "Mr. B." (Timeless, also reiasued in their most recent series). "Blues for a Reason" (Criss Cross, with Warne Marsh and the late Hod O'Brien) is also pretty good, so is "Candy" (if you can find the Sonet reissue), and so is the duo album with Paul Bley, "Diane" (Steeplechase). The "Sesjun Radio Shows" two-disc-set gives a good overview of late Chet in different line-ups ... and "Silence", the Soul Note album with Charlie Haden, Enrico Pieranunzi and Billy Higgins, can be found in the Haden "The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note" (CAM Jazz) (but not in the Pieranunzi one, just in case ... they have since started duplicating sideman-appearances much more often ...)

Either way, last jazz albums on play here:

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(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/400/0000/852/0000852075.jpg)
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The last one just bought in Novara at the concert of the Vinnie Golia Trio (which was truly excellent, though it should have been the Bobby Bradford/Vinnie Golia Quartet).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 06, 2017, 04:35:58 AM
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Lovin the Jack Johnson. On the Corner I am still trying to appreciate. Great sound on these Mofi SACDs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2017, 12:19:49 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 06, 2017, 04:13:56 AM
There's lots of fine late Chet Baker ... the one most outstanding album may be "Crystal Bells" (CD reissue on Igloo). Others I really like include "Strollin'" and "Peace" (both Enja), somewhat earlier "Broken Wings" (reissued in Universal France's "Jazz in Paris" series), "Mr. B." (Timeless, also reiasued in their most recent series). "Blues for a Reason" (Criss Cross, with Warne Marsh and the late Hod O'Brien) is also pretty good, so is "Candy" (if you can find the Sonet reissue), and so is the duo album with Paul Bley, "Diane" (Steeplechase). The "Sesjun Radio Shows" two-disc-set gives a good overview of late Chet in different line-ups ... and "Silence", the Soul Note album with Charlie Haden, Enrico Pieranunzi and Billy Higgins, can be found in the Haden "The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note" (CAM Jazz) (but not in the Pieranunzi one, just in case ... they have since started duplicating sideman-appearances much more often ...)


Thanks very much for that. Made a note of all of those. Will probably get to the Criss Cross album soon, as I'm trying to play one of their albums every day.

now:

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Barney Kessel - Carmen (1959)
Paul Dunmall - Ghostly Thoughts (1997)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51c6hv4ec7L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/PtPFlzfAjmqAQ8w5NKs1TfNvD1E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2736679-1298731721.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny Coles - New Morning (1982)
Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 07, 2017, 12:19:07 PM
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Duke Ellington - The Latin American Suite (1972)
Duke Ellington - Soul Call (1967)

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Doug Raney - Meeting The Tenors (1983)
Misha Mengelberg - The Root Of The Problem (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 07, 2017, 01:26:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51a0%2BtJCEaL.jpg)

Revisiting this after reading about the death of Asmussen - such a charming album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 08, 2017, 03:19:14 PM
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Chet Baker - Broken Wing (1978)
Wayne Marsh - A Ballad Album (1983)

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Matthew Shipp - Thesis (1997)
Duke Ellington - Festival Session (1959)

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Duke Ellington - Blues In Orbit (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 09, 2017, 08:56:15 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71nwm-mkf-L._SL500_.jpg)

A first listen on this slow-snowy day at work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2017, 12:18:44 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/kd_qd6GhUuzI0Zl9aQHXS8y3HPI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1053913-1279041578.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/6111Ej2hMvL._SX466_.jpg)

Chet Baker - Candy (1985)
Clifford Jordan - Two Tenor Winner (1984)
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Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 09, 2017, 10:16:03 PM
Wishlisted (just heard on KCSM's All Out): Two Wadada Leo Smith CDs

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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2B0ZPYpwlL._SY450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 10, 2017, 02:30:09 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YOjBPetCL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 10, 2017, 06:13:50 AM
I love this stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/v/7naoQ9iuLJI
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 10, 2017, 06:22:47 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 10, 2017, 06:13:50 AM
I love this stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/v/7naoQ9iuLJI

Stan Kenton is one of my faves, Karl. Great stuff. Check out his Standards albums: Portrait On Standards and Sketches On Standards. Right up your alley.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 10, 2017, 02:13:03 PM
piano, piano, piano:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 10, 2017, 02:32:00 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XejzK2QSzCShxhXS2zGuWeF8T68=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2067719-1262101532.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/IS8Zwepi6SzYOgsMe2RUB_gcltk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1331758-1422633876-2617.jpeg.jpg)

Chet Baker - Crystal Bells (1983)
Kollektiv - Live 1973

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Slide Hampton - Roots (1985)
Myra Melford and Han Bennink - Eleven Ghosts (1997)

(https://img.discogs.com/1CiDdtnFW3Pr2hQNxjoKAgRz1Ek=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1905076-1282914246.jpeg.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Jazz At The Plaza Vol.2 (rec:1958 rel:1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 11, 2017, 01:04:04 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/ltha-1RIKVb2Ds9u6qzU_XPQnBI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2174286-1314220663.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/637/MI0000637115.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Chet Baker - Strollin (1985)
David Pike - Pike's Groove (1986)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/414/MI0001414023.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jimmy Giuffre and André Jaume - Momentum, Willisau 1988
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Post by: HIPster on February 11, 2017, 05:47:51 PM
Sangam - Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Eric Harland

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Post by: SimonNZ on February 12, 2017, 11:44:15 AM
(http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/pochs_g/0124419.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/592/MI0000592601.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Barney Kessel - To Swing Or Not To Swing (1956)
Cedar Walton - Bluesville Time (1985)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51C1ng3z6BL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/03FyLWExG3JOsSYbecW2fqcjcv4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4330330-1361919218-9327.jpeg.jpg)

Mat Maneri - Acceptance (1998)
Duke Ellington - This One's For Blanton (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 12, 2017, 02:40:17 PM
@SimonNZ: hope you enjoyed the late Chet!

Here, lately:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41OXjs0%2BxLL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51c5cuCWwmL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LfqEUW6AL.jpg)

Guess the first one is the only one really worth considering, unless you're really into Japanese Jazz Rock or Jazz Rock/Fusion in general ... but the other two have Masabumi Kikuchi, so I guess I had to get them, nonetheless.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 12, 2017, 06:34:04 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 12, 2017, 02:40:17 PM
@SimonNZ: hope you enjoyed the late Chet!


I am enjoying them! I'm especially admiring the young sidemen he's got on these dates and the room he's giving them to stretch out and shine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 12, 2017, 07:07:28 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 13, 2017, 01:24:27 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Song_X_20th_Anniversary_Edition.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/2-Ny6dQZ8FN4wQ5mJdwF5FMWyDk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-612454-1254756937.jpeg.jpg)

Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X (1986)
Ornette Coleman - Crisis (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/blWg_UPeGY5n1k24La1qGxtiOJQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-698097-1322417698.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/gUS_omlrFR0P_52REn9-1rTdugg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6312759-1416217314-7713.jpeg.jpg)

Chet Baker and Paul Bley - Diane (1985)
Ralph Moore - 623 C Street (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 14, 2017, 11:57:03 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/392/MI0002392565.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/rLra43N_ZeO5ZhbGNKeJCmXa-AE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3469770-1331707013.jpeg.jpg)

Walt Dickerson - To My Son (1980)
Billy Taylor - A Touch Of Taylor (1955)

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Bryan Lynch - Peer Preasure (1986)
Matthew Shipp - The Multiplication Table (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on February 14, 2017, 04:46:02 PM
Jim Hall: Jazz Guitar.

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Jimmy Raney: Jimmy Raney visits Paris.

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Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2017, 01:08:03 PM
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Jim Hall - Live In Toronto (1977)
Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz (1955)

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Ted Brown - Free Spirit (1987)
Sven-Åke Johansson - Six Little Pieces For Quintet (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on February 15, 2017, 07:13:11 PM
Joe Pass: The Complete "Catch Me!" Sessions.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2017, 10:38:04 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 12, 2017, 06:34:04 PM
I am enjoying them! I'm especially admiring the young sidemen he's got on these dates and the room he's giving them to stretch out and shine.

Catherine is the main act there, I think - some truly outstanding albums in trios with a bassist added to him and Chet!

Here, lately:

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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JPyaxJkWL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61d4gqzWE0L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 16, 2017, 01:31:58 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61rVLdsmn9L._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 16, 2017, 12:15:24 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/lvPnJrOuVGy50SKOg5k7OsGz6EY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3374628-1327880585.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/562/MI0000562024.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Barney Kessel - Kessel Plays Standards (1956)
Hampton Hawes - All Night Session Vol.1 (1956)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pucZB1WfL.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Music_for_Perla.jpg)

Mike LeDonne - 'Bout Time (1988)
Tete Montoliu - Music For Perla (1974)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Miles_Davis_get_up_with_it.png)

Miles Davis - Get Up With It (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 17, 2017, 05:48:35 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81nqTW%2BTu0L._SL1500_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CY-Y4klvL.jpg)

Two excellent 2016 historical releases ... still catching up with the latest wave of Frémeaux' "Live in Paris" series (Les McCann, MJQ, JATP, Monk ... the series also contains fine sets by Basie, Ray Charles, Sinatra, Ella ...). The TCB series is aces anyway, still missing Vol. 42 (Brubeck), and Vol. 1 I have elsewhere (a Quincy Jones package of live material by his great big band of 1960/61), all the other 40 discs I have on my shelves (and there are two more concert recordings worth mentioning: Ellington 1950 and Satchmo 1949, both from Zurich and not part of the Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 17, 2017, 12:38:31 PM
(https://s4.postimg.org/66n1ift8t/picci092.jpg)

First spin.
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Post by: SimonNZ on February 17, 2017, 02:02:45 PM
^Heh. I'd be interested to hear your initial reaction to that one. I think first time I heard it back in my teens it kind of scared me a little.

btw: It was great hearing Get Up With It again last night. For some reason that's an album that seems to change its shape and create a different reaction each of the half-dozen times I've heard it. Learned for the first time that the opening "He Loved Him Madly" is a musical touchstone and inspiration for Brian Eno, which seems like it should have been obvious now that I've heard it.

now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Benny_Golson's_New_York_Scene.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/710/MI0000710818.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Benny Golson - Benny Golson's New York Scene (1957)
Steve Nelson - Communications (1987)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lYjlE7ITL._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wIhPK2fQL._SY300_.jpg)

Noah Kaplan - Descendants (2011)
Chris Potter - Lift: Live At The Village Vanguard (2004)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 17, 2017, 02:17:25 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 17, 2017, 02:02:45 PM
^Heh. I'd be interested to hear your initial reaction to that one. I think first time I heard it back in my teens it kind of scared me a little.

Yeah, scary indeed. But in a good way. This is some great stuff. I am tempted to go for the whole shebang and pick up The Cellar Door Sessions.

Quotebtw: It was great hearing Get Up With It again last night. For some reason that's an album that seems to change its shape and create a different reaction each of the half-dozen times I've heard it. Learned for the first time that the opening "He Loved Him Madly" is a musical touchstone and inspiration for Brian Eno, which seems like it should have been obvious now that I've heard it.

Get Up With It is another recent Miles Davis album I picked up for the first time. I have yet to hear it, maybe sometime this weekend.

I also found a cheap used copy of Big Fun. That one is on the way.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2017, 03:44:12 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41r%2BdkJtHJL.jpg)

Monk in Stockholm, and then in Copenhagen - May 1961 - the first is a double LP on Dragon. This is a recent acquisition, but quickly turning into a favourite, at least as far as that well-documented tour in April and May 1961 is concerned. Riverside picked two of the weaker concerts, I think. The "Monk in France" album, of which the "Complete Riverside Recordings" box already contained various bonus tracks is the basis of the again expanded "Live in Paris" two disc set depicted above ... making it longer doesn't make it much better, it's okay though, but not great; "Monk in Italy" is to my ears on about the same level. This here from Stockholm and the Storyville disc with the following night's Copenhagen concert sound much better to me. Here, Rouse is indeed in great shape, and Monk as so often seems to depend on the mood of his band. The better the band plays, the more he plays instead of just going through the moves. I guess "Monk's Dream" and "Monk in Tokyo" remain my favourites of this band (the Rouse-Monk-Ore/Warren-Dunlop line-up, that is - change on bass makes no difference, but when Dunlop left, the band's sound, or rather: the band's groove and swing did change some, but the Rouse-Monk-Gales-Riley band was still excellent when it was in good moods), and in fact favourites as far as late Monk in general is concerned ("Big Band and Quartet in Concert" would probably be the third big favourite there).

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/522/MI0001522889.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2017, 06:07:35 AM
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Sam Rivers - Streams | A terrific album, finally found my own copy of the LP in Vienna last summer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 18, 2017, 01:06:30 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Ben_Webster_at_the_Renaissance.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cMeybJxML._SS500.jpg)

Ben Webster - At The Renaissance (1960)
Benny Green - Prelude (1988)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/156/MI0003156388.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Sotho Blue (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 18, 2017, 01:20:53 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61rRoXVvKXL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 18, 2017, 02:03:02 PM
Are you wanting someone to ask why you're posting blues albums on the Jazz listening thread?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2017, 02:51:51 PM
Well, Jimi is jazz, at least in spirit.

Earlier:

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My late night listen is Ran Blake:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on February 18, 2017, 04:13:26 PM
Extraordinary sound and superb playing. I bought a 24bit/192Khz file that was copied directly from the analog master tape.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 18, 2017, 05:34:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 18, 2017, 02:03:02 PM
Are you wanting someone to ask why you're posting blues albums on the Jazz listening thread?

Nope. But in case you missed it ..

The Jazz Lounge
Blues, Bluegrass, Dixieland, Swing, Mainstream, Be-Bop, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Smooth and everything in between.

Besides, anyone who knows their stuff (like the folks who designed this section of the forum), knows that the blues & jazz are virtually inseparable.
Furthermore, both of those albums are packed with things that are fundamental to jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 19, 2017, 02:03:18 AM
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Not your typical organ jazz ... far from it! They have collaborated with Joe McPhee (there's a mighty good rekkid out, actually a two-disc set on Otoroku, which expands on a previous release), Marshall Allen, and Evan Parker. The later combination I caught live in concert in Novara in Janaury 2016 and they were amazing. Bought Vol. 2 from Steve Noble back then, my LP is #12 of a 315 run. Not sure it can still be found. Vol. 1 is a CD.

Next up:

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Maurice Vander (11 June 1929 - 16 February 2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 19, 2017, 04:10:43 AM
(http://upcomingvinyl.com/pics/covers/j/john-coltrane-coltrane-plays-the-blues.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 19, 2017, 05:11:19 AM
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The Levey is pretty excellent, though I slightly prefer his first for Bethlehem with a very similar band but Dexter Gordon on tenor ... the Rouse I never before enjoyed as much as today, it's nice but not great, and I guess the same applies to the 2016 album by Shabaka and the Ancestors, whom I plan to listen to in concert in about a month.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 19, 2017, 10:36:36 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 19, 2017, 12:15:05 PM
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More Monk from his long 1961 European tour ... I guess the Stockholm is the best by a margin, but I'd need to spend some more time with all of the recordings. Copenhagen is fine, so is Amsterdam (the disc is filled up with a shorter studio session also from the Netherlands from the start of the European sojourn, while the concert comes from the tail end of it, Berlin was two days later).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 19, 2017, 12:26:15 PM
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Jackie McLean - A Ghetto Lullaby (1974)
Peter Leitch - Portraits And Dedications (1988)

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Abdullah Ibrahim - Banyana (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 19, 2017, 02:01:26 PM
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Miles Davis - Get Up With It - Recorded 1970 - 1974
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on February 19, 2017, 02:38:29 PM
Dave Holland - ones all

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Have not played this in an age!

So cool to revisit right now.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on February 20, 2017, 05:27:31 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 20, 2017, 02:08:26 PM
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First spin, and already really enjoying these.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 20, 2017, 02:48:54 PM
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Larry Coryell - Private Concert (1998) and Restful Mind (1975)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dee Sharp on February 20, 2017, 05:11:39 PM
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.  Absolute bliss.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 21, 2017, 01:56:08 PM
Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin....


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 21, 2017, 04:02:00 PM
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Second spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 21, 2017, 08:44:29 PM
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Peter Beets - New York Trio, Page Two (2002)
Cecil Taylor - Garden 1st Set (2015)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 22, 2017, 09:20:06 PM
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Peter Beets - New York Trio, Page Three (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 23, 2017, 02:06:59 AM
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Giancarlo Tossani Synapser + Ralph Alessi – Newswok, with the leader on piano, the star guest on trumpet, and Achille Succi (as, clars), Tito Mangialajo Rantzer (b) and Cristiano Calcagnile (d). I bought it in Novara recently when Calcagnile played there with Vinnie Golia and Bernard Santacruz and they had some CDs with them. Pretty good indeed!

Then on with Thelonious Monk:

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"Live in New York Vol. 1" is the earliest document I believe of Charlie Rouse with Monk - still at Five Spot and with Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Roy Haynes, somewhen in 1958 (the Five Spot gig ended in mid October, after which Monk lost his cabaret card again for one and a half years ... he and Nica - who recorded this and her voice can be heard a few times - entered a segregated diner and Monk picked up a fight with the owner as well as the policemen that were called and that beat him up badly). Fast forward to 1963, the quartet now with Ben Riley on drums and Butch Warren on bass, who has some rather fine solo spots (and easily kicks the asses of John Ore and Larry Gales in that respect ... but those two had more of that deep ooomph that Monk wanted, I assume), on "It's Monk's Time" as well as the two volumes from a Paris concert early in 1964. In Monterey, Steve Swallow is on bass - I think he wasn't a member of the band for real, just stepping in as the bass chair was vacant. The highlight here is the closing "Straight No Chaser" with a larger ensemble and an amazing trumpet solo by Bobby Bryant. "Monk." then is the first album of the line-up with Larry Gales on bass (and of course still Charlie Rouse-ts and Ben Riley-d). This band would be stable for four years.

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Now, for a change, revisiting Charlie Rouse's lone album as a leader (he has some good co-led albums with Julius Watkins though, running under "The Jazz Modes" - will have to dig those up as well soon).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 23, 2017, 12:48:14 PM
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Peter Beets - Chopin Meets The Blues (2010)
Dexter Gordon - Stable Mable (1975)

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Anthony Braxton - in The Tradition (1974)
Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism Of Erik Satie (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 25, 2017, 04:30:44 AM
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r.i.p. Horace Parlan

This album has him playing with a wonderful quintet with two great horns: Thad Jones and Eddie Harris. He turned into a favourite very early on - Stanley Turrentine's "Up at Minton's" and the recordings with Mingus were amongst my earliest jazz favourites. Alas, I was never able to catch him in concert.

I was well aware of his right hand only having two "good" fingers due to polio, but never saw how he actually played. This was just brought to my attention on another forum and it's truly fascinating - starts around 7:55 (the camera drifts over to the drums for a while but then returns ... and with you, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Jordan are watching, too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7b9UOAk_O4

In case flash again fails, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7b9UOAk_O4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 25, 2017, 06:04:23 AM
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Another fine Parlan quintet, with Franks Strozier and Foster, the great Lisle Atkinson on bass, and the old sidekick Al Harewood on drums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 25, 2017, 07:04:35 AM
Cool spring=Chet Baker In Milan & Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2017, 01:01:46 PM
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Horace Parlan - Musically Yours (1979)

RIP


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Kevin Norton - Knots (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 26, 2017, 06:04:39 AM
 Yesterday:
Lots of secret agent and crime jazz out there, but this has that "big city lights" feel with mixed tracks of melancholy.  My M Squad and Naked City  lps have a similar tone. 

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 26, 2017, 12:45:40 PM
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Sam Newsome - Sam I Am (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 27, 2017, 02:05:12 PM
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M.T.B. - Consenting Adults (1994)
Cuong Vu - Leaps Of Faith (2011)

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Abdullah Ibrahim - Africa: Tears and Laughter (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 28, 2017, 12:19:45 PM
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Peter Bernstein - Somethin's Burnin' (1992)
Vienna Art Orchestra - A Notion In Perpetual Motion (1985)

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Cuong Vu - Pure (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on February 28, 2017, 04:29:29 PM
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Never, ever, ever, gets old.  Masterpiece!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 28, 2017, 04:39:15 PM
Quote from: Bogey on February 28, 2017, 04:29:29 PM
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Never, ever, ever, gets old.  Masterpiece!

Absolutely! I recently got the Kevin Gray SACD hybrid remaster for Analog Productions.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2017, 12:20:17 PM
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Mike LeDonne - Waltz For An Urbanite (1995)
Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple (1977)

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Cuong Vu - Vu-Tet (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 01, 2017, 12:24:48 PM
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Discs 1 and 2 with the trio albums, all three recorded in 1960: "Movin' and Groovin'", "Us Three" and "Headin' South" - Al Harewood is on drums throughout, Sam Jones on bass on the first, then it's George Tucker ("Us Three" is Parlan-Tucker-Harewood), on the third, for most of the tracks the congas of Ray Barretto are added. Wonderful music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 01, 2017, 01:22:52 PM
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one of my oldest and dearest favourites
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 01, 2017, 01:47:28 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 01, 2017, 12:24:48 PM
Discs 1 and 2 with the trio albums, all three recorded in 1960: "Movin' and Groovin'", "Us Three" and "Headin' South" - Al Harewood is on drums throughout, Sam Jones on bass on the first, then it's George Tucker ("Us Three" is Parlan-Tucker-Harewood), on the third, for most of the tracks the congas of Ray Barretto are added. Wonderful music.
My first introduction to Sam Jones was "Somethin' Else," where the booklet note says something like, "As for Sam Jones, bass, he is Sam Jones, bass." I thought that was an insult, to suggest that he is boring. But now Sam Jones is one of my favorite bassists (with Ray Brown and of course Mingus), and his presence on an album is enough to convince me that I should hear it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 01, 2017, 01:55:04 PM
Quote from: Brian on March 01, 2017, 01:47:28 PM
My first introduction to Sam Jones was "Somethin' Else," where the booklet note says something like, "As for Sam Jones, bass, he is Sam Jones, bass." I thought that was an insult, to suggest that he is boring. But now Sam Jones is one of my favorite bassists (with Ray Brown and of course Mingus), and his presence on an album is enough to convince me that I should hear it!

I love a lot of albums he is on (I think however that his three own on Riverside don't quite live up to his best sideman ones) ... and he does convince on this album with Parlan, too! But then Parlan-Tucker-Harewood is a mighty fine unit that can be heard on other albums as well (including the one I'm playing now with Stanley Turrentine, as well as three studio albums in quintet line-up with Stanley and Tommy Turrentine, Stanley's leader debut "Look Out" on Blue Note in quartet, and one of Booker Ervin's finest albums, "That's It" (there are more Ervin albums with Parlan-Tucker-Dannie Richmond, and there's also Parlan's own "Up and Down" with Ervin, Grant Green, Tucker and Harewood - that's one of Parlan's very finest I think), one of Dexter Gordon's finest ("Doin' Alright" on Blue Note, with Freddie Hubbard), and the made one with Lou Donaldson, too (with Ray Barretto added).

Not dissing Sam Jones, but George Tucker and Al Harewood, while both quite unspectacular, are mighty good players I truly appreciate. Never flashy, but never slight or uncommitted either (and thus a perfect match for Stanley Turrentine, as well as for Booker Ervin).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 01, 2017, 02:09:41 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2017, 01:31:21 PM
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Steve Davis - Vibe Up! (1998)
Dinah Washington - Sings Fats Waller (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2017, 01:19:06 PM
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David Hazeltine - Inversions (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 03, 2017, 01:34:16 PM
(http://www.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/image/upload/-1/-1/false/8351)

Misha Mengelberg (right, with Han Bennink on the left) has died today - he has retired a few years ago, and actually when I saw him live the only time, with the terrific ICP Orchestra (they're older than what/whoever is "Insane Clown Posse", I don't want to hear that sorry-assed-attempt-of-a-joke again, dear esteemed 'merikin youngsters! Fegh yer alternative facts!) he was in fact already in pretty bad shape. Still very sad news.

I'm still deeply into Blue Note territory, including some albums with Horace Parlan, who has also just left this planet:

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next up is more from the Parlan Mosaic box, as well as music from the Turrentine Mosaic:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 03, 2017, 04:34:11 PM
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After venturing way out into territory I had not ventured into before, namely his 1970s albums, I thought it was time to revisit some of his earlier albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 04, 2017, 04:13:44 AM
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Late night spins from the Lou Donaldson Mosaic set - the three albums/sessions with Horace Parlan (third was held back at the time, there's nothing wrong with it however). Now into these two magnificent Booker Ervin albums, again with Parlan of course.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 04, 2017, 04:24:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/8B7_s8N04gs
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 04, 2017, 12:47:35 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 04, 2017, 01:08:21 PM
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Gary Smulyan - With Strings (1996)
Michel Portal - Minneapolis (2001)

Quote from: king ubu on March 04, 2017, 04:13:44 AM
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I was thinking about playing that one a couple of days ago. I'll take this as a prompt to put it on later this afternoon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 05, 2017, 04:03:49 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 04, 2017, 01:08:21 PM
I was thinking about playing that one a couple of days ago. I'll take this as a prompt to put it on later this afternoon.

It surely is a nice one! It went unissued back then, I assume, as Lion was recording at a too fast pace (he did that in general, and it mostly payed off very well!) and for the reason that the year of Parlan's in the Donaldson band ended soon after the session, and Herman Foster (not a big fan I'm afraid) returned. The next date resulted in one of Donaldson's most successful albums and two of the tunes were remade, so the final session with Parlan was left behind and things moved on ...

In the meantime, I moved on to two other groups of Parlan sideman sessions - his first major gig with Charles Mingus:

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And then today his stint with Roland Kirk (played from the Mercury box) - just finishing the third as I type):

(https://img.discogs.com/DESUzeTIUOJu70O4oOXtvUZ56aU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2019640-1360218198-4866.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/r9VBmuwIqWwyf7EAPvNqTFKG_XM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1060315-1188990244.jpeg.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/807/MI0002807869.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 05, 2017, 06:14:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/Ox8N7derPmk
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 05, 2017, 07:30:18 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/865/MI0000865333.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/545/MI0001545814.jpg)

More Horace Parlan, from the Mosaic box collecting his Blue Note albums.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/472/MI0001472479.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/889/MI0001889627.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2017, 12:08:08 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512akc27I4L._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ydmxby7PL._SS500.jpg)

Grant Stewart - More Urban Tones (1995)
Andre Previn - Plays songs By Vernon Duke (1958)

(https://img.discogs.com/93cnfxmKwog6W9BDvS9b_GyyK1Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5895294-1405682677-6567.jpeg.jpg)

Michel Portal - Minneapolis We Insist! (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 06, 2017, 11:33:56 AM
A fable.  Tigran Hamasyan first album


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 06, 2017, 02:03:03 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ojVt19LBL._SX522_.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/186/MI0002186708.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Mike Moreno - First In Mind (2011)
Michel Portal - Arrivederci Le Chouartse (1980)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/777/MI0001777097.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Cape Town Revisited (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 07, 2017, 12:21:34 PM
Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder....


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Duke_Ellington_-_Such_Sweet_Thunder.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2017, 01:19:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51jQAW8FnML._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516Lna71RuL.jpg)

Jonathan Kreisberg - Night Songs (2008)
Miles Davis - Collectors Items (1956)

(https://img.discogs.com/vXRpPoCD3rqQKhAtjFcEQVBF5EA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5185127-1386848652-3735.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Horns (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 07, 2017, 10:55:37 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 07, 2017, 01:19:36 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/vXRpPoCD3rqQKhAtjFcEQVBF5EA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5185127-1386848652-3735.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Horns (2005)

And old but very dear love!

There are more fine discs in that series, four by Abdullah Ibrahim, and two volumes of "Jazz in Africa", the first one combines music by the Jazz Epistles with the band with John Mehegan on piano (lousy/incomplete info and also several missing tracks, a not-quite-twofer), and the second has the classic album "Tshona" by Pat Matshikiza/Basil Coetzee, as well two fantastic very long bonus tracks with Ibrahim (I once started trying to figure out all of these Ibrahim sessions, from which the Kaz/Camden compilations were taken, what a mess!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2017, 05:43:37 PM
^That's interesting. I didn't know it was a series. I'll check those out, thanks.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51epeDy121L._SS500.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/558/MI0001558004.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Joe Cohn - Shared Contemplations (2007)
Michel Portal - Birdwatcher (2007)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 08, 2017, 10:08:58 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 08, 2017, 05:43:37 PM
^That's interesting. I didn't know it was a series. I'll check those out, thanks.

The Ibrahims are called "Voice of Africa", "African Sun", "Blues for a Hip King", "Tintinyana" - they contain several albums he made in the Seventies upon his return to South Africa, and include some stellar sidemen such as Kippie Moeketsi (on the middle two, thoug the fabulous "African Sun" alas misses out on two tracks of a common quartet LP by Kippie/Ibrahim from which is contains four tracks, and the two missing are nowhere to be found on the other discs, either), Basil Coetzee (turning up all over, but most importantly on the first one with a great take on "Mannenberg", which became his nickname), Barney Rachabane, Robbie Jansen ...

Starting pionts:
https://www.discogs.com/de/search/?q=kaz+ibrahim&type=all
https://www.discogs.com/de/search/?q=camden+ibrahim&type=all
I mostly have the earlier KAZ incarnations of the discs.

"The Mountain" is an unrelated later session I don't yet know, though it's from another terrific period in Ibrahim's career ...  the KAZ listing above also displays both "Jazz in Africa" volumes, the first one has - as I mentioned - the important early Jazz Epistles (Doug Payne's Hugh Masekela discography has/had infor on "Jazz in Africa Vol. 1", but I can't seem to find the site right now), but the second truly fits with the wide-open grooves of the seventies sessions by Ibrahim I love so much.

This here may also be of interest:
https://matsulimusic.bandcamp.com/
"Inhlupeko" is a magnificient hard bop album, the Bea Benjamin is great, and so is the Dick Khoza ...the two Batsumi albums have a  great afro jazz groove, and the Ndikho Xaba is from LA, merging Afro with some US jazz. Still haven't come around to play the latest, "Black Disco" by Night Express.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 09, 2017, 12:36:40 PM
Great info. Thanks!

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vK9%2BwWSTL._SS500.jpg)

Alex Sipiagin - Generations: Dedicated To Woody Shaw (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 09, 2017, 03:24:31 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tghIZF4dL._SX455_.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on March 10, 2017, 03:18:11 AM
Did something silly today. Bought a 5 disc set of Monk on Riverside.  Just realized I already have his complete riverside collection. 
   Anyway, I don't really mind cuz these have the original album covers. 
   Playing Monk plays Duke and The Unique.  I bought Monk Plays Duke on vinyl for $5.99 30 years ago.  Nice to have the sleeve again.

[asin] B000NDEXQG[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2017, 01:42:59 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qQxAtD2PL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/5-HzwdDXAhKLLvN1isA7sBB_ZMo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1986038-1256827177.jpeg.jpg)

Bobby Broom - No Hype Blues (1995)
Michel Portal - Men's Land (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 10, 2017, 05:18:19 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5185CYaUxvL.jpg)

Man, this is soooooo good! I think I like it more than the original. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 10, 2017, 05:41:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iz5W6dFLL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 10, 2017, 09:12:51 PM
Blasé by Archie Shepp, Malachi Favors, et al., and the wonderful vocalist Jeanne Lee. I can't remember when I've heard so many different styles on one album. Mine is in LP form. Outstanding record!

(http://images.hhv.de/catalog/new_shop_298x298/00099/99778.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 10, 2017, 10:45:53 PM
Quote from: James on March 05, 2017, 06:14:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/Ox8N7derPmk

Sick.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 10, 2017, 10:49:21 PM
Antonio Farao
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 11, 2017, 05:00:21 AM
(https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/17103278_1874593089420373_513891954407158130_n.jpg?oh=2929ebe49e02a1c851f8196c9fdfcc39&oe=596472FC)

I have had this recording for years, but finally found a squeaky clean one. Some of Elmer Bernstein's best for sure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 11, 2017, 01:13:09 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DxKVEQYkL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/f1WzmRIJMaY2jdynGmdAvmfv48U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4708239-1373047913-3402.jpeg.jpg)

Adam Rogers and David Binney - R&B (2014)
Miles Davis - Blue Haze (1954)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512FYhyJ3GL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/jw-yRou6QjxnWftn5tKif2KUQFA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3192876-1324831682.jpeg.jpg)

Walt Dickerson and Richard Davis - Divine Gemini (1977)
Michel Portal - Any Way (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 12, 2017, 05:31:38 AM
lately:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/996/MI0001996589.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/799/MI0002799254.jpg)

The Ervin has been in almost constant rotation since news of Horace Parlan's death got out. The Booker Little was next on my smartphone and thus revisited during a morning commute - so sad he left us with so few albums. This and the Bethlehem ("Booker Little & Friend") are both wonderful. In addition, there's the great music he made on some of Eric Dolphy's Prestige records, more with Max Roach, the Time quartet album, the session with Teddy Charles that has him with Booker Ervin ...

Rhoda Scott's latest ist another nice effort, nothing essential I guess, but I love her playing. The Lucky Thompson is drop-down gorgeous ... quite possibly the best of the great historical releases on Sonorama so far! It came out late last year but I only just bought it.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Sv-LKpfbL._SL1181_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xr6DO265L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 12, 2017, 11:09:16 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/213/MI0000213178.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Spinning the Ron McMaster mastering of this great album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 12, 2017, 10:51:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VPQb1gFzL._SY300_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Dizzy_in_Greece.jpg)

Michel Portal - Radar (2015)
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy In Greece (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 13, 2017, 05:29:50 AM
That 1957 Gillespie big band is wonderful! There was a two-disc set compiling the three Verve albums as well as bonus tracks from the sessions ... and then there's "Live at Newport" (the Verve CD added a few bonustracks), as wel as a live recording from Chester, Pennsylvania. I have a large portion of that later on a disc by Jazz Unlimited (a somewhat shady sublabel of Storyville's), and I think that may actually be my favourite of the bunch, all things considered. (There are various editions around with material from that night in Chester, not sure if there's a complete one, I bought a second disc with plenty of overlap and some additional tracks once, that's all in all less attractive).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 13, 2017, 09:30:42 PM
Yeah! I put that on pretty much by chance and was greatly impressed.

In fact I think I'll play another from the same band now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/World_Statesman.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/_GWqqHwaaMr1tv7LwHBOqwD8FJE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7084645-1433348317-4995.jpeg.jpg)

Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman (1957)
Mark Murphy - Rah (1961)

Everywhere I turn at the moment I'm hearing interesting versions of Miles tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/v/2cKYNOysZY8
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 14, 2017, 01:50:56 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/496/MI0002496223.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/JP2AOLN0iPin8a1H9X5WQEbSsNs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2329769-1277327840.jpeg.jpg)

Ralph Lalama - Circle Line (1995)
Hampton Hawes - The Trio (1955)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51J08FG97KL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511HCgs-PnL._SY355_.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty (1988)
Phillip Johnston - Normalology (1996)

(https://img.discogs.com/BfbX1JDP9TEveWglCkcnBIuVzDA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4754376-1378255553-6820.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/610HP9t5YqL._SS500.jpg)

Hazel Scott - Great Scott (1947)
Matthew Shipp  - Duos with Mat Maneri and Joe Morris (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 14, 2017, 06:10:36 PM
Quote from: George on March 12, 2017, 11:09:16 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/213/MI0000213178.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Spinning the Ron McMaster mastering of this great album!

Money!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 14, 2017, 07:50:32 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 14, 2017, 06:10:36 PM
Money!

(https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder985/49315985.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 14, 2017, 09:13:42 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 12, 2017, 05:31:38 AM
lately:

The Booker Little was next on my smartphone and thus revisited during a morning commute - so sad he left us with so few albums. This and the Bethlehem ("Booker Little & Friend") are both wonderful. In addition, there's the great music he made on some of Eric Dolphy's Prestige records, more with Max Roach, the Time quartet album, the session with Teddy Charles that has him with Booker Ervin ...


He is one of my fav trumpeters. I specialy like his recording with Lafaro, Bill Evans bassist, and the live with Dolphy. Fire Waltz is such a great song by Mal Waldron.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 15, 2017, 05:18:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/8a3qAp81vY8
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 15, 2017, 04:27:02 PM
(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/propheticherbienichols_vol1_c.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tSXFrtnpL._SY355_.jpg)

Herbie Nichols - The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol.1 (1955)
Reuben Brown - Ice Scape (1997)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/287/MI0000287360.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Mh5LhwD4L._SX355_.jpg)

Lew Del Gatto - Katewalk (2000)
Tim Warfield - Jazz Is (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 16, 2017, 07:46:46 PM
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Ravish Momin - Miren: A Longing (2007)
Cuong Vu - It's Mostly Residual (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 17, 2017, 03:38:48 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/7MuYan5ybGOH9MqXesNyZMS_C64=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1461489-1406131411-1508.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/aJmJtlKBaJ2r8zwHIymhEOOu-9E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2570004-1466442806-9046.jpeg.jpg)

John Surman and John Warren - Tales Of The Algonquin (1971)
Mike Westbrook - Metropolis (1971)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/418/MI0002418859.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/Mvs27bRfM3gdcu8_8i3spPKquMw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2776841-1300556996.jpeg.jpg)

Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1971)
George Russell - Listen To The Silence (1971)

(https://img.discogs.com/ksH3FRVwgea1LOcZTaxyH0rl8MI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7958365-1452429762-6120.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/-i8CkJJgVRwzvVXTq1WFKKfutJ8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1116281-1201606040.jpeg.jpg)

Paul Winter - Icarus (1971)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Phase One (1971)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfd0SpsaL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/qi9af1nOSNOUFjjmuD31c3wcmn4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-745589-1397216833-3903.jpeg.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (1971)
Paul Bley - Improvise (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 18, 2017, 05:14:34 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/l7j8ukvT6-RNuuF7xrzG69bxJwU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1681496-1237115601.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Natural_Black_Inventions.jpg)

Jean-Luc Ponty - Open Strings (1971)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pSI8MbfQL._SX466_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/A_New_Shade_of_Blue.jpg)

Keith Jarrett - Birth (1971)
Harold Land - A New Shade Of Blue (1971)

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/6a5aa5f5c48cc80f9143acf875c9fffd/5390124.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y815XXH8L.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (1971)
Don Ellis - Tears Of Joy (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2017, 07:18:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-HtzDEnSL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dEaCOhsLL._SS500.jpg)

Conrad Herwig - Heart Of Darkness (1997)
Steve Lacy - Morning Joy: Paris Live (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 20, 2017, 07:31:22 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/5n9AAwuHWUjBbO30VPtdvBnIXh4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6421418-1418803866-9500.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41cfJR5lTsL._SX355_.jpg)

Rodney Whitaker - Ballads And Blues: The Brooklyn Session (1998)
Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2017, 03:48:17 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q5dwlWBzL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AJhGAR2dL._SY355_.jpg)

Miles Davis - Miles At The Filmore 1970: Bootleg series Vol.3
Tim Ries - Alternate Side (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 23, 2017, 04:03:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41SDJDY9NNL.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/383/MI0000383094.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Voice Of Africa (1998)
One For All - Wide Horizons (2002)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Bud_Powell_-_Piano_Interpretations_(album_cover).jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71EGNLO8TnL._SY355_.jpg)

Bud Powell - Piano Interpretations By Bud Powell (1956)
Luis Russell - The Chronological 1926-29

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 24, 2017, 04:51:50 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/q0QD558TWSQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 24, 2017, 05:13:06 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/d2SFDRtzg2Y
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 24, 2017, 06:06:51 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/ojOClU9lPbw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 24, 2017, 01:50:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61zfEMInmuL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JRH2T7C5L.jpg)

One For All - Upward And Onward (1999)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Blues For A Hip King (1989)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/515/MI0001515140.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/OOm7M7cw3N2hXT5cS6OADQ20VJE=/fit-in/360x360/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3850607-1428913821-9191.jpeg.jpg)

Bud Powell - At The Golden Circle Vol.1 (1962)
Tom Varner - Jazz French Horn (1985)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51u37koDZdL._SX355_.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - The Eighth (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 25, 2017, 04:14:40 AM
As the lp notes describe, "One gets the sensation at times of weightlessness painted ingeniously through sound, suspended as it were in the upper regions of space." I liken it more to Juan Esquivel remixing a Jackie Gleason album.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 25, 2017, 05:26:03 AM
Chet Baker, Peace

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 25, 2017, 06:15:06 AM
Simon, hope you enjoy those Ibrahim discs as much as I do! (Wait, half as much would already be more than cool ;D )
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 25, 2017, 10:20:24 AM
Have been revisiting the entire catalogue of the great, Michigan-based organ group Organissimo, as well as their organist Jim Alfredson's tribute to Big John Patton - the "B3tles" is just out and pretty darn good (and that's coming from someone usually not fond of jazzers doing Beatles covers):

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The debut "This Is the Place" is from 2003, on a few cuts Ran Blake guests on tenor. The second album, "This Is the Place" (2005), again presents original line-up with Alfredson (org, keys), Joe Gloss (g) and Randy Marsh (d), with guest appearances by Johnny Gist (ts) and Bill Vits (perc), while the third, "Groovadelphia" (2008), has just the core trio.

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The group's fourth album was a live one, "Alive & Kickin'" (2009), presenting great versions of tunes from the first three albums, including a monster 18 minute re-take of "Pumpkin Pie" from the debut album. "Dedicated" (2013) has Ralph Tope on guitar and again a few cuts with Bill Vits on percussion.

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The brand new"B3tles" (2017) presents Lawrence Barris on guitar and guest spots by Vits and on one track Mike List on tabla. In the same year "Dedicated" was released, Alfredson also produced his mighty good "Tribute to Big John Patton", with Tope on guitar, Randy Gelispie on drums and Jim Cooper (vibes - on three tracks), Dwight Adams (trumpet) and Mark Kieme (tenor) (both together on three other tracks). For backers (including yours truly), a full bonus album with more music from the sessions was made available.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on March 25, 2017, 02:40:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/sQGWAnYd7Iw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 25, 2017, 02:41:52 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 25, 2017, 06:15:06 AM
Simon, hope you enjoy those Ibrahim discs as much as I do! (Wait, half as much would already be more than cool ;D )

Enjoying them very much, thanks! Plus I'd been wanting for a long time to get a clearer sense of his discography, being previously familiar with only a few random discs, so its great to be getting a little closer to that.

now:

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Mark Turner - Yam Yam (1995)
Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 26, 2017, 01:12:20 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 25, 2017, 02:41:52 PM
Enjoying them very much, thanks! Plus I'd been wanting for a long time to get a clearer sense of his discography, being previously familiar with only a few random discs, so its great to be getting a little closer to that.

Cool!

I followed Turner and his generation some when I started discovering jazz in my early teens in the early nineties, but I don't know that disc (remember its title though, as it was on one of my messy, purely memory-based wantlists back then) ... still have a few Joshua Redman discs (and Turner's "Ballads", and some Kurt Rosenwinkel), but this ultimately didn't prove to be my thing quite ... Brad Mehldau I still enjoy though, his recent 4-CD-Box is wonderful indeed! The Dexter is wonderful though, no question about that!

Playing music by Buck Hill (1927-2017), a great player that didn't really get to be known all that much ... he made guest appearances on a few albums of fellow D.C. artists Shirley Horn and had a run of his own albums on Steeplechase and Muse and elsewhere fairly late in his long life. These two were cut at North Sea Jazz 1981 with Reuben Brown (p), Wilbur Little (b) and Billy Hart (d):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 26, 2017, 06:43:15 AM
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Now playing Buck Hill's first two albums, both with the same stellar line-up (Kenny Barron-p, Buster Williams-b, Billy Hart-d), recorded 1978 and 1979 when Hill was 51 and 52 respectively. Wonderful player!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 26, 2017, 01:51:08 PM
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These both have John Ozment on keys, seems he was a longtime Hill sideman, and as with all the other sidemen, a Washington, D.C. mainstay ... on the former (Hill's last album from 2006), Ozment is on organ (there's guitar and drums added), on the later he's on piano, while Hill plays clarinet on four out of ten tracks, and the rhythm section is completed by bass and drums. Both mighty fine albums!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 26, 2017, 02:27:25 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 26, 2017, 01:12:20 AM
Cool!

I followed Turner and his generation some when I started discovering jazz in my early teens in the early nineties, but I don't know that disc (remember its title though, as it was on one of my messy, purely memory-based wantlists back then) ... still have a few Joshua Redman discs (and Turner's "Ballads", and some Kurt Rosenwinkel), but this ultimately didn't prove to be my thing quite ... Brad Mehldau I still enjoy though, his recent 4-CD-Box is wonderful indeed! The Dexter is wonderful though, no question about that!


That's interesting, that means you're younger than me when I would have picked you as older (I guess because your travel and concertgoing suggests a retired man of leisure).

The Turner was fine and polished but didn't leave me wanting more. The Dexter Gordon I thought was particularly interesting as it covered some of the same material he performed in Round Midnight (a film I adore) a few years later and you can really hear how personal some of these tunes are for him. And the end section of "Body and Soul" is note for note across the whole band exactly the way its played in the film. Also a live version of "Tanya"! (though of course nothing can better the version on One Flight Up).

now:

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John Stetch - Exponentially Monk (2004)
Esbjörn Svensson - Plays Monk (1996)

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Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra - Monk's Moods (2002)
Jerry Gonzalez - Rumba Para Monk (1989)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 26, 2017, 11:46:45 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 26, 2017, 02:27:25 PM
That's interesting, that means you're younger than me when I would have picked you as older (I guess because your travel and concertgoing suggests a retired man of leisure).

The Turner was fine and polished but didn't leave me wanting more. The Dexter Gordon I thought was particularly interesting as it covered some of the same material he performed in Round Midnight (a film I adore) a few years later and you can really hear how personal some of these tunes are for him. And the end section of "Body and Soul" is note for note across the whole band exactly the way its played in the film. Also a live version of "Tanya"! (though of course nothing can better the version on One Flight Up).

Thanks for sharing your impressions on those two! Guess I can live on happily without that Turner. I have the two "Fly, Fly, Fly" discs and a couple of others by/with him on ECM on the piles but it's unlikely I'll search for more of his early releases. I remember reading that he had to totally re-learn playing after an accident a few years ago ... maybe that changed him into what I consider a more interesting player - though maybe that's just natural development/growth.

I'm approaching 40, but having no kids and an okay job with some flexibility, I have some budget for traveling/concerts/vacation and about two years ago I started making use of this situation more actively. And as I enjoy it so much, I have no plans to change this at this time; from Easter Sunday on, I'll be in London to catch the first half of Intakt in London (http://www.intaktrec.ch/london2017/index.php/program/), in early June I'll catch two nights of Louis Moholo (who'll play in London as well) in Novara - not yet on their website (http://www.novarajazz.org/eventi) -, and in August I will likely have a combined with concerts at Lucerne festival (Sun/Tues/Sun) and in between (Wed-Sat, hop on a train to Lucerne on Sunday morning) my second year at the great Festival Météo (https://www.festival-meteo.fr/) in Mulhouse (programme is out in early May) ... so yeah, enjoying it bigtime! But if you look at my complete concert listing, you'll find that most of it is still in Zurich, where we are indeed pretty spoilt actually, but - in jazz at least - there are some musicians that never seem to play Zurich at all (to hear Henry Threadgill, I went to Amsterdam a few years ago - and that was a combined vacation/concert trip as well, that included concerts in Cologne by Craig Taborn and Sex Mob):
http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/2016/05/konzerte-jahresrankings-seit-2010.html

Actually I continue writing about most of those concerts, but usually only in German - would be too much work to do everything in two languages, and actually my writing does work differently when I switch to English (translating isn't much easier anyway) ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 03:43:23 AM
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Mostly from 1963.  I've always have enjoyed Smith's  Hammond B sound, but have very little on the shelf by the great.  I definitively need to rectify this situation sooner than later.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 04:42:38 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nt3EkOg8L._SX425_.jpg)

Not my favorite album from Dexter, but one I enjoy from time to time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 05:06:08 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 03:43:23 AM
I've always have enjoyed Smith's  Hammond B sound, but have very little on the shelf by the great.  I definitively need to rectify this situation sooner than later.

Off the top of my head:

Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise (RVG 2CD set) - smokin' hot live session by the working trio, incredible playing by JOS
Back at the Chicken Shack & Midnight Special (Blue Note, 2 separate discs, both available in the RVG Series - this is THE great session by Smith in my book, a perfect companion to the Smalls' live sets, very different, more elegant but just as funky and bluesy, with Stanley Turrentine and Kenny Burrell in top form and Smith's regular drummer Donald Bailey, a vastly underrated musician - more about him here (https://ethaniverson.com/drums-and-cymbals-by-donald-bailey/))
The Sermon & House Party (Blue Note, 2 separate discs, RVGs miss some bonus tracks that were on the earlier versions ... long but mostly pretty focussed and darn great jams with Art Blakey, Tina Brooks, Kenny Burrell and others)
There are more great jam albums, such as Cool Blues (Blue Note/RVG, again with Tina Brooks in the line-up) and two later companion albums with Jackie McLean and Ike Quebec Present.
Crazy Baby (Blue Note) - my favourite Smith studio album in the basic trio format
Bashin' (Verve) - another great one, first time Smith is heard with big band (arr. Oliver Nelson) on half of the album
then there are the recordings with Wes Montgomery (again on Verve ... not sure about availabilty, but the Wes Montgomery Verve Studio box put out by Hip-O-Select - r.i.p. - is worthwhile if you're into jazz guitar and into Wes M.)

Big fan of Jimmy Smith's for sure!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 05:15:42 AM
Thanks!  I just need to start by heading to the used shop down the street and culling what they have and then use your list as a reference after.  Just how I work.  Appreciate the list and will update here.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 05:40:41 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 05:15:42 AM
Thanks!  I just need to start by heading to the used shop down the street and culling what they have and then use your list as a reference after.  Just how I work.  Appreciate the list and will update here.  8)

You can basically buy just about every Blue Note album smith made, from 1956 to 1962 - and he made MANY of them in that short span! There are two or three that are a bit on the restrained side ("Plays Pretty" is a bit of a sleeper, "Plays Fats Waller" is nice enough but surely not essential, the one album with Grant Green doesn't let sparks fly as one would hope).

Another essential - also for the cover - I forgot is Home Cookin'!
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Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 06:08:18 AM
Again, many thanks.

TD
1961

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April 21 sets.  Davis, Mobley, Kelley, Chambers, and Cobb.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 27, 2017, 06:12:14 AM
Happy foggy Monday!

http://www.youtube.com/v/AEprp7BVFlg
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 11:21:15 AM
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Not my favorite Brubeck album, but if someone accused me of having it be so, I would not argue.  For those keeping score, this one goes back to '53. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 27, 2017, 11:25:55 AM
There are some groups and recordings that, for me, are simply perfect.  This is one of those groups and recording (the original LP was perfectly balanced, but having all the alternate performances is extremely valuable since this group did not leave nearly enough behind).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg/220px-CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 11:33:10 AM
Quote from: sanantonio on March 27, 2017, 11:25:55 AM
There are some groups and recordings that, for me, are simply perfect.  This is one of those groups and recording (the original LP was perfectly balanced, but having all the alternate performances is extremely valuable since this group did not leave nearly enough behind).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg/220px-CompleteVillageVanguardBillEvans.jpg)

No argument here.  My problem is that I only have the single Jazz Masters cd, which has to be pathetic compared to the three set edition.  Need to get the complete for sure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 12:47:38 PM
That three disc box is the one edition to get if you want to go complete on CD - there's a vinyl equivalent to it, I think (but the toupet does not approve, regardless of which edition, I'm sure.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 27, 2017, 12:51:00 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 11:33:10 AM
No argument here.  My problem is that I only have the single Jazz Masters cd, which has to be pathetic compared to the three set edition.  Need to get the complete for sure.

If you want the best sound, I say the Gold CD on Analog Productions of Waltz For Debby and the XRCD of Sunday At The Village Vanguard are as good as it gets. Uufortunately, both are OOP, but well worth seeking out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 12:53:19 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 12:47:38 PM
That three disc box is the one edition to get if you want to go complete on CD - there's a vinyl equivalent to it, I think (but the toupet does not approve, regardless of which edition, I'm sure.)

Saw the vinyl as well. (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTAwWDUwMA==/z/QAkAAOSwWKtUv23I/$_35.JPG)

Impressive, but triple figures.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 27, 2017, 12:59:41 PM
Quote from: George on March 27, 2017, 12:51:00 PM
If you want the best sound, I say the Gold CD on Analog Productions of Waltz For Debby and the XRCD of Sunday At The Village Vanguard are as good as it gets. Uufortunately, both are OOP, but well worth seeking out.

You know, I still do not have one cd at from either of those companies, buddy.  Might have to give one a try.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 01:07:12 PM
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Playing a few tracks from this set - love the three thematic boxes released in the final days of Fantasy and before Concord made it all break into pieces (I don't blame them too much, but I can't not blame them at all either).
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Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2017, 02:44:40 PM
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Arthur Blythe - Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk (1983)
Elliott Sharp - Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk! (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 09:48:16 PM
r.i.p. Arthur Blythe
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Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2017, 09:53:40 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 09:48:16 PM
r.i.p. Arthur Blythe

Oh no! That wasn't why I was playing the Light Blue album earlier - just a sad coincidence. And I was replaying the wonderful Lennox Avenue Breakdown album just a few days ago. Must try a few more that I haven't heard.

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 11:34:14 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 27, 2017, 09:53:40 PM
Oh no! That wasn't why I was playing the Light Blue album earlier - just a sad coincidence. And I was replaying the wonderful Lennox Avenue Breakdown album just a few days ago. Must try a few more that I haven't heard.

RIP

He was severely ill for a while (parkinon's - there was a fund established to support him a few years ago). I'll have to squeeze in a a listen to that four-album reissue of his Columbias ("Lenox Avenue Breakdown" I've had as a single reissue already - that's a great one!) and his "The Grip" ... he's amazing on Horace Tapscott's "The Giant Is Awakened" as well (gorgeous reissue on Jonathan Horwich's current label).

I also love those tuba trios ... his mixture of blues and avantgarde - and that fat, gorgeous sound. The sun shone on him.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-fireside-chat-with-arthur-blythe-arthur-blythe-by-aaj-staff.php

The news so far only seems to be on his FB page (I'm not part of that but it was reported elsewhere yesterday).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2017, 01:24:53 AM
I don't know that Horace Tapscott album - so I'm going to play it now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 04:26:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 28, 2017, 01:24:53 AM
I don't know that Horace Tapscott album - so I'm going to play it now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/717hgAw0s1L._SY355_.jpg)

Your quote above is what jazz listening is all about for me.  More than any other music genre, I will pick something up I have never heard (even buy it) and just try it.  Usually works out for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 04:37:48 AM
TD

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71DJjUsennL._SX425_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nXbeaZKyL._SX425_.jpg)

Well, here is where my recording falls short of being complete again, and this one stings a bit.  I am a HUGE fan of jazz soundtracks (the likes of Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini and such).  I try to get them on vinyl, but sometimes cd will work just as nicely.  I remember buying this one and being totally captivated without ever have seeing the movie.  Wet streets with atmospheric street light lighting come to mind as occasional autos from the period make their way down less than busy streets after 1 A.M.  This image almost wants me to avoid seeing the film as I am sure I am off in my thinking.

Either way, I have the one on the left and really should have the one on the right.  I believe mine has all the different tracks, just missing the likes of four different versions of some takes.  Maybe someone here can let me know what I've been missing and encourage me to repurchase.   
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 28, 2017, 06:07:56 AM
This week, I need a little Miles every day.

http://www.youtube.com/v/wcYhANTD64k
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 28, 2017, 06:18:41 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 04:37:48 AM
TD

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71DJjUsennL._SX425_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nXbeaZKyL._SX425_.jpg)

Well, here is where my recording falls short of being complete again, and this one stings a bit.  I am a HUGE fan of jazz soundtracks (the likes of Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini and such).  I try to get them on vinyl, but sometimes cd will work just as nicely.  I remember buying this one and being totally captivated without ever have seeing the movie.  Wet streets with atmospheric street light lighting come to mind as occasional autos from the period make their way down less than busy streets after 1 A.M.  This image almost wants me to avoid seeing the film as I am sure I am off in my thinking.

Either way, I have the one on the left and really should have the one on the right.  I believe mine has all the different tracks, just missing the likes of four different versions of some takes.  Maybe someone here can let me know what I've been missing and encourage me to repurchase.

Sounds to me like you already have a great appreciation and enjoyment for what you have. My advice would be to simply continue to enjoy the release you have and not worry about the alternate takes. These takes were not used in the actual soundtrack, anyway, right?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 06:20:15 AM
Quote from: George on March 28, 2017, 06:18:41 AM
Sounds to me like you already have a great appreciation and enjoyment for what you have. My advice would be to simply continue to enjoy the release you have and not worry about the alternate takes. These takes were not used in the actual soundtrack, anyway, right?

And $12 is $12 which equates to music I do not have.  Yup, I'm good.  Thanks for talking me off of that completest bridge, my friend.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 28, 2017, 06:23:40 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 28, 2017, 06:07:56 AM
This week, I need a little Miles every day.

http://www.youtube.com/v/wcYhANTD64k

I am coming off a huge Miles kick myself, having explored much deeper into his fusion and later years. I tried listening to the album you posted, but when would stop, I got frustrated, so went running back to Miles Smiles.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 06:24:24 AM
Quote from: George on March 28, 2017, 06:23:40 AM
I am coming off a huge Miles kick myself, having explored much deeper into his fusion and later years. I tried listening to the album you posted, but when would stop, I got frustrated, so went running back to Miles Smiles.  8)

Not a bad thing to go running back to.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 28, 2017, 06:33:19 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 06:20:15 AM
And $12 is $12 which equates to music I do not have.  Yup, I'm good.  Thanks for talking me off of that completest bridge, my friend.

No problem. I am sure I will need the same advice soon.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 28, 2017, 06:42:21 AM
Definitely a mutual support network  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2017, 07:35:50 AM
Bogey, are you sure about the tracklists? I replaced my old CD edition (first one you depict) with a later one because sound is supposed to be better, not because of more takes. This (https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Ascenseur-Pour-L%C3%89chafaud-Lift-To-The-Scaffold-Original-Soundtrack-Complete-Recordings/release/4839947) is mine.


Both have 26 tracks: full session + initial release/actual soundtrack with added reverb.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 28, 2017, 08:54:59 AM
Bogey, you know a Monk soundtrack is coming out next month?
http://www.avclub.com/article/thelonious-monks-only-film-score-finally-released--252486
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2017, 09:28:40 AM
Quote from: Brian on March 28, 2017, 08:54:59 AM
Bogey, you know a Monk soundtrack is coming out next month?
http://www.avclub.com/article/thelonious-monks-only-film-score-finally-released--252486
Interesting enough, I think!

But as opposed to the great "L'ascenseur pour l'echafaud" (very much worth watching for sure!), that film has not aged well at all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2017, 11:56:57 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 27, 2017, 01:07:12 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/812/MI0001812849.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Playing a few tracks from this set - love the three thematic boxes released in the final days of Fantasy and before Concord made it all break into pieces (I don't blame them too much, but I can't not blame them at all either).

Played the cuts from the sessions with Gene Ammons last night again just now (from the "Side Steps" box), then some of the two-baritones session (with Cecil Payne and Pepper Adams) and the lovely album with Quinichette (alas the box only contains the cuts with Coltrane - same goes for "The Cats" which i really adore -, the two Ammons albums, the Draper album on the "Side Steps" box ... and I think one of the four Red Garland albums - also on "Side Steps" - had a trio cut not available elsewhere, hence I retained those ... only the Draper I didn't and don't have separately). Now it's disc four with the "Wheelin' and Dealin'" session, which is a longtime favourite (just as "The Cats") - Coltrane, Quinichette and Frank Wess (who kicks the asses of everybody else), plus Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins (who kicks the ass of Paul Chambers any day!) and Art Taylor (who kicks no asses really but is very much okay here).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 01:37:10 PM
Quote from: Brian on March 28, 2017, 08:54:59 AM
Bogey, you know a Monk soundtrack is coming out next month?
http://www.avclub.com/article/thelonious-monks-only-film-score-finally-released--252486

Only thanks to you.  I should put you on retainer for informing me of upcoming releases. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2017, 01:45:29 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 04:37:48 AM
I remember buying this one and being totally captivated without ever have seeing the movie.  Wet streets with atmospheric street light lighting come to mind as occasional autos from the period make their way down less than busy streets after 1 A.M.  This image almost wants me to avoid seeing the film as I am sure I am off in my thinking.


Actually though its been a while since I've seen it I'm pretty sure there's plenty of that in the film.

(http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b40/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/019eccc879f/7a4e21b3fc3d0692bbbbc/big_1409267309_1382456074_image.jpg)

I gave away my copy of the soundtrack because I found the programming of all the alternate takes was stopping me from enjoying it, intending to find a cd edition without them or with less,

It might shock the audiophiles, but I'd probably be happy if I found this ten track version:

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/e57c83e57cd3bf9c4b4832ba836d90f1/4038564.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 02:30:21 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 28, 2017, 01:45:29 PM
Actually though its been a while since I've seen it I'm pretty sure there's plenty of that in the film.

(http://s.storage.akamai.coub.com/get/b40/p/coub/simple/cw_timeline_pic/019eccc879f/7a4e21b3fc3d0692bbbbc/big_1409267309_1382456074_image.jpg)

I gave away my copy of the soundtrack because I found the programming of all the alternate takes was stopping me from enjoying it, intending to find a cd edition without them or with less,

It might shock the audiophiles, but I'd probably be happy if I found this ten track version:

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/e57c83e57cd3bf9c4b4832ba836d90f1/4038564.jpg)

Nice!  Just as I imagined it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2017, 08:00:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51j33OXhP0L.jpg)

Arthur Blythe - Retroflection: Live At The Vanguard (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2017, 10:07:01 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 28, 2017, 02:30:21 PM
Nice!  Just as I imagined it.

Happy Birthday, sir!

The film is really great as far as moods, pictures (Jeanne Moreau on the wet streets in Paris nights, what more can you possibly want?) and music goes ... and the music fits the imagery perfectly well.

I can relate to only wanting the actual soundtrack, but I like the solution the complete editions offer, as they have all cuts first, and then the soundtrack bits at the end (duplicated in the complete part going before), so you can just start listening at #17 (or whichever one it is) and play through the end to listen to just the soundtrack.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 05:25:47 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 28, 2017, 10:07:01 PM
Happy Birthday, sir!

The film is really great as far as moods, pictures (Jeanne Moreau on the wet streets in Paris nights, what more can you possibly want?) and music goes ... and the music fits the imagery perfectly well.

I can relate to only wanting the actual soundtrack, but I like the solution the complete editions offer, as they have all cuts first, and then the soundtrack bits at the end (duplicated in the complete part going before), so you can just start listening at #17 (or whichever one it is) and play through the end to listen to just the soundtrack.

Thanks!  Mine has 10 tracks (no repeats)

As for listening today, I found this yesterday in the used bins.  The shop I go to has a policy of buy two used cds, get the third free (the lowest price of the three).  This was tucked away in the "S" section, but not with the Jimmy Smith grouping, so snapped it up:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZYMrTXbtL._SX425_.jpg)

One reason I love jazz is that once in a while the artist will just take a piece and run with it.  The Sermon track is over 20 minutes.  Outstanding stuff!  Not sure how they are packaging this disc now as this particular printing seems to be OOP. 

It looks as if this three track album above is here:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81TcOMVYMhL._SX425_.jpg)

What's Hoffman-ites saying about these mega-packs, George?  The "enhanced" part has me raising an eyebrow.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 29, 2017, 06:21:34 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 05:25:47 AM
It looks as if this three track album above is here:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81TcOMVYMhL._SX425_.jpg)

What's Hoffman-ites saying about these mega-packs, George?  The "enhanced" part has me raising an eyebrow.

The Hoffman-ites condemn releases on that label, as they are released by a company that does not have access to the master tapes and does not pay the artist any royalties.

My own experience with one release on that label is that the sound is great (undoubtedly a copy of an earlier release on another label) and not futzed with. And yeah, dirt cheap. I got this one. Seven albums for seven bucks:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81CIo0g3j0L._SL500_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 06:23:16 AM
Thanks.  I was wondering how they were able to sell them at such a cheap price.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 29, 2017, 06:42:53 AM
My dose today:

http://www.youtube.com/v/H6DycMEVZh4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 29, 2017, 11:01:12 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 05:25:47 AM
Mine has 10 tracks (no repeats)

As for listening today, I found this yesterday in the used bins.  The shop I go to has a policy of buy two used cds, get the third free (the lowest price of the three).  This was tucked away in the "S" section, but not with the Jimmy Smith grouping, so snapped it up:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZYMrTXbtL._SX425_.jpg)

One reason I love jazz is that once in a while the artist will just take a piece and run with it.  The Sermon track is over 20 minutes.  Outstanding stuff!  Not sure how they are packaging this disc now as this particular printing seems to be OOP. 

It looks as if this three track album above is here:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81TcOMVYMhL._SX425_.jpg)

What's Hoffman-ites saying about these mega-packs, George?  The "enhanced" part has me raising an eyebrow.

Re: Miles - then you got the wrong pic above (with "complete" on the cover) - my bad then. But I guess ultimately having the ten released tracks (and missing out on the 6 additional takes as well as the duplicates of the ten - in no-reverb-sound) is quite alright.

Re: The Sermon - yeah, terrific track!

Re: those jumbo cheapo sets ... they're all over the place nowadays, I loathe them, but then I'm in the comfortable situation of having been able to build a large collection during much of the jazz CD reissue boom (which came to a halt around ten years back), the days when EMI, Fantasy, Universal, Warner, and up to around 2004 even Columbia were all regularly reissuing jazz albums (even beyond the days when they had stopped producing new albums already). I heard about some of these sets being impossible to rip because of crappy production/errors (not audible when listening, but it still sucks), also had at least one (on Membran, whom I heard are even paying small licensing fees, actually) that was dubbed from MP3 ... guess you have to live with it (in the sense of: you pay crap, you may just as well get what you pay for every now and then ... usually you're likely getting some more).

Playing some of this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/625/MI0001625894.jpg)

Not jazz proper, but I love this stuff and it fits into the continuum of course!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 01:14:39 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 29, 2017, 11:01:12 AM
Re: Miles - then you got the wrong pic above (with "complete" on the cover) - my bad then. But I guess ultimately having the ten released tracks (and missing out on the 6 additional takes as well as the duplicates of the ten - in no-reverb-sound) is quite alright.

Re: The Sermon - yeah, terrific track!

Re: those jumbo cheapo sets ... they're all over the place nowadays, I loathe them, but then I'm in the comfortable situation of having been able to build a large collection during much of the jazz CD reissue boom (which came to a halt around ten years back), the days when EMI, Fantasy, Universal, Warner, and up to around 2004 even Columbia were all regularly reissuing jazz albums (even beyond the days when they had stopped producing new albums already). I heard about some of these sets being impossible to rip because of crappy production/errors (not audible when listening, but it still sucks), also had at least one (on Membran, whom I heard are even paying small licensing fees, actually) that was dubbed from MP3 ... guess you have to live with it (in the sense of: you pay crap, you may just as well get what you pay for every now and then ... usually you're likely getting some more).

Playing some of this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/625/MI0001625894.jpg)

Not jazz proper, but I love this stuff and it fits into the continuum of course!

Would help if I could tell my left from right on my postings. I have the one on the right. 

TD

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Fq9B0IN0L._SS500.jpg)

What one would expect from a recording such as this by Peterson....terrific!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2017, 01:15:02 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/veBDuBRLFNCUo3KP9OVX4qdC-4s=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1387003-1328951531.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Something_Different_(Dexter_Gordon_album).jpg)

Arthur Blythe - Bush Baby (1977)
Dexter Gordon - Something Different (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 29, 2017, 10:09:44 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2017, 01:14:39 PM
Would help if I could tell my left from right on my postings. I have the one on the right. 

Haha ... the problem is, there are so many editions out, they basically all look the same, and on top of that the one I have (linked above) doesn't have the "complete" on the cover either - no way to really tell.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2017, 04:38:59 AM
No kidding. :D  I just re-shelved mine from my stack beside me and that will be that.  Moving on to a duo that I wished had done more together outside of the Miles' work:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B%2BqpnwRkL._SX425_.jpg)

However, reading the back notes it seems that we are lucky to have this as they took three sessions over a three month span to record this one back in '61.  Oy, George, this one has Waltz for Debby and Elsa, but by this quartet.  I thought I would mention the two Evans' contributions as I believe you are a big fan of his trios versions of them.  I love Adderly's laid "backness" on this album.  Not to say he falls into the background (far from it), but rather he just pulses ahead of Evans' delicate touch without overdoing it.  And as the liner notes point out correctly, this is not an album just filled with ballads.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2017, 05:07:59 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2017, 04:38:59 AM
No kidding. :D  I just re-shelved mine from my stack beside me and that will be that.  Moving on to a duo that I wished had done more together outside of the Miles' work:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B%2BqpnwRkL._SX425_.jpg)

However, reading the back notes it seems that we are lucky to have this as they took three sessions over a three month span to record this one back in '61.  Oy, George, this one has Waltz for Debby and Elsa, but by this quartet.  I thought I would mention the two Evans' contributions as I believe you are a big fan of his trios versions of them.  I love Adderly's laid "backness" on this album.  Not to say he falls into the background (far from it), but rather he just pulses ahead of Evans' delicate touch without overdoing it.  And as the liner notes point out correctly, this is not an album just filled with ballads.

I picked up the Steve Hoffman gold DCC of that last year. Most enjoyable!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 30, 2017, 06:30:22 AM
Good morning, gents!

And today:

http://www.youtube.com/v/oJUuaTjwM6g
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2017, 08:29:05 AM
Good morning, Karl.  How is "The Pulse" today?

TD

(http://i.maniadb.com/images/album/162/162762_1_f.jpg)

Love this time period of Hancock. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 30, 2017, 08:47:47 AM
Sunny, but still cold.  A nice walk at lunchtime, but I did wear a heavyish coat  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2017, 08:50:36 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 30, 2017, 08:47:47 AM
Sunny, but still cold.  A nice walk at lunchtime, but I did wear a heavyish coat  8)

Winter doesn't want to let go this year.  >:(
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 30, 2017, 12:56:38 PM
Winter? Been sitting outside for a beer after work today. Second week of really warm and mellow spring here - luvin' it!

Now playing, more blues that is jazzy enough to mention here, I guess:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/227/MI0002227451.jpg)

a perfect addition to the magnificient Black and White recordings 52 tracks, just 6 alternates would be around but had to be omitted (the B&W would prob. be around the same, but many more alternates, so they could do three well-filled discs ... and actually I like to hear all of it, usually)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 30, 2017, 03:14:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qx0viM8CL._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51s%2BdzleLVL._SY355_.jpg)

Larry Coryell and Michal Urbaniak - A Quiet Day in Spring (1985)
Orrin Evans - Listen To The Band (2000)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511ThRnQ-jL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vxkvNufP6S7tTUKZYMXS3VlEDE4=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2014396-1322673246.jpeg.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi - The Many Sides Of Toshiko (1957)
Sun Ra - Sunrise In Different Dimensions (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on March 30, 2017, 08:04:39 PM
Quote from: George on March 30, 2017, 08:50:36 AM
Winter doesn't want to let go this year.  >:(

Winter appeared briefly here but has tucked in its tail and run for cover. Currently it is midnight, and 74°F.
TD
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 04:19:46 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on March 30, 2017, 08:04:39 PM
Winter appeared briefly here but has tucked in its tail and run for cover. Currently it is midnight, and 74°F.
TD
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I usually buy anything in the local used bins that has Paul Chambers on it.  I bet this is a beauty.

TD
From May of 1957

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BO9oRiOyL._SX425_.jpg)

'Trane's first solo album.  When friends ask where to start with Coltrane as the leader, I tend to veer them away from later recordings at first.  Rather I tell them, start at the beginning and set them up with this or with Blue Train and let their journey unfold from there.  I've read some reviews that say his early solo efforts sound very similar to rest of bop coming out of that time period.  I get that, but disagree.  I liken it to early and late Beatles.  That is, both different, but the footprints can be followed from start to finish and why would you want to leave any of their genius out of your library.  However, I'll admit some hypocrisy in what I just typed as "very late" Coltrane is still difficult for me to take in large doses as his slabs of sound seem to be inaccessible to me at times. As for this set, it's an excellent album and also features Chambers on bass with a heavy dash of Red Garland on piano for a few tracks. 

My Coltrane library still remains incomplete.  I believe I have much of the essential stuff, but I plan on going through it sequentially and see what holes I am missing.  My problem is that I love his live recordings and this I guess can be an effort both in determining what is out there and on the wallet.  Well, if I am going to spend money I do not have on jazz, might as well bolster up this section of my shelf.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 04:54:01 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on March 30, 2017, 08:04:39 PM
Winter appeared briefly here but has tucked in its tail and run for cover. Currently it is midnight, and 74°F.
TD
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Just added to my wishlist.  How is Coltrane on this one?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 05:45:03 AM
Another from '57, but spills over into January of '58.  Three sessions months apart to complete this one.  You talk about picking up the phone and seeing who is available.  Garland just failed to show up at the session when the first three tracks were recorded in May.  I even read that this was released in '61 because Prestige records held the rights to a number of "unissued" recordings and these were put together on this album and released as it is here.  That sounds like something that would happen.Imagine owning the rights to some early recordings of the Stones Hendrix and then they hit with Exile on Main Street or Are you Experienced?  Time to cash in!  Byrd's trumpet playing on the title track is enough to warrant the purchase, let alone the early sound of John's sax.  Either way, here are the line ups: 

Tracks 1-3
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Earl May – bass
Art Taylor – drums
Tracks 4-5
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
Red Garland – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Donald Byrd – trumpet (track 4)
Louis Hayes – drums (track 4)
Albert Heath – drums (track 5)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MBECHbJuL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 05:58:48 AM
Looping back.  I want to give these two another listen or two before moving on as I enjoyed them thoroughly. 

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BO9oRiOyL._SX425_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MBECHbJuL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 31, 2017, 06:34:47 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 04:54:01 AM
Just added to my wishlist.  How is Coltrane on this one?
Bill, Coltrane and Rollins duet on the first (title) track, with really extended solos & interplay. That's Coltrane's only appearance, but it's definitely a major one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 06:51:16 AM
Quote from: Brian on March 31, 2017, 06:34:47 AM
Bill, Coltrane and Rollins duet on the first (title) track, with really extended solos & interplay. That's Coltrane's only appearance, but it's definitely a major one!

Excellent to know, Brian.  Thanks!  With the rest of the line up, still a "want to have". ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 31, 2017, 06:53:26 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 04:54:01 AM
Just added to my wishlist.  How is Coltrane on this one?

There is a Hoffman mastered DCC gold disc (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000185/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for that one, Bill. I have it and it sounds lovely. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 31, 2017, 02:16:20 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/MTBhar_36M19Z-yK0YRtpiPsupY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4074957-1474879539-7427.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KEmBG1cVL.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi - George Wein Presents Toshiko (1956)
Don Pullen - New Beginnings (1988)

(https://img.discogs.com/AqsamFeiX7SeuOeToKJYPP4gNGc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-422514-1408539970-7527.jpeg.jpg)

Tony Williams - Ego (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 31, 2017, 05:28:06 PM
(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/miles_new_quintet_dcc_front.jpg)

Inspired by karl.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 31, 2017, 07:32:22 PM
A rainy night in NYC and you got the Miles going.  Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 01, 2017, 04:44:27 AM
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17621873_1883727561840259_6516523547555554667_o.jpg?oh=d4d71c0a1efc805d55a9613f43334b3e&oe=594D1DCE)
Was considering taking in A Sweet Smell of Success tonight, but before I did thought it would be nice if these two lps found the turntable for an early morning spin. The Elmer Bernstein platter has some of my all time favorite movie jazz and the Chico Hamilton Quintet efforts are terrific. Even the likes of Shelly Manne on drums and THE Johnny Williams on piano are found here. And those Decca covers! Can't beat 'em.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 01, 2017, 06:09:17 AM
This CD had been on its shelf for too long

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-4M3VS98L._SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 01, 2017, 08:36:58 AM
From 1954.  Blakey smokes on the track Split Kick and Clifford Brown's trumpet is sensational.  Highly recommended.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/481/MI0002481259.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Notes from the liner that caught my eye:
Recorded between 11-3 AM.
And this quote:
"And because Birdland attracts the kind of audiences who come to listen to the music rather than to incite violence or tear up chairs, the musicians felt that their offerings were falling on appreciative ears."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2017, 02:18:57 PM
Quote from: Bogey on April 01, 2017, 04:44:27 AM
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17621873_1883727561840259_6516523547555554667_o.jpg?oh=d4d71c0a1efc805d55a9613f43334b3e&oe=594D1DCE)
Was considering taking in A Sweet Smell of Success tonight, but before I did thought it would be nice if these two lps found the turntable for an early morning spin. The Elmer Bernstein platter has some of my all time favorite movie jazz and the Chico Hamilton Quintet efforts are terrific. Even the likes of Shelly Manne on drums and THE Johnny Williams on piano are found here. And those Decca covers! Can't beat 'em.

^One of my top ten favorite films

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/Fx88eYKnk73jgzyURUtrkrhGlbQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6702966-1424960592-3028.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ullDe762B6n_L07X3sEC_IZSuAs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1382715-1313431249.jpeg.jpg)

Richard Wyands - Reunited (1995)
Tony Williams - The Old Bum's Rush (1972)

(https://img.discogs.com/YIcocrcijUxED8zm5ZXe3o9ej64=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3895788-1348420676-2422.jpeg.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi - Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 01, 2017, 02:21:14 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 01, 2017, 02:18:57 PM
^One of my top ten favorite films

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/Fx88eYKnk73jgzyURUtrkrhGlbQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6702966-1424960592-3028.jpeg.jpg)

Richard Wyands - Reunited (1995)

It's a beauty.  The one liners are some of the best.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 02, 2017, 02:10:45 AM
I'm not familiar with Criss Cross label at all, but it's releases look very interesting.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 02, 2017, 05:47:45 AM
From 1953:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51L75foNCuL._SS500.jpg)

J.J. Johnson – trombone
Clifford Brown – trumpet (except "It Could Happen To You")
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (except "It Could Happen To You")
John Lewis – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

This is Vol. 1 of 2.  The next volume actually has Mingus on it, though you would suppose this did because of the cover.  After reading (and reading again), these two volumes are basically early recordings of Johnson in the lead and are taken from two(?) sessions.  You can WIKI it if you like jigsaw puzzles, but either way you get some fabulous music.  Used to be I avoided trombone unless it was with a swing band, but the Johnson/Stan Getz album I have changed all that.  It's nice to have added this and Vol. 2 to my collection.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 02, 2017, 09:43:01 AM
The Jimmy Smith from Paris 1965 has landed - but I received yet another, earlier edition, I guess the first one (from 1992) - looks like this:

(https://img.discogs.com/b36yriFLzyKXTo7kCNwB8TogxoI=/fit-in/245x187/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6593572-1443978002-4355.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 02, 2017, 02:39:22 PM
Quote from: Bogey on April 02, 2017, 05:47:45 AM
From 1953:

J.J. Johnson – trombone
Clifford Brown – trumpet (except "It Could Happen To You")
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone (except "It Could Happen To You")
John Lewis – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

This is Vol. 1 of 2.  The next volume actually has Mingus on it, though you would suppose this did because of the cover.  After reading (and reading again), these two volumes are basically early recordings of Johnson in the lead and are taken from two(?) sessions.  You can WIKI it if you like jigsaw puzzles, but either way you get some fabulous music.  Used to be I avoided trombone unless it was with a swing band, but the Johnson/Stan Getz album I have changed all that.  It's nice to have added this and Vol. 2 to my collection.

These were initially made for 10" LPs - in jazz, only around 1955 the switch was made to 12" (with some exceptions, such as Duke Ellington's "Masterpieces" on Columbia - but that was Columbia and Ellington's prolonged versions of some of his most famous tunes were marketed as something like classical concerti ...). So independent labels like Prestige or Blue Note repackaged much of their catalogue into the new format. For Miles and J.J. on Blue Note for instance , you have two Vols. of 12" albums that in each case contain three 10" albums. In other cases (Monk, Bud Vols. 1 & 2) they compiled singles again (they already had compiled them onto 10"). With these changes in edition, sometimes a different take (whether by choice or by accident) would see the light, too.

Blue Note, when first releasing these sessions on CD, usually went with the 12" covers where they differed. Later on (with the RVG Edition) they switched to using the 10" covers, and in some cases still re-grouped the music (I think the earlier CDs reflecting the 12" releases usually did so, content-wise, as well, but I'm not sure). So with Miles and J.J., you get two ten-inchers (plus bonustracks like alternate takes if available) on one Volume, and the third on a separate volume ... thus what's on the cover will not necessarily reflect what's on the disc.

I like the "complete sessions"-approach, but many collectors seem not to, to the extent that - this was beyond silly if you ask me! - the reissues of Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon" and "House Party" in the RVG series while adding a few bonus tracks, omitted many other tracks that were available on the previous CD incarnations (which again split up the contents into original sessions, while the LPs and again the RVGs mixed sessions). Why they couldn't even included the remaining tracks at the end of the disc (not just alternates in that case, though with such great bands in a lose setting I like alternate takes as well ... heck I generally do like alternate takes anyway!). Seems to many anally retentive collectors complained about them abandoning the original LP configuration that they bowed in ... ridiculous indeed, as if you want to hear original, get first pressings, get a time machine (or at least wear sixties clothes, buy sixties furniture, eat sixties food, smoke sixties cigarettes and play your vinyl on crappy sixties audio equipment to make sure you ruin those first pressings on a small portable rekkid player etc. - never burst your bubble, but don't panick about a CD repacking known music into its own format - a CD will never be original, so what's the matter).

Edited to add: in many cases, an additional session was held to "pimp" an 10" and have the necessary additional 10-15 minutes to make it a 12" ... but sometimes stuff was repackaged in an adventurous way. Guess that was a Prestige specialty and it explains all the odd 12" LPs jumbling sessions that are still well-known today, by Miles Davis or Sonny Rollins or Thelonious Monk. Those silly purists should actually insist on 20-25 minute CDs that contain the 10" versions only, as those were "original".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 02, 2017, 02:45:39 PM
Time Out - Dave Brubeck - AP SACD - mastered by Bernie Grundman  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 02, 2017, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: Artem on April 02, 2017, 02:10:45 AM
I'm not familiar with Criss Cross label at all, but it's releases look very interesting.

They're consistently strong, though not consistently essential. I'm finding, for reasons I'm still mulling over, that the albums that include a guitarist are usually a cut above those that don't on this label. Like the producer(s) have an extra investment in capturing that instrument/artists well. Or that it adds something new and exciting for the more standard combos.

now:

(http://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/Alb.41303659/500x500.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi - Recital (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 02, 2017, 03:57:01 PM
Quote from: king ubu on April 02, 2017, 02:39:22 PM
These were initially made for 10" LPs - in jazz, only around 1955 the switch was made to 12" (with some exceptions, such as Duke Ellington's "Masterpieces" on Columbia - but that was Columbia and Ellington's prolonged versions of some of his most famous tunes were marketed as something like classical concerti ...). So independent labels like Prestige or Blue Note repackaged much of their catalogue into the new format. For Miles and J.J. on Blue Note for instance , you have two Vols. of 12" albums that in each case contain three 10" albums. In other cases (Monk, Bud Vols. 1 & 2) they compiled singles again (they already had compiled them onto 10"). With these changes in edition, sometimes a different take (whether by choice or by accident) would see the light, too.

Blue Note, when first releasing these sessions on CD, usually went with the 12" covers where they differed. Later on (with the RVG Edition) they switched to using the 10" covers, and in some cases still re-grouped the music (I think the earlier CDs reflecting the 12" releases usually did so, content-wise, as well, but I'm not sure). So with Miles and J.J., you get two ten-inchers (plus bonustracks like alternate takes if available) on one Volume, and the third on a separate volume ... thus what's on the cover will not necessarily reflect what's on the disc.

I like the "complete sessions"-approach, but many collectors seem not to, to the extent that - this was beyond silly if you ask me! - the reissues of Jimmy Smith's "The Sermon" and "House Party" in the RVG series while adding a few bonus tracks, omitted many other tracks that were available on the previous CD incarnations (which again split up the contents into original sessions, while the LPs and again the RVGs mixed sessions). Why they couldn't even included the remaining tracks at the end of the disc (not just alternates in that case, though with such great bands in a lose setting I like alternate takes as well ... heck I generally do like alternate takes anyway!). Seems to many anally retentive collectors complained about them abandoning the original LP configuration that they bowed in ... ridiculous indeed, as if you want to hear original, get first pressings, get a time machine (or at least wear sixties clothes, buy sixties furniture, eat sixties food, smoke sixties cigarettes and play your vinyl on crappy sixties audio equipment to make sure you ruin those first pressings on a small portable rekkid player etc. - never burst your bubble, but don't panick about a CD repacking known music into its own format - a CD will never be original, so what's the matter).

Edited to add: in many cases, an additional session was held to "pimp" an 10" and have the necessary additional 10-15 minutes to make it a 12" ... but sometimes stuff was repackaged in an adventurous way. Guess that was a Prestige specialty and it explains all the odd 12" LPs jumbling sessions that are still well-known today, by Miles Davis or Sonny Rollins or Thelonious Monk. Those silly purists should actually insist on 20-25 minute CDs that contain the 10" versions only, as those were "original".

That took effort and time.  Many thanks.  The key for me is not to rebuy what I have.  That is why I have made it a point to stay away from box sets recently. I may miss some bonus stuff, but I will make up for it with spending the money on cds that I do not have any of the material.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 02, 2017, 03:57:23 PM
Quote from: George on April 02, 2017, 02:45:39 PM
Time Out - Dave Brubeck - AP SACD - mastered by Bernie Grundman  8)

Boom!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 03, 2017, 10:04:54 AM
foogly cover, but at least album #1 on this set (which is "Lenox Avenue Breakdown" - on my version the sequence has been fixed compared to the pic below) is a timeless classic ... the other three are new to me (bought a few month ago, but revisiting and first listening after the sad recent news ... finally finding some time for Blythe):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61rxDNRbO0L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 03, 2017, 10:14:09 AM
Quote from: Bogey on April 02, 2017, 03:57:23 PM
Boom!

Best sounding digital version of that album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2017, 02:09:19 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/538/MI0000538891.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Dan Faulk - Focusing In (1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 04, 2017, 04:21:38 PM
Recorded between '48 and '50

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4149WJW7T6L.jpg)

Big band swing sound, but throw in a dash of bongos and congas.  Doc Severinsen on one of the trumpets for those keeping score.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2017, 05:02:06 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/259/MI0000259770.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Tom Williams - Straight Street (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 04, 2017, 10:32:40 PM
Lately:

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A lovely prepared piano solo set by Eve Risser (out on Clean Feed) ... saw her large ensemble (another disc on Clean Feed) at Jazzfest Berlin last fall and kinda fell for it/her ... she's scheduled to play Météo in Mulhouse in August, which I plan to visit.

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Chico Freeman and Arthur Blythe - two sets from Ronnie Scott's in London.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/052/MI0002052608.jpg)

This album from 2002 seems indeed to be Blythe's last one ... with longtime cohorts John Hicks (p), Bob Stewart (tuba) and Cecil Brooks III (d), excellent release.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/337/MI0002337083.jpg)

And this was, I think, my first encounter with Blythe ... he's a perfect match for the warm, somewhat swampy sound of this project.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 05, 2017, 11:01:57 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XrvIVeNUL.jpg)

Zach Brock - Purple Sounds (2013)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 06, 2017, 10:37:35 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/976/MI0002976135.jpg)

Just got this solo recording from 1999 and gave it a first spin - lovely indeed! The tunes are a nice mixture of standards and originals (Parker, Ellington, Strayhorn, Dizzy, Monk, Parlan).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 06, 2017, 01:41:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Us1nzJ3eL.jpg)

This arrived a few weeks ago, together with the new Mobley ... and from my first impression, it's as great as I was daring to hope - I just love Don Byas, he was not fooling around!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on April 06, 2017, 06:51:21 PM
Ubu is right: certainly will take several listens to get a grasp on this, but interesting enough even on first hearing
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 06, 2017, 07:21:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 05, 2017, 11:01:57 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XrvIVeNUL.jpg)

Zach Brock - Purple Sounds (2013)

I gotta check it out. You must be a sick person!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 07, 2017, 01:50:17 AM
Late night listen yesterday was this here:

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After all, what can you listen to after having listened to Don Byas? Right: more Don Byas!

Today:

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The first just out on Intakt ... the latest by Trio 3, the second delivered today, and straight to the player - very nice 1991 recording with Hamiet Bluiett, Bob Stewart, Kelvin Bell, Gust William Tsilis, Arto Tuncboyaci and Don Moye (not everybody present on all tracks, Bluiett merely a guest on two tracks, other than that from solo to trio - Blythe/Tsilis/Tuncboyaci, Blythe/Stewart/Tuncboyaci - quartet - Blythe/Bell/Stewart/Moye - to full band (one without Tsilis, three with Tsilis and Bluiett). Pretty nice programme indeed, though the cover, once you flip open the digipack panels, is inducing eye cancer within minutes ... the 90s when they still looked like the 80s, the worst that you can get as far as aesthetics go!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 07, 2017, 01:10:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vfZCN6duL._SL500_.jpg)

Found a new copy of this today in a local shop and snapped it up! Now enjoying CD 01.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 07, 2017, 03:51:42 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/366/MI0002366870.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/2QD1b3Y5opwTrgZDPYviXy0j_oE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1155417-1443528787-6384.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - Mantra Mode (1991)
Ray Brooks - The Free Slave (1970)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Golden_Boy_%28Art_Blakey_album%29.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/New_Bottle_Old_Wine.jpg)

Art Blakey - Golden Boy (1964)
Gil Evans - New Bottle, Old Wine (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 07, 2017, 05:24:03 PM
This is very nice (Julie London Cole Porter), heard on KCSM!!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qfg43eCBL._SX450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 07, 2017, 07:16:05 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 07, 2017, 05:24:03 PM
This is very nice (Julie London Cole Porter), heard on KCSM!!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qfg43eCBL._SX450_.jpg)

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 08, 2017, 04:02:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 07, 2017, 03:51:42 PM


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Golden_Boy_%28Art_Blakey_album%29.jpg)

Art Blakey - Golden Boy (1964)


I do not have any Blakey from the '60's, I believe.  Curious if he changed his sound or approach later in his career?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 08, 2017, 04:03:05 AM
George Shearing is great anytime anywhere in my book, but when he has the fabulous Armando Peraza along for the session on the bongos and congas then the lp goes directly to the top shelf.

(https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/q81/p480x480/17796741_1887538344792514_5831068115639251031_n.jpg?oh=9d86c771cbb5427be7e35be71c1d160f&oe=5957A47A)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 08, 2017, 06:25:06 AM
Quote from: Forever Electoral College on April 07, 2017, 07:16:05 PM
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
The one Julie London album you need! It's gorgeous!

Quote from: Bogey on April 08, 2017, 04:02:31 AM
I do not have any Blakey from the '60's, I believe.  Curious if he changed his sound or approach later in his career?
Well, up to the end of his Blue Note stay in the mid-sixties, he continued to make some of his very best albums ("Free for All", "Buhaina's Delight", "Mosaic", "Indestructible", "The Freedom Rider", etc.). "Golden Boy" (Colpix, 1963; later part of the Capitol/EMI family of jazz labels and thus reissued in the same series as his Blue Note albums) is a bit of a departure as it comes with an enlarged band (former Blakey-ite Lee Morgan is added on second trumpet, Julius Watkins, Bill Barber, James Spaulding and Charles Davis are added, too - that makes for 11 instead of the then regular 6 pieces). Later in the sixties, Blakey switched to Limelight/EmArcy, who kinda produced more narrowly and didn't let the music flow as much as Blue Note did, alas ... "'S Make It" has John Gilmore on tenor, but he's not let lose, alas, "Soul Finger" has one totally gorgeous Lucky Thompson track (though they failed to mention LT on the cover!!!), "Buttercorn Lady" is pretty cool again though, with unsung Frank Mitchell on tenor and Keef "No End" Jarrett on piano ... in 1968, Blakey led another very nice band with Bill Hardman (he was with the 1957 Messengers), Julian Priester and the amazing Billy Harper in the frontline, plus Ronnie Mathews on piano and Lawrence Evans on bass (don't know Evans elsewhere), "Live at Slug's" and "Moanin'" are the two albums that are out by this band (on Everest and LRC, respectively). In the early seventies, Blakey incorporated some electric instruments for a short moment - that can be heard  on two not entirely succesful Fantasy discs "Child's Dance" and "Mission Eternal" (they contain three LPs: "Child's Dance", "Anthenagin", "Buhaina", featuring Woody Shaw, Manny Boyd, George Cables, Stanley Clarke, Cedar Walton and others). After that, Blakey returned to his well-tested hard bop formula, featuring younger players again (Bobby Watson, Billy Pierce, Terence Blanchard, Javon Jackson etc. etc. - for those that love Criss Cross, that should be interesting, but for me it's more like: have each and all Blakey records from 1954 to 1968 before you buy any later ones ... those early bands with Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Bobby Timmons, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton etc. were hot, and amongst the discs there's hardly a clunker, not even in the output of the so-called "second edition" from 1956/57 that is less universally loved).

Thread duty:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2017, 02:20:19 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ls92NjaLL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NcSmLVBJL.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Live At The Village Vanguard (1999), disc six
Wynton Marsalis - In This House, On This Morning (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 08, 2017, 02:36:08 PM
Quote from: Bogey on April 08, 2017, 04:03:05 AM
George Shearing is great anytime anywhere in my book, but when he has the fabulous Armando Peraza along for the session on the bongos and congas then the lp goes directly to the top shelf.

(https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/q81/p480x480/17796741_1887538344792514_5831068115639251031_n.jpg?oh=9d86c771cbb5427be7e35be71c1d160f&oe=5957A47A)

mmmmmmmmm, that is a nice cover!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 08, 2017, 06:07:54 PM
Here's another interesting one heard on The Jazz Oasis--KCSM, The Bay Area's Jazz Station--kcsm.org! (I'm a member. Are you?)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81qTDAd9TqL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 08, 2017, 08:41:55 PM
Tomasz Stanko
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 08, 2017, 09:15:06 PM
What do you think? I tried to get into that CD, but just couldn't. His sound is similar to Enrico Rava, but the music is so much less interesting IMO.

I've also been listening to a fair amount of Mathias Eick lately
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 08, 2017, 10:28:03 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 08, 2017, 09:15:06 PM
What do you think? I tried to get into that CD, but just couldn't. His sound is similar to Enrico Rava, but the music is so much less interesting IMO.

I've also been listening to a fair amount of Mathias Eick lately

Interesting. I always liked both Rava and Stanko.......
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 09, 2017, 01:59:29 PM
Some Sunday afternoon jazz provided by Lalo. hard to beat.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2017, 11:26:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51o2bSRhdjL._SX342_QL70_.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Blood On The Fields (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2017, 10:23:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510SsjRGYIL.jpg) (http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/849/0000849785.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Big Train (1999)
Miles Davis - Miles in Tokyo (rec.1964 rel.1969)

(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/177/0001177501.jpg)

Miles Davis - The Complete Concert: My Funny Valentine and Four And More (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 11, 2017, 05:35:23 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2017, 10:23:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510SsjRGYIL.jpg) (http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/849/0000849785.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Big Train (1999)
Miles Davis - Miles in Tokyo (rec.1964 rel.1969)

(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/177/0001177501.jpg)

Miles Davis - The Complete Concert: My Funny Valentine and Four And More (1964)

I like In Tokyo. So What is so thrillful!  Sam Rivers sounds great. No idea why the boss was not happy about him.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 11, 2017, 09:36:17 PM
Another great one from KCSM (www.kcsm.org ), a radio station you should be listening to and supporting!!! Ron Carter Nonet.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/410QMNJ38WL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 11, 2017, 10:09:15 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 11, 2017, 09:36:17 PM
Another great one from KCSM (www.kcsm.org ), a radio station you should be listening to and supporting!!! Ron Carter Nonet.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/410QMNJ38WL.jpg)

He was/is a great bassist for classical music, but none of the orchestras hired him because he was black. That's how he unenthusiastically began his career with Miles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2017, 10:53:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51j4d%2B0SSIL.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - The Marciac Suite (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 12, 2017, 08:00:01 PM
(https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ODL3-W6AKvFU6HoqDsXP7gEsEs&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300)

Took me a while to warm to the Gil Evans' collaboration stuff, but I am easily in now.  This one I can put on a loop and let it play three or four hours.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2017, 11:46:42 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/412/MI0000412648.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Turner on April 12, 2017, 11:51:18 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 12, 2017, 11:46:42 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/412/MI0000412648.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour (2004)

Nice & interesting cover art too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 13, 2017, 08:14:09 AM
Quote from: Bogey on April 12, 2017, 08:00:01 PM
(https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ODL3-W6AKvFU6HoqDsXP7gEsEs&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300)

Took me a while to warm to the Gil Evans' collaboration stuff, but I am easily in now.  This one I can put on a loop and let it play three or four hours.

There is very little music or music making that I totally dislike but I have to be honest and say that I just cannot get past that Concierto de Aranjuez. I have tried but it just will not happen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 13, 2017, 09:39:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/_EUQjjUbv98
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2017, 02:44:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512Z1YMKZRL.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Max_Roach-We_Insist%21_Max_Roach%27s_Freedom_Now_Suite_%28album_cover%29.jpg)

Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin (1964)
Max Roach - We Insist (1960)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Dark_to_Themselves.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Dark To Themselves (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 13, 2017, 06:11:50 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 13, 2017, 08:14:09 AM
There is very little music or music making that I totally dislike but I have to be honest and say that I just cannot get past that Concierto de Aranjuez. I have tried but it just will not happen.

This one was one was tough to crack.  However, when it happened, it was wonderful. It took years and repeated plays,so I see your point as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 14, 2017, 07:39:01 AM
Quote from: Bogey on April 13, 2017, 06:11:50 PM
This one was one was tough to crack.  However, when it happened, it was wonderful. It took years and repeated plays,so I see your point as well.

OK, so your conversion period was a protracted one as opposed to and instant one, which is interesting. Thank you.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 14, 2017, 06:11:23 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Miles_Davis_-_Agharta.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/John_Surman_Westering_Home.jpg)

Miles Davis - Agharta (1975)
John Surman - Westering Home (1972)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kF7BXteaL._SY355_.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/787/MI0000787489.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Blue Mitchell - Big 6 (1958)
mike LeDonne - The Feeling Of Jazz (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 15, 2017, 01:39:52 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 14, 2017, 06:11:23 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kF7BXteaL._SY355_.jpg)

Blue Mitchell - Big 6 (1958)
Measured by the glorious line-up, I always found "Big 6" a bit of a disappointment ... and I think the same more or less applies to Mitchell's entire series of (fine, mind me!) Riverside albums. I feel similar about the series the label produced with Jimmy Heath. Both should be one great album after the other, but they're mostly just good, in some cases maybe a bit better than good. Haven't quite figured out why though, but have some ideas. With Heath it's the leader's restrained playing I think, I prefer some of his seventies albums, such as "Picture of Heath" on Xanadu, with Mitchell the Blue Notes of the working group seem to work quite a bit better, though the line-up isn't just as enticing as on some of his Riversides -Mitchell took over the Horace Silver quintet once Silver discarded the longtime Mitchell/Cook frontline (Carmell Jones and Joe Henderson were there replacements - I'm not blaming Silver for that!) - Mitchell got Chick Corea on piano and Al Foster on drums, on bass Gene Taylor for the old Silver quintet stayed on).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 15, 2017, 01:43:38 AM
Quote from: king ubu on April 15, 2017, 01:39:52 AM
Measured by the glorious line-up, I always found "Big 6" a bit of a disappointment

That was my reaction as well. Fine playing, but nowhere near as remarkable or essential as some reviews have it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 15, 2017, 02:49:11 AM
p.s.: happy birthday, KU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 15, 2017, 04:36:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 15, 2017, 02:49:11 AM
p.s.: happy birthday, KU

Thanks - but that's only coming up on Tuesday ... just checked my profile and the date is correct there. Weird!

Now playing this new arrival:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oMC%2B6yBrL.jpg)

And probably continuing with this other new arrival:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SBZpcol6L.jpg)

Like me some cornbread!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 15, 2017, 06:25:49 AM
Dang, already had the Buckner/Singer ... will make a nice gift, I hope - bought too much without thinking lately.

Now playing, finally got this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/185/MI0004185609.jpg)

Great stuff!

Following up with this late Blythe recording - I've known it for a while, but finally acquired the disc:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/263/MI0000263270.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 15, 2017, 04:40:30 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/656/MI0000656172.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z-%2BgbZyTL._SS500.jpg)

Sam Rivers - Waves (1978)
Phil Robson - Screenwash (2004)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61E9a5wVrmL.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1 (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 16, 2017, 06:04:21 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ab8b1TMgL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 16, 2017, 09:25:07 AM
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3035/cover_31512162010.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 16, 2017, 03:46:01 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81R4JGlq87L._SL1417_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 16, 2017, 04:10:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ietcvVxWL.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/728/MI0000728707.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Miles Davis - Live Around The World (rec.1988-91)
Kenny Garrett - Beyond The Wall (2006)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71y5tM1-NvL._SY355_.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/748/MI0001748219.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Hampton Hawes - For Real (1961)
Susie Ibarra - Radiance (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 17, 2017, 07:21:10 AM
Revisiting this classic:

(https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/ar0/29555acae2ed44eea3882de43a606fd9)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 17, 2017, 01:07:04 PM
While I'm waiting for the Holdsworth box set to arrive, I'll be playing some Holdsworth albums on YouTube:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812%2BRzaSyOL._SL1000_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 17, 2017, 01:32:13 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vfZCN6duL._SL500_.jpg)

Still enjoying a first pass through this set. Today - CD 4.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 17, 2017, 09:51:44 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/338/MI0000338744.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Yuri Honing - Seven (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 17, 2017, 10:12:35 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 17, 2017, 09:51:44 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/338/MI0000338744.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Yuri Honing - Seven (2001)

yes, tell me more. I recognize all the names, but can't put any music to it.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 17, 2017, 10:14:14 PM
My favorite Errol Garner record (Gems--Columbia LP)

(https://img.discogs.com/x6vEUsAODREF86gjljB7IQQSRF8=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2502800-1325799902.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2017, 02:13:03 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 17, 2017, 10:12:35 PM
yes, tell me more. I recognize all the names, but can't put any music to it.

My first listen to this album, and, I think, anything of Yuri Honing. I was a little surprised that the three big names I knew well would take such a generally subservient role - this is not an album of open exchange between equals. Peacock nevertheless is showcased well and seems to have more simpatico with the leader than Bley or Motian. The album is highly regarded in some quarters so I'll try again, but today I found it cold and an under utilizing of the talent on offer.

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/398/MI0002398070.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Amina Claudine Myers - Salutes Bessie Smith (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2017, 11:18:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/pa8IZRU-nOzO0Ow6qRqEPOf4hjU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2820261-1302516029.jpeg.jpg)

Enrico Pieranunzi / Marc Johnson / Joey Baron - Ballads (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 19, 2017, 06:11:54 PM
Some great listening of late, folks.  This thread is becoming my favorite one to visit on this site.  Two of recent listening:

From 1956 with the likes of Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Horace Silver.  Decent enough, but I am still warming to this one.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61OuIX5tM%2BL._SS500.jpg)

Live from L.A. (1963).  This one almost has a Vince Guaraldi sound to it.  A really enjoyable album.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71YAT%2BpPKHL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 19, 2017, 06:13:58 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 17, 2017, 10:14:14 PM
My favorite Errol Garner record (Gems--Columbia LP)

(https://img.discogs.com/x6vEUsAODREF86gjljB7IQQSRF8=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2502800-1325799902.jpeg.jpg)

Thanks for the vinyl shot. Always cool. Might you take a quick shot of the actual record.  Would like to see the label.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 19, 2017, 06:36:46 PM
(https://rontoni70.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/shellys-manne-holec2a9.jpg)

Kind of goes with the Evans recording above.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 19, 2017, 09:39:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glU8B9WXL._SY355_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/All_That_Is_Tied.jpg)

Aaron Bell - After the Party's Over (1958)
Ran Blake - All That Is Tied (2006)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dVGn%2Bvs9L.jpg)

Miles Davis - Miles! Miles! Miles! (rec.1981 rel.1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 20, 2017, 06:28:20 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51G7JWXxP4L.jpg)

Dave Brubeck - Time Signatures - A Career Retrospective

Found this 4CD set for $15 used yesterday, in like new condition. Listened to some of CD 1 and plan to get to more of it tonight after work. Up until now, I have only heard his Time Out and Time Further Out albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 20, 2017, 07:53:49 AM
(https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/a6396e33-9298-493e-9409-f0e1366b326b/albumcover/i-o-u-521f64195a3b5.jpg)

(https://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/100_3361.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 20, 2017, 08:38:15 AM
(https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/a6396e33-9298-493e-9409-f0e1366b326b/albumcover/road-games-560fda635f297.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 20, 2017, 09:01:48 AM
(http://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net/icpn/191018866679/191018866679-cover-zoom.jpg)

(http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wbgo/files/styles/x_large/public/201704/MI0001400139.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 20, 2017, 04:26:16 PM
Wayne Shorter's inspiration
Wayne Shorter talks about drawing his inspiration from a range of musicians - from Mozart to Art Tatum. The saxophonist then reminisces about working with Miles Davis, putting together Native Dancer with Milton Nascimento and his time in Weather Report. He also talks about making his latest album Without A Net, his first for the Blue Note label since 1970.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sjs5g
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aleazk on April 20, 2017, 10:41:11 PM
Bill Evans & Stan Getz - But Beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eLn4B9MzQ&t=2699s

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/But_Beautiful_Getz_Evans.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 21, 2017, 12:38:56 AM
(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/402/0001402138.jpg)

The Complete Miles Davis At Montreux, discs 13 and 14 (the July 7, 1988 concert)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 21, 2017, 03:24:54 AM
(http://www.sputnikmusic.com/images/albums/45613.jpg)

(http://www.billboard.com/files/media/01-Allan-Holdsworth-portrait-bw-billboard-1548.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 21, 2017, 07:43:33 AM
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1024/cover_365921042017_r.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 21, 2017, 09:10:05 PM
Awesome, James. I haven't got to Sand or Atavachron yet, but they're coming for sure.

Working my way chronologically through Holdsworth's solo discography with his first, I.O.U. -

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Allan_Holdsworth_-_I.O.U._album_cover.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 21, 2017, 09:32:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/yM5k-f83knBavTxq0x0rKfq306s=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1583380-1420133189-2966.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/BS4KvL0e-of_Pa7XZ961dCV968k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3080361-1314783146.jpeg.jpg)

Mark O'Leary / Cuong Vu / Tom Rainey - Waiting (2006)
Johnny Dyani ‎– African Bass (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 22, 2017, 02:35:31 AM
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1024/cover_552814942017_r.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 22, 2017, 02:49:04 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 21, 2017, 09:10:05 PMWorking my way chronologically through Holdsworth's solo discography with his first, I.O.U. -

Doing the same here, starting my morning with Secrets right now .. I.O.U. has a lot of really great stuff on it, the hallmarks are all there. You'll notice that with just about any guitarist out there .. you can hear their influences, not really the case with Allan Holdsworth .. and that is really rare, he sounds like no one else. He was truly original & innovative. I always feel in a sense privileged to have come into contact with his beautiful thing, an ear & mind opener! An epiphany for me as a guitar player!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 22, 2017, 05:52:29 AM
Quote from: James on April 22, 2017, 02:49:04 AM
Doing the same here, starting my morning with Secrets right now .. I.O.U. has a lot of really great stuff on it, the hallmarks are all there. You'll notice that with just about any guitarist out there .. you can hear their influences, not really the case with Allan Holdsworth .. and that is really rare, he sounds like no one else. He was truly original & innovative. I always feel in a sense privileged to have come into contact with his beautiful thing, an ear & mind opener! An epiphany for me as a guitar player!

Oh yes, Holdsworth had an original conception of the guitar and no one will ever sound like him. I always hate it when guitarists try to emulate him because it just makes them come off as half-hearted and simply not believable. Holdsworth came out swinging and he died swinging. A total singular voice for sure, which is no easy feat for a guitarist.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 22, 2017, 01:59:30 PM
(https://cdn.alexanderstreet.com/dorp/dorp/0/3658/d5ed/1003594386-size-original.jpg)

(http://www.celebrityrockstarguitars.com/rock/images/alanh.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 22, 2017, 04:01:36 PM
(http://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net/icpn/191018866600/191018866600-cover-zoom.jpg)

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i9CAIBIvUAI/hqdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 22, 2017, 06:36:56 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4191G2RZ5HL.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/682/MI0000682196.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jane Ira Bloom - The Red Quartets (1999)
Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 23, 2017, 07:18:24 AM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0827016367_10.jpg)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/34/f1/55/34f155922505aa382ff250a7337801a0.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 23, 2017, 09:52:45 AM
Now:

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qdSPl4P8keA/V7R3SN6sbmI/AAAAAAAAEp8/wL3zWW2tTt0LCHQPGBcw_OE14WCxzGGngCLcB/s400/front.jpg)

(http://planofunerariofamiliar.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/allan-holdsworth-glen-laferman-09-640x360.jpg)

This is a really beautiful album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 23, 2017, 03:12:10 PM
(http://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net/icpn/191018866815/191018866815-cover-zoom.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 23, 2017, 09:50:15 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/RlcgTvEZ96fsB7Ks4qMR3iOf4ak=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5642258-1398738253-9158.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/679/MI0001679530.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

David Kikoski - Almost Twilight (2000)
Rebecca Kilgore - Not A Care In The World (1997)

(https://img.discogs.com/FQ1jOc0wM9bypSrLoQs6hX6KKMI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6245194-1414932782-6651.jpeg.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/f5fd1a4076867e574860a6dcdb036cef/1414944.jpg)

Louis Armstrong - Satchmo Serenades (1952)
Teddi King - Storyville Presents Miss Teddi King (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 24, 2017, 02:27:34 AM
Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie is the eleventh and final studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released on 1 December 2001 through Megazoidal Records and reissued on 16 August 2007 through Eidolon Efformation. Besides the first track, the entire album was recorded by Holdsworth himself using the SynthAxe, an instrument for which Holdsworth has become well known since Atavachron (1986).

(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1024/cover_30791042017_r.jpg)

(http://www.jazzguitar.be/images/other/synthaxe.gif)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 24, 2017, 04:41:23 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/129/MI0002129023.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/248/MI0003248618.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71uToxu1ZrL._SL1263_.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/197/MI0003197104.jpg)

All four bought at the Soul Jazz store in London during last week's vacation and visit to the Intakt in London festival at Vortex. Good stuff!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/936/MI0001936814.jpg)

Revisiting after last week's weird encounter of the two at Vortex in London

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91U-1lEgNHL._SL1500_.jpg)

Edelhagen recordings from 1954 ... quite stiff at the beginning, then loosening up later in the year (with Caterina Valente guesting on two of the Basel live tracks) after a guest spot with Mary Lou Williams (several tracks by just her in trio and then one with the Edelhagen band joining in) - a footnote for those into German jazz, but a nice one.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRY4tS2sKAE/UDFgjiVtt9I/AAAAAAAAGys/xHgTDabbdY4/s1600/eve+Risser.jpeg)(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dt_9SwtXlgY/WO2cRCkNyuI/AAAAAAAAIZc/b9VroZlT3_wUk7_E-oEPGIWY-mzRCdvHACLcB/s1600/a2746714942_16.jpg)

Two mighty fine records by this great trio ... Eve Risser plays prepared and unprepared piano and while it's almost always clear that a piano is involved, she gets a wide array of sounds from it. In Duboc and Perraud she found two really great partners for the venture. The second disc was just released earlier this year, and that prompted Dark Tree to reprint the first one on CD, luckily.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81-rqNCEzxL._SL1210_.jpg)

Missed Laubrock's gigs at the festival in London (her first appearance was the day I left early morning), but hope to catch Sleepthief in Zurich next Sunday, second day of the two-day follow-up Intakt does in town.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 24, 2017, 08:35:42 AM
Art Tatum
Benny Carter
Louis Bellson
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on April 24, 2017, 12:00:48 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Miles_Davis-Filles_de_Kilimanjaro_%28album_cover%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 24, 2017, 03:31:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51b5hEeCPZL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41HzKWg0ZKL._SS500.jpg)

Ryan Kisor - Power Source (2001)
Albert Mangelsdorff - Triplicity (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 24, 2017, 11:20:13 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 24, 2017, 03:31:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41HzKWg0ZKL._SS500.jpg)

Albert Mangelsdorff - Triplicity (2005)

Very nice one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 25, 2017, 11:01:28 PM
Quote from: king ubu on April 24, 2017, 11:20:13 PM
Very nice one!

Yeah, that one was a treat!

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/9ZmeTlox_3Gcvrfx20ae9kskJ80=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5511453-1395260328-8239.jpeg.jpg)

Lage Lund - Unlikely Stories (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 26, 2017, 09:27:39 AM
Quote from: Brian on April 24, 2017, 08:35:42 AM
Art Tatum
Benny Carter
Louis Bellson
Clearly it's Benny Carter Week at my place. I've also listened to Urbane Jazz and the JATP Stockholm concert with Eldridge, Byas, and Hawk.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 26, 2017, 09:36:07 AM
Mangelsdorff was a great musician anyway ... and one of the first in Europe to develop a distinctive approach to jazz, I think (not just as a stylist, but as a bandleader, composer). His albums "Now Jazz Ramwong" and "One! Tension" (or just: Tension - I think that depends on the edition) are early classics. Later on he made more great music, most notably a series of albums for MPS, including three solo albums (Trombirds Tromboneliness, Solo), some more great trios (JF Jenny-Clark/Ronald Shannon Jackson, Jaco Pastorius/Alphonse Mouzon, Palle Danielsson/Elvin Jones, Léon Francioli/Pierre Favre) and other fine albums (one with MUMPS, which was Mangelsdorff, John Surman, Barre Phillips, Stu Martin; "A Jazz Tune I Hope" again with Elvin Jones plus Wolfgang Dauner and Eddie Gomez; Zo-Ko-Ma, a trio session col-led with Attila Zoller and Lee Konitz; and more ...) - all of his MPS albums were reissued on CD but are probably impossible to find by now ("AM & His Friends" was a single disc released a bit earlier, then they released all the rest in four packages: "Solo" and "Live" were doubles, the former with three, the later with two albums, and then there were two five disc sets, "Originals" Vols. 1 & 2, each containing five albums on separate discs). There's more good stuff, such as "Hot Hut" with Dauner, Anders Jormin and Elvin Jones, and "Room 1220" co-led with John Surman and also featuring Eddy Louiss, NHOP and Daniel Humair, to name just two more ...

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/115/MI0003115699.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/J6dJgcMyBcTnBq4KFDDxgrW9j6U=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4595353-1369431575-1050.jpeg.jpg)

Thread duty - two discs on loan that I will return tomorrow - very good stuff, but the kind of music I ultimately prefer witnessing in concert.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 27, 2017, 10:45:00 PM
(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/416c60db7c0dbef3c6b2e0fd172b910f/1431672.jpg)

Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer - Bix and Tram (1947)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 28, 2017, 03:36:19 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Te1ewKeRU8d_rehzsGiefKyspi4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4543528-1367895932-7333.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51c8OaNT1-L._SS500.jpg)

Jacqui Dankworth - Detour Ahead (2004)
Ethan Iverson - The Purity Of The Turf (2016)

(http://www.birkajazz.com/graphics2/parkerDial10.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Bud_Powell_-_Strictly_Powell_%28album_cover%29.jpg)

Charlie Parker - [Dial 201] (1949)
Bud Powell - Strictly Powell (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 29, 2017, 05:23:18 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61S7LPQQKDL._SS500.jpg) (http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12.resized/10lp-003.jpg)

Elton Dean - Newsense (1998)
Charlie Parker - [Dial 202] (1947)

(https://img.discogs.com/v361Q7tyKZD2AO3Lq2jvPDYLmyg=/fit-in/450x447/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6307445-1420070165-7687.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/EQLPqUCWcIju8qmSI1gSUW1ct7Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1379221-1214503782.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - [Dial 204] (1947)
Roberto Gatto - Traps (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 30, 2017, 06:33:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/B5ctCTMKFEc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on April 30, 2017, 12:36:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/hMZBtoWgX7g
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 01, 2017, 12:54:46 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/A8LhGlvSomtzJlH9JPzowmh2rvk=/fit-in/597x537/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3373263-1327842352.jpeg.jpg) (http://www.birkajazz.com/graphics2/parkerSavoy9010.jpg)

Simon Nabatov - Around Brazil (2006)
Charlie Parker - [Savoy 9010] (1952)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on May 01, 2017, 02:47:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/gFdD98R-Al0
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on May 01, 2017, 11:07:42 AM
I decided to check this NY group with a french lead singer

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 01, 2017, 09:44:28 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Now_Is_Another_Time.jpg)

Davis Murray - Now Is Another Time (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on May 02, 2017, 02:42:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/Yll1FS-YcT0
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 05, 2017, 05:42:43 AM
In concert last night, at Taktlos in Zurich:

Kaja Draksler Octet - thought-provoking, some of it heartbreakingly beautiful
Amok Amor - energetic stuff, Peter Evans is amazing ... but ultimately same-ish and somewhat dull in it's constant overdrive

Recent listens:

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(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/842/MI0003842686.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FL%2B1d8CUL.jpg)

Three times outstanding! The Mitchell is Chuck Nessa's latest release (there's another new one around which I've yet to get to), the Atomic I snatched up from the sales bins at noon today ... lucky strike indeed!

The Evan Parker was recommended heartily by Alexander Hawkins recently, it sounds gorgeous and the music is absolutely stunning! Parker sticks to soprano, accompanied by Mark Nauseef on percussion and Toma Gouband on litophones ("musical stones"). Sounds weird? Well, sure, but it's beautiful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 05, 2017, 07:06:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81W836N8iFL._SX355_.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/517/MI0002517857.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Peter Bernstein - Brain Dance (1996)
David Kikoski - Mostly Standards (2009)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/850/MI0001850913.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/4nI8CsM3jmpbkuPYi_7cbJ_OSGY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3422335-1329784676.jpeg.jpg)

Jason Moran - Black Stars (2001)
Michael Marcus and Jaki Byard - This Happening (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 05, 2017, 07:35:52 PM
Joe Pass: Eximious.

[asin]B00004SAZL[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 06, 2017, 06:10:06 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91NYpXBzrvL._SL1500_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81aFBwtvkRL._SL1500_.jpg)

Obscure but excellent stuff! The first one is a two-disc set combining two sessions by the fine trumpet player (and one of the original boppers) Idrees Sulieman quartet with the amazing pianist Oscar Dennard who died way too young and recorded way too little. The first disc comes from a radio studio in Tangers and is in very good sound (it was released in 1989 by Somethin' Else), the second was taped at a jam session in Quincy Jones' NY apartment, sound isn't very good, but I guess all Dennard is welcome. And Sulimean can't exactly  be heard in small groups and with ample solo space all that often ("The Cats" with Coltrane is wonderful, he's two of Gene Ammons' Prestige jams, also on the great "The Hawk Flies High" by Coleman Hawkins ...)

Sulieman then went to Europe, where he joined the ranks of the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band. In Sweden, in 1964, he recorded "The Camel", which has a big band session with Sulieman now mostly on alto sax on the first half, while the second has him in quartet (and one track quintet with Bernt Rosengren) and on both trumpet and alto. This is an overprized so-so vinyl rip with plenty of noise, but the music is fun indeed.

Sticking to Americans in Sweden, this one's just about to finish:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/358/MI0000358179.jpg)

More excellent stuff, this time in appropriate sound. Recordings by Bill Barron from Sweden, mostly made in 1966, but some later tracks are included, as well as short glimpse of Bill Barron's voice. In the booklet, there's a photo of Bill Barron and his Swedish wife Anna, who contributed a short liner note as well. Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 06, 2017, 07:02:53 PM
Just caught a few minutes of these on KCSM, but very nice!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QRN9NRZDL.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Ms8PHNUAL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 06, 2017, 08:56:20 PM
Herb Ellis: Nothing But the Blues.

[asin]B0000046TM[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on May 07, 2017, 05:31:40 AM
(https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18275170_1901167960096219_3188698912413850091_n.jpg?oh=2537d32b3a8215acdb9d4cc5371369c3&oe=59BCD374)

Never thought I would see this one in a used bin.  Absolute must for the music and the cover is top shelf.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 07, 2017, 04:10:56 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41cIqsms7jL.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/576/MI0000576723.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Franziska Baumann and Matthias Ziegler - Voices & Tides (2007)
Sam Jones - The Soul Society (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 07, 2017, 08:16:27 PM
Now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/716/MI0001716561.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

(https://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/medium/8/e/2/3fbe1a5e13b9c714735bd4001b963.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on May 08, 2017, 02:14:53 AM
(http://countbasie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cover_atomicgrammy.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on May 08, 2017, 02:39:49 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91HMnGWZCAL._SL1400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 08, 2017, 07:33:40 PM
Easy Living - Paul Desmond.

[asin]B01BTJTSLW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 08, 2017, 09:51:44 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/HbXenwxpaY2rIZfiddqhcNq5PXA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6701947-1427701151-5076.jpeg.jpg)

John Stetch - Ukrainianism (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 09, 2017, 09:08:28 AM
Jimmy Raney featuring Bob Brookmeyer.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on May 10, 2017, 06:41:42 PM
Quote from: James on May 08, 2017, 02:14:53 AM
(http://countbasie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cover_atomicgrammy.jpg)

The "knees"!

TD

Some Earl Hagen spy jazz....

(http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2002/Nov02/I_Spy.jpg)

If you are into "complete", Film Score Monthly does an incredible job with the music and their liner notes approach definitive.  This set i from 5 of the shows since all 82 shows had their own scores. :o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 10, 2017, 10:10:58 PM
Chuck Wayne: Morning Mist.

(http://i.imgur.com/tnBTG5J.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 10, 2017, 10:24:19 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Oj1JpJswOFo_iKljx4eWo4OM_fI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4166896-1395834586-1698.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51L7IrAMcbL.jpg)

Alan Broadbent - Personal Standards (1997)
Don Braden - After Dark (1994)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/606/MI0001606256.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler - Island (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 11, 2017, 04:18:31 AM
Now playing:

(http://different-kitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Herbie-Hancock_Maiden-Voyage.jpg)

There are a few recordings that have such a timelessness about them and Hancock's Maiden Voyage is certainly one of those recordings. A jazz masterpiece.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2017, 10:05:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61znNy-BSrL._SS500.jpg) (http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/000/0000000813.jpg)

Samo Salamon - Fall Memories (2015)
Terence Blanchard - Wandering Moon (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 11, 2017, 10:07:53 PM
Art Tatum: 20th Century Piano Genius

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2017, 10:29:44 PM
^Is that the set that has the liner notes which are a transcript of a track by track commentary/conversation between two musicians as they listen to the music? I remember that being fascinating, and wish the idea had caught on.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 12, 2017, 05:33:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51E2Cf8fRwL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/y8stGFan-ezjCfFMCM3u0EYTjYE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2153175-1266879997.jpeg.jpg)

Frank Carlberg - The American Dream (2009)
Terri Lyne Carrington - Structure (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 12, 2017, 11:35:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 11, 2017, 10:29:44 PM
^Is that the set that has the liner notes which are a transcript of a track by track commentary/conversation between two musicians as they listen to the music? I remember that being fascinating, and wish the idea had caught on.

Simon, this is just a set featuring performances from two different Hollywood parties during the 1950s. But the informative notes in the one you mention does sound like a fine idea indeed.

e: the more I thought about what you said the more I was inclined to get the CD back out -

(http://i.imgur.com/7yo6Bvx.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 13, 2017, 12:34:18 PM
After Hours: Thad Jones/Frank Wess/Kenny Burrell/Paul Chambers et al.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 13, 2017, 01:19:05 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 12, 2017, 11:35:22 PM

e: the more I thought about what you said the more I was inclined to get the CD back out -

(http://i.imgur.com/7yo6Bvx.jpg)

Aha! Glad to hear it, and hope you enjoy the read.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 14, 2017, 03:06:12 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 13, 2017, 01:19:05 PM
Aha! Glad to hear it, and hope you enjoy the read.

The original edition of the Bud Powell on Verve set had the same ... an outstandingly presented set of mostly excellent music! I guess its book is around 200 pages. No wonder they cut that for the cheapo reissue (out on Universal Italy). Not sure if there isn't something like that in the Billie Holiday on Verve set as well, would have to check.

Yesterday, upon return from a week full of Slivovitz, Borowicka and other fine things (business off-site/workshop) in Bratislava, these were waiting for me and got a first spin:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/986/MI0003986928.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/722/MI0003722679.jpg)

Saw Kaja Draksler ten days ago at this year's Taktlos festival in Zurich (with her Octet that has a new double album out on Clean Feed as well) and was impressed enough to order more. Got to spend some more time with all three soon, the octet disc - same as the band's concert - is full of poems set to music and not all that easy to grasp in its entirety without really delving in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 14, 2017, 03:56:05 AM
Next round ... again heard the band at Taktlos a week ago, so far only knew their 2016 album on Clean Feed (which is excellent), now got these two in the mail from Joachim Badenhorst, the band's mastermind:

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3169540383_10.jpg)(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ji4M8R-rKhg/V0JrqIid2RI/AAAAAAAAGug/1gg6rOjLEPIw5LZNnhN0Bm3HgW6lo4c7gCLcB/s1600/Carate%2BUrio%2BOrchestra.jpg)

The first one contains some live recordings from 2013 and is titled "Sparrow Mountain", line-up is the same as on the 2016 Clean Feed album, the second one is from 2016 as well, titled "Lover" and with Sam Kulik (t, g) instead of Eirikur Orri Olafsson, the band's original trumpet player. When I saw them live, they had both Kulik (Jesus on trombone) as well as a new trumpet player, the outstanding Jacob Wick. Hopefully, there'll be more recordings to come ... there's a brand new limited vinyl around, but I didn't have enough cash and no bag and it was raining the night of the concert ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 14, 2017, 06:50:13 AM
now playing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZRebYJ0OL._SL1200_.jpg)

lost sight of them about ten years ago, although I loved "Feet Music" and even more so "The Bikini Tapes" ... was somewhat less enthusiast about "Happy New Ears!", got to revisit all of them though ... now stacking up what they did in the meantime (the one above, which has two bonus live discs from a night in Japan, plus "Lucidity", "Theater Tilters" and - still waiting for its delivery - "Retrograde").
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 14, 2017, 09:31:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 13, 2017, 01:19:05 PM
Aha! Glad to hear it, and hope you enjoy the read.

Thanks, man.  :)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 14, 2017, 09:34:01 AM
The Modern Jazz Quartet: Concorde.

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: Lonely Woman.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 14, 2017, 10:32:49 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 14, 2017, 09:34:01 AM
The Modern Jazz Quartet: Concorde.

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: Lonely Woman.

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I love the MJQ. Quite an underrated group IMHO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 14, 2017, 11:12:52 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 14, 2017, 10:32:49 AM
I love the MJQ. Quite an underrated group IMHO.

Yeah, I'm enjoying them at the moment. Do you have a particular favourite of their albums?

I've a copy of 'Fontessa' somewhere I was wanting to hear again, but right now I'm in the middle of packing and putting stuff in boxes and I can't find it... So, instead I'm listening to -

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django.

[asin]B000EMGIJ6[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 14, 2017, 12:31:08 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 14, 2017, 11:12:52 AM
Yeah, I'm enjoying them at the moment. Do you have a particular favourite of their albums?

I've a copy of 'Fontessa' somewhere I was wanting to hear again, but right now I'm in the middle of packing and putting stuff in boxes and I can't find it... So, instead I'm listening to -

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django.

[asin]B000EMGIJ6[/asin]

I'd say that probably Pyramid is my favorite MJQ album. It's been years since I've heard any of their albums, so this is strictly from memory.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 14, 2017, 01:03:06 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 14, 2017, 12:31:08 PM
I'd say that probably Pyramid is my favorite MJQ album. It's been years since I've heard any of their albums, so this is strictly from memory.

I'd forgotten all about 'Pyramid' - that's another one I'll need to look for.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 14, 2017, 10:43:56 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AjB9RuVYL.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/faces.jpg)

Chick Corea - The Song of Singing (1971)
John Clark - Faces (1980)

(https://img.discogs.com/WpS-fnu8mGxUW1cqXzwvt2jta20=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2039783-1260213719.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/tulJsPtjIIZuvS9_tw9seP7q-aQ=/fit-in/298x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1221958-1260884359.jpeg.jpg)

Rainer Bruninghaus and Manfred Schoof - Shadows and Smiles (1988)
Tom Van Der Geld - Path (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 15, 2017, 06:13:14 AM
Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 15, 2017, 01:51:50 PM
Ed Bickert: Bye Bye Baby.

(http://i.imgur.com/CZku25C.jpg)

I'm enamoured by his take on Strayhorn's 'A Flower is a Lovesome Thing'.

e: and now Lennie Tristano: The New Tristano.

[asin]B000GFLIFU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 15, 2017, 06:40:49 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 15, 2017, 01:51:50 PM
Ed Bickert: Bye Bye Baby.

(http://i.imgur.com/CZku25C.jpg)

I'm enamoured by his take on Strayhorn's 'A Flower is a Lovesome Thing'.

A great player and, IMHO, extremely underrated. The guy can make a Telecaster swing like no other. 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 15, 2017, 06:51:33 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 15, 2017, 06:40:49 PM
A great player and, IMHO, extremely underrated. The guy can make a Telecaster swing like no other. 8)

You got it.
And for years he was playing that Tele with the stock single coil neck pickup which helped give him his sound. But then he replaced it with a humbucker. And what happened to his sound? - nothing, he still sounded like Ed Bickert. ;D That kind of ability is where it's at.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 15, 2017, 10:03:51 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/gallery.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/500/MI0001500739.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Gallery - s/t (1981)
Don Thompson - Winter Mist (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on May 16, 2017, 08:10:17 AM
Avi Bortnick is a monster
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/John_Scofield_%C3%9Cberjam_Deux.jpg/220px-John_Scofield_%C3%9Cberjam_Deux.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 16, 2017, 08:20:13 AM
Stephen D. Anderson: Remembering the Rain - The Music of Bill Evans.

[asin]B000HEWFS4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 16, 2017, 01:43:10 PM
Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa.

[asin]B0000C24KB[/asin]

I had misplaced this, but now it is found and I'm having a grand time with it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 16, 2017, 07:41:23 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 15, 2017, 06:51:33 PM
You got it.
And for years he was playing that Tele with the stock single coil neck pickup which helped give him his sound. But then he replaced it with a humbucker. And what happened to his sound? - nothing, he still sounded like Ed Bickert. ;D That kind of ability is where it's at.  8)

That's true. The only problem I have with Ed Bickert (and this is out of his hands) is his albums are extremely difficult to find and when you do find them they are outrageously priced.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 16, 2017, 10:15:36 PM
Don't have any leader albums of Ed Bickert's, but the ones he made with Paul Desmond are pure bliss!

Re: MJQ and underrated, ya know, it's funny, I guess on a jazz board they'd rather be seen as overrated ... at least they were quite succesful and gotten probably too formulaic as time went by. I like them, but it took me a while, to be honest. I love the bluesy side of Milt Jackson, which alas doesn't come to the fore in MJQ all that often, but I love John Lewis' neat piano playing very much as well. Not sure which would be my favourite albums, but I guess I tend to slightly favour the early Prestiges (there was a four disc set of their Prestige and - much later - Pablo output) over the Atlantics, but then "Lonely Woman" is another favourite for sure. I did eventually buy the Mosaic box to have all the Atlantics in one place, never managed to get them all separately.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 17, 2017, 02:26:08 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/emW_KxWqCIANMPt09N0iu7c8nP4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-436140-1460134003-6635.jpeg.jpg)

William Parker - O'Neal's Porch (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on May 17, 2017, 07:53:12 AM
Picked this up at Goodwill and though von Essen was unknown to me, it was no mistake; now looking for vols 1 & 2.  Some of his work, though by no means all, recalls the Paul Winter Consort.  Really excellent stuff.

[asin] B000066NYO[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 17, 2017, 09:18:13 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 16, 2017, 07:41:23 PM
That's true. The only problem I have with Ed Bickert (and this is out of his hands) is his albums are extremely difficult to find and when you do find them they are outrageously priced.

You're right, some are priced extortionately. I got most of mine years ago from a radio station that was swapping formats, but I also got a couple from a Tower Records that had a whole floor and staff dedicated to jazz.

Quote from: king ubu on May 16, 2017, 10:15:36 PM
Don't have any leader albums of Ed Bickert's, but the ones he made with Paul Desmond are pure bliss!


Yeah, although Desmond isn't at the peak of his powers he's still got 'it'. And Bickert is a fine match indeed, in part the way he leaves space and the cool, elegant manner he makes his entrances and exits.

Quote
Re: MJQ and underrated, ya know, it's funny, I guess on a jazz board they'd rather be seen as overrated ... at least they were quite succesful and gotten probably too formulaic as time went by. I like them, but it took me a while, to be honest. I love the bluesy side of Milt Jackson, which alas doesn't come to the fore in MJQ all that often, but I love John Lewis' neat piano playing very much as well. Not sure which would be my favourite albums, but I guess I tend to slightly favour the early Prestiges (there was a four disc set of their Prestige and - much later - Pablo output) over the Atlantics, but then "Lonely Woman" is another favourite for sure. I did eventually buy the Mosaic box to have all the Atlantics in one place, never managed to get them all separately.

That's a good insight into the MJQ. And I'm kind of picky about them, but the stuff of theirs I like I really like.

Quote from: Ghost Sonata on May 17, 2017, 07:53:12 AM
Picked this up at Goodwill and though von Essen was unknown to me, it was no mistake; now looking for vols 1 & 2.  Some of his work, though by no means all, recalls the Paul Winter Consort.  Really excellent stuff.

[asin] B000066NYO[/asin]

Hope you find the other two volumes; I know how great it is to almost stumble upon a new and interesting find. :)



Right now I'm sticking with guitar and listening to -

Howard Roberts: Good Pickin's.

[asin]B000CIXCDC[/asin]

Cheesy cover aside (although I think there's nothing wrong with it at all 8) ) and that my taste in jazz is kind of conservative, this is a nice cool late 1950s recording featuring performances that stop well short of perfunctory and perhaps at moments even reach forward. A consistent pleasure throughout.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on May 17, 2017, 09:33:47 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 17, 2017, 09:18:13 AM
[asin]B000CIXCDC[/asin]

Cheesy cover aside (although I think there's nothing wrong with it at all 8) )

You kidding? The guitar's in the way.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 17, 2017, 09:40:49 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 17, 2017, 09:33:47 AM
You kidding? The guitar's in the way.

I can still make out a G String. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on May 17, 2017, 09:43:04 AM
Quote from: George on May 17, 2017, 09:40:49 AM
I can still make out a G String. 

Sol man!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 17, 2017, 09:51:43 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 17, 2017, 09:33:47 AM
You kidding? The guitar's in the way.
I was trying not to even hint at that. ;D 

Anyway, it was shot by a guy called William Rossler, who apart from being a photographer was also a cartoonist and a Nebula award nominated Science Fiction author. And he came up with the title of the Harlan Ellison tale 'I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream'. All in all, quite an interesting character.

e: I got his name wrong, it's William Rotsler. And after looking him up online just now it appears he had another career I was previously unaware of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rotsler
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 17, 2017, 02:09:25 PM
Chet Baker: Chet Is Back!

[asin]B01BWKZS44[/asin]

I'm liking the playing of Rene Thomas on this. And the sound of his guitar is cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 17, 2017, 10:05:03 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41OcNcrrU3L.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/674/MI0000674741.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Vijay Iyer - Bloodsutra (2003)
Mario Pavone - Deez To Blues (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on May 18, 2017, 05:34:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/DfS7QkxywDU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on May 18, 2017, 05:36:00 AM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on May 18, 2017, 05:34:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/DfS7QkxywDU

Sweet!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 18, 2017, 05:49:20 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 17, 2017, 02:09:25 PM
I'm liking the playing of Rene Thomas on this. And the sound of his guitar is cool.

René Thomas is da shit, as dey say!

Seriously, you need his "Guitar Groove" (with the great J.R. Monterose on tenor and the late Hod O'Brien, two more unsung heroes). And you may look into anything else he has recorded, there's not all that much, alas, and plenty of what there is isn't easy to find. There's a website that's not fully functional (anymore/at this time? I don't know), but the chronological discography is working:
http://thomasia.free.fr/chrono1.php

The Jazzland album ("Guitar Groove") was out on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics series and has since been reissued by PD labels (the most recent reissue is on Freshsound, I think, coupling it with the okay-ish "United Notions", an all star date with fellow Belgian Bobby Jaspar, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Nat Adderley, Rolf Kuhn a.o.),

The other must have is Eddy Louiss/Kenny Clarke/René Thomas Trio (or just Eddy Louiss Trio) - this one:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Eddy-Louiss-Kenny-Clarke-Ren%C3%A9-Thomas-Trio/release/3356582

Then there are two rather nice discs in the Jazz in Paris series, "Meeting Mr. Thomas" and "The Real Cat".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 18, 2017, 06:06:09 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 18, 2017, 05:49:20 AM
René Thomas is da shit, as dey say!

Seriously, you need his "Guitar Groove" (with the great J.R. Monterose on tenor and the late Hod O'Brien, two more unsung heroes). And you may look into anything else he has recorded, there's not all that much, alas, and plenty of what there is isn't easy to find. There's a website that's not fully functional (anymore/at this time? I don't know), but the chronological discography is working:
http://thomasia.free.fr/chrono1.php

The Jazzland album ("Guitar Groove") was out on Fantasy's Original Jazz Classics series and has since been reissued by PD labels (the most recent reissue is on Freshsound, I think, coupling it with the okay-ish "United Notions", an all star date with fellow Belgian Bobby Jaspar, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Nat Adderley, Rolf Kuhn a.o.),

The other must have is Eddy Louiss/Kenny Clarke/René Thomas Trio (or just Eddy Louiss Trio) - this one:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Eddy-Louiss-Kenny-Clarke-Ren%C3%A9-Thomas-Trio/release/3356582

Then there are two rather nice discs in the Jazz in Paris series, "Meeting Mr. Thomas" and "The Real Cat".

Yeah, he's something else.

I already have the 'Guitar Groove' release on Fantasy Original Jazz Classics and also 'The Real Cat' on the Gitanes/Jazz in Paris, but the others are new to me. So thanks for the tips - it's appreciated.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 18, 2017, 09:15:52 AM
John Lewis: Grand Encounter.

[asin]B00NJ1MR3K[/asin]

John Lewis has been mentioned recently and this is a further fine, fine outing for him. Also, although I shouldn't single him out of such a great line up, Jim Hall is another of my favourite guitarists and he's cool on this too. Good stuff.

e: and now listening to -

Barney Kessel: To Swing Or Not To Swing: Vol. 3.

[asin]B000026EOA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 18, 2017, 08:04:51 PM
Disc 3, Miles and the 1st great quintet® box.



(http://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/coverscans/complete_miles_coltrane_deluxebox/complete_miles_coltrane_front.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 18, 2017, 10:58:56 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Boom_%28Mario_Pavone_album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514ASbXQuJL.jpg)

Mario Pavone - Boom (2004)
Vijay Iyer - Historicity (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 19, 2017, 03:41:11 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 18, 2017, 09:15:52 AM
John Lewis: Grand Encounter.

Great album, that!

Myself, digging into this one - full of great, great music that never fails to surprise and win over, although I've known it for more than 20 years now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/117/MI0004117418.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 19, 2017, 04:42:06 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 19, 2017, 03:41:11 AM

Myself, digging into this one - full of great, great music that never fails to surprise and win over, although I've known it for more than 20 years now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/117/MI0004117418.jpg)

And look at that line up. Good stuff.



At the moment I'm taking this route -

George Shearing: The Shearing Piano.

[asin]B00005JH4U[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on May 19, 2017, 09:41:54 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qShZcUqML.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 19, 2017, 12:03:27 PM
Stan Getz: At the Shrine.

[asin]B0000046LQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 19, 2017, 05:32:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JT7p2D4ML.jpg)

Kenny Barron - Live At Fat Tuesday's (1988)

and learning that Kenny is going to be playing here next weekend, though the tickets are very pricey
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 19, 2017, 06:44:30 PM
Harriet Tubman - Ascension

[asin]B004OKFIPE[/asin]

Harriet Tubman's mission is to show how we ve digested the ideas our jazz mentors passed to us and how we applied them using the musical tools of our generation. Melvin Gibbs

There are multiple dimensions to the name of the pioneering band Harriet Tubman. The name certainly is a tribute to the African-American hero and leader, but it also alludes to freedom seeking in music, a paramount goal of the band. The combo of guitarist Brandon Ross, bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer J.T. Lewis leads listeners to planes where music is free of stylistic limitations and designations. Ascension, Harriet Tubman s new recording on Sunnyside Records, introduces an expanded Double Trio that channels the spirit of earlier masters (namely, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane) in reaching new musical heights.

Harriet Tubman has pushed the boundaries of musical expression since 1998. The group s members combine solid performance experience with inventive skills to create a unique sound that blends jazz, rock, funk, soul and blues. Guitarist Brandon Ross has been a leader in advancing guitar vocabulary and has played alongside Henry Threadgill, Cassandra Wilson, Leroy Jenkins, Me Shell Ndegéocello, among others. Melvin Gibbs is regarded as one of the best electric bassists in the world, known for performing with bands such as the (Henry) Rollins Band, Power Tools (with Bill Frisell and Ronald Shannon Jackson) and the Sonny Sharrock Band, along with producing artists such as Arto Lindsay and DJ Logic. Drummer J.T. Lewis is a founding member of the legendary Living Colour jazz/rock band and has performed with several legends like Herbie Hancock, Don Pullen, Sting, Lou Reed and Tina Turner.

Echoing the legendary expanded ensemble work of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane during their creative heights in the 1960s, Harriet Tubman bolstered its aural palette with the addition of three open-minded musicians: trumpeter Ron Miles and turntablists DJ Logic and DJ Singe. The bassist suggested recreating Coleman s remarkable Double Quartet recording Free Jazz (Atlantic, 1960) with Harriet Tubman and the addition of Ron Miles and four DJs. When two DJs dropped out of the project, the idea of the Double Trio emerged. The group invited Miles to lead what became a second trio, thus loosening the focus on Coleman s masterpiece. They widened their scope and found inspiration in John Coltrane s landmark recording Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), which also included an expanded ensemble. The band s restyling of the Ascension themes has provided a frame of reference for listeners. The group s unique performance ability and aesthetic have a model to which it may be compared (much like measuring a musician s mettle by his/her ability to cover standards becoming jazz tradition).

Harriet Tubman Double Trio aims at achieving the same high level of performance attained by these historic recordings. The members of Harriet Tubman have been steeped in the music of the African-American avant-garde and regard these progenitors as important influences. The music created on Ascension was informed and structured using different systems of spontaneous composition learned from heralds like Coleman, Coltrane, Threadgill and Wadada Leo Smith.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 19, 2017, 09:34:10 PM
Hank Jones: Quartet-Quintet

[asin]B0013A2MXO[/asin]

While I don't find this his most memorable outing I consider Hank Jones always to be a worthwhile listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 20, 2017, 05:05:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/8fX926s-ZCBFXjoEqEklHwC7_i4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2852895-1304015508.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/xbwLej8ymlvXpZ2IbftQmtaVkzk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2595393-1294171936.jpeg.jpg)

Enrico Rava - Animals (1987)
Maxine Sullivan - Tribute to Andy Razaf (1956)

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/1bc4100c3e89f0351152a4a12668a87b/2365890.jpg)

Tal Farlow - '78
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 20, 2017, 05:46:40 PM
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz. Red Hot and Cool.

[asin]B000056EVE[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 20, 2017, 07:00:14 PM
Miles Davis - The Mute

[asin]B0000562Y8[/asin]

Excellent mute-focused, Japanese release.

A compilation of cuts from the Prestige releases.

JVC gets the sound right.  ;)

Glorious mono of course: the BIG sound.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 21, 2017, 04:29:56 AM
Chuck Wayne: String Fever...Plus.

[asin]B00005B7RT[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 21, 2017, 09:03:45 AM
Coltrane! Coltrane! Coltrane!

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/073/MI0004073958.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/516/MI0000516629.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/226/MI0003226957.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/894/MI0001894870.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/226/MI0003226951.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/840/MI0003840024.jpg)

Played tracks from throughout his career, and also the above albums in their entirety. Also played portions of this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/637/MI0001637699.jpg)

After that, went on with the two Coltrane (John, that is) tracks from this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/226/MI0003226974.jpg)

And now am digging stuff out of this lovely box:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/838/MI0001838955.jpg)

The studio cuts with Roy Haynes from 1963 and 1965, and then more 1965 sessions that appeared mostly on posthumous albums ("Transition" and the two "Mastery of John Coltrane" sets).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 21, 2017, 10:26:47 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cHwBpkyQL._SX355_.jpg)

Vijay Iyer - Accelerando (2012)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 22, 2017, 04:09:24 AM
Marty Paitch: The Modern Touch.

[asin]B0009RS614[/asin]

Jimmy Giuffre, Scott LaFaro, Art Pepper, Victor Feldman, Mel Lewis...some big (and good) names taking solos here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 22, 2017, 07:00:53 PM
Ted Greene: Solo Guitar.

[asin]B0007CNXQ4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 22, 2017, 09:58:53 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Sonny_Stitt_Plays_Arrangements_from_the_Pen_of_Quincy_Jones.jpg) (http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii1/JazzPhan/H-C_w_Strings_F_589x564.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)
Harry Carney - With Strings (1954)

(https://img.discogs.com/j9cK7T6T3PiLeFazzxK8WtVT0Xk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5963501-1407524840-3341.jpeg.jpg)

Carmen McRae - Carmen For Cool Ones (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 23, 2017, 07:33:13 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 22, 2017, 09:58:53 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Sonny_Stitt_Plays_Arrangements_from_the_Pen_of_Quincy_Jones.jpg)
Sonny Stitt - Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955)


^^
That looks particularly interesting and so I've ordered it. But if I find it's something I don't like it can take the well trodden path to the charity shop, where I'll attach a note: 'Courtesy of Simon.' ;D



Jimmy Raney: 'A'

[asin]B000FIHBYU[/asin]

I'm still listening to guitar players (mostly 1950s) and one of my favourites is Jimmy Raney.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 23, 2017, 05:53:39 PM
Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Thielemans, NHØP : Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

[asin]B00000GC1W[/asin]

Joe Pass: At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975.

[asin]B000063V41[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 24, 2017, 12:52:28 AM
Quote from: NikF on May 23, 2017, 07:33:13 AM
^^
That looks particularly interesting and so I've ordered it. But if I find it's something I don't like it can take the well trodden path to the charity shop, where I'll attach a note: 'Courtesy of Simon.' ;D


I'm still listening to guitar players (mostly 1950s) and one of my favourites is Jimmy Raney.

I enjoyed that one, hope you do too!

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/227/MI0002227701.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Johnny Griffin - Grab This (1962)

edit: I don't think I've encountered organist Paul Bryant before, but this has made me want to seek out more from him
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 24, 2017, 06:46:45 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 24, 2017, 12:52:28 AM
I enjoyed that one, hope you do too!





Thanks. I'm sure I will. About one year ago I bought another CD you had listened to - Sarah Vaughan: At Mister Kelly's - and it turned out to be pretty cool. It's a small risk anyway and a pleasure when it turns out to be a good choice. :)




And now I continue with my foray into the playing of (approximately) mid-1950s to mid 1960s guitarists.

Herb Ellis: Ellis In Wonderland.

[asin]B000CIXCD2[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 24, 2017, 07:19:27 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 24, 2017, 12:52:28 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/227/MI0002227701.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Johnny Griffin - Grab This (1962)

edit: I don't think I've encountered organist Paul Bryant before, but this has made me want to seek out more from him

He is on two albums co-led with saxophonist Curtis Amy. They were part of the Curtis Amy Mosaic Select 3CD box that has been OOP for a while. Not sure they can be found elsewhere. The glorious Amy album though is "Katanga!" (also in that set), that's truly one for the desert island!

The ones with Bryant are fine but not all that spectacular - which is, I guess, how I'd describe Griff's "Grab This", too.

Some  Amy is out on Freshsound, but not the ones I mentioned:
http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/curtis-amy-albums/5825-groovin-blue-way-down-tippin-on-through-3-lps-on-2-cds.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 24, 2017, 02:33:09 PM
Barney Kessel: Kessel Plays Standards.

[asin]B000000YDE[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 24, 2017, 11:01:47 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/101/MI0002101099.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Kenny Clarke ‎– Telefunken Blues (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 25, 2017, 06:15:24 AM
Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall: Interaction.

[asin]B00DD0AGQC[/asin]

Nothing too far out or demanding here, but therein lies the charm.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 25, 2017, 10:15:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Gu-nTJNyL._SX355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ZXI0hThaEq1J96f6ALd_zmT2Ayw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6312509-1416207759-3578.jpeg.jpg)

Vijay Iyer - Tirtha (2011)
Mario Pavone - Street Songs (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 26, 2017, 01:37:00 AM
The Jimmy Giuffre 3: Trav'lin' Light.

[asin]B00DD0AGJ4[/asin]

Again, with Jim Hall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 26, 2017, 05:30:15 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/MPxE7ttV--B7lSCUZtJpcprOVww=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2474126-1286038812.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ONkd3KMeL._SY355_.jpg)

Phineas Newborn Jr. - Here Is Phineas (1956)
Chet Baker - In Europe (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 27, 2017, 01:25:39 AM
Ahmad Jamal - It's Magic

I'm back! :)

(http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2012/02/ahmad-jamal-its-magic.jpg)

Jamal favoured the phrase American Classical Music instead of the word jazz. I feel this strongly these days. Miles Davis also didn't like the word jazz.

Wonderful interview with Jamal in Downbeat March 2010.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 27, 2017, 02:13:21 AM
Guus Janssen takes over the lead of this Dutch ensemble after Mengelberg's dementia and death.

(http://www.allaboutjazz.com/coverart/large/icporchestra_eastofthesun_ga.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 27, 2017, 05:55:06 AM
With Linda Oh, a female bassist.

(http://pxhst.co/avaxhome/b1/43/003b43b1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 08:14:09 AM
Quote from: Henk on May 27, 2017, 01:25:39 AM
Jamal favoured the phrase American Classical Music instead of the word jazz. I feel this strongly these days. Miles Davis also didn't like the word jazz.

Wonderful interview with Jamal in Downbeat March 2010.

Wlcome back ... lots of respect for Jamal, and lots of love for his early work! However, that "classical" thing is another term that belittles the achievement of those that created the music most commonly referred to as jazz. That music needs no yardstick to be measured against, it's great on its own terms, and quite unique.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 27, 2017, 08:29:14 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 08:14:09 AM
Wlcome back ... lots of respect for Jamal, and lots of love for his early work! However, that "classical" thing is another term that belittles the achievement of those that created the music most commonly referred to as jazz. That music needs no yardstick to be measured against, it's great on its own terms, and quite unique.

True. Jazz doesn't age. Miles Davis also already said jazz is also classical. Pop music is just great (or can be) for the time when it is released.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 27, 2017, 09:23:37 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 08:14:09 AM
Wlcome back ... lots of respect for Jamal, and lots of love for his early work! However, that "classical" thing is another term that belittles the achievement of those that created the music most commonly referred to as jazz. That music needs no yardstick to be measured against, it's great on its own terms, and quite unique.

Yeah, it is what it is - and therein lies the strength and the beauty.


In other news -


Herb Ellis and Stuff Smith: Together!

[asin]B000005YOS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on May 27, 2017, 10:44:58 AM
Quote from: Henk on May 27, 2017, 01:25:39 AM
Ahmad Jamal - It's Magic

I'm back! :)

(http://wp-images.emusic.com/assets/2012/02/ahmad-jamal-its-magic.jpg)

Jamal favoured the phrase American Classical Music instead of the word jazz. I feel this strongly these days. Miles Davis also didn't like the word jazz.

Wonderful interview with Jamal in Downbeat March 2010.

Yes, this is late (emphasis on late, not to be confused with early) Jamal at his very finest, the finest of his career.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 12:03:14 PM
Quote from: Henk on May 27, 2017, 08:29:14 AM
True. Jazz doesn't age. Miles Davis also already said jazz is also classical. Pop music is just great (or can be) for the time when it is released.
Okay, in that sense maybe "classical" would be an acceptable attribute ... but I'm still not sure. Jazz was always pop - and stopped really developing not too long after it split from being so ... in many respects Hard Bop can still be seen as somehow popular music - it made jukeboxes and was *also* played for dancing (and if you use the term as an inclusive label, which I prefer, it will also apply to early Cecil Taylor, to John Coltrane up to mid 1965, to Eric Dolphy etc., though their stuff surely wasn't for dancing most of the time).

So if you allow me to play devil's advocate: what's the problem, if there is one, is s the split between "high" and "popular" culture. Jazz combined both, and I guess on the long term, whatever art form that wants to survive has to deal with that. I assume for the dying breed of classical concert goers, hearing a Mozart or Beethoven symphony is kind of pop, too ... and it seems no one really has much of a concept how to survive yet, certainly doing weird crossover events is nothing I endorse at all, Tonhalle Zurich does "late" concerts combining a shortened programme - usually one piece played the next night as part of a full concert - with a party, never would consider going there, but I'm not much for parties anyway, so ... not that I'd have a solution, other than that I think somehow whatever cultural education our times still offer, all of that fails big time. That probably makes me sound like a conservative reactionary, which isn't what I consider myself being, but if I want entertainment, I may go for Coltrane's "Ascension" or for some thought-provoking reading that may be historical or philosophical or a novel or some poems or whatever ... I don't buy in to the concept of entertainment that has been brought upon mankind since the sixties, though I enjoy lots of music and movies that have been made since. Anyway, how did I get here? And should I go on mentioning that I think French post-structuralism has a blame to take in today's crisis of democracy? Nah, I think that's for next time  ;)

In short: I don't buy the idea of entertainment as a distraction. That's bread for the people. And alas, most seem to be eating it and then shutting up their mouths whilst shutting down their brains. Opium for the masses, really. We're very far from being an enlightened society (or rather, we are running fast into the dark side of enlightenment).

Quote from: NikF on May 27, 2017, 09:23:37 AM
[asin]B000005YOS[/asin]

Excellent album! Anything Stuff Smith, actually - that man was a force of nature and an improviser on the level of the very best (think Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 27, 2017, 04:10:10 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/157/MI0000157079.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mc9N-4fSL.jpg)

Max Roach - Max (1958)
Opus 5 - Introducing Opus 5 (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 01:48:02 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on May 27, 2017, 10:44:58 AM
Yes, this is late (emphasis on late, not to be confused with early) Jamal at his very finest, the finest of his career.

Yeah, I also digged this album always very much. But you made me listen in a different way, and I can hear its brilliance, everything he plays being very much to the point. And I love the title.

In the interview is said that Jamal always tries out new things. There's probably a lot to learn about his music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 01:56:26 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 12:03:14 PM
Okay, in that sense maybe "classical" would be an acceptable attribute ... but I'm still not sure. Jazz was always pop - and stopped really developing not too long after it split from being so ... in many respects Hard Bop can still be seen as somehow popular music - it made jukeboxes and was *also* played for dancing (and if you use the term as an inclusive label, which I prefer, it will also apply to early Cecil Taylor, to John Coltrane up to mid 1965, to Eric Dolphy etc., though their stuff surely wasn't for dancing most of the time).

So if you allow me to play devil's advocate: what's the problem, if there is one, is s the split between "high" and "popular" culture. Jazz combined both, and I guess on the long term, whatever art form that wants to survive has to deal with that. I assume for the dying breed of classical concert goers, hearing a Mozart or Beethoven symphony is kind of pop, too ... and it seems no one really has much of a concept how to survive yet, certainly doing weird crossover events is nothing I endorse at all, Tonhalle Zurich does "late" concerts combining a shortened programme - usually one piece played the next night as part of a full concert - with a party, never would consider going there, but I'm not much for parties anyway, so ... not that I'd have a solution, other than that I think somehow whatever cultural education our times still offer, all of that fails big time. That probably makes me sound like a conservative reactionary, which isn't what I consider myself being, but if I want entertainment, I may go for Coltrane's "Ascension" or for some thought-provoking reading that may be historical or philosophical or a novel or some poems or whatever ... I don't buy in to the concept of entertainment that has been brought upon mankind since the sixties, though I enjoy lots of music and movies that have been made since. Anyway, how did I get here? And should I go on mentioning that I think French post-structuralism has a blame to take in today's crisis of democracy? Nah, I think that's for next time  ;)

In short: I don't buy the idea of entertainment as a distraction. That's bread for the people. And alas, most seem to be eating it and then shutting up their mouths whilst shutting down their brains. Opium for the masses, really. We're very far from being an enlightened society (or rather, we are running fast into the dark side of enlightenment).

Interesting views. Classical music gives me rest. I think we need to keep reading classical literature as well. Things might be related. But, who in these days still reads Goethe or Mann? I do, and I find much joy in it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 02:00:51 AM
I made this some time ago. :)

(https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12359884_10208318374146931_630986293845375781_n.jpg?oh=294887a137f03d93a33ac6a072306a72&oe=599D91DF)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 02:11:12 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 12:03:14 PM
In short: I don't buy the idea of entertainment as a distraction. That's bread for the people. And alas, most seem to be eating it and then shutting up their mouths whilst shutting down their brains. Opium for the masses, really. We're very far from being an enlightened society (or rather, we are running fast into the dark side of enlightenment).

That's also what I fear at certain times. There are some really mad people and dangerous individuals (thinker Peter Sloterdijk) in the world and society.

Technology really a danger too. People might disconnect and turn into robots. It's not without reason that some people don't (want to) join in internet activities. There's something very sensible about that.

Glad there is GMG however. I have always found this an intrinsic healthy place on the net.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: nodogen on May 28, 2017, 04:45:24 AM
Hmmm Henk, I don't have permission to access your website. Is there something I should know?!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 05:11:36 AM
Quote from: nodogen on May 28, 2017, 04:45:24 AM
Hmmm Henk, I don't have permission to access your website. Is there something I should know?!

That's an old link (cancelled that domain some months ago). Here is the link to my website:

http://www.henknijsingh.eu/ (http://www.henknijsingh.eu/)

It's written in Dutch, only my latest post in English. An "knowledge advice" but I changed my mind and am in favour of keeping the unanimity rule (as a part of topic "future of Europe"). Maybe interesting for you, possibly Brexit related. :)

(corrected the link to my website in my signature)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 05:40:45 AM
(http://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/bass-desires1.jpg)

Second spin this week.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 28, 2017, 09:48:08 AM
Rene Thomas:  And His Orchestra.

[asin]B0041T7FHW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 12:23:02 PM
Quote from: king ubu on May 27, 2017, 12:03:14 PM
In short: I don't buy the idea of entertainment as a distraction. That's bread for the people. And alas, most seem to be eating it and then shutting up their mouths whilst shutting down their brains. Opium for the masses, really.

For most pop artists truth is that their first album is their best. After then they only record the history of the impoverishing of their soul, as Nietzsche (already) wrote.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 12:32:37 PM
Great stuff imo. Recent release.

(https://www.allaboutjazz.com/coverart/large/sexmob_culturalcapital_ga.jpg)

Review:https://www.allaboutjazz.com/cultural-capital-sex-mob-rex-records-review-by-glenn-astarita.php (https://www.allaboutjazz.com/cultural-capital-sex-mob-rex-records-review-by-glenn-astarita.php)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 28, 2017, 12:46:20 PM
Billy Bean/Hal Gaylor/Walter Norris: The Trio.

[asin]B00C90VKO4[/asin]

Billy Bean, another fine player.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 28, 2017, 01:30:50 PM
NP second spin (or actually no spin, since I play it on Spotify.) Recent release.

(http://www.welovemp3.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Trombone-Shorty-Parking-Lot-Symphony.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 28, 2017, 08:19:28 PM
Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright.

[asin]B000005HC7[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 28, 2017, 09:38:17 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/In_the_Land_of_Hi-Fi_with_Julian_Cannonball_Adderley.jpg)

Cannonball Adderley - In The Land Of Hi-Fi (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 29, 2017, 06:47:56 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJQyMvEWL.jpg)

The 1940s recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 29, 2017, 06:43:33 PM
Elek Bacsik: Guitar Conceptions.

[asin]B0041T7FAE[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 29, 2017, 10:00:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/eGf0HOVcA50KZAJrZLOf8rrWrs0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2502382-1287517175.jpeg.jpg)

Walt Dickerson and Pierre Dørge - Landscape With Open Door (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 30, 2017, 02:58:39 AM
Bass player.

(https://0f469d6f2fa468202d31-6b0d87410f7cc1525cc32b79408788c4.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1979/52368687_1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 30, 2017, 07:33:45 AM
Another spin

(http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1355446401_16.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on May 30, 2017, 11:30:27 AM
Just read a (short and) nice interview with him in Downbeat about his music. So, that was the cause to play this. It's from 2009.

(https://0f469d6f2fa468202d31-6b0d87410f7cc1525cc32b79408788c4.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/1979/52332036_1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 30, 2017, 07:53:44 PM
Chet Baker: I Get Chet.

[asin]B00KYVRX6E[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 31, 2017, 07:14:55 PM
Gerry Mulligan Quartet: At Storyville.

[asin]B000005HG1[/asin]

Perhaps something of a mixed affair, but it's 1950s era Mulligan and so I'm happy to listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 01, 2017, 11:04:07 AM
Very fine playing by Strickland.

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/77/50/b5/7750b596b4f82180d740baee2ee0887c.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 01, 2017, 03:08:05 PM
Lou Mecca, Bill De Arango, Chuck Wayne: 3 Swinging Guitar Sessions.

[asin]B011VX0J64[/asin]

For the Chuck Wayne, although I enjoy it all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on June 01, 2017, 07:43:00 PM
Double header. New release followed by classic Dixieland
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cVv9AKmXL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71JXhS63ueL.jpg)
Only real problem with the Cohen is the fairly skimpy playing time, less than 40 minutes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 01, 2017, 09:35:42 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/I_Wish_You_Love_%28Keely_Smith_album%29.jpeg)

Keely Smith - I Wish You Love (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 01, 2017, 10:18:51 PM
Jimmy Raney: In Three Attitudes.

[asin]B004UN6HHS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 02, 2017, 07:55:58 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on June 01, 2017, 07:43:00 PM

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71JXhS63ueL.jpg)


Wonderful  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on June 02, 2017, 12:44:54 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 02, 2017, 07:55:58 AM
Wonderful  8)

They did turn When the Saints Come Marching In into something like a Broadway production number, but I suppose that comes with the territory. But that was the only missable track .
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2017, 02:50:04 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/719RLDYj2aL._SL500_.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 02, 2017, 04:35:40 PM
^^
Good stuff.
But what are your own thoughts after the initial listen?


Meanwhile, back in my small world -

Julie London: Around Midnight.

[asin]B00NJ1MSWU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2017, 05:40:44 PM
Quote from: NikF on June 02, 2017, 04:35:40 PM
^^
Good stuff.
But what are your own thoughts after the initial listen?

Classy, fun stuff. I've yet to hear an Ellington tune I didn't like.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 02, 2017, 05:48:51 PM
Quote from: George on June 02, 2017, 05:40:44 PM
Classy, fun stuff. I've yet to hear an Ellington tune I didn't like.

Glad to hear it. :)
Yeah, there's not much Ellington I don't enjoy. Maybe the third sacred concert - don't know if you've heard that - although his bands are always so good they can make just about anything a worthwhile listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 02, 2017, 10:47:13 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/BUrx1K0QcobqYw5gonmDv5iTVms=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3911289-1432749691-5079.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/cLMSOkLeARHtVH9MTwEMvULVYTs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3224633-1321214539.jpeg.jpg)

Quincy Jones - The Lost Man soundtrack (1969)
John Lindberg - Winter Birds (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 03, 2017, 03:00:38 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Jazz_at_Cal-Tech.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Fs4Ceh6L.jpg)

Bud Shank - Jazz At Cal-Tech (1956)
Wynton Marsalis - He And She (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 03, 2017, 08:09:02 PM
Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby.

[asin]B003YOMN68[/asin]

Ol' Mirror Image has this posted in another thread and right now in the early morning is as fine a time as any to make a comfortable revisit.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 04, 2017, 02:20:23 AM
Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown.

[asin]B0000046NB[/asin]

After a very late breakfast I'm lazily listening to the this cool collaboration.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 04, 2017, 05:25:00 AM
Quote from: NikF on June 03, 2017, 08:09:02 PM
Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby.

[asin]B003YOMN68[/asin]

Ol' Mirror Image has this posted in another thread and right now in the early morning is as fine a time as any to make a comfortable revisit.

One of my favorite Jazz albums!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 04, 2017, 06:36:54 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51faYrZTBuL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 04, 2017, 08:04:07 AM
Miguel Zenon, altosax-player who makes Puerto-Ricaean jazz, very good stuff. Great band.

Miguel Zenón – Alto Saxophone
Luis Perdomo – Piano
Hans Glawischnig – Bass
Henry Cole – Drums

(http://www.bachddsoc.org/artists_photos/2017-winter/MIGUEL-ZENON.jpg)

(http://miguelzenon.com/miguelzenon2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mz_tipico_cover.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 04, 2017, 04:09:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qVo1rqDAL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61-RxAGCEfL._SY355_.jpg)

Blue Mitchell - Smooth As The Wind (1961)
Paul Motian - Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band Play Monk and Powell (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 04, 2017, 06:30:25 PM
Gerry Mulligan: Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz.

[asin]B006YTLP8M[/asin]

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 05, 2017, 10:14:49 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/VeyEwHegHvM9yF9M-gIC2ohE9b4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4468085-1412317485-1533.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/K3P6IJoBYEcZ3Rbre54CsGtC08Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2573410-1291138198.jpeg.jpg)

Eddie Jefferson - Come Along With Me (1969)
Bill Dixon - November 1981
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 06, 2017, 02:57:04 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet.

[asin]B00DD0AGHG[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 07, 2017, 10:47:27 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yzsiKxpaL.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Quiet_John_Scofield.jpg)

Milt Jackson - That's The Way It Is (1969)
John Scofield - Quiet (1996)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 08, 2017, 07:08:37 AM
Buddy Banks: Jazz de chambre.

[asin]B000051TKH[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 09, 2017, 12:35:44 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Sounds_from_Rikers_Island.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/The_Windmills_of_Your_Mind_%28album%29.jpg)

Elmo Hope - Sounds From Rikers Island (1963)
Paul Motian - The Windmills Of Your Mind (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 09, 2017, 11:08:45 AM
Stan Getz: At Storyville Vol. 1 and 2.

[asin]B000005HG4[/asin]

An early 1950s live recording where any audio deficiencies are overwhelmed by how wonderfully the band swing - not least of all, Jimmy Raney.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 09, 2017, 04:14:09 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61e4-75ASIL._SY355_.jpg) (http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/656/0001656364.jpg)

Jimmy Cleveland - A Map Of Cleveland (1958)
John Pizzarelli - After Hours (1996)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41hbSl1EQSL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TfczaCW-L._SS500.jpg)

Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought (1970)
Yusef Lateef - Detroit Latitude 42° 30' Longitude 83° (1969)

(https://img.discogs.com/7jHK94iqyG6r7jaIm_xUtknlsi0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5580892-1397147326-7264.jpeg.jpg)

Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 10, 2017, 02:45:36 AM
Charlie Byrd: At The Village Vanguard.

[asin]B000055WT4[/asin]

Damn, even my neighbour enjoys this. :)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on June 10, 2017, 06:46:18 AM
This one I did not know even existed, but between the artwork and title I snapped it up even though it is in very dire condition jacket and vinyl wise. Fortunately, it still plays without skips.  I believe this is my only album on the Tampa label.

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/18951142_1916490551897293_7295382447824158616_n.jpg?oh=d3d2f1e8273c720b993907af87ccbd43&oe=59DA06A1)

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18952972_1916492851897063_7157124281773172532_n.jpg?oh=1371644dd374db0e8a50b38b4920bb11&oe=59E43F1B)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 10, 2017, 08:44:22 AM
Quote from: Bogey on June 10, 2017, 06:46:18 AM
This one I did not know even existed, but between the artwork and title I snapped it up even though it is in very dire condition jacket and vinyl wise. Fortunately, it still plays without skips.  I believe this is my only album on the Tampa label.

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p480x480/18951142_1916490551897293_7295382447824158616_n.jpg?oh=d3d2f1e8273c720b993907af87ccbd43&oe=59DA06A1)

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18952972_1916492851897063_7157124281773172532_n.jpg?oh=1371644dd374db0e8a50b38b4920bb11&oe=59E43F1B)

Very cool. 8)



Now listening to -

Gil Evans:  New Bottle Old Wine.

[asin]B004N9TDTS[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 10, 2017, 04:25:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/IY7wUIdqrbi7EbvjN7j3Qf7NXus=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5882053-1405309459-1307.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ObYj6vwXA-5JZwAyFVBRABaAOlQ=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-513736-1405850410-6145.jpeg.jpg)

Cat Anderson - Cat on A Hot Tin Horn (1958)
Pharoah Sanders - Deaf Dumb Blind (1970)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/264/MI0000264153.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/releases/hickory_house_jutta_hipp.jpg)

Jane Bunnett - Ritmo + Soul (1999)
Jutta Hipp - At The Hickory House Vol.1 (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 11, 2017, 10:25:23 AM
New pianist for me. Very much impressed.

(https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/30ee7c07001/f9b48176-4a0a-4d87-9d45-e12df4926d2a.png)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 11, 2017, 10:27:16 AM
(https://pxhst.co/avaxhome/ea/8b/00108bea.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 11, 2017, 11:22:42 AM
Quote from: George on June 11, 2017, 10:27:16 AM
(https://pxhst.co/avaxhome/ea/8b/00108bea.jpeg)

Yeah, Waltz for Debby. Good stuff.






Thomas - Jaspar Quintet: From Rome To Comblain.

[asin]B0000CBHY2[/asin]

My Rene Thomas listening spree continues.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 11, 2017, 02:19:05 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zL0%2BdU0dL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 11, 2017, 03:45:21 PM
Dig your lineup there George!  8)

Keepin' the Blue Note vibe -

Paul Chambers Sextet - Whims of Chambers

[asin]B00069BOHI[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 11, 2017, 03:50:57 PM
Quote from: HIPster on June 11, 2017, 03:45:21 PM
Dig your lineup there George!  8)

Thanks!

Now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BsqUdIg1L._SY455_.jpg)



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 11, 2017, 09:50:06 PM
(http://images.45cat.com/paul-barbarin-and-his-new-orleans-jazz-band-sing-on-atlantic.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/WNC4SBfvKuzgMoKfhlTKM3cEwnw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-805208-1414941937-7009.jpeg.jpg)

Paul Barbarin - And His New Orleans Jazz (1955)
Pharoah Sanders - Live At The East (1971)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91es5TRcLHL._SX355_.jpg)

John Coltrane - Live in Japan (rec.1966)

disc four: the 57-minute "My Favorite Things"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 12, 2017, 01:21:47 AM
Guy Lafitte: Blue and Sentimental.

[asin]B0041T7FEU[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 12, 2017, 04:42:34 AM
A recent release. A great one. Scofield is sounding better than ever.

(http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/05/29/hudson_-_album_cover-1492707811_sq-9b65301c1f238a5164c699b51858eb2919475ac4-s300-c85.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 12, 2017, 05:10:27 AM
Rene Thomas: Meeting Mister Thomas.

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His playing is often so driven, kind of like Raney but perhaps more rambunctious - and that's cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on June 12, 2017, 09:51:48 AM
(https://www.israbox.pw/uploads/posts/2017-02/1487433817_peter-erskine-and-the-dr.-um-band-second-opinion-2017.jpg)

Good stuff, second album from this band. Might be better than the first album, but I need to relisten. Fusion, though acoustic instruments dominate. Some tracks reminded me of music by Herbie Hancock in his funk period. Others (on Amazon) refer to Weather Report of which Erskine was drummer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 12, 2017, 10:09:52 AM
Hal McKusick: Now's the Time. (1957-58)

[asin]B000003N4B[/asin]

(http://i.imgur.com/emINs9K.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 12, 2017, 03:53:14 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/The_Mundell_Lowe_Quartet.jpg)

Mundell Lowe - The Mundell Lowe Quartet (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 13, 2017, 01:15:01 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 12, 2017, 03:53:14 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/The_Mundell_Lowe_Quartet.jpg)

Mundell Lowe - The Mundell Lowe Quartet (1955)

^
That looks interesting for a number of reasons, not least of all that it's a guitar player right smack in the mid-50s - a period which contains many of the guitar sounds I love.



The Mellow Moods Of Jazz: Hal McKusick/Barry Galbraith.

[asin]B00002817N[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 13, 2017, 08:23:13 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/89OTZV-NHkU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 13, 2017, 10:28:05 AM
Gypsy Jazz: Various Artists.

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There are a number of needle drops that make up the performances in this collection, but I consider them a small price to pay in light of the charm and spirit they possess.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 13, 2017, 03:44:10 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/The_Dealers.jpeg) (https://img.discogs.com/dUziuTLZe2u6BoAFgLwiHNh451k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-391468-1170921956.jpeg.jpg)

Mal Waldron - The Dealers (1957)
Pharoah Sanders - Wisdom Through Music (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 14, 2017, 11:23:22 AM
Alone Together: Jim Hall/Ron Carter.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 14, 2017, 04:34:01 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/418X4BXBD0L.jpg) (http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/d32c069e5706e0370dad7fb9439b86b0/5046036.jpg)

Victor Feldman - Suite Sixteen (1955)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 15, 2017, 02:33:55 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: The Four Brothers Sound.

[asin]B00DD0AGMQ[/asin]

More Giuffre shenanigans. Perhaps not quite as cool as 'Travlin Light', but it doesn't need to be.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 16, 2017, 03:34:45 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/287/MI0000287486.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/6193KSGSLeL._SS500.jpg)

Billy Bauer ‎– Plectrist (1956)
Mal Waldron - Our Colline's A Treasure (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 16, 2017, 07:15:38 AM
^
Billy Bauer - Good stuff. That's on my 'Top ten mid-50s guitarist desert island discs'. ;D And I think his work with Lee Konitz is cool too. :)



Toshiko Akiyoshi:  United Notions.

[asin]B014JT752I[/asin]

I'm listening to this mostly for the contributions of Rene Thomas. Maybe later I'll revisit his 'Guitar Groove'.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 16, 2017, 10:16:24 PM
Enjoying this one a lot lately. Can't even find a webpage or anything on them...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61BPW8CZ9JL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 17, 2017, 03:17:00 AM
Rene Thomas: Guitar Groove.

[asin]B01GGPNKUO[/asin]

Yeah, time for a listen to this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 17, 2017, 03:42:30 PM
Quote from: NikF on June 16, 2017, 07:15:38 AM
^
Billy Bauer - Good stuff. That's on my 'Top ten mid-50s guitarist desert island discs'. ;D And I think his work with Lee Konitz is cool too. :)


I don't think I'd heard of Bauer before, but really enjoyed that one. I'll check out his work with Konitz - thanks!

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/H-SdWksa7a_f2YU1nWaPn2DgeAE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2502865-1287554036.jpeg.jpg) (http://img.cdandlp.com/2015/05/imgL/3019315227.png)

Errol Garner - Encores In Hi-Fi (1956)
Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ Of The Andes (1964)

(https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/45f8a6f5ae61ceaaafd4124236a5f316/1900753.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 18, 2017, 06:18:50 AM
^
The Garner looks interesting. I'm not sure if I own it or even if I've heard it.


Laura: Don Byas.

[asin]B0000507VA[/asin]

While not being long enough for anyone to stretch out these are still nice performances and really quite cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 18, 2017, 09:11:46 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/506/MI0000506154.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/070/MI0000070896.jpg)

Sessions from 1975 with some great players present (click the cover of Vol. 1 to enlarge and read) ... haven't played these often yet, time to revisit.

@SimonNZ (and maybe @NikF, too?: if we're speaking Billy Bauer (and Lee Konitz), the main source is Lennie Tristano. The recordings to check out are whatever you can get your hands on by Tristano (including the Capitol sessions from 1949, officially reissued on the CD "Intuition", which also contains a later Warne Marsh/Ted Brown album, Marsh being the other imminent Tristano follower ... those 1949 sessions include a couple of freely improvised tunes; there's also a great later live two-disc set on Uptown, without Bauer but with Konitz, Warne Marsh and Willie Dennis). Speaking of Konitz, the main thing to get is "Subconscious-Lee", a Prestige album collecting earlier stuff including a Tristano-led session (with Bauer), a Konitz session with Sal Mosca on piano (another Tristano student) and Marsh but without Bauer, and another Konitz session with Bauer (that also includes a as/g duo).

Excellent stuff!

There's really not so much Bauer, but there's more Tristano to explore (his early Keynote sides, the two Atlantic albums: Tristano, The New Tristano ... and whatever you can lay your hands on), and more Marsh (Ne Plus Ultra, All Music - to name just two great ones!), and of course tons of Konitz, but Konitz is the one that got away pretty fast from the pure Tristano approach. There's also a two-disc set on Verve, "Live at the Half Note", recorded in 1959, which features what was the Tristano band (with Marsh, but no Bauer anymore at that time) with Bill Evans subbing on piano ... the rhythm section is also pretty cool: Jimmy Garrison and Paul Motian. Worth looking for!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 18, 2017, 09:31:13 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 18, 2017, 09:11:46 AM


@SimonNZ (and maybe @NikF, too?: if we're speaking Billy Bauer (and Lee Konitz), the main source is Lennie Tristano. The recordings to check out are whatever you can get your hands on by Tristano (including the Capitol sessions from 1949, officially reissued on the CD "Intuition", which also contains a later Warne Marsh/Ted Brown album, Marsh being the other imminent Tristano follower ... those 1949 sessions include a couple of freely improvised tunes; there's also a great later live two-disc set on Uptown, without Bauer but with Konitz, Warne Marsh and Willie Dennis). Speaking of Konitz, the main thing to get is "Subconscious-Lee", a Prestige album collecting earlier stuff including a Tristano-led session (with Bauer), a Konitz session with Sal Mosca on piano (another Tristano student) and Marsh but without Bauer, and another Konitz session with Bauer (that also includes a as/g duo).

Excellent stuff!

There's really not so much Bauer, but there's more Tristano to explore (his early Keynote sides, the two Atlantic albums: Tristano, The New Tristano ... and whatever you can lay your hands on), and more Marsh (Ne Plus Ultra, All Music - to name just two great ones!), and of course tons of Konitz, but Konitz is the one that got away pretty fast from the pure Tristano approach. There's also a two-disc set on Verve, "Live at the Half Note", recorded in 1959, which features what was the Tristano band (with Marsh, but no Bauer anymore at that time) with Bill Evans subbing on piano ... the rhythm section is also pretty cool: Jimmy Garrison and Paul Motian. Worth looking for!

Good stuff. Thanks.

I'm considering that when I have time I'll start a thread on late 1940s to mid-50s era guitarists. I've no time right now, but if/when I do it would be cool if you (and anyone else, of course) were inclined to stop by and add any thoughts and insights you might have.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 18, 2017, 11:29:19 AM
...and speaking of guitar players -

Chico Hamilton: Live at The Strollers. (The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet)

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Featuring Jim Hall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 18, 2017, 02:20:41 PM
Quote from: NikF on June 18, 2017, 09:31:13 AM
I'm considering that when I have time I'll start a thread on late 1940s to mid-50s era guitarists. I've no time right now, but if/when I do it would be cool if you (and anyone else, of course) were inclined to stop by and add any thoughts and insights you might have.

Sure ... love Tal Farlow and Jimmy Raney ... and I guess Belgian René Thomas belongs there, too. Generally though, I think my favourite guitar players are from the era just after: Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery. But gladly this is not a question of either/or!

And yeah, Jim Hall ... it's hard to believe, all the great recordings he was on, bands he was with: Chico Hamilton Quintet (and trio before that), Jimmy Giuffre 3, Bob Brookmeyer ... and then he was with Sonny Rollins in the early sixties ... amazing! Alas, never caught him live.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 18, 2017, 02:48:34 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 18, 2017, 02:20:41 PM
Sure ... love Tal Farlow and Jimmy Raney ... and I guess Belgian René Thomas belongs there, too. Generally though, I think my favourite guitar players are from the era just after: Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery. But gladly this is not a question of either/or!


I'm just concentrating at the moment on the slightly earlier era for a different reason. But Burrell, Green, Montgomery - absolutely! Those are greats.

Quote
And yeah, Jim Hall ... it's hard to believe, all the great recordings he was on, bands he was with: Chico Hamilton Quintet (and trio before that), Jimmy Giuffre 3, Bob Brookmeyer ... and then he was with Sonny Rollins in the early sixties ... amazing! Alas, never caught him live.

I never got the chance to see/hear him either. But at least there's so much of his work out there. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 19, 2017, 03:24:40 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 18, 2017, 09:11:46 AM

@SimonNZ (and maybe @NikF, too?: if we're speaking Billy Bauer (and Lee Konitz), the main source is Lennie Tristano. The recordings to check out are whatever you can get your hands on by Tristano (including the Capitol sessions from 1949, officially reissued on the CD "Intuition", which also contains a later Warne Marsh/Ted Brown album, Marsh being the other imminent Tristano follower ... those 1949 sessions include a couple of freely improvised tunes; there's also a great later live two-disc set on Uptown, without Bauer but with Konitz, Warne Marsh and Willie Dennis). Speaking of Konitz, the main thing to get is "Subconscious-Lee", a Prestige album collecting earlier stuff including a Tristano-led session (with Bauer), a Konitz session with Sal Mosca on piano (another Tristano student) and Marsh but without Bauer, and another Konitz session with Bauer (that also includes a as/g duo).

Excellent stuff!

There's really not so much Bauer, but there's more Tristano to explore (his early Keynote sides, the two Atlantic albums: Tristano, The New Tristano ... and whatever you can lay your hands on), and more Marsh (Ne Plus Ultra, All Music - to name just two great ones!), and of course tons of Konitz, but Konitz is the one that got away pretty fast from the pure Tristano approach. There's also a two-disc set on Verve, "Live at the Half Note", recorded in 1959, which features what was the Tristano band (with Marsh, but no Bauer anymore at that time) with Bill Evans subbing on piano ... the rhythm section is also pretty cool: Jimmy Garrison and Paul Motian. Worth looking for!

That's interesting: I've  heard some early Tristano, but not the ones with Bauer. I'll check those out. Thanks.

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/661/MI0000661082.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Sun Ra - Mayan Temples (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 19, 2017, 05:01:18 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 19, 2017, 03:24:40 AM
That's interesting: I've  heard some early Tristano, but not the ones with Bauer. I'll check those out. Thanks.

Tristano was quite a character it seems ... and his approach to jazz pretty special (and yes, I do feel ambiguous about it in many respects, but I love his recordings nonetheless). He had a close-knit community of pupils and it seems he was almost dictatorial as a teacher. The main thing was not to let emotion "disturb" the clean line, something like that. He would also prefer playing with drummers that more or less took over the function of a metronome, so as not to disturb his own lines, which were rhythmically fragmented to the extreme, yet also came with an enormous drive.

Here's the recommendations, somewhat more specific ...

The early Keynote sids:

[img http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/801/MI0002801699.jpg?partner=allrovi.com]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/801/MI0002801699.jpg[/img]

Capitol material is on here:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/117/MI0000117863.jpg)

The early Prestige/New Jazz Tristano (with Konitz) and Konitz (with Mosca, Bauer) is this:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/466/MI0003466499.jpg)

Related, this various artists one is pretty interesting, too:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/868/MI0001868905.jpg)

Without double-checking, I think it contains a couple of Konitz tracks not on the above disc, but I'm not 100% sure.


Mid sixties on Atlantic:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/437/MI0000437272.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/608/MI0001608497.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

The live quartet material with Konitz that's on half of "Tristano" was fully released in a great box by Mosaic (Tristano/Konitz/Marsh on Atlantic, six CDs - the live set makes up two full discs there), it's okay but not perfect. The main reason for this is that Konitz started taking a somewhat different trajectory that led him out of the close Tristano circle eventually, allowing his music to become more emotional and intense (c.f. "Motion", which has Elvin Jones on drums ... there was a three-disc complete edition of that album, including some more takes with Elveen and two discs of prior sessions with the same material, with Nick Stabulas on drums - Konitz is in perfect shape, but it was Elveen's special kick that really made the album ... it's one of Konitz' very best)

This is the excellent Uptown set:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/796/MI0003796279.jpg)


More goodies from the same scene/circle:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/769/MI0001769441.jpg)

Ted Brown is another tenor man, same general vein as Marsh (they have some two-tenor stuff going on, see above and below) ... Ronnie Ball (from UK) was one of the few non-US Tristano-ites, Willie Dennis is with Tristano on the Uptown set above ... this Savoy album is very good.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/847/MI0001847624.jpg)

This one's a classic, too - Tristano pupil Sal Mosca is on piano, Billy Bauer's there, too ...


If you want the full Marsh/Brown package (Ted Brown is great, some of his recent recordings are very much worth checking out, too, and he also appeared as a guest on a very, very good fairly recent Konitz album, "Sound of Surprise" - I don't know their other recent albums, but that one is excellent), this one could be considered (overlap with the "Intuition" disc above):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/110/MI0003110698.jpg)

And this is the Tristano band (with Konitz/Marsh) with Bill Evan subbing on piano (mentioned above already):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/943/MI0001943348.jpg)

Somewhat further from that core is this here, including an excellent date with saxes (also featuring Marsh):

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/909/MI0001909709.jpg)

But basically, the Tristano influence is still there with Konitz in some form ... and in the fifties, on his various Atlantic and Verve albums, his way from pupil to master, is quite spectacular really - actually he could be masterful from the late forties on of course, but he shaped his own thing then - and the aforementioned "Motion" is a definite highpoint.


One more thing Tristano: Jazz Records, the label of ... don't recall the name (other Tristano-ite), has a few discs of very good live recordings by Tristano bands: "Wow" and "Live in Toronto 1952" are the ones I know, others contain solo material and/or overdubbed metronome-drums I think ...


There is finally also a Proper box (four discs, as usual) ... which likely contains most of the important studio material for a small price (but may erratically leave off some tracks, you never know with them) - but in so-so sound as usual, I assume (I don't have this one, but have three or four of their boxes).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 19, 2017, 07:53:56 AM
^
Great post. Thanks for taking the time to share.

I don't like to single just one of those out, but..the first time I heard 'The New Tristano' was an incredible experience for me. Wonderful.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on June 19, 2017, 07:24:09 PM
Stockton Helbing.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 20, 2017, 02:24:27 AM
Tal Farlow: The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 20, 2017, 02:46:30 AM
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Lennie Tristano - the 1949 sessions from the Intuition album
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 20, 2017, 07:30:59 AM
Excellent, both!  ;D

Love the Fsrlow/Costa combination ... love Eddie Costa anyway!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 21, 2017, 03:04:04 AM
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Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with Joe Williams - Sing Along With Basie (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 21, 2017, 03:35:12 AM
I love that one! I Love LH&R!

Me, last night:

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Both first listens - maybe the last missing bit from Chet's first decade or so ... not familiar with his Italian recordings quite yet, not sure I need them, really ... but the mid sixties Prestige ones with George Coleman et al I have on my shelves again, while I have gaps elsewhere in that period, and certainly no need for Chet & Mariachi Brass and all that other World Pacific schlock ...

The Baker is nice (though it feels like he's almost constantly in danger of being rolled over by the intense waves of piano that Kenny Drew is throwing at him), the Desmond is gorgeous.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 22, 2017, 10:01:19 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 21, 2017, 03:35:12 AM
I love that one! I Love LH&R!

Me, last night:

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Both first listens - maybe the last missing bit from Chet's first decade or so ... not familiar with his Italian recordings quite yet, not sure I need them, really ... but the mid sixties Prestige ones with George Coleman et al I have on my shelves again, while I have gaps elsewhere in that period, and certainly no need for Chet & Mariachi Brass and all that other World Pacific schlock ...



I think all I have from his Italian recording dates are -

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- and perhaps they're all I need. But I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Border Collie on June 22, 2017, 10:05:46 AM
What am I listening to now?  Jaco

https://youtu.be/1EdWJo31ciY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 22, 2017, 12:41:33 PM
Quote from: NikF on June 22, 2017, 10:01:19 AM
I think all I have from his Italian recording dates are -

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- and perhaps they're all I need. But I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

They're both French (with Belgians like Bobby Jaspar and René Thomas), and both pretty good. Not 100% sure of the timeline, but the one on top may be from the Italian period (yup, rec. in Rome, but with one Italian only, plus three Belgians and one Swiss ... but they do some Italian material), while the one with Jaspar is - I think, I have a luxurious complete edition and am not familiar with other recent reissues - from the Barclay material (Paris, 1955/56).

I don't know all that much about that chapter in his career, but he spent a year or so in prison in Italy in the early sixties, there are a few proper Italian recordings, too, like "Chet Baker in Milan", "Chet Baker and Fifty Italian Strings", and several soundtracks by Piero Umiliani with Chet's participation (collected in a set by Moochin' About, which I don't yet have, only have "in Milan" and it's on a pile somewhere, as of yet unplayed).

Thread duty:

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Alexander Hawkins - Unite | Brand new, and from the very first impression, very good indeed! Started with disc two that is Hawkins' first large band release (titled "Heart") with a band including Percy Pursglove, Hannah Marshall, Alex Ward, Julie Kjaer, and others, while disc one (titled "Call") has the latest incarnatoin of the Hawkins Ensemble, this time in septet with Shabaka Hutchings (bcl, ts), Dylan Bates (v), Otto Fischer (g), Neil Charles (b), Tom Skinner (d), and of course the leader on piano. Excellent stuff on both!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 22, 2017, 12:58:58 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 22, 2017, 12:41:33 PM
They're both French (with Belgians like Bobby Jaspar and René Thomas), and both pretty good. Not 100% sure of the timeline, but the one on top may be from the Italian period (yup, rec. in Rome, but with one Italian only, plus three Belgians and one Swiss ... but they do some Italian material), while the one with Jaspar is - I think, I have a luxurious complete edition and am not familiar with other recent reissues - from the Barclay material (Paris, 1955/56).

I don't know all that much about that chapter in his career, but he spent a year or so in prison in Italy in the early sixties, there are a few proper Italian recordings, too, like "Chet Baker in Milan", "Chet Baker and Fifty Italian Strings", and several soundtracks by Piero Umiliani with Chet's participation (collected in a set by Moochin' About, which I don't yet have, only have "in Milan" and it's on a pile somewhere, as of yet unplayed).



Thanks for the correction. How could i fail to miss this?  ;D -
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Yeah, the issue of the top one that l have states 'Rome 1962' - and throughout almost every entry that Thomas makes sounds like he's just been 'let off the leash' - I think it's great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 22, 2017, 01:08:52 PM
Quote from: NikF on June 22, 2017, 12:58:58 PM
Thanks for the correction. How could i fail to miss this?  ;D -
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Yeah, the issue of the top one that l have states 'Rome 1962' - and throughout almost every entry that Thomas makes sounds like he's just been 'let off the leash' - I think it's great.

Yeah, I corrected above - and created a mess ... rec. in Rome with an Italian pianist but a largely Belgian band (these guys went to Paris, as did Swiss drummer Daniel Humair, who btw. is still playing, and playing great). Will look for "in Milan" over the weekend.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 23, 2017, 02:46:04 AM
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Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - High Flying (1961)
Rich Perry and Harold Danko - Canções do Brasil (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 23, 2017, 06:38:41 PM
Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny: Beyond The Missouri Sky. Very beautiful!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 23, 2017, 06:40:41 PM
Rudresh Mahanthappa - Kinsmen

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 23, 2017, 10:12:57 PM
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Count Basie and the Alan Copeland Singers - Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' (1966)
Billy Harper - Live on Tour in the Far East Vol. 2 (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 24, 2017, 05:58:26 PM
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The Count Basie Trio - For The First Time (1974)
Billy Harper - Somalia (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on June 24, 2017, 08:10:25 PM
Robert Dick and the Soldier String Quartet - Jazz Standards on Mars

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 25, 2017, 04:19:03 PM
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Count Basie - Basie Big Band (1975)
Billy Harper - Destiny Is Yours (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 26, 2017, 06:53:41 AM
Who's that Count Harper anyway?  ;D

Seriously, lots of love for both of them!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 26, 2017, 03:27:52 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 26, 2017, 06:53:41 AM
Who's that Count Harper anyway?  ;D

Seriously, lots of love for both of them!

Yeah: I'm loving Billy Harper generally (having previously known only the Black Saint album), but that Somalia disc was a real knockout.

I've become a bit intrigued by the "Indian Summer" last ten yeas of Basie, which I knew not at all. Are you familiar with those or have any preferences?

and so, now;

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Count Basie - Kansas City 6 (1981)
Billy Harper - The Awakening (1979)

^a little odd seeing the Basie later than the Harper
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 26, 2017, 04:01:57 PM
George Shearing Quintet: On The Sunny Side Of The Strip

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 27, 2017, 06:22:17 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 26, 2017, 03:27:52 PM
I've become a bit intrigued by the "Indian Summer" last ten yeas of Basie, which I knew not at all. Are you familiar with those or have any preferences?

Hm, not too easy a question ... generally not my favourite period. That would be the OT band's first years with Lester Young (one of my biggest musical heroes of all times), 1936-40 roughly, though the early/mid forties stuff is still great!), then I love early NT with Gus Johnson and "Lockjaw", Lady Q, Ernie Wilkins etc. (Dance Sessions), NT 1956-1962 with flashy Sonny Payne as well (and Thad Jones, Benny Powell, Frank Foster ...) ... in the sixties, there are still some great albums ("Basie Plays Bond" with some mean "Lockjaw"!), but also some rather lesser albums ... as for the last decade, I guess I don't really like the arrangements as much as the ones by Jones, Wilkins, Hefti, Foster et al. Much of these late albums sound somewhat more run of the mill, I'm not a huge Sammy Nestico fan, I guess ... but the level of the music is mostly very consistent, and some of the jam albums are wonderful!

From that in-between period, I have just recently bought the two MPS albums - they're quite alright, but definitely no essentials. One I really like (it IS special in Basie's entire output) is "Afrique" (with Oliver Nelson, 1971).

Some late favourites include:
- For the First Time (trio, there was a follow-up)
- Satch and Josh (with Oscar Peterson ... five albums all together, good stuff if you can deal with OP, which I learned to)
- I Told You So (arr. Bill Holman - now there's some really good music for once!)
- Get Together (maybe my favourite of the many jam albums - with Budd Johnson, even "Lockjaw" has to be afraid of having his ass kicked and his heart torn out, so not coasting there!)
- Mostly Blues ... and Some Others (this one's special as you get the rare chance to the amazing "Snooky" Young in a small group setting, soloing ... he was one of the finest lead trumpet players and with Basie for many years)

For more big band favourites and the ones with Ella, I would have to relisten to them ... but the Verve 1964 Ella & Basie is great, of course, no doubt about that!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 27, 2017, 07:03:00 AM
I really do enjoy For the First Time and For the Second Time, the trio albums with Ray Brown and Louis Bellson. Good straight-ahead no-nonsense fun trio jams with all three performers on equal footing (doesn't hurt that Brown was such a great). I would also like exploring this period a bit more...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 27, 2017, 12:08:47 PM
The George Shearing Trio: Jazz Moments.

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Early 1960s and part of a trio with Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier, thus allowing Shearing to stretch out a little.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 27, 2017, 03:35:11 PM
Played this again earlier tonight, hearing the news that Geri Allen had fallen severely ill:

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Not all of her stuff has proven accessible to me, but this one's been loved in this house ever since the first listen.

Also read up Ethan Iverson's recent tribute written for her 60th birthday:
https://ethaniverson.com/the-breakthrough-of-geri-allen/
This made me want to check out more right away ... will have to do so.

Even more so, as the initial sad news has come to its very sad and very final conclusion already:
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/27/534409838/geri-allen-pianist-composer-and-educator-dies-at-60

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r.i.p. Geri Allen
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 27, 2017, 04:17:34 PM
Thanks for the recommendations KU and Brian. I agree about the For The First Time trio album - that one was a delight when I played it a few days ago.

now:

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Count Basie - I Told You So (1976)
Billy Harper - Soran Bushi, B.H. (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 27, 2017, 07:03:29 PM
Just heard this Geri Allen on KCSM.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 27, 2017, 07:09:03 PM
Pony Poindexter and Rene Thomas Quintet: At The Blue Note Paris 1964.

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The sound quality of this is worse than I remembered, but I think it's just about worth the compromise.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 28, 2017, 11:14:54 AM
Playing a couple of trio albums by/with the late, great Geri Allen:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 29, 2017, 02:43:58 AM
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Billy Harper - Trying To Make Heaven My Home (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on June 29, 2017, 07:35:50 AM
Outjangoing Jango, even (love these two disks) :  (Didja' get it? Les doigts de l'homme?)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on June 29, 2017, 05:31:30 PM
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I suppose best way to describe it is jazz influences melded with Maghrebi.

(BTW, although their family backgrounds are both Morrocan-Israeli, they are not actually related.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 30, 2017, 03:01:35 AM
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Billy Harper - Blueprints of Jazz Vol.2 (1997)
Count Basie - Kansas City 5 (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on June 30, 2017, 03:08:51 AM
Oscar Moore Quartet

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 30, 2017, 10:21:31 PM
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Count Basie - For The Second Time (1975)
Geri Allen - Twenty One (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 01, 2017, 01:11:47 PM
Since the last post, all Geri Allen and related:

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Love the Geri Allen-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian trio! "Etudes" is a classic, but the other two are excellent as well. The Oliver Lake is showing what "young lions" should have done, hadn't marketing and big money interfered and pushed those clever neo-cons to the top ... Lake is of course the sax player (and flautist) with Trio 3, a collaborative unit with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. I was lucky enough to catch them live twice, once in trio, once with Irène Schweizer. They also made two albums with Geri Allen and one each with Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran (and they have a great new disc out, by just the trio again).

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Allen was the first pianist to record with Ornette Coleman in one of his small groups since his very first sessions in the fifties. These are a weird bunch ... the music at times is almost pleasant, but at others it may drive some people nuts because it's so nervous. Sound is ugly, alas, but Allen does a nice job fitting into the tapestry - which is all for making Ornette sound good - I guess that's what he was into from the seventies on, with Prime Time in its various guises ... maybe this is kind of an acoustic take on Prime Time, not sure ... not his best by a clear margin, but not bad either.

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The Charles Lloyd double disc, his 9/11 album, is solemn and pretty nice indeed, however Allen often sounds subdued - which I guess fits in with the concept here. Again, everything is very much together here, and if there is a source of irritation (in a good way), it's John Abercrombie's guitar. I prefer "Jumping the Creek" with some excellent alto playing by Lloyd. It's on top of the listening pile right now. The Mark Shim is a really cool one - I know I just put down the neo-cons, and this could certainly be put into the same drawer, yet it's totally un-clever and for real, in some respects a faux sixties Blue Note album, with good tunes and no intention of showing off chops every - it's his debut, yet he sounds like a seasoned pro - good one indeed!

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Roy Brooks was one of the best hard bop drummers in the sixties, played with Horace Silver's quintet for several years - and one of the other sidemen in that period was a outstanding young trumpet player by name of Woody Shaw. Shaw is the only non-pianist partnering Brooks on his Enja disc, which offers two selections each from a series of concerts he hosted. First up is Randy Weston, followed by Shaw, Don Pullen, and finally Geri Allen. The Shaw double disc is from the final years of Shaw's foreshortened career, when he did no longer front his own working band. Here, he has Roy Brooks, Geri Allen and bassist Robert Hurst behind him, and very much with him, in a programme of Monk, Shaw, Shorter's "United" (a Shaw staple), a terrific take on good ol' "Star Eyes", and two trio features (Allen's "Eric", for Dolphy, with whom a very young Shaw had recorded in 1963, and "Theloniously Speaking" by Brooks). Excellent recording, organized by Brooks (just as the Duets), and released in 1997 on Blue Note (with cover art by Gil Mellé, who played quite a role in the history of the label, having been the one to introduce Rudy Van Gelder to Alfred Lion ... Mellé made several very interesting recordings for BN in the fifties and designed a few covers, too, before Reid Miles joined).

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Allen also played piano and synthesizers on the majority of the tracks that made up Wayne Shorter's final Columbia album in the late 80s ... one for those that are not pissed by the fact that he stopped soloing in late Weather Report - actually I quite enjoy this period in his work, though it took me quite a while to get there.

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Of the two Reggie Workman discs, both with Julian Priester and Sam Rivers, I have a clear preference for the former, which is dark-ish and concise, with Andrew Hill and Pheeroan akLaff completing the group. The later has varying line-upsranging from trios (Geri Allen-Workman-Gerry Hemingway, Workman-Hemingway-Elizabeth Panzer on harp) to septet with tabla and harp. Al Foster is playing drums on two tracks, Hemingway is on all of the others except for the drummerless one, Tapan Modak on tabla drums. Nice tracks on this second one for sure, but I am most often not that much of a fan of albums with constantly changing line-ups.

And just now, as I am finalizing this post, put on Charles Lloyd's second album with Allen, featuring Robert Hurst (who's on the Shaw set above) and Eric Harland (who's on much of the Shim disc):
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Allen also played piano and synthesizers on the majority of the tracks that made up Wayne Shorter's final Columbia album in the late 80s ... one for those that are not pissed by the fact that he stopped soloing in late Weather Report - actually I quite enjoy this period in his work, though it took me quite a while to get there.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/887/MI0003887525.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 01, 2017, 04:51:09 PM
I don't think I've heard anything by the Allen-Motian-Haden trio before, but I'm really looking forward to getting acquainted.

now:

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Count Basie - Prime Time (1977)
Geri Allen - The Printmakers (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 02, 2017, 02:45:29 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 01, 2017, 04:51:09 PM
I don't think I've heard anything by the Allen-Motian-Haden trio before, but I'm really looking forward to getting acquainted.

Maybe it would make sense to consider the Charlie Haden "Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note" box, which contains "Etudes"? It also contains the two Old and New Dreams albums released by Black Saint, and two more Soul Notes ("Etudes" was on Soul Note, though it was really just two names under the same roof) with Enrico Pieranunzi and Billy Higgins ("First Song" in trio and "Silence" with Chet Baker added). Good stuff!

"The Printmakers" is one of many Allen discs still on its way to me (several will take a detour via Germany, many marketplace vendors using amazon.de as a platform have stopped shipping outside of Germany, which is ridiculous, as many of them aren't even located in Germany).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 02, 2017, 04:25:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/e_i4jYbG6ZaIAeUjuv0lrVtUeDw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1735466-1259254351.jpeg.jpg)

Count Basie - Warm Breeze (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 02, 2017, 11:38:48 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/394/MI0002394060.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/045/MI0002045033.jpg)
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Sunday afternoon and evening listening went on with the final bits of Allen that are on my shelves so far. The two Ambrosettis were part of a recent Enja series in Japan, and part of a five disc order of albums by this brilliant Swiss trumpet player ... I was pleasantly surprised, was expecting more elegant post bop, but this is pretty varied, with Jerry Gonzales on the first and Greg Osby on the second joining in with Ambrosetti, Allen, Scofield, Formanek and Humair. They're all offering brilliant playing here!

The Redman is quite tame but still oozes personality and character. The Jarman is anything else than tame, starts out brilliantly but somehow loses focus a bit as it goes on, I think.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 03, 2017, 02:53:00 AM
^Movies Too was on my list of favorites from the RVG project.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QAVAyo6tL.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/The_Nurturer.jpg)

Geri Allen / Charlie Haden / Paul Motian - Etudes (1988)
Geri Allen - The Nurturer (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on July 03, 2017, 04:54:58 AM
"An invigorating spin through classic hard bop fury," claimed Rolling Stone.  Yup!

[asin]B001PN74GO[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on July 03, 2017, 11:11:24 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/862/MI0001862041.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 03, 2017, 12:16:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611AVFWTHWL.gif)

Got the above today and it's as nice as the other albums (and the mere mentioning of the names) had me hoping. Now onto some more sentimental music. I will likely never get over my ambiguous feelings about this lightweight that (acts as if he) turned (into a) heavy(weight) after his comeback ... something rubs me the wrong way, though I get why many love his long run of ECM albums.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/415fz2zkZUL.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/639/MI0001639289.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 04, 2017, 02:54:40 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/U0xklnM5oZYmNxwjZan1iKC-Uv4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1296262-1418919376-5251.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71MRl2qJthL._SY355_.jpg)

Walt Dickerson - Shades Of Love (1978)
Clifford Jordan - Half Note (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 04, 2017, 04:31:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81x2vWAzO1L._SY355_.jpg)

Doug Raney - Guitar Guitar Guitar (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 05, 2017, 12:49:10 AM
That Clifford Jordan at the Half Note is lovely! Do you have his other Steeplechase albums? There are those with Cedar Walton, too ...

Last night, first one I played was this new arrival with Geri Allen on piano:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/513/MI0000513689.jpg)

Then finally dug into the two Soul Note/Black Saint boxes by Max Roach last night ... so far I only knew the duos with Braxton and Taylor out of these - proceeding chronologically, I played these four:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/491/MI0002491135.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/550/MI0001550225.jpg)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/052/MI0000052256.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/794/MI0002794691.jpg)

The third one (double quartet) caught on much less than the other three ... no Odean Pope there, and a somewhat obnoxious electric bass. Fourth has the new bass player (Tyrone Brown) on electric bass and it works out quite fine indeed ... first two have Calvin Hill on acoustic, and the second may actually be the best of this bunch.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 05, 2017, 03:06:58 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 05, 2017, 12:49:10 AM
That Clifford Jordan at the Half Note is lovely! Do you have his other Steeplechase albums? There are those with Cedar Walton, too ...


I'll check those out, thanks. There seems to be an enormous amount of the SteepleChase discography I'm still woefully ignorant of.

playing now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/A_Generation_Ago_Today.jpg)

Kenny Burrell - A Generation Ago Today (1967)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 05, 2017, 04:20:33 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 05, 2017, 03:06:58 AM
I'll check those out, thanks. There seems to be an enormous amount of the SteepleChase discography I'm still woefully ignorant of.

There's so much there on that label ... and lots of sameness that doesn't exactly make it easy to decide what to pick. But with Jordan, absolutely go for the twofer "Magic in Munich", which combines two initial albums that are amongst Jordan's finest ("Firm Roots" and "The Highest Mountain"), with Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 05, 2017, 02:07:21 PM
Here's a little bit of what I've been hearing lately:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-efH7cwQFG9s/U_jHFy322tI/AAAAAAAAKXM/3j5WBugUmfg/s1600/Hugues%2BVincent%2B%26amp%3B%2BYasumune%2BMorishige%2B-%2BFragment%2B(Improvising%2BBeings%2C%2B2014).jpg)
Hugues Vincent / Yasumune Morishige: Fragment

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N1tSoAbvPNc/T25BQ8IyhzI/AAAAAAAAGWI/Gwsqr59hiDE/s1600/SkogenGeFallen.jpg)
Skogen: Ist gefallen in den Schnee

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[asin]B000004798[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 05, 2017, 04:03:51 PM
Welcome, Alek!


playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51i2uXwo-hL._SS500.jpg)

Mike Mainieri - Blues On The Other Side (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 06, 2017, 12:12:57 AM
Krupa And Rich: Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich.

[asin]B0000046SZ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 06, 2017, 12:14:14 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NHSnEAB2L.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VDJAONf%2BL.jpg)

late night listening yesterday ... first leader recordings of Charles Lloyd ("Nirvana" includes part of Chico Hamilton's "Drumfusion" and outtakes from the sessions to the second proper album, "Of Course, of Course", which is on top of the pile for tonight ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 06, 2017, 02:59:07 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Nation_Time.jpg)

Joe McPhee - Nation Time (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 06, 2017, 02:35:02 PM
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Playing (on Spotify) as I type this, in fact.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 07, 2017, 02:43:42 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/646/MI0000646559.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Adam Rogers - Time And The Infinite (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 07, 2017, 08:52:52 AM
Presenting Oscar Moore: Oscar Moore.

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The tasteful playing makes up for the somewhat low-fi home recording vibe, although I feel that in itself has its own charm.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 07, 2017, 04:31:29 PM
Played this one through bit by bit today (had to pause it multiple times as I did other tasks):

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I haven't been as enthusiastic about a new* album in a long time as I have been about this one (well, and Tyshawn Sorey's Alloy). Really great stuff.

*Relatively new to me, that is - it came out in 2014 (IIRC).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 07, 2017, 08:32:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/815FXLqCRaL._SY355_.jpg)

Tete Montoliu - Catalonian Nights, Vol. 1 (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 08, 2017, 08:18:24 AM
Shorty Rogers and His Giants: The Big Shorty Rogers Express.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 08, 2017, 03:38:14 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Vzm712zOzImSFZKbjDFo_jSDCEM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4647219-1442590372-5716.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Dave_holland_hands.jpg)

Lee Konitz - In Harvard Square (1954)
Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela - Hands (2009)

(http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/402/0001402138.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DJQDS8ZvL._SY355_.jpg)

The Complete Miles Davis At Montreux, discs 15 and 16 (the July 21, 1989 concert)
Tete Montoliu - Catalonian Nights Vol.3 (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 10, 2017, 02:44:05 PM
Guitar Moods: Mundell Lowe.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 11, 2017, 09:55:21 AM
Julian Lage: Arclight

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I was in a guitar shop recently and a guy who worked there suggested that I give this a listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 11, 2017, 03:26:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61cn6vYkxAL._SX355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/_U6u_fCn4E-NH8gECLlR9mbnv4U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1780446-1242849148.jpeg.jpg)

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Christian - After Hours (1941)
Lee Morgan - Introducing Lee Morgan (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 11, 2017, 07:22:11 PM
Earlier today:

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First listen. Faux-ECM presentation and recording, but a pretty good one at that.

Then, a little while after that one:

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I think I've only listened to this one once before, so giving it another spin. Was listening at work and didn't finish it - will resume tomorrow!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 12, 2017, 11:15:59 PM
Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Phil Woods: Jazz Alive! A Night At The Half Note.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 13, 2017, 01:08:32 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81xexI0fCWL._SL400_.jpg)

Roscoe Mitchell's latest, a double disc documenting his 50 years AACM concert in Chicago - first spin last night ... album of the year, I think!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on July 13, 2017, 09:42:43 AM
Paraphernalia is such a killer tune

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/MilesDavis_MilesInTheSky.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 13, 2017, 03:53:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HHKUnFzEL.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/750/MI0001750189.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Leroy Vinnegar - Leroy Walks (1957)
Marcus Printup - Peace In The Abstract (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 14, 2017, 11:32:28 AM
Some 2017 releases:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71UiHICnWJL._SL1004_.jpg)

This is interesting but not essential, I'd say - just as I expected. Would have wished for more breakdowns/rehearsals/studio banter ... there is basically only one lengthy segment (or Art Taylor really trying hard - and succeeding for quite a while - to not get what Monk wants him to play on one tune), but the booklet lists some rather long breakdowns/incomplete takes, as well as a rehearsal with Wilen of a track of which there is no master. No idea if that material would be just a nuisance, but they even made composite edits in one or two cases, rather than just giving us what there is ... anyway, it's good, there is not too much Wilen though, for those into him (which I am, bigtime)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61dJKwsUtQL._SS500.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/230/MI0004230426.jpg)

Iggy is on just three tracks ... wish he was on more, actually!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 14, 2017, 06:09:18 PM
Revisiting some Cecil from the monumental Berlin '88 sessions.

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Followed by:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aHsRY1cjL._SX425_.jpg)
The Amazon image wouldn't appear for some reason but it's ASIN #B00O5SZLKW.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 14, 2017, 10:56:41 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Jaki_Byard_with_Strings%21.jpg) (http://images.eil.com/large_image/DUKE_ELLINGTON_MY%2BPEOPLE-549507.jpg)

Jaki Byard - With Strings (1968)
Duke Ellington - My People (1963)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wjb1wCv9L._SY355_.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Mingus In Europe Vol.2 (rec.1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 15, 2017, 03:56:11 PM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/12/c2/4e/12c24e36d06566984949de4824302946--pat-metheny-to-listen.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/366/MI0002366411.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Pat Metheny - First Circle (1984)
Mike DiRubbo - Keep Steppin (2001)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/185/MI0004185856.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/QJKGAlpE6KNloJK0G0swyecTS24=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1251865-1444414008-5955.jpeg.jpg)

Duke Ellington (featuring Alice Babs) - Serenade To Sweden (1963)
Ralph Towner - City Of Eyes (1989)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/This_Is_Our_Music_%28Ornette_Coleman%29.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/9ttNU2fPzcHSnbPVvwZjwT1ZavU=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-687632-1366085864-3638.jpeg.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (1961)
Jeanne Lee - Conspiracy (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 16, 2017, 08:04:54 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: The Jimmy Giuffre 3

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As ever,, a pleasure to listen to Jim Hall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on July 16, 2017, 10:58:28 AM
Wonderful playing and sound. Available only as a hi-res download from HDTT. Mine is 24bit/96k.

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0778/3319/products/Lee-Konitz-----Martial-Solal-Cover.png?v=1499436259)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2017, 02:46:56 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ucTMwBLhL._SY355_.jpg)

Gordon Beck - Gyroscope (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 17, 2017, 05:07:06 PM
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I may revisit all the LJCO recordings I have over the next few days.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 17, 2017, 11:11:14 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on July 17, 2017, 05:07:06 PM
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I may revisit all the LJCO recordings I have over the next few days.

About time you finally play some Barry Guy!  :laugh:

Seriously, what a great musician he is! I was in London for the first half of the Intakt festival in April and opening night (Easter Sunday) was Guy in four settings: duo with Maya Homburger (which turned into a trio with Lucas Niggli added, who also did a duo with Homburger, as well as one with Guy, while Homburger was re-tuning her violin to play some Biber), then the Howard Riley Trio (he is suffering from Parkinson's ... but once he started playing, he was doing great indeed) with Guy and Niggli, and after a break two more line-ups: Jürg Wickihalder Trio Beyond (with Guy and Niggli), and finally the duo of Guy and Evan Parker. A few weeks later, they did a follow up in Zurich and Parker was there both nights (I missed his duo with a local guitarist, would have loved to hear it but couldn't make it that night), again playing a great - but very different - duo with Guy. Basically, whenever I have heard Guy live, it was spectacular!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 18, 2017, 02:59:16 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/jb8LcHwPIBR2ePd-_3OyI5OHHBA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4034643-1357493030-6607.jpeg.jpg)

Gordon Beck - Experiments With Pops (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 18, 2017, 02:21:41 PM
Oscar Pettiford: The Manhattan Jazz Septet.

[asin]B000HIVPK4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 18, 2017, 06:10:28 PM
Quote from: king ubu on July 17, 2017, 11:11:14 PM
About time you finally play some Barry Guy!  :laugh:

Seriously, what a great musician he is! I was in London for the first half of the Intakt festival in April and opening night (Easter Sunday) was Guy in four settings: duo with Maya Homburger (which turned into a trio with Lucas Niggli added, who also did a duo with Homburger, as well as one with Guy, while Homburger was re-tuning her violin to play some Biber), then the Howard Riley Trio (he is suffering from Parkinson's ... but once he started playing, he was doing great indeed) with Guy and Niggli, and after a break two more line-ups: Jürg Wickihalder Trio Beyond (with Guy and Niggli), and finally the duo of Guy and Evan Parker. A few weeks later, they did a follow up in Zurich and Parker was there both nights (I missed his duo with a local guitarist, would have loved to hear it but couldn't make it that night), again playing a great - but very different - duo with Guy. Basically, whenever I have heard Guy live, it was spectacular!

:D

I am burning with envy over the shows you get to see, ubu roi ... I imagine none of those people will be coming to Oklahoma anytime soon.  ::) :)

TD:
[asin]B001ANEBUQ[/asin]
I attended a funeral today, so my listening was curtailed - but I did start this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 19, 2017, 02:43:09 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511pHJOHJwL._SY300_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vyrVtqy7JfLIzUMspvRcnAtxc4k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-368370-1206195728.jpeg.jpg)

Jimmy Heath - You Or Me (1995)
Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 19, 2017, 06:17:59 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 19, 2017, 02:43:09 AM

Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989

Love that one. Tony Oxley is one of my favorite drummers.

As for myself:
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and
(https://img.discogs.com/vOJwchSkM69TPxyL9KVs9CSdIx4=/fit-in/503x506/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-463029-1157943669.jpeg.jpg) [asin]B000002I4K[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 20, 2017, 02:48:51 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on July 19, 2017, 06:17:59 PM
Love that one. Tony Oxley is one of my favorite drummers.


Yeah,  I've noticed Tony Oxley turning up on a number of discs I've liked but still don't have a good sense of his discography. Which are your favorites?

now:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/500/MI0001500854.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Frank Kimbrough - Noumena (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 20, 2017, 04:59:18 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 20, 2017, 02:48:51 AM
Yeah,  I've noticed Tony Oxley turning up on a number of discs I've liked but still don't have a good sense of his discography. Which are your favorites?

Hm, let's see ...

Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Leaf Palm Hand
Tomasz Stańko, Leosia (as well as Bosonossa and Other Ballads by the same quartet)
Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley, Soho Suites
Tony Oxley Quintet, The Baptised Traveller (OOP and often hard to get at decent prices, unfortunately)
Joseph Holbrooke Trio, The Moat Recordings
Evan Parker / Cecil Taylor / Barry Guy / Tony Oxley, Nailed
John Surman, Adventure Playground
Bill Dixon, Vade Mecum (Vols. I & II)
John McLaughlin, Extrapolation

I see he also appeared on those Gordon Beck albums you recently listed - I haven't heard those.

Quote from: SimonNZ on July 20, 2017, 02:48:51 AM
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Frank Kimbrough - Noumena (2000)
That's a good 'un, too.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on July 20, 2017, 11:53:15 AM
Lage Lund: Idlewild.

[asin]B00QNUF1NC[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 20, 2017, 12:48:46 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BDIptQKEL.jpg)

from the recent Japanese Mainstream reissue series ... three orders (from cdjapan - easily recommended site!) in so far, at least two or three more to follow ... and one more from the series after that:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BorCmIKRL.jpg)

and now, to end the day, one of Stan Getz' glorious late efforts:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/635/MI0001635177.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 21, 2017, 01:15:33 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/014/MI0002014496.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iuT%2BKa-tL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61fCusvgztL.jpg)

Three more from the recent reissues of Mainstream records ... the Williams is a bit smooth, but still pretty funky (large band incl. horns, organ, el-piano, guitars, rhythm & strings). Jeffrey was Monk's last tenor player (and Thelonious Jr. is on drums here, in a quartet also comprising Jack Wilkins on guitar and Richard Davis on bass), the Land is of course more than solid, what with Bobby Hutcherson at his side (and Bill Henderson-p/elp, Buster Williams-b, Billy Hart-d, Mtume-perc)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 21, 2017, 08:01:26 AM
Perfect timing ... just as the last of the above Mainstream discs finished, the postman was here to deliver the next parcel from Japan with four more (plus a Steeplechase reissue).

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The Sonny Red one is hot! Maybe my favorite of his, at least after this initial listen. The others included in the parcel are the Mainstream album by Gloria Coleman, Hadley Caliman's self-titled effort (the Ace reissue looking like the above Harold Land is botched bigtime, combining side one of "Hadley Caliman" with one side of "Iapetus" ... and no, they are not going to fix it), and "Siku Ya Bibi" by Charles McPherson. The Steeplechase in the parcel is of course the Walter Davis Jr. and is now playing ... starts of in a terrific way for sure! The Land in the middle was acquired last year as an Ace reissue. That's a pretty nice label all things considered, and they have a few more Mainstream albums in their catalogue - I managed to buy the Blue Mitchell twice by mistake, not thinking when putting in that order - not going to fall into that trap with "Choma", which is a great one, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 21, 2017, 10:35:01 AM
Yesterday caught the girlfriend whistling "Fables of Faubus"  8) 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 21, 2017, 12:46:02 PM
Quote from: Brian on July 21, 2017, 10:35:01 AM
Yesterday caught the girlfriend whistling "Fables of Faubus"  8) 8)
Cherish that woman  8)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 21, 2017, 12:49:48 PM
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Latest bunch ... last one has just started - all first listens.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 21, 2017, 02:36:18 PM
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First spin. Girlfriend hated it. I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 21, 2017, 04:43:07 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on July 20, 2017, 04:59:18 AM
Hm, let's see ...

Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Leaf Palm Hand
Tomasz Stańko, Leosia (as well as Bosonossa and Other Ballads by the same quartet)
Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley, Soho Suites
Tony Oxley Quintet, The Baptised Traveller (OOP and often hard to get at decent prices, unfortunately)
Joseph Holbrooke Trio, The Moat Recordings
Evan Parker / Cecil Taylor / Barry Guy / Tony Oxley, Nailed
John Surman, Adventure Playground
Bill Dixon, Vade Mecum (Vols. I & II)
John McLaughlin, Extrapolation


Thanks for that. Three of those I know, including The Baptised Traveller. I'll try and check out the rest.

now:

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Bennie Green - With Art Farmer (1956)
Lester Young - In Washington DC 1956, Vol.1

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Myra Melford - The Image Of Your Body (2006)
Khan Jamal / Johnny Dyani / Pierre Dørge - Three (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 22, 2017, 01:55:32 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on July 20, 2017, 04:59:18 AM
Hm, let's see ...

Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Leaf Palm Hand
Tomasz Stańko, Leosia (as well as Bosonossa and Other Ballads by the same quartet)
Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley, Soho Suites
Tony Oxley Quintet, The Baptised Traveller (OOP and often hard to get at decent prices, unfortunately)
Joseph Holbrooke Trio, The Moat Recordings
Evan Parker / Cecil Taylor / Barry Guy / Tony Oxley, Nailed
John Surman, Adventure Playground
Bill Dixon, Vade Mecum (Vols. I & II)
John McLaughlin, Extrapolation

I see he also appeared on those Gordon Beck albums you recently listed - I haven't heard those.


Know and cherish most of those ... came too late to have all the CT FMPs, alas (I have hardly any, they oughta be reprinted, but with that longtime war between the former or never really or who the eff knows what ... "partners", it's rather unlikely anything much will be back ... but in a week I'll be in Munich and one of the plans is to visit the exhibition on FMP at Haus der Kunst) ...

Managed to catch Oxley live in duo with Cecil Taylor over ten years ago (autumn 2006 I think) - that was amazing, though i botched it a bit (left a bit early to catch the last train home, missed it, still had to stay the night though, but a friend told me I missed only very few more minutes ...)

Anyway, some more:

Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989
Bill Dixon - Papyrus I & II (just get that Bill Dixon Soul Note/Black Saint box, folks!)
Alan Skidmore - Once Upon a Time
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio - Two T's for a Lovely T (live, 10 CD box, two sets over five nights, glorious!)
Alan Skidmore / Ali Haurand / Tony Oxley - S.O.H. (reissued in one of Organic Music's EGO recordings boxes)


He is also drumming on various british larger band recordings such as:

John Surman - How Many Clouds Can You See?
Kenny Wheeler - Song for Someone
Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs

and of course several of Barry Guy's LJCO recordings on Intakt



Re Gordon Beck (don't know him all that well yet), Oxley is on this MPS oddity (I have it on vinyl, prob. not on CD):

Gordon Beck / Ron Mathewson / Tony Oxley / Stan Sulzmann / Kenny Wheeler - Seven Steps to Evans: A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 22, 2017, 07:14:27 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 22, 2017, 01:55:32 AM

Know and cherish most of those ... came too late to have all the CT FMPs, alas (I have hardly any, they oughta be reprinted, but with that longtime war between the former or never really or who the eff knows what ... "partners", it's rather unlikely anything much will be back ... but in a week I'll be in Munich and one of the plans is to visit the exhibition on FMP at Haus der Kunst) ...

If you don't mind downloads - and if you don't mind dropping $125 USD ;) - you can get the entire Berlin '88 set at https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-in-berlin-88-box-set (https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-in-berlin-88-box-set) (the booklet is also separately available). It also includes In East Berlin, recorded at the same time (one disc CT solo, the other with Günter Sommer) but not included in the original box.

I do have a couple of the other FMPs too (the Feel Trio), but there are a couple of others I'm lacking. Yeah, they're hard to come by.

Quote from: king ubu on July 22, 2017, 01:55:32 AM
Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989
Bill Dixon - Papyrus I & II (just get that Bill Dixon Soul Note/Black Saint box, folks!)
Alan Skidmore - Once Upon a Time
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio - Two T's for a Lovely T (live, 10 CD box, two sets over five nights, glorious!)
Alan Skidmore / Ali Haurand / Tony Oxley - S.O.H. (reissued in one of Organic Music's EGO recordings boxes)

He is also drumming on various british larger band recordings such as:

John Surman - How Many Clouds Can You See?
Kenny Wheeler - Song for Someone
Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs

and of course several of Barry Guy's LJCO recordings on Intakt

Re Gordon Beck (don't know him all that well yet), Oxley is on this MPS oddity (I have it on vinyl, prob. not on CD):

Gordon Beck / Ron Mathewson / Tony Oxley / Stan Sulzmann / Kenny Wheeler - Seven Steps to Evans: A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans

Yes, I almost listed those Dixon Papyrus albums. I'm more familiar with the two Vade Mecums, though. And I have Two Ts for a Lovely T, but haven't yet listened to it. (Can we ask the recording industry for a two-year moratorium so I can do some catching up? ::) :))

I don't believe I have anything by Skidmore or Beck, so there's more for me to explore.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 22, 2017, 06:03:39 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xAKG8-pkL._SX355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/415Zge9ycWL._SS500.jpg)

Junior Cook - Junior's Cookin (1961)
Roberto Rodriguez- Aguares: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 23 (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 23, 2017, 01:48:58 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on July 22, 2017, 07:14:27 AM
If you don't mind downloads - and if you don't mind dropping $125 USD ;) - you can get the entire Berlin '88 set at https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-in-berlin-88-box-set (https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-in-berlin-88-box-set) (the booklet is also separately available). It also includes In East Berlin, recorded at the same time (one disc CT solo, the other with Günter Sommer) but not included in the original box.

I have so far never been desperate enough to spend such a substantial amount for a DL ... and I guess I would indeed require at least a hardcopy of the book for that hefty sum. Make it double (or even triple) for a physical reissue and I'm game.

"In East Berlin" is the one I happen to have, btw. It's good, not great - but it's been years since I played it. Not in the mood to listen mid/late Taylor at home all that often (would go and catch that stuff in concert weekly though, if I could).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 12:14:47 PM
This recording continues to amaze:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 12:51:10 PM
Now playing:

[asin]B00005OM6V[/asin]

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 23, 2017, 01:42:49 PM
Quote from: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 12:14:47 PM
This recording continues to amaze:

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The presence of the two drummers definitely piques my interest!

Btw, are you aware of Cyrille's wonderful ECM album of last year, with Bill Frisell? It's not one that screams at you in any way, but it continues to grow and is indeed another proof of what a master drummer Cyrille is. There's also a new Trio 3 album out on Intakt that is recommended (Trio 3 is Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman and Cyrille).

Thread duty - as Gordon Beck was mentioned, time to finally play this disc, bought a few months ago already:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/580/MI0000580423.jpg)

Very good indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 02:06:30 PM
Quote from: king ubu on July 23, 2017, 01:42:49 PM
The presence of the two drummers definitely piques my interest!

Btw, are you aware of Cyrille's wonderful ECM album of last year, with Bill Frisell? It's not one that screams at you in any way, but it continues to grow and is indeed another proof of what a master drummer Cyrille is. There's also a new Trio 3 album out on Intakt that is recommended (Trio 3 is Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman and Cyrille).

Thread duty - as Gordon Beck was mentioned, time to finally play this disc, bought a few months ago already:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/580/MI0000580423.jpg)

Very good indeed!

The two drummers do not play together on the Monder disc.  Originally conceived as a duo album with Monder and Motian, they were only able to record a few tunes before Paul's passing.  The remaining tracks with Cyrille are outstanding, however.  One of my favorite purchases of last year.  8)

Thanks for the recommendation of the recent Cyrille on ECM; it's on the wishlist!

That Trio 3 looks very strong too.  Thank you for that as well king ubu.  I always appreciate your recommendations!  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 03:16:32 PM
Excellent Sonny Sharrock tribute album:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 23, 2017, 04:56:05 PM
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another play of this stunner:

Khan Jamal / Johnny Dyani / Pierre Dørge - Three (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 05:17:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 23, 2017, 04:56:05 PM
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another play of this stunner:

Khan Jamal / Johnny Dyani / Pierre Dørge - Three (1984)

That looks stunning SimonNZ.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 23, 2017, 11:26:37 PM
Quote from: HIPster on July 23, 2017, 02:06:30 PM
The two drummers do not play together on the Monder disc.  Originally conceived as a duo album with Monder and Motian, they were only able to record a few tunes before Paul's passing.  The remaining tracks with Cyrille are outstanding, however.  One of my favorite purchases of last year.  8)

Thanks for the recommendation of the recent Cyrille on ECM; it's on the wishlist!

That Trio 3 looks very strong too.  Thank you for that as well king ubu.  I always appreciate your recommendations!  ;)

Oh, thanks for the that, wasn't aware ... but I did wonder how Motian could be on it (but then ECM often takes two or three years to release "new" records anyway).

Trio 3 is great, I've seen them live twice, once just in their core formation, once with Irène Schweizer (one track from that concert is on their common Intakt disc, the rest of it was taken from a different concert the day before or after), Workman did a solo set on one of these occasions, too.

Trio 3 has several albums out, most on Intakt, but are three earlier albums, of which I know only the one on Palmetto. They did several with piano guests, other than Schweizer there's two with Geri Allen (I think "At This Time" is particularly good), and one each with Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran - got to play those again, not really familiar. But the latest one is again just the core trio and is excellent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 24, 2017, 02:44:00 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81h3yRP7ZeL._SL1400_.jpg)

Khan Jamal / Johnny Dyani / Leroy Lowe - The Traveller (1993)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 24, 2017, 04:51:28 AM
I know some of the Khan Jamal Steeplechases, but I need these two with Dyani as well!

The Dyani run on Steeplechase is fantabulous! And the Dorge New Jungle Orchestra (with Dyani as long as he was around, and paying tribute later on) is wonderful as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 24, 2017, 09:13:36 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 21, 2017, 12:46:02 PM
Cherish that woman  8)
On the other hand, she did ask me to turn off a Monk album because it "sounds like a 3 year old".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 25, 2017, 04:28:33 PM
Quote from: king ubu on July 24, 2017, 04:51:28 AM
I know some of the Khan Jamal Steeplechases, but I need these two with Dyani as well!

The Dyani run on Steeplechase is fantabulous! And the Dorge New Jungle Orchestra (with Dyani as long as he was around, and paying tribute later on) is wonderful as well.

I keep meaning to give Witchdoctor's Son another play. Maybe when I get home from work tonight. That one really knocked me sideways first time I heard it.

but right now:

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Johnny Griffin - Sextet (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 25, 2017, 09:33:33 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 25, 2017, 04:28:33 PM
I keep meaning to give Witchdoctor's Son another play. Maybe when I get home from work tonight. That one really knocked me sideways first time I heard it.

but right now:

(https://img.discogs.com/gwk_z9sZvdbSEWwTosy-LtshGio=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4516016-1406841938-7373.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny Griffin - Sextet (1958)

Re: Dyani, I guess the big classic is "Song for Biko" with Don Cherry ... but I cherish anything I can get with Dudu Pukwana! That guy was effin' amazin'! But all five are dear to me - the other three are "Mbizo", Afrika", and finally with Tchicai but without Dudu, "Angolian Cry". Add his duo with Joe Bonner, his trio sideman-appearance with Bonner on "Parade" (with Billy Higgins no less) ... that's a fine bunch of albums there! Add to that "Born Under the Heat" on Dragon ... again no Dudu, but another fine group!

Actually, I cherish the moment a few years ago, when John Tchicai sat at my kitchen table, we had coffee and some sweets together and he was gracious enough to let me nail him with questions ... (he was staying at a neighbor's for the night and as she had no time to welcome him, she asked me if I could take care of this, she being aware I was into jazz).

That Griffin disc is another wonderful one, of course - another near-desert-island one in my book (not his strongest all in all, but for the title track my all-time-fave is "Congregation" on Blue Note - that solo of Griffin's, I know it by heart!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 26, 2017, 02:52:14 AM
Thanks for the Dyani recommendations, I'll be checking those out. I know I've heard Congregation, but don't remember it now, will have to give it another play.

Cool that you got to hang out with John Tchicai - what did you talk about?

played earlier today:

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Jim Hall - Jazz Impressions Of Japan (107)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2017, 03:20:40 AM
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Johnny Dyani - Song For Biko (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2017, 03:59:43 PM
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Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (1957)
Johnny Dyani - Angolian Cry (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 27, 2017, 09:00:10 PM
Heard a bit of this on KCSM, very interesting:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814CXrv5U3L._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 28, 2017, 03:12:08 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZD-PEaGGL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/zur9By55gZ-cejSHCOxCuZ9alsE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3715652-1437657504-9106.jpeg.jpg)

Lee Konitz - Very Cool (1957)
Johnny Dyani - Afrika (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 29, 2017, 03:32:03 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/29r2btxf3xFeWAbmdI82y_lJf24=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2337540-1277925063.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/811OsPiUXJL._SL1417_.jpg)

Wycliffe Gordon - Cone And T-Staff (2009)
Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra – Sketches Of India (2011)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41MfrTDK%2BmL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/V1m-CzIwYs8vLEP5zmJw-1j1NU0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3810844-1345318577-7286.gif.jpg)

Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle (1979)
Gordon Beck - Seven Steps To Evans (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on July 30, 2017, 02:40:24 PM
Keith Jarrett Trio - The Cure

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 31, 2017, 02:54:10 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/204/MI0002204220.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/755/MI0003755978.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Pierre Dorge - Whispering Elephants (2008)
Opus 5 - Progression (2014)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XoqBZoqUL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61VsjLOEmUL._SX342_QL70_.jpg)

Jimmy Raney and Doug Raney - Duets (1979)
Myra Melford - Snowy Egret (2015)

(https://img.discogs.com/LRkZv9qi-M9qrjvd2GNybDczAKI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4275011-1363470323-3790.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Smokin_half_note.jpg)

Jane Bunnett and Don Pullen - New York Duets (2011)
Wynton Kelly and Wes Montgomery - Smokin At The Half Note (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on July 31, 2017, 12:41:22 PM
In memoriam for Jeanne Moreau, one of the greatest soundtrack composed by Miles Davis

https://www.youtube.com/v/Wc4tT-55ZzI

In fact a jazz icon
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 01, 2017, 02:53:38 AM
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Doug Raney - Raney '96
Khan Jamal - Dark Warrior (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 02, 2017, 02:47:19 AM
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Jimmy Raney and Doug Raney - Nardis (1983)
Kirk Knuffke and Jesse Stacken - Satie (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 03, 2017, 02:54:01 AM
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Kirk Knuffke - Cherryco (2017)
Allegra Levy - Cities Between Us (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ritter on August 03, 2017, 12:38:33 PM
In an unbearably hot summer evening in Madrid, some very cool music:

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Jeanne Moreau in memoriam.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2017, 02:50:18 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/054/MI0000054008.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Papyrus_Volume_II.jpg)

Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues (1957)
Bill Dixon - Papyrus Vol.2 (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2017, 10:40:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aPnZGOUWL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/1SaRW2FkVtFRYWC580kWQmku-uU=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3251707-1322411766.jpeg.jpg)

Herb Ellis - Thank You, Charlie Christian (1960)
Mal Waldron - Left Alone (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Kontrapunctus on August 05, 2017, 11:51:46 AM
On the Iso-Mike label. Amazingly natural sound.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81N5iZWtt2L._SL425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 06, 2017, 01:07:19 AM
(http://www.birkajazz.com/graphics2/parkerDial10c.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Indestructible_ArtBlakey.jpg)

Charlie Parker - [Dial 203]
Art Blakey - Indestructible (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 01:08:02 AM
Never really managed to get a grip on Romanian jazz yet (no reissues available, just some stray stuff on blogs), but Raducanu is one of the names that got stuck in my mind, at least.

@SimonNZ: I was on vacation for a few days - hope you enjoyed those Dyani discs!

My most recent jazz spin was this here, bought used/cheap on said vacation:

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/753/MI0001753505.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 06, 2017, 01:12:29 AM
Quote from: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 01:08:02 AM

@SimonNZ: I was on vacation for a few days - hope you enjoyed those Dyani discs!


Very much so, especially the Afrika album. Thanks for leading me to them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 02:07:45 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 06, 2017, 01:12:29 AM
Very much so, especially the Afrika album. Thanks for leading me to them.

The "Afrika" one has such a stark cover already ... and music to match it, dark and brooding and extremely powerful!

Glad to hear you liked these!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 05:15:25 AM
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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
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 06:49:25 AM
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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)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 06, 2017, 07:31:03 AM
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Now we're talkin'!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 06, 2017, 12:39:34 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 07, 2017, 03:19:34 AM
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Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Satch and Josh (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on August 07, 2017, 05:10:02 PM
The very picture of 'bedroom eyes' :

[asin]B004IJ5PX6[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on August 07, 2017, 06:28:48 PM
Jazzmatazz Magic (though perhaps not everyone's cuppa tea) :

[asin]B00001SICY[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 08, 2017, 02:40:43 AM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mbsAAOSwLsBZRiPH/s-l300.jpg)

Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Scratch and Josh Again (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 08, 2017, 03:45:42 AM
Quote from: Ghost Sonata on August 07, 2017, 05:10:02 PM
The very picture of 'bedroom eyes' :

[asin]B004IJ5PX6[/asin]

Ha! Probably rather a mixture of various substances ... love her Verve albums!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 08, 2017, 10:02:32 AM
Quote from: ritter on August 03, 2017, 12:38:33 PM
In an unbearably hot summer evening in Madrid, some very cool music:

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Jeanne Moreau in memoriam.

Aye, I thought I knew that face!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 09, 2017, 12:21:19 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 08, 2017, 10:02:32 AM
Aye, I thought I knew that face!

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

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Some recently played ones:

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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.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 09, 2017, 11:23:32 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 ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 09, 2017, 04:34:01 PM
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Bill Perkins - On Stage (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on August 09, 2017, 06:48:50 PM
Melody Gardot
[asin]B000WTNCYA[/asin]
"Love me like a river" is one of my favorite songs of hers.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2017, 02:46:15 AM
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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

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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
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 11, 2017, 04:30:58 AM
Played these two in the morning:

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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.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2017, 10:00:14 PM
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Count Basie and Zoot Sims - Basie and Zoot (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 12, 2017, 05:21:33 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Flight_to_Japan.jpg)

Duke Jordan - Flight To Japan (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on August 13, 2017, 05:51:33 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
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 14, 2017, 03:16:49 AM
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Bob Brookmeyer - Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1962)
Arif Mardin - Journey (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 14, 2017, 03:42:23 AM
Got to revisit that Basie & Zoot - it's a hoot!  :D

And while I'm at it, all of those gorgeous Pablo albums Zoot made with Jimmy Rowles!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 14, 2017, 08:33:24 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/jUpjlwvv4IGRGYKbLh6tTBdzMes=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10001694-1489944196-9096.jpeg.jpg)

George Braith – Double Your Pleasure: Live at the University of the Street

way more than just oddball stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 15, 2017, 02:53:25 AM
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Duke Jordan - As Time Goes By (1989)
Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone - Virtuosi (2002)

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Charlie Haden and Christian Escoude - Gitane (1979)
Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1978)

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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Sam Jones - Double Bass (1976)
Denny Zeitlin - Tidal Wave (1983)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 16, 2017, 12:03:38 AM
Martial Solal will celebrate his 90th birthday in one week - one of the most amazing piano players *ever*, and I guess one of the very small group that can be seen (amongst other things) as a true heir of Art Tatum's!

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Decided to go with two collaborations last night, a wonderful album recorded with Sidney Bechet (and two bebop drummers, Al Levitt on the first session and that amazing and most elegant of dancers, Kenny "Klook" Clarke on the second), repertoire is not New Orleans warhorses but standards from the thirties, and the results are wonderful indeed!

The duo with Johnny Griffin is a slowly growing one, I remember how I was initially quite disappointed, but it's a fine album, a quiet one, that stresses the art of the dialogue (which is after all what duos should be about), rather than the ample flash that both of them have ...

Actually my only time to catch them live was in a trio: Johnny Griffin, Martial Solal and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - the youngest of the bunch and the first one to die shortly after. It was not a great concert, alas, but it was still great to catch these three masters (and actually NHOP really did shine a few times) ... would love to see Solal again, not sure if he's still regularly performing these days.

Griffin is, just as is Solal, one of my very favourite musicians ever!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2017, 02:42:37 AM
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Cal Tjader - Plugs In (1969)
Herbie Hancock - Flood (1975)

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Martin Taylor and Peter Ind - Triple Libra (1998)
Charlie Haden - Time/Life (2016)

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Charles Lloyd - Of Course Of Course (1965)
Al Di Meola - Casino (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: eljr on August 16, 2017, 07:37:45 AM
This one just keeps getting better and better.

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Jamie Saft / Bobby Previte / Steve Swallow
Loneliness Road

Release Date May 26, 2017
Genre
Jazz
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 17, 2017, 03:25:48 AM
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Herbie Hancock - Dedication (1974)
Flip Phillips - Quintet (1954)

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Cal Tjader - West Side Story (1961)
Charlie Haden - First Song (1992)

that Tjader West Side Story was far more interesting than I was expecting - I'll have to check out that arranger
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 17, 2017, 03:50:39 AM
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My late night listen yesterday was this recent one by Kenny Barron ... not sure if I'm finally slowly starting to figure him out. Always enjoyed him, but he's likely never to become a top favourite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 17, 2017, 10:48:40 PM
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Last night the first two of of the four discs collecting Martial Solal's complete output for Swing/Vogue (other than the Jo Jaguar stuff which I don't know - it's supposed to be commercial "light music", thus it was excluded ... I bet it's fun!) - now his early works for movies:

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Continuing with Solal, though only as a - prominent - sideman with Kenny Clarke's sextet playing arrangements by André Hodeir. Good stuff, though not for everyday listening (as I'd say generally for Hodeir).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 18, 2017, 02:56:53 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Album_%22First_Time_Out%22_cover.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BMiTTw1OL._SY355_.jpg)

Clare Fischer - First Time Out (1962)
Joe Pass - Catch Me (1963)

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Herbie Hancock - Mr Hands (1980)
Christian Escoude - Cookin In Hell's kitchen (1990)

and this unexpected and stunning album by Airto Moreira that I expected to be loosely jazz, but was something unclassifiable and wonderful:

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Airto Moreira - The Other Side Of This (1988)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 01:50:41 AM
Not Solal for the moment ... but piano nonetheless. Snatched one of those weird "box-sets" by Oldies/Collectables with five Les McCann Atlantic sets (one a twofer, one a a two-disc set, thus seven albums, studio ones, excluding "Invitation to Openness", which I still need to get, have heard it many years ago) ... and also just bought another of his Fresh Sound sets ... too bad that Michael Cuscuna seems to dislike his playing, thus there have been very few official reissues on EMI/Capitol back when they did all of those Blue Note and Pacific Jazz reissues ... either way, this one's in the player now:

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for anyone wanting to check out early McCann, I suggest looking for the Fremeaux set with live recordings made in Paris in 1961 - seems to be OOP already, though it only came out in June 2016:
https://www.amazon.com/Live-Paris-Juillet-MCCANN-TRIO/dp/B01CPKRNUM/
That's some smokin' hot music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 02:52:49 AM
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Warren Wolf - s/t (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 02:58:41 AM
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more early Les McCann - live in summer 1960
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 03:17:37 AM
Ha! That Warren Wolf album has "Señor Mouse" on it and I hadn't realised until the tune started. I remark because that was the reason I played the Martin Taylor and Al Di Meola albums the other day, looking for other versions besides the sublime Burton/Corea.

set to play next:

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Herbie Hancock - Directstep (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 03:48:20 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 03:17:37 AM
Herbie Hancock - Directstep (1978)

Are you working your way through the Columbia albums monster box? I did that once (not sure I actually completed it) and enjoyed the heck out of it, even the dubious albums (vocals, po[ o]p) kind of were fun/made sense in the whole course there.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 04:53:57 AM
Quote from: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 03:48:20 AM
Are you working your way through the Columbia albums monster box? I did that once (not sure I actually completed it) and enjoyed the heck out of it, even the dubious albums (vocals, po
  • p) kind of were fun/made sense in the whole course there.
Sadly, no, I don't have that box. Just checking out a random few I hadn't heard before, and learning more about the ones that were originally Japan-only. Really enjoyed the Flood concert album. And yeah, I'll probably be covering some of the disco crossover along the way (actually there's a bit of that on the last track on Directstep, but I liked the album anyway). So far the solo concert album Dedication was the only one where I thought I wouldn't need to hear it again any time soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 07:44:55 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 04:53:57 AM
Sadly, no, I don't have that box. Just checking out a random few I hadn't heard before, and learning more about the ones that were originally Japan-only. Really enjoyed the Flood concert album. And yeah, I'll probably be covering some of the disco crossover along the way (actually there's a bit of that on the last track on Directstep, but I liked the album anyway). So far the solo concert album Dedication was the only one where I thought I wouldn't need to hear it again any time soon.

Missed the auto-format thingie about my "poop" above ... anyway, I went for the box early on, it went down to around 50-55€ at one point, but I already had paid more than twice that ... either way, it's a great trip with lots of dubious or so-so stuff, but also lots of fine things to discover that were indeed not easy to come by before! (And it still has me dream about a similarly monstrous box of all of Cannonball's Capitol output ... there's tons of pearls in there and those were to a large part available (again) in the past 20 or so years, but there's still vinyl-only stuff that you won't even easily find on the blogosphere ... and as with Herbie, it's all worth listening for sure)

Anyway, glad to see I was wrong about the Les McCann Paris 1961 set, it's still out there, guess I ended up with a wrong amazon link again earlier today - here's a good link to what seems to be the cheapest offer directly from evil a:
https://www.amazon.it/Live-Paris-1961-McCann-Trio/dp/B01CPKRNUM/

Now playing:

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The vocals album ist mostly with band and Gerald Wilson arrangements, while "Pretty lady" is just the core trio (again/still with Herbie Lewis' towering bass and the light but never lightweight drums of Ron Jefferson - that trio is growing on me bigtime), and McCann is a decent singer with plenty of charm (great to hear him tackle that wonderful Buddy Johnson tune "Since I fell for You", and even more so Percy Mayfield's gorgeous "Please Send Me Someone to Love"!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2017, 08:54:25 AM
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In 1963, Les McCann joined forces with labelmates The Jazz Crusaders, sharing keyboard duties with their pianist Joe Sample. McCann is heard on piano, electric piano and organ, Sample on piano and organ. The Album is somewhat goofy in that it's an all waltz programme, but it's fun, including some fake-exotica (McCann's "Damascus"), a golden oldies (Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz") and some unlikely yurpeen tunes (George Gruntz' "Spanish Castles" is the opener, later we get to hear Toots Thielemans' "Bluesette", too), and some infectious contemporary tunes (Bobby Timmons' "This Here", Miles' "All Blues", which is usually notated in 6/8).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2017, 11:01:16 PM
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Leroy Vinnegar - Jazz's Great Walker (1964)
Tim Collins - Castles and Hilltops (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 20, 2017, 09:33:43 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/The_Piano_%28Herbie_Hancock_album%29.jpg)

Herbie Hancock - The Piano (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 21, 2017, 04:55:36 AM
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Took the Joe Pass Mosaic box off the shelf as it contains two albums led by Les McCann, but ended up playing the entire set over the past few days (listening to the fifth and last disc as I'm typing this, which contains the live session from 1964 that ended up on "Joy Spring") - outstanding stuff, mostly! (Mostly, because there is one superfluous novelty album of Pass' on 12-string doing film tunes, and there's an abandoned session with four Hank Williams tunes that don't have enough flesh to the bone for Pass to really get inspired.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 21, 2017, 11:33:34 AM
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Went on with Duke's Big 4, comprised of Ellington, Pass, Ray Brown and Louis Bellson - mighty good!

Then played plenty of Pass on youtube, including (parts of) the three final Pacific albums - the third one, "Simplicity", is actually pretty nice.
Much nicer (and ordered now) is his MPS album "Intercontinental". Also revisited this disc, compiling some c. 1970 LA studio session with the likes of Joe Sample and Carol Kaye. Funkier than what Pass usually does, and rather shlock-y, too, to be honest, but I enjoy it every once in a while:

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Now onto these two:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 21, 2017, 01:15:33 PM
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First spin - starts out most promising!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 21, 2017, 03:34:26 PM
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Lester Bowie - Twilight Dreams (1987)
Michael Camilo - Spirit Of The Moment (2007)

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Red Callender - Swingin' Suite (1956)
Joey Calderazzo - Haiku (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on August 23, 2017, 05:37:14 PM
RIP John Abercrombie

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 23, 2017, 05:46:37 PM
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The Four Freshmen - And Five Guitars (1959)
Toots Thielemans and Elis Regina - Aquarela Do Brasil (1969)


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John Abercrombie - Characters (1978)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on August 24, 2017, 07:40:51 PM
Great, great Blue Note. Blue Mitchell, with Corea (at times) threatening to steal the show.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 24, 2017, 09:14:17 PM
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Azimuth - s/t (1977)
Richard Beirach - Eon (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 25, 2017, 08:32:08 PM
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Terje Rypdal - After The Rain (1976)
Keith Jarrett - Eyes Of The Heart (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 26, 2017, 06:16:05 AM
Been listening more to classical and other things (e.g., Fairport Convention), but I did have these on yesterday.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on August 26, 2017, 09:48:28 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/952/MI0002952472.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) This is now available on CD.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 26, 2017, 03:36:24 PM
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Chet Baker - Plays The Best Of Lerner And Loewe (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 27, 2017, 10:27:13 PM
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George Colligan - Agent 99 (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 28, 2017, 04:15:54 PM
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Pat Martino - East (1968)
Kenny Drew - And His Progressive Piano (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 29, 2017, 09:18:35 PM
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Chris Connor - Free Spirits (1962)
Terje Rypdal - s/t (1971)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 30, 2017, 10:03:23 PM
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Joe Zawinul - Dialects (1986)
Marion Brown - Sweet Earth Flying (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2017, 10:22:31 PM
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David Murray - Ballads For Bass Clarinet (1993)
Lionel Hampton - Quintet (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 02, 2017, 05:44:04 AM
A Miles Mix ..

Seven Steps to Heaven (from Seven Steps to Heaven)
Selim (from Live-Evil)
Freddie Freeloader (from Kind of Blue)
Nefertiti (from Nefertiti)
Tutu (from Tutu)
Blue in Green (from Kind of Blue)
All Blues (from Kind of Blue)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 02, 2017, 02:01:52 PM
Art Tatum

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 02, 2017, 03:33:43 PM
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Paul Chambers - Quintet (1957)
David Murray - Picasso (1993)

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Imi Kollektief - Snug as a Gun (2006)
Vic Juris - Night Tripper (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 03, 2017, 10:10:57 PM
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Vic Juris - Pastels (1995)
David Murray - Live At Sweet Basil Vol.1 (1984)

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David Liebman - Lookout Farm (1973)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 04, 2017, 10:39:12 AM
Loads of Martial Solal lately ... dude was born in Algiers (to French parents) in 1927, started classical piano at 6, fell for jazz during WWII, was heard on radio in Algeria in Morocco in the forties, took a couple of attempts to make it in Paris until he really made it. Recorded with Django Reinhardt in 1953 (Django's final session) and used the same rhythm section for his own debut in trio format ... played with Fats Sadi, the Belgian vibraphone player (aka Sadi, officially Sadi Lallemand), met to record with Kentonians and other greats of the day (Allen Eager!), played on a gorgeous Sidney Bechet album full with standards and joy (with two beboppers alternating on drums, Al Levitt and Kenny "Klook" Clarke), played often with Lucky Thompson when the later was in Paris (in between 1956 and 1961, the later being the year Thompson's masterpiece" "Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know" was put down for Candid, only to be released in 1997 - with Solal, Klook and the great Peter Trunk on bass), collaborated various times with André Hodeir (at least from the fifties to the eighties, as far as recordings go), led various incarnations of a fantastic piano trio often with the great Daniel Humair on drums, had a longstanding partnership with Lee Konitz (that yielded various great records over roughly a 15 year period from the late sixties into the eighties), led his big band, his Dodecaband (3 t, 2 tb, tuba, 3 sax + 3 rhythm), has made duo records with other greats such as Johnny Griffin, Stéphane Grappelli, Joachim Kühn (sorry, don't like him, don't really like their duo album much either) or Dave Douglas ... and can be considered one of the very, very few true heirs to Art Tatum in terms of technical prowess. Yet he is full of humour and very serious as a musician (of course, humour without that wouldn't be funny, would it?) and knew in the fifties already how to temper his amazing virtuosity in order not to overdo it. Got it? Oh, of course he wrote the music for JLG's "A bout de souffle" and following that for various other films ("Le procès" anyone? The old Gare d'Orsay was good for something after all, even before being turned into one of the world's greatest art museums!), he tried some electronic stuff, went back to the roots and did plenty of solo piano ... and he crossed over (ha! that's the same direction I took) into classical, too, composing a piano concerto and then some (there is a new recording just out of his piano music, not sure I need to check it out ... his own Erato discs I mostly don't have, too rich as far as prices go these days, alas).

So, how's that? Check him out!

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Martial Solal - The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 2 (BMG France, 1998; contains his debut in and various other trio sessions, rec. 1953-55)
Martial Solal - The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 2 (BMG France, 1998; contains the 12 sides with Sadi and his 14 earliest solo titles)

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Martial Solal - The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 3 (BMG France, 1999; contains the 1956 album "Escale à Paris" with Vinnie Tano, Carl Fontana, Don Rendell, Curtis Counce and Mel Lewis, and Solal's first big band date from the same year)
Kenny Clarke's Sextet Plays André Hodeir (Philips/Universal France, 2000; rec. 1957 - third-streamish but good stuff with Roger Guérin, Billy Byers, Solal, René Urtreger a.o.)

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Martial Solal - Live 1959/85: The Best (Flat & Sharp, 1986; rec. 1959-85)
Martial Solal - Live 1964/85: Encores (Flat & Sharp, 1986; rec. 1964-85)

These were extracted from a 4 LP set and include a host of live and radio sessions feat. the likes of Roger Guerin, Guy Pedersen, Daniel Humair, as well as solos and duos with Lee Konitz, John Lewis, Jean-Louis Chautemps, Stéphane Grappelli etc.

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Lucky Thompson - Lucky in Paris (Highnote, 1999; rec. 1959 - more of Lucky's finest!)
Django Reinhardt - Nuages (Blue Star/Decca, Universal France, 2002; rec. 1953 - Solal is on the final four tracks - Sadi on vibes also present - recorded for Decca, the other eight tracks were done for Blue Star with Maurice Vander on piano)

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Martial Solal Trio - Sans tambour ni trompette (RCA/BMG France, 2004; rec. 1970, trio with two bassists: Gilbert Rovère & Jean-François Jenny Clark)
Martial Solal - En Solo (RCA/BMG France, 2004; rec. 1971)

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Martial Solal/NHOP/Daniel Humair - Suite for Trio (MPS/PolyGram, 1990; rec. 1978)
Martial Solal Trio - Longitude (CAM Jazz, 2008; rec. 2007)

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Martial Solal Trio feat. Peter Erskine & Marc Johnson - Triangle (JMS, 1995)
Lucky Thompson - Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? (Candid, 1997; rec. 1961 - the aforementioned masterpiece)

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Sidney Bechet/Martial Solal Quartet (Vogue/BMG France, 2004; rec. 1957)
Martial Solal - The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 4 (contains the 1957 album "Reunion à Paris" with Allen Eager, Klook, Jimmy Deuchar, Billy Byers, Benoît Quersin & some 1957/58 big band sessions by Solal et son grand orchestre)

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Hans Koller & Friends - Legends Live (Jazzhaus/SWR Music, 2013; Solal is on the 1959 session)
Attila Zoller/Hans Koller/Martial Solal - Zoller/Koller/Solal (aka ZoKoSo) (MPS/Universal, 2003; rec. 1965)

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Stéphane Grappelli/Martial Solal - Reunion (Owl, 2001; rec. 1980)
Martial Solal/Joachim Kühn - Duo in Paris (Dreyfus, 1991; rec. live 1975)

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Lee Konitz/Martial Solal - European Episode/Impressive Rome (CAM Jazz, 2 CD, 2006; rec. 1968)
Lee Konitz Quartet - Jazz à Juan (Steeplechase, 1986; rec. live 1974)

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Lee Konitz & Martial Solal - Star Eyes: Hamburg 1983 (hatOLOGY, 1998; rec. live 1983)
Martial Solal/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian - Just Friends (Dreyfus, 1997)

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Martial Solal & The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra/Martial Solal Jazzpar Trio - Contrastes (Storyville, 1999 - artwork by Daniel Humair, btw)
Martial Solal et son orchestre jouent André Hodeir (Carlyne, 1984)

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Martial Solal & Johnny Griffin - In'n'Out (Dreyfus, 2000; rec. 1999)
Martial Solal & Eric Le Lann - Portrait in Black and White (Nocturne, 2000; rec. live 1999)

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Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington (Dreyfus, 2000; rec. 1997)
Martial Solal - NY-1: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2003; rec. live 2001, a week after 9-11)

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Martial Solal Trio - Balade du 10 Mars (Soul Note, 1999; rec. 1998)
Martial Solal - Live at the Village Vanguard: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (CAM Jazz, 2008; rec. 2007 - back at the Vanguard, this time solo)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 05, 2017, 10:15:08 AM
More Martial Solal - what else?

Late last night:

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Martial Solal/Dave Douglas - Rue de Seine (CAM Jazz, 2006; rec. 2005)
Martial Solal - Solitude (CAM Jazz, 2007; rec. 2005)

The duo with Douglas is okay I guess (first listen), but the one with Eric Le Lann is definitely a lot more charming! The solo one on CAM is the most played disc of the past days/weeks. It's gorgeous!

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Martial Solal/Didier Lockwood (JMS, 1993) - Got this today ... and it's much nicer than the Owl disc with Grappelli (whom I tend to find boring - as in: way too polished and somewhat lifeless though his elegant virtuosity would make that last attribute seem odd - if he doesn't happen to have that wonderful Sinto on guitar next to him).

Also, while commuting and sitting on trains for other purposes (ha, travelling places to hear live music of course), I had these on, recently - none of them on CD, and that is a pity, as his sixties output (mostly on French Columbia, those Milestones are US versions of Columbia albums, or compilations in the case of the one on top, which has two tracks from Gaveau and five from Gaveau Vol. 1):

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The Erato one is much more recent (and I have it on order right now, hope it'll come through) ... on Erato, there's a duo with Toots Thielemans (don't know it yet but it can be found used) as well as some classical stuff that is over the top pricewise, alas. Got some of it electronically, need to do some digging ...

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The Newport 1963 (studio with fake applause) has Solal with what then was Bill Evans' rhythm section (Teddy Kotick, Paul Motian) ... it was reissued by Sony/Legacy in 2016 and I just got that reissue as my old French RCA/BMG disc missed the four bonus tracks (one take of "Fine and Dandy", three of "I Got Rhythm", both not on the LP), the Newdecaband is a follow up to the Dodecaband I guess, this time thy play Solal's stuff, Eric Le Lann is there on trumpet (as is Claude Egea), Solal's daughter Claudia is singing, theres two 'bones, a french horn, a tuba, plus bass/drums.

And happily, I just found there is a new album coming out, a duo with David Liebman:
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/masters-in-bordeaux-martial-solal-dave-liebman-sunnyside-records-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php
It can be pre-ordered at amazon.de - maybe it's out already in the US ... anyway, there's some 2015 material from Paris' Sunside from late in 2015 up on YT:
https://youtu.be/36Q3nEYBzm4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 05, 2017, 09:52:39 PM
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Fantastic!

Read about here, for instance:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/17/vijay-iyer-sextet-far-from-over-review-ecm

This is spot on:
QuoteAn object lesson in music for the heart, the head and the feet, Far from Over often sounds like vivacious folk music or displaced blues, reflects the hipness of Miles Davis's 1960s postbop bands and 70s electronic ones or the contemporaneity of slow-burn Bad Plus buildups, and yet is consistently spine-tingling in improvisations that sound simultaneously inside and outside the harmonies.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 08, 2017, 08:58:52 PM
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Randy Weston - Tanjah (1973)
Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 09, 2017, 02:15:01 AM
Hey, finally no longer alone here ...  :)

Played some fine Randy Weston too, yesterday:

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Randy Weston - The Spirits of Our Ancestors

Then followed up with some funky stuff, from the on-going japanese Mainstream reissue series:

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Charles Kynard - Charles Kynard
Charles Kynard - Woga
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 09, 2017, 11:32:39 AM
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Started with this box from 2016 late last night and finished it today - five discs (plus a DVD I've not watched yet), of which the first two are okay-ish (with too much pop and kitsch, some fairly good, and some excellent tracks), while discs 3-5 definitely make it worth acquiring! There's a review of it here:
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-incomparable-fiddler-svend-asmussen-storyville-records-review-by-chris-mosey.php

And the WaPo obit (Asmussen died in February, just a few days short of his 101st birthday) is worth reading, too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/svend-asmussen-irreverent-jazz-violin-virtuoso-dies-at-100/2017/02/07/e3aee760-ed59-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html

Sticking with the violin, but still entirely different - and now ... (to paraphrase the title of their late album on Pi Recordings) the Revolutionary Ensemble:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 09, 2017, 02:47:39 PM
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Sonny Rollins - What's New (1962)
Walt Dickerson - Impressions Of A Patch Of Blue (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 10, 2017, 09:48:22 PM
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Walt Dickerson - To My Queen Revisited (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 11, 2017, 08:35:27 AM
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Walter Davis – Scorpio Rising
Hank Jones – Bluesette

The former is amazing - and can be found as part of a Japanese reissue series ... carpe diem! The later (first spin) is good - and good fun - for sure, but likely won't become a favourite in the crowded field of piano trio albums.

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Buddy Tate – Texas Tenor
Buddy Tate – Texas Tenor

How creative they get with album titles! The former is wonderful, the unknown rhythm section (out of Toronto) is fine, and Tate is in terrific form. The later (another first spin) combines another great album, recorded live with Tete Montoliu, Bo Stief and Sven-Erik Norregaard (plus the violin of Finn Ziegler on two tracks), and a studio date that has a nice jam atmosphere and some more great piano playing, but all in all is good, not outstanding (the line-up: Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Tate, Johnny Guarnieri, George Duvivier, Oliver Jackson). Both albums were put down in 1975.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 11, 2017, 11:16:53 AM
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First spin. Lovely!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 11, 2017, 09:38:01 PM
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Zoot Sims - For Lady Day
Hank Jones & Cheick-Tidiane Seck & the Mandinkas - Sarala

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Count Basie & Zoot Sims - Basie & Zoot
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers

Always had a soft spot for "Basie & Zoot", they're a natural match - but then I guess Zoot was a natural match for anybody who swung ... his albums with Jimmy Rowles may be the most wonderful amongst the many he made - the Lady Day hommage is so beautiful it almost hurts ... and the Gershwin album (with Joe Pass added) is maybe the one Zoot album I love most.

The Hank Jones is really not a jazz album but his meeting with some of the finest pop musicians from Mali - and it works wonderfully indeed. Jones plays his own self, and his solos, sometimes short but always marvelous, do match the loping grooves perfectly well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 11, 2017, 10:04:48 PM
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Walt Dickerson - Tell Us Only The Beautiful Things (1975)
Arild Andersen - Shimri (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: motoboy on September 12, 2017, 03:13:52 AM
I love me some Warren
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 12, 2017, 06:18:56 AM
Quote from: king ubu on September 11, 2017, 09:38:01 PMand the Gershwin album (with Joe Pass added) is maybe the one Zoot album I love most.
Hmm, I chose well then, I've never heard any Zoot at all but the Gershwin album just arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 12, 2017, 08:49:54 AM
Quote from: Brian on September 12, 2017, 06:18:56 AM
Hmm, I chose well then, I've never heard any Zoot at all but the Gershwin album just arrived in my mailbox yesterday.

Ha, you sure did! But of course it's not with Rowles ... I'd go with one of the Sims/Rowles albums (why not the Lady Day one) next, and with some Al & Zoot, too (Al Cohn that is), I guess there I'd go with any of the following ones: Al & Zoot (1957), You'n'Me (1960 - both with Mose Allison), Body and Soul (1973 - with Jaki Byard!), Motoring Along (1974 - with Horace Parlan). In a similar vein, "The Four Brothers ... Together Again!" (RCA/Vik) has just been reissued in Sony's most recent and pretty cheap series, that one  has Al & Zoot with Herbie Steward and Serge Chaloff.

Thread duty - first spin, just finally arrived (took over a month from Japan):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 14, 2017, 07:39:27 PM
John Ellis (sax), By A Thread. Some mighty fine soloing chops from each member of the band to highlight some truly imaginative writing.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 14, 2017, 09:19:00 PM
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Sonny Rollins - Easy Living (1977)
David Murray - Lovers (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2017, 03:16:50 PM
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Cannonball Adderley - And Strings (1955)
Jaco Pastorius / Pat Metheny / Bruce Ditmas / Paul Bley - s/t (1974)

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Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 16, 2017, 01:07:14 PM
Was offline at home for most of the week ... only got it fixed yesterday (somebody had to come and tweak stuff) - some of the jazz played, most of them (not the Sanderses, not the Kaddouch) new arrivals/first listens:

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Pharoah Sanders - Love In Us All
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity

don't think I ever loved "Black Unity" as much as this time, first listen after I assume around ten years ... was reading the chapters about the end of Impulse in the Ashley Kahn book

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Gene Russell - New Direction
Cleveland Eaton - Plenty Good Eaton

a nice and easy piano trio (with the mighty Henry "Skipper" Franklin on bass and some added percussion), and a mighty fonky album by bassist Cleveland Eaton

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Robert Kaddouch invite Martial Solal - Balade pour deux pianos
Martial Solal - Bluesine

oddball stuff, not sure who Kaddouch actually is (an educator/classical performer it seems), but still continuing to listen to Solal ... also finally got a copy of "Bluesine", a gorgeous solo album (alas he only made two albums for Soul Note, both not quite easy to find - not enough for CAM Jazz to box 'em up)

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Stuff Smith - Swingin' Stuff

Swingin' Stuff indeed - and white hot! This guy was climbing the same heights that in early jazz only very, very few climbed - think Coleman Hawkins. Seriously now! This is a Copenhagen live recording from 1965 with the regulars (Kenny Drew, NHOP, Alex Riel).

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Gene Ludwig/Pat Martino - Young Guns
Wynton Kelly Trio/Wes Montgomery - Smokin' in Seattle

The Ludwig/Martino is from around 1968-69 and is hot indeed! Not sure why I missed it when it came out in 2014 ... better late then never! The same trio at the end of its two year existence made an album with Sonny Stitt that can be found on the twofer "Night Letter" (it's not that album, that one has McDuff, but rather the second one in the package ... recommended, too). The Wynton/Wes I found somewhat underwhelming on first listen (hey, this had been around since April - at least in announcements ... not even sure it needed to be released after all that premature ejac ... ahm, hype-i-sation. Will listen to it again within the next few days for sure though. I'm aware Wes M. is not the guitar player screaming at you and I love that quality in his playing, but somehow he'll probably never be amongst my top favorites on the instrument, I'm afraid.

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Stefano Bollani - Napoli Trip
Terumasa Hino - Taro's Mood

The Bollani came out last year and I had been eyeing it ... loved it. Manu Katché sounds good here (I got bored in recent years, stopped following his jazz - or any at that - work) ... there's waltzes and dirges and dances, there's solos, duos, quartets (the core band is Nico Gori on cl/bcl, Daniele Sepe on ts, Bollani on p/fender rhodes and Katché on d), two extended pieces (arr. Sepe), two Jan Bang numbers (the first is opening the album and has haunting trumpet by Arve Henriksen, the other one has Audun Kleive), there's miniatures, too (including the closing piece by Bollani and Hamilton de Hollanda on bandolim). The Hino has lots of music, and lots of hot playing by both him and the band (his brother is a hell of a drummer!)

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Now digging into this four-disc set for the first time ... the title is weird (recordings are from: 1968, 1972, 1975 and 1978 ... thus there's only one from the "early seventies" ... and the 1975 one is by Conte Candoli/Frank Rosolino, thus could just as well be from 1955 in many respects). The Pony Poindexter set, the first one, from 1968, with Benny Bailey sitting and a fine rhythm section (Jan Hammer-p/org, George Mraz-b and Michael Denner-d - don't know Dennert at all) was the main draw for me, and it's quite nice indeed. The second set disc is the 1975 Candoli/Rosolino one (with Rob Pronk-p, Isla Eckinger-b and Todd Canedy-d), the third is Fritz Pauer from 1972 (with Jimmy Woode-b, Erich Bachträgl-d and Joe Harris-perc), the final disc is by Art Farmer (with Gerd Francesconi-p, Günter Lenz-b and Billie Brooks-d - Francesconi is the second musician in the set that I've never encountered anywhere before). Farmer has recorded *a lot* and mostly good stuff ... Pauer will never be a real favourite, but his disc will be pleasant for sure, as will be the Candoli/Rosolino set ... so not must have for me, I guess, but a nice addition.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 16, 2017, 04:12:40 PM
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Charlie Byrd - Byrd In The Wind (1959)
Egberto Gismonti - Dança das Cabeças (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on September 17, 2017, 01:51:51 AM
Late period Chet Baker.
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 17, 2017, 05:58:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/eSpDfuIuftU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 17, 2017, 11:34:00 PM
Started a chronological MJQ survey (incl. write-ups in German) that I plan to continue in coming weeks/months (with a long travel/vacation break) ... played the early Dee Gee/Hi-Lo (later on Savoy) sessions, the Prestige material and some closely associated stuff:

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The first is the Denon/Savoy disc (or one of its incarnations) with the early sides (1951/52, nominally still led by Bags) - I actually have it on this disc (which is worth a fiver or a tener, too - done by the people behind the "Jazz in Paris" series):
https://www.amazon.de/Early-Mjq-Jackson-Milt/dp/B00007M9KC

The second contains Jackson's lone session as a leader on Blue Note - it's the MJQ with Lou Donaldson added. Alfred Lion was impressed by Poppa Lou (not quite Poppa back then I guess?) and he was recording as a leader within a few weeks, but Jackson only made one more appearance (on the wonderful "Hank Mobley and His All Stars", were even a lousy instrument doesn't stop him). Jackson had of course participated in a couple of Monk sessions previously - they're amongst the best in Monk's entire catalogue.

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The MJQ sans Lewis, who was replaced by Blossom Dearie, also made a session with Annie Ross ... it contains two saccharine ballads and two nice pieces - actually Annie's take on "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is better than the MJQ one. On the Parker set, there are two cuts (plus a sign-off "52nd Street Theme") that have Bird sitting in with the MJQ - they're his show, and they're great.

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Associated listening ... some early Bags with Sonny Stitt (eight tracks) and with Lewis, bassist brother Al Jackson, Klook and Chano Pozo (four tracks), the Stitt from either late 1947 or early 1948 (not as late as the discographies say, as Stitt was sitting in jail at that time: "Stitt was arrested in Detroit for illegal sale of narcotics, convicted, sentenced to two years in prison and subsequently incarcerated at the prison unit at U.S. Public Health Service facility at Lexington, Kentucky, from March 10, 1948 until September 9, 1949. It was during this period that Miles Davis sought Stitt to no avail for what became the first of the Birth of the Cool recordings." (from Zan Stewarts liner notes to the Stitt Mosaic box).

Either way, these are in no way essential records ... the best session on the disc is likely the one with Stitt replacing Illinois Jacquet (session led by Russell Jacquet) where the great sound of that swinging little band is featured (one that sounds much bigger than the number of its members would have you except).

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Then the Prestige stuff ... played from the box left, above ... and squeezed in the live broadcasts with a splendid Ben Webster and expert backing that is quite different in that it does not rely on arrangements much.

Some cool covers (first one is a Swedish EP of the first MJQ Prestige session):

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The first MJQ Prestige date was later coupled with a pretty nice Milt Jackson Quintet session with Horace Silver on piano (and Heath/Clarke) plus Henry Boozier on trumpet. "Django" couples the second and third session (skipping the one with Rollins, that is). The title cut is one of the greatest achievements of John Lewis, starting with a dirge-like section, than building tension and releasing it ... most effective, and very touching, even after all these years and all the great versions heard (i.e. from "The Jazzet Plays John Lewis" or Grant Green's "Idle Moments").

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The first actual LP by the MJQ was their last effort for Prestige (earlier, their sessions were done for 78 rpms, EPs, 10" LPs and then repacked onto 12 inchers). It's a gorgeous album indeed, so far easily their crowning achievement (other than "Django", of course) - "Concorde" is the second fugal experiment by Lewis and works much better than "Vendome" (which lacks some of the jazzy/swinging qualitiy that they were after) With Silver at the piano and new drummer Connie Kay on board - this was then Jackson's first actual long player, I think (at the same time he started recording for Savoy as a leader or co-leader, too, and there usually he was reunited with Kenny Clarke ...)

Will go into 1956 next ... actually also played these, before starting to tackle things chronolocigally:

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And finally, I played some more Les McCann over the weekend as well - both new arrivals and gap fillers as far as McCann's early years go:

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Just "The Shampoo" from the second, as I've had a Japanese reissue of "In New York" for a while (there, the horns of Blue Mitchell, Frank Haynes and Stanley Turrentine are added - the return deal for borrowing Mr. T. to Pacific was that McCann played on a T album for Blue Note, the wonderful "That's Where It's At")
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 18, 2017, 10:05:43 PM
^Loving the MJQ commentary and looking forward to reading more. I don't know that Annie Ross record - is it now a part of something else? Anyway I went and played another of her albums:

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Annie Ross - A Handful Of Songs (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 19, 2017, 01:52:28 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 18, 2017, 10:05:43 PM
^Loving the MJQ commentary and looking forward to reading more. I don't know that Annie Ross record - is it now a part of something else? Anyway I went and played another of her albums:

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Annie Ross - A Handful Of Songs (1964)

Thanks! In German I'm really writing up stuff ... quoting/abusing liner notes and such, of course:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/foren/topic/the-modern-jazz-quartet/
I'm actually enjoying this a lot, some of the stuff I've never yet listened to (the Atlantic Mosaic box for instance - knew the most important albums on their own previously), some I am revisiting after quite a while. One thing though: the band sounded brilliantly and from what you read was really using dynamics when they played live. That cannot be properly reproduced on rekkid, even less so when Atlantic was your label ... they always had a kind of muddy sound in my opinion (but on the other hand they really figured out what to do with the LP format fast, which Prestige never quite managed, their goal was mostly just to fill up two 20 minutes sides ... that's unfair I know, they have lots of glorious music and plenty of it works wonderfully as albums, but in general I still think it's true).

Anyway, this was the continuation last night:

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The group's Atlantic debut, to me, is a major step forward - a brilliant album that really works the LP format. Mosaic uses the mono masters for both first albums, and they offer the three cuts (two from "Fontessa", one from the barn) that differed on the stereo edition. For the "Fontessa" cuts, the sound is downright awful, for the barn cut, there's some low flutter ... mono rules, for jazz and pop anyway, reissues should much more often have used mono I feel (that's how people heard it back then, that's how it played on air, that's how it had punch and warmth and was in yo' face).

The second one has a downright gorgeous blues on in with "Two Deegrees East, Three Degrees West" (used as a title track to another great leader- and motherless album in early 1956, with Lewis and Heath and three west coasters: Bill Perkins, Jim Hall, Chico Hamilton). The rest is sketchy, some of it very nice, some less interesting, and the three cuts with Giuffre are merely sketches that alas fail to make proper use of the lovely sonic addition of his woody clarinet. Too bad they never really got to work together - like this, to me, it's a missed opportunity, alas.

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Then it was on to this again, the two 1956 portions ... and wow, these guys from SDR and SWF (now SWR) knew how caputure the sound! Due to late time I switched to headphones, and sonics on the first four cuts are outstanding, you really get an idea of the dynamics here. On track five, a band is added, things get a bit cute ... tracks 6 and 7 then are with the Edelhagen big band added, they're ok, but not really great - two of the group's best tunes, "Bluesology" and "Django", but they don't profit all that much from the added horns and stuff. But it's nice to hear Kay kick a big band (he was session drummer for many of Atlantic's R&B dates, so he know how to kick and how to handle backbeats and all that).

https://youtu.be/FczhlHFGvNA

In Sindelfingen, on the same package tour, some 23 minutes of music by Miles Davis, Lester Young, the MJQ and the Edelhagen big band were captured. Sounds intriguing? It certainly is, the thought alone of having the two jazz musicians that best embody the power of vulnerability on the same stage is fascinating, but alas, the results result falls somewhat flat. Miles is in okay shape, but Pres shows little interest in shaping a coherent solo. The MJQ is present in the two long jams, but Jackson alas doesn't get to solo in the first. In the second, I guess the stomping drummer is the one from the Edelhagen band (Losin has a line-up: http://www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/Disco.aspx?id=YoungBox) - and his work is quite boring compared to Connie Kay on the above disc. The alto solo would likely be by Reinhardt, the baritone is clear (Helmut Brandt, a fine musician), no idea who the second trumpet soloist is.

The Annie Ross tracks (two good ones, two schlocky ones) can be found as a bonus on this pretty odd disc:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 19, 2017, 02:38:39 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/OUOaiLPsVio
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 19, 2017, 01:35:58 PM
Booker Ervin, The freedom book

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Feathers Thomas Enhco

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 21, 2017, 02:15:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/peXeXadf1D4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 21, 2017, 11:53:41 PM
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David Murray - Speaking In Tongues (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 22, 2017, 03:18:21 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/FNPrO9N2UeY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 22, 2017, 11:13:11 AM
Recent acquisition: Lathe of Heaven; Mark Turner quartet (2014)
Mark Turner, Tenor Sax
Avishai Cohen, Trumpet
Joe Martin, double bass
Marcus Gilmore, Drums

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On most compositions on this CD, the tenor sax and the trumpet play some beautiful harmonic progression of chords not often heard on jazz CDs.  Most classical music lovers would appreciate this.  The rythmic section is there to keep everybody in line.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 22, 2017, 05:01:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/n-NWoR3DGJI
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 22, 2017, 05:14:49 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/475/MI0001475332.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/soul-of-things.jpg)

David Murray - Yonn-De (1999)
Tomasz Stanko - Soul Of Things (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 23, 2017, 11:03:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/sLo-mkbauqc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 23, 2017, 08:26:49 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/quIdmvBLjfVMUi_U7mVdYBp5zB4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3542055-1439477940-7224.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71COn7lZFCL._SY355_.jpg)

Johnny Hodges - Castle Rock (1955)
Oliver Nelson - The Kennedy Dream (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 24, 2017, 01:45:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/ciqI9PXmZWU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 24, 2017, 08:16:12 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Time_Capsule_%28Elvin_Jones_album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31VT3nKWHIL._SY355_.jpg)

Elvin Jones - Time Capsule (1977)
Medeski Martin & Wood – Zaebos: John Zorn's Book of Angels Volume 11 (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 25, 2017, 07:51:11 AM
my MJQ listen went on for a bit:

(https://img.discogs.com/PvkPsyZpgxnXD6pXJ3KnDynY55g=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8509939-1463061823-7190.jpeg.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/527/MI0003527487.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/917/MI0002917709.jpg)

The soundtrack for "Sait-on jamais" (No Sun in Venice) is pretty nice and moody and explores Lewis' love for Italian music a bit more ... to the left one of the European EPs (there were three, plus the LP, all using the same design but in different cover), to the right the US edition. In the middle, there's the album simply titled "Modern Jazz Quartet" - this is very straight, no experiments, road-tested repertoire, lots of blowing.

(https://img.discogs.com/qi0eQ-W1bN3Ignr2XFHfu8C8p1Y=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2649158-1492599123-9840.jpeg.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/680/MI0003680921.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/953/MI0003953760.jpg)

In 1957, the MJQ was part of the Granz tour package that was documented on several "In the Opera House" albums (Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins/Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz/J.J. Johnson), sharing the bill with the Oscar Peterson trio (with original bassist of the once Dizzy Gillespie rhythm section that turned into the MJQ, Ray Brown). They do some down to earth stuff, probably picking up vibes from the audience. They were then again also documented over in Europe ... the NDR disc is half an hour short and offers the studio re-creation of half of a live set, including announcements by Lewis. Better because longer and not fake is the Cologne concert on the disc to the right. 70 minutes in good audio (at least as good as what the Atlantic studio produced ... they really weren't too much into hi-fi there, it seems) and a varied programme including complex stuff making use of baroque means, blues, blowing vehicles.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/523/MI0002523768.jpg)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/602/MI0003602455.jpg)

The second album from the Music Inn is pretty nice, its highlight a reunion (after their 1953 Prestige session) with Sonny Rollins who sits in on live versions of "Bags' Groove" and "A Night in Tunisia". He's in jesting mood for the former, while the later gets somewhat more serious. Not a fully successful meeting, but good fun indeed. The quartet part (done sans audience) is nice. The SWR disc contains some more cuts from 1957 and 1958 which I played in sequence. The last cuts from 1958 include a funky blues dedicated to German jazz critic Joachim Ernst Berendt, as well as Jackson doing a solo version of "Tenderly" (Berendt's idea actually).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 25, 2017, 12:32:54 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/592/MI0003592952.jpg)

John Lewis - Improvised Meditations & Excursions

Understated, but very nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on September 25, 2017, 05:15:45 PM
Damn' hot :

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 25, 2017, 08:34:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/mqzMsF3MEtgqnPBB9ioyrndmpbE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6358272-1469886626-2926.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/490/MI0000490602.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Benny Carter - Additions To Further Definitions (1966)
Albert Ayler - Love Cry (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 26, 2017, 04:31:20 AM
Jazz en douceur by two grand masters

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 26, 2017, 04:37:26 AM
Quote from: Spineur on September 26, 2017, 04:31:20 AM
Jazz en douceur by two grand masters

Funny, just had a chat on Chet with a friend, and he mentioned all he knew so far was the stuff with Bill Evans ... which is alright in my book, but there's so much better to be found in the discographies of both.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 26, 2017, 06:49:09 PM
Donny McCaslin, Recommended Tools. Great interplay in this inventive trio setting.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 26, 2017, 09:29:52 PM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/504/MI0001504054.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jackie Paris - The Song Is Paris (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 27, 2017, 06:41:07 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F-gjD9WqL.jpg)

Caterina Valente - The Jazz Singer | Granted, she wasn't a real jazz singer, but she had chops aplenty and a voice of steel ... that I can enjoy in some doses if the material is right. And it's certainly okay here, mostly standards (After You've Gone, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Pennies from Heaven, I'll Remember April), some good originals (Louis Jordan's "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", Basie's "Good Morning Blues", Bob Cooper's "Jazz Invention"), but also some cutesy and some typical period stuff including plenty of the Latin kind (pretending to be Brasilian, Cuban, Mexican ...), three of those with just guitar/backing vocals (Aquarela do Brasil, El Negro Zumbón, El Cumbanchero), on most of the tracks you get the Kurt Edelhagen All Stars or their rhythm section (they're pretty good, with some decent soloists), on a couple you get the Erwin Lehn led Südfunk Tanzorchester (the Lehn dudes were with SWF radio in Baden-Baden, Lehn was with SDR in Stuttgart - they have merged into SWR in the late 90s, and SWR is issuing plenty of good music from the archives, the black "Lost Tapes" cover by the MJQ above is one of theirs, too). Highlight, probably, is one cut featuring the doomed Chet Baker Quartet that was on tour back in 1955, with Richard Twardzik on piano (who ODed a few days later), Jimmy Bond (b) and Peter Littman (d - but his main job really was organizing drugs wherever they were) plus guest Lars Gullin on baritone (they made a few sides together in a Swedish studio, too).

Valente can be heard singing lyrics as well as joining the fun with the band, as on the almost ten-minute "Festival Jump" where she improvises after a series of instrumental solos.

Guess this isn't music for the ages or anything, but it's good fun.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on September 27, 2017, 01:32:22 PM
The material spans Monk to Nino Rota compositions and is somewhat eclectic.  But the playing by this trio is excellent


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 27, 2017, 08:19:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JTWG4MEEL.jpg)

Michael White - Land Of Spirit And Light (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 28, 2017, 05:27:18 AM
Quote from: Spineur on September 27, 2017, 01:32:22 PM
The material spans Monk to Nino Rota compositions and is somewhat eclectic.  But the playing by this trio is excellent


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All recordings by that trio are worth hunting for ... mostly the two volumes of Morricone albums! The two of them were pulled together later into one package:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 28, 2017, 08:46:26 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/OXyPpTi13bqLgn0qGAmncBPbMrk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2100426-1308780625.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wmw64JlRL.jpg)

Emil Richards - Journey To Bliss (1967)
Albert Ayler - New Grass (1968)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/197/MI0002197464.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Sweet_Love%2C_Bitter.jpg)

Shirley Scott - On A Clear Day (1966)
Mal Waldron - Sweet Love, Bitter soundtrack (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 29, 2017, 05:05:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/S6kw21wyJ5vBp9BD8e1qYw3lPnc=/fit-in/600x585/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-883353-1437174555-7397.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/6aoU9DY8Q_UCWc0G5BuBLOi_tw0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-885372-1349123131-8702.jpeg.jpg)

Beverly Jenkins - Gordon Jenkins Presents My Wife the Blues Singer (1963)
The Russian Jazz Quartet - Happiness (1965)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/364/MI0000364268.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Greek_Cooking.jpg)

Sam Rivers - Crystals (1974)
Phil Woods - Greek Cooking (1967)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/935/MI0001935771.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/991/MI0003991620.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Lorez Alexandria - More of the Great Lorez Alexandria (1964)
Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace (1971)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41J4MM264CL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/hbSazY_Gw9ItdiIN2asaHwlNqjc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-987956-1348341917-2695.jpeg.jpg)

Yusef Lateef - 1984 (1965)
Earl Hines - Once Upon A Time (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on September 30, 2017, 01:53:59 AM
Recent listening:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/412BvpKCOLL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bmci2sVYL.jpg)

Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin'

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Dave Brubeck Quartet - At Carnegie Hall (Live Recording)

For a first listen - found this most enjoyable.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 30, 2017, 06:03:40 AM
That's a pretty wild mix of Impulse classics and eccentricities there, Simon!

That Beverly Jenkins is one I never saw ... rather lame stuff, but of course the spouses Jenkins were no bluesers whatsoever:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/85mbeqet012p7q8/ggj_59.rar?dl=0

But I like some of the corny/cheesy/oddball stuff on Impulse ... and I very much like the fact that this stylish boutique label had room for stuff like that (dig Howard Roberts' "Antelope Freeway"!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 30, 2017, 09:37:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/1gEcTvoqQYM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on September 30, 2017, 09:45:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/opOUa1KcvBw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 30, 2017, 04:57:51 PM
Quote from: king ubu on September 30, 2017, 06:03:40 AM
That's a pretty wild mix of Impulse classics and eccentricities there, Simon!

That Beverly Jenkins is one I never saw ... rather lame stuff, but of course the spouses Jenkins were no bluesers whatsoever:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/85mbeqet012p7q8/ggj_59.rar?dl=0

But I like some of the corny/cheesy/oddball stuff on Impulse ... and I very much like the fact that this stylish boutique label had room for stuff like that (dig Howard Roberts' "Antelope Freeway"!)

Heh, yeah. Just checking out some random ones I hadn't heard before. The Lateef 1984 and Sam Rivers Crystals and Albert Ayler New Grass I thought were superb. The Earl Hines was much better than I expected and has a really wonderful "Black And Tan Fantasy". The Mal Waldron soundtrack to a film I've never heard of was also interesting. The Phil Woods was an oddly half excellent and half misguided kitsch. Shirley Scott I often love, but that wasn't one of her best. The Lorez Alexandra does the smokey nightclub singer thing well, even if it adds nothing new, and I'd be happy to hear more. The Russian Jazz Quartet was a surprisingly solid set. Theviolinist Michael White made me want to check out the rest of his Impulse albums.The Emil Richards was endearingly dated. But I have to agree that the Beverly Jenkins was a real letdown (and misnomer) and the weakest so far.

It was hearing Oliver Nelson's The Kennedy Dream last week, which while not necessarily great had much of interest, that made me wonder if I shouldn't try and check out more that I'd either overlooked or that have justly or unjustly been relegated to the dustbin of history. Have you heard that one?

I also played Michael Brown's Alarums and Excursions a few days ago, and was amused to hear not jazz but some topical/timecapsule Folk in the Freewheelin Dylan mould:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/d8/be/95d8be4a96591d0ea301c78eb6efefb8.jpg)

and playing now:

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oX4_6r4wg5s/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/-T1xJ-C4WooU22fcb55Jr4B4_HU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-921631-1225000961.jpeg.jpg)

v/a - Intercollegiate Music Festival, Vol.1 (1967)
Gary McFarland - Points Of Departure (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Autumn Leaves on October 01, 2017, 12:09:40 AM
Recent listening:

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Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams

So mellow - love this one.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51R-LDOWzfL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517UoDNkxQL.jpg)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Au Club St. Germain (Vols. 1 & 2)

Great, energetic live record - one of the best items in the box-set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 01, 2017, 05:25:58 AM
Quote from: Conor71 on October 01, 2017, 12:09:40 AM
Recent listening:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61biRt14cFL.jpg)

Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams

So mellow - love this one.

Indeed!

I can't get enough of Bill Evans!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 01, 2017, 08:29:22 PM
(https://img.cdandlp.com/2014/10/imgL/117214929.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Waiting_Game_%28album%29.jpg)

Dave Mackay and Vicky Hamilton - s/t (1969)
Zoot Sims - Waiting Game (1966)

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/771/MI0001771126.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Spirit_Dance.jpg)

Shelly Manne - 2,3,4 (1962)
Michael White - Spirit Dance (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 02, 2017, 08:13:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/_3GjL20DvfBydldkfsjO5gZhSG8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2125514-1372511269-6926.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/q2MlXq7omZkhh3sP1wnYeDV3x1c=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1122094-1497311834-2051.jpeg.jpg)

Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood - s/t (1967)
Steve Kuhn and Gary McFarland - The October Suite (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 03, 2017, 11:32:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 30, 2017, 04:57:51 PM
Heh, yeah. Just checking out some random ones I hadn't heard before. The Lateef 1984 and Sam Rivers Crystals and Albert Ayler New Grass I thought were superb. The Earl Hines was much better than I expected and has a really wonderful "Black And Tan Fantasy". The Mal Waldron soundtrack to a film I've never heard of was also interesting. The Phil Woods was an oddly half excellent and half misguided kitsch. Shirley Scott I often love, but that wasn't one of her best. The Lorez Alexandra does the smokey nightclub singer thing well, even if it adds nothing new, and I'd be happy to hear more. The Russian Jazz Quartet was a surprisingly solid set. Theviolinist Michael White made me want to check out the rest of his Impulse albums.The Emil Richards was endearingly dated. But I have to agree that the Beverly Jenkins was a real letdown (and misnomer) and the weakest so far.

It was hearing Oliver Nelson's The Kennedy Dream last week, which while not necessarily great had much of interest, that made me wonder if I shouldn't try and check out more that I'd either overlooked or that have justly or unjustly been relegated to the dustbin of history. Have you heard that one?

I also played Michael Brown's Alarums and Excursions a few days ago, and was amused to hear not jazz but some topical/timecapsule Folk in the Freewheelin Dylan mould:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/d8/be/95d8be4a96591d0ea301c78eb6efefb8.jpg)

and playing now:

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oX4_6r4wg5s/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/-T1xJ-C4WooU22fcb55Jr4B4_HU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-921631-1225000961.jpeg.jpg)

v/a - Intercollegiate Music Festival, Vol.1 (1967)
Gary McFarland - Points Of Departure (1963)

Sorry for being so slow ... too busy with too many things (not the least preparations for a longer trip starting in less than two weeks).

The Rivers album is quite a classic indeed, so is the Hines in my book (I can see why one can be more sceptical about it though, it's a bit sketchy, a bit short ...), the Waldron is alright indeed, the Woods and Russian Jazz Quartet albums I don't know at all. On Richards I have kinda given up (there's more such "period charm" stuff on Impulse, i.e. McFarland/Szabo "Simpatico", another utterly weak one that may have its charms). The White is pretty good, too ... and I guess so is the Ayler, though considering his amazing albums for other labels (ESP most notably) I tend to look at his Impulse albums with some reservation, most appreciating "Love Cry" among them ... but yeah, there's stuff on/about all of them that is likeable (oh, and his Impulse live recordings don't belong into that oddity-group at all!)

The Brown and Intercollegiate discs i don't know again, but that McFarland is one of the nicer albums in this generally rather lightweight discography.

Mackay/Hamilton and Plummer are more unknowns, the Sims is a bit of a kitschy disappointment, the Manne a stone-classic (dig veteran Coleman Hawkins! dig Eddie Costa! Hawkins btw. appeared on the memorial concert - also put out on LP but not by Impulse! - given after Costa's untimely early death), and the other White more of the same as the first one (guess I should revisit, but not before that longer trip).

That leaves "October Suite", which is another high point (and as such a good to very good album) in McFarland's oeuvre, in my book. Not too much of a McFarland fan, I guess ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 03, 2017, 08:29:31 PM
I should have also listed Benny Carter's Additions To Further Dimensions as a great first listen.

That Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood album is worth hearing at least once if for no other reason than its so mind-bogglingly unclassifiable, an unlikely - and at least partially successful - mix of what ought to be five or six disparate genres.

played today:

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Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria The Great (1964)
Michael White - Pneuma (1972)

Don't think I've ever heard a version of "Satin Doll" sung with Johnny Mercer's lyrics before hearing Lorez here. Even Ella does it as scat.

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/157/MI0002157127.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/ARNta9_9plbUi_n-Ho0YHVFsXJQ=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1422201-1266318341.jpeg.jpg)

Freda Payne - After The Lights Go Down Low (1964)
Mel Brown - The Wizard (1968)

(https://img.discogs.com/p9YjK69u8TvfkJg_yM535YCz4nY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-735220-1381342329-2919.jpeg.jpg)

Chico O'Farrill - Nine Flags (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 03, 2017, 09:46:05 PM
Okay, will see if I can sample the Plummer anywhere!

Forgot mentioning Lorez Alexandria - it's that second ("The Great") album that I know. The Freda Payne is on the piles, as well, it's nice one. Don't know the other three, I think ... not too much into Chico O'Farrill yet (haven't really started exploring his stuff so I couldn't even say how much interest I have in his music).

Of Mel Brown's I have three albums ("Chicken Fat" and the later 2-on-1 reissue), but that's somewhat too simple for my liking, not real blues, not real jazz, pleasant but not quite enough meat to the bone, I find.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 04, 2017, 08:22:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61gM6FWuZlL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GYfRdId8L._SX355_.jpg)

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now (1963)
Buddy Montgomery - Rather This Than That (1970)

(https://img.discogs.com/q1Ql-luWIE3eUnrCUMin_EgGKOU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1004995-1223284137.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/642/MI0001642669.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Gabor Szabo - Wind, Sky and Diamonds (1967)
Milt Jackson - Statements (1962)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Go_With_the_Flow_%28album%29.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/L3Voyp1K_Uk8UkNNRF8qL9aFLpk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4427889-1364591693-7173.jpeg.jpg)

Michael White - Go With The Flow (1974)
Gato Barbieri - Chapter One: Latin America (1973)

That Gato Barbieri album was far more interesting than I was expecting, and the highlight of today's listening, though the Milt Jackson was also solid.

The Pee Wee Russell sounded unfortunately little more than a nostalgia act. The Michael White was the weakest of the four I've now played to such a degree its hard to believe its by the same artist who did the others. And I usually find Gabor Szabo fun, but that one was just very thin arrangements of pop tunes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 05, 2017, 04:49:52 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 04, 2017, 08:22:34 PM
That Gato Barbieri album was far more interesting than I was expecting, and the highlight of today's listening, though the Milt Jackson was also solid.

The Pee Wee Russell sounded unfortunately little more than a nostalgia act. The Michael White was the weakest of the four I've now played to such a degree its hard to believe its by the same artist who did the others. And I usually find Gabor Szabo fun, but that one was just very thin arrangements of pop tunes.

Again don't know half of the albums ... with Gato, Flying Dutchman is terrific and Impulse is quite safe, anything later is rather not for me ...

However, the Pee Wee Russell I really, really love! Here's one of the greatest individualists of jazz, maybe technically limited, but musically amazing, and willing to go places! He started out in Dixieland circles, played with the Condon mob and all kinds of other musicians in the mainstream that developed in the fifties (for instance he co-led a wonderful album with Coleman Hawkins for Candid Records) ... and here, he even does Ornette Coleman, and indeed pulls it off.

I am well aware that for many, Pee Wee Russell is an acquired taste, and for many more a taste that will never be acquired, but I really adore this man's art!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 05, 2017, 08:42:10 PM
That's interesting. I'll give the album a second and closer listen in the near future.

played today:

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Gato Barbieri - Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre (1974)
Shirley Scott - Girl Talk (1967)

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Milt Jackson - Memphis Jackson (1970)
Manny Albam - Jazz Goes To The Movies (1962)

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Tom Scott - Honeysuckle Breeze (1967)

Another surprising knockout album from Gato - I'm going to have to go back and look at this guy's discography afresh. Another Shirley Scott that doesn't rank among her best. The Manny Albam was instantly forgettable. Memphis Jackson was much more a Ray Brown than Milt album, and is all the weaker for it.

Like the Gabor Szabo yesterday the Tom Scott is thin covers of mostly pop tunes also with the saccharine vocal additions of The California Dreamers, who in their hippie/whitebread way sound thoroughly dated. This album does get points from me, though, for the brass neck of having, sandwiched between syrupy covers of The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" and Donovan's "Mellow Yellow", an equally syrupy cover of...John Coltrane's "Naima". I think I actually laughed out loud in disbelief.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 06, 2017, 02:29:33 PM
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Howard Roberts - Equinox Express Elevator (1972)
Ornette Coleman - Ornette At 12 (1968)

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Jazzbo Collins - A Lovely Bunch of Jazzbo Collins and the Bandidos (1967)
Archie Shepp - For Losers (1970)

lol...okay, didn't know what to expect from Jazzbo Collins, but still I wasn't prepared for beatnik retellings of Grimm fairy tales with hip jazz backings. Wonderful!

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Gato Barbieri - Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata (1974)
Louis Bellson - Thunderbird (1966)

the third of Gato's "Chapter" albums is nowhere near on par with the first two, alas, and much closer to a smooth-jazz sound without the heavy native Latin American influences or the near avant-guard solos of those earlier.

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Shirley Scott and Clark Terry - Soul Duo (1966)
Curtis Fuller - Soul Trombone (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 07, 2017, 03:59:47 AM
Woohoo, it goes on ... let me comment again, I enjoy this! (But I'll be out of the interwebs mostly for an extended period starting in a week and ending only when December kicks in ... traveling - to India for almost four weeks, beginning in a week! -  some between jobs, hopefully also catching the new Sciarrino opera in Milan in late November ...)

Anyway, regarding Pee Wee Russell, I'm not sure this album is the best way "in" - it's definitely easier if you are familiar with his quirky playing from other, earlier recordings, including forties and fifties dixieland sessions (he is on a lot of recordings with Eddie Condon, Wild Bill Davison and the like) ... he turned up with Thelonious Monk at Newport in 1963 (and acquits himself quite well indeed), he is with Jimmy Giuffre on "The Sound of Jazz" in a wonderful two-clarinet track, he made that great Candid album with Coleman Hawkins, he  also made another Impulse album with Oliver Nelson, btw!

As I said, re: Gato - the Flying Dutchman albums (the label was headed by former Impulse boss Bob Thiele, btw) and all four chapters on Impulse - that's classic, burning latin/brazilian jazz of excellent quality! After that, I don't know much and don't feel inclined to change that, really.

"Ornette at 12" is the weaker of Ornette's Impulse outings, "Crisis" is a masterpiece - both were never reissued because Ornette owned the tapes (there would, I gather, be much more material from the concert "Crisis" was made). I eventually bought both on vinyl as it seems unlikely there will ever be a decent, and possibly extended reissue of either of them. Either way, "at 12" (that's Denardo's age when the platter was made, I think) is good!

Re: Shirley Scott, I'm really not so sure she made any other than "not her best" albums ... but all are charming and have lots of stuff going for them. And of course she did make some really good stuff, mostly with (ex) hubby Stanley Turrentine (three under her leadership on Prestige, "Blue Flame" is the outstanding one among them, more on Blue Note, where "Hustlin'" with Kenny Burrell ist the outstanding one, but I really like "Dearly Beloved", too, and some hot live stuff on Impulse on "Queen of the Organ" plus more from the same sessions on other LP(s), some of which was added to the extended GRP era CD reissue that I cherish). But none of her own trio and big band sides really strikes me as "great" ... same goes for the lovely encounter with Clark Terry - not one I return to often, it's slight, it works, it's not great by any account.

The Shepp is very cool (you'll need "Kwanza", its companion album!), but I prefer his earlier Impulses all things consiered ("Mama Too Tight", "Live in San Francisco" - those are probably my favourite Shepp albums) the Fuller and Bellson pretty solid but again not great ...

The Jazzbo Collins and Albams I don't know ... and don't feel I must change that. Albam is always pleasant and mostly good, but hardly ever outstanding, I feel, so my urge to further explore is rather limited (I have - all on shady Gambit/Lonehill reissues - several albums: "The Blues Is Everybody's Business", "Jazz Greats of Our Time" - a double, "Jazz New York", as well as "Something New, Something Blue", a reissue by Fresh Sound).

The Roberts is on the twofer with "Antelope Freeway" but I only remember that one ... it's on the listening piles but unlikely to get a spin before my hiatus (which is also a music hiatus ... I will only bring my smartphone, maybe later on my new Bose bluetooth box, but not carrying that to India where I would worry about leaving it in the hotel and all that).

The other Jackson/Brown is on order from Japan (only that one has been recently reissued, here's hope for "Memphis Jackson" also making a reappearance) ... if you want to listen to some good Teddy Edwards, btw - I just love his playing! - you should look for the two volumes of "At Kosei Nenkin" by Milt Jackson ... both CDs are extended, i think it was a double album initially, now we get something like twice 75 minutes.

Lastly, the Tom Scott I could have bought once, from the bins ... but didn't, as sampling it was a rather painful thing ... or maybe that was another one, I think two were in the bins, both not really ones I felt I need to buy ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 07, 2017, 12:49:40 PM
Spotlight on Sid Phillips....


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 07, 2017, 10:08:15 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 07, 2017, 03:59:47 AM

Re: Shirley Scott, I'm really not so sure she made any other than "not her best" albums ... but all are charming and have lots of stuff going for them.

The Jazzbo Collins and Albams I don't know ... and don't feel I must change that.


You should give Jazzbo a listen: It'll make you smile.

https://www.youtube.com/v/oOpCsZnGIAk

The average Shilrley Scott album is indeed average, but there are at least a few where she's asked to play music by contemporaries she respects where she rises to the occasion, instead of more or less phoning it in for the usual show tune covers or latest pop fad as required. Those few albums have kept me coming back for more.

today:

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Clark Terry and Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice (1966)
Elvin Jones and Richard Davis - Heavy Sounds (1968)

the Jones/Davis is a strong album which includes yet another unique version of "Summertime" that ought to rank among the better known and praised idiosyncratic reworkings

the Terry/O'Farrell is every bit as Tijuana Brass as the cover suggests

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Alice Coltrane - Lord Of Lords (1972)
Sam Rivers - Hues (1973)

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Keith Jarrett - Back Hand (1974)

I stunned to learn there's an early Jarrett that I haven't (I think) heard before
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 08, 2017, 01:39:40 AM
Don't know that Jarrett either ... but I'm no completist there (ha ha, I only have several dozen albums of his ...) - will have to check out Jazzbo eventually, I think I may even have a vinyl rip of that album somewhere, from the early time of music blogs on the interwebs.

Some stuff I've played recently - all first listens:

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The Miller is full of fascinating stuff ... should have bought this years ago! The Walton can still be had in Japan, it's absolutely wonderful, quite possibly the best I ever heard of his!

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These two by Kenny Barron were finally delivered, too ... one was out of stock at amazons and I waited for several weeks - but it was more than worth the wait, for sure! The Criss Cross is excellent, and "Live at Bradley's II - The Perfect Set" is indeed near perfection! It contains one set late in the trio's multi-day gig at Bradley's, from which "Live at Bradley's" was also compiled (there, the focus is more on slow/lycrical, but I enjoyed it so much it was a no-brainer that II had to be on my shelves as well).

Finally really digging Kenny Barron, not sure what took me so long, maybe the productions Verve created for him and that somewhat inhibited his playing? The breakthrough ones were the recent Impulse discs (duo with Dave Holland and even more so the trio one with his current working trio).

Now, another first spin, though third attempt - was not in the right of moods previously - and now it works:

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Bill Evans is another musician I will always remain somewhat ambiguous about ... but how cool it is that this particular trio - with Eddie Gomez (b) and Jack DeJohnette (d) - has grown its discography so significantly (from one album/disc to three albums/four discs) in recent times?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 08, 2017, 12:43:36 PM
John Coltrane evening
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 08, 2017, 12:46:44 PM
Mainstream Records afternoon:

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Saxophones of all kinds evening:

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Singing/big band night:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 08, 2017, 07:23:40 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 07, 2017, 10:08:15 PM

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Elvin Jones and Richard Davis - Heavy Sounds (1968)

the Jones/Davis is a strong album which includes yet another unique version of "Summertime" that ought to rank among the better known and praised idiosyncratic reworkings

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Keith Jarrett - Back Hand (1974)

I stunned to learn there's an early Jarrett that I haven't (I think) heard before

Hmm, both of these look interesting. So the Jones/Davis album is a series of bass/drums duets, or are there other musicians on (some of) the tracks?

And the Jarrett: I haven't seen that one before, either. Is it solo?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 08, 2017, 08:18:33 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 08, 2017, 07:23:40 PM
Hmm, both of these look interesting. So the Jones/Davis album is a series of bass/drums duets, or are there other musicians on (some of) the tracks?

And the Jarrett: I haven't seen that one before, either. Is it solo?

The Jones/Davis includes Frank Foster on tenor sax and Billy Greene on piano - and Elvin playing guitar on one track.

The Jarrett is his American Quartet with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. No idea why its now so obscure (only reissued as a cd in Japan, apparently)

played today:

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Ahmad Jamal - Freeflight (1971)
Paul Gonsalves - Cleopatra Feelin jazzy (1963)

Enjoyed the Jamal, even though the live concert sound capture isn't very good. The Golsalves was light and forgettable.

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McCoy Tyner - Live At Newport (1964)
Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers!!! (1961

despite being a really big fan of both Tyner and Blakey its a first listen for both of these

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Sonny Rollins - Alfie soundtrack (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 08, 2017, 09:11:08 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 08, 2017, 08:18:33 PM
The Jones/Davis includes Frank Foster on tenor sax and Billy Greene on piano - and Elvin playing guitar on one track.

The Jarrett is his American Quartet with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. No idea why its now so obscure (only reissued as a cd in Japan, apparently)

Thanks. Might have to look for that Jarrett - I really like the Survivors Suite by the same foursome.

You probably already know this, but Richard Davis (who is still living at age 87) was Stravinsky's favorite bassist.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 08, 2017, 09:21:48 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 08, 2017, 09:11:08 PM
Thanks. Might have to look for that Jarrett - I really like the Survivors Suite by the same foursome.

You probably already know this, but Richard Davis (who is still living at age 87) was Stravinsky's favorite bassist.

I didn't know that. Did they work together?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 09, 2017, 02:49:42 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 08, 2017, 09:11:08 PM
You probably already know this, but Richard Davis (who is still living at age 87) was Stravinsky's favorite bassist.

Your avatar is probably John Eliot Gardiner's second-favourite ...

Re Elvin, his other two Impulse albums are better, I think. "Illumination", co-led with Jimmy Garrison, has Tyner on piano plus the reeds of Sonny Simmons, Prince Lasha and Charles Davis (now there's an underrated MF!) ... and "Dear John C" has Charlie Mariano's great alto in a quartet setting with Roland Hanna/Hank Jones and - again - Richard Davis.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 09, 2017, 07:11:22 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 08, 2017, 08:18:33 PM
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McCoy Tyner - Live At Newport (1964)
Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers!!! (1961

despite being a really big fan of both Tyner and Blakey its a first listen for both of these

I've always loved the !!!!! album. How was the Tyner/Mariano/Terry live? That looks pretty terrific.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 09, 2017, 07:24:19 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 08, 2017, 09:21:48 PM
I didn't know that. Did they work together?

Yes, they did. I don't know how extensively. I think I read the bit about him being Stravinsky's favorite in the Penguin Guide to Jazz. From elsewhere I found this quote:
QuoteOn-stage after a 1975 concert in Boston, the great composer Igor Stravinsky walked through the orchestra to lay his hand on Mr. Davis' shoulder in a tribute rarely accorded a bassist--or any other orchestra member--by the Maestro himself.

Obviously this can't be entirely accurate since Stravinsky died in 1971, but I also heard an excerpt from an interview with Davis where he alludes to this incident ("I never washed that shoulder again"), so I can believe it happened.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 09, 2017, 09:27:14 AM
This Palermo album is fantastic! Also, a Monk I did not have, his fourth.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 09, 2017, 10:39:43 AM
Neil Crowley Trio....


https://www.youtube.com/v/4hWLsrVvqoE



I was introduced to the music of these guys over the weekend. I like them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 09, 2017, 08:16:57 PM
Quote from: Brian on October 09, 2017, 07:11:22 AM
I've always loved the !!!!! album. How was the Tyner/Mariano/Terry live? That looks pretty terrific.

I enjoyed the !!!! album (heh), though was a little surprised that it was gentler, less muscular, than I usually expect (or ever heard) from Blakey - not in a bad way though. The Tyner is a solid set, though not as adventurous or essential as a great many others of his.

today:

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Art Blakey - A Jazz Message (1964)
Gabor Szabo - More Sorcery (1967)

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Ahmad Jamal - At The Top: Poinciana Revisited (1969)
John Klemmer - Waterfalls (1972)

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Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village (1966)
Rolf Kühn and Joachim Kühn - Impressions of New York (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 10, 2017, 03:11:22 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 09, 2017, 07:11:22 AM
I've always loved the !!!!! album. How was the Tyner/Mariano/Terry live? That looks pretty terrific.
Hm, I find both somewhat disappointing. I memory doesn't trick me, Terry/Mariano aren't all all tracks and the whole set is a bit ... short-ish, tunes short-ish, not quite enough space to let go. But then Tyner for me really gets into his own during the Blue Note years, and hits a pinnacle with the last BN and first Milestone albums.

The Blakey I always found rather weak, compared to the amazing "Free for All", "Buhaina", "Mosaic", as well as the Riversides by the sextet line-up ... nothing wrong with it, but not one of his finest (but then he churned out so many great albums in so few years, ca. 1954-1965, it's plain amazing anyway!)

Quote from: millionrainbows on October 09, 2017, 09:27:14 AM
This Palermo album is fantastic! Also, a Monk I did not have, his fourth.

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What's frrst one, pic is a bit small to read, it's not familiar.

Monk would be 100 today ... great musician! Fourth Columbia studio album, but of course not fourth album :-)

--

Now back to Impulse ;-)

The Szabo and Jamal are nice indeed, the Ayler (I have the 2CD set with the full recordings) and the Kühn bros. pretty great! The Blakey is nice enough - similar actually to the Messengers album on Impulse, I think.

The price question is, if the Klemmer is even half as bad as its cover (then it would be totally unlistenable already, I think  ;D )
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 10, 2017, 03:16:45 AM
Quote from: millionrainbows on October 09, 2017, 09:27:14 AM
This Palermo album is fantastic!

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Ed Palermo is a friend and someone whom I used to play bass with when I lived in NYC.  He's even arranged a few of my tunes for his band, and putting one on a recent album (https://www.discogs.com/Ed-Palermo-Big-Band-Oh-No-Not-Jazz/release/5325722) ("Moosh"). 

He is a good guy and great arranger/musician.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost Sonata on October 10, 2017, 09:59:17 AM
Interesting to compare this jazz-inspired performance of the Rite of Spring - a work that easily lends itself to such interpretations - with the Bad Plus' version.  Surprisingly, the Bad Plus performance is the more 'normative.'  I have not heard Hubert Laws'.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 10, 2017, 08:35:17 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 10, 2017, 03:11:22 AM
But then Tyner for me really gets into his own during the Blue Note years, and hits a pinnacle with the last BN and first Milestone albums.

The price question is, if the Klemmer is even half as bad as its cover (then it would be totally unlistenable already, I think  ;D )

Tyner is, I think, someone who has been remarkably consistent over his whole career. Right throygh the 70's 80, and 90s he was recording albums which are at least the equal of the Blue Notes, and in many cases better.

The Klemmer turned out to be way more interesting than the cover art suggested. He makes particularly good use of the Echoplex tepe delay effect on a number of tracks.

played today, one last batch of Impulses before I return to wider jazz listening:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/663/MI0000663233.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/659/MI0001659599.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Billy Taylor and Quincy Jones - My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (1966)
Yusef Lateef - Live At Pep's (1966)

(https://img.discogs.com/mtwdf9TBkW3UrS7N_zXWgpbG5tU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2028479-1271468245.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51jjzVJhvsL._SY355_.jpg)

Clifford Coulter - East Side, San Jose (1970)
John Handy - Hard Work (1976)

(https://img.discogs.com/UpYraGnUjv1icmjbgrEx3I67TQc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1226184-1202217616.jpeg.jpg) (http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/381/MI0000381894.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

John Klemmer - Constant Throb (1971)
Albert Ayler - Music Is The Healing Force In The Universe (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 11, 2017, 08:18:43 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Z8ZiXibcKE3WadxwLQnAQKHKYrI=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-520447-1355736800-7623.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/MnEstUaQdBZtQbtAkyEDYs9HCpM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3701283-1340911498-7218.jpeg.jpg)

Joachim Kühn - Sound Of Feelings (1969)
Oliver Nelson - A Taste Of Honey (1962)

the Taste Of Honey cover makes it look like its the soundtrack to the film, which I'm pretty sure its not
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 11, 2017, 10:05:08 PM
@SimonNZ and whomever wants to know: apologies, mentally outta here already ... will be off traveling in a few days for several weeks soon  (quitting my longtime job today, starting a new one in December).

Will be back fersure though  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 11, 2017, 11:28:25 PM
Best of luck with the new job, KU. I look forward to updates on the new life and the new listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 11, 2017, 11:33:34 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 11, 2017, 11:28:25 PM
Best of luck with the new job, KU. I look forward to updates on the new life and the new listening.

Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 12, 2017, 08:45:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TFQWIslLL._SY355_.jpg)

Aki Takase and David Murray - Cherry–Sakura (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 12, 2017, 09:02:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/FnZc-wekyFc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 13, 2017, 07:52:24 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91TBQhakCuL._SL1500_.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/picture-this1.jpg)

David Murray and Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Rendezvous Suite (2011)
Gary Burton - Picture This (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on October 15, 2017, 01:41:55 AM
Somethin' Else was one of my first jazz purchases some ten years ago based on its critical acclaim. It starts with two amazing tunes, "Autumn Leaves" and "Love for Sale", but afterwards becomes less memorable to me.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 15, 2017, 02:24:53 AM
Quote from: Artem on October 15, 2017, 01:41:55 AM
Somethin' Else was one of my first jazz purchases some ten years ago based on its critical acclaim. It starts with two amazing tunes, "Autumn Leaves" and "Love for Sale", but afterwards becomes less memorable to me.

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Agree that those are the nicest tracks, but I think it's the title track where that sly dude on trumpet tries out stuff that he would later bring to full bloom on his own rekkid (that ok-ish one called kinda something, dig?  ;) ) ... seriously, I very much love this, I very much love Cannonball anyway. He was popular in his day but never really got his due. An unsung jazz giant.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 16, 2017, 08:23:45 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 15, 2017, 02:24:53 AM
seriously, I very much love this, I very much love Cannonball anyway. He was popular in his day but never really got his due. An unsung jazz giant.
Cannonball is my favorite alto sax player, and after hearing all my records he's become my girlfriend's favorite too (she played alto sax in school), although her favorite thing about Cannonball is his voice when he introduces tunes on live sets. She says, and I agree, that he sounds like an awesome guy to grab a drink with, a man who knows how to enjoy life.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 16, 2017, 08:14:06 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Zx6yI35KHxioIcbUjWtCa55eOug=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4009115-1352168699-2559.jpeg.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/three-day-moon1.jpg)

Beverley Kenny - Sings For Johnny Smith (1955)
Barre Phillips - Three Day Moon (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 16, 2017, 08:53:45 PM
Quote from: king ubu on October 11, 2017, 11:33:34 PM
Thanks a lot!

Best wishes from me too! Always look forward to seeing what jazz you're listening to.

Quote from: SimonNZ on October 12, 2017, 08:45:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61TFQWIslLL._SY355_.jpg)

Aki Takase and David Murray - Cherry–Sakura (2017)

Hmm. How is that?

And speaking of Murray, TD:
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Plus:
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(The Amazon "sticky note" is kind of in the way, so for those unfamiliar, it's Dave Douglas' Constellations.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 16, 2017, 09:13:33 PM
^ i really enjoyed the Cherry–Sakura album. Pianist and saxophonist understand each other perfectly.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 17, 2017, 12:45:06 PM
@sanantonio: all I can say is wow, impressive that you even know him! You must be one hell of a bass player!

This is for King Ubu:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3nNkcQ1t7hM/S5LFJtusG2I/AAAAAAAAPkA/dVM_9ao8yEw/s400/The+Ed+Palermo+Big+Band+-+Plays+The+Music+Of+Frank+Zappa+-+Front.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 17, 2017, 12:53:37 PM
I just ordered some early Chick Corea: ARC, Early Circle, and IS Sessions. I love this early avant-garde stuff of Corea.. Wow, things have really changed a lot! A good argument could be made that Corea 'sold out,' but I won't accuse him.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510kixvYUqL._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RqhLUzshL._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41O8iZO%2BwrL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 18, 2017, 08:30:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41bLE3kKpcL._SY355_.jpg)

David Murray - Sacred Ground (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 19, 2017, 04:26:47 AM
Clifford Jordan: Spellbound

[asin]B000000YYK[/asin]

Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1

[asin]B0000262QX[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 19, 2017, 10:12:11 AM
Lots of jump blues, i.e. Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan, Slim Galliard, Wynonie Harris and more.

Great stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 19, 2017, 10:13:54 AM
Quote from: millionrainbows on October 17, 2017, 12:45:06 PM
@sanantonio: all I can say is wow, impressive that you even know him! You must be one hell of a bass player!

Hah!  I used to be pretty good, but haven't played bass in a long time, my chops on upright are gone.  These days I play a fretless acoustic bass guitar. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 19, 2017, 08:24:36 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/AMmIrnHqSo0MiPc2hHFHjFrch3Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1259140-1273937295.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/z-875B16oVjwmjJrhpM3-TN8-O8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7005407-1431504361-7713.jpeg.jpg)

Pål Thowsen / Jon Christensen / Terje Rypdal / Arild Andersen – No Time For Time (1977)
Alice Coltrane - Turiya Sings (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 20, 2017, 12:36:39 PM
I got out this Cecil Taylor. I now seem to understand it better than when I first bought it.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/619dLWeldlL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Cato on October 20, 2017, 01:29:16 PM
My niece has released an album of old standards:

https://www.amazon.com/Synesthetic-Blythe-Schulte/dp/B0762F42DN (https://www.amazon.com/Synesthetic-Blythe-Schulte/dp/B0762F42DN)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 20, 2017, 01:56:23 PM
Quote from: Cato on October 20, 2017, 01:29:16 PM
My niece has released an album of old standards:

https://www.amazon.com/Synesthetic-Blythe-Schulte/dp/B0762F42DN (https://www.amazon.com/Synesthetic-Blythe-Schulte/dp/B0762F42DN)

Some good vocal chops, and nice selection of tunes. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Cato on October 20, 2017, 06:07:46 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 20, 2017, 01:56:23 PM
Some good vocal chops, and nice selection of tunes.

I will pass along your nice comments!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 20, 2017, 08:16:07 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/6d0SHqi2VFFl88V7R_tDRRuLjjc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6385274-1418074513-5146.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xp34eVmbL.jpg)

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - The Late Show (1965)
Horace Silver - Silver n Wood (1976)

(https://img.discogs.com/iQwWRUO6XMm58CxgFkD9kLEXNa0=/fit-in/592x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-712547-1172911848.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51V4xm4WWRL.jpg)

Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand (1969)
Louis Smith - Here Comes Louis Smith (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 20, 2017, 08:27:17 PM
Mingusiana:

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[asin]B0000AKNJL[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 12:49:46 PM
^Love Mingus Ah Um but didn't warm to The Great Concert the couple of times I've heard it. Might have to give it another try.

now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Prelude_to_cora_-_album_cover.jpg)

Ambrose Akinmusire - Prelude...To Cora (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 21, 2017, 01:02:02 PM
Just received in mail. Avant garde music. Is it jazz? Is it jazz trying to be something else? Was Cecil Taylor right, back in 1955? Did John Coltrane take too much acid? Well, I'm here to find out!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510kixvYUqL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 01:22:03 PM
What did Cecil Taylor say in 1955?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 21, 2017, 02:32:32 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/0QMiJGdEqWhdaDOoEiSthJhEYpc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10345079-1495711866-5792.jpeg.jpg)


There is great energy and electricity in both of theses recording sessions even if the sound quality is not pristine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 21, 2017, 02:33:02 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 01:22:03 PM
What did Cecil Taylor say in 1955?

A good question  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 21, 2017, 02:44:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 12:49:46 PM
^[...] didn't warm to The Great Concert the couple of times I've heard it. Might have to give it another try.

I prefer the Town Hall 1964 album over this one, but on the other hand The Great Concert is a more comprehensive document. Worth having both, of course (plus others that cover the Dolphy period)!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 21, 2017, 03:53:32 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 20, 2017, 08:27:17 PM
Mingusiana:

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I listen to this recording on average once a month; it is one of the greats
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 04:11:07 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/I9z2su5_nlUwySvjnt5Ds4PWwBo=/fit-in/400x403/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-727071-1152457158.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mTJ0vmYBL.jpg)

Meredith Monk - Key (1971)
Sonny Rollins - G-Man (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 21, 2017, 05:22:01 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on October 21, 2017, 03:53:32 PM
I listen to this recording on average once a month; it is one of the greats

Absolutely. Along with The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Mingus' two greatest (IMO, needless to say - well, maybe I do need to say it ;)).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 23, 2017, 12:16:34 PM
Django Reinhart: retrospectives
Joy in music

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 23, 2017, 01:43:18 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 20, 2017, 08:16:07 PM
Louis Smith - Here Comes Louis Smith (1958)
Really curious about this one - it's been on my wishlist for a long time because I'm a big fan of Buckshot La Funke. How do you like it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 23, 2017, 04:40:09 PM
Quote from: Brian on October 23, 2017, 01:43:18 PM
Really curious about this one - it's been on my wishlist for a long time because I'm a big fan of Buckshot La Funke. How do you like it?

Heh. Buckshot Le Funke is Cannonball Adderley, right? It's a fun album and he's showcased well. Hard to believe he was recording it around the same time as Milestones as this in contrast is pure bebop of the Diz-Bird type.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 23, 2017, 05:39:30 PM
Here Comes Louis Smith is a fun album indeed and with that lineup of musicians, how could it not be?

Thread duty:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BsqUdIg1L._SL1500_.jpg)

One of my all-time favorites. Everything is just right here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 23, 2017, 06:53:34 PM
Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/2TIMt8XqeSCEp4UmW3WpmLwnCRc=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10139992-1492664422-9637.jpeg.jpg)

Petrucciani made this album when he was 18 yrs. old. The music on this album doesn't sound like it came from a teenager. It sounds like he's been playing for 30 years. Quite an accomplishment indeed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 23, 2017, 08:53:18 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KxWdbkK3L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51slhawMDTL._SS500.jpg)

Philip Catherine and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen ‎– Spanish Nights (1992)
Ambrose Akinmusire - When The Heart Emerges Glistening (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 24, 2017, 02:19:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/GmIsJ5GVfbI
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 24, 2017, 12:00:32 PM
A playlist with four classic records:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81CP1j-zprL._SY355_.jpg)(https://imagescdn.juno.co.uk/full/CS392615-01A-BIG.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/R-lhgd6DtZLXMLibN8ZF9deXFUM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2108087-1327360965.jpeg.jpg)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/In_%27N_Out.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 24, 2017, 09:48:26 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/710/MI0003710735.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ambrose Akinmusire - The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: millionrainbows on October 25, 2017, 11:09:30 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 21, 2017, 01:22:03 PM
What did Cecil Taylor say in 1955?

I meant "was he right?" in the sense of "was he going in the right direction?" His earlier recordings were done as early as 1955, and even back then he was departing from the norm. His music was more approachable back then. Some of the tunes are based on standards, and some are blues forms. With a blues form, we know the basic underlying form, so it's easier to interpret 'the stuff on top of it.' For instance, Steve Lacy solos in a more traditional way, and when Cecil Taylor solos, it's easier to hear the implications of what he's doing. It has more to do with rhythmic gesture, and less with melody or harmony.

Now listening to Chick Corea-related groups.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/419gIYzsk6L._AC_US218_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wwnxNfQeL._AC_US218_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 25, 2017, 11:14:27 AM
Random playing from this great set

(https://img.discogs.com/gK96GQQpd0TlNQcKlTbbMGBlHF8=/fit-in/574x517/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3663118-1339397822-7731.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 25, 2017, 08:31:09 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/p5JKN7QYj7kD12lPdHkStBTTmss=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5526064-1395646156-2172.jpeg.jpg)

David Binney - Barefooted Town (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 26, 2017, 11:20:47 AM
Brad Mehldau: 10 years solo live - CD 1 -


[asin]B014LS6244[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2017, 08:14:56 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51C6s9YCglL.jpg)

Danny Grissett - Form (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 26, 2017, 10:06:28 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/I9HZe5vP5-M
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 26, 2017, 10:08:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/1hnfriKoJEc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 27, 2017, 04:57:23 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61xferW2KxL._SS500.jpg) (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/grYAAOSwyZ5UpEmn/s-l300.jpg)

Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (2017)
Joe Roland - Joltin Joe Roland (1954)

(https://img.discogs.com/n0Tx_uNJehwJokQKkV2B8bw0wDs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1707593-1238285030.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/077/MI0002077324.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Kenny Clarke - Bohemia After Dark (1955)
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 27, 2017, 08:32:36 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 23, 2017, 05:39:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BsqUdIg1L._SL1500_.jpg)

One of my all-time favorites. Everything is just right here.

Pounds the table, as you would say yourself, MI! One of my all-time favorites. Of course its "companion" Empyrean Isles is right there with it, but I prefer Maiden Voyage because of George Coleman's presence.

Quote from: SimonNZ on October 27, 2017, 04:57:23 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61xferW2KxL._SS500.jpg)

Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard (2017)

I confess that I have not heard a note of Akinmusire's music. Is he worth checking out?

Oh, and TD (still listening my way through it):

(https://img.discogs.com/kD-rNKwPf0af0A0dRwEdmXgmY0Y=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8596715-1464794542-6469.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 27, 2017, 08:41:33 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 27, 2017, 08:32:36 PM

I confess that I have not heard a note of Akinmusire's music. Is he worth checking out?


I'm new to him myself, but after my first listens to his albums over the last few days the answer is a strong yes. A much more individual voice in both composition and performance in an approachable mainstreamish context than many currently now doing solid but undistinctive work. The three Blue Note studio albums with him as leader especially. That live album was strong, but hear the studio ones first.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on October 28, 2017, 06:11:16 AM
A be-bop classic

[asin]B0018RWD6I[/asin]

And CD2

[asin]B014LS6244[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 28, 2017, 02:27:39 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71j9x%2BrUMZL._SY355_.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/090/MI0002090468.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Mike Moreno - Three For Three (2017)
Marian McPartland - At Storyville/At The Hickory House (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 28, 2017, 08:01:38 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 27, 2017, 08:41:33 PM
I'm new to him myself, but after my first listens to his albums over the last few days the answer is a strong yes. A much more individual voice in both composition and performance in an approachable mainstreamish context than many currently now doing solid but undistinctive work. The three Blue Note studio albums with him as leader especially. That live album was strong, but hear the studio ones first.

Thanks! I'll (*sigh*) add him to the list. :)

Sometimes I almost wish the recording industry would take a sabbatical for a couple of years just so I could catch up a little ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 29, 2017, 05:27:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/Nb28f6UrQHw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 29, 2017, 08:50:45 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/TT8zZ8BmGmTApakW3j_HqI0jl6Q=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6954288-1430314540-6172.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xIETfi49L._SX466_.jpg)

LaVergne Smith - New Orleans Nightingale (1954)
Eliot Zigmund - Time Was (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 30, 2017, 08:17:32 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/EUMp8eGw4ihs9_q7a-ulDDElz0s=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7475669-1442240063-2563.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61DBcrwKFJL._SS500.jpg)

Donald Byrd - Byrd's Word (1955)
Piotr Baron - Salve Regina (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 31, 2017, 10:57:14 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Backgammon_%28album%29.jpg)

Art Blakey - Backgammon (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 01, 2017, 02:16:09 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/yPYjPTiv-Xo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on November 02, 2017, 02:46:57 PM
Some early Jazz....


(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/O6QAAOSwi2lZiwM2/$_57.JPG)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 03, 2017, 04:18:29 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aKWgLwdFL._SS500.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/496/MI0002496799.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Piotr Baron - Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus (2008)
Milt Jackson - The Jazz Skyline (1956)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71UhfCNW6qL._SX355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/718-4zkZttL._SY355_.jpg)

Darrell Grant - The New Bop (1994)
Gene Segal - Spiral (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 04, 2017, 08:16:41 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/101/MI0002101200.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91QLKZlBcuL._SL1500_.jpg)

Art Pepper - Surf Ride (1956)
Somi - The Lagos Music Salon (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 05, 2017, 03:35:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/D9UeFOXtgzA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on November 05, 2017, 04:33:59 PM
Found this today at B&N, first listen now.
[asin]B06XS1K96S[/asin]
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/713JFOGqvrL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 05, 2017, 09:23:22 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/M_z4OJoK4ni9ZFkqlBChTJyX3l0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3390940-1328563339.jpeg.jpg)

Al Caiola - Deep In A Dream (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 05, 2017, 09:29:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/9lJOkXETO70
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 06, 2017, 08:05:41 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Coltraneballads.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Omicron9 on November 06, 2017, 08:38:56 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: 1961.  This is a double-CD set of two albums recorded in 1961 with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow (before SS moved to electric bass).  Wonderful works, and sometimes occupying a middle ground between jazz and chamber works.  They were long OOP before ECM re-released them as a set in the '90s. I believe they are once again OOP, but can still be found on Amazon Marketplace.  Sadly it seems to be rather unknown, but a fantastic record.

[asin]B000025WLT[/asin]

-09
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 06, 2017, 08:45:16 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/712/MI0000712066.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Red Norvo - Move (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 07, 2017, 01:15:28 PM
Watched the Coltrane documentary on PBS and thought it was very good.

https://www.youtube.com/v/fZYti3JrIdI
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 07, 2017, 06:36:04 PM
Quote from: Omicron9 on November 06, 2017, 08:38:56 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: 1961.  This is a double-CD set of two albums recorded in 1961 with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow (before SS moved to electric bass).  Wonderful works, and sometimes occupying a middle ground between jazz and chamber works.  They were long OOP before ECM re-released them as a set in the '90s. I believe they are once again OOP, but can still be found on Amazon Marketplace.  Sadly it seems to be rather unknown, but a fantastic record.

[asin]B000025WLT[/asin]

-09

Yes, indeed! A great one.

TD:

[asin]B00ZITZT54[/asin]

I like everything I've heard from this guy, and this one (a first listen) was no exception. Excellent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 07, 2017, 07:49:37 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/770/MI0002770829.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Al Cohn - Al Cohn's Tones (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 08, 2017, 08:28:40 AM
Nov 1957 at Carnagie Hall - A 60 years anniversary

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 08, 2017, 08:40:29 AM
Quote from: Spineur on November 08, 2017, 08:28:40 AM
Nov 1957 at Carnagie Hall - A 60 years anniversary

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I was also listening to this recording earlier today.  Great one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 08, 2017, 12:15:21 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71LQ34%2BJj%2BL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 08, 2017, 07:27:33 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/422/MI0002422687.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/585/MI0000585058.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Herbie Mann - Yardbird Suite (1957)
Frank Lowe - The Flam (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on November 09, 2017, 10:42:32 AM
A king Ubu recommendation and a pretty dog good one !

[asin]B00HDP6IQA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 09, 2017, 11:10:37 AM
Quote from: Spineur on November 09, 2017, 10:42:32 AM
A king Ubu recommendation and a pretty dog good one !

[asin]B00HDP6IQA[/asin]

Good stuff. 

TD

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XRq3HtjXL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 09, 2017, 12:14:48 PM
Random play from four albums I like

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Mingus_Ah_Um_-_Charles_Mingus.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/owlAFOeQDgmN7TCrINLM8OqeYEE=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-374507-1457737273-1090.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/Dvt_poM8zDpFqAVXjWSAgMGGXpw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1907831-1328723057.jpeg.jpg)(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/735/0000735306.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 09, 2017, 07:17:05 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61L%2BpFcgLjL.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/116/MI0002116026.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Kenny Clarke - Plays Andre Hodeir (1957)
Sahib Sahib - Jazz Sahib (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 10, 2017, 12:42:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/FZVexOkNZP8
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 10, 2017, 05:19:53 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Tanganyika_Strut.jpeg)

Wilbur Harden - Tanganyika Strut (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 11, 2017, 05:27:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/oF9_tLxMbB0
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on November 11, 2017, 06:51:28 AM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 09, 2017, 12:14:48 PM
Random play from four albums I like

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Mingus_Ah_Um_-_Charles_Mingus.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/owlAFOeQDgmN7TCrINLM8OqeYEE=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-374507-1457737273-1090.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/Dvt_poM8zDpFqAVXjWSAgMGGXpw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1907831-1328723057.jpeg.jpg)(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/735/0000735306.jpg)

All great ones, too! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 11, 2017, 10:11:07 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/851/MI0001851209.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Barbara Long - Soul: The Voice Of Barbara Long (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2017, 12:19:04 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 16, 2017, 08:53:45 PM
Best wishes from me too! Always look forward to seeing what jazz you're listening to.
Thanks - I'm back and it was great!

What I listened to on the phone while traveling:

Keith Jarrett Trio at the Blue Note (the full box, during a bus trip lasting an entire night and half the next morning - amazing stuff of course!)
Gene Ammons - Boss Tenor (still think the congas don't really work half of the time, but this is wonderful)
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band - Basle, 1969 (one of my favourites by this amazing band - some mean Joe Henderson there!)
... and a few more that I don't remember or stopped half way through

Quote from: Alek Hidell on October 16, 2017, 08:53:45 PM
Hmm. How is that?

[/quote]
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 16, 2017, 09:13:33 PM
^ i really enjoyed the Cherry–Sakura album. Pianist and saxophonist understand each other perfectly.
This is on David Murray/Aki Takase - funny thing, as they played a concert in Zurich a while ago, and since I'd previously missed Murray many times I finally went to catch him that night ... and the duo was totally odd. Takase seemed to read *everything* she played, and she just never quite got the stride rhythm right. It was awkward, yet Murray seemed to enjoy himself (he was on the jury of a local jazz price and he could wish for any partner(s) for the jury night set he played - probably they asked him to pick people residing in Europe, I wouldn't know) ... but I was almost ready to give up on Takase for the last time (I keep trying, I like some of the stuff she's done but will never be a fan). Either way, I had started becoming an Intakt subscriber while before and of course the duo disc was sent to me (you get six of their releases per year and are kind of a donor, granting some regular cash flow - and no, you cannot pick what you'll get, but being in Zurich they know me and if I buy a disc at a gig they will know I already have it and offer me something else if that same disc would be the next one for subscribers ... works out alright - note to self: order the new Alexander Hawkins disc now!) --- anyway, when I got the disc I first thought: oh no. But then a few days later I popped it in the player and was amazed to find that I really enjoyed it and could not hear any of the things that bothered me so much at the concert (I think they actually went to the studio a few days after that concert) - none of that stiffness, none of the wrong/awkward time/phrasing ... so yeah, it is a nice disc!

Quote from: Omicron9 on November 06, 2017, 08:38:56 AM
Jimmy Giuffre: 1961.  This is a double-CD set of two albums recorded in 1961 with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow (before SS moved to electric bass).  Wonderful works, and sometimes occupying a middle ground between jazz and chamber works.  They were long OOP before ECM re-released them as a set in the '90s. I believe they are once again OOP, but can still be found on Amazon Marketplace.  Sadly it seems to be rather unknown, but a fantastic record.

[asin]B000025WLT[/asin]

-09

I guess these albums are pretty well known, at least amongst those that know about Giuffre and/or Bley ... there is a third one also, "Free Fall", on Columbia, and maybe the trio's glorious masterpiece, though definitely much less accessible. Then there are two concerts from Germany that were released at least twice on Hat Art and are now - with some prev. unissued tracks (no Giuffre on them, not sure if it's Bley solos or Bley/Swallow duets) - again on Emanem. Absolutely worth getting!

Thread duty:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/522/MI0003522573.jpg)

Went to pick up my mail yesterday, among it were two parcels from CDJapan with some Milt Jackson and Jack Wilson discs and more. Also this one, which I played yesterday:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/351/MI0000351345.jpg)

Now here's an underrated musician ... Stuff Smith was a musical genius on par with Coleman Hawkins, yet he left too few recordings. Virtually anything you can lay your fingers on is worth checking out, be it his early trio (there was a Chronological Jazz Classics disc), his Verve albums (among them some glorious stuff with Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson) or later recordings from Europe on Storyville or elsewhere.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 11, 2017, 02:42:17 PM
Hey, KU! How is the new job going?

I'm very jealous that you got to see David Murray live, even if it was an odd night.

today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MEqTwYyXL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/319pw%2BUNBaL._SX355_.jpg)

The Dreamers - Ipos: John Zorn's Book Of Angels, Vol.14
Garth Knox and the Saltarello Trio - Leonard: John Zorn's Book Of Angels, Vol.30

I don't love every release in this series, but these two were really good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2017, 03:29:54 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 11, 2017, 02:42:17 PM
Hey, KU! How is the new job going?

Only starting in December, luckily ... some spare time ahead! Catching films by Jacques Tourneur (missed much of the series as it started while I was still in India, returned Friday early morning, afternoon in the movies for the first time), some concerts (Bruckner 8 with Welster-Möst, Beethoven's cello sonatas with Altstaedt/Lonquich), holding my goodbye apéro at the old job (I'm employed there until end of Nov, but on vacation), and then on Sunday I'll be off for some relaxing in Italy (packing some books, looking up some good restaurants, and of course checking out some sights, though I've been to both places I'll visit, Mantova and Ferrara).

As for thread duty, this one just finished:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/079/MI0000079820.jpg)

It's Bags' last album, and it presents him fronting a young lions band: Benny Green (p), Christian McBride (b), Kenny Washington (d), and on some tracks Nicholas Payton (t), Jesse Davis (as), Joshua Redman (ts). Another good one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 11, 2017, 06:23:22 PM
Glad to hear you're doing well.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/uax2eJuw4if6xcUHHSBFQukmyCs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-642970-1142370978.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/9EljyAtlt5iiWXTqW04znnioxgQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3452145-1437859253-9126.jpeg.jpg)

Yusef Lateef ‎– Nocturnes (1989)
Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Midnight Show (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2017, 11:21:02 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 11, 2017, 06:23:22 PM
Glad to hear you're doing well.

now:

...
Yusef Lateef ‎– Nocturnes (1989)
Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Midnight Show (1961)

Thanks Simon!

What's that Lateef? Don't know much of his post-Atlantic work yet, and not sure how much of it is interesting really (most of it is on his own label and was always rather difficult to get).

Re Jaws/Griff, on the flight home (eight hours from Delhi to Zurich), I played their Prestige/Riverside/Jazzland sessions complete, in chronological order (except I stopped when the celesta on the last album, "Pisces", started kicking in, wasn't in the mood for that).

Last night - another new arrival from Japan:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/760/MI0001760098.jpg)

Sweet stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 12, 2017, 03:54:06 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/DRm4iaNn3OU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 12, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
Quote from: king ubu on November 11, 2017, 11:21:02 PM

What's that Lateef? Don't know much of his post-Atlantic work yet, and not sure how much of it is interesting really (most of it is on his own label and was always rather difficult to get).


The Lateef Nocturnes was quite unusual and interesting - brooding soundscapes you might usually associate with better modern noir-ish films. Unlike anything i've heard from him before, though I've still heard less than half of his discography.

now:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/855/MI0001855034.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Teddy Charles - Vibe-Rant (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 13, 2017, 01:53:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/BpgPDWranzE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 13, 2017, 07:45:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 12, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
The Lateef Nocturnes was quite unusual and interesting - brooding soundscapes you might usually associate with better modern noir-ish films. Unlike anything i've heard from him before, though I've still heard less than half of his discography.

Thanks ... not sure that is for me then. Got some unplayed yet late 'teef around I ought to check out.

A recommended one is "Ballads", and there are also the "Tenors" albums of course ... oh, and the double album with the Belmondo brothers is magnificent!

Guess I'm still in market for more, he is one of my very favourites for sure ... but he seems to have made some new-agey stuff in the late seventies and eighties and I guess I better steer clear of that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 13, 2017, 08:39:15 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/737/MI0000737508.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 13, 2017, 07:28:06 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/HVZmMfycLSH_n5JR-tNe8udYISs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2300841-1457754833-6959.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/202/MI0003202787.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

A.K.Salim - Flute Suite (1957)
Archie Shepp and Joachim Kuhn - Wo!man (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 14, 2017, 07:31:18 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RYZRLWO3L._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/TB74OxfeuGptW7nU66CG8BStQx8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2938228-1308183492.jpeg.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Don't Be Afraid: The Music Of Charles Mingus (2006)
Bill Barron - Modern Windows (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 15, 2017, 06:48:45 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/PysKAM7ZCQE7ahhSV7PlWp5xH2I=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3009715-1311541042.gif.jpg)

Classic Anita O'Day record with arrangements by Gary McFarland.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2017, 11:19:40 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/EW7UeN3vfGMOn4e1I1GgNinsylE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10529047-1499293321-9607.jpeg.jpg)

brand new and in today from Ayler Records - really like what Alexandra Grimal does (her older brother David, btw, may be known to the classical heads here  ;) )
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 15, 2017, 11:31:13 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/JuJu-Wayne_Shorter.jpg)

Shorter's early Blue Note albums are perennial favorites of mine.  I go back to them often, today it is this one. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 15, 2017, 12:00:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51be5cjRYlL.jpg)

Love Martial Solal ... 90 years and from what I know still going strong. This encounter was recorded in August 2016, first spin, and first impression is mighty good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 15, 2017, 12:21:50 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513-kO7q4kL._SS500.jpg)

Listening to Wayne Shorter reminded me of Dexter Gordon, whom Shorter was obviously influenced by, soundwise.  The BN album Ballads - there's no word to describe it other than "great".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 15, 2017, 09:42:13 PM
^Take note, though, that Ballads is a compilation album - have you heard the albums those tracks originally appear on?

now:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/286/MI0000286432.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Masada - Live In Sevilla (2000)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on November 16, 2017, 02:21:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/RiryBBUUDW4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 16, 2017, 02:24:03 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 15, 2017, 09:42:13 PM
^Take note, though, that Ballads is a compilation album - have you heard the albums those tracks originally appear on?

Of course.   ::)




Sorry, that must have come off as harsh.   But I have a long involvement, over nearly fifty years, with jazz both as a listener and professional musician, having performed with many of the guys you know from their recordings.  So, yes, I have heard all of the basic literature and know the music.   
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 16, 2017, 02:46:29 AM
Quote from: James on November 16, 2017, 02:21:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/RiryBBUUDW4

Good one.  This one and Ballads were a nice time out before Coltrane commenced his journey.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 04:18:51 AM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 16, 2017, 02:46:29 AM
Good one.  This one and Ballads were a nice time out before Coltrane commenced his journey.

Recommenced his journey  :)

Of the three "mellow" (others say: commercial) ones, I like the one with Coltrane best. But Coltrane realky hasn't made a bad album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 16, 2017, 04:23:23 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 04:18:51 AM
Of the three "mellow" (others say: commercial) ones, I like the one with Coltrane best.

I don't understand you here, did you mean to say Hartman, or someone else?  What is the third mellow recording you are thinking of?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 04:45:24 AM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 16, 2017, 04:23:23 AM
I don't understand you here, did you mean to say Hartman, or someone else?  What is the third mellow recording you are thinking of?
Ooops, sorry, put "Ellington" for "Coltrane"  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 16, 2017, 04:53:40 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 04:45:24 AM
Ooops, sorry, put "Ellington" for "Coltrane"  :)

Oh.  I think of that as an Ellington album.  Speaking of which, Ellington's records with Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins are also fantastic.  I feel like I am forgetting another of Ellington's duo recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 05:22:36 AM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 16, 2017, 04:53:40 AM
Oh.  I think of that as an Ellington album.  Speaking of which, Ellington's records with Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins are also fantastic.  I feel like I am forgetting another of Ellington's duo recordings.

Agreed! Great stuff. And "Money Jungle" falls into the same period as the Impulse albums.

Not sure what else you could have in mind - Duke & Ella, with Blanton, the hommage to Blanton with Ray Brown ... or maybe rather the Ellington/Hodges co-led 1,5 albums on Verve?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 16, 2017, 07:09:27 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 16, 2017, 05:22:36 AM
Agreed! Great stuff. And "Money Jungle" falls into the same period as the Impulse albums.

Not sure what else you could have in mind - Duke & Ella, with Blanton, the hommage to Blanton with Ray Brown ... or maybe rather the Ellington/Hodges co-led 1,5 albums on Verve?

I was thinking the one with Mahalia Jackson, Black, Brown & Beige since I had just been listening to it recently, but I later also thought that Ella at Duke's Place as fitting the bill.

Frank Sinatra also did a "Duke meets" album, but it is not among my favorites.

The two with Johnny Hodges, Back to Back and Side by Side (I know, not really a Duke led session, and he only appears on half of the record) are great.  Money Jungle is good, but something about it does not appeal to me as do all these others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 16, 2017, 11:30:33 AM
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Roni Ben-Hur - Signature (2005)
Roscoe Mitchell - Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin (2013)

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David Binney and Edward Simon - Afinidad (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 16, 2017, 12:47:23 PM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 16, 2017, 02:24:03 AM
Of course.   ::)




Sorry, that must have come off as harsh.   But I have a long involvement, over nearly fifty years, with jazz both as a listener and professional musician, having performed with many of the guys you know from their recordings.  So, yes, I have heard all of the basic literature and know the music.   

On the one hand I can see how you took the question that way. On the other hand I have also been listening to jazz for decades and know that I'm still constantly saying "despite being a huge fan of x I've never heard this album" or "despite being a big fan of x I've still heard only a fraction of their discography" or "somehow I've still not gotten around to x" or "somehow I've never found my way into liking x but will try again later" - and that I'll probably still be saying that decades from now.

So the question ism't as absurd or insulting or condescending as it might first appear, and was not my intention. And, again, I myself being a big fan of Dexter Gordon I know there's still plenty from his considerable output I've yet to hear for the first time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 17, 2017, 12:18:16 AM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 16, 2017, 07:09:27 AM
I was thinking the one with Mahalia Jackson, Black, Brown & Beige since I had just been listening to it recently, but I later also thought that Ella at Duke's Place as fitting the bill.

Frank Sinatra also did a "Duke meets" album, but it is not among my favorites.

The two with Johnny Hodges, Back to Back and Side by Side (I know, not really a Duke led session, and he only appears on half of the record) are great.  Money Jungle is good, but something about it does not appeal to me as do all these others.

Oh, wow, to me, "Money Jungle" is desert island stuff. The story behind it, the tensions and all ... I absolutely love it!

The one with Mahalia Jackson, while one of Ellington's finest, I tend to look at as a pure Ellington disc (with a guest spot for Mahalia), so that didn't come up. "Side by Side" completes the "Back to Back" session and adds more tracks from another Hodges session ... this was when Hodges was back with Ellington but still recording regularly as a leader for Verve. Some glorious music to be found there, that mostly is "ducal" of course. On "Back to Back", I really like the combination of some Basie-ites with Ellingtonians and some strangers (Les Spann - pretty good guitar player!)

The album with Sinatra doesn't really work that well for me either - Sinatra/Basie however does work very well!

And mentioning Basie twice now: there's of course also the nutty album where the full Basie and Ellington aggregations meet - and the result is pretty good, actually!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 17, 2017, 01:30:22 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 17, 2017, 12:18:16 AM
Oh, wow, to me, "Money Jungle" is desert island stuff. The story behind it, the tensions and all ... I absolutely love it!

The back story is a bothersome distraction, imo.  As to the music itself, I don't think the trio jells (mainly because of Mingus, and I say this as a bass player myself) - but it is interesting as a historical document and there are some good things here and there.  I prefer many other Ellington sessions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 17, 2017, 04:06:49 AM
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Some good stuff here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 17, 2017, 08:06:55 AM
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Always worth hearing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 17, 2017, 06:53:21 PM
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Sarah Vaughan - You're Mine You (1962)
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound Songs (1994)

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Brian Dickinson and Jerry Bergonzi - Soul Mission (2005)
Air - Air Song (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 18, 2017, 02:55:08 PM
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Carl Winther and Jerry Bergonzi - Inner Journey (2017)
Air - Air Time (1977)

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Roscoe Mitchell - Conversations 2 (2014)
Hampton Hawes - Four (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 18, 2017, 07:19:43 PM
Just heard on KCSM, added to list:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 19, 2017, 08:38:30 PM
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Jerry Bergonzi - One Stone Two Birds (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 20, 2017, 06:37:17 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 20, 2017, 08:00:02 PM
Previously:
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Arne Domnérus: Jazz at the Pawnshop

Currently:
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Arve Henriksen: Solidification

Arne to Arve. I'm using the Cover Flow on my iPod. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 20, 2017, 08:17:50 PM
Arve Henriksen is AMAZING. I've tried to preach to the locals here, but have been ignored!  :blank:

Have you tried World of Glass and Strjon? Currently I also have Atmospheres and the Magical Forest cued up and ready for listening.

What are your favorites?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 20, 2017, 08:21:31 PM
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Phil Minton - Ways (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 21, 2017, 12:23:02 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 21, 2017, 06:26:12 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 20, 2017, 08:17:50 PM
Arve Henriksen is AMAZING. I've tried to preach to the locals here, but have been ignored!  :blank:

Have you tried World of Glass and Strjon? Currently I also have Atmospheres and the Magical Forest cued up and ready for listening.

What are your favorites?

Strjon is a part of Solidification (Solidification is a convocation of Sakuteiki, Chiaroscuro, and Strjon, plus bonus tracks, and a new album called Chron). TBH, the only other Henriksen I've heard is his ECM album Cartography. It seems like I may have heard him playing on someone else's album, but if so I can't recall it right now.

I've just started listening (in the car - I'll pick it up again tomorrow) to Lomahongva, which came highly recommended on the Free Jazz Blog. Sounds good so far, but I've only just begun it.

His style is attractive to me - I'm very fond of Scandinavian jazz, and I love the variety of sounds he gets from his trumpet (though I realize that there could be a good deal of electronic manipulation involved). That Scandinavian kind of "atmospheric," "ambient" sound - Mathias Eick is another exponent of it - appeals to me.

So thanks for the recommendation of World of Glass! I listened to a couple of samples and it sounds like something that could be up my street. I'll make a note of it!

I also have Atmosphères, but I haven't listened to it yet. Let me know how you get on with it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 21, 2017, 06:36:14 PM
Two posts in a row. Sorry about that.  :-\

But I guess I should do my thread duty:

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Speak of the devil - I listened to it this morning.

Plus these chestnuts:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 21, 2017, 06:48:14 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on November 21, 2017, 06:26:12 PM
Strjon is a part of Solidification (Solidification is a convocation of Sakuteiki, Chiaroscuro, and Strjon, plus bonus tracks, and a new album called Chron). TBH, the only other Henriksen I've heard is his ECM album Cartography. It seems like I may have heard him playing on someone else's album, but if so I can't recall it right now.

I've just started listening (in the car - I'll pick it up again tomorrow) to Lomahongva, which came highly recommended on the Free Jazz Blog. Sounds good so far, but I've only just begun it.

His style is attractive to me - I'm very fond of Scandinavian jazz, and I love the variety of sounds he gets from his trumpet (though I realize that there could be a good deal of electronic manipulation involved). That Scandinavian kind of "atmospheric," "ambient" sound - Mathias Eick is another exponent of it - appeals to me.

So thanks for the recommendation of World of Glass! I listened to a couple of samples and it sounds like something that could be up my street. I'll make a note of it!

I also have Atmosphères, but I haven't listened to it yet. Let me know how you get on with it!

Thanks for the info. The Solidification set looks tempting but bulky and expensive for mostly music I already have or could get easily on CD. In any case, I too love the Nordic jazz sound. I have a few Mathias Eick as well. You might also enjoy these:

Iro Haarla Vespers

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Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli ‎– Yeraz

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Christian Wallumrod Ensemble - A Year from Easter

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 21, 2017, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 21, 2017, 06:48:14 PM
Thanks for the info. The Solidification set looks tempting but bulky and expensive for mostly music I already have or could get easily on CD. In any case, I too love the Nordic jazz sound. I have a few Mathias Eick as well. You might also enjoy these:

Iro Haarla Vespers

Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli ‎– Yeraz

Christian Wallumrod Ensemble - A Year from Easter

And I thank you again - I have (and love) Vespers. (Her earlier Northbound, also with Seim and Eick, is very fine too if you haven't heard it.) I've seen both of the other two (I'm a shameless ECM fanboy :)) and will investigate. I like what I've heard by Trygve Seim as a leader (especially Different Rivers) and have two or three of Wallumrød's other albums, so I'm sure these would appeal to me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 21, 2017, 07:51:38 PM
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Art Farmer - On The Road (1976)
Gary Bartz - JuJu Man (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 22, 2017, 07:21:43 PM
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Jon Hendricks - Evolution Of The Blues Song (1960)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 23, 2017, 08:10:34 AM
I really, really like the Monk quartet records but some days I like his solo piano sides even more:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 24, 2017, 02:10:17 PM
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Jon Hendricks - A Good Git Together (1959)
Count Basie and Big Joe Turner - The Bosses (1973)

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Ray Brown - Something For Lester (1978)
John Coltrane - Coltrane (1957)

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Beverley Kenney - Come Swing With Me (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 24, 2017, 08:28:18 PM
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Pretty decent lineup here [/understatement]. Waldron's piano (i.e., the one he was given to play) sounds terribly out of tune, but of course the playing by all five men is amazing. I sure wish Dolphy and Monk had recorded together at some point.

This one is underway - sounds very fine so far:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 25, 2017, 02:22:42 PM
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Elvin Jones - Live In Japan 1978
Cedar Walton - The Pentagon (1976)

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Kenny Burrell - Tin Tin Deo (1977)
Howard Riley - Consequences (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 26, 2017, 09:39:26 PM
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Martial Solal - Longitude (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 27, 2017, 07:53:40 PM
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Martial Solal and Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen ‎– Movability (1976)
Wadada Leo Smith and Adam Rudolph - Compassion (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2017, 07:10:07 PM
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Cecil Taylor and Gigi Gryce - At Newport (1958)
Freddie Hubbard - Super Blue (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 29, 2017, 10:22:50 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 29, 2017, 10:23:43 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on November 24, 2017, 08:28:18 PM
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Good one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 29, 2017, 04:39:39 PM
Quote from: San Antonio on November 29, 2017, 10:23:43 AM
Good one.

Indeed. I don't actually have that edition, but I compiled it from Dolphy's Complete Prestige Recordings and have given it that cover in my iPod. ;D

TD:

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First listens to both, and both quite enjoyable. I'm not sure why, but I expected the Carroll to be a bit more avant-garde than it actually revealed itself to be. It isn't straight-ahead by any means, but it isn't way out either - maybe somewhat like David Murray's Ming or something by Booker Ervin if he'd lived another decade or so.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 29, 2017, 07:39:33 PM
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Ann Burton and The Louis van Dyke Trio - Blue Burton (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 30, 2017, 10:37:38 AM
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Lush Life
Joe Henderson Plays the Music of Billy Strayhorn
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2017, 12:42:47 AM
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Jo Stafford - Getting Sentimental Over Tommy Dorsey (1963)
Charlie Rouse and Paul Quinichette - The Chase Is On (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2017, 04:21:52 PM
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John Abercrombie and John Scofield - Solar (1984)
Jimmy Smith - Off The Top (1983)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 02, 2017, 01:25:34 PM
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Buck Clayton - How Hi The Fi (1954)
Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan - Having A Ball At The Village Gate (1963)

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Roscoe Mitchell - In Walked Buckner (1999)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 03, 2017, 08:58:19 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/PvxAToYhOGG7-SUhtt1VOiA0ncE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5072111-1383741082-6838.jpeg.jpg)

Horace Tapscott - Dial B For Barbra (1980)

pretty sure that opening track called "Lately's Solo" is actually "Milestones"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2017, 07:12:10 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/151/MI0000151722.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Horace Tapscott - Thoughts Of Dar Es Salaam (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 05, 2017, 09:45:57 PM
tap. tap. tap. ...is this thing on?

today:

(https://img.discogs.com/buSTnMFjmJCoalC7TygeYkXNdpw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1109874-1360138101-4550.jpeg.jpg)

Horace Tapscott - Aiee! The Phantom (1996)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 06, 2017, 11:12:00 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/263/MI0002263514.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

For me, this box is all you need for this group.  The "Standards Trio" has made probably 20 or more recordings, but this live set, I believe, caught them at their best.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 06, 2017, 09:41:00 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/b9yTOE0LPdMhPWztgEu6IR5rMuo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4449082-1470107848-3167.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/g6TrKUhdCp-gPVsOeorsWBc1mSA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4487740-1366304473-5915.jpeg.jpg)

Toni Harper ‎– Toni (1956)
Emily Remler - Catwalk (1985)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51d6rqto-4L._SX355_.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/red-lanta1.jpg)

Eberhard Weber - Little Movements (1980)
Art Lande and Jan Garbarek - Red Lanta (1974)

(https://img.discogs.com/Ge4T2ctVhKRK04UGqHSwMLDsHb8=/fit-in/600x531/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1933666-1358569212-9228.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/497/MI0000497449.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Tomasz Stanko - From The Green Hill (1998)
Arlid Andersen - Electra (2005)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81MvCuJgvhL._SX355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vKOOf8ZUW4ty07AyS1bX8qkKm_I=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2040574-1458213199-6242.jpeg.jpg)

Steve Kuhn - Trance (1975)
Horace Tapscott - Live At Lobero, Vol.1 (1980)

(https://img.discogs.com/jTKacRRI_G6adg5Ttv4QkSlWQd4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-452972-1407583744-7827.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/a_dysu5K1e4BqeUYkMRKALoY1f0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1048269-1233850846.jpeg.jpg)

Robin Kenyatta - Girl From Martinique (1970)
Adelhard Roidinger - Schattseite (1982)

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/567/MI0000567831.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Eddie Jefferson - Body And Soul (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 09, 2017, 12:57:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WjuOI2TNL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/SMvvYIGMcyTmczjSegzDppJre-c=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-471226-1407706332-3993.jpeg.jpg)

Arlid Andersen / Ralph Towner / Nana Vasconcelos - If You Look Far Enough (1993)
Louis Armstrong - Ambassador Satch (1956)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5183AKoSbxL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/OU-Mx-2BprnwVnW8waXlORp0Pkk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1927035-1252953352.jpeg.jpg)

Horace Tapscott - The Tapscott Sessions, Vol.11 (2007)
Art Lande / David Samuels / Paul McCandless - Skylight (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 09, 2017, 03:31:13 PM
I promise, SimonNZ, you're not the only one listening!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eKbimYLYL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qUaWQ6LeL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71L0AM4DTXL._SL1200_.jpg) (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Izx03uG4JKM/VHzw5Jx4hNI/AAAAAAAAKiE/Dw1aOKn7C0Y/s1600/Carlo%2BCosta%2BQuintet%2B-%2BSediment%2B(NeitherNorRecords%2C%2B2014).jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/817%2BwZkmfwL._SL1400_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/JYEItu0VJ4dWPZP-rHYNNIOI_pU=/fit-in/599x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3568640-1335631683.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 10, 2017, 11:19:20 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on December 09, 2017, 03:31:13 PM
I promise, SimonNZ, you're not the only one listening!

Me too ... but not enough time for regular postings these days, alas.

Some recent spins include these - catching up with some more 2017 releases:

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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Uj4ghZBhL._SL500_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71z9Q-8YWNL._SL500_.jpg)(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dDWiHLRbL._SS500.jpg)
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3287802268_10.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/DvYbFlApBm8gROQfjb7dNBuTojY=/fit-in/600x544/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10628111-1511042837-3238.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/tgUoH6pLB1xhk3Xk34-plA1hfWY=/fit-in/512x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11019258-1508352165-8584.jpeg.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71NrfMpkpeL._SL500_.jpg)

(The one with the many b/w pics is "Duopoly" by Kris Davis")

Also finally got me this beauty:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/093/MI0000093767.jpg)

And right now, first spin:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/6128YS3htNL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2017, 07:19:43 PM
Great listening, guys. Keep it coming.

today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61oTwmkPuqL._SX355_.jpg)

Sheila Jordan and Arlid Andersen - Sheila (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 12, 2017, 01:13:37 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/229/MI0004229281.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/339/MI0004339752.jpg)

Those two followed later, after the Borderlands Trio - and they're different animals, all three, albeit all in Standard piano trio format. Crump has two terrific and very much awake cohorts in Kris Davis and Eric McPherson - the disc captures them live and it's exciting, surprising, taking many unexpected turns. Excellent in my book!

The Aaron Parks Album is more of a post-impressionist, Bill Evans-influenced album - subdued and yes, sometimes I found it pretty boring, alas. Was hoping Ben Street (I'm not sure I ever liked him as much as here, but maybe I just paid more attention than usual because the piano didn't capture me much?) and most of all Billy Hart would make a difference, but from my first impression, it's just a so-so Album, alas.

The Django Bates one is somewhat better - just in case: all of these were first spins and these are rough, first impressions. It covers a more varied ground - as is to be expected with Bates (who is very fine on the wonderful new album by Anouar Brahem - now that's easily THE current ECM rec!). Some of it though sounded unsurprising and pretty predictable again in that yurpeen frickle-dickle-pretended-energy-playing manner (the kind of "avantgarde" that ECM can really still take and actually has turned arrière-garde a while ago, but when done right can still work occasionally, I guess ... i.e. I never got what the fuss was about EST, although one should not speak badly about the dead).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 12, 2017, 03:13:02 PM
Ambrose Akinmusire--A Rift in Decorum: Very interesting stuff here. This ensemble sounds like Christian Scott meets Tyshawn Sorey. My favorite track is Moment in between the rest


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nt5yi6RyL._SY450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 12, 2017, 03:23:08 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 10, 2017, 11:19:20 AM
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I've also been listening to some Anouar Brahem; and not long ago I listened to several of the Duke duo sessions, including that Ella album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 12, 2017, 09:57:08 PM
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Arlid Andersen - Hyperborean (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 13, 2017, 09:07:06 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LpNYBWkFL._SL1200_.jpg)

Already having the "At the Alhambra" disc from Pablo/Fantasy, I hesitated to buy this one for quite a while ... the first disc (and tracks 1 and 2 of the second) are taken from the same night (29th Oct 1958) as that Alhambra disc, but either of them contains some exclusive tracks it seems (and/or someone goofed with the dates/infos, who knows). The rest of disc two is from Nov 20th, 1958. The Ellington band was in great form in the late fifties, but any new Ellington is reason to celebrate, so this is blasting out now!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 13, 2017, 10:58:17 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 12, 2017, 09:57:08 PM
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Arlid Andersen - Hyperborean (1997)

As someone obsessed with both the Arctic and the ECM label, I would be interested to hear your thoughts...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 13, 2017, 11:22:05 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 13, 2017, 11:51:19 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 13, 2017, 10:58:17 AM
As someone obsessed with both the Arctic and the ECM label, I would be interested to hear your thoughts...

Well...its's a very polished admirable album, but somehow not as individual as the other ECM Arlid Andersen albums I've heard recently. You'll heave no reason to complain of purchasing this one, but Electra in particular was a far more unusual and exciting album, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 14, 2017, 08:00:32 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/nan-madol-japo.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Bitter_Funeral_Beer.jpg)

Edward Vesala - Nan Madol (1974)
Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer (1981)

a couple of really strong first listens there
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 15, 2017, 04:29:26 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/ZhWPxqoqP7VW24PHEdI7ntDVrZU=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-949316-1398058960-5827.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/684/MI0003684171.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Edward Vesala - Invisible Storm (1992)
Arlid Andersen - Mira (2013)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 15, 2017, 11:31:21 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 14, 2017, 08:00:32 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/nan-madol-japo.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Bitter_Funeral_Beer.jpg)

Edward Vesala - Nan Madol (1974)
Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer (1981)

a couple of really strong first listens there

Two of the jewels of the ECM catalogue!

Thread duty:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71l1g30-6NL._SL1200_.jpg)

Heard Root 70 live in May and was impressed, bought several discs off leader Nils Wogram after the concert and chatted a bit, too. Wogram (he lives near Zurich but is from Germany originally) is heard on trombone, New Zealander Hayden Chisholm is on alto, his countryman Matt Penman on bass, and Jochen Rückert (again from Germany) on drums. Their music is intimate (they played unamplified and had set up their gear on a large carpet in front of the stage, to be on the same level as the audience - that was more than just a nice gesture, and I admire those very, very few bands that are able to play unamplified, that's an art long lost in most types of music, alas, yet for jazz it should be as natural as it is for classical).

The tunes - mostly by Wogram - are often intricate, using odd meters and unusual structures, his 'bone playing is amazing, he uses microtones and harmonizes by adding his voice (Mangelsdorff did that often, too), while Chisholm is kind of a cool counterpoint with a sound that reminds me a bit of Paul Desmond, and an amazing fluidity, too ... the rhythm section is agile and handles those weird structures with such ease that often you don't even realize they're in 7 right now ... truly a great band, that maybe sometimes is a bit too chamber-jazz-like for my taste, but I reckon they would be right down the alley of several people posting here with some regularity (the "ECM fraction" if I may call you that ... I admire ECM but will always feel somewhat ambiguous and there are corners in the catalogue I have not felt like checking out at all so far and don't think that's going to change).

Either way, if you have the chance, check out Root 70 somewhere (youtube, streaming, what do I know, I'm the dinosaur that still buys tons of CDs all of the time ... note so self: get enough cash at the ATM tonight for tomorrow's afternoon concert with the Schlippenbach Trio ... they might have some CDs with 'em!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 17, 2017, 05:10:37 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/S4PEf7yYCZE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2017, 04:06:53 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vb5OlOdSL._SX425_.jpg)

Pretty cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2017, 06:37:26 AM
Good one from Fisell and bassist Thomas Morgan.

(http://www.billfrisell.com/sites/default/files/Small%20Town-72dpi.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2017, 11:11:43 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iFqajBdJL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 18, 2017, 07:35:35 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 15, 2017, 11:31:21 PM
Either way, if you have the chance, check out Root 70 somewhere (youtube, streaming, what do I know, I'm the dinosaur that still buys tons of CDs all of the time ... note so self: get enough cash at the ATM tonight for tomorrow's afternoon concert with the Schlippenbach Trio ... they might have some CDs with 'em!)

Have made a note to check them out, thanks.

but right now:

(https://img.discogs.com/rdVbSfXYintWGn3tOcgccgoXzjc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2870468-1413322656-2076.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/hlgmwMRXO8PCG2oddq5KqZ7vKNc=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-506661-1348429149-7566.jpeg.jpg)

Keely Smith - Politely (1958)
Art Blakey - In This Korner (1978)

RIP Keely
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 19, 2017, 04:12:00 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YWrZKghbL.jpg)

This recording is really very good: good playing, or course, but also the concept is something special, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 19, 2017, 12:07:40 PM
A playlist I created from six albums all featuring François Couturier in various ensembles; most recently Nuit Blanche(2017).

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71blwRZ1zPL._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81a-rTG6PLL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/714-81%2B3Q%2BL._SY355_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nN35jzVNL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41gJHY9dQ0L._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/712J%2B3LMxDL._SX425_.jpg)

This is very good music, that transcends the category of "jazz", although it incorporates improvisation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 19, 2017, 07:31:52 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Boogie-Woogie_String_Along_for_Real.jpg)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Boogie-Woogie String Along For Real (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 21, 2017, 04:19:17 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/The_Modernity_of_Bob_Brookmeyer.jpg)

Bob Brookmeyer ‎– The Modernity Of Bob Brookmeyer (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 22, 2017, 12:22:59 PM
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Lars Jansson - Hope (1999)
Andrew Hill - Time Lines (2005)

(https://img.discogs.com/OMUPfajNxsU5kD4KORAykbLinX0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5630527-1398443663-7420.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71wFKOf7aGL._SY355_.jpg)

Art Pepper - Chile Pepper (1956)
Steve Tibbetts - A Man About A Horse (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 23, 2017, 06:38:34 AM
In the mail today:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/293/MI0004293857.jpg)

Almost turned it off during the first track as I'm not feeling like dark depressing music (and somehow that's how Berne always feels to me) ... but I stuck with it and it's another strong effort by this fine group, again in its quintet incarnation that was first heard on the previous ECM release "You've Been Watching Me", which I think was the group's finest - and probably remains just that, first impression is this is good but no beyond/above the previous three ECM ones, that kind of seemed to build and build.

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/304/MI0004304688.jpg)

Now on with Eric Revis' latest effort on Clean Feed - not brand new any more, but not played often yet ... first attentive listen I think. And WHOAH this is da shit now! The quartet with Kris Davis, whose piano enriched several previous fine Revis discs, Chad Taylor on drums and Ken Vandermark on tenor, really floods my gates today. The group's playing is infectious, the way they shift from R & B like grooves to free playing is pretty amazing. Davis does her density stuff (you think the music must brake through the floor, so heavy it gets ... it will burn somewhere in the inner parts of the planet, or maybe that's where it's power comes from?), and VDMK is pretty great, displaying his roots in early tenor saxophonists (when I saw him live a few years ago in duo with PNL, I actually thought of Illinois Jacquet a few times). He also plays some clarinet, which is great, as it's my favourite of his instruments.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 23, 2017, 09:14:52 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 12, 2017, 01:13:37 AM
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...

The Aaron Parks Album is more of a post-impressionist, Bill Evans-influenced album - subdued and yes, sometimes I found it pretty boring, alas. Was hoping Ben Street (I'm not sure I ever liked him as much as here, but maybe I just paid more attention than usual because the piano didn't capture me much?) and most of all Billy Hart would make a difference, but from my first impression, it's just a so-so Album, alas.

Second spin, and with the expectations done away with, I find myself liking it much better. It's quite lovely indeed, and Mr. Hart actually does add quite a bit to it.

Also, failed to mention two I gave first spins to yesterday:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/227/MI0004227938.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/293/MI0004293863.jpg)

Nick Mazzarella/Tomeka Reid - Signaling is the latest release by Chuck Nessa (he is working on a new one by Roscoe Mitchell, too!) and it's as fine as I was hoping. Mazzarella is new to me, but Reid of course has been part of many a fine project and it's great to hear her in such an intimate setting.

The Gary Peacock Trio consists of the leader on bass, Marc Copland on piano and Joey Baron on drums. On paper that might look like an odd combination, and indeed I skipped their first disc - but it works very nicely and this is probably the best of the recent bunch of ECM piano trio albums (the Django Bates will be revisited tonight or tomorrow, too).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 23, 2017, 02:43:44 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 23, 2017, 09:14:52 AM
The Gary Peacock Trio consists of the leader on bass, Marc Copland on piano and Joey Baron on drums. On paper that might look like an odd combination, and indeed I skipped their first disc - but it works very nicely and this is probably the best of the recent bunch of ECM piano trio albums (the Django Bates will be revisited tonight or tomorrow, too).

I have this queued up but haven't played it yet.  Peacock has never been a favorite of mine, I wish Jarrett had chosen a different bassist for his trio - but I've known Joey Baron since he was playing with Carmen McCrae, something like 40 years and always enjoy his work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 23, 2017, 04:23:10 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/prW5ahOYbNU0_UOg-lKGxzmeuGE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-10801906-1504551034-6451.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41XE5YMJ2CL.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Me Myself An Eye (1979)
Stan Kenton - Cuban Fire (1956)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61rM-YtTffL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61NGxyzc6iL._SY355_.jpg)

Cécile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers (2017)
Steve Tibbetts - Natural Causes (2010)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HEsBNdS3L._SS500.jpg)

Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 24, 2017, 03:14:19 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 23, 2017, 02:43:44 PM
I have this queued up but haven't played it yet.  Peacock has never been a favorite of mine, I wish Jarrett had chosen a different bassist for his trio - but I've known Joey Baron since he was playing with Carmen McCrae, something like 40 years and always enjoy his work.

Wow, total disagreement there! I think Gary Peacock is one of the most listening bass players ever. The way he handles pitch and all that with Albert Ayler's trio (r.i.p. Sunny Murray) is pretty unique, how he manages even the most ambiguous and difficult situation with grace and ease ... even in early recordings (like the ones with Bud Shank on Pacific) he shows a freshness in touch that is rare. Not sure Ayler is your thing though?

Keith Jarrett is another case, I will probably always remain ambiguous about him (same with Bill Evans, and I own most of their recordings - the jazz ones with Jarrett only, no classical -, so it's not that I hate them or anything) ... but Peacock is wonderful in the trio to my ears. And the trio, when at its best (i.e. the Blue Note box) is plain amazing.

Regarding Joey Baron, I love it when he goes wild, i.e. with John Zorn's Masada quartet, but somehow he seems to end up playing his shtick a bit too often and thus his playing becomes somewhat formulaic in a fun bashing-away-wildly way that can be great in some contexts, but wears off fast in others (I was never too fond of the Abercrombie Quartet with Feldman, Johnson and Baron) ... his encounter with Irène Schweizer for instance didn't quite work I think. I was at the concert, it's out on Intakt now, he was a drummer she wanted to do a duo with for a long time, but I think it was probably too late in the game for her - both are to blame though, there was very little real dialogue - they rather played along each other than with each other. Though all things considered, the CD probably works better than the concert. Either way, I really enjoy what he brings to this new Peacock disc, and based on the strength of it, I guess I should check out the trio's first disc, too!

And since I'm discussing the musicians, again I'm not 100% sure about Marc Copland either. A duo with John Abercrombie was one of the first jazz concerts I attended in my teens, and it was pretty great (though I never really developed a general liking for g/p combinations, be it in duos, quartets or rhythm sections - usually I prefer piano OR guitar, not both) - but again he is very good on this new disc and I feel like I should explore more of his work ... any recommendations?

Either way, to my ears all mighty good musicians, I just don't enjoy them in the same way in each setting they appear in - and don't enjoy them much in some settings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 24, 2017, 01:11:08 PM
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Another listen to this stunner. Almost certainly the most immediate impact of any 2017 jazz album I've heard this year (though I in no way manage to keep up with new releases, and there's bound to be many other knockouts I've yet to hear).

Is Nicole Mitchell related to Roscoe Mitchell? There's clearly some connection - in fact I thought it must have been him providing the varied percussion,  but I now see it isn't.


and as with yesterday's listening I was reminded in a number of places of Bitches Brew - so playing now, which turns out to be perfect for a hot summers Christmas day:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 24, 2017, 01:46:33 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 24, 2017, 03:14:19 AM
Wow, total disagreement there! I think Gary Peacock is one of the most listening bass players ever. The way he handles pitch and all that with Albert Ayler's trio (r.i.p. Sunny Murray) is pretty unique, how he manages even the most ambiguous and difficult situation with grace and ease ... even in early recordings (like the ones with Bud Shank on Pacific) he shows a freshness in touch that is rare. Not sure Ayler is your thing though?

Keith Jarrett is another case, I will probably always remain ambiguous about him (same with Bill Evans, and I own most of their recordings - the jazz ones with Jarrett only, no classical -, so it's not that I hate them or anything) ... but Peacock is wonderful in the trio to my ears. And the trio, when at its best (i.e. the Blue Note box) is plain amazing.

Regarding Joey Baron, I love it when he goes wild, i.e. with John Zorn's Masada quartet, but somehow he seems to end up playing his shtick a bit too often and thus his playing becomes somewhat formulaic in a fun bashing-away-wildly way that can be great in some contexts, but wears off fast in others (I was never too fond of the Abercrombie Quartet with Feldman, Johnson and Baron) ... his encounter with Irène Schweizer for instance didn't quite work I think. I was at the concert, it's out on Intakt now, he was a drummer she wanted to do a duo with for a long time, but I think it was probably too late in the game for her - both are to blame though, there was very little real dialogue - they rather played along each other than with each other. Though all things considered, the CD probably works better than the concert. Either way, I really enjoy what he brings to this new Peacock disc, and based on the strength of it, I guess I should check out the trio's first disc, too!

And since I'm discussing the musicians, again I'm not 100% sure about Marc Copland either. A duo with John Abercrombie was one of the first jazz concerts I attended in my teens, and it was pretty great (though I never really developed a general liking for g/p combinations, be it in duos, quartets or rhythm sections - usually I prefer piano OR guitar, not both) - but again he is very good on this new disc and I feel like I should explore more of his work ... any recommendations?

Either way, to my ears all mighty good musicians, I just don't enjoy them in the same way in each setting they appear in - and don't enjoy them much in some settings.

I dunno, I can't explain it but Peacock just seems kind of light weight to me.  Jarrettl can lapse into navel gazing and Peacock is the perfect bassist for that kind of thing.  There are much better bassists, imo, Marc  Johnson, Scott Colley, and good friend of mine who unfortunately passed away in 2009, Dennis Irwin, those names just jump out.  Speaking of Marc Johnson he and Joey Baron have made some great trio recordings with Enrico Pieranunzi.  There's a new guy Thomas Morgan, who's also really good.

I agree with you about Joey's work with Zorn.  Those early quartet recordings, even though they are very derivative of Ornette, are still some of the best stuff Zorn has done.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 06:22:45 AM
Been listening today to two excellent piano trios, possibly better overall than the Jarrett Standards Trio:  Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch trios.  Also, these two groups feature other excellent bassists I failed to include in my previous post above: Larry Grenadier and Drew Gress.  The Art of the Trio series of recordings by Mehldau are really very good. 

I am presently listening to this one by Fred Hersch's trio:

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With still another strong rhythm section: John Hebert on bass and Eric Harland on drums

Earlier I heard Vol. 1 of the Art of the Trio:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 25, 2017, 06:43:12 AM
Speaking of Fred Hersh, Marc Johnson, and Joey Baron, this is one of my favorite recordings from the Fred Hersch Trio:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 08:14:37 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 25, 2017, 06:43:12 AM
Speaking of Fred Hersh, Marc Johnson, and Joey Baron, this is one of my favorite recordings from the Fred Hersch Trio:

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Yes; I haven't heard it, but I would think it cannot be anything but good with that line up.  Thanks for pointing it out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 25, 2017, 11:16:32 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 08:14:37 AM
Yes; I haven't heard it, but I would think it cannot be anything but good with that line up.  Thanks for pointing it out.

No problem. Hersch has that 'Impressionist-like' Bill Evans thing happening in his style that I'm quite taken with. I need to investigate his later output. The last Hersch recording I bought was this one:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 25, 2017, 01:51:41 PM
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Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson - Play George Gershwin (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 07:05:31 PM
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Samo Salamon, guitar
Drew Gress, bass
Tom Rainey, drums




excerpt from the review on AllAboutJazz

QuoteSamo Salamon has been compared to everybody from Ben Monder, John Scofield and John Abercrombie, to Sonny Sharrock and Tal Farlow. This list, referencing a group of guitarists that have little in common, will leave plenty of people scratching their heads, but it points to the fact that this young Slovenian guitarist knows no bounds. Salamon seems intent on avoiding any one label, as proven by his string of albums in the new millennium, mixing European and American artists with great results.

The music on Almost Almond covers a lot of ground, moving from gritty, distorted lines to spacious sonic pastures, and Salamon couldn't have asked for a more flexible and creative rhythm team. Bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey have worked together in some highly creative environments before, most notably with saxophonist Tim Berne, and here they combine freedom and focus in a way that few teams can match. Multiple pieces on this album reflect a duality, where the music can simultaneously be viewed as a trio performance and three solo performances at the same time. In other places, these musicians leave no doubt that they are charting the same course.

Back when I was breaking into the New York jazz scene, during the '80s, I jammed at Armon Donelian's apartment with Tom Rainey, and some other horn players - a real treat.  Rainey is a great drummer, and Drew Gress is one of the best of the bassists currently making it.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 07:10:47 PM
Quote from: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 08:14:37 AM

Quote from: Mirror Image on December 25, 2017, 06:43:12 AM
Speaking of Fred Hersh, Marc Johnson, and Joey Baron, this is one of my favorite recordings from the Fred Hersch Trio:

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Yes; I haven't heard it, but I would think it cannot be anything but good with that line up.  Thanks for pointing it out.

I have since found out that this recording was Fred's first session as a leader, OOP and only available used.  In the process I read a great (long) article of Ethan Iverson interviewing Fred Hersch (https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-fred-hersch/), a fascinating story of his journey. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 25, 2017, 08:06:46 PM
Quote from: San Antone on December 25, 2017, 07:10:47 PM
Yes; I haven't heard it, but I would think it cannot be anything but good with that line up.  Thanks for pointing it out.


I have since found out that this recording was Fred's first session as a leader, OOP and only available used.  In the process I read a great (long) article of Ethan Iverson interviewing Fred Hersch (https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-fred-hersch/), a fascinating story of his journey.

Great, thanks! I'll check this article out sometime tomorrow.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 26, 2017, 02:33:03 AM
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Incidentals

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Tim Berne: alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega: clarinet, bass clarinet; Ryan Ferreira: guitars; Matt Mitchell: piano; Ches Smith: drums, vibraphone, percussion, timpani. With David Torn: guitar on Hora Feliz (intro) and Sideshow (outro)

Hora Feliz - 10:26
Stingray Shuffle - 7:36
Sideshow - 26:01
Incidentals Contact - 10:48
Prelude One / Sequel Two - 9:18

Incidentals continues Berne's experimentation in expanding aural soundscapes, bringing the alto saxophonist/composer to a wider audience without compromising his unique approach.

"The group functioned as a quartet on its debut and subsequent Shadow Man (2013). With the release of 2015's You've Been Watching Me, guitarist Ryan Ferreira joined clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer/percussionist Ches Smith. Guitarist David Torn, who recorded with Berne on his own ECM outing, Prezens (2007) has produced this and the previous two Snakeoil albums, and also plays on two tracks here."

"The five compositions were penned by Berne with the exception of "Prelude One/Sequel Too," where he shares writing credits with Mitchell. "Hora Feliz" opens darkly, with low reeds and Mitchell's restrained piano hanging in the ether until Smith, almost imperceptibly, picks up the pace and the playing becomes more free and open. "Stingray Shuffle" hints at classicism early on, descending into controlled chaos later. "Sideshow" is a twenty-six-minute magnum opus of intricacy with dramatic changes in dynamics, multiple textures, and interwoven degrees of intensity. Smith smoothly guides the transitions, culminating with Torn's guitar coming into the process as the piece draws to a vivid close. "Incidentals Contact" is more abstract and raucous than the previous pieces and features stand-out contributions from Mitchell and Noriega. "Prelude One/Sequel Too" opens with off-kilter melancholia but builds in strength, only to return for a contemplative close." (AllAboutJazz (https://www.allaboutjazz.com/incidentals-tim-berne-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php))




I never worked with Tim Berne but met him through his sister Betsy, must have been around 1982/3.  I think (it was over 30 years ago and I my memory might be playing tricks) he was using Mike Formanek, who ended up helping out big time after my upright had gotten stolen - hooking me up with a Czech bass in New Jersey, which was actually a much better instrument than the one I'd lost. But I seem to remember that Mike had the bass chair covered then; but then again I could be wrong - it's not like I was soooo good that Tim would have used me in any event.  Anyway, you often hear about the cut throat nature of New York but while it is very competitive and you have to have your shit together, playing-wise, to have any chance at making it - the community of musicians can be very supportive. 

So, Betsy was a visual artist, painter, and we were both working at a huge law firm as proofreaders.  All the proofreaders were writers, actors, painters, etc. (met some really cool folks at that job, which also had other perks), people the law firm thought had other things going on and would not care about the deals they were reading and wouldn't use the info in nefarious ways (mostly that was true, however there was one working in word processing who was arrested for insider trading while we were there).

We'd pair up, one reading to the other looking for spelling and grammar errors, but mainly just shooting the breeze since there was a lot of down time.  When Betsy learned I played upright bass she mentioned her brother.  I've followed his career with interest ever since; great musician and composer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 26, 2017, 09:03:08 AM
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Brad Mehldau
The Art of the Trio, Vol. 4: Back at the Vanguard

This live recording captures exactly how vital and impassioned Mehldau's playing is. Working with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, he turns these songs -- including three originals, one Miles Davis number, two standards, and Radiohead's "Exit Music" -- inside out, finding the heart of the song, and exploring a bewildering array of variations of the themes and chords.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 02:09:47 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 24, 2017, 01:46:33 PM
I dunno, I can't explain it but Peacock just seems kind of light weight to me.  Jarrettl can lapse into navel gazing and Peacock is the perfect bassist for that kind of thing.  There are much better bassists, imo, Marc  Johnson, Scott Colley, and good friend of mine who unfortunately passed away in 2009, Dennis Irwin, those names just jump out.  Speaking of Marc Johnson he and Joey Baron have made some great trio recordings with Enrico Pieranunzi.  There's a new guy Thomas Morgan, who's also really good.

Of course we don't have to (and can't  ;)) agree on all counts, and it's obvious that you're deeply into jazz, which is great! But still, Peacock to me is a great musician, much more interesting that Marc Johnson, whom I perceive as a very consistent, yes, an excellent musician, but personally just one that rarely grabs my attention. Colley probably falls into that same category for me, as does Larry Grenadier from roughly that age/period. Thomas Morgan I don't know all that well yet, but he and also Ben Street are noteworthy, I guess.

And Irwin - again, I don't know him all that well, but he made some really nice albums! I've got him, among others, on discs by Johnny Griffin, John Scofield (the Sco/Lo band ... some excellent rhythm sections there: Haden/DeJohnette, Johnson/Stewart, Irwin/Stewart, and then HoFo of course), Ted Brown, Mike LeDonne ... and of course Joe Lovano. He also was with Blakey but that period of Blakey's I haven't yet really covered, it's roughly the first dozen years that I'm really into and have almost all the albums.

If you ask me about current favourite bass players, let me think ... I enjoy Eric Revis' albums on Clean Feed a lot (don't think I've heard him live, if yet it was a long time ago), John Lindberg is great (saw him live with Wadada last year, know him mainly from CDs), Drew Gress too (saw him live a few times, with Marc Copland/Ralph Alessi for instance), but also some freer players like John Edwards from England or my homeboy Christian Weber (you might check out the Eskelin-Weber-Griener trio disc on Intakt, it's excellent - saw that band live and it was even better). And we already mentioned Stephan Crump ... too bad he uses this silly travel instrument for touring, I'd love to hear him on a real double bass some day.

I guess it's different things we look for with bass players, different qualities or different areas of focus ... going back in history, Mingus would be my all time favourite, followed by the likes of Haden, Watkins, Ware, Hopkins, Favors ... it's the deep combined with the surprise I guess (not sure Watkins surprised often, but I just totally love his feel and sound - nothing against Chambers, but he's not a real match to my ears).

Probably I forgot half a dozen other favourites now (and you'll notice that Peacock doesn't quite make the cut into the very favourites, there'd be other names popping up first, i.e. Richard Davis, Art Davis, Pettiford, Workman, McBee, Buster Williams ...)

Oh, one more thing: Enrico Pieranunzi - true, his albums with Johnson/Baron are great! And Baron is right on the money there, too. However, all things considered, Pieranunzi is probably a bit too boring for my taste - which is a silly statement, but I'm not sure what it is, too much Bill Evans, too much elegance, not enough excitement somehow.

Either way, enjoying the discussion!

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Thead duty - before, a first spin to Wadada's impressive new guitars (yup, plural: four of them!) album, now revisiting the one by Sirius, which I'm really enjoying.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 02:12:08 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 02:09:47 AM
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And we already mentioned Stephan Crump ... too bad he uses this silly travel instrument for touring, I'd love to hear him on a real double bass some day.
...

Actually I was mistaken I think ... we have not, must have been elsewhere! His trio with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson has an excellent new album out on Intakt (click (http://www.intaktrec.ch/295-a.htm)). And he's terrific with Vijay Iyer's trio (of which, shame on me, I only know the ECM album so far, got to jump into the shallow waters that is ACT - their design already keeps me away - and get at least some of their Iyer discs!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 02:19:39 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 02:09:47 AM
I guess it's different things we look for with bass players ...

On this we can agree.   ;)

QuoteMingus would be my all time favourite, followed by the likes of Haden, Watkins, Ware, Hopkins, Favors ... it's the deep combined with the surprise I guess (not sure Watkins surprised often, but I just totally love his feel and sound - nothing against Chambers, but he's not a real match to my ears).

Probably I forgot half a dozen other favourites now (and you'll notice that Peacock doesn't quite make the cut into the very favourites, there'd be other names popping up first, i.e. Richard Davis, Art Davis, Pettiford, Workman, McBee, Buster Williams ...)

First let me say that every name in your post is an excellent bassist and musician, to use the term musicians use, they are monsters. 

But, that said ...

I have never placed much emphasis on Mingus as a bassist.  His significance is as a band leader and composer.  Much like Scott Lafaro ruined many bassists who could replicate his virtuosity but not his sound, feel and time, Mingus was a dead end as far as someone to emulate.

From your list I think Charlie Haden is one of the best, and disagree 100% about Paul Chambers, whom I consider probably the best complete bassist.  Ever. I also like Wilbur Ware a lot, especially his work with Sonny Rollins.  Henry Grimes is another very interesting bassist mainly because of the guys he played with.

I think the difference might be based in our respective points of reference: yours appears to be European and that of an appreciator; mine is as an American and (formerly) active jazz musician.  The primary quality that are demanded in a real-life group situation is not an ability to solo. What a good bass player is appreciated for are to first, play in tune, to play good time, have a big sound and an intuitive choice of notes during the solos by the other band members (most importantly in tandem with the pianist) which are unpredictable but obviously right.  The absolutely least important aspect of being a professional jazz bassist is (what I prefer to be) the occasional solo. 

This lesson was brought home to me during a week at Sweet Basel's when I was fortunate enough to play a gig with Louis Hayes.  One of the scariest experiences of my life.  It was real in a way that being beaten up is physical and real.  By the end of that week my entire orientation as a bass player changed (for the better) and I truly began to "play the bass" - and not act like a horn at the bottom.

Not mentioned in any of this discussion is Sam Jones - another bassist right up there with Paul Chambers - and Ron Carter.  Those three are - for me - the most important bass players,
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 06:25:16 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 02:19:39 AM
On this we can agree.   ;)
Cheers! Enjoying this discussion a lot!


Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 02:19:39 AM
First let me say that every name in your post is an excellent bassist and musician, to use the term musicians use, they are monsters. 

But, that said ...

I have never placed much emphasis on Mingus as a bassist.  His significance is as a band leader and composer.  Much like Scott Lafaro ruined many bassists who could replicate his virtuosity but not his sound, feel and time, Mingus was a dead end as far as someone to emulate.

From your list I think Charlie Haden is one of the best, and disagree 100% about Paul Chambers, whom I consider probably the best complete bassist.  Ever. I also like Wilbur Ware a lot, especially his work with Sonny Rollins.  Henry Grimes is another very interesting bassist mainly because of the guys he played with.

I think the difference might be based in our respective points of reference: yours appears to be European and that of an appreciator; mine is as an American and (formerly) active jazz musician.  The primary quality that are demanded in a real-life group situation is not an ability to solo. What a good bass player is appreciated for are to first, play in tune, to play good time, have a big sound and an intuitive choice of notes during the solos by the other band members (most importantly in tandem with the pianist) which are unpredictable but obviously right.  The absolutely least important aspect of being a professional jazz bassist is (what I prefer to be) the occasional solo. 

This lesson was brought home to me during a week at Sweet Basel's when I was fortunate enough to play a gig with Louis Hayes.  One of the scariest experiences of my life.  It was real in a way that being beaten up is physical and real.  By the end of that week my entire orientation as a bass player changed (for the better) and I truly began to "play the bass" - and not act like a horn at the bottom.

Not mentioned in any of this discussion is Sam Jones - another bassist right up there with Paul Chambers - and Ron Carter.  Those three are - for me - the most important bass players,
Regarding perspective, I really grew up on classic modern jazz, Blue Note albums, Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Sonny, Dolphy, Mingus ... I very much appreciate a bassist able to provide a bottom, but I also like when he combines that with something going beyond (i.e. John Edwards is an amazing accompanist, he can really hold a band together yet he brings excitement to it, too ... I heard him in so many different settings, including solo btw, and I am always amazed again. Either way, I'm definitely not looking for virtuoso playing from bassists, but I enjoy it when they bring that component to it, too (I'm not too big on LaFaro really ... he lacks to oomph I also want to hear with bass players). Another favourite, or make that two: the South African giants, Harry Miller and Johnny Dyani. (Miller/Moholo is one of my all-time favourite rhythm sections because they are so perfect in combining the oomph with a wild groove that starts dancing in my head when I merely think of their names.)

Mingus as a bassist: there are albums on which he is really killing as a bassist, I feel - the 1959 Bohemia/Nostalgia thing with the new Handy/Ervin frontline for instance - but of course you're correct. I also fully agree on the dead-end, which also applies to his music. The Mingus Big Band works surprisingly well, somehow it does quite succeed in keeping the fire burning, but ultimately you can't really try and play his music or develop from there. So about that we agree again, fully.

Chambers is personal thing - I'd never say he's not an outstanding bassist, he's just not a personal favourite. Sam Jones on the other hand, that huge sound, the time ... he and Louis Hayes (as an amateur musician - saxophonist - I can somewhat relate how scary, and yet how great, that gig must have been! Wow!) form one of the finest unsung rhythm teams in jazz, with Cannonball. They're making it sound so simple, but that's pure deception.

Carter again is not a favourite of mine, but I like his playing on many albums (including all the material with Miles) and on some I really do love his contribution.

Btw, what do you think of Stephan Crump?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:14:51 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 06:25:16 AM
Cheers! Enjoying this discussion a lot!

Me too.   :)

QuoteI'm not too big on LaFaro really ... he lacks to oomph

Marc Johnson and I were at North Texas State University together and we stayed in touch throughout the time he was with Bill Evans.  I happened to sit down with them one night when they were on break and Bill told me that the recordings never captured Scottie's full tone or presence.  Apparently he had oomph.   ;)  What a great loss.

QuoteBtw, what do you think of Stephan Crump?

His name is completely new to me.  Who's he played with?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 07:21:18 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:14:51 AM
Marc Johnson and I were at North Texas State University together and we stayed in touch throughout the time he was with Bill Evans.  I happened to sit down with them one night when they were on break and Bill told me that the recordings never captured Scottie's full tone or presence.  Apparently he had oomph.   ;)  What a great loss.
That's very interesting! And yes, of course a terrible loss, at that young age ... too many died way too young in those days, speaking of car accidents most notably also Clifford Brown (and Richie Powell along him ... alway's loved Richie Powell's touch a lot, although he's of course no real match for his genius brother - but there's not much of a point in such comparisons).

Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:14:51 AM
His name is completely new to me.  Who's he played with?
He's been with the Vijay Iyer trio for a while (several albums on ACT and ECM), and with Iyer's Sextet, too (its ECM album is one of my favourite jazz releases of the year).

Other than that I mainly know his Intakt releases: two in duo with Mary Halvorson (saw that duo - as well as the Iyer trio - live as well), one with Steve Lehman, a mighty good trio disc with Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe, and the latest one by his trio with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson, a live recording that was just released and is excellent I find, a very spontaneous affair.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:35:11 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 07:21:18 AM
He's been with the Vijay Iyer trio for a while (several albums on ACT and ECM), and with Iyer's Sextet, too (its ECM album is one of my favourite jazz releases of the year).

Other than that I mainly know his Intakt releases: two in duo with Mary Halvorson (saw that duo - as well as the Iyer trio - live as well), one with Steve Lehman, a mighty good trio disc with Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe, and the latest one by his trio with Kris Davis and Eric McPherson, a live recording that was just released and is excellent I find, a very spontaneous affair.

Well, that's embarrassing, I guess I have heard him since I've listened (apparently superficially) to Vijay Iver's recordings (but not that much since he's all over the place stylistically and I've never gotten a handle on who he is as a pianist).  Whatever; I must not have noticed the bass player's contribution but will go back and make a point to listen more closely.  I'm not a fan of what I've heard from Mary Halvorson, which is from some years back.  I know she has a following, but her sound struck me as cerebral and without swing. 

I can't believe I've made several posts about bassists and failed to mention Dave Holland - a great, great, musician, band leader and bassist extraordinaire.  One of my personal faves.  Rufus Reid, another not well known guy who was huge in NY and influenced many players.  Some others not well known but highly respected Ratzo Harris; Wayne Darling; Harvey Swartz; James Singleton (New Orleans); and way too many to mention.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2017, 08:10:15 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:35:11 AM
Well, that's embarrassing, I guess I have heard him since I've listened (apparently superficially) to Vijay Iver's recordings (but not that much since he's all over the place stylistically and I've never gotten a handle on who he is as a pianist).  Whatever; I must not have noticed the bass player's contribution but will go back and make a point to listen more closely.  I'm not a fan of what I've heard from Mary Halvorson, which is from some years back.  I know she has a following, but her sound struck me as cerebral and without swing. 
No problem, I can relate to both ... took me a while to figure out that Crump is pretty amazing, but those Intakt albums (not the one with Davis/McPherson!) are rather, yes, cerebral, I guess ... that's the Halvorson/Laubrock/Rainey connection there, which I remain ambivalent about, too, but have seem some fantastic live sets (Halvorson in trio and with Laubrock/Rainey, too ... and Laubrock with Sleepthief, both with Braxton etc. ... lots of interesting stuff there, but no hard feelings if someone's not into any of that).

However, check out "Break Stuff" (the Iyer Trio's ECM album) and most importantly Iyer's current ECM release, "Far from Over" with the sextet! Those are both outstanding in my book!

Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 07:35:11 AM
I can't believe I've made several posts about bassists and failed to mention Dave Holland - a great, great, musician, band leader and bassist extraordinaire.  One of my personal faves.  Rufus Reid, another not well known guy who was huge in NY and influenced many players.  Some others not well known but highly respected Ratzo Harris; Wayne Darling; Harvey Swartz; James Singleton (New Orleans); and way too many to mention.
Okay, Holland, of course! Though his own albums as a leader kind of got boring to me over the years. The early ones are excellent though and I have no doubt he's still a great bassist. He is on the new Anouar Brahem disc on ECM, too, and that's another very nice surprise among the many good jazz releases of this year.

Rufus Reid I've heard on many albums but rarely paid attention to what he actually does (which is not necessarily a bad thing, though I love to follow bassists when listening to some album repeatedly, guess I should do more of that with him!) - Darling, Swartz and Singleton I only heard occasionally and on CD only, Harris is a name I've heard, but not sure I ever heard him play.

Mentioning Harvey S. brings up Cameron Brown (the other duo partner of Sheila Jordan's) ... though he again is not exactly a favourite - but he's great in that duo and elsewhere on record (again, never saw him live - that's one of the bad things about living in Europe, when musicians happen to appear somewhere, if you can't make it that night, it might have been your only chance ... and many don't get any gigs over here at all, of course).

--

EDIT: Thread duty, since I just changed the disc ... revisiting the latest in the excellent series of albums Tom Harrell has put out on Highnote:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/349/MI0004349179.jpg)

Speaking of fine bass players, Ugonna Okegwo (who probably had his first "come to fame" gig with Jacky Terrasson's trio in the 90s - their take of "Love for Sale" with the bass-line of the Headhunter's "Chameleon" is still galores of fun!) has been a trusted cohort of Harrell's for many years - when I saw the quintet many years ago (already with Okegwo, but I think everybody else was different back then), they did a couple of duos which were amongst the highlights of the night.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 06:40:50 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61kY09SRJWL._SS500.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Luz8udt4L._SS500.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Jas3fljAL._SS500.jpg)

Vijay Iver Trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore




I decided to listen to this trio as a result of the previous discussion. Not much swing going on here. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 06:58:12 PM
Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 06:40:50 PM
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Vijay Iver Trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore




I decided to listen to this trio as a result of the previous discussion. Not much swing going on here.

Gave up on Vijay and went to two by Tony Malaby first The Signal Maker with Tom Rainey and Mark Helias (someone we didn't mention before, but excellent) and then Adobe with Paul Motian and Drew Gress.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41omtPoAQyL._SS500.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SUIiXajwL._SS500.jpg)

Much better.   ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 27, 2017, 08:30:29 PM
^i thought Iyer's Historicity was a particularly fine album.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mgbp9LXkL._SY300_QL70_.jpg)

Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 28, 2017, 05:39:55 AM
One of my favorites of 2017

Nightfall
Quercus
April 28, 2017

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510-3z5azFL._SS500.jpg)

Combines my love for folk ballad singing and the ECM soundscape.  Only borders on jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 28, 2017, 08:02:27 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 27, 2017, 06:58:12 PM
Gave up on Vijay and went to two by Tony Malaby first The Signal Maker with Tom Rainey and Mark Helias (someone we didn't mention before, but excellent) and then Adobe with Paul Motian and Drew Gress.
...
Much better.   ;)

Alright ... maybe you'll find Crump somewhere else over the years. And true, Helias is excellent. Saw the trio live once but am somewhat ambiguous about Malaby. Also saw Helias in trio with John Surman and Pierre Favre - and that was plain amazing (it was Favre's concert and he was free to put together a band with guys he wanted to play with).

Played these two for the first time:

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Both in more than tolerable sound, but alas the piano of Tete Montoliu's is a bit too far back on the Griff & Lock (which has an odd cover as it's clearly Griff and Lock and not Griff with a guest or something). Lots of fire on that one, and an excellent ambiance in the club that comes across very well on the recording. The Shaw is poised, his playing impressive as ever, the band in excellent shape (Turre, Miller, James, Reedus). Two winners.

I also have the Hubbard and Baker on the piles, probably will play them tomorrow or over the weekend. Didn't yet get the Elvin Jones and Dizzy Gillespie (nor any of the blues/soul ones).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 28, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Here's a couple I've been listening to lately:

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Bean is superb as always. A fine album - I have it as a download only so I don't know the details, but it's obviously put together from different sessions (hence the album title, I guess :) ), including a couple of live tracks at the end.

The Walcott I've actually not finished listening to yet. This is a sound that's not likely to appear in jazz again - very much of its time - but of course, given that lineup, it can't be anything but good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 28, 2017, 08:11:14 PM
^First heard the Cloud Dance album a year or two ago and was completely knocked out by it.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/kza7aA1QOj3eNUYpOh77gbzdws4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2804609-1301810338.jpeg.jpg)

Martial Solal / Lee Konitz / John Scofield / Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Four Keys (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 29, 2017, 02:08:25 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on December 28, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Bean is superb as always. A fine album - I have it as a download only so I don't know the details, but it's obviously put together from different sessions (hence the album title, I guess :) ), including a couple of live tracks at the end.
Well, of course Bean is superb  :D

It's his Felsted album (#1-6) with various bonus tracks (the next bunch of studio tracks are from "Coleman Hawkins and His Confreres", a Verve platter, and then there are the live cuts which I don't know where they're from, maybe they're real rarities, that does occasionally happen, even with them pirates  ;)

An official reissue of the Felsted catalogue through Mosaic fell through, so the pirates jumped in ... the Lonehills are hardly ever preferrable if you have alternatives (I guess that does include streaming and downloading, after all) ... Fresh Sound put out a fairly nice box of the catalogue, Lonehill or another of those cheapo labels (Fresh Sound is a bit better, or rather they do their own new productions and their reissues are taken care of in a much nicer way, though most of them fit the same "public domain in Europe/no royalties" niche) has it's own edition on fewer discs with somewhat less nice presentation, but ultimately not a big difference.

Here's the Fresh Sound:
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/felsted-recordings-albums/5596-the-complete-stanley-dance-felsted-mainstream-jazz-recordings-1958-1959-9-cd-box-set.html


Quote from: SimonNZ on December 28, 2017, 08:11:14 PM
Martial Solal / Lee Konitz / John Scofield / Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Four Keys (1979)

Ooooh, those Solal MPS albums are such a nice bunch! Other than the early SABA one with Koller and Zoller and "Suite for Trio" I think none of them ever made a reissue (or in some cases maybe odd cheapo vinyl reissues) ... never on CD for sure. I have collected all of the non-CD ones on vinyl by now, I think.

Thread duty:

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The Baker is nice but I think not nearly amongst the best of his many glorious late recordings. Just five tunes in around 100 minutes, so things get stretched (I guess Chet needed a break) a bit too much, but then the longest tracks (Shorter's "Black Eyes" and Beirach's "Broken Wing", they make up disc 2 together) are the finest, just because they're really good tunes. The band is okay, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse on bass of course was a true follower, Phil Markowitz on piano is not my favourite accompanist of late Chet's (Catherine on guitar first, Graillier on piano second... but then Markowitz is on the glorious "Broken Wing" album, which again I do rank amongst the finest of late Chet's works), and the drums are really not needed for this group (Charlie Rice).

The Hubbard is hands-on, funky, driven, with plenty of that self-conscious, cocky, sly trumpet playing, but also with moments of fragility here and there, and a wonderful ballad take of "Here's That Rainy Day". Billy Childs is the outstanding sideman here, Hadley Caliman alas cannot really shine all that much (some tracks are in quartet, and the leader is just so darn strong), while Larry Klein on bass is solid and Carl Burnett's banging drums rub me the wrong way now and then.

So, of the four, the personal favourite would be the Griff & Lock, just because I can never get enough of either of them ... the best is probably the Shaw I'd guess, a hair before the Hubbard, and the weakest the Chet, but I'd rank them all in the * * *1/2 to * * * * region in the end, * * * *1/2 for the Shaw.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 29, 2017, 07:33:41 AM
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6PQY05UclEU/WSZVUjTDpOI/AAAAAAAAIpA/rGhkJ411Ev4-YEgfT5s6jcZ4uHzfeh-1wCLcB/s1600/jaimie-branch.jpg)

jaimie branch - Fly or Die | CD is still on the way, but buying via bandcamp I'm playing the DL now via my nice little bluetooth speaker ... and I'm in the second spin now, right in a row - great stuff, a suite with a wonderful flow and lots of great moments, lyrical, groovy, whimsical, captivating, spell-binding ... and Tomeka Reid kicks asses (like, all of them, almost!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 29, 2017, 06:15:43 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/GkezxzD7C4tKd3ELAzSuJwCy50M=/fit-in/423x450/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4296054-1399278865-6242.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61P8XmcsaLL.jpg)

Ernie Henry - Seven Standards And A Blues (1957)
Stan Getz - Reflections (1963)

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51S6O0uUiPL._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71fhffmtYlL._SL1400_.jpg)

Denys Baptiste - The Late Trane (2017)
Vijay Iyer - Far From Over (2017)

also tried to listen to Django Bates' Saluting Sgt Pepper, but couldn't take more than ten minutes of it
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 29, 2017, 09:02:58 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 29, 2017, 02:08:25 AM
Well, of course Bean is superb  :D

It's his Felsted album (#1-6) with various bonus tracks (the next bunch of studio tracks are from "Coleman Hawkins and His Confreres", a Verve platter, and then there are the live cuts which I don't know where they're from, maybe they're real rarities, that does occasionally happen, even with them pirates  ;)

An official reissue of the Felsted catalogue through Mosaic fell through, so the pirates jumped in ... the Lonehills are hardly ever preferrable if you have alternatives (I guess that does include streaming and downloading, after all) ... Fresh Sound put out a fairly nice box of the catalogue, Lonehill or another of those cheapo labels (Fresh Sound is a bit better, or rather they do their own new productions and their reissues are taken care of in a much nicer way, though most of them fit the same "public domain in Europe/no royalties" niche) has it's own edition on fewer discs with somewhat less nice presentation, but ultimately not a big difference.

Here's the Fresh Sound:
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/felsted-recordings-albums/5596-the-complete-stanley-dance-felsted-mainstream-jazz-recordings-1958-1959-9-cd-box-set.html

Thanks for the info, king ubu! Long may you reign. :) I need more Hawkins in my collection (him and about a hundred others).

TD:
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I'm a fan of several of these musicians, but this one is sorta meh so far. But then, I'm listening in a rental car whose AUX jack has a constant, annoying whine accompanying the music (playing on my iPod). >:( Need to give it a fairer chance, I guess.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 30, 2017, 12:01:01 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414JGKGQ72L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519LMZxBN-L.jpg)

Paul Bley - Ramblin (1967)
Paul Bley - Solemn Meditation (1958)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZQOCIva8L._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/t-5I1qyqh83iisJZi4XoF-ukOrU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8918091-1485336211-7828.jpeg.jpg)

John McLaughlin - Live At Ronnie Scotts (2017)
Kenny Burrell - Ellington Is Forever (1975)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Uj4ghZBhL._SL1400_.jpg)

Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 07:45:18 AM
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Tune selection aside (I could do without pop songs like "Wonderwall"), Mehldau's trio is hard to beat from the current crop.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 08:31:03 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 07:45:18 AM
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Tune selection aside (I could do without pop songs like "Wonderwall"), Mehldau's trio is hard to beat from the current crop.

A 2016 recording and one that I think is much better because of the song slections:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on December 31, 2017, 09:28:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/mYMnG0ON8zc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 31, 2017, 11:50:00 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/UdcxlBBf47nJPBCSQABslKfmHqY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3978449-1351203608-7106.jpeg.jpg)

Andrew Hill - Strange Serenade (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 11:57:27 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 31, 2017, 11:50:00 AM
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Andrew Hill - Strange Serenade (1980)

Andrew Hill is probably my favorite jazz pianist/composer, especially those great Blue Note recordings.  But these later ones are good listening as well, lots of solo piano stuff, and Time Lines is truly a great late record.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 31, 2017, 12:11:48 PM
Quote from: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 11:57:27 AM
Andrew Hill is probably my favorite jazz pianist/composer, especially those great Blue Note recordings.  But these later ones are good listening as well, lots of solo piano stuff, and Time Lines is truly a great late record.

I played Time Lines for the first time just the other day, and agree its superb - as is the one playing now. There seems to be a general recieved wisdom out in the world that the early Blue Note big names were never as good in later years and hardly worth the effort of investigating further, which I've found in almost every case to be grossly unfair and manifestly untrue.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 12:50:32 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 31, 2017, 12:11:48 PM
I played Time Lines for the first time just the other day, and agree its superb - as is the one playing now. There seems to be a general recieved wisdom out in the world that the early Blue Note big names were never as good in later years and hardly worth the effort of investigating further, which I've found in almost every case to be grossly unfair and manifestly untrue.

Because the consistent quality of those '50s-'60s Blue Note recordings, a veritable golden age of jazz, fans have a tendency to fetishize them.  You're right many of those same musicians continued to record for labels like Pablo and others, some European labels like Black Saint, and those are often of equal quality.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 31, 2017, 12:58:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61crVC6VwxL.jpg)

Max Roach - M'Boom (1979)

^Checking out the discography of Freddie Watts, drummer on the Andrew Hill album I played earlier, I'm led to this remarkable album which incorporates all manner of world/ethnic percussion practices.


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Epistrophy_%26_Now%27s_the_Time.jpg)

Richard Davis - Epistrophy & Now's The Time (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2018, 11:07:12 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/ujaVUDy8dm2NcR6OWuUulhmmwuM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1919218-1512207488-6720.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Milt_Jackson_and_the_Hip_String_Quartet.jpg)

M'Boom - s/t (1973)
Milt Jackson - And The Hip String Quartet (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 01, 2018, 11:42:15 AM
Now playing:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on January 01, 2018, 01:18:53 PM
Quote from: San Antone on December 31, 2017, 08:31:03 AM
A 2016 recording and one that I think is much better because of the song slections:

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/527ae92fe4b0febeee4f40d2/t/56f2fc624c2f85b2409c8734/1458764904331/brad-mehldau.jpg?format=1000w)
I love this Mehldau album !
TD
I re-listen yesterday to Nina Simone

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She may not have the most beautiful jazz voice, but her expressivity and musicianship are exceptional.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 02, 2018, 11:10:11 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71A7lC3biCL._SL1181_.jpg)

Some interesting music here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 02, 2018, 11:10:50 AM
Quote from: Spineur on January 01, 2018, 01:18:53 PM
I re-listen yesterday to Nina Simone

[asin]B00004ST4U[/asin]

She may not have the most beautiful jazz voice, but her expressivity and musicianship are exceptional.

Nina Simone was one THE GREAT jazz stylists!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 02, 2018, 11:46:48 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/18IWWDkRdmc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2018, 07:54:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXc81NxsL._SY300_.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/624/MI0001624244.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Nat Adderley - Don't Look Back (1976)
Tommy Flannagan - Overseas (1957)

I suppose Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" has been covered a number of times, yet I'm still surprised I don't hear it more often

(https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/2eb34bc09ee8661c34ea8d28010d055c/1392232.jpg)

Hank Jones - Porgy And Bess (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 02, 2018, 11:28:39 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 02, 2018, 07:54:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXc81NxsL._SY300_.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/624/MI0001624244.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)(https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/2eb34bc09ee8661c34ea8d28010d055c/1392232.jpg)

Some great players, there.  When I first saw the Hank Jones I thought it was Nancy Wilson's P&B.  MJQ's Porgy is a fave, but I need to look up the Hank Jones record since I have something of a thing for Porgy & Bess jazz sessions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 01:16:46 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 02, 2018, 11:28:39 PM
Some great players, there.  When I first saw the Hank Jones I thought it was Nancy Wilson's P&B.  MJQ's Porgy is a fave, but I need to look up the Hank Jones record since I have something of a thing for Porgy & Bess jazz sessions.

If possible, try and find this lovely twofer:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-talented-touch-porgy-and-bess-mw0000326572

Regarding Nina Simone, she's beyond categories and classifications ... but she's THE GREATEST!

Stuff I had on rotation the past days (back to work today, alas):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 04:32:49 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 01:16:46 AM
If possible, try and find this lovely twofer:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-talented-touch-porgy-and-bess-mw0000326572

Yeah - found that earlier.  But I've only listened to one track so far, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 03, 2018, 05:38:17 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/ujChUYkPvec
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:03:27 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 02, 2018, 11:28:39 PM
Some great players, there.  When I first saw the Hank Jones I thought it was Nancy Wilson's P&B.  MJQ's Porgy is a fave, but I need to look up the Hank Jones record since I have something of a thing for Porgy & Bess jazz sessions.

A few months ago I was unexpectedly impressed by how good Cal Tjader's Porgy And Bess album was. Have you heard that one?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 07:06:53 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:03:27 AM
A few months ago I was unexpectedly impressed by how good Cal Tjader's Porgy And Bess album was. Have you heard that one?

I think so - there was a time when I looked up all available Porgy & Bess jazz records, but I generally don't care for Tjader.  The 2CD Bethlehem recording with (don't laugh) Mel Torme is actually really excellent.  If you can find that, it is great listening and includes more than the highlights.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:13:05 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 07:06:53 AM
I think so - there was a time when I looked up all available Porgy & Bess jazz records, but I generally don't care for Tjader.  The 2CD Bethlehem recording with (don't laugh) Mel Torme is actually really excellent.  If you can find that, it is great listening and includes more than the highlights.


I think its arranger Clare Fischer rather than Tjader himself that really makes that album something different.

I don't think I've heard the Mel Torme - I'll check it out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 09:58:53 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 11:17:17 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 07:06:53 AM
I think so - there was a time when I looked up all available Porgy & Bess jazz records, but I generally don't care for Tjader.  The 2CD Bethlehem recording with (don't laugh) Mel Torme is actually really excellent.  If you can find that, it is great listening and includes more than the highlights.

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Mel Tormé put out lots of excellent music at that time! My favourite is "Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette" (the one with the fantastic "Lulu's Back in Town"), but there's "Sings Fred Astaire", too, the wonderful crooner album "It's a Blue World", the concept album "California Suite", the live recording from the Crescendo ("At the Crescendo" and "Songs for Any Taste") ... the moving from Bethlehem (went belly-up because of that P&B production ... look at the line-up, it's amazing what cast they assembled!) to Verve, there's "Tormé", "Swings Shubert Alley" (maybe my no. 2 behind the self-titled one with Paich on Bethlehem), "I Dig the Duke, I Dig the Count" ... there's also the corny but lotsa fun "Olé Tormé", and there's "Swingin' on the Moon" which is great fun beyond its classic space age cover ... so yeah, Tormé fan checking in. And not considering this a guilty pleasure, not at all!

Thread duty:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 03, 2018, 11:40:24 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 07:06:53 AM
The 2CD Bethlehem recording with (don't laugh) Mel Torme is actually really excellent.  If you can find that, it is great listening and includes more than the highlights.

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Confirmed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 11:43:40 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 09:58:53 AM
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Great one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 12:01:54 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 11:17:17 AM
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Anouar Brahem is one of those artists whose records always say something wonderful.  I have them all. 

Along with the ones you posted, other stand-outs would include:

Thimar with Dave Holland and John Surman
Khomsa with Ricahrad Galliano, Palle Danielsson and John Christensen, and others
Souvenance, the one he did in 2014 that is a double CD and contains some of his greatest writing
His latest, Blue Maqams reuniting with Dave Holland, plus Jack DeJohnette and Django Bates is very good
Madar with Jan Gabarak is also very nice.

But as I said, you really can't go wrong with any of his recordings.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 12:34:16 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 12:01:54 PM
Anouar Brahem is one of those artists whose records always say something wonderful.  I have them all. 

Along with the ones you posted, other stand-outs would include:

Thimar with Dave Holland and John Surman
Khomsa with Ricahrad Galliano, Palle Danielsson and John Christensen, and others
Souvenance, the one he did in 2014 that is a double CD and contains some of his greatest writing
His latest, Blue Maqams reuniting with Dave Holland, plus Jack DeJohnette and Django Bates is very good
Madar with Jan Gabarak is also very nice.

But as I said, you really can't go wrong with any of his recordings.

"Thimar" is next up, but right now I'm putting this in between:

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The other Brahems I have are "Le pas du chat noir", "Le Voyage de Sahar" and the latest one ... some more to get, eventually.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 03, 2018, 05:31:10 PM
Count me as an Anouar Brahem fan, too. Looking forward to acquiring and hearing Blue Maqams.

TD:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 03, 2018, 05:58:34 PM
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I was only able to get one song into this before my girlfriend got home, so I will have to listen to the rest tomorrow night. Incredible sound, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2018, 06:09:01 PM
Quote from: George on January 03, 2018, 05:58:34 PM
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Must have been hard on the musicians, as the first one without Scott LaFaro.  Chuck Israels took his chair and Paul Motian remained on drums.  Has mostly ballads. 

Good one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:30:20 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 03, 2018, 11:17:17 AM
Mel Tormé put out lots of excellent music at that time! My favourite is "Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette" (the one with the fantastic "Lulu's Back in Town"), but there's "Sings Fred Astaire", too, the wonderful crooner album "It's a Blue World", the concept album "California Suite", the live recording from the Crescendo ("At the Crescendo" and "Songs for Any Taste") ... the moving from Bethlehem (went belly-up because of that P&B production ... look at the line-up, it's amazing what cast they assembled!) to Verve, there's "Tormé", "Swings Shubert Alley" (maybe my no. 2 behind the self-titled one with Paich on Bethlehem), "I Dig the Duke, I Dig the Count" ... there's also the corny but lotsa fun "Olé Tormé", and there's "Swingin' on the Moon" which is great fun beyond its classic space age cover ... so yeah, Tormé fan checking in. And not considering this a guilty pleasure, not at all!


I've heard the Astair album and Schubert Alley and liked both. I'll check out the others on your list.

and playing now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:35:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 03, 2018, 07:03:27 AM
A few months ago I was unexpectedly impressed by how good Cal Tjader's Porgy And Bess album was. Have you heard that one?


Argh...total brainfart this morning: the Tjader album that impressed be was West Side Story, not Porgy and Bess. if he's done a P&B I don't know it.

Apologies.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 04, 2018, 10:03:32 AM
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Egberto Gismonti | Charlie Haden | Jan Garbarek : Magico / Carta de Amor

The two albums from the late '70s Folk Songs and Magico were phenomenal recordings.  Carta de Amor picks up two years later with the same trio documenting music captured at Munich's Amerika Haus in April, 1981.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on January 04, 2018, 10:26:39 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 04, 2018, 12:41:27 PM
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Dave Holland double-bass
Steve Nelson vibraphone, marimba
Eric Person alto, soprano saxophones
Gene Jackson drums
Cassandra Wilson vocal
Recorded March 1995, Power Station, New York




Recorded during the period after the break up of Holland's first quintet and prior to the formation of his second quintet, this recording has a foretaste of things to come: it includes mallet-man Steve Nelson who will continue with Holland as a member of his second great working band. 

Somewhat atypical for an ECM release, almost evoking a '60s Blue Note vibe, this is a solid outing for Holland & Co.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 04, 2018, 05:53:36 PM
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Eberhard Weber
Endless Days

Eberhard Weber bass
Paul McCandless oboe, english horn, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Rainer Brüninghaus piano, keyboards
Michael DiPasqua drums, percussion
Recorded April 2000 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo




I've been an Eberhard Weber fan since I heard Colours of Chloe, must have in the mid-70s.  A true original.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 04, 2018, 07:26:55 PM
From the old ...

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... to the new.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 04, 2018, 09:08:00 PM
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Cecil Payne - Performing Charlie Parker Music (1962)
Revolutionary Ensemble - s/t (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 05, 2018, 05:30:08 AM
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Andrew Hill : Dusk

Andrew Hill - piano
Marty Ehrlich - bass clarinet (track 2), alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5-7)
Greg Tardy - bass clarinet (track 2), tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5-7)
Ron Horton - trumpet (tracks 1-3 & 5-7)
Scott Colley - bass (tracks 1-3 & 5-7)
Billy Drummond - drums (tracks 1-3 & 5-7)




A really good session from Hill's late period, I think it is comparable to his classic '60s Blue Note dates.  Scott Colley and Billy Drummond are a solid and swinging rhythm section and the horn soloists are solid.  Marty Ehrlich is someone I briefly jammed with with my good friend Michael Jefry Stevens on piano.  Ehrlich's sessions leading his own group are exceptional examples of some of the best of the NYC experimental jazz scene.

Interesting how much Hill lays out and lets the group carry the weight, but the composing is some of his best.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 05, 2018, 07:28:26 AM
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Andrew Hill : Pax
Blue Note 58297. Recorded in 1965, not released until 1975 on One for One.

Andrew Hill - piano
Freddie Hubbard - cornet
Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Richard Davis - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

One of the most creative rhythm sections; rivals Tony Williams + Ron Carter.




This not your contemplative Andrew Hill but an exuberant and rambunctious Andrew Hill.  A GREAT band.  It is odd that Blue Note delayed ten years before releasing this session.  Joe Henderson is at the top of his game on this sessions, and from what I've heard really loved playing with Andrew Hill.  Great rhythm section.  Freddie Hubbard has never been one of my favorites but he knocks his playing up a notch or two here, on cornet - which is a bit unusual.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2018, 01:53:17 PM
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Flaga - Flaga: John Zorn's Book Of Angels, Vol.27 (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 06, 2018, 01:31:30 PM
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M'Boom - Collage (1984)
Nana Vasconcelos - Storytelling (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 06, 2018, 02:24:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 06, 2018, 01:31:30 PM
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Nana Vasconcelos - Storytelling (1995)

D'oh! Ha - For some reason I always assumed Nana Vasconcelos was a woman. Never even thought to check. :( :o

Anyway, more Daniel Levin here:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 06, 2018, 02:40:52 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 06, 2018, 02:24:19 PM
D'oh! Ha - For some reason I always assumed Nana Vasconcelos was a woman. Never even thought to check. :( :o


Heh. For some reason I never assumed that, though maybe I should have.

That's a really interesting album of his, by the way. Not really jazz, more exploring various Brazillian folk musics (hence EMIs Hemisphere series). Recommended.

now:

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Art Blakey - Gypsy Folk Tales (1977)
Steve Tibbetts - Safe Journey (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 06, 2018, 07:30:26 PM
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Miles Davis : The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions




At North Texas we'd jam at different houses, Bob Belden's was often the venue.  Back then, circa 1977, Belden had all these Miles bootlegs and we'd be sitting on the floor getting stoned and Belden would go on and on about who, when and what was great each concert  Well, he graduated from there to co-producing these Miles "Complete Sessions" recordings with Michael Cuscuna.  Pretty cool.  He is a good sax player too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 02:21:33 AM
"The Ghetto Walk"!!! How come that amazing track never saw the light of the day previously to the box being released?

Blakey's "Gypsy Folk Tales" is on its way to me right now ... how is it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 03:10:31 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 02:21:33 AM
"The Ghetto Walk"!!! How come that amazing track never saw the light of the day previously to the box being released?

There's so much that had been unreleased until these boxes came out; I wonder what else there might be?  I'd ask Belden, but through a mutual friend last night on Facebook I found out that Bob died in 2015.  Bummer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 03:26:02 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 03:10:31 AM
There's so much that had been unreleased until these boxes came out; I wonder what else there might be?  I'd ask Belden, but through a mutual friend last night on Facebook I found out that Bob died in 2015.  Bummer.

Yeah, there's lots of goodies ... but "The Ghetto Walk", in my opinion, is outstanding.

The only box I have some doubts about is the "On the Corner" one - not that it isn't effin' amazing all the way through, it's some of the most thought-provoking music ever made, I think ... but contrary to most of the other boxes that really seemed to be more or less complete (according to Pete Losin's sessionography etc.), this one left off quite a bit of music that has been in circulation before via bootlegs and traders - of course those sources are never quite reliable and it's a pity thus, that the mess wasn't cleaned up by Sony in a more encompassing way. Also, while the design is great, the notes are lacking in that box, compared to the others with their very knowledgeable track-by-track commentary.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 03:43:04 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 03:26:02 AM
Yeah, there's lots of goodies ... but "The Ghetto Walk", in my opinion, is outstanding.

The only box I have some doubts about is the "On the Corner" one - not that it isn't effin' amazing all the way through, it's some of the most thought-provoking music ever made, I think ... but contrary to most of the other boxes that really seemed to be more or less complete (according to Pete Losin's sessionography etc.), this one left off quite a bit of music that has been in circulation before via bootlegs and traders - of course those sources are never quite reliable and it's a pity thus, that the mess wasn't cleaned up by Sony in a more encompassing way. Also, while the design is great, the notes are lacking in that box, compared to the others with their very knowledgeable track-by-track commentary.

For some reason I stopped buying these boxes as they came out, around the time of the Seven Steps Complete.  But last year I plugged the gaps by finding "like new" used copies of Seven Steps and On The Corner.  I still haven't gone through the Complete On The Corner.  But I LOVE that record and am sure to find many wonderful tracks in that box. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 07, 2018, 04:40:56 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 06, 2018, 07:30:26 PM
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Miles Davis : The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions




At North Texas we'd jam at different houses, Bob Belden's was often the venue.  Back then, circa 1977, Belden had all these Miles bootlegs and we'd be sitting on the floor getting stoned and Belden would go on and on about who, when and what was great each concert  Well, he graduated from there to co-producing these Miles "Complete Sessions" recordings with Michael Cuscuna.  Pretty cool.  He is a good sax player too.

Love that set!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 06:27:24 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 03:43:04 AM
For some reason I stopped buying these boxes as they came out, around the time of the Seven Steps Complete.  But last year I plugged the gaps by finding "like new" used copies of Seven Steps and On The Corner.  I still haven't gone through the Complete On The Corner.  But I LOVE that record and am sure to find many wonderful tracks in that box.

Yeah, the record is one of the most amazing of all records, that's for sure!

But there's alas not that much new material in the box, quite some of it is known already, most notably from "Get Up with It", but also from "Big Fun". To me, those never played much a role (neither did "Directions" and "Circle in the Round" ... also "Water Babies" I only had on loan once on vinyl, when in my teens in the nineties), so the series of boxes was most welcome to put things into (chronological) perspective. I've been following the releases since their start, buying the first three or four (that includes the amazing Plugged Nickel live box) while still in high school and with very little money (most of what I earned when I got small jobs during school vacations was spent on music: a couple of saxophones, a stereo set, and plenty of CDs, including huge orders from Mosaic Records).

The "Seven Steps" box is maybe the greatest, design-wise, but it also contains very little (just a handful of tracks) new material ... I love the new band with George Coleman though, while I see why Miles wasn't happy with him nor with Sam Rivers, and obvously Wayne Shorter was the missing piece (it seems Coltrane had recommended him in 1960 as a viable successor already, but he had his job with Blakey which he only quite late in 1964 ... which is cool, as during that time he helped make some great Jazz Messengers records - "Free for All" is one of my desert island discs). Anyway, I think it's great that Sony/Mosaic/MD estate did the "Seven Steps" set. They should have also done a Mobley box, because putting things in perspective, that period is the one that they failed to document in a nice box and it kind of perpetuates Miles' own lack of respect/appreciation for Mobley and the club band (the Wynton Kelly trio, that is) ... "Someday My Prince Will Come" is the one Columbia studio album that was not knighted by being included fully in those box sets (not taking into account the post comeback material of course - a box of that would be cool, too, if there's additional music to be heard, not idea ... the big Warner box was shelved alas, only to be replaced by a couple - a French first and then a US - of lesser sets). The live material has of course been out: Carnegie Hall with that terrific take on "Concierto de Aranjuez", and some very spirited Mobley, and then the Blackhawk material that shows the band working a club ... some hip sh*t there, though of course none of it ranks with Miles' masterpieces.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 07, 2018, 07:24:15 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 07:54:40 AM
Quote from: George on January 07, 2018, 07:24:15 AM
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A great Bill Evans hard bop recording.  There is a "sessions" version of Interplay with extra stuff, plus there is another recording from the same period called Loose Blues which is cool because it features more of Zoot Sims.

I guess the "carrot" here is the better sound?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 07, 2018, 08:06:57 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 07:54:40 AM
A great Bill Evans hard bop recording.  There is a "sessions" version of Interplay with extra stuff, plus there is another recording from the same period called Loose Blues which is cool because it features more of Zoot Sims.

I guess the "carrot" here is the better sound?

Yes, the carrot is the excellent mastering by Steve Hoffman.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 07, 2018, 01:20:43 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 06:27:24 AM
Yeah, the record is one of the most amazing of all records, that's for sure!

But there's alas not that much new material in the box, quite some of it is known already, most notably from "Get Up with It", but also from "Big Fun".

The main advantage of the Complete On the Corner Sessions is to have the unedited jams without the splices that were made to create On the Corner as released.

TD

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Disc 1
On The Corner (unedited master) 19:25
On The Corner (Take 4) 5:15
One and One (unedited master) 17:55
Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (unedited master) 23:19
Jabali 11:04
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 08, 2018, 09:20:34 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 07, 2018, 02:21:33 AM


Blakey's "Gypsy Folk Tales" is on its way to me right now ... how is it?

Good but not at all essential, in my opinion. I'll be interested to hear what you think.

Of the lesser known Blakeys I've heard recently I thought Backgammon was the one that most deserved to be rescued from obscurity, and stands alongside the best of his Blue Notes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 08, 2018, 10:09:49 AM
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TOMASZ STANKO QUARTET | SOUL OF THINGS
Tomasz Stanko trumpet
Marcin Wasilewski piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz double-bass
Michal Miskiewicz drums
Recorded August 2001 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo




I've always liked Tomasz Stanko's recordings, his tone is dark and evocative and he almost always assembles an excellent band:

"I've been playing the same song my whole life," says trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who puts his claim to the test in thirteen numbered tracks under the title Soul of Things. Together they are not variations on a theme, but are a "balladesque suite" built around the theme of variation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 08, 2018, 11:40:13 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 08, 2018, 09:20:34 AM
Good but not at all essential, in my opinion. I'll be interested to hear what you think.

Of the lesser known Blakeys I've heard recently I thought Backgammon was the one that most deserved to be rescued from obscurity, and stands alongside the best of his Blue Notes.

Interesting, as "Backgammon" is part of the same order (both on their way, in separate shippings, it seems) ... I'm not expecting any essential Blakey beyond his Blue Notes, to be honest, not even the Limelights right after are really up to scratch (well, "Buttercorn Lady" is really close, and maybe the 1968 ones with Billy Harper are just as close). But I still wanted to get those two before they're gone again ...  and if one's okay and the other real good, that's more than good 'nuff!  :)

Regarding Tomasz Stanko, I loved his Komeda tribute, "Litania", one of the most played discs in my place in the very late nineties. Saw his quartet around the time of "Soul of Things" (which I also enjoyed a lot), I think, at a very weird, not really publicly announced concert at the most important jazz club in town, I think it was kind of a reception by the Polish embassy or something, but if you knew they'd allow you in as a regular paying customer, too ... weird atmosphere but fine music. But a while later, I more or less stopped following his released. Still bought "Suspended Night", but found it to be more of the same ... recently got "Wislawa" but no idea on what pile it is hiding right now ... guess I'll have to fill some gaps eventually.

But some gaps that I did fill in the same time when I stopped following his new releases, are his terrific early albums, "Music for K", "Twet" (both were part of a five-disc set, also containing the later "Music 81", "Lady Go" and "Switzerland - Tomasz Stanko Freelectronic Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987", of which the first is still very much okay, the later two not really down my alley, at least when i listened to them, which has been a while), and then - vinyl only as far as I know - "Purple Sun" (falls between "Music for K" and "Twet" actually, 1971, 1973 and 1975).

"Leosia" is another favourite from his ECMs, with Stenson-Jormin-Oxley - nice band.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 08, 2018, 12:01:39 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 08, 2018, 11:40:13 AM
Regarding Tomasz Stanko, I loved his Komeda tribute, "Litania", one of the most played discs in my place in the very late nineties. Saw his quartet around the time of "Soul of Things" (which I also enjoyed a lot), I think, at a very weird, not really publicly announced concert at the most important jazz club in town, I think it was kind of a reception by the Polish embassy or something, but if you knew they'd allow you in as a regular paying customer, too ... weird atmosphere but fine music. But a while later, I more or less stopped following his released. Still bought "Suspended Night", but found it to be more of the same ... recently got "Wislawa" but no idea on what pile it is hiding right now ... guess I'll have to fill some gaps eventually.

The Polish quartet has released three CDs, besides the two you mentioned, the third Lontano came out in 2006.  Yes, superficially they could be said to sound alike, but essentially they are all structured very differently.  As you know, Soul of Things is a group of "variations", and the title tune form Lontano is laced throughout the other selections, each which might be seens as a departure as well as comment on what has come before.  Suspended Night has a sparser texture than either of the other two.  All of these are mandatory Stanko, imo.

QuoteBut some gaps that I did fill in the same time when I stopped following his new releases, are his terrific early albums, "Music for K", "Twet" (both were part of a five-disc set, also containing the later "Music 81", "Lady Go" and "Switzerland - Tomasz Stanko Freelectronic Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987", of which the first is still very much okay, the later two not really down my alley, at least when i listened to them, which has been a while), and then - vinyl only as far as I know - "Purple Sun" (falls between "Music for K" and "Twet" actually, 1971, 1973 and 1975).

"Leosia" is another favourite from his ECMs, with Stenson-Jormin-Oxley - nice band.

All those are really good; and I consider Stanko a first rate jazz musician who reliably puts out great recordings.  But, I really like his quartet recordings, the Polish group (which as a touring unit since 1994 has a great rqpport by this time) but more recently his "New York Quartet".

The TSNYQ has recorded two CDs so far, Wislawa in 2015 with the lineup of Tomasz Stańko, trumpet; David Virelles, piano; Thomas Morgan, bass; and Gerald Cleaver, drums. Last year's release of December Avenue changed up the bassist, replacing Thomas Morgan with Reuben Rogers.

I've been listening to Stanko throughout his more than 40 year association with ECM and have not found anything he's done disappointing, but these two New York Quartet albums, with the edge possibly going to Wislawa because of the variety of the improvisations, are two of his best.
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Post by: king ubu on January 08, 2018, 12:45:30 PM
Thanks! So I guess I'll find "Wislawa" and go from there. I remember playing at least a part of it when after buying it (I guess around 2016, not when it was new) and liking what I heard.

Now giving this here a first spin:

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Not a revelation, Monk by 1967 was problematic in some ways I think - and still great in others ... will have to revisit the Paris concert (on a Charly bootleg disc), which I remember as being somewhat more cohesive - but at least this is a most valuable addition to the discography, in good sound. Quality job, it seems, even though it's one more PD release, I assume (no mention of the Monk family anywhere, though when it came out last year it was not quite yet 50 years old ...)
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Post by: milk on January 09, 2018, 05:14:42 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 09, 2018, 07:22:29 AM
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Andrew Hill | Judgment!
Andrew Hill - piano
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone
Richard Davis - bass
Elvin Jones - drums




One of his best bands and the session is right up there with Point of Departure, also from 1964.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 09, 2018, 07:50:30 AM
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John Abercrombie | The First Quartet
John Abercrombie: guitar, mandolin guitar
Richie Beirach: piano
George Mraz: double bass
Peter Donald: drums

We lost a great musician last August when John Abercrombie passed away at the age of 72 from heart failure.  From the mid-1970s onward he recorded a stream of impressive albums for ECM, including Gateway (1976), with Jack DeJohnette and the bassist Dave Holland, which marked his real arrival.  His first quartet was formed in the late '70s.

The albums included in the three-disc set are remastered from original ECM analog recordings of Arcade (1979), Abercrombie Quartet (1979) and M (1981). All but unavailable in CD format, these three early quartet outings have been bundled as part of ECM's Old & New Masters collection and represent some early building blocks in Abercrombie's development.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 09, 2018, 12:48:26 PM
That set is on my piles ... don't know any of it yet, bought it after the sad news of his death was out.

His last one on ECM is also pretty good, I find - Marc Copland is on piano, and he was when I heard Abercrombie live for the first time, just a duo, and it was great, although p/g is usually not a combination I really enjoy, be it in duo or quartet or as part of a (modern) rhythm section ... things just get too crowded too often. But Abercrombie knows how to handle it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2018, 06:52:14 AM
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Achirana

Vassilis Tsabropoulos piano
Arild Andersen double-bass
John Marshall drums
Recorded October 1999 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo




Typical ECM recording: good sound; good playing; but does not stand out from all the other piano trio recordings on ECM.  Still, his was a new name for me and I am happy to have it to listen to.  Arild Andersen is a great bass player, and that was enough to lure me in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 11, 2018, 07:09:19 AM
Nice duo from 2014, like being at Bradley's in NYC.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on January 11, 2018, 07:14:49 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 11, 2018, 07:45:48 PM
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Bobby Hutcherson - Un Poco Loco (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 12, 2018, 05:32:36 AM
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Anouar Brahem | Souvenance

QuoteThe music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 – six years after oud-master Anouar Brahem's last ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita. "It took a long time to write this music," he acknowledges, noting that his emotional world had been usurped by the unfolding story of political upheaval sweeping first through Tunisia then through the neighbouring countries. Extraordinary waves of change, accompanied by great hopes and fears. "I don't claim a direct link between my compositions and the events taking place in Tunisia," says Anouar, "but I have been deeply affected by them." New directions for the music find Franҫois Couturier returning to the Brahem group, frequently supported by subtle string orchestration. The strings have a glowing transparency and fragility in these pieces, often providing shimmering texture against which the contributions of the quartet members – and, above all, Anouar Brahem's unique oud-playing – stand out in bold relief. This double album was recorded at the Lugano studio in May 2014, and produced by Manfred Eicher.




Not sure if this is even "jazz" but it is certainly a fantastic listening experience.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 12, 2018, 06:09:26 AM
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The Julian Lage album is so different from the concert that I felt like listening to it again, despite the fantastic concert (after such concerts, I will usually not touch studio albums for a while, as they will be flat and boring by comparison - nothing beats the live situation in jazz!) last night ... now listening to jaimie branch again, her great debut album, finally the CD has arrived and I don't have to listen to crappity files on my little bluetooth speaker (which is nice enough though).

branch got a five-star-review here:
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/05/jaime-branch-fly-or-die-international.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 12, 2018, 06:44:57 AM
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Count Basie - Berlin 1963

This is a year (or four) too late in the game for prime NT Basie, but it's nice ... from one of those series releasing (PD) material from German radio sources in good sound (though this one from WDR comes in foogly design and notes are on the short side, too) - glad to have it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 12, 2018, 07:40:54 AM
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Miles in the Sky

Always one of my favorites from the tail end of his Second Great Quintet period.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 12, 2018, 09:17:00 AM
Fast forward to 1969 - the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions

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QuoteWhen questioned by Paul Tingen why most of the material in fact was not recorded either for or at the same sessions as the original album, re-issue producer Bob Belden clarified how the team's thought process went. According to him and the engineer, all the songs Miles Davis recorded between August 1969 and early February 1970 used very similar line-ups to those on Bitches Brew, and the main thing they all had in common was the emphasis on keyboards. Every song in the set includes two to three keyboard players, most often Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock. It wasn't until late February 1970 that Davis refined his concept by dropping the multiple electric pianists for a more guitar-heavy sound. Those following sessions were collected on The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions.

The box set includes some tracks that had never been previously released, one of which, the Wayne Shorter composition "Feio," has since appeared as a bonus track on late compact disc reissues of Bitches Brew. A few of the other tracks in the box set had previously appeared on the albums Live-Evil, Big Fun, and Circle in the Round.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 12, 2018, 11:20:00 AM
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Cedar Walton - Reliving The Moment (1978)
Max Roach - Easy Winners (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 13, 2018, 07:06:51 AM
Just finished this 'un:

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Really outstanding. My first encounter with Smith and I'm keen to hear more. (I have two or three of Tim Berne's Snakeoil releases, on which Smith is the drummer, but I have yet to hear any of them.)

Previously:

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Second spin for this one, as the first was under less-than-ideal audio circumstances. It's really good, too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 13, 2018, 06:23:55 PM
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Complete Jack Johnson Sessions : Disc 1




Simply great
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 13, 2018, 06:44:26 PM
And moving on to:

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If you can't read the teeny print there, it's Common Objects, Whitewashed with Lines. The group is John Butcher, saxophones; Angharad Davies, violin; Rhodri Davies, harps; and Lee Patterson, amplified devices and processes.

It's one of those soundscapes/textures records, sort of like AMM but "noisier," certainly not for the casual or conservative jazz fan. Since I'm neither of those, I'm really liking it. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 14, 2018, 01:09:46 AM
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Mark Turner on ECM, the first three I was playing yesterday ... gearing up for the FLY concert Monday night. Still missing the first one by the Billy Hart quartet (which was actually the Iverson/Turner quartet), as well as their debut on Highnote or FLY's debut on Savoy ... but these five are a splendid bunch. The Rava is very moody, I love it more than the others for that, I guess, but then what FLY is doing on those two is quite exciting and I hope it will work in a live setting, too ... now moving on with these two:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 14, 2018, 11:14:51 AM
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Jerri Winters - Winters Again (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 14, 2018, 01:19:23 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 14, 2018, 01:09:46 AM
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Mark Turner on ECM, the first three I was playing yesterday ... gearing up for the FLY concert Monday night. Still missing the first one by the Billy Hart quartet (which was actually the Iverson/Turner quartet), as well as their debut on Highnote or FLY's debut on Savoy ... but these five are a splendid bunch. The Rava is very moody, I love it more than the others for that, I guess, but then what FLY is doing on those two is quite exciting and I hope it will work in a live setting, too ... now moving on with these two:

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Mark Turner and FLY are a really good band that does some very interesting improvised music.  However, the style of improvisation doesn't represent swinging jazz.  Their approach almost approaches a classical style, but it is very worthwhile nonetheless.  I haven't heard the Billy Hart record but would suspect it would be more swinging.

TD

The Classic Ornette Coleman Quartet : Atlantic Sessions

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Now, this is a band that could swing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on January 14, 2018, 01:28:53 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 14, 2018, 01:09:46 AM

Mark Turner on ECM, the first three I was playing yesterday ... gearing up for the FLY concert Monday night. Still missing the first one by the Billy Hart quartet (which was actually the Iverson/Turner quartet), as well as their debut on Highnote or FLY's debut on Savoy ... but these five are a splendid bunch. The Rava is very moody, I love it more than the others for that, I guess, but then what FLY is doing on those two is quite exciting and I hope it will work in a live setting, too ...
I love Mark Turner.  Some complain he is too intellectual and lack spontaneity.  His music really speaks to me and that is all what matters.  I only have FLY and lathe of heaven.  I think I should explore some of his other albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2018, 12:27:12 AM
To my ears, they (FLY, that is) build - amongst other things - on Miles Davis' second quintet: that mixture of spontaneity and openness with meticulously structured playing ... Turner is extremely lyrical most of the time, and that harks back to Wayne Shorter (I think some aspects of his sound do so, too - although Warne Marsh is the big idol I presume). Ballard may be part of the not-swinging thing, too - he's in some ways more modern, compared to the albums with Motian (that Rava disc is great!) and Hart (to me the weakest of the five, but they're all good), the ones with Ballard and Gilmore are different in the punch, the punctuations, the rhythms in general. Gilmore has all those odd breaks and stuff, the street-savviness, the hip hop stuff, but also the punchy roll of older drummers - I really love his playing ... Ballard is maybe more on the rock than the funk/r&B side of things, but he too is very nuanced and at the same time has plenty of punch. Not saying who is better (Motian is a favourite though - probably mostly non-swinging, too? - and a towering figure in my book), but I'm of the more recent vintage there myself and I guess that does influence how we perceive and listen.

I will probably check out the earlier to albums by the Hart (Iverson/Turner) quartet (the first one was on HighNote), as well as FLY's first one (on Savoy), eventually.

And I'd love to hear more of Turner's own stuff ... he and Cohen are a great match, and the piano-less band opens up new possibilities, too. The roles are probably more conventional there than with FLY, Ben Street holding down the bottom beautifully, and Gilmore making sure you won't be bored for a second, but still it's more "soloists with accompaniment" than what FLY do. I love both, I guess, so it's win-win  ;D
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Post by: San Antone on January 15, 2018, 08:25:08 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 14, 2018, 01:19:23 PM
The Classic Ornette Coleman Quartet : Atlantic Sessions

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Disc 2

I had forgotten just how great Charlie Haden's tone and feel were with this band. He and Ed Blackwell were a huge part of why this band really did it.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2018, 02:12:48 PM
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Milt Jackson - Invitation (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 16, 2018, 05:50:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/PessG1pEVrg
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 16, 2018, 06:21:28 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 16, 2018, 05:50:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/PessG1pEVrg

I didn't know you liked Al Di Meola, Karl. :o Cool!

This is probably one of my favorite pieces of his:

https://www.youtube.com/v/4sJb4L6zbfc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 16, 2018, 12:39:12 PM
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Red Norvo - Town Hall Concert (1945)
Dizzy Gillespie - Horn Of Plenty (1952)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2018, 01:59:05 PM
It's been a long time since I dipped into this set, but I needed some bebop.

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Disc 5 | half the disc is billed as the Miles Davis All Stars with Parker playing tenor, the other half has the Charlie Parker All Stars and Parker is back on alto.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 16, 2018, 03:22:44 PM
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Thelonious Monk - Live At The Jazz Workshop (1964)
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Post by: Alek Hidell on January 16, 2018, 06:22:43 PM
A straight-ahead session by Murray, and a very good one it is:

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And

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 17, 2018, 03:36:26 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/DJ4ryvRwuyQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 05:30:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 16, 2018, 03:22:44 PM
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Thelonious Monk - Live At The Jazz Workshop (1964)

Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 16, 2018, 06:22:43 PM
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Two great recordings.

I listened to Belonging not that long ago, but I haven't heard the Monk for a while - so, following your lead I am listening to it now.   8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 07:09:44 AM
Now

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I always liked this record.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 17, 2018, 08:46:10 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 07:09:44 AM
Now

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I always liked this record.

Me too, although my girlfriend absolutely hates it.

Long before I heard it, I heard this song that samples it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPaH6vYZQY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 09:42:54 AM
Quote from: George on January 17, 2018, 08:46:10 AM
Me too, although my girlfriend absolutely hates it.

Long before I heard it, I heard this song that samples it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPaH6vYZQY

;D 

That's great, to get to Miles from that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 10:13:35 AM
Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/rwnmzfXgE6_TETHQyd_RWiFAPBU=/fit-in/597x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-682988-1232808781.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:05:17 AM
Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/FuEGUVap2wXRaFC14UuuTZIdqTw=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5647588-1398884288-6271.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 17, 2018, 11:08:52 AM
I love everything the Cannonball Adderley Quintet did, but man... "Jive Samba" and "Sack O' Woe" are mighty similar tunes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:20:58 AM
Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/vvCXUyHlxLX93daCN26ZknZVAB8=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-832963-1412882151-8151.jpeg.jpg)

Dolphy's first session as a bandleader. Some swingin' stuff for sure. The older I get, the less I like what's happening in jazz nowadays. I've always been drawn to the 50s and 60s bebop/hard-bop/cool jazz scenes more than any other periods.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 17, 2018, 11:21:44 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/kIFoAwJPtm4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 11:25:15 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:20:58 AM
Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/vvCXUyHlxLX93daCN26ZknZVAB8=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-832963-1412882151-8151.jpeg.jpg)

Dolphy's first session as a bandleader. Some swingin' stuff for sure. The older I get, the less I like what's happening in jazz nowadays. I've always been drawn to the 50s and 60s bebop/hard-bop/cool jazz scenes more than any other styles.

Great one. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:34:03 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 11:25:15 AM
Great one.

Oh yes, I didn't really 'get' Dolphy the first couple of times I heard his music. What's remarkable is he plays 'free' in a sense, but he's always well-aware of the chordal makeup of the piece he's playing. He's almost like the Thelonious Monk of the saxophone given the quirkiness of his playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 11:46:00 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:34:03 AM
Oh yes, I didn't really 'get' Dolphy the first couple of times I heard his music. What's remarkable is he plays 'free' in a sense, but he's always well-aware of the chordal makeup of the piece he's playing. He's almost like the Thelonious Monk of the saxophone given the quirkiness of his playing.

Yeah.  His phrasing also has a lot of Charlie Parker in it, but his melodies are very Monkish.  But even far out for Monk.  His Five Spot live recordings are what I listen to most.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 12:31:32 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 11:46:00 AM
Yeah.  His phrasing also has a lot of Charlie Parker in it, but his melodies are very Monkish.  But even far out for Monk.  His Five Spot live recordings are what I listen to most.

Definitely a Parker influence for sure, but the uniqueness of his playing is all his own. I wished he had lived longer. I'm not sure how further 'out' he would have gotten since he was a traditionally-minded musician when you get right down to it. He loved chords and hearing chords, so there's no way I believe he'd ever abandon them completely. Of course, this is just pure speculation on my part.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 12:42:13 PM
Now:

(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features/97/df/a9/dj.lnvinmur.jpg/1200x630bb.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 01:08:13 PM
Sticking with a Dolphy-theme:

(https://img.discogs.com/AU3MKsH-Jv00m0_Twu6G27v-EZo=/fit-in/600x612/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2534910-1307509672.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 01:44:49 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 16, 2018, 03:22:44 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nbkA4J6xL._SY355_.jpg)

Thelonious Monk - Live At The Jazz Workshop (1964)

I should revisit this one. Huge Monk fan.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 01:47:58 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 08, 2018, 10:09:49 AM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/soul-of-things.jpg)

TOMASZ STANKO QUARTET | SOUL OF THINGS
Tomasz Stanko trumpet
Marcin Wasilewski piano
Slawomir Kurkiewicz double-bass
Michal Miskiewicz drums
Recorded August 2001 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo




I've always liked Tomasz Stanko's recordings, his tone is dark and evocative and he almost always assembles an excellent band:

"I've been playing the same song my whole life," says trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, who puts his claim to the test in thirteen numbered tracks under the title Soul of Things. Together they are not variations on a theme, but are a "balladesque suite" built around the theme of variation.

A great album for sure. I do feel, however, that his masterpiece is Suspended Night. I remember when this album came out, I must have had it on repeat for about four-five days straight.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 17, 2018, 01:53:16 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/051/MI0002051050.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51BXPB1YAFL.jpg)

Andrew Hill - Live At Montreux (1975)
Bill Evans - The Secret Sessions At The Village Vanguard, disc three
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 02:31:01 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/7160P3m%2B3LL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 03:11:12 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/pGGy3vf5m_4pFnODlaKZb4yKQlI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10800902-1513806765-8277.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 03:57:15 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/WH8Sz2XQiBkF65AnvSMyDgMkODk=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2990475-1368391136-1002.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 17, 2018, 04:20:26 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 11:34:03 AM
Oh yes, I didn't really 'get' Dolphy the first couple of times I heard his music. What's remarkable is he plays 'free' in a sense, but he's always well-aware of the chordal makeup of the piece he's playing. He's almost like the Thelonious Monk of the saxophone given the quirkiness of his playing.

I've long wished that Monk and Dolphy had recorded something together. Love all that classic Dolphy you're listening to, MI.

Quote from: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 01:47:58 PM
A great album for sure. I do feel, however, that his masterpiece is Suspended Night. I remember when this album came out, I must have had it on repeat for about four-five days straight.

Suspended Night is great for sure. I've found, however, that I like Lontano even better.

TD - a Schweizer-a-thon:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NmTnjDztL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61hcyXRcVxL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511ReExBaiL._SS500.jpg)

Great fun, these, especially those with the two comedians Sommer and Bennink.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 04:30:36 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 17, 2018, 04:20:26 PMI've long wished that Monk and Dolphy had recorded something together. Love all that classic Dolphy you're listening to, MI.

Personally, I don't think the pairing of Monk and Dolphy would have worked. On paper, it sounds like a match made in jazz heaven, but, alas, I believe the two would be stumbling blocks for each other. You just can't have two quirky, completely individualistic musicians like Monk and Dolphy performing together, because this would bring an imbalance I believe. Monk or Dolphy would be in a more submissive role and we can't have this happening! Both of them can't go off to la-la land and leave the band behind. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 17, 2018, 04:49:59 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 04:30:36 PM
Personally, I don't think the pairing of Monk and Dolphy would have worked. On paper, it sounds like a match made in jazz heaven, but, alas, I believe the two would be stumbling blocks for each other. You just can't have two quirky, completely individualistic musicians like Monk and Dolphy performing together, because this would bring an imbalance I believe. Monk or Dolphy would be in a more submissive role and we can't have this happening! Both of them can't go off to la-la land and leave the band behind. :)

You may be right, of course. But I would like to have heard them give it a try, anyway! :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 17, 2018, 07:31:47 PM
Quote from: George on January 03, 2018, 05:58:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MJnFbyBaL.jpg)

I was only able to get one song into this before my girlfriend got home, so I will have to listen to the rest tomorrow night. Incredible sound, though.

A truly remarkable album. I own it both of LP and CD. Certainly one of my favorites from Evans, but that's a very long list to begin with. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 17, 2018, 08:02:22 PM
I like Dolphy best when he's the lone weirdo in a group of old-school swingers, when, say, Roy Eldridge is boppin' it and then blammo! Dolphy! Or when a Mingus big band arrangement is chugging along in its sardonic sexy rage and then boom! anarchy!

In fact I think - that Mingus/Eldridge session from maybe 1960, after Newport Rebels, where Dolphy is there crazying it up, if Dolphy and Eldridge had gone into full-on shoot-out mode trading licks back and forth, that would probably have produced just about my platonic ideal jazz track.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 18, 2018, 03:21:07 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 17, 2018, 08:02:22 PM
I like Dolphy best when he's the lone weirdo in a group of old-school swingers, when, say, Roy Eldridge is boppin' it and then blammo! Dolphy! Or when a Mingus big band arrangement is chugging along in its sardonic sexy rage and then boom! anarchy!

Yes!  Quirky individual or not, he played well with others  0:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 18, 2018, 10:23:56 AM
I've been listening to the Stefano Battaglia Trio's latest ECM recording, In The Morning, which focuses on the music of Alec Wilder. It is excellent and then I went back and have been listening to the other five records he's released on ECM.

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/in-the-morning.jpg)

Here's my blog overview (https://fdleone.com/2018/01/18/stefano-battaglia-trio-interprets-alec-wilder/) of all of them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 18, 2018, 11:43:14 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/4hT148qv3BTR6orxDeHna6RksE0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2620348-1293631257.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/CIwSMTM9Gb3fm5rAzWbJr7OJPJs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3100690-1315758977.jpeg.jpg)

Harold Rumsey - Lighthouse At Laguna (1956)
Red Norvo - Dancing On The Ceiling (1955)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614BI5DN%2BXL._SY355_.jpg)

Sam Rivers – Black Africa! Villalago (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 18, 2018, 11:56:15 AM
Eddy Louiss Trio: Nardis

[asin]B00002R0OF[/asin]


Rene Thomas & Bobby Jaspar: Thomas Jaspar Quintet

(https://i.imgur.com/pB3U3H7.jpg)

The former was  recommended to me some time ago by king ubu and it's only now that I'm getting around to properly listening. The latter is more familiar and goes back to my younger days. Hahaha.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 18, 2018, 06:11:53 PM
Was listening to Johann Sebastian pretty much all day at my desk, but I did also listen to this in the car:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-fpVXQ%2BQL.jpg)

One of Ware's best-sounding albums (of the ones I've heard). I don't mean to damn with faint praise: the music's good, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on January 19, 2018, 03:22:06 AM
At the border of jazz: Tigran Hamasyan A Fable

[asin]B004GBP98W[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 19, 2018, 03:29:34 AM
Quote from: Spineur on January 19, 2018, 03:22:06 AM
At the border of jazz: Tigran Hamasyan A Fable

True; I've listened to a bunch of his recordings.

An Ancient Observer, 2017
Mockroot, 2015
Luys I Luso, 2015

But the music is very good, imo.

then there's this

Tigran Mansurian: Requiem, 2017

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91g-yUVzPFL._SX425_.jpg)

Not jazz, but his name is Tigran.   8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 19, 2018, 06:25:12 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/NmoqFXJGUjc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 19, 2018, 10:04:28 AM
Been listening to a lot of bebop this week, and continuing with that now. I created a playlist with the greats, Bird, Dizzy, Bud, Monk and some others at the height of their playing.  Really enjoying listening to it.

(https://img.discogs.com/BRv32RMDTuOxZn6fme_0_mj-L6w=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-75617-001.jpg.jpg)(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2010/10/18/gillespie-1e96b745864b76de1c52e5f9b3f69e0f2e13ac54-s900-c85.jpg)(http://www.bluenote.com/cdn/mceuploads/artists/bud-powell.jpg)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Thelonious_Monk%2C_Minton%27s_Playhouse%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Sept._1947_%28William_P._Gottlieb_06221%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 19, 2018, 02:33:16 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/hz0oQ_MXNt0qhzW_Hq4TicsNh-M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9587651-1483220179-4005.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/_jU0gmCvXdm3Hg2TbODOVWTTfoA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2204707-1380000014-1198.jpeg.jpg)

Duke Ellington - At The Bal Masque (1959)
Herb Ellis and Ray Brown - Soft Shoe (1973)

(https://img.discogs.com/uFvdBL3BOtpf0nH0gj3dtfwJWZc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5776742-1402352336-4844.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/lkAcEoa4yNve2f3ghl4eVwqPwRI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2379311-1451649334-4200.png.jpg)

Jo Jones and Milt Hinton - Percussion And Bass (1960)
Dollar Brand - African Marketplace (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 19, 2018, 05:08:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41wn76sCMwL.jpg)

And then the girl from Ipanema went walkin' ...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41IXUdGDY-L.jpg)

(Incidental question for anyone who knows: how is the name "Joao" pronounced?)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 19, 2018, 05:18:52 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 19, 2018, 05:08:40 PM

(Incidental question for anyone who knows: how is the name "Joao" pronounced?)

I couldn't swear to it, but checking I found this page with audiofiles from four native speakers pronouncing it:

https://forvo.com/word/jo%C3%A3o_gilberto/

now:

(https://img.cdandlp.com/2017/04/imgL/118689029.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/pxWv-VKdh-kizOwBSqpIcaziq5o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1878751-1249658287.jpeg.jpg)

John Handy - Live At Monterey Jazz Festival (1965)
John Handy - New View (1967)

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/542/MI0000542435.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mxdeh4ZXL.jpg)

Don Friedman - A Day In The City (1961)
Steve Coleman - The Tao Of Mad Phat (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 19, 2018, 05:30:08 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 19, 2018, 05:18:52 PM
I couldn't swear to it, but checking I found this page with audiofiles from four native speakers pronouncing it:

https://forvo.com/word/jo%C3%A3o_gilberto/

Thanks, Simon! Well, that's easier than I thought - it's pretty much pronounced as it's spelled. :) I was a little surprised to hear that Gilberto is pronounced with a soft g sound - I would have expected more of an h sound ... as it would be in Spanish (I think).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2018, 12:47:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZFVFISLrL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/MOc_X7P0px4wnh4La1OU-fJez9I=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3393766-1328678696.gif.jpg)

Jan Garbarek - Afric Pepperbird (1970)
James Spaulding - Gotstabe A Better Way (1988)

(https://img.discogs.com/C-NeF_jkIKdYrCx4jQfty0FdmsI=/fit-in/500x498/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7325265-1438951000-7967.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41O9wJYQChL._SY355_.jpg)

Annie Ross and Zoot Sims - A Gasser (1959)
Klezermerson - Amon: john Zorn's Book Of Angels, Vol.24 (2015)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2018, 12:24:34 AM
Quote from: NikF on January 18, 2018, 11:56:15 AM
Eddy Louiss Trio: Nardis

[asin]B00002R0OF[/asin]


Rene Thomas & Bobby Jaspar: Thomas Jaspar Quintet

(https://i.imgur.com/pB3U3H7.jpg)

The former was  recommended to me some time ago by king ubu and it's only now that I'm getting around to properly listening. The latter is more familiar and goes back to my younger days. Hahaha.

Hope you like it! Both great records in my book!

Btw, San Antone, I ordered some missing Stanko ECM discs in the past days, fillig up the almost ten year gap I have between "Suspended Night" and "Wislawa".

Thread duty:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/295/MI0003295575.jpg)

Portuguese trumpet player Susana Santos Silva was one of my 2017 discoveries ... I was most impressed with the duo album she made with Kaja Draksler (another 2017 discovery in my house, though a friend has been mentioning her for a while, just hadn't come around before). Then, Silva was on the most recent Clean Feed discs by Jonas Kullhammar/Espen Aalberg/Torbjörn Zetterberg (they go as "Basement Sessions", the latest ist Vol. 4) as well as on that disc by oddly named group LAMA which had invited Joachim Badenhorst (ts/clars) as a guest (actually sticking to cl/bcl for the disc) ... wasn't aware of the trio LAMA before, but checking out what else Silva has done for Clean Feed, I stacked up a nice little order, including three more LAMA discs (the above, one w/Chris Speed, and the first one they made w/Badenhorst), one by Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, a duo with Zetterberg, a trio with Zetterberg and Hampus Lindwall, one with De Beren Gieren (a Belgian - I assume - trio), and finally one with Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Zetterberg and Jon Fält. Looks like a great little package and I'll be exploring it over the course of the next weeks, in between too many live concerts  ;D

Next one from the stack:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0003/797/MI0003797836.jpg)

Susana plays just one solo, but it has all the usual qualities of her playing: wonderful sound, great melodic ideas, some quirkiness ... her playing is so lyrical ... and did I mention her sound?  :-*
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 21, 2018, 03:07:57 AM
Going through this set disc by disc -

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Miles_Davis_The_Complete_Live_at_the_Plugged_Nickel_1965.jpg)

Now, Disc 2a




Discounting the advantage of the studio recordings' focus on originals, this box is the best document of this quintet.  Unparalleled jazz performances.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 21, 2018, 04:46:38 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 17, 2018, 11:46:00 AM
Yeah.  His [Eric Dolphy] phrasing also has a lot of Charlie Parker in it, but his melodies are very Monkish.  But even far out for Monk.  His Five Spot live recordings are what I listen to most.

I had forgotten that Eric Dolphy is also on the John Coltrane Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings.  Some of his best playing, especially on bass clarinet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2018, 12:12:27 PM
Making my way through this here set for the first time:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/623/MI0001623378.jpg)

Getz, as so often in his late years, is in splendid shape, the rhythm section (Jim McNeely, George Mraz and Victor Lewis) is offering great support ... and Chet is quite alright on his tunes, not fluffing too many notes on trumpet, his sound quite well-shaped, his lines mostly quite well thought-out ... and he does some pretty nice singing, too. He is on less than half of the tunes though, which were recorded in two concerts on one night (on the first disc, he appears on the last track only, on the second he's on the first three tracks which form the continuation of the first show, then for the beginning of the second show and second half of disc two, he's absent again, but then present on all but one tracks on the third disc which holds the majority of the second show).

Not sure why exactly it took me so many years to come around to buying this - I think I read a dismissive review back in my early years listening to jazz (this set was released in 1998). Seven tracks were on the initial LP release in 1983, then on CD in 1987, six more were put out on a second CD - this three disc set contains around two hours and fifty minutes of music and eight tracks that were previously unissued - only half of "Line for Lyons", the final duo performance (Stan and Chet sans rhythm section) could not be found.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 21, 2018, 07:42:05 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Peggy_Lee_Sings_with_Benny_Goodman.jpeg)

Peggy Lee - Sings With Benny Goodman (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2018, 10:52:46 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/CPzqWDWnN2Jk_b5Hua8pgMIbhts=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9548369-1482505944-7648.jpeg.jpg)

Took me a while to figure out Tom Harrell's quiet but stunningly colourful art ... saw him live twice, and both times it was somewhat difficult to watch as well as from outcome ... but the quintet gig (first one I saw was with additional horns, septet or octet, around 2000 or 2001), some 13 or 14 years ago, included some admirable stuff - one of the highlights I remember is a duet with Ugonna Okegwo on bass (he's been with Harrell for ages now - I guess he went straight from Jacky Terrasson to Harrell ... at that same festival I heard the larger Harrell band, Terrasson's trio was also appeaering, still with Leon Parker on drums, but Okegwo had already moved on).

Either way, this is a lavish production, probably somewhere between Charlie Parker w/strings and the musical landscapes of Maria Schneider's ... some of it works, perfectly well, some of it less so. Not one of his best albums, but worth listening if you find it (I think by now all of Harrell's RCA/BMG catalogue is OOP, alas, I have plenty of gaps there ... luckily HighNote keeps releasing new stuff by Harrell, including, in 2015, another - beautiful, better than "Paradise" I think - strings album, "First Impressions")
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 22, 2018, 03:23:46 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 21, 2018, 07:42:05 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Peggy_Lee_Sings_with_Benny_Goodman.jpeg)

Peggy Lee - Sings With Benny Goodman (1957)

This weekend and continuing into today I too have been delving into the Great American Songbook with a variety of singers/songwriters.  Currently been listening to Chris Connor sing Gershwin.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 22, 2018, 04:51:39 AM
I love that Gershwin album by Chris Connor! (Love Chris Connor anyway!  :-* )
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 22, 2018, 05:19:28 PM
I moved my stereo stack downstairs by my main desk and have been revisiting my CD collection.  It is very enjoyable to redicover CDs I forgot all about. 

Like this one:

(https://img.discogs.com/d5X6eGAJsi34SDJA_vknXNpwBf4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2758924-1396405757-9063.jpeg.jpg)

Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, and Dewey Redman join Paul Motian on one of his excellent Winter and Winter recordings.

So good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 23, 2018, 12:41:20 AM
(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/294/0000294834.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ee2VGs8%2BL.jpg)

My late night programme yesterday - Tom Harrell is excellent on both!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 23, 2018, 07:59:10 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/497/MI0000497465.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

TATI
Enrico Rava | Stefano Bollani | Paul Motian




One of ECM's best releases, imo, this recording features some interesting tunes and wonderful playing by all involved.  For example the tune that is playing as I type, "E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca.  Enrico Rava arranged it for this trio, sans bass, very successfully.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2018, 07:20:27 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/tBxxhV7knkhx-Ywg9B3Zo9zHjp4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5217464-1387781223-1131.jpeg.jpg)

Gil Melle - Five Impressions Of Color (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 24, 2018, 04:01:40 AM
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Miles Davis Quintet : In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete
Miles Davis – trumpet
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums




Disc One
"Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) – 6:56
"No Blues" – 17:13
"Bye Bye (Theme)" – 2:54
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Henry Loesser) – 12:43
"Fran-Dance" – 7:38
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) – 12:12
"The Theme" – :44
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2018, 07:20:49 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fkhnMYgEL.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/153/MI0004153255.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Hugh Masekela - Home Is Where The Music Is (1972)
Hugh Masekela - No Borders (2016)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on January 25, 2018, 06:37:18 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 22, 2018, 05:19:28 PM
I moved my stereo stack downstairs by my main desk and have been revisiting my CD collection.  It is very enjoyable to redicover CDs I forgot all about. 

Like this one:

(https://img.discogs.com/d5X6eGAJsi34SDJA_vknXNpwBf4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2758924-1396405757-9063.jpeg.jpg)

Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, and Dewey Redman join Paul Motian on one of his excellent Winter and Winter recordings.

So good.

Indeed it is!  Love that release.  :)

Pulled out a few discs this afternoon:

Earlier ~

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I especially love the Isle of Wight performance.

Now ~

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A vibrant meeting between two super groups.  Outstanding.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 25, 2018, 07:14:17 PM
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Annie Ross - Annie By Candlelight (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 25, 2018, 07:34:35 PM
Over the last coupla days ...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51k9dVRae1L.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PJDeP0qHL._SL1200_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PYh0pMAML.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 26, 2018, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 25, 2018, 07:34:35 PM
Over the last coupla days ...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51k9dVRae1L.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PJDeP0qHL._SL1200_.jpg)

I've already talked about how much I enjoy the Tomasz Stanko recordings, but that Codona collection is also great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 26, 2018, 02:26:24 PM
Love those Codona albums (and the Arthur Blythe). Makes me want to play one now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71eXsFgrRcL._SY355_.jpg)

Codona - Codona 2 (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 26, 2018, 05:33:28 PM
Glad I could be so inspirational to you guys. :)

Today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41y7K7JBtbL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AWcTy7r4L.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yyjuKVK4L.jpg)

The last of these is one that should certainly be better known - it's an absolutely terrific album. Bobby Wellins' playing on the haunting "Starless and Bible Black" is a particular highlight.

Oh, and also:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VEjeIpuML.jpg)

Bobby Previte, The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró. Strange, beautiful, almost unclassifiable music.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 26, 2018, 11:53:03 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 26, 2018, 05:33:28 PM
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The last of these is one that should certainly be better known - it's an absolutely terrific album. Bobby Wellins' playing on the haunting "Starless and Bible Black" is a particular highlight.


Coincidentally I heard about this album for the first time just a couple of weeks ago from some random person's list of favorites. And so, playing now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Under_Milk_Wood_1965.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 27, 2018, 06:31:39 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 26, 2018, 05:33:28 PM


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yyjuKVK4L.jpg)

The last of these is one that should certainly be better known - it's an absolutely terrific album. Bobby Wellins' playing on the haunting "Starless and Bible Black" is a particular highlight.


Quote from: SimonNZ on January 26, 2018, 11:53:03 PM
Coincidentally I heard about this album for the first time just a couple of weeks ago from some random person's list of favorites. And so, playing now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Under_Milk_Wood_1965.jpg)

I would be interested to hear that one; I must try to track it down.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2018, 11:50:39 AM
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Tony Allen - The Source (2017)
Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die (2017)

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Chad Taylor - Circle Down (2009)
Roots Magic - Last Kind Words (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 28, 2018, 03:55:02 AM
Two rather different disks.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 28, 2018, 04:10:21 AM
Quote from: Artem on January 28, 2018, 03:55:02 AM
Two rather different disks.

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Yeah, that Jim Hall album is cool - he was really getting into his stride then in that part of is career.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 28, 2018, 09:34:55 AM
Lots of Chicago tenors lately (Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Eddie who?) ... but right now this one, after the sad news a few days ago:

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Never saw Hugh Masekela live, alas ... lots of what he put out is way too cute for my taste, but "Home Is Where the Music Is" is one of my desert island albums, and the live recordings from the Village Gate, 1965, on the above disc (it contains two LPs minus one track omitted for time reasons ... in 1996, CDs were shorter still, but the world had already switched to colour nonetheless) is mighty good, too.

Reading of his death also reminded me of this photo I took, a shop window in the beautiful town of Ravenna, where Masekela played at the 2016 festival ... but I was there to hear Louis Moholo a few days prior or later:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqdUsNzyJ0o/Wm4TSQr4kiI/AAAAAAAABtY/6qc6WjVjFY4aLezXnCAl7EFwEPyCT_QpQCLcBGAs/s1600/HughMasekela_Ravenna_20160619_sm.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 28, 2018, 01:29:34 PM
Quote from: aligreto on January 27, 2018, 06:31:39 AM


I would be interested to hear that one; I must try to track it down.

It shouldn't be too hard to find. I see it for sale on Amazon (US) right now. It's had at least three different covers (I posted one, SimonNZ posted another, and what's available on Amazon is yet one more), but AFAIK it's the same recording.

SimonNZ, what did you think of it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2018, 01:33:26 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/752/MI0000752470.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ray Nance - Body And Soul (1969)

could have been a fine album indeed if it was just the moving performances of jazz standards, but the misguided upbeat pop covers ruin it
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2018, 01:40:00 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 28, 2018, 01:29:34 PM
It shouldn't be too hard to find. I see it for sale on Amazon (US) right now. It's had at least three different covers (I posted one, SimonNZ posted another, and what's available on Amazon is yet one more), but AFAIK it's the same recording.

SimonNZ, what did you think of it?

I had to play it by searching track by track on YT, which isnt the ideal way to hear an album, but nevertheless was impressed and will purchase the next copy I see.

However: great music making though it was, I didn't see what any of it had to do with the Dylan Thomas work which I know very well and think has a very different "soundtrack" in my mind.

Made me want to go and relisten to the wonderful and fun recording of the radio play made by Thomas and friends (vastly superior to the sombre and humourless Richard Burton version).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 28, 2018, 02:19:37 PM
Bobby Wellins (the tenor dude on that Stan Tracey album) turned into one of the (unsung) major jazz voices of Europe in later years ... very much worth checking out! He died in late 2016, alas (Guardian obituary (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/01/bobby-wellins-obituary)), but the recordings from his last two decades or so is quite amazing. Try his Billie Holiday hommage "The Satin Album", or "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (both 1996), or the more recent releases on the Trio label, "When the Sun Comes Out" (rec. live), "Snapshot" or "Time Gentlemen, Please". He's a fantastic improviser with a wealth of ideas and a delivery that rivals the likes of Sonny Rollins or Lee Konitz.

Thread duty - perfect late night music:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/976/MI0002976135.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 29, 2018, 07:28:36 AM
Eric Dolphy
"Something Sweet, Something Tender"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 29, 2018, 10:15:18 AM
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960

This album which was recorded in 1959, but the session recordings had been lost. The music had never been heard until its release in June of 2017, the centennial of Monk's birth. Originally recorded as a film score for the Roger Vadim film of the same name, the sessons are a free wheeling traversal of the Monk songbook by his then working band: Charlie Rouse, Sam Jones & Art Taylor, plus special guest saxophonist Barney Wilen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 29, 2018, 11:50:44 AM
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Ornette Coleman Trio : At the Golden Circle Stockholm,  vol. 1
Ornette Coleman — alto saxophone, violin, trumpet
David Izenzon — double bass
Charles Moffett — drums




This was the next great group that Coleman formed, this time as a trio with no second horn.  Thsi trio issued four releases, although the Town Hall concert incorporated a string trio at times.  There are two volumes of At the Golden Circle Stockholm, and the one I haven't heard but ordered today is the Chappaqua Suite. From what I've read, it will be a good listen.

These along with the Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison quartet with Dewey Redman (New York is Now, Love Call) are some of the best that Ornette recorded.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 29, 2018, 12:39:29 PM
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Buddy Rich - In Miami (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 30, 2018, 07:01:28 AM
Random play from these two boxes

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2018, 01:18:11 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/EZUvUP1dX-KG1lrb_YyJkcyw_1U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3190124-1327414610.jpeg.jpg) (https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/370/0001370783.jpg)

Ray Nance ‎– Huffin' 'N' Puffin' (1971)
Charlie Rouse - Unsung Hero (1961)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rBmz93JIL.jpg)

Eliane Elias - Fantasia (1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 30, 2018, 06:07:36 PM
Busy moving at work today (from a temporary location back to my former home, now renovated), so not much listening time. I did play these, albeit as kind of background music.

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Not as background music:

(https://img.discogs.com/T7lUduhu2FWMAPl3VUsV4VyMnJY=/fit-in/474x469/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-726743-1277663087.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on January 30, 2018, 07:47:14 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on January 30, 2018, 06:07:36 PM(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61J-AN8Zq8L._SL1085_.jpg)

Great album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 31, 2018, 04:12:06 AM
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Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone — Face to Face (1995)
Marc Johnson - Second Sight (1987)

Strange: I loved the first of Marc Johnson's Bass Desires albums. But that one I found quite unexpectedly bad.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on January 31, 2018, 07:33:00 PM
Donny McCaslin, Casting for Gravity.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on January 31, 2018, 07:51:09 PM
Today ...

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 01, 2018, 02:46:14 PM
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Dave Holland Quartet : Extensions

Dave Holland bass
Steve Coleman alto saxophone
Kevin Eubanks guitar
Marvin "Smitty" Smith drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 01, 2018, 04:11:32 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 31, 2018, 04:12:06 AM(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51T2GmQEo2L.jpg)
Marc Johnson - Second Sight (1987)

Strange: I loved the first of Marc Johnson's Bass Desires albums. But that one I found quite unexpectedly bad.

The best song on there is Frisell's Small Hands. A gorgeous piece, IMHO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2018, 06:38:33 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 01, 2018, 04:11:32 PM
The best song on there is Frisell's Small Hands. A gorgeous piece, IMHO.

I'll give that one another listen, thanks.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71E%2BlTYz6OL._SX355_.jpg)

Manuel Rocheman - Cactus Dance (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 02, 2018, 05:53:45 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61se38PnTTL._SY355_.jpg)

The Keith Jarrett Quartet : The Impulse Years 1973-1974 - CD 1 "Fort Yawuh"
Keith Jarrett
Dewey Redman
Charlie Haden
Paul Motian




This 5CD set along with the followup, "Mysteries" The impulse Years 1975-1976, are my favorite Jarrett band and period.  Great stuff.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 02, 2018, 06:30:56 AM
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Wayne Shorter : Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter
Herbie Hancock
Reginald Workman
Joe Chambers




Wayne Shorter's Blue Note records are uniformly excellent.  They feature his mature compositional and improvisational voice as well as the cream of the crop of jazz musicians in the sixties. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 02, 2018, 03:36:39 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Tyz3xOfX-xS3jYfiO_AxWQK_RH0=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8035209-1453894294-9349.jpeg.jpg)

Stan Getz - Imported From Europe (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 02, 2018, 04:39:16 PM
IMO, one of the best of the Standards Trio albums (of the ones I've heard, that is, which certainly isn't all of them):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81y8h8IXz0L._SL1200_.jpg)

Along with:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WEzgykj%2BL._SL1200_.jpg)

Apparently it was an ECM kind of day for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 03, 2018, 12:13:20 AM
Probably 2 years since I listened to any Oscar Peterson.  Actually, quite nice, better than I remembered

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4123XUnXxLL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 03, 2018, 12:25:07 AM
All day yesterday and continuing today: stuff by tenors hailing from Chicago (or dropping by - Sonny Stitt with Nicky Hill and Johnny Board, James Moody with Gene Ammons): Von Freeman (including with son Chico), Fred Anderson, Roscoe Mitchell ... but most of all Eddie Harris. Right now into the duo album he cut with Ellis Marsalis, which is nice but could have benefited from a better piano player, I guess - but that doesn't matter all that much as Eddie is great form:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZYJivUmmL._SL1092_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 03, 2018, 02:17:43 AM
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More Eddie who ... the former is my favourite among his late albums, the later is much better than its reputation ... love both of 'em!

Lined up next:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2018, 02:09:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/LHR4X29i7lNKc1c4ocl_sMktWyc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8515206-1463266600-3227.jpeg.jpg)

Count Basie - Basie Jam 2 (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 03, 2018, 03:45:44 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Daverz on February 03, 2018, 07:09:11 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 03, 2018, 02:09:52 PM
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Count Basie - Basie Jam 2 (1976)

I did not know there was a #2.  Love the first Basie Jam Lp.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2018, 08:15:03 PM
Quote from: Daverz on February 03, 2018, 07:09:11 PM
I did not know there was a #2.  Love the first Basie Jam Lp.

I haven't heard it yet, but apparently there's also a #3:

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now:

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Mike Nock - Ondas (1982)
Kenny Burrell – Asphalt Canyon Suite (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 04, 2018, 06:56:04 AM
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On one of the jazz boards I frequent there was a recent discussion on Lars Gullin. Can't say I knew much about him previously, but many in the know spoke highly of him. This is one of his better releases with Chet Baker featured on 4 tracks. Very good stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 04, 2018, 09:29:41 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 04, 2018, 02:53:46 PM
Quote from: Tom 1960 on February 04, 2018, 06:56:04 AM
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On one of the jazz boards I frequent there was a recent discussion on Lars Gullin. Can't say I knew much about him previously, but many in the know spoke highly of him. This is one of his better releases with Chet Baker featured on 4 tracks. Very good stuff.

Gullin is great! I completed my Dragon collection sometime last year but haven't yet made it through all the 11 volumes ... regarding baritone sax, the recent Serge Chaloff release on Uptown is terrific - played it for the first time a few days ago but failed to report here:

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Some recent listens here:

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And right now, ending the day with Gene Ammons:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 04, 2018, 03:03:11 PM
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Herbie Nichols : The Complete Blue Note Recordings

One of jazz's most tragically overlooked geniuses, Herbie Nichols was a highly original piano stylist and a composer of tremendous imagination and eclecticism. He wasn't known widely enough to exert much influence in either department, but his music eventually attracted a rabid cult following, though not quite the wide exposure it deserved.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 05, 2018, 08:01:04 AM
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Billy Hart : All Our Reasons

Mark Turner, tenor saxophone
Ben Street, double bass
Ethan Iverson, piano
Billy Hart, drums
Recorded June 2011 at Avatar Studios, New York

QuoteAll Our Reasons has plenty of reasons to discover, appreciate, and enjoy. But most important among them is the realization that mastery exists only when egos get left at the door. This is music for the soul, because only the soul knows how to detach itself from harmful desires that would get in the way of the experience.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2018, 04:10:27 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/OGlj_Xekh46yUX3_CPSo-MnGj6E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9976613-1489533707-8446.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/QpIrSRlPJ6B9tZvgyl6RIpFAhd4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1154615-1225495548.jpeg.jpg)

Buddy Bregman - Swinging Kicks (1957)
Gary McFarland - The Gary McFarland Orchestra (1963)

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Lyle Mays - Street Dreams (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2018, 07:12:50 PM
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Larry Young - Larry Young's Fuel (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 06, 2018, 07:25:38 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2018, 04:10:27 PM
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Great to see Gary McFarland getting some play time!  He is a guy I love, and have collected everything he put out.  There has been a recent DVD detailing his life/music and tragic death that you should look up if you a fan, "This is Gary McFarland (https://www.amazon.com/This-Gary-McFarland-CD-DVD/dp/B00O45RD2A/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1517977390&sr=1-1&keywords=This+is+Gary+McFarland)".  I knew Lyle Mays at North Texas and enjoy his work, of course mainly the band with Pat Metheny, but his solo stuff is more imaginative, imo.

;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 07, 2018, 10:17:45 AM
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Personnel: Lee Morgan: trumpet; Wayne Shorter: tenor saxophone; Grant Green: guitar; Herbie Hancock: piano; Reginald Workman: bass; Billy Higgins: drums.




QuoteIt's a shame Morgan didn't follow the path of this music farther. The subsequent commercial success of The Sidewinder may have made such exploration less desirable in the short run. And his murder at the hands of his common-law wife, Helen More, in February 1972, made the short run and the long run one and the same, even as he once again seemed to be pushing outward (as evidenced by the 1971 Blue Note album that came to be called The Last Session). Still, we have in Search a shining example of the great trumpeter stretching into modernist fields. It is perhaps fitting, given the exploratory tone of the record, and its title track, in particular, that we must imagine what might have come next. (AllAboutJazz By MATT MARSHALL, February 12, 2010)

I am watching a documentary about Lee Morgan based on an interview with Helen More shortly before her own death in 1995.  More interesting than it might sound.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 07, 2018, 11:22:33 AM
Wynonie Harris from the Jazz en vogue box
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 08, 2018, 11:33:32 AM
Continuing the jazz en vogue box with this 1941 recording
Charlie Christian at Minton's

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 08, 2018, 11:51:58 AM
Everyone stop what you're doing and read this incredible interview with Quincy Jones (https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/rmje5p/quincy-jones-interview-2015).

Particularly amusing: the story about getting in a car with Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, and Al Hibbler.... with Tatum and Hibbler driving!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2018, 04:23:52 PM
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Terje Rypdal : Lux Aeterna

Terje Rypdal guitar
Palle Mikkelborg trumpet
Iver Kleive church organ
Åshild Stubø Gundersen soprano
Bergen Chamber Ensemble
Kjell Seim
conductor
Recorded live July 19, 2000 at Molde Domkirke




One of his more interesting recordings, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2018, 05:31:59 PM
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CARTOGRAPHY : ARVE HENRIKSEN

Release date: 12.11.2010
ECM 2086


A shifting cast of characters, with live sampling man and album co-producer Jan Bang at the centre, provides a series of soundscapes, an ambient-experimental map of moods, for the uniquely liquid, singing trumpet lines of Arve Henriksen to scale and explore. Some tracks are recorded live in concert, others are studio creations. Singer David Sylvian reads his own poetry on two cuts.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 08, 2018, 06:42:36 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 07, 2018, 10:17:45 AM
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Now that's a great one. Those two ECMs you mentioned (Lux Aeterna and Cartography) are very fine too.

Here's a couple I gave ear to today:

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On the latter: I think Coming Down the Mountain is still my favorite of the Large One's albums, but this double-disc live recording of two concerts in Massachusetts is probably my next fave.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2018, 06:46:31 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 08, 2018, 06:42:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91uifKRoLiL._SL1500_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WN3ZmqZgL._SL1050_.jpg)

On the latter: I think Coming Down the Mountain is still my favorite of the Large One's albums, but this double-disc live recording of two concerts in Massachusetts is probably my next fave.

Nice.  Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2018, 11:52:01 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/UaPUpvBfX6h8BAjkWuk37j4EAdI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8826964-1469607227-1707.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/M38QpIRjA9oLwdg1541deoHSkNY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8843104-1469930414-2068.jpeg.jpg)

Dick Cary and The Dixieland Doodlers - s/t (1959)
Charlie Mariano - Mariano (1954)

(https://img.discogs.com/iEe1Mn5btQwBZaHPEuQALwdbGyI=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-496668-1272293282.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/More_Swinging_Sounds.jpg)

Dollar Brand - Good News From Africa (1973)
Shelly Manne - More Swinging Sounds (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 09, 2018, 06:48:00 PM
Mentioned it yesterday, was prompted to listen to it today:

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Plus ...

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 10, 2018, 05:29:01 AM
Following San Antone, King Ubu & Alek Hidell, I got this Tomasz Stanko CD, which was composed after his mother death.  There is a mystic etheral and introspective atmosphere which permmeates the CD, something which isnt usually associated to rythmic jazz.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2018, 08:41:01 AM
Quote from: Spineur on February 10, 2018, 05:29:01 AM
Following San Antone, King Ubu & Alek Hidell, I got this Tomasz Stanko CD, which was composed after his mother death.  There is a mystic etheral and introspective atmosphere which permmeates the CD, something which isnt usually associated to rythmic jazz.

Is this your first encounter with Stańko, Spineur? If so, I can tell you that all of his other ECM albums are easily recommendable (though I haven't yet heard the two recent ones with his New York Quartet) - my favorites being Litania, From the Green Hill, and Lontano. (Of those, Lontano is the closest in sound and style to Leosia, the other two featuring larger ensembles.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 10, 2018, 08:54:34 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2018, 08:41:01 AM
Is this your first encounter with Stańko, Spineur? If so, I can tell you that all of his other ECM albums are easily recommendable (though I haven't yet heard the two recent ones with his New York Quartet) - my favorites being Litania, From the Green Hill, and Lontano. (Of those, Lontano is the closest in sound and style to Leosia, the other two featuring larger ensembles.)
Yes ! It is the very first time I listened to Stanko.  I knew there was a jazz scene in Poland from my trip a few summers back, but I didnt expect anything that good !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 10, 2018, 08:59:26 AM
Quote from: Spineur on February 10, 2018, 05:29:01 AM
Following San Antone, King Ubu & Alek Hidell, I got this Tomasz Stanko CD, which was composed after his mother death.  There is a mystic etheral and introspective atmosphere which permmeates the CD, something which isnt usually associated to rythmic jazz.

That's cool! Actually, I've been lazy posting lately (too many things going on), but this here one got its first spin last night, coincidentally:

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And @Alek Hidell: Barry (and Maya, too) sat in the row behind me (me first, them second) during the recent Schumann/Schubert concert here, with Isabelle Faust doing the Schumann concerto. Took me a while to figure out who that elderly dude was again, but when I spotted Maya, it was clear. They were waiting next to the stage entrance during the break, guess they know some of the musicians in the band (the Zurich Chamber Orchestra it was).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 10, 2018, 12:29:37 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/0dN6wsZq1PUxYzB0szPpSgEnm94=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1253015-1221467483.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/1dTizTb1so34eVW1LSbHhRvBvOg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3706161-1341124693-8393.jpeg.jpg)

Clare Fischer - Machaca (1979)
Out Of The Blue - Live At Mt. Fuji (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2018, 02:16:54 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 10, 2018, 08:59:26 AM
And @Alek Hidell: Barry (and Maya, too) sat in the row behind me (me first, them second) during the recent Schumann/Schubert concert here, with Isabelle Faust doing the Schumann concerto. Took me a while to figure out who that elderly dude was again, but when I spotted Maya, it was clear. They were waiting next to the stage entrance during the break, guess they know some of the musicians in the band (the Zurich Chamber Orchestra it was).

[Plans trip to Zurich] Once again, k.u., I am in awe of the music (and people) you get to see live.

Quote from: Spineur on February 10, 2018, 08:54:34 AM
Yes ! It is the very first time I listened to Stanko.  I knew there was a jazz scene in Poland from my trip a few summers back, but I didnt expect anything that good !

Here's another one to investigate:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91U1-rqWZwL._SL1500_.jpg)

It's from 1965 (recorded on the very day I was born, IIRC), so it's Stańko as a young man of 23 - a sideman in Komeda's band. The music here is not at all similar to Leosia, but don't let that stop you! This is a classic.

But if you should want more from the same quartet that recorded Leosia and can overlook its ugly cover, there is also this one (although I think it's OOP):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614zYvbgTcL.jpg)

(The title may be a little hard to read: it's Bosonossa and Other Ballads.) It was recorded a year or so before Leosia and includes some of the same material, and while (for me) it's not on the same exalted level as the ECM recording, it's still quite worthwhile - Stańko's coiled, brooding tone is very much in evidence.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 10, 2018, 02:57:40 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2018, 02:16:54 PM
[Plans trip to Zurich] Once again, k.u., I am in awe of the music (and people) you get to see live.
There's lots of money around here ... and some people that actually make use of it  :)

Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2018, 02:16:54 PM
Here's another one to investigate:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91U1-rqWZwL._SL1500_.jpg)

It's from 1965 (recorded on the very day I was born, IIRC), so it's Stańko as a young man of 23 - a sideman in Komeda's band. The music here is not at all similar to Leosia, but don't let that stop you! This is a classic.

But if you should want more from the same quartet that recorded Leosia and can overlook its ugly cover, there is also this one (although I think it's OOP):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614zYvbgTcL.jpg)

(The title may be a little hard to read: it's Bosonossa and Other Ballads.) It was recorded a year or so before Leosia and includes some of the same material, and while (for me) it's not on the same exalted level as the ECM recording, it's still quite worthwhile - Stańko's coiled, brooding tone is very much in evidence.

Second these recommendations! "Bossonossa" may indeed be pretty difficult to find.

For early Stanko, his first three albums (I think?) are all brilliant as well: "Music for K" (Polskie Nagrania, 1970), "Purple Sun" (Calig, 1973 - not on CD, I think) and "Twet" (Polskie Nagrania, 1975).  The first and third were boxed up here (with three more, of which I find only one one, the third, listenable, but it's been a while since I tried the later ones):

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The box usually goes for too much money, but I guess with some patience you should be able to find it in a 50ish price-range (I did, but that was several years ago).


--


Thread duty - first listen of a 2017 release I only just got

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Heard Ottaviano and Alexander Hawkins together in a Moholo project in Ravenna in June 2016 ... also chatted with Hawkins about Ottaviano (the year before, Hawkins was the pianist on the duo set of an Ottaviano double disc which paid homage to Steve Lacy, "Forgotten Matches: The Worlds of Steve lacy (1934-2014)", the other disc is in quartet w/Glenn Ferris, Giovanni Maier and Cristiano Calcagnile - the later I've heard live in Novara with Vinnie Golia about a year ago, another great concert - although actually Bobby Bradford was the main draw for me but he had to cancel due to an accident ...)

Either way, Ottaviano is somewhat too ... structured and a wee bit too mainstream for that Moholo/Blue Notes/Brotherhood groove, but these two albums on Dodicilune are very good - not least thanks to Hawkins' presence. I consider Hawkins a friend and look forward to hearing him again in March at artacts in Austria, where he's going to play with the quartet he forms with Elaine Mitchener (they have an outstanding disc out on Intakt, released in December I think, but the tour to kick off the record only started in January in London).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 10, 2018, 06:50:10 PM
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane : The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961

CD 4 | The Kind of Blue sessions
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 11, 2018, 05:46:37 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 10, 2018, 06:50:10 PM
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane : The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961

CD 4 | The Kind of Blue sessions

Listening to Kind of Blue was inspired by my re-reading the Ashley Kahn book (https://www.amazon.com/Kind-Blue-Making-Miles-Masterpiece/dp/0306815583) on the making of this classic recording.  2019 will be the 60th anniversary of its release, and what is amazing is how well it holds up.  No, that is an understatement - not only does it hold up but it still sounds current and remains a document of jazz composing and performance at the highest level.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 11, 2018, 06:17:21 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 11, 2018, 05:46:37 AM
Listening to Kind of Blue was inspired by my re-reading the Ashley Kahn book (https://www.amazon.com/Kind-Blue-Making-Miles-Masterpiece/dp/0306815583) on the making of this classic recording.  2019 will be the 60th anniversary of its release, and what is amazing is how well it holds up.  No, that is an understatement - not only does it hold up but it still sounds current and remains a document of jazz composing and performance at the highest level.

Yeah. KoB is simply the greatest record ever made. IMO, of course - but I will brook no argument. ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 11, 2018, 12:24:20 PM
Disc 1:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 11, 2018, 01:14:25 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XQX_bJKjcjDdbLwyWQ6ZqyuVkhU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5547312-1396201449-2138.jpeg.jpg)

Abdullah Ibrahim - The Journey (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on February 11, 2018, 06:33:07 PM
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 01:51:23 AM
Quote from: HIPster on February 11, 2018, 06:33:07 PM
Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams

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Love it - and his other recordings, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 08:23:12 AM
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On A Monday Evening
Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Eliot Zigmund
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on February 12, 2018, 08:39:10 AM
Have become engrossed in the Clifford Brown-Max Roach recordings, the three studio albums "Clifford Brown and Max Roach," "Study in Brown" and "Clifford Brown and Max Roach Incorporated."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 08:47:59 AM
Quote from: Baron Scarpia on February 12, 2018, 08:39:10 AM
Have become engrossed in the Clifford Brown-Max Roach recordings, the three studio albums "Clifford Brown and Max Roach," "Study in Brown" and "Clifford Brown and Max Roach Incorporated."

That was a super band and those recordings are some of the best hard bop out there.  Enjoy!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on February 12, 2018, 09:01:01 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 08:47:59 AM
That was a super band and those recordings are some of the best hard bop out there.  Enjoy!

Quite so. I'm a long time Sonny Rollins Fan and know the later recordings with Rollins (Pent-Up House, etc). Inextricably the older sessions with Harold Land were never on my radar.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 10:11:23 AM
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Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill evans | Scott LaFaro | Paul Motian

Never get tired of this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 12, 2018, 02:39:34 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/-nhb1eh4iiFEudUniLw3GxIGrDE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3912264-1401289655-8048.jpeg.jpg)

Eberhard Weber - Later That Evening (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2018, 02:40:29 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 12, 2018, 02:39:34 PM
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Eberhard Weber - Later That Evening (1982)

Love Eberhard Weber!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2018, 11:21:40 AM
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Miles Davis : Someday My Prince Will Come

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Hank Mobley
Wynton Kelly
Paul Chambers
Jimmy Cobb
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 13, 2018, 06:36:21 PM
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[Keith Rowe/John Tilbury: Duos for Doris]

May play this one again tomorrow. I was listening on earphones at work and I kept thinking that long stretches of it were quiet to the point of complete inaudibility. Then when I played another album I realized that I had the volume turned down too low. ::) OTOH, I think there are indeed some very quiet passages in it. I have to admit I don't always understand what Rowe is trying to do in his music, but I do like to listen to things like this (and AMM, of which he was a longtime member) once in a while.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FaOYuCOHL.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/hX7Lsc9x-xGu2QUU89JrI6CtK54=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2294814-1437129821-1695.jpeg.jpg)

Hadn't heard either of these in a while. Evidently I'm on something of a Maneri family kick lately.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2018, 06:46:18 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 14, 2018, 05:21:38 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fve5ScwpL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 14, 2018, 05:43:51 AM
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been checking out the latest by Tomasz Stanko recently - good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on February 14, 2018, 06:54:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/a4kS9BAjS9Y&index=8&list=PLievdyT104XuoanAda7fDMt8S2IibVQJS
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 14, 2018, 07:05:30 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 14, 2018, 08:28:55 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 14, 2018, 05:43:51 AM
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been checking out the latest by Tomasz Stanko recently - good!

I am glad you are enjoying it.  I love what he's been doing.




TD

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Hands : Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela

Combines two things I really like: Flamenco guitar by Pepe Habichuela and Dave Holland's bass playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 14, 2018, 08:33:40 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 14, 2018, 08:28:55 AM
I am glad you are enjoying it.  I love what he's been doing.

Well, yes! The discussion we had a few weeks back triggered my recent buying spree (Matka Joanna, Green Hill, Lontano, Dark Eyes and this one) - never really stopped enjoying his stuff, rather just somehow stopped listening at some point around 10 years ago. He was with the Globe Unity gang that reunited at the 2016 Berlin Jazz Festival though, and as I mentioned I picked up "Wislawa" somewhere along the line.

First spin now:

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Excellent!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 14, 2018, 08:35:58 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 14, 2018, 08:33:40 AM
First spin now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612YJsKwOIL.jpg)

Excellent!

That looks really good; will have to hunt it down.  Love all those players.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 14, 2018, 10:44:06 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 18, 2018, 10:23:56 AM
I've been listening to the Stefano Battaglia Trio's latest ECM recording, In The Morning, which focuses on the music of Alec Wilder. It is excellent and then I went back and have been listening to the other five records he's released on ECM.

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/in-the-morning.jpg)

Here's my blog overview (https://fdleone.com/2018/01/18/stefano-battaglia-trio-interprets-alec-wilder/) of all of them.
After reading with interest your article on Stefano Battaglia, I got this CD, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  I still need to get some Enrico Rava, to have a bare bone sample of contempory italian jazzmen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2018, 03:29:31 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 14, 2018, 08:35:58 AM
That looks really good; will have to hunt it down.  Love all those players.

It's brand new ... the same trio has a 2014 release on Tzadik, and based on the strength of this new one, I've got to get that one, methinks!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2018, 03:38:04 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 14, 2018, 08:28:55 AM

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Hands : Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela

Combines two things I really like: Flamenco guitar by Pepe Habichuela and Dave Holland's bass playing.

I was really impressed by that one.

today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81h39UZBB9L._SY355_.jpg)

Cuong Vu and Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 15, 2018, 05:24:35 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/vofbnkQcW_Q
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 15, 2018, 06:51:59 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 15, 2018, 05:24:35 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/vofbnkQcW_Q

LOVE that piece!

A rather amusing video for your pleasure, Karl:

https://www.youtube.com/v/In16H9J72HY
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2018, 02:55:44 PM
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Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon - The Chase and The Steeplechase (1952)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 15, 2018, 06:15:03 PM
The forum was down last night (at least for me it was), so I have some catching up to do.

First, a bunch of Dons:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ylQtxgAOL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zhrMRLQbL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B8HFiwaIL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nOEfztVmL.jpg)

This was actually my first encounter with all of these men (even Byrd), and I enjoyed all of them. Grolnick's music is very interesting indeed, unpredictable, almost sui generis (though I'm sure others more adept than I can point to his influences).

I've always thought of Donald Byrd as a rather minor figure, and I suppose compared to some of his contemporaries he is. So I just never got around to checking him out. But this album was most enjoyable (look at that lineup: how could it not be?): a pretty typical Blue Note album of the era, but that's not really a pejorative considering what consistently high quality their recordings were then. I'll be investigating him more.

Pullen is interesting too: the first album there (Evidence of Things Unseen, a solo outing) begins in a straight-ahead, romantic vein, which surprised me as I thought he was closer to the avant-garde. But soon enough he's headed into Cecil Taylor-ish territory, in the same piece. The mix of styles here is very intriguing and impressive. The latter Pullen album was less impressive to me but only relatively so, still quite nice. I believe "El Matador" was my fave here.

Today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91jk5%2Bfd5NL._SL1500_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PbIEwrCxL.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/cpjYlOSPHoSQo0lf46O3GUZVe_Q=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-169116-1169854360.jpeg.jpg)

Three very different albums, to be sure. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 16, 2018, 09:59:33 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 15, 2018, 06:51:59 AM
A rather amusing video for your pleasure, Karl:

https://www.youtube.com/v/In16H9J72HY

Thanks; love this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 16, 2018, 10:23:14 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 15, 2018, 06:15:03 PM


I've always thought of Donald Byrd as a rather minor figure, and I suppose compared to some of his contemporaries he is. So I just never got around to checking him out. But this album was most enjoyable (look at that lineup: how could it not be?): a pretty typical Blue Note album of the era, but that's not really a pejorative considering what consistently high quality their recordings were then. I'll be investigating him more.


Byrd's discography is remarkably varied and has many unexpected surprises. He deserves more attention than he's had.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/i72Zl1ySO9g91nYZUiRAK7qbgO8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8293584-1458795945-6943.jpeg.jpg)

George Wallington - At The Bohemia (1955)

(coincidentally with Donald Byrd)


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Sal Nistico - Comin On Up (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 16, 2018, 11:03:23 AM
The spirit of Memphis quartet

(http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/49/12/22/20150311/ob_f51a9d_25-cm-018.JPG)

From the jazz en vogue box.  Old but good !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 16, 2018, 07:15:34 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 16, 2018, 09:59:33 AM
Thanks; love this.

My pleasure, Karl. 8) If you ever have chance, do check out this DVD documentary on Monk (this is where this footage of him rehearsing came from):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 17, 2018, 06:32:51 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 15, 2018, 06:15:03 PM
The forum was down last night (at least for me it was), so I have some catching up to do.

First, a bunch of Dons:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ylQtxgAOL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zhrMRLQbL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B8HFiwaIL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nOEfztVmL.jpg)

This was actually my first encounter with all of these men (even Byrd), and I enjoyed all of them. Grolnick's music is very interesting indeed, unpredictable, almost sui generis (though I'm sure others more adept than I can point to his influences).

I've always thought of Donald Byrd as a rather minor figure, and I suppose compared to some of his contemporaries he is. So I just never got around to checking him out. But this album was most enjoyable (look at that lineup: how could it not be?): a pretty typical Blue Note album of the era, but that's not really a pejorative considering what consistently high quality their recordings were then. I'll be investigating him more.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91jk5%2Bfd5NL._SL1500_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PbIEwrCxL.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/cpjYlOSPHoSQo0lf46O3GUZVe_Q=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-169116-1169854360.jpeg.jpg)

Three very different albums, to be sure. :)
Just my opinion, but all of Byrd's releases from which include Pepper Adams are prime stuff. Can't go wrong there.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 17, 2018, 07:33:31 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 17, 2018, 07:48:39 AM
Quote from: Tom 1960 on February 17, 2018, 06:32:51 AM
Just my opinion, but all of Byrd's releases from which include Pepper Adams are prime stuff. Can't go wrong there.

You know, that was one of the things I really liked about the Byrd in Hand album: the presence of the baritone sax. It's an instrument whose sound I've really come to enjoy, whether in the hands of a mainstream artist like Adams or someone more on the cutting edge like Vandermark.

Thanks for the recommendation, Tom. The Byrd/Adams collaborations may be where I start exploring.

TD - this is only tangentially "jazz," perhaps, but I'll report it here anyway.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/815aqRgXtwL._SL1400_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 17, 2018, 08:10:34 AM
Gregory Porter: Water

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 17, 2018, 08:14:47 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 17, 2018, 08:57:34 AM
Love Frank Wess ... but I'm afraid I totally cannot cope with Gregory Porter (nor with Cécile McLorin Salvant, either).

Agree on Donald Byrd with Pepper Adams (that includes the live material "At the Half Note Cafe - Jazz at the Waterfront", the Bethlehem "Motor City Scene" and the Warwick album, too, but the Blue Note studio albums are the finest I guess) ... also like the two albums made in Paris with Bobby Jaspar, Walter Davis, Doug Watkins and Art Taylor (both were reissued in the Jazz in Paris series), and I really like "Free Form" (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins), have a soft spot for "A New Perspective" (it's corny, sure, but it's GOOD!), and I also like the mid/late sixties sessions with Sonny Red quite some (Mustang, Black Jack, Slow Drag, The Creeper). The later Blue Notes so far don't really work for me, but "Kofi" was pretty good (it's been ages since I played it though ... the line-up includes Frank Foster, who kind of went mildly soul jazz at that time, too ... his "Loud Minority" on Mainstream is a winner).

Thread duty: giving this recent acquisition its first spin, and ten minutes in, I think it was a good idea to get this instead of the missing ECM disc by the same band (I have "One Is the Other" and think it's not much better than so-so):

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/726/MI0000726786.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 17, 2018, 09:13:16 AM
The Franks Wess date was one of the few Savoy titles still on my wish list. Should have gotten this one sooner, but better later than never. I t really swings.

It's funny you should make mention of Donald Byrd's later releases for Blue Note. It has only been recently I started listening to those. For whatever reason I thought they weren't that good. Boy, I was wrong. While I wont compare those with the early dates with Pepper Adams, it still is some pretty good stuff. Also Free Form is a real good one! I think our friend is going to be quite happy with those recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 17, 2018, 10:00:09 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 16, 2018, 07:15:34 PM
My pleasure, Karl. 8) If you ever have chance, do check out this DVD documentary on Monk (this is where this footage of him rehearsing came from):

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Check it out? Why, I own it 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 17, 2018, 02:29:25 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/790/MI0002790633.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/T7DhsMaNT_dKDnpjRJF8HVThiFc=/fit-in/600x606/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4762217-1484725189-8469.jpeg.jpg)

Jackie McLean - The Jackie McLean Quintet (rec.1962 rel.1977)
Barney Kessel and Harold Land - El Tigre (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 17, 2018, 03:53:56 PM
Quote from: George on February 17, 2018, 07:33:31 AM
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One of the best of the complete sessions boxes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 17, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 17, 2018, 03:53:56 PM
One of the best of the complete sessions boxes.

And it's the only one I have.  8)

Actually, I have the complete Cellar Door Sessions set as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 17, 2018, 04:24:58 PM
Quote from: George on February 17, 2018, 04:03:05 PM
And it's the only one I have.  8)

Actually, I have the complete Cellar Door Sessions set as well.

The Complete Jack Johnson and the Complete On the Corner are also very good.  Actually, all of them are really good, but I find the electric band boxes offer more interesting alternative tracks and full jams as opposed to the sliced final products.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 17, 2018, 08:39:15 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 17, 2018, 10:00:09 AM
Check it out? Why, I own it 8)

Great stuff, KH! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 18, 2018, 03:18:10 PM
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Wayne Shorter - Odyssey Of Iska (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2018, 10:39:05 PM
Re: Miles boxes ... I have a very soft spot for the first one, the complete Miles/Gil sessions ... true, most of the (huge number of) new tracks are alternates, rehearsals etc., but to me that's endlessley fascinating stuff! Also there is a rehearsal of the "Adagio" from Rodrigo's concerto, with Miles not playing (but sitting in the studio, listening, and I guess reading the score) ... there are spots where you get the idea to be the fly on the wall.

But generally indeed the electric period boxes have more to offer (beginning with the second quintet box, which in its last third roughly starts piecing together the music session by session). The BB box is full of new stuff, the IASW not so much, but it has the terrific and prev. unreleased "Ghetto Walk"!

Anyway, when the box with Gil was released, I was still in high school ... I remember how I saved my pocket money to buy the first three or so sets from that (later I was at university, with some part-time jobs along, so buying music got easier).

Thread duty - in concert last night:

Jacques Schwarz-Bart ts, Malcolm Braff p/rhodes/synth, Laurent David elb, Stéphane Galland d

This got pretty loud and intense ... I mostly went because I love Braff. In the first set he got too few spots I found (but he was always present in the overall sound mix). Schwarz-Bart wasn't always convincing I found, but he had some quite amazing moments, too, when he got out of his post-bop licks and into the groove ... wasn't aware Galland is the drummer of Aka Moon, but that makes sense ... the entire mix often sounded more like prog or something than jazz - which is not quite my cup of tea actually ... but it was great fun!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 19, 2018, 08:14:07 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2018, 08:32:58 AM
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Wayne Shorter : Schizophrenia

Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller – trombone
James Spaulding – flute, alto saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Joe Chambers – drums




Always one of my favorite Shorter albums.  The playing of James Spaulding is a huge plus, imo, and the writing for the three horns and arrangements are excellent.  Great rhythm section.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 19, 2018, 09:09:15 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 19, 2018, 08:32:58 AM
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Wayne Shorter : Schizophrenia

Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller – trombone
James Spaulding – flute, alto saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Joe Chambers – drums




Always one of my favorite Shorter albums.  The playing of James Spaulding is a huge plus, imo, and the writing for the three horns and arrangements are excellent.  Great rhythm section.

Shorter is certainly one of great jazz composers of all-time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2018, 09:52:34 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 19, 2018, 09:09:15 AM
Shorter is certainly one of great jazz composers of all-time.

100% agree.

TD

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Louis Armstrong : Satch Plays Fats


At this time, the All-Stars included the magnificent New Orleans clarinetist Barney Bigard, swing trombonist Trummy Young and the rhythm section of pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Arvell Shaw and drummer Barrett Deems. Joining the band on "Honeysuckle Rose," "Squeeze Me" and "All that Meat and No Potatoes" is vocalist Velma Middleton.  While Young, a gifted swing singer in his own right, is heard scatting fill-ins to Armstrong's vocal on "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling."




Simply great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 19, 2018, 10:31:40 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 19, 2018, 11:28:05 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 20, 2018, 04:17:21 AM
Lester Young was mentionned in the favorite Jazz artists.  Yes he is great fun

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Title: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 20, 2018, 05:10:14 PM
Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 05:26:45 AM
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mingus ah um
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 22, 2018, 05:34:25 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 05:26:45 AM
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mingus ah um

Wonderful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 22, 2018, 05:34:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/FuHjgKQDofs
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 05:54:06 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 22, 2018, 05:34:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/FuHjgKQDofs

More great Columbia jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 22, 2018, 06:01:25 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 22, 2018, 05:34:25 AM
Wonderful.

Umm Hmm.  8)

On the way to work:

(https://img.discogs.com/YaZk1H4YjgNdHwhPK4_8xE45jtM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4561056-1368395026-5550.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 22, 2018, 08:36:02 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 05:54:06 AM
More great Columbia jazz.

Riverdide - which offered/pushed Monk more ... Columbia and its big budget could have done more I guess, but I love all Monk. But this one, "Misterioso", is one of my personal favourites.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 22, 2018, 08:42:53 AM
Paul Togawa Quartet
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YNlBjGTKL._SX355_.jpg)

Alto sax player Gabe Baltazar who plays on this session is the reason to hear this. Some superb playing here. Fine date.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 09:49:32 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 22, 2018, 08:36:02 AM
Riverdide - which offered/pushed Monk more ... Columbia and its big budget could have done more I guess, but I love all Monk. But this one, "Misterioso", is one of my personal favourites.

Ah, you're right, it was on Riverside.  The cover through me off, it looked like Columbia's style.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 11:36:11 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61b67BqfDpL._SX355_.jpg)

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald : Porgy & Bess
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 22, 2018, 02:33:05 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dw0Y2SbPL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 22, 2018, 05:04:06 PM
Over the last couple of days ...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41mnZSxWQQL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81a1nPhd2zL._SL1114_.jpg) 

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61sR09cTGjL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aQbNkEAjL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EZxK5E4AL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 06:08:21 PM
Some classic Bird -

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71SVEikGuAL._SL1195_.jpg)

Complete Live Performances on Savoy: Sept. 29, 1947-Oct. 25, 1950
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 22, 2018, 07:27:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kqIn2Nq8L._SX355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/bizkS__1Kg0X0B8qnv8ssfWpsGU=/fit-in/469x471/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1650620-1465284373-1040.jpeg.jpg)

Oscar Moore - Presenting Oscar Moore (1957)
Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley - s/t (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2018, 07:51:24 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 22, 2018, 07:27:32 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/bizkS__1Kg0X0B8qnv8ssfWpsGU=/fit-in/469x471/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1650620-1465284373-1040.jpeg.jpg)

Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley - s/t (1962)

That one is super fantastic.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 22, 2018, 08:18:17 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 22, 2018, 08:36:02 AM
Riverdide - which offered/pushed Monk more ... Columbia and its big budget could have done more I guess, but I love all Monk. But this one, "Misterioso", is one of my personal favourites.

I agree, although I do love Monk's Blue Note and Prestige recordings, too. His work on Columbia was good, but not outstanding IMHO. I kind of got tired of hearing Charlie Rouse.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 23, 2018, 12:52:37 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZvZx0I%2BqL.jpg)

Lee Morgan - Take Twelve (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 23, 2018, 03:39:56 AM
At lunch break: Gerry Mulligan/ Ben Webster

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 23, 2018, 05:18:32 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 22, 2018, 08:18:17 PM
I agree, although I do love Monk's Blue Note and Prestige recordings, too. His work on Columbia was good, but not outstanding IMHO. I kind of got tired of hearing Charlie Rouse.

I love those Monk albums on Columbia just the same ... but usually I take them one at the time. But make no mistake, "Monk's Dream" is one of his very best (and "Criss Cross" just a tiny bit behind). Anyway, Keepnews really did a lot: from solo to trio to quartets to quintets to guests (Mulligan, but Monk also guested w/Blakey on a fine Atlantic album at that time) to larger groups (Monk's Music, At Town Hall) ... but then I think quite possibly in his Columbia years, Monk himself might not have been into experimenting much, any more. "Big Band and Quartet in Concert" is the big exception, and then there was the quite good 1967 Tentet tour, which Columbia failed to document (music from the sets in Rotterdam has recently been released, there's also a probably better Paris recording that has been out in various incarnations for a while).

As for Prestige, I love those a lot, too - they often are forgotten between the BNs and the Riversides ... but most of the sessions are up to the standard Lion set and Keepnews kept.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 23, 2018, 06:58:42 AM
I think from Monk's stand point, his years at Columbia were the best, but not necessarily for band performances.  Columbia paid for a week of rehearsals and recording prior to each session, and generally put more money into promoting the recordings, as well as paying a higher rate to side men. 

Monk kept recycling the same material throughout his career and each band had its own take.  I hear people say they don't like Charlie Rouse, but I consider him the horn player who knew Monk's music the best since he played with him so many years.  I didn't think Johnny Griffin was a good match with Monk, and the Coltrane sides were great, but totally unique.  I would have liked to have more of Monk with Sonny Rollins.

As has been pointed out, there are great records on each label
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 23, 2018, 07:21:18 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Monk_in_Tokyo.jpeg/220px-Monk_in_Tokyo.jpeg)

Monk in Tokyo (live)
Thelonious Monk – piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Butch Warren – bass
Frankie Dunlop – drums

On Columbia. I like this band, especially the rhythm section.  Rouse plays well, and the recorded quality is very good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 23, 2018, 08:03:29 AM
Up to "Dolores" on this one

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Q9utQuyDL._SY355_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 23, 2018, 09:06:15 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2018, 06:58:42 AM
I think from Monk's stand point, his years at Columbia were the best, but not necessarily for band performances.  Columbia paid for a week of rehearsals and recording prior to each session, and generally put more money into promoting the recordings, as well as paying a higher rate to side men. 

Monk kept recycling the same material throughout his career and each band had its own take.  I hear people say they don't like Charlie Rouse, but I consider him the horn player who knew Monk's music the best since he played with him so many years.  I didn't think Johnny Griffin was a good match with Monk, and the Coltrane sides were great, but totally unique.  I would have liked to have more of Monk with Sonny Rollins.

As has been pointed out, there are great records on each label

I do really enjoy the Rouse/Monk collaboration.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on February 23, 2018, 10:50:53 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 23, 2018, 09:06:15 AM
I do really enjoy the Rouse/Monk collaboration.

Yes, Rouse got Monk better than any of his other collaborators - Coltrane was too strong and different of a musical personality.  Monk's music needs some space and you need to bring out the angularity , it does not work as welk with the constant streams of notes like Rollins or Coltrane tended to do.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 23, 2018, 10:56:11 AM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on February 23, 2018, 10:50:53 AM
Yes, Rouse got Monk better than any of his other collaborators - Coltrane was too strong and different of a musical personality.  Monk's music needs some space and you need to bring out the angularity , it does not work as welk with the constant streams of notes like Rollins or Coltrane tended to do.

Very well put.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 23, 2018, 01:26:03 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Full_nelson.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/oVF2QuItMp7BluvOoN6LTV-5dvU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2685040-1299693382.jpeg.jpg)

Oliver Nelson - Full Nelson (1963)
Rex Stewart - Redhead (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 23, 2018, 05:12:15 PM
I've also heard it said that Rouse was Monk's "straight man" - after all, Monk's music is often quite funny, and Rouse did make a good foil.

Today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/711jpcowQAL._SL1200_.jpg)   (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514QGN7KmyL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 24, 2018, 05:29:33 AM
Thomas Enhco.  Feathers.  Nice piano jazz

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2018, 08:19:13 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2018, 07:21:18 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Monk_in_Tokyo.jpeg/220px-Monk_in_Tokyo.jpeg)

Monk in Tokyo (live)
Thelonious Monk – piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Butch Warren – bass
Frankie Dunlop – drums

On Columbia. I like this band, especially the rhythm section.  Rouse plays well, and the recorded quality is very good.
Agreed! Frankie Dunlop is so much fun!

Quote from: bwv 1080 on February 23, 2018, 10:50:53 AM
Yes, Rouse got Monk better than any of his other collaborators - Coltrane was too strong and different of a musical personality.  Monk's music needs some space and you need to bring out the angularity , it does not work as welk with the constant streams of notes like Rollins or Coltrane tended to do.
Have to disagree here, and quite strongly. I don't think any of his horn players had nearly as deep insight into Monk's music as Coltrane did (agree though on wishing there was more w/Rollins!). Listen to the Carnegie Hall concert on Blue Note - that's one of the finest Monk recordings and Coltrane is just amazing, soli after solo. He really digs deep!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 24, 2018, 02:03:09 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81hoptEKKJL._SX355_.jpg)

Sonny Simmons - Reincarnation (2015)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 24, 2018, 03:17:28 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/yaK2XpaHrcJ_I5G3aq9n5FtJF5w=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6356066-1417230313-9005.jpeg.jpg)

Very nice. I like how they blues-ify Gershwin's "Summertime."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 25, 2018, 03:47:20 AM
A girl singer I haven't heard before ...

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/descansado.jpg?w=764)

Norma Winstone : Descansado

Norma Winstone voice
Glauco Veneier piano
Klaus Gesing soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Helge Andreas Norbakken percussion
Mario Brunello violoncello
Recorded March 2017, ArteSuono Studio, Udine

"Vocalist Norma Winstone returns to ECM with pianist Glauco Venier and reedplayer Klaus Gesing to explore the relationship between song and cinema. Interpreting the scores of Legrand, Rota and Morricone, among others, and referencing such filmmakers as Godard, Fellini and Scorsese, the result is a collection of moving images in and of itself."




More like cabaret than jazz singing, but this record is pleasant and enjoyable; and includes a nice selection of songs.  I find the pianist is a little bothersome, lots of patterns and repeated gestures which become tiresome over time, but other than that the band (which is really a chamber ensemble with unique instrumentation for a jazz group) offers sympathetic accompaniment for a singer with a unique voice and style.  There is a fragility to her voice which draws me in.  Typical ECM good sound.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 25, 2018, 09:44:06 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512Ue-MeXwL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on February 25, 2018, 11:58:22 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uw6fOQCtL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2018, 01:22:39 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/BWHu1zQgw6b8Jl5bzjxcqCIkuqQ=/fit-in/519x537/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5224862-1388052296-1920.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/785/MI0002785245.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ramsey Lewis - Down To Earth (1959)
Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier - Malphas:John Zorn's Book of Angels, Vol. 3 (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 25, 2018, 05:12:54 PM
Ellington's New Orleans Suite:

(https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/files/2017/04/Duke-Ellington-New-Orleans-suite.jpg)

One of my favorite jazz albums. The compositional brilliance of Ellington really gets a chance to shine. Of course, as usual, the arrangements themselves are wonderful with amazing playing from all involved.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 25, 2018, 05:32:49 PM
Now some Shirley Horn:

(https://img.discogs.com/Oxz5pCOZtiLE0ITpvd-5BMHV6cQ=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5242125-1430958501-5876.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 25, 2018, 06:16:41 PM
Now some Brownie and Max Roach:

(https://img.discogs.com/Gmk4nfBpBOmlZPX2IgW-QYR0kts=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2369361-1327350102.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 26, 2018, 09:59:19 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/NeverNoLament.jpg)

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
Duke Ellington

Probably the best all-round band Ellington ever had, featuring Jimmy Blanton on bass, Ben Webster on tenor sax and Johnny Hodges on alto, along with many others, this band is widely thought to have the the golden period for Ellington.

Other great sidemen, in the primes of their careers, include:

Ray Nance – trumpet, violin, vocals
Harry Carney – clarinet, alto & baritone saxophone
Cootie Williams – trumpet
Lawrence Brown – trombone

But just about everyone in this band was a star.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 26, 2018, 10:11:20 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 26, 2018, 09:59:19 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/NeverNoLament.jpg)

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
Duke Ellington

Probably the best all-round band Ellington ever had, featuring Jimmy Blanton on bass, Ben Webster on tenor sax and Johnny Hodges on alto, along with many others, this band is widely thought to have the the golden period for Ellington.

Other great sidemen, in the primes of their careers, include:

Ray Nance – trumpet, violin, vocals
Harry Carney – clarinet, alto & baritone saxophone
Cootie Williams – trumpet
Lawrence Brown – trombone

But just about everyone in this band was a star.

A lovely set. I was able to grab a somewhat cheap copy not too long ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 26, 2018, 10:47:58 AM
Quote from: George on February 26, 2018, 10:11:20 AM
A lovely set. I was able to grab a somewhat cheap copy not too long ago.

The tragedy is that Jimmy Blanton was with Ellington for just two years, leaving the band in 1943 and dying from tuberculosis shortly after, at the age of only 23.  There is a great recording of duets with Duke at the piano which are well worth hearing, as well.

I've been re-reading the biographies (some newly purchased this year) of Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton and revisiting their work. I had read bios long ago, but some new ones have come out somewhat recently and it spurred this revisiting.

It has been a very enjoyable, wonderful journey that I highly recommend to any fan of this music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 27, 2018, 03:08:56 PM
Which is the album of Blanton/Ellington duets?

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/3YO-T9k4_JjdRIYrT6QgjS4V71A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6002194-1408526379-2774.jpeg.jpg)

Stan Getz - And The Cool Sounds (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 27, 2018, 04:41:24 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 27, 2018, 03:08:56 PM
Which is the album of Blanton/Ellington duets?

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/411PHFN0X9L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 27, 2018, 09:38:02 PM
Love the Blanton/Webster band! But then I love ALL things Ellington. The early forties band was great, the late forties band was amazing, the mid fifties to mid sixties band was great ... and all the thirties music is glorious anyway!

Re: Blanton/Webster, I still remember how hurtful it was to get that big sucker, the 24 CD RCA box ... it was for sale in a local store here for 550 CHF (that would've been around 400 US$ at that time I guess. I think I got it a bit cheaper, but music prices were crazy around here at that time, and that was the same time I was still in high school and had virtually no money (unless I'd work during vacation, which I did many times) ...

Anyway, I think the Blanton/Webster portion of the box is around 6-7 CDs, so that 3 disc set is just the main stuff, but no way complete, alas. And it was never reissued later on, with all the RCA/BMG mess that went on. Now they're back to putting out some stuff, but many years ago, they practically freezed all reissues, including Duke's (Monk was completed by that time, Brubeck and Miles were the only ones that still got some reissues ... not even for the double Basie jubiilee in 2004 they put out a big box, just the - more than decent, mind me - "America's Band No. 1" selection set with four discs).

I'd still with for a complete 1947-52 Columbia package (there was one in France, but that was before my time), and I'd also wish for a set collecting all the 1956-62 material that has not been reissued as part of the great Legacy reissues (the ones that were stopped around that time). And I'd wish they'd do right with some of the botched reissues ("A Drum Is a Woman" for one).

But then nobody seems to care anymore at Sony's.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 12:11:46 AM
The RCA Centennial collection

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJQyMvEWL._SX425_.jpg)

Back (probably close to 20 years ago) when mp3 blogs still existed I got all of it.  But if it wasn't so expensive now I'd get the box, but a new copy is going for over $700 (https://www.amazon.com/Centennial-Complete-RCA-Victor-Recordings/dp/B00000IIQY).  You might be able to find a good used copy on eBay less than the $439 offered on Amazon, but you're right, it is a crime they don't reissue it at a sane price.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 05:15:31 AM
Speaking of Ellington, his long work Black, Brown and Beige was never officially recorded (the 1956 recording with Mahalia Jackson is a very truncated and incomplete version) except for a January 1943 concert at Carnegie Hall.  This is available in a number of iterations, the most available is this one which I have:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/The_Carnegie_Hall_Concerts_January_1943.jpg)

Sound quality is adequate and offers the work in its entirety.

There was a 8CD box of all the Carnegie Hall concerts in the '40s which also includes it as well as many others, but it is out of print:

(https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/11660-medium_zoomcrop/carnegie-hall-concerts-19431947-8-cd-box-set.jpg)

But this is a box I will hunt down.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 28, 2018, 06:09:31 AM
Two things:

- The Carnegie concerts are a great bunch! The Reissue box uses the same Cedar-ed/No-Noised and pretty death-sounding remasters the old CD editions (which I have) did ... I never compared, but that's what I heard from reliable sources. I don't have a big problem with the sound, but it usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes to adjust to the sonics.

- There are two more Carnegie Hall concerts from the era ... one is on Storyville (click (https://www.discogs.com/de/Duke-Ellington-Live-At-Carnegie-Hall-Dec-11-1943/release/5952970)) and available in the first of their two Duke boxes (also contains the Fargo 1940 (https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-The-Duke-At-Fargo-1940-Special-60th-Anniversary-Edition-/release/5675033) recording, which was around previously in a deluxe/anniversary edition with extended booklet) ... and one was never on any official release, I think - I've got this edition of it:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Carnegie-Hall-November-13-1948/release/6400903
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 28, 2018, 06:25:00 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 27, 2018, 09:38:02 PM
Love the Blanton/Webster band! But then I love ALL things Ellington. The early forties band was great, the late forties band was amazing, the mid fifties to mid sixties band was great ... and all the thirties music is glorious anyway!

Re: Blanton/Webster, I still remember how hurtful it was to get that big sucker, the 24 CD RCA box ... it was for sale in a local store here for 550 CHF (that would've been around 400 US$ at that time I guess. I think I got it a bit cheaper, but music prices were crazy around here at that time, and that was the same time I was still in high school and had virtually no money (unless I'd work during vacation, which I did many times) ...

Anyway, I think the Blanton/Webster portion of the box is around 6-7 CDs, so that 3 disc set is just the main stuff, but no way complete, alas. And it was never reissued later on, with all the RCA/BMG mess that went on. Now they're back to putting out some stuff, but many years ago, they practically freezed all reissues, including Duke's (Monk was completed by that time, Brubeck and Miles were the only ones that still got some reissues ... not even for the double Basie jubiilee in 2004 they put out a big box, just the - more than decent, mind me - "America's Band No. 1" selection set with four discs).

I'd still with for a complete 1947-52 Columbia package (there was one in France, but that was before my time), and I'd also wish for a set collecting all the 1956-62 material that has not been reissued as part of the great Legacy reissues (the ones that were stopped around that time). And I'd wish they'd do right with some of the botched reissues ("A Drum Is a Woman" for one).

But then nobody seems to care anymore at Sony's.

They really need to reissue the big Ellington Centennial box, like they have been doing with classical budget boxes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 06:47:02 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 28, 2018, 06:09:31 AM
Two things:

- The Carnegie concerts are a great bunch! The Reissue box uses the same Cedar-ed/No-Noised and pretty death-sounding remasters the old CD editions (which I have) did ... I never compared, but that's what I heard from reliable sources. I don't have a big problem with the sound, but it usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes to adjust to the sonics.

- There are two more Carnegie Hall concerts from the era ... one is on Storyville (click (https://www.discogs.com/de/Duke-Ellington-Live-At-Carnegie-Hall-Dec-11-1943/release/5952970)) and available in the first of their two Duke boxes (also contains the Fargo 1940 (https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-The-Duke-At-Fargo-1940-Special-60th-Anniversary-Edition-/release/5675033) recording, which was around previously in a deluxe/anniversary edition with extended booklet) ... and one was never on any official release, I think - I've got this edition of it:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Carnegie-Hall-November-13-1948/release/6400903

I don't mind the sound and found the 8CD box on Amazon for under $40, so I ordered it. 

Quote from: George on February 28, 2018, 06:25:00 AM
They really need to reissue the big Ellington Centennial box, like they have been doing with classical budget boxes.

Agree 110%.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on February 28, 2018, 10:38:10 AM
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JpJV5aXpL._SS500.jpg)

A bit of a sexist cover by todays standard
But with Donaldson-Patton-Green-Dixon playing together what more do you need ?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 11:00:01 AM
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Weather Report's eponymous album, their first.  I am one of those people who prefer the early records, and lost interest when Jaco Pastorius joined the band. My favorite of their's is the second record, I Sing the Body Electric, especially the track "Unknown Soldier".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 28, 2018, 02:33:09 PM
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Andrew Hill - Spiral (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 28, 2018, 11:43:01 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 06:47:02 AM
I don't mind the sound and found the 8CD box on Amazon for under $40, so I ordered it. 
Excellent!

Quote from: Spineur on February 28, 2018, 10:38:10 AM
But with Donaldson-Patton-Green-Dixon playing together what more do you need ?
Hm ... I wouldn't mind an interesting soloist - or just the trio as such. Donaldson is okay, but not a favourite at all ... and this album with the terrific trio of Patton-Green-Dixon will always be a bit of a let-down for me, because Donaldson just doesn't quite make it in my book.

Quote from: San Antone on February 28, 2018, 11:00:01 AM
Weather Report's eponymous album, their first.  I am one of those people who prefer the early records, and lost interest when Jaco Pastorius joined the band. My favorite of their's is the second record, I Sing the Body Electric, especially the track "Unknown Soldier".
I prefer early WR by a margin, too. But I still got into Jaco period (and later) WR eventually. Never went for the recent boxes, but have most of the studio albums up to a point.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 01, 2018, 04:54:51 AM
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The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2 : Live at the Village Vanguard
Joe Henderson
Ron Carter
Al Foster
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 01, 2018, 09:41:26 AM
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Duke Ellington : New Orleans Suite

Not among his greatest recordings, imo, but still very good and always enjoyable.  Sadly, it was the last for Johnny Hodges since he died before the album was finished, but he still appears on more than half of the tracks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2018, 03:45:26 PM
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Oscar Moore - The Fabulous Oscar Moore Guitar (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 01, 2018, 07:24:22 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 01, 2018, 09:41:26 AM
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Duke Ellington : New Orleans Suite

Not among his greatest recordings, imo, but still very good and always enjoyable.  Sadly, it was the last for Johnny Hodges since he died before the album was finished, but he still appears on more than half of the tracks.

Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies, Portrait of Wellman Braud, and Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta are top-drawer Ellington IMHO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2018, 09:32:35 PM
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v/a - Prestige: First Sessions 1949-50
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 02, 2018, 07:03:34 AM
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Duke Ellington : Liberian Suite

The suite represents one of Ellington's early extended compositions and was commissioned for the Liberian centennial: "As to the music, it is not Ellington's most sophisticated piece of music, but it is filled with bracing rhythms, juicy parts for the horns and saxes, and one stunning vocal part." (Allmusic review)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2018, 02:47:04 PM
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Susanne Abbuehl - The Gift (2013)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on March 02, 2018, 02:51:59 PM
Sonny Rollins. Moving Out (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 02, 2018, 04:00:44 PM
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Listened to some of this at work today. My first time through it, a year or so ago, it didn't really click. But after listening to a ton of Miles's fusion stuff in the interim, I feel my ears can more readily pick up and enjoy this release.

Now enjoying this (incredible mastering!):

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Post by: Alek Hidell on March 02, 2018, 07:40:31 PM
Coupla my recent ones ... well, three of them, actually.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 02, 2018, 07:48:24 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 02, 2018, 02:47:04 PM
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Susanne Abbuehl - The Gift (2013)

One of my favorite albums and vocalists of all time! The voice is incredible and the choice of material is a wonderful departure from the tired old warhorses. I actually never liked Emily Dickinson until I heard her poems sung by Ms. Abbhuel! Instrumentation is very cool too (Compass features not one, but two clarinets). Get her other ones on ECM, you won't be disappointed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2018, 08:44:00 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 02, 2018, 07:48:24 PM
One of my favorite albums and vocalists of all time! The voice is incredible and the choice of material is a wonderful departure from the tired old warhorses. I actually never liked Emily Dickinson until I heard her poems sung by Ms. Abbhuel! Instrumentation is very cool too (Compass features not one, but two clarinets). Get her other ones on ECM, you won't be disappointed.

I hadn't realised they were Emily Dickinson poems - I'll have to listen again later today. This was the first time I've heard her and was very impressed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 03, 2018, 10:02:08 AM
Some of them are Emily Dickinson, but there are numerous other sources, including Sun Ra (on Compass)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2018, 05:13:45 PM
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Nils Petter Molvaern - Hamada (2009)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Goin' to the Meeting (1962)

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Dorothy Ashby - Django/Misty (1984)
John Lewis - Grand Encounter (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 05, 2018, 10:35:45 AM
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I like these recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 05, 2018, 07:18:55 PM
Both volumes:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2018, 07:37:52 PM
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Ran Blake - Cocktails At Dusk: A Noir Tribute To Chris Connor (2014)
Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Last Dance (2014)

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Art Blakey - Oh By The Way (1982)

^superb!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 06, 2018, 12:42:20 PM
Ellington & Hawkins

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 06, 2018, 12:51:15 PM
Quote from: Spineur on March 06, 2018, 12:42:20 PM
Ellington & Hawkins

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Good one! I like all those Ellington duets, e.g. the one with Louis Armstrong is a fave.

TD:

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These CD compliations inspired by the Ken Burns jazz film are really good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 02:25:52 AM
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Jelly Roll Morton : His Complete Victor Recordings

A 5CD collection issued to acknowledge Morton's presumed 100th anniversary.  With restored sound and a meticulously documented discography,  Keepnews hit it out of the park with this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 07, 2018, 06:14:29 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 02:25:52 AM
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Jelly Roll Morton : His Complete Victor Recordings

A 5CD collection issued to acknowledge Morton's presumed 100th anniversary.  With restored sound and a meticulously documented discography,  Keepnews hit it out of the park with this one.

Did it stone you, to your soul?

$:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 07:21:31 AM
Quote from: George on March 07, 2018, 06:14:29 AM
Did it stone you, to your soul?

$:)

;D    I'm reading a biography of him and he was a character; good music, too.

TD

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 07, 2018, 07:25:39 AM
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Still working my way through this box. Although I am enjoying it more than the first time around, I am still not "getting it" like I get the regular albums from the Second Great Quartet.

What are others thoughts on this set/performances? 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 07:39:25 AM
Quote from: George on March 07, 2018, 07:25:39 AM
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Still working my way through this box. Although I am enjoying it more than the first time around, I am still not "getting it" like I get the regular albums from the Second Great Quartet.

What are others thoughts on this set/performances?

This box captured Miles' second great quintet when they were at their early peak,  but still mostly playing the standards that the Coltrane quintet played.  However, this band's style was quite abstracted from the earlier hard bop group.  That abstracting style is both this band's greatest strength and for some, it's biggest weakness.

I love this band, and this box is great, but I can understand your difficulty with it since it is harder to follow than the other group.  You might prefer the Blackhawk live box more.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 09:52:54 AM
Wayne Shorter Playlist

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 09:54:30 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 07:21:31 AM
;D    I'm reading a biography of him and he was a character; good music, too.

TD

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For some reason, I find Charlie Parker unlistenable.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 11:46:23 AM
Quote from: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 09:54:30 AM
For some reason, I find Charlie Parker unlistenable.

Interesting, but not surprising since bebop was seen to be somewhat of a break from the jazz tradition at the time. 

What is some of your favorite jazz?




Bebop did not last very long, and while jazz is a cumulative genre, i.e. earlier styles are not replaced by newers ones; all styles continue to co-exist along with all others - bebop seems to have fewer adherents today.  While it influenced how soloists played, it morphed into hard bop and other hyphenated versions which most people listen to instead of bebop itself.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 11:55:37 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 11:46:23 AM
Interesting, but not surprising since bebop was seen to be somewhat of a break from the jazz tradition at the time. 

What is some of your favorite jazz?

Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis Quintet, Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Duke Ellington, only more recently got interested in Coleman Hawkins. Mostly focused the 50's. Maybe my problem with Parker is related to the fact that I'm luke warm on Coltrane.

If I try to put my finger on it, I'd say there is some truth to the saying that music is in the space between the notes. In Charlie Parker, there is such a flood of ideas that there is no space between the notes.

I have the collection of Savoy recordings. On the first track he is a side-man and seems to be restrained. I thought, that's great. But then on the next track the shredding starts and it never stops!
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Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 12:05:58 PM
Quote from: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 11:55:37 AM
Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis Quintet, Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Duke Ellington, only more recently got interested in Coleman Hawkins. Mostly focused the 50's. Maybe my problem with Parker is related to the fact that I'm luke warm on Coltrane.

If I try to put my finger on it, I'd say there is some truth to the saying that music is in the space between the notes. In Charlie Parker, there is such a flood of ideas that there is no space between the notes.

I have the collection of Savoy recordings. On the first track he is a side-man and seems to be restrained. I thought, that's great. But then on the next track the shredding starts and it never stops!

I get you. 

Parker is explosive and part of his appeal (for those who like it) is the very thing you don't like, i.e. the rapid fire endless stream of melodic improvisation.  His solos are amazing in how he builds the energy without employing licks/cliches (they're cliches now, but not when he played them).  His intuitive grasp of the harmonic bed to plant his wildly expressive lines can be overwhelming.  But also sometimes exhausting.  I get the feeling that he was much better live than on record.

The great thing about jazz is that there are so many styles, and you've found a sweet spot in your listening, there is no reason to force yourself to try to listen to someting if it doesn't appeal to you.

I used to never listen to early New Orleans jazz; now it is what I listen to the most.  But I haven't stopped listening to electric Miles. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 07, 2018, 01:42:52 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 07:39:25 AM
This box captured Miles' second great quintet when they were at their early peak,  but still mostly playing the standards that the Coltrane quintet played.  However, this band's style was quite abstracted from the earlier hard bop group.  That abstracting style is both this band's greatest strength and for some, it's biggest weakness.

I love this band, and this box is great, but I can understand your difficulty with it since it is harder to follow than the other group.  You might prefer the Blackhawk live box more.

Thanks. I generally shy away from live albums. I only picked up the Plugged Nickel because it was so revered.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 01:47:20 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 07, 2018, 12:05:58 PMThe great thing about jazz is that there are so many styles, and you've found a sweet spot in your listening, there is no reason to force yourself to try to listen to someting if it doesn't appeal to you.

Expanding horizons is good, but I have to realize there are some things I won't ever get. Maybe that's Parker.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 07, 2018, 05:51:58 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 07, 2018, 06:53:13 PM
Quote from: Baron Scarpia on March 07, 2018, 09:54:30 AM
For some reason, I find Charlie Parker unlistenable.

Interesting. As long as we're confessing, I find Art Tatum to be difficult to take! Don't know why. I love Errol Garner, and many other jazz pianists (Red Garland, Oscar Peterson, Horace Tapscott, Cecil Taylor--quite a wide range).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2018, 07:53:32 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 07, 2018, 05:51:58 PM
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Huh. Somehow I don't know that one. I don't think I've even seen that cover before.

And so, playing now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2018, 08:42:11 PM
Quote from: George on March 07, 2018, 07:25:39 AM
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Still working my way through this box. Although I am enjoying it more than the first time around, I am still not "getting it" like I get the regular albums from the Second Great Quartet.

What are others thoughts on this set/performances?

Its a fascinating document with much great music making, and I'm grateful for any release from the Second Quintet, but its been impossibly and unhelpfully over-hyped in some quarters (the Penguin Guide calls it "the Rosetta Stone of modern jazz").

To my ears the band often sounds bored still playing their old repertoire, and its not until they start branching out in new directions with the old tunes that excitement seems to build - a useful insight into the grinding three sets a day work of a busy band. And the sound quality is waaay worse than anyone seems to want to let on - seldom are all instruments well captured together and Miles has been mixed to that he's unnaturally louder than everyone else. You can, however hear every detail from the bar staff and the seemingly indifferent audience, which I find interesting, but suspect few else will.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 08, 2018, 01:17:38 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 07, 2018, 06:53:13 PM
Interesting. As long as we're confessing, I find Art Tatum to be difficult to take! Don't know why. I love Errol Garner, and many other jazz pianists (Red Garland, Oscar Peterson, Horace Tapscott, Cecil Taylor--quite a wide range).

My favorite Art Tatum is with Ben Webster.

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Post by: George on March 08, 2018, 03:19:28 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 07, 2018, 08:42:11 PM
Its a fascinating document with much great music making, and I'm grateful for any release from the Second Quintet, but its been impossibly and unhelpfully over-hyped in some quarters (the Penguin Guide calls it "the Rosetta Stone of modern jazz").

To my ears the band often sounds bored still playing their old repertoire, and its not until they start branching out in new directions with the old tunes that excitement seems to build - a useful insight into the grinding three sets a day work of a busy band. And the sound quality is waaay worse than anyone seems to want to let on - seldom are all instruments well captured together and Miles has been mixed to that he's unnaturally louder than everyone else. You can, however hear every detail from the bar staff and the seemingly indifferent audience, which I find interesting, but suspect few else will.

Many thanks, Simon!
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Post by: Artem on March 08, 2018, 09:32:45 AM
Today in the afternoon with headphones.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 08, 2018, 10:54:40 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 07, 2018, 08:42:11 PM
Its a fascinating document with much great music making, and I'm grateful for any release from the Second Quintet, but its been impossibly and unhelpfully over-hyped in some quarters (the Penguin Guide calls it "the Rosetta Stone of modern jazz").

To my ears the band often sounds bored still playing their old repertoire, and its not until they start branching out in new directions with the old tunes that excitement seems to build -

Your impression is not supported by Wayne Shorter, as he described these dates in a biography which I have been reading. 

Far from being "bored" the rhythm section was being challenged by Tony Williams each night, actually, each tune, to depart from anything familiar about playing these songs.  As a consequence, they were at their most creative level - and driving the horns to some truly inspired soloing.  The band sounds so abstract and free-style that it freaked out Columbia who waited more  a decade, 1976, before releasing some, and then only in Japan.  A few more tracks turned up on larger compilations from 1982, but Columbia did not release them officially until 1995.

Twenty years down the road it was possible for people to fully appreciate what the band accomplished in these recordings, which at the time sounded extremely radical.

A great set - jazz hardly gets any better.

Re: live vs studio recordings.  I firmly believe that jazz is a performance art, and the best way to hear it is live, in a club or other venue. Next best are the live recordings.  Playing live "without a net" is the ideal environment for jazz, the live audience adds an intangible quality to the performance that cannot be duplicated in the studio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 08, 2018, 11:14:29 AM
Here's some of what is in the biography about these gigs:

After only a few gigs, Miles's sidemen began to feel restless. Though the band was thrilled to be on the road with Miles again, they'd become almost too accomplished at playing Miles's classic repertoire—still the same old "Round Midnight," "Funny Valentine," and "So What." "The band was never conventional, so I can't confine it to being that," Herbie said. "But even within our very creative and loose approach to the music, everybody did things according to certain kinds of expectations. I knew if I did this, Ron would do that, or Tony knew that if he did this, I would do that. It became so easy to do that it was almost boring." Especially after they had tried out some fresh ideas during those productive months away from Miles, his music felt predictable and complacent.

Just before their final gig of the year, in Chicago, Tony came up with a solution. "Hey, what if we made anti-music?" he asked. "Like, whatever someone expects you to play, that's the last thing you play?" The rest of the rhythm section wasn't sure. This onstage parlor game would feel awkward and could sound disastrous. But in the end, they all agreed to sacrifice the gig for the "betterment of the band." They didn't have a choice. It was time to grow, or die.

The Plugged Nickel club in Chicago's bohemian Old Town seemed like a good place to test their experiment. The Plugged Nickel's audience would be expecting to hear the smooth band they knew from Miles's records, but hopefully they'd be more forgiving than New York's scrutinizing jazz cognoscenti. And the adventurous "Great Black Music" of Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) proved that experimentation wasn't necessarily antithetical to tradition in the city. Still, expectations for this show were especially high, since Miles had cancelled dates at the club in July, August, and October.

When the musicians walked into the Plugged Nickel, they were surprised to see Columbia Records producer Teo Macero stringing wires across the stage. What was he doing there? Miles was waiting backstage, where he confirmed that Columbia wanted to record the gig. Tony glared at the other guys in a silent warning: Nobody was turning back from their sabotage mission. So what if there'd be recorded evidence of the "anti-music" gig for everyone to hear?

Then, for some unknown reason, Miles refused to be recorded on the first night of the gig. On the second night, threatened with a suspension of his contract, he acquiesced. That night and the next, Macero recorded a total of seven sets, capturing the band's dynamic creative process on an album that was later released as Live at the Plugged Nickel.

From the intro to the first tune, "If I Were a Bell," it was clear that Miles's sidemen were up to something new. Usually there was a clear statement of the melody at the start of a tune—something you could whistle—but this intro was as abstract and erratic as the wind. A few bars in, Ron uprooted the chord's foundation on his bass; on piano, Herbie pulled away from the tune's tonal center. Miles quickly reacted, testing out some off-kilter phrases of his own, but his final musical phrase had the querulous upward curve of a question mark: What the fuck is going on here? It was clear that improvised improvised solos were going to be collectively forged by the band. Anything a soloist said would have to be vetted by the rhythm section.

By the start of the second set, Miles was enjoying the band's game. The trumpeter always ran his bands on musical meritocracy—the best ideas ruled, and even the leader had to be hip and selfless enough to follow them. But Miles's chops were still weak from his extended time off. So he challenged the others by simply leaving them extra space. Lots of space . . . while the audience waited for his next phrase, seasons changed, people fell in and out of love . . . and the band faltered. It took the band members almost seven minutes to coax the anti-music from Miles's deep silence. But when they did, they quickly climaxed, and nobody was faking it.

If Miles liked the rhythm section's anti-music game, Wayne was thrilled by it. "When I heard those guys dropping the bottom out from under me, I knew it was 'Go for it' time!" he said. "I'd been in the band for a little over a year, and the next thing I knew we were way out there. It was like . . . this is what freedom means. The awareness was that the great responsibility that came with the territory was to push the envelope. You heard responsibility converted into expression that sounded like a great adventure." The adventurous rhythm section pushed Wayne into some of the most brilliant playing of his career. On tunes like "Green Dolphin Street," Wayne expanded the harmony until he seemed lost. Then he resolved everything with such natural logic that he seemed to be mocking, "Oh ye of little faith."

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 12:16:06 PM
Thanks for the excerpts. Very interesting.

I'm not sure your reply contradicts what I wrote, though. I said they sounded bored with the old tunes until they start branching out from them and then the excitement builds.

I've only played the full set a few times but haven't heard whatever might have been worrying the Columbia people. It doesn't sound wildly experimental to me.

Ill put it on again later today and see if my view has changed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 08, 2018, 01:25:56 PM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2147-2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 03:02:36 PM
Just played the first disc/set of the Plugged Nickel and I'm still not hearing whay the Shorter book describes.

In light of reading that it seems now that Miles sounds pissed off after his argument with Columbia and Two and the contrariness in his playing is more flipping them the bird rather than being challenged by the band. He abandoned ideas without resolution and without caring where the band is headed. They seem to be often holding back to see what he will do rather than driving him or collaborating equally. He enters early during one of Herbies solos. This attitude as opposed to the difficulty of the performance which is in no way "anti music" may be the reason Columbia weren't happy to release it. Plus Ron Carter is often so poorly captured is most of the time like he's not even there.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 08, 2018, 03:14:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 03:02:36 PM
Just played the first disc/set of the Plugged Nickel and I'm still not hearing whay the Shorter book describes.

In light of reading that it seems now that Miles sounds pissed off after his argument with Columbia and Two and the contrariness in his playing is more flipping them the bird rather than being challenged by the band. He abandoned ideas without resolution and without caring where the band is headed. They seem to be often holding back to see what he will do rather than driving him or collaborating equally. He enters early during one of Herbies solos. This attitude as opposed to the difficulty of the performance which is in no way "anti music" may be the reason Columbia weren't happy to release it. Plus Ron Carter is often so poorly captured is most of the time like he's not even there.

The first disc begins with the sets on the second night, it is still early in the week and they are still getting settled with the new approach that Tony Williams is bringing.  This approach is purposely designed to make them uncomfortable, so it will take them a few sets to get the hang of playing together without being self-conscious.  But already on the first tune I hear what the book describes. 

Remember you are hearing this over fifty years after the fact - after hearing all the jazz that has happened since these recordings were made.  Of course it will not sound as startling as it did Dec. 1965. 

That said, I am not hearing what you describe.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 03:33:12 PM
You mean you can hear Ron Carter clearly? ;)

The audience doesn't seem to be especially shocked by what they're hearing so Columbia should have had a little faith.

I enjoy this box very much and these critical words shouldn't  suggest dislike or dismissal. It's a set that every serious Miles fan should hear. I just disagree with the Everest Sumit hyperbole it's had.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 07:44:28 PM
I'm looking forward to relistening to one set from that box a day for the next few days.

but now:

(https://img.discogs.com/mJhqyUzXLWKICwSXRMF6B0zAGHQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9663072-1484399374-7458.jpeg.jpg)

Art Blakey - Blue Night (1985)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 08, 2018, 09:45:13 PM
(https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929a8beb1335d7bf1699357/1:1/w_320/2be09d1c.jpg)

Just noticed that my son wrote the review in Pitchfork (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2200-the-complete-jack-johnson-sessions/):  "...this compilation documents the sessions in their virtual entirety (there are a couple of missing takes, but nothing too essential), offering an incredible six hours of largely unheard material. As with the previous boxes from this era, fans will delight in hearing just about everything the musicians put to tape, as well as paging through the invaluable session info, extensive liner notes, and unseen photos included in the extensive and beautiful packaging."

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 09, 2018, 12:49:21 PM
Sonny Rollins, Colossus.  My copy had a different cover but it is the same 2cd set

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q%2BGX-hwlL._SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 09, 2018, 12:50:38 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517MzNFpRoL._SX355_.jpg)

King Oliver - Call Of The Freaks: The Complete Victor Recordings Vol.1
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Baron Scarpia on March 09, 2018, 01:00:07 PM
Quote from: Spineur on March 09, 2018, 12:49:21 PM
Sonny Rollins, Colossus.  My copy had a different cover but it is the same 2cd set

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q%2BGX-hwlL._SY400_.jpg)

This is my clear favorite among Sonny Rollins' albums. "Tour de Force," mentioned above, is probably my least favorite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 09, 2018, 01:03:42 PM
Quote from: Baron Scarpia on March 09, 2018, 01:00:07 PM
This is my clear favorite among Sonny Rollins' albums. "Tour de Force," mentioned above, is probably my least favorite.

Newks Time would be mine - and now I want to play that next.

I've never understood the fuss over "St.Thomas" (just while, it seems, I'm in a contrarian mood).

edit: playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71wNAvc2U2L._SX355_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Four_Seasons_%28Bobby_Hutcherson_album%29.jpg)

Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time (1957)
Bobby Hutcherson - Four Seasons (1985)

(https://img.discogs.com/PR6ApPQmlFv2I8cFxqu_z3M2I6w=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4286002-1360705561-4057.jpeg.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/atmospheric-conditions-permitting.jpg)

Betty Carter - Out There (1958)
Jazz Ensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks - Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 09, 2018, 07:09:21 PM
Just one jazz rekkid today.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jBgMYRpvL._SL1425_.jpg)

The Vandermark Five: Elements of Style, Exercises in Surprise

Apropos the above, I may just need to pull out Saxophone Colossus for a listen; it's been a while. I think it's my favorite Rollins album, but like SimonNZ I'm sure fond of Newk's Time too (and Way Out West, and Volume Two ...). Boy, what a string of albums he put together in 1956-57, eh?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2018, 01:21:42 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/326/MI0002326412.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://img.discogs.com/8tcwIXv-7Lp-AAFMj9i9sZ_IHUk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-929211-1313818102.jpeg.jpg)

Hank Mobley - Hank (1957)
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 10, 2018, 05:21:06 PM
Favorite Sonny:

(https://d24jnm9llkb1ub.cloudfront.net/icpn/00602537647088/00602537647088-cover-zoom.jpg)

A Night at the Village Vanguard
with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones

This live set is contains some of my favorite jazz performances, the fact that it is piano-less is a huge plus. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 10, 2018, 05:29:35 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 09, 2018, 12:50:38 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517MzNFpRoL._SX355_.jpg)

King Oliver - Call Of The Freaks: The Complete Victor Recordings Vol.1

Great stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 11, 2018, 01:36:49 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 10, 2018, 05:29:35 PM
Great stuff!

It is!

Playing the second volume now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51jyvHzHLtL._SX425_.jpg)

(https://img.discogs.com/R521bd-aATYH0VHLNARu0tHzawI=/fit-in/600x594/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3712712-1432210635-4166.jpeg.jpg)

Thomas Chapin - Ride (2006)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 12, 2018, 08:35:58 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/WIE6U6Lrtrc

Louis Armstrong - Stardust

I've been watching, once again, the Ken Burns documentary series on Jazz and wanted to share one of the many amazing (imo) things brought out.  Burns usually tries to tie in cultural issues like race in all of his films, and Jazz is rife with opprotunities.  What caught my attention last was a bit about a concert Arnstrong played in Austin and a student at the University of Texas who attended, not because he was a fan of Armstrong or jazz he had not heard either but because he thought there would be girls there.

Charlie Black heard Armstrong play and was struck by the genius of what he was doing, and which caused him to question what he had heard his entire life about how Blacks were "all right, in their place".  He began to wonder where was the place for this musician who could create this kind of music, and for his people.

Charlie Black went on to become Charles L. Black, distinquished professor of constitutional law at Yale University and a member of the team that built the legal argument in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education before the Supreme Court, a legal victory which reversed decades of Jim Crow laws and practices.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 13, 2018, 11:35:24 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tdekLQ-gL._SY355_.jpg)

Complete Sextet Studio Sessions
Ben Webster | Harry Edison
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 14, 2018, 04:09:23 AM
(https://vinylbay777.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Duke-Ellington-Carnegie-Hall-Concerts-1943-1947-8-CD-Box-Set-1-750x750.jpg)

Duke Ellington : Carnegie Hall Concerts 1943 - 1947 | CD2: Jan. 1943, part 2

I don't understand complaints about the sound of these recordings; in my opinion they are fine, and the performances are great.  Having one of the few complete recordings of Black, Brown and Beige, alone, is worth the price.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 14, 2018, 10:25:13 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/834/MI0001834854.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Dizzy Gillespie : The Verve / Philips Small Group Sessions

"Recorded from May, 1954 to April, 1964, these 132 small-group sides just might not have happened—except that like so many others, Dizzy Gillespie's big band had fallen on hard times by the early '50s. This seven-disc compilation is filled with signature classics such as "Salt Peanuts and "A Night In Tunisia, documenting the evolving artistry of John Birks Gillespie, a true jazz giant. As Donald L. Maggin observes in his detailed liner notes, "As a creator of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions during the 1940s, he twice fundamentally changed the way jazz improvisation was done. It was as if Monet had been in the vanguard of both Impressionism and Cubism."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on March 14, 2018, 03:23:43 PM
Ed Bickert: Bye Bye Baby

(https://i.imgur.com/bIIPcUO.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 14, 2018, 07:47:14 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 14, 2018, 10:25:13 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/834/MI0001834854.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Dizzy Gillespie : The Verve / Philips Small Group Sessions

"Recorded from May, 1954 to April, 1964, these 132 small-group sides just might not have happened—except that like so many others, Dizzy Gillespie's big band had fallen on hard times by the early '50s. This seven-disc compilation is filled with signature classics such as "Salt Peanuts and "A Night In Tunisia, documenting the evolving artistry of John Birks Gillespie, a true jazz giant. As Donald L. Maggin observes in his detailed liner notes, "As a creator of the bebop and Afro-Cuban revolutions during the 1940s, he twice fundamentally changed the way jazz improvisation was done. It was as if Monet had been in the vanguard of both Impressionism and Cubism."

I bought that set at Best Buy (of all places) for $21 and the reason I got it for that price was because obviously it was priced wrong (they weren't aware of the error thankfully). That was one of the best things I bought for $21 for a long time. Those Mosaic sets are not cheap (as you probably know all too well).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 15, 2018, 07:02:46 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/919M4lOEx6L._SY355_.jpg)

Duke Ellington & Ray Brown : This One's for Blanton
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 15, 2018, 10:25:32 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/093/MI0000093054.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Nicholas Payton : Gumbo Nouveau
Personnel: Nicholas Payton (trumpet); Jesse Davis (alto saxophone); Tim Warfield (tenor saxophone); Anthony Wonsey (piano); Adonis Rose (drums).

"On his second Verve release, Payton interprets and modernizes ten songs associated with his hometown and/or Louis Armstrong. Fortunately, Payton generally retains the flavor and joy of the original versions, even while he transforms much of the music into hard bop."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 15, 2018, 02:43:33 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91B55L1oC8L._SY355_.jpg)

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck - The Enchantment (2007)


curiously similar cover to one of my favorite albums:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81BsvSIloiL._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 16, 2018, 02:06:02 PM
(https://pxhst.co/avaxhome/c8/5c/001a5cc8_medium.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 16, 2018, 04:37:02 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qcr6zU7zL._SX355_.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/445/MI0000445601.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Horace Tapscott - Songs Of The Unsung (1978)
Duke Ellington - Ellington 65 (1965)


and just now learning that Horace has an autobiography with that title:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KuqWC1OKL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 16, 2018, 07:51:20 PM
Abbey Lincoln--probably the best version of "you must believe in spring" I've ever heard.


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71SSJZY3ggL._SY450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 17, 2018, 02:16:23 AM
(https://images.eil.com/large_image/BILLY_STRAYHORN_CUE%2BFOR%2BSAXOPHONE-541250.jpg)

Billy Strayhorn - Cue For Saxophone (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 17, 2018, 04:01:49 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/roNI7S2KJfHmlWZGp8aK5WODAM4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4594838-1399657155-8093.jpeg.jpg)

Count Basie - Blues By Basie (1944)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on March 17, 2018, 05:50:52 PM
Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Holon

[asin]B000ZWWRXG[/asin]

Totally dig David Fricke here ~

There were moments - long, magnetic spells, actually - during a recent set by Nik Bärtsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub in New York when the Swiss instrumental quintet seemed more like a double trio: two percussionists; a bassist and one band member exhaling low, sustained drones on bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet; and Bärtsch on both acoustic and electric piano, one hand on each, playing hypnotic overlapping riffs that were more pulse than melody. The music was a subtle, accelerating excitement, a trance-fusion melting of the '71 Pink Floyd, the '68 Grateful Dead and the rhythm armies in Miles Davis' electric bands - minus guitars and trumpet. There are no song titles on Ronin's latest album, Holon (ECM) or 2006's Stoa (ECM) - the tracks are numbered - because the colors, lift and flow in this fusion speak for themselves. -- David Fricke, Rolling Stone, April 03, 2008


8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 18, 2018, 01:40:33 PM
I like Bärtsch's music a great deal. I believe he has called his style "Zen funk."

Anyway, I'm a bit behind! I've been reading the Brahms thread and now need to catch up with everything else. So here's the jass I've been attending to over the last few days:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513EOB7jyWL._SS500.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cvc--bSrL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-R7HYJuQL.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/QCOZSmv7m_Lptc74_GP-V1PW7-I=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-645553-1450383192-1156.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/4ZCepwnFSw9OcXCvb6ERx8zQcX4=/fit-in/600x534/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1291635-1335365400.jpeg.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518kgyapyQL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41vL3EepbDL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41rz3F5Q%2BkL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GgZ0-ySAL.jpg)

There were some others too, I think, but that's enough images for one post. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 19, 2018, 10:51:02 AM
(https://cdn3.volusion.com/gnvdh.kdfvm/v/vspfiles/photos/MMBST-84152-2.jpg?1383675213)

Our Thing : Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
Kenny Dorham – trumpet
Andrew Hill – piano
Eddie Khan – bass
Pete La Roca – drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 19, 2018, 02:17:27 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 02, 2018, 07:48:24 PM
One of my favorite albums and vocalists of all time! The voice is incredible and the choice of material is a wonderful departure from the tired old warhorses. I actually never liked Emily Dickinson until I heard her poems sung by Ms. Abbhuel! Instrumentation is very cool too (Compass features not one, but two clarinets). Get her other ones on ECM, you won't be disappointed.
So I followed your advice and got a couple of her albums as well as François Couturier albums.

[asin]B000GKH23W[/asin]

[asin]B003PCL12G[/asin]

Both Abbuehl and Couturier have a jazz alternative style which I really enjoy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2018, 08:11:58 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/vG01xMv0kbaVPgKEEPK0GYPU6tA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4103126-1355326055-3795.jpeg.jpg)

Lem Winchester and Ramsey Lewis Trio ‎– Tribute To Clifford Brown (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2018, 08:21:00 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 18, 2018, 01:40:33 PM
  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518kgyapyQL.jpg) 

Clean Feed Records has reached a tipping point for me where the scattered few I've heard have all been so interesting that I want to get a better sense of the whole label.

How was that one?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 20, 2018, 06:24:13 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/8YziR8vSUd6vjowB9U30ufeE9u0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4481943-1418335228-3396.jpeg.jpg)

Only my second spin of this and already lovin it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 20, 2018, 10:41:30 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/762/MI0001762998.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jack Teagarden : Mis'ry and the Blues
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 20, 2018, 07:38:56 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 19, 2018, 08:21:00 PM
Clean Feed Records has reached a tipping point for me where the scattered few I've heard have all been so interesting that I want to get a better sense of the whole label.

How was that one?

Yeah, Clean Feed is a great jazz label: great music and almost always great album covers. I enjoy the González album very much. One slightly negative impression I have, however - and I may be completely wrong here, I need to re-listen - is that Eskelin keeps kind of a low profile on the recording. But, again, I need to give it another spin.

Some other Clean Feed faves:

[asin]B00KTP93HM[/asin] [asin]B006DLIEBW[/asin] [asin]B00G1V15OC[/asin] [asin]B000SOMEEI[/asin] [asin]B009KG32BO[/asin] [asin]B0044DI5A6[/asin] [asin]B000E0LCIK[/asin] [asin]B0009V0ZZK[/asin]

Anyway, TD:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jsv1HoKJL._SL1240_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81MaqM4Kn8L._SL1060_.jpg)

The first reminded me that I wanted to hear the second (the common denominator being Gustafsson, obviously), but I played Sibelius 1 (Segerstam) in between. That made for something of a contrast. :D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 20, 2018, 08:25:42 PM
Thanks for that. I've heard the Gerry Hemingway but not the others. I'll check them out.

now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Helen_Merrill_with_Strings.jpg)

Helen Merrill - With Strings (1955)

which opens with a version of one of my favorite songs, "Lilac Wine", which I was previously unaware of
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 21, 2018, 10:28:22 AM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/birdwatching.jpg?w=764&h=678)

Anat Fort Trio With Gianluigi Trovesi : Birdwatching
Personnel: Anat Fort: piano; Gary Wang: double bass; Roland Schneider: drums; Gianluigi Trovesi: alto clarinet.

"Israeli pianist/composer Anat Fort augments her longstanding trio with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider by adding Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi (who plays alto clarinet throughout) for her third ECM album, following 2010's And If. The trio had long been based in New York City, but since Fort 's return to Israel and Schneider's return to Berlin the band is now spread between three countries—which only makes their reunions more joyful. Fort and Trovesi first played together as a duo at Italy's Novara Festival, followed by the clarinetist joining the trio for concerts in Tel Aviv."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 21, 2018, 04:31:39 PM
Mentioned it yesterday, listened today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41mqJe1qqlL.jpg)

These, aussi:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hSXUi06oL.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/4UPbkuIxgkSHHLEp5vCYBJQ92Y8=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10451166-1497707789-7601.jpeg.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91agUL%2BEJzL._SL1409_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2018, 08:38:22 PM
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cf441cd-600.jpg)

Cortex - Avant-Garde Party Music (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 22, 2018, 09:50:15 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 21, 2018, 08:38:22 PM
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cf441cd-600.jpg)

Cortex - Avant-Garde Party Music (2018)

Hmm. You'll have to let me know your thoughts on that one. Know nothing about it.

Today was:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0Nm-YG4L.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71dat9a-CDL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 23, 2018, 07:38:47 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DtV98bbML.jpg)

Masterpieces By Ellington
Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn – piano
Cat Anderson (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7), Shorty Baker, Mercer Ellington (tracks 1-4), Fats Ford (tracks 1-4), Ray Nance, Nelson Williams - trumpet
Lawrence Brown (tracks 1-4), Tyree Glenn (tracks 1-4), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman (tracks 5-7) - trombone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Johnny Hodges (tracks 1-4), Willie Smith (tracks 5-7) - alto saxophone
Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet (track 2)
Wendell Marshall - bass
Sonny Greer (tracks 1-4), Louis Bellson (tracks 5-7) - drums
Yvonne Lanauze - vocals




"For the first time in his recording career, Ellington was able to forego the three-minutes-and-change restrictions in running time of the 78-rpm disc — he and the band rose to the occasion".  The album features a full length version of Ellington's classic 'Mood Indigo'. No longer constrained by recording limitations, 'Mood Indigo' runs for over 15 minutes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 23, 2018, 11:28:13 AM
Bill Frisell has released and is releasing the most engaging music I've heard in a long time.  I recently listened to the duo/quartet 2CD recording he made with Jim Hall; the quartet adds Joey Baron and Scott Colley.  Also a recording, Hemispheres, with Michael Gibbs which features Frisell with a small orchestra, arrangements by Gibbs, backing him up.

His latest is Music IS:

(http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wbgo/files/styles/x_large/public/201802/bill_frisell_-_03_-_photo_credit_monica_jane_frisell_2017.jpg)

It is really interesting and worth checking out.

I also began watching a documentary about him and he comes off as a truly humble but very gifted musician.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 23, 2018, 11:41:44 AM
(http://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/415084-dcc_jazz_ray_charles__betty_carter_gold_cd.jpg)

First spin.

Found this today in a used shop for only $10.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 23, 2018, 02:16:15 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 22, 2018, 09:50:15 PM
Hmm. You'll have to let me know your thoughts on that one. Know nothing about it.


Not as Avant-Garde (or Party) as the title suggests. Closer to the general ballpark of something like Point Of Departure. A fine album, but not downright essential.

now:

(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/600x600-5.jpg)

Angels 9 - Injuries (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 23, 2018, 02:28:49 PM
Quote from: George on March 23, 2018, 11:41:44 AM
(http://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/415084-dcc_jazz_ray_charles__betty_carter_gold_cd.jpg)

First spin.

Found this today in a used shop for only $10.  8)

that's some good stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 23, 2018, 02:47:17 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 23, 2018, 02:28:49 PM
that's some good stuff.

Indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 23, 2018, 07:33:50 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 23, 2018, 02:16:15 PM
Not as Avant-Garde (or Party) as the title suggests. Closer to the general ballpark of something like Point Of Departure. A fine album, but not downright essential.

Thanks. Looks like I'll pass on it.

Quotenow:

(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/600x600-5.jpg)

Angels 9 - Injuries (2014)

Pounds the table! as someone we know would say. When I first heard that, I realized it had been a long time since I'd been as excited about an album as I was about that one. Of course, YMMV. But I absolutely love it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 23, 2018, 11:31:55 PM
^Yeah, its interesting the way that adding a dash of Balkan folk can really invigorate music of any genre.

now:

(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cf477cd-600-600x600.jpg)

Turbamulta - s/t (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 24, 2018, 12:19:02 AM
A 2012 reissue of 2 albums recorded in 1955.  Listening to Johnny Hodges always cheers me up.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518NIZBVsOL._SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 24, 2018, 06:06:02 AM
Henri Crolla (post Django Reinhart jazz guitar) - 3CD set from the jazz in Paris serie

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51M3vkdUMqL._SY400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 24, 2018, 01:07:05 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/116/MI0000116111.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/600x600-129-600x600.jpg)

Dizzy Gillespie - The Champ (rec.1951-2)
Magnus Broo / Adam Lane / Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark - 4 Corners (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on March 25, 2018, 03:00:49 AM
NP:

(https://s19.postimg.org/lvrxhtpo3/billevansjimhallundercurrentbest2hrs.jpg)

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 25, 2018, 03:59:01 AM
Quote from: Undersea on March 25, 2018, 03:00:49 AM
NP:

(https://s19.postimg.org/lvrxhtpo3/billevansjimhallundercurrentbest2hrs.jpg)

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent

Good one.  The other one is also very good.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71c5mztQK-L._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on March 25, 2018, 04:09:06 AM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 25, 2018, 03:59:01 AM
Good one.  The other one is also very good.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71c5mztQK-L._SX425_.jpg)

I didn't know they recorded another album together - thanks, its a temptation for sure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 25, 2018, 05:13:28 AM
Quote from: Undersea on March 25, 2018, 03:00:49 AM
NP:

(https://s19.postimg.org/lvrxhtpo3/billevansjimhallundercurrentbest2hrs.jpg)

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent

Love that one!

Apparently, a colorized version of that photo was done somewhat recently:

(https://s18.postimg.org/58y3lo0e1/weekiwacheecolor2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 25, 2018, 03:06:02 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/X5C6kCpnLc_yEulnyBv1PblnbR8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3682726-1461847380-4070.bmp.jpg)

Ben Webster - With Strings: Sophisticated Lady (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on March 25, 2018, 06:31:03 PM
Quote from: George on March 25, 2018, 05:13:28 AM
Love that one!

Apparently, a colorized version of that photo was done somewhat recently:

(https://s18.postimg.org/58y3lo0e1/weekiwacheecolor2.jpg)

Looks good!. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 25, 2018, 06:33:24 PM
That's so well done at first I thought it was restated.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 25, 2018, 07:37:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 25, 2018, 06:33:24 PM
That's so well done at first I thought it was restated.

What does restated mean? I tried Googling and came up with nothing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 25, 2018, 08:27:08 PM
Quote from: George on March 25, 2018, 07:37:10 PM
What does restated mean? I tried Googling and came up with nothing.

Autocorrect error. Restaged.

(It did it that time as well)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 25, 2018, 11:47:31 PM
Quote from: George on March 25, 2018, 05:13:28 AM
Love that one!

Apparently, a colorized version of that photo was done somewhat recently:

(https://s18.postimg.org/58y3lo0e1/weekiwacheecolor2.jpg)

It has also been used for other recordings:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51H176XQeHL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 26, 2018, 04:07:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 25, 2018, 08:27:08 PM
Autocorrect error. Restaged.

(It did it that time as well)

Sorry, not familiar with the term. Does that mean when a photographer retakes an old photo using modern equipment?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 26, 2018, 04:24:57 AM
Yes: my initial reaction was that a modern photographer had recreated it in a perfect imitation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 26, 2018, 04:33:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 26, 2018, 04:24:57 AM
Yes: my initial reaction was that a modern photographer had recreated it in a perfect imitation.

Gotcha!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: kishnevi on March 26, 2018, 06:57:06 AM
Found this the other day at the used CD shop
[asin]B0013D8JCO[/asin]
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71N8caKBGRL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 26, 2018, 03:32:26 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/870/MI0001870542.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61bqnbfXbfL._SX355_.jpg)

Chuck Wayne - The Jazz Guitarist (1956)
Tony Malaby's Tamarindo - Live (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on March 27, 2018, 02:20:29 AM
I'll join in with the Chuck Wayne -

[asin]B00005B7RT[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 27, 2018, 04:24:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 08, 2018, 03:33:12 PM
You mean you can hear Ron Carter clearly? ;)

Wait, Ron Carter never wanted that to happen!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2018, 02:38:29 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 27, 2018, 04:24:48 AM
Wait, Ron Carter never wanted that to happen!

Good to see you're still around - I was starting to worry.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/0guIMTXsSTWSYpVPE3_pku7EbGo=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6276366-1415387326-1699.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qHeShZILL._SX355_.jpg)

Gene Krupa - Quartet (1955)
Joe McPhee - Sweet Freedom Now What? (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 27, 2018, 06:01:21 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 27, 2018, 02:38:29 PM
Good to see you're still around - I was starting to worry.

Moi aussi. Good to see you here again, king ubu.

Lessee. Today, jazz-wise, was:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kI5zix2jL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519%2B9yvxTYL.jpg)

I believe that was all. I also listened to some Vivaldi (Café Zimmermann) and, in the car, some of the Skrowaczewski box set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 27, 2018, 06:04:09 PM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/MFSL45-011-2.jpg)

Listened to this lovely mastering of this great album tonight.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 27, 2018, 06:35:30 PM
Quote from: George on March 27, 2018, 06:04:09 PM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/MFSL45-011-2.jpg)

Listened to this lovely mastering of this great album tonight.

Always a good thing to do.  Mono?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 27, 2018, 07:37:07 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 27, 2018, 06:35:30 PM
Always a good thing to do.  Mono?

I have the mono, but this time was the luxurious sound of the MFSL SACD in stereo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2018, 12:35:39 AM
Thanks!  :)

I was at the festival in St. Johann in Tirol a couple of weeks ago and somehow never made it back onto GMG after ... heard some good stuff though: Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis, Susana Santos Silva, Nate Wooley, Mette Rasmussen, Terrie Hessels, Alexander Hawkins ...

Then, next weekend, right here in Zurich, the first new edition of the re-vamped Tatklos festival took place, with an opening set of chamber music by Galina Ustvolskaja and a wide range of music following, including a solo set by Matana Roberts, and a one-off/first-time trio by Roberts with Alexander Hawkins and Lucas Niggli ... great stuff!

Some crappy pics up here:
http://ubu-musings.blogspot.ch/

Then I had plenty of classical concerts and operas to check out, too - including the wonderful new Heinz Holliger opera, "Lunea".

And plenty of stuff going on at work, so not that much time to listen to music and even less time (and energy) to post about it :-)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2018, 03:17:35 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Herb_Ellis_Meets_Jimmy_Giuffre.jpg) (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cf413cd-600.jpg)

Herb Ellis - Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre (1959)
Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day - On Parade in Parede (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on March 28, 2018, 11:45:15 PM
Miles bootleg volume 6. The first quintet final tour. Fantastic listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2018, 12:28:13 AM
Quote from: toledobass on March 28, 2018, 11:45:15 PM
Miles bootleg volume 6. The first quintet final tour. Fantastic listening.

Interesting - I wasn't aware this had been released.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71T5nfbxa3L._SX355_.jpg)

Am I right in thinking that these have been previously available as unofficial releases? I think the Copenhagen concert disc I used to have must have been the concert in the new set:

(https://hififorum.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/milesdaviscph1960.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 05:26:28 AM
Quote from: George on March 27, 2018, 06:04:09 PM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/MFSL45-011-2.jpg)

Listened to this lovely mastering of this great album tonight.

Quote from: Marcabru on March 27, 2018, 06:35:30 PM
Always a good thing to do.  Mono?

Heck, this one could be remastered in "duophonic" and still sound great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 29, 2018, 07:08:00 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 05:26:28 AM
Heck, this one could be remastered in "duophonic" and still sound great.

Indeed, though the MFSL SACD is like butter.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on March 29, 2018, 08:16:41 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 05:26:28 AM
Heck, this one could be remastered in "duophonic" and still sound great.

I agree, I bet it sounds great on a staticy transistor radio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 08:17:20 AM
Quote from: toledobass on March 29, 2018, 08:16:41 AM
I agree, I bet it sounds great on a staticy transistor radio.

Damn skippy! 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on March 29, 2018, 08:18:56 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 28, 2018, 03:17:35 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Herb_Ellis_Meets_Jimmy_Giuffre.jpg) (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cf413cd-600.jpg)

Herb Ellis - Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre
(1959)
Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day - On Parade in Parede (2017)

Good stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 29, 2018, 12:50:23 PM
Quote from: toledobass on March 28, 2018, 11:45:15 PM
Miles bootleg volume 6. The first quintet final tour. Fantastic listening.

I am glad this is available to stream.  Coltrane's solo on the first track "All of You" is f**king amazing!  If the rest of the playing is on this level this will be one great Miles record.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 29, 2018, 05:24:32 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 08:17:20 AM
Damn skippy! 8)

Bet it sounds even better while eating Skippy.  $:)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2018, 05:57:01 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/The_New_York_Jazz_Quartet_in_Chicago.jpg)

Roland Hanna - The New York Jazz Quartet in Chicago (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 02:32:20 PM
Working through my Adderly cds in no particular order.  Cannonball is almost always solid in my books.  Like going to that corner cafe where you never have been served a bad meal.

Love revisiting this one from '55.  Reminds me a bit of a pared down Birth of the Cool due to the heavy instruments that seem to be in the background.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MIx6XUGDL._SS500.jpg)

These next two are collaborations that look as though they should immediately revered by all and are from '59 and '61.  They are indeed very nice, but not my favorite of his recordings.  Glad to have them though and out of both, Evans' piano is the highlight.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41WX69ERQ6L.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gbt8UK6lL._SX425_.jpg) 

This one from '62 is a bit of a stretch. I love that bossa nova sound, but there are a number of other artists that I would choose before Cannonball for this. (Getz being one of the first.....Enoch Light....).  One that will collect a little dust before another listen.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61FYVTaKNTL._SS500.jpg)

This one from '60 is a must from Adderly.   This album simply cooks!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CrdSFyr0L._SX425_.jpg)

And the cooking continues here, at least after the first track of this '66 live effort:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ideCEdsRL._SX425_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2018, 02:45:03 PM
(https://www.stereophile.com/images/styles/600_wide/public/121014-Ellington2-600.jpg)

First spin, mono SACD mastered by Ryan Smith for Analogue Productions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 02:51:33 PM
Collecting Ellington is harder than collecting Armstrong.  And that is saying something.  Report in full, buddy....including dates.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 02:53:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 27, 2018, 02:38:29 PM
Good to see you're still around - I was starting to worry.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/0guIMTXsSTWSYpVPE3_pku7EbGo=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6276366-1415387326-1699.jpeg.jpg)
Gene Krupa - Quartet (1955)


Report when you can. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2018, 02:54:57 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 02:51:33 PM
Collecting Ellington is harder than collecting Armstrong.  And that is saying something.  Report in full, buddy....including dates.

Not the greatest sound compared to many of my other jazz CDs, but I have it on more than one good authority that for this material (Ellington's first LP) this is as good as it gets for sound.

More info here - https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Masterpieces-By-Ellington/release/9133672

Still in print and also on LP.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 30, 2018, 02:55:34 PM
Quote from: George on March 30, 2018, 02:45:03 PM
(https://www.stereophile.com/images/styles/600_wide/public/121014-Ellington2-600.jpg)

First spin, mono SACD mastered by Ryan Smith for Analogue Productions.

I listened to that recording the other day, but not the remastered version - I really like it, with the extended arrangement for Mood Indigo, and the rest.  Where do you find these remastered recordings?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2018, 03:00:59 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 30, 2018, 02:55:34 PM
I listened to that recording the other day, but not the remastered version - I really like it, with the extended arrangement for Mood Indigo, and the rest.  Where do you find these remastered recordings?

I buy my SACDs and audiophile masterings at Acoustic Sounds these days: http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/98202/Duke_Ellington-Masterpieces_By_Ellington-Hybrid_Mono_SACD

If you spend over $89 (3 SACDs +), then FedEx ground shipping is free.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 30, 2018, 03:09:03 PM
Quote from: George on March 30, 2018, 03:00:59 PM
I buy my SACDs and audiophile masterings at Acoustic Sounds these days: http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/98202/Duke_Ellington-Masterpieces_By_Ellington-Hybrid_Mono_SACD

If you spend over $89 (3 SACDs +), then FedEx ground shipping is free.

Cool.  Now all I need is a SACD player.   :-X   ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2018, 03:12:13 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 30, 2018, 03:09:03 PM
Cool.  Now all I need is a SACD player.   :-X   ;)

:laugh:

Actually don't own an sacd player - all of my sacds are hybrids so they play in my CD player. I buy them because of their Superior mastering not for the sacd layer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 30, 2018, 04:07:30 PM
Quote from: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 02:53:05 PM
Report when you can. :)

Its a solid, enjoyable album, but I'm used to Krupa being a bit more of a showman. On this he seems happy to be mostly in the background on the mid tempo show tune standards providing brushwork and leaving the spotlight to Eddie Shu.

now:

(http://www.nonesuch.com/sites/g/files/g2000005811/f/styles/album_detail__545___545_/public/201611/JELLY%20ROLL%20MORTON%20The%20Piano%20Rolls.jpg?itok=CvOH49Vi)

Jelly Roll Morton - The Piano Rolls
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on March 30, 2018, 04:57:42 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 30, 2018, 04:07:30 PM
Its a solid, enjoyable album, but I'm used to Krupa being a bit more of a showman. On this he seems happy to be mostly in the background on the mid tempo show tune standards providing brushwork and leaving the spotlight to Eddie Shu.


Thanks.  Might be nice to add to the variety.

Now, probably my favorite Adderly effort and quickly moving into one of my all time favorite jazz albums. From 1970 (and originally titled The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1B5wcN-L._SX425_.jpg)

Many of the tracks makes me think of Harry Callahan entering a nightclub looking for some information.  I can listen to this three or four times before it gets switched out of my player.  I do not believe it gets a ton of love, so I am here to make up for this shortcoming.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 30, 2018, 05:37:14 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/2-00oWXyvjCr3kWB4D44W-_8Fso=/fit-in/593x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2107807-1491654788-4677.jpeg.jpg)

First spin of this SACD, mastered by the great Kevin Gray.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on March 31, 2018, 02:26:57 AM
Enrico Rava: New York days.  I enjoy this type of moody introspective jazz.  It took me a long time to buy this CD as some people complain about the lack of swing.  True - but the 1950s are over and it is nice to hear something different.

[asin]B001CWOCU4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 31, 2018, 01:03:31 PM
Not too big on "Masterpieces by Ellington" myself, but it's an important landmark in jazz history, as it was, to my knowledge, the first LP dedicated to a jazz artist (in 1951) ... in jazz, most labels only made the transition to LP (12" that is) in the mid fifties, roughly 1955/56 (and quite a few early 12-inchers were so short, they could have fit onto a 10" record) ... from around 1950 to 1955, it was 78 rpms, 10" and later on 12" co-existing, labels such as Verve (or rather, to be exact, at that point still NorGran and Clef), Prestige or Contemporary would reissue 10" LPs with additional material or in new configurations with longer playing time. Blue Note did the same for their classic Monk and Bud, just to name their two most prominent examples - initially, all their Monk was on 78 rpm shellac platters, then transitioned to 10" and finally to 12" (while Powell stayed with the label long enough to make several actual LPs later on). Jazz being "race" music and "popular" music, this Ellington LP has to be important, just because. Before that, Ellington's extended compositions were only performed live, the few that were recorded were split up into two or four sides, so you had to flip or change the record every three minutes.

There was - but I guess that's not much more than a footnote - also 10" (or was it 12"?) shellac that allowed for over four minutes per side - some of the glorious Coleman Hawkins on Keynote makes great uses of it, but most labels would save on cost and stick with the standard.

--

Thread duty - arrived today, first spin, and I'm thrilled, to say the least:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/390/MI0004390342.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 31, 2018, 01:15:27 PM
Quote from: Spineur on March 31, 2018, 02:26:57 AM
Enrico Rava: New York days.  I enjoy this type of moody introspective jazz.  It took me a long time to buy this CD as some people complain about the lack of swing.  True - but the 1950s are over and it is nice to hear something different.

[asin]B001CWOCU4[/asin]

I like Enrico Rava - and this one is one of his best, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 31, 2018, 02:45:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414-cNV-Y7L._SY450_.jpg)

Louis Armstrong : The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings

Love these.  I finally started reading the Gunther Schuller book, Early Jazz, and while I don't like his writing much, he does do some decent analysis of many of the songs included in this set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 31, 2018, 05:47:48 PM
Quote from: king ubu on March 31, 2018, 01:03:31 PM
Not too big on "Masterpieces by Ellington" myself, but it's an important landmark in jazz history, as it was, to my knowledge, the first LP dedicated to a jazz artist (in 1951) ... in jazz, most labels only made the transition to LP (12" that is) in the mid fifties, roughly 1955/56 (and quite a few early 12-inchers were so short, they could have fit onto a 10" record) ... from around 1950 to 1955, it was 78 rpms, 10" and later on 12" co-existing, labels such as Verve (or rather, to be exact, at that point still NorGran and Clef), Prestige or Contemporary would reissue 10" LPs with additional material or in new configurations with longer playing time. Blue Note did the same for their classic Monk and Bud, just to name their two most prominent examples - initially, all their Monk was on 78 rpm shellac platters, then transitioned to 10" and finally to 12" (while Powell stayed with the label long enough to make several actual LPs later on). Jazz being "race" music and "popular" music, this Ellington LP has to be important, just because. Before that, Ellington's extended compositions were only performed live, the few that were recorded were split up into two or four sides, so you had to flip or change the record every three minutes.


I remember reading in a book on Blue Note that they almost went bankrupt after having reissued their backlist on 10" and the market suddenly showing a preference for the 12" format, and having to reissue everything all over again.

now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Curtis_Fuller_and_Hampton_Hawes_with_French_Horns.jpg)

Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes - With French Horns (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 31, 2018, 09:04:39 PM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 31, 2018, 01:15:27 PM
I like Enrico Rava - and this one is one of his best, imo.

Tribe is my favorite but Wild Dance was pretty dull by comparison. How does this one compare? Will try to listen on Spotify soon.

Listening to this tonite:

June Christy Ballads for Night People

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HJQRPQCFL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 01, 2018, 12:37:40 AM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 31, 2018, 01:15:27 PM
I like Enrico Rava - and this one is one of his best, imo.
Agreed!

Quote from: SimonNZ on March 31, 2018, 05:47:48 PM
I remember reading in a book on Blue Note that they almost went bankrupt after having reissued their backlist on 10" and the market suddenly showing a preference for the 12" format, and having to reissue everything all over again.

Yep, those were difficult times for independent labels!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 01, 2018, 05:49:50 AM
Quote from: Marcabru on March 31, 2018, 02:45:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414-cNV-Y7L._SY450_.jpg)

Louis Armstrong : The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings

Love these.  I finally started reading the Gunther Schuller book, Early Jazz, and while I don't like his writing much, he does do some decent analysis of many of the songs included in this set.

Absolutely some of the best jazz recordings EVER! I will be listening to my complete JSP set some time in the next week or two as I continue working through all my jazz recordings I have on my cd shelf.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 01, 2018, 05:58:47 AM
Two more from my Adderly run:

From 1962:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51poaaxX8AL._SX425_.jpg)

This one is terrific with Adderly channeling some My Favorite Things in the Gemini track, Louis Hayes crushing it on drums,and set of music that deserves repeat listenings.  Highly recommended.

From 1966:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rZks8kLQL._SX425_.jpg)

A nice live set, but I preferred the one above so much more that this one probably did not get a fair listen. I will have to return to it,
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2018, 05:13:48 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/in-passing.jpg)

Mick Goodrick - In Pas(s)ing (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 02, 2018, 12:59:59 AM
@Bogey Cannonball in Europe is one of my favourites by that much beloved musician! There's also Lateef blowing a mean blues on oboe ... it was one of the group of albums that Cannon took with him, when he left Riverside, to be released on his new label, Capitol. When I first heard these, they were on Keepnews' later label Landmark, CDs from the mid/late 80s I think. They then re-appeared again on Capitol/EMI, luckily (but at that time you had to be careful not to fall for the copy-crap cactus discs, as the logo depicted on the cover you linked shows ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 06, 2018, 10:29:10 PM
NP:

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Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 07, 2018, 02:59:39 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/eP7Q8MnQ2fIDOjIAbtS674N6U5U=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2221919-1343428888-4613.jpeg.jpg)

Duke Jordan and Sadik Hakim - East And West Of Jazz (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 07, 2018, 03:22:47 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/705/MI0001705425.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/580/MI0001580947.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/865/MI0001865855.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/914/MI0001914878.jpg)

It's been Cecil Taylor all day long today. I know he was old and I know we're all supposed to gonna go, and I am fully aware that is alright and how it's supposed to be - but damn, that was hard blow to take!

(https://img.discogs.com/aP9TDgS4Cru86Lcj4AwIVQwbkBo=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9380546-1479596315-9249.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/469/MI0002469208.jpg)

Friday I was unable to spin any of his stuff, started with "Jazz Advance" today, continuing more or less chronologically up to the end of the first Candid bunch o' sessions ("World of CT", "Air"), skipping the lousy album with Coltrane (did Tom Wilson put that band together? what the hell did he think - or smoke, or drink?) ... then went on with some later stuff: "Leaf Palm Hand" in duo with Tony Oxley (which is the only configuration I caught Taylor live in - very fond memories), and now "Praxis", a shady solo recital supposed to have been recorded live in Italy (in which of the 50 is that village? oh, wait, it was released in Greece ...) and in July 1968 ... no clue if that is true or not. Sound is far from great, but the music is amazing.

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/038/MI0003038859.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/2Y0L_H49XaINuZsm0BwtCbHR9jI=/fit-in/600x614/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1205834-1306777308.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 07, 2018, 03:33:58 PM
Just learned about that a few minutes ago. Playing Jazz Advance now. Will follow with one of my favorites: Silent Tongues

(https://img.discogs.com/Wl3_YW5GcmQ4gp_ErUFVHZ9fPSQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3049621-1463986483-7203.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/zoFC-nwAZE2Ozk1rd9yORAso0fM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3693588-1474488557-5362.jpeg.jpg)

RIP Cecil.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 07, 2018, 11:17:20 PM
Recent listening:

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Jim Hall - Concierto

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Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa - Jazz Samba Encore!

Some mellow music for a Sunday afternoon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 08, 2018, 05:27:52 AM
Quote from: Undersea on April 07, 2018, 11:17:20 PM


[asin]B0000046WB[/asin]

Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa - Jazz Samba Encore!

Some mellow music for a Sunday afternoon.

Huge Getz fan and that album is fantastic!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 08, 2018, 05:52:39 AM
Same here! My favourite amongst his bossa albums ... was revisiting the amazing 1976 Keystone Korner albums released on Resonance a few years ago after reading the most interesting interview Ethan Iverson did with Joanne Brackeen:
https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-joanne-brackeen/

--

Thread duty - more Cecil Taylor, more or less chronologically:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/962/MI0001962768.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/513/MI0002513379.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/828/MI0001828450.jpg)

The second round of Candid sessions ... Sunny Murray (if it really is him) and Billy Higgins on the trios do make a difference ... I love what Dennis Charles did later on, but at this point, he was probably losing it. Same rings true for Buell Neidlinger (who spent three years playing with the Boston SO later in the sixties!) - when Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray join the boat for the short impulse session initially released on Gil Evans' "Into the Hot", things change dramatically! And we get a first glimpse of Jimmy Lyons, who is already contributing some great stuff!

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/866/MI0001866291.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qlraAs2hL.jpg)

But then, in 1962, with no bass at all and the trio with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray warmed up, things really get going! This is cathartic stuff - so intense and so amazing, I guess Charlie Parker must have had a similar impact in 1945, but that's about the only comparison I can imagine within jazz.

(https://img.discogs.com/jRzEnMwGTAdlcjUt2NDV1BRoFGI=/fit-in/450x447/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1935764-1312911784.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/oNXwjQ8aHhk15vWwzdQpi9SmqaI=/fit-in/350x349/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3484697-1332215863.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/j0d-3-8Qj6vdrUj_swIHmVbrMjo=/fit-in/600x583/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1173467-1333776318.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 08, 2018, 05:54:05 AM
Forgot (and can't edit at this time): The "Holy Ghost" set by Albert Ayler, produced by Revenant (who did the 1997 CD/2002 LP reissue of the Montmartre 1962 material, third cover in the bottom row) includes a 23 minutes romp with Ayler and that trio, recorded a few days earlier - more amazing stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 08, 2018, 10:29:26 AM
 Stefano Bollani: les fleurs bleues. The liner notes say that the compositions were inspired by Raymond Queneau novel "les fleurs bleues"  which see a character living on a barge meet a duke from the medieval times.  In french "Les fleurs bleues" refer to the myosotis (forget me not in english terminology)

[asin]B00J9PSFD6[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2018, 03:16:56 PM
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/600x600-62.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ZssZOry8Vm95NgPyntijZ6nH6ZI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2403588-1346877473-8617.jpeg.jpg)

Igor Lumpert - Intertextures Live (2012)
Cannonball Adderley - Inside Straight (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Daverz on April 08, 2018, 06:20:28 PM
I've been reading the obituaries and encomiums, but still not sure where to start with Cecil Taylor.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 08, 2018, 06:56:36 PM
Quote from: Daverz on April 08, 2018, 06:20:28 PM
I've been reading the obituaries and encomiums, but still not sure where to start with Cecil Taylor.

Mmm ... it may depend on how adventurous a listener you are. His early stuff is relatively more accessible. So you could try his debut, Jazz Advance, or some of the stuff on Candid. His real breakthrough is the Copenhagen 1962 recording (usually known as Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come), with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray - great stuff if you don't mind the wretched sound and the poor piano Taylor was given to play.

I'm very fond of Conquistador!, his 1966 album on Blue Note. It's an unusual sextet (two basses) with Bill Dixon, Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes, Alan Silva, and Andrew Cyrille.

Of course, to really dig into Cecil you have to hear some of his solo recordings, of which there are many. Silent Tongues (1974) might be a good intro here.

His Berlin 1988 recordings are essential, so if you're still with him at this point, any of these are worth checking out - the duos with drummers (Lovens, Oxley, Moholo, Bennink, Sommer) being particularly noteworthy. Probably his magnum opus.

Many of his recordings come and go in terms of availability. But I think the ones I've mentioned should be pretty easy to come by. (Well, not sure about the Berlin recordings.)

I imagine our man king ubu will have some suggestions as well. Maybe SimonNZ too. :)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2018, 07:27:15 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on April 08, 2018, 06:56:36 PM

I imagine our man king ubu will have some suggestions as well. Maybe SimonNZ too. :)

Thanks for that. But I'll have to bow to your and KUs expertise. Ive heard a few now but am still getting the measure of him. Silent tongues i really like but many i havent found my way into yet.

I'm looking forward to playing nefertiti again later today. With each listen I get a little  loser.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 09, 2018, 10:09:52 AM
Last year album from Tigran Hamasayan and his nordic friends.  Beautiful as always.

[asin]B01CZ7OJFM[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 09, 2018, 07:13:44 PM
Quote from: Bogey on April 08, 2018, 05:27:52 AM
Huge Getz fan and that album is fantastic!

Yes it's a nice one - have spun the album a few times over the last 2 weeks. :)


NP:

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Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2018, 07:33:02 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 08, 2018, 07:27:15 PM


I'm looking forward to playing nefertiti again later today. With each listen I get a little  loser.

Lol: "closer".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 09, 2018, 08:22:39 PM
Quote from: Spineur on April 09, 2018, 10:09:52 AM
Last year album from Tigran Hamasayan and his nordic friends.  Beautiful as always.

[asin]B01CZ7OJFM[/asin]

That one was a letdown for me--there are a couple of nice tracks on there, but mostly rather uninteresting IMO. I am a huge Arve Henriksen fan, but would recommend Strjon and World of Glass, as well as The Magical Forest with Sinikka Langeland and friends. Always interested in opinions on this artist however. Maybe I should give Atmospheres another listen...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 09, 2018, 09:34:31 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 09, 2018, 08:22:39 PM
That one was a letdown for me--there are a couple of nice tracks on there, but mostly rather uninteresting IMO. I am a huge Arve Henriksen fan, but would recommend Strjon and World of Glass, as well as The Magical Forest with Sinikka Langeland and friends. Always interested in opinions on this artist however. Maybe I should give Atmospheres another listen...
I got Strjon last year and found it too cold for me.  It is scultured depassionnate sound.  Give a second spin the first disc of Athmosperes.  The material on the second disc is mostly variation of the first and not as interesting.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2018, 04:09:25 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/kAyEyzO49ZgE7dJvUaO7O0YoWnY=/fit-in/600x617/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3340009-1475420122-3327.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/XVAcQ6AowbbFGn_sYdg5fjl0VSw=/fit-in/600x624/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6375108-1417700649-7950.jpeg.jpg)

v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 1 (1952)
v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 2 (1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 11, 2018, 01:32:32 AM
Du nectar, sans fard.  Stanko septet, compositions of Krystof Komeda

[asin]B000024TPA[/asin]

Marvellous recommendation of Alek.  Hat tip.  Thank you GMG
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2018, 05:15:06 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/7uk4Je_mBsI27D3mdHDKSTEsUsI=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1335618-1468557024-3041.jpeg.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti The Beautiful One Has Come (1962)

an overwhelming display of creative and physical stamina
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 11, 2018, 04:38:22 PM
Quote from: Spineur on April 11, 2018, 01:32:32 AM
Marvellous recommendation of Alek.  Hat tip.  Thank you GMG

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it! The bill for my consultation fee will be in your mailbox soon. ;)

TD:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VWd9o%2BzeL._SS500.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/7148P0N7jaL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 11, 2018, 07:24:41 PM
NP:

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Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on April 12, 2018, 05:29:29 AM
Jimmy Guiffre: Tangents in jazz

[asin]B000C9IHHW[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 12, 2018, 05:48:04 PM
I realized I hadn't really paid tribute to the great man in his passing:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61MKsCL%2B1XL._SS500.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Zs8vlfGmL.jpg)

More tomorrow, probably.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2018, 05:51:39 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on April 11, 2018, 04:38:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/7148P0N7jaL._SL1200_.jpg)

Staircase may be my favorite of the solo piano Jarretts.

Speaking of Jarrett, I played No End for the first time yesterday, an album where he's overdubbed himself playimg all instruments, most prominently the guitar. I'm afraid I found it dull and meandering (even by his standards of meandering).

Also:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61x0UhS30aL._SY355_.jpg) (https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/906/0000906085.jpg)

Jimmy McGriff and Groove Holmes - Giants Of The Organ in Concert (1972)
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions Of Japan (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 12, 2018, 06:03:25 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 12, 2018, 05:51:39 PM
Staircase may be my favorite of the solo piano Jarretts.

Speaking of Jarrett, I played No End for the first time yesterday, an album where he's overdubbed himself playimg all instruments, most prominently the guitar. I'm afraid I found it dull and meandering (even by his standards of meandering).

Yeah, it's one of my faves too (not that I've heard all of them). "Hourglass, Part 2" is surely one of the most beautiful things he's ever done.

Re: No End, I took a look at it and decided I wasn't interested. Thanks for confirming my intuition. :)

Quote from: SimonNZ on April 12, 2018, 05:51:39 PM
Also:
(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/906/0000906085.jpg)
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions Of Japan (1964)

A great one, that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2018, 08:48:50 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HJQRPQCFL.jpg)

June Christy - Ballads For Night People (1959)

made a note to check out after XB-70 Valkyrie posted it upthread
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tapio Dimitriyevich Shostakovich on April 13, 2018, 05:19:42 AM
(https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/g/98671.jpg)

9 chr0 from Autechre - NTS Session 2. We (fanboys) are in heaven, FYI.
It's kinda Jazz/Funk.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98671-autechre-nts-session-2
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2018, 05:05:04 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/BbOUBljxfezx5pXTuXrMHPUv-xk=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-899656-1260391496.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61FcNSAJ1oL._SY355_.jpg)

v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 3 (1953)
v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 4 (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 14, 2018, 06:05:12 AM
Love those Granz jam sessions! That one blues ("Funky Blues" it is, I think) with Bird tearing it up in a classic blues solo - timeless stuff!

Also confess to be a big fan of JATP and really sorry that the marvellous 1944-49 was never followed up by more volumes ... there is, I think, still plenty of material that has not been on CD or isn't wide-spread (they could skip the really well-known "At the Opera House" album series, I guess ... but there's so much more material around that has surfaced here and there and on European PD releases/boots, too ... too bad this never happened).

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/843/MI0001843438.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0000/663/MI0000663326.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/399/MI0000399416.jpg)

Myself, still deeply into CT ... yesterday and today been playing - repeatedly - the 1966 recordings, that is, the two on Blue Note and the "Student Studies" (aka "Great Paris Concert" - the version depicted above, on Fuel 2000, rel. 2003, is the one I have) material, including the unreleased bonus (click (http://ubu-space.blogspot.ch/2018/04/cecil-taylor-paris-1966-student-studies.html), go one post back for a 1969 concerto recording). I've not found the Stuttgart 1966 material but haven't really hunted yet either, my CD-Rs of live music are in a total mess, alas.

This, to me, is amongst the pinnacle of all music. Truly outstanding stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 14, 2018, 06:11:33 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Solo_%28Cecil_Taylor_album%29.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Solo (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 15, 2018, 02:01:02 AM
NP:

[asin]B0029XIWCY[/asin]

Billie Holiday - Lady Day (Box-Set)


Listening to various tracks from this 10 Disc Box.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Bogey on April 15, 2018, 06:40:58 AM
Quote from: Undersea on April 15, 2018, 02:01:02 AM
NP:

[asin]B0029XIWCY[/asin]

Billie Holiday - Lady Day (Box-Set)


Listening to various tracks from this 10 Disc Box.

I bet it is fantastic.

Thread duty:

More Adderly:

Another solid live effort from '67.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ULE1lbU9L._SX425_.jpg)

Snore fest.  Did not care for the singing.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ULE1lbU9L._SX425_.jpg)

Lives up to all the accolades it has received:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZbeuvLiL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 15, 2018, 03:32:34 PM
Some Cecil for me too:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vZHrn3wuL._SS500.jpg)

This one's a large ensemble affair, with Thurman Barker, Steve McCall, Peter Brötzmann, and others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 15, 2018, 05:07:37 PM
Miles Davis Sonny Stitt Stockholm 1960: I digitized LP 1 today, LP2 for next week (I usually do one a week).

(https://img.discogs.com/pR3agZu69-LEyQ2vMiu1_-8kPho=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3765099-1372778794-3606.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 16, 2018, 09:35:24 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/132/MI0002132983.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Mark Murphy - Sings The Red Clay, Naima and Other Great Songs (1975)

...including Maiden Voyage and Canteloupe Island

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512Ab4PNzGL._SY355_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - New York Reunion (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 17, 2018, 09:35:57 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Basically_Duke.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/911UP%2Bi0j4L._SL1500_.jpg)

Oscar Pettiford - Basically Duke (1954)
Don Cherry - Relativity Suite (1973)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/miEAAOSwRMtZZoCY/s-l300.jpg)

Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor - Embraced  (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 18, 2018, 07:00:45 PM
Quote from: Bogey on April 15, 2018, 06:40:58 AM
I bet it is fantastic.

Sure is. :)

Quote from: Bogey on April 15, 2018, 06:40:58 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71DZbeuvLiL._SX425_.jpg)

Nice one - going to give this a spin next I think!.


NP:

[asin]B00000I41J[/asin]

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 18, 2018, 08:20:07 PM
Not quite finished paying my respects to Cecil, but today was:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eq9iB2IBL.jpg)
Wadada Leo Smith, Lake Biwa

That was the only jazz today, I'm afraid. The rest was classical (continuing the Skrowaczewski box) and whatever Los Super Seven is. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2018, 09:09:16 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/baWYdh98jP1cp9rUI97cUv5TrLM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6443667-1419356452-3709.jpeg.jpg)

v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 5 (1953
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 19, 2018, 06:28:00 PM
Back to CT:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Xf4KjK3qL.jpg)  (https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1407645222_10.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/o1H3h4jKeZCcayYR6395MsBlOjk=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-461311-1472299697-5235.jpeg.jpg)

Respectively, a sextet (Taylor, Lyons, Malik, Ameen, Sirone, Jackson); solo; and a supergroup quartet (Taylor, Evan Parker, Guy, Oxley).

I'm not as fond of 3 Phasis as I am of Winged Serpent or Olu Iwa, two other ensemble albums from roughly the same period (I need to give Cecil Taylor Unit, from 1978 and with the same sextet as above, another listen to see where it fits in), but it's still impressive.

The solo album, recorded live in Berlin in 1991, may be one of his more approachable solo efforts, opening with a brief bit of percussion and chanting, then his playing beginning with surprising gentleness and lyricism. The arc of the performance is typical of this period: two long pieces followed by two very brief "encores" that are like signatures at the end of a long essay.

The Penguin Guide calls the last one "a mighty document indeed," and it certainly is: if you know these four men, you can imagine the sound they make together. Definitely a favorite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Undersea on April 19, 2018, 08:18:23 PM
NP:

[asin]B00005Y443[/asin]

Jim Hall - Concierto


A favourite album of late.
Listening to this before heading into work - I think I will have a good day now no matter what happens there. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 20, 2018, 12:42:56 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/EZytbNEEfdB2xEsYzTYewqbbPS0=/fit-in/599x585/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1205808-1407212626-2890.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/vXajnpMkWHTNxbM_Rmyv0Gc0eXg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4737318-1401046520-1069.jpeg.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Cecil Taylor Unit (1978)
v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 6 (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 20, 2018, 02:38:50 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/3o-UcevgIpT4sAe6dWnrjf_dM8E=/fit-in/600x610/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5876861-1405170054-1752.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/7DpLfOUGQ1XowTGF5Xm_wTqWoEQ=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3701003-1482790315-5676.jpeg.jpg)

v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 7 (1955)
v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 8 (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 21, 2018, 08:24:51 AM
Continuing with Cecil, a couple from the Berlin '88 sessions:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q5Mw5j3ZL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31R6BC6A64L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 21, 2018, 02:52:37 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/1dmU3STirfR3qo0rwmDYkj0KXiw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3965116-1350755009-1782.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71PZhcnb3aL._SL1417_.jpg)

v/a - Norman Granz' Jam Session 9 (1957)
Sons Of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do (2015)

(http://www.philajazzproject.org/data/uploads/cecil-taylor-indent-liner-notes-2.jpg) (https://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/43362.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - Indent (1973)
Cecil Taylor - It Is In The Brewing Luminous (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 22, 2018, 02:25:11 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41jM6DwEUsL.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/hKMXKTjz99L3mm60j0iiKJ7VKYU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1682410-1236609513.jpeg.jpg)

Paul Bley and Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen - PB/NHOP (1973)
Roy Haynes – Senyah (1972)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/CECIL_TAYLOR_spring_of_two_blue-j%27s.jpeg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71BD4Z9YL5L._SL1083_.jpg)

Cecil Taylor - The Spring Of Two Blue J's (1974)
Marc Ribot ‎- Asmodeus: John Zorn's Book Of Angels Volume 7 (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 23, 2018, 02:17:03 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Shorty_Rogers_Courts_the_Count.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/677/MI0001677907.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Shorty Rogers - Courts The Count (1954)
Milt Jackson - The Harem (1990)

(http://amron-music.jp/upload_images/record/1e71a2683343c04b1f600ee0c3cba4f6.jpg)

Barbara Carroll - Trio (1949)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 23, 2018, 06:57:38 PM
Moved away from Cecil, at least temporarily.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61DbXjt4uSL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/815rsiVTEwL._SL1500_.jpg)

John Surman / Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley: Adventure Playground (1992)
The Joe Harriott Quintet: Abstract (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 24, 2018, 02:23:41 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/AlmuzGCRAN6ozGCdvQzE2TlQFBA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1253370-1352419622-6646.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fnBxDLeEKdUP0VZh986Uvy8qQF4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1251358-1203852507.jpeg.jpg)

Jimmy Smith - Groovin At Smalls Paradise Vol.1 (1957)
McCoy Tyner - Super Trios (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 25, 2018, 05:21:13 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/BcXuEaM4qGQeT1RVaZvqVX8qAcI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1593490-1230905670.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Listen_to_Art_Farmer_and_the_Orchestra.jpg)

Art Farmer - The Summer Knows (1977)
Art Farmer - Listen To Art Farmer And The Orchestra (1963)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Art_%28album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KL30Q5aHL._SS500.jpg)

Art Farmer - Art (1960)
Art Farmer and Jim Hall - Interaction (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 25, 2018, 06:26:17 PM
I played some music on my little wireless speaker at work, but so as not to disturb anyone nearby I kept it at a low volume. So, it was a day of piano (but not Cecil Taylor :)).

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41SGAqDsioL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Y54HV2QDL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51z6t99kKfL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Spineur on April 26, 2018, 09:19:57 AM
The Norman Granz sets just arrived.  Gorgeous presentation, the books with them have some really exceptionnal photos.  The music is way cool, iconic jazz

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/412T8J0GTNL._SY400_.jpg)

Maybe some of my best jazz purchases ever...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 26, 2018, 12:00:34 PM
(http://www.randyweston.info/randy-weston-images/randy-weston-images-covers/2018sound.jpg)

Had posts lost and stuff, this site really sucks these days ... but want to mention the most recent Randy Weston double disc, released I think in February. It's a solo recording made over two days in Montreux, Switzerland, in summer 2001, and it's wonderful. Some more info (and link to CDBaby where you can buy it): http://www.randyweston.info/randy-weston-discography-pages/2018sound.html

Also just gave a first spin to another Stan Getz disc with an adventurous band (had been revisiting the JoAnne Brackeen recordings released on Resonance after reading the interesting interview Ethan Iverson did with her), recorded live in Paris in early 1969: Stanley Cowell (p), an over-eager (and sometimes losing it and himself and the beat and the music) young Miroslav Vitous (b) and Jack DeJohnette (d) (just a few months short of joining one MF called MD).

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/490/MI0001490408.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 26, 2018, 03:01:11 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Blame_It_on_My_Youth_%28Art_Farmer_album%29.jpg) (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9d/86/d7/9d86d7c6a5bd1b7fd96642b095583669.jpg)

Art Farmer - Blame It On My Youth (1988)
Teddy Charles - Word From Bird (1957)

(https://img.discogs.com/Z1AoY_A0JqQu9b-IvC2jbjJWq8Q=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3033030-1418492318-2864.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RaQx2wI5L.jpg)

Jaruzelski's Dream - Jazz Gawronski (2010)
Zoot Sims - And The Gershwin Brothers (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 27, 2018, 04:03:02 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/193/MI0004193937.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Teddy Charles - On Campus (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 27, 2018, 05:26:14 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fYMKmzBzL._SS500.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/yUyNxcSLDNfHOc8uPgxfqawl6yw=/fit-in/593x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2240096-1271716547.jpeg.jpg)

Philipp Wachsmann / Paul Lytton: Some Other Season (ECM, 1999)
AMM w/John Butcher: Sounding Music (Matchless, 2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 28, 2018, 03:33:13 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Drug9bnwLxaTVjffsTvtafLp7yM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7406975-1452455023-2401.jpeg.jpg)

Lester Young and Harry Edison - Going For Myself (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 29, 2018, 12:05:28 AM
One of the posts attempted to send off in the past days that went into GMG limbo (I'm more or less gone, even twitching with DNS settings which feels highly uncomfortable and definitely not what should be expected to be done by us just to visit the site, I feel -- I can usually access for about 2 minutes per day, and even then I need to refresh constantly to get onto sites and not onto an error message) was on CT and his mid/late 70s unit. I really feel that band on the "One Too Many Salty Swift..." and the two New World albums is one of the pinnacles in his long career! It may be the finest group music after the 1966 Blue Notes. The band with Rivers in 1969 somehow qualifies differently with me, as does the 1966 live material - looser, less structured and planned and organized, I love both of it or maybe the looser stuff even more, but still, "Unit" and "3 Phasis" and "Salty Swift" include some of the most inspiring music I've ever heard! I don't quite hear "Brewing Luminous" or the intense "Dark to Themselves" on that same level, and so far I've not fully connected with the Black Saint albums, but I'll be on them again soon!

Needed some easy-going jazz at one point yesterday and spun this lovely disc which combines a most spontaneous duo session with Ben Webster (just before he left for Europe) and a fine sextet date with some shrill Jon Faddis but some mighty good tenor by Budd Johnson and Frank Wess:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/803/MI0001803660.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 29, 2018, 12:48:32 AM
Quote from: king ubu on April 29, 2018, 12:05:28 AM
I'm more or less gone,

I hope thats not so.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 29, 2018, 01:15:14 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 29, 2018, 12:48:32 AM
I hope thats not so.

I don't hope so, either ... and the fact that after an hour or so I can already access again almost seems great. Guess I have to be happy about small things on GMG nowadays - wow, a post not lost!  :o
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 01, 2018, 03:27:25 AM
Paul Desmond: Bossa Antigua and Take Ten.

[asin]B00004TY56[/asin]
[asin]B003LWVDQ4[/asin]

Featuring Jim Hall on both.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 01, 2018, 10:55:13 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4102XLxr1PL.jpg)

Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden - Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 04, 2018, 03:55:28 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/SWrAkBUm3DElOCyIU7JJCwY9TyM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1370329-1367265453-9530.jpeg.jpg)

Stan Kenton - National Anthems Of The World (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 05, 2018, 01:24:25 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/oLR8Fry_R0kECkG4FeezCXvjiOw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1286082-1406405723-2686.jpeg.jpg) (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/600x600-13.jpg)

Billy Taylor - The New Billy Taylor Trio (1957)
Angelica Sanchez and Wadada Leo Smith - Twine Forest (2013)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 05, 2018, 07:07:26 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 05, 2018, 01:24:25 PM
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/600x600-13.jpg)

Angelica Sanchez and Wadada Leo Smith - Twine Forest (2013)

What did you think of that one, Simon? I admit to having been a bit underwhelmed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 05, 2018, 07:21:46 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on May 05, 2018, 07:07:26 PM
What did you think of that one, Simon? I admit to having been a bit underwhelmed.

I'm afraid that was my reaction as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 06, 2018, 02:05:04 AM
The Jimmy Raney Quintet - The Complete Recordings 1954-1956.

[asin]B000I2KJP6[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 06, 2018, 04:53:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ci9td-L2L.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Uh571ezg1cGRL21ZHkCWP7hWCFM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-887618-1473882126-8789.jpeg.jpg)

Helen merrill and Gil Evans - Collaboration (1988)
The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tutankhamun (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 06, 2018, 05:10:05 PM
Clifford Brown A new Star on the Horizon--Blue Note reissue LP (10"). Just digitized today.

(https://img.discogs.com/5jnFj0lO08qp3d7YgUuPH0MfwNI=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7627766-1445453925-4611.jpeg.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 07, 2018, 09:33:21 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 06, 2018, 05:10:05 PM
Clifford Brown A new Star on the Horizon--Blue Note reissue LP (10"). Just digitized today.

(https://img.discogs.com/5jnFj0lO08qp3d7YgUuPH0MfwNI=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7627766-1445453925-4611.jpeg.jpg)

And look at that lineup! Gigi Gryce has always been a saxophonist I've enjoyed. His recordings on the now OJC (Original Jazz Classics) label (he's recorded mainly for the labels New Jazz, Prestige, Riverside, and a few others) are all excellent. His work with Donald Byrd and the Jazz Lab is also quite good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 08, 2018, 04:21:32 PM
(https://images.eil.com/large_image/MILT_JACKSON_BAGS%2BMEETS%2BWES%21-417178.jpg)

Absolutely lovely playing . . . and sound!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 09, 2018, 03:46:34 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/zQvpZbMelk1k4TbCbLgNf4kkWiQ=/fit-in/600x584/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3091129-1500458869-7907.jpeg.jpg)

Jackie McLean and Michael Carvin - Antiquity (1975)

despite being a big fan of jackie I hadn't heard of this stunning album before today


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George Van Eps - My Guitar (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 10, 2018, 05:49:32 PM
(http://img3.nnm.me/c/e/3/7/a/ce37afcce5c4e50a913d0b2f7da801a9_full.jpg)

First spin. The sound quality on this mastering is superb (as is the playing)!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: HIPster on May 10, 2018, 07:11:59 PM
Quote from: George on May 10, 2018, 05:49:32 PM
(http://img3.nnm.me/c/e/3/7/a/ce37afcce5c4e50a913d0b2f7da801a9_full.jpg)

First spin. The sound quality on this mastering is superb (as is the playing)!

Nice, George!  ;)

I have the XRCD of Sunday at the Village Vanguard and it is as you describe here.

Now playing ~

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 11, 2018, 03:51:06 AM
lately plenty of Erroll Garner and even more Eddie Who?

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 11, 2018, 05:37:48 AM
Arrived today:

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Keith Tippett, the great british bandleader, pianist and composer, is not doing well (https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/50855/keith-tippett-fund-set-up) - a fund has been set up, and we're all encouraged to buy the above disc (costs covered, all proceeds go to Keith Tippett directly) at the label that produced it, Discus (http://www.discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis56cd-detail) - bought one for myself and another one for a good friend whom I'll meat a jazz concert tonight. Starts out with some gorgeous music, if it goes on like this, I'm inclined to agree with the rating given in this review:
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/nine-dances-of-patrick-ogonogon-keith-tippett-discus-review-by-duncan-heining.php
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2018, 05:58:55 PM
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Sonny Clark - Trio (1960)
Jackie McLean - Rhythm Of The Earth (1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 14, 2018, 12:13:57 AM
Two really impressive new releases, heard on RISE (program) on KPFK (HELL A). Will buy asap.

Gregory Porter Water

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ccPnyogIL._SY450_.jpg)

Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids An Angel Fell

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81UasxIFdYL._SY450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 14, 2018, 09:57:12 PM
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Cedar Walton - Eastern Rebellion 2 (1977)
Cedar Walton - Eastern Rebellion 3 (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 16, 2018, 01:44:56 PM
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Only my second of third time listening to this one. So many Miles, so little time....
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 16, 2018, 06:56:17 PM
The last couple of days:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 16, 2018, 09:55:05 PM
had another listen to the wonderful volumes 2 and 3 of Eastern Rebellion and now a first listen to volume 4 (1984):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417z6Wda38L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 16, 2018, 09:56:33 PM
Quote from: George on May 16, 2018, 01:44:56 PM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2084-2.jpg)

Only my second of third time listening to this one. So many Miles, so little time....

One of his very best. A desert island disc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 17, 2018, 12:23:54 PM
Ooooooo baby, some good stuff on here!! Julie London with Bud Shank Quintet (with my favorite guitarist--Joe Pass!) All Through the Night. Mine is an LP, which I just FLAC-ed a few days ago. Wonderful sounding disk with incredibly quiet surfaces after cleaning.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 18, 2018, 05:08:15 PM
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Lee Wiley and Bobby Hackett - Night In Manhattan (1950)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 19, 2018, 02:23:28 AM
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miles davis the cellar door sessions 1970
disc 05

directions
honky tonk
what i say
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 19, 2018, 05:22:22 AM
Quote from: San Antone on May 19, 2018, 02:23:28 AM
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miles davis the cellar door sessions 1970
disc 05

directions
honky tonk
what i say

Nice!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 21, 2018, 05:00:09 PM
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Gary Bartz / Lee Konitz / Jackie McLean / Charlie Mariano – Altissimo (1973)
Sarah Vaughan - Live In Japan (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 21, 2018, 06:12:11 PM
More Miles -

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41nR272FgKL._SX355_.jpg)

miles davis & john coltrane the complete columbia recordings
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 22, 2018, 09:34:24 PM
Listened to this album a bit earlier:

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I'm still processing the passing of John Abercrombie last year. Such an immensely gifted musician with a sound-world all of his own. Characters was the first album I've heard from him and I was hooked. Many people start with album Gateway (w/ Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland) or Timeless, but I heard a track on jazz radio about 16-17 years ago and a piece from Characters was played. I remember spending all of my paycheck on this album and several others from him. RIP, John. You're still sorely missed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 23, 2018, 05:27:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 21, 2018, 05:00:09 PM
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Gary Bartz / Lee Konitz / Jackie McLean / Charlie Mariano – Altissimo (1973)
Sarah Vaughan - Live In Japan (1973)

Do you like the later Sarah Vaughan? She is one of my all-time favorite non-classical singers, but in her earlier days. Later on, I'm not entirely in love with the deeper sound of her voice. I just bought and listened to "I love Brazil", a Pablo LP. It's great of course, but I'm not totally sold on her later voice.

The one she did with Clifford Brown in the 50s is one of the greatest recordings ever made IMO. I have early recordings of hers on Allegro, Columbia, and Remington LPs, which are also stunning!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 23, 2018, 05:47:35 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 23, 2018, 05:27:22 PM
Do you like the later Sarah Vaughan? She is one of my all-time favorite non-classical singers, but in her earlier days. Later on, I'm not entirely in love with the deeper sound of her voice. I just bought and listened to "I love Brazil", a Pablo LP. It's great of course, but I'm not totally sold on her later voice.

The one she did with Clifford Brown in the 50s is one of the greatest recordings ever made IMO. I have early recordings of hers on Allegro, Columbia, and Remington LPs, which are also stunning!

That one has a superb version of "Wave" and an interesting request for "Willow Weep For Me" where she tells the audience she cant remember any lyrics beyond the title and scats the whole song. Otherwise its pretty straightforward and not essential, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 25, 2018, 06:06:58 PM
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Cal Tjader – Agua Dulce (1971)
Dollar Brand - Plays Sphere Jazz (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 26, 2018, 09:07:15 AM
Jimmy Bruno: Midnight Blue

[asin]B00005MKGI[/asin]

I don't often listen to guitarists but Jimmy Bruno has been an exception. He's probably also the reason I've recently been playing guitar a lot. Anyway, on this album he effortlessly makes his way through a variety of styles and approaches, along the way kind of reminding me of Grant Green and then Danny Gatton.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 26, 2018, 05:09:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71gWUpoFO%2BL._SX450_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91ADJ2nBClL._SX355_.jpg)

Shelly Manne - The West Coast Sound (1955)
Rampart Street Paraders - Dixieland My Dixieland (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on May 26, 2018, 06:53:28 PM
Joe Pass: Blues for Fred.

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Wish I could play guitar the way Astaire could dance.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on May 26, 2018, 08:32:35 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 28, 2018, 03:33:13 PM
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Lester Young and Harry Edison - Going For Myself (1957)

Wow. Never knew they recorded together. Have to look for that...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 27, 2018, 09:29:29 AM
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Heard Fred Frith and Hans Koch perform yesterday, in the living room a good friend - amazing! Bought their Intakt duo release from last year from Koch, but so far haven't felt like running that against the wonderful concert experience. Went with some other stuff by Koch, and have some more Koch-Schütz-Studer lined up. The ECM - with Marco Käppeli on drums - is kind of a predecessor, Schütz also playing double bass and the whole mood much less loaded, less "hardcore", so to speak (ECM rarely takes hardcore, does it? and when it does, it's the kind of that Evan Parker or Rosceo Mitchell brew together).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 27, 2018, 04:36:00 PM
Quote from: NikF on May 26, 2018, 06:53:28 PM
Joe Pass: Blues for Fred.

[asin]B0002ZYDO2[/asin]

Wish I could play guitar the way Astaire could dance.

In the rain?

;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 27, 2018, 05:11:34 PM
Just started this:

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Only on disc one, but it's great fun so far. My first experience with Breuker's music. What a tight ensemble the Kollektief was!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 28, 2018, 08:41:26 AM
Quote from: George on May 27, 2018, 04:36:00 PM
In the rain?

;)

Sheesh no, that was Gene Kelly ... totally different type of guitar player that would be. Much more guts, but a big loss of elegance ... say Tal Farlow (Fred) vs. Grant Green (Gene)  ;D

The Breuker box has arrived here a few weeks back, it's very nicely done, with comments on all the music and more ... I've played only three or four discs so far though. Also got the big ICP box around the same time, which covers earliest Breuker too, but have not progressed far there yet, either.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 28, 2018, 10:07:49 PM
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Chrome Hill - The Explorer (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 31, 2018, 05:12:29 PM
That Breuker box is still proving to be quite enjoyable (I'm now on disc four). Such variety!

Anyway, in addition to that:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wwPZV39lL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61FpsuhX%2BdL.jpg)

I also listened to Jon Hassell's Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street - but I'm not sure that's really jazz. In the same ballpark, maybe - or maybe in the parking lot outside the stadium. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 01, 2018, 04:50:42 PM
^Must listen to The Dark Tree again. Maybe later today.

now:

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Marty Ehrlich - Trio Exaltation (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 01, 2018, 06:23:52 PM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on May 26, 2018, 08:32:35 PM
Wow. Never knew they recorded together. Have to look for that...
They recorded two albums together but do NOT get that one. Young is on his last legs, barely able to blow the horn, and although Sweets does his best, it's just heartbreaking to hear Lester barely able to keep his lips on the mouthpiece.

If you still want it, I plan to sell mine so hit me up!

Pres and Sweets, on the other hand, is a stone cold classic that you gotta hear.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 02, 2018, 06:47:10 AM
Quote from: Brian on June 01, 2018, 06:23:52 PM
They recorded two albums together but do NOT get that one. Young is on his last legs, barely able to blow the horn, and although Sweets does his best, it's just heartbreaking to hear Lester barely able to keep his lips on the mouthpiece.

If you still want it, I plan to sell mine so hit me up!

Pres and Sweets, on the other hand, is a stone cold classic that you gotta hear.

Agreed ... and "Laughing to Keep from Crying" (what an apt title, but was that intentional back at the time?) is another near disaster.

The "main" part of Edison and Young's work together is of course OT Basie, so yeah, of course they recorded together  ;)

--

Thread duty - bought yesterday (planning to hit one night at the upcoming Willisau festival), when this group is playing, followed by James Blood Ulmer & The Thing:

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Good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 02, 2018, 08:25:24 AM
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Brilliant stuff - as was to be expected ... unclassifiable, somewhat darkish, loose yet very organized, free yet full of mighty grooves, playful yet tight ... I am still unable to really grasp what Threadgill is doing, but I have a hunch he is really suspending time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 02, 2018, 02:25:52 PM
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Mel Powell - Borderline (1955)
Koby Israelite - Orobas: John Zorn's Book Of Angels, Vol.4 (2006)

(https://img.discogs.com/W5eW3eee5nLwCYSXYXfEVOnd-BA=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1079802-1210439475.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31YAVZP1RDL.jpg)

Miles Davis - Blue Moods (1955)
Miles Davis - Blue Haze (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 03, 2018, 10:17:27 AM
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First spin ... this grew out of a duo project by Dave Holland and Evan Parker and evolved into a trio w/Ches Smith and eventually a quartet w/Craig Taborn. There's *a lot* of music to absorb, but four tracks (of 23) into it, I'm enjoying this quite some. Smith can be heard on vibes in addition to drums/percussion (cover just says "percussions", so maybe he'll be coming up with more surprising stuff later on?), Taborn on piano, organ, keys (aren't the former two "keys" as well?) & electronics, Parker sticks to tenor (which is cool in my book). Good to see Holland get out of the zone he's made himself comfy in for the past decades (and got kinda boring to my ears, though his contribution to Anouar Brahem's latest album was quite an ear-opener already, different type of "free" vibe there, but Holland is great). We get plenty of duos and trios in all kinds of combinations (i.e. vibes-organ, bass-perc, tenor-bass etc., piano-bass-perc, tenor-piano-bass etc.) and some quartets of course. Only three of the 23 tracks are actual tunes (two by Smith, one by Holland), the rest is improvised.

I've heard Parker quite a few times in the past years and got to hear his deep Coltrane roots (pre-free Coltrane that is, I guess around 1962-mid 65). He has a beautiful way of channelling that and absorbing it into his own way, whimsical at times, gruff at others, but his tone is really gorgeous (which is basically why I don't miss the soprano ... he still plays it, but I guess whenever he travels, he sticks to tenor these days, be it with Barry Guy, be it with the Schlippenbach Trio).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 03, 2018, 11:20:14 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 03, 2018, 10:17:27 AM
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First spin ... this grew out of a duo project by Dave Holland and Evan Parker and evolved into a trio w/Ches Smith and eventually a quartet w/Craig Taborn. There's *a lot* of music to absorb, but four tracks (of 23) into it, I'm enjoying this quite some. Smith can be heard on vibes in addition to drums/percussion (cover just says "percussions", so maybe he'll be coming up with more surprising stuff later on?), Taborn on piano, organ, keys (aren't the former two "keys" as well?) & electronics, Parker sticks to tenor (which is cool in my book). Good to see Holland get out of the zone he's made himself comfy in for the past decades (and got kinda boring to my ears, though his contribution to Anouar Brahem's latest album was quite an ear-opener already, different type of "free" vibe there, but Holland is great). We get plenty of duos and trios in all kinds of combinations (i.e. vibes-organ, bass-perc, tenor-bass etc., piano-bass-perc, tenor-piano-bass etc.) and some quartets of course. Only three of the 23 tracks are actual tunes (two by Smith, one by Holland), the rest is improvised.

I've heard Parker quite a few times in the past years and got to hear his deep Coltrane roots (pre-free Coltrane that is, I guess around 1962-mid 65). He has a beautiful way of channelling that and absorbing it into his own way, whimsical at times, gruff at others, but his tone is really gorgeous (which is basically why I don't miss the soprano ... he still plays it, but I guess whenever he travels, he sticks to tenor these days, be it with Barry Guy, be it with the Schlippenbach Trio).

I just got that one, too. Looking forward to hearing it (as well as the latest Brahem).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 03, 2018, 11:52:24 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on June 03, 2018, 11:20:14 AM
I just got that one, too. Looking forward to hearing it (as well as the latest Brahem).

The Brahem is outstanding!

This one, now nearing the end of disc two (it's generous at twice 65 minutes on CD, it's out as a triple LP as well - chosen from six hours of music!), is pretty darn good, some parts of it are great, and there's interest in all of it, I think. Some of it will need more time to flourish I assume, but somehow to me it strongly feels like it's Evan & Dave's show, with two good sidemen adding spice (I dig Craig Taborn a lot, am a bit less fond of Ches Smith's playing). They could have gone the duo way indeed (as Parker did with Barry Guy, another double disc set on Intakt that's probably better than this new one, but they're not really albums one needs to compare), but the trios and quartets are fun. The varying line-ups thus create a broad sonic spread, but at the same time make it a bit hard to hear the full thing as a unity.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 04, 2018, 08:45:00 AM
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First listens, both ... right now into "Old Locks" only, the new one line-up for later tonight. Got these together with the other new one ("Dirt ... and More Dirt"), had somehow missed picking up "Old Locks", the first one by the ensemble Double Up, for which Threadgill composes (it's very clearly his music) but does not play. Doubled are the saxes (Curtis MacDonald and Roman Filiú, both on alto) and the pianos (Jason Moran, David Virelles), add to that tuba, cello and drums (the former two from Threadgill's other, small group Zooid: Jose Davila and Christopher Hoffman, the later new to the Threadgill orbit I think, Craig Weinrib, also unknown to me so far).

On the new one, we even get three pianers (Moran does not appear anymore, the new ones are David Bryant and Luis Perdomo), the rest of the band is the same. Both sax players have a rather similar sound, both lack the bite and acidity that Threadgill brings in - he is there again playing on "Dirt", next to the other two, but don't ask me to vouch for when he is soloing (the others I don't know so I cannot tell them apart really ... and the same more or less goes for the pianists, though possibly I'd dare to say that on #3 of "Old Locks", that's Jason Moran playing that long and quite great solo).

Anyway, I guess Threadgill at this point is about suspension of just about everything - except suspense, that is! His tunes have come full of dark hues and are quite richly textured (although the Double Up band makes me miss Liberty Ellman's guitar - he is with Zooid and he's again on "Dirt", too), stuttering grooves that really have me wonder how they can ever get these right - and right they do get them, same as in Zooid, it's all quite beyond explanation but there's a mighty and really deep groove going on for most of the time, fractured and fragmented, yet very hypnotizing!

I really do love Henry Threadgill's music madly!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 04, 2018, 04:08:15 PM
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Johnny Griffin - The Big Soul Band (1960)
Muggsy Spanier - And His Dixieland All Stars at Club Hangover: 1953-54
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 05, 2018, 07:22:06 PM
Hamp and Getz on KCSM right now! (added to list)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on June 05, 2018, 08:01:50 PM
Cannonball Adderley and the small groups. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 06, 2018, 02:26:15 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 07, 2018, 06:29:20 PM
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Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy – Journey Without End (1972)
Lynn Cassiers - Imaginary Band (2018)

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Victor Gould - Earthlings (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2018, 01:42:35 AM
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Gave all of these a first spin yesterday and the day before ... the French stuff by Grant Green is marred by lousy drummers, also Clarence Palmer who's playing on the Antibes session (four very long tracks starting at the end of disc one) is kinda forgetting to take a breath much of the time ... but Grant Green, yeah! Larry Ridley is on bass in the Paris radio studio's concert hall and Don Lamond does his professional best to lock in, but it never quite happens (though Michael Cuscuna claims otherwise in his note in the ample-as-usual booklet) - for one, he freaks up the beat with his very first entry on the opening James Brown tune, kicking in on the second beat and turning it all around ... ouch! The Sound on the studio date is excellent, on the Antibes session not so, but very listenable. And there, in addition to Green, you get Claude Bartee on tenor who's on fire, too! The four long tracks were taken from two days (with one day in between), two each - they may represent the full sets, I don't know (didn't yet read all through the booklet but that piece of info may be missing either way).

The Oil Can Harry's recording is a most welcome addition to Green's discography, being from 1975 and thus from after his recording career had effectively ended. Sound is okay, it's very lively, you feel almost like being in that club, and the band really locks in and is bringing on all the funk. There's a drop-dead gorgeous extended (26 minutes) take on "Insensatez".

The Michael Adkins disc, recorded and mixed and (liners written) in 2008 has only appeared in January of this year and is most impressive, as is its predecessor on Hat (2007's "Rotator", Adkins only disc released within a useful amount of time, it seems - his debut, which I don't know, was done in 2000 and came out in 2005 - this "new" one is only his third release so far. The band is the same as on the 2007 recording with the exception of Larry Grenadier taking over on bass. The late Paul Motian is on drums and Russ Lossing on piano.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2018, 07:35:39 AM
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Two new releases by pianist Matthew Shipp who is releasing his stuff as fast as Anthony Braxton or David Murray were doing a while ago ... both are very good, both free sets with sympathetic partners, yielding pretty different results. The duo with Roscoe Mitchell was recorded in summer 2005 at the festival in Sant'Anna Arresi (some day I've got to visit it!) and the grand master of the saxophone is in striking shape, churning out those endlessly variated lines that kinda overtake themselves, so dense it gets. The set is 46 minutes, split into seven parts for easier reference I guess, but it's really just one segment that builds and evolves.

The trio with Daniel Carter (who is heard on tenor, alto, soprano, flute, clarinet and trumpet) and William Parker is a true unit - they did a talk before about "Art, Race, and Politics in America" and their complicity definitely shows in the 55 minute set (three parts, the first two flow into each other). The mood is pensive, dark, though not bitter, things get really intense as well, even at quiet moments this still burns. Excellent indeed, and I even enjoy William Parker here, whom I usually find pretty boring.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 08, 2018, 08:31:04 AM
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Back to Cecil Taylor ... not sure about the set on the right, it says (p) 1999/2018 but I couldn't find anything about a release in 1999 (the label is Black Sun Music, their website says not much - record label secretiveness is annoying), the discogs entry says CD-R but my copy looks like a proper CD. What we deal with is the 55 minute solo set performed on 14 May 1999 at the Uncool festival in Poschiavo in the Swiss mountains. Alas I never was at that festival during the few years it existed, it seems to have been very special.

The first disc is from 20 February 2008, a duo gig in Berlin with Tony Oxley - that's the configuration I saw Taylor live in, the only one alas (he was scheduled to play Willisau again a few years back but cancelled). The disc is 78 minutes long and at times has a playful air to it, at others it gets intense as was usual with CT. Good stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2018, 06:36:03 PM
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Thomas Chapin - Night Bird Song (1999)
Uri Caine - Gustav Mahler in Toblach: I Went Out This Morning Over the Countryside (1998)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 09, 2018, 03:00:31 AM
Thomas Chapin  :-*
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 09, 2018, 07:14:01 AM
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First listen in this configuration ... and reading Ashley Kahn's pleasant liner notes (he feels more like a really thorough compiler to me, don't think he ever really presented anything thought-provoking) along ... the Paris and Stockholm sets have been fixtures in my house for 20 years (I remember spending a fortune for both the 4-CD sets, which also contain the - quite wonderful - October tour sets from the same places with Sonny Stitt on sax) ... Copenhagen I may indeed have never heard before, but I'm still of the opinion that they ought to have picked different concerts (Scheveningen for one, which yielded that terrific take of "So What" that was released on the silly Anniversary/Deluxe reissue of "Kind of Blue", which I got when it was around for 45-50€, even though I'd wanted to stay away from it ... hah!)

Either way, the music is as amazing today as when I first discovered it, Coltrane's playing often mind-boggling, Wynton Kelly picking it up, Chambers/Cobb keeping everything in good shape and swinging hard (and Chambers providing a few good solos). Miles is elegant, restrained maybe, keeping his statements short, then leaving the floor to Coltrane (and as one reads, exiting the stage even). Mighy, mighty good, no doubt!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 10, 2018, 09:40:09 PM
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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - Cape Town Shuffle: Live at Hothouse (2003)
Ganelin Trio - Strictly For Our Friends (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 11, 2018, 09:36:51 PM
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Don Friedman - Waltz for Marilyn (2007)
Satoko Fujii - Toward, To West (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on June 12, 2018, 01:43:39 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 09, 2018, 07:14:01 AM
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First listen in this configuration ... and reading Ashley Kahn's pleasant liner notes (he feels more like a really thorough compiler to me, don't think he ever really presented anything thought-provoking) along ... the Paris and Stockholm sets have been fixtures in my house for 20 years (I remember spending a fortune for both the 4-CD sets, which also contain the - quite wonderful - October tour sets from the same places with Sonny Stitt on sax) ... Copenhagen I may indeed have never heard before, but I'm still of the opinion that they ought to have picked different concerts (Scheveningen for one, which yielded that terrific take of "So What" that was released on the silly Anniversary/Deluxe reissue of "Kind of Blue", which I got when it was around for 45-50€, even though I'd wanted to stay away from it ... hah!)

Either way, the music is as amazing today as when I first discovered it, Coltrane's playing often mind-boggling, Wynton Kelly picking it up, Chambers/Cobb keeping everything in good shape and swinging hard (and Chambers providing a few good solos). Miles is elegant, restrained maybe, keeping his statements short, then leaving the floor to Coltrane (and as one reads, exiting the stage even). Mighy, mighty good, no doubt!
Nice read.  I don't have this, but have the volumes with Stitt, which are some of my tippy-top drawer recordings. I'll try to hunt this down. To be honest, I've always been a bit too conservative for Trane. I am so old-school I prefer Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and some of the Duke's old sidemen to Trane. I've been listening to Kind of Blue for almost 35 years, and always preferred the Adderley solos, even on that! But for some reason you've persuaded me to go back and give Coltrane another shot.

TD:
one of my all time favorite disks. But haven't played it in many a moon...
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on June 12, 2018, 03:12:45 AM
Through the miracle of the internet, I got the "Final Tour" album.  Admittedly, I am in a well-lubricated, post-work state of mind, but am enjoying the album enormously.

After more lubrication, I feel inclined to wax more eloquent. 
    Sound is excellent.  Wynton Kelly is beyond excellent. Miles is in rare form. There is the irritating problem that the repertoire is puny, but still excellent. My favorite album from this whole era is the one with Sam Rivers on sax, but this one is as good as by beloved Olympia with Sonny Stitt disks...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 12, 2018, 10:27:35 PM
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Tobias Delius - The Heron (1999)
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - Live at the River East Art Center (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 13, 2018, 11:29:04 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on June 12, 2018, 03:12:45 AM
Through the miracle of the internet, I got the "Final Tour" album.  Admittedly, I am in a well-lubricated, post-work state of mind, but am enjoying the album enormously.

After more lubrication, I feel inclined to wax more eloquent. 
    Sound is excellent.  Wynton Kelly is beyond excellent. Miles is in rare form. There is the irritating problem that the repertoire is puny, but still excellent. My favorite album from this whole era is the one with Sam Rivers on sax, but this one is as good as by beloved Olympia with Sonny Stitt disks...

Interesting ... but how, if you're too conservative for Trane, can you prefer the Rivers album?  ;)

Rivers went farther out than Miles enjoyed ... and it seems he was unwilling to deal with it. He had tried to hire Wayne Shorter (who was and is a sublime musician of course!) ever since Trane left, but Shorter went with Blakey, who made him musical director and pushed him up front ... and only became part of Miles band when he, Shorter, felt he was ready. The "in-betweens", of which George Coleman was the one who left the most substantial body of work with Miles, were all kind of steps back I guess (stylistically at least Rivers was not, of course). Hank Mobley was with the band, so was Jimmy Heath (but being on probation he wasn't allowed to leave whatever state - NY I assume - he was put in and thus had to let the job go) ... and I think Frank Strozier was with the group as well at some point just before they recorded "Seven Steps to Heaven", which is kind of the other end after "Someday My Prince Will Come" - both excellent albums, but neither of them able to compete with all the masterworks in Davis' catalogue. In between, there were the live recordings w/Mobley (I *love* the Carnegie Hall concert and have come to really appreciate the Black Hawk material - bit concert stage vs. regular club gig, Mobley is on fire on some of the Carnegie Hall tracks and the Adagio from "Concierto de Aranjuez" probably beats the studio version ... at the Blackhawk, it's more about the emerging Wynton Kelly Trio and their in-the-pocket groove ... hip shit, but nothing that screams in your face how great it is).

Stitt, among the four interim sax players (or I think seven in total? so there was at least one more ... Frank Haynes maybe? I read the full list of names once but it's been years), was certainly the most conservative, a bebop musician that just about started to explore organ/soul jazz - but adding his mighty bebop bite to it. However, I really do love those live recordings with Stitt (Paris and Stockholm have been around for ages, both in the respective 4-CD-sets from the 90s which also contain the recordings with Coltrane, more recently, Amsterdam has also been released, again with the Coltrane part, which is probably the weakest of the March/April tour, the band just sounding tired ... the Zurich set w/Trane on TCB is highly recommended though, one of the greatest takes of "All Blues" ever, there).

Somehow, Stitt (sometimes just going through the moves though, but even doing that he was usually still pretty good) being more mellow and not all that thought-provoking a player, Miles is playing much, much more, and a new musical axis is established between him and Wynton Kelly, who was great already on the spring tour with Trane. Miles really plays hard on those recordings with Stitt ... and he does so on some of the 1961 material with Mobley, too. 1962 was mostly pause for health reasons - hip operation or something, after one of his horrible car accidents, I think? Dude was one crazy MF.

In 1963, a new chapter starts, still kind of interim, but the young new rhythm section (Hancock-Carter-Williams) really gels on the live recordings from 1963 and 1964, and George Coleman is another sax player I really like although again he was too conservative for Miles' band at that point (in 1960/61 I guess it would have been similar, but he matched with Kelly nicely, there's a Left Bank recording of Coleman and the Kelly trio from later in the sixties) - but at his best, he was amazing nonetheless. Fast forward to November 1964, the amazing concert at the Berlin Philharmonic with Wayne Shorter on saxophone - and that new chapter really gets exciting!

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Thread duty:

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The one on the left is Jason Moran's Bandwagon, "Thanksgiving at the Village Vanguard" (rec. Nov. 2016), played on Sunday. Caught the new Blue Note film by swiss director Sophie Huber in a Sunday matinee pre-screening (actually Shorter and Hancock are part of it) and with Robert Glasper speaking, somehow I felt like listening to some JaMo (his early albums were all on BN and probably kick ass of anything Glasper did, though I quite enjoy Glasper in smaller doses, also saw him live last year, kinda hip hop jazz, which makes sense) ... and then reading that Lorraine Gordon (1922-2018) has died, it all made sense ... she had married Alfred Lion in 1942 and then Max Gordon in 1949, the later ran the Village Vanguard until his death in 1989 (the only time the club was closed for a day or two), and she continued to run it until recently.

Tonight, I started with Wadada Leo Smith sitting in with Harriet Tubman (that is Brandon Ross-g, Melvin Gibbs-b, JT Lewis-d), and am now continuing with the other two Moran discs I recently bought. Not sure I'm going to make the third one (below), but if not tonight, then tomorrow, probably. "Mass {Howl, eon}" is a trio with Graham Haynes (cornet, electronics) and Jamire Williams (drums) recorded in June 2017. "Bangs" (pictured below) is another trio, with Ron Miles (t) and Mary Halvorson (g), recorded in October 2016. All three of the JaMo albums came out in 2017 I think, and he's selling them for pretty much himself, but first impression is they're probably worth it (the Village Vanguard set for one is great!)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 14, 2018, 04:34:43 AM
This week for my drive to work and back home I have the car loaded up with classics:

Tenor Madness - Sonny and Trane
The Complete Concert by the Sea - Garner 2CD
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Ben Webster & Associates (this is the one with Hawk, Ray Brown, and an epic 19 minute jam on In a Mellow Tone)
The Nina Simone Philips box set
Art Tatum Lionel Hampton Buddy Rich Trio

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 14, 2018, 09:16:13 PM


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Dave Douglas - In Our Lifetime (1995)
Joey DeFrancesco - Organic Vibes (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 15, 2018, 04:46:24 PM
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Zusaan Kali Fasteau and Donald Rafael Garrett - Memoirs of a Dream (2000)
Orrin Evans - Listen to the Band (2000)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 15, 2018, 06:03:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 15, 2018, 04:46:24 PM
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Zusaan Kali Fasteau and Donald Rafael Garrett - Memoirs of a Dream (2000)
Orrin Evans - Listen to the Band (2000)

The woman on that cover looks a lot like Martha Quinn.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on June 15, 2018, 06:08:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 12, 2018, 10:27:35 PM
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Tobias Delius - The Heron (1999)
Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio - Live at the River East Art Center (2005)

Wow, lots of interesting recordings in this thread. That Kahil El'Zabar has a crazy violin solo by the late Billy Bang.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 17, 2018, 08:21:52 AM
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After having decided to go to Willisau jazzfestival one night this year, basically to hear James Blood Ulmer & The Thing (although I don't think their common album - also a festival set - is all that great, but I want to catch Ulmer while I can!), I started checking out the Lucerne sax player that will perform in trio with Jim Baker (p) and Frank Rosaly (d) for starters ... I think I mentioned that trio's release on Hat Hut further up? Anyway, Christoph Erb is his name and he's been running a Chicago series on his label Veto. The series runs as Veto/Exchange and basically features him on tenor and bass clarinet in various combinations with musicians such as Fred Lonberg-Holm, Keefe Jackson, Frank Rosaly, Jason Roebke, Jim Baker, Tomeka Reid, Jason Adasiewicz, Josh Berman etc. I am still waiting for my copy of the Bererberg Trio disc, but other than that the entire run is here (one, 012, is not part of the series ... and that one I'd bought at a concert of the group when it was brand new).

Full listing including line-ups (006-008 are OOP):
http://www.veto-records.ch/exchange/

The five first ones mark Erb's spring 2011 visit (001-004) as well as kind of a prologue (005) recorded in concert at Willisau jazzfestival 2010, without Erb (but wiht a few other Swiss musicians meeting up with a few Chicagoans). Very good stuff, for sure! 001 has Erb in trio with Jim Baker and Michael Zerang, 002 is a short but very good solo album by Erb (26 minutes I think), while 003 "SACK" is a quartet with Lonberg-Holm on cello and guitar, Roebke on bass and Rosaly on drums. The tenor/cello combination works very, very well, and thus doing a duo with Lonberg-Holm a few weeks later (004 "Screw and Straw") was a very good move.

Looking forward to exploring 006, 008-011 and 013-015 (and indeed hoping 007 will make it here soon) ... great series, that's for sure!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 17, 2018, 09:06:40 AM
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A 3-disc-set of live music by Gordon Beck spanning two decades (1964-1984) has just been released ... and when ordering it I saw this reissue of his 1969 classic "Gyroscope", with Jeff Clyne on bass and Tony Oxley on drums - the parcel with both arrived yesterday. First spin, probably a wee bit too much of Bill Evans in there for my taste (I kinda do like Evans of course, but I don't need others to sound like him), but it's good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on June 17, 2018, 07:37:58 PM
Donny McCaslin, Soar. Tight, kinetic, sinewy, all-around a cut above.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 18, 2018, 03:52:08 PM
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Milt Jackson - Jackson's-Ville (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 18, 2018, 05:22:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 18, 2018, 03:52:08 PM
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Milt Jackson - Jackson's-Ville (1956)
Hmm, this looks interesting. I like just about anything where Hank Jones plays a supporting role.

TD: this afternoon, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown on Basin Street
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 20, 2018, 12:59:12 AM
^ all the recordings Lucky Thomspon and Milt Jackson made together are very much worth hearing! Savoy spread the material over several LPs, but during the times of the great LP twofers, when the catalogue was owned/run by Arista, there was a double LP with all of it:

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info: https://www.discogs.com/de/Milt-Jackson-Second-Nature/release/1779357

To my best of knowledge, all potential CD reissues were botched (unless you go for all the Denon/Savoy 90s CDs which reproduce the original vinyl contents) ... the Avid set has their usual less than good sound (and misses one track I think? just a trio title I seem to remember, but still: session not completely included), the Bags 4-disc-set on Proper duplicates one track (and thus misses a track, too) ... too bad.

Oh, no ... Fresh Sound has a 2-disc-set that has all the 16 Savoy tracks plus some more from two Atlantic LPs ("Ballads & Blues", which is so-so, and "Plenty Plenty Soul", which is totally great again, so even if you have the half with Lucky, you'll need the rest!) - this one:
https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/milt-jackson-albums/5765-quintet-sextet-with-lucky-thompson-2-cds.html

The usual caveats may apply: vinyl rips of less than optimal quality, tape warble, whatever ..., shady sources, illegal in the US etc. etc. - just don't tell me you hadn't been warned, but the music needs to be heard badly, it's wonderful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 20, 2018, 04:50:53 PM
Do you mean that the Fresh Sound 2 CD set is all excerpts from various albums? Plenty Plenty Soul - the complete original - is in my shopping cart already, and I try to avoid those European reissues that divide up the original sessions. I have their Blue's Moods reissue - that is a great one - but it also has just the quintet tracks from Blue Soul, and I want all of the tracks, darn it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 21, 2018, 11:39:39 AM
Quote from: Brian on June 20, 2018, 04:50:53 PM
Do you mean that the Fresh Sound 2 CD set is all excerpts from various albums? Plenty Plenty Soul - the complete original - is in my shopping cart already, and I try to avoid those European reissues that divide up the original sessions. I have their Blue's Moods reissue - that is a great one - but it also has just the quintet tracks from Blue Soul, and I want all of the tracks, darn it!

No, the Fresh Sound is *complete* as far as LT/Bags Savoy (and Atlantic) recordings go. The two Atlantic LPs were put together from two/three sessions, LT only on one for each of the albums. Savoy also had a habit of splitting sessions over multiple LPs, combinging sessions etc. ... I agree about staying away from all of those European releases usually, which is why I've also bought the 2-LP-set on Arista ... but I would stronly assume if you want to go the CD route, that the Fresh Sound is the best choice (unless you want to hunt down the various Denon/Savoy CDs from the early/mid 90s, which might be a rather pricey endeavor).

You can check here for details:
https://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson-discography-1951-1956/

"Plenty, Plenty Soul" is from early 1957, so go on here:
https://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson-discography-1957-1974/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 21, 2018, 01:41:08 PM
Quote from: king ubu on June 21, 2018, 11:39:39 AM
No, the Fresh Sound is *complete* as far as LT/Bags Savoy (and Atlantic) recordings go. The two Atlantic LPs were put together from two/three sessions, LT only on one for each of the albums. Savoy also had a habit of splitting sessions over multiple LPs, combinging sessions etc. ... I agree about staying away from all of those European releases usually, which is why I've also bought the 2-LP-set on Arista ... but I would stronly assume if you want to go the CD route, that the Fresh Sound is the best choice (unless you want to hunt down the various Denon/Savoy CDs from the early/mid 90s, which might be a rather pricey endeavor).

You can check here for details:
https://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson-discography-1951-1956/

"Plenty, Plenty Soul" is from early 1957, so go on here:
https://attictoys.com/lucky-thompson-discography-1957-1974/

Ah okay so it is not like Fresh Sound is violating the artists' intentions in putting together an album - since Savoy did not really consult them anyway.

I have a lot of Fresh Sound, Poll Winners, Essential Jazz Classics etc releases because in many cases they are the only versions of the album available in the US. Wish every label was as diligent about preserving and remastering as, for instance, Blue Note! (Well...many no longer exist)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 21, 2018, 01:53:58 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 21, 2018, 01:41:08 PM
Ah okay so it is not like Fresh Sound is violating the artists' intentions in putting together an album - since Savoy did not really consult them anyway.

Well, different topic I guess. As a rule of thumb I'd assume no label basically ever bothered to ask the musicians about compiling and sequencing albums (often they'd probably even invent the titles for original tunes that didn't yet have any). In the fifties, several labels re-configured stuff, with the formats in use changing: singles, 10" and then 12" - labels such as Blue Note, Contemporary or Prestige sometimes just reissued material from 10" LPs in the new 12" format, either adding more music or sometimes recording a few more new tracks to fill up the playing time ... the classic Blue Notes by Monk and Bud were mostly all out first as 78 rpms, then on 10" and then again on 12". Savoy did similar re-configurations, I think (including 40s sessions - from when there were no LPs in jazz music at all - on 12" LPs in the 50s etc.)

I am not sure what is the best approach, but myself I like going chronological, in session order ... but of course there are many, many classic LPs where the LP configuration was just perfect in its own way (Blue Note is the perfect example for that, but that only starts around 1955/56 when the new 12" format was firmly established and they started exploring its new possibilities).

And finally, I guess hardly any record label/producer was as sympathetic to the musicians as Blue Note/Lion/Wolff were ... the guys behind Pacific (Dick Bock) and Contemporary (Les Koenig) maybe, but Bock for instance would do splices and edits and add strings and stuff - probably not bothering to ask the musicians. I'd say it would be most unfair to state that the producers and labels didn't bother about or like the music, but still, for most of them it was business (and the guys behind Savoy are a perfect case in point, no matter they produced some of the greatest music ever with Charlie Parker).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 21, 2018, 09:04:02 PM
(http://parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/095751.jpg)

Jimmy Raney Quartet - Visits Paris (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 22, 2018, 05:45:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 21, 2018, 09:04:02 PM
(http://parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/095751.jpg)

Jimmy Raney Quartet - Visits Paris (1954)

Great cover artwork  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 22, 2018, 05:50:35 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 22, 2018, 05:45:34 AM
Great cover artwork  8)

Yeah, I thought so too - a simple idea well executed.

now:

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Mary Lou Williams - Plays in London (1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 22, 2018, 06:07:44 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 22, 2018, 05:50:35 PM
Yeah, I thought so too - a simple idea well executed.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/GZz0cGWCz9aqTYH9K2rYl35vUkg=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9870583-1487693111-1404.jpeg.jpg)

Mary Lou Williams - Plays in London (1953)

You know, I've heard very little of Williams' music, and none of her earlier stuff (I believe the only thing of hers I have is Zoning, from 1974). It's a shortcoming I've long pledged to rectify, but I never have. I imagine you'll tell me I need to rectify it forthwith, right? :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 22, 2018, 06:22:23 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on June 22, 2018, 06:07:44 PM
You know, I've heard very little of Williams' music, and none of her earlier stuff (I believe the only thing of hers I have is Zoning, from 1974). It's a shortcoming I've long pledged to rectify, but I never have. I imagine you'll tell me I need to rectify it forthwith, right? :)

I dont know if I'd say its quite as urgent as that, though I've found her albums uniformly fine. Zodiac Suite is particularly interesting if you haven't heard it already, but again though very well executed I personally dont find it as downright essential as some critics have made it out to be. YMMV.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 22, 2018, 07:15:01 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 22, 2018, 06:22:23 PM
I dont know if I'd say its quite as urgent as that, though I've found her albums uniformly fine. Zodiac Suite is particularly interesting if you haven't heard it already, but again though very well executed I personally dont find it as downright essential as some critics have made it out to be. YMMV.

Thanks. :) I've heard good things about that suite, so that may be where I begin (some day :D).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 24, 2018, 05:51:00 AM
Regarding Mary Lou Williams, she made many outstanding recordings ... for early stuff, I guess 1944/45 was a true peak period, which includes sessions with Frankie Newton, Bill Coleman, Coleman Hawkins and others. The Asch date with Hawkins is particularly wonderful! In 1945 she also was part of an all-female group w/Marjorie Hyams and Mary Osborne in the line-up as well - both took part in several sessions w/Williams. From around the same time (1947 I think) there's also a lovely session with Kenny Dorham.

The London sessions on Vogue/Swing (1953/54), I'm afraid, I find comparatively weak/bland ... bu I'll have to check them out again, it's been quite a while.

I also wanted to listen to the album she made with Cecil Taylor (well, not "album" really, it's a document of a live encounter) - not sure it's only the ill-matched rhythm section (Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker - both fine musicians of course, but not ones to put on stage with Taylor later than ... 1960 or so, and this is from 1977) or also to some extent the two co-leaders' fault that it doesn't really gel. But props to Mary Lou, she took all kinds of chances during her long career!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 24, 2018, 06:02:41 AM
Quote from: king ubu on June 24, 2018, 05:51:00 AM

I also wanted to listen to the album she made with Cecil Taylor (well, not "album" really, it's a document of a live encounter) - not sure it's only the ill-matched rhythm section (Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker - both fine musicians of course, but not ones to put on stage with Taylor later than ... 1960 or so, and this is from 1977) or also to some extent the two co-leaders' fault that it doesn't really gel. But props to Mary Lou, she took all kinds of chances during her long career!

I forgot about that one, though I played it quite recently. I was actually really impressed by it, though all my attention was on the two pianists interaction - I don't remember the rhythm section at all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 24, 2018, 07:12:52 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 24, 2018, 06:02:41 AM
I forgot about that one, though I played it quite recently. I was actually really impressed by it, though all my attention was on the two pianists interaction - I don't remember the rhythm section at all.

Cool - I meant to write "re-listen" or "listen ... again", of course, but you understood me correctly. First time I heard it was many moons ago, in the nineties, on vinyl, borrowed from a music teacher (not mine, but I got to know him nonetheless and he hipped me to quite some interesting stuff, also lent me CT's "In Transition" twofer and my very first Sun Ra, too ... and one afternoon a few other students and myself met to try our luck at "Les Moutons de Panurge" and other minimal music pieces). Will have to dig, so far couldn't locate it, but I know behind a pile of CDs, there's another pile which includes several ML Williams discs and I hope that one to be on said pile as well ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 26, 2018, 09:09:20 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511db-1wpAL.jpg)

Mike Longo - The Matrix | From the hugely enjoyable run of Japanese Mainstream reissues ... somehow, Mainstream is the better (funkier/earthier/groovier) version of CTI, but thanks to Creed Taylor's marketing genius, people don't seem to remember. This is definitely not one of the label's best (look for ... Harold Land and Charles Williams to name just two ... also the albums by soul singers Ellerine Harding and Alice Clark!), but it's very nice indeed. Groovy stuff with Longo on piano and rhodes (I guess, maybe it's a Wurli?), Al Gafa on guitar, Sam Jones on double bass PLUS Ron Carter on double and electric bass, Mickey Roker on drums, and Potato Valdes add some percussion. Perfect for winding down after a long day at work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on June 26, 2018, 10:49:19 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/225/MI0002225278.jpg)

Mike Longo - The Awakening | Next one from the stack, again from 1972, Al Gafa, Ron Carter and Mickey Roker are still around, but this time three horns were added: Virgil Jones (t), Curtis Fuller (tb) and James Moody (as, ts, fl) - and Dizzy Gillespie, Longo's boss in the sixties, adds some congas.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 27, 2018, 09:58:26 PM
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Dizzy Gillespie / Stan Getz / Sonny Stitt - For Musicians Only (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on June 28, 2018, 07:04:36 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Bump_%28album%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 29, 2018, 06:33:11 PM
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Well, damn, this is good. Haven't enjoyed a new jazz album this much since ... The Bell, on which Smith and Taborn also played, and which inhabits a somewhat similar sound-world.

But of course it isn't exactly the same sound-world, thanks to the two elder statesmen here who, despite the subdued playing (even from Parker, from whom no sheets of circular-breathing sound are to be heard), are very much in command of what they want to say. There are several pieces here where all four play, but there are also duos and trios of various combinations - all fascinating, often beautiful. Great stuff.

Also listened to this one for the first time today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51x-thSGFjL.jpg)

While not on the same level as the first, this one is quite good too and will need another listen soon. It's bookended by two sort of "atmospheric" pieces (which may have been my favorite two cuts, actually), with more straight-ahead improv in between. Yeah, I need to listen to this one again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 29, 2018, 07:04:50 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/f7of-JxhOhY93cZuoj276hTTtx0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1466386-1413193598-1895.jpeg.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Premiered by Ellington (1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 30, 2018, 07:39:30 PM
(https://images.eil.com/large_image/ART_BLAKEY_%26_THE_JAZZ_MESSENGERS_ORGY%2BIN%2BRHYTHM%2BVOLUME%2BONE%2B-%2BLIBERTY-544006.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41DO4%2B6Wx0L._SY355_.jpg)

Art Blakey - Orgy In Rhythm, Volume One (1957)
Art Blakey - The Witch Doctor (1968)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51d9PCLmGlL._SX355_.jpg)

Art Blakey - Ugetsu (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 01, 2018, 03:46:00 PM
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Lena Horne and Gabor Szabo – Lena & Gabor (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 01, 2018, 04:10:02 PM
Simon, I just listened to Ugetsu on Friday. The Wayne Shorter era is my favorite Jazz Messengers era (and also the Jazz Messengers era is my favorite Wayne Shorter - am always drawn to the borderlands between the old and the new). Every Blakey album Wayne was on is gold, just about.

Have somehow never heard of the Orgy in Rhythm series. Must look it up immediately!

Edit: Looks like it is similar to a couple Blakey percussion-centric albums I have already (Holiday for Skins, peculiar title).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 01, 2018, 04:28:49 PM
Yeah, I'm particularly struck by the near mind-meld that Shorter has with trumpeters Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard on those albums.

Hope you like Orgy In Rhythm. I like it even more than Holiday For Skins, though both are great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 01, 2018, 04:45:24 PM
(http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/dupe1404_APRJ_8252__77078__04062012022741-7037.jpg)

SACD
Analogue Productions
Mastered by Kevin Gray


First spin today and enjoyed it. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 01, 2018, 05:05:01 PM
Quote from: George on July 01, 2018, 04:45:24 PM
(http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/dupe1404_APRJ_8252__77078__04062012022741-7037.jpg)

SACD
Analogue Productions
Mastered by Kevin Gray


First spin today and enjoyed it. 

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 02, 2018, 03:12:57 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on June 29, 2018, 06:33:11 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81qpj1zsEAL._SL1200_.jpg)

Well, damn, this is good. Haven't enjoyed a new jazz album this much since ... The Bell, on which Smith and Taborn also played, and which inhabits a somewhat similar sound-world.

Noted.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 02, 2018, 04:42:05 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Twelve_Moons.jpg)

Jan Garbarek - Twelve Moons (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 03, 2018, 05:17:12 PM
(https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/b84b9980b1f16ae80af2e2a7c1051020/3664208.jpg)

Johnny Hodges and Lalo Schifrin - Previously Unreleased Recordings (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 05, 2018, 05:14:39 PM
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Mike Melillo and Massimo Urbani - Duets For Yardbird (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 05, 2018, 05:22:20 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 05, 2018, 05:56:18 PM
Quote from: George on July 05, 2018, 05:22:20 PM
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Great recording.  That band was so good, "Surrey" is timeless.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 05, 2018, 06:30:08 PM
Monk in France LP. One of the coolest covers ever and some great music, but very disappointing sound quality--far below par of other Riversides from the same era (which were good but not great).

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 06, 2018, 06:06:32 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31YG4B93T4L._SY400_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/G0kAywb0zL9WAoeeIHZsrXMqiWU=/fit-in/600x530/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3677440-1355785766-9253.jpeg.jpg)

Ray Brown - Bass Hit (1956)
Hank Jones - Urbanity (rec. 1947-53)

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Anita O'Day - The Lady Is A Tramp (1952)
Yusef Lateef - Before Dawn (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 07, 2018, 06:11:24 PM
Will be spending the day - and maybe tomorrow and the next day - with Verve's impressive coverage of the '57 Newport festival:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/George_Lewis_%26_Turk_Murphy_at_Newport.jpg/220px-George_Lewis_%26_Turk_Murphy_at_Newport.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Red_Allen%2C_Kid_Ory_%26_Jack_Teagarden_at_Newport.jpg)

George Lewis & Turk Murphy - At Newport (1957)
Red Allen, Kid Ory & Jack Teagarden - At Newport (1957)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814ha8GJA7L._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3WkhTv_YI1ja1aKRwAwgJMUgC00=/fit-in/600x611/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6321247-1417266632-7185.jpeg.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday - At Newport (1957) (the expanded cd edition also includes Carmen McRae's set)
The Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer - At Newport (1957)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/ToshikoAndLeonSashAtNewport.jpg/220px-ToshikoAndLeonSashAtNewport.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Eddie_Costa%2C_Mat_Mathews_%26_Don_Elliott_at_Newport.jpg/220px-Eddie_Costa%2C_Mat_Mathews_%26_Don_Elliott_at_Newport.jpg)

Toshiko Akiyoshi & Leon Sash - At Newport (1957)
Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott - At Newport (1957)

(https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/a/61e3ac5d4a0c678d43ece26cfca56b38/2131853.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/The_Coleman_Hawkins%2C_Roy_Eldridge%2C_Pete_Brown%2C_Jo_Jones_All_Stars_at_Newport.jpg/220px-The_Coleman_Hawkins%2C_Roy_Eldridge%2C_Pete_Brown%2C_Jo_Jones_All_Stars_at_Newport.jpg)

The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory & the Cecil Taylor Quartet  - At Newport (1957)
The Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Pete Brown, Jo Jones All Stars - At Newport (1957)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/The_Ruby_Braff_Octet_with_Pee_Wee_Russell_%26_Bobby_Henderson_at_Newport.jpg/220px-The_Ruby_Braff_Octet_with_Pee_Wee_Russell_%26_Bobby_Henderson_at_Newport.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/548/MI0000548190.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

The Ruby Braff Octet with Pee Wee Russell & Bobby Henderson - At Newport (1957)
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957)

(https://img.discogs.com/iphoA04juJsFfsPQuo6-vf50y88=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2361161-1279508454.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/IFZWsRnBPQGanR9Ufd_xVOdS-JI=/fit-in/500x498/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4946421-1390311879-5044.jpeg.jpg)

Count Basie - At Newport (1957)
The Drinkard Singers & The Back Home Choir - Gospel Singing At Newport (1957)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Petersonnewport.jpg/220px-Petersonnewport.jpg) (http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/5-24-16-2/516475.jpg)

The Oscar Peterson Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones - At Newport (1957)
Count Basie with Big Joe Williams & Dizzie Gillespie with Mary Lou Williams - At Newport (1957)


it also seems that the '57 sets for Louis Armstrong, Stan Kenton, George Shearling, Cannonball Adderly and Sarah Vaughan can now be found on these Pablo albums:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/743/MI0001743058.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41p5w6-YSBL.jpg)

(http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/leadpic/2170.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/Linger_Awhile_Live_at_Newport_and_More.jpg/220px-Linger_Awhile_Live_at_Newport_and_More.jpg)


'57 sets still MIA: Jimmy Smith, Sidney Bechet, Erroll Garner, Chris Connor, Kai Winding, Jimmy Guiffre, Jimmy Rushing
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 08, 2018, 10:08:48 AM
Now there is a box set I would buy! Only have the Dizzy big band album - very interested in your thoughts on both albums involving Roy Eldridge and both Basie sets too. Will almost certainly grab the Adderley set but some of those others are rapidly going out of print.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 08, 2018, 07:24:10 PM
Been on vacation this week and had little time for listenin', but I did get this one (a first listen) in:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VW3cXLSoL._SS500.jpg)

Very nice indeed, as I'd been led to believe. This is nominally under Iyer's name but I get the feeling that it's Smith who leads the way a good bit of the time (the titles of the pieces seem more "Smithian," for one thing) - but, well, having said that, it really is a true collaboration: there are "abstract" moments that I associate more with Smith, and there is plenty of straight-ahead lyricism that I tend to associate more with Iyer; but then Iyer is capable of abstractness and Smith is certainly capable of lyricism. So this really does seem to be a meeting of the minds.

In any case, highly recommended.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Daverz on July 08, 2018, 07:33:56 PM
A favorite big band CD:

[asin] B000000Z8T[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 08, 2018, 09:56:44 PM
Quote from: Brian on July 08, 2018, 10:08:48 AM
Now there is a box set I would buy! Only have the Dizzy big band album - very interested in your thoughts on both albums involving Roy Eldridge and both Basie sets too. Will almost certainly grab the Adderley set but some of those others are rapidly going out of print.

For some reason John Hammond butts in to introduce each song in the Basie set. Elsewhere for other artists there are only introductions for the opening of the set, and I was worried this would kill the momentum, but a couple of tracks in the band get into an uptempo pace that suits the setting well, and Jimmy Rushing in particular is in fine voice.

The Coleman Hawkins album with Roy Eldridge I thought was going to be okay/average until they got to the final number, a 15-minute no holds barred take ostensibly on "Sweet Georgia Brown". Absolutely worth whatever you pay for the album to get just that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 09, 2018, 09:23:04 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/mKOIVRCHfb35VpV11Sruih8bO4Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6480254-1437574674-9867.jpeg.jpg)

Lionel Hampton - The High And The Mighty (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 10, 2018, 11:27:38 AM
(https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/0c87fb929995f1b06490128a9a5e609a/2265660.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Tranquility_%28Lee_Konitz_album%29.jpg/220px-Tranquility_%28Lee_Konitz_album%29.jpg)

Woody Herman - Men From Mars (1957)
Lee Konitz - Tranquility (1957)

(https://img.discogs.com/38K1tBSRZFp1yvGAwO_F2WTyqcA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6777322-1458779243-1758.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/S01nDR1dxW_4by0vBIDH2sGIXs4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6238831-1414626851-4710.jpeg.jpg)

Jimmy Giuffre - 7 Pieces (1959)
Lyle Ritz - 50th State Jazz (1959)

(https://img.discogs.com/33nBCnC1M3-JwJ2kjK7gINQ3rcs=/fit-in/600x618/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7920043-1451683118-3811.jpeg.jpg)

Tal Farlow - Plays The Music Of Harold Arlen (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 11, 2018, 05:02:17 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8e/Ad_Lib_%28album%29.jpg/220px-Ad_Lib_%28album%29.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Drum_Battle_Krupa_Rich.jpeg/220px-Drum_Battle_Krupa_Rich.jpeg)

Jimmy Giuffre - Ad Lib (1960)
Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich - The Drum Battle (1960)

(https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/ebe9cb72cd966527493b189fbd3ef485/1926611.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61H01fSwxrL._SY355_.jpg)

Pete Brown - From The Heart (1959)
Charlie Parker - South Of The Border (1950)

(https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hampto_lion_kingofthe_101b.jpg)

Lionel Hampton - King Of The Vibes (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 13, 2018, 03:19:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YElzCCS5L._SX355_.jpg) (http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/025179.jpg)

Harold Land - Xocia's Dance (1981)
Edmond Hall - Dixieland Main Stem (1949)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71uprlXZGCL._SY355_.jpg)

James P. Johnson - The Chronological: 1921-1928
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 14, 2018, 12:20:59 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 05, 2018, 06:30:08 PM
Monk in France LP. One of the coolest covers ever and some great music, but very disappointing sound quality--far below par of other Riversides from the same era (which were good but not great).

It's probably a radio recording that Riverside later bought ... Monk still owed them some, so the France (now available in expanded form on Fremeaux btw) and Italy albums were an easy way out of the contract when he switched to Columbia.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 14, 2018, 03:53:34 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Golden_Lotus_%28album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YNfVDNzRL.jpg)

Kenny Barron - Golden Lotus (1982)
Charlie Parker - Swedish Schnapps (1951)

(https://img.discogs.com/u292VkvAw3z7rVYYe2MXUEb-Wc8=/fit-in/600x515/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4809077-1376703962-4893.jpeg.jpg)

Woody Herman - Sequence In Jazz (1948)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 15, 2018, 04:28:21 PM
(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cf489cd-600-600x600.jpg)

Dave Ballou and Beephonk - The Windup (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 18, 2018, 04:41:56 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/YG9f5JH95nXozjsamPZmZuudn3A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3138016-1317539596.jpeg.jpg)

Booker Ervin - Heavy (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 18, 2018, 05:29:14 PM
This week in my car on the way home from work:

Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk Quartet, CBS)
Heavy Weather (Weather Report)
Brother Jack Meets the Boss (a.k.a. Gene Ammons)
Sonny Meets Hawk
Basie Jam No. 1 (Granz '70s)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 19, 2018, 05:51:29 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/F4IWrLwRYnKClPfA7_xRTWMJw38=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5148385-1386516356-1386.jpeg.jpg)

Cat Anderson - Old Folks (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Wakefield on July 20, 2018, 05:45:25 AM
Renaissance goes Jazz - Live
Becker/ Godard/ Bäuml
Capella de la Torre

[asin]B00B2KW11S[/asin]

Fantastic idea and execution, in sumptuous, almost glorious sound quality.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 20, 2018, 09:01:40 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/T0DQcrKEEDIhSEFDiHIXkUDeybo=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4460729-1531503584-3923.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/075Hk3Vj2DfdHY469WMCI7wjIfQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1858931-1417466478-9628.jpeg.jpg)

Dewey Redman - The Struggle Continues (1982)
Max Roach and Anthony Braxton - One In Two, Two In One (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 21, 2018, 07:42:13 AM
Lots of jazz again these days ...


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 21, 2018, 05:05:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91HANMGssWL._SY355_.jpg)

Terje Rypdal - Crime Scene (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 24, 2018, 05:07:08 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/238/MI0002238713.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Roscoe Mitchell - Nine To Get Ready (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 24, 2018, 05:15:33 PM
I've cracked open the 5-CD set of "The Amazing Bud Powell" - listened to volume 1 today and while I'm sad Sonny Rollins won't be on future volumes, am very excited to hear the rest!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on July 24, 2018, 07:10:34 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/aiw8CTK2o_Q
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 25, 2018, 06:59:28 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 24, 2018, 05:15:33 PM
I've cracked open the 5-CD set of "The Amazing Bud Powell" - listened to volume 1 today and while I'm sad Sonny Rollins won't be on future volumes, am very excited to hear the rest!

When you get a chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the sound. Also curious who mastered the set.

Thanks
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 25, 2018, 01:10:20 PM
Quote from: George on July 25, 2018, 06:59:28 AM
When you get a chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the sound. Also curious who mastered the set.

Thanks
I bought this 2018 paper sleeve release
https://www.importcds.com/complete-amazing-bud-powell/600753824498

And it's the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder editions. Remaster from 2001 I think. Rudy being Rudy - sounded great for the time. Will be playing Vol. 2 in about an hour :)

Edit: but I am doing the listening in a car on the car stereo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 25, 2018, 09:37:37 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/MA16hUI-9GRGUY5uhbX9Y9sg2rc=/fit-in/484x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2426725-1283433300.jpeg.jpg)

Gateway - In The Moment (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 26, 2018, 05:31:59 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 25, 2018, 01:10:20 PM
I bought this 2018 paper sleeve release
https://www.importcds.com/complete-amazing-bud-powell/600753824498

And it's the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder editions. Remaster from 2001 I think. Rudy being Rudy - sounded great for the time. Will be playing Vol. 2 in about an hour :)

Edit: but I am doing the listening in a car on the car stereo.

Thanks, Brian, the info above is all I need to know. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 26, 2018, 08:47:43 AM
Quote from: George on July 26, 2018, 05:31:59 AM
Thanks, Brian, the info above is all I need to know.
Quick correction, Vols. 4 and 5 are not Rudy's 2001 version but "digital transfer by Ron McMaster."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 26, 2018, 09:31:56 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 26, 2018, 08:47:43 AM
Quick correction, Vols. 4 and 5 are not Rudy's 2001 version but "digital transfer by Ron McMaster."

Thanks. I actually wish Ron mastered the whole thing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 27, 2018, 12:51:36 PM
(https://images.eil.com/large_image/SONNY_ROLLINS_THE%2BSOUND%2BOF%2BSONNY-417158.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2018, 11:25:27 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Stages_of_a_Long_Journey.jpg)

Eberhard Weber - Stages In A Long Journey (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 28, 2018, 12:58:31 AM
Quote from: George on July 26, 2018, 09:31:56 AM
Thanks. I actually wish Ron mastered the whole thing.

You can still look for the excellent old complete BN/Roost set, which comes with very good liners and includes the two Roost sessions - the first is with the classics Bud/Russell/Roach trio (though not as outstanding as Bud's BN output ... it rings true again with Bud: whenever he was w/Lion, he was a notch or two above what he did with other labels/producers). One of the Roost sessions (I believe that first one) ran at wrong speed on all previous US issues (and since, I think there were only Japanese reissues, guess they'd have fixed it, but having both that old box and the RVGs of Vols. 1-5, I feel like I have my ass covered ... oh, yes, "Bud Plays Bird" too - not a BN date originally but later reissued when it all came together under the EMI/Capitol roof).

It's around for small change, actually:
https://www.discogs.com/Bud-Powell-The-Complete-Blue-Note-And-Roost-Recordings/release/2507674


--

Lately:

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The Amina is an effin' masterpiece, un-effin'-believable I missed out on this till this week! The Motian is great, gotta love Poo ... yup, you got that right, that's Masabumi "Poo" Kikuchi, no scatology involved, but lots of grunting and moaning (much worse than with Keith or Glenn), but it's part of the game and the game is totally unique and enriching!

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The Lancaster was the perfect foil for the dogged heath yesterday, some mean Sonny Sharrock and a great rhythm section ... excellent album by an unjustly neglected musician. The Buddy Rich compiles live recordings made by one of the late 70s band's saxophonists, pretty good sound and exciting music. It gets too much at length, I guess, but one CD at the time, the late 60s/70s BR big band was amazing - a hell of a powerhouse!

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/845/MI0000845260.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/133/MI0002133961.jpg)

Had a friend over for dinner and music listening last night, and one of the things we played in full was the Wadada/Kowald/Sommer disc on FMP ... he took it with him to copy it (I think it's quite hard to find, or it costs too much, I overpayed some a year or two ago, but it's so wonderful I don't regret) ... the Gordon Beck is a solo from the 90s or 00s - very good from what I heard (first four cuts, interrupted by going upstairs to catch a bit more of the amazing total lunar eclipse that took place last night. He left it with me for further exploration (we're both just really discovering Beck ... I knew his wonderful duo albums with Helen Merrill and then some, but hardly anything of his as a leader). Other stuff we played tracks by: the ICP box (the Herbie Nichols album to be more precise), the Breuker box (the final concert, first disc), Gétatchèw Mèkurya and his amazing Ethiopian saxophone, James Brown w/Louis Bellson (arr. Oliver Nelson), Tethered Moon ("Poo" again - the "First Meeting" album on Winter & Winter is outstanding!), and for closers, we watched the Kowald solo improvisation that's included on the 2002 Vision Fest compilation CD/DVD.

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Late night, since my friend did mention Jason Roebke in some context, I played "Cinema Spiral" for the very fist time, now repeating at decent volume ... and enjoying the outstanding group of musicians quite some (Josh Berman, Jeb Bishop, Greg Ward, Keefe Jackson, Jason Stein, Jason Adasiewicz, Roebke, Mike Reed).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 28, 2018, 03:25:17 AM
Thanks for the info, king ubu!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 28, 2018, 04:18:22 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Jumping_the_Creek.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Sound_Museum_Three_Women.jpg/220px-Sound_Museum_Three_Women.jpg)

Charles Lloyd - Jumping The Creek (2004)
Ornette Coleman - Sound Museum: Three Women (1996)

both with Geri Allen on piano
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 29, 2018, 03:06:39 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/5-opD8t2mg7hWKv9_DE71ao9XzE=/fit-in/600x531/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3574904-1377435286-4393.jpeg.jpg) (https://e.snmc.io/lk/l/l/914436c55957b56cff630a43f6d43bf2/6214914.jpg)

Robin Williamson - The Seed-at-Zero (2000)
Howard Roberts - Good Pickin's (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 30, 2018, 04:27:48 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/folly-seeing-all-this1.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/o-X-WVjjmygnpBINDsZIgjWHFeo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4128060-1356303122-2035.jpeg.jpg)

Michael Mantler - Folly Seeing All This (1993)
George Lewis - Oh Didn't He Ramble (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 31, 2018, 05:56:13 AM
A playlist of the four recordings of Bill Evans' first great trio with Scott Lafaro and Paul Motian.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Bill_Evans_Trio_-_Waltz_for_Debby.png/220px-Bill_Evans_Trio_-_Waltz_for_Debby.png)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Sunday_at_the_Village_Vanguard.jpg/220px-Sunday_at_the_Village_Vanguard.jpg)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Bill_Evans_Trio_Portraits_in_Jazz.jpg)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Bill_Evans_Trio_Explorations.jpg)

Even though Bill Evans made fifty recordings as a leader during his lifetime I don't think he ever surpassed these four.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on July 31, 2018, 09:56:36 AM
Lots of Tomasz Stanko these days - very sad to hear of his passing on Sunday.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 31, 2018, 11:14:12 AM
Quote from: king ubu on July 31, 2018, 09:56:36 AM
Lots of Tomasz Stanko these days - very sad to hear of his passing on Sunday.

Didn't know; great loos and very sad news.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 31, 2018, 03:19:15 PM
Damn. I hadn't heard either.

playing now:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/399/MI0001399078.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Tomasz Stanko - Matka Joanna (1995)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 31, 2018, 03:21:00 PM
Listening to the Bud Powell Blue Note box - particularly Vols. 3 and 4 - has taught me how much like Thelonious Monk he is, and how much they must have learned from and influenced each other. Safe to say the Monkish bits have been my favorite tracks, along with the ballad "Time Waits" and most of the disc with Sonny Rollins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 01, 2018, 01:13:57 AM
Quote from: San Antone on July 31, 2018, 11:14:12 AM
Didn't know; great loos and very sad news.

Yes indeed - was lucky to catch him twice when he toured with the Polish Quartet, and then late 2016 when he appeared at the 50th b-day concert of Globe Unity at Jazzfest Berlin. On that later occasion, he seemed really frail already - although as far as I understand, lung cancer was diagnosed only this spring. Well, he was 76, he had a long and I hope good for him career - and he left us with so much music! Stuff I played includes these:

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That's "Music for K", his 1970 debut - it took him three years it seems to convince the suits at Polskie Nagrania Muza to record his group. The group he was forced, kinda, to start, when his escape to the US of A together with Krzysztof Komeda didn't work out as planned. I also revisited some early/mid 60s tracks by Stanko with Komeda's group. He sounds a lot like Miles at that point, but by 1970 he certainly had his act together. The quintet disbanded in late 1974 after three albums (its third on Calig, "Purple Sun", is on my shelves, too - a favourite!), and then Stanko did some collaborative stuff like "TWET". He worked with various bands and musicians, not leading his own group for the rest of the seventies and the eighties I think - this included work with Edvard Vesala's band as well as with Cecil Taylor.

(https://img.discogs.com/xasI3BUyvLRrWKgVACe_4AbNSFU=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3450214-1376330910-1709.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/MT6OiYWe4Elt8RpsCanuZsRa46A=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1216097-1379102050-1452.jpeg.jpg)

ECM made a first record with Stanko already in the seventies ("Balladyna"), but it was with 1997's "Litania", an album length, gorgeous tribute to Komeda, that Stanko got his big break. The album to this day remains a favourite in this house and led me to start exploring some of Komeda's music. But his ECM catalogue is rich indeed. "Matka Joanna" is stark and simple, "Leosia" is a masterpiece, so is "Litania" ... and then there are the three albums with the Polish Quartet, of which "Lontano" is the one that so far made it to the player again. Finally, in his last years, he led a new group called the New York Quartet. Their second album was his last release as we now know, "December Avenue". I only bought it early this year, but it quickly became a favourite, too.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 01, 2018, 01:24:04 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 31, 2018, 03:21:00 PM
Listening to the Bud Powell Blue Note box - particularly Vols. 3 and 4 - has taught me how much like Thelonious Monk he is, and how much they must have learned from and influenced each other. Safe to say the Monkish bits have been my favorite tracks, along with the ballad "Time Waits" and most of the disc with Sonny Rollins.

Monk and Powell were close friends, from what I've read, Powell was younger by seven years and something like a protege of Monk's. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 02, 2018, 10:03:58 AM
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River: The Joni Letters is a 2007 album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock.  Reissued in 2017 with bonus tracks, that's what I'm listening to.

"Court and Spark" (featuring Norah Jones) – 7:35
"Edith and the Kingpin" (featuring Tina Turner) – 6:32
"Both Sides, Now" – 7:38
"River" (featuring Corinne Bailey Rae) – 5:25
"Sweet Bird" – 8:15
"Tea Leaf Prophecy" (featuring Joni Mitchell) (Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein) – 6:34
"Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:42
"Amelia" (featuring Luciana Souza) – 7:26
"Nefertiti" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:30
"The Jungle Line" (featuring Leonard Cohen) – 5:00

Bonus tracks:
"A Case of You" – 7:36
"All I Want" (with Sonya Kitchell) – 4:15
"Harlem in Havana"
"I Had a King"

Herbie Hancock – piano
Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone
Dave Holland – bass
Lionel Loueke – guitar
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
Larry Klein - bass on "All I Want"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 02, 2018, 06:29:20 PM
Lots of Stańko for me too. RIP.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 02, 2018, 07:12:28 PM
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Thomasz Stanko - Leosia (1996)
Bobby Scott - Plays The Music Of Leonard Bernstein (1959)

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Frances Faye - Sings Folk Songs (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 03, 2018, 05:12:01 PM
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Jimmy Lunceford - Chronological: 1930-34
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2018, 05:16:44 PM
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Eddie Costa - Guys And Dolls Like Vibes (1958)
John Surman - Way Back When (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 06, 2018, 05:38:36 PM
Listened to several things today, but this was the only jazz:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 07, 2018, 09:11:42 AM
Finally got my hands on the Monk Riverside box! Going to listen in order - started yesterday with the Ellington album, which was not my favorite, to my surprise. He seems not to be as fond of some of these standards, although he certainly has plenty of fun reminding us what a ridiculous chorus "It Don't Mean a Thing" has, with all the doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah.

This afternoon it's gonna be more standards: Unique with Pettiford and Blakey.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 07, 2018, 07:15:29 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 07, 2018, 09:11:42 AM
Finally got my hands on the Monk Riverside box! Going to listen in order - started yesterday with the Ellington album, which was not my favorite, to my surprise. He seems not to be as fond of some of these standards, although he certainly has plenty of fun reminding us what a ridiculous chorus "It Don't Mean a Thing" has, with all the doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah doo wah.

This afternoon it's gonna be more standards: Unique with Pettiford and Blakey.

Ah, you're in for such a treat when going through that box. :) I agree that it starts a little uncertainly, but by the time you get to Monk's Music and the other Coltrane material, and Brilliant Corners, then the Johnny Griffin recordings ... man, that's the stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 07, 2018, 07:34:27 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on August 07, 2018, 07:15:29 PM
Ah, you're in for such a treat when going through that box. :) I agree that it starts a little uncertainly, but by the time you get to Monk's Music and the other Coltrane material, and Brilliant Corners, then the Johnny Griffin recordings ... man, that's the stuff.
Monk's Music is one of two I already own and love as single issues, along with Alone in San Francisco. Those two I will probably give to a deserving friend.

Today's listen to Unique was postponed because I had a longer drive home and another recording I'd never heard before was in the car - The More I See You, with Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson, and Ray Brown in their old ages on Telarc. They certainly don't sound like crusty old fossils, although I wish there was more Carter, and after tracks 1 and 2 I was worried the 87-year-old wouldn't get any solos at all, before he absolutely lit up the place on the unlikely tune "On the Trail".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 07, 2018, 08:30:41 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 07, 2018, 07:34:27 PM
Monk's Music is one of two I already own and love as single issues, along with Alone in San Francisco. Those two I will probably give to a deserving friend.

Today's listen to Unique was postponed because I had a longer drive home and another recording I'd never heard before was in the car - The More I See You, with Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson, and Ray Brown in their old ages on Telarc. They certainly don't sound like crusty old fossils, although I wish there was more Carter, and after tracks 1 and 2 I was worried the 87-year-old wouldn't get any solos at all, before he absolutely lit up the place on the unlikely tune "On the Trail".

Hmm - just sampled that and it sounds very nice indeed. Just might pick it up. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Back to Monk, other favorites from the box are the "Thelonious Monk Orchestra" pieces (especially "Little Rootie Tootie"!) and one of the relatively later recordings, 5 by Monk by 5 (where Rouse is now present, along with Thad Jones on cornet).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 08, 2018, 09:42:05 PM
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Jackie McLean and Dexter Gordon - The Source (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 09, 2018, 10:34:17 AM
Michel Legrand: Paris Jazz Piano.

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There's nothing here that gives the impression of having at any time been original, but that's not the point. And right now I'm cool with the laid back vibe as it skirts the cusp of my attention.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 09, 2018, 05:40:44 PM
Lessee ... today was:

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The middle one, with its all-time classic cover (and a livelier affair than one might expect), is Bill Evans & Jim Hall, Undercurrent. But if you're a jazz listener, you probably already knew that. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 09, 2018, 05:45:37 PM
Heart of Brazil--Fascinating, introspective music by Eddie Daniels. Heard on KCSM, where I discover most of my new jazz:

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And speaking of clarinets, you must buy this one by vocalist Susanne Abbuehl--astoundingly great!!!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 10, 2018, 08:19:35 PM
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Ron McClure - Inner Account (1993)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 11, 2018, 02:39:53 AM
lately:
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For an upcoming radio programme, played plenty of 1975 recordings ... some of them in full, like the gorgeous Basie & Zoot album on Pablo, the wonderful Muhal Richard Abrams album "Sightsong" featuring Malachi Favors (there's duos, a wonderful bass solo and a few piano solos), and what probably still is my favourite Prime Time album by Ornette Coleman, "Body Meta" (recorded not in 1975 actually, it seems, although my CD says so).


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When Sony put out the big fun big Herbie box with all his albums for the label ("Flood" and "Man-Child" from 1975 were sampled, too), someone on another site said how he wished EMI/Warner did the same with the Capitol albums by Cannonball Adderley ... and man, I echo that sentiment! In the past years, a few of those albums have been reissued, either by EMI Japan or by Real Gone/Dustygroove - and that stuff is so much fun! True, as with Hancock it may in some respect, not be on the same level as the earlier output, but don't underestimate the power of big fun!


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A bunch of recent archival releases ... the Martial Solal is the second (of two) album with his 1966 solo sessions, done for former Dial label founder and Charlie Parker fan Ross Russell (material for three LPs, spread on two CDs) - the first volume has plenty of Bird tunes, this second more standards - both are great! The Stan Getz is one of the most recent pair of "Live in Paris" releases on Frémeaux. Solal is on piano throughout, and Kenny Clarke on drums. The first two thirds are from a concert, with Jimmy Gourley (g) and Pierre Michelot (b), complete the line-up, everybody is in fine shape, but somehow I tend to prefer Solal's features (some trio cuts) and solos over those of the leader (whom I like very much though). The final 20+ minutes come from a radio studio session, same band minus Gourley. Sound is very acceptable indeed - and the french stage announcers makes a funny bleep when he introduces "Miss Stan Getz" on tenor saxophone. The Satchmo ... finally bought the three (by now) Dot Time Armstrong releases, and started listening to this first one, classic early All Stars, Earl Hines still on board. Good!

(The other recent Paris/Frémeaux thing is an all star thing with Kenny Clarke and others from 1958 ... it's on the way to me now, too!)


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The wonderful Lithuanian label NoBusiness runs a summer sale for previous customers ... and a happy regular customer of theirs I am, with several dozen CDs (including the Moondoc/Muntu and two Howard Riley boxes) and probably around a dozen LPs by now. Their historical stuff usually is *da shit*, as dey say (John Carter, Hemphill/Kowald, Melodic Art-tet, Billy Bang, The Group, Ted Daniel ...), but they also have plenty of new stuff by as varied a bunch of musicians as Joe McPhee, Rodrigo Amado, Ran Blake, Jason Roebke, Howard Riley, The NU Band, Adam Lane, Vinnie Golia, the wonderful Bobby Bradford (a second LP with Hafez Modirzadeh has just been released, they also did two LPs by the Bradford/Gjerstad combo previously) etc. etc. Either way, two parcels arrived this week, and the first one that went into the player is their latest historical release/reissue, a trio of Bobby Naughton (vib), Wadada Leo Smith (t) and Perry Robinson (cl).

As this already sounds like a sales pitch: become a customer today, and get invited to future sales tomorrow  ;D
http://nobusinessrecords.com


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Don Joseph was one of the great trumpet (cornet, actually) lyricists of the 50s ... he's on just a few recordings, Fresh Sound put together the important early ones. In addition, there's a later album (LP only so far) on Uptown, co-led with Al Cohn.

Guitarist Liberty Ellman has been with Henry Threadgill's Zooid for quite a while, and that's where I first took notice of him (and the only context I heard him live in, once). His first Pi album (the one in the middle) had been around for a while but not played often yet. It has a relatively conventional line-up with the great Mark Shim (ts), Ellman (g), Stephan Crump (b) and Eric Harland, plus guest Greg Osby (as) on a few tracks. The second features Shim and Crump, Threadgill bandmate Jose D'Avila on tuba, adding some rather unconventional and great sounds, plus Steve Lehman (as) and Gerald Cleaver (d). Excellent stuff, lyrical, funky, explorative.


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Joe Venuti galore ... missed the Mosaic with Eddie Lang when it went OOP but was just able to buy it off somebody and am happy to have it, finally! Will take me a while to explore all of it (eight discs), but I just dug up the two recent Chiaroscuro reissues from Japan as well, and the second of them is spinning as I type this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 11, 2018, 05:47:33 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 09, 2018, 05:45:37 PM
And speaking of clarinets, you must buy this one by vocalist Susanne Abbuehl--astoundingly great!!!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yf-2RRiWL._SS500.jpg)

Noted. I have her more recent The Gift, but haven't heard it yet. Samples of this one sound nice. Thanks, XB-70!

Quote from: king ubu
The wonderful Lithuanian label NoBusiness runs a summer sale for previous customers ... and a happy regular customer of theirs I am, with several dozen CDs (including the Moondoc/Muntu and two Howard Riley boxes) and probably around a dozen LPs by now. Their historical stuff usually is *da shit*, as dey say (John Carter, Hemphill/Kowald, Melodic Art-tet, Billy Bang, The Group, Ted Daniel ...), but they also have plenty of new stuff by as varied a bunch of musicians as Joe McPhee, Rodrigo Amado, Ran Blake, Jason Roebke, Howard Riley, The NU Band, Adam Lane, Vinnie Golia, the wonderful Bobby Bradford (a second LP with Hafez Modirzadeh has just been released, they also did two LPs by the Bradford/Gjerstad combo previously) etc. etc. Either way, two parcels arrived this week, and the first one that went into the player is their latest historical release/reissue, a trio of Bobby Naughton (vib), Wadada Leo Smith (t) and Perry Robinson (cl).

As this already sounds like a sales pitch: become a customer today, and get invited to future sales tomorrow  ;D
http://nobusinessrecords.com

As always, king ubu, I'm impressed by the depth and breadth of your knowledge (not to mention your collection!). I've noted these comments of yours in particular because I have my eye on several NoBusiness releases but haven't yet taken the plunge. Guess I need to. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2018, 02:48:53 PM
Quote from: king ubu on August 11, 2018, 02:39:53 AM


For an upcoming radio programme,

Do you host a regular jazz show, KU?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2018, 05:57:51 PM
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Harry Edison - Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (1958)
^ with lovely contributions from Ben Webster

Lionel Hampton - '58 (1958)

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Joachim Badenhorst / Guillermo Celano / Marcos Baggiani - Lili & Marleen (2018)
Baloni - Belleke (2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 12, 2018, 03:35:35 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 11, 2018, 02:48:53 PM
Do you host a regular jazz show, KU?

I run a series of things on a tiny online community radio ... used to to a monthly programme on a local alternative radio, both with probably about a dozen people joining in to listen. But the fun is compiling the stuff, writing and then recording the announcements (it's all pre-produced and then sent in to those running the studio - on that local FM radio I loved to do it live, but the friend with whom I ran it was more into spending lots of time and doing elaborate stuff, which got too much for me eventually: doing interviews, sometimes live recordings, and then cutting stuff together, weaving in tracks from commercial releases etc., adding background sound to voices etc. - all that can be done on your computer rather easily, but it eats up a lot of time).

There's a list with links to playlists here (but no streaming/replay available for legal reasons):
https://www.radiostonefm.de/naechste-sendungen/4254-ggj-uebersicht

The show usually runs at 10 p.m. centralyuropeentime, which would make it morning in your part of the world, I think ... and of course it's in German.

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Thread duty:

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More 1958-60 European Getz ... the middle one has the most elaborate arrangements (sidemen include Benny Bailey, Ake Persson, Lars Gullin and Bengt Hallberg) but some of it is rather drap Euro-versions of Birth of the Cool/West Coast, without Bailey and Getz it wouldn't be all that interesting I think ... Getz is in terrific shape on "At Large" (the Storyville set pictured is prob. a shady PD reissue, but it's in excellent sound and has, I think, all the music ... we get Jan Johansson on piano, who's on the 1958-60 set as well, he's alright, but Hallberg is definitely the more interesting player ... the Paris set has the finest band: Martial Solal (p), Jimmy Gourley (g), Pierre Michelot (b) and Kenny Clarke (d). The first nine cuts are from a concert, Getz alas isn't recorded very well (too low in the mix), but Solal is on fire and gets three features (trio, no guitar). In the third of them, Klook (on brushes) and the guys swing so hard that Getz eventually joins in to blow a solo (again half off-mic it seems), and they carry over that swing into the closing "Yardbird Suite". The final three tracks, about 21 minutes of the generously filled CD, originate from a studio session without the guitar of Gourley (who's a nice enough soloist for sure), and with Getz' sound finally captured well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 12, 2018, 03:48:00 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on August 11, 2018, 05:47:33 AM
Noted. I have her more recent The Gift, but haven't heard it yet. Samples of this one sound nice. Thanks, XB-70!

As always, king ubu, I'm impressed by the depth and breadth of your knowledge (not to mention your collection!). I've noted these comments of yours in particular because I have my eye on several NoBusiness releases but haven't yet taken the plunge. Guess I need to. :)

I kinda stopped following Abbuehl shortly after "April", her debut that mightily impressed me. Claudio Puntin was on clarinet back then, I think ... I saw her group live in that original line-up, and again a few years later, with Michel Portal guesting on clarinet (and I think bandoneon as well). It was all a bit too low-profile to really work in the rather large spaces, both where festival gigs ... but her voice is wonderful indeed, and her way with poetry certainly quite original.

The lastest I've bought, only a few months ago, after missing out on her more recent ECM album(s? - my list says I only have "April", but I think I bought "Compass" later on, too), is "Princess" with Stephan Oliva (whose playing I really admire!) and Oyvind Hegg-Lunde (Vision Fugitive, 2017) - but I need yet to play it with real attention ... (same goes for Oliva/Raulin's most recent, "Correspondances" (Abalone, 2016).

EDIT: Adding a link to "Princess" - again some really interesting stuff there (Giuffre tunes w/Abbuehl lyrics and the like):
https://www.discogs.com/Stephan-Oliva-Susanne-Abbuehl-%C3%98yvind-Hegg-Lunde-Princess/release/10065009


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Regarding NoBusiness, they're really doing lots of good stuff, its worth checking out their catalogue!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 12, 2018, 05:00:29 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 10, 2018, 08:19:35 PM
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Ron McClure - Inner Account (1993)

Your post reminded me that I had picked this up a while ago (uhm, possibly in 2013 ... can't find a mail that's really proof though) ... giving it its very first spin and enjoying Rich Perry's playing a lot - he was likely the main reason for buying it back then. Less big on Vic Juris and his slippery guitar tone, sometimes almost sounding like a guitar synth (the opening track is kind of a shock to my ears, but it gets better from there).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 12, 2018, 07:43:47 PM
As for Abbuehl, Compass is her best album overall IMO, but The Gift has some really interesting and beautiful works as well. April is probably the weakest of the three, although it contains my all-time favorite vocal rendition of 'Round Midnight. I actually do not have Princess--thanks for reminding me of this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 13, 2018, 01:54:07 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 12, 2018, 07:43:47 PM
As for Abbuehl, Compass is her best album overall IMO, but The Gift has some really interesting and beautiful works as well. April is probably the weakest of the three, although it contains my all-time favorite vocal rendition of 'Round Midnight. I actually do not have Princess--thanks for reminding me of this.

I totally admire Stéphan Oliva, so getting "Princess" was a no-brainer ... didn't have time to try and figure out if I have "Compass" or not, but I'll try to do so within the next few days (thousands of CDs in book shelves in one small room ... two rows, piles on top of the rows, piles in front of the shelves, no other order than "swing and old jazz is roughly there and there and there, opera is there and there, vocal music there and there, Blue Note CDs mostly there but not those by Blakey, Shorter, Hubbard, Hutcherson, Smith ... however, classical and jazz and rock/pop and world are clearly separated).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 13, 2018, 12:39:39 PM
KPFK is a very interesting radio station in the HELL A area, with a fascinating jazz show called Rise that airs from 12-3AM on Monday mornings. The show has always tended toward free jazz and the avant-garde with more traditional jazz mixed in. http://www.kpfk.org/on-air/rise-with-mark-maxwell/

We listen nearly every week. Here are a couple revelations from last night's (this morning's) show:

Seraphic Light with Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp:

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Blue Maqams with ud player Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, et al.

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Just received these last week and they are deeply engaging disks, currently rewarding repeated listening. Highly recommended! Seraphic Light is more on the free jazz side, while Blue Maqams is somewhat slower paced, often contemplative, but no less adventurous, especially in the use of the oud surrounded by more traditional jazz instruments (piano, bass, drums).





Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 14, 2018, 10:11:49 AM
Miles - random play
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 16, 2018, 05:48:53 AM
The Jimmy Giuffre 3: 7 Pieces.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2018, 02:12:38 PM
^ I played that for the first time recently and was really impressed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 16, 2018, 02:23:00 PM
Glad to hear you liked it.  :)  Were you impressed by the bonus live tracks too? I haven't listened to those yet - obviously they weren't part of vinyl copy I used to have.
Jimmy Giuffre - feels kind of ridiculous for me to consider him as a simple pleasure.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2018, 08:37:11 PM
I haven't heard any bonus tracks. Are they worth seeking out?

now:

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Count Basie - The Band Of Distinction (1954)
Ralph Burns - Among The JATP's (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 17, 2018, 12:26:12 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 16, 2018, 08:37:11 PM
I haven't heard any bonus tracks. Are they worth seeking out?



I haven't listened to them yet and was wondering if you had.
I'll update my post if I listen to them soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Papy Oli on August 17, 2018, 08:02:04 AM
Enjoying Hank Mobley - Soul Station right now :

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 17, 2018, 12:37:44 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 17, 2018, 02:39:35 PM
A good day spent Vervin':

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Mary Ann McCall and Charlie Ventura - An Evening with Mary Ann McCall and Charlie Ventura (1954)
Buddy DeFranco - Jazz Tones (1954)

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Howard Roberts - Mr Roberts Plays Guitar (1957)
Stuff Smith - s/t (1957)

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Count Basie - Basie Rides Again (1961)
Charlie Parker - Plays Cole Porter (1954)

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Illinois Jacquet   - Swing's the Thing (1956)
Oscar Peterson - Keyboard (1956)

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Jacy Parker - Spotlight On Jacy Parker (1962)
Cal Tjader - Saturday Night, Sunday Night At The Blackhawk (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 18, 2018, 02:32:14 AM
^ "A good day spent Vervin'" - perhaps an understatement?  ;D

Also with the bonus of a David Stone Martin album cover.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 18, 2018, 04:07:19 PM
Quote from: NikF on August 18, 2018, 02:32:14 AM
^ "A good day spent Vervin'" - perhaps an understatement?  ;D

Also with the bonus of a David Stone Martin album cover.  8)

I'd been wondering about that artist, without ever getting around to finding out who it was. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 18, 2018, 04:24:18 PM
You're welcome.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 19, 2018, 03:14:22 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 18, 2018, 04:07:19 PM
I'd been wondering about that artist, without ever getting around to finding out who it was. Thanks.

DSM is easily one of the most legendary and sought-after album cover designers in jazz ... I guess his following is actually more focused on his art than with Reid Miles who did most of the legendary Blue Notes (there, it's the full package, with DSM fans it seems the cover art gets more important than the actual albums).

A swiss trad clarinetist (and collector, and former vinyl shop runner), Wieni Keller, has a site dedicated to the art of David Stone Martin:
http://www.wienikeller.ch/david-stone-martin.php

Btw: love Stuff Smith! He's one of the big league players of that era, right up with Hawkins, Eldridge, Webster and the like!

--

Lately - all new arrivals (some of them I knew for quite a while) and in two cases (Tippett, Beck) CDs lent to me by a friend, to be returned later today:

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The Stan Tracey is drop-dead gorgeous, a classic, and deservedly so. Also it's quite Monk-ish in fact, and Bobby Wellins is amazing! He developed into one of Europe's very best in my opinion! The Shepp/Davis I'd quickly mentioned - a rather accidental catch, though I had my eyes open for it to come my way. It's quite beautiful indeed, although I'm usually not too big on later Shepp (saw him live and he was boring, and cannot stand his sound on the duo album with Mal Waldron, whose music I otherwise love dearly, almost always). The Lockjaw is over two hours from Manchester, from his first tour through Europe as a headliner. The trio of Pat Smythe (known mainly for his stint with the wonderful Joe Harriott Quartet) is pretty good and the music smokes! It can get too much, I guess, Jaws is blowing so intensely most of the time, but I do like his raw power and his gorgeous sound.

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The Count Basie/Benny Carter has one disc each of radio broadcasts from the late 30s and 1940 (Basie) and the mid 40s (Carter) - excellent stuff of course! Carter's big band is one of the underrated classic big bands of the era. The Gordon Beck is mostly a solo live concert from a festival, he talks a bit about his Bill Evans influence, about his trio with Tony Oxley etc., it's nice indeed but not something I'd play regularly. Same goes for the Keith Tippett, I think. It has plenty of nice spots, and I can deal with Julie Tippetts' singing - but I prefer other stuff by Tippett.

And I really hope to hear him play solo on Tuesday, opening the Météo Music Festival (http://www.festival-meteo.fr/) in Mulhouse as planned. From what I've heard he is recovering well and eager to play that set, so I hope it'll happen! This will be my third (and third consecutive) visit to the festival and it looks easily as promising as the two previous editions, the line-up including Tippett, David Murray, Joe McPhee, Mette Rasmussen, Nicole Mitchell, Peter Evans, Sons of Kemet etc.

Before that, Monday night I'll be at Lucerne festival, and the week after I'll be in Willisau one night (Christoph Erb/Jim Baker/Frank Rosaly and The Thing feat. James Blood Ulmer) and then in Lucerne one more time. Finally some real live music coming up again - I hate summer break!  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2018, 05:09:42 PM
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Richard "Groove" Holmes - The Groover (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 20, 2018, 02:10:38 PM
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Second spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 22, 2018, 08:01:02 PM
Been playing some classic late-60s Aretha lately in memoriam, but I've also had time for these: revisiting a couple of faves from recent years.

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As well as:

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Quote from: king ubu on August 19, 2018, 03:14:22 AM
The Stan Tracey is drop-dead gorgeous, a classic, and deservedly so. Also it's quite Monk-ish in fact, and Bobby Wellins is amazing!

+1. I think I mentioned this one not too long ago. Yes, quite Monk-ish and yes, Wellins is great (especially on "Starless and Bible Black," a haunting solo that's kind of like a sax version of Miles' playing on "Générique").
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 23, 2018, 10:28:41 PM
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Sonny Stitt - Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
Jimmy Giuffre - In Person (1960)

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Bert Dahlander - Skal (1958)
George Lewis - The Perennial (1958)

George singing it's a long way to "temporary" (edit: Joseph Watkins doing the singing). And then "West End Blues" starts! I hadn't realized it was on the album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 24, 2018, 06:37:35 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 23, 2018, 10:28:41 PM
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Sonny Stitt - Saxophone Supremacy (1959)
Jimmy Giuffre - In Person (1960)

(http://assets.rootsvinylguide.com/pictures/bert-dahlander-his-swedish-jazz-skal-verve-mono-excellent_4045261) (https://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/139049.jpg)

Bert Dahlander - Skal (1958)
George Lewis - The Perennial (1958)

George singing it's a long way to "temporary" (edit: Joseph Watkins doing the singing). And then "West End Blues" starts! I hadn't realized it was on the album.

Good stuff (of the ones I know), Simon.  8) And more Giuffre - I'm trying to ration him right now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 24, 2018, 06:39:23 PM
I've never heard anything by the "other" George Lewis - I'm familiar with the trombonist (well, some of his work - scarcely all of it) but not the clarinetist. Need to rectify that.

No jazz today, I'm afraid, but yesterday:

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Instinctual Eye (Kevin Norton / Frode Gjerstad / Nick Stephens): Born in Brooklyn (Barking Hoop, 2006)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61c7wpEaFgL.jpg)

The Serge Chaloff Sextet: Boston Blow-Up! (Capitol, 1955)

SimonNZ's posts are putting me in a mind to hear some Giuffre ... may do that soon. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 24, 2018, 07:01:11 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on August 24, 2018, 06:39:23 PM
I've never heard anything by the "other" George Lewis - I'm familiar with the trombonist (well, some of his work - scarcely all of it) but not the clarinetist. Need to rectify that.


Interesting. I'm not sure I know the trombonist. Any recommendations?

For the clarinetist be sure to check out the stone cold classic Jazz Funeral In New Orleans.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 24, 2018, 08:07:14 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 24, 2018, 07:01:11 PM
Interesting. I'm not sure I know the trombonist. Any recommendations?

For the clarinetist be sure to check out the stone cold classic Jazz Funeral In New Orleans.

A couple come to mind right away:

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The title track here is one of the most moving pieces of music I know, featuring two extraordinary solos by Ewart and Lewis.

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He's a sideman on this one, obviously - and unfortunately it's also OOP. (Hat Hut keeps saying they're going to re-release it. But they haven't done so yet, AFAIK.) But if you can track it down, it's well worth it - surely one of Braxton's best albums. The opening cut, "Composition 40F / Composition 23J," is amazing. (The quartet is rounded out by Dave Holland and Barry Altschul.)

Lewis' own Shadowgraph, from 1978 (featuring such luminaries as Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins, and Muhal Richard Abrams), is generally considered one of his best, but I haven't heard it.

All of the above are from the 1970s. Lewis is still alive and active, so I imagine there is a lot more worth hearing - I have one or two other, more recent releases but haven't heard them in a long time and can't really hazard a recommendation there. As I said, I'm barely aware of a lot of what he's done. I bet our man king ubu could make some suggestions. :)

Thanks for the George (clarinetist) Lewis recommendation - I'll look for it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 25, 2018, 07:34:07 AM
Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh.

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Warne Marsh

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 25, 2018, 03:22:43 PM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 13, 2018, 12:39:39 PM
KPFK is a very interesting radio station in the HELL A area, with a fascinating jazz show called Rise that airs from 12-3AM on Monday mornings. The show has always tended toward free jazz and the avant-garde with more traditional jazz mixed in. http://www.kpfk.org/on-air/rise-with-mark-maxwell/

We listen nearly every week. Here are a couple revelations from last night's (this morning's) show:

Seraphic Light with Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Matthew Shipp:

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Blue Maqams with ud player Anouar Brahem, Dave Holland, et al.

(https://shop.new-art.nl/assets/image.php?width=800&image=/content/img/new_products_queue/1504173928.jpg)

Just received these last week and they are deeply engaging disks, currently rewarding repeated listening. Highly recommended! Seraphic Light is more on the free jazz side, while Blue Maqams is somewhat slower paced, often contemplative, but no less adventurous, especially in the use of the oud surrounded by more traditional jazz instruments (piano, bass, drums).


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 27, 2018, 04:59:46 AM
Re: George Lewis (tb)

Quote from: Alek Hidell on August 24, 2018, 08:07:14 PM
A couple come to mind right away:

[asin]B002WPZ9U2[/asin]
The title track here is one of the most moving pieces of music I know, featuring two extraordinary solos by Ewart and Lewis.

(https://img.discogs.com/ShbpVd8eZuFNLnEF3Bp113u-C2I=/fit-in/600x524/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-369377-1299945950.jpeg.jpg)

He's a sideman on this one, obviously - and unfortunately it's also OOP. (Hat Hut keeps saying they're going to re-release it. But they haven't done so yet, AFAIK.) But if you can track it down, it's well worth it - surely one of Braxton's best albums. The opening cut, "Composition 40F / Composition 23J," is amazing. (The quartet is rounded out by Dave Holland and Barry Altschul.)

Lewis' own Shadowgraph, from 1978 (featuring such luminaries as Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins, and Muhal Richard Abrams), is generally considered one of his best, but I haven't heard it.

All of the above are from the 1970s. Lewis is still alive and active, so I imagine there is a lot more worth hearing - I have one or two other, more recent releases but haven't heard them in a long time and can't really hazard a recommendation there. As I said, I'm barely aware of a lot of what he's done. I bet our man king ubu could make some suggestions. :)

Thanks for the George (clarinetist) Lewis recommendation - I'll look for it!

Not too many other recommendations I can make, really. I thought of "For Charles Parker" first thing, and the Braxton surely is terrific, too - and there's also "Quintet (Basel) 1977"! The Parker record can be found in the CAM box dedicated to Lewis' Black Saint/Soul Note albums.

Two great ones are "Change of Season" and "Dutch Masters" (both on Soul Note and both in the Lewis as well as the Lacy larger groups CAM boxes).

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Disc-by-disc info can be found here:
https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/13625/george-lewis/the-complete-remastered-recordings-5-cd

Lewis also turned up on several Zorn-related releases, most notably again two Hat albums, "News for Lulu" and "More News for Lulu", in trio with Zorn and Bill Frisell. He's also on "Yankees" with Zorn and the great Derek Bailey. Then there's a fairly recent one, "Sonic Rivers" (Tzadik, 2014) with Wadada Leo Smith and Zorn.

If you're into large-group free improv/new msuic/electro-acoustic stuff, "Sequel" in Intakt may be for you (I've not felt like playing it often yet, so the jury is still out, or rather I guess I'll remain somewhat hesitant about it).

The Chicago connection got revived, too ... "Streaming" on Pi is for those that like that stuff (trio with Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell), and the "SoundDance" two-disc set (Pi as well) has duo sets by Muhal/Fred Anderson and Muhal/Lewis, with the later adding electronics.

I guess basically, he kinda developed from a great trombone player into a conceptualist (and historian, with his book on the AACM) that returns to playing every now and then.

If this all doesn't sound very enthusiastic, that's because that's not how I feel about him in general, but many of the rekkids mentioned are mighty good indeed! For the fun quota, I'd go with "Dutch Masters" and "Change of Seasons" first; for the Braxton quota with Dortmund, for the free improv probably with "Yankees" or the recent Wadada/Zorn/Lewis, for the large scale work quota with "Sequel", for the Chi-connection with "Streaming" or some other earlier stuff which I don't quite know all that well myself yet ... and for the one classic Lewis album, with the Charlie Parker disc.

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Thread duty: just returned from Mulhouse, where I visited the Météo festival for the third time in a row, and as usual heard a vast amount of music, some of it excellent, some of it good, some of it less than that ... report in German (including bad smartphone snapshots and names in bold type) over here:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/foren/topic/2018-jazzgigs-konzerte-festivals/page/9/#post-10567126

On the excellent side:
Michi Yagi (my discovery of the festival and responsible for the best and one more of the finest concerts, one solo, the other, even better, in duio with Tony Buck on drums), Mette Rasmussen

On the very good side:
David Murray (with Saul Williams, and with the great drummer Nasheet Waits), a combo of Daunik Lazro and Joe McPhee (with the wonderful Chad Taylor on drums, Joshua Abrams on bass and guimbri, and Guillaume Seguron on bass), Peter Evans (solo and with his group), Pascal Niggenkemper solo

On the okay side:
Pat Thomas, Sons of Kemet (actually they were better, but the set was 90 minutes and got a bit tiresome), Nicole Mitchell solo (i was hoping for more actually, as I enjoy what I've heard of hers so far), the Berlin based Splitter Orchestra (with their second concert the day after a disastrous first one, see below), Tony Buck in duo with fellows drummer Charles Hayward), the rehash of This Heat (headed by Hayward and Charles Bullen) under the moniker "This Is Not This Heat" (the closing set Saturday night, too lound and again too long).

On the less-so side:
Jon Rose (solo and with a combo featuring John Greaves and Chris Cutler), a rather large group of French improvisers headed by Jacques Di Donato/Xavier Charles, Spiltter Orchestra doing a piece by Jean-Luc Guionnet (it just didn't happen), Wolgang Mitterer doing a messy piece of his own on a restored 18c organ that just doesn't sound too good for this type of stuff).

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Stuff played after my return on Sunday, all acquired there:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 27, 2018, 11:53:34 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/isJLpkPlcR9zQgOoEfj3me39fNk=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2994158-1492278756-4244.jpeg.jpg)

Was eyeing the Steeplechase studio box by LTD for years (it has sessions from 1974-76), and finally have found it priced cheaply enough that it made it safely through customs ... and at the same time I also got this one, recorded live at ENS in Paris in 1973 with Sonny Grey (t) and the fine working unit that was the Georges Arvanitas Trio (the leader on piano, Jacky Samson on bass and Charles Saudrais on drums). Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 27, 2018, 01:43:59 PM
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After her so-so solo set at last week's Météo / Mulhouse Music Festival, I need to relisten to the two Nicole Mitchell albums I have so far - the first one, which I played last last night, is pretty ambitious, but it works very nicely. The second is more of a blowing date with a fine band (Jason Adasiewicz on vibes, Joshua Abrams on bass, Frank Rosaly on drums, Calvin Gantt adding spoken words on the tenth and final cut, titled "Fred Anderson").
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 28, 2018, 11:24:59 AM
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George Coleman on tenor, with the great Catalonian pianist Tete Montoliu - recorded in 1977, CD with the above picture from 1989 (it was reissued with original art in Japan in 2015 as well).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 28, 2018, 12:20:55 PM
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Hino-Kikuchi Duo - Edges (Sony Japan, 2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 28, 2018, 06:38:20 PM
Some classic Ornette:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61M0hLLnfsL._SL1200_.jpg)

Along with some Maneri (Joe, that is) that I hadn't heard in a long time.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71woWo8Cu1L._SL1054_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 28, 2018, 07:21:13 PM
Hank Garland: Jazz Winds from a New Direction.

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An all time favourite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 28, 2018, 09:22:24 PM
Quote from: NikF on August 28, 2018, 07:21:13 PM

An all time favourite.

That alone piqued my curiosity, but then I noticed it has Gary Burton, whose discography including wide and varied sideman work I'm determined to hear in full, makes it essential.

but right now:

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Stuff Smith - Have Violin, Will Swing (1957)
Sun Ra - Jazz By Sun Ra (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on August 28, 2018, 10:14:29 PM
Stuff Smith rulz! Gotta repeat that until the world will finally know ...

What's that Monk quote (not sure it's real, but I think I got it from the Monk "Abécédaire" published by Lenka Lente in France recently): "Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 29, 2018, 01:23:48 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 28, 2018, 09:22:24 PM
That alone piqued my curiosity, but then I noticed it has Gary Burton, whose discography including wide and varied sideman work I'm determined to hear in full, makes it essential.

but right now:

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Stuff Smith - Have Violin, Will Swing (1957)
Sun Ra - Jazz By Sun Ra (1957)

That's a big task, but a cool one. And I'm sure it'll be rewarding. In fact, I think I remember you doing similar before with the films of Ken Loach? In any case, enjoy!

Re: Stuff Smith - I'm quite sure I've only heard 'Together!' which he recorded with Herb Ellis - and I thought it was great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 29, 2018, 06:32:12 PM
Quote from: king ubu on August 28, 2018, 10:14:29 PM
Stuff Smith rulz! Gotta repeat that until the world will finally know ...

What's that Monk quote (not sure it's real, but I think I got it from the Monk "Abécédaire" published by Lenka Lente in France recently): "Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years."

Well, I guess I'ma hafta check out Stuff Smith. I think I've said before that sometimes I almost wish there could be a multi-year moratorium on new recordings just so I could catch up a little on older ones. :)

Re the Monk quote (apocryphal or not), there's a statement in a similar spirit from Varèse: "Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."

TD:
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Henri Texier Strada Sextet: Alerte à l'eau (2007)
Anthony Braxton / William Parker / Milford Graves: Beyond Quantum (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on August 30, 2018, 03:42:08 PM
Stephen D. Anderson: The Music of Bill Evans.

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The playing is great and is sensitive to Evans as a whole. If there's one aspect I sometimes find slightly distracting, it's in the guitar sound - although that's perhaps more about what I'm usually accustomed to hearing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 30, 2018, 05:04:16 PM
Today ...

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Eberhard Weber: Résumé (2013)
Conrad Bauer / Peter Kowald / Günter Sommer: Between Heaven and Earth (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 01, 2018, 03:30:48 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/The_Impeccable_Mr_Wilson.jpg/220px-The_Impeccable_Mr_Wilson.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Ics1LvvFEjWXgO6StTow6Ko-S_8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3131354-1317217718.jpeg.jpg)

Teddy Wilson - The Impeccable Mr Wilson (1956)
The Modern Jazz Quartet and The Oscar Peterson Trio - At The Opera House (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 01, 2018, 04:14:24 PM
^The Modern Jazz Quartet and The Oscar Peterson Trio - At The Opera House (1957) - I don't know this. But cool, something to look forward to.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 01, 2018, 04:25:49 PM
Quote from: NikF on September 01, 2018, 04:14:24 PM
^The Modern Jazz Quartet and The Oscar Peterson Trio - At The Opera House (1957) - I don't know this. But cool, something to look forward to.  :)

Strong sets from both, though not downright essential.

and playing this now and immediately loving it:

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and I'm excited to see its got a version of "Move" I haven't heard before

I see Gary Burton is also with him on the Unforgettable Guitar album. Have you heard that one or rate it as highly?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 01, 2018, 04:50:13 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 01, 2018, 04:25:49 PM
Strong sets from both, though not downright essential.


Cheers. It's nice to know they exist, and at this stage I'm treating anything unheard as a bonus, with an extra bonus if I find them rewarding in some way.

Quote


and playing this now and immediately loving it:

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and I'm excited to see its got a version of "Move" I haven't heard before

I see Gary Burton is also with him on the Unforgettable Guitar album. Have you heard that one or rate it as highly?

Glad to hear you're liking Jazz Winds! It definitely has something about it.

No, I don't have 'Unforgettable Guitar', but I was always going to buy this but never got around to it -

Move! The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland

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Apparently it contains three albums in a broadly similar vein, one of which is 'Unforgettable Guitar'.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 02, 2018, 12:37:08 AM
The great Randy Weston died yesterday, aged 92 - he left us with so much fine music, I'll be eternally grateful for that. And I am very, very sad about the news, his age notwithstanding. He was one of those that seemed to be here for eternity. Glad I was able to catch him live twice - once a magnificent night with his African Rhythms Trio (Alex Blake on bass and Neil Clarke on percussion), about ten years ago, then more recently in duo with Billy Harper.

NY Times obit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/randy-weston-dead.html

Played this one last night:

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And now I'm going through a track here and there from his 50s and 60s albums, including:

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Now this one in full lenght - what a band: Kenny Dorham, Coleman Hawkins, Wilbur Little, Roy Haynes (and on one cut each guests Clifford Jarvis and Brock Peters are added):

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 02, 2018, 12:52:34 AM
That NYT obituary is interesting for highlighting his belief in the central Africanness of Jazz.

Do you know which of his albums are the best for showcasing this side of his discography?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 02, 2018, 09:31:38 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 02, 2018, 12:52:34 AM
That NYT obituary is interesting for highlighting his belief in the central Africanness of Jazz.

Do you know which of his albums are the best for showcasing this side of his discography?

I'd say that from around 1960 on, you can basically feel it throughout. But to be more specific:

Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960) is a large-scale opus exploring African roots, Langston Hughes himself wrote the narration to go with it ... and it features a star-studded large band to boot (incl. Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Quentin Jackson, Jimmy Cleveland, Julius Watkins, Budd Johnson, Yusef Lateef, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter, Max Roach, Olatunji, Candido etc.). In 1963 Weston followed up with what's more or less a pure Highlife album (again with a mighty fine band incl. Ray Copeland, Jackson, Cleveland, Watkins, Booker Ervin, Johnson, Aaron Bell on tuba, Charlie Persip, Frankie Dunlop a.o.). Arrangements on both were done by his most important collaborator, Melba Liston (who as a trombone player can be heard on "Little Niles", United Artists, 1958).

There's some good mid-sixties stuff, too: African Cookbook (Atlantic) and Monterey '66 (rel. only in 1993) with basically the same band, except that Booker Ervin is sold as "guest star" on the later ... these include Big Black on congas (the studio album also Harol Murray on percussion) added to the usual line-up (Ray Copeland, who was also a favourite trumpet player of Monk's, Ervin, on the Monterey concert also Cecil Payne, then Bill "Vishnu" Wood on bass, and Lenny McBrowne on drums). There's some chanting, there's some dark hues, there's some afro-carribean elements (on one of his very earliest albums, Weston does a traditional calypso tune that later became famous as "St. Thomas", played by Sonny Rollins) ... strong music for sure! From the same time, there's another live album made at the Both/And in San Francisco with Frank Haynes no on tenor (no baritone), otherwise the same group (Copeland, Wood, McBrowne, Big Black). Those have plenty of strong 60s vibes to them and I really like them (the last one was reissued by Fresh Sound on the "Trio & Sextet - From 52nd Street to Africa" CD, coupled with the 1958 Newport set in trio, where Weston does his most famous tune, "Hi-Fly").

In the seventies, the discography gets scattered - Weston made some wonderful solo albums ("Nuit Africaine"/"African Night" on Enja/OWL/InnerCity to name one), there's also "Carnival" from Montreux 1974 with another great band (Billy Harper tears it up on tenor, Don Moye is on drums and percussion, William Allen on bass and Steve Berrios on percussion). Weston also got the chance to make Tanjah, a bid band album he produced himself (Polydor, 1973) with again a fantastic bad (incl. Copeland, Watkins, Al Grey, Harper, Budd Johnson, Carter, Ahmed Abdul-Malik etc., and again with some narration and chants and plenty of percussion ... fantastic album that gives a great snapshot of what Weston's music is about.

From the late 80s on, he made a terrific series of albums for Gitanes/Verve France, incl. Volcano Blues (arranger Melba Liston gets co-billing without being heard as a player, Teddy Edwards is on this), Saga (possibly the best of the bunch), the somewhat ambitious double album The Spirits of Our Ancestors (these three all have been made with mid-sized ensembles including Talib Kibwe, Billy Harper, Benny Powell, the last one mentioned has guest spots by Dizzy Gillespie and Pharoah Sanders and features Dewey Redman, Idris Muhammad and Idrees Sulieman as well) and the three portraits album that kicked off the series (all with Jamil Nasser on bass, Muhammad and percussionist Eric Asante - one dedicated to Monk, one to Ellington, and one to his own stuff), a strings album (arr. by Liston again, semi-successful I'd say), encounters with the Gnawa Musicians of Morocco (there's a full Gnawa album with Weston sitting on the short final track, and then they appear again on the final album of the run, Spirit! The Power of Music (Universal France by then, 2000). Then he also made the solo album I love most, I think, Marakkech in the Cool of the Evening. This entire run is brilliant I think (and the CD reissue of "Tanjah" as well as the "Monterey '66" disc fall into that place/label group, too).

Later on, with no big label to promote his stuff, the discography gets a bit scattered again, with releases on various labels including his own outlet. The latest (rel. early 2018) is a double album recorded solo in Montreux 2001. Before that, there was an ambitious kind of jazz history (rather: mythology), "The African Nubian Suite", which is somewhat peculiar as the africa-centricity of the narration is a bit too much - I can dig it as Randy's take on things, but as a historian I'm double-guessing plenty of the story to be honest) ... there is also a fine album by the trio which I heard him in concert with the first time, Zep Tepi (Random Chance, 2006 - Alex Blake on bass and Neil Clarke on percussion), and there was one final release on Universal, a duo with Billy Harper (the second group I heard live), The Roots of the Blues - which I guess is kinda their low end theory - it's deep in every respect.

This, by no means, is a complete discographical runthrough ... but it gives some pointers I hope  :)

While typing, I was spinning "Saga", btw:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 02, 2018, 05:12:40 PM
Great info as ever, KU. Thanks for taking the time. I'll be playing some of those soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 02, 2018, 10:12:49 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 02, 2018, 05:12:40 PM
Great info as ever, KU. Thanks for taking the time. I'll be playing some of those soon.

Sure! Actually while re-playing "Saga", I should have mentioned that the african aspect is really part of the Weston sound by that time. There's percussion, there's grooves ... there's typical jazz solo stuff as well (like one track has a long chase between the tenor or Billy Harper and the alto of Talib Kibwe, who acted as musical director in Weston's band for many years).

And with Benny Powell in the band, the former Basie trombone player (he was around for the "Dance Sessions" in 1954 already and part of the finest of "new testament" band editions, including the albums "April in Paris" and "Atomic Mr. Basie" and many, many others), Weston had true jazz history in his band, besides himself.

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Oh, forgot to mention: yesterday's last night listen:

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Currently available in its Enja version as "Nuit Africaine" - a solo album from 1975, and a wonderful one (though maybe "Blues to Africa" on Freedom has a slight edge in my house ... and definitely the later "Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening" ranks higher with me).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 03, 2018, 11:09:55 AM
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a terrific album of Weston's working trio with Alex Blake (bass) and Neil Clarke (African percussion - a kit made up of usual drum-kit parts and some frame drums and stuff)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 03, 2018, 11:50:33 AM
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Randy Weston on CTI? Seriously now? (We still miss his A&M album though, best with trumpet solos by Herb A. himself   :laugh: ) - The one commercial sin and artistic miss? Well, not quite, it's much better than we'd be willing to believe really (and hey, I'm not saying CTI was all bad, but it's high-gloss image aimed at a broad public was certainly a mismatch with anything Weston stood for).

We get a shorter followed by a long track on each half of the album, Freddie Hubbard (t), Grover Washington Jr. (ts, before he got all baby-faced) and Hubert Laws (fl) are the featured soloists, all CTI household names, Don Sebesky has his hand at somewhat inept arrangements that kind of take the edge off the music, domesticate the wild(er)ness of hhow it should sound. There's even a topless pic of Weston in the fold-out, and the band is filled with more typical CTI names of the times: Billy Cobham, Ron Carter and the usual studio horns (Romeo Penque, Wayne Andre, Marvin Stamm ...) - Weston himself plays rhodes in addition to his piano.

It's kinda weird that this pretty streamlined album features Randy's own liner notes where he explains his debt to African music and gets quite specific about the Ganawa (Gnaoua) Music of Morocco ... but either way, the result is much better than you had a right to ever believe, so just lean back and enjoy (but get 20 other Weston albums first!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 03, 2018, 12:47:40 PM
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This disc reunites two late 60s albums recorded in Paris with Henri Texier (b), Art Taylor (d), Niles Weston (cga) and Reebop Kwabu Baah (cga, cowbells, chants) - dark, intense, brooding stuff ... glad I was so good in buying Weston's disc about 20-15 years back, I even have some of his rarer LPs ("Rhythms and Sounds" on Cora and "Randy Weston Meets Himself" on Pausa).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 06, 2018, 02:45:15 PM
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Benny Carter - Cosmopolite (1956)
Ray Brown - Jazz Cello (1960)

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Stan Getz - Cool Velvet (1960)
Herbie Mann - Flute, Brass, Vibes And Percussion (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 07, 2018, 03:11:20 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 07, 2018, 05:15:02 PM
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Charlie Ventura - Blue Saxophone (1956)
Count Basie - The Count! (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 07, 2018, 05:53:00 PM
Absolutely loving my 2 LP set of Chet Baker and Bill Evans. I was a bit disappointed at first to see that it was not just CB and BE playing together (trumpet + piano is a rather rare combination), but rather included several other musicians (top-notch ones at that: Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, et al). However, the interplay among them is incredible, and the material and mood are mesmerizing. Can't wait to digitize LP 2 soon!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 07, 2018, 07:29:24 PM
Lessee ... today was:

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Lotte Anker / Craig Taborn / Gerald Cleaver: Floating Islands (2011)
Susie Ibarra: Folkloriko (2004)
... and, well, you can pretty clearly see the third one. ;) It's from 1999.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 10, 2018, 10:54:37 AM
I have that Lotte Anker disc ... and I need the (any, actually) Foxes Fox, I think!

--

Lately, when I wasn't trying to cope with Stockhausen (all Sunday at Lucerne Festival):

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Finally got the Dexter box a few weeks ago, as the price went down enough that custom wouldn't hit ... started exploring the first two session with Drew/NHOP/Tootie, and the second is pretty good indeed (for the first one, Tootie was forced to play a rock kit that sounds much too bright ... only one tune made the album culled from the two dates, which appeared as "The Apartment" on Steeplechase). The Aeby is from after I'd left London when the Intakt in London festival took place last April ... it's pretty fine I guess, but not really to my taste (but I bet I'd prefer it over most of EST and The Bad Plus, which is where I'd roughly put it, which again may be a bit unfair).

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The keeper of these is the McPhee/Edwards/Kugel - they did a tour (which by chance ended in Bruges at a place called Parazzar, which means "par hasard" of course) ... the Detail set is your typical free jazz set of the time (early 80s), though of course it's nice to have some more Johnny Dyani.

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Now exploring this twofer, a recent acquistion - original albums showed below. Don't think I quite agree with Scott Yanow's put-down (2 and 2.5 stars) on Allmusic ... maybe this is relaxed, but I don't find it dull at all. Okay, a strong saxophonist would have been more interesting, but then we don't have that much music by Kenny Dorham, so I'm really enjoying it!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 10, 2018, 10:33:23 PM
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Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith - s/t (1957)
Buddy Rich - Just Sings (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 11, 2018, 06:13:20 PM
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Oscar Peterson - Soft Sands (1957)
^Have I heard Oscar sing before? I dont think I have. Very Nat King Cole.

Kid Ory - Song Of The Wanderer (1957)

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Stan Getz - '57 (rec.1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 12, 2018, 06:58:41 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 10, 2018, 10:33:23 PM
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Buddy Rich - Just Sings (1957)

Really? I didn't even knew he sang.

I don't own anything by him. I know he was extremely talented but I guess I've always expected his music to be full of show-offy drum solos and such - Buddy Rich and his faceless supporting cast. And I associate him with a kind of big-band sound, which is not a favorite with me. Should I reconsider?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 12, 2018, 07:09:14 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on September 12, 2018, 06:58:41 PM
Really? I didn't even knew he sang.

I don't own anything by him. I know he was extremely talented but I guess I've always expected his music to be full of show-offy drum solos and such - Buddy Rich and his faceless supporting cast. And I associate him with a kind of big-band sound, which is not a favorite with me. Should I reconsider?

I don't know his discography well but of what I've heard it's quite varied in terms of showy or not and there's enough of both to gravitate toward  what you'd like including work with small combos.

He's got a wonderful singing voice and could easily have justified more than a mere three albums with vocals accross his career. And I'd recommend that one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 12, 2018, 07:30:22 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on September 12, 2018, 06:58:41 PM
Really? I didn't even knew he sang.

I don't own anything by him. I know he was extremely talented but I guess I've always expected his music to be full of show-offy drum solos and such - Buddy Rich and his faceless supporting cast. And I associate him with a kind of big-band sound, which is not a favorite with me. Should I reconsider?

I don't have much Rich, but he sticks out badly - very badly - on the classic album Bird and Diz, where Charlie Parker and Dizzy trade brilliant solos, Thelonious Monk steals every track with his pitch perfect eccentricity, and Buddy butts in with the squarest one-two drumming. Actually I have a drum battle album, Rich vs Roach, but haven't heard it in over a year.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 12, 2018, 07:34:27 PM
Thanks, Simon and Brian!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 12, 2018, 08:23:17 PM
Perhaps the trio album with Art Tatum and Lionel Hampton might be the best place to start, Alek.

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He can't be accused of being showy on this, taking a back seat and enjoying just being in the company of Tatum and Hampton and offering only the background to round out the sound


playing now:

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Buddy Rich - Sings Johnny Mercer (1956)

Nice, but I prefered the other one. He's also got some stiff competetion for this repertoire and suffers by comparison.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 13, 2018, 01:04:24 AM
Quote from: Brian on September 12, 2018, 07:30:22 PM
I don't have much Rich, but he sticks out badly - very badly - on the classic album Bird and Diz, where Charlie Parker and Dizzy trade brilliant solos, Thelonious Monk steals every track with his pitch perfect eccentricity, and Buddy butts in with the squarest one-two drumming. Actually I have a drum battle album, Rich vs Roach, but haven't heard it in over a year.

Hm, I know that line of thinking of course, and I'm far from saying that Rich was the best choice there - but it's really not half as bad, I've come to realize with the years.

Rich the singer I don't really know all that well, but Rich the drummer and bandleader was a mighty force, and not nearly as un-musical as some would have you think. Some of the small group albums he made for Verve etc. in the 50s and early 60s are wonderful indeed (i.e. "Buddy and Sweets" with Harry "Sweets" Edison), he led a fine big band in the forties (I've got a pair of discs on Hep and also have his excellent Mercury studio recordings), and the string of Pacific Jazz albums he made in the late sixties and into the seventies is mighty good. The music is "of its time" (but isn't all art? how can it be or become "timeless" without being rooted somewhere in the first place? and will the stuff that we consider "timeless" be so in 50 or 100 years still?), but it's so powerful and so much fun, can't help enjoying it! No wonder of course that much of it was recorded live.

For fans of drum battles - and make no mistake, there's plenty of music in there -, there's plenty to choose from:

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The JATP "Original Drum Battle" and "Burnin' Beat" were reissued on this twofer:
https://www.discogs.com/de/Buddy-Rich-Gene-Krupa-Burnin-Beat-The-Original-Drum-Battle/release/5764726

There is also this:

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Going modern, besides the well-known Art Blakey drum albums (one on Columbia, the others - five of them - on Blue Note), there's also two vols. of this:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 13, 2018, 04:58:10 AM
Oh, the Tatum/Hampton/Rich and Edison/Rich albums are great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 13, 2018, 09:27:00 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Cu-Bop.jpg)

Art Blakey - Cu-Bop (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 13, 2018, 11:21:42 PM
Quote from: Brian on September 13, 2018, 04:58:10 AM
Oh, the Tatum/Hampton/Rich and Edison/Rich albums are great!

Forgot to add my thumps up for the Tatum/Hampton/Rich - those "Group Masterpieces" are fabulous anyway, the one with Webster for me the big highlight, but the trios with Hampton, Benny Carter ... and "regular" piano trio date, all terrific! And you get to listen to the styles of Buddy Rich (with Hampton), Louis Bellson (with Carter) and Jo Jones (the p/b/d trio, Red Callender is on bass). And add Alvin Stoller to the greats, quite underrated a drummer, I think (he's on the session with Roy Eldridge, which again has a full rhythm section with John Simmons on bass).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 14, 2018, 01:07:31 AM
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In the process currently of enlarging my WhyNot collection (via the Candid CD reissue series that seems to be going the way of the Dodo just about now) - the outstanding ones there are of course the two Air (Threadgill-Hopkins-McCall) and the two Walt Dickerson albums ... then there are two by Chico Freeman (one with Von!) ... and the rest I'm just trying to take care of. Joe Bonner's "Triangle" has already arrived and is very good, and this one by Kenny Barron is the newest arrival, again pretty darn good methinks!

There are albums by Ted Curson, Donald Smith, Joe Lee Wilson and a few more (one I'll probably skip is by Sonny Fortune) ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 14, 2018, 01:14:47 AM
I love Walt Dickerson. Which albums?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 14, 2018, 05:21:51 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 14, 2018, 01:14:47 AM
I love Walt Dickerson. Which albums?

"Tell Us Only of the Beautiful Things" (rec. 1975 with Wilbur Ware and Andrew Cyrille) and "1976" (from year later, with Ware or Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Edgar Bateman). Not the only ones of his one needs of course, but two mighty good ones!

Btw, also played this again recently, after reading about the death of Erich Kleinschuster - excellent:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 14, 2018, 07:06:30 PM
Thanks again for the tips, Simon and king ubu! Mucho appreciado.

I've taken note of your Buddy Rich recs - I'm especially drawn to the Tatum albums as I don't have nearly enough by him anyway.

Need to check into Walt Dickerson, too - I think the only thing I have by him is To My Queen (and I don't think I've even heard it). My ears perked up (so to speak) at the mention of Andrew Cyrille's name (Wilbur Ware's, too). And I see they worked together often ... and so did Dickerson and Richard Davis. Hmmm ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 15, 2018, 04:20:40 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on September 14, 2018, 07:06:30 PM
Need to check into Walt Dickerson, too - I think the only thing I have by him is To My Queen (and I don't think I've even heard it). My ears perked up (so to speak) at the mention of Andrew Cyrille's name (Wilbur Ware's, too). And I see they worked together often ... and so did Dickerson and Richard Davis. Hmmm ...

Yup ... there's a bunch of early albums on Prestige (1961/62, four in total, three with Cyrille), then right after, three more from the 1963/64 sixties, including the great "Impressions of a Patch of Blue" (with none less than our man from Saturn, Sun Ra on piano! - and produced by maverick Tom Wilson) ... and then the two WhyNot albums (1975/76) are followed by a strong series of Steeplechase releases (1976-78). Not sure which of those would be my favourite, they're all good (and there's one more with Sun Ra, this time in duo). There's also one for Soul Note from 1982 with Sirone and Cyrille ... much good stuff to chose from!

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Last night, heard the Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet in concert, season opening at Zurich's most important jazz club (which sports a really weak fall programme, alas - was the same last year, when I went there only in January for the first time). Two roughly 50 min sets, for the second, they were on fire. The line-up is Lisa Cat-Berro (as), Sophie Alour (ts), Rhoda Scott (org), Julie Saury (d). After returning home I played their second album again, released last year - most of the tunes were played live as well (with some others thrown in, including Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" to close the first set). I've long admired Sophie Alour's playing, but somehow I still wait for an album of hers that fully displays her skills. Cat-Berro on the other hand I find a bit too polite and polished, elegant for sure, and also good in the funky pieces - but the main effect of her solos was that they led me to watch Saury and Scott and pay more attention to their dense interplay. For late night listening, the Bacharach album Scott made with manouche guitarist Patrick Saussois in 2009 (it proved his final album, he suffered a stroke that year, which ended his playing career, and died in 2012, not very old, born in 1954). Lovely stuff fersure!

Got this in the mail today ... will log off now to read the graphic novel that comes along with it:

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First impression of the first disc (the quartet with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra added, Shorter's first studio release since 2003's "Alegría") is pretty good, but I'll need more time with it ... now into the first of the two other discs, documenting a 2016 concert by the quartet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2018, 03:24:07 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Drum_Suite.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/NSVOK3i5f80FrQ47gJYwwyYdOiI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6432180-1453534053-4644.jpeg.jpg)

Art Blakey - Drum Suite (1957)
Art Blakey - Selections From Lerner And Loewe (1957)

something of a contrast
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 17, 2018, 02:05:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 15, 2018, 03:24:07 PM
something of a contrast

Certainly so ... but that period of "second edition Messengers" is quite underrated in my opinion!

The expanded edition of "Drum Suite" added an (aborted?) short session of the Chicago edition of the messengers, with Wilbur Ware and Ira Sullivan (on tenor, Donald Byrd was still on trumpet at that time) ... and the Lerner/Loewe album with Griffin is better than we'd have hoped for, right? But the true highlights may be "A Night in Tunisia" (VIK originally, reissued best in the Bluebird First Edition digipack series, I think) with both McLean and Griffin ... and then there's the Messenger/Monk album, again with Griffin. There is plenty more to pick from, and granted the new band with Morgan, Golson, Timmons and Merritt was a big step, but the intermediary period (the first "big" period is the original messengers one of course, three albums on BN and one - with Byrd in for KD - on Columbia, all of them wonderful ... and just before that, there's the great Birdland recording with Brownie/Donaldson/Silver, which has a bit of a Messengers vibe already, too) has a lot lot offer!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 17, 2018, 03:09:56 AM
Oh I agree: much underrated. Cu-Bop and especially Drum Suite are really good and that Lerner/Loewe album is as you say better than one would expect - largely because they abandon the title tunes pretty quickly to go into extended group workouts. Don't think I've heard Hard Bop yet or the original Night In Tunisia, but will in the next couple of days.

and now:

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Art Blakey - Hard Drive (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 17, 2018, 04:57:50 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/The_Cool_Voice_of_Rita_Reys_Philips.jpg/220px-The_Cool_Voice_of_Rita_Reys_Philips.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Hard_Bop_%28album%29.jpg/220px-Hard_Bop_%28album%29.jpg)

Rita Reys / Art Blakey - The Cool Voice Of Rita Reys (1957)
Art Blakey - hard Bop (1957)

the Rita Reys a bit of a disappointment, I'm sorry to say

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Pee Wee Russell - Dixieland Chicago Style (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 20, 2018, 05:34:44 PM
This was my only jazz today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61wzNHd3eUL._SS500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 20, 2018, 06:10:25 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/947/MI0001947112.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cCClqz7OL.jpg)

Anita O'Day and Jimmy Giuffre - Cool Heat (1959)
Stuff Smith - Cat On A Hot Fiddle (1959)

are the notes for the words "someday he'll come along, the man I love" the same as the notes for the words "they're writing songs of love, but not for me"?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Eleceve.jpg)

Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 21, 2018, 11:06:31 AM
Grant Green - Standards.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 21, 2018, 04:21:28 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/scenes1.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/339/MI0004339805.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Michael Galasso - Scenes (1983)
Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Lyric Suite For Sextet (1983)

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/441/MI0002441978.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/351/MI0004351478.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Paul Motian - It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago (1985)
Dino Saluzzi - Mojotoro (1992)

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/song-for-everyone1.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/kulture-jazz.jpg)

L.Shankar - Song For Everyone (1985)
Wadada Leo Smith - Kulture Jazz (1993)

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Krakatau - Volition (1992)
Masqualero - Bande À Part (1986)

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Azimuth - s/t (1977)
Susanne Abbuehl - April (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 22, 2018, 04:15:02 PM
Tony Fruscella: Tony Fruscella

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I picked this up almost on a whim while buying other CDs in Camden Market. So far it seems to have been a good decision.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 22, 2018, 05:14:05 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XdOj-Qg1myYJ0EWGHHV0YKpocnU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2865533-1304655050.jpeg.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/286/MI0002286260.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Steve Kuhn - Three Waves (1966)
Jay Epstein - Easy Company (2009)

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Kimìya  - Il Viaggio (2017)
Laia Genc Liaison Tonique - Strandgut (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 23, 2018, 07:26:05 AM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2170-2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 23, 2018, 08:16:49 AM
Charles Mingus: Mingus Three.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 23, 2018, 01:05:47 PM
Quote from: NikF on September 22, 2018, 04:15:02 PM
Tony Fruscella: Tony Fruscella

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I picked this up almost on a whim while buying other CDs in Camden Market. So far it seems to have been a good decision.

Tony Fruscella! Amazing musician! There's a pair of LPs on Spotlite, the "Fru 'n' Bru" with Brew Moore is outstanding, the rest of the session, just with rhythm section (Bill Triglia on piano, his one moment in the spotlight was with Mingus), is probably even better. Definitive (a label to loathe, usually) has done a 4-CD-set with both his studio and live recordings (the stuff with Moore and Triglia is live, there's some early studio cuts, and two tracks with Stan Getz, where Fruscella was the successor of Bob Brookmeyer's, the two cuts ended up on "Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds", a pieced-together LP with some very nice music on it). I'm a bit proud that a friend and me have most likely published (well, in a private, low-profile, but more or less professionally done, magazine) article in German on Fruscella (he was married to Morgana King for a while, the singer that recently died).

Thread duty - earlier today:

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The Lloyd is a recent acquisition ... I usually buy Resonance releases the second they appear (next one is Dolphy's Douglas sessions from 1963, with plenty of bonus tracks, probably alternates, but they're making a big secret out of it, as usual, which is annoying), but I'm hot and cold about Lloyd, so that one wasn't a priority. It's pretty nice though. Dorothy Donegan I know nothing about, but wow, she's great! A very personal style somewhere between Tatum and Teddy Wilson, with some modern influence, too.

(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0003/315/0003315408.jpg)(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/616/0001616504.jpg)

The Donegan (a first spin) was on a pile just on top of these two CTI discs ... not a favourite label by any stretch, too much gloss (which of course you see by looking at the covers). The Turrentine was another first spin (I think), nothing that will stick, but it's nice enough. The Jackson seems to be a favourite in plenty of houses, but not here. However, I liked it better than during any previous listen, so maybe I'm getting there ... weird thing: the final track sounds completely different, a straight, no-gloss-over production, just the way I prefer it.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mDiVTn8lL.jpg)

Sal Nistico was a mean cat, and that's on ample display here!

And also, a few days back, I gave a first listen to the new opus by Wayne Shorter:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81GES8P6faL._SL500_.jpg)

Very nice for sure, but I'll need some time to really figure it out. There's a (less than 80 minute) 2 disc bonus included, a quartet gig from London, which again is great (I loved the previous disc, "Without a Net", on Blue Note ... heck, I just love Shorter's music!)

Other recent spins include parts of this box, which cost a fortune, but the deeper I get into it, the more I'm convinced it was worth that, and much more:

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Also, ten days ago, the most important jazz club in town started its new season with Rhoda Scott and her Lady Quartet, so I gave these another spin, too:

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Interestingly, I didn't like "We Free Queens" that much when I heard it last year, but after the concert, I enjoyed it a lot! The Bacharach disc with the late Patrick Saussois on guitar is wonderful, nothing deep, but beautiful playing by both.

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This may be my signing off post for almost 3 weeks, lengthy vacation upcoming. I'll be online of course, but probably not listening to much music ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 24, 2018, 01:27:14 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 24, 2018, 02:18:13 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 24, 2018, 04:07:29 PM
Don Ellis: Out of Nowhere.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on September 24, 2018, 10:13:56 PM
^
good one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 26, 2018, 03:07:11 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 26, 2018, 05:40:11 PM
Art Farmer: Live At The Half-Note

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 26, 2018, 09:29:11 PM
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Juhani Aaltonen - Mother Tongue (2003)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 27, 2018, 06:35:17 PM
Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

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Another cool purchase from Camden Market.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 27, 2018, 10:08:42 PM
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David Binney - Bastion Of Sanity (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on September 28, 2018, 02:43:33 PM
Quote from: NikF on September 27, 2018, 06:35:17 PM
Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Another cool purchase from Camden Market.
Oooh, that one is fun. Thanks for reminding me of it - will dig out my copy and listen next week!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 28, 2018, 04:28:39 PM
Quote from: Brian on September 28, 2018, 02:43:33 PM
Oooh, that one is fun. Thanks for reminding me of it - will dig out my copy and listen next week!
You're welcome. Enjoy your relisten.


Stan Getz Quartet: In Paris

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 28, 2018, 06:03:01 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/LV-nXU-8n9GeNTpIr9m9PQaMexk=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5936837-1406778015-7156.jpeg.jpg)

Julian Argüelles -Partita (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on September 28, 2018, 09:15:29 PM
Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio 

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 29, 2018, 02:23:49 PM
(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/the-third-quartet.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/754/MI0002754805.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

John Abercrombie - The Third Quartet (2007)
Michaël Attias - Credo (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on September 29, 2018, 06:50:06 PM
Dave Brubeck Jazz Impressions of New York

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oEX3VnS5L._SX450_.jpg)


Bill Evans The Tokyo Concert included in this box I'm pondering...

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611Hb7NaOVL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 30, 2018, 02:54:56 PM
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Craig Bailey - A New Journey (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 01, 2018, 04:37:25 PM
Oscar Peterson: Live At The Northsea Festival

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Think I've seen XB-70 Valkyrie post about this at some point in the past? In any case, I consider it a cool set - with 'Caravan' itself being worth the effort of a listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 02, 2018, 05:54:22 PM
Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 03, 2018, 12:33:26 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/HmbCa5iLXSWL8irHlAC9bt7owH8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3251810-1322414268.jpeg.jpg)

Paul Bley - Indian Summer (1991)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 03, 2018, 02:29:00 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on October 03, 2018, 02:47:16 PM
Jack McDuff Live! (1963)

A real good 'un, to quote the brother. His slightly dorky spoken intros and the blatantly manipulated applause track only add to the charm.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 03, 2018, 06:11:07 PM
Landed today
[asin]B07D4ZP9K3[/asin]

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/john-coltrane-both-directions-at-once-the-lost-album/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 03, 2018, 06:30:42 PM
John Lewis: The John Lewis Piano

[asin]B00DD0AH8E[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 05, 2018, 04:31:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z06G9VG2L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51L7IrAMcbL._SX355_.jpg)

Peter Bocage - With His Creole Serenaders & The Love-Jiles Ragtime Orchestra (1961)
Don Braden - After Dark (1994)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Afrique_-_The_Album_by_Count_Basie_%26_His_Orchestra.jpg)

Count Basie - Afrique (1971)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on October 06, 2018, 06:54:20 PM
George Shearing--Lullabies of Birdland, A Musical Autobiography

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71-dXm1YkGL._SX450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 06, 2018, 07:03:13 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61OVC7SBKsL._SX355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Hf5HHY4HL._SS500.jpg)

Salvatore Bonafede - Sicilian Opening (2009)
Charles Brackeen - Worshippers Come Nigh (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: James on October 07, 2018, 10:55:09 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/hk-VIo03j20
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 08, 2018, 08:56:10 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/089/MI0000089889.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins - Calling Berlin, Volume 1 (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 09, 2018, 05:16:55 AM
George Shearing Trio: Jazz Moments.

[asin]B000005GZK[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 09, 2018, 10:06:50 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/611/MI0000611340.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

George Cables - A Letter To Dexter (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 10, 2018, 03:02:46 AM
Sarah Vaughan and her trio: At Mister Kelly's

[asin]B00000474O[/asin]

I have an Ella Fitzgerald recording from the same venue, but this one - despite being only my third(?) time of listening - remains a favourite. And the thing is, it wasn't until oor Simon posted it (years ago now? ;D ) I learned it existed. In any case, a real and rare pleasure.
Apart from Anita O'Day, if anyone is aware of other live (and I suppose, intimate) stuff in a similar vein/from a similar era, do let me know, please? Cheers.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 10, 2018, 05:56:59 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfIrRh9GL._SX455_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 10, 2018, 11:23:20 AM
Quote from: George on October 10, 2018, 05:56:59 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfIrRh9GL._SX455_.jpg)

Good stuff, mate. I only have the CD issue from I don't know when, but it busts my chops.   ;D 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 10, 2018, 11:42:16 AM
Quote from: NikF on October 10, 2018, 11:23:20 AM
Good stuff, mate. I only have the CD issue from I don't know when, but it busts my chops.   ;D 8)

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 10, 2018, 02:01:33 PM
Quote from: George on October 10, 2018, 11:42:16 AM
8)

  ;D 8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 11, 2018, 02:11:14 AM
Joe Albany with Warne Marsh: The Right Combination.

[asin]B000000Z6H[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 11, 2018, 10:28:26 PM
Quote from: NikF on October 10, 2018, 03:02:46 AM
Sarah Vaughan and her trio: At Mister Kelly's

[asin]B00000474O[/asin]

I have an Ella Fitzgerald recording from the same venue, but this one - despite being only my third(?) time of listening - remains a favourite. And the thing is, it wasn't until oor Simon posted it (years ago now? ;D ) I learned it existed. In any case, a real and rare pleasure.
Apart from Anita O'Day, if anyone is aware of other live (and I suppose, intimate) stuff in a similar vein/from a similar era, do let me know, please? Cheers.

I seem to recall that that had lots of improvised lyrics that I enjoyed a lot. Am I remembering that correctly? Must give it another listen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_recorded_at_Mister_Kelly%27s

now:

James Carter - The Real Quietstorm (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 11, 2018, 11:28:55 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 11, 2018, 10:28:26 PM
I seem to recall that that had lots of improvised lyrics that I enjoyed a lot. Am I remembering that correctly? Must give it another listen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Albums_recorded_at_Mister_Kelly%27s

now:

James Carter - The Real Quietstorm (1995)

Yeah, that's it. A couple of years earlier on the set with Clfford Brown (also seen posted here) she indulges more in scatting.
I think I'll pick up the Anita O'Day at the CD anyway.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 12, 2018, 02:56:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612f-rFNXPL._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/utm1xwtQz1IJovTkbXfEN7jF1Xo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2031199-1259672766.jpeg.jpg)

The New Orleans Owls - The Owls Hoot (rec.1922-29)
Gary Burton - Alone At Last (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on October 12, 2018, 03:05:31 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 12, 2018, 02:56:00 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612f-rFNXPL._SS500.jpg)

The New Orleans Owls - The Owls Hoot (rec.1922-29)

I can't even imagine...
But if I've ever the chance, I'll check it out.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 13, 2018, 01:03:53 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61j3JvwwMCL._SS500.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81ZUJaxhd5L._SX355_.jpg)

Curtis Clark - Letter To South Africa (1989)
Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 14, 2018, 02:38:11 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8lUAAOSwU8JZqVB9/s-l300.jpg)

Paul Desmond - Easy Living (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on October 14, 2018, 08:26:48 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 14, 2018, 02:38:11 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8lUAAOSwU8JZqVB9/s-l300.jpg)

Paul Desmond - Easy Living (1966)

mmmmm, that looks nice...wait, were we talking about music here?

I have been listening to a few Arve Henriksen albums on Spotify, trying to find one I like. I was blown away by Strjon, World of Glass, and The Magical Forest--all CD's I've owned for years--but none of the other ones I'm sampling really do much for me. Also trying to preview Iro Haarla's Kolibri somewhere.

I am looking forward to Qobuz coming to the U.S. as I'm tired of Spotify...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 15, 2018, 05:00:23 AM
Quote from: NikF on September 27, 2018, 06:35:17 PM
Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

[asin]B000009OHC[/asin]

Another cool purchase from Camden Market.

Quote from: Brian on September 28, 2018, 02:43:33 PM
Oooh, that one is fun. Thanks for reminding me of it - will dig out my copy and listen next week!

My favourite baritone sax album ever, if I have to make a pick! He's got one of the finest sounds, fleshy, full, gorgeous. And the rhythm section is wonderful, too!

Just in case, Uptown (who have already issued "Boston 1950", which is highly recommended) have released their second Chaloff disc early in the year, a live recording from 1953, which falls in a period that is otherwise a large gap in the chronology - again warmly recommended:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/450/MI0004450693.jpg)

--

Back from vacation, me self, had my nice bluetooth box with me and plenty of time to listen to some music:

(https://img.discogs.com/LwSQw_zQvoBsuTY8YHDQxM4x82I=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1934812-1499520127-2135.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/P09wtAlkNsMjBeTCrJKt4zpYGHQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3508024-1333214604.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/YoScWkfnD_kQIoM-VwI2PCaFtSs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2208251-1516981689-4078.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/g3gIG4N6e-9SJat8LDvSrG8V98Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4022030-1352647228-2279.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/L2frHvqUiMDe626onXTFj8zfr34=/fit-in/497x497/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1133788-1253490217.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/VseoT-oy_h4EvTQ-KClMYp4-AJY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2690125-1326255239.jpeg.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/439/MI0000439249.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nlTginCsL._SS500.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41EALkLx4XL._SL500_.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/PeKj3JMOGu614GQRt8zNXbldEh4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1154827-1196671835.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/v25Z_knuDssV3DqMRLoW7AWgIyc=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1167449-1295114482.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/e07TTYZjDmTbEEWI91EE0K8CMvo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-822238-1433072624-7301.jpeg.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/439/MI0000439921.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/439/MI0000439922.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/708/MI0001708412.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/386/MI0000386539.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/qNHLP9VHn6LVXL_1YunL9_1Xb_k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1059287-1188901521.jpeg.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/292/MI0000292191.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/803/MI0002803668.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/308/MI0000308941.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/P7nE7vH9rfFyJSApHfuNXBULP_U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1312918-1264674873.jpeg.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TzLvKI0bL._SY400_.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/KOlHlF-HxwyQ3fdqqavUtS5QU6g=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2758860-1312218899.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/jLgg6HZWy_1v4bibTzeYR0pbc0c=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1640346-1477429589-7589.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/056/MI0002056715.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/VJXWwzc5pJMgGOKa00z9YHQ8z94=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4338378-1439160455-1992.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/NGeXr1cUhcP5upyFgqOx3o2yer8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2768108-1526150027-2674.bmp.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/sXDvWwGGw82q4rRLJwDLT7AKQOw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2768108-1526150028-3669.bmp.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/BhvINuWDKo5CzZO1qn51P3QaWTY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1574360-1525228554-5620.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/250/MI0000250135.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/470/MI0002470374.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pfKW9WiML._SY500_.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/277/MI0000277295.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/999/MI0001999974.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0004/100/MI0004100567.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/3QO5AJpJzB7wSaUVNxkom7aVhHQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1900065-1327284824.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/760/MI0001760296.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/890/MI0001890085.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/1hYHPqCVfaBHS_R-Y2O5MboyNz8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4021059-1352615200-4240.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/XnwH5zggKWTt4K55XrUtsKBbz1c=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2516378-1327285013.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/k0amtb85v1jwEx36U26rhIvl3YA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5600097-1397658670-9921.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/U-4VrBNAiVE8lusuQo6vHIzFHvA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5600397-1397664585-4311.jpeg.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/560/MI0000560429.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/489/MI0001489141.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/959/MI0003959419.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/424/MI0000424902.jpg)

EDIT: The black one with no text is Marcus Belgrave's "Gemini" (or rather "Gemini II" it seems):
https://www.discogs.com/de/Marcus-Belgrave-Gemini-II/release/1154808

--

Finally, after my return, new arrivals:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jp1gZPakL._SL500_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81y%2BeyUEUeL._SL500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 17, 2018, 03:05:03 PM
^That's some impressive listening!

now

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPMmmziNL._SX355_.jpg)

Charlie Haden and John Taylor - Nightfall (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 18, 2018, 04:38:57 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/679/MI0001679159.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cf069cd-600x600.jpg)

Tina May - One Fine Day (2000)
Scott Fields - Beckett (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 18, 2018, 07:17:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJQyMvEWL.jpg)

Finally found a reasonably priced copy of this 24CD set today!

Listened to discs 1-3 tonight.  Transfers are OK, but there seems to be a high pitched noise that appears near the end of a lot of these tracks and continues until the end of the song. The music making is impeccable, though. And incredibly joyful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on October 18, 2018, 11:52:33 PM
Heard some of this Miki Yamanaka tonight on KCSM. Very nice.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81f1L0lVRxL._SY450_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ciaccona on October 19, 2018, 07:43:29 PM
NP:

(https://i.postimg.cc/MX2C2Fnt/IMG-0036.png)

Charles Mingus - East Coasting


From the pictured Box-Set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 20, 2018, 06:45:59 PM
(https://ring.cdandlp.com/fast54/photo_grande/115309427.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51h4JKi3szL._SY355_.jpg)

Lee Konitz and Red Mitchell - I Concentrate On You (1974)
Oscar Peterson - The Trio: Live From Chicago (1961)

(https://img.discogs.com/1RBy98Z4TiHGJ9NPTVlpQkYhQkU=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2722147-1298102820.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/PfJdB9PF9WJfKsoydHfQ_I--W9o=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1567745-1467306067-8147.jpeg.jpg)

Mel Torme - I Dig The Duke, I Dig The Count (1960)
Cal Tjader - Several Shades Of Jade (1963)

(https://img.discogs.com/rtHMw3Ko4DdI5tiJ2GWyw9IUS4Q=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-390441-1318147969.jpeg.jpg)

Jimmy Smith - Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2018, 02:39:07 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 17, 2018, 03:05:03 PM
^That's some impressive listening!
Well, it was a two-and-a-half-week vacation, after all  :)

Quote from: SimonNZ on October 17, 2018, 03:05:03 PM

now

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPMmmziNL._SX355_.jpg)

Charlie Haden and John Taylor - Nightfall (2004)
Nice one!


Quote from: George on October 18, 2018, 07:17:22 PM
Finally found a reasonably priced copy of this 24CD set today!
Congrats! That was my first real big sucker (beyond 10 CDs, that is) back in the days ... I got it in a local store and overpaid considerably, but back then I didn't really know, and by now I don't care a bit!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 21, 2018, 05:33:02 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 21, 2018, 02:39:07 AM
Congrats! That was my first real big sucker (beyond 10 CDs, that is) back in the days ... I got it in a local store and overpaid considerably, but back then I didn't really know, and by now I don't care a bit!

Thanks, I completely understand.

By the way, how did your booklet hold up? I bought my set used. It is near mint, except for the booklet. Most of its pages have separated from the binder.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 21, 2018, 05:44:05 AM
Quote from: George on October 21, 2018, 05:33:02 AM
Thanks, I completely understand.

By the way, how did your booklet hold up? I bought my set used. It is near mint, except for the booklet. Most of its pages have separated from the binder.

It's still okay because I was aware of the problem and never really opened it flat, always treating it with lots of caution.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 21, 2018, 05:48:16 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 21, 2018, 05:44:05 AM
It's still okay because I was aware of the problem and never really opened it flat, always treating it with lots of caution.

Smart!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 21, 2018, 06:26:56 AM
Quote from: George on October 18, 2018, 07:17:22 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJQyMvEWL.jpg)

Finally found a reasonably priced copy of this 24CD set today!

Listened to discs 1-3 tonight.  Transfers are OK, but there seems to be a high pitched noise that appears near the end of a lot of these tracks and continues until the end of the song. The music making is impeccable, though. And incredibly joyful.

Ten years back back in my file sharing days I managed to get this entire set on soulseek; and have no shame in admitting it.   8)   If I could only have one collection of Ellington, this would be it.  Congrats.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 21, 2018, 06:37:24 AM
Quote from: San Antone on October 21, 2018, 06:26:56 AM
Ten years back back in my file sharing days I managed to get this entire set on soulseek; and have no shame in admitting it.   8)   If I could only have one collection of Ellington, this would be it.  Congrats.

Thanks!

I downloaded it about a year ago myself, had the flac files and everything. But after listening to it, I had to have it. I was patient and got a nice used copy for $189 this week.

Judging from amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00000IIQY/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1540132606&sr=8-1&keywords=duke+centennial), it looks like I did pretty good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2018, 02:32:19 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Tjader_Breeze_East.jpeg) (https://img.discogs.com/jsucvb-T5_ouC45skkIZOx5mdWI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2702348-1369989666-7237.jpeg.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Breeze From The East (1963)
Ray Brown and Milt Jackson - Much In Common (1964)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Mess_of_Blues_%28Johnny_Hodges_and_Wild_Bill_Davis_album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JHKvAah5L._SY355_.jpg)

Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis - Mess Of Blues (1964)
Wes Montgomery - Bumpin (1965)

(https://img.discogs.com/smIthY1OZuJv6CSnODVjWea5eWk=/fit-in/585x575/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1008473-1367186480-9861.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fM6gYiwJ15-8bjabG5mz5uuMXSY=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3458367-1516806100-6860.jpeg.jpg)

Tony Scott - Music For Zen Meditation (1964)
Susan Rafey - Hurt So Bad (1965)

(https://img.discogs.com/IQFazgBBd7eqL7QDtRBLJMBFw0w=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3282156-1428854180-3997.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Bola_Sete_-_At_the_Monterey_Jazz_Festival.jpg)

Kenyon Hopkins - Mister Buddwing soundtrack (1966)
Bola Sete - At The Monterey Jazz Festival (1966)

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/013/MI0004013919.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fmOkDQG%2BL._SX355_.jpg)

Quincy Jones - The Deadly Affair soundtrack (1966)
Luiz Henrique - Barra Limpa (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 21, 2018, 03:24:05 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uJQyMvEWL.jpg)

Enjoyed discs 4-7 today. I wish that high pitched noise that appears about 2/3 of the way through each track wasn't there, but I read elsewhere it is part of the original recording.

Does anyone know if it is like that through the whole set?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 21, 2018, 04:19:22 PM
^ I used to own that box and never noticed anything resembling that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 21, 2018, 05:15:04 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 21, 2018, 04:19:22 PM
^ I used to own that box and never noticed anything resembling that.

Its definitely there. Its also there on a rip I have from a few years back.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 22, 2018, 08:39:17 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XGPFTFpJLkdNf92eRY3oqzxoK2g=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3369468-1327680917.jpeg.jpg) (https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/s/smith_jimmy_respect~~_101b.jpg)

Don Casta - Modern Delights (1967)
Jimmy Smith - Respect (1967)

(https://img.discogs.com/xLmuSILCbXhspReuN5w0ttVwmnU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-984958-1194822859.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Jazzhattan_Suite.jpg/220px-Jazzhattan_Suite.jpg)

Alan Lorber - The Lotus Palace (1967)
Jazz Interactions Orchestra / Oliver Nelson - Jazzhattan Suite (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 23, 2018, 09:47:46 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/uIMGlnKBs3FQ8wDbLWiTDIYj2NE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2990452-1329049192.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/KA-pv80e7Qvag5cYbcQcrvGrxFg=/fit-in/567x579/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-399242-1190064830.jpeg.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Along Comes Cal (1967)
Walter Wanderley - Kee-Ka-Roo (1967)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/Tome_VI.jpg/220px-Tome_VI.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Nt_Pi8YpoNQh1CrktkOmUfjlAe4=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4006474-1475738924-9243.jpeg.jpg)

Gil Mellé - Tome VI (1968)
Little Richie Varola - s/t (1968)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71cM22NVyuL._SY355_.jpg)

George Benson - Giblet Gravy (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 24, 2018, 10:20:29 AM
Playing the Oliver Nelson "Jazzhattan Suite" again - possibly the most impressive of the lesser known Verves I heard in the last few days.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 24, 2018, 09:12:17 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/VjXy3jjNnhqyUC7XWftnQGNG0Dw=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6759947-1426041208-2394.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Previnleprechauns.jpg/220px-Previnleprechauns.jpg)

Jackie and Roy - Like Sing: Songs By Dory and Andre Previn (1963)
Dory Previn - The Leprechauns Are Upon Me (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 25, 2018, 08:34:09 PM
(https://shop.new-art.nl/assets/image.php?width=800&image=/content/img/new_products_queue/14307337358991.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51p4Fg2QvWL._SY355_.jpg)

Enrico Rava - Tribe (2011)
Bill Frisell - Music Is (2018)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71QKIFv3f3L._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51frwYCtldL._SS500.jpg)

Cuong Vu - Change In The Air (2018)
Costanza Alegiani and Fabrizio Sferra - Grace in Town (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2018, 02:31:48 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jDPPfsYgL.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YWgMSLljL._SY355_.jpg)

George Haslam - Duos:East West (1998)
Dave Holland - Pass It On (2008)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 26, 2018, 03:31:10 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515KkB8ELzL.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61BPjwb6srL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2018, 03:37:22 PM
^ Where Are You is one of his best, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 26, 2018, 03:42:51 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 26, 2018, 03:37:22 PM
^ Where Are You is one of his best, imo.

It's only my first listen to it, but I can see why you'd feel that way. So different than his more boisterous stuff.

I heard Sings For Only The Lonely for the first time this week as well and loved that one.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2018, 04:05:22 PM
Quote from: George on October 26, 2018, 03:42:51 PM

I heard Sings For Only The Lonely for the first time this week as well and loved that one.

His version of "Blues In The Night" from that album was what first sold me on Sinatra.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 29, 2018, 04:15:46 AM
Quote from: George on October 21, 2018, 05:15:04 PM
Its definitely there. Its also there on a rip I have from a few years back.

It's part of the remastering of the early sessions ... it was quite widely discussed when the box appeared (back on the old Blue Note Bulletin Board for instance, which I started reading - as a lurker for the first couple of years - around that time). Some people seem to really dislike the sound. To me, it's more the totally no-noised ones (such as the Fantasy reissues of the Carnegie Hall Concerts) which always take me a while to get adjusted to (often I'll play 15 or 20 of such a recording, and once my ears are somewhat attuned, I'll start from the beginning again).

Anyway, there's no real alternative (the partial 3 CD reissue sounds the same, and the earlier Blanton/Webster set is no-noised ...)

--

Thread duty: loads of Randy Weston again lately ... got a huge pile of his stuff out of the shelves (everything CD, I've got at least two of his seventies albums on LP only, both never made it to CD to my knowledge).

Also these:

(https://img.discogs.com/uDxmP-0rFmT4hy7qNrhFH-jR_rA=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8648535-1467374372-4532.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/6EGY0FYuPiLnBNIPCC78ElbvM18=/fit-in/432x432/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2729569-1368890486-9665.jpeg.jpg)
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/085/MI0000085120.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/5tUr-QSo517pFfiRaV7kjitoipc=/fit-in/190x188/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1788304-1260717989.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 29, 2018, 05:59:24 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 29, 2018, 04:15:46 AM
It's part of the remastering of the early sessions ... it was quite widely discussed when the box appeared (back on the old Blue Note Bulletin Board for instance, which I started reading - as a lurker for the first couple of years - around that time). Some people seem to really dislike the sound. To me, it's more the totally no-noised ones (such as the Fantasy reissues of the Carnegie Hall Concerts) which always take me a while to get adjusted to (often I'll play 15 or 20 of such a recording, and once my ears are somewhat attuned, I'll start from the beginning again).

Anyway, there's no real alternative (the partial 3 CD reissue sounds the same, and the earlier Blanton/Webster set is no-noised ...)

Sure, it's still the best available for most of that set, I am just saying that the high pitched noise it really grating at anything higher than low levels on my stereo. To be absolutely clear, I am not speaking of the general surface noise, I am talking about the high pitched noise that appears about 2/3 the way through most of the songs on the early discs. When you initially said that you never heard of anything like what I described from the set, I thought that maybe I had a defective set, as I don't know how anyone could not hear it, especially since it occurs in the same way, the same sound, on so many tracks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 29, 2018, 06:02:52 AM
Quote from: George on October 29, 2018, 05:59:24 AM
Sure, it's still the best available for most of that set, I am just saying that the high pitched noise it really grating at anything higher than low levels on my stereo. To be absolutely clear, I am not speaking of the general surface noise, I am talking about the high pitched noise that appears about 2/3 the way through most of the songs on the early discs. When you initially said that you never heard of anything like what I described from the set, I thought that maybe I had a defective set, as I don't know how anyone could not hear it, especially since it occurs in the same way, the same sound, on so many tracks.

Wasn't me who said he never heard it ... I am aware of it and it does bother me to some extent, too. Remastering of old recordings is a science to itself, about which I do not understand much, from a technical angle ... but I guess in this case some wrong or dubious decisions were made.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 29, 2018, 06:08:07 AM
Quote from: king ubu on October 29, 2018, 06:02:52 AM
Wasn't me who said he never heard it ...

Sorry, man, I didn't notice this thread started with Simon, not you. My bad.

QuoteI am aware of it and it does bother me to some extent, too. Remastering of old recordings is a science to itself, about which I do not understand much, from a technical angle ... but I guess in this case some wrong or dubious decisions were made.

Agreed.

I have heard something similar on some of Ward Marston's masterings of old piano recordings, but not that loud. I suspect that it could have been greatly reduced using some EQ in the frequency that it occurs. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 29, 2018, 06:39:24 AM
Quote from: George on October 29, 2018, 06:08:07 AM
Sorry, man, I didn't notice this thread started with Simon, not you. My bad.
No problem.

Quote from: George on October 29, 2018, 06:08:07 AM
Agreed.

I have heard something similar on some of Ward Marston's masterings of old piano recordings, but not that loud. I suspect that it could have been greatly reduced using some EQ in the frequency that it occurs.
Yep ... same goes for some other jazz reissues, too ... I think in one case, on another discussion board, someone with expertise in the field or remastering and the necessary software has done an A/B of a track (don't think it was off the Ellington set, rather I seem to dimly remember it was from a reissue produced by Phil Schaap - who has of course done an amazing job in promoting jazz over the years).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Omicron9 on October 30, 2018, 07:32:46 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 21, 2018, 02:32:19 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Tjader_Breeze_East.jpeg) (https://img.discogs.com/jsucvb-T5_ouC45skkIZOx5mdWI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2702348-1369989666-7237.jpeg.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Breeze From The East (1963)
Ray Brown and Milt Jackson - Much In Common (1964)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Mess_of_Blues_%28Johnny_Hodges_and_Wild_Bill_Davis_album%29.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JHKvAah5L._SY355_.jpg)

Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis - Mess Of Blues (1964)
Wes Montgomery - Bumpin (1965)

(https://img.discogs.com/smIthY1OZuJv6CSnODVjWea5eWk=/fit-in/585x575/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1008473-1367186480-9861.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/fM6gYiwJ15-8bjabG5mz5uuMXSY=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3458367-1516806100-6860.jpeg.jpg)

Tony Scott - Music For Zen Meditation (1964)
Susan Rafey - Hurt So Bad (1965)

(https://img.discogs.com/IQFazgBBd7eqL7QDtRBLJMBFw0w=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3282156-1428854180-3997.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Bola_Sete_-_At_the_Monterey_Jazz_Festival.jpg)

Kenyon Hopkins - Mister Buddwing soundtrack (1966)
Bola Sete - At The Monterey Jazz Festival (1966)

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0004/013/MI0004013919.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fmOkDQG%2BL._SX355_.jpg)

Quincy Jones - The Deadly Affair soundtrack (1966)
Luiz Henrique - Barra Limpa (1967)

That Tony Scott Zen record is so good; yet so unknown.  Nice find on your part!

--09
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Omicron9 on October 30, 2018, 07:34:08 AM
Of late have been listening to Bill Evans' "The Last Waltz."  Recorded live at his final performance in San Francisco one week before his death.  Fantastic playing.  Box set; highly recommended if you can locate a copy.

-09
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on October 30, 2018, 11:46:18 PM
Quote from: Omicron9 on October 30, 2018, 07:34:08 AM
Of late have been listening to Bill Evans' "The Last Waltz."  Recorded live at his final performance in San Francisco one week before his death.  Fantastic playing.  Box set; highly recommended if you can locate a copy.

-09

That last trio is really something! There are three boxes to be found, two on Fantasy and one on Warner - it's the later that I know best so far. In addition, there are two discs on Dreyfus (don't know them), there's the mighty good Paris Concert (two discs on Elektra, reissued on Blue Note), and there is "Homecoming", one of Fantasy's offerings of prev. unreleased Evans in concert ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 01, 2018, 02:14:43 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91VxM9oKvCL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Y_AH7b23UYzB3q2FOSZ92-pcg6A=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4069386-1354202614-1569.jpeg.jpg)

Bobo Stenson - War Orphans (1998)
Astor Piazzolla – Pulsación (1974)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/415GD3GA0GL.jpg)

The New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Jelly Roll Morton
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 02, 2018, 01:15:03 AM
Love NORK!

This one's a fantastic reissue:
https://www.discogs.com/New-Orleans-Rhythm-Kings-1922-1925-The-Complete-Set/release/5651521
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 02, 2018, 08:26:46 PM
Billy Bang and Frank Lowe Above and Beyond.

(https://img.discogs.com/rRLJBgLEoJHnk-2QYjyUGNK20y8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1238157-1202863969.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 03, 2018, 11:30:11 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/KZPN9SBnBb9vF0xM9emgxhNpfRU=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3704631-1341057526-3580.jpeg.jpg) (https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/pictures1.jpg)

Jack DeJohnette - The DeJohnette Complex (1969)
Jack DeJohnette - Pictures (1977)

(https://img.discogs.com/3tWv0OXpAOKWHP8fF6Q4UAg2mnU=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8747760-1467906545-4720.jpeg.jpg)

Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on November 05, 2018, 04:17:02 AM
Possibly my first contribution to this thread:
[asin]B07BYWVLZH[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2018, 04:23:45 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/613/MI0001613579.jpg)

depending on how stiff your upper lip is vz defining "jazz", this may not at all fit here, but then you may not, either  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2018, 04:30:52 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/806/MI0000806601.jpg)

no objections here though ... post "second quintet" jazz with a dose of all the other stuff that went on afterwards ... plenty hip!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 11, 2018, 01:49:52 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61JQl983hPL._SL500_.jpg)

Brand new release of a 2007 concert at a festival in Germany - gorgeous! Too bad I never heard Haden in concert, what an amazing musician he was!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 11, 2018, 09:33:40 PM
That Haden/Meldhau looks very interesting. I assume you have the Haden/Rubalcaba Tokyo Adagio? Absolutely gorgeous!

Just digitized this LP today. Bill Evans Conversations with Myself

(https://img.discogs.com/zgvM-C58EKC288yK2KKP3_f65II=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2746606-1449671926-5873.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 12, 2018, 01:59:16 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 11, 2018, 09:33:40 PM
That Haden/Meldhau looks very interesting. I assume you have the Haden/Rubalcaba Tokyo Adagio? Absolutely gorgeous!

Yup. I more or less get whatever I can if Haden is involved  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 12, 2018, 01:52:20 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XzTpB2uwWUqaTukoX4IILfOfT-o=/fit-in/600x593/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4753367-1374421796-3392.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/7ktISEkGiktULzSHHReRk1Bh2v0=/fit-in/447x443/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3424296-1329857224.jpeg.jpg)

Rune Gustafsson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen ‎– Just The Way You Are (1981) 
Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis and Shirley Scott – Bacalao (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 13, 2018, 02:08:42 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/QXV_TeO4s1z5hRhY8AC7aDWJmSA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3849931-1346818528-5006.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/3uCDqZZtVb6wbXz8chKA8-KjsVs=/fit-in/600x581/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11587550-1518976623-5991.jpeg.jpg)

Herb Ellis and Remo Palmier ‎– Windflower (1978)
Chet Baker - Strollin (1986)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 14, 2018, 02:51:41 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/8L4p5E3JWnesrO11zNe422pp1e0=/fit-in/539x524/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5965903-1407849351-9819.jpeg.jpg)

Shirley Scott = Plays Horace Silver (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on November 15, 2018, 06:22:37 AM
Joe Pass: I remember Charlie Parker.

[asin]B000000YS4[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 15, 2018, 06:45:10 AM
I've been listening to (and at last, greatly digging) Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 15, 2018, 08:47:55 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 15, 2018, 06:45:10 AM
I've been listening to (and at last, greatly digging) Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

Took awhile to grow on me, too, Karl!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 15, 2018, 09:12:10 AM
Cheers, George!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 15, 2018, 05:19:08 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/EVCFYFJf2Q9C-3_zq6shtdBetEk=/fit-in/500x473/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3647936-1338785326-6070.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/h7K20vz-oHxpBU4oxBR6WhzmNgE=/fit-in/500x499/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6036414-1409422603-9435.jpeg.jpg)

Dexter Gordon – Blues A La Suisse (1973)
Art Farmer - Music For That Wild Party (1956)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Bettycarterraybryant.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/445/MI0003445840.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Bobo Stenson - Indicum (2011)
Betty Carter and Ray Bryant - Meet Betty Carter And Ray Bryant (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on November 15, 2018, 05:21:48 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 15, 2018, 06:45:10 AM
I've been listening to (and at last, greatly digging) Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

I must confess that one has never connected with me...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on November 16, 2018, 06:12:40 AM
Quote from: JBS on November 15, 2018, 05:21:48 PM
I must confess that one has never connected with me...

I don't know just what clicked, nor just when it clicked . . .

Thread Duty:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6xQxN5Sxndc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 16, 2018, 02:24:04 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/XAdcWu_pHLJARhL6D_19FgJy4ok=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7823307-1449579110-5044.jpeg.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/The_Dreamer_%28Yusef_Lateef_album%29.jpg)

Urbie Green - All About Urbie Green and His Big Band (1956)
Yusef Lateef - The Dreamer (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 19, 2018, 01:56:16 PM
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First spin
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 19, 2018, 02:47:04 PM
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Second spin
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 19, 2018, 04:33:53 PM
Quote from: George on November 19, 2018, 01:56:16 PM

First spin


What did you think of your first listen to that? I love it, but then I think near all of Tyner's discography is some degree of pretty amazing.

In fact I think I'll join you and play it again now.

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McCoy Tyner - Sahara (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 19, 2018, 04:41:26 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 19, 2018, 04:33:53 PM
What did you think of your first listen to that? I love it, but then I think near all of Tyner's discography is some degree of pretty amazing.

I really enjoyed it. So intense and different from any other Jazz CD I own.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bwv 1080 on November 20, 2018, 05:39:57 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on November 20, 2018, 10:59:57 PM
Sun Ra in Detroit 1981 (a 28 CD set!!). Bought this set in San Francisco about ten years ago and never listened to much of it. For some reason, today I had a yearning to hear some new (to me) Sun Ra, so began at disc 1. Space Loneliness is a new favorite! All those guys were great musicians and from what I've read, no one rehearsed and worked their azzes off like Sun Ra's bands.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 22, 2018, 03:28:47 AM
lately:

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Love the final Bill Evans trio with Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera - the two of them really kicked ol'Bill's ass again, after a period of samey-ness during his last years with Fantasy ... somehow had always assumed these two were part of the Warner Vanguard box (I know Ronnie Scott's isn't the Village Vanguard, don't ask ...)

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Roy Hargrove's R.H. Factor - this is certainly better than the second instalment, still not quite sure about it ... guess there were (good) reasons why this didn't interest me when it was new, but as a document of its time (or rather a document lagging somewhat behind its time) it's still interesting, and it's good fun for sure, just not as deep as I usually prefer things to be (and deep is not equal with serious or high-brow, mind me).

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Fantastic disc by Dexter Gordon with a more than solid, actually quite agile dutch rhythm section ... 1963 was early in his comeback, and it's wonderful indeed to have this, as a companion piece to the 1966/67 recordings from Scandinavia.

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James Blood Ulmer and Bill Laswell and former Meters drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, plus keys from Bernie Worrell and Amina Claudine Myers ... deep and dirty space blues funk goes psychedelia, and all that meshed into a powerful low-end theory.

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Norma Winstone wrote lyrics to Jimmy Rowles' tune "The Peacocks" - and asked him if he would record with her. Adding George Mraz (former Rowles duo-mate) and Joe LaBarbera (see Evans trio above), she made what may be her most mainstream/conservative album, but it's totally gorgeous. There's quite some fragility in there, both in Winstone's singing as well as in the music (seems Rowles was in bad shape and someone had a flu so they went into the studio wearing masks ...).

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Paul Bley - Ballads ¦ Nothing to add really, neither to the title nor to the layout. Quintessential ECM, but self-produced by Bley in 1967 (rel. on ECM in 1971) - music that really opened plentiful doors.

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Both the Bley and the Hino=Kikuchi Quintet arrived in the mail from Japan yesterday (I've known the Bley for a while, but not this one) - a bit on the conservative side, but then there's no keys and synths in there as is wont with many Japanese album in the mid/late seventies (and sometimes the results are as awful as the US stuff they were trying to copy ...) - quite straight post-Miles/second quintet music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 22, 2018, 11:29:05 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 22, 2018, 03:28:47 AM
lately:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HuyIXhWzL._SL500_.jpg)

Norma Winstone wrote lyrics to Jimmy Rowles' tune "The Peacocks" - and asked him if he would record with her. Adding George Mraz (former Rowles duo-mate) and Joe LaBarbera (see Evans trio above), she made what may be her most mainstream/conservative album, but it's totally gorgeous. There's quite some fragility in there, both in Winstone's singing as well as in the music (seems Rowles was in bad shape and someone had a flu so they went into the studio wearing masks ...).


The Peacocks is one my favorite standards, having first heard it in the film Round Midnight, so I had to immediately check that out. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 22, 2018, 12:52:22 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 22, 2018, 11:29:05 AM
The Peacocks is one my favorite standards, having first heard it in the film Round Midnight, so I had to immediately check that out. Thanks.

Quite sure you'll like it!

Thread duty - first spin:

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This is Brian Marsella's remake of the Hasaan album, "Outspoken - The Music of the Legendary Hasaan" (Tzadik, 2018) - very good indeed! Besides six (of the seven) tunes from Hasaan's one album ("Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan", Atlantic, rec. 1964), there's a new Hasaan tune and Marsella's tribute. Christian McBride is on bass and Anwar Marshall on drums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 23, 2018, 04:33:07 PM
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Bill Jennings – Enough Said! (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 23, 2018, 04:38:34 PM
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Still slowly working through this set, in order. Tonight enjoying more of the mid-forties recordings via CD 16 (of 24.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 24, 2018, 06:52:11 AM
Quote from: George on November 23, 2018, 04:38:34 PM
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Still slowly working through this set, in order. Tonight enjoying more of the mid-forties recordings via CD 16 (of 24.)

Mid-forties Duke is somewhat underrated, I think ... if you want more of it, there's the Treasury Shows (aka D.E.T.S. = Duke Ellington Treasury Shows) series on Storyville (just completed, early instalments are nowadays sold as CD-Rs only, alas), and then there's the two "Duke Boxes", also on Storyville (and going into the fifites) - no overlap with the D.E.T.S. series.

--

Thread duty:

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First spin. Heard the trio live last night (click image to enlarge and read names) - excellent set! It's not quite the same on CD of course, but still very good, I think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 24, 2018, 07:07:03 AM
Quote from: king ubu on November 24, 2018, 06:52:11 AM
Mid-forties Duke is somewhat underrated, I think ... if you want more of it, there's the Treasury Shows (aka D.E.T.S. = Duke Ellington Treasury Shows) series on Storyville (just completed, early instalments are nowadays sold as CD-Rs only, alas), and then there's the two "Duke Boxes", also on Storyville (and going into the fifites) - no overlap with the D.E.T.S. series.

Thanks!

Personally, I found the sound on the CD I posted to be quite piercing in the treble/upper midrange, so much so that I had to turn the volume down.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 24, 2018, 07:22:37 AM
Quote from: George on November 24, 2018, 07:07:03 AM
Thanks!

Personally, I found the sound on the CD I posted to be quite piercing in the treble/upper midrange, so much so that I had to turn the volume down.

Hm, yeah, I guess it's the issues of the box's remastering again ... it's been quite a while that I played anything from the big box, but it always takes me a moment to adjust (same goes, btw, for the the no-noised/sound-killed Carnegie Hall concerts reissued by Fantasy).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 24, 2018, 02:26:25 PM
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Milt Jackson with The Monty Alexander Trio - Soul Fusion (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on November 25, 2018, 06:30:07 AM
First spin ... not quite through with it all:

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It's sedated Mingus, not with his best band (don't put the blame on Roy Brooks who subbed for Dannie Richmond, while the later went with the Mark Almond (who?) band for a year or so) ... but still a wonderful document to have, and sound quality is pretty good, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 27, 2018, 02:39:32 PM
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First spin. CD 01 earlier, CD 2 now. Lovely sound and performance.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 30, 2018, 04:32:37 PM
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Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile 92018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 30, 2018, 05:57:36 PM
I've fallen shamefully behind not only in this thread, but in the entire forum. Mea culpa!

Last coupla days:

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And speaking of being ashamed, I confess that I only recently learned of this existence of this record. How did I manage to miss it?

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I've avoided a lot of Powell's music because I've always read about his recorded legacy being rather uneven, especially in his later years when he was really falling apart both emotionally and physically (not that he'd ever been all that healthy at any time in his tragic adult life). But this one, recorded in Paris in 1961 with Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke (but not released until 1965), is very fine, a tribute from one bop pioneer to another.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 01, 2018, 04:48:24 AM
You can safely check out all of Bud Powell's works on Blue Note - whenever he worked with Alfred Lion, it seems things went well. With Verve, there's glorious stuff and less so ... the late recordings are indeed a mixed bunch, his two RCA albums are too contended to my liking, as if he's holding back (or, as too often with RCA at that time, the suits told him to keep things short and easy), but "Portrait of Thelonious" and also the Essen concert (actually that was the Oscar Pettiford trio w/Bud and Klook, and for the second half special guest Coleman Hawkins in great shape) are both a safe bet. This is the latest incarnation of the Essen concert (I have it on an old Black Lion CD):
https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/10535/bud-powell/powell-pettiford-clarke-1960-essen-grugahalle

Regarding thread duty, not much time for listening at home these days as I'm at concerts almost every night (not yesterday, but I had an all classical listening programme). If live counts, I caught most of a duo set by pianists Alexander Hawkins (from Oxford) and Yves Theiler (from Zurich), paying tribute to Cecil Taylor, on Thursday (had to leave early as I had a ticket that same night for a new suite of orchestrated Berwald songs and Mahler 4 at Tonhalle, with Lisa Larsson and Lahav Shani - the new orchestrations are by Rolf Martinsson, who was in attendance as it was the very first performance, the entire thing being commissioned by Tonhalle for their 150 yrs jubilee, and Larsson having sought in the archives, finding some songs that were, it seems, never before performed).

Monday night, it was Sylvie Courvoisier (p) & Julian Sartorius (d) for the first set, and then for the second they were joined by Tom Arthurs (t) to accompany Teju Cole, who read some of his stuff and showed some of his pictures.

And Friday last week, the opening of the on-going festival (will be there again tonight and prob. tomorrow for closing, too) was with Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger and then second Peter Bruun's All Too Human.

Tonight's schedule is:
- Joey Baron/Robin Schulkowsky (percussion duo)
- Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
- District Five (a young local quartet)

Tomorrow:
- AKSHAM (a new project by singer Elina Duni and pianist Marc Perrenoud, with David Encho-t, Florent Nisse-b and Fred Pasqua-d)
- Théo Ceccaldi "Freaks"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2018, 06:32:18 PM
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Shirley Scott - Like Cozy (1960)
Joe Pass - Song For Ellen (1992)

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Lee Konitz - Frescalalto (2017)
Impossible Gentlemen - Let's Get Deluxe (2016)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 02, 2018, 09:39:00 PM
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v/a - The Passion Of Charlie Parker (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 06, 2018, 09:09:52 PM
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Mel Torme - It's A Blue World (1956)
Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 06, 2018, 10:56:39 PM
New(ish) one from the incomparable Susanne Abbuehl

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on December 07, 2018, 06:42:18 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 06, 2018, 09:09:52 PM
Mel Torme - It's A Blue World (1956)
Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (2018)
I know it's not fair, but every time I see the name Mel Tormé I can only think of one thing: the movie Top Secret!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RwIt3a8xs
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 07, 2018, 08:06:35 AM
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Winged Serpents: Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor (Tzadik)
Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (Blue Note)

The Taylor hommage has solos by Craig Taborn, Sylvie Courvoisier, Brian Marsella, Kris Davis, Aruán Ortiz and Anthony Coleman.
And why the fuck is Marcus Gilmore not mentioned on the cover of the Akinmusire, when he may be about the most important player here?

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A Pride of Lions - The Bridge Sessions 08 (The Bridge Sessions)
Don Byron/Aruán Ortiz - Random Dances and (A)Tonalities (Intakt)

A Pride of Lions consists of Daunik Lazro, Joe McPhee, Joshua Abrams, Guillaume Séguron and Chad Taylor, heard them play at Météo festival in Mulhouse, the gig on the album is probably a wee bit better.
The Byron/Ortiz is the only one I've played before, it's very, very nice (but from Ortiz' quickly released Intakt albums, maybe his solo album is my favourite still)


Heard this band twice this year, so it's time I give the album a spin, too:

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David Murray feat. Saul Williams - Blues for Memo (Motema)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 07, 2018, 11:45:15 AM
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another first spin
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 08, 2018, 10:49:31 AM
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The Monk is fantastic - definitely amongst the very best from his Columbia years. Rouse in fine shape, and Ore/Dunlop driving the truck in a manner that almost swings it off the road at times ... Monk does some improvising, it seems, not just going through the notions as so often (still, even when he does just that, I enjoy listening). The Jack Sels set is very nicely done, a disc of rarities (some released tracks from EPs and LPs) and radio recordings, and a disc of prev. unissued live tracks. The man has a mighty sound and is kind of outside the usual timeline, at moments honking in a Hawkins/Webster/Jacquet line, then swinging à la Zoot (but with so much more edge to the tone) ... oozing personality, yet it's really quite unclear what it's all about, that personality. It's about jazz though, and about swinging, and it's not afraid of forward-looking stuff. Among the sidemen you'll get folks such as Sadi, Phil Catherine, Lou Bennett and a few others, including some rather unknown but pretty fine Dutch jazzers like Jean Fanis (p) or Ado Broodboom (t) (only on two tracks taken from the EP "Bongo Jazz", which Sels shared with Lucky Thompson, though you only get one of them soloing per track - the Thompson solo cuts are on the Fresh Sound set containing the "Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959", which of course duplicates all the music put as part of the "Original Vogue Masters" and "Jazz in Paris" series, but I still had to get it, for the few additional things to be found there).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 08, 2018, 11:08:35 AM
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Another play of this, which, fwiw, Wire magazine has named their album of the year.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 08, 2018, 11:28:08 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 08, 2018, 11:08:35 AM
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Another play of this, which, fwiw, Wire magazine has named their album of the year.

Proof that even the best can fail ... it's pretty samey and for that too long - just as their live set at Météo festival this summer ... great stuff but if you keep extending it and playing more, even if the floor seems to ask for it, you can overdo. I liked their first two albums better, but they weren't on (re-born) Impulse (which should not at all be a reason for Wire to not notice them). Regarding Wire, the invisible jukebox with Melvin Gibbs in the December issue is very much worth reading!

And regarding Jack Sels and his style, he makes me think of Ronnie Scott (who was probably quite a bit more modern in his own playing, while with Sels it's more that he makes it fit with the modern surroundings) and also of Bengt Jaedig. Both, and Sels too, leave the impression that they're kinda driving a wild beast of a car (the tenor saxophone is the wildest, after all!) and are at times just lucky that they're not gliding off the road.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 08, 2018, 01:56:41 PM
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A bootleg released in 2017, alas in so-so sound - wish it were re-done by someone with access to the INA archives, but there never was all that much jazz coming from those parts (and earlier series that did exist were eventually stopped as being bootlegs, too ... not sure about the status of the Frémeaux "Live in Paris" series, which usually has mighty good sound). But no matter what, musically, this is excellent stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 08, 2018, 06:56:56 PM
Lester Young in Washington D.C., Vol. 1

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 08, 2018, 08:22:13 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 08, 2018, 11:28:08 AM
Proof that even the best can fail ... it's pretty samey and for that too long - just as their live set at Météo festival this summer ... great stuff but if you keep extending it and playing more, even if the floor seems to ask for it, you can overdo. I liked their first two albums better, but they weren't on (re-born) Impulse (which should not at all be a reason for Wire to not notice them). Regarding Wire, the invisible jukebox with Melvin Gibbs in the December issue is very much worth reading!

And regarding Jack Sels and his style, he makes me think of Ronnie Scott (who was probably quite a bit more modern in his own playing, while with Sels it's more that he makes it fit with the modern surroundings) and also of Bengt Jaedig. Both, and Sels too, leave the impression that they're kinda driving a wild beast of a car (the tenor saxophone is the wildest, after all!) and are at times just lucky that they're not gliding off the road.

I miss the way Invisible Jukebox used to throw truly  random things at the interviewees whereas now they're tailored to their biography.

Nevertheless I'll check that one out. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 09, 2018, 01:17:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 08, 2018, 08:22:13 PM
I miss the way Invisible Jukebox used to throw truly  random things at the interviewees whereas now they're tailored to their biography.

Nevertheless I'll check that one out. Thanks.

True dat! However, at best, both variants can be a fine read. The new issue also has a story on the London Improvisers Orchestra (about/of which I know hardly anything so far).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 09, 2018, 03:17:48 PM
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Zoot Sims - Quietly There (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 10, 2018, 03:32:53 PM
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Sonny Rollins - Now's The Time (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2018, 02:43:22 PM
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Bill Barron - Modern Windows (1962)
Booker Little - And Friend (1961)

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George Russell - The Outer View (1962)
Anamari - s/t (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 11, 2018, 09:19:51 PM
Who the heck is Anamari?

The other three are all excellent rekkids!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2018, 09:57:13 PM
Quote from: king ubu on December 11, 2018, 09:19:51 PM
Who the heck is Anamari?

The other three are all excellent rekkids!  :)

Real name Anna Schofield. That appears to be her one and only album.

As with the other three it has Pete La Roca on drums which is what lead me to it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 11, 2018, 11:32:51 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 11, 2018, 09:57:13 PM
Real name Anna Schofield. That appears to be her one and only album.

As with the other three it has Pete La Roca on drums which is what lead me to it.

Interesting, that's the Art Farmer Quartet of that time (which was a mighty fine group!) - never saw the cover or heard of this!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 13, 2018, 11:15:03 PM
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Roberto Ottaviano's latest ... with my dear friend Alexander Hawkins on piano (and organ and rhodes) ... released sometime in October, but I only just got it (always takes a while for Dodicilune stuff to come around, this one I got via Amazon Italy), but I guess it was worth the wait. Ottaviano sticks to soprano (his other main axe is the alto) and things open with some South African grooves, which I so dearly love (and which Hawkins has totally down by now, after years with the great band of Louis Moholo): "Uhuru", the opener, is a traditional, then we proceed with Dollar Brand's unkillable "African Marketplace", opener and title track of one of my all-time favourites. There follow pieces by Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Elton Dean, Coltrane and Don Cherry, with two Ottaviano-penned tunes in between.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 13, 2018, 11:47:03 PM
I love this genre bending 2018 release from Charles Lloyd -

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qab2iJq2L._SX425_.jpg)

As far as I can tell it's the second recording to come from the group he calls The Marvels, a group that includes my favorite guitarist, Bill Frisell.  This new one features Lucinda Williams and is simply transcendent, imo.

The earlier recording is also good,

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Here's some info about the Vanished Gardens, "A friend had turned me on to Lucinda when Car Wheels On a Gravel Road came out," Lloyd recalls. "Lu has worked a lot with Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz, so a couple of years ago she came to one of my Marvels concerts at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara. It was our first meeting and I sensed a deep Southern crossroads connection. Not long after that meeting she invited me to guest at her UCLA concert and then I invited her to guest at one of my concerts about a year later... It was clear we had something we wanted to explore together."

Williams is featured on five of the ten tracks on Vanished Gardens, including expansive new versions of her well-known songs "Dust," "Ventura" and "Unsuffer Me," as well as a full-hearted interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel" that closes the album. Alternating with the vocal tracks are five sublime instrumental offerings including three new Lloyd originals and versions of Thelonious Monk's "Monk's Mood" and the Roberta Flack popularized song "Ballad of The Sad Young Men."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 13, 2018, 11:51:30 PM
I got the second one only and didn't like it all that much I'm afraid ... but this one I think is really strong:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 14, 2018, 12:40:57 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 13, 2018, 11:51:30 PM
I got the second one only and didn't like it all that much I'm afraid ... but this one I think is really strong:

(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0004/250/MI0004250975.jpg)

I get where you are coming from (but judging from your Roberto Ottaviano post, our tastes don't always intersect).

The Lloyd recording you mention features a different group, and comes from a different place.  But that's the cool thing about Lloyd, he has crossed boundaries throughout his career.  I am a fan of Lloyd's records but can understand why his work with The Marvels might venture outside many jazz fans' comfort zone. 

I particularly like Bill Frisell, another artist who is hard to classify other than as a great musician; and have been a fan of Lucinda Williams for decades - so Vanished Gardens is right in my wheel house.  Plus, I like to see artists who on the surface may not appear to have much in common create something new for both with a collaboration.

But if you're looking for a strictly jazz record by Charles Lloyd, Vanished Gardens would not be the one I'd suggest.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 14, 2018, 01:01:30 AM
I met a friend for drinks a few days ago and he wss strongly recommending that Lloyd album with Lucinda Williams.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 14, 2018, 03:53:15 AM
@san antone Indeed, so it seems ... but some of these country-folkish-jazzy things do please me a lot ("Rambling Boy" by Charlie Haden for instance).

I like Frisell as well, but not so much his most recent stuff, so I stopped following closely what he releases.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 14, 2018, 07:02:15 AM
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1963: New Directions
released November 16, 2018

Followup to Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, includes the rest of the material from Coltrane's recordings during 1963 from the albums Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Dear Old Stockholm, Newport '63 and Live at Birdland.  A five-LP vinyl box set version of the 3CD collection is also planned for 4 January 2019.

EDIT: At first I thought it didn't duplicate the tracks from The Lost Album, but that is not the case.  So, this new box is better suited to those who delayed buying the earlier recording, such as myself.

;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 15, 2018, 12:28:05 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 14, 2018, 07:02:15 AM
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1963: New Directions
released November 16, 2018

Followup to Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, includes the rest of the material from Coltrane's recordings during 1963 from the albums Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Dear Old Stockholm, Newport '63 and Live at Birdland.  A five-LP vinyl box set version of the 3CD collection is also planned for 4 January 2019.

EDIT: At first I thought it didn't duplicate the tracks from The Lost Album, but that is not the case.  So, this new box is better suited to those who delayed buying the earlier recording, such as myself.

;)

It looks like a very nice presentation ... but there's nothing in there I haven't already bought (some of it twice ... I was one of those who ended up with the botched version of "Live at Birdland" in its "Impulse Masters Sessions" edition ... I found out in 2010, around 14 years after buying the reissue, and then started this discussion about it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/59529-john-coltrane-live-at-birdland/ )

Either way, to me this looks like a bit of a rip-off package ... it seems though to at least contain all the "Lost Album" material (i.e. the "deluxe" 2CD version w/alternate takes).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 15, 2018, 01:45:17 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 15, 2018, 12:28:05 AM
It looks like a very nice presentation ... but there's nothing in there I haven't already bought (some of it twice ... I was one of those who ended up with the botched version of "Live at Birdland" in its "Impulse Masters Sessions" edition ... I found out in 2010, around 14 years after buying the reissue, and then started this discussion about it: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/59529-john-coltrane-live-at-birdland/ )

Either way, to me this looks like a bit of a rip-off package ... it seems though to at least contain all the "Lost Album" material (i.e. the "deluxe" 2CD version w/alternate takes).

Yeah, could be a rip-off - but for someone like myself who never bought the Lost Album, it makes more sense.  Bottomline, it is available to stream so that's how I'll listen in any event.  I did think it odd that this came out so soon after the Lost Album recording ...  :-\  which is why I assumed it did not duplicate those tracks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 15, 2018, 02:10:38 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 15, 2018, 01:45:17 AM
Yeah, could be a rip-off - but for someone like myself who never bought the Lost Album, it makes more sense.  Bottomline, it is available to stream so that's how I'll listen in any event.  I did think it odd that this came out so soon after the Lost Album recording ...  :-\  which is why I assumed it did not duplicate those tracks.

Yeah, I see where you're coming from. I got the news via Japan initially and thought this may be one of the oddities and extravagances the Land of the Rising Sun still does, CD-wise ... I am *still* tempted by this new one, just because it looks so nice  ???
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 15, 2018, 04:49:27 PM
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Eivind Aarset - Dream Logic (2012)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 15, 2018, 07:00:37 PM
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Áine O'Dwyer: Gallarais (2018)

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Barney Wilen: Barney (1959)

Nineteen fifty-nine was a pretty decent year for jazz ... :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 16, 2018, 01:07:53 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on December 15, 2018, 07:00:37 PM
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Barney Wilen: Barney (1959)

Nineteen fifty-nine was a pretty decent
year for jazz ... :)
Oh, it was?  ;)

That Wilen set (two full discs) surely ranks high!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 16, 2018, 08:38:05 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 16, 2018, 09:13:20 AM
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Now enjoying the final disc in this 6CD set. So glad I was able to get a cheap copy used on amazon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 17, 2018, 03:34:33 AM
Cecil Taylor : Jazz Advance

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His first misunderstood recording.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 17, 2018, 07:55:16 PM
Coltrane transcribed for piano. I THINK this is what I heard on the superb California Central Coast radio station KCBX, while we were on vacation last week. Alas, there was no playlist for wee-small-hours-of-the-morning programming.

Apparently this is not available on CD. I am really tired of having to settle for MP3s of various things. I wish there were at least a FLAC version.

Does anyone know anything about this recording? It does not even appear on her own website--only Amazon! The one track I heard, I thought was superb!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RL-Wc46uL._SS500.jpg)

https://www.amazon.com/Coltrane-pianist-composer-Jessica-Williams/dp/B000QZY47E/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545108560&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=jessica+williams+coltrane+cd


EDIT: I just found it: http://www.jessicawilliams.com/cds/coltrane.html
but, when I click the link to buy it, it just takes me to a list of CDs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 12:29:53 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 17, 2018, 07:55:16 PM
Coltrane transcribed for piano. I THINK this is what I heard on the superb California Central Coast radio station KCBX, while we were on vacation last week. Alas, there was no playlist for wee-small-hours-of-the-morning programming.

Apparently this is not available on CD. I am really tired of having to settle for MP3s of various things. I wish there were at least a FLAC version.

Does anyone know anything about this recording? It does not even appear on her own website--only Amazon! The one track I heard, I thought was superb!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RL-Wc46uL._SS500.jpg)

https://www.amazon.com/Coltrane-pianist-composer-Jessica-Williams/dp/B000QZY47E/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545108560&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=jessica+williams+coltrane+cd


EDIT: I just found it: http://www.jessicawilliams.com/cds/coltrane.html
but, when I click the link to buy it, it just takes me to a list of CDs.

I haven't heard all that much by Jessica Williams yet, but she's a great piano player, that's for sure! On her site there's mention of the Origin Records version of her Coltrane album with a slightly different tracklist, and that one is available via the usual outlets:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IN75E4/

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The Draksler/Eldh/Lillinger may be my new jazz release of the year, the Melford it's close runner-up ... the Cyrille/Frisell/Wadada leaves me more and more puzzled - Wadada sounds somewhat direction-less, Frisell takes it easy and feels cozy, Cyrille does his free-style marching band drumming stuff, and it never really gels, except for the gorgeous ballad at the end. Not sure if Frisell is entirely mis-cast here, or just unwilling to really play that stuff with Cyrille ... I liked the previous ECM album by Cyrille quite some, but it took me a while, so maybe this one will grow on me again (I liked it much better upon first listen a few weeks back).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 01:34:59 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 12:29:53 AM
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... the Cyrille/Frisell/Wadada leaves me more and more puzzled - Wadada sounds somewhat direction-less, Frisell takes it easy and feels cozy, Cyrille does his free-style marching band drumming stuff, and it never really gels, except for the gorgeous ballad at the end. Not sure if Frisell is entirely mis-cast here, or just unwilling to really play that stuff with Cyrille ... I liked the previous ECM album by Cyrille quite some, but it took me a while, so maybe this one will grow on me again (I liked it much better upon first listen a few weeks back).

This one

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416VUJIGNzL._AC_US218_.jpg)

For me, the only reason I would listen to these is because of Frisell - but I am more impressed than you with the latest one (will listen to the earlier one too).  Not sure what you mean about Frisell being miscast, I don't perceive that; as are many ECM recordings the playing is more about color and mood than dynamic energy.

Expansive, loose playing, by all three musicians.  I enjoy it, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 03:32:40 AM
For me the drawing points are Cyrille and Wadada, both musicians whose work I admire greatly.

Not sure if I can describe it any better, the trio just doesn't seem to getl to my ears, they're playing at the same time, but not really with each other. Smith blows his lines, they seem detached from what Frisell does (who does his lovely and very warm Americana/country-ish stuff, but no blues, which might have suited the trumpet better) and Cyrille again seems to do something entirely else. Anyway, I'll keep trying, as my very first impression a few weeks ago was pretty good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 04:03:24 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 03:32:40 AM
For me the drawing points are Cyrille and Wadada, both musicians whose work I admire greatly.

Not sure if I can describe it any better, the trio just doesn't seem to getl to my ears, they're playing at the same time, but not really with each other. Smith blows his lines, they seem detached from what Frisell does (who does his lovely and very warm Americana/country-ish stuff, but no blues, which might have suited the trumpet better) and Cyrille again seems to do something entirely else. Anyway, I'll keep trying, as my very first impression a few weeks ago was pretty good.

LOL - just the opposite, Cyrille (especially) is not a musician I listen to, nor Smith much (although I would like to hear his Miles tribute record).  As I said, Frisell was the only reason I would have listened to these.  But I like the 2018 one better than the quartet recording. 

Anyway, our recent discussions have sunk to squabbling, and I won't comment on your future posts unless we happen to agree.   8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 05:43:57 AM
Quote from: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 04:03:24 AM
LOL - just the opposite, Cyrille (especially) is not a musician I listen to, nor Smith much (although I would like to hear his Miles tribute record).  As I said, Frisell was the only reason I would have listened to these.  But I like the 2018 one better than the quartet recording. 

Anyway, our recent discussions have sunk to squabbling, and I won't comment on your future posts unless we happen to agree.   8)

Yup, fine with me, too ... wasn't my intention, and at least we're keeping things polite  :)

Either way, maybe "Yo! Miles", the Henry Kaiser/Smith project may be something for you?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 07:09:17 AM
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Gerald Clayton : Bond - the Paris sessions (2011)

Excerpt from Allmusic (https://www.allmusic.com/album/bond-the-paris-sessions-mw0002109351) review

QuoteHis second release as a leader is a trio session with bassist Joe Sanders and drummer Justin Brown, plus some solo piano tracks. His interpretations of standards are remarkably fresh, considering how often they have been recorded in a jazz setting. He sets up "If I Were a Bell" with a subtle vamp as he slowly works his way into it, delivering a witty performance well supported by his sidemen. Clayton, while not totally eschewing the famous introduction to "All the Things You Are" added by Dizzy Gillespie, does rework it into a more subtle harmonic device before delving directly into the song, with a tense, understated approach that simmers but never reaches the boiling point. His solo take of "Nobody Else But Me" is full of intricately interwoven lines while still swinging like mad. Where Clayton really stands apart from young musicians of his generation is as a composer. He shows a surprising maturity for his age, as his pieces display a wealth of stylistic influences yet retain memorable themes that hold one's interest as well. Highlights including his dramatic three-part suite, his Impressionist "Sun Glimpse," and the touching lyrical ballad "Hank."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 07:34:40 AM
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"Blue Velvet" by Kurt Elling & Branford Marasalis from the CD Upward Spiral (2016)

Jazziz (https://www.jazziz.com/branford-marsalis-quartet-featuring-kurt-elling-release-new-album/) review

QuoteUpward Spiral [is] comprised of a mixture of staples from the Great American Songbook, modern jazz standards and popular music mainstays from a diverse array of composers. Highlights include a version of "Doxy" by Sonny Rollins with lyrics by Mark Murphy, an arrangement of the Nat King Cole-affiliated "Blue Gardenia" and Christ Whitley's bluesy "From One Island To Another." Marsalis said, "My philosophy of jazz is that it should be about strong melodies and a great beat, and every song here has a melody that you can hold in your mind, that you can sing."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 08:11:23 AM
R.I.P. Nancy Wilson

I stumbled upon this sad news while looking through the latest JazzTimes (https://jazztimes.com/news/nancy-wilson-1937-2018/).

QuoteNancy Wilson, an NEA Jazz Master vocalist who was best known as a jazz singer but who cut deep inroads into rhythm & blues and pop over her 50-year career, died on Dec. 13 at her home in Pioneertown, Calif. She was 81.

According to a press statement from her manager Devra Hall Levy, Wilson's death came at the end of a long illness. No further details were given.

TD:

Cannonball Adderley & Nancy Wilson

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 11:06:44 AM
Fascinating music

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Noise Of Our Time : Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey

QuoteIt was only during Ken Vandermark's residency at the Jazz club
The Stone in January 2016 that Vandermark found himself in the
same vicinity as Nate Wooley, Sylvie Courvoisier and Tom Rainey.
A year later they went into the studio with nine compositions –
three each by Courvoisier, Vandermark and Wooley.
These four musicians have well-documented, distinct personalities
which, in this context, results in performances full of surprises,
rich contrasts and shared responsibilities. The music sounds
thoughtful, but never over-wrought. They play by in tuition, yet
retain a vivid complexity. Their composing is transparent and
un-clichéd; their improvising provided with a remarkable coherence
and openness. And perhaps it is exactly this – a fresh collective
unity that keeps their respective personalities and idiosyncrasies
intact – that brings them success in this bold and collaborative
performance. Art needs to pique and renew your interest, take
you on inspiring and surprising journeys and sometimes even
confront your own biases. Creating, not reviving as a way to
evolve and to keep going forward in all directions.

released September 21, 2018
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on December 18, 2018, 11:42:09 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 18, 2018, 12:29:53 AM
I haven't heard all that much by Jessica Williams yet, but she's a great piano player, that's for sure! On her site there's mention of the Origin Records version of her Coltrane album with a slightly different tracklist, and that one is available via the usual outlets:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IN75E4/

--

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The Draksler/Eldh/Lillinger may be my new jazz release of the year, the Melford it's close runner-up ... the Cyrille/Frisell/Wadada leaves me more and more puzzled - Wadada sounds somewhat direction-less, Frisell takes it easy and feels cozy, Cyrille does his free-style marching band drumming stuff, and it never really gels, except for the gorgeous ballad at the end. Not sure if Frisell is entirely mis-cast here, or just unwilling to really play that stuff with Cyrille ... I liked the previous ECM album by Cyrille quite some, but it took me a while, so maybe this one will grow on me again (I liked it much better upon first listen a few weeks back).

Great, thanks very much for the post. That CD you linked to looks like a winner, and I'm not even sure of the purpose of the MP3 album I posted. Sometimes I'm not having much success with Amazon search function, and I've been hearing a lot of other people complaining about it as well.

The Myra Melford  you posted certainly looks interesting. Do you have Equal Interest with her and Joseph Jarman--Another very interesting one, especially the track Poem Song?

Cheers,
XB-70
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 18, 2018, 05:52:09 PM
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Ben Webster and Harry Carney with Strings

QuoteCombining two string albums by Ben Webster and one from Ellington sideman Harry Carney, the two-disc Music With Feeling delivers over two hours' worth of incredible ballad interpretations. Webster, of course, made his name with many an after-hours gem, and he predictably shines here amidst the lush yet tasteful orchestral charts penned by Ralph Burns, Gerald Wilson, and Billy Strayhorn; there are particularly fine renditions here of "Early Autumn" and Strayhorn's misty and mercurial "Chelsea Bridge." Carney, too, is stunning, handling the traditionally cumbersome baritone saxophone with grace and loads of feeling, especially on highlights like "It Had to Be You" and his and Strayhorn's "Chalmeau." Forget all those bachelor-pad compilations and give this collection a spin at your next cocktail party.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 19, 2018, 08:23:06 AM
I dearly love that 2-disc-set, both the Webster and the Carney sessions!

--

Thread duty - in the mail from Japan today:

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New to me, and all the better that the complete edition (with a second disc that was never on LP I think, but there were a few previous CD editions with the same contents) was just reissued again in Japan (11-28 to be exact, shipping the slow/cheap way usually takes some 3-6 weeks to Europe).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 20, 2018, 08:34:55 AM
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Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers (RCA, 1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 21, 2018, 12:45:03 AM
Quote from: king ubu on December 20, 2018, 08:34:55 AM
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Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers (RCA, 1957)

Good one!

TD

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Inspired by the thread on baritone players.  I realized that it had been decades since I'd listened to any Serge.  Long overdue.  Released by Capitol Records in 1956. It was recorded on March 14 and 16, 1956 at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, California.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 21, 2018, 12:53:15 AM
The Rogers is good fun indeed! Giuffre, Jolly, Geller and some of the tenors (I am unable to tell them apart, alas) have good spots - and so does Rogers, both the arranger and the trumpet player! Too bad JSP never followed up their Shorty Rogers Vol. 1 box with a second (and maybe even a third) one, covering his Atlantic and RCA material into the late 50s. I slept on him (and West Coast Jazz in general) at the time it would have been easy to buy all these, but I guess I have plenty and enough nonetheless :)

The Chaloff, to me, may be THE one baritone saxophone album I'd take onto that desert island ... (though the original Mulligan quartet would be really hard to leave behind).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 22, 2018, 08:00:33 AM
I always had mixed feelings about this album, but today it hit the spot nicely.

[asin]B000PMFNTQ[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 23, 2018, 03:26:14 PM
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This was never actually my favourite Sonny Clark album, but that may have to do with the crappy first version I had of it (a bootleg edition on West Wind) ... the current edition offered by Tompkins Square is the most complete one so far (the vinyl edition omits a few takes and all the false starts, which are grouped at the end of the second disc of the CD version), but likely still not quite complete yet (no outtakes for four of the tunes - half of the music actually, rather unlikely that those were all first/single takes, considering the circumstances). Anyway, between the Japanese edition I bought a while ago and this new edition, the album really grew on me and I'm enjoying it a lot by now!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 24, 2018, 05:27:15 AM
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Starting to explore this box of goodies that landed on Saturday - the third and final, it seems, Masada book by John Zorn, bits of which I heard in a Zorn marathon concert at Willisau in 2016 ... starts out very mellow, the first disc being by singer Sofía Rei and JC Maillard.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 24, 2018, 05:22:05 PM
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Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars – Volume Three (1955)
Gary Peacock - Voices (1971)

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Pierre Favre - Singing Drums (1984)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on December 25, 2018, 12:35:13 PM
Gig of the year 2018.
( https://open.spotify.com/track/6IGzbvwH3ZKLnimf4ojkmE?si=PKnMi58sSkmckG_kInoHWg )
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 26, 2018, 02:34:57 PM
king ubu: This is going back a couple of pages, but what did you think of the Barre Phillips album?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 27, 2018, 01:57:06 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on December 26, 2018, 02:34:57 PM
king ubu: This is going back a couple of pages, but what did you think of the Barre Phillips album?

I'ts beautiful!

I have to confess however that I'm not that familiar with his output ... heard Leimgruber-Demierre-Phillips live a few years ago, know that trio's albums and have some sideman stuff (from Jimmy Giuffre to Chris McGregor), and of course plenty of John Surman from around 1970 ... but somehow I never came around checking out his own output (or rather: I wanted to, but never found any of his albums).

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Currently playing more from the recent Zorn box and enjoying it a lot - right now the last disc, starting off with five piano solos by Craig Taborn, who then is joined by Vadim Neselovksyi for two piano duos. Neselovskyi then has the rest of the disc for himself, after two solos he is joined by Dan Loomis (b) and Ronen Itzik (d) for three trio tracks. Never heard of Neselvskyi so far.

The only disc from the box that may really not be for me, and having heard that band in concert I dind't expect it to be otherwise, is the second, which features Cleric.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 28, 2018, 05:07:13 AM
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Martial Solal drew keywords out of a hat in summer ... he says a few words and then starts to improvise, on subjects such as "Count Basie", "Ellington", "Kenny [Clarke]", "Léon Morin [, Prêtre]", "A bout de souffle", "Alger" etc. Delightful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 28, 2018, 12:42:48 PM
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Ron Carter - Where? (1961)
Eddie Harris - The In Sound (1965)

That Eddie Harris is a strong album but opens with the weakest track, which could easily put one off.

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Bobby Hutcherson - Acoustic Masters II (1994)
Herbie Mann - Concerto Grosso in D Blues (1969)

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Art Pepper - So In Love (1980)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 28, 2018, 12:59:47 PM
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First spin. Lovely music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 28, 2018, 01:35:05 PM
Quote from: George on December 28, 2018, 12:59:47 PM
(https://ptpimg.me/clxj9o.png)

First spin. Lovely music!

Great record.  Sonny Rollins is my favorite tenor player.  Yep, I like him better than Coltrane. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on December 29, 2018, 04:17:59 AM
Recent Listening - Teddy Foster: The Melody Man


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on December 29, 2018, 05:21:23 AM
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Iro Haarla, Ulf Krokfors & Barry Altschul ‎– Around Again ‎– The Music Of Carla Bley
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 29, 2018, 08:05:39 AM
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the great Paul Bley recorded two albums on March 1, 1993 in a NY studio ... the solo album is wonderful, restrained, limited to the essence, the trio seems to be a rather groovy affair, at least that's what the first track suggests, let's see how it goes on ... these were just reissued in Japan, in case anyone wonders
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 30, 2018, 01:32:45 PM
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First spin, 2018 release that lay on the piles for a while ... about time!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on December 31, 2018, 04:14:29 AM
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Just out on Uptown. Mostly radio and transcription, and some commercially released studio material from 1946/47 (one Barney Kessel date from 1945, two long jams from the Lighthouse from 1952), plenty of fine Lucky Thompson as a bonus to the great Dodo Marmarosa.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 31, 2018, 08:15:37 PM
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Pierre Favre - Window Steps (1996)
Tamia Valmont and Pierre Favre - Solitudes (1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 01, 2019, 01:47:52 AM
Forgot to post this one, yesterday:

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The latest instalment of the fine releases by the Dutch Jazz Archives, dedicated to a JATP concert from 1960 (the Cannonball Adderley part was already released on their Cannonball disc, paired with a late 60s set). The all stars set - Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Jo Jones and from Dizzy Gillespie's band Lalo Schifrin and Art Davis - is rather run-of-the-mill (Take the A-Train, the Ballad-Medley and a blues), the second half by Dizzy's quintet (Leo Wright, Schifrin, Davis, Chuck Lampkin) and guests J.J. Johnson and Stan Getz is very nice though, it starts with Ellington's "The Mooche", goes on with Getz blowing two mean solos on the 17-minute take on "Kush", and then ends with Candido guesting on the final piece.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2019, 08:35:18 PM
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Art Farmer and Benny Golson - Jazztet At Birdhouse (1961)
Dizzy Gillespie - The Cool World soundtrack (1964)

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Jimmy Woods - Conflict (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2019, 01:36:14 AM
Gave this a first spin a couple of days ago:

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.. and I'm afraid I'm not sold on it. It sounds disjointed, fragmentary. There's a groove impro on each disc, the audience goes wild over it, but it sounds a bit like same-old same-old, then there's some gorgeous melodies on the second part (traditionals and standards), a very good take on "Stella By Starlight" towards the end, and possibly at the very beginning the best lengthy improvised segment (if the sequence really follows the concert sequence, that was a weird one, though the tunes towards the end make sense - but the way the improvisation evolves is really strange).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2019, 08:44:56 AM
Just complete two more first spins from the 2018 pile (almost done with the jazz/improv, at least giving everything a first spin):

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The Niggli is quite beautiful and surprisingly colourful indeed, and it shows plenty of "ethnical" influences ... the Parker/Guy/Lytton is intense and pretty darn good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 03, 2019, 08:58:57 AM
one more first spin - free improv by a sax-violin-drums trio:

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Jonas Labhard (as, fx), Laura Schuler (violin, fx), Berni Doesegger (d)

https://track-s.bandcamp.com/releases
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2019, 09:50:44 PM
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Wynton Kelly - Full View (1966)
David Newman - Fathead (1960)

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Mabel Mercer - Sings Cole Porter (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 03, 2019, 09:56:41 PM
Quote from: modified on December 29, 2018, 05:21:23 AM

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Iro Haarla, Ulf Krokfors & Barry Altschul ‎– Around Again ‎– The Music Of Carla Bley

I just realised thats got a version of "Ida Lupino" I haven't heard.

And I'm determined to hear every commercial recording of that standard.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 05, 2019, 02:00:47 PM
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Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny (1960)
Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier - Duets (rec. 1940)

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Chris Connor - He Loves Me, He loves Me Not (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 06, 2019, 02:06:36 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/KEyI0Mv2er0oR4oF0wwzU3Pecko=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6115209-1414710697-1668.jpeg.jpg) (https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/4f2b5dc60e93c465b2e084fc3d9b2e6f/2104440)

Bobby Short - Songs By Bobby Short (1955)
Dave Pell - Jazz And Romantic Places (1955)

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George Wein - Wein, Women And Song (1955)
Paul Barbarin - And His New Orleans Jazz (rec.1951)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on January 07, 2019, 07:42:38 AM
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Kenny Dorham: Matador

Melanie (or Melody for Melonae by Jackie McLean)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkzHAJchPh4
Trumpet – Kenny Dorham
Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean
Bass – Teddy Smith
Drums – J.C. Moses
Piano – Bobby Timmons


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 07, 2019, 01:53:40 PM
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Ted Straeter - Ted Straeter's New York (1955)
Tonny Fruscella - s/t (1955)

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Alec Templeton - The Magic Piano (1956)
Jack Montrose - With Bob Gordon (1955)

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Betty Bennett - Nobody Else But Me (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 07, 2019, 06:08:57 PM
I love these recordings and listen to them often.

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Jazz went through swing, bebop, cool, hard bop - but for me these recordings captured the best of what jazz is all about.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 08, 2019, 01:10:05 PM
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Wilbur DeParis - Marchin And Swingin (1956)
Shorty Rogers - Martians Come Back (1956)

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Cy Walters - Rogers Revisited (1956)
Patty McGovern and Thomas Talbert - Wednesday's Child (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 09, 2019, 11:53:26 AM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/599/MI0001599999.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Ben Webster - See You at the Fair

Ben Webster: tenor sax
Hank Jones: piano (1-5)
Roger Kellaway: piano (6-8), harpsichord (9-10)
Richard Davis: bass
Osie Johnson: drums

Allmusic awarded the album 5 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating "Ben Webster's final American recording was one of his greatest.  Although I'm not a fan of the harpsichord.  Would have preferred that Roger Kellaway not been involved and Hank Jones handled all of the piano work.

"Someone to Watch Over Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:30
"In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Gabler) 4:26
"Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) 4:42
"Love Is Here to Stay"(Gershwin, Gershwin) 2:48
"The Single Petal of a Rose" (Ellington) 3:20
"See You at the Fair" (Webster) 6:14
"Stardust" (Carmichael, Parish) 2:26
"Fall of Love" (Tiomkin, Washington) 2:46
"While We're Dancing" (Skylar, Vroman) 2:49
"Lullaby of Jazzland" (Albam, Ward) 3:04
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 09, 2019, 12:26:32 PM
Agree with you about Hank Jones' not-enough involvement on that one. My first listen to that was quite disappointing but maybe it's time to give it another try.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 09, 2019, 12:45:33 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 09, 2019, 12:26:32 PM
Agree with you about Hank Jones' not-enough involvement on that one. My first listen to that was quite disappointing but maybe it's time to give it another try.

The standards are great performances, imo, even with Kellaway.  The rhythm section of Richard Davis and Osie Johnson are first rate, and Webster is in top form.  The last two tracks and the bonus tracks on the CD are where it jumps the rails, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2019, 02:06:40 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/vT1SOj4mD2C9-C_BpTphce_bH3I=/fit-in/600x579/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3782427-1509785934-2246.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/O4Gymyx1nwSoPRt3mQcECszL3ck=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3849669-1422735947-5108.jpeg.jpg)

Bill Russo - The World Of Alcina (1956)
Milt Jackson - Ballads And Blues (1956)

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Sylvia Syms - Sings (1956)
Mabel Mercer - Midnight At Mabel Mercer's (1956)

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Modern Jazz Quartet - At Music Inn With Guest Artist Jimmy Giuffre (1956)
Lars Gullin - Baritone Sax (1956)

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Dave Pell - Love Story (1956)
Thomas Talbert - Bix, Duke, Fats (1957)

^click to enlarge that Dave Pell cover - I think its quite clever

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Al Hibbler - After The Lights Go Down Low (1957)
Frances Wayne - The Warm Sound Of Frances Wayne (1957)

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Dizzy Gillespie - At Home And Abroad (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 04:50:58 AM
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Primo Pres
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 06:30:58 AM
Speaking of early jazz, these collections from Yazoo Records offer a nice slection of bands from the '20s that are not as familiar as the ones we've all heard of

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AOPgkyXxL._SY355_.jpg)

Two volumes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on January 10, 2019, 07:55:23 AM
I haven't listened to any jazz recently, but I did encounter this gentleman yesterday
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Donaldson
Nothing musical except he mentioned he was a musician and gave me his card. His focus was on getting a pair of shoes, although the competing goals of finding a shoe whose style he liked, which met the instructions of the doctor to get leather shoes,  which actually fit his feet, and which felt to him as if they fit (the latter two not quite the same thing)  left the quest unfulfilled, although he promised to come back this afternoon with his daughter.

But I suppose any 92 year old might be a bit picky about their feet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 08:13:36 AM
Quote from: JBS on January 10, 2019, 07:55:23 AM
I haven't listened to any jazz recently, but I did encounter this gentleman yesterday
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Donaldson
Nothing musical except he mentioned he was a musician and gave me his card. His focus was on getting a pair of shoes, although the competing goals of finding a shoe whose style he liked, which met the instructions of the doctor to get leather shoes,  which actually fit his feet, and which felt to him as if they fit (the latter two not quite the same thing)  left the quest unfulfilled, although he promised to come back this afternoon with his daughter.

But I suppose any 92 year old might be a bit picky about their feet.

Lou Donaldson is a giant - in his prime he made some of the best hard bop music you can hear.  good to hear he is still out and about at the age of 92.  Treat him right!

;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 10, 2019, 08:18:16 AM
Whoa man! I don't have a lot of Lou's records - in fact maybe just the complete Night at Birdland series with Blakey and Silver - but like SA says, it's damn good to know that such a fine musician is still out there. Hope you can get that man a darn good pair of shoes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 10, 2019, 09:44:37 AM
Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 10:49:01 AM
Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings Of Louis Armstrong And The All Stars

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 10, 2019, 10:55:14 AM
When Farmer Met Gryce

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 10, 2019, 11:03:44 AM
Not too big on Lou Donaldson, but lots of respect! And some fantastic records, nonetheless, like "Lou Takes Off", "Here 'Tis", "The Natural Soul", "Good Gracious" ... also love his late BN funky stuff, like "Say It Loud!", and even more so "The Scorpion: Live at the Cadillac Club" - there is some amazing Idris Muhammad on that one!

The BN jubilee is this year ... but last year a fine movie was released, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Records (https://bluenoterecords-film.com/en/) (dir. Sophie Huber) and besides some fine footage and music by the new generation (Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin) it included cameos by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock (they are interviewed together, which is fun indeed - the filming took place while the BN All Stars' "Our Point of View" sessions in 2017, at which Shorter and Hancock turned in guest spots), and then there's several segments of a fun chat with Poppa Lou. Worth seing if you get the chance!

--

Thread duty:

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The above was yesterday's programme ... got several shipments from Japan lately, including the fine Waldron (a 1981 trio date with George Mraz and Al Foster) and the great Togashi trio with Kent Carter and Steve Lacy (also from 1981, coincidentally), the Jessica Williams was bought by inspiration of XB-70 Valkyrie (thanks a lot!), and the Merrill/Lewis is an old, treasured favourite that I finally was able to buy a real copy of (had a CD-R provided by a friend for many years - the new CD is of course again from Japan, where Merrill seems to be the big star she deserves to be).

Tonight's programme so far:

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The Scott Bradford is from 1969 (cd booklet) or 1970 (discogs) and features the late Nathan Davis on tenor and flute. The group also includes Philip Catherin (g), Günther Lenz (b) and Stu Martin (d), the little-known leader is heard on piano, hohner and organ - this is a fun jazz-rock date, pretty rough around the edges (which I like) ... the recent Vandermark/Wooley/Courvoisier/Rainey I had intended to skip but then heard from a friend that it's pretty good, and he seems to be right, I'm enjoying this first spin a lot (it's almost over as I'm typing this).

Next one:

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Halfway in, I think this may indeed be as great as the online review (Free Jazz Blog, AAJ) seem to think!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 11:42:26 AM
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Johnny Dodds : Blue Clarinet Stomp

This is classic jazz (1928-1929) at its best -- Dodds with his own orchestra and his Washboard Band. Alternate takes show the improvisational character of Dodds' approach.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 10, 2019, 11:51:08 AM
Regarding Lou Donaldson, this Mosaic collection (OOP) is hard to find but contains some great stuff:

(https://img.discogs.com/6GaMtV-_OnMU94af6ZyMv8fWljM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5437195-1395797378-9009.jpeg.jpg)

Over the course of some 20 albums that Donaldson would cut for Blue Note beginning with his first sessions in 1953, you can trace the course of popular jazz styles, from bop inflected quintets to soul jazz organ combos. The majority of this new six disc set covers the type of bebop fare that is the core of Donaldson's musical persona and much of this material has been available previously on compact disc, although there are a few items that could only be found previously on pricey Japanese imports.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 10, 2019, 07:17:14 PM
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Wilbur De Paris - At Symphony Hall (1957)
Joe Mooney - Lush Life (1957)

I've got a real soft spot for Wilbur De Paris and feel that even though he's undemanding its unfair he's been so completely forgotten

The Joe Mooney has what may well be the most annoying electric keyboard I've ever heard

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Carol Stevens - That Satin Doll (1957)
John Lewis and Sacha Distel - Afternoon In Paris (1957)

Carol sounds like she'd have a great voice and delivery, so its a pity she's just do-de-do-dahing all the lyrics (correction: side one is standards done scat, side two is with sung lyrics - a voice like Anita O'Day))
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on January 10, 2019, 08:44:32 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 10, 2019, 08:18:16 AM
Whoa man! I don't have a lot of Lou's records - in fact maybe just the complete Night at Birdland series with Blakey and Silver - but like SA says, it's damn good to know that such a fine musician is still out there. Hope you can get that man a darn good pair of shoes.

He didn't come in today...I am off tomorrow...but this just happened, leavened by the fact I have little Rollins and wanted Amazon's free shipping...
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,24773.msg1193108.html#msg1193108
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 11, 2019, 04:00:37 AM
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A Sonny Clark day today (and Julia Fischer w/Britten, followed by Bruckner 6, Juanjo Mena at the helm of Tonhalle tonight), with plenty of music from all over his career, hopping around between many CDs, including stuff he made during his year at the west coast (Cal Tjader, Howard Rumsey, Larance Marable, Stan Levey) and prior (Buddy De Franco, Jimmy Raney in Paris) and Blue Note classics (by Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Stanley Turrentine, Curtis Fuller, Bennie Green, and of course by Clark himself).

Depicted are two albums I've played in full (the Levey, which is still fairly new to me) and am currently playing (also in full), "Candy" by Lee Morgan, with Clark, Watkins and Taylor - haven't heard that one for many years - yet it is very good indeed! (Too much music around ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 11, 2019, 07:01:30 AM
Shelly Manne: Three & The Two

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I met a Ukrainian aerialist who told me her father likes Giuffre and then specifically mentioned this. What a small world etc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 11, 2019, 07:05:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 10, 2019, 07:17:14 PM
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Wilbur De Paris - At Symphony Hall (1957)
Joe Mooney - Lush Life (1957)

I've got a real soft spot for Wilbur De Paris and feel that even though he's undemanding its unfair he's been so completely forgotten

The Joe Mooney has what may well be the most annoying electric keyboard I've ever heard

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ovihEAU5L._SS500.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/EuqBVmWIU5JKfyNiAXmYy0XFa0M=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2796031-1537722958-3121.jpeg.jpg)

Carol Stevens - That Satin Doll (1957)
John Lewis and Sacha Distel - Afternoon In Paris (1957)

Carol sounds like she'd have a great voice and delivery, so its a pity she's just do-de-do-dahing all the lyrics (correction: side one is standards done scat, side two is with sung lyrics - a voice like Anita O'Day))

Wilbur De Paris is so 'forgotten' I'm unaware of him. But I'll seek to remedy that. Cheers, mate.

Distel with Lewis - a simple pleasure in the sweet spot of a jazz guitar era that's probably my favourite.  8)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 11, 2019, 09:09:02 AM
Monk's Dream

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Still bustin' my chops.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 11, 2019, 01:45:53 PM
Quote from: NikF on January 11, 2019, 07:05:48 AM
Wilbur De Paris is so 'forgotten' I'm unaware of him. But I'll seek to remedy that. Cheers, mate.


Nothing revolutionary - its Dixieland revival after all - but i find its always done well and is always enjoyable.

now:

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Conte Candoli and Lou Levy - West Coast Wailers (1958)
Mary Lou Williams and Barbara Carroll - Ladies Of Jazz (1958)

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Lee Konitz - The Real Lee Konitz (1957)
Billy Taylor - The Billy Taylor Touch (1958)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 12, 2019, 03:10:03 AM
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More Sonny Clark: "Dial 'S' for Sonny" (1957), "Cool Struttin'" (1958) and "Leapin' and Lopin'" (1961 - his last and arguably finest) - what great music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 12, 2019, 06:30:32 AM
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Sonny Clark first went into the studio for Blue Note as a sideman with Hank Mobley - two more sessions followed, and although they're both great (arguably better than the first one) they both remained unissued at the time. The second of the sessions has Kenny Dorham, Mobley and Sonny Clark - three of my all-time favourites!

Below on the left is the alternate cover for the middle one above, the Mosaic box (middle) is where I have this music. And the recent reissue of the Time album by the Sonny Clark Trio is what I'm playing by now.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 12, 2019, 10:05:12 AM
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Modern Jazz Quartet - No Sun In Venice soundtrack (1958)
Chris Connor - A Jazz Date With Chris Connor (1958)

I hadn't heard of that MJQ album before. its a fascinating work.

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Wilbur De Paris - Plays Cole Porter (1958)
Jimmy Giuffre - The Four Brothers Sound (1958)

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Wayne Marsh - s/t (1958)
Young Tuxedo Brass Band - Jazz Begins: Sounds Of New Orleans Streets (1958)

^I'd highly recommend that YTBB album, if that sounds like the kind of thing you'd be into

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v/a - Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 13, 2019, 08:29:03 PM
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Bobby Short - The Mad Twenties (1959)
Ruth Brown - Late Date With Ruth Brown (1959)

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Wilbur De Paris - The Wild Jazz Age: Music Of The 20s (1959)
Chris Connor - Sings Ballads Of The Sad Cafe (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 13, 2019, 10:53:44 PM
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My programme last night ... a fine mid-seventies post-Coltrane session by John Stubblefield with Cecil Bridgewater, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Cecil McBee, Joe Chambers and Mtume (quite a band!), then some late Milt Jackson (the first with the core band of Cedar Walton, John Clayton and Billy Higgins, plus guests Joe Williams and Joshua Redman together on three tracks and Redman on three more, there's a dozen on this generously filled disc ... the second has a good young lions band with Benny Green, Christian McBride und Kenny Washington, plus on a few tracks Nicholas Payton, Jesse Davis, Redman). Then ended the day with anohter masterly late work by the great Charlie Mariano ("Deep in a Dream" was one that really surprised me ... took me ages to get to "Silver Blue", which was praised as a worthy follow-up when it appeared - and it is ... the swiss rhythm section does a good job).

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In addition, played lots of music by and with Urbie Green, who died on Dec. 31st (he was 92, I wasn't even aware he was still around, I'm afraid).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 14, 2019, 05:21:12 PM
The Complete Commodore/Decca Masters
Billie Holiday

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Nice compilation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 14, 2019, 06:53:56 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 14, 2019, 05:21:12 PM
The Complete Commodore/Decca Masters
Billie Holiday

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Nice compilation.

Absolutely lovely set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 14, 2019, 07:18:16 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/88/Improvised_Meditations_and_Excursions.jpeg/220px-Improvised_Meditations_and_Excursions.jpeg) (https://img.discogs.com/S4bGmd1DBIiYW8rvHlYIPtHnZzk=/fit-in/600x611/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6656135-1424002144-3060.jpeg.jpg)

John Lewis - Improvised Meditations And Excursions (1959)
Dick Katz - Piano And Pen (1959)

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Bob Brookmeyer - Portrait Of The Artist (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2019, 08:32:16 AM
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Started playing this yesterday but it got too late eventually, so finishing with the Lee Konitz solo and the final jam (solos by Billy Taylor, Tommy Potter, Kenny Dorham, Konitz, J.J. Johnson [as "C.C. Siegel"] and Dizzy Gillespie ... the CD reissue (Japan only it seems, I just got the most recent one from Dec. 2018) is expanded and contains four (instead of two) tracks by Dizzy Gillespie's band (that was the fine unit with James Moody, Kenny Barron, Chris White und Rudy Collins), then the first jam, a 13 minute "Now's the Time" with the older generation (Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins) meeting a few original beboppers (that guy "Siegel", Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes) and Billy Taylor on piano, then we get two (instead of one) cut by Dave Lambert (with Taylor, Potter, Haynes), who died not too long after, in a most annoying way (the story isn't quite clear, but it involves the wee hours, a flat tire, a car not fully off the road, no lights, and Lambert being hit and killed by a truck passing by) ... and finally we get the Konitz solo and the final jam. One thing that strikes me: Tommy Potter's phrasing is so "bumpy", compared to the much more fluid playing of Chris White ... the original generation of bebop bass players (Potter, Curly Russell and a few others - not Ray Brown or Mingus or Al McKibbon I think) lagged behind a bit and was mostly playing anchors to the antics of the horns, the keys and all the bombs and other fancy stuff the drummers dropped (Roy Haynes being maybe the best example for "irregular" playing, not falling into any kind of patterns). But the bass players had to wait for Mingus (or go back to Oscar Pettiford, who was of course around, but not often in the recording studio when Bird or Dizzy or Bud were at work) to see their instrument's "emancipation", and only with Percy Heath and then Paul Chambers and his cousin Doug Watkins in the mid fifties things really started to change ... and whenever one of the older guys (Curly Russell is on a few c. 1955/56 Blue Note albums) is present in the hard bop era, the bass chores are turning out kinda conventional and less interesting than what you'd get with Heath, Chambers, Watkins, Wilbur Ware, Sam Jones etc. Anyway, not dissing Potter, he was alright, and so was Russell, but they're just not a bass players I could ever develop a real passion for.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 15, 2019, 09:33:57 AM
There was nothing lacking in Oscar Pettiford's playing. 

TD

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Lorenzo Tio Jr was a major clarinetist among the early New Orleans Creole* community, both he and Armand Piron were members of  long-standing Creole musician families.  The Creole musicians, south of Canal St., "Downtown," were a different society than the musicians north of Canal, the Uptown musicians like Louis Armstrong and Joe Oliver.  The Downtown players could read music, prided themselves on knowing European classical and operatic music and held to a more formal tradition which stressed precision, intonation and other characteristics of European based band music.  They looked down on the "illiterate" musicians on the other side of Canal street whom they perceived as unschooled and unable to play correctly (so-called "blue" notes were seen as mistakes, or the result of someone without refined taste and skill).

The irony is that it was precisely because musicians like Louis Armstrong could not read that their improvisations were more dynamic and imaginative (Armstrong eventually learned to read when he played on the riverboats in Fate Marable's band).  The jazz that came out of New Orleans was a product of the Uptown non-reading community.  But when it became popular, the Creole musicians found themselves having to play it, and even hired some of the Uptowners, like Joe Oliver, to augment their groups.

The album above is a wonderful example of the best of the Creole bands and is well worthwhile investigating.

* Creole means generally a person whose ancestors included Europeans and African, e.g. mixed ancestry French-African or Spanish-African, or some European-Native American.  The term that was common in the 18th and 19th century was Gens de couleur libres (free people of color).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2019, 12:03:25 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 15, 2019, 09:33:57 AM
There was nothing lacking in Oscar Pettiford's playing. 

Absolutely not - if you read that out of my post, I was being unclear. Big fan of Pettiford's and Mingus' playing! The Ellington line of bassists is actually quite interesting, there's far more than Jimmie Blanton - Wellman Braud was a great bass player already (as far as I know 20s and early 30s jazz the other similarly great bassist was Pops Foster, but I guess there must have been a few more similarly outstanding bassists), then there's Blanton, Junior Raglin, Pettiford, Wendell Marshall, Jimmy Woode - quite a run of amazing bass players!

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Earlier the Grant Green, a great, laid-back groove session, very soulful thanks to the leader and Herbie Hancock, and anchored by the fine team of Butch Warren/Billy Higgins - they were great with Sonny Clark and they were great with Herbie Hancock!

Now playing for the first time the second album (of three) by The Herbie Nichols Project (the third I've known for many years, the first one should be on its way now, it's rather difficult to find nowadays.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2019, 07:28:27 PM
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Bobby Short - On The East Side (1960)
Buster Smith - The Legendary Buster Smith (1960)

Bobby does a version of "I Left My Hat In Haiti" which Fred Astair did in the film Royal Wedding, a song I've always liked but have never heard anyone cover

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Joe Castro - Groove Funk Soul (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 15, 2019, 07:53:02 PM
Quotethe original generation of bebop bass players (Potter, Curly Russell and a few others - not Ray Brown or Mingus or Al McKibbon I think) lagged behind a bit and was mostly playing anchors to the antics of the horns, the keys and all the bombs and other fancy stuff the drummers dropped (Roy Haynes being maybe the best example for "irregular" playing, not falling into any kind of patterns). But the bass players had to wait for Mingus (or go back to Oscar Pettiford, who was of course around, but not often in the recording studio when Bird or Dizzy or Bud were at work) to see their instrument's "emancipation"

I think you are being unfair to Curly Russell and Tommy Potter. But there is much to disagree with in your post.

First of all, the primary function of the bass in a jazz group is to anchor the rhythmic and harmonic progression - a major component of swing is the interplay between the bass and drums: how they approach the beat.  While the drummer "drops bombs" and otherwise plays on top of and around the beat, the tension created with a bassist providing a steady, anchoring pulse, is what can cause the music to take off and float.  Experiencing this on a bandstand is the greatest thing any jazz musician can have and is what everyone hopes to achieve. 

The bass has never needed "emancipation" - in fact too many less talented musicians were influenced by Scotty LaFaro (who expanded the role of the bass while not sacrificing any of its traditional, anchoring, aspects) lowered their strings in order to play faster, but in the process lost much in their tone and volume, and attempted to play solos behind the band. 

I was fortunate to play with some great drummers, some of whom you have heard of, Louis Hayes, Al Foster, Adam Nussbaum, Tom Whalley and I never heard them complain about a bass player being an anchor, which is what they looked for, and what I hoped to provide.  However, their main complaint, often expressed, was that too many bassists were playing solo-style throughout (too much high register, lots of fills and flourishes) and not fulfilling the primary role of a bassist - which is to be a strong, steady, anchoring foundation for the explosive drum style they exhibited.

Think Jimmy Garrison with Elvin Jones.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 15, 2019, 10:45:17 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 15, 2019, 07:53:02 PM
I think you are being unfair to Curly Russell and Tommy Potter. But there is much to disagree with in your post.

First of all, the primary function of the bass in a jazz group is to anchor the rhythmic and harmonic progression - a major component of swing is the interplay between the bass and drums: how they approach the beat.  While the drummer "drops bombs" and otherwise plays on top of and around the beat, the tension created with a bassist providing a steady, anchoring pulse, is what can cause the music to take off and float.  Experiencing this on a bandstand is the greatest thing any jazz musician can have and is what everyone hopes to achieve. 

The bass has never needed "emancipation" - in fact too many less talented musicians were influenced by Scotty LaFaro (who expanded the role of the bass while not sacrificing any of its traditional, anchoring, aspects) lowered their strings in order to play faster, but in the process lost much in their tone and volume, and attempted to play solos behind the band. 

I was fortunate to play with some great drummers, some of whom you have heard of, Louis Hayes, Al Foster, Adam Nussbaum, Tom Whalley and I never heard them complain about a bass player being an anchor, which is what they looked for, and what I hoped to provide.  However, their main complaint, often expressed, was that too many bassists were playing solo-style throughout (too much high register, lots of fills and flourishes) and not fulfilling the primary role of a bassist - which is to be a strong, steady, anchoring foundation for the explosive drum style they exhibited.

Think Jimmy Garrison with Elvin Jones.

I agree on all points!

I think my point is that even when you walk a line, there's much of a difference to be made in phrasing, in sound, in "oomph", in phrasing, and of course in choice of notes. My quibbles with the likes of Russell or Potter is that their phrasing is not really to my liking: they keep their notes rather short and separate them from the next one, while someone like Heath or Chambers or Watkins lets the notes flow, if that makes sense. Also, not everybody had as fine an ear as Watkins (one of my favourites) or Hinton or Duvivier or Vinnegar when walking a line.

Regarding LaFaro, I'm two-sided ... on the one hand I adore his musicianship, on the other I pretty much loathe his influence on those players you describe.

My perception is just that, while Dizzy and Bird and Bud and Monk and Max and Roy and a few others took giant steps in the early/mid forties, the bass players somehow didn't go along really. I tend to find the 30s bass players (Braud, Foster, Walter Page) more interesting than most of the bebop generation bass players. Mingus was different of course (and Pettiford, as I hope I clarified, was different, too - but not present on many of the classic bop records, that's what I meand), and I guess he's about as much of an anchor as you can get, but at the same time he has that eruptive quality that allows him to steer a band from the bass, which I totally admire. He would have been too strong to play in any one's band for sure, so he had his own, with music that was his own (and that is hard to re-create without him in the middle, though I think the Mingus Big Band does quite a great job). Anyway, I love many of the bass players that made their name in the mid/late 50s: Heath, Watkins, Jones, Ware, Chambers, George Tucker, Art Davis, Richard Davis ... also Leroy Vinnegar, Curtis Counce and Jimmy Bond in California ... and a bit later Charlie Haden, of course, one of my big favourites.

And I certainly envy you for that experience - playing with Hayes, Foster, Nussbaum and the like ... must be mind-blowing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2019, 05:38:23 AM
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You have to love these recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2019, 05:49:50 AM
Quote from: king ubu on January 15, 2019, 10:45:17 PM
My quibbles with the likes of Russell or Potter is that their phrasing is not really to my liking: they keep their notes rather short and separate them from the next one,

Probably it is a combination of how they had their basses set up, they could have been using gut strings, and of course recording technology.  Still I prefer the sound a the bass in older recordings to those where the bass is using a pickup and sent straight into the board.  I actually despise the sound of most modern bassists using a pickup (another consequence of lowering the strings).  The CTI recordings of Ron Carter are horrible, imo.  But the bottom-line is that Curly Russell and Tommy Potter were used quite a lot, and could handle the fast tempos - so I tip my hat to them.

QuoteAnd I certainly envy you for that experience - playing with Hayes, Foster, Nussbaum and the like ... must be mind-blowing!

Baptism by fire in most cases; I subbed for Dennis Irwin quite a lot and was never their first choice - but I made the gig.   ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 16, 2019, 05:58:36 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 15, 2019, 07:53:02 PM
However, their main complaint, often expressed, was that too many bassists were playing solo-style throughout (too much high register, lots of fills and flourishes) and not fulfilling the primary role of a bassist - which is to be a strong, steady, anchoring foundation for the explosive drum style they exhibited.

Think Jimmy Garrison with Elvin Jones.
Maybe this is why Mingus and Roach got in such a fight at the "Money Jungle" sessions??
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 16, 2019, 06:32:22 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 16, 2019, 05:49:50 AM
Baptism by fire in most cases; I subbed for Dennis Irwin quite a lot and was never their first choice - but I made the gig.   ;)

Oh wow, that's amazing!

Regarding fast tempos, that's a good point indeed - another one that could handle them and was never into any antics was George Morrow, who played with the Brown/Roach quintet (they had some amazingly fast tempos going on, sometimes too fast to even pat your foot without losing it).

Btw, I wish I could post some thread duty stuff, but alas I'm at the office where I can't listen to any music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 16, 2019, 06:37:32 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 16, 2019, 05:58:36 AM
Maybe this is why Mingus and Roach got in such a fight at the "Money Jungle" sessions??

Hm, the story goes that they developed a different idea of "time" ... and that usually the bass player will go with the drummer in such cases. But if you know about Mingus, you know he'll not "go with" anyone - I think in his book he writes that only out of respect for Ellington (his biggest idol for sure) he didn't leave. There's a lot of tension in the music, which may or may not be related to that "time" explanation (I'm not sure, but I think it's plausible) - but the results are amazing, it's one of my favourite recordings for sure!

Oh, and as I'm distracted, being at work and all that ... I agree on pick-up sound. Totally. I listen to plenty of 70s recordings, but recordings like the ones by Woody Shaw always take me a while to get used to the bass sound. CTI is a sound I never really grew to like, but the Freddie Hubbard albums (and a few more, "God Bless the Child" by Kenny Burrell, some Turrentine ...) are still albums I'd not want to miss.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2019, 06:55:32 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 16, 2019, 05:58:36 AM
Maybe this is why Mingus and Roach got in such a fight at the "Money Jungle" sessions??

Both Max Roach and Mingus had headstrong personalities, and each had definite ideas about how to play their instruments and the role of each.  However, don't forget that Mingus also left (rather violently) the Duke Ellington band long before the Money Jungle sessions. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2019, 10:35:28 AM
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The music on this CD, the first of five discs put out by the Jazz Crusade label, traces the short-lived quintet co-led by Sidney Bechet and Bunk Johnson in 1945. Unfortunately, Johnson's drinking led to the trumpeter being erratic and soon leaving the band, but Bechet (on clarinet and soprano) is in excellent form and there are some good moments on this CD. The co-leaders are backed by pianist Ray Parker, bassist Pops Foster, and drummer George Thompson on such numbers as "Royal Garden Blues," "I Know That You Know," and "Muskrat Ramble." The music on this disc is taken from three radio broadcasts and, in addition, there are two brief interviews. Nothing too essential but an interesting acquisition for Bechet and Johnson fans.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 16, 2019, 12:37:22 PM
^ that looks interesting, never heard of that label or those broadcasts!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 16, 2019, 07:32:31 PM
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Billy Taylor - One For Fun (1960)
John Lewis - The Golden Striker (1960)

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Fred Kaz - Eastern Exposure (1960)

is that cracker of an album really the only one that Fred Kaz made?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 17, 2019, 08:05:11 AM
Disc 2 from the Hot Fives set -

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Much better sounding since by these recordings they were using the electronic microphone instead of the acoustical cone used in the first disc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 17, 2019, 11:29:43 AM
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Listening to this lovely album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 18, 2019, 02:53:43 AM
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Donald Harrison who broke onto the scene in the '80s as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and then co-led a quintet with Terrence Blanchard, is found here in a piano-less trio with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham.  He comes from New Orleans, and grew up in a family that was a prominent member of the Mardi Gras Indian tradition.  Here Harrison shows off his excellent post-bop chops.

This trio plays five selections and Harrison also engages in three duets with the bassist. Whether it is a minor blues ("One of a Kind"), the "I Got Rhythm" chords of "Double Trouble," "Solar," or the melancholy "Candlelight," Harrison shows that he is a superior improviser with a sound of his own.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 18, 2019, 12:52:47 PM
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just got this ... Jarman's death reminded me how little I have of his beyond AEoC ... there's a recent reissue package (LP+CD) that looks official from what I can tell (and that's what I bought):
https://www.discogs.com/Joseph-Jarman-Don-Moye-Featuring-Johnny-Dyani-Black-Paladins/release/7561870
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 18, 2019, 09:09:22 PM
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Woody Herman - Woody Herman's Big New Herd At The Monterey Jazz Festival (1960)
Slide Hampton - Sister Salvation (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 20, 2019, 12:39:05 AM
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A mixed bunch these days ... four big band albums by Urbie Green released by the Spanish pirates, but not easy to find elsewhere. Green is great of course, but much of it is dance music rather than real jazz. There are plenty of good spots though, not just for Green, but also for the likes of Hal McKusick, Al Cohn, Hank Jones, Pepper Adams ... if you like easy-going big band music, these albums are an easy recommendation.

The Kidd Jordan is another new acquisition ... it has the late Alvin Fielder on drums in a long, old-fashioned free/energy blow-out that I quite enjoyed. Joe Futterman (on piano etc.) and William Parker are the others in the band, and I quite like what Parker does here (same goes for the James Brandon Lewis album "Divine Travels", which it seems I forgot to mention here a few days ago). Usually I'm not too big on Parker, mostly because of his sound, which too often comes close to fingernails on a blackboard to my ears (which is my loss, of course - I am fully aware of how many great recordings he's on and how many musicians I admire are working with him, and I keep trying ... also heard him live several times, and some nights were easier for me than others, i.e. a trio with Oliver Lake and a local drummer was pretty great).

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Yesterday's late night listen consisted of this fine 1981 bop album by Gianni Basso, an italian tenor saxophonist who has definitely developed his own musical character. Then on to the Spanish cohorts again, with the most recent reissue of the two albums by John Benson Brooks - I finally had to hear "Folk Jazz U.S.A." and I don't think there's an easy way to get it (no proper CD reissue by RCA that I know of, or none that was still around when I started looking). It's a lovely album for sure, and having Nick Travis, Zoot Sims (on alto exclusively - and very good ... I think this would make interesting blindfold material!), Al Cohn (on baritone) and Barry Galbraith surely doesn't do any harm.

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Right now I'm giving a first spin to Equal Interest, the trio/album of Joseph Jarman with Leroy Jenkins and Myra Melford. Read about this group in a Jarman obituary some days and felt I had to check this out. Very, very good! I guess it's a mixture of jazz, various kinds of ethnic/folk (not to say "world"), and plenty of classical touches added. Melford doubles of (Indian) harmonium, Jarman switches between flute, alto, a Vietnamese oboe and some percussion, Jenkins is heard on violin and viola.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on January 20, 2019, 03:12:56 AM
High time to check in on this thread.

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#morninglistening to new #JohnScofield release: not #classicalmusic per se but a classic!

: http://a-fwd.to/2w23Jui

♡Just *LOVE* #Scofield ♡ Which merits the rare #Jazz intrusion into my posts.

Sounds like he's picking up with #Combo66 wher... http://bit.ly/2HiHXEk  (http://a-fwd.to/2w23Jui)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 20, 2019, 04:44:03 AM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on January 20, 2019, 03:12:56 AM
High time to check in on this thread.

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#morninglistening to new #JohnScofield release: not #classicalmusic per se but a classic!

: http://a-fwd.to/6yeYKa3

♡Just *LOVE* #Scofield ♡ Which merits the rare #Jazz intrusion into my posts.

Sounds like he's picking up with #Combo66 wher... http://bit.ly/2HiHXEk  (http://a-fwd.to/6yeYKa3)

(Your link goes to Schubert/Kempff) - welcome to the Jazz thread!

But Scofield is excellent, he just keeps putting out quality recordings.  A Go Go is probably my favorite, but you can almost drop the needle anywhere in his output in the last twenty years and come up with something just about as good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on January 20, 2019, 05:22:13 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 20, 2019, 04:44:03 AM
(Your link goes to Schubert/Kempff) - welcome to the Jazz thread!

But Scofield is excellent, he just keeps putting out quality recordings.  A Go Go is probably my favorite, but you can almost drop the needle anywhere in his output in the last twenty years and come up with something just about as good.

A Go Go was my introduction, too (or was it Bump?). Had me hooked from the first sound. (Link fixed, thanks for noticing.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 20, 2019, 05:51:20 AM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on January 20, 2019, 05:22:13 AM
A Go Go was my introduction, too (or was it Bump?). Had me hooked from the first sound. (Link fixed, thanks for noticing.)

You probably already know about it but Medeski, Martin & Wood - the band on A Go Go - released Shackman shortly before, and was what got Scofield's attention.  They've released several others with Scofield, but those two are classic.

[asin]B00QFNUCZY[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 20, 2019, 06:10:46 AM
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First spin. Definitely won't be my last.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on January 20, 2019, 09:21:24 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 20, 2019, 05:51:20 AM
You probably already know about it but Medeski, Martin & Wood - the band on A Go Go - released Shackman shortly before, and was what got Scofield's attention.  They've released several others with Scofield, but those two are classic.

[asin]B00QFNUCZY[/asin]

I did not, and thanks much for the suggestion! On my wishlist already.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 20, 2019, 01:13:41 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Philly_Joe%27s_Beat.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ndgwh4MiL._SY355_.jpg)

Philly Joe Jones - Pjilly Joe's Beat (1960)
Milt jackson - The Ballad Artistry Of Milt Jackson (1959)

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Lurlean Hunter - Blue And Sentimental (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 20, 2019, 01:29:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 20, 2019, 01:13:41 PM
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Philly Joe Jones - Pjilly Joe's Beat (1960)

Haven't heard that one, but I love Philly Joe.

Me:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on January 20, 2019, 07:10:29 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on January 21, 2019, 01:06:23 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/maaLOpl2WFklQLXvUPuWGKyDaLY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7062795-1432835539-7433.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/Ym1ubD1nVZIFmUh4N-qbxYSD2EE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11156586-1510913671-9282.jpeg.jpg)
https://soundcloud.com/mario-rom/mario-roms-interzone-rise-of-the-black-centipede (https://soundcloud.com/mario-rom/mario-roms-interzone-rise-of-the-black-centipede)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 21, 2019, 07:47:46 AM
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First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 21, 2019, 11:38:42 AM
Over the weekend:

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"HARMONY" is by the Sam Harris trio (pianist of Ambrose Akinmusire's quartet, see below) - very nice album, alas only released digitally via bandcamp. Got the Shearing Trio MPS set just in time before it went oop, played some of the first album (depicted next to the CD set) late last night.


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Tonight, three from the kitchen of Gigi Campi, from the wonderful Clarke/Boland centred reissue series on Rearward/Schema/Ishtar:

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Tomorrow night: Ambrose Akinmusire in concert!  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 21, 2019, 01:34:31 PM
Quote from: George on January 21, 2019, 07:47:46 AM
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First spin.

A favorite of mine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 21, 2019, 01:48:09 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 21, 2019, 01:34:31 PM
A favorite of mine.

Then I chose wisely.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 21, 2019, 02:53:51 PM
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Bobby Scott - The Compleat Musician (1960)
Bonny Scott - A Taste Of Honey (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 21, 2019, 04:13:28 PM
Quote from: George on January 21, 2019, 01:48:09 PM
Then I chose wisely.  8)

I tend to enjoy the trio tracks most - Gene Taylor and Louis Hayes, make a great rhythm section with Silver.  St. Vitus Dance, e.g., really swings.  Blue Mitchell is another stand out, often over-looked trumpeter. 

The album came out in 1959, a banner year for jazz with Kind of Blue, Ornette Coleman's first and Mingus Ah Umm.  I haven't looked but I'm sure there were other great albums that year, I should look it up.

Here's more jazz that came out in 1959:

Chet Baker – Chet (Riverside)
Dave Brubeck – Time Out (album) (Columbia)
John Coltrane – Giant Steps (Atlantic)
Coleman Hawkins – Hawk Eyes, (OJC)
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane – Bags & Trane (Atlantic)
Thelonious Monk – The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall,(Riverside/OJC)
Art Pepper – Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary/OJC)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 21, 2019, 04:37:07 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 21, 2019, 04:13:28 PM
I tend to enjoy the trio tracks most - Gene Taylor and Louis Hayes, make a great rhythm section with Silver.  St. Vitus Dance, e.g., really swings.  Blue Mitchell is another stand out, often over-looked trumpeter. 

The album came out in 1959, a banner year for jazz with Kind of Blue, Ornette Coleman's first and Mingus Ah Umm.  I haven't looked but I'm sure there were other great albums that year, I should look it up.

Here's more jazz that came out in 1959:

Chet Baker – Chet (Riverside)
Dave Brubeck – Time Out (album) (Columbia)
John Coltrane – Giant Steps (Atlantic)
Coleman Hawkins – Hawk Eyes, (OJC)
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane – Bags & Trane (Atlantic)
Thelonious Monk – The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall,(Riverside/OJC)
Art Pepper – Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary/OJC)

Wow, that's a lot of classics. I own a lot of them.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 22, 2019, 02:37:48 AM
Once again -

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2019, 01:54:40 PM
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Leo Wright - Blues Shout (1960)
Modern Jazz Quartet - And Orchestra (1960)

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John Lewis - Jazz Abstractions (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 22, 2019, 05:02:09 PM
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Another recent SACD acquisition, mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray. First lovely spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 23, 2019, 01:49:41 PM

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Another recent SACD acquisition, mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray. First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 23, 2019, 02:08:50 PM
Quote from: George on January 23, 2019, 01:49:41 PM
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Another recent SACD acquisition, mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray. First spin.

Your last few postings have included some really excellent music.  Joe Henderson on Sidewinder was a major influence on the generation of sax players that broke onto the scene during the 70s and 80s.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 23, 2019, 02:31:42 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 23, 2019, 02:08:50 PM
Your last few postings have included some really excellent music.  Joe Henderson on Sidewinder was a major influence on the generation of sax players that broke onto the scene during the 70s and 80s.

Thanks, I appreciate it. It is a great album for sure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2019, 02:34:42 PM
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Wilbur De Paris - On The Riviera (1961)
David Newman - Straight Ahead (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2019, 03:06:13 PM
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John Lewis - Original Sin (1961)
The Mitchell-Ruff Trio - The Catbird Seat (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 24, 2019, 03:54:13 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 23, 2019, 02:34:42 PM
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David Newman - Straight Ahead (1961)

How cool - I was in his touring band from 1977-1979;, we had gigs in the major jazz clubs in the country and then after he moved to NYC, I played in his band in the city during the '80s.  He was a great person, very mild mannered and a great boss. 

There was a active jazz scene in Dallas, TX, of which I was a part, and how I met him and joined the band.  We were a quartet, and the rhythm section also was the house band for a short-lived jazz club in Dallas where we backed up name horn players passing through Dallas: I can recall Blue Mitchell, Harold Land, and Marcus Belgrave, until the club closed after only a few months. Red Garland would also sit in, and that was a treat.

James Clay was another great Dallas sax player - if you liked the album above, try to find this one:

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8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2019, 04:03:19 PM
^Wow, lucky you! Are there recordings with you as part of the band?

and speaking of Harold Land: playing now:

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Red Mitchell and Harold Land - Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 24, 2019, 04:08:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 24, 2019, 04:03:19 PM
^Wow, lucky you! Are there recordings with you as part of the band?

and speaking of Harold Land: playing now:

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Red Mitchell and Harold Land - Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (1961)

No studio dates, during that time he was recording for Orrin Keepnews (I think the label was Fantasy) who insisted on using name rhythm sections on all his recordings.  Also, we were playing hard-bop along with his R&B hits (Hard Times) whereas Keepnews wanted him to record more urban "smooth" jazz.  I personally think his records during that period are some of his worst.  Both before and after the Keepnews years his records were better.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 24, 2019, 04:15:38 PM
As a Dallas resident now, your stories are gold. But they're also a little envy-inducing - I would have loved to be here back in the day and watch you kickin' around with Blue and Red.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 24, 2019, 04:37:02 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 24, 2019, 04:15:38 PM
As a Dallas resident now, your stories are gold. But they're also a little envy-inducing - I would have loved to be here back in the day and watch you kickin' around with Blue and Red.

The Recovery Room was the primary jazz club back then - it was on Cedar Springs.  Tenor saxist Marchel Ivory, had the house band.  Do you know what the current club is?  There were others on Greenville. North Texas State University in Denton had a great jazz school and lab band (still does) and was a constant source of good players: Marc Johnson, Lyle Mays, Bob Belden, and many others whom I knew and played with and ended up seeing again in NYC.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 24, 2019, 04:56:08 PM
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The final SACD from the pile of Jazz SACDs I picked up used last week. Damn I love Philly Joe Jones! This one is a lot of fun!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2019, 10:03:41 PM
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Hank Crawford - The Soul Clinic (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 25, 2019, 01:04:31 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 24, 2019, 03:54:13 PM
How cool - I was in his touring band from 1977-1979;, we had gigs in the major jazz clubs in the country and then after he moved to NYC, I played in his band in the city during the '80s.  He was a great person, very mild mannered and a great boss. 

There was a active jazz scene in Dallas, TX, of which I was a part, and how I met him and joined the band.  We were a quartet, and the rhythm section also was the house band for a short-lived jazz club in Dallas where we backed up name horn players passing through Dallas: I can recall Blue Mitchell, Harold Land, and Marcus Belgrave, until the club closed after only a few months. Red Garland would also sit in, and that was a treat.

James Clay was another great Dallas sax player - if you liked the album above, try to find this one:

(https://dgwh4hty77sxy.cloudfront.net/9362-medium_zoomcrop/image.jpg)

8)

Wow, that's amazing! I love Newman's playing, his own albums on Atlantic and late ones on HighNote contain excellent music, very much in the pocket (just as that wonderful Ray Charles band was).

Regarding James Clay, this one has been in the player repeatedly in the past weeks, and it's excellent:

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Other recent listens include:

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disc 3 from the Gordon box, the two albums with Clark/Warren/Higgins from summer 1962 ("Go!" and "A Swingin' Affair").

And since Marchel Ivery was just mentioned, time to give this recent acquisition a first spin later tonight:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 25, 2019, 02:48:58 PM
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Lonely Woman  (1962)
John Lewis - A Milanese Story soundtrack (1962)

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Stephane Grapelli - Feeling+Finese=Jazz (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 25, 2019, 06:04:38 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 25, 2019, 02:48:58 PM
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Lonely Woman  (1962)
John Lewis - A Milanese Story soundtrack (1962)


I love that MJQ album. And I don't know the John Lewis, but I'll check it out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 25, 2019, 08:27:22 PM
Quote from: NikF on January 25, 2019, 06:04:38 PM
I love that MJQ album. And I don't know the John Lewis, but I'll check it out.

I thought I knew MJQ at least fairly well but this project has highlighted a surprising number of first time listens - including this one, playing now:

(https://img.discogs.com/nzeeW7DaSwm2Y75142hhhfLt9iI=/fit-in/500x504/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2203688-1362312263-7861.jpeg.jpg)

and also, to be played later tonight:

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*sigh*
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on January 25, 2019, 09:41:50 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 25, 2019, 08:27:22 PM
I thought I knew MJQ at least fairly well but this project has highlighted a surprising number of first time listens - including this one, playing now:

(https://img.discogs.com/nzeeW7DaSwm2Y75142hhhfLt9iI=/fit-in/500x504/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2203688-1362312263-7861.jpeg.jpg)

and also, to be played later tonight:

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*sigh*

;D

Well, I have the first but haven't heard the second.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 26, 2019, 02:00:59 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 25, 2019, 08:27:22 PM
I thought I knew MJQ at least fairly well but this project has highlighted a surprising number of first time listens ...

Ha, for quite a long time I thought I was fine with that Prestige/Pablo box (the Prestige material is essential, I think) and a few of the Atlantics (four or five CDs, including "Pyramid", "Lonely Woman" and the Collectables twofer or "European Concerts") ... but then I started listening again and felt I needed much more, got the Mosaic box with all the Atlantic studio albums, and a few live ones that are excellent, "Dedicated to Connie" from 1960 and the 1974 "Last Concert" (both 2CD sets), as well as both volumes of "Concert in Japan" ... I guess from distance, there may be a certain sameness to the albums, but whenever I listen again, I just love it and can hardly stop (good thing a man's gotta sleep  ;D ).

Thread duty:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 26, 2019, 03:50:38 PM
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Charles Bell - Another Dimension (1963)
kenny Clarke and Francy Boland - Jazz Is Universal (1963)

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Jack Wilson - The Jack Wilson Quartet Featuring Roy Ayers (1963)
Dudley Moore - The Theme From Beyond The Fringe And All That Jazz (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 27, 2019, 09:03:12 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/PETNjVEdU_5wA3I8tpy0qJ3MhqQ=/fit-in/360x360/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2350773-1408662278-4642.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/al5n929MPPwiOkub8oNZBPqizXk=/fit-in/597x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3142011-1317708854.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/TTDb4Zvr3DZuflQ3QizsBXFui3A=/fit-in/500x434/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4131417-1356335111-5763.jpeg.jpg)

In the midst of a major Herbie Nichols trip ... the Blue Note box ranks among my favourite box-sets easily (though compared to classical mega-boxes and or modest 10-15 disc sets, it's tiny - but the music is amazing).

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2019, 07:42:26 PM
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George Lewis - Jazz At Preservation Hall (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2019, 08:04:23 PM
Quote from: king ubu on January 26, 2019, 02:00:59 AM

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I just realized that part of the reason you're playing Jarman is because he died recently.

I'll take a break from the Atlantics to play Song For again:

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RIP

edit: and I see now he made an album with Geri Allen - have you heard that one?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on January 27, 2019, 10:41:32 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 27, 2019, 08:04:23 PM
I just realized that part of the reason you're playing Jarman is because he died recently.

I'll take a break from the Atlantics to play Song For again:

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RIP

edit: and I see now he made an album with Geri Allen - have you heard that one?

Yes, indeed - I think he had been doing not so well for a while, but his death was still a blow.

"Song For" is probably my favourite of his albums ... the one with Geri Allen is pretty nice and among the few (with "Song For" and a duo with Marilyn Crispell) that I've had for quite some years, stumbled over it in a used record shop many years ago.

The news of his death had me stock up on some albums I'd wanted to buy for ages, like the second one on Delmark and the two on Black Saint with Don Moye. And for a change I felt like playing them right after they arrived as well (the pile I put together with Geri Allen's albums - the one with Jarman is on it, too - after the news of her death still lies untouched).

Thread duty, the last one I spun late last night:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2019, 07:27:08 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/18NediVfDUM8qjqdhZN8xxvlujk=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9531815-1482202817-2614.jpeg.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71e08JEMX5L._SY355_.jpg)

The Modern Jazz Quartet with Quartetto Di Milano and Hungarian Gypsy Quartet - A Quartet Is A Quartet Is A Quartet (1963)
The Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida - Collaboration (1964)

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John Lewis and Gary McFarland - Essence (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 28, 2019, 10:29:46 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 28, 2019, 07:27:08 PM
The Modern Jazz Quartet with Quartetto Di Milano and Hungarian Gypsy Quartet - A Quartet Is A Quartet Is A Quartet (1963)
The Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida - Collaboration (1964)
John Lewis and Gary McFarland - Essence (1963)

The one with Gary McFarland is a fave of mine, as is most of what McFarland did.  He went in a pop direction near the end of his career, but even those are quirky and worth checking out.  But his early stuff, with both small and big band, are really good writing and arranging, as well as showcasing some great musicians.  His masterpiece is America the Beautiful, a six movement suite for big band. 

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October Suite with Steve Kuhn is great too

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Tragic early death due to either accidental poisoning or deliberate murder, although from what I've read and seen (there is a documentary about his life and death) is that a screwed up friend thought it was a practical joke to spike his drink with something toxic, which in a lower dose would have gotten him high. 

Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon is a wonderful recording with a sextet that features some great small band writing, but is verging into his later pop direction with choice of material.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 29, 2019, 12:15:46 AM
Interesting. I've never heard - or heard of - that America The Beautiful album. I'll check it out. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 29, 2019, 07:39:23 AM
Some cool Swing with Freddie Gardner


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 29, 2019, 07:36:14 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Soul_Groove.jpg/220px-Soul_Groove.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/NMf7tf2YSvnAFMuts0B1fYWpesE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1229881-1303120379.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny Griffin and Matthew Gee - Soul Groove (1963)
Herbert Laws - The Laws Of Jazz (1964)

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Sergio Mendez - The Swinger From Rio (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 30, 2019, 07:17:53 PM
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Plays George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess (1965)
Nat Adderley - Autobiography (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 30, 2019, 10:40:07 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 30, 2019, 07:17:53 PM
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Plays George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess (1965)
Nat Adderley - Autobiography (1964)

Oh man, tha MJQ  Porgy & Bess is great.  The only draw back is the distortion on the vibes, but it is classic. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 31, 2019, 07:13:22 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 30, 2019, 10:40:07 PM
Oh man, tha MJQ  Porgy & Bess is great.  The only draw back is the distortion on the vibes, but it is classic.

Yes, another particularly impressive one I'm surprised I hadn't heard earlier.

now:

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Clifford Jordan - Plays Leadbelly: These Are My Roots (1965)
Dorothy Ashby - The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby (1965)

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Elvin Jones - And Then Again (1965)
Max Roach - Drums Unlimited (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 31, 2019, 09:34:33 PM
Curious record, leaning more towards rock music than jazz.
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2019, 03:05:10 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/OWA5jLuKFBq7QGNJWDr961T9_Bs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2348541-1290718046.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/WZoDzZZYJ33F7qy3RSiYWqNGNGY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6749012-1425832350-3769.jpeg.jpg)

The Quartette Tres Bien - Bully! (1966)
Herbie Mann - Monday Night At The Village Gate (1966)

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The Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite (1966)
Nat Adderley - Sayin Something (1966)

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Sergio Mendes - The Great Arrival (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 02, 2019, 07:16:27 AM
lately:

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Mostly Nichols-related music again above (except for the Kimbrough - there are two Nichols tunes on the Johnston) ... he's playing (rather generic) piano on the 1953 live session by an old-time band led by Rex Stewart (nice enough actually) ... the album by swiss saxophonist Jürg Bucher is very good, as is the Melillo (split between Nichols and Monk). The third and so far final of the Herbie Nichols Project albums was the first I got to know, and I still love it a lot.

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Coudoux I heard in solo last night, she was fine - and so is her solo disc on Leo. The new Petrucciani release is great - Haynes sounds so good, but the whole trio is in excellent shape.

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And right now I'm starting to dig into Allen Lowe's new 8-CD-set, "Disonnected Works, 1980-2018", playing disc 3 which features two suites, the first with Darius Jones and James Brandon Lewis in the line-up, a 2018 recording, the second a suite dedicated to Gladys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley) Bentley (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/gladys-bentley-overlooked.html).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 02, 2019, 07:55:29 AM
Sad about Roy Hargrove passing in November of last year.  Only 49.

I tried to enjoy the Herbie Nichols stuff but never have been able to get into it. 

TD

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Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 02, 2019, 12:46:41 PM
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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues At Carnegie Hall (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 02, 2019, 01:59:04 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 02, 2019, 07:55:29 AM
Sad about Roy Hargrove passing in November of last year.  Only 49.
Yes, indeed. Not sure I know his best recordings yet, and alas I never caught him in concert ... "earfood" for one is very, very good! What else should I check out? In addition to these two, I have both "Hard Groove" and "Distractions" by the R.H. Factor.

Quote from: San Antone on February 02, 2019, 07:55:29 AM
I tried to enjoy the Herbie Nichols stuff but never have been able to get into it. 

Sorry to hear that. I think he's one of the outstanding jazz pianists/composers of the classic modern jazz era. His trio recordings from the mid fifties and his tunes keep haunting me.

Thread duty:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 03, 2019, 06:41:05 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 02, 2019, 01:59:04 PM
Yes, indeed. Not sure I know his best recordings yet, and alas I never caught him in concert ... "earfood" for one is very, very good! What else should I check out? In addition to these two, I have both "Hard Groove" and "Distractions" by the R.H. Factor.


In order of best (imo) starting with Tenors of Our Time: Hargrove sharing separate songs with five great tenors: Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and Stanley Turrentine.

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Earfood: A studio recording of his live touring repertoire with his working quintet, Hargrove presents several ballads, favorites from jazz veterans, and well rendered originals, all in the spirit of the famed trumpeters who preceded him.

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Parker's Mood: An unusual album, Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn), Christian McBride (bass) and Stephen Scott (piano) pay homage to the father of bebop with a generous set of (mostly) Charlie Parker compositions performed in trio, duet and solo arrangements.

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There's also a Live at Ronnie Scott's Johnny Griffin album that is good.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2019, 02:02:02 PM
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Herbie Mann - Impressions Of The Middle East (1967)

^"Do Wah Diddy" is Middle Eastern?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 04, 2019, 01:18:20 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 03, 2019, 06:41:05 AM
In order of best (imo) starting with Tenors of Our Time: Hargrove sharing separate songs with five great tenors: Johnny Griffin, Joe Henderson, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and Stanley Turrentine.

Earfood: A studio recording of his live touring repertoire with his working quintet, Hargrove presents several ballads, favorites from jazz veterans, and well rendered originals, all in the spirit of the famed trumpeters who preceded him.

Parker's Mood: An unusual album, Roy Hargrove (trumpet, flugelhorn), Christian McBride (bass) and Stephen Scott (piano) pay homage to the father of bebop with a generous set of (mostly) Charlie Parker compositions performed in trio, duet and solo arrangements.

There's also a Live at Ronnie Scott's Johnny Griffin album that is good.


Thanks! The first two I have, "Earfood" is probably my favourite Hargrove album as of now. The second two I'll take a note of. I love Johnny Griffin, not sure why I never got that Ronnie's album when there were still music stores and it was around.

--

Thread duty - Sunday afternoon and evening listening:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 04, 2019, 07:05:59 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Phil_Woods_Rhythm_Frankfurt.jpeg)

https://youtu.be/dW2HV6g1aYk  (https://youtu.be/dW2HV6g1aYk)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 04, 2019, 02:55:02 PM
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Ira Sullivan - Horizons (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 05, 2019, 12:52:57 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2019, 02:43:38 PM
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Charles Lloyd - Love-In (1967)
Junior Mance - Harlem Lullaby (1967)

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Eddie Harris - The Tender Storm (1967)
Sergio Mendez - The Beat Of Brazil (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 02:44:51 PM
Quote from: George on February 05, 2019, 12:52:57 PM
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I'm not a huge Brubeck fan, but that is probably his best record.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 02:45:25 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2019, 02:43:38 PM
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Charles Lloyd - Love-In (1967)

Was that the quartet with Keith Jarrett?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2019, 02:48:09 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 02:44:51 PM
I'm not a huge Brubeck fan, but that is probably his best record.

I have nothing to say against Time Out, but there's probably at least a half dozen of his albums I think are stronger.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2019, 02:50:01 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 02:45:25 PM
Was that the quartet with Keith Jarrett?

It is. I'm surprised to have not heard it already, having - I thought - made a point of hearing all the early Jarretts.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 02:52:20 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2019, 02:48:09 PM
I have nothing to say against Time Out, but there's probably at least a half dozen of his albums I think are stronger.

I don't know his entire catalog - but Blue Rondo ala Turk is a great song.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 05, 2019, 04:09:48 PM
I'm with Simon. The later live Brubeck recordings are more confident and swinging with the "time" material - try Carnegie Hall (which is my favorite of their albums, period). Only studio Bru I really ever return to nowadays is Time Further Out and Gone with the Wind, which is sensible enough to give the underrated Gene Wright a solo feature.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 05, 2019, 05:20:40 PM
Have you listened to any of Brubeck's sacred works with orchestra?  They are worth a listen if only because they stretch his jazz style into a more classical composition conception.

I was involved with a concert when I was still in school and playing in the Shreveport Symphony.  Brubeck came and did one of his large-form pieces with his current quartet which included Alan Dawson on drums, his son Chris on bass, and Gerry Mulligan played baritone, no alto.

Don't get me wrong, Brubeck did some great stuff; just not up my main alley, and as a consequence I haven't listened to most of what he's done.  Just the fact that he wrote "In Your Own Sweet Way" putts him in the cool column as far as I'm concerned.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 05, 2019, 06:40:06 PM
Man, I'm so far behind on every thread on this forum. :( :)

Anyway, today was an ECM day, if only coincidentally.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF on February 06, 2019, 12:42:54 AM
Sonny Rollins with The Modern Jazz Quartet

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As for the Brubeck comments in previous posts, my favourite live recording (albeit featuring only the leader and Desmond of the classic quartet)  is what Brubeck was quoted as saying is the best thing they ever did. I don't know about that, but it's electric -

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Finally, when I was sixteen years old I lived in a windowless, glorified former storeroom of the (photography) studio I worked in. Another photographer introduced me to Time Out, then shortly afterwards I found my favourite Brubeck  -

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 06, 2019, 12:51:03 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2019, 02:39:05 PM
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The Jimmy Owens-Kenny Barron Quintet - You Had Better Listen  (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 07, 2019, 01:05:28 AM
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Ralph Alessi : Imaginary Friends
Ralph Alessi
Ravi Coltrane
Andy Milne
Drew Gress
Mark Ferber

The straight-eights style of most ECM recordings is showcased in Ralph Alessi's latest, his third for ECM.  His tone recalls Tomasz Stanko, but without that musician's smoldering core.  The meandering trumpet seems aimless and apathetic on most tracks.  Ravi Coltrane raises the temperature somewhat but his solo's are held earthbound by the structure of the songs, the harmonic progressions of which do not have much forward movement.  The whole affair leaves me feeling that there's something crucial missing from the entire effort, i.e. swing.

Other than being finely recorded (especially the bass) and featuring some of this generation's best players there's not much here for me. 

Don't get me wrong, the record is not unpleasant to listen to; it is just not jazz, imo.  Yes, there is improvisation and rhythmic propulsion happening but the music does not swing. And, without tonal melodic and harmonic content it falls off the jazz spectrum.  Here's how his record label describes Alessi and the music: "An inventive improvisor in the Kenny Wheeler mold, Alessi makes modern creative jazz that is aware of tradition but rarely evinces it."

Others may find more to enjoy, as of course YMMV.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 07, 2019, 02:45:38 PM
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Charles Lloyd - In Europe (1968)
Brother Jack McDuff and David Newman - Double-Barrelled Soul (1968)

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Shirley Scott - Soul Song (1968)
Rufus Harley - A Tribute To Courage (1968)

Have I ever heard jazz bagpipes before? I don't think I have.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2019, 12:07:50 AM
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Joe Lovano : Trio Tapestry (recorded 3/2018, released 1/2019)
Joe Lovano
Marilyn Crispell
Carmen Castaldi

QuoteThe great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a wonderful new group and music of flowing lyricism, delicate texture, and inspired interplay. Lovano and pianist Marilyn Crispell are in accord at an advanced level inside its structures. "Marilyn has such a beautiful sound and touch and vocabulary," Joe enthuses. Drummer Carmen Castaldi, a Lovano associate of long-standing, also responds to the trio environment with sensitivity, subtly embellishing and detailing the pieces. Lovano: "We play together like an orchestra, creating an amazing tapestry. I brought in the material, but there's an equal weight of contribution, creating music within the music, and harmonizing it in a really special way."  Trio Tapestry was recorded at New York's Sear Sound studio in March 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

I can't say enough good things about Joe Lovano; now an elder statesman of the current generation his playing is vibrant, dynamic, and he stands with both feet in the river of jazz tradition.  This trio is sans-bass instead of the usual configuration without piano, which translates into a conversation between Lovano and Crispell with the drums offering lightly swinging support.  But, I am not thrilled with the absence of a bassist, it will take some getting used to the lack of bottom and interplay with the drums, but it does offer Crispell an unobstructed harmonic palette with which to paint for Lovano.

Some of Crispell's contributions are a bit too abstract for my tastes, but the bottom line is there is no way that Lovano and Castaldi won't find a way swing despite Crispell's Eurocentric meandering.  So far I can't help but feel that Lovano missed an opportunity with this first release on ECM. 

Somewhat of an odd addition to Lovano's catalog, it will take a few listens before I decide if it will enter regular rotation in my listening pile - but for now it is an interesting adventure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2019, 12:59:05 AM
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Young Sidney Bechet 1923-1925
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in 1922, after Bechet had been deported from England for allegedly assaulting a woman, he was contacted by pianist/composer/publisher/A&R man Clarence Williams to make records with his recording band. Williams, an old friend from New Orleans had come North in the 'teens to further his publishing/songwriting career, firstly to Chicago and eventually to New York. Quick to capitalize on the blues craze, he built up a large catalog of blues compositions and through this was employed by the Columbia and Okeh record companies to scout for talent and supervise recordings by African-American artists. It is thanks to Williams that the likes of Bessie Smith, Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet and scores of others found their way onto records.

The Okeh company possessed a team of excellent recording engineers, and the results they coaxed out of the primitive acoustic equipment (including all the tracks bar one on this CD) are a testament to their patience and skill. The sound is big, mellow and clearly defined, with the lower range frequencies being better recorded than by their bigger rivals with more sophisticated equipment.

Bechet's first trip to the Okeh studios was with a group assembled by Williams, and the resulting tracks, Wild Cat Blues and Kansas City Man Blues are a magnificent recording debut for the young Bechet. Unlike the recording debut of Louis Armstrong and King Oliver earlier in the same year, where their playing is primarily in an ensemble role, Bechet cuts through the rest of the band like a knife. Both sides can be regarded as soprano saxophone solos with incidental orchestral accompaniment, the band playing a subsidiary and supportive role to Bechet's impassioned outpourings. As such, Bechet can be regarded as the first great jazz soloist on record.

There are some excellent tracks on this collection with Williams leading a band that included both Bechet and Armstrong.  Easily recommendable for anyone interested in hearing early Bechet and Armstrong.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2019, 02:09:22 AM
Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins are two remaining tenor sax masters from the Golden Age of Jazz still with us.  Unfortunately, Rollins ceased performed publicly in 2012 due to health issues; however, Wayne Shorter continues to perform and record, now at the ripe age of 85 (Rollins is 88).  Shorter's latest, Emanon ("No Name" backwards, hat tip Dizzy Gillespie) is a very interesting 3CD recording.

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QuoteThe album is Shorter's first in five years. The set is accompanied by a 74-page graphic novel created by Shorter together with writer Monica Sly and artist Randy DuBurke, whose career includes work for DC Comics. The book is a futuristic fantasy supported by Shorter's philosophy of art.[7] It tells the story of a "rogue philosopher" named Emanon who travels among worlds, spreading a message of truth and empowerment and fighting against the powers of evil.[17][10] In his biography Shorter, a practicing Buddhist, explained "At this point I'm looking to express eternity in composition".[8]

Disc 1 was recorded in New York City and Casco Viejo, Panama in 2016 and features the Shorter's quartet in a studio session with the 34-piece Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Discs 2 and 3 were recorded live in the Barbican Centre, London, in 2015 as a follow-up project of his previous album Without a Net. Wayne Shorter and Don Was produced the release.

Of course it is good, that goes without saying when you are discussing Wayne Shorter.  But, the orchestra is a distraction for me.  I will order the box mainly to see what the graphic novel is all about (the entire recording is available on most streaming services).  I knew Shorter was into fantasy lit, science fiction, and all things spacey, but have never gotten a first hand taste of this side of his complex persona.

Bottomline, IMO, not enough blowing and too much written arranged music - but those blowing sections are so good this release cannot be passed up.  After all he's only released four records since 2002, and all are mandatory listening, so gents, time to pony up and put your money on the barrel-head. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 08, 2019, 01:57:19 PM
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Eddie Harris - Plug Me In (1968)
Herbert Laws - Laws Cause (1968)

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Roy Ayers - Stoned Soul Picnic (1968)
Les McCann - Much Les (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 08, 2019, 05:31:35 PM
Heading to New Orleans tomorrow! Based on online concert calendars, should be able to catch a Kermit Ruffins club date, maybe the Hot 8 Brass Band, and my girlfriend is running the marathon, which will have the Preservation Hall band playing at the finish line. Think I saw Wendell Brunious on a calendar someplace too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2019, 05:41:52 PM
Quote from: Brian on February 08, 2019, 05:31:35 PM
Heading to New Orleans tomorrow! Based on online concert calendars, should be able to catch a Kermit Ruffins club date, maybe the Hot 8 Brass Band, and my girlfriend is running the marathon, which will have the Preservation Hall band playing at the finish line. Think I saw Wendell Brunious on a calendar someplace too.

Sounds good - wish I was there!  Enjoy!   8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 08, 2019, 08:46:08 PM
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Frank Sinatra - The Voice Of Frank Sinatra (1946)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 01:07:32 AM
A classic

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Getz/Gilberto

I discovered Bossa Nova when I was still in Shreveport, high school I guess.  Jobim mainly.  Then I got a gig with a piano player from the big city of Dallas who came to Shreveport, I think, to escape his ex-wife.  He got the best supper club/jazz lounge six-night-a-week gig in Shreveport, and since I could read his charts, I got the gig playing bass. 

I was totally knocked out when he handed me a lead sheet for "Wave" - I was in heaven.  That gig lasted almost two years and then he went back to Dallas.  HE called a few months later and I and my wife (and now infant child, who is now 45) moved to Dallas (where my wife was from).  Xavier (the piano player) got a similar gig in Dallas for our trio.  That gig lasted about two years.  By then I had began to crack the Dallas jazz scene, which eventually got me the gig with Fathead Newman and then NYC.

NYC had a large Brazilian community, huge music scene.  I began hanging out at a jazz club that had a regular Sunday Brazilian night and met and began a romantic relationship with a Brazilian woman, who was a few years older, and knew everyone.  She introduced me to Tchiago de Mello whose 10 piece band had the gig at Jazzmania.  He hired me to play bass, and was where I met Claudio Roditi.  I played in Claudio's quartet, which led me to Dom Salvadore and then Joao Donato and the New York Samba Band.  By now the club Sounds of Brazil (SOB for short) had opened and was the primary scene. 

Fun days.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2019, 02:13:55 PM
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Roland Kirk - Left And Right (1968)
Charles Lloyd - Soundtrack (1968)

It seems that when I first went through the Jarrett-era Lloyds I played only the studio albums and missed all the live ones

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Freddie Hubbard - A Soul Experiment (1969)
Luis Gasca - The Little Giant (1969)

Hadn't previously realized that "Afro-Blue" isn't a Coltrane composition, nor that it first appeared on a Cal Tjader album
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 04:38:28 PM
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Jimmy Rosenberg : Guitar Genius

QuoteGypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz generally accepted to have been started by the Romani guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in Paris during the 1930s. Because its origins are in France, and Reinhardt was from the Manouche Roma clan, gypsy jazz is often called by the French name "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz" in English language sources.[

Jimmy Rosenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Rosenberg) is the youngest member of a precocious musical family playing in the jazz manouche style.  I am not sure but I think he was a teenager, 13 or 14 when this record was made.  Phenomenal!

That looks like Angelo DeBarre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Debarre) sitting next to him, another fantastic guitarist.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 04:51:50 PM
I wonder if the Jazz Lounge is the proper place to post about various styles of music I am very interested, like Manouche?  Musicians in this style play a unique guitar and in a fashion very much influenced by Django Reinhardt.  There has been a huge resurgance in this style since the 80s.

then there's Fado a Portuguese style of music which I really like usually features a singer and the traditional 12-string guitar:

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QuoteFado (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfaðu]; "destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best. But even that information was frequently modified within the generational transmission process that made it reach us today."

The Coimbra guitar has evolved into an instrument different from that of Lisbon, with its own tuning, sound colouring, and construction. Artur Paredes, a progressive and innovative singer, revolutionised the tuning of the guitar and its accompaniment style to Coimbra fado. Artur Paredes was the father of Carlos Paredes, who followed in his father's footsteps and expanded on his work, making the Portuguese guitar an instrument known around the world.

Flamenco, from Spain is also a wonderful style - also of Gypsy origins along with Manouche.

And the various forms of Brazilian music, Bossa Nova, Música popular brasileira (MPB), Tropicalia, Minas Gerais style, Forró, etc., might also fall into this category.

Would having a World Music Topic be a good idea? 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2019, 04:54:03 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 04:51:50 PM

Would having a World Music Topic be a good idea?

Definitely.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 09, 2019, 05:34:14 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 09, 2019, 04:54:03 PM
Definitely.

I thought of a couple of other musics, Cuban with artists like Bebe Valdes and Ibrahim Ferrer - and then there's Argentinian Tango starting with Astor Piazzolla and all of the musicians he influenced.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 10, 2019, 06:29:57 AM
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Great mix of world music and jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 10, 2019, 07:47:49 AM
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on February 10, 2019, 08:03:35 AM

Rene Thomas: Meeting Mister Thomas

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Thomas Jasper Quintet

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 10, 2019, 08:29:13 PM
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Keith Jarrett piano, soprano saxophone, osi drums, tambourine
Dewey Redman tenor saxophone, tambourine, maracas
Charlie Haden bass
Paul Motian drums, percussion

QuoteEyes of The Heart is a jazz album by American pianist Keith Jarrett released in 1979 by the ECM record label. The personnel on the album is the "American Quartet", made up of Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. It was recorded at the Theater am Kornmarkt, Bregenz in Austria in May 1976. The studio album The Survivors' Suite had been recorded one month earlier.

Eyes of The Heart was the last album released to feature Jarrett's American quartet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 10, 2019, 10:13:05 PM
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Baden Powell : Tristeza on Guitar
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 11, 2019, 04:58:17 AM
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Grandes del Cante Flamenco : Pepe Pinto
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 11, 2019, 12:13:42 PM
This just arrived ~

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Starting with CD1 - mainly New Orleans stuff.  I have most of this in other places but it is real nice to have it all in one place to listen to in order.  And the book is excellent.  Very nice presentation.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 11, 2019, 12:26:19 PM
Which albums is that repackaging?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 11, 2019, 12:37:33 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 11, 2019, 12:26:19 PM
Which albums is that repackaging?

It isn't albums but "111 Tracks of Music History" - you can read about it here (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/jazz-the-smithsonian-collection-111-tracks-of-music-history-8099141/).

It does not exactly replicate the original 5LP box that came out in 1973, although there is significant overlap.  Because this is one is on CDs they could expand the number of tracks and chose also to add at least one additional disc of music that post dated the 1973 collection.

The accompanying book is really a valuable resources, and the transfers are the best I've heard of the early jazz selections.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2019, 11:57:03 AM
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Miles Davis Quintet : In Person Friday & Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk (Complete)

Miles Davis – trumpet
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Jimmy Cobb – drums




This box and the Plugged Nickel with the 2nd Great Quintet are two of the best live collections I have.  I listen to them often and never tire of the performances.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 12, 2019, 01:15:30 PM
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Oscar Aleman : Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957

QuoteAcoustic Disc's Swing Guitar Masterpieces is the first United States CD release of the music of Oscar Alemán, an amazing Argentine guitarist who, according to jazz critic Leonard Feather, could "outswing Django Reinhardt," his friend and peer. This special double-CD compilation contains over 140 minutes of Alemán swinging interpretations of popular standards from both North and South America. The 52 tracks were recorded between 1938 and 1957, and represent this rarely-heard genius in his prime. A 20-page booklet of rare photos, biographical notes and discographical information is also included with the set.

This is a fantastic 2CD collection. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 12, 2019, 07:32:30 PM
Recently on KCSM, now on my wish list...

Wycliffe Jordan and Eric Reed, We

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Brad Meldhau, Elegiac Cycle

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Charlie Haden and Brad Meldahu, Long Ago and Far Away

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 12, 2019, 08:02:48 PM
Today was a mixed bag:

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Strange thing about that Pasqua album: online I see lots of images of that cover, with the black background - yet the background on mine is a kind of burgundy color.

I also started this one:

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Five CDs' worth of material here and undoubtedly a lot to absorb - it's certainly a pleasure so far.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 12:04:13 AM
That Lyons box is so good - it's one of very few items I pre-ordered ... terrific music!

Didn't report my recent listening yet, but got this one yesterday and gave it a first spin last night:

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First impression is that it's pretty good indeed. I might be a little bit biased as I've known Alex for a long time, first just online, but we've met and had a coffee or dinner or drinks after concerts several times in the past three or four years, and I think he's one of the most talented and interesting jazz musicians around these days.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 12:15:14 AM
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Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine In Concert

Miles Davis – trumpet
George Coleman – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – double bass
Tony Williams – drums




I always loved this record - recorded in February 1964 at Philharmonic Hall prior to his finalizing the personnel to his 2GQ (it was released a year later in Feb. 1965). The final piece of the puzzle would be Wayne Shorter, who would join the quintet during the 1964 Europe tour (after Sam Rivers was auditioned for a short stint).  It has been written that Tony Williams did not like George Coleman's playing, but I've never found fault.  For sure he's no Wayne Shorter, but from the little I've read, Williams had a very negative feeling towards Coleman.  It was Williams who put Sam Rivers forward.  But there can be no question that Wayne Shorter was the perfect saxophonist for this group.

'Four' and More is a companion recording that documents the same concert, but with the up tempo tunes whereas MFV contains more mid-tempo swinging numbers and ballads.  One thing that has always impressed me about this recording is the great sound of the bass.  Credit goes to the audio engineers at the hall, and the acoustics of the hall of course.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 01:23:24 AM
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Sonny Rollins : Way Out West

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Ray Brown - bass
Shelly Manne - drums




One of the great saxophone trio recordings.  Rollins must have liked this configuration since he released several albums without piano (Freedom Suite; Live at the Vanguard). 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 01:26:23 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 12:15:14 AM
Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine In Concert

That recording - both albums taken together - may actually be my favourite George Coleman performance! The atmosphere and sound is indeed wonderful. And even if Coleman may play a few licks too many and run the changes too much, he was outstanding! There's that story about Miles having agreed to play for free (or for less than usual) and not having pre-informed the band that they wouldn't get paid (or not as much as usual) and them being pissed ... no idea how much of it is true, but there seems to be tension in the air, and that may be part of why the music has that special quality? (I'm not nearly as fond of the Antibes session by the same band, for instance ... it's still good, and I consider it a shame that the band is usually not considered when discussing Miles' important albums etc. - and I was very pleased that, contrary to the band with Mobley, the Coleman band w/Rivers coda - from Japan btw, I don't think that group toured Europe, we'd have many more good-quality recordings if that had been the case - got the deluxe box set treatment.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 03:17:25 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 01:26:23 AM
That recording - both albums taken together - may actually be my favourite George Coleman performance! The atmosphere and sound is indeed wonderful. And even if Coleman may play a few licks too many and run the changes too much, he was outstanding! There's that story about Miles having agreed to play for free (or for less than usual) and not having pre-informed the band that they wouldn't get paid (or not as much as usual) and them being pissed ... no idea how much of it is true, but there seems to be tension in the air, and that may be part of why the music has that special quality? (I'm not nearly as fond of the Antibes session by the same band, for instance ... it's still good, and I consider it a shame that the band is usually not considered when discussing Miles' important albums etc. - and I was very pleased that, contrary to the band with Mobley, the Coleman band w/Rivers coda - from Japan btw, I don't think that group toured Europe, we'd have many more good-quality recordings if that had been the case - got the deluxe box set treatment.

Yeah, I meant that Shorter joined the band in Europe; Berlin? 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 03:59:01 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 03:17:25 AM
Yeah, I meant that Shorter joined the band in Europe; Berlin?

Indeed Berlin is the first recording - and again one with magic atmosphere and amazing sound (in some review I read when I was a kid and exploring jazz for the first time, I read something about the acoustic on that recording being so good, you would hear a feather dropping to the ground).

There was tour through Europe in fall 1964 ... actually there'd be more than enough material for another volume of the Bootleg Series from it, but with the 1967 tour of the same band being part of the series already, I doubt that they'll do a 1964 set. Here's the entry for the first documented concert of the tour (Berlin, actually), and links to the following ones that are confirmed/were recorded:
http://plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=640925

There'd be one okay-sounding Rivers concert from Japan to throw in, July 12 (July 14 is the one released on Columbia: a third one from Kyoto, July 15, is a pretty rough sounding audience recording). According to the notes on Losin's site, there's a recording from July 13 as well, but it has not been circulated so far:
http://plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=640712
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 04:21:18 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 03:59:01 AM
Indeed Berlin is the first recording - and again one with magic atmosphere and amazing sound (in some review I read when I was a kid and exploring jazz for the first time, I read something about the acoustic on that recording being so good, you would hear a feather dropping to the ground).

There was tour through Europe in fall 1964 ... actually there'd be more than enough material for another volume of the Bootleg Series from it, but with the 1967 tour of the same band being part of the series already, I doubt that they'll do a 1964 set. Here's the entry for the first documented concert of the tour (Berlin, actually), and links to the following ones that are confirmed/were recorded:
http://plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=640925

There'd be one okay-sounding Rivers concert from Japan to throw in, July 12 (July 14 is the one released on Columbia: a third one from Kyoto, July 15, is a pretty rough sounding audience recording). According to the notes on Losin's site, there's a recording from July 13 as well, but it has not been circulated so far:
http://plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=640712

Looks like Shorter actually joined the band prior to the Berlin concert.  There is a television show taping, the Steve Allen Show, on Sept. 10 & 11 (broadcast 9/22) prior to the 9/25/64 Berlin date.  Those Steve Allen tracks do not appear to ever have been released outside of the broadcasts.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 04:38:56 AM
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Round About Mompou : Beirach/Huebner/Mraz

Pretty interesting.  George Mraz is a great bassist and is recorded fantastically on this unusual recording of the music of Federico Mompou as interpreted by Richie Beirach, bassist Mraz and violinist Gregor Huebner.  I discovered it by accident looking for Mompou recordings besides the piano works. Recorded and mastered in May 2001 at Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg, Germany:

Tracklist
1   Impressiones Intimas #1   4:29
2   Musica Callada #6   8:05
3   Fantasie On Musica Callada #10   2:11
4   Musica Callada #10   6:33
5   Bass Fantasie On Musica Callada #1   2:58
6   Musica Callada #1   3:52
7   Musica Callada #27   1:48
8   Around Musica Callada #27   4:36
9   Fantasie On Musica Callada #19   3:11
10   Around Musica Callada #19   1:00
11   Musica Callada #19   3:39
12   Musica Callada #18   7:40
13   Fantasie On Musica Callada #18   1:55
14   Musica Callada #15   2:28
15   Musica Callada #22   8:20
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 04:59:51 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 04:21:18 AM
Looks like Shorter actually joined the band prior to the Berlin concert.  There is a television show taping, the Steve Allen Show, on Sept. 10 & 11 (broadcast 9/22) prior to the 9/25/64 Berlin date.  Those Steve Allen tracks do not appear to ever have been released outside of the broadcasts.
Yep, what I meant was "first known recording" ... those years from when Coltrane left to when Shorter joined saw Miles try several other sax players, not just Stitt, Mobley and Coleman (the ones documented), but also Jimmy Heath and Frank Strozier (from the Memphis gang, to which Geore Coleman and his regular piano partner Harold Mabern also belong, I think they all played with Miles sometime in 1963, but only Coleman made it onto the records as far as i know). Also J.J. Johnson made the band a sextet for a short moment ... also, the pretty obscure but from what little I've heard fine Rocky Boyd was on tenor for a moment, and even Sonny Rollins:
https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/miles-miles-davis-19611963/
(I guess David got his info from reliable sources ...)

I'd certainly be in for another Bootleg Series volume of the second quintet ... one Steve Allen show from the fifties was released officially on the Concord set with the Coltrane/Garland/Chambers/Jones quintet recordings (https://www.discogs.com/The-Miles-Davis-Quintet-The-Legendary-Prestige-Quintet-Sessions/release/2530051), so it seems it's possible to obtain rights ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 05:48:17 AM
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Miles Davis Quintet : Miles in Berlin

Miles Davis – Trumpet
Wayne Shorter – Tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Piano
Ron Carter – Double Bass
Tony Williams – Drums

"Milestones" (Miles Davis) – 8:57
"Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 12:37
"So What" (Miles Davis) – 10:27
"Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 12:53
"Walkin'" (Richard H. Carpenter) – 10:39
"Go-Go [Theme] and Announcement" (Miles Davis) – 1:44

QuoteMiles in Berlin is an album recorded on September 25, 1964, by the Miles Davis Quintet at the Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, Germany. It was released in the United States on CD in 2005 and marks the first recorded work of what is commonly known as Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet.

Ubu - yeah, it is too bad they didn't include all those bands on the way to the final iteration in the yellow box '65-'68.  If Bob Belden was still around, sadly he passed in 2015, I'd ask him the thinking on that.  We knew each other in Denton, TX, University of North Texas (back then it was called North Texas State University).  This was the 70s, like 76-78, and back then he had all these Miles bootlegs and an encyclopedic knowledge of the where, when and who of each Miles band.  Perfect evolution for him to get the gig to co-produce all those re-issues and boxes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Irons on February 13, 2019, 07:25:11 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 01:23:24 AM
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Sonny Rollins : Way Out West

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Ray Brown - bass
Shelly Manne - drums




One of the great saxophone trio recordings.  Rollins must have liked this configuration since he released several albums without piano (Freedom Suite; Live at the Vanguard).

Great recording. I have it on vinyl and CD. The missus has no interest in jazz what so ever, but loves "I'm an Old Cowhand". The stereo release has Rollins hard left and Brown/Manne hard right so a handy tool for checking channels are correctly configured.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 09:12:03 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 05:48:17 AM
Ubu - yeah, it is too bad they didn't include all those bands on the way to the final iteration in the yellow box '65-'68.  If Bob Belden was still around, sadly he passed in 2015, I'd ask him the thinking on that.  We knew each other in Denton, TX, University of North Texas (back then it was called North Texas State University).  This was the 70s, like 76-78, and back then he had all these Miles bootlegs and an encyclopedic knowledge of the where, when and who of each Miles band.  Perfect evolution for him to get the gig to co-produce all those re-issues and boxes.

Yes, too bad! I really appreciate his input to the series. I was still in high school when theses boxes came out (the Miles/Gil was first) and it took me a while to collect enough pocket money to get them. Love the entire series! (But as I said, I'm a bit sad that the Mobley band didn't get the full treatment ... most of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and the live recordings from the Black Hawk and from Carnegie Hall - easy to assemble separately, but still, the obvious lack of love/respect - or assumed lack of marketability - for the band makes me a sad ...)

Thread duty - not jazz really, but good:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 09:52:55 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 09:12:03 AM
Yes, too bad! I really appreciate his input to the series. I was still in high school when theses boxes came out (the Miles/Gil was first) and it took me a while to collect enough pocket money to get them. Love the entire series! (But as I said, I'm a bit sad that the Mobley band didn't get the full treatment ... most of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and the live recordings from the Black Hawk and from Carnegie Hall - easy to assemble separately, but still, the obvious lack of love/respect - or assumed lack of marketability - for the band makes me a sad ...)

Thread duty - not jazz really, but good:

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Don't you have this one?

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Would seem to cover most of what you describe, the Hank Mobley sessions, Live at the Blackhawk and Someday My Prince are not included but the other stuff you mention is, including the Tokyo and Berlin live dates.

QuoteThe Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963–1964 is a box set of studio and concert recordings by Miles Davis for Columbia over a two-year period. It marks the final part of the time of transition between the two "Great Quintet" formations.

Disc 1 and part of disc 2 are the sessions that made up the Seven Steps to Heaven album. The second half of disc 2 and disc 3 are the concert recordings from the Jazz Festival in Antibes that made up the In Europe album. Disc 4 and 5 are the sessions that made up the My Funny Valentine and Four & More albums, both recorded in 1964 at the Lincoln Center, New York, on February 12, 1964. Disc 6 contains the Miles in Tokyo album, with Sam Rivers replacing George Coleman, previously only available in Japan. Disc 7 contains the album Miles in Berlin, previously only available in Germany and Japan.

Morgana King is a great singer who is almost forgotten these days.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 10:16:23 AM
Yup, I have all the "metal spine" boxes ("In a Silent Way" was a cardboardcover) ... the "Seven Steps" is great, it really helps re-evaluate the 1963/64 years, but the 1961 (pre health/operation related break) period, with Mobley on sax and the Kelly/Chambers/Cobb unit driving a very hip and closely-knit band just didn't get that lavish box treatment ... and while I'm not saying those are Miles' best albums (they're far from, but they're still good!), I very much love Mobley and find it sad that the 1961 band didn't get that same treatment.

Just gave this a very first spin - and that I typed "pain" first, instead of "spin", is totally fitting - it's devastating but at the same time fascinating:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 13, 2019, 12:27:20 PM
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After reading the above discussion played Miles In Berlin for the first time in a while, wondering why I so seldom drag it out. Its an exciting recording with the new band clearly loving working together. I guess that like other Miles live from the same era, including the Plugged Nickel set, I've got a bit of a problem with the narrowness of Miles' repertoire in concerts of this era - really its narrower than an 80's pop band on a greatest hits tour. I know that putting that aside they're strong sets with subtle and telling differences, and that Miles felt the audience wasn't keeping up and only wanted familiar material, but even with that consideration I'd have loved to have heard live "deep cuts" from the older albums or quintet versions of stuff from the Gil Evans albums.

Played ESP after. No petty grumbles there.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 12:41:59 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 13, 2019, 12:27:20 PM
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After reading the above discussion played Miles In Berlin for the first time in a while, wondering why I so seldom drag it out. Its an exciting recording with the new band clearly loving working together. I guess that like other Miles live from the same era, including the Plugged Nickel set, I've got a bit of a problem with the narrowness of Miles' repertoire in concerts of this era - really its narrower than an 80's pop band on a greatest hits tour. I know that putting that aside they're strong sets with subtle and telling differences, and that Miles felt the audience wasn't keeping up and only wanted familiar material, but even with that consideration I'd have loved to have heard live "deep cuts" from the older albums or quintet versions of stuff from the Gil Evans albums.

Played ESP after. No petty grumbles there.

There is a huge difference between the live recordings and the studio records of the '65-'68 quintet.  The studio dates are almost exclusively originals while the live dates are still using the same book of standards as his previous quintet with one or two new songs thrown in, like "Footprints" which was one of the few songs to enter the live repertory.

My favorite record of the second quintet is Nefertiti mainly because of the title song, which I think is unique and extremely effective as a group performance.  But you won't find a live date where that song is played. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 12:56:44 PM
And since I mentioned it ~ I'll listen to it

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Miles Davis Quintet : Nefertiti

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – double bass
Tony Williams – drums




I've always loved this album driven mainly because of the first song, "Nefertiti," which inverted the relationship between the front line and the rhythm section.  Normally the rhythm section supports the soloist. In this song  the horns keep repeating the tune while the rhythm section solos.  One of the foundation aspects of Jazz is African in origin (drum ensembles are a perfect example), the combination of fixed and variable: one half of the ensemble repeating a pattern (the rhythm section playing the form/harmonic progression) while the other half (the horns) of the ensemble performs endless variation on top of it (soloists).  "Nefertiti" still employs this model, but inverted it.

Fantastic.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on February 13, 2019, 04:22:47 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 12, 2019, 01:15:30 PM
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Oscar Aleman : Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957

This is a fantastic 2CD collection.

I thought I had this, but I don't. As much as I like Django I remember wondering who and what else was happening in the same genre around the same time. I think Aleman's name was as far as I got before being sidetracked by 1950s jazz guitar in general, which is a pity because there's still a huge gap in my listening experience and knowledge of swing guitar during those years.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 04:44:43 PM
Quote from: NikF4 on February 13, 2019, 04:22:47 PM
I thought I had this, but I don't. As much as I like Django I remember wondering who and what else was happening in the same genre around the same time. I think Aleman's name was as far as I got before being sidetracked by 1950s jazz guitar in general, which is a pity because there's still a huge gap in my listening experience and knowledge of swing guitar during those years.

Besides Django I know of two, Tchan-Tchou Vidal and Aleman playing in that Gypsy style during the '30s. 

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Of course there were a lot of other jazz guitarists.  But there has been a revival since the '80s of young guitarists playing Jazz Manouche: Angelo Debarre, Jimmy Rosenberg (the Rosenberg Trio), Tchavalo Schmitt, Dorado Schmitt, Joscho Stephan, Yorgui Loeffler, Fapy Lefartin, Matalo Ferret and some others I can't think of right now.

TD

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QuoteThis set is not a comprehensive examination of his stay at Prestige—that is available on the 8-CD Miles Davis Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings, 1951–1956—nor is there any new material here, but the recordings are in the exact format of their release, the forgotten 10-inch vinyl record, something new at the time that could accommodate more minutes than 78 rpm discs, which were the common format for popular recordings.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on February 13, 2019, 05:15:45 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 04:44:43 PM
Besides Django I know of two, Tchan-Tchou Vidal and Aleman playing in that Gypsy style during the '30s. 

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Of course there were a lot of other jazz guitarists.  But there has been a revival since the '80s of young guitarists playing Jazz Manouche: Angelo Debarre, Jimmy Rosenberg (the Rosenberg Trio), Tchavalo Schmitt, Dorado Schmitt, Joscho Stephan, Yorgui Loeffler, Fapy Lefartin, Matalo Ferret and some others I can't think of right now.



Thanks for the  Tchan-Tchou Vidal name, it's a new one to me. Yeah, I'm aware of some of the more current guys - Rosenberg Trio, Tchavalo/Dorado Schmitt.
Somewhere I've a compilation CD of gypsy jazz that appears to be mostly needle drops. And many of the artists featured seem to be accordionists but have guitar players in their band. The only one (accordion player, not guitarist) I can remember right now is Jo Privat.
But I'll definitely check out Vidal.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 13, 2019, 05:17:47 PM
Nice Miles box! I find it's often interesting to consider the original 10" introduction people would have had to certain artists. Wrt Miles you'll see that Walkin was originally deemed a b-side (to Blues n Boogie).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 13, 2019, 06:38:22 PM
Quote from: king ubu on February 13, 2019, 12:04:13 AM
That Lyons box is so good - it's one of very few items I pre-ordered ... terrific music!

Yep, sure is ... I continued it today, with the two long pieces, "Family" and "Heritage I" from the second disc. Listening to "Family" I think I could hear one reason why Cecil Taylor was drawn to his playing: the invention and stamina across a lengthy improvisation, much like Taylor's own playing.

I didn't mention it in my previous post, but all of this music is new to me - outside of Lyons' work with Taylor I've only heard the trio recording with Sunny Murray (Jump Up, recorded at Willisau in 1980). There are versions of a couple of the same tunes here ("Jump Up" and "Tortuga"), but they're different recordings with different musicians.

Great stuff, indeed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 06:45:14 PM
Quote from: NikF4 on February 13, 2019, 05:15:45 PM
Thanks for the  Tchan-Tchou Vidal name, it's a new one to me. Yeah, I'm aware of some of the more current guys - Rosenberg Trio, Tchavalo/Dorado Schmitt.
Somewhere I've a compilation CD of gypsy jazz that appears to be mostly needle drops. And many of the artists featured seem to be accordionists but have guitar players in their band. The only one (accordion player, not guitarist) I can remember right now is Jo Privat.
But I'll definitely check out Vidal.

Btw, if you are looking for a Django box, this one, for me, is the best:

[asin]B002U031FO[/asin]

Quote from: SimonNZ on February 13, 2019, 05:17:47 PM
Nice Miles box! I find it's often interesting to consider the original 10" introduction people would have had to certain artists. Wrt Miles you'll see that Walkin was originally deemed a b-side (to Blues n Boogie).

I have had the Chronicles box for years but I found this one on Qobuz and thought it was interesting. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on February 13, 2019, 06:55:03 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 13, 2019, 06:45:14 PM
Btw, if you are looking for a Django box, this one, for me, is the best:

[asin]B002U031FO[/asin]



Cheers. I always appreciate recommendations and opinions on stuff. And trying to find a Django box in the midst of so many reissues and repackaging isn't the most straightforward.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 13, 2019, 08:20:08 PM
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Clarence Wheeler And The Enforcers - Doin' What We Wanna  (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 14, 2019, 05:05:56 PM
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Antonio Carlos Jobim : "Jobim" (1972)

My favorite album by this Brazilian master, it debuted "Aguas de Marco" (in both Portuguese and English). 

QuoteThough this is one of the more obscure Jobim albums, it did introduce what some believe is Jobim's masterpiece, the hypnotically revolving song "Aguas de Marco" (heard here in Portuguese and English versions). Mostly, however, the record lets listeners in on another side of Jobim, the Debussy/Villa-Lobos-inspired creator of moody instrumental tone poems for films and whatnot, with the instrumental colors filled in by Jobim's old cohort, Claus Ogerman.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 14, 2019, 05:21:36 PM
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Lovely stuff, sound and performance.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 14, 2019, 06:03:00 PM
Quote from: George on February 14, 2019, 05:21:36 PM
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Lovely stuff, sound and performance.

Yep.

TD

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Chick Corea : Return to Forever

Chick Corea – electric piano
Stanley Clarke – double bass, bass guitar
Joe Farrell – saxophone, flute
Airto Moreira – drums, percussion
Flora Purim – vocals, percussion

Classic fusion.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 14, 2019, 08:51:22 PM
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Freddie Hubbard - The Black Angel (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 14, 2019, 11:42:50 PM
lately, leading up to this morning with Masabumi Kikuchi:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 14, 2019, 11:50:22 PM
That Rex Stewart and the Byrd/Pepper (with Herbie) look really interesting to me.   8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2019, 12:55:59 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 14, 2019, 11:50:22 PM
That Rex Stewart and the Byrd/Pepper (with Herbie) look really interesting to me.   8)

The Stewart is marvellous! Henri Chaix was a Swiss piano player and bandleader with a style shaped after, I guess, mostly Teddy Wilson and some other of the old masters. He's pretty good actually, and his group provides fine backing and full freedom - and plenty of inspiration - to Stewart (who too often had to make pretty drab albums it seems). Chaix wrote some new arrangements and a couple of originals for the session, and it's totally worth checking out. Sackville discs should be rather easy to find on your side of the pond, I hope.

The Byrd/Pepper is a boot of course (on one of those uncountable Spanish imprints that I still think is really just one operation, and I'm not yet fully convinced that it's not the darker side of Fresh Sound, which operates with considerably more care than all of the others, but still doesn't offer prime quality - how could they, without access to good sources?) ... but a fine one indeed, and sound is more than acceptable, too.

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Stumbled over Vol. 2 (a 2 disc set) recently. This (one disc, rec. 2005) was reissued as Vol. 1 when Vol. 2 came out ... good stuff by the once trombonist with George Russell's band (actually Baker's band, I think, which Russell kind of adopted) ... due to an accident involving his jaw, Baker had to stop play the trombone just about when he was to break through (1962), he turned into a composer and teacher of considerable talent and importance. Vol. 2 has a few prominent soloists (Rich Perry mostly) and guests, here I don't know anyone, but the band includes several former students of Baker's and is perfectly adept. Very good music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2019, 02:27:47 AM
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Steve Lacy - Momentum (Novus, rec. 1987) - Steve Lacy, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and Irène Aebi ... and luckily there's not too much (and not too bad at all anyway) Irène Aebi's singing - her cello is made great use of on another of the tracks, and her violin is heard as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 15, 2019, 02:32:36 AM
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(1970) with Eddie Daniels, Roland Hanna, Richard Davis, Louis Hayes
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 15, 2019, 03:31:24 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 15, 2019, 12:55:59 AM
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Stumbled over Vol. 2 (a 2 disc set) recently. This (one disc, rec. 2005) was reissued as Vol. 1 when Vol. 2 came out ... good stuff by the once trombonist with George Russell's band (actually Baker's band, I think, which Russell kind of adopted) ... due to an accident involving his jaw, Baker had to stop play the trombone just about when he was to break through (1962), he turned into a composer and teacher of considerable talent and importance. Vol. 2 has a few prominent soloists (Rich Perry mostly) and guests, here I don't know anyone, but the band includes several former students of Baker's and is perfectly adept. Very good music!

I seem to remember that David Baker authored a jazz textbook that was around at North Texas.

TD

Another good Jobim record, he had a side that was considerably beyond Bossa Nova (not that there's anything wrong with BN!):

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QuoteUrubu is the album that MCA's Jobim probably aspired to be, a total break away from the bossa nova past that is both ambitious and strikingly original. The shock of dissonant strings, percussive and wind sounds from the Brazilian interior greet us on the first track "Bôto," the first of four songs in which a defiant Jobim throws structural complexities at us and sings in Portuguese only. The second four tracks are an even more radical departure; all are classical orchestral pieces, melancholy and even anguished in tone, owing little or nothing to anyone, streaked with imaginative, even avant-garde orchestral touches from Claus Ogerman. Clearly we are not on the Ipanema beach anymore, and although this may be rough going for jazz-minded Jobim fans, the pay-off is a glimpse into the depths of Jobim's soul.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 15, 2019, 03:34:59 AM
Baker was a pioneer in jazz education, so yes, that would make a lot of sense!

Don't know "Urubu", but "Jobim" was in the player a few times recently as well.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 15, 2019, 04:15:15 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 15, 2019, 03:34:59 AM
Baker was a pioneer in jazz education, so yes, that would make a lot of sense!

Don't know "Urubu", but "Jobim" was in the player a few times recently as well.

I have mixed feelings about jazz pedagogy; with the explosive of jazz departments at a number of universities, they are turning out thousands of players who have been taught to improvise scales over changes in an almost robotic manner.  But I have two good friends teaching and I can't come down too hard since I know these guys are excellent players and are doing their best to pass along more than what is in the books.

TD

Another out of the way Jobim record:

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Jobim : Live at Mina's

Live at Mina's (recorded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1981 but only made public in 2006), finds Jobim at the piano, informally even nervously early on, playing his biggest hits (obligatorily) but more importantly, a number of his lesser known gems.

QuoteThis disc is a collector's item — there are few others in which you can hear the master in such an intimate format, without the "defenses of a large ensemble," as he says as he begins to play. This is a great document from one of the most prolific songwriters of his generation, even if a few moments are a bit flawed — Jobim was not exactly a performer, but his charm compensates for any imperfections.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 15, 2019, 08:52:28 AM
king ubu and SimonNZ - do you guys own all your music or do you stream? If the former, your collections must be massive.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 15, 2019, 08:59:24 AM
Quote from: George on February 15, 2019, 08:52:28 AM
king ubu and SimonNZ - do you guys own all your music or do you stream? If the former, your collections must be massive.
I am especially impressed by how many albums they listen to that, when I google them to buy, are so deep out of print that there are only like 5 used copies left on earth.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 09:13:51 AM
A lot of the first time "discovery" listening I do is via YT. I then decide what Iwant to buy or at least to know what to grab when they present themselves.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 15, 2019, 12:55:18 PM
Quote from: George on February 15, 2019, 08:52:28 AM
king ubu and SimonNZ - do you guys own all your music or do you stream? If the former, your collections must be massive.

Not only that, but how do you find the time??? Since November of last year, I acquired about 20 new CDs and I digitized about as many LPs (some of which had been on my shelves neglected for 20+ years!). I still feel buried under this mass of music, and yet I still have a huge pile of tempting stuff on my wish list. I have been holding off buying new things for a while, because it is simply too wasteful to do so while I have barely (or not at all) heard many recordings I already own.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 15, 2019, 02:17:16 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 09:13:51 AM
A lot of the first time "discovery" listening I do is via YT. I then decide what Iwant to buy or at least to know what to grab when they present themselves.

OK, so you only own some of the albums you post here?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 03:50:56 PM
Quote from: George on February 15, 2019, 02:17:16 PM
OK, so you only own some of the albums you post here?

I had an impressive jazz collection which over the last three or four years I had to sell off when I fell on hard-ish times. I had to sell of my even larger classical collection, half of which got previously stolen anyway, and have gotten out of the habit of classical listening since then. 75% of my listening lately has been filling in gaps in my jazz knowledge and creating lists of must buys for when I'm back in funds - though I have slowly and carefully started reacquiring some essentials.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 15, 2019, 04:10:00 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 03:50:56 PM
I had an impressive jazz collection which over the last three or four years I had to sell off when I fell on hard-ish times. I had to sell of my even larger classical collection, half of which got previously stolen anyway, and have gotten out of the habit of classical listening since then. 75% of my listening lately has been filling in gaps in my jazz knowledge and creating lists of must buys for when I'm back in funds - though I have slowly and carefully started reacquiring some essentials.

Man, so sorry to hear that. Hope things improve for you soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
Thanks. I'm okay, though. Things are slowly coming right.

playing now: the first Atlantic Ornette I haven't heard before:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 15, 2019, 11:03:55 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
Thanks. I'm okay, though. Things are slowly coming right.

playing now: the first Atlantic Ornette I haven't heard before:

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Not really an Ornette album; it was released without his involvement, "comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for The Shape of Jazz to Come, This Is Our Music, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, and Ornette!"

Still probably good listening.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 15, 2019, 11:14:57 PM
Since you mentioned Ornette Coleman, I'll dive into this set:

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Those early Atlantic sides are his best stuff, IMO.  One thing about him, he always could swing.  Fathead told some funny stories about him when they were both in high school.  He was playing out, even back then.  People would hide his horn at jam sessions.   ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 03:58:49 AM
From Ornette Coleman to this release from May 2018:

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Joshua Redman : Still Dreaming (feat. Ron Miles, Scott Colley & Brian Blade)

QuoteTransmission and legacy are at the heart of jazz. Even in the more radical moments, or even the revolutionary ones, jazz musicians have always, one way or another, paid tribute to their elders. With Still Dreaming, Joshua Redman only confirms that. With trumpet player Ron Miles, bass player Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, the saxophonist drives a quartet which pays homage to Old and New Dreams, a band that performed together between 1975 and 1987, co-led by his late father, the saxophonist Dewey Redman.

Along with Redman the group also included bassist Charlie Haden, cornet player Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell.  All of the members were former sidemen of Ornette Coleman, and the group played a mix of Coleman's compositions and originals by the band members.

They released two records on the German jazz label ECM: a self-titled release in 1979 and Playing, recorded live, a year later. These discs were book-ended by a pair of discs on the Italian Black Saint label: a studio record from 1976 (also self-titled) and 1987's A Tribute to Blackwell, capturing the quartet's final concert at a birthday celebration for Blackwell.

The music on this CD is really very good, which is not all that surprising given that at least three of the four musicians are among the best players of their generation (the jury is still out, IMO, on Ron Miles).  Old and New Dreams was an interesting band, which started out as a tribute band to Ornette Coleman made up of his former sidemen, but which ultimately transcended that identity.  Their recorded output included only a few recordings, spanning more than a decade.  Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman created O&ND after their stint in Keith Jarrett's American Quartet, which occupied most of their time from 1971-1976 (when that band self-destructed, although CDs from their last marathon session would continue to come out until 1979).  O&ND must have been a more congenial group dynamic after control-freak Jarrett finally gave up trying to corral Haden and Redman (both of whom were struggling with substance abuse) and dealing with the attendant clash of personalities. 

So what we have is a tribute band of a tribute band, but the music is, as I said at the start, really very good.

8)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 16, 2019, 04:18:35 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 15, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
Thanks. I'm okay, though. Things are slowly coming right.

Glad to hear it!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 16, 2019, 04:44:51 AM
Quote from: George on February 15, 2019, 08:52:28 AM
king ubu and SimonNZ - do you guys own all your music or do you stream? If the former, your collections must be massive.

I own almost everything I mention here, yes. Started collecting jazz in my early teens, with pocket money (and money earned in school holiday jobs ... also it must have been funny for some of my totally uninterested relatives to get me "Cannonball in Europe" for my birthday - parents, obviously, were into a lot of music and still are, knocking on wood - going to see "Don Giovanni" with them today). Anyway, when I started buying jazz classics, in the early/mid 90s, lots of the initial run of 1987-89 "McMaster" Blue Note reissues were still around, Fantasy was alive and kicking and keeping their reissues available for many years (which had me miss out on quite a few, as after the sale to Concord thinks went down really fast and all of the stock was gone within months it seems ... Fantasy means the catalogues of Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary, Pablo and their sublabels such as Moodsville/Swingville, Jazzland, Old Time Jazz ... and it included several smaller labels, too, such as Mingus/Roach's Debut, and of course Fantasy itself, which in the mid 50s did some interesting jazz productions in San Francisco, most famous of course the early albums by Dave Brubeck, but Cal Tjader, Brew Moore and a few others were receiving the funny coloured vinyl treatment Fantasy was famous for at that time).

Anyway, yep, serious collection disorder, fostered for a bit more than 25 years now. Would it be jazz only, things would still be kind of okay (with, I guess, somewhere between 5 and 10 thousand discs), but since around 10 years ago I started delving into classical seriously, it got out of hand a bit (hum, understatement of the week, glad my better half is not reading this  :o ), with another five digit number that will probably keep me busy until the end of my (or the, who knows) times (which does, quite obviously, not mean that I'm not buying new stuff all the time ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 16, 2019, 04:49:03 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 16, 2019, 04:44:51 AM
I own almost everything I mention here, yes. Started collecting jazz in my early teens, with pocket money (and money earned in school holiday jobs ... also it must have been funny for some of my totally uninterested relatives to get me "Cannonball in Europe" for my birthday - parents, obviously, were into a lot of music and still are, knocking on wood - going to see "Don Giovanni" with them today). Anyway, when I started buying jazz classics, in the early/mid 90s, lots of the initial run of 1987-89 "McMaster" Blue Note reissues were still around, Fantasy was alive and kicking and keeping their reissues available for many years (which had me miss out on quite a few, as after the sale to Concord thinks went down really fast and all of the stock was gone within months it seems ... Fantasy means the catalogues of Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary, Pablo and their sublabels such as Moodsville/Swingville, Jazzland, Old Time Jazz ... and it included several smaller labels, too, such as Mingus/Roach's Debut, and of course Fantasy itself, which in the mid 50s did some interesting jazz productions in San Francisco, most famous of course the early albums by Dave Brubeck, but Cal Tjader, Brew Moore and a few others were receiving the funny coloured vinyl treatment Fantasy was famous for at that time).

Anyway, yep, serious collection disorder, fostered for a bit more than 25 years now. Would it be jazz only, things would still be kind of okay (with, I guess, somewhere between 5 and 10 thousand discs), but since around 10 years ago I started delving into classical seriously, it got out of hand a bit (hum, understatement of the week, glad my better half is not reading this  :o ), with another five digit number that will probably keep me busy until the end of my (or the, who knows) times (which does, quite obviously, not mean that I'm not buying new stuff all the time ...)

Thanks for sharing that.

I have some of McMaster's work and enjoy it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 16, 2019, 05:27:18 AM
Quote from: George on February 16, 2019, 04:49:03 AM
I have some of McMaster's work and enjoy it.

I did "upgrade" (or downgrade?) plenty of the Blue Notes later on to RVGs (and in some case to expanded reissues), or got box-sets and gave away (in earlier days sold, but usually for a  drink among friends) duplicates ... but yeah, still a lot of those late 80s Blue Notes on my shelves and no issue sound- or otherwise (but clearly I'm not into audiophile markets).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 05:29:51 AM
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Mare Nostrum III : Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren

QuoteTheir first collaboration, entitled Mare Nostrum in 2007, was really rather magical. So, it was hardly surprising that Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano and Jan Lundgren returned with Mare Nostrum II in 2016, an album that was just as superb as the last. The Sardinian trumpeter, French accordionist and Swedish pianist once again displayed their natural sense of lyricism and poetry in their highly refined jazz through reinterpretations of pieces by the likes of Satie and Monteverdi... But good things always come in threes; after having recorded Volume I in Italy and Volume II in France, it seemed only logical that this album was recorded in Sweden to complete the trilogy. In the middle of Winter 2019, Fresu, Galliano and Lundgren met up once again to mix their personal compositions together for Volume III as well as integrating two covers of soundtracks – Norman Jewison's The Windmills of Your Mind by Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair and Quincy Jones's Love Theme from The Getaway from Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. Their partnership reaches new heights, the spaces feel even more comfortable and the musicality of their improvisations is multiplied tenfold. © Clotilde Maréchal/Qobuz

Nice music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 16, 2019, 05:31:01 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 16, 2019, 05:27:18 AM
I did "upgrade" (or downgrade?) plenty of the Blue Notes later on to RVGs (and in some case to expanded reissues), or got box-sets and gave away (in earlier days sold, but usually for a  drink among friends) duplicates ... but yeah, still a lot of those late 80s Blue Notes on my shelves and no issue sound- or otherwise (but clearly I'm not into audiophile markets).

From those that I have compared, I would say the RVGs are downgrades.

Much of my Jazz was bought after the audiophile bug bit, so my first copy of many Jazz classics was an audiophile mastering. I own less Jazz than classical or rock, but just about every disc sounds great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 16, 2019, 07:07:08 AM
Quote from: George on February 16, 2019, 05:31:01 AM
From those that I have compared, I would say the RVGs are downgrades.

Early Monk and early Bud were upgrades to the old transfers, for "Birth of the Cool", the RVG was the first using rediscovered master sources ... in many other cases, they sound different rather than better or worse I think (on my non-audiophile equipment ... I know expensive equipment may rule out plenty of releases and I'm happy not to suffer from that) - and in plenty of cases the RVGs were my first editions if albums. The recent Japanese SHM may be substantially better, but I stuck to ones with new tracks/takes ...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 09:43:03 AM
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Wynton Marsalis  - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson


Written for the Ken Burns film about Jack Johnson this recording by Wynton Marsalis is very fine.  A mix of country blues, early jazz and original Marsalis compositions it offers plenty of great blowing as well as composed songs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 10:24:50 AM
That Jack Johnson CD (above) is really better than I remembered. 

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Wynton Marsalis has come under some criticism for his fairly hard line stance about "what is jazz" - but I think he is the only musician of his generation who is remotely in the same league as Duke Ellington, Mingus and others who were not only great stylists but great composers and who led great bands.

Marsalis has written extended works like Blood on the Fields, Congo Square and others, while also leading first rate hard bop groups.  He has released CDs focusing on the music of a specific jazz master, e.g. Monk, Jelly Roll and Mingus, and some inspired collaborations with Willie Nelson and Eric Clapton. 

Finishing up with the Unforgivable Blackness and turning to his Live at the Vanguard box, which features his septet.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 16, 2019, 11:49:25 AM
^love that Wynton at the Vanguard set

now:

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Yusef Lateef - The Diverse Yusef Lateef  (1969)
Yusef Lateef - Suite 16 (1970)

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Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song Of Songmy (1970)
Carmen McRae - Just A Little Lovin' (1970)

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Ray Bryant - MCMLXX (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 02:21:12 PM
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Wynton Marsalis Septet : Mr. Jelly Lord

QuoteFifteen classic stomps and blues by Jelly Roll Morton, including "King Porter Stomp" and "The Pearls," give Wynton the opportunity to demonstrate that the music of this New Orleans jazz pioneer remains as modern as tomorrow. Wynton performs here with fellow New Orleans natives Kent Jordan (flute), Reginald Veal (bass), Herlin Riley (drums), Don Vappie (banjo), and Harry Connick, Jr. (piano). And don't miss Wynton's duet with pianist Eric Reed on "Tom Cat Blues," recorded on the same sort of wax cylinder equipment that Jelly Roll Morton used on his first recordings in the early years of the 20th century.

Love this record.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 03:47:46 PM
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Marsalis : Thick in the South (Soul Gestures In Southern Blue, Vol. 1)

QuoteA blues cycle for quintet and sextet that, as Wynton says of the title track to THICK IN THE SOUTH, comprises "a condition, a location, an attitude, a pulchritudinous proposition, and an occurrence," SOUL GESTURES IN SOUTHERN BLUE ranges through the full glory of the blues tradition. Among other things, it introduces us to the Uptown Ruler, a mythic New Orleans hero whose "persona is obviously multifaceted," Wynton remarks, because he is "accepted without question in the houses of worship . . . [and] ill repute." Most of all, the cycle reveals the complex human message of the low moaning blues that echoes in the foghorn of a riverboat, the lament of a spiritual, or the simmering dishes of a home cooked meal. The performers include Marcus Roberts on piano, Bob Hurst or Reginald Veal on bass, Jeff "Tain" Watts or Herlin Riley on drums, Todd Williams and Wes Anderson on saxophones, and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, with special appearances, on THICK IN THE SOUTH, by two of jazz's greatest virtuosos, drummer Elvin Jones and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.

This is the first of three volumes in this series focusing on the Blues and Southern tropes.  Hard Bop style and using either his quintet or expanded, as is this group, with special guests.  Critical opinion was mixed but I think they represent a good degree of compositional thinking.  The heads are more arranged than usual but there is still ample room for soloists to stretch out.
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Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 04:21:13 PM
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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues

QuoteNew York City's premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues, paired these musical virtuosos with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they brought to life a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis.

Two mature artists play the Blues - can't beat it.  There is a little stylistic friction between Clapton's electric blues-rock and Marsalis' New Orleans traditional jazz groove, but overall it is a fun thing to hear.
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Post by: San Antone on February 16, 2019, 11:20:52 PM
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Marsalis : Congo Square

QuoteCongo Square, a ground-breaking new work written by Wynton Marsalis with Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy, debuted in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans in the spring of 2006 before a wildly enthusiastic audience in Congo Square (inside Louis Armstrong Park).

Congo Square was the only place in America where African slaves were allowed to perform their own music and dance in the 1700s-1800s, establishing the roots of American music.
(Marsalis website (https://wyntonmarsalis.org/discography/title/congo-square))

Also

Quote
"Congo Square" Jazz Saxophonist Donald Harrison is the Big Chief of The Congo Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural group which represents Congo Square in New Orleans culture. His father, Donald Harrison, Sr. was the Big Chief of four tribes and passed down the secret rituals and drum patterns of Congo Square to him. Harrison says, "That our culture is different than African culture but it has direct links to it. You have to start in New Orleans to understand it." His CD's, "Spirits of Congo Square", recorded in 2002 and, "Indian Blues", recorded in 1991 incorporate his concept of the swing beat merged with the Afro-New Orleans rhythms of Congo Square have influenced many jazz musicians. Donald Harrison currently spreads the culture and spirit of Congo Square by performing in a band called "Donald Harrison and the Congo Square Nation". The group performs all around the country, playing songs inspired by early drum patterns of Congo Square, and has recently been featured in the acclaimed series "Treme". Harrison and his band continue to show what the culture and history of Congo Square means to New Orleans and jazz music as a whole. (Wiki article on Congo Square)

Wynton Marsalis must have been composing Congo Square before the storm (Katrina) hit New Orleans but it ultimately became the work which allowed Marsalis to channel his response to the storm's aftermath and the US government's failure to adequately cope with the devastation.


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Post by: NikF4 on February 17, 2019, 05:34:37 AM
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Wynton Marsalis  - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson


Written for the Ken Burns film about Jack Johnson this recording by Wynton Marsalis is very fine.  A mix of country blues, early jazz and original Marsalis compositions it offers plenty of great blowing as well as composed songs.

I've read the book but forgot all about the film. I'll need to attend to that.

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Post by: San Antone on February 17, 2019, 06:19:25 AM
Quote from: NikF4 on February 17, 2019, 05:34:37 AM
I've read the book but forgot all about the film. I'll need to attend to that.

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As far as I can tell the Ken Burns film about Jack Johnson is not available to stream but the DVD is available.




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Marasalis : Blood on the Fields

QuoteBlood on the Fields is a two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom.

Marsalis wrote a dramatic, episodic and generally thought-provoking three-hour work, utilizing the three singers plus 15 other musicians (all of whom have significant musical parts to play) in a massive 27-part suite. Hendricks is delightful (and the star of the catchiest piece, "Juba and a O'Brown Squaw"), Wilson has rarely sounded better, and Griffith keeps up with the better-known singers, while the musicians (particularly trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, baritonist James Carter, pianist Eric Reed and, near the work's conclusion, violinist Michael Ward in addition to Marsalis) are quite superb. It should, however, be mentioned that the use of group narration to tell parts of the story does not work that well, the music could have used a stronger and more complicated story (the last hour has very little action), and few of the themes are at all memorable; Marsalis in the mid-'90s was a more talented arranger than composer (despite Stanley Crouch's absurd raving in the liner notes). But as is true of all of Wynton Marsalis' recordings, this one deserves several close listenings.

It is unfortunate that Marsalis' Pulitzer award was tarnished by controversy related to the year in which it was submitted.  The work premiered in 1994 both as a live performance and recording, however, he made some revisions and it was submitted to the Pulitzer Committee in 1997, which is the year he won.

I don't care about any of that, instead I think that (while flawed) the music constitutes a major achievement.  His composition technique for his later extended works got better and better, but this one is well worth investigating.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata  (1971)
Eddie Harrisan and Les McCann - Second Movement (1971)
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Post by: king ubu on February 17, 2019, 11:52:36 PM
had a mostly classical weekend again for a change, "Don Giovanni" live and twice on disc, but some jazz, too:

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Didn't know Misako Kano before, but have ordered the disc now ... some mighty good Thomas Chapin on it (I've borrowed it from a friend who found it after I'd hipped him to Chapin a few years ago). The Johnson Nichols disc is very nice, old-fashioned and boppish, but with guitar instead of piano it has a different vibe to almost all the other Nichols projects I've heard so far (Roswell Rudd's two albums use guitar, but a trio of trombone, guitar and percussion is of course not your typical hard bop line-up) - anyway, very good album that I'll have to play a few more times in the next days!
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Post by: San Antone on February 18, 2019, 07:04:29 AM
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The Majesty of the Blues (1989)

Quote"Rhythmically, melodically and emotionally, he's hitting nothing but bull's eyes," the Village Voice said of this album devoted entirely to Wynton's own compositions. Two tunes for sextet, including the truly majestic title track, lead into "The New Orleans Function," a three part piece that pivots around a sermon on jazz, "Premature Autopsies," written by Stanley Crouch and delivered by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., and that features the playing of New Orleans music masters Dr. Michael White on clarinet, Danny Barker on banjo, Teddy Riley on trumpet, and Freddie Lonzo on trombone.

Wynton Marsalis went out on a limb with this record, which is interesting since in 1988 when it was recorded he was not the institution he has become since.  Risk taking took courage, especially the kind of risk he took with the "New Orleans Function" which comprises the last three tracks.  Scott Yanow of Allmusic.com hated it, "an endless "Sermon" about jazz, written by Stanley Crouch and narrated by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., drones on for 16 minutes and is unspeakably pompous, killing the momentum for the record."  But, I think Yanow misses the point of the work.  It uses the form and tradition of a New Orleans jazz funeral, a slow sorrowful procession, then a eulogy/sermon, with the "body" being celebrated Jazz itself, and ending with a "strut" for the return trip.  Hearing the added New Orleans grand ol' masters is a huge plus in my book (Yanow was less impressed), I just wish they were not hidden behind the preaching for most of the work.

Sure, this is something many people will shy away from.  But, it is interesting for at least one hearing; the music behind Wright is actually very good.  This is a Jeremiah Wright twenty years before Barack Obama made him famous outside of Chicago.

The two opening tracks offer excellent blowing and Marsalis' writing for the ensemble is in an Ellingtonian style.
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Post by: San Antone on February 18, 2019, 12:45:23 PM
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Wynton Marsalis : From the Plantation to the Penitentiary

QuoteAllMusic Review by Matt Collar
On "Where Y'all At?," the last track off trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' 2007 studio album From the Plantation to the Penitentiary, Marsalis delivers a spoken word tirade against everything from the demise of socially conscious hip-hop and misguided politicians to America's commercial and capitalist culture. He asks, "All you '60s radicals and world beaters, righteous revolutionaries, Camus readers, liberal students, equal rights pleaders, what's going on now that y'all are the leaders?!" It's a stunning track that perfectly states what the oft-quoted and often outspoken Marsalis is angry about. While musically he may be a traditionalist, here we find him in a vitriolic, forward-thinking mood. Long an outspoken figure in the jazz world and a lightning rod for debate over what constitutes the so called "jazz tradition," Marsalis is less concerned about the direction of jazz music here and more about the direction of American society. Obviously spurred on by the war in Iraq, the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina (which ravaged his hometown of New Orleans), and what he clearly views as a gluttonous, vapid, misogynist and deeply racist American culture, Marsalis has crafted a bluesy, cerebral, soul-inflected album reminiscent of work by such iconic artists as Charles Mingus and Nina Simone. Adding weight to these comparisons is newcomer vocalist Jennifer Sanon, whose Simone-meets-Blossom Dearie style, featured throughout, adds a warm, melodic pathos to Marsalis' stark, spiritual and '50s Beat-influenced songs. This may not be the most musically avant-garde or boundary-pushing album, but it is a deeply personal and grounded creative statement, which is fascinating coming from an artist of Marsalis' stature and mainstream popularity.

Marsalis is constantly searching to expand the reach of a Jazz artist.  Although he and his band are expert improvisers in the Jazz tradition, Marsalis is looking to say more than that.  From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is another of his extended works, a Blues suite.
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Post by: SimonNZ on February 18, 2019, 01:59:20 PM
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Randy Weston - African Cookbook (1972)
Charlie Mariano - Mirror (1972)
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Post by: San Antone on February 18, 2019, 03:32:10 PM
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He and She - Wynton Marsalis (2009)

QuoteAllMusic Review by Michael G. Nastos
Wynton Marsalis, ever the protagonist and explorer, brings his love of the spoken word and the adolescent relations of the male and female persuasion during He and She, a collection of instrumental mainstream jazz pieces with poetry as preludes. Inspired by the tone of the Jon Hendricks epic Evolution of the Blues Song, Marsalis uses math equations, the sun and the moon, and the budding affection of youth to frame his music -- mostly jazz waltzes -- into thematic conclusions based on getting along, and why the genders think differently. New pianist Dan Nimmer is a welcome addition to the quintet, while drummer Ali Jackson really shines and reliable saxophonist Walter Blanding asserts his increasing powers. Where the concept of these recordings is somewhat static and the music predictable according to the previous precepts of the trumpeter/composer, there's a lot to listen to and enjoy, even a bit of stepping out from the hard bop to post-bop comfort zone Marsalis has been mired in for over two decades.

Again Wynton Marsalis does something a little more than simply put out a great hard bop blowwing session. For sure there's plenty of that on He and She, but Marsalis usually has a concept for each of his recordings.  This one concerns relationships between men and women, and of course the Blues.
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Post by: king ubu on February 18, 2019, 09:52:19 PM
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Hmmmm, a friend who almost had a physical reaction to this handed it over ... and while it does not exactly create cramps on my side, since my youth I have not heard such cheesy keyboards - these kinds of sounds were once one of the reason why I got into classic (modern) jazz from the 50s and early 60s I guess, and took quite a while to approach jazz rock and any kind of fusion again. Anyway, this is one of the recent batch of Touchstones (50 for the 50th anniversary of ECM, second half yet to follow*) and I didn't have it on my own "to buy" list ... I'll give it a few more spins and if I don't grow to like it better, will pass it on again.

*) the full list can be seen here (website run by Universal Germany, distributor or ECM over here):
https://www.jazzecho.de/aktuell/news/artikel/article:253946/50-jahre-ecm-50-touchstones
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Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 02:00:58 AM
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Hmmmm, a friend who almost had a physical reaction to this handed it over ... and while it does not exactly create cramps on my side, since my youth I have not heard such cheesy keyboards - these kinds of sounds were once one of the reason why I got into classic (modern) jazz from the 50s and early 60s I guess, and took quite a while to approach jazz rock and any kind of fusion again. Anyway, this is one of the recent batch of Touchstones (50 for the 50th anniversary of ECM, second half yet to follow*) and I didn't have it on my own "to buy" list ... I'll give it a few more spins and if I don't grow to like it better, will pass it on again.

*) the full list can be seen here (website run by Universal Germany, distributor or ECM over here):
https://www.jazzecho.de/aktuell/news/artikel/article:253946/50-jahre-ecm-50-touchstones

Umm, yeah - the '80s fusion probably found its worst practitioner in Jan Hammer.  I doubt when Mile Davis "invented Fusion" this was what he imagined; Weather Report is one thing, but this ....  The entire Fusion detour was, IMO, one of the worst unintended consequences of music history.

Thankfully, Abercrombie moved on to other things.

If you like two guitars, without rhythm section - here's one Abercrombie put out in 2013, a duo with Joe Beck, which has some pretty good swinging.

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Coincidence - John Abercrombie & Joe Beck

QuoteHis ECM albums may be more overtly modern and left-of-center but, based on a 2004 AAJ interview, when John Abercrombie is at home practicing, it's usually in the context of jazz standards. For those who feel such well-trodden material has little left to offer in the way of either challenge or modern interpretation, the guitarist's duet with Joe Beck, Coincidence, will go a long way to encouraging naysayers to reconsider.  (John Kelman in AllAboutJazz

I'd say most of the ECM catalog is good listening, but they also put out some real dreck from time to time.
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Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 10:00:55 AM
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Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet : The Emarcy Master Takes

4CD collection.  CD2 is fantastic with four long jams, e.g. "Autumn in New York" is over 21 minutes.
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Post by: SimonNZ on February 19, 2019, 01:14:12 PM
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Don Shirley - The Don Shirley Point Of View (1972)
Don Shirley - Tonal Expressions (1955)

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Don Shirley - Trio (1961)
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Hank Jones Trio (Wendell Marshall & Kenny Clarke) : The Trio (with guests)

Really good!




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Don Shirley - The Don Shirley Point Of View (1972)
Don Shirley - Tonal Expressions (1955)

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Don Shirley - Trio (1961)

Have you seen the movie "The Green Book"?

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Duke Ellington : The Great Paris Concert

QuoteAllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
This set came about, in part, as a result of Ellington's signing to Frank Sinatra's Reprise label in November 1962, with the ending of his exclusive contract to Columbia. Six numbers from the three Paris dates were initially edited and released by Reprise as part of the ten-song Duke Ellington's Greatest, but the bulk of the performances from those shows didn't surface until many years later as The Great Paris Concert on two LPs. The Great Paris Concert is raw and largely unedited, and depicts the full Ellington band in extraordinary form, oozing excitement -- from the saxophone showcase on opener "Rockin' in Rhythm," the various sections of the band take flight at different points throughout this set, which includes such contemporary numbers as Ellington's theme music for an all but forgotten television series, The Asphalt Jungle, and excerpts from Such Sweet Thunder. Johnny Hodges is showcased in several solos, most notably on "Suite Thursday," a work whose original studio incarnation he missed appearing on. Cootie Williams ("Tutti for Cootie"), Paul Gonsalves ("Cop Out"), Ray Nance ("Bula"), and Cat Anderson ("Jam with Sam") get their own moments in the spotlight.

Just GREAT - that's all that can be said.  GREAT playing, swing - GREAT Jazz.
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Post by: SimonNZ on February 19, 2019, 05:26:31 PM
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Hank Jones Trio (Wendell Marshall & Kenny Clarke) : The Trio (with guests)

Really good!




Have you seen the movie "The Green Book"?

No. Id seen the cover in the video store but didn't know what it was until looking into Don Shirley today. Somehow he's never been on my radar but those albums today really impressed me.

Is the film good?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 05:35:21 PM
The remarkable thing about Ellington is that he not only wrote great jazz band compositions, but he didn't write a part for "alto sax', he wrote a part for Johnny Hodges, and so on, for each the section soloists.

Ellington is arguably the most important American composer for this reason.  Yeah, I am a jazzer at heart and experience, so I don't relate as strongly to European Classical music.  But, still, Ellington, Mingus, Marsalis (yes, I include him in this rarefied league) are have written and are writing American music that think is on a par with Beethoven, Mahler and Debussy.

So sue me.

8)
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Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 05:38:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 19, 2019, 05:26:31 PM
No. Id seen the cover in the video store but didn't know what it was until looking into Don Shirley today. Somehow he's never been on my radar but those albums today really impressed me.

Is the film good?

I haven't seen it, but have heard good things about it.
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Post by: Brian on February 19, 2019, 06:44:02 PM
Conversely, I've heard bad things about the movie...

I do agree with your estimate of Ellington and Mingus, SA! My top five American composers would be (alpha order) Barber, Ellington, Gershwin, Mingus, Monk.
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Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 07:15:44 PM
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Charlie Parker : The Dean Benedetti Recordings

I am so glad I bought this when it became available, since as is the case with most Mosaic boxes, they go out of print fairly quickly.  Some critics have complained about the recordings because of how they were done, the sound quality and other issues that (IMO) are totally IRRELEVANT. 

Dean Benedetti was a Bird obsessive. He followed Parker around and recorded his solos, turning the tape machine on when Bird was playing and turning it off when he was finished.  But, and this is huge, what he documented is unique and as comprehensive of a legacy we will ever have.

So, Scott Yarow, get over yourself and your "Mosaic has done what it could to make the excerpts coherent but the results are still quite unlistenable," BULLSHIT.

I am listening to it right now, and reveling in Bird's genius.

Pardon me while I sit back and groove to the one and only Bird.

8)
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Post by: Mirror Image on February 19, 2019, 07:15:47 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 05:35:21 PM
The remarkable thing about Ellington is that he not only wrote great jazz band compositions, but he didn't write a part for "alto sax', he wrote a part for Johnny Hodges, and so on, for each the section soloists.

Ellington is arguably the most important American composer for this reason.  Yeah, I am a jazzer at heart and experience, so I don't relate as strongly to European Classical music.  But, still, Ellington, Mingus, Marsalis (yes, I include him in this rarefied league) are have written and are writing American music that think is on a par with Beethoven, Mahler and Debussy.

So sue me.

8)

There's no question that Ellington was an incredible composer, but I'd put Billy Strayhorn up there with him. The sad thing is Strayhorn didn't live long enough. He was only 51 when he died. I think his compositions are remarkable. Lush Life, Lotus Blossom, A Flower Is a Lonesome Thing, and Chelsea Bridge are all undisputed jazz classics and a huge part of the repertoire.

This is one of my favorites from Ellington:

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I'll just ignore what you said about Ellington being on par with Beethoven, Mahler, and Debussy. Apples and oranges, my friend. Apples and oranges. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 07:21:01 PM
Quote from: Brian on February 19, 2019, 06:44:02 PM
Conversely, I've heard bad things about the movie...

I do agree with your estimate of Ellington and Mingus, SA! My top five American composers would be (alpha order) Barber, Ellington, Gershwin, Mingus, Monk.

Yeah, I've seen bad things about the movie too, but I think some of that is anachronistic.

Our American composer list is almost identical.  I'd replace Barber with Copland, or Bernstein, but the others you list are definitely on mine as well.
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Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 07:23:07 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 19, 2019, 07:15:47 PM
There's no question that Ellington was an incredible composer, but I'd put Billy Strayhorn up there with him. The sad thing is Strayhorn didn't live long enough. He was only 51 when he died. I think his compositions are remarkable. Lush Life, Lotus Blossom, A Flower Is a Lonesome Thing, and Chelsea Bridge are all undisputed jazz classics and a huge part of the repertoire.

This is one of my favorites from Ellington:

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I'll just ignore what you said about Ellington being on par with Beethoven, Mahler, and Debussy. Apples and oranges, my friend. Apples and oranges. :)

Yeah, Strayhorn - great.  Music is music, good or bad - no labels.  So I stand by my comment.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on February 19, 2019, 07:27:25 PM
On the subject of Ellington, a few weeks ago I was invited to dinner where we took turns recommending one piece/performance of American music. That's not my idea of a good time. In any case, it's a hell of a question so I just chose my favourite -

http://www.youtube.com/v/Yrt79lROIaA
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 07:48:11 PM
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Charles Mingus : The Clown

QuoteThe following excerpts come from the original liner notes and are statements made by Mingus himself.

On "Haitian Fight Song", Mingus said "I'd say this song has a contemporary folk feeling. My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one. I can't play it right unless I'm thinking about prejudice and hate and persecution, and how unfair it is. There's sadness and cries in it, but also determination. And it usually ends with my feeling: 'I told them! I hope somebody heard me.' ".

"Blue Cee" is a standard blues in two keys, C and B♭, "but that's not noticeable and it ends up in C, basically", he said and continued "I heard some Basie in it and also some church-like feeling".

"Reincarnation of a Lovebird" is a composition dedicated to bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker, known commonly as Bird. "I wouldn't say I set out to write a piece on Bird. [...] Suddenly I realize it was Bird. [...] In one way, the work isn't like him. It's built on long lines and most of his pieces were short lines. But it's my feeling about Bird. I felt like crying when I wrote it."

"The Clown" tells the story of a clown "who tried to please people like most jazz musicians do, but whom nobody liked until he was dead. My version of the story ended with his blowing his brains out with the people laughing and finally being pleased because they thought it was part of the act. I liked the way Jean changed the ending; leaves it more up to the listener."

Charles Mingus - bass
Shafi Hadi - alto and tenor saxophone
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Wade Legge - piano
Dannie Richmond - drums
Jean Shepherd - narration (track 4)




One of my Desert Island Discs - Mingus went beyond himself on this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 07:48:51 PM
Quote from: NikF4 on February 19, 2019, 07:27:25 PM
On the subject of Ellington, a few weeks ago I was invited to dinner where we took turns recommending one piece/performance of American music. That's not my idea of a good time. In any case, it's a hell of a question so I just chose my favourite -

http://www.youtube.com/v/Yrt79lROIaA

Yep - that was a good choice.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 19, 2019, 10:24:29 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 19, 2019, 02:00:58 AM
Umm, yeah - the '80s fusion probably found its worst practitioner in Jan Hammer.  I doubt when Mile Davis "invented Fusion" this was what he imagined; Weather Report is one thing, but this ....  The entire Fusion detour was, IMO, one of the worst unintended consequences of music history.

Thankfully, Abercrombie moved on to other things.

If you like two guitars, without rhythm section - here's one Abercrombie put out in 2013, a duo with Joe Beck, which has some pretty good swinging.

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Coincidence - John Abercrombie & Joe Beck

Maybe if I stumble over it, thanks ... actually Abercrombie, in duo with Marc Copland on piano, was one of my first real jazz concerts - and it was fun. I later heard him play with his quartet (Feldman, Johnson, Baron) and with Charles Lloyd's quartet (Johnson, Hart) and I always considered him quite interesting a player. I must have about a dozen of his albums, all (or almost all?) on ECM, including Getaway, his organ trio with Dan Wall and more ... didn't expect "Night" to be as horrible at all, though the line-up did have me wonder a bit. I'm not too big on Brecker's playing either, and the absence of bass and presence of Jan Hammer, well ...

Got home very late last night, but found this in the mail and put it into the player:

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Nice indeed, gotta give it a full spin soon!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 20, 2019, 06:54:24 AM
Ubu: Yeah, his duo album with Marc Copeland I actually like better than the one with Joe Beck - but the Beck one was the more recent record, maybe his last (not sure).  There is 2018 one, but it might have been posthumous.

TD

Billy Strayhorn's name came up, so here's Joe Henderson's excellent recording of his music - with an All-Star band:

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Track listing
"Isfahan" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 5:59
"Johnny Come Lately" – 6:30
"Blood Count" – 7:19
"Rain Check" – 5:54
"Lotus Blossom" – 4:31
"A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" – 6:58
"Take the "A" Train" – 7:11
"Drawing Room Blues" – 7:33
"U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group)" – 5:02
"Lush Life" – 5:03

Personnel
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
Stephen Scott – piano
Christian McBride – bass
Gregory Hutchinson – drums

This was Henderson's first for Verve which inaugurated a late career streak of absolutely GREAT records.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 20, 2019, 04:51:08 PM
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Concert of Sacred Music - The Duke Ellington Orchestra

QuoteWikipedia article:
As early as October 1962, the Reverend John S. Yaryan approached Ellington about performing at the new Grace Cathedral in San Francisco when it opened in 1965.[citation needed] The cathedral planned a "Festival of Grace", with a variety of cultural works and speakers, to occur during the first year the cathedral was open, and Ellington's concert was to be a part of it. (The "festival" also included a performance by Vince Guaraldi.)

The concert premiered on September 16, 1965, and was recorded by KQED, a local public television station. The performance was released on CD as A Concert of Sacred Music Live from Grace Cathedral and on DVD as Love You Madly/A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral. The official album on RCA, A Concert of Sacred Music, was recorded at two concerts at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York on December 26, 1965. Additional material from these concerts, not found on the original album, can be found on the 24-CD box set The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973). The concert mixed existing and new material, with "New World A-Commin" and "Come Sunday" from Black Brown and Beige and "Heritage (My Mother, My Father)" from the show My People. A new piece, the song "In the Beginning God", was awarded a Grammy Award in 1967. It was performed again at Grace Cathedral on its 25th and 50th anniversaries, in 1990 and 2015.

Tracks:

"In the Beginning God" - 19:36
"Will You Be There?" - 1:23
"Ninety Nine Percent" - 2:23
"Ain't But the One" - 3:31
"New World a'Coming" - 9:56
"In the Beginning, God II" - 4:31
"Heritage" - 3:42
"The Lord's Prayer" - 3:16
"Come Sunday" - 5:30
"David Danced Before the Lord With All His Might" - 9:00
"The Lord's Prayer II" - 4:56
The album was recorded at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on December 26, 1965.

One of his great bands:

Duke Ellington – piano
Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Herb Jones, Cootie Williams - trumpet
Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, Quentin Jackson - trombone
Chuck Connors - bass trombone
Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton - alto saxophone, clarinet
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone
John Lamb - bass
Louie Bellson - drums
Brock Peters, Queen Esther Marrow, Jimmy McPhail - vocals
The Herman McCoy Choir - choir
Bunny Briggs - tapdancing (track 10)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 21, 2019, 12:06:20 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 20, 2019, 06:54:24 AM
Ubu: Yeah, his duo album with Marc Copeland I actually like better than the one with Joe Beck - but the Beck one was the more recent record, maybe his last (not sure).  There is 2018 one, but it might have been posthumous.

Not sure, the last one I have is "Up and Coming", released in January 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_and_Coming_(album)
It's pretty good, and I guess I should check out some more or his late albums ("Class Trip", rec. 2003 is the one I from the 00's that I have, and then a few from the mid 90s ...)

And fully agree on the Henderson/Strayhorn album - it's glorious, and possibly the finest of Henderson's late recordings.

--

First listen to this new discovery last night:

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Pretty fun, a glimpse of a fine working band that played opposite more famous acts (and also opposite Howard Rumsey's own band at the Lighthouse) for a while ... J.C. Heard is a pretty underrated drummer that had his start in excellent swing-to-bop bands in the early/mid forties, he worked for Norman Granz both in studio sessions and as part of JATP from 1944 to 1953, when he stayed behind after the tour had reached Japan. The band with Frank Strazzeri (p) and Jim Hughart (b) is a fine one, co-leader Bill Perkins plays a surprisingly strong-toned tenor (and some baritone), featured (but permanent) guest Joe Pass may be a tad low in the mix and early in his career (just out of Synanon at that time), but already a wonderful voice of his own.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 12:47:47 AM
Quote from: king ubu on February 21, 2019, 12:06:20 AM
Not sure, the last one I have is "Up and Coming", released in January 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_and_Coming_(album)

Oh man, I was WAY off - in checking his discography he put out about a record a year throughout the 2000s - Up and Coming looks like a good group, will have to check it iout.  I was going by what was on Spotify forgetting that they don't have everything.

TD

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Joe Henderson - So Near, So Far (Musing on Miles)

Track listing
All compositions by Miles Davis except where noted.

"Miles Ahead" (Davis, Gil Evans) – 4:31
"Joshua" (Davis, Victor Feldman) – 6:18
"Pfrancing (No Blues)" – 8:18
"Flamenco Sketches" (Davis, Bill Evans) – 9:37
"Milestones" – 5:57
"Teo" – 8:56
"Swing Spring" – 8:10
"Circle" – 6:07
"Side Car" – 10:26
"So Near, So Far" (Tony Crombie, Bennie Green) – 4:30
Digitally recorded at Power Station, NYC, October 12–14, 1992.

Personnel
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
John Scofield – guitar
Dave Holland – bass
Al Foster – drums

Another All-Star band, and all of these guys played with Miles.   Nice selection of tunes and as one would expect the level of the playing is very high.

Ubu - I like all of his Verve records, Porgy & Bess might be my favorite only because of how much I love the original work.  But the Jobim record is also great, and since I am also a huge fan, it is also high on my list.  This tribute to Miles is very strong.  The only one that I don't absolutely love is the big band record.

Dunno, hard to say which if any of his Verve albums are not just really good.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 01:41:09 AM
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Joe Henderson : Porgy & Bess

Track listing

"Introduction: Jasbo Brown Blues" – 0:56
"Summertime" – 7:16
"Here Come de Honey Man/They Pass by Singin'" – 2:04
"My Man's Gone Now" – 6:58
"I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" – 6:52
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now" – 5:15
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 6:27
"I Loves You, Porgy" – 4:18
"There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 6:42
"Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" – 6:58

Personnel
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
Conrad Herwig – trombone
John Scofield – electric guitar
Stefon Harris – vibes
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Dave Holland – bass
Jack Dejohnette – drums




I had forgotten that my buddy Bob Belden had done the arrangements on this record.  Top-flight band and excellent record only marred by the inclusion of Chaka Khan and Sting singing on a song, each.

Henderson manages to carve out a unique place aside Miles' legendary interpretation of Gershwin's masterpiece.  However, the thing about any Joe Henderson recording, the reason to listen to him is not the songs, or the arrangements, but his solos.  He is such a great soloist anything he tackles comes out sounding great. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 21, 2019, 03:26:10 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 12:47:47 AM
Oh man, I was WAY off - in checking his discography he put out about a record a year throughout the 2000s - Up and Coming looks like a good group, will have to check it iout.  I was going by what was on Spotify forgetting that they don't have everything.
Yeah, actually I was quite astonished to see how many records he made in the past 20 years as well ... I've had one of the Gateway reunion albums and one with the organ trio w/Dan Wall and Adam Nussbaum since the mid/late 90s, then one with the quartet w/Feldman, and then that last one (which I bought a while before he died, I think). But there's plenty that looks good, including more with Copland and an album with Lovano etc.

Quote from: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 12:47:47 AM
Ubu - I like all of his Verve records, Porgy & Bess might be my favorite only because of how much I love the original work.  But the Jobim record is also great, and since I am also a huge fan, it is also high on my list.  This tribute to Miles is very strong.  The only one that I don't absolutely love is the big band record.

Dunno, hard to say which if any of his Verve albums are not just really good.
Hm, I think "Porgy & Bess" is the one of his late Verve albums that doesn't totally click with me, I enjoy the Strayhorn, Jobim and Miles albums a lot. The Big Band is a bit rough on the edges, and I guess that's why it was initially held back? Anyway, as a group they're mighty fine, no doubt about that! Alas I never managed to catch Henderson live, the P&B band had a concert at the Berne Jazz Festival, which was out of my range at that time (I was still in high school and could hardly afford to catch jazz concerts nearby).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 21, 2019, 02:28:55 PM
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Robin Kenyatta - Gypsy Man (1973)
Don Shirley - Solos (1958)

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Don Shirley - The Gospel According To Don Shirley (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 05:31:10 PM
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Monk's Dreams - The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

QuoteThe genesis for these recordings came from a series of shows at the Jazz Standard club in New York City. Kimbrough chose the experienced rhythm section of bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Billy Drummond; the lead horn voice is the multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson, with whom he has played for many years, most notably with the Maria Schneider Orchestra. Kimbrough had not set out to perform all of Monk's works, but as the group played more and more of them it started to look like a possibility. An ambitious schedule of recording a CD a day was begun: and the group accomplished the task, many tunes requiring only a single take, the rest no more than two (or three in a few cases).

Frank Kimbrough: piano;
Scott Robinson: saxophones, reeds, trumpet
Rufus Reid: bass
Billy Drummond: drums

Quote
From Kimbrough's bandcamp page (https://frankkimbrough.bandcamp.com/album/monks-dreams-the-complete-compositions-of-thelonious-sphere-monk):

The genius of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is unassailable. Since his death in 1982, he has become recognized as one of the greatest composers of jazz – and of the wider world of music. The year 2017 was the centennial of Monk's birth, and brought scores of tributes, including a well-received stay of pianist Frank Kimbrough's quartet at the Jazz Standard club in New York City.

Like many jazz pianists, Kimbrough found Monk's music a revelation when he first heard it. From the outset of his career, Kimbrough has returned time and again to Monk's compositions. After nearly four decades of study, reflection, and performance, Kimbrough has established a relationship with these pieces and found a way to express himself through the prism of Monk.

When the Standard approached Kimbrough to put together a quartet to play Monk's music, he picked the brilliant rhythm section of bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Billy Drummond. His choice for lead horn voice was the multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson, with whom he has played for many years and in many combinations, most notably with the Maria Schneider Orchestra.

After the first set of the October 17th, 2017 performance at the Standard Kimbrough's friend Mait Jones urged that the group record Monk's entire oeuvre, a feat that Kimbrough had never considered. A jazz fan and co-presenter of his own Princeton series JazzNights Jones began a lifelong appreciation of Monk when he heard the master live at the Five Spot in New York City in 1957.

Over the next few days, Jones doubled down on his intent to make the project reach fruition, bringing in his friend and fellow jazz head, Dr. Dorothy Lieberman, to help co-produce the effort.

The musicians began the intensive work such a project demands. Finally, in April of 2018 Kimbrough led a trio and then the quartet at Jazz at the Kitano, polishing 30 new tunes on the way to the full Monk catalog of 70 pieces.

For the recording, Matt Balitsaris provided his renowned Maggie's Farm studios and an optimistic plan of recording a disc's worth of material each day for six days. The musicians recorded each day from 11 to 5 or 6 in two three-day intervals broken up by a three-day respite. Miraculously this ambitious plan succeeded, with most tunes needing only one or two takes. Robinson picked his axe of choice on the spot, from the standard (tenor sax and trumpet) to the exotic (bass saxophone, echo cornet, bass clarinet, and contrabass sarrusophone). The resultant tracks are fresh, varied, and inspired.




6 CDs of Monk's music played by an excellent ensemble in SOTA sound.  'Nuff said.

At this point, Rufus Reid is an elder statesman of the bass.  I've got his excellent book and have used it off and on as a practice tool.  Great bassist, great teacher and wonderful all-around person.  You have to hand it to Frank Kimbrough for focusing on this music and gathering together such a good band to play this music in reference performances. 

Certainly one of 2018's best releases.  Very highly recommended.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 21, 2019, 06:08:44 PM
I'm seriously considering buying Miles Okazaki's complete traversal of the Monk catalogue on solo guitar. 2018 brought us three "complete Monk" sets, which is weird but cool. Not too interested in the solo piano one by CT critic Jed Distler unless somebody here says it's amazing. Will sample that one, San Antone - it looks cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2019, 06:17:17 PM
Quote from: Brian on February 21, 2019, 06:08:44 PM
I'm seriously considering buying Miles Okazaki's complete traversal of the Monk catalogue on solo guitar. 2018 brought us three "complete Monk" sets, which is weird but cool. Not too interested in the solo piano one by CT critic Jed Distler unless somebody here says it's amazing. Will sample that one, San Antone - it looks cool.

I wasn't aware of this project and went to his bandcamp page and am sampling it.  It sounds fantastic; what a good guitarist!  Thanks for the posting about it.  I'm all for supporting musicians and their independent efforts; I will definitely be buying his Monk recording.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 22, 2019, 01:08:11 AM
Haven't really checked out the Okazaki set yet, but a friend enjoys it a lot ... the Kimbrough will, it seems, finally be available in Europe in March. I've had it on order for several weeks now, can't wait to hear it!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2019, 01:42:26 AM
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Duke Ellington : Piano Reflections

"Who Knows?" - 2:37
"Retrospection" - 3:58
"B Sharp Blues" - 2:47
"Passion Flower" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:05
"Dancers in Love" - 1:56
"Reflections in D" - 3:35
"Melancholia" - 3:20
"Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) - 3:04
"In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Mills, Manny Kurtz) - 2:30
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 2:56
"All Too Soon" (Ellington, Carl Sigman) - 3:08
"Janet" - 2:15
"Kinda Dukish" - 2:32 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Montevideo" - 2:33 Bonus track on CD reissue
"December Blue" - 2:40 Bonus track on CD reissue

Duke Ellington – piano
Wendell Marshall - bass
Butch Ballard - drums (tracks 1-12)
Dave Black - drums (tracks 13-15)
Ralph Collier - congas (track 14)




Originally released as The Duke Plays Ellington, this mostly trio date was one of the Capitol years releases (that Mosaic box has been on my want list for a while).  Sure, the 1953-1955 band did not have Johnny Hodges, and many people consider it out shown by the 'bands that came before and after, but there are some gems, mostly the small band dates like this one, during his time on Capitol.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 22, 2019, 02:37:45 AM
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First listen, and this is prime late Getz -- but then I don't know any late Getz that isn't prime or very close (okay, the "Bossas & Ballads" album may be a wee bit on the tired side, but that was a posthumous release).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2019, 05:15:47 AM
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Monk : The Complete Riverside Recordings

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 22, 2019, 06:30:46 AM
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Reel to Reel Music is selling this as Coltrane record (ft. Johnny Griffin).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 22, 2019, 02:54:35 PM
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Don Shirley - Orpheus In The Underworld (1956)
Don Shirley - Drown In My Own Tears (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 22, 2019, 05:44:54 PM
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Evidence : Steve Lacy with Don Cherry

"The Mystery Song" (Ellington, Mills) - 5:30
"Evidence" (Monk) - 5:00
"Let's Cool One" (Monk) - 6:35
"San Francisco Holiday" (Monk) - 5:15
"Something To Live For" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 5:50
"Who Knows" (Monk) - 5:20

Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone
Don Cherry - trumpet
Carl Brown - bass
Billy Higgins - drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 06:24:10 PM
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The Savoy Story, Vol. 1: Jazz

QuoteAllMusic Review by Richard S. Ginell (https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-savoy-story-vol-1-jazz-mw0000252118)
The old Savoy catalog gets bounced around from one distributor to the next like an unwanted foster child, with everyone starting from scratch once they get a hold of it. By 1999, it was Atlantic's turn and, hot on the heels of other label retrospectives, they have compiled a very good three-CD anthology of Savoy's jazz activities over 15 years in the middle of the 20th century. Decently remastered, the set opens around the tail end of the swing era (capturing some major figures in small-combo jazz like Ben Webster, Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet) and moves on to a detailed portrait of the emergence of bop just after the war. While rarely sticking with artists for very long to track their progress, Savoy (and the labels it absorbed) was a hugely important player in the early days of bop, managing to capture some of the earliest work of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Stan Getz, George Shearing, and Dexter Gordon. The set also tracks mid- to late-'50s hard bop, including numbers by Milt Jackson, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Byrd, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann, and other major figures. There are no unreleased goodies -- not much that truly ventures out beyond hard bop -- and only after the opening of disc three does the canvas of each track expand beyond the length of a single. The set comes in a compact, laminated mini-box with mid-century-style cover art.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on February 24, 2019, 02:34:30 PM
weekend listening:

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The Adderley is wonderful ... from the Dolphy I played the disc with all new material for the first time - will need some time to really explore these sessions again, only had them in form of ugly bootleg discs, so this new set is most welcome. Great music for sure, but I want to compare takes and stuff eventually.

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Then, today I decided to check out the seven reissues by Terumasa Hino from the Takt Jazz Series - recordings made between 1967 and 1971 and showing him evolve from an excellent Miles-based player into a pretty interesting voice. The first four are acoustic, and I think the one with Kikuchi has the edge, which in part is because of the 15 minute live bonus track that shows the band on fire! Hino's brother Motohiko on drums is on all of these and is at this time probably the most independent voice here. Kikuchi arranged half a dozen tracks for larger band on "Feelin' Good". The basic quintet consists of the Hino bros, Hiromasa Suzuki on piano (and electric piano on "Hi-Nology"; Kikuchi is on "Feelin' Good" and "Hino-Kikuchi") and Kunimitsu Inaba (bass, on "Hi-Nology" also electric bass).

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At this point, the quintet really has its act together! On "Hi-Nology" it dips into electric territory, following in Miles' footsteps again, but at the same time the voices seem to emerge, and go beyond their US idols, Hino sounding a bit like Woody Shaw would, somewhat later on (not sure what Shaw did at end the 60s, but for some time then he was with Blakey, and I think prior to that with Horace Silver - did either happen to tour Japan?) ... on "Into the Heaven", they're back to acoustic, but with a wiry, steely quality to their playing, going beyond hard bop and modal territory in some of their excursions.

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The final album of the series is different - it starts with the Hinos' intro into "Alone Together" ... they're joined by Harold Mabern, Richard Davis and Steve Grossman (there's the MD connection again) for the sessions, which took place in New York.

A fine series of albums for sure, but hardly essential, unless you're really into the history of Japanese jazz. They're wonderfully produced though, as mini-LPs (all but the first fold-outs), info in English is a bit scarce though, sometimes you don't even get the musicians' names, and for some of the bonus tracks I can only guess (discogs doesn't list full details for these added tracks, alas). Anyway, a fun ride for sure!

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Ended my Sunday jazz excursions with late Duke, recorded in Malmö, Sweden, in 1973, with guest Alice Babs. Again, fine and good fun, but hardly essential (but not nearly as bad as allmusic wants you to believe - Ellington had plenty of ideas and a fine band to the very end).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 28, 2019, 06:54:05 PM
Lee Morgan on KCSM (now on my wish list too)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 28, 2019, 10:43:17 PM
Periodically I re-listen to one or two recordings from the same group of jazz classics I keep stored in my mind.  This morning it's these two:

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Oddlly, I did not choose these two because of the obvious similarities which only struck me afterwards:  both are sextets with alto, tenor and trumpet supported by standard rhythm section.  Bill Evans and Paul Chambers are on both.  The Oliver Nelson date is more energetic while KoB is more laid back - but overall they compliment each other very well but with some distinction.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 28, 2019, 11:03:42 PM
Amazingly, I still don't have Kind of Blue in my collection, but am looking at one of the vinyl reissues--any ideas as to what to buy here (there are several options)?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2019, 12:55:21 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Mingus-ChangesOne.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Changes One (1975)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 01, 2019, 05:24:38 AM
I created a playlist of records that had Wilbur Ware playing bass - here's the first eight that I chose, but there were others:

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I focused on some that I don't often play, but passed up Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard since I play that so often.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2019, 03:54:34 PM
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Charles Mingus - A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (1957)
Charles Mingus - Mingus In Wonderland (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 02, 2019, 01:03:30 AM
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Yesterday's listening programme ... got the Kimbrough Monk set, finally, played discs 1-3 (of 6), and it's excellent indeed! Time for something else after that, both first listens, too. Had "Sudori" by Minafra's Sud Ensemble for many years, but somehow I never came around to buy this follow-up from 2005. Good fun, just as I expected. The Etta Jones is great, a working night by a fine singer with a backing trio in fine mood (Sam Jones and Billy Higgins are the names missing on the front cover).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2019, 01:54:22 AM
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Bubber Miley - Rare Recordings 1924-31
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 02, 2019, 05:58:46 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 02, 2019, 01:54:22 AM
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Bubber Miley - Rare Recordings 1924-31

Very good!  Bubber Miley is great, right after Armstrong.

TD

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GERSHWIN : Porgy & Bess | Mel Tormé, Frances Faye, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Johnny Hartman, Bob Dorough, Betty Roche ...

This is my favorite version of this work, despite the mixed critical opinion of it, I absolutely love it.  It is the most faithful to the score of any of the other jazz recordings and presents virtually the complete opera.  Scored for jazz band and featuring jazz singers and style - the performances suit the music better than a quasi classical/operatic tone, IMO. 

Anyway, I don't care what others may think, I like this recording and am really glad Bethlehem went and did it despite the economic insanity of the project.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 02, 2019, 06:27:20 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 28, 2019, 11:03:42 PM
Amazingly, I still don't have Kind of Blue in my collection, but am looking at one of the vinyl reissues--any ideas as to what to buy here (there are several options)?

Go ahead and buy the Mobile Fidelity. You'll thank me later. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 02, 2019, 06:29:16 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 02, 2019, 05:58:46 AM
GERSHWIN : Porgy & Bess | Mel Tormé, Frances Faye, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Johnny Hartman, Bob Dorough, Betty Roche ...

This is my favorite version of this work, despite the mixed critical opinion of it, I absolutely love it.  It is the most faithful to the score of any of the other jazz recordings and presents virtually the complete opera.  Scored for jazz band and featuring jazz singers and style - the performances suit the music better than a quasi classical/operatic tone, IMO. 

Anyway, I don't care what others may think, I like this recording and am really glad Bethlehem went and did it despite the economic insanity of the project.

Cheers!  :)

I remember reading that this was the project that led to Bethlehem going belly-up?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 02, 2019, 06:46:11 AM
Quote from: king ubu on March 02, 2019, 06:29:16 AM
Cheers!  :)

I remember reading that this was the project that led to Bethlehem going belly-up?

They were already in trouble and this 3LP release certainly didn't help.  Naxos remastered it and re-released it as a 2CD set, that's what I have.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2019, 01:03:19 PM
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Pepper Adams - Plays Charles Mingus (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 02, 2019, 01:58:22 PM
Not much jazz recently, but did give a first listen to these three:

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Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (2017)
Lina Allemano's Titanium Riot: Kiss the Brain (2014)
Wadada Leo Smith: Kulture Jazz (1993)

Impressed by all three of these. Smith's is a solo album, a format of which I'm not always too fond (no matter what the instrument). But here it isn't just him playing his trumpet: he plays (and sings a little, too - not a bad voice!) multiple instruments, including koto and mbira, and overdubs them to produce a varied and enthralling whole.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2019, 02:34:25 PM
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Albert Wynn - And His Gutbucket Seven (1962)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Antiguo (1997)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on March 02, 2019, 11:27:27 PM
Paul Desmond: Pure Desmond.

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also - https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/jazzblog/rip-ed-bickert
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 03, 2019, 06:41:52 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 02, 2019, 06:46:11 AM
They were already in trouble and this 3LP release certainly didn't help.  Naxos remastered it and re-released it as a 2CD set, that's what I have.

I've got the older (late 90s, I think?) Avenue Jazz/Rhino US reissue of it ... guess I'll have to give it a spin again soon!

--

Now playing the second half of the new Monk set by Frank Kimbrough:

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Enjoying it immensely!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2019, 12:19:02 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/154/MI0002154096.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/108/MI0002108558.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Chico Freeman - Tradition In Transition (1982)
George Lewis - Trios And Bands 1943-45
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 03, 2019, 07:43:02 PM
Quote from: NikF4 on March 02, 2019, 11:27:27 PM
Paul Desmond: Pure Desmond.

[asin][height=200]B0000AK0D4[/asin]

Ah, I remember that cover. I had it on LP. CTI was something of a controversial label, despite founder Creed Taylor's previously-established bona fides, but I recall this one as being pretty nice - and how could it not be, with a rhythm section like Ron Carter and Connie Kay? I recalled that Jim Hall played guitar on it, but I see now that it's Ed Bickert. I may need to get hold of it and reacquaint myself.

Quote from: king ubu on March 03, 2019, 06:41:52 AM
Now playing the second half of the new Monk set by Frank Kimbrough:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71d5Vl10UML._SL1037_.jpg)
Enjoying it immensely!

ubu, this is probably a silly question even to ask, but have you heard the Schlippenbach traversal of the entire Monk corpus (Monk's Casino)?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2019, 07:48:44 PM
Why was CTI controversial?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 03, 2019, 08:02:07 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 03, 2019, 07:48:44 PM
Why was CTI controversial?

There's a discussion of it here:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/why-was-cti-records-a-controversial-label.102748/ (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/why-was-cti-records-a-controversial-label.102748/)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2019, 08:17:26 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 03, 2019, 08:02:07 PM
There's a discussion of it here:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/why-was-cti-records-a-controversial-label.102748/ (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/why-was-cti-records-a-controversial-label.102748/)

Ah I see. I know there are some slick crossover albums that now sound like products of their times, but there's also a healthy percentage of their albums that have aged well. Probably about the same ratio as other labels of the time, Impulse included, imo.

now:

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James P. Johnson - 1921-1926
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 03, 2019, 08:21:40 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 03, 2019, 08:17:26 PM
Ah I see. I know there are some slick crossover albums that now sound like products of their times, but there's also a healthy percentage of their albums that have aged well. Probably about the same ratio as other labels of the time, Impulse included.

I agree. Jazz was having an identity crisis in the Seventies, and so there was a lot of hand-wringing going on about where it might be headed. A new label like CTI made a convenient scapegoat.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 03, 2019, 09:03:26 PM
CTI was a real mixed bag.  Jazz went through hard times during the '70s, mainly because of Disco, and CTI managed to give a lot of jazz players some exposure and some of those records were their biggest sellers.  Milt Jackson's Sunflower was excellent, as was Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay.  Ron Carter put out several good records, Joe Farrell, Hubert Laws, Jim Hall, all had good CTI releases.  Jobim's Stone Flower was one of his best.

My problem with CTI was not release's like Thus Spoke Zarathustra from Deodato and other pop crossover efforts but the sound on all of them.  They utilized isolation booths for all the instruments giving the band a real compressed sound, especially the bass.  Ron Carter's bass took on a very distinctive sound, but it was not natural at all.

Still it was tough during that decade and CTI single-handedly made a number of jazz artists some money and despite the engineering some of those records are still worth listening to.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 03, 2019, 11:36:33 PM
@Alek Hidell Yup, I've heard Die Enttàuschung/Schlippenbach (he hopped the wagon, it wasn't his project I understand, but he has the biggest name) Monk programme ... in concert, spread over two late night concerts, at a festival a few years ago, and a few years after they made their somewhat too early/tentative recording. It was amazing - and to reinforce Schlippenbach's somewhat marginal position in it, he did hardly any substantial playing the first night, but was much more involved the second. I don't think the Kimbrough project can be compared, the approach is totally different, much more coming from the inside (geography, tradition, style), and yet it sounds much more edgy to me. The rhythm section - namely Billy Drummond on drums - does a fantastic job, Kimbrough does his thing, but he really sneaks into Monk's world ... and Scott Robinson is a wonderful musician whom I've never heard at comparable length yet (I've got him only on all those glorious Maria Schneider albums, with George Gruntz and a few other sideman appearances so far). His tenor can sound "narrow" (for lack of a better word) and almost clarinet-like in clarity of tone and line, but he has a huge range and yet seems to be quite his own man. He plays trumpet and bass saxophone on a few tunes, that weird echo cornet on one, and bass sarrousaphone on one or two tracks. The set includes, I think, two or three tunes not on the "Monk's Casino" set.

Regarding CTI, I'm in the same camp as San Antone: it's the sound that bugs me most. However, on the other hand it seems for the high-gloss stuff that Creed Taylor was after (that started during his tenure with Verve and continued when he moved on to A&M), the entire design of the records (sound, cover design/photography, glossy foldout think cardboard ...) were quite "right". There are certainly a dozen plus albums I really like, but none that I'd take to that desert island, I think (the first two by Freddie Hubbard come closest I guess).

Thread duty, last night's late listen:

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Wonderful!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on March 04, 2019, 03:36:17 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 03, 2019, 07:43:02 PM
Ah, I remember that cover. I had it on LP. CTI was something of a controversial label, despite founder Creed Taylor's previously-established bona fides, but I recall this one as being pretty nice - and how could it not be, with a rhythm section like Ron Carter and Connie Kay? I recalled that Jim Hall played guitar on it, but I see now that it's Ed Bickert. I may need to get hold of it and reacquaint myself.



Alex, I'm prone to doing the same thing sometimes. But I think that speaks volumes about both of them as far as ability is concerned. And almost as an aside: on hearing about the passing of Bickert, my first stop was to give a listen to his interpretation of Strayhorn's A Flower is a Lovesome Thing - an exercise in getting out of the way of the tune.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywTyy25tE9I
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2019, 06:50:29 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Sanfona.jpg)

Sanfona : Egberto Gismonti & Academia de Dancas

Recorded in 1980 and 1981 and released on the ECM label, this double album features one disc of studio material with Gismonti's quartet and one disc of solo material recorded live.

Egberto Gismonti - 10 string guitar, super 8 guitar, Indian organ, piano, voice
Mauro Senise - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
Zeca Assumpção - bass
Nene - drums, percussion
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 04, 2019, 06:02:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qmw8r9hPL._SY355_.jpg)

Bunk Johnson - 1944
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2019, 02:31:35 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ofHGDgs0L._SX355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/s_HrAVjnpXH-kAJYVcjl6sduETo=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4753498-1381694996-4984.jpeg.jpg)

Joe Pass - I Remember Charlie Parker (1979)
Cedar Walton - Piano Solos (1981)

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Johnny Griffin - Blues For Harvey (1973)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 05, 2019, 05:30:40 PM
(https://wyntonmarsalis.org/images/made/images/discography/_resized/WM_ABYS_cover_CD_600_669_90.jpg)

The Abyssinian Mass : Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

QuoteWynton Marsalis was commissioned to write a piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. The result was a sacred celebration: a sweeping composition for a big band and 70-piece gospel choir. In 2013, award-winning recording artist Damien Sneed and his choir, Chorale Le Chateau, joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for a 16-city, 19-concert tour across the South that took the musicians into deep dialogue with the African American tradition. Now, The Abyssinian Mass—Marsalis's first original recorded composition in six years—documents this piece's immense power to make audiences clap their hands and sing along to its joyous spirituality, its profound swing, and its bluesy swagger.

Great record.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 05, 2019, 11:38:42 PM
(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/870/0000870861.jpg)

After a concert with Heinz Holliger and Oliver Schnyder (the piano/winds quintets by LvB and Wolferl and piano pieces by Kurtág and Holliger in between) this was the perfect late night Music yesterday - first spin, new acquisition ... getting more and more into Jessica Williams' playing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on March 06, 2019, 12:15:42 PM
I'd listen to some Jacques Loussier, seeing that he died last night, but I can't find 'em for the life of me.  :'(
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 06, 2019, 02:28:47 PM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on March 06, 2019, 12:15:42 PM
I'd listen to some Jacques Loussier, seeing that he died last night, but I can't find 'em for the life of me.  :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgytUKXsKJ4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 06, 2019, 02:42:09 PM
Sad news. Playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PhbA040xL._SX355_.jpg)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 06, 2019, 09:55:04 PM
Got the three Michael Musillami Quintet discs with Thomas Chapin yesterday - gave this one, the earliest, a first spin:

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Pretty fine indeed!

As this one was in the mail as well, it got its first spin afterwards:

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I totally loved Alessi's previous ECM album ... the jury's still out here, but I've enjoyed it pretty much. Guess it will need half a dozen spins to tell.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 07, 2019, 05:13:05 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81AxlN-ll7L._SX425_.jpg)

Porgy & Bess : Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong

I started off with the opera and then switched to this one.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on March 07, 2019, 05:45:39 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 07, 2019, 02:12:47 PM
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Andre Previn - Plays Fats Waller (1953)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 07, 2019, 05:11:38 PM
Quote from: SurprisedByBeauty on March 07, 2019, 06:44:20 AM
Well, I meant my heard copies... but your link nailed it: that is in fact the first JL CD I bought... at a Best Buy in West Fargo (?), if I remember correctly, so that's good memories!

Cool!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2019, 12:56:25 PM
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v/a - Jazz Composers Workshop (1955)
Bobby Hutcherson - Good Bait (1985)

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Hall-DeParis' Blue Note Jazzmen – Jamming In Jazz (1951)
Gary Burton - Times Like These (1988)

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Art Hodes - Hot Jazz At Blue Note (1950)
Charles Mingus - Right Now (1964)

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Art Hodes - Out Of The Back Room (1952)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Bombella (2009)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 09, 2019, 03:14:00 AM
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Porgy & Bess : Diahann Carroll and the Andre Previn Trio
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Post by: San Antone on March 09, 2019, 04:58:15 PM
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Presenting Ernie Henry

Ernie Henry - alto saxophone
Kenny Dorham - trumpet
Kenny Drew - piano
Wilbur Ware - bass
Art Taylor - drums

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2019, 08:39:43 PM
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Billie Poole - Confessin The Blues (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 11, 2019, 01:19:04 AM
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The weekend jazz programme included the four above ... bought a few Playscape albums lately (the three by Michael Musillami with Thomas Chapin and several by Mario Pavone and by Peter Madsen) - very fine music there! The Clifford Jordan/Junior Cook meeting is excellent (and prompted me to try and close one more C. Jordan gap, "Live at Ethell's", which so far somehow always escaped me ... I think Mapleshade had no distribution here whatsoever in those days when shops still existed) ... the new James Brandon Lewis sounded very good, too (Jaimie Branch in fine form, which is different from when I last heard her, live, just about a year ago) ... finally the Kikuchi/P.M.P. is a much loved masterpiece/favourite.
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Post by: king ubu on March 13, 2019, 09:40:08 AM
one more played recently - very nice indeed:

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now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on March 13, 2019, 12:05:17 PM
Joe Pass: Blues for Fred.

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Any (cheap) shot that could be aimed here would be at the 'blues' aspect that Joe Pass seemed to manage imparting effortlessly. Otherwise, take your lack of appreciation for the art  or what is omitted elsewhere.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on March 13, 2019, 07:04:51 PM
Oscar Peterson: Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook.

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Over winter one of my aims was to arrange and play - telecaster in hand - ''It might as well be spring'. I can't imagine a more demanding yet charming task.   :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on March 13, 2019, 08:07:14 PM
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My first-ever listen to anything by Lateef. Not bad at all. I like his tone on tenor (only one of several instruments he plays here, of course) - reminds me of a sort of cross between Coltrane and Dexter Gordon, and like Gordon with an apparent penchant for playing slightly behind the beat.

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Another first listen - had this one for a while, but just now getting around to it. Definitely needs more than one listen to absorb. The five movements here seem to have subdivisions within them, movements within movements with palpable mood shifts, ranging from harsh to sublime. It reminds me in a way of the work Tyshawn Sorey is doing, creating long works that tread a fine line between jazz and classical (Yedid has also written several works for string quartet and other traditionally "classical" ensembles). Not surprisingly, perhaps - Yedid being the pianist and leader - it's his instrument that dominates here, with the oud adding color. This is not Anouar Brahem. ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 13, 2019, 11:59:28 PM
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Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet (track 1 only)
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Elvin Jones – drums

East Broadway Run Down is a 1966 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six-year hiatus.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 14, 2019, 12:24:22 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 13, 2019, 08:07:14 PM

My first-ever listen to anything by Lateef. Not bad at all. I like his tone on tenor (only one of several instruments he plays here, of course) - reminds me of a sort of cross between Coltrane and Dexter Gordon, and like Gordon with an apparent penchant for playing slightly behind the beat.
I only know Lateef from his work in the Cannonball sextet in the early 60s, which is fantastic. It was an interesting artistic fit, playing with a band that was slightly more old-school in its bop style, but that pairing and interaction (plus Joe Zawinul) seems to have driven everyone to new creative heights. You should definitely check out Lateef's composition "Brother John," where he lovingly imitates Coltrane's trademark sonority....on oboe.
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Post by: NikF4 on March 14, 2019, 05:22:58 AM
Hank Jones: Complete Original Trio Recoridngs.

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Post by: San Antone on March 14, 2019, 03:06:42 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 14, 2019, 04:27:32 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 14, 2019, 04:57:55 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 15, 2019, 04:49:41 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Introducing_Kenny_Burrell.jpg/220px-Introducing_Kenny_Burrell.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/mktN2U2NlNXb5xyiMN2EHDgDwiY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6971296-1430689870-2386.jpeg.jpg)

Kenny Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956)
Blossom Dearie - Sings Rootin' Songs (1963)

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Frank Foster - No Count (1956)
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Post by: SimonNZ on March 16, 2019, 01:58:13 PM
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Ernestine Anderson - My Kinda Swing (1960)
Babs Gonzales - Tales Of Manhattan (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 17, 2019, 02:13:05 PM
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Wynton Kelly - It's All Right (1964)
Dakota Staton - Time To Swing (1959)

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Randy Weston - Uhuru Afrika (1960)
Taft Jordan - Mood Indigo (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 18, 2019, 12:31:20 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on March 13, 2019, 08:07:14 PM
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My first-ever listen to anything by Lateef. Not bad at all. I like his tone on tenor (only one of several instruments he plays here, of course) - reminds me of a sort of cross between Coltrane and Dexter Gordon, and like Gordon with an apparent penchant for playing slightly behind the beat.

Lateef was a fantastic musician! I beg to differ a bit with your description though ... first of all, he was older than Trane and had his act together much earlier (there are some big band sides of the great Gillespie bebop band on RCA with fine Lateef solos, for instance ...) - his tone is huge and full-bodied, more in the general Hawkins/Webster/Berry line I guess, and on the other side there's Lockjaw, and there were minor guys like Big Nick Nicholas (dedicatee of Coltrane's "Big Nick", and from what little can be heard a mighty fine musician in his own right).

Anyway, "Eastern Sounds" is close to desert island stuff for me, but it's just one of so many aspects of Lateef, who was a pioneer in many regards. His recordings as a leader, kicking in in the second half of the fifites, are a fine bunch. He led a quintet first with Curtis Fuller as second horn, then later with Wilbur Harden (who made a few recordings with Coltrane, and who may be a minor figure, too, but his recordings are wonderful). He would pack up his band in Detroit, they'd drive to RVG's, do a session and drive back ... the albums appeared on Savoy, Verve (just one), Prestige, and later Riverside as well (and still more on Savoy, and one on Argo, too ... and I think one on Charlie Parker Records?). The final one of the series, "Into Something", from 1961, is certainly a favourite. Others inlude "Jazz for the Thinker" (Savoy) and "Before Dawn" (Verve). And with regards to the "pioneer" thing: not just flute and oboe, but Lateef was at the forefront of "world music" or whatever you want to dub it, with the inclusion of traditional instruments from other regions of the world (i.e. the rabab as a bass instrument, or the arghul,a double pipe ... also he was exploring "exotic" modes and open/modal forms and more ...

I initially first heard him with Cannonball, too, and I love that band a lot - check out Lateef playing the blues on oboe ("Trouble in Mind" on "Cannonball in Europe", or "Brother John" on "Nippon Soul") for one!

When Lateef went on his own again, he made several albums for Impulse, another mighty fine bunch, including a live recording from Pep's, with trumpeter Richard Williams (one of Mingus' favourite trumpet players, all things considered a musician not recorded enough or not often under ideal circumstances ... the albums with Gigi Gryce might be the best ones to really hear him, his lone leader album on Candid is not entirely successful alas) and Mike Nock on piano, plus a driving rhythm section with Ernie Farrow on bass (a holdover from his fifties band) and James Black on drums. Now this band really was together, and there are some pretty wild rides on the live material, which was spread over the original LP and a later double album, later regrouped on two CDs.

But his studio albums on Impulse include some outstanding music, too, most notably "Psychicemotus".

His move to Atlantic was a change in direction, and it took me a while to appreciate that period and explore it more thoroughly, but there's some good stuff there, too (favourites, I think: "Blue Yusef Lateef", "YL in Detroit").

Later on, he had his own label (YAL) with sketchy distribution (and I wasn't around in time anyway) ... the tenors albums (one each with Von Freeman, Archie Shepp, Ricky Ford and René McLean) may be the best known ones, but the one I really like is "YL Plays Ballads" (I don't even know all the tenors albums though).

Also, he had a truly great one very late in the game, "Influence", with a french band around the Belmondo brothers - by themselves I don't find them all that interesting, but they put up a mighty good setting for Lateef!

So yeah, Brother Yusef rules in my house!

There's also a wonderful film about him ... if you can watch it from wherever you are, do so!

https://www.youtube.com/v/tG7lyR4QzjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7lyR4QzjQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Irons on March 18, 2019, 08:19:12 AM
Snooks Eaglin: Malaguena.

https://youtu.be/1_ERbM27q8Q
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 18, 2019, 02:37:04 PM
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Tony Bennett - At Carnegie Hall (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2019, 03:35:25 PM
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Betty Carter - Round Midnight (1963)
Ernestine Anderson - The New Sound Of Ernestine Anderson (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on March 21, 2019, 10:34:03 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2019, 03:59:31 PM
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Ron Carter - Uptown Conversation (1970)
Dempsey Wright - The Wright Approach (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on March 21, 2019, 10:30:31 PM
Just heard this on KCSM--very interesting use of koto. Added to wish list.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 22, 2019, 03:57:26 PM
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Conte Candoli - s/t (1955)
Billy Hart - All Our Reasons (2012)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 24, 2019, 02:21:12 PM
I love these two:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on March 27, 2019, 08:14:01 AM
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

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As ever I could be wrong, but I do believe this is a first listen. And while I'm not expecting (or requiring) fireworks, it's Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster and so should be at least worthwhile.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 28, 2019, 05:48:40 AM
Quote from: NikF4 on March 27, 2019, 08:14:01 AM
Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

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As ever I could be wrong, but I do believe this is a first listen. And while I'm not expecting (or requiring) fireworks, it's Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster and so should be at least worthwhile.

I think it's drop-dead gorgeous! Have the complete edition on two discs (Verve Master Edition, ca. mid/late 90s) ... Jimmy Rowles and the rhythm section are a big part of the success. Of the "Mulligan Meets" albums, I think it's my favourite, though I love the one with Paul Desmond very much, too (the mid 90s Verve CD contains several substantial bonus tracks, not sure about later editions if there are any). The ones with Johnny Hodges is mighty fine as well, only the one with Stan Getz is in the so-so range on my scale (but fun it is, too, partly since the two swap horns for several tracks ... without really losing their identity, Mulligan was a rather ligth baritone anyway, and Getz' persona is so strong, I guess he could have produced beautiful music on a coomb or a kazoo ...)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 30, 2019, 01:51:34 AM
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Have been making my way through almost all of this box yesterday, right now finishing with the last disc (the full "Standard Sonny Rollins" sessions) - what amazing music! Somehow I tend to revisit the Prestige albums ("Saxophone Colossus" first, I guess I almost know that one by heart), "A Night at the Village Vanguard" on Blue Note or "Freedom Suite" (Riverside) when I feel like hearing any Rollins, not the RCA Victor material, but I guess I should change that for a few years, just get similarly familiar with these amazing recordings (which I've owned for 20 years or so, the box is from 1997 - and as far as I know it's not the edition audiophiles are going for, but it sounds fine to my ears).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 30, 2019, 06:19:16 AM
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two excellent new releases
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on March 31, 2019, 01:15:30 PM
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I have been playing lots of Sonny Rollins lately ... time to revisit some more recent music, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 31, 2019, 06:18:43 PM
Random play of these four ECM compilations:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 01, 2019, 12:26:35 PM
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The Mario Pavone disc is excellent ... the Wynton Kelly pretty slight and short (27 minutes), and the pink arrangements by Ogerman don't help, yet Kelly's upbeat character still wins against the odds - I just love his touch!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2019, 02:46:41 AM
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Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

haven't played this in a long while, but the Murakami book I just finished makes multiple mentions of "Star Crossed Lovers"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 04, 2019, 03:55:28 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 04, 2019, 02:46:41 AM
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Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

haven't played this in a long while, but the Murakami book I just finished makes multiple mentions of "Star Crossed Lovers"

I have never listened to it!  So, I found it on YouTube and am rectifying that gap in my Ellington history.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on April 04, 2019, 03:58:26 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 04, 2019, 02:46:41 AM
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Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

haven't played this in a long while, but the  book I just finished makes multiple mentions of "Star Crossed Lovers"

Yeah, I saw your post in the book thread - cool. Ellington/Such Sweet Thunder is circa late 1950s or something, but IMO it's timeless. Chances are that Hodges alone is going to rock your boat.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 04, 2019, 04:21:38 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 04, 2019, 03:55:28 AM
I have never listened to it!  So, I found it on YouTube and am rectifying that gap in my Ellington history.

8)

Interesting suite.  More Strayhorn than Ellington, and somewhat episodic without extended playing of what was a great band.  I am glad to have heard it but I doubt I'll repeat the experience.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention, though.

TD

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Meets Coleman Hawkins
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on April 04, 2019, 07:50:36 AM
Artie Shaw & His Gramercy 5: Six Star Treats

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Specifically, 'Don't Take Your Love From Me' - mature playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Ghost of Baron Scarpia on April 04, 2019, 09:30:57 AM
Horace Silver, New faces new sounds

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2019, 06:49:29 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 04, 2019, 04:21:38 AM
Interesting suite.  More Strayhorn than Ellington, and somewhat episodic without extended playing of what was a great band.  I am glad to have heard it but I doubt I'll repeat the experience.


Yeah - although its praised by some critics its an album I seldom feel the need to revisit, though I have nothing against it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 06, 2019, 08:24:59 AM
I'm one of those who loves "Such Sweet Thunder"!

Thread duty - lately:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2019, 09:23:17 PM
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Joe Newman - And His Band (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2019, 09:53:39 PM
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Thelonious Monk - Complete Prestige 10" Collection

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: StarThrower62 on April 11, 2019, 07:57:53 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: StarThrower62 on April 12, 2019, 09:07:01 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2019, 03:36:37 PM
^nice!

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Stefano Battaglia - Songways (2013)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 12, 2019, 04:52:22 PM
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First spin and really enjoying this. I have a few of her other albums, which I also enjoy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on April 13, 2019, 01:48:37 AM
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Reverie (2000): E.J. Yellen (sax), Mark Knox (keyb.), Gerald Veasley (b), Jim Miller (d)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 13, 2019, 04:10:19 PM
Not sure what possessed me to listen to this record, it is not the kind of Jazz I usually put on.  But back in the '70s I was a fan and I suppose I wanted to revisit the music if only to see if there was any vestige left of my former affection.

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Oregon - Winter Light (1974)
Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2019, 05:31:50 PM
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Phil Urso - The Philosophy Of Urso (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 13, 2019, 05:44:40 PM
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CD 01. First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 15, 2019, 11:22:42 AM
Benny Goodman "On the Air"


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I like listening to Swing; it puts me in a good mood.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: rickardg on April 16, 2019, 10:49:56 AM
Bill Frisell
Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2019, 06:03:06 PM
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Barry Harris Trio – Breakin' It Up (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 18, 2019, 06:15:03 PM
Quote from: rickardg on April 16, 2019, 10:49:56 AM
Bill Frisell
Thomas Morgan
Epistrophy

The Frisell/Thomas Morgan recordings are excellent, IMO.

Quote from: SimonNZ on April 18, 2019, 06:03:06 PM
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Barry Harris Trio – Breakin' It Up (1958)

Barry Harris is a favorite pianist of mine.  I lived on 29th St between 7th & 8th and he had a club called The Jazz Workshop on 8th just around the corner.  I ended up hanging out quite a bit and getting to know him some.  Wonderful fellow who really cared about transmitting the tradition to younger musicians.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 18, 2019, 06:16:55 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 18, 2019, 06:15:03 PM


Barry Harris is a favorite pianist of mine.  I lived on 29th St between 7th & 8th and he had a club called The Workshop on 8th just around the corner.  I ended up handing out quite a bit and getting to know him some.  Wonderful fellow who really cared about transmitting the tradition to younger musicians.

First time I've heard him, i think. Are there any other albums of his you'd recommend?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 21, 2019, 06:47:25 AM
Revisiting this old favorite from my teen years:

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This album, Bright Size Life, Travels, and Rejoicing (w/ Haden and Higgins) are my favorite recordings in the Metheny discography.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 21, 2019, 02:16:46 PM
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CD 01
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 21, 2019, 03:25:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 18, 2019, 06:16:55 PM
First time I've heard him, i think. Are there any other albums of his you'd recommend?

Any of the Riverside & Prestige trio recordings, like Barry Harris At The Jazz Workshop (Sam Jones & Louis Hayes, live date in 1960); Barry Harris Trio - Preminado (Joe Benjamin & Elvin Jones, 1961); Barry Harris Trio - Chasin' The Bird (Bob Cranshaw & Clifford Jarvis, 1962); The Barry Harris Trio - Magnificent! (Ron Carter & Leroy Williams, 1969).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 21, 2019, 03:26:41 PM
Quote from: George on April 21, 2019, 02:16:46 PM
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CD 01

One of his best live collections: great band, great playing.  Some fans have complained of poor sound, but I don't have a problem with it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 21, 2019, 03:48:54 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 21, 2019, 03:25:05 PM
Any of the Riverside & Prestige trio recordings, like Barry Harris At The Jazz Workshop (Sam Jones & Louis Hayes, live date in 1960); Barry Harris Trio - Preminado (Joe Benjamin & Elvin Jones, 1961); Barry Harris Trio - Chasin' The Bird (Bob Cranshaw & Clifford Jarvis, 1962); The Barry Harris Trio - Magnificent! (Ron Carter & Leroy Williams, 1969).

Thanks for that. Listening to this one now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 21, 2019, 04:43:54 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 21, 2019, 03:26:41 PM
One of his best live collections: great band, great playing.  Some fans have complained of poor sound, but I don't have a problem with it.

Yeah, the sound is kinda bright, so I can understand the complaints. Sublime music making though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 21, 2019, 06:32:03 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 21, 2019, 03:26:41 PM
One of his best live collections: great band, great playing.  Some fans have complained of poor sound, but I don't have a problem with it.

Some of Shorter's best playing on record, IMHO. Miles isn't too hot, though. My favorite Miles live performance is Four & More, but also My Funny Valentine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 22, 2019, 01:22:36 PM
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Two recent SACD acquisitions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 22, 2019, 10:35:17 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 21, 2019, 03:48:54 PM
Thanks for that. Listening to this one now:

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That's my favourite! But as San Antone said, you cannot go wrong with any of his Riverside albums!

Also, he's on some of Sonny Stitt's finest albums, recorded in the early/mid seventies, most notably "Tune Up" and "Constellations" (Cobblestone, later Muse, then on a CD twofer by 32Jazz, which I cherish).

--

Thread duty, lately:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 23, 2019, 05:45:44 PM
A Jazz Message

Sonny Stitt
McCoy Tyner
Art Davis
Art Blakey

So delicious. A perfectly balanced meeting of four totally different minds who bounce off each other well and sound like they're having a ton of fun conversing in their different styles. Cool, and just a blast to listen to. I only wish the title/cover were more reflective of the fact that this is four equals, not really a classic Blakey joint.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 23, 2019, 05:49:41 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 23, 2019, 05:45:44 PM
A Jazz Message

Sonny Stitt
McCoy Tyner
Art Davis
Art Blakey

So delicious. A perfectly balanced meeting of four totally different minds who bounce off each other well and sound like they're having a ton of fun conversing in their different styles. Cool, and just a blast to listen to. I only wish the title/cover were more reflective of the fact that this is four equals, not really a classic Blakey joint.

A Blakey quartet recording that doesn't get mentioned very often - and you're right, really good band/playing. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 23, 2019, 06:41:07 PM
Speaking of Art Blakey, here's a twofer I like a lot -

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A Night at Birdland (1954)

Art Blakey, drums
Clifford Brown, trumpet
Lou Donaldson, sax
Horace Silver, piano
Curly Russell, bass
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 24, 2019, 01:25:09 AM
Thanks, Brian, for getting me started on a Art Blakey mini-marathon!   ;)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Like_Somone_in_Love_%28Art_Blakey_album%29.jpg/220px-Like_Somone_in_Love_%28Art_Blakey_album%29.jpg)

Like Someone in Love was recorded in August 1960, at the same sessions which produced A Night in Tunisia, but was released on Blue Note only in August 1967. It features, arguably, Blakey's greatest band: with Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 24, 2019, 12:19:07 PM
Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits


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This is the only album I own of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I really like their vibrant and exciting music making; must get more!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 24, 2019, 01:21:19 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 24, 2019, 12:19:07 PM
This is the only album I own of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I really like their vibrant and exciting music making; must get more!
Definitely grab At Carnegie Hall, Brubeck And Rushing, Time Further Out, Time Out, and Gone with the Wind (those are my personal top five in order from 1 to 5).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 24, 2019, 03:08:01 PM
It speaks to the overall strength of the Brubeck discography that whenever there's a discussion of favorite albums of his the responses cover such a wide variety.


now:

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Mike Nock Quartet - In Out And Around (1978)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on April 25, 2019, 12:20:38 AM
Quote from: Brian on April 24, 2019, 01:21:19 PM
Definitely grab At Carnegie Hall, Brubeck And Rushing, Time Further Out, Time Out, and Gone with the Wind (those are my personal top five in order from 1 to 5).

I agree on "Carnegie Hall", "Time Out" and "Time Further Out", but would throw in "Jazz Impressions of Japan" as a top choice, and "Brubeck Time", which includes Paul Desmond's delightful tribute to/impression of "Audrey" (Hepburn of course).

Either way, it's hard to go wrong with Brubeck's classic quartet with Desmond - the main question is: how much of it do you need? If you want a lot, grab the box with the complete Columbia Studio Albums - it's curretnly down to 40€ on aDE:

[asin]B0077PPQGO[/asin]
https://www.amazon.de/Complete-Columbia-Studio-Albums-Collection/dp/B0077PPQGO/

There's of course more to Brubeck than that ... the early Fantasy recordings with Desmond are glorious, there's some trio, solo and octet music as well (some of it pretty ... let's call it "academic"), and there are a few quartet recordings with clarinetist Bill Smith in place of Desmond (of which "Brubeck à la Mode" may be the finest?). There is also one with Dave van Kriedt (a sideman from early days) added to the quartet, which is fine, "Re-Union".

In addition to these Fantasy recordings, there's some more good music on Columbia, including the live albums not covered in teh box, and then the one with Gerry Mulligan following Desmond - alas not easy to find. On Atlantic then, there's one with Desmond and Mulligan that was, I think, my very first Brubeck (it's part of my dad's record collection), and it's pretty good and lots of fun, "Together Again for the First Time". There's also a rather odd one with Anthony Braxton and Lee Konitz (one track in common, Konitz on two more, Braxton one one), "All The Things You Are". Either way, Brubeck gets slammed unfairly quite often in jazz circles ... I don't want to be part of those that do so!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 25, 2019, 07:51:15 AM
Quote from: Brian on April 24, 2019, 01:21:19 PM
Definitely grab
1. At Carnegie Hall,
2. Brubeck And Rushing,
3. Time Further Out,
4. Time Out, and
5. Gone with the Wind (those are my personal top five in order from 1 to 5).

Take Five  ;)
Thank you for the recommendations; much appreciated.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 25, 2019, 07:53:40 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 24, 2019, 03:08:01 PM
It speaks to the overall strength of the Brubeck discography that whenever there's a discussion of favorite albums of his the responses cover such a wide variety.


Quote from: king ubu on April 25, 2019, 12:20:38 AM
I agree on "Carnegie Hall", "Time Out" and "Time Further Out", but would throw in "Jazz Impressions of Japan" as a top choice, and "Brubeck Time", which includes Paul Desmond's delightful tribute to/impression of "Audrey" (Hepburn of course).

Either way, it's hard to go wrong with Brubeck's classic quartet with Desmond - the main question is: how much of it do you need? If you want a lot, grab the box with the complete Columbia Studio Albums - it's curretnly down to 40€ on aDE:

[asin]B0077PPQGO[/asin]
https://www.amazon.de/Complete-Columbia-Studio-Albums-Collection/dp/B0077PPQGO/

There's of course more to Brubeck than that ... the early Fantasy recordings with Desmond are glorious, there's some trio, solo and octet music as well (some of it pretty ... let's call it "academic"), and there are a few quartet recordings with clarinetist Bill Smith in place of Desmond (of which "Brubeck à la Mode" may be the finest?). There is also one with Dave van Kriedt (a sideman from early days) added to the quartet, which is fine, "Re-Union".

In addition to these Fantasy recordings, there's some more good music on Columbia, including the live albums not covered in teh box, and then the one with Gerry Mulligan following Desmond - alas not easy to find. On Atlantic then, there's one with Desmond and Mulligan that was, I think, my very first Brubeck (it's part of my dad's record collection), and it's pretty good and lots of fun, "Together Again for the First Time". There's also a rather odd one with Anthony Braxton and Lee Konitz (one track in common, Konitz on two more, Braxton one one), "All The Things You Are". Either way, Brubeck gets slammed unfairly quite often in jazz circles ... I don't want to be part of those that do so!

Thank you both for the comments and recommendations; again, much appreciated.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 25, 2019, 09:47:47 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 25, 2019, 07:53:40 AM
Thank you both for the comments and recommendations; again, much appreciated.

For Time Out, this Hybrid SACD/CD has superb mastering: https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/83633/Dave_Brubeck_Quartet-Time_Out-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 25, 2019, 10:34:04 AM
Quote from: George on April 25, 2019, 09:47:47 AM
For Time Out, this Hybrid SACD/CD has superb mastering: https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/83633/Dave_Brubeck_Quartet-Time_Out-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD

Thank you for that my friend.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 25, 2019, 12:18:23 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 25, 2019, 10:34:04 AM
Thank you for that my friend.

My pleasure.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on April 29, 2019, 06:29:57 PM
Now playing:

Miles Davis: Sorcerer (Mobile Fidelity Hybrid SACD)

(https://img.discogs.com/-ljHEks-qxbvx4wfcSm-52jM4ho=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6969084-1553766982-2998.jpeg.jpg)

I own all of these Miles MFSL Hybrid SACDs so far and have been thoroughly impressed with them all. I really hope Seven Steps to Heaven (my favorite Miles album) gets the MFSL treatment next. Porgy and Bess (another favorite Miles album of mine) was released in February of this year.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 02, 2019, 05:42:36 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 29, 2019, 06:29:57 PM
Seven Steps to Heaven (my favorite Miles album)

Interesting choice. What is it about that one that gets it the no.1 spot?

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71zVHmlN1CL._SY355_.jpg)

Gene Quill ‎– 3 Bones And A Quill (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 03, 2019, 12:22:52 PM
First listen via streaming:

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/jazz/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/OJCCD-1797-2.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 03, 2019, 12:26:27 PM
Just noticed the album cover lists 5 of the 6 sextet members. Guess the drummer wasn't famous enough to go on there. He's some nobody named Max Roach  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on May 03, 2019, 01:03:22 PM
That was a bit of a letdown - the all-star cast just puts in a pretty routine hard bop effort. Not a ton of soul or fire.

No trying:

(https://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/jazz/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/602498270172.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 03, 2019, 01:12:06 PM
Quote from: Brian on May 03, 2019, 12:26:27 PM
Just noticed the album cover lists 5 of the 6 sextet members. Guess the drummer wasn't famous enough to go on there. He's some nobody named Max Roach  ;D ;D

If only they had credited him on the cover. He coulda been somebody.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 03, 2019, 07:56:31 PM
Johnny Griffin with Strings and Brass: White Gardenia, A Tribute to Billie Holiday

(https://img.discogs.com/XbBWe7KJ-eQj_aqvFdE--4iJhDw=/fit-in/600x574/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4680867-1394120017-3841.jpeg.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 04, 2019, 02:04:25 AM
Quote from: Brian on May 03, 2019, 12:26:27 PM
Just noticed the album cover lists 5 of the 6 sextet members. Guess the drummer wasn't famous enough to go on there. He's some nobody named Max Roach  ;D ;D

Not sure, may be a contractual thing? He was with Mercury/EmArcy at that time, though not exclusively it seems, as he made an album each for Argo ("Max") and Riverside ("Deeds Not Words") in 1958, and one more for Time ("Award-Winning Drummer") a year later. Still, from 1956 to 1960 it seems he was signed to Mercury. Though on the back of the original LP (as seen on discogs), there's only a notice about Johnson taking part courtesy of Columbia (now J.J. Johnson's Columbia recordings - not the one with Kai Winding, but all the others! - are quite something!)

--

Lately, been on vacation for a few days, found time to listen to some great stuff, too:

(https://img.discogs.com/fDjuYqTGXaE7fd44-i5VmuwSk3U=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12251606-1531453077-3367.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0002/316/MI0002316957.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/HYxZJhhY6FhFUNVVlmb7nd_z-aE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7008770-1431571770-3682.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/928/MI0002928723.jpg)

Upon my return, a couple of things had arrived that got their first spins in the past days (had the entire week off, but got home on Wednesday, as I had a ticket for Rudolf Buchbinder on Thursday):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bYrBp%2B3oL._SL500_.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/TnB8lWi4rk8lxLg8KKSfjoO7kIM=/fit-in/600x519/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13518375-1555722468-1139.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/JwoXF4mv42A18gV1NHInnBJi9RQ=/fit-in/484x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6420962-1422428724-6083.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/q_8twS4GrDI9qg5g61ltkWtF954=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6420899-1420491974-1815.jpeg.jpg)(https://img.discogs.com/4zHNOuswpCVQiEB81xQXeXEdRi0=/fit-in/600x535/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13529325-1555943028-4960.jpeg.jpg)

The new ones from Resonance are nice. I think the Wes is their fifth instalment, a very worthwhile enterprise for sure! You get quartets (g-p-b-d), organ trios (g-org-d) and sextets (Dave Baker-tb and Dave Young-ts added, plus a bass - just two tracks) on the first disc, and on the second disc a whole lot of p-g-b trios. Line-Ups (other than the two horns) are unknown, there's some guessing going on in the liner notes. Melvin Rhyne is prob. the organist (and likely on piano on other cuts), the brothers Monk (b) and Buddy (p) are possibly involved, and so are Carl Perkins, Earl Van Riper, John Bunch (p), Mingo Jones (b), Paul Parker and Sonny Johnson (d). The Bill Evans is an audience tape, but it's listenable and the music is pretty darn good! This to me is kind of the "default" Evans trio that sometimes bores me a bit (Fantasy albums, too many of 'em), but this release (like the previous Resonance set by the same trio, "Live at Art d'Lugoff's Top of the Gate", rec. 1968 and thus even earlier in the band's existence) is yet again a strong case to question that judgment!

The Togashi discs are nice, the one with Steve Lacy more down my alley, but I thought I'd just get both (they are subtitled "Paris Session" Vols. 1 & 2, rec. a week apart in Paris in November 1991). Got quite a few Togashi discs lately, with some mighty good bands (more with Lacy, but also with Don Cherry, Masabumi Kikuchi). The new Art Ensemble then is a bit of a mixed bunch, we get an extended group with a few more horns and a full string section (several of them were part of the Roscoe Mitchell w/strings group that I saw on tour a few years ago), the second disc has the band in a fine concert, the first has a dozen of mostly shorter pieces, including three with poetry read by Moor Mother and three more including a (classically trained, it seems) male singer. Takes a moment to get used to, but as a sum of what the group was and is about, it's very convincing, I found. Also it does have a different air from Roscoe Mitchell's own projects, which are somehow, I find, more focussed, high-energy things, while here you get the openness of the AEoC, that Chicago vibe that just lets things happen, not forcing anything ... I love both, and I'm happy to have this as another strong late work, next to "Bells for the South Side", Mitchell's opus magnum released on ECM a couple of years ago.

Also played these, first spins in the case of the two Dizzy albums (that "Concert of the Century" I found while browsing through discs in la feltrinelli in Milano, wasn't aware of it, it's a great document for sure, Dizzy in fine form, James Moody on fire, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Ray Brown and Philly Joe Jones riding and driving them along) and the Peacock:

(https://img.discogs.com/_TC6EG4DwZVSX8fx7h38JttwaLo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9337416-1478837424-3857.jpeg.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/864/MI0003864609.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615E1R7lNkL._SL1425_.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vTt9V6RsL.jpg)(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/724/MI0001724958.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611wbnoDnVL._SY500_.jpg)

The Dizzy at Onkel Pö is good fun, very groovy ... Schneider's own is terrific, I was a bit less fond of the recording with the SWR Big Band (one of the remaining - I think there at least still four or even more! - german radio big bands, they're technically good, but often a bit too clean for my liking, and with Schneider, while clean is okay, you need a lot of feeling, lyrical qualities, that most folks propably can't just turn on by pulling a switch) ... the new Blake/Lee is amazing, as was to be expected. It needs more time to really sink in, but I just love that duo!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 04, 2019, 06:07:32 AM
I'm not a fan of Eddie Gomez; his tone does not appeal to me and he plays too much in the upper range.  Almost all other of Evans' bassists were better, IMO.

For me, his LaFaro trio is the best, obviously, but then his last with Marc Johnson is next.

That Sonny Rollins looks interesting.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 04, 2019, 06:10:46 AM
Quote from: San Antone on May 04, 2019, 06:07:32 AM
I'm not a fan of Eddie Gomez; his tone does not appeal to me and he plays too much in the upper range.  Almost all other of Evans' bassists were better, IMO.

For me, his LaFaro trio is the best, obviously, but then his last with Marc Johnson is next.

That Sonny Rollins looks interesting.

I can certainly agree with this. I wish Chuck Israels performed more in Evans' trio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 04, 2019, 06:14:12 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 02, 2019, 05:42:36 PMInteresting choice. What is it about that one that gets it the no.1 spot?

Seven Steps to Heaven has always been a special album for me and a lot of it boils down to the pieces themselves. The ballads on this album are just incredible. The more uptempo pieces like the title track and Joshua are deeply infectious. The album just has everything that I love about Miles Davis rolled into one. I find no weak links the album.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 05, 2019, 03:21:54 AM
Quote from: San Antone on May 04, 2019, 06:07:32 AM
I'm not a fan of Eddie Gomez; his tone does not appeal to me and he plays too much in the upper range.  Almost all other of Evans' bassists were better, IMO.

For me, his LaFaro trio is the best, obviously, but then his last with Marc Johnson is next.
Hm, but then LaFaro plays quite a bit in the upper register, too? I do generally agree though - and I love the final trio with Johnson, that's when Evans re-gained all that fire that he lost in the years with Gomez/Morell, or so it seems.

Quote from: San Antone on May 04, 2019, 06:07:32 AM
That Sonny Rollins looks interesting.
It's outstanding! The music made the rounds on bit-torrent sites, and I have no clue how the pirates would really know the exact dates and all (they certainly got nothing straight from RCA, but maybe they were in touch with someone who has access or had session info from the source, who knows) ... anyway, the playing by Rollins is a constant marvel, and Don Cherry is so much better and more involved than on the three cuts RCA chose for the album. Also, Bob Cranshaw is fantastic here - I'm not a big fa of his, and in fact he's so involved here I find it hard to believe it's him (though there's no reason to doubt that, and the sound and phrasing fits anyway, it's the level of involvedness that is unusual I find). We needn't talk about Billy Higgins, he's fantastic anyway.

--

Just played the Paris material with Donald Byrd and Nathan Davis from this:

(https://img.discogs.com/7fg3mvs_O9OBeZcv5s-Pb-WbG3M=/fit-in/598x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4222791-1358971935-8137.jpeg.jpg)

Another pirate thing ... the "Last Date" with Mengelberg/Schols/Bennink should still be rather easy to find, the Paris date I think was never really official, then there's the halp LP that Mengelberg/Bennink put out on ICP, which is almost impossible to obtain (unless you were as crazy as me and went for the big ICP box).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 05, 2019, 05:05:42 AM
Quote from: king ubu on May 05, 2019, 03:21:54 AM
Hm, but then LaFaro plays quite a bit in the upper register, too? I do generally agree though - and I love the final trio with Johnson, that's when Evans re-gained all that fire that he lost in the years with Gomez/Morell, or so it seems.

LaFaro did not use a bridge pickup, so his tone is much better - and I am not just talking about soloing. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: king ubu on May 06, 2019, 12:42:41 PM
Quote from: San Antone on May 05, 2019, 05:05:42 AM
LaFaro did not use a bridge pickup, so his tone is much better - and I am not just talking about soloing.

Okay, understood - and indeed the tone of Gomez (and many other bass players from that period) is not how I like a bass to sound.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2019, 04:00:18 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/zOPwEp1J0GJoa6DoYR0Lo4UJJNA=/fit-in/600x621/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6826524-1427455341-7079.jpeg.jpg)

Charlie Mariano and Jerry Dodgion Sextet - Beauties of 1918 (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 15, 2019, 11:40:56 AM
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/153474151664_/SACD-THELONIOUS-MONK-Straight-No-Chaser-Non.jpg)

Picked this up today for cheap. I have a new SACD player and this disc sounds great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 15, 2019, 11:58:51 AM
Quote from: George on May 15, 2019, 11:40:56 AM
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/153474151664_/SACD-THELONIOUS-MONK-Straight-No-Chaser-Non.jpg)

Picked this up today for cheap. I have a new SACD player and this disc sounds great!

Good for you and enjoy!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 15, 2019, 02:03:26 PM
Quote from: aligreto on May 15, 2019, 11:58:51 AM
Good for you and enjoy!

Thanks buddy!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 15, 2019, 04:15:48 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61SyQZM13VL._SY355_.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on May 16, 2019, 09:03:20 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 15, 2019, 04:15:48 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61SyQZM13VL._SY355_.jpg)

Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant (1977)

Quite possibly my favorite Dexter Gordon album, but I might be a bit biased since I love big band so much. The Slide Hampton arrangements are top-notch. This album also features one of my favorite trumpeters, Woody Shaw.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 18, 2019, 11:23:17 AM
Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra 1943/6


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1f0AAOSw87RazgqJ/s-l1600.jpg)


I am quite partial to a bit of gentle Swing and this one is very well performed both instrumentally [interestingly listed as "Probable Basic Personnel"] and vocally with Irene Daye. This offering is very evocative of a particular era in musical recording history. The recorded sound is excellent. I really like this one: it is one for late night easy listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 18, 2019, 06:25:00 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/9yco6nP-rbuX-d1kaL8ptLr0qt4=/fit-in/500x501/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5621907-1398220008-1855.jpeg.jpg)

Phineas Newborn Trio – I Love A Piano (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on May 19, 2019, 07:16:20 AM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/1f2b58ac95c2df25b58cd0445e2e001b/tumblr_prrbouOsRK1tv9038o1_540.jpg)
#morninglistening to "Welf & Eiger" by #CoastlineParadox on #collegno

: http://a-fwd.to/2gVxJ0V

#Jazz, actually #cdcollection

Good (German) review on JazzFun.de (@jaceKbrun)

#BRIGHTcolors (http://a-fwd.to/2gVxJ0V)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pap on May 19, 2019, 02:17:33 PM
Fabulous One Michrophone  recording series from Sound Liaison, truly spectacular, complete phase coherency.
The Feenbrothers recording is especially outstanding.unbelievable that one microphone can do this  . Only problem is that everything else sounds a bit unnatural after this recording, that is how real it is.
(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/FeenBrothers300shadowDXDv3.png) https://www.soundliaison.com/ (https://www.soundliaison.com/)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on May 24, 2019, 06:43:19 AM
The quality of this remastering is nothing short of a miracle :o :o :o :o :o :o  95 years old, and sounds fresh, clear, and the instrumental sounds actually have texture.  Extraordinary.
[asin]B00001ZWLP[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 24, 2019, 08:19:32 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on May 24, 2019, 06:43:19 AM
The quality of this remastering is nothing short of a miracle :o :o :o :o :o :o  95 years old, and sounds fresh, clear, and the instrumental sounds actually have texture.  Extraordinary.
[asin]B00001ZWLP[/asin]

I think that I will have to track that one down!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 24, 2019, 09:00:15 AM
This is the one I bought when it first came out:

[asin]B00004WK37[/asin]

Very nicely produced, and the book has excellent discographical material.  Somewhat more expensive than the one posted earlier, but a more valuable set overall, IMO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 24, 2019, 09:07:27 AM
Quote from: San Antone on May 24, 2019, 09:00:15 AM
This is the one I bought when it first came out:

[asin]B00004WK37[/asin]

Very nicely produced, and the book has excellent discographical material.  Somewhat more expensive than the one posted earlier, but a more valuable set overall, IMO.

Cheers for that. I would love to have some of those recordings on vinyl.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on May 24, 2019, 09:13:15 AM
Quote from: aligreto on May 24, 2019, 09:07:27 AM
Cheers for that. I would love to have some of those recordings on vinyl.

I think they would be shellac - 78 rpm discs. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 24, 2019, 09:53:14 AM
Quote from: San Antone on May 24, 2019, 09:13:15 AM
I think they would be shellac - 78 rpm discs.

Yes, of course, due to the age of the recordings but I would really be interested in a good transfer to vinyl.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 30, 2019, 01:08:49 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41S4GDC5D2L.jpg) (https://img.cdandlp.com/2018/01/imgL/119036884.jpg)

Philly Joe Jones - Philly Mignon (1978)
George Cables - Circle (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 30, 2019, 03:27:45 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 30, 2019, 01:08:49 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41S4GDC5D2L.jpg) (https://img.cdandlp.com/2018/01/imgL/119036884.jpg)

Philly Joe Jones - Philly Mignon (1978)
George Cables - Circle (1979)

Philly Joe is SO GOOD! One of my top two fave jazz drummers.* I should check out some of his solo stuff, as I only have him supporting other artists.

* The other being Tony Williams.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 30, 2019, 04:03:25 PM
Quote from: George on May 30, 2019, 03:27:45 PM
Philly Joe is SO GOOD! One of my top two fave jazz drummers.* I should check out some of his solo stuff, as I only have him supporting other artists.

* The other being Tony Williams.

That Philly Joe album really impressed me. Great contributions from Dexter Gordon and George Cables.

now:

(https://img.discogs.com/goqy2bAqYm6QBret-9c-CZ0od8E=/fit-in/597x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1262342-1411300492-3399.jpeg.jpg)

Cannonball Adderley - At The Lighthouse (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 31, 2019, 10:47:19 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/fu6WP_mStv1TYv7vtMFAXN6TK-s=/fit-in/600x618/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4366900-1446299791-9913.jpeg.jpg)

First spin of this energetic 2CD set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 31, 2019, 04:52:26 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kFm6H6kGL._SY355_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - La Leyenda De La Hora (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 01, 2019, 05:04:38 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Imagination_%28Curtis_Fuller_album%29.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ZL9bxxoVnplY2eb902cjxYd6NKQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5428619-1393125212-7163.jpeg.jpg)

Curtis Fuller - Imagination (1959)
Julian Priester - Spiritsville (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2019, 10:07:59 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31YxjS0qluL.jpg)

First spin. Enjoying this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 02, 2019, 05:14:00 PM
Quote from: George on June 02, 2019, 10:07:59 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31YxjS0qluL.jpg)

First spin. Enjoying this one.

That one and Ballads are two of a kind - mellow Coltrane; some of my favorite music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 02, 2019, 05:23:32 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/Song_for_My_Lady.jpg/220px-Song_for_My_Lady.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Song For My Lady (1972)

I know I've said it before, but every listen confirms it: Tyner has one of the strongest, most consistently stunning discographies of any artist in any genre.

(I'm in two minds here about how the cover and title of the album don't prepare the listener at all for what's coming - even on the title track)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2019, 07:05:11 PM
Quote from: San Antone on June 02, 2019, 05:14:00 PM
That one and Ballads are two of a kind - mellow Coltrane; some of my favorite music.

I have not heard Ballads yet. I have the Heavyweight Champion set and about 6 more of his albums, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 03, 2019, 08:44:10 AM
Cross post from the Classical Music Listeng Thread



Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Abravanel]


(https://img.discogs.com/7UcKc1Pg9KKjGstkQmJHREettE4=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6385947-1417962342-4536.jpeg.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/pI1gjbynKPiZgTVGKUXoyQ_FZ8A=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6385947-1417962342-9797.jpeg.jpg)


This might sound stupid but I hear Abravanal focusing more on the jazz element here than others do. This, for me, brings attitude and a swagger which is electrifying in places. It is very well played by all concerned and wonderfully controlled and presented by Abravanel.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 07, 2019, 11:54:17 PM
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTU5OVgxNTg5/z/8QIAAOSw37tWDJi9/$_1.JPG?set_id=8800005007)

McCoy Tyner - Echoes Of A Friend (1972)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2019, 03:02:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GkahjmzqL._SY355_.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/V0N5D0BUYUlE-y7yMNtURlpuBQA=/fit-in/600x536/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11994944-1529441804-1970.jpeg.jpg)

Chick Corea and Steve Gadd - Chinese Butterfly (2018)
Lonnie Smith - All In My Mind (2018)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 08, 2019, 07:33:46 PM
I've certainly been scarce around these parts lately, at least from a posting standpoint. I've been reading threads, though (still trying to catch up on the WAYLT thread - so easy to get behind there).

Anyway, for the last couple of days it's been:

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0687665160_10.jpg)

Vandermark is going to end up with a discography like Braxton's - sprawling and voluminous. That could, of course, have its drawbacks (just as with Braxton's): when you record and release so much, there's bound to be some dross among the gems (sorry if that's a bit of a mixed metaphor ;)). Not that I'm saying that's the case here, not at all. This is very fine indeed. Drake in particular (IMO) acquits himself well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2019, 09:02:05 PM
Good to see you, Alek.

this evening, revisiting some favorites:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71XOibAuiDL._SX355_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Historicity_%28album%29.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Trident (1975)
Vijay Iyer - Historicity (2009)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41oarOZ1qxL._SY355_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81LdgBlYM8L._SS500_.jpg)

McCoy Tyner - Counterpoints: Live In Tokyo (rec.1978, rel.2004)
Chick Corea and gary Burton - In Concert, Zurich (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 09, 2019, 11:44:38 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Jaki_Byard_Quartet_Live%21.jpg/220px-Jaki_Byard_Quartet_Live%21.jpg) (https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/43b111a189db02c9b4c0fbf6ee7f5eda/1740284)

Jaki Byard - Live (1965)
Don Ellis - How Time Passes (1960)

(https://dgwh4hty77sxy.cloudfront.net/53771-medium_zoomcrop/image.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81HduaQ-fGL._AC_UL436_.jpg)

Herb Pomeroy - Life Is A Many Splendored Gig (1957)
Ken McIntyre - Year Of The Iron Sheep (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 11, 2019, 01:07:13 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Parisian_Solos.jpg/220px-Parisian_Solos.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Double_Exposure_%28Chris_Connor_and_Maynard_Ferguson_album%29.jpg/220px-Double_Exposure_%28Chris_Connor_and_Maynard_Ferguson_album%29.jpg)

Jaki Byard - Parisian Solos (1971)
Chris Connor and Maynard Ferguson - Double Exposure (1961)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61IHuHx0Z4L._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61FCYJ250JL._SX355_.jpg)

Roland Kirk - Here Comes The Whistleman (1965)
Ricky Ford - Manhattan Blues (1989)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 11, 2019, 02:27:37 AM
I just noticed the description for this Topic:

"Blues, Bluegrass, Dixieland, Swing, Mainstream, Be-Bop, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Smooth and everything in between."

With that in mind, here's what I am listening to, one of the better Blues compilations of some musicians that did not record very much, but what they did leave behind is really good.

(https://oldies-cdn.freetls.fastly.net/i/boxart/w680/02/02/016351020222.jpg?v=3)

Aside from Son House and Bukka White, these artists, especially the ones I've bolded, were little recorded and researchers have been hard pressed to find out exactly who they were.  There were three different Willie Browns traced to the Delta during the 1920s and '30s, each known to be a Blues guitarist/singer, and Kid Bailey is also thought to be a pseudonym of Willie Brown, but accounts vary.  Bertha Lee was the last romantic connection with Patton; Louise Johnson was another girlfriend, but she and Patton fell out and she took up with Son House.  Louise Johnson was one of the few pianists from the Delta that has left a recorded legacy.  During her tracks you can hear comments in the background from Patton and Willie Brown urging her on.

In early 1934 Charlie Patton went to Grafton, Wisconsin (his last session, he was to die in April) and recorded four sides for Paramount, but he took along Son House, Willie Brown and Louise Johnson to round out the session.  These tracks are some of what they recorded.

Rowdy Blues by Kid Bailey
Big Fat Mama Blues by Tommy Johnson
I Am in the Heavenly Way by Bukka White
Future Blues by Willie Brown
Brown Mama Blues by Ishmon Bracey
On the Wall by Louise Johnson
Walking Blues by Son House
Canned Heat Blues by Tommy Johnson
Promise True and Grand by Bukka White
Mississippi Bottom Blues by Kid Bailey
Maggie Campbell Blues by Tommy Johnson
My Black Mama (Part 1) by Son House
My Black Mama (Part 2) by Son House
Yellow Bee by Bertha Lee
Long Way From Home by Louise Johnson
M and O Blues by Willie Brown
Button up Shoes by Tommy Johnson
Mind Reader Blues by Bertha Lee
Lonesome Home Blues by Tommy Johnson
Dry Spell Blues (Part 1) by Son House
Dry Spell Blues (Part 2) by Son House
Preachin' the Blues (Part 1) by Son House
Preachin' the Blues (Part 2) by Son House

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 11, 2019, 05:36:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 08, 2019, 09:02:05 PM
Good to see you, Alek.

Thanks, Simon!

Quote from: San Antone on June 11, 2019, 02:27:37 AM
I just noticed the description for this Topic:

"Blues, Bluegrass, Dixieland, Swing, Mainstream, Be-Bop, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Smooth and everything in between."

With that in mind, here's what I am listening to, one of the better Blues compilations of some musicians that did not record very much, but what they did leave behind is really good. [...]

Yes! I love those old country blues sides. I think my favorite compilation is an old one that I don't believe has ever made it to CD: Really! The Country Blues (originally released c. 1962) on the old Origin Jazz Classics label - they released several great comps. It includes a couple of the tracks from this Masters of the Delta Blues CD ("Maggie Campbell Blues" and "My Black Mama"), plus Skip James' "Devil Got My Woman," Garfield Akers' "Cottonfield Blues," among others, and perhaps best of all, the imperishable "Old Country Rock" by the mysterious William Moore.

There's something about those old, scratchy, hard-to-hear recordings, and the bottomless mystery of their lyrics, that can draw you in like no other.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 11, 2019, 05:47:08 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on June 11, 2019, 05:36:19 PM
Thanks, Simon!

Yes! I love those old country blues sides. I think my favorite compilation is an old one that I don't believe has ever made it to CD: Really! The Country Blues (originally released c. 1962) on the old Origin Jazz Classics label - they released several great comps. It includes a couple of the tracks from this Masters of the Delta Blues CD ("Maggie Campbell Blues" and "My Black Mama"), plus Skip James' "Devil Got My Woman," Garfield Akers' "Cottonfield Blues," among others, and perhaps best of all, the imperishable "Old Country Rock" by the mysterious William Moore.

There's something about those old, scratchy, hard-to-hear recordings, and the bottomless mystery of their lyrics, that can draw you in like no other.

It must have made it to CD at some point because Really! The Country Blues is on iTunes.  Yeah, those sides from the '20s and '30s are really great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 11, 2019, 06:22:55 PM
Quote from: San Antone on June 11, 2019, 05:47:08 PM
It must have made it to CD at some point because Really! The Country Blues is on iTunes.  Yeah, those sides from the '20s and '30s are really great.

Yes, in fact I downloaded that sometime back because I don't have a turntable anymore. (Well, I do, actually, but I don't even know if it works. Nor am I particularly interested in finding out.) But I think it may be digital-only. I once came across an old Ellington release on iTunes, Flaming Youth, that seemed to be of similar provenance.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 11, 2019, 08:26:54 PM
Those Yazoo anthologies are always wonderful. And among their very best pre-war blues rarities collections, imo, are the two two-disc "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of":

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61g7ZC1iBSL._SS500.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/449/MI0003449504.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

That "Really! The Country Blue"s is on YT, and I was playing it on the way to work.


playing now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Meet_Oliver_Nelson.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/098/MI0002098853.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Oliver Nelson - Meet Oliver Nelson (1959)
The Three Sounds - Cold Water Flat (1968)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/Jammin%27_in_Hi_Fi_with_Gene_Ammons.jpg/220px-Jammin%27_in_Hi_Fi_with_Gene_Ammons.jpg)

Gene Ammons -Jammin In Hi-Fi With Gene Ammons (1957)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: NikF4 on June 12, 2019, 11:09:15 AM
Anita O'Day: Pick Yourself Up.

(https://i.postimg.cc/Bn4wX8Rc/61-C2-Yi76-Wh-L.jpg)

Great mid50s shennanigans.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 12, 2019, 11:47:10 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 11, 2019, 08:26:54 PM
Those Yazoo anthologies are always wonderful. And among their very best pre-war blues rarities collections, imo, are the two two-disc "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of":

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61g7ZC1iBSL._SS500.jpg) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/449/MI0003449504.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Those two are available on Spotify (I call the first one the "R. Crumb compilation"), and you're right, they are both excellent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 12, 2019, 08:08:57 PM
(https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/587/MI0000587947.jpg?partner=allrovi.com) (https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/525/MI0001525811.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Pal (1957)
Bobby Timmons - From The Bottom (1970)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xthMJSWqL._SY355_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/McLean%27s_Scene.jpg)

Jackie McLean and Junko Onishi - Hat Trick (1996)
Jackie McLean - McLean's Scene (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 13, 2019, 06:44:26 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xG22b08HL.jpg)

Melvin Rhyne – Tomorrow Yesterday Today (2004)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on June 14, 2019, 01:12:16 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Mal%2C_Dance_and_Soul.jpg)
Mal Waldron Trio ft. Jim Pepper (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 14, 2019, 08:47:10 AM
Armstrong Hot Fives And Sevens [Vol. 1]


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512oiYGaihL.jpg) from this recent purchase....   (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81vV%2BU-T0eL._SL1400_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 16, 2019, 02:41:32 PM
(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/063e631165d37e8ce3df32924808ca98/6636962)

Yusef Lateef - The Fabric Of Jazz (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pap on June 17, 2019, 06:50:07 AM
Stunning new/old recording concept using only one microphone. The result is spectacular. It is as having the musicians placed in position in between my speakers. Highly recommended;
(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/Reinier300shadow.png)https://www.soundliaison.com/ (https://www.soundliaison.com/)
Quote
The advantages of the One Microphone approach to recording are obvious; phase coherence, perfect imaging, great sense of depth, superior realism.
Another advantage is that it it forces the band being recorded to really play. There is nowhere to hide, no fixing it in the mix, so this is where it helps being a real band.

Reinier Voet and Pigalle 44 are just that; a real band, road tested, with years of experience playing clubs and concert halls all over Europe. When recording with one microphone the mix is done before we start to record.
We have to make the complete sound stage on the spot by carefully moving each instrument closer or further away as well as left and right in relationship to the microphone.
Reinier Voet & Pigalle 44 immediately understood the situation, and their great live experience made getting the sound just right a breeze.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 17, 2019, 06:55:16 AM
Quote from: Pap on June 17, 2019, 06:50:07 AM
Stunning new/old recording concept using only one microphone. The result is spectacular. It is as having the musicians placed in position in between my speakers. Highly recommended;
(https://www.soundliaison.com/images/Reinier300shadow.png)

Excellent!  I love Jazz Manouche.  Thanks for the tip.  And, welcome to GMG.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 17, 2019, 06:55:27 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Moods_%28Paul_Quinichette_album%29.jpg/220px-Moods_%28Paul_Quinichette_album%29.jpg)

Paul Quinchette - Moods (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 18, 2019, 12:16:14 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Someday_My_Prince_Will_Come_%28Chet_Baker_album%29.jpg)

Chet Baker - Someday My Prince Will Come (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 19, 2019, 03:55:50 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614f2epP5BL._SY355_.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Duke's Big 4 (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 20, 2019, 12:28:13 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615tgBOzDXL._SX355_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Lesteryoungtrio.jpeg/220px-Lesteryoungtrio.jpeg)

Bob Cooper - Sextet (1954)
Lester Young - Trio (1946)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 21, 2019, 07:37:35 AM
The Young Dorsey Brothers 1928-1930


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UBoAAOSwvNVcLKwL/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 22, 2019, 04:38:07 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bim9inVIL._SY355_.jpg) (https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/c11adc9a900353da984e0495d34c441a/2491530)

Andy Middleton - Nomad's Notebook (1999)
Dollar Brand - Underground In Africa (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 24, 2019, 08:01:48 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/A_Ghetto_Lullaby.jpg/220px-A_Ghetto_Lullaby.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Daybreak_%28Chet_Baker_album%29.jpg)

Jackie McLean - Ghetto Lullaby (1973)
Chet Baker - Daybreak (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 25, 2019, 08:08:32 AM
Armstrong: Hot Fives And Sevens [Vol. 2]


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91V5KaS%2B5HL._SL1404_.jpg) From this set....   (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81vV%2BU-T0eL._SL1400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 25, 2019, 09:53:02 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Ask_the_Ages.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51V5DklB4uL.jpg)

Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (1991)
Geri Allen - Twenty-One (1994)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on June 26, 2019, 03:39:19 PM
Just finished the first CD of this
[asin]B07HQ7LJQ2[/asin]
CD 1 consists of the material on "Conversations" plus two previously unissued takes of Muses for Richard Davis
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Ra56EKvIL.jpg)
CD 2 corresponds to the "Iron Man" with a previously unissued track called Personal Statement ,  while CD 3 is previously unissued material,  alternate takes of songs appearing on the original albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 26, 2019, 04:17:38 PM
Quote from: JBS on June 26, 2019, 03:39:19 PM
Just finished the first CD of this
[asin]B07HQ7LJQ2[/asin]
CD 1 consists of the material on "Conversations" plus two previously unissued takes of Muses for Richard Davis
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Ra56EKvIL.jpg)
CD 2 corresponds to the "Iron Man" with a previously unissued track called Personal Statement ,  while CD 3 is previously unissued material,  alternate takes of songs appearing on the original albums.

Sweet!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 06, 2019, 10:31:32 AM
Armstrong: Hot Fives and Sevens


(https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=8d2aANEHRvUgM-8N1zP1kIAf7E_1E-2MlBBPmPAXRBU=&f=5)   Vol. 3 of this set   (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81vV%2BU-T0eL._SL1400_.jpg)



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 06, 2019, 03:28:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-E4ec1bRL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yOFqDBFXL._SX355_.jpg)

Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass - Take Love Easy (1973)
Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie - s/t (1974)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on July 06, 2019, 08:50:05 PM
Take Love Easy--one of my all-time favorites in any genre. The artistry of both Joe Pass (my favorite guitarist of all time) and Ella is astounding but never ostentatious, and the intimate mood/acoustic is complemented by the selection of introspective and unusual repertoire. For another unforgettable dialogue, try Joe Pass and Neils Hening Orsted Pedersen in Northsea Nights--a killer-sounding LP, but horrible CD transfer (At least the first attempt I heard decades ago).

Recent listening:

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(https://img.discogs.com/TVlCPggDJ0sPyZjdh5II__z1tt0=/fit-in/595x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-832699-1391419705-1170.jpeg.jpg)

Trying to get into this one, but not successful so far:

(https://img.discogs.com/CsH1ocZd6M50JAJMw1amBJnDGOk=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12789916-1541981521-4942.jpeg.jpg)





Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 07, 2019, 07:25:14 AM
Crescent is in my top five Coltrane albums.  Isn't Bessie's Blues on it? Maybe top three.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 07, 2019, 07:40:38 AM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2208-2.jpg)

Lovin' this album and this new remaster for SACD!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 07, 2019, 08:44:45 AM
Some shameless self-promotion:

Ed Palermo and I used to jam and gig together back in the '80s, and have stayed in touch.  He has kept a big band going for at least two decades and has a steady gig at the Iridium most Monday nights.  He regularly releases CDs, often of Zappa music in very good arrangements.

He always liked my original jazz tunes from when we were playing together, and has recorded some.  His most recent recording is "A Lousy Day In Harlem (Sky Cat)."  My song is called "Next Year".

A Lousy Day in Harlem
https://g.co/kgs/UNHy81
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on July 07, 2019, 10:50:56 AM
Mike Westbrook: Metropolis. I've known and loved this work since the LP first came out in 1971:
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My favourite jazz album. Especially for the final track.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 07, 2019, 01:50:04 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/NsghO55aqsJ8rOsUyIvp_GtU1xg=/fit-in/450x450/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9361462-1479245315-4894.bmp.jpg)

Now enjoying the AP SACD for this lovely album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 07, 2019, 05:08:06 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on July 07, 2019, 10:50:56 AM
Mike Westbrook: Metropolis. I've known and loved this work since the LP first came out in 1971:
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My favourite jazz album. Especially for the final track.

Interesting choice. That's a great album.

And I'm playing it again now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on July 07, 2019, 09:43:08 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 07, 2019, 05:08:06 PM
Interesting choice. That's a great album.

And I'm playing it again now.
I could play the final track over and over again. In its way I find it very poignant and hauntingly memorable. A friend of mine had recorded it on tape when I was about 15 or 16. But I like the whole album and the way in which the jazzy rhythms suddenly emerge from the more chaotic/discordant sections. I prefer modern to trad jazz. I also love the cover art with London (presumably) in the distance - very evocative of that period in my life. I'm pleased that you enjoy it too.

Here is the final track if anyone wants to sample the album:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYVjf9WuxQ
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 09, 2019, 04:41:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81q-doK8V-L._SX455_.jpg)

First glorious spin!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 09, 2019, 06:25:30 PM
First listen:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71k3sNYDV0L._SL1200_.jpg)

Parker is a musician whose music, like Joe McPhee's, I respect more than love. Dunno why, really. But I keep trying.

This one isn't bad. It grew on me as I listened. And there's no singing, as there is on several of his albums - and that's almost always a plus for me in free improv.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 10, 2019, 07:53:48 AM
Armstrong: Hot Fives and Sevens Vol. 4


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mywpql9qL.jpg)   from this set....   (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81vV%2BU-T0eL._SL1400_.jpg)


There is truly some wonderful music and music making in this set. There is a great sense of rhythm and innovation which prevails throughout. The performances are very exciting and engaging.
Despite their age the recordings and performances are energetic, dynamic, spirited and exciting and very engaging. The mood and atmosphere of the sessions is well captured in these vibrant recordings. These are foot tapping good, swinging performances. This set makes for compelling listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 13, 2019, 09:07:26 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/511Mef-YGqL._SY355_.jpg)

Tony Williams - Life Time (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on July 14, 2019, 05:00:19 AM
Sarah Tandy.
I don't often buy jazz albums but having heard her live on BBC Radio 3 the other day I was so impressed that I went ahead with this one and have thoroughly enjoyed every track on it. It is also one of those, comparatively few, CDs of mine which my wife can enjoy as well:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 21, 2019, 04:37:45 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71deJrKgF0L._SY355_.jpg)

Kenny Drew - And Far Away (1983)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 25, 2019, 09:01:58 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61dceNZl8qL._SY355_.jpg)

SEED Ensemble - Driftglass (2019)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2019, 05:32:45 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Look_Out%21_%28Johnny_Hammond_Smith_album%29.jpg)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Look Out (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on August 05, 2019, 06:18:18 PM
A few recent discoveries, courtesy of KCSM, The Bay Area's Jazz Station! All added to wish list


Brad Mehldau - Songs: Art of the Trio Vol 3

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61epG46h8DL._SY450_.jpg)

Aaron Lington - Secondary Impressions

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91wJrb6nc8L._SX522_.jpg)

Chick Corea, Gary Burton - Crystal Silence

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/715nIFNvZdL._SX450_.jpg)

Lee Konitz - Saxophone Dreams

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hkUukYUHL.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 05, 2019, 07:47:28 PM
Crystal Silence is a desert island disc for me. As is the Zurich concert album they made shortly after.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on August 07, 2019, 02:56:44 AM
Quote from: San Antone on July 07, 2019, 08:44:45 AM
Some shameless self-promotion:

Ed Palermo and I used to jam and gig together back in the '80s, and have stayed in touch.  He has kept a big band going for at least two decades and has a steady gig at the Iridium most Monday nights.  He regularly releases CDs, often of Zappa music in very good arrangements.

He always liked my original jazz tunes from when we were playing together, and has recorded some.  His most recent recording is "A Lousy Day In Harlem (Sky Cat)."  My song is called "Next Year".

A Lousy Day in Harlem
https://g.co/kgs/UNHy81

  I recently got a copy of one of his albums.  I was a Zappa fanatic back in the 80s.

TD:
First time in a long time. I used to listen to Bill Evans for several hours each day.
[asin]B005QBMZBA[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 07, 2019, 07:50:30 PM
Not now, but recently:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/8156R-cJNxL._SL1425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rXWiUrpBL.jpg)

The latter album reminds me how much I admire Jack DeJohnette (he's a member of Smith's quartet here), as I do every improvising musician who can play with equal facility both "inside" (like DeJohnette's work with Keith Jarrett) and "outside" (as he does here).

Both of these are very fine, by the way.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 10, 2019, 12:59:11 AM
(https://i0.cdn.hhv.de/catalog/475x475/00324/324865.jpg) (https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/59b6110d4171a3be1c28980a639debae/2323328)

Cal Tjader and Don Elliott – Vibrations (1954)
Doris Day and Andre Previn - Duet (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on August 10, 2019, 09:23:07 AM
While mowing the lawn (not exactly ideal listening conditions, I know):

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41VCWC9BQML.jpg)

It'd been a while since I'd listened to this. Boy, it's good.

Then started:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51neQdl%2BoXL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on August 12, 2019, 06:39:25 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/zwwTj_0qXSfXS_k_2bLDZKEm9YY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11392948-1515514473-5634.jpeg.jpg)
Wildflower (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 15, 2019, 08:16:32 AM
Duke Ellington: New Orleans Suite


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41X%2B8wP85QL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on August 15, 2019, 04:01:00 PM
Found this in the used CD shop today,  playing it now
[asin]B00000I8UH[/asin]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: jwinter on August 15, 2019, 06:46:40 PM
First listen, love it.  I definitely need to explore more Ellington... I'm still relatively new to jazz and getting my bearings, been listening off and on for 3-4 years.  Started with Bill Evans, then Miles and branched out from there....


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y4%2BrkHsqL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2019, 08:19:40 AM
Quote from: jwinter on August 15, 2019, 06:46:40 PM
First listen, love it.  I definitely need to explore more Ellington... I'm still relatively new to jazz and getting my bearings, been listening off and on for 3-4 years.  Started with Bill Evans, then Miles and branched out from there....


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y4%2BrkHsqL._SY355_.jpg)

I am no jazz expert by a long shot but I do listen to Ellington occasionally. Such Sweet Thunder is a really good album. I think that you would like New Orleans Suite, as posted above [if you do not mind a recommendation].
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 20, 2019, 04:10:29 PM
(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/17704-large_default/bob-wilberg-and-his-famous-jazz-band.jpg)

Bob Wilber - And His Famous Jazz Band With Guest Star Sidney Bechet (1949)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 27, 2019, 01:36:19 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/yLyYSRJaZF2yJNHw7CAI0PAXEeE=/fit-in/595x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2227108-1314495439.jpeg.jpg)

Chico Hamilton - With Paul Horn (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2019, 03:10:32 PM
earlier:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71VR9FIHTeL._SY355_.jpg)

despite being recorded on the same day I've somehow always found Agharta a more impressive concert set album than Pamgaea
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 04, 2019, 05:27:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/DR-kYVOzgwFI8eu9XOfRxB4k72k=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5632746-1540914203-8833.jpeg.jpg)

Sir Charles Thompson - Starring Coleman Hawkins (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 10, 2019, 04:26:23 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/-ksQFC1qqUlBTUUNOqiVWI5QH6Q=/fit-in/600x608/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9931680-1488748893-4919.jpeg.jpg)

Stan Getz - At Large (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on September 14, 2019, 03:04:25 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/qcsnxBc2sFHDtS3I2zQ2qi56fvY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11798180-1522574823-9346.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/6JHPGwbX6Yc907o3uvHBZpZ0MVA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11798180-1522574824-3499.jpeg.jpg)
Tina Brooks (1960/2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 15, 2019, 12:17:33 PM
Lately:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UIIc0TmcL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51rksxSL2mL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DJ8uLFDnL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/716Cj07dMRL._SL1400_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51t37pD3P0L.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4179WGiV12L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 18, 2019, 10:37:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vd0iVnqPL._SY355_.jpg)

Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Introverted on September 22, 2019, 05:47:03 AM
NP:

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Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar


For a first listen - As usual if I forgo a comment the reader may assume I enjoyed the Album.  :-[ :D
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Post by: George on September 22, 2019, 08:50:21 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/c7H9hSFUbnMKpmK_SJuDU-TFoHg=/fit-in/600x615/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1802874-1494138406-6919.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 27, 2019, 08:16:18 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91kLyLNlo5L._SL500_.jpg)

This one goes out to Bogey.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 27, 2019, 05:49:12 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/918XYnVM8tL._SL1400_.jpg)

The number of prominent female musicians at the forefront of improvised music these days is really a marvel: Lotte Anker, Mary Halvorson, Nicole Mitchell, Anna Högberg, Tomeka Reid, Myra Melford, Matana Roberts, Jaimie Branch, Alexandra Grimal ... the list goes on. Of course there have always been women in jazz, including those who were composers and instrumentalists (as opposed to being singers), but they seem to have a prominence now as a whole that they've never had before.

Anyway, two of them are present here, with Reid the nominal leader on her unlikely instrument but Halvorson given ample solo space - and it swings! Good stuff.
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Post by: vandermolen on September 29, 2019, 08:48:31 AM
Sarah Tandy:
(//)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 29, 2019, 09:43:18 PM
(https://cdn.smehost.net/milesdaviscom-uslegacyprod/wp-content/uploads/1971/02/35-JACK-JOHNSON-R%C2%B0.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 02, 2019, 01:49:01 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41BVHVWAF9L._AC_UL436_.jpg)

First spin of this SACD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 02, 2019, 02:33:23 PM
Quote from: George on October 02, 2019, 01:49:01 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41BVHVWAF9L._AC_UL436_.jpg)

First spin of this SACD

One of my fave Monk recordings, with a really good band. 

Accompanying Monk there's:

    Thad Jones – cornet
    Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone
    Sam Jones – bass
    Art Taylor – drums

And, the songs are among his best.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 02, 2019, 03:07:33 PM
Quote from: San Antone on October 02, 2019, 02:33:23 PM
One of my fave Monk recordings, with a really good band. 

Accompanying Monk there's:

    Thad Jones – cornet
    Charlie Rouse – tenor saxophone
    Sam Jones – bass
    Art Taylor – drums

And, the songs are among his best.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it, though not as much as Monk's Dream.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 02, 2019, 07:37:51 PM
5 by Monk by 5 is one of my favorites of his, too. (I think Monk's Music is my favorite of all the Riversides.)

TD:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5139sUqmtKL.jpg)

The other two members of the quartet are Matt Wand and Pat Thomas, whose contributions here are a bit uneven to me. Not the best Oxley I've heard, but not bad.
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Post by: Introverted on October 03, 2019, 01:53:08 AM
NP:

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Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 03, 2019, 04:40:49 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/2kYDSJMbrTP4-IE1MV6SExt-vAc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3382197-1328208092.jpeg.jpg)

First spin of this.

SACD mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 03, 2019, 06:14:03 PM
Quote from: George on October 03, 2019, 04:40:49 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/2kYDSJMbrTP4-IE1MV6SExt-vAc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3382197-1328208092.jpeg.jpg)

First spin of this.

SACD mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray.

Good one!

As for me:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51IOozCtVML.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 04, 2019, 04:59:24 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/DyWePZD_WhmA7yhHZzeAw6wGSKA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2968383-1439825908-1608.jpeg.jpg)

Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats And Follies (2011)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 04, 2019, 05:31:34 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/714R5MJl5yL._SL500_.jpg)

First spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 04, 2019, 06:16:25 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RzRtm%2BXYL.jpg)

Trespass Trio + Joe McPhee: Human Encore (Clean Feed, 2014)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: j winter on October 05, 2019, 02:29:14 PM
Nice  8)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51y8-yT66pL._SY500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 06, 2019, 08:23:40 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Dedication%21.jpg)

Duke Pearson - Dedication (1961)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 07, 2019, 12:49:40 PM
(https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/d4d09e4f61b6b9067ac8764e8890ce14/1411926)

Duke Pearson - Hush (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 08, 2019, 04:54:24 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/hRmdCl5n-kny0DCk3eRMTGgLyIU=/fit-in/523x469/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3249562-1322326752.jpeg.jpg)

First spin.

SACD mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray.

Sounds great!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on October 13, 2019, 05:32:47 AM
Sarah Tandy again:
(//)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 16, 2019, 02:10:18 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/zUXUqpnza7pdUAqmMicRoCDfK60=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8260818-1458339461-4002.jpeg.jpg)

Bunk Johnson - The Last Testament Of A Great New Orleans Jazzman (1947)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on October 16, 2019, 07:14:18 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LZ547CWxL.jpg)

My first-ever listen to Harrell, I believe.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 19, 2019, 05:32:44 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/bssnCi5ykpHbmBRGfDbRC2LrKus=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13232141-1550408000-3083.jpeg.jpg)

Lage Lund - Terrible Animals (2019)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 30, 2019, 09:44:00 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Tough%21.jpg)

Art Blakey - Tough (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 31, 2019, 05:29:34 AM
Chick Corea & Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on November 01, 2019, 02:16:46 PM
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/07/23/arts/19natkingcole-item-2/19natkingcole-item-2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)

New 7 CD box set of early Nat King Cole recordings, many released for the first time.
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Post by: modified on November 07, 2019, 02:34:26 AM
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ddd4750be2debf1de76e4368)

Jack Wilkins (1977/1992)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 07, 2019, 06:42:58 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 30, 2019, 09:44:00 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Tough%21.jpg)

Art Blakey - Tough (1956)

Interesting - never seen that before. I assume that's some kind of reissue because the photo of the lady looks like it was taken later than 1956 - in the '60s, maybe (she looks a bit like Mary Tyler Moore, actually).

TD:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812IPxy2NTL._SS500_.jpg)

This is actually my first time to listen to these recordings - well, most of them. I have heard two or three on other compilations. I'm not really a fan of these comps where the alternate takes are placed right before or after the "official" version - but of course these are such legendary sides that such quibbles are ... well, quibbles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on November 08, 2019, 02:23:08 AM
Looks like Blakey is 1966 release
https://www.allmusic.com/album/tough%21-mw0000874203     (https://www.allmusic.com/album/tough%21-mw0000874203)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on November 08, 2019, 05:15:35 PM
Quote from: modified on November 08, 2019, 02:23:08 AM
Looks like Blakey is 1966 release
https://www.allmusic.com/album/tough%21-mw0000874203     (https://www.allmusic.com/album/tough%21-mw0000874203)

Thanks - my alternative idea was that it wasn't released until several years after it was recorded, which seems to be the case. Blakey had at least one other album like that (Roots and Herbs) and probably others, too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on November 09, 2019, 03:59:48 AM
Right!   ;)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough!   (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough!)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on November 10, 2019, 03:12:41 PM
This set
[asin]B01D01K3RU[/asin]
Has been sitting on my shelf with its companion (for 1959-1963), and two similar sets from Sonny Rollins, since January. High time to actually listen to them.
There are 4 CDs in the set, with 2 complete albums per CD.  So CD1, playing now, is these two

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rcpbB2gXL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PpGiG9-2L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 13, 2019, 01:43:05 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41vsDZ5lm0L._SY355_.jpg)

Hal Galper - Wild Bird (1972)

not sure if I've ever heard Hal Galper before, but this has made me keen to investigate further
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on November 13, 2019, 06:22:16 AM
CD 1
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LD +3 (1959)
The Time Is Right (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: dissily Mordentroge on November 13, 2019, 01:26:35 PM
Skip to 8.47. . . . Maybe this isn't strictly jazz but if it's not, what is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blW-3TZ1iNg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blW-3TZ1iNg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 15, 2019, 01:47:03 PM
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTA58uMU9VSmw6aKzKFrJepi7LW-S-cyxHrLe3HMAdvmLgFl2uL)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 17, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81vFSkEy6SL._SS500_.jpg)

Wynton Marsalis - Congo Square (2007)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 18, 2019, 02:16:52 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 17, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
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Wynton Marsalis - Congo Square (2007)

Good one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on November 19, 2019, 11:32:19 PM
Currently listening to Duke Ellington - Three Suites


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61l9TJin1cL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 20, 2019, 01:04:58 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Ww60Kr6E8HC6WQZ1631RM-L9hww=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11026171-1529700233-6520.jpeg.jpg)
All the non-vocal recordings from this box - currently Sempre Amore, the Ellington/Strayhorn duet album with Steve Lacy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 20, 2019, 02:03:36 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8131vdYLxKL._SS500_PIPJ_.jpg)

Jelly Roll Morton : Complete Victor Recordings, 1926

Classic recordings made with his best band, during his prime.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 21, 2019, 03:29:40 AM
(https://ljazzn.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/d3737-pochette-de-porgy-and-bess.jpg)

Ella & Louis : Porgy & Bess

One of my favorite jazz treatments of the Gershwin masterpiece.  Norman Granz put Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong together on several recordings (Ella & Louis; Ella & Louis Again; Live, P&B); all are excellent, IMO, and you can find the complete set on a 3CD collection, although OOP it is widely available.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Jlf74Oc-L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 21, 2019, 03:34:47 PM
A discussion about Andrew Hill on the recordings your are considering thread, got me back into listening to Andrew Hill.  This is a Blue Note recording, that was recorded in 1965 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1975 as part of a compilation album One for One.

(https://img.discogs.com/RmzpedU3n4QajFWInsm9MiivXVI=/fit-in/600x595/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2826107-1308298687.jpeg.jpg)

Andrew Quintet - Pax

    Andrew Hill - piano
    Freddie Hubbard - cornet (tracks 1-4 & 7)
    Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-4 & 7)
    Richard Davis - bass
    Joe Chambers - drums




A GREAT band!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 23, 2019, 08:37:59 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/711kVWBF9LL._SL1150_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/Black_Stars_%28album%29.jpg)

Horace Silver - Doin' The Thing (1961)
Jason Moran - Black Stars (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on November 26, 2019, 09:56:33 AM
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27320c698aafd4bb82073725309)
House of Echo: Echoïdes (2017)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 26, 2019, 01:47:37 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61K4QJ4MG8L.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91wOUNwZ3sL._SY355_.jpg)

J.J. Johnson - J.J. Inc. (1961)
Art Farmer - Baroque Sketches (1966)

while playing Bitches Brew at work last night I decided I'm going to start a listening project of less familiar albums produced by Teo Macero
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 27, 2019, 02:43:36 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Nirvana_Lloyd.jpg)

Charles Lloyd - Nirvana (1965)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2019, 03:13:27 PM
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Maynard Ferguson - Chameleon (1976)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 29, 2019, 05:02:09 AM
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Tomasz Stanko - Leosia
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on November 29, 2019, 05:03:53 AM
(https://i.scdn.co/image/5259def126e2bb56952592a58e3947ef5908d980)
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2734ab7478e9b2bd22a981c14e6)
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Dave Liebman: Homage to John Coltrane (1987)
David Liebman: Classic Ballads (1991)
Dave Liebman Group: Miles Away (1995)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 30, 2019, 02:29:22 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Drumfusion.jpg)

Chico Hamilton - Drumfusion (1962)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 06, 2019, 11:58:23 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41nw9sAUIHL._SX355_.jpg)

Bireli Lagrene Ensemble - Bireli Swing '81

very Django
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on December 07, 2019, 01:11:33 AM
Just pulled a CD from the jazz collection, from the Jazz Masters series '"Stan Kenton" takes me back to when I first got interested in jazz in the 50s but absolutely no info with the CD but who cares so nostalgic  :) :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2019, 12:45:38 AM
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Shelly Manne - And His Friends (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 11, 2019, 04:51:19 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on December 12, 2019, 12:37:51 PM
(http://nobusinessrecords.com/assets/components/phpthumbof/cache/Zenith.9c057a36f0899e0f0dab4b221424bcc8520.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 12, 2019, 01:53:40 PM
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Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis (2019)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on December 13, 2019, 03:15:25 AM
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Avram Fefer Quartet: Testament (2019)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 15, 2019, 06:27:08 AM
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Monk's Dream
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on December 17, 2019, 05:53:07 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Andante on December 18, 2019, 01:23:29 AM
The Bill Evans Trio in Buenos Aires, a live recording 1973-79,  a 3 CD set, first rate transfer to CD and the playing ain't too bad either. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on December 21, 2019, 06:03:28 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 23, 2019, 05:37:42 PM
(http://jazzpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Keith-Jarrett-After-the-Fall.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on December 31, 2019, 10:08:25 PM
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Fantastic recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 01, 2020, 07:31:50 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 03, 2020, 02:26:09 PM
New from Chick Corea

(http://chickcorea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Chick-Corea-Trilogy-2-Cover.jpg)

Live trio date with Christian McBride and Brian Blade.  Some of his best playing in years.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 04, 2020, 08:03:30 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 03, 2020, 02:26:09 PM
New from Chick Corea

(http://chickcorea.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Chick-Corea-Trilogy-2-Cover.jpg)

Live trio date with Christian McBride and Brian Blade.  Some of his best playing in years.

Cool!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 04, 2020, 08:05:10 AM
I've had it sitting around, buried, forever. Finally listened to it:
Pat Metheny, Chautauqua
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 04, 2020, 11:12:30 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 04, 2020, 08:03:30 AM
Cool!

It is hard to believe that Corea was 78 when he made that recording.  Still going strong.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 04, 2020, 02:19:40 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on January 04, 2020, 08:05:10 AM
I've had it sitting around, buried, forever. Finally listened to it:
Pat Metheny, Chautauqua

New Chautauqua on ECM? Wow, I've owned that since the early '80s (was really into early Metheny), but haven't listened in, well, forever [correction] listened to all his early albums in succession 2 or 3 years ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 04, 2020, 02:36:40 PM
Metheny's As Falls Witchita was the first ECM I heard - and remains a sentimental favorite.

hmm...might try playing that later today

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/As_Falls_Wichita.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 04, 2020, 04:19:56 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 04, 2020, 02:19:40 PM
New Chautauqua on ECM? Wow, I've owned that since the early '80s (was really into early Metheny), but haven't listened in, well, forever [correction] listened to all his early albums in succession 2 or 3 years ago.

Yes, that's right.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 04, 2020, 06:17:13 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 04, 2020, 06:27:18 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 04, 2020, 06:17:13 PM
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Great stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 05, 2020, 01:07:30 PM
Quote from: San Antone on January 04, 2020, 06:27:18 PM
Great stuff!

Desert island material for me. Practically the mother lode of bebop (although Dameron was not absolutely bop oriented), and Navarro was awesome.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on January 06, 2020, 05:26:38 PM
Borbetamagus & hijokaijan live
Great free for all free form jazz that extreme and chaotic...

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 10, 2020, 12:09:11 PM
A most agreeable nostalgia trip with Maynard Ferguson.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on January 11, 2020, 09:09:41 AM
Well, for a newbie like me I experiment whit free-jazz and love it so much, I discover Arthur Doyles, very  pleasing music to my ears, I'm looking forward for free-jazz master of the early century, I guess the music is awesome, free-jazz is my cup of tea, Ornette Coleman is  fabulous,
I hope you guys will recommended great name off this genre, Jazz is so much relaxing & moody.

What should I seek, if I like Arthur Doyles, Ornette coleman and cecyl Taylor I.e.

Most free-jazz experimental player, has I were told wheent to live in France due to racism in america according to a friend of mine, who own a shop of record in my city, what are these great expatriate Jazz man that move in France, do you have some name for me , try this deprofundis or this, you would love them?

I was harsh on rap, since I don't like it, but this does ain't mean black folks did not made awesome music, and I salute them here on GMG.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 19, 2020, 01:42:19 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/ColtraneExpression.jpg)

John Coltrane - Expression (1967)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2020, 05:54:11 PM
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Herbie Hancock - Trio (1977)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 22, 2020, 07:37:06 PM
Anouar Brahem

Random playing his ECM albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 22, 2020, 07:45:51 PM
(http://www.mosaicrecords.com/images/268.jpg)
Mosaic The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70

This just arrived, have listened to 6 of the 8 discs.
[Added] This is a newly-released Mosaic box. The old Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley 1950s Sessions,
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which I've owned for a long time, finally sold out a couple of years ago. Mosaic seem to be winding down their operation, but a Lee Morgan 1960s Blue Note set is allegedly forthcoming.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 22, 2020, 07:53:01 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 22, 2020, 07:45:51 PM
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Mosaic The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70

This just arrived, have listened to 6 of the 8 discs.

I think that is a great set - I really like those Mosaic boxes and have a bunch of them.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on January 23, 2020, 10:03:04 AM
Jazz-Rock rather than jazz I guess:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 25, 2020, 11:18:55 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/719d4XyXh1L._SY355_.jpg)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 26, 2020, 01:45:52 PM
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Art Tatum, Complete Group Masterpieces (the cheapo ZYX edition)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 29, 2020, 02:52:20 PM
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Great stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 29, 2020, 07:07:24 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 31, 2020, 04:11:11 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2020, 01:36:13 PM
earlier today:

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the side-long track "Lazy Mae" on Dig It is a particular favorite
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 04, 2020, 05:03:43 PM
  (https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/f2cf0ac333ca5fef6f3a96b1497d994c/1948726) (https://img.discogs.com/CApBrrGAINoyg3G1zXThr5BT9DQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1129690-1194444420.jpeg.jpg)

Recent (obscure  ;) ) free jazz acquisitions
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 04, 2020, 05:18:23 PM
In case you haven't heard, there is a big sale on Analogue Productions SACDs and LPs over at Acoustic Sounds:

https://store.acousticsounds.com/s/552

This 10 SACD set is a steal at $100 - https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/148774/Various_Artists-Blue_Note_Reissues_Sale_Set-Hybrid_SACD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2020, 04:23:05 AM
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David Torn - Cloud About Mercury (1987)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2020, 06:44:07 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 08, 2020, 04:18:00 AM
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One of 14 SACDs I picked up this week, all were mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman.

First spin of this lovely album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 08, 2020, 05:04:25 AM
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Now enjoying another new album to me, on SACD.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 08, 2020, 06:44:29 PM
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First spin of this SACD. Nice, smooth stuff for a Saturday night.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on February 08, 2020, 07:43:59 PM
The contents of this as part of a 4 CD compilation set
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 08, 2020, 08:39:21 PM
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This trio was featured on Tomasz Stanko's albums The Soul of Things, Suspended Night, and Lontano. Stanko, for those that don't know, was at the forefront of the Polish jazz scene and especially so after the death of his former band leader and mentor, Krzysztof Komeda.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 09, 2020, 07:41:54 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 08, 2020, 08:39:21 PM
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This trio was featured on Tomasz Stanko's albums The Soul of Things, Suspended Night, and Lontano. Stanko, for those that don't know, was at the forefront of the Polish jazz scene and especially so after the death of his former band leader and mentor, Krzysztof Komeda.

Love Stańko (RIP) and those albums - Lontano especially. So what did you think of this trio album, M.I.?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 10, 2020, 06:16:18 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 09, 2020, 07:41:54 PM
Love Stańko (RIP) and those albums - Lontano especially. So what did you think of this trio album, M.I.?

Yes, indeed. The world lost a legend when Stanko passed away. This Wasilewski album is quite good (as are all of this trio's albums). I'd check it out --- there's a fantastic cover of Björk's Hyperballad on here that I was impressed with. I'm quite a fan of Björk's music, so to hear her music outside of it's electronic context is always wonderful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2020, 06:29:59 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 10, 2020, 06:16:18 PM
Yes, indeed. The world lost a legend when Stanko passed away. This Wasilewski album is quite good (as are all of this trio's albums). I'd check it out --- there's a fantastic cover of Björk's Hyperballad on here that I was impressed with. I'm quite a fan of Björk's music, so to hear her music outside of it's electronic context is always wonderful.

Thank you.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 11, 2020, 10:56:23 AM
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John Abercrombie: Structures (2006)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 12, 2020, 06:51:02 AM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on February 10, 2020, 06:29:59 PM
Thank you.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 12, 2020, 02:39:36 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 12, 2020, 05:40:21 PM
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Just starting this - I believe my first encounter with either musician - so too early for impressions yet.

Quote from: SimonNZ on February 12, 2020, 02:39:36 PM
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Those look tasty, Simon. Don't believe I've ever seen that Lee Morgan cover before - nor had I ever seen a photo of him playing that Dizzy Gillespie-style trumpet, with the upturned bell. Guess he did that early in his career?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 13, 2020, 01:38:15 AM
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Tony Overwater Trio & Calefax Reed Quintet: Ellington Suites (2005)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on February 13, 2020, 06:51:42 PM
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I'm a big admirer of Murray, who may have done more than anyone else to invent free-jazz drumming (with all due credit to Andrew Cyrille and Rashied Ali, though) and was a native Oklahoman like myself ;D. And there are certainly some other fine names on this combination of two brief albums Murray recorded in 1969: Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, and Archie Shepp, among others. Still, I can't say I'm a big fan of this so far (it's my first listen). It's not the cacophony per se - I like the cacophony of free jazz! - but the way it's done here.

Maybe this is just a period of free jazz that I'm not particularly fond of, when it was still kind of finding its way and was almost self-consciously "ugly," a reflection perhaps of the volatile racial politics of the era. I like the Art Ensemble of Chicago stuff from this same time period, so I guess it depends. And I'm not done with this one yet, so maybe it'll improve. We'll see.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 13, 2020, 07:10:44 PM
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First spin. I didn't love this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 16, 2020, 08:15:32 PM
Now spinning:

Stefon Harris: African Tarantella: Dances with Duke

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I absolutely adore this album. It never gets old and I think a lot of stems from the fact that Ellington's music is involved. There are some Harris compositions here as well, which are great. I wish he would return to Ellington's music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on February 17, 2020, 06:44:45 AM
I love Japanese  noisy jazz mister Masayuki Takanayagi, Is a revelation to me, I like most of his works, I really like April is the cruelest month, very enlightening & interesting, and by god may captivating, I have few of is recording, anyone like his works, beside me here?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 20, 2020, 06:32:59 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Mucho_Calor.jpg)

Art Pepper and Conte Candoli - Mucho Calor (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 21, 2020, 07:38:14 PM
Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2020, 11:09:21 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 21, 2020, 07:38:14 PM
Michel Benita Ethics: River Silver

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Nice!

Some info from Tyran Grillo's ECM review site (https://ecmreviews.com/2019/03/15/river-silver/):

QuoteMichel Benita double bass
Matthieu Michel flugelhorn
Mieko Miyazaki koto
Eivind Aarset guitar, electronics
Philippe Garcia drums
Recorded April 2015, Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

On River Silver, Paris-based bassist Michel Benita makes his ECM leader debut with the borderless Ethics ensemble. Joined by Swiss flugelhorn player Matthieu Michel, koto player Mieko Miyazaki, Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset (with whom he plays in Andy Sheppard's quartet), and French drummer Philippe Garcia, Benita architects a veritable museum of mostly original creations. Even before a single note is heard, as Benita tells me in a recent email interview, the very name of the project is resonant in a way that caught the attention of producer Manfred Eicher:

"The world needs more ethics: understanding, empathy, and sharing. That's how I hear this word. And the idea of sharing between different cultures is very important for me. Hence, our lineup. The band functions collectively, without ego. ECM, too, represents a certain kind of musical ethics. The band was almost made for the label, though not consciously, and I was very happy when Manfred recognized our familial relationship upon hearing the first album."

Ethics is a dream group in the truest sense, because everything it plays is of a dream. As such, it reflects Benita's increasingly open approach to space and making music within it. All the more appropriate that he should have found a new home in ECM territory. On that note, even as I post this review Benita is in the studio again with Michel, Garcia, and new Flemish recruit Jozef Dumoulin on Fender Rhodes.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 21, 2020, 11:28:20 PM
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Julia Hülsmann Quartet
Not Far From Here

Uli Kempendorff tenor saxophone
Julia Hülsmann piano
Marc Muellbauer double bass
Heinrich Köbberling drums
Recorded March 2019, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines

ABOUT (https://ecmreviews.com/2020/01/11/julia-hulsmann-quartet-not-far-from-here-ecm-2664/)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on February 22, 2020, 07:01:32 AM
Quote from: San Antone on February 21, 2020, 11:09:21 PM
Nice!

Some info from Tyran Grillo's ECM review site (https://ecmreviews.com/2019/03/15/river-silver/):

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Yes, it's a fine album. I really bought this recording because of Eivind Aarset's involvement (who is one of my favorite guitarists), but, to my surprise per usual, the musical results were definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Aarset, who I view as a colorist, provides a gorgeous backdrop to the musical proceedings. I also love those Andy Sheppard albums he played on --- so gorgeous, then there's his work with Nils Petter Molvær. The list goes on.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 23, 2020, 08:04:26 PM
Just dug out and FLAC-ed this LP (Japanese Reissue) of Horace Silver's Silver's Serenede I haven't listented to since the Rhynie Chert flora dominated terrestrial ecosystems and...

Damn.

What a record! In addition to Horace Silver's piano stylings (don't you hate that expression?) I really dig Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook on trumpet and tenor sax respectively. Will have to track down more of these HS quintet LPs.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 24, 2020, 05:46:01 AM
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on February 23, 2020, 08:04:26 PM
...
What a record! In addition to Horace Silver's piano stylings (don't you hate that expression?) I really dig Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook on trumpet and tenor sax respectively. ...

My favorite Horace recordings (and I own quite a few) are the ones with the Blue Mitchell / Junior Cook front line.

Listening:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on February 28, 2020, 07:34:13 PM
Arthur Doyles(featuing is new quiet screamer) awesome release, it's written narly all over... hmm hmm.. very very nice works, surreal beauty and improvisations.

Masayuki Takanagi revisited listen for me, all I have got plenty of him, very nice stuff. Material 1-2
(3 missing but partial), but eventually it won, it's a mater of time.

P.s Arthur Doyles  stuff iI DIG  i really adore, great Jazz innovator of it's time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2020, 01:29:20 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 10:49:52 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 03:10:47 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 04, 2020, 03:45:41 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 03:10:47 PM
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They should give people Ellington CDs instead of anti-depressants.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 03:50:54 PM
Quote from: George on March 04, 2020, 03:45:41 PM
They should give people Ellington CDs instead of anti-depressants.

Works for me.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on March 04, 2020, 03:53:51 PM
Quote from: George on March 04, 2020, 03:45:41 PM
They should give people Ellington CDs instead of anti-depressants.

I like this idea, too!

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on March 04, 2020, 03:59:27 PM
I signed up (free) for the livestreams from Smalls and its sibling, Mezzrow -- two excellent, intimate spaces for jazz in Greenwich Village. Really, the quantity of live music available online continues to astound me.

https://www.smallslive.com/events/live-stream-mezzrow/

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 04:08:06 PM
Quote from: Brewski on March 04, 2020, 03:59:27 PM
I signed up (free) for the livestreams from Smalls and its sibling, Mezzrow -- two excellent, intimate spaces for jazz in Greenwich Village. Really, the quantity of live music available online continues to astound me.

https://www.smallslive.com/events/live-stream-mezzrow/

--Bruce

WOW!  I just signed up. What a great resource!  Many thanks for the link.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on March 04, 2020, 04:21:17 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 04:08:06 PM
WOW!  I just signed up. What a great resource!  Many thanks for the link.

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Most welcome! I found out about it from Terry Teachout, who writes for The Wall Street Journal and his own blog, who mentioned last night on Twitter (@TerryTeachout1) that he was listening to one of his faves, a Brooklyn-based singer, Hilary Gardner. (PS, he was right about her.)

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 04:23:50 PM
Quote from: Brewski on March 04, 2020, 04:21:17 PM
Most welcome! I found out about it from Terry Teachout, who writes for The Wall Street Journal and his own blog, who mentioned last night on Twitter (@TerryTeachout1) that he was listening to one of his faves, a Brooklyn-based singer, Hilary Gardner. (PS, he was right about her.)

--Bruce

It reminds me of living in NYC and going to the clubs.  Nice.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on March 05, 2020, 05:12:26 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 04, 2020, 04:23:50 PM
It reminds me of living in NYC and going to the clubs.  Nice.

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Did you ever see John Zorn?  :) Those were some of the best jazz concerts I attended, great music, cracking energy, intimate atmosphere
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on March 05, 2020, 08:58:38 AM
Quote from: hvbias on March 05, 2020, 05:12:26 AM
Did you ever see John Zorn?  :) Those were some of the best jazz concerts I attended, great music, cracking energy, intimate atmosphere

As a fan of Zorn, I have only seen his work in a classical context. He's quite prolific, and a lot of the newer, younger groups (e.g., the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, etc.) enjoy playing him.

But now I want to hear him in an environment like you describe!

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on March 05, 2020, 10:56:44 AM
Quote from: Brewski on March 05, 2020, 08:58:38 AM
As a fan of Zorn, I have only seen his work in a classical context. He's quite prolific, and a lot of the newer, younger groups (e.g., the International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, etc.) enjoy playing him.

But now I want to hear him in an environment like you describe!

--Bruce

The jazz like Electric Masada and Masada was terrific live. I should explore his classical works more, I've passed on around half the things I've heard and picked up the other half. Some of it is too difficult for me   :-\
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 05, 2020, 05:24:01 PM
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First glorious spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 05, 2020, 05:37:40 PM
love, love, love those late Basies on Pablo, especially the ones with small groups
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 09, 2020, 07:34:14 AM
Quote from: hvbias on March 05, 2020, 05:12:26 AM
Did you ever see John Zorn?  :) Those were some of the best jazz concerts I attended, great music, cracking energy, intimate atmosphere

I'm a big fan of Zorn. His Naked City concerts were hugely enjoyable from what I've read. This isn't my favorite Zorn, but it's difficult to ignore the aural assault that this particular group of his conjured up onstage and in the studio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on March 09, 2020, 05:21:18 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 09, 2020, 07:34:14 AM
I'm a big fan of Zorn. His Naked City concerts were hugely enjoyable from what I've read. This isn't my favorite Zorn, but it's difficult to ignore the aural assault that this particular group of his conjured up onstage and in the studio.

Naked City's first album was my first exposure to Zorn, I'm sure those concerts were high octane!

I sort of stopped following his music when he started getting heavily into the Book of Angels releases, not that it's bad music but to me much of it sounds too much in the can, I have to imagine it translates better live.

This is one of my desert island albums from not just from Zorn but all of my jazz collection. A bit sad seeing the mention of Tonic on the cover.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 10, 2020, 08:07:22 PM
Quote from: hvbias on March 09, 2020, 05:21:18 PM
Naked City's first album was my first exposure to Zorn, I'm sure those concerts were high octane!

I sort of stopped following his music when he started getting heavily into the Book of Angels releases, not that it's bad music but to me much of it sounds too much in the can, I have to imagine it translates better live.

This is one of my desert island albums from not just from Zorn but all of my jazz collection. A bit sad seeing the mention of Tonic on the cover.

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One of my main problems with Zorn is the sheer amount of music he puts out and why this is a problem for me is I simply can't keep up! ;D Yes, I'd agree that Zorn over the last 10 years or so has been 'phoning it in' so to speak. I haven't really heard much from him in this past decade that has resonated with me quite like his earlier work. I still think one of his best series of works is Filmworks, which all have a different style and instrumentation. I didn't quite get into his Masada stuff nor have I found much time for The Book of Angels. I find Zorn a fascinating figure but his prolificacy has kept me from buying any more of his newer releases.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 18, 2020, 04:19:17 PM
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First spin.

SACD mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 19, 2020, 11:16:42 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 19, 2020, 02:45:48 PM
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First, glorious spin. Pure joy, in superb sound!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 19, 2020, 05:08:18 PM
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A little sloppy, but some intense playing and a rare appearance by John Gilmore on a non-Sun Ra recording.
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One of the few recordings featuring the enigmatic Dupree Bolton.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on March 20, 2020, 12:05:09 AM
Quote from: T. D. on March 19, 2020, 05:08:18 PM
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A little sloppy, but some intense playing and a rare appearance by John Gilmore on a non-Sun Ra recording.
Never seen this! I have been looking for more Elmo Hope for years...

TD: Dexter Gordon.  Don't know why, but suddenly got a craving for DT after not playing any jazz for months.... Just finished "Doin' Alright", not sure what to spin next... Maybe Go
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 20, 2020, 02:34:17 PM
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Harold Land (ts), Dupree Bolton (tr), Elmo Hope (p), Herbie Lewis (b), Frank Butler (d).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on March 21, 2020, 12:52:28 PM
Quote from: T. D. on March 19, 2020, 05:08:18 PM
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A little sloppy, but some intense playing and a rare appearance by John Gilmore on a non-Sun Ra recording.
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One of the few recordings featuring the enigmatic Dupree Bolton.

What recordings do you like of John Gilmore outside of Sun Ra (I am a huge fan of Ra)? The only one I've heard is Blowin' In From Chicago, a mediocre play for pay session.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2020, 02:43:35 PM
Recently I was listening to a podcast with an author who had written about the poor conditions at Rikers Island and free-associated to myself as I was listening that I really must play that Elmo Hope album again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 21, 2020, 06:19:07 PM
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Just great.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 22, 2020, 05:01:10 AM
A new recording of Ellington's masterpiece.

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Black, Brown and Beige
Recording date: April 26-28, 2018
Release date: March 6th, 2020

Quote"It sits alone in the history of jazz," Wynton Marsalis says of Duke Ellington's groundbreaking masterpiece Black, Brown & Beige. Since its 1943 debut at Carnegie Hall, the piece – a sprawling survey of African American history – has been heralded as one of the most significant compositions in American orchestral music. Now, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is releasing a definitive, present-day recording of Black, Brown & Beige that conveys all the nuances and emotion of Ellington's grandest work.

Captured during a live, Rose Theater performance in 2018, Black, Brown & Beige is Marsalis's first recording of the work and Blue Engine's first release dedicated entirely to Ellington. As Marsalis explains, the piece "covers a mosaic of not just Afro-American but of American styles of music," and the expert musicians of the JLCO – not to mention special guests Brianna Thomas (vocals) and Eli Bishop (violin) – are perfectly equipped to tackle its stirring stylistic breadth. The JLCO's spirited take on Ellington's epic not only pays tribute to some of the maestro's most personal work but adds another important chapter to its enduring legacy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 22, 2020, 06:37:10 AM
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Unforgivable Blackness – The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

QuoteTrumpeter Wynton Marsalis' soundtrack to Ken Burns' documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a compelling and rootsy mix of blues and swing. Having worked with Burns on the PBS "Jazz" series, Marsalis' Unforgivable Blackness soundtrack seems like a natural progression of a fruitful partnership. Not dissimilar to such past Marsalis projects as the Jelly Roll Morton album Mr. Jelly Lord, the album features Marsalis in various small-group settings along with such longtime Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra regulars as drummer Herlin Riley, pianist Eric Lewis, saxophonist Wessell Anderson, bassist Reginald Veal, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and others, including guitarist Doug Wamble, who adds his unique blend of old-time blues, folk, and jazz to Marsalis' own signature updating of '20s and '30s jazz. Although four previously released tracks appear here, two off Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord and two from Marsalis' Reeltime, the majority of the album is newly recorded and all of it sounds of a piece. Ironically, Marsalis' deepest musical influence and aesthetic nemesis, trumpeter Miles Davis, also recorded an album for a film about the troubled boxing champ Johnson, 1970's fusion classic Tribute to Jack Johnson. However, where Davis' album seemed to reflect the counterculture and Black Power movements of the time, Marsalis is more traditionally cinematic in his approach, with each track evoking the pride, urbanity, strength, and tragedy of the legendary Johnson.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 22, 2020, 08:35:31 AM
Quote from: hvbias on March 21, 2020, 12:52:28 PM
What recordings do you like of John Gilmore outside of Sun Ra (I am a huge fan of Ra)? The only one I've heard is Blowin' In From Chicago, a mediocre play for pay session.
Only things I can recommend offhand are Andrew Hill's Andrew!!! and Compulsion!!!!! and Pete LaRoca's Turkish Women at the Bath.
There's a Paul Bley album Turning Point which is supposed to be excellent, but it's hard to find and I haven't heard it.
I've heard good and bad things about Blowin' in from Chicago, never bothered to listen.
Gilmore was with Art Blakey's group for a short while in the '60s, but I don't know what recordings exist.
Allmusic shows credits with McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Reese and Freddie Hubbard, but I don't know any details.

And since I spent so much time editing my various senior moment mistakes, might as well add current listening:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 23, 2020, 07:40:08 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 23, 2020, 07:50:01 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 23, 2020, 07:40:08 AM
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A perfect album for right now!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 23, 2020, 08:10:00 AM
Quote from: George on March 23, 2020, 07:50:01 AM
A perfect album for right now!

IMO, it is a perfect album, period.  But, yes, especially so right now.  I listen to it, probably, at least once a month.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on March 23, 2020, 12:07:46 PM
Quote from: T. D. on March 22, 2020, 08:35:31 AM
Only things I can recommend offhand are Andrew Hill's Andrew!!! and Compulsion!!!!! and Pete LaRoca's Turkish Women at the Bath.
There's a Paul Bley album Turning Point which is supposed to be excellent, but it's hard to find and I haven't heard it.
I've heard good and bad things about Blowin' in from Chicago, never bothered to listen.
Gilmore was with Art Blakey's group for a short while in the '60s, but I don't know what recordings exist.
Allmusic shows credits with McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Reese and Freddie Hubbard, but I don't know any details.

And since I spent so much time editing my various senior moment mistakes, might as well add current listening:
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I did forget about those Andrew Hill albums, great albums. I've never heard Turkish Women at the Bath but I've been meaning to for a while, Basra is a top BN for me. I'm a huge fan of Destination Out and Evolution as well! I was listening to Some Other Stuff not too long ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 26, 2020, 12:47:05 PM
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Another great mastering by Alan Yoshida.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 27, 2020, 08:09:46 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 28, 2020, 08:19:35 PM
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Levee Low Moan, Vol. 3 of Soul Gestures in Southern Blue.  Fantastic.

QuoteA blues cycle for quintet and sextet that, as Wynton says of the title track to THICK IN THE SOUTH, comprises "a condition, a location, an attitude, a pulchritudinous proposition, and an occurrence," SOUL GESTURES IN SOUTHERN BLUE ranges through the full glory of the blues tradition. Among other things, it introduces us to the Uptown Ruler, a mythic New Orleans hero whose "persona is obviously multifaceted," Wynton remarks, because he is "accepted without question in the houses of worship . . . [and] ill repute." Most of all, the cycle reveals the complex human message of the low moaning blues that echoes in the foghorn of a riverboat, the lament of a spiritual, or the simmering dishes of a home cooked meal. The performers include Marcus Roberts on piano, Bob Hurst or Reginald Veal on bass, Jeff "Tain" Watts or Herlin Riley on drums, Todd Williams and Wes Anderson on saxophones, and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, with special appearances, on THICK IN THE SOUTH, by two of jazz's greatest virtuosos, drummer Elvin Jones and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.

The compositions are excellent, the improvisations are wonderful and the recorded sound of the instruments is first rate.  You can't ask for more.

The three volumes of this series are mandatory for anyone wishing to hear the state of art of jazz in the late 20th century.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 29, 2020, 11:48:56 AM
Sweet Release & Ghost Story : Two Ballets by Wynton Marsalis

Written for Judith Jamison's choreography for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, SWEET RELEASE tells the story of a man and a woman, represented by the trombone and trumpet, and the temptations that threaten their romance. GHOST STORY was written for a small ensemble – Ted Nash on reeds, Eric Lewis on piano, Carlito Henriquez or Rodney Whitaker on bass, and Jaz Sawyer on drums – to serve as a score for choreography by Zhong Mei Li.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 29, 2020, 02:28:33 PM
Going to spin a lot of the All Monk complete Riverside box, starting with
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 29, 2020, 04:13:39 PM
Quote from: T. D. on March 29, 2020, 02:28:33 PM
Going to spin a lot of the All Monk complete Riverside box, starting with
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Great stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 31, 2020, 11:29:12 AM
Such Sweet Thunder is a Duke Ellington album, released in 1957. The record is a twelve-part suite based on the works of William Shakespeare.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 31, 2020, 12:11:06 PM
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Black, Brown and Beige - Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Wynton Marsalis, dir.

It is so valuable to have this recording of the original work.  The score was meticulously assembled from Ellington's original manuscript score, the 1943 Carnegie Hall live recording, and existing parts from both the 1943 and the 1956 recording.  The performance documented on this recording has to be treated as definitive, despite the existence of a decent recording of the 1943 recording, the sound on this CD is vastly superior.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on March 31, 2020, 08:51:16 PM
Quote from: George on March 26, 2020, 12:47:05 PM
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Another great mastering by Alan Yoshida.
Quote from: San Antone on March 23, 2020, 07:40:08 AM
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   30+ years ago I had these back to back on a cassette, and I played it nearly every day on a cassette deck with non-stop play back. I often put it in when I went to bed and let it play all night...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 01, 2020, 06:27:28 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on March 31, 2020, 08:51:16 PM
   30+ years ago I had these back to back on a cassette, and I played it nearly every day on a cassette deck with non-stop play back. I often put it in when I went to bed and let it play all night...

Nice!

Ohhh, cassettes, you're taking me back. When people ask, are you from the vinyl or CD generation, I always proudly say I am from the cassette generation.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2020, 01:57:17 PM
My most-played cassette was a C90 I made with the Round Midnight soundtrack on side one and the second "The Other Side Of Round Midnight" on side two.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 01, 2020, 02:22:58 PM
Lester Young with Count Basie : The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940) Vol. 1

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Excellent 4 volume collection
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on April 01, 2020, 04:07:28 PM
Quote from: San Antone on March 23, 2020, 07:40:08 AM
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One of my favorites. I just gave it a spin on the turntable the other day.
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Post by: T. D. on April 01, 2020, 04:52:54 PM
Lester Bowie, The Great Pretender
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Avant Pop and I Only Have Eyes For You
from
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 01, 2020, 05:00:22 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on April 01, 2020, 04:07:28 PM
One of my favorites. I just gave it a spin on the turntable the other day.

I listen to it regularly.  I watched a film about the making of the record and Herbie Hancock considers it on the same standing as a Beethoven symphony, or other classical masterpieces, and people will be listening to it 200 years from now.  I must say I agree with him.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2020, 05:01:19 PM
Quote from: T. D. on April 01, 2020, 04:52:54 PM
Lester Bowie, The Great Pretender
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, Avant Pop and I Only Have Eyes For You
from
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Woah. Is that reissued material or new stuff from the vaults?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 01, 2020, 05:12:33 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 01, 2020, 05:01:19 PM
Woah. Is that reissued material or new stuff from the vaults?
Reissued material, much of it not formally under AEC name (Bowie, Smith, De Johnette, Mitchell as leaders plus an Evan Parker title). Box came out in late 2018 iirc.
I saw the AEC live a couple of times in the 1974-80 time range but owned very few recordings (and few on ECM in general), so purchased the set. There are some discs I don't love and will rarely play, but more than enough material I enjoy to make it worthwhile.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 02, 2020, 02:48:51 PM
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QuoteMusic and paintings share so many characteristics – textures, colors, layers, line, form, shape – and when these two art forms come together, they create a bold new medium. Jazz and Art, the latest studio album from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, lets listeners experience that transcendent combination firsthand through seven imaginative works from celebrated composers. Taking inspiration from artists like Romare Bearden, Piet Mondrian, and Stuart Davis, the Orchestra constructs elaborate, evocative soundscapes that joyously explore the act of creation. Wynton Marsalis Website (https://wyntonmarsalis.org/discography/title/jazz-and-art)

As is usually the case, the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis has released an excellent recording featuring great soloing, band arrangements and original compositions by a talented variety of musicians.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Stuart Davis for the Masses: The Mellow Pad - For Stuart Davis
Written & Arranged by Doug Wamble
Solo: Vincent Gardner (trombone)

2. Stuart Davis for the Masses: Garage Lights - For Stuart Davis
Written & Arranged by Doug Wamble
Solo: Marcus Printup (trumpet), Sherman Irby (alto saxophone)

3. Stuart Davis for the Masses: New York - For Stuart Davis
Written & Arranged by Doug Wamble
Solo: Dan Nimmer (piano)

4. Blue Twirl - For Sam Gilliam
Written & Arranged by Vincent Gardner
Solo: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Ted Nash (alto saxophone), Elliot Mason (trombone)

5. Bearden (The Block) - For Romare Bearden
Written & Arranged by Chris Crenshaw
Solo: Dan Nimmer (piano), Victor Goines (tenor saxophone)

6. Air, Earth, Fire, Water (Orisha Medley) - For Wifredo Lam
Written & Arranged by Papo Vasquez
Solo: Papo Vazquez (trombone), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)

7. Winslow Homer: Homer's Waltz - For Winslow Homer
Written by Bill Frisell
Arranged by Andy Farber
Solo: Walter Blanding (tenor saxophone)

8. Winslow Homer: Homer's Blues - For Winslow Homer
Written by Bill Frisell
Arranged by Andy Farber
Solo: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Walter Blanding (tenor saxophone), Dan Nimmer (piano)

9. The Repose in All Things - For Piet Mondrian
Written & Arranged by Tim Armacost
Solo: Sherman Irby (alto saxophone), Ryan Kisor (trumpet)

10. Twilight Sounds - For Norman Lewis
Written & Arranged by Sherman Irby
Solo: Victor Goines (bass clarinet), Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)

Personnel:

THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

REEDS
Sherman Irby (alto saxophone, clarinet, and flute)
Ted Nash (alto saxophone, clarinet, and flute)
Victor Goines (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and clarinet)
Walter Blanding (tenor saxophone)
Joe Temperley (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet)

TRUMPETS
Ryan Kisor
Marcus Printup
Kenny Rampton
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet and vocals

TROMBONES
Vincent Gardner
Chris Crenshaw
Elliot Mason

RHYTHM SECTION
Dan Nimmer, piano
Carlos Henriquez, bass
Ali Jackson, drums and tambourine

Special Guests:
Papo Vazquez, trombone
Iwao Sado, Batá drums
Xavier Rivera, Batá drums
Anthony Carrillo, Batá drums

Executive Producer: Wynton Marsalis
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 02, 2020, 03:29:19 PM
(https://wyntonmarsalis.org/images/made/images/discography/_resized/Bolden-cover_1000x1000_600_600_90_s_c1.jpg)

Eighty-three WM albums listed in his Wikipedia discography 1982-2018, not including this one, and not including sideman work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 02, 2020, 03:50:11 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 02, 2020, 03:29:19 PM
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Eighty-three WM albums listed in his Wikipedia discography 1982-2018, not including this one, and not including sideman work.

That one is the soundtrack for the 2019 film: "The soundtrack is made up of 26 tracks, including Marsalis originals, songs associated with Bolden and his musical descendant Louis Armstrong. Marsalis led recording sessions in New York City with the trumpeter joined by Ali Jackson (drums), Brianna Thomas (vocals), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Catherine Russell (vocals), Dan Nimmer (piano), Don Vappie (guitar, vocals), Julie Bruskin (cello), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Michael White (Bb clarinet), Reno Wilson (vocals), Sherman Irby (alto saxophone), Ted Nash (alto saxophone, clarinet), Victor Goines (alto saxophone, clarinet, C clarinet), Vincent Gardner (slide trombone, valve trombone), Walter Blanding (tenor saxophone, clarinet) and Wycliffe Gordon (slide trombone, valve trombone)."

It is included in his discography on his website.  While I did not think the film was very good, at least IMO, the music on that record is excellent.

TD

The Abyssinian Mass

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JLCO with Wynton Marsalis and Chorale Le Chateau

QuoteIn 2008 Wynton Marsalis was commissioned to write a piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. The result was a sacred celebration: a sweeping composition for a big band and 70-piece gospel choir. In 2013, award-winning recording artist Damien Sneed and his choir, Chorale Le Chateau, joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for a 16-city, 19-concert tour across the South that took the musicians into deep dialogue with the African American tradition. Now, The Abyssinian Mass—Marsalis's first original recorded composition in six years—documents this piece's immense power to make audiences clap their hands and sing along to its joyous spirituality, its profound swing, and its bluesy swagger.
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Post by: T. D. on April 02, 2020, 05:17:20 PM
Continuing from yesterday,
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 03, 2020, 06:36:29 AM
Marsalis Plays Monk - Standard Time, Vol. 4

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QuoteJust as Thelonious Monk remains the most modern of jazz composers some twenty years after his death, so Wynton found inspiration for playing his music in the groundbreaking, and still avant-garde, music that Louis Armstrong created with his 1927 and 1928 jazz orchestras. Both Armstrong and Monk were artists of great surprise. On the evidence here – provocative interpretations of "Evidence," "Let's Cool One," "Brilliant Corners," and other Monk masterpieces – there's no doubt that Wynton is, too. Website (https://wyntonmarsalis.org/discography/title/marsalis-plays-monk)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 03, 2020, 10:32:00 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 03, 2020, 10:54:48 AM
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I. Q. makes an excellent cameo appearance on one tune (Deep in a dream) of the Sonny Clark release.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 04, 2020, 05:50:14 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 05, 2020, 07:35:19 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 04, 2020, 05:50:14 PM
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Whoa, two giants! A classic recording.
Recent and planned listening for today:
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I purchased the latter on a complete flyer, but it's one of the very best BS/SN boxes I've heard.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 06, 2020, 06:54:31 AM
Kandace Springs - The Women Who Raised Me

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Singer and pianist Kandace Springs — whose soulful singing led her late mentor Prince to praise her "voice that can melt snow" — has announced her newest project, The Women Who Raised Me, out March 27 on Blue Note Records. Produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock) — who produced Springs' 2016 debut Soul Eyes — The Women Who Raised Me is a tribute album to the female vocalists who most impacted Springs' music, stylings, and journey.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 06, 2020, 06:56:39 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 06, 2020, 06:54:31 AM
Kandace Springs - The Women Who Raised Me

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Wow! A new Kandace album?  :-*
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 06, 2020, 06:57:38 AM
Quote from: George on April 06, 2020, 06:56:39 AM
Wow! A new Kandace album?  :-*

Yep - landed about a week ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 06, 2020, 10:04:31 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 06, 2020, 06:57:38 AM
Yep - landed about a week ago.

Cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 08, 2020, 05:47:00 PM
Over a couple of days:
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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71LhAM1HJEL._SX425_.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/yY4EsiJEg7S0NnOSjdigu1Ckjvo=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-10689354-1502456389-7431.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 09, 2020, 06:25:51 AM
Random bit of news: 82-year-old bassist Reggie Workman has just won a Guggenheim Fellowship!

Last night first time listening to Thelonious Monk's complete sessions for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Luxurious packaging and notations. Barney Wilen doesn't get to improvise much at all, but when he plays he sounds like Coleman Hawkins Jr.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 09, 2020, 07:31:56 AM
Quote from: Brian on April 09, 2020, 06:25:51 AM
Random bit of news: 82-year-old bassist Reggie Workman has just won a Guggenheim Fellowship!

Last night first time listening to Thelonious Monk's complete sessions for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". Luxurious packaging and notations. Barney Wilen doesn't get to improvise much at all, but when he plays he sounds like Coleman Hawkins Jr.

You reminded me I need to listen to some Monk.   8)  I am happy hearing the news about Reggie Workman.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2020, 03:50:46 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Don%27t_Look_Away_Now%21.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Boppin%27_%26_Burnin%27.jpg/220px-Boppin%27_%26_Burnin%27.jpg)

James Moody - Don't Look Away Now (1969)
Don Patterson - Bopin and Burnin (1968)

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Pat Martino - Baiyina, The Clear Evidence: A psychedelic excursion through the magical mysteries of the Koran (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 11, 2020, 11:38:52 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 11, 2020, 12:19:34 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on April 11, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
I'm a big fan of Cecil Taylor, so I,m listening to all the notes album , wich is 3 improvisations, very good stuuf, not to mention also Great Paris Live!!

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on April 11, 2020, 12:42:06 PM
Quote from: deprofundis on April 11, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
I'm a big fan of Cecil Taylor, so I,m listening to all the notes album , wich is 3 improvisations, very good stuuf, not to mention also Great Paris Live!!

8)

Huge fan here as well  8) Do you have a favorite album? I think mine would have to be Unit Structures.

I've had Coltrane in my heavy rotation this last week, finished listening to Live at Temple University earlier.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 11, 2020, 12:47:38 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2020, 02:30:12 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/AlCohn.jpg/220px-AlCohn.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ySSuPEtXBn-tI-e4OAT3xgRyJt8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-372767-1327361593.jpeg.jpg)

Al Cohn - Al Cohn's America (1976)
Art Blakey - Orgy In Rhythm Volume 1 (1957)

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John Wright - South Side Soul (1960)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 11, 2020, 04:01:04 PM
As Ellington put it, the art is not in the categories, but "in the cooking."

Quote from: SimonNZ on April 11, 2020, 02:30:12 PM
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At first glance I thought you had posted a jazz recording by Groucho Marx.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 11, 2020, 04:13:57 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 11, 2020, 04:01:04 PM
As Ellington put it, the art is not in the categories, but "in the cooking."

At first glance I thought you had posted a jazz recording by Groucho Marx.

:D ...Many of those old Xanadu titles are excellent. Barry Harris, one of my favorites, was practically the label's house pianist.
Speaking of Al Cohn, he can (surprisingly) be heard on this classical recording:
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Now listening:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2020, 05:25:29 PM
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Walt Dickerson - Jazz Impressions Of Lawrence Of Arabia (1963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on April 12, 2020, 01:31:00 AM
Quote from: hvbias on April 11, 2020, 12:42:06 PM
Huge fan here as well  8) Do you have a favorite album? I think mine would have to be Unit Structures.

I've had Coltrane in my heavy rotation this last week, finished listening to Live at Temple University earlier.

A favorite hmm Jeez likek em all, but The Great Paris Live  is probably my favorite of all, I do like also more recently Arthur Doyle and his Quiet Screamers, this remind me of captain Beefheart in a way, but more Jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 12, 2020, 06:26:43 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 12, 2020, 09:30:53 AM
Just what I needed this morning:
Miles Kind of Blue
Jeff Beck Emotion and Commotion
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 12, 2020, 11:03:19 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 12, 2020, 12:56:35 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 12, 2020, 05:20:05 PM
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Lester Young with Count Basie : The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940)

Four volume collection that came out in 2017.  May only be downloads/streaming, but the music is great as is the production.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 12, 2020, 06:23:06 PM
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Among the best Ellington collections.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 12, 2020, 07:30:50 PM
Quote from: San Antone on April 12, 2020, 06:23:06 PM
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Among the best Ellington collections.

I loved it so much, I bought it's 24 CD big brother last year:

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https://www.allmusic.com/album/centennial-edition-complete-rca-victor-recordings-1927-1973-mw0000602902

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2020, 07:52:48 PM
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Charles McPherson - The Quintet/Live! (1967)
Pat Martino - East! (1968)

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Eric Kloss - To Hear Is To See! (1969)

they did like their exclamation marks...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 13, 2020, 02:02:36 AM
Quote from: George on April 12, 2020, 07:30:50 PM
I loved it so much, I bought it's 24 CD big brother last year:

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https://www.allmusic.com/album/centennial-edition-complete-rca-victor-recordings-1927-1973-mw0000602902

I got that, maybe 12-15 years ago, via file sharing (which I also haven't done in about that long). Great set, but hard to find, and usually very expensive.  Another great set of recordings are the Carnegie Hall concerts, 1943-1947.  There are four 2CD releases, which have decent sound and include some real gems, like the only complete original Black, Brown and Beige (which Ellington never played/recorded complete again) in the 1943 twofer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 13, 2020, 05:00:33 AM
The Glenn Miller Band, "Opus One"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 14, 2020, 04:33:39 PM
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Cheapo (UA) version of Complete Riverside box. I was listening to the first half a couple of weeks ago, now going for some of the later discs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 14, 2020, 06:19:05 PM
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Dexter Gordon with Junior Mance at Montreux (1970)
Walt Dickerson - Unity (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 15, 2020, 03:01:34 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 15, 2020, 03:12:25 AM
^huh. Don't think I've ever heard of that one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 15, 2020, 03:33:53 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 15, 2020, 03:12:25 AM
^huh. Don't think I've ever heard of that one.

An extended composition about which The New York Times had this to say:

QuoteThe "Deep South Suite" is an exceptional work from 1946. It's easy to hear why Ellington never played it much; it's dissonant and intense. Why he never recorded it is more of a mystery, except that Ellington occasionally abandoned works in the rush to complete the next piece. The suite was, for the time, extremely modern and self-consciously American, with train motifs filtering through its four sections. The second section, "Hearsay," experiments with cross-fertilization, mixing a ballad with a gorgeous Ellingtonian (or Strayhorn) melody, melancholic and heavy, with almost metallic dissonances in the reeds. And the final section, "Happy Go Lucky Local" -- best known in its translation as a rhythm-and-blues tune, "Night Train" -- is a masterpiece of talking trumpets blending with riffs and gleaming dissonances.

The recording I posted is a compilation of various live performances.

Another great Ellington long form work is Reminiscing in Tempo - which is hard to find.  Written for his mother, and panned by John Hammond among others, he rarely it played afterwards.  It has since come to be appreciated as much better than originally thought.

It is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/v/nb0SrmxExDw

Released on four 78s, I don't think it was ever re-recorded, but can be found on a couple of compilation CDs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 15, 2020, 02:25:20 PM
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Bought this some years ago. Didn't meet expectations for whatever reason and I more or less forgot about it after a couple of listens. Giving the set another spin.
[Added] Enjoying it much more this go-round, fortunately.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 16, 2020, 05:08:51 PM
R.I.P. Lee Konitz
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Posted this recently, but will listen again to the fabulous session with Konitz, Tristano, Gene Ramey and Art Taylor, The Sing Song Room, Confucius Restaurant, NYC, 6/11/55
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 16, 2020, 05:10:41 PM
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Ellington's take on Shakespeare
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 16, 2020, 05:38:43 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: XB-70 Valkyrie on April 16, 2020, 09:43:51 PM
Was largely unfamiliar with Mary Lou Williams until I received this a few days ago. WOW!!!

Mary Lou Williams Nite Life

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 17, 2020, 05:49:33 PM
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Mingus Atlantic box (Rhino)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 17, 2020, 06:37:20 PM
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Mingus Atlantic box (Rhino)

A good box set:

- Pithecanthropu Erectus (1956)
- The Clown (1957)
- Blues And Roots (1959)
- Mingus At Antibes (1960)
- Tonight at Noon (1961)
- Oh Yeah (1962)

Three of those are among his best work.  But his Impulse (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus & Black Saint and Sinner Lady) and Columbia (Ah Um, Tijuana Moods, Let My Children Hear Music) recordings are necessary to complete the picture.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 17, 2020, 06:47:43 PM
Yeah, the only one of those I lack is Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus; dunno why, since I never met an Impulse! release I didn't like... Also have a few others: Great Concert, the Mosaic Jazz Workshop 64-65 and a strange French release Pithycanthropus Erectus. I even read his autobiography Beneath the Underdog, which is on the unusual side and not likely to be to everyone's taste, as well as the more orthodox Krin Gabbard bio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 17, 2020, 06:58:49 PM
Quote from: T. D. on April 17, 2020, 06:47:43 PM
Yeah, the only one of those I lack is Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus; dunno why, since I never met an Impulse! release I didn't like... Also have a few others: Great Concert, the Mosaic Jazz Workshop 64-65 and a strange French release Pithycanthropus Erectus. I even read his autobiography Beneath the Underdog, which is on the unusual side.

I bought Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus when it first came out, mainly because of the cover art, and realized that he was someone I wanted to hear as many of his recordings as I could get my hands on.  His stuff after Let My Children Hear Music is spotty - but the two Changes albums are worthwhile, although I thought the recorded acoustic was a little bland.

Mingus is among my top five jazz artists - a major composer/arranger/bandleader - not to mention bass player.  I read Beneath the Underdog a long time ago and thought it was self-indulgent to the point of exhaustion.  Except for very few jazz autobiographies, I avoid them.  Louis Armstrong was an amazing writer, though, and his two books are well-worth reading.  Duke Ellington's Music is My Mistress is pretty good as well.  Mezz Mezzrow's book, Really the Blues, is a classic of the genre.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 17, 2020, 07:04:09 PM
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Nice to have all the extras and alternate takes from, arguably, his strongest period.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 17, 2020, 07:09:16 PM
I'm not qualified to rank jazz artists, but Mingus is certainly near my very top. I'm highly ambivalent about his personality, but he did bring a passion to his music that gave it tremendous impact. I should hear more of his early Debut material, but there's "so much music, so little time...".

Jazz autobiographies are definitely high-risk. I enjoy the "warts and all" ones, of which Hampton Hawes's Raise up off me and Art Pepper's Straight Life are IMO classic. I don't regret reading Mingus's, but agree on the self-indulgence and frankly skimmed through the second half at warp speed just to get it over with.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on April 17, 2020, 07:12:25 PM
Hmm, the only Mingus I have is Ah Um, and that didn't click for me. Is there a better place to start with him? That 1959 set you just posted, perhaps?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 17, 2020, 07:57:59 PM
Ah Um is probably the best starting point honestly. It's a good introduction to his soundworld's placement between Ellington big band luxury and divinely inspired improvisatory chaos. The freedom he gives his players in such tightly wound charts is a thing of fascination to me. I think he's as close as an improv band player ever got to being a modernist composer at the same time. But Ah Um has some super catchy accessible stuff.

My intro to Mingus was Tijuana Moods, which is so personal and so weird and so out-of-nowhere insane that listening to it my first thought was "I'm so glad nobody else is here." It certainly would decide if you like him or not!

Mingus x5 is a great album but very mixed. Some of the cuts are remakes of previous tunes (including a couple from Ah Um) but with higher energy and virtuosity. Others are really weird modernist essays...like imagine if Bartok tried to write a ballad.

Blues and Roots is probably the single most accessible of his albums I think. It's all his wild riffs on the classic blues. There is some fun fun stuff in there. If you don't like it don't try more Mingus.

Is it you who I recommended the Mingus-Ellington-Roach trio album to and then you didn't like it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 17, 2020, 08:19:41 PM
I'd say jump straight into the deep end with Black Saint And The Sinner Lady.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 17, 2020, 08:45:55 PM
Been catching up on some Steve Lacy recordings that I have but never heard.

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Of these, the middle two impressed me more. Evidence is relatively early, from 1962, a piano-less quartet with Cherry, Carl Brown (who?), and Billy Higgins; its only drawback is that it's brief (even for a recording from the LP days): about 34 minutes. The 5 x Monk, recorded live in 1994, is one of his many solo recordings, the title being of course a tribute to Monk's own 5 x Monk x 5 album from 1959: here it's five Monk tunes followed by five of Lacy's - a bit of a risk, one would think, following five of the master's compositions with five of his own, instead of intermingling them as one might expect, but Lacy's own pieces stand up quite well. He was a master too, after all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 18, 2020, 04:45:11 AM
Quote from: JBS on April 17, 2020, 07:12:25 PM
Hmm, the only Mingus I have is Ah Um, and that didn't click for me. Is there a better place to start with him? That 1959 set you just posted, perhaps?

If you didn't care for Ah Um, the 1959 "complete" sessions is more of the same.  The other recording from 1959, Mingus Dynasty, is a very good album, less famous than Ah Um.

I agree with Brian, if Ah Um did not do it for you, Mingus may not be your cup of tea.  But before giving up, try Let My Children Hear Music. It might be more interesting to you since it features orchestral music written by Mingus, and has less of the hardness of his smaller groups.

One more thought about Ah Um - "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is as good as jazz composing gets, IMO.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 18, 2020, 01:22:51 PM
After hearing Bud Powell on Mingus at Antibes, had to spin some of this:
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[Added] Money Jungle is a really strange recording, and Mingus's playing is the weirdest thing about it. My first reaction upon purchase (which was blind, based on personnel alone) was "WTF"? I've gotten to kind of like it, but don't listen frequently.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on April 18, 2020, 05:35:17 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 17, 2020, 07:57:59 PM

Is it you who I recommended the Mingus-Ellington-Roach trio album to and then you didn't like it?

Thanks to all three of you. Yes, that was me. But with three headliners, there's several ways to spread the blame on that one.

Best thing is before I do anything, I need to break out Ah Um again and give it another chance. It's been a few years since I played it last.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on April 19, 2020, 02:58:44 AM
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Pat Metheny: Question And Answer (1990)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 19, 2020, 03:57:32 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 19, 2020, 06:23:23 PM
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SACD

Mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 20, 2020, 10:24:18 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 20, 2020, 11:31:28 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 21, 2020, 06:02:31 AM
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Black, Brown and Beige was at the time of its debut Ellington's most misunderstood and under appreciated work.  The 1943 Carnegie Hall Concert live recording presents the work in its only Ellington-led complete form.  But after the initial critical trashing of the work he performed it once more, and then removed it from his band's book except for the song "Come Sunday", a feature for Johnny Hodges, or less often as a female vocal number. Fifteen years would pass before Ellington would again attempt to record the work in some kind of complete fashion, but he cut the "Beige" movement entirely, and re-wrote parts of "Black" and "Brown".  That album featured Mahalia Jackson, and despite the abridged nature of the recording it is still an important document of this work.

More than six decades would pass before Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra would present the work in its original form, with orchestrations meticulously re-created from the original Ellington manuscript (which was more of a sketch), an almost complete set of instrumental parts and filling in the gaps with transcriptions of the 1943 recording.  Despite this recording's somewhat fragile provenance, this recording which was released in 2020, from a live concert in 2018, presents the work in SOTA sound, performed by by musicians who revere Ellington's style and have the chops to execute the music as it was intended.  This recording along and the 1943 concert bookend the other less important recordings.

There are two other quasi complete recordings, one an orchestral version released on Naxos (2013) and one by the Claude Bolling Jazz Orchestra (1990) - but both of these have interpretive problems.

The Naxos recording by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra led by JoAnn Falletta is edited down to about 18 minutes from the 45 minute work and presents the music in a strait-laced performance by an orchestra that ignores the jazz nature of the work.  This recording is valuable for the inclusion of three of Ellington's other long form works, Harlem, Three Black Kings and The River Suite (arr. R. Collier for orchestra), which I do not think appear on any other recordings.  But I take these performances with a grain of salt since the ensemble is attempting to play them in a fashion unintended, and probably undesired, by Ellington.

While Claude Bolling's group is made up of jazz players, and it constitutes a noble effort, Bolling's recording was nullified by the release of the work by the JALC band.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 21, 2020, 03:39:48 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 21, 2020, 03:52:54 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 21, 2020, 05:52:13 PM
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Finally had time to get around to this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 21, 2020, 06:03:54 PM
Quote from: George on April 21, 2020, 05:52:13 PM
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Finally had time to get around to this.

Close to my favorite of the "Complete" boxes; On The Corner Complete might edge it out, but I love them both.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on April 22, 2020, 04:43:15 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 21, 2020, 06:03:54 PM
Close to my favorite of the "Complete" boxes; On The Corner Complete might edge it out, but I love them both.

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That would be my view too. This box seems interesting.
I have some second quintet series. I like them too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on April 22, 2020, 04:55:46 AM
Quote from: Dowder on April 22, 2020, 04:45:40 AM
Sun Ra, Atlantis

Bought quite a lot Sun Ra some time ago. Atlantis I have only on mp3, but I haven't given it a serious listen yet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 22, 2020, 11:21:43 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 22, 2020, 04:16:21 PM
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Excellent!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 23, 2020, 07:39:53 PM
Still traversing some Lacy: as the cover indicates, another of his solo recordings.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 24, 2020, 01:34:15 AM
Jack Teagarden : King Of The Blues Trombone

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A beautiful collection (originally a 3LP box) of early important work from Jack Teagarden. Teagarden's trombone work is amazing – the sort that set the tone for countless players to come – and there's also a lot of warmth and wit in the recordings as well. 48 tracks in all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 24, 2020, 01:58:18 AM
Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on April 24, 2020, 05:03:08 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 24, 2020, 01:58:18 AM
Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder


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Nice!

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 24, 2020, 08:30:52 AM
Quote from: San Antone on April 24, 2020, 05:03:08 AM

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Nice!

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Yes, very nice indeed.
There is a friend of mine who listens to such music of an evening in his music room and always attempts to mellow the mood even more with a glass or two [strictly no more] of whiskey. Me, I am of a more sober inclination  ;D
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 24, 2020, 12:48:11 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 24, 2020, 08:30:52 AM
Yes, very nice indeed.
There is a friend of mine who listens to such music of an evening in his music room and always attempts to mellow the mood even more with a glass or two [strictly no more] of whiskey. Me, I am of a more sober inclination  ;D

You may already be familiar with much of Duke Ellington's music, but if you wish to explore more Ellington, I'd suggest the suites.  I'd start with The Far East, Latin American and New Orleans suites.  But then there's some lesser known ones: The River, Harlem, The Degas Suite, The Queen's Suite, The Goutelas Suite, The Uwis Suite, and The Deep South Suite - and maybe others I can't think of right now.

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Post by: Old San Antone on April 24, 2020, 01:54:35 PM
A classic Ellington session with Louis Armstrong.

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The original mono recordings.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 25, 2020, 01:52:23 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on April 24, 2020, 12:48:11 PM
You may already be familiar with much of Duke Ellington's music, but if you wish to explore more Ellington, I'd suggest the suites.  I'd start with The Far East, Latin American and New Orleans suites.  But then there's some lesser known ones: The River, Harlem, The Degas Suite, The Queen's Suite, The Goutelas Suite, The Uwis Suite, and The Deep South Suite - and maybe others I can't think of right now.

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I am always grateful for recommendations from a Newbie  ;)
I also have the New Orleans suites but I did not realise that there were so many more. Thank you again.
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 25, 2020, 05:44:22 AM
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While I knew of its existence I've never listened to this stage work by Ellington before, except in scattered excerpts.  I read recently that although Ellington officially gave three sacred concerts, in reality My People and even Black, Brown & Beige can be seen as related works i.e. a continuation of Ellington's expression of his spiritual concerns, and all share musical sections.
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Post by: Alek Hidell on April 25, 2020, 02:38:29 PM
Speaking of suites, here's some fantastic late-period Duke (it's not explicitly called a suite like some of the others, but as you can see on the cover, it's "a suite in eight parts"):

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Post by: George on April 25, 2020, 03:07:14 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on April 25, 2020, 04:05:57 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on April 25, 2020, 02:38:29 PM
Speaking of suites, here's some fantastic late-period Duke (it's not explicitly called a suite like some of the others, but as you can see on the cover, it's "a suite in eight parts"):

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I had forgotten about that one, I do consider it a suite, and it is usually included in a list of them.  Thanks.  It is also very good music. 

Quote from: George on April 25, 2020, 03:07:14 PM
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One of the best jazz recordings.  Enjoy.  1959 saw that one come out, as well as Kind of Blue - it was a very good year for jazz.

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Post by: Old San Antone on April 26, 2020, 06:02:21 PM
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The album features recordings of Ellington's orchestra with the Paris Symphony Orchestra, the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and the La Scala Symphony Orchestra.  The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and stated "With most of his all-star soloists heard from in this program and a complete avoidance of trying to make his music sound so-called "respectable" or self-consciously third stream, Ellington's arrangements keep the strings from weighing down the proceedings and the music is actually quite successful".
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 28, 2020, 05:41:05 PM
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Bunk, Bocage & Bechet
Bunk Johnson, Sidney Bechet, Peter Bocage, Ray Parker, George Thompson, George 'Pops' Foster

Only Bechet is playing at a high level, but despite the flaws, this series of 12 CDs is worth hearing since it captures three of New Orleans greatest musicians from the definitive period.
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 30, 2020, 06:13:45 AM
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Vocalist Bessie Smith's musical career, spanning 1923-33, has been collected in a 2012 10-CD box set, Bessie Smith: The Complete Columbia Recordings.

As a live performer, Smith was famous for bellowing to a theater's back rows and balcony. But by the later 1920s, she'd learned how to use the recording studio. She could lower the volume without diminishing her power. This is the Bessie Smith who influenced the young Billie Holiday, whose own early sides a few years later have a similar playful quality.

QuoteWhen Columbia issued the first of the five volumes in Bessie Smith's complete recordings series in 1991 -- as a logical follow-up to 1990's wildly successful Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings box -- they were simply hoping for another hit. As the Smith series continued through to its conclusion in 1996, each volume was greeted with more enthusiasm than the last. These volumes eventually went out of print in the 21st century and left a void in her catalog. As part of its Complete Recordings series, Sony Legacy has repackaged those five volumes in a compact, handsome, justly priced ten-disc box. Each double-disc is given its own gatefold, LP-styled sleeve, and its tracks replicate the chronology of the original sets. This box contains a liner essay by musical historian, archivist, and writer Ken Romanowski and features full discographical annotation.

These recordings cover a decade-long span from 1923-1933, when Smith was a million-plus-selling artist who was justly dubbed, "Empress of the Blues," and almost singlehandedly created a mass market for blues recordings in the United States. While the general populace will be familiar with her hits such as "Empty Bed Blues," "T'Ain Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do," "St. Louis Blues," "A Little Sugar in My Bowl," and many others recorded by other artists, most blues aficionados regard these original recorded performances as definitive versions. Just as importantly, Smith's accompaniment reads like a who's-who of some of the most legendary names in the early history of jazz. They include Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Chu Berry, Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden, Clarence Williams, and many others. Disc nine contains the music from the 1929 biographical short film St. Louis Blues, and session outtakes and alternates. The final disc contains a fascinating, often hilarious interview by Chris Albertson with Ruby Smith (Smith's niece by marriage and a fine blues singer in her own right) about the life and adventures of Bessie. While it's true that there isn't anything here that hasn't been released before, this set is of great musical and historical value; it's essential for any blues enthusiast who didn't purchase the original sets.  [AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek (https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-columbia-recordings-mw0002410207)]
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 30, 2020, 11:00:29 AM
Kenny Burrell - 2 Guitars

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    Kenny Burrell – guitar (tracks 1-6; KB with just rhythm section on 4)
    Jimmy Raney – guitar (tracks 1-3, 5-7; JR with just rhythm section on 7)
    Donald Byrd – trumpet (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
    Jackie McLean – alto saxophone (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6)
    Mal Waldron – piano
    Doug Watkins – bass
    Art Taylor – drums
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Post by: Old San Antone on April 30, 2020, 05:52:01 PM
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Getz Meets Mulligan
    Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone (tracks 4-8), tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3)
    Stan Getz - tenor saxophone (tracks 4-8), baritone saxophone (tracks 1-3)
    Lou Levy - piano
    Ray Brown - bass
    Stan Levey - drums

Gerry Mulligan made a series of "meets" albums: this one with Stan Getz, which is unique in that on three tracks Mulligan plays tenor and Getz plays baritone.

Mulligan also recorded a "meets" with Ben Webster, Monk, Paul Desmond, and one with Johnny Hodges.  They are all great swinging sessions, but the one with Ben Webster is probably my favorite.

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Post by: Old San Antone on May 01, 2020, 05:37:53 AM
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The last truly indispensable disc of the great guitar hero's career, and perhaps the most innately satisfying of all, these mid-'50s recordings boast magnificent presence, with T-Bone Walker's axe so crisp and clear it seems as though he's sitting right next to you as he delivers a luxurious remake of "Call It Stormy Monday." Atlantic took some chances with Walker, dispatching him to Chicago for a 1955 date with Junior Wells and Jimmy Rogers that produced "Why Not" and "Papa Ain't Salty." Even better were the 1956-1957 L.A. dates that produced the scalding instrumental "Two Bones and a Pick" (which finds Walker dueling it out with nephew R.S. Rankin and jazzman Barney Kessel). [AllMusic Review by Bill Dahl (https://www.allmusic.com/album/t-bone-blues-atlantic-mw0000653203)]
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 02, 2020, 08:05:57 AM
Leyla McCalla – Capitalist Blues

The new album, her third, imaginatively maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora and summons bodily, social and emotional wisdom through its dance music, gently taking Anglocentricism down a notch in the process. The Haitian-American singer-songwriter has said that moving to New Orleans nearly a decade ago helped her connect more viscerally to historical Haitian Creole resilience and musical expression. She's spent the years since primarily accompanying herself on cello — using it as a choppy, churning rhythm instrument rather than a lyrical one — in bilingual contemporary folk ballads and string-band compositions. This time, she laid her cello aside in favor of electric guitar and tenor banjo and enlisted an R&B-reviving veteran of the New Orleans club scene, Jimmy Horn of King James & the Special Men, to produce. A rotating cast of musicians — including specialists in the living traditions of various Haitian, Brazilian, Cajun, zydeco and calypso styles — supplies the feels and textures she wanted. [Leyla McCalla Sings 'The Capitalist Blues' With Feeling and Wisdom, January 17, 2019. NPR (https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685696394/first-listen-leyla-mccalla-the-capitalist-blues)]

https://www.youtube.com/v/o6kHnUXHOo0

Wonderful new traditional music from New Orleans released in 2019.
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 02, 2020, 08:23:07 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 02, 2020, 08:05:57 AM
Leyla McCalla – Capitalist Blues

The new album, her third, imaginatively maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora and summons bodily, social and emotional wisdom through its dance music, gently taking Anglocentricism down a notch in the process. The Haitian-American singer-songwriter has said that moving to New Orleans nearly a decade ago helped her connect more viscerally to historical Haitian Creole resilience and musical expression. She's spent the years since primarily accompanying herself on cello — using it as a choppy, churning rhythm instrument rather than a lyrical one — in bilingual contemporary folk ballads and string-band compositions. This time, she laid her cello aside in favor of electric guitar and tenor banjo and enlisted an R&B-reviving veteran of the New Orleans club scene, Jimmy Horn of King James & the Special Men, to produce. A rotating cast of musicians — including specialists in the living traditions of various Haitian, Brazilian, Cajun, zydeco and calypso styles — supplies the feels and textures she wanted. [Leyla McCalla Sings 'The Capitalist Blues' With Feeling and Wisdom, January 17, 2019. NPR (https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/685696394/first-listen-leyla-mccalla-the-capitalist-blues)]

https://www.youtube.com/v/o6kHnUXHOo0

Wonderful new traditional music from New Orleans released in 2019.

Only the first two tracks were traditional New Orleans music, the rest was a hodge-podge of styles, mostly not of a quality that I'd recommend.

Disappointing.
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Post by: T. D. on May 02, 2020, 04:19:30 PM
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 03, 2020, 06:47:08 AM
Christopher Crenshaw's The Fifties: A Prism

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Quote"All jazz is modern," says Wynton Marsalis—and we owe the 1950s for that. The momentous decade became the crucible in which modern jazz was formed, as styles like modal, hard bop, third stream, and more melted together and artists like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman reached the height of their powers. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Chris Crenshaw has taken inspiration from the era to create The Fifties: A Prism, the newest Blue Engine album.

"When I was presented with the idea of coming up with a suite dealing with the 1950s, I immediately realized this was going to cover all the genres of jazz, from bebop to freedom music," Crenshaw says. Recorded live at The House of Swing by the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis in February 2017, The Fifties does exactly that, refracting all the energy from a creatively supercharged era through a 21st-century lens. The result is at turns playful and moving, melodic and challenging—but it's always swinging.

Released on May 2, 2020, the latest recording by the JALC Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is another fantastic jazz recording, this time celebrating the music of the  Fifties. Highly recommended.

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Post by: T. D. on May 03, 2020, 07:27:23 AM
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I prefer early Evans to late, but pull this off the shelf every once in a while hoping for a revelation.
Enjoying it this time, but I wish they wouldn't play Nardis so darned often... ;D
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 03, 2020, 09:29:37 AM
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I prefer early Evans to late, but pull this off the shelf every once in a while hoping for a revelation.
Enjoying it this time, but I wish they wouldn't play Nardis so darned often... ;D

I agree his last trio was very good, closest, IMO, to his classic trio with Scott LaFaro.




On The Nature of Connections, Arve Henriksen is working in harness with some of the most distinguished and dynamic musicians of Norway. They come from different traditions like folk, improvisation and jazz. They bring their specialist competition, where the results are assembled and polished to sparkle. The Nature of Connections almost entirely features pieces composed by the personnel comprising the band on the album, recorded at the legendary Rainbow Studio in Oslo by Jan Erik Kongshaug. The album has closer connections to Nordic folk and contemporary, minimalist chamber music than any of his previous releases.

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Post by: George on May 03, 2020, 01:05:44 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 03, 2020, 09:29:37 AM
I agree his last trio was very good, closest, IMO, to his classic trio with Scott LaFaro.

The sound on that set is lovely, too.
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 03, 2020, 02:27:56 PM
Characters On A Wall - Louis Sclavis Quartet

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QuoteLouis Sclavis's 13th ECM recording finds the French clarinetist drawing inspiration from two sources – the street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and the interpretive originality of a splendid new quartet.  Pignon-Ernest's works were previously the subject of Sclavis's highly acclaimed 2002 recording Napoli's Walls.  This time Sclavis looks at a broader range of the artist's in situ collages from Ramallah to Rome, in search of "a dynamic, a movement that will give birth to a rhythm, an emotion, a song." In the Sclavis group, gifted bassist Sarah Murcia and expressive drummer Christophe Lavergne join inventive pianist Benjamjn Moussay (a key collaborator on Sources and Salt and Silk Melodies) making this the first time Sclavis has explored – in characteristically individual fashion -  the classic jazz format of reeds, piano, bass and drums  on an ECM disc. 

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Post by: SimonNZ on May 04, 2020, 01:35:21 AM
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Post by: j winter on May 04, 2020, 10:49:09 AM
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 04, 2020, 11:10:52 AM
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I really like those "Armstrong Plays ..." records.  He did one of Fats Waller and W.C. Handy that are also excellent.

TD

Wynton Marsalis - Swinging into the 21st Century

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QuoteSwinging into the 21st" is the name that Wynton Marsalis gave to an extraordinary series of 9 albums he released between 1999 and 2000 on Columbia Records and Sony Classical. In honor of Wynton's 50th birthday, those nine albums (along with the two CD masterwork All Rise), are presented here as a box set for the first time. Each album in Swinging into the 21st features a different ensemble and style of music. From chamber music to studio and live dates with his septet, jazz and blues tributes, film music, scores for ballet, modern classical and orchestral works, to some bonafide swing, Swinging Into the 21st explores Wynton's musical universe.
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Post by: T. D. on May 04, 2020, 11:35:50 AM
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 04, 2020, 01:00:26 PM
Reeltime

Evoking, but not bound by, the musical styles of the period, the soundtrack music for the movie "Rosewood," based on a tragic incident in early 20th century American history, includes blues-drenched vocals by Cassandra Wilson on the title track, a gospel choir fronted by Shirley Caesar, and bluegrass fiddling by virtuoso violinist Mark O'Connor.

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Wonderful.
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 05, 2020, 11:50:56 AM
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Composer, arranger, and pianist Mary Lou Williams' musical career reflected the history of American jazz from the late 1920s through the 1970s. Described by Duke Ellington as being "beyond category," Williams was conversant in jazz styles ranging from stride through swing and be-bop to the avant-garde, yet her music was always rooted in spirituals and the blues. This self-produced recording, originally recorded in 1962 and 1963, contains a mix of standards and originals including four original compositions reflecting her devout interest in religious music.

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Post by: Brian on May 06, 2020, 11:50:35 AM
Not sure which listening thread to put this in...guess I'll put it in both!

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First ever listen to this one for me.
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Post by: Brian on May 06, 2020, 12:10:24 PM
report after a half-hour: jeez this is long

Like, not bad, but...exhausting.
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Post by: j winter on May 06, 2020, 05:17:53 PM
Going for some jazz from Charlie Watts....

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Post by: Old San Antone on May 06, 2020, 05:32:07 PM
Quote from: Brian on May 06, 2020, 11:50:35 AM
Not sure which listening thread to put this in...guess I'll put it in both!

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First ever listen to this one for me.

While I am a big fan of Wynton Marsalis's long form works, I prefer those that do not use the orchestra.  Interesting work, which I think he calls his first symphony, a worthy effort.
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 06, 2020, 05:57:22 PM
Blood on the Fields is a two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom. It received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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Post by: Old San Antone on May 07, 2020, 02:11:23 PM
Mingus - Oh Yeah

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    Charles Mingus – piano and vocals
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk – flute, siren, tenor saxophone, manzello, and strich
    Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
    Jimmy Knepper – trombone
    Doug Watkins – bass
    Dannie Richmond – drums

QuoteAllMusic Review by Steve Huey (https://www.allmusic.com/album/oh-yeah-mw0000198478)
After several sessions with Columbia and Candid, Charles Mingus briefly returned to Atlantic and cut the freewheeling Oh Yeah, which has to rank as the wildest of all his classic albums. Mingus plays no bass whatsoever, hiring Doug Watkins to fill in while he accompanies the group on piano and contributes bluesy vocals to several tracks (while shouting encouragement on nearly all of them). Mingus had always had a bizarre sense of humor, as expressed in some of his song titles and arranging devices, but Oh Yeah often gets downright warped. That's partly because Mingus is freed up to vocalize more often, but it's also due to the presence of mad genius Roland Kirk. His chemistry with Mingus is fantastically explosive, which makes sense -- both were encyclopedias of jazz tradition, but given over to oddball modernist experimentation. It's a shame Kirk only spent three months with the band, because his solo interpretations are such symbiotic reflections of Mingus' intent as a composer. Look no further than "Hog Callin' Blues," a stomping "Haitian Fight Song" descendant where Kirk honks and roars the blues like a man possessed. Mingus' vocal selections radiate the same dementia, whether it's the stream-of-consciousness blues couplets on "Devil Woman," the dark-humored modern-day spiritual "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me," or the dadaist stride piano bounce of "Eat That Chicken," a nod to Fats Waller's comic novelties. Elsewhere, "Passions of a Man" sounds almost like musique concrète, while "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am" nicks some Monk angularity and "Ecclusiastics" adds some testifying shouts and a chorale-like theme to Mingus' gospel-jazz hybrid. Oh Yeah is probably the most offbeat Mingus album ever, and that's what makes it so vital. [Some reissues add three bonus tracks from the session, first released on Tonight at Noon.]
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Post by: Old San Antone on May 07, 2020, 03:33:04 PM
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

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Mingus collaborated with arranger/orchestrator Bob Hammer to score the music for a large ensemble of brass and saxophones.
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Post by: T. D. on May 07, 2020, 07:24:28 PM
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The Tapscott is outstanding. I ordered it upon release direct from the UK label last year, and the CD version (don't know about the vinyl) seems to have sold out. That's why I posted about Tapscott on the "new jazz releases" thread.
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Post by: FelixSkodi on May 12, 2020, 06:31:01 PM
Rio Funk:

Players: Lee Ritenour, Stefan Rademacher, Christoph Spendel, Don Grusin, Tom Brechtlein, and Christian Ostermeier (the reason I came across this session)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuCSkRqeUe8

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Post by: SimonNZ on May 21, 2020, 03:03:18 AM
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recorded 26th September 1952 at Rockland Palace, New York City, released 1961

not terrible but less than great bootleg sound...of a truly stunning gig
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Post by: j winter on May 21, 2020, 07:34:30 AM
Love this album... just a relaxing, wonderful thing  :)

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Post by: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:13:00 AM
Quote from: j winter on May 21, 2020, 07:34:30 AM
Love this album... just a relaxing, wonderful thing  :)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/713owdeHdkL.jpg)

Good one.   8)    Hard to go wrong with Ellington.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 21, 2020, 08:25:51 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:13:00 AM
Hard to go wrong with Ellington.

Word.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 21, 2020, 08:28:55 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:13:00 AM
Hard to go wrong with Ellington.

That is very true in my admittedly limited experience of the Jazz world.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 21, 2020, 08:30:14 AM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2085-2.jpg?v-cache=1530107453)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 21, 2020, 08:32:29 AM
Quote from: George on May 21, 2020, 08:30:14 AM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2085-2.jpg?v-cache=1530107453)

Cool. I have that on a double vinyl release; one being Mono and the other being the Stereo version.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 21, 2020, 08:43:08 AM
Quote from: aligreto on May 21, 2020, 08:32:29 AM
Cool. I have that on a double vinyl release; one being Mono and the other being the Stereo version.

Nice! I have it on two stereo CDs, one stereo SACD and one mono CD. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:43:19 AM
Quote from: George on May 21, 2020, 08:30:14 AM
(https://www.mofi.com/v/vspfiles/photos/UDSACD2085-2.jpg?v-cache=1530107453)

This record is one I play at least once a month.  I forget who it was (could have been Herbie Hancock) but they said about this record, it is "perfect" and people will be listening to it for hundreds of years, similar to Mozart and Beethoven.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 21, 2020, 08:45:11 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:43:19 AM
This record is one I play at least once a month.  I forget who it was (could have been Herbie Hancock) it but they said about this record, it is "perfect" and people will be listening to it for hundreds of years, similar to Mozart and Beethoven.

I already loved Herbie, but I love him even more now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 21, 2020, 09:21:34 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 21, 2020, 08:43:19 AM
This record is one I play at least once a month.  I forget who it was (could have been Herbie Hancock) it but they said about this record, it is "perfect" and people will be listening to it for hundreds of years, similar to Mozart and Beethoven.

Whoever it was I think that they were correct,
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 22, 2020, 12:37:35 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61mjuoMACJL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 22, 2020, 04:06:41 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/nlZTVhmTOHBrbYCTUjPB-qve65A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2753341-1520175503-4263.jpeg.jpg)

One Night In Birdland
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: FelixSkodi on May 22, 2020, 04:16:26 PM
Thanks to NPR.

Henry Grimes - The Call
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xxs0tmX6ais

Christian McBride - The Movement Revisited
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSETTeD0us
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 23, 2020, 03:04:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/O2JNVYdD7znyKhwjIKOjR15I9Hc=/fit-in/600x531/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6665077-1529836287-3026.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on May 23, 2020, 03:08:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Rlfz0zURYWUPRaGVZQMPe1XjFts=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-722752-1413893495-4116.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Anse2i0JKr_RRz8oaOjO_Gmqz-A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2363430-1336934995-4202.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ab96hEdeBpB86n4hRSfcnsBuGHY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2405452-1282216024.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on May 23, 2020, 03:10:16 PM
Quote from: T. D. on May 23, 2020, 03:08:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Rlfz0zURYWUPRaGVZQMPe1XjFts=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-722752-1413893495-4116.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/Anse2i0JKr_RRz8oaOjO_Gmqz-A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2363430-1336934995-4202.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/ab96hEdeBpB86n4hRSfcnsBuGHY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2405452-1282216024.jpeg.jpg)

Three of Mingus's best.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 23, 2020, 03:14:41 PM
I was listening to Tijuana Moods last night.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 25, 2020, 02:09:50 PM
Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91
Jazz musician who was key to Davis's sound was the last surviving player on the classic album (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/25/jimmy-cobb-dead-miles-davis-kind-of-blue)

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WOlnAoydL._SL1482_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 25, 2020, 09:31:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71SbhKZ7TKL._SY355_.jpg)

1979
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 04, 2020, 02:12:38 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Sx3mu_JXwOD6sZRi_G1ukUPnyaA=/fit-in/536x476/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3249366-1322321803.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 04, 2020, 03:52:26 PM
Quote from: George on June 04, 2020, 02:12:38 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/Sx3mu_JXwOD6sZRi_G1ukUPnyaA=/fit-in/536x476/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3249366-1322321803.jpeg.jpg)
I swear I did not see this post before putting on the very same album an hour later.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 04, 2020, 03:59:23 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 04, 2020, 03:52:26 PM
I swear I did not see this post before putting on the very same album an hour later.

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/d15d498c06345a8dad51ede946f19819/tumblr_mum757G5wq1rkiuhro1_500.gifv)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 04, 2020, 05:10:52 PM
Afterwards while cooking fish and couscous I put on "Nothing but the Blues," with Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Roy Eldridge, and Stan Getz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 07, 2020, 02:57:55 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/MIxq6P06PUJPlm8HDDWafjKWHaM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-368375-1218710013.jpeg.jpg)
Question of Mingus's best album arose above. My knee-jerk response is Mingus Ah Um, but whenever I pull The Black Saint... off the shelf I think "damn, I always overlook this, it's probably his best".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on June 07, 2020, 03:29:53 PM
Quote from: T. D. on June 07, 2020, 02:57:55 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/MIxq6P06PUJPlm8HDDWafjKWHaM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-368375-1218710013.jpeg.jpg)
Question of Mingus's best album arose above. My knee-jerk response is Mingus Ah Um, but whenever I pull The Black Saint... off the shelf I think "damn, I always overlook this, it's probably his best".

Question is moot, IMO - Mingus made so many really great records, asking which one is the best is almost pointless.  But both of those you mention are surely contenders.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2020, 01:18:11 AM
At various times today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Ow5-JnjDL._SL1094_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TxrYgQE7L._SS500_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61asYmTQXBL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71htuOKLqfL._SL1091_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81rMMlotcKL._SL1500_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615FizP6pbL._SY355_.jpg)

and a fine day's listening it was
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on June 08, 2020, 03:19:43 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 08, 2020, 01:18:11 AM
At various times today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Ow5-JnjDL._SL1094_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TxrYgQE7L._SS500_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61asYmTQXBL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71htuOKLqfL._SL1091_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81rMMlotcKL._SL1500_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/615FizP6pbL._SY355_.jpg)

and a fine day's listening it was

Nice to have you back, and your classic Jazz!

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Biffo on June 08, 2020, 03:50:30 AM
Holmboe: Symphony No 1 - Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes - enjoyable but not, I suspect, typical. Not lost after all, I burnt it to a CD, now retrieved from the vaults.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Papy Oli on June 08, 2020, 05:04:08 AM
Quote from: Biffo on June 08, 2020, 03:50:30 AM
Holmboe: Symphony No 1 - Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes - enjoyable but not, I suspect, typical. Not lost after all, I burnt it to a CD, now retrieved from the vaults.

you may not have meant this to be here, Biffo... unless it had some be-bop undertones i missed  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on June 16, 2020, 08:48:01 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/xlqfuJkwD4HNyxrQhguxxHiEMJM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1699394-1237761724.jpeg.jpg)
Ferenc Snetberger (2005): Nomad
Title: Saturday night: Preservation Hall Benefit online
Post by: bhodges on June 16, 2020, 04:55:52 PM
Saturday, June 20, and check out the all-star guest list. Incredibly, the stream appears to be free.

https://twitter.com/preshallband/status/1271141403599556618?s=19

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 19, 2020, 05:47:16 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Lee_Konitz_at_Storyville.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 20, 2020, 08:02:55 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61IflWMQoxL._SS500_.jpg)

Ada Moore - Jazz Workshop (1955)

I know it sounds harsh to say it, but this is exactly what Sarah Vaughan would sound like if she recorded drunk


also played:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Sketches_on_Standards.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/-ut-wI4pdhtrivCazXhCKkpqxwI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3484737-1509849018-4707.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 04, 2020, 06:21:42 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/dicMt3LyQd21clC7itkb_QjWZY8=/fit-in/600x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4044716-1463769304-6262.jpeg.jpg)

Anne Phillips - Born To Be Blue (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on July 05, 2020, 06:14:52 AM
Epert in jazz please tell me who invented SKRONK in african-american ,, of usaa,, Noisy, muddy ,, sskronk thus said sounding ugly  out of control and destroy to the max  heavyniess not metal but almost louder than rock or metal, very marginal stuff ??

Hello jazz dude aand whit dude expert in skronk jazz of ancient day african -american jazz, that sounded marginal loud amps in the red all noissy  loud , heavy yet not metal , but metallic in the end same approche , but chaotic?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 05, 2020, 01:44:01 PM
The Black Box of Jazz: CD 1


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glZd-kePL._AC_SX425_.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/ymupIna8n75yxobPDapWgA88LQA=/fit-in/594x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3108512-1373883826-2845.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 12, 2020, 02:10:31 PM
The Black Box of Jazz: CD 2


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glZd-kePL._AC_SX425_.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/Iofbm2UGSBx6jwtGkx7Z33FvoLM=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3108512-1373883851-9888.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on July 17, 2020, 02:09:59 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/Zyh1XMf0aFItV9byEhS0SI0SoMI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3014952-1412792954-2201.jpeg.jpg)

Jon Balke, Per Jörgensen, Audun Kleive (1991): On and On
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 18, 2020, 02:52:37 PM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0110810012_16.jpg)
New release, just arrived. Many thanks to Bertrand of Dark Tree (France)!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2020, 05:42:21 AM
Quote from: T. D. on May 02, 2020, 04:19:30 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/qbX2goPcXGynoSjE9zHM6bUQl6Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1663518-1235388394.jpeg.jpg)

Good album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2020, 05:43:34 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 04, 2020, 01:35:21 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41tc06ON8ML._SY355_.jpg)

Fine album. Arguably better than Live in Paris or Berlin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2020, 06:07:01 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 08, 2020, 08:39:21 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/WcHOwKqgQ3OqDtKQaI0hN0A8AXI=/fit-in/600x533/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-985766-1378491754-8987.jpeg.jpg)

This trio was featured on Tomasz Stanko's albums The Soul of Things, Suspended Night, and Lontano. Stanko, for those that don't know, was at the forefront of the Polish jazz scene and especially so after the death of his former band leader and mentor, Krzysztof Komeda.

Great choice, John!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on July 19, 2020, 07:27:25 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2020, 05:43:34 AM
Fine album. Arguably better than Live in Paris or Berlin.

Sam Rivers was not nearly as right for this band as Wayne Shorter, so my vote goes to the Berlin live recording.  The Live in Europe record, which I assume you mean by "Paris" features George Coleman, who though not as great as Shorter, is still better, IMO, than Rivers for this music. So I'd rank them Berlin, Europe, Tokyo.

But it's all good stuff and your preference is yours.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on July 19, 2020, 07:37:04 AM
Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. An extended version of the second movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez (1939) is included, as well as a piece called "Will o' the Wisp", from Manuel de Falla's ballet El amor brujo (1914–1915).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Miles_Davis_-_Sketches_of_Spain.png)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2020, 08:38:21 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on July 19, 2020, 07:27:25 AM
Sam Rivers was not nearly as right for this band as Wayne Shorter, so my vote goes to the Berlin live recording.  The Live in Europe record, which I assume you mean by "Paris" features George Coleman, who though not as great as Shorter, is still better, IMO, than Rivers for this music. So I'd rank them Berlin, Europe, Tokyo.

But it's all good stuff and your preference is yours.

8)

Yes I like Sam Rivers, plus Miles sounds vg in the Tokyo album. The Europe has Milestones though the sound quality is not great. They all are wonderful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 19, 2020, 01:10:20 PM
The Black Box of Jazz: CD 3


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glZd-kePL._AC_SX425_.jpg)    (https://img.discogs.com/mXO9Aj6oFMJrID8rVCVSgDnrnEs=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3108512-1373883892-6973.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 21, 2020, 03:17:33 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/6WRwylaMSzgLyR6gjNEIy7DkXt4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1045979-1488296769-1647.jpeg.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/K2nU7JyjVBUpFrPJCFVpsVtg_NA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-973124-1518125037-1811.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on July 22, 2020, 01:45:45 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/MkkDUAmzKN9jKhvjh5cUkxC5rjc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-477805-1233514836.jpeg.jpg)
Anouar Brahem, John Surman, Dave Holland (1998): Thimar
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on July 22, 2020, 04:54:46 AM
Quote from: modified on July 22, 2020, 01:45:45 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/MkkDUAmzKN9jKhvjh5cUkxC5rjc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-477805-1233514836.jpeg.jpg)
Anouar Brahem, John Surman, Dave Holland (1998): Thimar

Fantastic, as are all of Anouar Brahem's recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 22, 2020, 05:24:16 AM
Matija Dedic, Mr. K.K.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on July 22, 2020, 07:35:38 AM
Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington is one of the following realizations:

    1965 - Concert of Sacred Music
    1968 - Second Sacred Concert
    1973 - Third Sacred Concert

Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done".

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YXVPORYjL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on July 27, 2020, 02:30:24 AM
(http://www.parisjazzcorner.com/en/pochs_g/092381.jpg)
Michel Benita (bass) & Peter Erskine (drums) & NGuyen Le (guitar)
"E L B" (2001)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 29, 2020, 01:55:43 PM


https://www.youtube.com/v/m4ytPw7Kwbc
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on July 29, 2020, 07:56:45 PM
Heard a little snippet of Clothilde Rullaud In Extremis on the radio. Sounds very intriguing? Anyone know her work?

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81274zqUQ8L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 10, 2020, 05:30:48 PM
(https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/5e/cb/0015cb5e.jpeg)

Bill Evans - Live In Buenos Aires, 1979
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 11, 2020, 04:53:05 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/SNAhTaJHhiUQZ4jP06DG0-s4_Q4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3604414-1337045365-8501.jpeg.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/EqpE2hUhRhOQcEwrtybraXgLLBo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9419262-1480243566-4100.jpeg.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/--QdO-y4zrjdORw0iXJvnDiW52Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8720991-1467319167-6308.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 13, 2020, 03:55:04 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Brubeck_a_la_Mode.jpeg/220px-Brubeck_a_la_Mode.jpeg)

Dave Brubeck - Brubeck A La Mode (1960)

I was going to say "bad cover / fine album", but I see on Wikipedia that the cover image may be a deliberate allusion to the civil rights lunch counter sit-ins of the time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 13, 2020, 05:03:42 PM
Nice.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on August 13, 2020, 06:14:26 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 13, 2020, 03:55:04 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Brubeck_a_la_Mode.jpeg/220px-Brubeck_a_la_Mode.jpeg)

Dave Brubeck - Brubeck A La Mode (1960)

I was going to say "bad cover / fine album", but I see on Wikipedia that the cover image may be a deliberate allusion to the civil rights lunch counter sit-ins of the time.

That might be true, but it is more likely a homage to an American idiom: serving something, especially a dessert, with a scoop of ice cream on it is "a la mode". So apple pie a la mode, etc.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Apple_pie_182161_02.JPG/220px-Apple_pie_182161_02.JPG)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 15, 2020, 06:39:13 AM
Roots and Wings, Benjamin Schaefer Trio
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 15, 2020, 07:02:10 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/9bEOvZhptEL7wzBDo5hTDua2MhQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-12775413-1541710849-6697.jpeg.jpg)
Plus a couple of newly released reissues from Corbett vs. Dempsey:
(http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Yale-Concerts.jpg)  (http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Black-is-the-color.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 17, 2020, 06:06:09 PM
AT. Wailin at Vanguard
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 17, 2020, 06:17:49 PM
That looks fun!

Tonight while grillin' and chillin' at a cabin in the Ozarks:
Bags' Groove (Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke...never heard of any of these guys ;) )
Dancing in the Sky (Dr. Michael White, Lucien Barbarin, etc.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 17, 2020, 07:13:22 PM
Quote from: Brian on August 17, 2020, 06:17:49 PM
That looks fun!

Tonight while grillin' and chillin' at a cabin in the Ozarks:
Bags' Groove (Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke...never heard of any of these guys ;) )
Dancing in the Sky (Dr. Michael White, Lucien Barbarin, etc.)

Watch out for those crazy drug dealers.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 18, 2020, 03:21:14 PM
I don't listen to ECM recordings very often, but here goes:
(https://img.discogs.com/pUQx-lsFwSFb90CVngxo8hqbQIA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3305120-1375553364-3930.jpeg.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/7jFL44vCCydG2KVN3etHelfY4VQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-549332-1406133419-2335.jpeg.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/S71TFmFMeC0pZRqFsEQ528g1agk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1773977-1242471792.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on August 18, 2020, 09:27:16 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/K_mN5Npb1V63tK1K75MSFzLp2MQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-825059-1193566795.jpeg.jpg)

Hadouk Trio (2006): Utopies
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 25, 2020, 07:30:32 AM
Shirley Scott Trio.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 27, 2020, 09:11:53 AM
Chick Corea My Spanish Heart
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 27, 2020, 12:25:37 PM
Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 28, 2020, 03:09:53 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ypaG7gG0L.jpg)

The Mike Mainieri Quartet ‎– Insight (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on August 30, 2020, 05:11:33 AM
New ECM release from John Scofield

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vIAz5plCL._SX522_.jpg)

Swallow Tails
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on August 31, 2020, 12:08:40 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Everybody_Digs_Bill_Evans.jpg/220px-Everybody_Digs_Bill_Evans.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: 71 dB on September 04, 2020, 09:59:30 AM
Jan Garbarek - Selected Recordings - :rarum - ECM

Borrowed this from a friend. I didn't know Garbarek's music. Most of this I found uninteresting, but there's a few tracks that I was into. Especially the last track of the set, Parse Mihi Domine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 04, 2020, 01:29:45 PM
The Black Box of Jazz: CD 4


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glZd-kePL._AC_SX425_.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/9LHlH0tFkTHuH3GwzkA3bnmnSFI=/fit-in/599x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3108512-1373883920-3465.jpeg.jpg)


The really good thing about the contents of this particular box set is that most of the performances are live.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 04, 2020, 04:49:32 PM
Just finished -

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jTqyk3EEL._SS500_.jpg)

- and then began:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RwUdZcwLL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 04, 2020, 07:11:36 PM
Suspended Night. Thomasz Stanko.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 04, 2020, 07:29:58 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 04, 2020, 07:11:36 PM
Suspended Night. Tomasz Stanko.

Excellent 8)

Have you heard Lontano?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 04, 2020, 09:43:12 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on September 04, 2020, 07:29:58 PM
Excellent 8)

Have you heard Lontano?

Yes, I have most of his recordings except very early dates.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 04, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 04, 2020, 01:29:45 PM
The Black Box of Jazz: CD 4


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51glZd-kePL._AC_SX425_.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/9LHlH0tFkTHuH3GwzkA3bnmnSFI=/fit-in/599x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3108512-1373883920-3465.jpeg.jpg)


The really good thing about the contents of this particular box set is that most of the performances are live.

As for the No. 2, the credit should go to Blakey, not Marsalis. Bobby Watson composed that wonderful tune anyway.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 06, 2020, 01:48:03 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 04, 2020, 09:46:36 PM
As for the No. 2, the credit should go to Blakey, not Marsalis. Bobby Watson composed that wonderful tune anyway.

Interesting; thank you for the information.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 07, 2020, 02:59:31 PM
Confirmed by his family, R.I.P. Gary Peacock.

https://www.youtube.com/v/U_iaZESVRuo

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 09, 2020, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on September 07, 2020, 02:59:31 PM
Confirmed by his family, R.I.P. Gary Peacock.

https://www.youtube.com/v/U_iaZESVRuo

What wonderful playing and how interesting to see a 12 string guitar being used.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 09, 2020, 01:51:56 AM
Quote from: aligreto on September 09, 2020, 01:02:40 AM
What wonderful playing and how interesting to see a 12 string guitar being used.

Yes.  I first heard Ralph Towner play 12-string on his introduction to the "The Moors" by Weather Report.  It blew my mind.


https://www.youtube.com/v/S9nGrC8R8a4
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 09, 2020, 02:01:30 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/Gik9Sq7dRwdLm3wzNyxTHUVuOw4=/fit-in/600x540/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3304868-1473454826-3905.jpeg.jpg)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 09, 2020, 02:06:17 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on September 09, 2020, 01:51:56 AM
Yes.  I first heard Ralph Towner play 12-string on his introduction to the "The Moors" by Weather Report.  It blew my mind.


https://www.youtube.com/v/S9nGrC8R8a4

Cheers. Thank you for posting that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on September 12, 2020, 12:48:48 PM
Booker Ervin Quintet, Sextet and Quartet.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71OsxJsj5vL._SX522_.jpg)


Also, Compass by Susanne Abbeuhl. Incredibly great voice and very innovative instrumentation/accompaniment and material--not the same old standards! Too bad she is so little-known.

(http://www.susanneabbuehl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Susanne_Abbuehl_Compass_E1906_g.jpeg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 12, 2020, 07:00:19 PM
Listened to this while mowing the yard today (admittedly not an ideal way to listen :D):

(https://www.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol19/885/885439/2744944-big/Foxes-Fox-cover.jpg)

Excellent. I've had it for years but I think this was only my second listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 13, 2020, 11:56:01 AM
I've been listening to some (mostly) British stuff lately, all new to me:
(https://img.discogs.com/TN3MS-p_OH8hyg2T4i1i0r-W9zY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-11085449-1509573305-6816.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/C0uEjIIW7nki8IE53z3emQKa_t8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2264889-1273216816.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/gTV8hCdWB6a_lIkwXsBJqDSAXZY=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1100734-1532761327-7790.jpeg.jpg)
(https://img.discogs.com/B4kvmU1MyTLXkC76urJvqncSA2k=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-10364575-1498254930-7716.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/aJmJtlKBaJ2r8zwHIymhEOOu-9E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2570004-1466442806-9046.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/2kOfWJvawBZUaq-QGVOnC5rnYFw=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-14875230-1583259527-6871.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Scion7 on September 13, 2020, 12:01:58 PM
Westbrook was an interesting musician when he worked Gary Burton, etc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 14, 2020, 06:15:20 PM
Tango night with the Orquesta Baffa-Berlingieri.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 15, 2020, 04:13:25 AM
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin'

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Just Coolin' is a previously unreleased recording that somehow slipped through the cracks at Blue Note following the March 1959 session that birthed it. Featuring a short-lived lineup of trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley (a returnee from the original mid-'50s lineup, keeping the sax chair warm for Shorter), pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Jymie Merritt and, naturally, Blakey, half of the album's six tunes were penned by Mobley; another, "Quick Trick," was a previously unrecorded Timmons number.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 15, 2020, 12:19:28 PM
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Frank Kimbrough – Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) (6-disc-set)

Perhaps it's an instance of what the box set's annotator Nate Chinen calls Kimbrough's "curatorial humility." It's a key to the mindset and attitude that he brought to a project whose presumptions might greatly risk the pitfall of excessive hubris.

In Chinen's notes, Kimbrough explains: "There is something that I tell all my students: the composition is a gift from the composer, for how you're going to improvise on this tune. It gives you information. It gives you motive. Gives you intervals... rhythms...all sorts of things to deal with. And if you just throw all that out the window with the first chorus of your solo – to play a bunch patterns you figured out in a book, or something that's just going to get applause – then I think you're doing a disservice to the tune and to its composure."

Kimbrough's multi-instrumentalist horn player Scott Robinson explains how their smart humility in the light of Monk music guided them: "When you listen to Monk play his music, he never strayed very far from little twists and turns and funny little mechanisms and structures that recur through the form. They run all through his solos, pretty much all the time."

The result: Kimbrough and company have carved out the most authoritative and delightful reclamations of jazz history in recent memory. A profusion of groups have covered Monk material in recent years, especially since he died in 1982, an event which Kimbrough says began his long journey to this pinnacle achievement, modestly as he thinks of it.
(No Depression Magazine. Jan. 14, 2019) (https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/why-the-epic-monks-dreams-by-frank-kimbrough-co-is-the-years-best-jazz-album/)

A fantastic achievement.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2020, 02:05:11 PM
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/coverart/2010/stangetz_jazzatstoryville_cm.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/B-rEnNyBPdqvPihZ834M84u23sI=/fit-in/500x501/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6406971-1418471161-7918.jpeg.jpg)


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81bLQ-w6ewL._SL1400_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 15, 2020, 05:27:15 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on September 15, 2020, 12:19:28 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71p6UrI2NeL._SL1400_.jpg)

Frank Kimbrough – Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) (6-disc-set)

A fantastic achievement.

Of course, Kimbrough isn't the first to do this: Alexander von Schlippenbach released Monk's Casino about 15 years ago.

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0523027545_10.jpg)

I would imagine that Kimbrough's approach is more "mainstream." Guess I should give it a listen via streaming or something.

TD:

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3887591225_10.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 15, 2020, 05:55:49 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on September 15, 2020, 05:27:15 PM
Of course, Kimbrough isn't the first to do this: Alexander von Schlippenbach released Monk's Casino about 15 years ago.

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0523027545_10.jpg)

I would imagine that Kimbrough's approach is more "mainstream." Guess I should give it a listen via streaming or something.

I very much prefer Kimbrough's recording over Schlippenbach's - precisely because it is "more mainstream" as you put it.  The playing is first rate and well worth a listen.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on September 15, 2020, 06:28:18 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on September 15, 2020, 05:55:49 PM
I very much prefer Kimbrough's recording over Schlippenbach's - precisely because it is "more mainstream" as you put it.  The playing is first rate and well worth a listen.

8)

Thanks, O.S.A. I'll check it out. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2020, 08:03:09 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 16, 2020, 01:19:58 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Coltraneplaystheblues.jpg)

Coltrane Plays the Blues

    John Coltrane — soprano saxophone on "Blues to Bechet" and "Mr. Syms"; tenor saxophone on all others
    McCoy Tyner — piano
    Steve Davis — bass
    Elvin Jones — drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 19, 2020, 03:14:04 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516XeZDhynL.jpg)

Second spin of this fun album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 19, 2020, 06:29:16 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/714hoLR4z-L._SX522_.jpg)

The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection [4 Disc Deluxe Box Set]
Charlie Parker
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 19, 2020, 10:27:50 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 20, 2020, 02:34:26 PM
Louis Armstrong: A Legendary Performer


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UywAAOSwPfxfCwRm/s-l500.jpg)


This is a bit of a "Lollipops" type album. Armstrong was older in these recordings and the songs and presentation are somewhat more mainstream. Still, it makes for pleasant listening once in a while.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 20, 2020, 02:46:38 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 20, 2020, 02:34:26 PM
Louis Armstrong: A Legendary Performer

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UywAAOSwPfxfCwRm/s-l500.jpg)

This is a bit of a "Lollipops" type album. Armstrong was older in these recordings and the songs and presentation are somewhat more mainstream. Still, it makes for pleasant listening once in a while.

You may already heard them, but his Hot Five and Seven recordings from the mid-late 20s are some of his best stuff.  I revisited them on one of the LPs I retrieved from storage.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81rKQIEF9XL._SL1500_.jpg)

They have released them re-mastered in a complete CD box set - which if you like the music, as I do - is mandatory, IMO.

(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/b57de6ffc9787bf37ebfd5cbcdb8e2ca/5660486)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 20, 2020, 02:56:29 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on September 20, 2020, 02:46:38 PM
You may already heard them, but his Hot Five and Seven recordings from the mid-late 20s are some of his best stuff.  I revisited them on one of the LPs I retrieved from storage.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81rKQIEF9XL._SL1500_.jpg)

They have released them re-mastered in a complete CD box set - which if you like the music, as I do - is mandatory, IMO.

(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/b57de6ffc9787bf37ebfd5cbcdb8e2ca/5660486)

Yes, I have them but only on CD, unfortunately. Terrific stuff indeed. Another strong recommendation here for those who might be interested.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 20, 2020, 04:01:28 PM
Another LP from storage, I retrieved all my Gary McFarland records yesterday, along with about 25 other things. 

(https://img.discogs.com/bhQCiZzWunsXKa7SlTFsHeVTpxY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4655446-1541015446-6892.jpeg.jpg)

The October Suite
Gary McFarland, Steve Kuhn

    All compositions by Gary McFarland

    "Remember When" - 4:52
    "St. Tropez Shuffle" - 6:22
    "One I Could Have Loved" - 7:13
    "Traffic Patterns" - 7:38
    "Childhood Dreams" - 6:34
    "Open Highway" - 6:03

Recorded on October 14, 1966 (tracks 1-3) and November 1, 1966 (4-6).

    Steve Kuhn - piano
    Gary McFarland – arranger, conductor
    Isadore Cohen, Matthew Raimondi - violin (tracks 1-3)
    Al Brown - viola (tracks 1-3)
    Charles McCracken - cello (tracks 1-3)
    Don Ashworth, Joe Firrantello (aka Joe Farrell), Irving Horowitz, Gerald Sanfino - woodwinds (tracks 4-6)
    Corky Hale - harp (tracks 4-6)
    Ron Carter - bass
    Marty Morell – drums

QuoteThe Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "it is an anomaly in the Impulse catalog of the time in that it did not pursue the free jazz realms with the vengeance that most of the label's other acts did during that year".

I am a huge fan of Gary McFarland (and have all his records) - he was a very imaginative arranger, and composer - America the Beautiful is his major work, a suite for jazz band.  He played vibes, and his late career material went in a bossa/lounge direction, but his recordings were always done with first rate musicians, displaying witty and colorful arranging. There was always a protean intelligence at work, and a dazzling creativity underlying even his most pop influenced tracks. 

He died tragically in 1971 at the age of 38: "... after drinking a lethal dose of liquid methadone that, apparently, he had ingested while at Bar 55 at 55 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. It will never be known whether he took the drug on purpose or whether someone spiked his drink, as inexplicably, the police never investigated."

A documentary was made about his life, career and the mystery surrounding his death, This is Gary McFarland (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314096/). 

He attained a small somewhat "cult" following after working with Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, John Lewis, Stan Getz, Bob Brookmeyer, and Anita O'Day.

QuoteAs well as his own albums and arrangements for other musicians he composed the scores to the films Eye of the Devil (1966) and Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? (1971). By the end of the 1960s, he was moving away from jazz towards an often wistful or melancholy style of instrumental pop, as well as producing the recordings of other artists on his Skye Records label (run in partnership with Gábor Szabó and Cal Tjader until its bankruptcy in 1970).  (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland))

October Suite is one his more adventurous recordings, utilizing a string quartet (side one), woodwind quartet and harp (side two) along with a piano trio.  It is one of the few small group recordings in which he does not play the vibraphone, his contribution was writing and arranging the music. 

Steve Kuhn is a pianist in the Bill Evans mold, although a little more prickly:

QuoteIn his early years, Kuhn was known as an avant-garde jazz pianist. He was associated with bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Pete La Roca during the 1960s on several notable recordings: Three Waves, under Kuhn's leadership; Basra, under La Roca's leadership, which also featured Joe Henderson; and Sing Me Softly of the Blues under flugelhornist Art Farmer's leadership. Also notable was Kuhn's inclusion in the quartet on the landmark recording Sound Pieces led by saxophonist, composer, and arranger Oliver Nelson and including Ron Carter on bass and Grady Tate on drums. Among other critically acclaimed recordings there was The October Suite composed by Gary McFarland for Kuhn and an ensemble which included strings, woodwinds, and reeds. The Promises Kept album features Kuhn's compositions, piano, and strings.

For decades, Steve Kuhn has led all-star trios that have included such players as bassists Ron Carter and David Finck, and drummers Al Foster, Jack DeJohnette, and Joey Baron. He has had several live recordings made in some of New York's leading jazz clubs. (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kuhn))
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 22, 2020, 09:03:22 AM
Louis Hayes, The Real Thing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 23, 2020, 10:58:27 AM
Bill Frisell - Valentine

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/3572/products/Valentine_cover_4_1024x.jpg?v=1592324546)

New vinyl; it is surprisingly heavy.  Fantastic music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 25, 2020, 05:03:12 PM
Charles Mingus's Epitaph

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61c1dbFlpEL._SL1500_.jpg)

Along with Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, which received a long overdue resurrection in 2018, Mingus's Epitaph is a long form composition in the jazz idiom that rivals 20th century classical works.  Gunther Schuller did much of the spade work in 1990, when this album came out.  However, more importantly, Montreal-based musicologist Andrew Homzy finished the job wen he found the last missing piece of the puzzle.  Hornzy pieced the score together measure by measure from hundreds of yellowing manuscripts he found in a wooden trunk in Sue Mingus' living room.

This recording from 1990 is really good, but a new complete recording is mandatory. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 26, 2020, 04:09:15 AM
1959 was a very good year.  This morning's listening:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 27, 2020, 12:56:13 PM
Count Basie:


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Double LP of great Swing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Irons on September 28, 2020, 08:18:37 AM
Way Out West: Sonny Rollins.

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My wife has little interest in my music but loves "I'm an Old Cowhand". On vinyl Rollins is hard left and Ray Brown with Shelly Manne hard right. My old preamp had a mono switch which I used to correct the imbalance. I do not have that luxury at the present time so have to live with it. I use this recording to check that the left and right channels are configured correctly in my system.
I have just noticed that on CD Rollins is holding the cowboy hat in his right hand.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on September 29, 2020, 07:46:03 AM
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Miles Davis - Walkin'
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on October 05, 2020, 06:41:44 AM
Pop oriented production doesn't fit well with the music here. Bass sound on some of the tracks is just not my cup of tea, although the album is fairly listenable overall.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 05, 2020, 06:44:22 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 06, 2020, 01:47:50 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on October 06, 2020, 02:43:08 AM
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Verneri Pohjola (2020): The Dead Don't Dream
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 10, 2020, 07:53:25 AM
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Bird & Diz (LP)

Charlie Parker: alto saxophone; Dizzy Gillespie: trumpet; Thelonious Monk: piano; Curly Russell: bass; Buddy Rich: drums.

Rich has come under some criticism but as SAMUEL CHELL wrote in his All About Jazz review:

QuoteIn the liner notes, James Patrick laments the neglect this session has received, then observes that though Parker, Gillespie, Monk, and bassist Curley Russell "play beautifully," Buddy Rich is "intrusive" and should have been replaced by a "Max Roach, Roy Haynes, or Kenny Clarke. Fine, then we have another recording practically indistinguishable from the earlier Dials and Savoys.

Rich may be less flowing and propulsive than the aforementioned bebop drummers, but he's definitely not intrusive. In fact, his swing-era symmetry and unfailing metronomic pulse bring a different dimension to the music and complement, above all, Monk's clockwork. It begs credulity that a musician like Monk would have hung around the studio if he didn't appreciate Rich's time. (In the early '70s at Chicago's Plugged Nickel I saw Monk fire a drummer in the middle of the second tune of the first set!) In fact, the "world's greatest drummer convincingly retains his title on Rich Versus Roach (Mercury, 1959), unless you fault him for machine-like precision.

Which is not to say a case can't be made against him. After 1942 Sinatra never recorded with him and brought along his own drummer, Irv Cottler, even when performing with the Rich band. Rich didn't have the big back-beat, the "deep stroke," that Sinatra derived his energy and swing from. And Rich could be so symmetrical and metronomic, so unforgiving, that much of the expressive fire generated by a soloist working with an Art Blakey or Elvin Jones would fail to ignite in a small Rich ensemble.

But just when you start to question the eminence of Rich, you rediscover all of those Verve recordings he made, not just with Diz and Bird but with Lester Young, Nat Cole, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. All of it so tasteful, supportive, swinging and even elegant. The man encompasses as much of the tradition as Miles Davis, though he rarely gets his due.

Still, this LP is a wonderful session, their last, showcasing the music they created which made them famous in the first place.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 12, 2020, 08:13:53 AM
Quote from: Old San Antone on October 10, 2020, 07:53:25 AM
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Bird & Diz (LP)

Charlie Parker: alto saxophone; Dizzy Gillespie: trumpet; Thelonious Monk: piano; Curly Russell: bass; Buddy Rich: drums.

Rich has come under some criticism but as SAMUEL CHELL wrote in his All About Jazz review:

Still, this LP is a wonderful session, their last, showcasing the music they created which made them famous in the first place.

VG album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: j winter on October 14, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Some distinguished ladies on the list for today...

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on October 16, 2020, 08:44:40 PM
God the Son (Pharoah Sanders), what else?

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on October 21, 2020, 05:56:15 PM
Gearing up for Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (21st-century, big-band jazz) live from Cal Performances, and available on demand until mid-January. Argue is among the most interesting voices in contemporary jazz, often with a political or sociological bent. Tonight is a filmed version of his album, Real Enemies, from 2016, which explores conspiracy theories.

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Performance link is below:

https://calperformances.org/

--Bruce



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 22, 2020, 04:38:23 AM
Quote from: Brewski on October 21, 2020, 05:56:15 PM
Gearing up for Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (21st-century, big-band jazz) live from Cal Performances, and available on demand until mid-January. Argue is among the most interesting voices in contemporary jazz, often with a political or sociological bent. Tonight is a filmed version of his album, Real Enemies, from 2016, which explores conspiracy theories.

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Performance link is below:

https://calperformances.org/

--Bruce

If you want to hear an entire live performance of the work, it was produced on NPR in 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/v/KnyzVD2yEDw

Interesting music, although I'm not a fan of overt political messaging through musical performance.  I prefer Duke Ellington's more subtle, indirect, approach - which I also think is more lasting and effective over the long run.

Here's something I've been listening to this week.

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZBJ-MmTA-eU

Wynton Marsalis - Jazz in Marciac 2009




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 22, 2020, 05:45:47 AM
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Second spin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on October 23, 2020, 01:55:17 PM
That Ike Quebec looks great--would definitely want that on LP!

Also, just heard a snippet of this (Wynton Marsalis Ever Fonky Lowdown) on tsfjazz.com. Delightfully different, but apparently no CD available, just MP3.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 23, 2020, 05:12:55 PM
Quote from: André Le Nôtre on October 23, 2020, 01:55:17 PM
That Ike Quebec looks great--would definitely want that on LP!

Also, just heard a snippet of this (Wynton Marsalis Ever Fonky Lowdown) on tsfjazz.com. Delightfully different, but apparently no CD available, just MP3.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dO-7FrXFL._SS500_.jpg)

That Marsalis work is really interesting/good.  I've been listening to it on Spotify the past couple of weeks, off and on. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 23, 2020, 05:18:13 PM
On and off over a few days:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 23, 2020, 05:34:07 PM
Quote from: T. D. on October 23, 2020, 05:18:13 PM
On and off over a few days:
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Those Mosaic boxes are first rate.  I managed to get a bunch of them before they went OOP. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 23, 2020, 06:22:23 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on October 23, 2020, 05:34:07 PM
Those Mosaic boxes are first rate.  I managed to get a bunch of them before they went OOP.
Yes, they're excellent.
I resisted the Mosaic "big boxes" for a long time because of the large investment, preferred the 3-disc Selects. But once I purchased one or two I became a convert. I've actually bought more Mosaic product "in the secondary market" rather than when in print. Takes some patience.
The Farmer/Golson is a particularly good one.

And NP, first three discs of this big set:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on October 27, 2020, 04:54:20 AM
Quote from: George on October 22, 2020, 05:45:47 AM
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Second spin.
Lovely disk. His other CDs on Blue Note are also pretty good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 28, 2020, 05:00:56 AM
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Johnny Hodges - Passion Flower 1940-46 (https://www.allmusic.com/album/passion-flower-1940-46-mw0000644526)

QuoteAllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

For 42 years (with a four-year interruption), altoist Johnny Hodges was the top soloist in the Duke Ellington Orchestra. This excellent CD reissue has the eight selections (plus an alternate take) from Hodges's two Bluebird sessions from 1940-41; among the sidemen on such classics as "Day Dream," "Good Queen Bess," "Passion Flower," and "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" are either Cootie Williams or Ray Nance on trumpet, trombonist Lawrence Brown, and Ellington himself. In addition there are 13 selections by the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1940-46 that feature Hodges including "Don't Get Around Anymore," "In a Mellotone," "Warm Valley," "I Got It Bad," and "Come Sunday." This is classic music that has been intelligently repackaged.

I just started a biography of Johnny Hodges.  Great stuff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on October 28, 2020, 04:07:33 PM
I've been listening to Monk's Brilliant Corners quite deeply for a few weeks now. It's probably been a decade since I've listened to it and I was surprised at how rich this music is. Rollins is incredible of course, and I seem to have a deeper appreciation and more connection for how he and Monk were interacting on this music. What creative partners they were. I also didn't know just how difficult and advanced the title track was at the time....fascinating to learn about how that was dealt with. 

Happy to gain some new insight and appreciation for the language of this album.

Allan
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 28, 2020, 06:04:04 PM
Quote from: toledobass on October 28, 2020, 04:07:33 PM
I've been listening to Monk's Brilliant Corners quite deeply for a few weeks now. It's probably been a decade since I've listened to it and I was surprised at how rich this music is. Rollins is incredible of course, and I seem to have a deeper appreciation and more connection for how he and Monk were interacting on this music. What creative partners they were. I also didn't know just how difficult and advanced the title track was at the time....fascinating to learn about how that was dealt with. 

Happy to gain some new insight and appreciation for the language of this album.

Allan

Brilliant Corners is a great album.  I've always liked Sonny Rollins, he's probably my favorite sax player.  I've been listening to a lot of his work from the '50s and '60s. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 30, 2020, 04:38:08 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on October 28, 2020, 06:04:04 PM
Brilliant Corners is a great album.  I've always liked Sonny Rollins, he's probably my favorite sax player.  I've been listening to a lot of his work from the '50s and '60s.

Vol.2 and Contemporary Leaders are excellent.

Max Gordon, owner of Village Vanguard, in his memoir named Miles as his favorite player and Rollins for the most memorable performance.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on October 31, 2020, 09:56:44 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 31, 2020, 10:27:57 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 30, 2020, 04:38:08 PM
Vol.2 and Contemporary Leaders are excellent.

Max Gordon, owner of Village Vanguard, in his memoir named Miles as his favorite player and Rollins for the most memorable performance.

Yes, those are two great records by Sonny Rollins, but so many in that period were. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on October 31, 2020, 10:28:52 AM
Quote from: Tom 1960 on October 31, 2020, 09:56:44 AM
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Grnt Green - fantastic guitarist - those Blue Note sessions are so good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on October 31, 2020, 10:55:45 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 31, 2020, 02:35:54 PM
Learning for the first time that the corner of Grant and Green is in San Francisco and that cover photo is entirely real.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 01, 2020, 09:19:55 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 01, 2020, 03:36:47 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 01, 2020, 04:45:25 PM
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Some lesser-known Blue Notes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on November 01, 2020, 06:58:10 PM
Dizzy Reese has a funny name, a combination of two baseball commentators, Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese - whom you probably won't have heard of unless you are of a certain age.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 02, 2020, 12:14:17 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 02, 2020, 02:18:23 PM
New arrivals (used purchases) that had been on the want list:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on November 02, 2020, 06:18:39 PM
Quote from: T. D. on November 02, 2020, 02:18:23 PM
New arrivals (used purchases) that had been on the want list:
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Great band!  Looks interesting.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on November 03, 2020, 07:56:19 PM
Close Encounters, Teddy Edwards and Houston Person

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Focus, Stan Getz

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 12, 2020, 09:47:40 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 12, 2020, 02:12:00 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 12, 2020, 03:28:36 PM
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Purchased this off Amazon with a $5 discount. Unfortunately did not know this was a CD-R! Well that sucks. I missed that. Phenomenal album. Incredible playing by Tolliver which is an understatement.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 13, 2020, 08:50:00 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 13, 2020, 04:26:06 PM
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Ordered this in early September as part of a big group transaction, just received.
Starting out with Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet) and Homage to Charles Parker.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on November 14, 2020, 02:40:48 PM
Just heard on TSF Jazz (Paris Station)--very interesting! John Surman/Jack DeJohnette - The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on November 15, 2020, 08:24:51 AM
Greg Foat: Symphonie Pacifique
(//)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 15, 2020, 09:25:26 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 15, 2020, 10:20:19 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 16, 2020, 06:35:46 AM
Quote from: Tom 1960 on November 01, 2020, 03:36:47 PM
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Good disc!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 16, 2020, 10:32:03 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 16, 2020, 06:35:46 AM
Good disc!
Somehow escaped my radar till recently. Big fan of Eric Alexander.

Now playing:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 16, 2020, 11:26:38 AM
Quote from: T. D. on November 16, 2020, 10:56:57 AM
Looks good! I have a lot of Hope titles, missed out on that one and now it's too expensive.
Ahh but it just became available on the "O" Jazz Forum and I just scooped it up for $19. It is however available on Spotify if you have that installed on either your smart phone, laptop or desktop.  Very fine release indeed. Elmo really gets to shine on this release.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 16, 2020, 12:07:36 PM
Quote from: Tom 1960 on November 16, 2020, 11:26:38 AM
Ahh but it just became available on the "O" Jazz Forum and I just scooped it up for $19. It is however available on Spotify if you have that installed on either your smart phone, laptop or desktop.  Very fine release indeed. Elmo really gets to shine on this release.

[Edited] Damn, I got home from work and realized that I own a copy! Either creeping senescence or a sign that I have accumulated too many recordings. Lucky I didn't buy another (a mistake I've only made once). Going to listen to it now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 16, 2020, 08:21:54 PM
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Johnny Smith - Sentimental Mood (1954)
Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on November 16, 2020, 09:37:44 PM
Quote from: T. D. on November 16, 2020, 10:56:57 AM
Looks good! I have a lot of Hope titles, missed out on that one and now it's too expensive.

Ditto

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Also played some Horace Silver and Lester Young. And Sonny Rollins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on November 17, 2020, 05:44:31 AM
Shoot, I didn't need to know about another "Mulligan Meets..." album with a great artist! I don't actually much love his encounter with Monk but Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges...that is a classic.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on November 18, 2020, 02:53:27 AM
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Songs by Sylvia Syms (1952)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 18, 2020, 10:36:41 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on November 19, 2020, 06:32:36 AM
One of my favourite jazz purchases this year. Free, modal jazz from the early 70s.

(https://www.realgonemusic.com/storage/post-images/848064010852.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1596908178969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 19, 2020, 06:35:07 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 16, 2020, 08:21:54 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/jDNlmashONgyvWtvm8ZgkX_at3Y=/fit-in/399x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4023632-1352680315-7422.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/aw_pCGgIWWI_AwyIoy3NFpCoI5U=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9087938-1488061847-3643.jpeg.jpg)

Johnny Smith - Sentimental Mood (1954)
Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)

The both are great albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 19, 2020, 08:50:37 AM
Quote from: Artem on November 19, 2020, 06:32:36 AM
One of my favourite jazz purchases this year. Free, modal jazz from the early 70s.

(https://www.realgonemusic.com/storage/post-images/848064010852.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1596908178969)

Excellent, thanks for mentioning this (emphasis added, big area of interest for me). Will have to purchase...well, as soon as I get that new Sam Rivers title, Braids on NoBusiness.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 19, 2020, 09:47:42 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/5vwh-TADgZaDAgJgkkU_pVXJyhI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3093347-1583068558-6624.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on November 24, 2020, 12:44:56 AM
The Poets are Gathering

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71skCQzZxKL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on November 28, 2020, 09:41:28 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LLjH1SheL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on December 05, 2020, 09:30:54 AM
Boy, this is some beautiful music....

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81zfyf9iYZL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: modified on December 07, 2020, 11:43:01 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/OwhqSOHsewR5Ebj9Hi0BrBKGi0Y=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6933473-1429832374-5165.jpeg.jpg)
Wolfgang Haffner (2015): Kind of Cool
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Post by: Karl Henning on December 15, 2020, 01:07:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/7ikQoJcAF54
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 16, 2020, 07:25:05 PM
(https://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/9ba41c921cdf04d7a1f8ba379f9ced20/1775655)

Stan Kenton - Standards In Silhouette (1959)

loving the sort of Miles Ahead feel this album has
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Post by: bhodges on December 18, 2020, 11:21:39 AM
Melissa Dunphy: A Slice of Pie (Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia / Dominick DiOrio, conductor) - Just released today, a charming, jazz-inflected short piece for chorus, trumpet, bass, and drums, with text by Feminista Jones. To my ears, perfect for the holidays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU7MR7KWbb8

And here's the poem:

A Slice of Pie
by Feminista Jones

My apple pie is sweeter
I use the same cinnamon and nutmeg
The same apples, every time

When eyes close
And you relish it with delight
Her pie is peach

And you convince her that you love it
Love her
Just the same

But her peaches are in season
Now, at last
When autumn comes

You come calling
For my sweeter apple pie
And I'm the fool who believes your lies

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: staxomega on December 18, 2020, 11:34:11 AM
Two in my heavy rotation to round out the year:

(https://i.imgur.com/GdfK5Ln.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/5GbLS20.jpg)

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Post by: SimonNZ on December 18, 2020, 08:12:48 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51J08FG97KL._AC_.jpg)

Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty (1988)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 19, 2020, 11:56:41 AM
Even not on their best recording Miles Davis band sounds ten times better than many others around the same time.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Gd8rvJupL._SX522_.jpg)
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Post by: George on December 19, 2020, 01:48:01 PM
Quote from: Artem on December 19, 2020, 11:56:41 AM
Even not on their best recording Miles Davis band sounds ten times better than many others around the same time.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Gd8rvJupL._SX222_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71mGQIIZr7L._SL500_.jpg)

Now enjoying another great album from that period.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 19, 2020, 05:37:16 PM
Some of my recent stuff:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qH%2BLeONQL._SL1000_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FhRJtn3IL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61z3HLn9GqL.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FQPD90KFL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ix9bvFZpL._SL1116_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/917PUsT003L._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 05:01:19 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61VhOhM12PL._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 20, 2020, 05:41:40 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 05:01:19 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61VhOhM12PL._SX355_.jpg)

I imagine that's a good one :)
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 05:55:49 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on December 20, 2020, 05:41:40 PM
I imagine that's a good one :)

Oh yes. Highly recommended. I love near everything Gary Burton has done but every time he works with Corea there's a special chemistry.

Do you know the Crystal Silence album? Half of the tracks on that double live album are taken from it. And classic though the studio album is I think many of the live versions even better.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 20, 2020, 06:03:44 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 05:55:49 PM
Oh yes. Highly recommended. I love near everything Gary Burton has done but every time he works with Corea there's a special chemistry.

Do you know the Crystal Silence album? Half of the tracks on that double live album are taken from it. And classic though the studio album is I think many of the live versions even better.

Yes, I have Crystal Silence - the only recording by them that I own as a matter of fact. But based on it, and of course on other music I have by them separately, I figured this one would be well worth checking out. I had never heard of it.
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 06:12:08 PM
I don't know if they still make it but ECM put out as one of their 4-cd budget boxes one of Crystal Silence, the equally fine Duet album and the 2 cds of the Zurich concert album:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61dRwYyfroL._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on December 20, 2020, 06:24:11 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 20, 2020, 06:12:08 PM
I don't know if they still make it but ECM put out as one of their 4-cd budget boxes one of Crystal Silence, the equally fine Duet album and the 2 cds of the Zurich concert album:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61dRwYyfroL._SL1200_.jpg)

Thank you, sir!
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Post by: modified on December 22, 2020, 03:38:57 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/-aeNCmDY6WJ_YA0wV-CkV1esG0A=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6921965-1429562273-7386.jpeg.jpg)
Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet (2000): Abstractions
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Post by: George on December 23, 2020, 02:42:36 PM
(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/0f3db1d1-688b-4aff-9c96-9b7f85da79fd_1.a2a3ef979f5504af6b1ecb7e39ca0c7c.jpeg?odnWidth=612&odnHeight=612&odnBg=ffffff)
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Post by: George on December 23, 2020, 04:21:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FbPQDT1sL._SY455_.jpg)

More Miles. This one cooks!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on December 23, 2020, 06:11:28 PM
Quote from: George on December 23, 2020, 04:21:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FbPQDT1sL._SY455_.jpg)

More Miles. This one cooks!

It sure does. Miles is playing as if he's possessed in this concert (which is the same as My Funny Valentine of course --- another great record).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 23, 2020, 06:29:16 PM
(https://musikerkabelladen.de/WebRoot/Store7/Shops/193bde29-123f-4693-bdf8-aa87781554bd/5926/F814/AA58/F441/4993/0A48/3521/65CB/mfsl1431-milesdavis-myfunnyvalentine.jpg)

Speaking of which, now enjoying this!
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 26, 2020, 03:11:36 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bT%2BfvQdYL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on January 05, 2021, 10:26:39 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/8VlZBmr1vtspuIj3HhHDNvyqdiQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1974928-1402135939-2495.jpeg.jpg)
Dave Holland (1978): Emerald Tears
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Post by: Mookalafalas on January 08, 2021, 02:01:58 AM
Quote from: Brian on November 17, 2020, 05:44:31 AM
Shoot, I didn't need to know about another "Mulligan Meets..." album with a great artist! I don't actually much love his encounter with Monk but Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges...that is a classic.

  Yeah, I tried to like Mulligan Meets Monk for years, but it never became a favorite...

  Playing a new discovery (for me, not new by any means): Chico Freeman
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Tom 1960 on January 13, 2021, 11:11:49 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kbHM5sFgL._SX425_.jpg)
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Post by: BWV 1080 on January 13, 2021, 01:50:31 PM
Quote from: George on December 19, 2020, 01:48:01 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71mGQIIZr7L._SL500_.jpg)

Now enjoying another great album from that period.

But that's my favorite Miles album!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 15, 2021, 03:58:28 PM
Wallace Roney.
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2021, 04:09:05 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41lnjHed%2BbL._SY445_SX342_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

James Emery - Spectral Domains (1997)
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Post by: T. D. on January 15, 2021, 04:39:13 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/twqZLh9NqmAl2TNY-o90EciHKKk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2990827-1364623952-5302.jpeg.jpg)
With Booker Little (t), also George Coleman (ts), Ray Draper (tuba).
(https://img.discogs.com/eYQxDuqzk_Foyd7MgBmr0-LXqPs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-16277949-1606459072-8351.jpeg.jpg)
This new reissue just arrived after over 1.5 months in the post.
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Post by: Mookalafalas on January 15, 2021, 11:10:16 PM
1.5 months! That's a long wait. I have one live Miles Davis album with Sam Rivers (the only recording of him and Miles, I'm pretty sure). Man is it good.

I'm playing this, with great pleasure.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81huQv-TM1L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 17, 2021, 06:38:38 PM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on January 15, 2021, 11:10:16 PM
1.5 months! That's a long wait. I have one live Miles Davis album with Sam Rivers (the only recording of him and Miles, I'm pretty sure). Man is it good.

I'm playing this, with great pleasure.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81huQv-TM1L._SS500_.jpg)

Tokyo? I love both the albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on January 18, 2021, 03:37:49 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 17, 2021, 06:38:38 PM
Tokyo? I love both the albums.

  Yes, Tokyo! Originally I had a 2fer LP from the old days, although as I recall, the other disk had a different lineup. Now I just have the Tokyo on CD. Is there another? 
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Post by: Artem on January 22, 2021, 12:46:57 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DgR5iV1OL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2021, 12:56:32 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YuMhzEpHL._SY355_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pupdOQcgL._SL1500_.jpg)

Miles Davis - 1958

after long having owned the edition on the right for many years now owning that on the left
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Post by: rickardg on January 23, 2021, 10:55:45 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71clgAUNFQL._SL1425_.jpg)

Joshua Redman Quartet
MoodSwing

This is great!

I also spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to catch up with this thread, now i think I'll be off to listen to some Wynton Marsalis (hat tip to San Antone for his posts back in February 2019...)
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Post by: Old San Antone on January 23, 2021, 06:50:53 PM
Quote from: Artem on January 22, 2021, 12:46:57 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DgR5iV1OL.jpg)

Quote from: SimonNZ on January 23, 2021, 12:56:32 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YuMhzEpHL._SY355_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pupdOQcgL._SL1500_.jpg)

Miles Davis - 1958

after long having owned the edition on the right for many years now owning that on the left
Quote from: rickardg on January 23, 2021, 10:55:45 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71clgAUNFQL._SL1425_.jpg)

Joshua Redman Quartet
MoodSwing

This is great!

I also spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to catch up with this thread, now i think I'll be off to listen to some Wynton Marsalis (hat tip to San Antone for his posts back in February 2019...)

Some really good things showing up here.  Of course I know the Miles but the other two I need to check out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 24, 2021, 05:36:45 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/Qj2WtTeUgEaNdt7NjVwSm085QJ0=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1488174-1255652064.jpeg.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2021, 06:52:10 PM
^Love that album. It was, in fact the first Miles album I ever owned. Haven't played it in a while so gave it another listen on the way home from work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: rickardg on January 24, 2021, 11:51:19 PM
Joshua Redman Quartet
RoundAgain

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Apparently the sequel to MoodSwing, the same personnel twenty-some years later, not bad, particularly Silly Little Love Song, but I think I prefer MoodSwing as an album.
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Post by: Mirror Image on January 25, 2021, 08:53:03 AM
Quote from: George on January 24, 2021, 05:36:45 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/Qj2WtTeUgEaNdt7NjVwSm085QJ0=/fit-in/400x400/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1488174-1255652064.jpeg.jpg)

I always had a difficult time getting into those more transitional Miles albums, especially from the acoustic to electric period albums like Filles de Kilimanjaro and Miles in the Sky, but there are some good pieces on both of these albums. Many people loved In a Silent Way and I would agree that it's quite good, but Bitches Brew is an album that truly reinvented Miles and pushed him into even wider acclaim.

In fact, I wrote a little review on Amazon on Bitches Brew:

Title: One Of Miles Davis' Most Important Albums

I think at this juncture not much needs to be said critically about "Bitches Brew". There are many people that loathe this album while there are others that consider it one of Davis' masterpieces. For me, I lie firmly in the latter camp. I loved "Bitches Brew" on first-listen, which was probably 25 years ago. It is difficult to fathom this album has been around for 50 years now (March of this year marked its 50th anniversary). For those that haven't heard "Bitches Brew", please stop reading this review and just go listen to it. I can guarantee you one thing and that is you've never heard anything like at this point in time. The fact that it still sounds as relevant and fresh day is a testament to creativity and ingenuity of Miles Davis, but also Teo Macero who is very much a member of the band as it was his ear that helped shape this music and give it structure. My understanding is Miles brought in only a few sketches for the music, but wanted to keep the music spontaneous and lively with a thrilling, fly by the seat of your pants improvisational approach. Make no mistake there are themes in each of these pieces and each of themes are basically almost like whispers or clouds of smoke as they vanish quickly. There are some themes that stick around for a longer time like in the piece "John McLaughlin" for example.

I do want to talk a little about the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab hybrid SACD. While it sounds great throughout, there is some distortion in the last 50 seconds or so in "Pharaoh's Dance". I'm not sure if this is a tape issue or what as it's not heard in the 2018 Japanese remaster from the Quadraphonic hybrid SACD release or the 1998 remaster. I found this rather disappointing, but thankfully the rest of this MFSL doesn't have this issue. It was pointed out to me that it might be a tape issue, which is probably what it is or sounds like to me as well.

If you don't own "Bitches Brew", I suggest starting with the 1998 remaster to get your 'feet wet' so to speak. If you dig this album and want to explore more, there is a box set dedicated to these entire sessions called "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" and it's worth its weight in gold. I can't recommend the MSFL hybrid SACD for the afore mentioned reason, but there are so many other worthy masterings that I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 25, 2021, 10:56:23 AM
Terence Blanchard.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 01, 2021, 07:34:22 AM
Thomasz Stanko.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on February 03, 2021, 04:26:37 PM
I am listening to Howling wolf probably my best blues old rock composer and that not all I order an LP mint of Howling wolf whit all the success song, love Howling wolf, he super  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 04, 2021, 12:56:58 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Charles_Mingus_Blue_Bird.jpg/220px-Charles_Mingus_Blue_Bird.jpg)

Charles Mingus - Blue Bird (1970)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 05, 2021, 11:03:04 AM
Very enjoyable disk.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/719ksRyIL7L._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2021, 07:01:01 PM
Played that Charles Mingus Blue Bird album for or five times over the last few days. Not sure how I'd been unaware of it until just recently.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tgs41UgkL._SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

1965
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 08, 2021, 06:57:39 AM
Quote from: Artem on February 05, 2021, 11:03:04 AM
Very enjoyable disk.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/719ksRyIL7L._SX522_.jpg)

+1.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 08, 2021, 06:58:18 AM
Mark Turner.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 11, 2021, 01:47:25 PM
R.I.P. Chick Corea, Massachusetts boy

https://www.youtube.com/v/YSSVk5_Lhrs
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 11, 2021, 03:37:58 PM
Ah damn. And I was just talking about his albums with Gary Burton on the previous page.

playing now, a first listen to this:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51he39ELwaL._SX355_.jpg)

RIP
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 13, 2021, 06:48:16 PM
On the theme "favorite album covers"
(https://img.discogs.com/sTXycCAL3v5_ozVpX9CXx_igjmQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3818793-1527698706-1137.jpeg.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81xBOts9HSL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 13, 2021, 08:32:52 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/YNkpWL-YXUH_9tVorYlnU3fZjQw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9432619-1480482672-2751.jpeg.jpg)

1969
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 19, 2021, 11:37:48 AM
Love the cover art on that Corea's album.

I listened to this disk and realised I need more Montgomery in my jazz collection. Such a fine recording.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/810Wm%2B-5yPL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 19, 2021, 06:32:17 PM
Very good album, and his debut album from a major label.
The subsequent album, Portrait of Wes, is excellent as well.

Quote from: Artem on February 19, 2021, 11:37:48 AM
Love the cover art on that Corea's album.

I listened to this disk and realised I need more Montgomery in my jazz collection. Such a fine recording.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/810Wm%2B-5yPL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 23, 2021, 10:48:44 AM
First time listening to this highly praised disk. Great concept, but it felt underwhelming. Duo and solo performances were really great (Isfahan is so beautiful), but in larger group musicians felt uninspired. Maybe it's just a wrong first impression. We'll see.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ciwGjEROL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 24, 2021, 11:43:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/7uk4Je_mBsI27D3mdHDKSTEsUsI=/fit-in/600x602/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1335618-1468557024-3041.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Stürmisch Bewegt on March 07, 2021, 05:30:15 AM
Haven't heard this in a very long (too long) time.  It's genius from the man whose life was taken from us way too soon.  As if that wasn't enough, many of his original tapes were lost in the 2008 Universal fire. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on March 07, 2021, 06:03:28 AM
Quote from: Artem on February 23, 2021, 10:48:44 AM
First time listening to this highly praised disk. Great concept, but it felt underwhelming. Duo and solo performances were really great (Isfahan is so beautiful), but in larger group musicians felt uninspired. Maybe it's just a wrong first impression. We'll see.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ciwGjEROL.jpg)

I am a big fan of Joe Henderson's late career Verve recordings, including this one, his first.  My favorite is probably his take on Porgy & Bess.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2021, 08:37:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51GQ1dUtF6L._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 15, 2021, 08:21:51 AM
Mark Shim. My favorite tenor.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 15, 2021, 05:21:12 PM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4214924890_16.jpg)

Just arrived. I touted it on the New Releases thread.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 16, 2021, 11:10:54 AM
Would be interesting to hear your opinion of it. Looks like a very interesting release.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 16, 2021, 06:32:17 PM
It's good, but there have been some really excellent Horace Tapscott releases the last couple of years. I haven't enjoyed this release quite as much as the last 3 under Tapscott's name (2 on Dark Tree, one on Soul Jazz). Don't regret purchasing it, but for instance the next-to-last tune is a bass solo that I didn't love and the final tune includes vocals by Miranda's father that weren't fully to my taste.
In my experience the physical CD and vinyl of these releases sell out quickly, so if one doesn't "do downloads" the ordering window may not stay open for long.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 21, 2021, 07:13:16 PM
Taking a bit of a break from classical.

NP: Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette - s/t

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/26/99/0060251779926_600.jpg)

An album that has remained absolutely vital to me and my existence. Rypdal is a huge influence on my own guitar playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on March 21, 2021, 07:47:32 PM
The Miles Davis Complete Quintet Sessions 1965-1968

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71dJ3kGuihL._SY679_.jpg)

This image does not represent my set, which is the original "metal" box.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2021, 07:52:44 PM
There was a couple of those metal boxes that looked like they might have started rusting pretty quickly.

played six or seven Dave Brubeck albums last night, including:

(https://img.discogs.com/WxxYsc8fG-HvZpHyWBybT6RwfoQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1363020-1331328126.jpeg.jpg) (https://img.discogs.com/yFV0kR73HsoSzy_r2h8Aa97A1lI=/fit-in/600x606/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4579942-1592513579-3543.jpeg.jpg)

played today:

(https://img.discogs.com/-UOSgpqvYTYbtV3PwMUNhsyko90=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2500304-1610735482-3949.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 21, 2021, 08:20:22 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on March 21, 2021, 07:47:32 PM
The Miles Davis Complete Quintet Sessions 1965-1968

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71dJ3kGuihL._SY679_.jpg)

This image does not represent my set, which is the original "metal" box.

I own all of those Miles metal boxes (or actually spines) and I absolutely love them. That particular set you're listening to is my favorite of them all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 21, 2021, 08:23:07 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 21, 2021, 07:52:44 PM
There was a couple of those metal boxes that looked like they might have started rusting pretty quickly.

All of mine look fine. It's the Bill Evans Complete Verve box set that was originally issued that became a 'rust box'. :) I own this set as well and mine isn't as rusty as many other ones that I've seen online.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 21, 2021, 08:34:58 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 21, 2021, 08:20:22 PM
I own all of those Miles metal boxes (or actually spines) and I absolutely love them. That particular set you're listening to is my favorite of them all.

I certainly understand the attraction of the Second Quintet material, but getting to hear at length Gil Evans teaching the orchestra all the tricky bits for Miles Ahead made that one the essential box (as opposed to simply owning the standard albums) for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on March 21, 2021, 08:50:18 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 21, 2021, 08:34:58 PM
I certainly understand the attraction of the Second Quintet material, but getting to hear at length Gil Evans teaching the orchestra all the tricky bits for Miles Ahead made that one the essential box (as opposed to simply owning the standard albums) for me.

Listening to rehearsals is fine one-time, but after that, I don't really find myself wanting to listen to that kind of stuff again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 25, 2021, 07:42:54 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Mng4QrO9L.jpg)

First spin.
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Post by: SimonNZ on March 26, 2021, 04:17:53 PM
^That's one I've heard only a few times and not recently. I should give it another go. What did you make of it?

playing now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LJg8xUDmL._SX466_.jpg)

Paul Desmond and Jim Hall - First Place Again (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 26, 2021, 05:44:56 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 26, 2021, 04:17:53 PM
^That's one I've heard only a few times and not recently. I should give it another go. What did you make of it?

Wild, dark stuff. I liked it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2021, 03:51:55 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/C9tUu2cDm0ilGgB7-0bzg20Ok2E=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5544185-1396118656-8218.jpeg.jpg)

Fred Hersch - Everybody's Song But My Own (2010)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 28, 2021, 11:22:02 AM
The Billie Holiday Songbook


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PDIAAMXQTQpR9tJ5/s-l500.jpg)


There is lots of well earned applause on this wonderful album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 31, 2021, 10:10:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41fGV5tp0mL._SY355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/818U%2BUEIZxL._SL1200_.jpg)

learning for the first time that they had to simultaneously use two different sets of microphones at the recording of Monk's Music to capture both a mono and stereo masters and as a result the two mixes despite being the same performances are said to be quite distinct in atmosphere and balance of instruments
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2021, 02:58:43 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/I5WesVAUVYL-y9g-5U7e8zNGe1c=/fit-in/500x447/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2294800-1360137643-7590.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on April 09, 2021, 04:00:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 09, 2021, 02:58:43 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/I5WesVAUVYL-y9g-5U7e8zNGe1c=/fit-in/500x447/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2294800-1360137643-7590.jpeg.jpg)

Would be interested in comments! (Beautiful cover.)

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2021, 04:59:10 PM
Quote from: Brewski on April 09, 2021, 04:00:19 PM
Would be interested in comments! (Beautiful cover.)

--Bruce

Highly recommended.

Its a double live album from 1989 that you wont realize is a live album until some way in you hear the first applause after a prolonged solo, so well captured and balanced in studio quality sound are the musicians and so well rehearsed and composed seems the music. Its a dream team quartet with John Carter's prominent clarinet replacing the more familiar sax role playing music that feels like it flirts with or might become avant-guard at any moment but instead is held somehow into older blues-groove patterns, even in its more faster and ferocious passages and more complex time signatures, and hints or quotes of sixties hard bop though much longer-form and distinctly modern. Great as pianists Tapscott's performance is here I'm especially impressed by the  virtuoso drumming of Andrew Cyrille.

edit: I see now it was recorded somewhere called the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood, which I wouldn't have thought sounded like a venue that would capture studio quality sound.

And I see that the Penguin Guide awarded it a crown. They draw attention to it representing the darker side of the West Coast's "cool", which strikes me as an odd thing to say of an album from 1989 not 1959.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 11, 2021, 04:17:33 PM
Huh. I was expecting someone to push back at my largely unlearned description of the album as misrepresenting it.

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Te642VVKL._SY580_.jpg)

Andrew Cyrille on drums again, as well as providing the opening "mouth percussion"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on April 12, 2021, 11:05:41 AM
Not much music, but a great discussion

https://www.youtube.com/v/BFNsywQOW1I&t=7s
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 13, 2021, 07:35:56 AM
Quote from: Brewski on April 09, 2021, 04:00:19 PM
Would be interested in comments! (Beautiful cover.)

--Bruce

Also highly recommend it. I'm not impartial, being a big admirer of Horace Tapscott, whose recordings generally are hard to find. The Dark Tree is the most commonly recommended Tapscott and has been in and out of print. It was the first of his recordings I acquired and I rank it as one of the best.
No beef with Simon's post except for the corrected error re. live recording.
Only caution is that there's a really strong groove or vamp or ostinato figure (not sure what to call it) that you might find a bit repetitious at times; not that surprising for a live recording.

If you like the recording, I recommend Steven Isoardi's book (warning, oop) and Bertrand Gastaut's reissue label, both of the same title.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on April 13, 2021, 08:16:22 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 09, 2021, 04:59:10 PM
Highly recommended.

Its a double live album from 1989 that you wont realize is a live album until some way in you hear the first applause after a prolonged solo, so well captured and balanced in studio quality sound are the musicians and so well rehearsed and composed seems the music. Its a dream team quartet with John Carter's prominent clarinet replacing the more familiar sax role playing music that feels like it flirts with or might become avant-guard at any moment but instead is held somehow into older blues-groove patterns, even in its more faster and ferocious passages and more complex time signatures, and hints or quotes of sixties hard bop though much longer-form and distinctly modern. Great as pianists Tapscott's performance is here I'm especially impressed by the  virtuoso drumming of Andrew Cyrille.

edit: I see now it was recorded somewhere called the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood, which I wouldn't have thought sounded like a venue that would capture studio quality sound.

And I see that the Penguin Guide awarded it a crown. They draw attention to it representing the darker side of the West Coast's "cool", which strikes me as an odd thing to say of an album from 1989 not 1959.

Quote from: T. D. on April 13, 2021, 07:35:56 AM
Also highly recommend it. I'm not impartial, being a big admirer of Horace Tapscott, whose recordings generally are hard to find. The Dark Tree is the most commonly recommended Tapscott and has been in and out of print. It was the first of his recordings I acquired and I rank it as one of the best.
No beef with Simon's post except for the corrected error re. live recording.

Apparently I missed the memo about Tapscott! But a little research, plus some listening on YouTube, have turned me into a fan, so thank you both.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2021, 10:48:16 PM
today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71hu%2Bblo31L._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q8nhAwEAL._SX466_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51cB%2BcjxM5L._SX355_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71MmXDuW0VL._AC_UL600_SR600,600_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 23, 2021, 05:47:08 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/kYHIIkF82nL8f-JT2nxj3WaZ72o=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2095367-1521005874-4262.jpeg.jpg)

Joe Henderson - Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on April 25, 2021, 06:08:18 PM
Another very firm endorsement of The Dark Tree from me. :) I think it's the only Tapscott I own, but yeah, it's excellent.

Quote from: SimonNZ on April 13, 2021, 10:48:16 PM
today:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71hu%2Bblo31L._SX425_.jpg)

I always put this and Maiden Voyage together in my mind as a pair. I rate Maiden Voyage slightly higher because of George Coleman's very fine contributions, but this one is superb too.

TD - catching up on some Nate Wooley:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AL6Hqm5tL.jpg)  (https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cf434cd-600.jpg)

Nate Wooley Sextet: (Sit In) The Throne of Friendship (2013)
Nate Wooley: Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan) (2017)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on April 30, 2021, 01:15:40 PM
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/coverart/2010/matthewhalsall_onthego_bl.jpg)
Matthew Halsall (2011): On The Go.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 01, 2021, 12:57:30 PM
The Cecil Taylor Unit: Live in Bologna


(https://img.discogs.com/wNjy5e1BR1NVxjzw1iKRCcUTQqo=/fit-in/301x301/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-547900-1130086743.jpeg.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/EUNHFYDtWpa2DZoW3tIELQLN_t4=/fit-in/600x450/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-547900-1300980911.jpeg.jpg)   (https://img.discogs.com/20R_-0mfaV9rcWVdZEsRxyvp6kE=/fit-in/600x450/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-547900-1300980920.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Stürmisch Bewegt on May 01, 2021, 05:26:41 PM
I've never outgrown my affection for June Christy and not expecting to, nor do I agree with most - actually I reckon all - jazz authorities that her silken voice was best paired with big bands.  I sure enjoy the more intimate settings with this group, recorded early in her career; the Guarnieris are not exceptional, but they are hand in glove and the spotlight is ever on where it belongs. 

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 02, 2021, 10:34:51 AM
The Genius of Louis Armstrong


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bAUAAOSwJmVZw5u4/s-l1600.jpg)   (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/eqEAAOSwwVpZw5va/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 02, 2021, 10:36:22 AM
Quote from: Stürmisch Bewegt on May 01, 2021, 05:26:41 PM
I've never outgrown my affection for June Christy and not expecting to, nor do I agree with most - actually I reckon all - jazz authorities that her silken voice was best paired with big bands.  I sure enjoy the more intimate settings with this group, recorded early in her career; the Guarnieris are not exceptional, but they are hand in glove and the spotlight is ever on where it belongs.

(https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24876.0;attach=73394;image)


My ignorance of the jazz world is boundless. I will investigate June Christy on line if I can.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 02, 2021, 12:51:12 PM
Recently, on Spotify:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aAteXI0jL._SL1500_.jpg)

Nate Wooley (t); Matthew Shipp (p); Whit Dickey (d) [Wooley plays only on CD2]

And yesterday:

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1415791172_10.jpg)

Amir ElSaffar (t, vocal, santour); Ole Mathisen (ts, ss); Tareq Abboushi (buzuq); Zafer Tawil (oud, perc); Carlo DeRosa (b); Nasheet Waits (d)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 02, 2021, 02:09:54 PM
Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YnoAAOSwVFhfsXxS/s-l1600.jpg)


Truly wonderful music making for the ages.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Stürmisch Bewegt on May 03, 2021, 04:13:02 AM
Quote from: aligreto on May 02, 2021, 10:36:22 AM
My ignorance of the jazz world is boundless. I will investigate June Christy on line if I can.

A course of action, aligreto, I recommend.  Some place her (I number myself among those) alongside such jazz diva royalty as Vaughan, Holiday, and Fitzgerald; most unfortunately do not.  She wields a tiny shade of vibrato to wonderful effect and a sure and nuanced understanding of her songs.  Consider starting with her acknowledged hit albums: Something Cool, The Misty Miss Christy, and The Song is June. Later in her career she veers toward darker material, to poignant, overpowering effect.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 03, 2021, 04:30:08 AM
Quote from: Stürmisch Bewegt on May 03, 2021, 04:13:02 AM
A course of action, aligreto, I recommend.  Some place her (I number myself among those) alongside such jazz diva royalty as Vaughan, Holiday, and Fitzgerald; most unfortunately do not.  She wields a tiny shade of vibrato to wonderful effect and a sure and nuanced understanding of her songs.  Consider starting with her acknowledged hit albums: Something Cool, The Misty Miss Christy, and The Song is June. Later in her career she veers toward darker material, to poignant, overpowering effect.

Thank you very much for those recommendations.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 03, 2021, 02:31:24 PM
Golden Hour Of Chris Barber and his jazz band


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JAEAAOSwWXFdaPjq/s-l1600.jpg)


There is nothing complicated here; just good sounding swing jazz from a tight unit. Some tracks are studio recordings and some are live performances. Some tracks have vocals but most do not. It is an entertaining album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 04, 2021, 01:02:41 PM
Bill Evans: Jazzhouse


(https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/r9sAAOSwsKxf2sDy/s-l300.jpg)


Wonderful playing from all concerned on this live recording from Copenhagen [November 24 1969]. The piano and double bass take precedence but the drumming definitely helps to hold it all together.
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Post by: aligreto on May 05, 2021, 11:14:49 AM
The Happy "Bird"


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1NYAAOSw~X1ftQdm/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 07, 2021, 03:27:56 AM
I thought that I would post this recent article that appeared on Discogs. I am sure that jazz aficionados here know of these musicians already but they are all totally unknown to me and all sound fascinating.

7 Extraordinary Women of Jazz
[Nicole Raney posted April 30, 2021]

Take a moment to learn more about some of the women of jazz who revolutionized instrumentation and performance during the height of the genre's popularity.

Mary Osborne

Mary Osborne (1921-1992) is a celebrated guitarist who regularly performed and recorded with her fellow jazz greats of the era. She would go on to co-found the Osborne Guitar Company. Recommended listening: A Girl and Her Guitar and A Memorial.

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi (b. 1929) is a jazz composer, bandleader, and pianist. Although her classic big band works have received the most accolades, she also incorporated her Japanese heritage into some of her music. Recommended listening: Long Yellow Road and Hiroshima: Rising From the Abyss.

Terry Pollard

Terry Pollard (1931-2009) is a pianist who, although often overlooked, was a major player in the mid-century jazz scene of Detroit. She performed often with Terry Gibbs. Recommended listening: Terry Pollard and  A Detroit Jazz Legend.

Dorothy Ashby

Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986) is a composer and jazz harpist, one of few who have carved a space out in the genre for the unique instrument. She blended several unique musical influences in her work, scored several plays, and helped popularize improv jazz on the harp. Recommended listening: The Jazz Harpist and Hip Harp.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1937-1949) are a swing and jazz band from the 1940s the first integrated group in the United States. While popular in the 1940s, they received a resurgence of recognition in the 1960s-1970s due to feminist movements of the time. Recommended listening: International Sweethearts Of Rhythm.

Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) is a bandleader, pianist, harpist, and experimental musician. She is a massively influential figure in the jazz of the 1960s-1970s and wove her Hindu philosophies into her work, resulting in more spiritual work later in her career. Recommended listening: Ptah, The El Daoud and Journey In Satchidananda.

Bobbi Humphrey

Bobbi Humphrey (b. 1950) is a flutist and singer who explored jazz fusion, specifically funk and soul. She has recorded alongside her fellow greats as well as laid down some truly improvisational tracks on her own albums. Recommended listening: Black and Blues and Fancy Dancer.




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Old San Antone on May 07, 2021, 10:44:31 AM
Some more names:

Teri Lynn Carrington - drums
Geri Allen - piano (deceased)
Carla Bley - piano, composer
Mary Lou Williams - piano, composer/arranger (deceased)
Eliane Elias - paino
Joanne Brackeen - piano
Marilyn Crispell - piano
Jane Ira Bloom - sax (deceased)
Emily Remler - guitar (deceased)
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Esparanza Spaulding - bass
Anat Cohen - sax

The names in bold are among my favorites of either sex.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 07, 2021, 12:22:58 PM
Quote from: Old San Antone on May 07, 2021, 10:44:31 AM
Some more names:

Teri Lynn Carrington - drums
Geri Allen - piano (deceased)
Carla Bley - piano, composer
Mary Lou Williams - piano, composer/arranger (deceased)
Eliane Elias - paino
Joanne Brackeen - piano
Marilyn Crispell - piano
Jane Ira Bloom - sax (deceased)
Emily Remler - guitar (deceased)
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Esparanza Spaulding - bass
Anat Cohen - sax

The names in bold are among my favorites of either sex.

Thank you for those names.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on May 08, 2021, 02:40:59 PM
I didn't know Jane Ira Bloom was deceased!

Anyway, here are a few more:

Tomeka Reid (cello)
Nicole Mitchell (flute)
Lotte Anker (sax)
Susie Ibarra (drums)
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
Aki Takase (piano)
Angelica Sanchez (piano)
Kaja Draksler (piano)
Irène Schweizer (piano)
Ingrid Laubrock (sax)
Joëlle Léandre (bass)
Savina Yannatou (voice)
Jaimie Branch (trumpet)
Jessica Pavone (violin)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar - yes, really :))
Okkyung Lee (cello)
Susana Santos Silva (trumpet)
Eve Risser (piano)
Lina Allemano (trumpet)
Alexandra Grimal (sax)

And the list goes on. There's never been a better time for women in improvised music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on May 08, 2021, 04:52:58 PM
I could add a few more female names, but specifically want to put in a good word for the deceased Melba Liston (trombonist, arranger, composer). Remarkable body of work (much probably uncredited), I particularly like her collaborations with Randy Weston.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 09, 2021, 01:07:46 PM
The Legend of Billie Holiday


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/AuUAAOSw-Adft67D/s-l1600.jpg)


It seemed appropriate, somehow.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 10, 2021, 08:48:18 AM
Piano Rags by Scott Joplin [Rifkin]


(https://i.etsystatic.com/5814102/d/il/c24c0d/2901124275/il_340x270.2901124275_j716.jpg?version=0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 13, 2021, 02:31:40 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RSM39RPKL.jpg)

George Cables - New York Concerto (2001)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51F0zWjDJ%2BL.jpg)

Egberto Gismonti - Em Familia (1981)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 13, 2021, 01:04:47 PM
Ellington: New Orleans Suite


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ru0AAOSwuhRZ4N1g/s-l1600.jpg)


There is some really very fine part writing here. It is a wonderful album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 15, 2021, 07:58:36 AM
Spotlight on: The Dutch Swing College Band


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mU8AAOSwnKxgJakr/s-l500.jpg)


This is a 2 X LP with great swing jazz, a lot of it is performed live. Great music and great fun too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 16, 2021, 06:17:50 AM
Menuhin & Grappelli: Fascinatin' Rhythm


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4lEAAOSwBSpf0A3J/s-l1600.jpg)


There are many standards played here but they always receive the distinctive treatment of these two stalwarts.
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Post by: aligreto on May 16, 2021, 01:45:54 PM
Chris Barber Plays


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KJIAAOSwEHhauUIz/s-l1600.jpg)


Great foot tapping, easy swinging Jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 17, 2021, 02:17:32 AM
The Unforgettable Glenn Miller


(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MFgyMTQ3NDgzNjQ3/z/ih4AAMXQnXFRbNaC/$_61.JPG)
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Post by: aligreto on May 20, 2021, 01:27:19 PM
Bill Evans: You're gonna Hear From Me


(https://img.aucfree.com/g362271948.1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 20, 2021, 02:14:58 PM
Quote from: Alek Hidell on May 02, 2021, 12:51:12 PM

And yesterday:

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1415791172_10.jpg)

Amir ElSaffar (t, vocal, santour); Ole Mathisen (ts, ss); Tareq Abboushi (buzuq); Zafer Tawil (oud, perc); Carlo DeRosa (b); Nasheet Waits (d)

Very interesting. I will look for the recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 21, 2021, 01:37:27 PM
The Great Duke Ellington


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fYgAAOSwwalgp5-8/s-l500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 22, 2021, 01:29:49 PM
Willie Humphrey: New Orleans Clarinet


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VEgAAOSwJ7BfzW4x/s-l1600.jpg)


A very pleasant trip to the world of New Orleans jazz. This one has the balance of instrumental and vocal tunes tipped in favour of the vocal and is always foot tapping good!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 23, 2021, 07:24:51 PM
Antonio Farao, Takes on Pasolini.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 24, 2021, 01:05:37 PM
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra: Big Band Sounds


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Ud8AAOSwOhtfXJXB/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 29, 2021, 07:48:19 AM
Miles, live in Milan 1964. Colorized video.

https://youtu.be/fBoHkB92SU0
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 30, 2021, 01:44:57 PM
Scott Joplin:


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yh4AAOSwP2Zep6sH/s-l1600.jpg)


Listening to some rags with a glass of red  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 30, 2021, 06:08:11 PM
Quote from: aligreto on May 30, 2021, 01:44:57 PM
Scott Joplin:


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yh4AAOSwP2Zep6sH/s-l1600.jpg)


Listening to some rags with a glass of red  8)

Looks nice!
As for me, I am looking for a good disc/compilation of Pete Johnson's Boogie Woogie piano works.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 30, 2021, 06:43:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71cfseaXqTL._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on May 31, 2021, 12:32:30 PM
Count Basie: Basie Boogie


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nirMCzAJL._SL1024_.jpg)


There is wonderfully tight delivery of the music here. A fine album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 31, 2021, 01:56:12 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 30, 2021, 06:43:30 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71cfseaXqTL._SX355_.jpg)

Wonderful album  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on May 31, 2021, 02:50:33 PM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/6322/5922/products/Miles_Davis_KindofBlue_89567c57-9c6c-4008-8296-f812402da962_1000x.jpg?v=1605723153)

Blue In Green and Flamenco Sketches are subline!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 02, 2021, 10:19:01 AM
Benny Goodman 1937 To 1938


(https://img.discogs.com/F5cUEZ5Z59lZ-L9wgRO2CpY_psQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-12549738-1537433705-5173.jpeg.jpg)
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 10, 2021, 06:37:41 AM
Suspended Night, Tomasz Stańko
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 11, 2021, 06:48:41 AM
Higher Grounds. Ingrid Jensen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 14, 2021, 12:51:52 PM
Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me


(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CNA9FH/cover-of-vinyl-compilation-album-my-baby-just-cares-for-me-by-nina-CNA9FH.jpg)


Besides the wonderful vocals from Simone there is some really wonderful piano playing on this album including two solo piano tracks. It is a very fine album overall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 14, 2021, 02:09:58 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 14, 2021, 12:51:52 PM
Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me

Besides the wonderful vocals from Simone there is some really wonderful piano playing on this album including two solo piano tracks. It is a very fine album overall.

I think she is a Juliard-graduate pianist. However, just like Ron Carter, she knew that she wouldn't be hired by an orchestra. So she looked for club gigs and one club owner told her that she would be hired if she sings. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, blacklisted by the FBI, and lost most of live/club gigs. Her "In the Dark" is my fav among her songs.

https://youtu.be/HmANmf7fXUI

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 14, 2021, 04:21:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/UgH7XqG6Q_T2IhDZlEHRrlXYGy0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4653975-1371196911-6665.jpeg.jpg)  (https://img.discogs.com/1uaQ_J7ykvLtDVRCwC4e2J5zIvA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-12817184-1542529687-5761.jpeg.jpg)

Sir Roland Hanna is another who really wanted to be a classical musician, but went into jazz because a classical career was impossible. See his chapter in Mark Stryker's Jazz from Detroit (there's also a chapter on Ron Carter, among of course others).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 15, 2021, 05:47:31 AM
Quote from: T. D. on June 14, 2021, 04:21:51 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/UgH7XqG6Q_T2IhDZlEHRrlXYGy0=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4653975-1371196911-6665.jpeg.jpg)

Sir Roland Hanna is another who really wanted to be a classical musician, but went into jazz because a classical career was impossible. See his chapter in Mark Stryker's Jazz from Detroit (there's also a chapter on Ron Carter, among of course others).

Didn't know about it while I always found his execution style very sophisticated and likable. Will order the book.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 15, 2021, 06:53:46 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 14, 2021, 02:09:58 PM
I think she is a Juliard-graduate pianist. However, just like Ron Carter, she knew that she wouldn't be hired by an orchestra. So she looked for club gigs and one club owner told her that she would be hired if she sings. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, blacklisted by the FBI, and lost most of live/club gigs. Her "In the Dark" is my fav among her songs.

https://youtu.be/HmANmf7fXUI



Most interesting!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 15, 2021, 08:35:25 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 14, 2021, 02:09:58 PM
I think she is a Juliard-graduate pianist. However, just like Ron Carter, she knew that she wouldn't be hired by an orchestra. So she looked for club gigs and one club owner told her that she would be hired if she sings. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, blacklisted by the FBI, and lost most of live/club gigs. Her "In the Dark" is my fav among her songs.

https://youtu.be/HmANmf7fXUI

Thank you very much for that. All of that not so very long ago either.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 15, 2021, 11:47:19 AM
Chris Barber: In Concert


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/CY4AAOSw-4RfgJA~/s-l1600.jpg)


This one is obviously a live one and lots of fun was being had.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 15, 2021, 09:33:59 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qB9BWl-HL._SL1400_.jpg)

The piano Jarret is playing on this...it's a perfectly fine piano, right? it's a piano that Bill Evans would have been happy to find at a gig, right? Because this story has gotten way out of control.

I first read the backstory of the Koln Concert in Ian Carr's 1991 biography, and in that telling the piano had just a section in one of the lower octaves that was proving difficult to tune. I've read other accounts since that have made its limitations much more serious and some novice booking agent was nearly fired over it, and just a couple of weeks ago heard an interview on the album where both host and subject were calling it a "piece of shit" and suggesting it was found in the basement of a church hall or something. And I'm left thinking "are you even listening to this?"

True, it may not have been up to Jarrett's exacting standards, but then little ever was. Ian Carr describes Jarrett stopping concerts to demand the audience complain to the management about how intolerable the piano, the acoustics and everything else are - and Gary Peacock and Jack de Johnette refusing to come on stage unless he stops abusing the hospitality of their hosts.

I was about to suggest that maybe it might not be good enough for a classical recital, but is fine for something jazz-adjacent, but actually I don't think that at all. I'd like to hear more classical concerts with instruments with individual character.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 16, 2021, 12:21:42 PM
Manhattan Transfer: Extensions (1979) - I've been on a weeks-long rabbit hole, revisiting some of this group's recordings for the first time in awhile. Extensions was their fifth album, and one of the best. High points are the opening "Birdland" by Jon Hendricks (arranged by Janis Siegel) and the closing "Foreign Affair" by Tom Waits (sublimely arranged for a cappella quartet by Gene Puerling of the Singers Unlimited).

Bonus: uber-1980s costumes designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

(http://manhattantransfer.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/extensions.jpg)

--Bruce


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 16, 2021, 06:51:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 15, 2021, 09:33:59 PM

The piano Jarret is playing on this...it's a perfectly fine piano, right? it's a piano that Bill Evans would have been happy to find at a gig, right? Because this story has gotten way out of control.

I first read the backstory of the Koln Concert in Ian Carr's 1991 biography, and in that telling the piano had just a section in one of the lower octaves that was proving difficult to tune. I've read other accounts since that have made its limitations much more serious and some novice booking agent was nearly fired over it, and just a couple of weeks ago heard an interview on the album where both host and subject were calling it a "piece of shit" and suggesting it was found in the basement of a church hall or something. And I'm left thinking "are you even listening to this?"

True, it may not have been up to Jarrett's exacting standards, but then little ever was. Ian Carr describes Jarrett stopping concerts to demand the audience complain to the management about how intolerable the piano, the acoustics and everything else are - and Gary Peacock and Jack de Johnette refusing to come on stage unless he stops abusing the hospitality of their hosts.

I was about to suggest that maybe it might not be good enough for a classical recital, but is fine for something jazz-adjacent, but actually I don't think that at all. I'd like to hear more classical concerts with instruments with individual character.

Great album, and thank you for the interesting story. Keith could be very difficult sometimes (always?). Also, I heard that Bill Evans could play any pianos, including pretty bad ones at lower-strata clubs/bars. He was good at fixing the problems with pianos at clubs. As for Jarrett, I personally like his music in the 1970s. I like the album below. It is with Paul Motian and Charlie Haden.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 17, 2021, 05:24:07 AM
On a rare trip to brick/mortar shop, found excellent inventory and picked up several used discs. This is what I snapped up first (had been on "wish list"):

(https://img.discogs.com/WsFzYUMHojrK6VKMu1-jQh3wRjo=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3013841-1318226809.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 17, 2021, 07:18:53 PM
Stefon Harris, Black Action Figure.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 18, 2021, 01:32:23 PM
Duke Ellington: In A Mellotone


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rZUAAOSw-S1giEOd/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 19, 2021, 08:02:14 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 14, 2021, 12:51:52 PM
Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me


(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CNA9FH/cover-of-vinyl-compilation-album-my-baby-just-cares-for-me-by-nina-CNA9FH.jpg)


Besides the wonderful vocals from Simone there is some really wonderful piano playing on this album including two solo piano tracks. It is a very fine album overall.

Haven't heard the whole album, but I have heard the title track, which is wonderful.

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 14, 2021, 02:09:58 PM
I think she is a Juliard-graduate pianist. However, just like Ron Carter, she knew that she wouldn't be hired by an orchestra. So she looked for club gigs and one club owner told her that she would be hired if she sings. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, blacklisted by the FBI, and lost most of live/club gigs. Her "In the Dark" is my fav among her songs.

https://youtu.be/HmANmf7fXUI

And thanks for that, too, which is new to me.

Coincidentally, was listening to Nina Simone today: From 1976, "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)," live from the Montreux Jazz Festival, in excellent audio and video. She really was a great singer, among her other gifts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3sdF0YXkM

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 19, 2021, 08:08:48 AM
From Ben Cox and Jack Mizzi, a pandemic version of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," in the Gene Puerling arrangement used by the Manhattan Transfer. Cox and Mizzi doubled themselves to make a quartet, and among other things, their intonation is excellent in Puerling's beautiful dissonances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9w5LFrrA4

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 19, 2021, 08:11:55 AM
This Simone performance blew me away earlier this week. Amazing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0B9FXU72A
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 19, 2021, 08:49:25 AM
Quote from: George on June 19, 2021, 08:11:55 AM
This Simone performance blew me away earlier this week. Amazing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0B9FXU72A

Oooooh, thanks!

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 19, 2021, 08:59:49 AM
Quote from: George on June 19, 2021, 08:11:55 AM
This Simone performance blew me away earlier this week. Amazing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0B9FXU72A

Thanks again for this knockout. (I would love to know what was happening with the repeated calls to "Sit down!")

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 19, 2021, 09:38:01 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SCJM-AhVL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 19, 2021, 12:31:50 PM
Quote from: Brewski on June 19, 2021, 08:59:49 AM
Thanks again for this knockout. (I would love to know what was happening with the repeated calls to "Sit down!")

--Bruce

My pleasure. As for the calls to sit down, I guess it could be anything. She was an eccentric and amazing woman.

Did you happen to catch Janis Ian's (the author of the song) comment?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 19, 2021, 12:39:39 PM
Quote from: Brewski on June 19, 2021, 08:02:14 AM

Coincidentally, was listening to Nina Simone today: From 1976, "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)," live from the Montreux Jazz Festival, in excellent audio and video. She really was a great singer, among her other gifts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3sdF0YXkM

--Bruce

A very talented lady indeed.

I will watch that clip later.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 19, 2021, 12:40:18 PM
Quote from: George on June 19, 2021, 08:11:55 AM
This Simone performance blew me away earlier this week. Amazing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0B9FXU72A

I will watch that clip later as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 19, 2021, 01:24:32 PM
Quote from: George on June 19, 2021, 12:31:50 PM
My pleasure. As for the calls to sit down, I guess it could be anything. She was an eccentric and amazing woman.

Did you happen to catch Janis Ian's (the author of the song) comment?

Yes, quite interesting. I haven't heard Ian's version in so long that the alterations didn't quite register, but it was clear that she respected Simone enormously.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 19, 2021, 06:10:17 PM
Some of my recent stuff:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91VLtAUfH5L._SS500_.jpg)  (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Glad_to_Be_Unhappy_%28album%29.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51LnB51s%2B2L.jpg)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71qmEitJJoL._SL1084_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LCEOztF%2BL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61uOqVTJD2L.jpg)

Apparently an O-P theme going on (Oscar/Ornette, two Pauls) ...
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 20, 2021, 06:05:40 AM
Paul Bley is a very good player.

Woody Shaw. Imagination.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 20, 2021, 10:43:22 AM
Quote from: Brewski on June 19, 2021, 08:02:14 AM

Coincidentally, was listening to Nina Simone today: From 1976, "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free)," live from the Montreux Jazz Festival, in excellent audio and video. She really was a great singer, among her other gifts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3sdF0YXkM

--Bruce


Quote from: George on June 19, 2021, 08:11:55 AM
This Simone performance blew me away earlier this week. Amazing stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0B9FXU72A



Both terrific performances. I thoroughly enjoyed both of them. She was such a powerful performer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 26, 2021, 11:16:43 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71hcjibCyhL._SX522_.jpg)
I enjoy Art Pepper playing. In general I enjoy discovering 1970s and 1980s releases from jazzmen that were considered to be in their prime in the 1950s or 1960s. This album was recorded in 1975. 10 years passed since Pepper recorded his previous record, as I understanding it from the liner notes. It's good. Hampton Hawes on electric piano is a really nice touch.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KUvU-t+-L._SS500_.jpg)
My first Jimmy Smith cd and what a pleasant surprise. Didn't think I would be enjoying jazz organ. But I feel it's Kenny Burrell who's the real star that disk. Magnificent guitar playing from him as always.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NLgfNItbL._SS500_.jpg)
I've only recently bought this disk after having 20 other different releases by John Coltrane. Don't know why I waited so long to pick it up. It's a really great session with top music writing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 26, 2021, 06:03:29 PM
A couple of discs from this, maybe more later.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31V21PKEQFL.jpg)
One of my favorite box sets. Excellent music, pull-no-punches booklet by Laurie Pepper. If you've read Pepper's harrowing autobiography Straight Life, his stage patter during these performances gives further glimpses into his extreme substance abuser personality (with the accompanying unpleasant aspects, in spades).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on June 26, 2021, 07:33:34 PM
My latest, first listens all:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RNiCCVV2L._SX466_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/414sJkYIrIL.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71aUpV0neHL._SL1200_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61X6L6RNUhL._SL1400_.jpg)

For some reason I'm not usually too fond of duo albums, but I enjoyed the Lake/Parker set (I seem to like Parker more as an accompanist than as a leader of his own sessions, except I do love his O'Neal's Porch). The Howard was fine, with the kind of free-blowing 'ugliness' typical of the time (it was recorded in 1969), certainly good enough to return to later.

Hadn't listened to any Bärtsch in a while, so it was nice to turn to these two recordings (both new to me, as I say). The Live is especially fine - what a tight ensemble Ronin is (was?). I'm lacking several of his albums, so I'm going to seek them out soon.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 27, 2021, 07:20:47 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51a3N2S6iXL._AC_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/510%2BOplIGXL._AC_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KWS5aifBL._AC_.jpg)

Sundays are great for jazz. Hawkins disk was quite pleasant. I've been listening to it during the week late at night at low volume and it works very nice. It's hard to find a bad bossa nova jazz album. Getz is enjoyable, but I feel like arrangements could have been more interesting, more sophisticated. Griffin is relentless blowing. Not my thing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 27, 2021, 05:19:21 PM
Manu Katche, Neighborhood.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 29, 2021, 04:24:07 AM
Freddie Hubbard, Hub-Tones.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on June 30, 2021, 04:17:39 PM
(https://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/19/91/80/91/b-plus10.jpg) (https://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/19/91/80/91/b-plus11.jpg)
Steve Beresford & Han Bennink - B + B
Instant Composers Pool (2002)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on July 02, 2021, 02:19:11 PM
(https://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/19/91/80/91/r-136211.jpg) (https://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/19/91/80/91/r-136210.jpg)
Air - Air Mail
Black Saint (1981)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_(album)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on July 03, 2021, 10:53:57 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/0I3ABWJxKI68r0fB0kHbvJGaR9Y=/fit-in/450x451/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4279290-1417292964-1413.jpeg.jpg)
The Lester Young / Teddy Wilson Quartet ‎– Pres and Teddy
Verve (1957)

On a Japanese edition...  8)
I very much appreciate the sound improvement !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on July 05, 2021, 04:16:48 PM
(http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ltjc012.jpg)
Marion Brown : Musique du Film de Marcel Camus "Le Temps Fou"
Polydor (1969)

$1,500 to get the LP... https://www.discogs.com/Marion-Brown-Le-Temps-Fou/release/2914053
I can settle for YouTube this time  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 05, 2021, 04:21:20 PM
Quote from: mabuse on July 05, 2021, 04:16:48 PM
(http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ltjc012.jpg)
Marion Brown : Musique du Film de Marcel Camus "Le Temps Fou"
Polydor (1969)

$1,500 to get the LP... https://www.discogs.com/fr/Marion-Brown-Le-Temps-Fou/release/2914053
I can settle for YouTube this time  ;D

No doubt a good one. I like Marion Brown, but his recordings are difficult to collect.  :'( I'm too cheap - always pass on $25 Japanese reissues that quickly go oop.

Just noticed: that LP is scheduled for reissue this month!

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/986896?kwfilter=Marion+Brown&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&sort_order=artist
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 06, 2021, 05:57:38 AM
Please help as I am confused!

(https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/kenny-burrell-five-spot-front-cover-1600_ljc-1.jpg)

I just listened to this one for the first time, got it in a "Five Original Albums" slimline box of Kenny Burrell stuff. And it is a very nice live jam, but there is one little quirk...the live performance of "Lady Be Good" by George Gershwin is in fact a live performance of "Hackensack" by Thelonious Monk. Not complaining, I love me some Monk of course  8) But now I'm looking at the Wiki page for this album and seeing that Hackensack was never on it. And I'm googling "Kenny Burrell Hackensack" and all the results are telling me about times he visited Rudy van Gelder's studio in the town of that name.

So like...has this album always had "Hackensack" mislabeled as "Lady Be Good"? Did I get a super secret lost track? What's going on here?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 06, 2021, 06:23:57 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 06, 2021, 05:57:38 AM
Please help as I am confused!

(https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/kenny-burrell-five-spot-front-cover-1600_ljc-1.jpg)

I just listened to this one for the first time, got it in a "Five Original Albums" slimline box of Kenny Burrell stuff. And it is a very nice live jam, but there is one little quirk...the live performance of "Lady Be Good" by George Gershwin is in fact a live performance of "Hackensack" by Thelonious Monk. Not complaining, I love me some Monk of course  8) But now I'm looking at the Wiki page for this album and seeing that Hackensack was never on it. And I'm googling "Kenny Burrell Hackensack" and all the results are telling me about times he visited Rudy van Gelder's studio in the town of that name.

So like...has this album always had "Hackensack" mislabeled as "Lady Be Good"? Did I get a super secret lost track? What's going on here?

You are correct! The All Music Guide review mentions it.

...Incorrectly identified as "Lady Be Good," this is actually an adaptation reworked by Thelonious Monk titled "Hackensack."...

https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-view-at-the-five-spot-cafe-mw0000191601
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on July 06, 2021, 06:27:50 AM
Quote from: T. D. on July 06, 2021, 06:23:57 AM
You are correct! The All Music Guide review mentions it.

...Incorrectly identified as "Lady Be Good," this is actually an adaptation reworked by Thelonious Monk titled "Hackensack."...

https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-view-at-the-five-spot-cafe-mw0000191601
Thank you! I'm saved  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 06, 2021, 06:38:40 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 06, 2021, 05:57:38 AM
Please help as I am confused!

(https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/kenny-burrell-five-spot-front-cover-1600_ljc-1.jpg)

I just listened to this one for the first time, got it in a "Five Original Albums" slimline box of Kenny Burrell stuff. And it is a very nice live jam, but there is one little quirk...the live performance of "Lady Be Good" by George Gershwin is in fact a live performance of "Hackensack" by Thelonious Monk. Not complaining, I love me some Monk of course  8) But now I'm looking at the Wiki page for this album and seeing that Hackensack was never on it. And I'm googling "Kenny Burrell Hackensack" and all the results are telling me about times he visited Rudy van Gelder's studio in the town of that name.

So like...has this album always had "Hackensack" mislabeled as "Lady Be Good"? Did I get a super secret lost track? What's going on here?

Same chord progression.
Other live album at Village Gate (or Vanguard) is excellent as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on July 06, 2021, 11:18:15 AM
Quote from: T. D. on July 05, 2021, 04:21:20 PM
No doubt a good one. I like Marion Brown, but his recordings are difficult to collect.  :'( I'm too cheap - always pass on $25 Japanese reissues that quickly go oop.

Just noticed: that LP is scheduled for reissue this month!

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/986896?kwfilter=Marion+Brown&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&sort_order=artist

I got interested in Marion Brown following the publication of these two records last year by ezz-thetics records:
(http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ezzthetics1102.jpg) (http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/images/ezzthetics1106.jpg)
This take up his first albums recorded between 1966 and 1968.
I plan to order them soon... (The prices are still reasonable. And that they are CDs rather than LPs suits me much better... Hey, I'm a modern guy !  :D )

By quickly browsing his discography, I was struck by his radical change in the 80s. His music then becomes very "academic", I would say ...

I recommend this very informative site about him :
http://discog.piezoelektric.org/marionbrown/releases.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 07, 2021, 02:23:58 PM
Bird @ Royal Roost.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on July 14, 2021, 03:49:14 PM
(https://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/19/91/80/91/urlhtt10.jpg)
« Kalaparusha »
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, reeds
Karl Berger, vibes & piano
Ingrid, vocal
Tom Schmidt, bass
Jack DeJohnette (+Jumma Santos), drums

Trio Records (1977)

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre was a musician closely linked to the AACM movement in Chicago and then to the Loft Jazz scene in New York...
This is an excellent album  :)

EDIT :
http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2013/06/kalaparusha-kalaparusha-trio-records.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 15, 2021, 04:47:30 PM
Looks like an excellent album.

Surprisingly, I know Ingrid (Sertso). She, her husband Karl Berger, and Jack DeJohnette all live in the vicinity of Woodstock, NY, which is just under an hour's drive from me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on July 15, 2021, 11:03:11 PM
I've just booked up a concert 'Julian Bliss Septet' at Bayham Abbey (which is local for us) for 31st July.

https://lamberhurstmusic.co.uk/venue/bayham-abbey/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on July 18, 2021, 11:19:53 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on July 15, 2021, 11:03:11 PM
I've just booked up a concert 'Julian Bliss Septet' at Bayham Abbey (which is local for us) for 31st July.

https://lamberhurstmusic.co.uk/venue/bayham-abbey/

That looks great! The setting looks like it would add a lot, too.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on July 18, 2021, 11:21:34 AM
Watching the Clasijazz Big Band Pro, live from Almería, Spain, with conductor Darcy James Argue (from Brooklyn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1fmmWObzUw

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 24, 2021, 04:58:23 PM
(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/06/17/davis2_custom-ecf0289d2767dab1498a491ef4c9e7e36c5751c0-s800-c85.jpg)

Just after I arrived at a secondhand record store yesterday they put on Miles' Nefertiti album and I chose to stay long enough to hear it right through.

On the way out I said how much I'd enjoyed hearing it again and they told me that a couple of customers had complained. :(
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 27, 2021, 01:57:52 PM
Menuhin Grappelli: Jealousy


(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/274813336072_/Yehudi-Menuhin-Stephane-Grappelli-Jealousy-Hits.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Alek Hidell on July 27, 2021, 06:14:51 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71QY%2BcabaNL._SX466_.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TmEoScauL.jpg)  (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71yl2oU8kcS._SL1500_.jpg)

All first listens, as nearly everything is for me these days since I have so much catching up to do. ::)

The Tyner is nice, and will certainly get more plays. I was less enamored of the Attias, which despite a great lineup just didn't impress me that much (certainly not as much as his earlier album Credo, which I love).

Another stellar lineup on the Formanek (Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver), and it has a compelling power that kind of grew on me as I listened. Need to listen again (as well as to the quartet's earlier The Rub and Spare Change).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 28, 2021, 06:11:08 PM
A virtual acquaintance in Bengaluru put me on to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/j-reZDyn2XE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 29, 2021, 12:06:52 PM
Can't play the video. "An error occurred. Please try again later."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 29, 2021, 04:12:31 PM
Quote from: T. D. on July 29, 2021, 12:06:52 PM
Can't play the video. "An error occurred. Please try again later."

I gaffed the vid ID. Now repaired. Sorry!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 29, 2021, 04:13:09 PM
New and improved link:

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 28, 2021, 06:11:08 PM
A virtual acquaintance in Bengaluru put me on to this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/j-reZDyn2XE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 31, 2021, 04:49:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/n8k3baNeGZo
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on July 31, 2021, 09:23:09 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 24, 2021, 04:58:23 PM
(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/06/17/davis2_custom-ecf0289d2767dab1498a491ef4c9e7e36c5751c0-s800-c85.jpg)

Just after I arrived at a secondhand record store yesterday they put on Miles' Nefertiti album and I chose to stay long enough to hear it right through.

On the way out I said how much I'd enjoyed hearing it again and they told me that a couple of customers had complained. :(

Any so-called 'music lover' that doesn't love Miles Davis' 'Second Great Quintet' period needs to be thrown out of the store. If someone complained to me, after I played Nefertiti, I'd put on either Miles Smiles or Sorcerer just to piss them off even further. :D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on August 10, 2021, 11:56:49 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61VOR9-oG5L._SS500_.jpg)
Muriel Grossmann (2020): Quiet Earth
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on August 25, 2021, 12:38:49 PM
I don't remember Miles in the Sky being that agitated. That's the first time I'm listening to it on a CD. I kind of thought it would be closer to In a Silent Way, but no. Ammons on the other hand was pure pleasure.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81VYl8vt7PL._SX522_.jpg)(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514%2BjSpSvGL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 01, 2021, 07:24:13 AM
Pat Martino, El Hombre.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 04, 2021, 06:03:29 PM
Earlier:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/618QB-DjGsL._SL1500_.jpg)

Then:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QWTKWMghL._SY355_.jpg)

Now:

(https://img.discogs.com/6Zo-EY-iEpNXYjQlbe3GIZqD9jo=/fit-in/338x335/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-469121-1118457013.jpg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 05, 2021, 06:10:54 AM
Mark Turner, In This World.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 06, 2021, 01:16:34 PM
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: New Orleans


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81O1fiwoSEL._SL1500_.jpg)


A wonderful sonic experience!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 06, 2021, 01:32:40 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 06, 2021, 01:16:34 PM
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: New Orleans


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81O1fiwoSEL._SL1500_.jpg)


A wonderful sonic experience!

I used to pass by the club all the time in the late 1990s and early 2000s!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 10, 2021, 05:25:10 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/o8eC4rOwUAwclU5-ySGmTY0ZbZ4=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6497701-1420630628-7619.jpeg.jpg)

Obscure, but highly recommended to fans of Malcolm Lowry's "cult novel" Under the Volcano (or even the film adaptation). Someone's posted the recording (in segments) on Youtube.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 11, 2021, 01:51:15 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 06, 2021, 01:32:40 PM
I used to pass by the club all the time in the late 1990s and early 2000s!

Cool  8)
Ever go in?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 11, 2021, 06:21:50 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 11, 2021, 01:51:15 AM
Cool  8)
Ever go in?

Only one time in 11 years.

Listened today: Mark Whitfield, 7th Ave. Stroll.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 11, 2021, 06:31:48 PM
Quote from: T. D. on September 10, 2021, 05:25:10 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/o8eC4rOwUAwclU5-ySGmTY0ZbZ4=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6497701-1420630628-7619.jpeg.jpg)

Obscure, but highly recommended to fans of Malcolm Lowry's "cult novel" Under the Volcano (or even the film adaptation). Someone's posted the recording (in segments) on Youtube.

Thanks for the discovery  :)

The narration by the named « John Carbery » is very successful... Strangely there is nothing about him on the net.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 11, 2021, 07:03:38 PM
Has anyone here ever been to a gig at the Village Vanguard?

That would be on my bucket list if I had a bucket list.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 12, 2021, 07:49:16 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 11, 2021, 07:03:38 PM
Has anyone here ever been to a gig at the Village Vanguard?

That would be on my bucket list if I had a bucket list.

Yes many times at VV, Village Gate, and others. The memoir of the owner Max Gordon and that of his widow are good read.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 13, 2021, 04:40:47 PM
Milt Jackson: That's the Way It Is.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on September 14, 2021, 07:32:28 AM
Disc One of Lee Morgan:  Live at the Lighthouse (see LM thread).  :)

PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 03:23:48 AM
I want to hear that !
https://music.youtube.com/search?q=golden+years+of+the+soviet+new+jazz
(http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy401.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy405.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy409.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy413.jpg)
Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz (vol. 1 to 4)
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/cgy.html
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 04:00:12 AM
(https://melody.su/upload/resize_cache/iblock/7ee/720_548_0/7ee87b8bf7b012abf9153ea3c0b76910.jpg)
Vagif Mustafazade : Jazz Compositions
Melodiya (1974)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nfn-KJ8aEpZ_V2aYEWSmBzSD1qevWHWUw
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 16, 2021, 05:58:49 AM
Quote from: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 03:23:48 AM
I want to hear that !
https://music.youtube.com/search?q=golden+years+of+the+soviet+new+jazz
(http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy401.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy405.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy409.jpg) (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/gy413.jpg)
Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz (vol. 1 to 4)
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/labels/leo/cgy.html

Leo Records still appears to have vol. 2-4 in stock for GBP 20 per set (4 CD), which seems reasonable. Vol. 1 seems extremely difficult to find. I got vol. 2 and 4 (only) really cheaply via eBay.
The music is quite good, but the sound quality is somewhat bootleg-like (some taken from cassette tapings)...overall rather dull and distant. So far I prefer vol. 2 to 4, but don't regret getting either.

I think Volume 4 is on Youtube, piece by piece.

[Sorry I deleted the original post...it was actually a troll. Since this thread is so inactive, I posted the "weirdest" of my recent listening just for laughs. Did not expect any response, so reconsidered and chucked it.  ;)]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 11:23:20 AM
Actually, I saw that all the records were scattered all over YouTube.

Playing some kind of "free jazz" in the Soviet Union at the time must have been very adventurous. It really deserves consideration !


[Thank you for your explanation ... Maybe seasoned music lovers are a little too jaded ... Or else I'm definitely too ingenuous   0:) ]
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 16, 2021, 12:17:39 PM
Quote from: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 11:23:20 AM
Actually, I saw that all the records were scattered all over YouTube.

Playing some kind of "free jazz" in the Soviet Union at the time must have been very adventurous. It really deserves consideration !


[Thank you for your explanation ... Maybe seasoned music lovers are a little too jaded ... Or else I'm definitely too ingenuous   0:) ]

As soon as I found out about the "Golden Age" series, I had to investigate. I agree that "free jazz" in the USSR was adventurous (I might use stronger terms).

The only "Russian" jazz musicians I really knew of before this (apparently they emigrated long ago) are Simon Nabatov, Valery Ponomarev and Igor Butman (actually saw him live in 2003). Leo Records has many releases by Russian musicians, but I never really explored them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 01:26:28 PM
There was also apparently a rather productive "official" jazz scene ...
I had seen that the Melodiya label had reissued a few albums among the many that had been made at the time :
https://melody.su/en/catalog/jazz/?SHOWALL_1=1&SECTION_CODE=jazz
I'm not sure what to expect ... I admit I'm a little skeptical.
Struggling to decipher the Cyrillic alphabet is also a bit overwhelming  :-\

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 01:42:51 PM
(https://melody.su/upload/resize_cache/iblock/062/720_548_0/0620c7e53228e94f6b46ed89d32ae41f.jpg)
"Caucasus" Jazz Trio
Melodiya (1966)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myLTgmynJ7DHSKt0kdaUer4WiTgSOx-9M&feature=share
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 16, 2021, 02:01:49 PM
Quote from: mabuse on September 16, 2021, 01:42:51 PM
(https://melody.su/upload/resize_cache/iblock/062/720_548_0/0620c7e53228e94f6b46ed89d32ae41f.jpg)
"Caucasus" Jazz Trio
Melodiya (1966)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myLTgmynJ7DHSKt0kdaUer4WiTgSOx-9M&feature=share

I can't speak Russian, but as a long-time chess enthusiast am able to deal with the alphabet and guess some of the nationalities.
I could translate the title. Of the musicians, Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh is probably Azeri, Geno Nadirashvili must be Georgian, but I have no idea about Felix Shabsis.  :-\

Listened to some clips, and Mr. Mustafazade is a good pianist!
He's apparently known for "jazz mugham" incorporating features of Azeri traditional music. That wasn't obvious to me, will have to listen more.
Franghiz Ali-Zade has done similar things in the classical domain, I recall a piece with "Mugam" in the title.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2021, 02:08:06 PM
Bird and Diz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 18, 2021, 06:09:15 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41oeBCa0t7L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 28, 2021, 02:09:37 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71MgD01DjqL._SL1500_.jpg)

Picked up the Complete In A Silent Way Sessions at the secondhand store today. I'd had a number of these boxes before but never this one, so its great to be hearing some of this for the first time and some in chronological context. Looking forward to digging into the very lengthy booklet that comes with it

.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on September 28, 2021, 10:09:33 AM
(https://img.discogs.com/UPJ1pUBid--eyPYNSKrP2664Axk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-9268052-1477673885-6717.jpeg.jpg)
Wolfgang Muthspiel (2016): Rising Grace
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 29, 2021, 06:07:43 PM
(https://www.kind-of-blue.de/bilder/kobscans/udsacd2085_mfsl/udsacd2085_mfsl_front.jpg)

Flamenco Sketches is an incredibly gorgeous daydream
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 03, 2021, 11:17:47 AM
Duke Ellington: At His Very Best


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/~84AAOSwNhNeRVyk/s-l1600.jpg)


There is great music and wonderful performances to be found on this album including a fine version of the "Creole Love Call" which was recorded in 1927.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: André Le Nôtre on October 04, 2021, 07:26:26 PM
Just heard on KCSM: In Montreal, Charlie Haden and Egberto Gismonti = Stunning!!!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nfDJi8VUL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 05, 2021, 05:21:35 PM
Wayne Shorter + Milton Nascimento. Native Dancer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 08, 2021, 06:09:54 AM
Joey Calderazzo.
Title: "Jazz Festing in Place" from WWOZ in New Orleans
Post by: bhodges on October 14, 2021, 08:20:22 AM
With Jazz Fest in New Orleans postponed until April 2022, WWOZ is presenting "Jazz Festing in Place," broadcasts from past festivals. Programming continues through Sunday, with dozens of artists.

https://www.wwoz.org/

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on October 15, 2021, 01:28:22 PM
Good recording that works much better as background music. And I don't mean background music in a negative way. It kind of looses its flow when I concentrate on it throughout the whole cd.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9174c+eTG8L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 17, 2021, 06:42:52 AM
Wayne Shorter: JuJu.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 17, 2021, 07:59:58 AM
(https://www.vinylpussycat.com/wp-content/uploads/000dd975.jpg)

Sonny Rollins
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 17, 2021, 02:32:40 PM
King Oliver's Jazz Band:


(https://img.discogs.com/0wMA_Q9JMKGlZzKTREOwd1VKN_A=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1209834-1221035519.jpeg.jpg)    (https://img.discogs.com/ntkqiAQb_1294ww1lA5ER7VhdWA=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1209834-1221035532.jpeg.jpg)


This album features some wonderful early recorded Jazz and it also features one Louis Armstrong on support coronet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 18, 2021, 05:59:17 AM
Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique.
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Post by: Artem on October 18, 2021, 10:51:34 AM
I'm not familiar with David Friesen, but this disk sounds like ECM jazz, but it is not on an ECM label. It has a very consistent low key groove and keeps to the same subdued mood. Almost ambient type of music.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51FK9Q89E7L.jpg)
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Post by: T. D. on October 18, 2021, 11:46:03 AM
Quote from: Artem on October 18, 2021, 10:51:34 AM
I'm not familiar with David Friesen, but this disk sounds like ECM jazz, but it is not on an ECM label. It has a very consistent low key groove and keeps to the same subdued mood. Almost ambient type of music.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51FK9Q89E7L.jpg)

I only recently came across Friesen. I have the following recordings:

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They're not bad, I've been listening to the one with Denny Zeitlin recently (they have other duo recordings). If you had to put a label on Friesen, "ECM-type" seemingly would be a pretty good one. He often plays a weird-looking bass with a small body that he may have designed himself.
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on October 19, 2021, 07:01:56 AM
Been having fun listening to some jazz and old popular songs (incl. songs from what is known as the Great American Songbook):  Just heard a beautiful rendition of a song that I hadn't heard before called "How Deep is the Ocean" (by Irving Berlin).  Believe that it was a recording with Ella Fitzgerald but the DJ from Arctic Outpost Radio doesn't post what he's playing.   :(   Beautiful song, beautifully sung.  Think that it's the same recording as this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T8l--op0Eg

PD
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Post by: Artem on October 23, 2021, 12:08:08 PM
I love Ike Quebec. This disk reintroduced him to the Jazz scene in the early 60s and was followed by much stronger and really stellar disks, like Bossa Nova Soul Samba, Blue & Sentimental, It Might As Well Be Spring.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NARS55AAL.jpg)
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Post by: T. D. on October 23, 2021, 12:29:39 PM
Quote from: Artem on October 23, 2021, 12:08:08 PM
I love Ike Quebec. This disk reintroduced him to the Jazz scene in the early 60s and was followed by much stronger and really stellar disks, like Bossa Nova Soul Samba, Blue & Sentimental, It Might As Well Be Spring.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NARS55AAL.jpg)

[Emphasis added] +1!
I discovered IQ through his cameo (1 tune) appearance on this (Sonny Clark's best recording IMO):

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The Sonny Clark session was recorded 13 days before Heavy Soul, but I don't know which was released first.
In addition to the fine recordings you mention, I like this one (CD version has extra tracks):

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Post by: Artem on October 23, 2021, 12:33:34 PM
Hopefully, one day I'll find Easy Living and other Ike's archival releases in the used cd section of my local shops here.
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Post by: aligreto on October 23, 2021, 01:08:59 PM
Monk: Alone in San Francisco


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which is from this anthology, The Riverside Anthology:


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735b89bb0e66f7419917895d87)



And this is also my first listen to any Monk album.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 25, 2021, 01:41:56 PM
Fire Waltz: Dolphy at the Five Spot.
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Post by: Artem on October 25, 2021, 11:04:24 PM
Quote from: Artem on October 25, 2021, 11:01:43 PM
I love how that disk starts, bristling with energy and excitement of music. Dolphy's tone is hot fire.

Evolution is a recent reissue of a 1980s recording by a mostly Japanese group done in the US. The recording was brought to Japan and released there. The compositions are very much in the modal/post bop tradition of the early 1960s Blue Note and Impulse records, which is acknowledged in the liner notes. The music is performed with confidence. Some of the originals are also very nice, but overall it lacks energy and feels somewhat reserved.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71r3S0ZvfCL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 26, 2021, 05:52:31 PM
Blind Willie Johnson: blues, gospel, etc.
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Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2021, 05:56:54 PM
^There was a stretch some years back where that 2cd set was all I wanted to listen to.

Desert island discs for sure.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 26, 2021, 05:59:24 PM
Yes, true music.
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Post by: SimonNZ on October 26, 2021, 06:04:59 PM
No kidding: "the truth" was how I was going to describe it if pressed.
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Post by: aligreto on October 31, 2021, 02:26:32 PM
Monk: Monk: 5 By Monk By 5


(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aQ4AAOSwi7BdOsWD/s-l500.jpg)


which is from this anthology, The Riverside Anthology:


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735b89bb0e66f7419917895d87)

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Post by: Artem on October 31, 2021, 11:20:32 PM
This is a real mismatch of a cd. Some beautiful compositions and some pieces that feel out of place. The playing is not as inspired as on live version of these compositions. The disk's cover suggests that there'd be some intense free jazz blowing, but it is not so.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bv47ZrZHL.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on October 31, 2021, 11:54:17 PM
I haven't played it in quite a while, but I remember being quite fond of that one. Will try again tomorrow.
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Post by: Artem on November 01, 2021, 03:45:08 AM
There's a spectacular live version of Lonnie's Lament on a 2xCD called Afro Blue Impressions. I wish Crescent had that kind of playing.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 01, 2021, 07:02:27 AM
Kenny Burrell: Round Midnight.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 01, 2021, 08:11:16 AM
Quote from: Artem on November 01, 2021, 03:45:08 AM
There's a spectacular live version of Lonnie's Lament on a 2xCD called Afro Blue Impressions.

Nice performance!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 03, 2021, 01:59:09 PM
Freddie Hubbard: Intrepid Fox.
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Post by: George on November 03, 2021, 05:57:00 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WvlwpagHL.jpg)
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 03, 2021, 06:17:22 PM
Quote from: George on November 03, 2021, 05:57:00 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WvlwpagHL.jpg)

Nice disc. When I was a teen, I was crazy about Tin Tin Deo in the album.
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Post by: George on November 03, 2021, 06:37:07 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 03, 2021, 06:17:22 PM
Nice disc. When I was a teen, I was crazy about Tin Tin Deo in the album.

Thanks. I'm crazy for Philly Joe Jones. I'd listen to anything that he played on.
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 06, 2021, 07:33:37 AM
No good reason why today is my first listen to this
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 06, 2021, 08:52:04 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 06, 2021, 07:33:37 AM
No good reason why today is my first listen to this [Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters]

Especially since this album was a heavy favorite in my high school days
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2021, 05:41:38 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 06, 2021, 07:33:37 AM
No good reason why today is my first listen to this

Classic!
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Post by: SimonNZ on November 07, 2021, 06:09:50 AM
Personally I've never understood the fuss about that one.
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Post by: Artem on November 07, 2021, 06:48:21 AM
Herbie Hancock's Headhunters?

I think it's a lot of fun. It's kind of my go to Herbie Hancock disk. I have mixed feelings about his Blue Note recordings and the Mwandishi band, but Headhunters is just great.

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2021, 09:13:56 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 07, 2021, 06:09:50 AM
Personally I've never understood the fuss about that one.

It was a beginning of fusion-funk in the early fusion era.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2021, 06:48:08 PM
Fuego, Donald Byrd plus Jackie McLean.
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 07, 2021, 07:16:09 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 25, 2021, 01:41:56 PM
Fire Waltz: Dolphy at the Five Spot.
Nice!
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Post by: SimonNZ on November 07, 2021, 07:58:15 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2021, 09:13:56 AM
It was a beginning of fusion-funk in the early fusion era.

Yes, and I like quite a few of those early crossover albums, particularly some now neglected ones from Prestige and Blue Note.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 08, 2021, 02:05:14 PM
Stefon Harris: A Cloud of Red Dust.
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 08, 2021, 05:14:02 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2021, 09:13:56 AM
It was a beginning of fusion-funk in the early fusion era.

I'm approaching it retro, but now at last, I dig it.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 09, 2021, 07:25:45 AM
Bird at the Hi Hat.
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 10, 2021, 09:17:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/pSE6gn3Ny8w
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Post by: Karl Henning on November 10, 2021, 10:47:30 AM
No good reason why I hadn't listened to this in decades:

https://www.youtube.com/v/pFcXze1IteA
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 10, 2021, 01:33:52 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 10, 2021, 09:17:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/pSE6gn3Ny8w

Previn is a great player in aesthetic, as well al technical, term.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 10, 2021, 01:34:41 PM
Dolphy, Stockholm Session.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 16, 2021, 07:05:33 AM
Kenny Dorham at Cafe Bohemia.
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Post by: aligreto on November 16, 2021, 12:50:49 PM
Mulligan Meets Monk:


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which is from this 3XCD anthology [The Riverside Anthology]....


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I particularly like the earthy, smokey tone and atmosphere of the saxophone playing and recording on this album.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 16, 2021, 01:53:44 PM
Quote from: aligreto on November 16, 2021, 12:50:49 PM
Mulligan Meets Monk:


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which is from this 3XCD anthology [The Riverside Anthology]....


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2735b89bb0e66f7419917895d87)


I particularly like the earthy, smokey tone and atmosphere of the saxophone playing and recording on this album.

Love the MMM album!
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Post by: aligreto on November 16, 2021, 02:12:15 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 16, 2021, 01:53:44 PM
Love the MMM album!

The Riverside Anthology was my first foray into Monks music. I have liked all three albums contained in it.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 17, 2021, 06:00:18 AM
Quote from: aligreto on November 16, 2021, 02:12:15 PM
The Riverside Anthology was my first foray into Monks music. I have liked all three albums contained in it.

Monk didn't make a bad recording. I like his solo performances as well. Especially, I like the disc below.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 17, 2021, 06:52:17 PM
Sonny Rollins: Reel Life.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 20, 2021, 06:22:34 AM
The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 3.
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Post by: bhodges on November 22, 2021, 04:55:47 PM
Going down another Gene Puerling rabbit hole, mostly with the Singers Unlimited, but other jazz vocalists since have done some great work, too. Here Puerling works his arranging magic with "It Could Happen to You" (1943) by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0a1at3FcQ&list=RDW7WKQclXibU&index=16

Here is Puerling's take on "Over the Rainbow," written for Linda Ronstadt but never performed or recorded by her. Danny Fong (in the three male parts) and Meg Contini do a beautiful job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M59RtxP3_o&list=RDW7WKQclXibU&index=17

--Bruce
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Post by: aligreto on November 25, 2021, 02:24:25 PM
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Moanin'


(https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Art-Blakey-And-The-Jazz-Messengers-Moanin-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpg)


This is my first exposure to the music and music making of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. I was captivated from the opening bars. The vibrancy of both the music and the music making is very infectious. This is thoroughly engrossing and captivating music and music making and I was completely engaged from beginning to end. The harmonies are particularly engaging throughout the album. All of the individual and collective performances on the album are consistently never less than excellent. I am thoroughly convinced! The production of the album is also excellent!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 26, 2021, 07:06:49 AM
Quote from: aligreto on November 25, 2021, 02:24:25 PM
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Moanin'


(https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Art-Blakey-And-The-Jazz-Messengers-Moanin-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpg)


This is my first exposure to the music and music making of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. I was captivated from the opening bars. The vibrancy of both the music and the music making is very infectious. This is thoroughly engrossing and captivating music and music making and I was completely engaged from beginning to end. The harmonies are particularly engaging throughout the album. All of the individual and collective performances on the album are consistently never less than excellent. I am thoroughly convinced! The production of the album is also excellent!

Great record.
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Post by: Brian on November 26, 2021, 10:56:56 AM
Agreed, a great record. I have a longtime love for the Jazz Messengers and their super-stylish arrangements and hope you enjoy finding them all. To me the golden age started with Benny Golson and continued through the heyday of Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter. Moanin', Mosaic, Roots & Herbs, the absurdly named Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!, Like Someone in Love, Buhaina's Delight, Club St. Germain, Champs Elysees - if you love one you will love them all. The second Night in Tunisia is preferable to the first for me, too, more shamelessly virtuosic, so high energy it's almost tiring. After Golson and Morgan arrived the band became much tighter.

A little later Wayne Shorter started showing his mature harmonic adventurousness on Indestructible and Free for All; his solo on the first track of Free is an all-timer. I am not very familiar with the post 1965 band as their albums are much harder to find, but Keystone 3 is a late classic - a tribute to the golden days tunes of the Moanin' period, with a lot of that band's old repertoire, but with arrangements by two new band members - the very young Wynton and Branford Marsalis.
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Post by: T. D. on November 26, 2021, 12:26:06 PM
Pretty much all the JM recordings are excellent. I have a preference for some of the early albums, esp. A Night at Birdland vol. 1 (vol. 2 is not as good) with Clifford Brown and At the Cafe Bohemia vol. 1 and 2 with my favorite band (Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham, Horace Silver).
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on November 26, 2021, 01:43:21 PM
I listened to "The Cooker" by Lee Morgan the other day at a friend's house:  really enjoyed it!  He had purchased it as a newly (recently) pressed LP.  It sounded great and I enjoyed the music.

PD
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 26, 2021, 06:03:59 PM
I like this album- Olympia Concert- recorded around same time.
In addition to Moanin, etc., they play "Just By Myself", which is my favorite Benny Golson composition.
The album conveys the heated performance and excitement of the audience.
Lee Morgan is killing in the recording!


https://youtu.be/frH9LGP5-pU?list=OLAK5uy_mnkP2PsEKfD3BRSUk7xv2jlHtZ_bhM62M
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Post by: Brian on November 26, 2021, 07:24:56 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 26, 2021, 06:03:59 PM
"Just By Myself", which is my favorite Benny Golson composition.
This could be a whole discussion by itself! My favorite is Whisper Not.
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Post by: T. D. on November 26, 2021, 08:22:43 PM
Quote from: Brian on November 26, 2021, 07:24:56 PM
This could be a whole discussion by itself! My favorite is Whisper Not.

I Remember Clifford here.
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Post by: SimonNZ on November 27, 2021, 03:01:57 PM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on November 26, 2021, 01:43:21 PM
I listened to "The Cooker" by Lee Morgan the other day at a friend's house:  really enjoyed it!  He had purchased it as a newly (recently) pressed LP.  It sounded great and I enjoyed the music.

PD

I was going to say that I gave The Cooker another listen after reading this, but then I didn't recognize that incredible version of Night In Tunisia that opens it and those great solos. So it seems I may be hearing it for the first time.
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Post by: aligreto on November 28, 2021, 02:15:49 AM
Thank you all for your thoughts, recommendations and encouragement regarding Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers  :)
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on November 28, 2021, 10:12:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 27, 2021, 03:01:57 PM
I was going to say that I gave The Cooker another listen after reading this, but then I didn't recognize that incredible version of Night In Tunisia that opens it and those great solos. So it seems I may be hearing it for the first time.
Hard to keep up with all of ones purchases, non?  ;)

Glad that you enjoyed it!  May I ask what format(s) you have it on?

PD
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Post by: SimonNZ on November 28, 2021, 12:21:33 PM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on November 28, 2021, 10:12:24 AM
Hard to keep up with all of ones purchases, non?  ;)

Glad that you enjoyed it!  May I ask what format(s) you have it on?

PD

That time I was just getting it from Youtube. I used to have a massive collection of Blue Note etc jazz cds which I thought included that one, but they all had to be sold off some years back.
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on November 29, 2021, 03:43:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 28, 2021, 12:21:33 PM
That time I was just getting it from Youtube. I used to have a massive collection of Blue Note etc jazz cds which I thought included that one, but they all had to be sold off some years back.
Sorry to hear that; it must have been hard.  :(

In case you or anyone else here is interested, the new LP version that I heard sounded brilliant....no pops, etc., and well-recorded.

PD
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 29, 2021, 06:43:44 AM
Introducing Wayne Shorter.
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Post by: SimonNZ on November 29, 2021, 09:21:58 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61pLRPTboqL._SY445_SX342_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

Armand Gordon - Jazz au Vieux Colombier
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on November 29, 2021, 09:37:27 AM
John Coltrane's A Love Supreme

PD
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Post by: Carlo Gesualdo on November 29, 2021, 04:32:57 PM
Well tonight I'm proud and Honor to say I'm listening to the great  super  intense Cecyl Taylor.: My Fsvorite album  called : The great Paris Concert and All the notes very very very good  music, you prbably know me by now I'm a man of taste, if I put something on the podium there is a raison bein it's so good yah don't know.

Mark my word greates Jazz man CeCyl Taylor and Arthur Doyle and the quiet screamer, thee best of best simply put simply said!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 02, 2021, 02:26:24 PM
The Nancy Wilson Show!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 05, 2021, 02:47:14 PM
Dexter Gordon at Village Vanguard.
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Post by: aligreto on December 07, 2021, 12:31:50 PM
Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingué Lovers


(https://www.bibdsl.co.uk/product-images/m/l/mus000554101.jpg)
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Post by: George on December 07, 2021, 12:43:17 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 07, 2021, 12:31:50 PM
Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingué Lovers

(https://www.bibdsl.co.uk/product-images/m/l/mus000554101.jpg)

She was so great! I especially love the late recordings. I have them in this set, which includes the performances in your album:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XeJ5evRqL._SL504_.jpg)

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Verve-Studio-Master-Takes/dp/B000BLI4NI
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Post by: aligreto on December 08, 2021, 02:07:22 AM
Quote from: George on December 07, 2021, 12:43:17 PM
She was so great! I especially love the late recordings. I have them in this set, which includes the performances in your album:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XeJ5evRqL._SL504_.jpg)

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Verve-Studio-Master-Takes/dp/B000BLI4NI

So great indeed!
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on December 08, 2021, 10:47:14 AM
Quote from: aligreto on December 08, 2021, 02:07:22 AM
So great indeed!
+1
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Post by: aligreto on December 08, 2021, 11:02:36 AM
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else


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Very smooth music and playing. I particularly liked the opening track Autumn Leaves.
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 08, 2021, 06:33:26 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bCrfLqRSL.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - Jazz At The Hi Hat (1954)
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Post by: T. D. on December 08, 2021, 07:18:16 PM
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Giving this a spin, as I'll soon have to decide on the upcoming Tristano Mosaic...
The (seemingly improbable) live session from the Sing Song Room at the Confucius Restaurant in Manhattan is awesome.
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Post by: VonStupp on December 09, 2021, 04:46:14 AM
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Nutcracker Suite
Peer Gynt Suite
Suite Thursday

Duke Ellington Orchestra


VonStupp's 25 Days of Christmas
I couldn't rightfully put this in the classical music Christmas thread, even though this is Grieg and Tchaikovsky.

I am a jazz appreciator, but would be remiss to think I knew much about the genre. Still I like that Ellington and Strayhorn make this music their own, almost experimentally so.

VS

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 09, 2021, 09:03:51 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 08, 2021, 06:33:26 PM
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Sonny Stitt - Jazz At The Hi Hat (1954)

Great album.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 09, 2021, 09:04:55 AM
Booker Little w/ Scott LaFaro.
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Post by: T. D. on December 09, 2021, 04:03:27 PM
RIP Barry Harris, the great bebop pianist (and one of my favorites)

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For anyone interested, a Barry Harris playlist and (link to) obituary, both by excellent jazz writer Mark Stryker, have been posted on Ethan Iverson's site:

https://ethaniverson.com/2021/12/10/mark-strykers-barry-harris-playlist/
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Post by: George on December 11, 2021, 04:44:41 PM
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https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Verve-Studio-Master-Takes/dp/B000BLI4NI

Great set, with remarkably vivid vocals. I know that her late stuff has its detractors, but I love it.
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Post by: VonStupp on December 13, 2021, 04:40:00 AM
Dave Brubeck Christmas

VonStupp's 25 Days of Christmas
At 75 years old, Brubeck's solo piano outing is a wistful one, similar to his Indian Summer a decade later, also on Telarc.

There is a wonderful article with Brubeck's longtime producer Russell Gloyd about the creation of this album, including Brubeck's reticence of both a studio recording and a Christmas album:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/mary-schmich/ct-met-dave-brubeck-christmas-mary-schmich-20181204-story.html (https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/mary-schmich/ct-met-dave-brubeck-christmas-mary-schmich-20181204-story.html)

VS

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 13, 2021, 05:41:06 AM
Wallace Roney: Misterios.
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Post by: T. D. on December 13, 2021, 10:21:04 AM
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Recent acquisition, shot in the dark. I've gotten into British jazz of late, and saw the set on Ebay at a price in the "why not" zone.
Was uncertain about 5 CDs of solo improv. from a pianist I'd heard little by, but this is outstanding!
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Post by: Artem on December 14, 2021, 12:32:51 PM
Vibes!
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Post by: T. D. on December 14, 2021, 06:22:25 PM
Some Horace Tapscott Nimbus West releases (reissues?):
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 15, 2021, 04:41:08 AM
Quote from: Artem on December 14, 2021, 12:32:51 PM
Vibes!
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Underrated jazzman. I have his A Sense of Direction and I like it a lot.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 15, 2021, 04:48:36 AM
Wynton Marsalis Quartet: Live at Blues Alley.
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Post by: Artem on December 15, 2021, 11:10:25 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 15, 2021, 04:41:08 AM
Underrated jazzman. I have his A Sense of Direction and I like it a lot.
Indeed. His playing is really good. I enjoy his older disk To My Queen, but I'm also curious to investigate his output from the 1970s onward.
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Post by: T. D. on December 15, 2021, 11:19:59 AM
Quote from: Artem on December 15, 2021, 11:10:25 AM
Indeed. His playing is really good. I enjoy his older disk To My Queen, but I'm also curious to investigate his output from the 1970s onward.

I don't have a lot of vibes recordings: apart from MJQ/Jackson quite a few Bobby Hutchersons, several by Khan Jamal, only one by Dickerson (which is good).
I really want to hear Dickerson's Visions on Steeplechase (Sun Ra making a sideman appearance! :P ), but that's not easy to find.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 15, 2021, 02:50:25 PM
Gents, if you care, please check early recordings by Stefon Harris. They are hip and fashionable.
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Post by: aligreto on December 16, 2021, 02:06:13 PM
Al Di Meoli: Flesh On Flesh


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I am not sure how to catergorise this music; jazz fusion I suppose. However, the fusion of different genres of music is sonically very interesting and engaging. The occasional element of the breathy flute is atmospheric. We often take these things for granted when listening to various genres of music but the virtuosity of the various musicians on this album is quite superb!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 16, 2021, 05:03:54 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 16, 2021, 02:06:13 PM
Al Di Meoli: Flesh On Flesh


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I am not sure how to catergorise this music; jazz fusion I suppose. However, the fusion of different genres of music is sonically very interesting and engaging. The occasional element of the breathy flute is atmospheric. We often take these things for granted when listening to various genres of music but the virtuosity of the various musicians on this album is quite superb!

Classic!  Great player.
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Post by: aligreto on December 17, 2021, 01:20:59 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 16, 2021, 05:03:54 PM
Classic!  Great player.

He certainly is!
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Post by: VonStupp on December 17, 2021, 04:40:34 AM
A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas

Ellis Marsalis, piano
The Count Basie Orchestra


VonStupp's 25 Days of Christmas
An apt title.

VS

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 18, 2021, 11:55:36 AM
Roy Hargrove: Of Kindred Souls (Live).
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Post by: T. D. on December 18, 2021, 12:26:57 PM
New acquisitions (not new releases) I'll be listening to this weekend.
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Post by: Artem on December 18, 2021, 01:33:26 PM
Coltrane and Parker. Fantastic musicians that will make any weekend a great one.

This evening I listened to the following. Baker's Quartet works like a great Christmas music too.

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 19, 2021, 01:18:14 PM
The Amazing Bud Powell, vol. 1.
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Post by: aligreto on December 19, 2021, 01:50:38 PM
Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola & John McLaughlin: Friday Night in San Francisco


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Man, I would have liked to have been present at that session. Virtuoso guitarists at the top of their game. The atmosphere is electric.
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Post by: mabuse on December 19, 2021, 04:15:22 PM
About William Parker, I don't know him much ...
Do you have any favorite albums from him ?
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Post by: T. D. on December 19, 2021, 05:01:50 PM
William Parker records really prolifically, both as a leader and sideman. I find it too much to keep up with all of his recordings (see the Allmusic page for instance). I'll mention some I own and like.
He has a bandcamp page, https://williamparker.bandcamp.com/
where you can play selections from many recordings.
As leader, O'Neal's Porch and Meditation/Resurrection, but most of the Aum Fidelity titles you can find at bandcamp are good. I have a couple of his Eremite recordings, which are probably oop.
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One sideman recording (of many) I like is Planetary Unknown, which you can listen to on David S. Ware's bandcamp page (I'm a fan of pianist Cooper-Moore, so any Parker recording with him should be worthwhile).
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There's a nice box set Centering of older archival material on NoBusiness, but probably better to start elsewhere.
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Parker and drummer Hamid Drake are a highly regarded rhythm section and play on many recordings. One that comes to mind is
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Just noticed Eremite has a bandcamp page, so you should be able to audition more.
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Post by: mabuse on December 19, 2021, 05:42:46 PM
Thank you very much T.D.!
Your indications will help me.

...

About Hamid Drake, I remember this one, quite fun, especially if you like reggae music :
Hamid Drake & BinduReggaeology
Rogueart (2010)
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Post by: Brian on December 20, 2021, 05:35:04 AM
Quote from: Artem on December 18, 2021, 01:33:26 PM
This evening I listened to the following. Baker's Quartet works like a great Christmas music too.
This reminds me to dig out that old Lionel Hampton album that randomly contains "Jingle Bells" in a lineup of otherwise totally not Christmas music.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 21, 2021, 05:26:27 PM
Joe Henderson: Mode For Joe.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 22, 2021, 03:50:00 PM
Groovin' with Tate: Buddy Tate.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2021, 09:43:41 AM
Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette.
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Post by: aligreto on December 24, 2021, 02:01:57 PM
Dexter Gordon: Go


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I liked this album a lot. The playing is excellent from all concerned. There is great drive and delivery in the faster tempo tunes and a wonderful atmosphere and tone in the slower ones. Great sound too!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 24, 2021, 02:17:55 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 24, 2021, 02:01:57 PM
Dexter Gordon: Go


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I liked this album a lot. The playing is excellent from all concerned. There is great drive and delivery in the faster tempo tunes and a wonderful atmosphere and tone in the slower ones. Great sound too!

Masterpiece. The sound was done by Rudy Van Gelder. Have you watched the movie, Round Midnight? Merry Christmas, Fergus!
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Post by: aligreto on December 24, 2021, 02:29:51 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 24, 2021, 02:17:55 PM
Masterpiece. The sound was done by Rudy Van Gelder. Have you watched the movie, Round Midnight? Merry Christmas, Fergus!

No, I have not seen Round Midnight but I will watch out for it.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Merry Christmas to you too, Manabu. I hope that it is a safe and peaceful one for you.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 25, 2021, 07:58:08 AM
Count Basie: Live in Paris vol.2.
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 25, 2021, 08:37:12 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 28, 2021, 04:33:23 AM
For Heavens Sake, Ben Webster.
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Post by: aligreto on December 28, 2021, 12:52:48 PM
Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby


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It is interesting that on this one there are two different takes of each of three numbers. One of the issues was, for me anyway, that the bass was too closely miced and too boomy. Everything is much tighter and more balanced in the takes that were "used".
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 28, 2021, 04:27:12 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 28, 2021, 12:52:48 PM
Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby


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It is interesting that on this one there are two different takes of each of three numbers. One of the issues was, for me anyway, that the bass was too closely miced and too boomy. Everything is much tighter and more balanced in the takes that were "used".

In contrast to Miles Davis, Bill Evans always wanted a bassist who plays extended and many notes. Probably he wanted a duet with bass, more than a pure piano trio format. I like all the drummers, but none of bassists, in his trio.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 29, 2021, 05:35:34 AM
Getz, Live in Paris.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on December 29, 2021, 06:55:01 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 28, 2021, 04:27:12 PM
In contrast to Miles Davis, Bill Evans always wanted a bassist who plays extended and many notes. Probably he wanted a duet with bass, more than a pure piano trio format. I like all the drummers, but none of bassists, in his trio.

You have augmented my knowledge many fold with those gems of knowledge. Thank you for that  ;)
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Post by: Artem on December 29, 2021, 11:56:27 AM
Sunday At The Village Vanguard is one of my all time favourite disks. It was my gateway recording to appreciate jazz music, but I still haven't listened to the Waltz for Debby, although it's from the same session.
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Post by: aligreto on December 29, 2021, 01:27:38 PM
Quote from: Artem on December 29, 2021, 11:56:27 AM
Sunday At The Village Vanguard is one of my all time favourite disks. It was my gateway recording to appreciate jazz music, but I still haven't listened to the Waltz for Debby, although it's from the same session.

That should, therefore, not be too great a leap for either of us.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 29, 2021, 04:34:09 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 29, 2021, 06:55:01 AM
You have augmented my knowledge many fold with those gems of knowledge. Thank you for that  ;)

It's just my personal preference about the bass and I like all the recordings by his trio.

P.s. I love Paul Motian. What a drummer!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 30, 2021, 06:58:48 AM
Israel, Bill Evans. Inspired by the posts above.
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Post by: aligreto on December 30, 2021, 07:18:09 AM
Ana Caram: Blue Bossa & Hollywood Rio


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I was recently introduced to the music making of Ana Caram with the two albums above. I had not come across her before. These are categorised as Jazz; not for me. Crossover jazz perhaps, bossa nova, an indulgence in terms of certain covers? Either way, neither of the albums was engaging for me on any level.
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Post by: aligreto on December 30, 2021, 07:18:51 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 30, 2021, 06:58:48 AM
Israel, Bill Evans. Inspired by the posts above.

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I trust that you enjoyed it, my friend.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 30, 2021, 03:14:16 PM
Quote from: aligreto on December 30, 2021, 07:18:51 AM
I trust that you enjoyed it, my friend.

Yes, great album!


The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Oliver Nelson.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 02, 2022, 02:22:01 PM
I Get A Kick Out Of You, Clifford Brown.
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Post by: T. D. on January 02, 2022, 09:07:51 PM
Some old Tapscott reissues I recently acquired:

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And this just arrived:

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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 04, 2022, 04:40:34 AM
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 07, 2022, 04:00:49 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 10, 2022, 11:50:12 AM
Ella Fitzgerald: The Intimate Ella


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This is definitely an intimate occasion. It is most certainly a compelling performance, at least to these uneducated ears. It is simply her voice, the piano player and you. Absolutely wonderful stuff!!
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Post by: George on January 10, 2022, 06:04:49 PM
Good idea, aligreto!

Now spinning:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 11, 2022, 12:38:05 AM
Quote from: George on January 10, 2022, 06:04:49 PM
Good idea, aligreto!

Now spinning:

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I trust that you enjoyed it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 11, 2022, 06:23:24 AM
Quote from: aligreto on January 11, 2022, 12:38:05 AM
I trust that you enjoyed it?

I did. I was in a mellow mood, so I skipped over the faster/louder songs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 11, 2022, 07:41:51 AM
Quote from: George on January 11, 2022, 06:23:24 AM
I did. I was in a mellow mood, so I skipped over the faster/louder songs.

Cheating  >:D  $:)   ;D
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 11, 2022, 02:01:52 PM
Getz, Sweet Rain.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 12, 2022, 11:45:48 AM
That's one of his best, I think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 12, 2022, 11:58:03 AM
Quote from: Artem on January 12, 2022, 11:45:48 AM
That's one of his best, I think.

In terms of presented compositions, solid yes. His Focus is vg as well.  In terms of performance, possibly yes. His performance in later period is strong too.
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Post by: aligreto on January 16, 2022, 01:37:05 PM
Chris Rea: Hofner Blue Notes


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I cannot say that I am familiar with the music of Chris Rea other than that now festive standard of his. However, I was given the opportunity to listen to this album with which I was very impressed. It is different, and, for those who like categorisations, a sort of cross over between jazz, blues and easy listening. I truly found it all to be really very interesting and engaging. The music making is really very good and the musicians create a wonderful atmosphere throughout the album. I do believe that this music warrants some attention, particularly in the relaxing/downtime mode. No vocals involved here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Papy Oli on January 16, 2022, 02:43:34 PM
Nice one!

Blue street/five guitars from his same period is another cracking instrumental album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on January 16, 2022, 04:48:33 PM
Mats Edén | Milvus

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Mats Edén drone-fiddle, violin, viola
Jonas Simonson flute, alto flute
Cikada String Quartet
Recorded September 1997 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo
Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug
Produced by Manfred Eicher
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:01:45 PM
Brubeck: Time Out


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I have reconfirmed my belief that one needs to be either drunk or very rhythmically assured when listening to certain tracks on this album. Even when the rhythmic structure is straightforward one can sometimes doubt that it is so, which is wonderful. Everything about this album is truly great but the piano playing in particular is really terrific and a stand out presence, for me. The album contains great music and great music making. The track "Take Five" is legendary but there is a lot more here too. It is also one of those albums that seems to have a vital life of its own. Paying very close attention this time one is very impressed with the recording and mastering of this album with regard to the spatial separation of the instruments.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:02:37 PM
Quote from: Papy Oli on January 16, 2022, 02:43:34 PM

Blue street/five guitars from his same period is another cracking instrumental album.

Thank you for the recommendation, Olivier.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 17, 2022, 01:20:38 PM
Quote from: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:01:45 PM
Brubeck: Time Out


I have reconfirmed my belief that one needs to be either drunk or very rhythmically assured when listening to certain tracks on this album. Even when the rhythmic structure is straightforward one can sometimes doubt that it is so, which is wonderful. Everything about this album is truly great but the piano playing in particular is really terrific and a stand out presence, for me. The album contains great music and great music making. The track "Take Five" is legendary but there is a lot more here too. It is also one of those albums that seems to have a vital life of its own. Paying very close attention this time one is very impressed with the recording and mastering of this album with regard to the spatial separation of the instruments.

Did you happen to know that he was a student of Darius Milhaud?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:27:25 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 17, 2022, 01:20:38 PM
Did you happen to know that he was a student of Darius Milhaud?

No, I did not. Thank you for that.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 17, 2022, 01:33:23 PM
Time Out does sound really good. It's as if the guys behind the decks put a lot of effort into it, knowing it'd be a really good one. Time Out is in that What's Going One kind of timeless league. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 18, 2022, 07:20:45 AM
Wes Montgomery: Blue N Boogie.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 18, 2022, 01:27:03 PM
Quote from: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:01:45 PM
Brubeck: Time Out

I have reconfirmed my belief that one needs to be either drunk or very rhythmically assured when listening to certain tracks on this album. Even when the rhythmic structure is straightforward one can sometimes doubt that it is so, which is wonderful. Everything about this album is truly great but the piano playing in particular is really terrific and a stand out presence, for me. The album contains great music and great music making. The track "Take Five" is legendary but there is a lot more here too. It is also one of those albums that seems to have a vital life of its own. Paying very close attention this time one is very impressed with the recording and mastering of this album with regard to the spatial separation of the instruments.
You must seek out the Carnegie Hall live album with faster, more confident live versions of several of these tracks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 02:02:51 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 18, 2022, 01:27:03 PM
You must seek out the Carnegie Hall live album with faster, more confident live versions of several of these tracks.

Thank you for the recommendation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Roasted Swan on January 19, 2022, 02:18:14 AM
I follow a "Big Bands Only" facebook group.  Someone posted an extraordinary performance of Kenny Clare and a stellar line-up of British jazzers from 1974 backing Tony Bennett.  Not the first singer you think of as an out and out jazz singer but this cooks up an absolute storm......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRuKT8UmAM

PS:  great hair and big velvet bow ties too!!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 06:36:40 AM
Quote from: aligreto on January 17, 2022, 01:27:25 PM
No, I did not. Thank you for that.  8)

Burt Bacharach too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 09:55:19 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 06:36:40 AM
Burt Bacharach too.

Burt Bacharach? Please explain.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 10:23:08 AM
Quote from: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 09:55:19 AM
Burt Bacharach? Please explain.

Bacharach, one of my fav Jazz composers, was a student of Darius Milhaud and Bohuslav Martinů!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 01:38:14 PM
Coltrane: Blue Train


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I listened to this 2XLP [the same album in both stereo and mono modes] first in its stereo mode and then in mono. The stereo recording has a great presence but the mono has equal presence with much more focus and vitality to it if I am honest. Either way the album is very well recorded and the playing from all contributors is consistently nothing less than excellent and most enjoyable.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 01:39:04 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 10:23:08 AM
Bacharach, one of my fav Jazz composers, was a student of Darius Milhaud and Bohuslav Martinů!

Thank you. More wonderful knowledge accrued.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 02:10:02 PM
Quote from: aligreto on January 19, 2022, 01:38:14 PM
Coltrane: Blue Train


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I listened to this 2XLP [the same album in both stereo and mono modes] first in its stereo mode and then in mono. The stereo recording has a great presence but the mono has equal presence with much more focus and vitality to it if I am honest. Either way the album is very well recorded and the playing from all contributors is consistently nothing less than excellent and most enjoyable.

Interesting, and good, idea to combine the stereo and mono recordings. Interesting to hear that you found the mono recording somehow superior. I think previously you said similar things about the Beatles' recordings. Good performance by Lee Morgan as well.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 03:13:15 PM
Quote from: Roasted Swan on January 19, 2022, 02:18:14 AM
I follow a "Big Bands Only" facebook group.  Someone posted an extraordinary performance of Kenny Clare and a stellar line-up of British jazzers from 1974 backing Tony Bennett.  Not the first singer you think of as an out and out jazz singer but this cooks up an absolute storm......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRuKT8UmAM

PS:  great hair and big velvet bow ties too!!

Yes, great drumming!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 20, 2022, 01:35:41 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 02:10:02 PM
Interesting, and good, idea to combine the stereo and mono recordings. Interesting to hear that you found the mono recording somehow superior. I think previously you said similar things about the Beatles' recordings. Good performance by Lee Morgan as well.

Possibly because there were less variables with the recording equipment and processes back then?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 21, 2022, 12:28:19 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 19, 2022, 02:10:02 PM
Interesting, and good, idea to combine the stereo and mono recordings. Interesting to hear that you found the mono recording somehow superior. I think previously you said similar things about the Beatles' recordings. Good performance by Lee Morgan as well.

I'm not enough of a collector to go for mono and stereo versions of the same recordings, but I don't consider "mono" a negative factor on hard bop era releases. There are lots of mono recordings I like just fine, and a number of early and "simulated" stereo recordings that don't sound very good.

I never got so much into Blue Train, even though it's Trane, an iconic Blue Note release, etc. But tastes vary and I'm more into later period Coltrane (though earlier stuff ain't chopped liver).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 21, 2022, 02:25:07 PM
Coltrane: Giant Steps


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I liked the very easy flow of the music making on this album. It was my first time to hear the album and I found it to be a very easy and entertaining listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 21, 2022, 06:48:32 PM
I find Coltrane's Atlantic recordings (incl. Giant Steps) overall the most enjoyable part of his catalog. Kind of an intermediate/transition phase. The Impulse! recordings are awesome, but they cover a wide range of stylistic ground and can be pretty far "outside" (though I happen to like a lot of the late far-out music).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 22, 2022, 03:10:10 AM
Quote from: T. D. on January 21, 2022, 06:48:32 PM
I find Coltrane's Atlantic recordings (incl. Giant Steps) overall the most enjoyable part of his catalog. Kind of an intermediate/transition phase. The Impulse! recordings are awesome, but they cover a wide range of stylistic ground and can be pretty far "outside" (though I happen to like a lot of the late far-out music).

A friend has given me access to a large amount of Coltrane's music [16 CDs]. I do not know what is in there yet but I certainly look forward to exploring it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 22, 2022, 05:17:49 AM
Quote from: T. D. on January 21, 2022, 12:28:19 PM
I'm not enough of a collector to go for mono and stereo versions of the same recordings, but I don't consider "mono" a negative factor on hard bop era releases. There are lots of mono recordings I like just fine, and a number of early and "simulated" stereo recordings that don't sound very good.

I never got so much into Blue Train, even though it's Trane, an iconic Blue Note release, etc. But tastes vary and I'm more into later period Coltrane (though earlier stuff ain't chopped liver).
I never got into Blue Train myself either. To me it's a very straight forward Blue Note blowing session. The fact that it had mostly his own compositions also don't make it all that special. I feel like there was some kind of attempt on part of the Blue Note to capitalise on his album for the label. I can't image what would have happened if Coltrane stayed with the Blue Note. I find it odd whenever I see Blue Train mentioned alongside Kind of Blue, for example. Even Coltrane's records on Prestige are more interesting than Blue Train.

When exploring John Coltrane I think it is important to keep track of recording dates of the disks that one listens to. His style was changing very fast, but at the same time some record labels were putting out older, more standard oriented material.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 22, 2022, 06:19:06 AM
Quote from: T. D. on January 21, 2022, 06:48:32 PM
I find Coltrane's Atlantic recordings (incl. Giant Steps) overall the most enjoyable part of his catalog. Kind of an intermediate/transition phase. The Impulse! recordings are awesome, but they cover a wide range of stylistic ground and can be pretty far "outside" (though I happen to like a lot of the late far-out music).


Quote from: Artem on January 22, 2022, 05:17:49 AM
I never got into Blue Train myself either. To me it's a very straight forward Blue Note blowing session. The fact that it had mostly his own compositions also don't make it all that special. I feel like there was some kind of attempt on part of the Blue Note to capitalise on his album for the label. I can't image what would have happened if Coltrane stayed with the Blue Note. I find it odd whenever I see Blue Train mentioned alongside Kind of Blue, for example. Even Coltrane's records on Prestige are more interesting than Blue Train.

When exploring John Coltrane I think it is important to keep track of recording dates of the disks that one listens to. His style was changing very fast, but at the same time some record labels were putting out older, more standard oriented material.


Thank you both for your information and, for me, guidance. I will obviously need to do some research prior to undertaking a listening odyssey of 16 Coltrane CDs.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 22, 2022, 07:52:35 AM
My Favorite Things, John Coltrane. Inspired by the fellow members' posts, just listened to the 2 versions.  The Newport track blew me away when I was a high school kid.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 22, 2022, 10:45:40 AM
I'm not familiar with Newport, but that Pablo release is really good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 22, 2022, 05:43:00 PM
After some analysis and research  ::), I concluded that I have all the Newport '63 material spread out among three other releases. The Coltrane discography can be rather...bewildering.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2022, 08:06:13 PM
I remember trying to make sense of the single year of 1965 for Coltrane:

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The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (February 17-18 and May 17, 1965 - rel: 1965)
Transition (May 26 and June 10, 1965 - rel: 1970)

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Living Space (June 10 and 16, 1965 - rel.(as album): 1998)
Kulu Sé Mama (June 10, 16 and October 14, 1965 - rel: 1967)

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Ascension (June 28, 1965 - rel: 1966)
First Meditations For Quartet (September 2, 1965 - rel: 1977)

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Meditations (November 23, 1965 - rel: 1966)

^About to start the seventh Coltrane album in a row, and man its been great hearing them all again and in context. These seven are on the RVG list for 1965. There's three others released from sessions that year which weren't recorded at the Van Gelder studios: New Thing At Newport (July 2, 1965 - rel: 1965), Sun Ship (August 26, 1965 - rel: 1971) and Om (October 1, 1965 - rel; 1968). I'll be playing those three tomorrow to complete this overview of Trane '65, and hopefully reading the section on his last years from the Lewis Porter study.

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edit: I realise now that I have to also add to the 1965 discography Live At The Half-Note: One Up, One Down (March 26 and May 7, 1965 - rel: 2005) and Live In Seattle (September 30, 1965 - rel: 1971).

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edit: Oh, and also the July 26, 1965 live performance of A Love Supreme from the second disc of the 2002 Deluxe edition of that album.

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Notice of any other '65 omissions welcomed.

I notice now that since I last looked a helpful"sessionography" has been added to Coltrane's wikipwdia page
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 22, 2022, 09:00:25 PM
Nice post, Simon.
Live in Paris/Antibes now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 24, 2022, 11:44:09 AM
Quote from: T. D. on January 22, 2022, 05:43:00 PM
After some analysis and research  ::), I concluded that I have all the Newport '63 material spread out among three other releases. The Coltrane discography can be rather...bewildering.

I believe only My Favorite Things was played with Roy Haynes. Wonder what happened to Elvin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on January 24, 2022, 06:26:57 PM
Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles (full-length concert, live in Frankfurt, 2017) - Joyful and marvelous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6cdrO2dMUk

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 25, 2022, 07:59:09 PM
Documentary on free jazz:

Inside Out In The Open (An Expressionist Journey Into The World Known As Free Jazz) Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DdBVy2o2pY

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 26, 2022, 02:08:20 PM
The Life of a Song, Geri Allen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 27, 2022, 12:59:40 PM
Agustí Fernández & Barry Guy: Some Other Place


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There is some very interesting and exciting music on this album. Guy's bass playing is certainly unique in my limited experience. There is also some very experimental music here too. The album was a challenging listen in places.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on January 28, 2022, 02:24:53 PM
Ben Webster: Big Ben Time


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This is my first listen to both this artist and this album.

This is more like Smokey Sax Time. Wow!
Smooth, elegant, sonorous and well rounded and recorded saxophone playing. The saxophone has minimal accompaniment but that accompaniment is still very influential in the atmosphere that is created on this album. There are many musical references to much earlier ragtime and early blues here. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. His technique is just wonderful. The rhythms are so solid and the melodies are so good. I dare you not to tap your foot to, and enjoy, this one! These are easy, swinging and extremely enjoyable sounds! This album is a terrific listen!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on January 29, 2022, 11:47:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/WUs3k_RUAFM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 30, 2022, 04:55:42 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 31, 2022, 07:59:50 AM
Quote from: aligreto on January 28, 2022, 02:24:53 PM
Ben Webster: Big Ben Time


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This is my first listen to both this artist and this album.

This is more like Smokey Sax Time. Wow!
Smooth, elegant, sonorous and well rounded and recorded saxophone playing. The saxophone has minimal accompaniment but that accompaniment is still very influential in the atmosphere that is created on this album. There are many musical references to much earlier ragtime and early blues here. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. His technique is just wonderful. The rhythms are so solid and the melodies are so good. I dare you not to tap your foot to, and enjoy, this one! These are easy, swinging and extremely enjoyable sounds! This album is a terrific listen!

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 31, 2022, 01:04:47 PM
Phil Woods & Tom Harrell.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 01, 2022, 08:05:05 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 31, 2022, 07:59:50 AM


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Nice!

Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed that one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 02, 2022, 03:25:19 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 02, 2022, 06:08:49 PM
Soul of Things, Tomasz Stańko.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on February 03, 2022, 06:59:37 PM
Earlier today, a first ever listen to what will now be one of my favorite jazz albums ever: The Last Concert, of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 03, 2022, 11:06:39 PM
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from:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 04, 2022, 06:13:46 AM
Ben Webster: Quiet Now (ballad compilation).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 04, 2022, 07:44:43 AM
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Analogue Productions SACD
Mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray

Superb!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 04, 2022, 01:16:02 PM
Antonis Ladopolous [with Sami Amiris]: Phos


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I know nothing of either of these two musicians. I had never heard of them before this CD. However, it is a most enjoyable CD from what is obviously a very good duet. This is wonderful music and music making. This combination of instruments also makes for a novel and interesting duet, for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 04, 2022, 01:16:31 PM
Quote from: George on February 04, 2022, 07:44:43 AM
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Analogue Productions SACD
Mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray

Superb!

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 04, 2022, 01:24:39 PM
Quote from: KevinP on February 03, 2022, 11:06:39 PM
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That's a great boxset. Bill Dixon was an amazing musician.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 04, 2022, 03:10:56 PM
Quote from: Artem on February 04, 2022, 01:24:39 PM
That's a great boxset. Bill Dixon was an amazing musician.

He really was. I've only just discovered him (and other music from these labels) in the past year or so. I resisted the avant-garde for many years until finally getting into Sun Ra a few years back which opened a floodgate.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 04, 2022, 05:23:23 PM
Quote from: KevinP on February 04, 2022, 03:10:56 PM
He really was. I've only just discovered him (and other music from these labels) in the past year or so. I resisted the avant-garde for many years until finally getting into Sun Ra a few years back which opened a floodgate.

I've also gotten into free/avant-garde jazz only the past few years. The Black Saint / Soul Note boxes were great vehicles for exploring...

Also funny: I ignored Sun Ra seemingly forever. Figured "who are these nuts marching and dancing around in those ridiculous costumes?" But I got deeply into his music 3-4 years ago and am now a huge fan. The Ra discography is too big to think of listening to everything, though. There's been a steady flow of excellent reissues of late, and a couple are on my wish list.

Listening:

(https://i.discogs.com/FIVWWqakG0sShjYenIQtztmyP36exOrjwiYIO_8psO8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTI3/MzczNjQtMTQyODM1/NTA1NC0zMzk5Lmpw/ZWc.jpeg)
(https://i.discogs.com/9kO8Yw6PrxqAmTBs--Yzo5-sjny9R3U98_CB5_W595o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTU1/OTUwNjEtMTM5NzUy/Mjg4MC04OTczLmpw/ZWc.jpeg)
(https://i.discogs.com/R7gz3ERS2v9nbz0PE70d2YZEmXBl0wO55eqlsolh5V4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTU1/OTUwODYtMTM5NzUy/MzUzOC0yOTIzLmpw/ZWc.jpeg)
(https://i.discogs.com/oHP63SPfzRQi0BF9eyq96HkMzh-1K4IFM8HF04Mo75E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:611/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTEz/NDI5NDkwLTE1NTQw/NDU3MDItNjM3MC5q/cGVn.jpeg)
(https://i.discogs.com/zjIHRWB6EE6g5u11WopT4ihYWuZcqrauByuz7tKr9lU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTIz/OTY3NzQtMTYzODIx/MzQwNS0zNTU3Lmpw/ZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 04, 2022, 10:52:26 PM
We're on impressive similar trajectories in terms of our discoveries.  Same things happening around the same time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: mabuse on February 07, 2022, 11:02:41 AM
How I discovered Sun Ra...
(https://img.discogs.com/JrpqM2rPiGwKxd9C6zkkfPFu4Hc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-717124-1335902080.jpeg.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1QgpZkMaA&list=PL_5ZPYhbYai3zmNcndgA90LcE-_mRiu6J
Medley Five ("Technicolor Pachyderms") from the album « Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films »
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...

Quote from: T. D. on February 04, 2022, 05:23:23 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/zjIHRWB6EE6g5u11WopT4ihYWuZcqrauByuz7tKr9lU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTIz/OTY3NzQtMTYzODIx/MzQwNS0zNTU3Lmpw/ZWc.jpeg)

I love it !
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 08, 2022, 03:50:33 AM
Vince Guaraldi, The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 09, 2022, 01:28:58 PM
Coleman Hawkins: At Ease With Coleman Hawkins


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273e5aa30331bf5d325ac42814d)


What a wonderful tone from the saxophone here captured on an equally wonderful recording. It is so engaging and relaxing!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 09, 2022, 06:02:42 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51oIhD1HazL._SY500_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51y3uwY9uvL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on February 11, 2022, 11:48:35 AM
Superb disk.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71eMlAp8R1L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 11, 2022, 01:51:36 PM
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71xFpkMHNcL._AC_SL1400_.jpg)


This music is, for me, quite complex in nature yet still very engaging to listen to. There is a wonderful balance between these two elements. I must credit the bass player here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 12, 2022, 06:55:41 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41j%2BSxlNClL.jpg)

Sonny Stitt - With The New Yorkers (1957)


followed by:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/518XOEBkwUL.jpg)

Miles Davis - Miles In The Sky (1968)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 13, 2022, 01:31:57 PM
John Coltrane: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 14, 2022, 01:20:48 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 1


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD1:

Tenor Madness (Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness – 5/24/56)
Weeja (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz - 5/7/56)
On It (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
Avalon (Elmo Hope – Informal Jazz – 5/7/56)
Tenor Conclave (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
How Deep is the Ocean? (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 14, 2022, 01:45:11 PM
Albert Ammons 1939-46.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 15, 2022, 01:27:10 PM
Wycliffe Gordan: Cone and T Staff


(https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/img/1320.jpg)


I am very impressed with the quality of both the music and the music making coupled with the performances of all concerned on this album. Both the music and the performances are very engaging. These performances have a really good presence. Melodically, this album is very engaging and rhythmically it is also very well sustained throughout. The music is always well driven and delivered.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 15, 2022, 04:54:23 PM
Waldron-Haslam is an album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron and baritone saxophonist George Haslam recorded in 1994 and released on the English Slam label.

"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) — 8:16
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) — 8:08
"Catch as Catch Should" — 7:09
"Somewhere" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) — 5:41
"Variations on Brahms 3, Mvt.3" (Johannes Brahms, Mal Waldron) — 4:49
"A Time for Duke" (Waldron) — 7:04
"The Vortex" (George Haslam) — 8:45
"Motion in Order" — 18:47

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 16, 2022, 01:21:31 PM
Five Corners Quintet: The Helsinki Sessions


(https://i.discogs.com/GUeo4B-UcCsrlbNH40WaC3VVEKX7twyrDNQydX1rrQI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:537/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTMw/MjMyMTItMTQzODMy/NDc3OC00MjMyLmpw/ZWc.jpeg)


This music is terrific and it has the benefit of the atmosphere and excitement of a live session.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 16, 2022, 01:56:59 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 14, 2022, 01:45:11 PM
Albert Ammons 1939-46.

Good stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 16, 2022, 02:05:13 PM
Quote from: KevinP on February 16, 2022, 01:56:59 PM
Good stuff!

Yes I have a thing for boogie (and blues.) Those are my fav music.
Kevin, you like Pete Johnson?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 16, 2022, 02:15:46 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 16, 2022, 02:05:13 PM
Yes I have a thing for boogie (and blues.) Those are my fav music.
Kevin, you like Pete Johnson?

Johnson, Ammons, Meade Lewis, Yancy, Pinetop Smith, Cow Cow Davenport, all greats. Plus Barrelhouse Chuck and Erwin Helfer of (somewhat) more recent vintage.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 16, 2022, 02:50:08 PM
(https://images.eil.com/large_image/MILES_DAVIS_E.S.P.%2B-%2BSEALED-692973.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 17, 2022, 09:28:01 AM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/6322/5922/products/Miles_Davis_MilesSmiles_15830036-eafb-47c7-8162-ae9b8c40bee7_1000x.jpg?v=1605723489)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 17, 2022, 01:30:45 PM
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Complete Sessions


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Lf3pQGcvL._AC_SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 17, 2022, 03:09:20 PM
recently:

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.k90lodrcef56rSrprLyZYQAAAA?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) (https://img.discogs.com/jAKHwY_go0umX_NYqkxT7jZLqfw=/fit-in/479x479/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6905690-1429214545-8823.jpeg.jpg)

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.c5w2sHtZcfi7Cfqdr56LggHaHb?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) (https://img.discogs.com/6Q16kPPlNCXIEaiLDUNQJ2HTMSw=/fit-in/285x276/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-859105-1363992774-3597.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 20, 2022, 02:34:07 PM
Wycliffe Gordon: Dreams of New Orleans


(https://i.discogs.com/23vlq43MQQMN0LXbgeropNv1OZLFkHmnOZqJ5vZv7xw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWltYWdlcy9SLTcy/OTQ3MTktMTQzODIx/MzI5NS0zNTY5Lmpw/ZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 21, 2022, 02:07:26 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 2


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 2:

Just You, Just Me (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
Bob's Boys (Tenor Conclave – 9/7/56)
Mating Call (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
Soultrane (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
Gnid (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
Super Jet (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
On A Misty Night (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
Romas (Tadd Dameron – Mating Call – 11/30/56)
Soul Eyes (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 22, 2022, 01:17:14 PM
Charlie Parker with Woody Herman Big Band.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 25, 2022, 01:54:39 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 3


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 3:

Anatomy (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
Interplay (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
Light Blue (Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors – 3/22/57)
C.T.A. (Art Taylor – Taylor's Wailers – 3/22/57)
Eclypso (The Cats – 4/18/57)
Solacium (The Cats – 4/18/57)
Minor Mishap (The Cats – 4/18/57)
Tommy's Tune (The Cats – 4/18/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 25, 2022, 02:23:47 PM
Quote from: aligreto on February 25, 2022, 01:54:39 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings

These are great sessions - some of the best of John Coltrane.  This box, along with the Prestige sessions for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins would make up the core of any Jazz fan's basic collection.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 25, 2022, 02:47:39 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 25, 2022, 02:23:47 PM
These are great sessions - some of the best of John Coltrane.  This box, along with the Prestige sessions for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins would make up the core of any Jazz fan's basic collection.

Cheers.
I cannot pretend that I am knowledgeable about Jazz but I am certainly enjoying this set so far. Both the music and the music making seem to me to be top drawer and very enjoyable. The foot keeps tapping and I keep wanting to hear more. That has to be a good, engaging sign at the very least.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2022, 03:17:04 PM
Yesterday:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B5_qATvIg-A/XM8ftfio4uI/AAAAAAAA6cc/thsPbfSD9yAUUFVeIQg873ktBRlbfVk0QCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Sindelfingen-2.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2vuySceEwE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 02, 2022, 04:03:32 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/UuB8HaYCEVjCk0IZw-XOasXb4VVeDHJ2vS8PbEgc9kI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5ODMy/OTk4LTE2NDEyMTYy/ODgtNjI0Mi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 02, 2022, 11:16:02 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AiSjt5luL._SX355_.jpg)

1967
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 05, 2022, 01:57:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 02, 2022, 11:16:02 PM
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1967

Nice album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 06, 2022, 05:46:21 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 06, 2022, 09:20:17 AM
Sunday afternoon listening.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81h3yRP7ZeL._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/415FZo2A-mL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 06, 2022, 09:02:42 PM
Quote from: Artem on March 06, 2022, 09:20:17 AM
Sunday afternoon listening.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81h3yRP7ZeL._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/415FZo2A-mL.jpg)

I like Lotus Blossom in Quiet Kenny.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 06, 2022, 11:58:16 PM
I was surprised to learn from the liner note of Quiet Kenny that the Quiet Kenny and Giants Steps featured the same players.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 07, 2022, 02:33:02 PM
Art and Perception, Art Farmer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 08, 2022, 11:12:28 AM
Duke Jordan's CD is very nice, but it is spoiled by inclusion of additional takes within the original run of the album. I don't understand that. Bonus tracks should be on a bonus CD or at least at the very end of the disk.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71D6k-5zY7L._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61HUtAECm7S._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 08, 2022, 11:41:32 AM
Quote from: Artem on March 08, 2022, 11:12:28 AM
Duke Jordan's CD is very nice, but it is spoiled by inclusion of additional takes within the original run of the album. I don't understand that. Bonus tracks should be on a bonus CD or at least at the very end of the disk.
I agree. When there are three tracks in a row of the same song, it's a tiring listening experience. When you get to the end and then hear another version, your ears have been refreshed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2022, 09:26:31 AM
I can't think of a single jazz album I thought was improved by the addition of alternate takes.

An early edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz had a not from the editor saying he wasn't going to give higher ratings for discs that included bonus material, as in his opinion records tend to be too long rather than too short.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 10, 2022, 10:16:24 AM
Quote from: Brian on March 08, 2022, 11:41:32 AM
I agree. When there are three tracks in a row of the same song, it's a tiring listening experience. When you get to the end and then hear another version, your ears have been refreshed.

Agreed.
One of my absolute all-time favorite jazz releases, Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron, is somewhat marred by 1 alternate take consistently being placed immediately after the master. So you're more or less listening to 2 CDs worth of back-to-back repeats. But the music's so damn good that I sit through it anyway.

OTOH, true Charlie Parker fanatics go for the multi alternate takes despite possible repetition, because you never know what kind of amazing s**t Bird is going to play in his solos...But to be honest, I'm not fond of the endless fragments and outtakes in the  Bird Verve box and have not sprung for the Complete Savoy/Dial set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 12, 2022, 06:02:05 AM
From Rags to Rhythm | Marcus Roberts Trio

(https://i.postimg.cc/ZRLHZm6t/Screen-Shot-2022-03-12-at-8-13-27-AM.png)

Not only does this recording contain some great Jazz playing and songwriting - but the sound of the record is phenomenal, especially the bass.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 12, 2022, 06:47:42 AM
Alternate takes belong on The Complete Recordings of... box sets. But yeah, keep them off the canonical albums. Make the CD a twofer if you need to fill up the running time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 12, 2022, 01:28:03 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on March 12, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
Quote from: KevinP on March 12, 2022, 06:47:42 AM
Alternate takes belong on The Complete Recordings of... box sets. But yeah, keep them off the canonical albums. Make the CD a twofer if you need to fill up the running time.

As someone who played Jazz professionally for 20 years I am interested in hearing alternate takes since the solos are invariably different; or they should be. 

Jazz suffers the most from being recorded since choosing one performance of a song to memorialize on a recording distorts the reality.  Before and after the sessions, in all likelihood, the same band would play the same songs better than what ended up on the record.

So I enjoy the alternate takes as much and often more than the masters.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 17, 2022, 09:28:52 AM
Joe Pass: Virtuoso.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on March 17, 2022, 09:34:00 AM
Quote from: San Antone on March 12, 2022, 06:02:05 AM
From Rags to Rhythm | Marcus Roberts Trio

(https://i.postimg.cc/ZRLHZm6t/Screen-Shot-2022-03-12-at-8-13-27-AM.png)

Not only does this recording contain some great Jazz playing and songwriting - but the sound of the record is phenomenal, especially the bass.

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 17, 2022, 06:56:56 PM
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Nancy Wilson.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 18, 2022, 05:01:33 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 17, 2022, 06:56:56 PM
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Nancy Wilson.

Now what were you saying about us having similar tastes?

She's one of my all-time favourites. Any album of hers I don't love is because I don't respond to the overall production.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 18, 2022, 06:39:20 AM
Quote from: KevinP on March 18, 2022, 05:01:33 AM
Now what were you saying about us having similar tastes?

She's one of my all-time favourites. Any album of hers I don't love is because I don't respond to the overall production.

Some of her albums are straight-ahead jazz, some are pop, and many are mixture of them. I think some of her recordings are excellent. The below is my favorite. She is with Hank Jones, Jimmy Cobb and Eddie Gomez.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 20, 2022, 01:43:18 PM
Time for oysters and Ale.
Bird @ Roost, with Miles and Kenny.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 21, 2022, 01:17:15 PM
Geoffrey Keezer: Falling Up.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 22, 2022, 01:19:11 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 4


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 4:

Dakar (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Mary's Blues (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Route 4 (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Velvet Scene (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Witches' Pit (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Cat Walk (Baritones and French Horns – 4/20/57)
Pot Pourri (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
J.M.'s Dream Doll (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
Don't Explain (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
Falling In Love With Love (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 22, 2022, 06:24:19 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 22, 2022, 01:19:11 PM
Baritones and French Horns


Ah, that's what I know as the Dakar album. hadn't heard of the original release before.

From Wikipedia:

"Baritones and French Horns is a 16+2⁄3 rpm album released in August 1958 by Prestige Records.[1] The album is one of a series of releases attributed to the Prestige All Stars.[2] Each side of the album was a distinct date with distinct personnel. From a jazz.com review,[3] Kenny Berger wrote, "Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late- 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as the industry's answer to the Edsel. One of Prestige's contributions to this auditory dustbin was an LP on steroids titled Baritones and French Horns under the supervision of vibist, composer, arranger, A&R man Teddy Charles. The baritone side of this album was reissued twice on LP and twice more on CD under John Coltrane's name [as Dakar], though Pepper Adams was the actual leader on these sessions." The "french horns" side of the album was reissued as Prestige ST 8305, Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 23, 2022, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 22, 2022, 06:24:19 PM
Ah, that's what I know as the Dakar album. hadn't heard of the original release before.

From Wikipedia:

"Baritones and French Horns is a 16+2⁄3 rpm album released in August 1958 by Prestige Records.[1] The album is one of a series of releases attributed to the Prestige All Stars.[2] Each side of the album was a distinct date with distinct personnel. From a jazz.com review,[3] Kenny Berger wrote, "Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late- 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as the industry's answer to the Edsel. One of Prestige's contributions to this auditory dustbin was an LP on steroids titled Baritones and French Horns under the supervision of vibist, composer, arranger, A&R man Teddy Charles. The baritone side of this album was reissued twice on LP and twice more on CD under John Coltrane's name [as Dakar], though Pepper Adams was the actual leader on these sessions." The "french horns" side of the album was reissued as Prestige ST 8305, Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns"

Thank you for the information. I am virtually ignorant as far as Jazz is concerned only having "discovered" it later in Life.
One of the things that I like about this John Coltrane collection is the information that is supplied on the various albums on which he featured.
Some day, at some time in the future, I hope to explore at least some of them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 23, 2022, 02:06:16 PM
Archie Shepp: True Ballads


(https://img.discogs.com/eGKbFEchtJPehbCyGsqIQHSnjv8=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7585444-1444577126-5642.jpeg.jpg)


There is some truly wonderful music making and also a wonderfully chilled atmosphere on the album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 23, 2022, 06:25:38 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 23, 2022, 02:06:16 PM
Archie Shepp: True Ballads


(https://img.discogs.com/eGKbFEchtJPehbCyGsqIQHSnjv8=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7585444-1444577126-5642.jpeg.jpg)


There is some truly wonderful music making and also a wonderfully chilled atmosphere on the album.

Sounds interesting. Will look for the recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 24, 2022, 03:37:30 PM
Wycliffe Gordon: The Intimate Ellington


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TH9BiTyjL.jpg)


I enjoyed this one. The Big Band sound is transposed to a Sextet, successfully, as far as I am concerned. There is a very interesting version of the Creole Love Song on the album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 25, 2022, 01:55:05 PM
Rollins Plays For Bird, Sonny Rollins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 25, 2022, 07:28:51 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 24, 2022, 03:37:30 PM
Wycliffe Gordon: The Intimate Ellington

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TH9BiTyjL.jpg)

I enjoyed this one. The Big Band sound is transposed to a Sextet, successfully, as far as I am concerned. There is a very interesting version of the Creole Love Song on the album.
Oooh, this looks very interesting to me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 25, 2022, 07:50:52 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/lrOP89uKuODbijCV7k_JWAn1ZlXMB6Tdc1MOGtcOeB4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDg1/NzkwLTE2MDM3NzM0/NjUtNDEyNi5qcGVn.jpeg)  (https://i.discogs.com/LTX7itmF6XbRVYkpAEDRZHDCwTvBug1oMLGaMx1joAQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDg1/NzkwLTE2MDM3NzM1/MjUtODIzNC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 26, 2022, 03:05:55 AM
Quote from: Brian on March 25, 2022, 07:28:51 PM

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TH9BiTyjL.jpg)

Oooh, this looks very interesting to me.

It comes well recommended from a newbie to the genre.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 26, 2022, 01:53:18 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 5


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 5:

Blue Calypso (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 4/19/57)
The Way You Look Tonight (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
From This Moment On (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
One By One (Mal Waldron – Mal/2 – 5/17/57)
Cattin' (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
Anatomy (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
Vodka (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
Sunday (Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette – 5/17/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 26, 2022, 02:40:27 PM
A La Mode, Art Blakey and JM.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 26, 2022, 10:31:12 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0f/Mr_Billy_Higgins.jpg/220px-Mr_Billy_Higgins.jpg)

Mr. Billy Hiiggins (1985)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Mama_Rose_%28album%29.jpg/220px-Mama_Rose_%28album%29.jpg)

Archie Shepp - Mama Rose (1982)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 27, 2022, 01:56:21 PM
Steve Gadd: Gadditude


(https://i.discogs.com/SsGpSfMuLY3kbetDKN648liRxfDyfFEVjymDZMvAEdU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzNjU3/MDEtMTY0MjgzNzEw/NS01MDc3LmpwZWc.jpeg)


This is an interesting and very appealing sound world. I like the overall relaxed atmosphere, tone, rhythms and direction of the album overall. It is a very chilled but also an engaging sound world. It also has some fine guitar and keyboard work. The drumming is not half bad either! The music is exciting and well driven.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 27, 2022, 07:03:12 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 27, 2022, 01:56:21 PM
Steve Gadd: Gadditude


(https://i.discogs.com/SsGpSfMuLY3kbetDKN648liRxfDyfFEVjymDZMvAEdU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzNjU3/MDEtMTY0MjgzNzEw/NS01MDc3LmpwZWc.jpeg)


This is an interesting and very appealing sound world. I like the overall relaxed atmosphere, tone, rhythms and direction of the album overall. It is a very chilled but also an engaging sound world. It also has some fine guitar and keyboard work. The drumming is not half bad either! The music is exciting and well driven.

An amazing drummer! Never heard that album, though. Love his studio drumming for Steely Dan, Paul Simon, etc.   
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 27, 2022, 09:47:25 PM
Tonight:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Eastern_Rebellion.jpg/220px-Eastern_Rebellion.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81M-Dt-+OkL._SS500_.jpg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717CbAx18kL._SL1429_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Ub9QUXv8L._SY355_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31+YWtl4bfL._AC_UL600_SR600,600_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kg28mSXoL._AC_SY355_.jpg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 28, 2022, 06:06:55 AM
Quote from: George on March 27, 2022, 07:03:12 PM

(https://i.discogs.com/SsGpSfMuLY3kbetDKN648liRxfDyfFEVjymDZMvAEdU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzNjU3/MDEtMTY0MjgzNzEw/NS01MDc3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

An amazing drummer! Never heard that album, though. Love his studio drumming for Steely Dan, Paul Simon, etc.

Interesting. I did not know of him prior to listening to this album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 28, 2022, 06:07:32 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 27, 2022, 09:47:25 PM
Tonight:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Eastern_Rebellion.jpg/220px-Eastern_Rebellion.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81M-Dt-+OkL._SS500_.jpg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717CbAx18kL._SL1429_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Ub9QUXv8L._SY355_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31+YWtl4bfL._AC_UL600_SR600,600_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kg28mSXoL._AC_SY355_.jpg)

Cool. That is a mega listening session  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 28, 2022, 10:55:04 AM
Yeah, that's a cool line up. Criss Cross together with SteepleChase have been my recent most favourite jazz labels.

How's Eastern Rebellion, by the way? I saw it among new reissues.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2022, 02:25:11 PM
Eastern Rebellion is essential listening and was the highlight of last night's marathon. It was actually a pity I played it first because the other fine albums couldn't match it - with the exception maybe of the much quieter Quartrt West.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on March 28, 2022, 07:08:09 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 28, 2022, 06:06:55 AM
Interesting. I did not know of him prior to listening to this album.

He played on many classic tracks, including these: https://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/five-songs-featuring-steve-gadd-every-drummer-needs-to-hear
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 28, 2022, 08:14:15 PM
And tonight:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61mXF37Ic9L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 29, 2022, 02:15:11 AM
Quote from: George on March 28, 2022, 07:08:09 PM
He played on many classic tracks, including these: https://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/five-songs-featuring-steve-gadd-every-drummer-needs-to-hear

Thank you for that.  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 29, 2022, 08:12:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/412de7DmVKL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 30, 2022, 01:23:13 PM
Houston Person: Nice "n" Easy


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273b348d08833505a01f93e208c)


The sound matches the description. However, it is not so easy that it is dull or boring. On the contrary, the album moves along quite well and it is driven very well in places. It is more that the overall atmosphere is Nice "n" Easy. There are some very smooth slow numbers on the album. Everybody involved contributes very well and the sound quality is excellent, especially that of the saxophone. 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 30, 2022, 02:19:25 PM
Blue Velvet, Houston Person. Inspired by the post above by Aligreto.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 30, 2022, 02:42:15 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 30, 2022, 02:19:25 PM
Blue Velvet, Houston Person. Inspired by the post above by Aligreto.  ;D

Take it Nice "n" Easy my friend  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 30, 2022, 03:35:12 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 30, 2022, 01:23:13 PM
Houston Person: Nice "n" Easy


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273b348d08833505a01f93e208c)


The sound matches the description. However, it is not so easy that it is dull or boring. On the contrary, the album moves along quite well and it is driven very well in places. It is more that the overall atmosphere is Nice "n" Easy. There are some very smooth slow numbers on the album. Everybody involved contributes very well and the sound quality is excellent, especially that of the saxophone.

The lettering is a clear nod to the Sinatra album. Is there any other connection?

(https://img.discogs.com/SgFhF2I-wM0-H2j_t1vBLhtOtCM=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11355168-1514888416-8825.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 30, 2022, 06:31:16 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 30, 2022, 03:35:12 PM
The lettering is a clear nod to the Sinatra album. Is there any other connection?

(https://img.discogs.com/SgFhF2I-wM0-H2j_t1vBLhtOtCM=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11355168-1514888416-8825.jpeg.jpg)

You sound right. Otherwise, this maybe what Carl Jung called Synchronicity!   ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 31, 2022, 01:44:04 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 6


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 6:

Straight Street (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
While My Lady Sleeps (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
Chronic Blues (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
Bakai (Coltrane - 5/31/57)
Violets For Your Furs (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
Time Was (Coltrane – 5/31/57)
I Hear A Rhapsody (Lush Life – 5/31/57)
Trane's Slow Blues (Lush Life – 8/16/57)
Slowtrane (The Last Trane – 8/16/57)
Like Someone in Love (Lush Life – 8/16/57)
I Love You (Lush Life – 8/16/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Irons on March 31, 2022, 11:37:29 PM
From the vinyl thread.

(https://i.imgur.com/bPrGM7D.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 01, 2022, 01:13:43 AM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.zqh1EYm48x5QQJNL6qTBcgHaHV?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71sSBJDHc6L._SL1200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 01, 2022, 01:39:03 AM
Quote from: Irons on March 31, 2022, 11:37:29 PM
From the vinyl thread.

(https://i.imgur.com/bPrGM7D.jpg)

Nice album. I particularly like the track Autumn Leaves.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Irons on April 01, 2022, 06:39:07 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 01, 2022, 01:39:03 AM
Nice album. I particularly like the track Autumn Leaves.

Any small group with Miles and Art Blakey as members are not to be sniffed at. :P
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 01, 2022, 10:16:45 AM
Quote from: Irons on April 01, 2022, 06:39:07 AM
Any small group with Miles and Art Blakey as members are not to be sniffed at. :P

I had not thought of that. A good point  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 01, 2022, 10:52:26 AM
Barney Kessel: Feeling Free.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 01, 2022, 01:14:21 PM
Dave Brubeck: Concord On A Summer Night


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ebb57c75f9506a63b18af43f)


What an absolutely terrific album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 01, 2022, 06:59:21 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/oM8SgjmDAw4hgHIOeGCShfajKtW9HSY9zrQXDrPnWrM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:611/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjU0/MTA1LTE1MjAwOTY2/ODgtNDQwMS5qcGVn.jpeg)

This particular release (on Teal) contains 2 full albums, the one pictured plus

(https://i.discogs.com/UhQXylwLJ6HCRM8hTMWkvMX-IdKBUnWZdX9HR2jTDko/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:480/w:480/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc4Njcw/NjMtMTQ1MDUzMDY3/MS0xMjQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Also

(https://i.discogs.com/PAn0E4foXpGIjl-ACJCWHOq6oeOrVMdN0O6g3a9j4wc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NTE3/NDQtMTQwOTkyNzU1/OC03MTQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on April 02, 2022, 12:49:02 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/bqoXubTOuZnQQyGCG-2Olh9UDUgmErMZNoUWr55_hSs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxODk4/OTYzLTE2NDMyMTIy/NTgtOTEwMC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Rope (feat. Petra Haden, 2021): In the Moment - The Music of Charlie Haden
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 02, 2022, 03:42:47 PM
Carol Kidd: Debut


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51J1jw8RBXL.jpg)


This is a very relaxed presentation. Nice late night listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 02, 2022, 03:50:11 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.gmCKO0PaDXcznTp_JZbF6QHaHc?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 03, 2022, 01:36:05 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 02, 2022, 03:50:11 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.gmCKO0PaDXcznTp_JZbF6QHaHc?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)

I like that album title.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 03, 2022, 01:46:41 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 03, 2022, 01:36:05 AM
I like that album title.

Although I grew up with and am very familiar with the Columbia Masterworks series, I hadn't encountered that one before finding it in the secondhand store yesterday.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 03, 2022, 01:56:16 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 03, 2022, 01:46:41 AM
Although I grew up with and am very familiar with the Columbia Masterworks series, I hadn't encountered that one before finding it in the secondhand store yesterday.

Lucky you!  8)

I am not familiar with it either.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 03, 2022, 02:00:35 PM
Florian Hoefner Group: Songs Without Words


(https://img.discogs.com/tmzuSEMeKwhIn1Dmxg8bRzPH0gE=/fit-in/600x528/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9030839-1530825572-2709.jpeg.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 03, 2022, 02:28:59 PM
As for Benny Goodman, I think he continued to take lessons from a prominent classical clarinet player (forgot the name) throughout his life and his playing kept improving until his death. Actually I like his recordings in the 1960-80s. I would like to recommend the fine compilation below.

https://youtu.be/OPKj26yVZXI?list=OLAK5uy_k0xMtwgbVNxxaWvEZvF79vDhy9BSbRYfE
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 04, 2022, 03:13:21 PM
(https://www.amazon.co.jp/images/I/91uulav8xwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51QQEQ6M8PL._SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.50da7f98701ddc7fcaacc36627c88d80?rik=KItcgJif4g3fcQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 06, 2022, 02:19:19 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 03, 2022, 02:28:59 PM
As for Benny Goodman, I think he continued to take lessons from a prominent classical clarinet player (forgot the name) throughout his life and his playing kept improving until his death. Actually I like his recordings in the 1960-80s. I would like to recommend the fine compilation below.

https://youtu.be/OPKj26yVZXI?list=OLAK5uy_k0xMtwgbVNxxaWvEZvF79vDhy9BSbRYfE

The name of his teacher was a chap named Reginald Kell.
Under his guidance Goodman underwent major changes in his playing technique.
Goodman, as you know, was also quite active in the Classical Music field.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 06, 2022, 02:22:26 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 04, 2022, 03:13:21 PM

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.50da7f98701ddc7fcaacc36627c88d80?rik=KItcgJif4g3fcQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

I like to listen to those early recordings with the Hot Fives and Sevens.
I have the following 4 CD set:


(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/8339776662709abd0fa2d4f31bddb250/5941042/louis-armstrong-hot-fives-and-sevens-Cover-Art.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 06, 2022, 01:54:46 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 06, 2022, 02:19:19 AM
The name of his teacher was a chap named Reginald Kell.
Under his guidance Goodman underwent major changes in his playing technique.
Goodman, as you know, was also quite active in the Classical Music field.

Good to know about the guy's name!
I haven't checked his classical recordings.
How are they?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 06, 2022, 06:14:18 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 06, 2022, 01:54:46 PM
Good to know about the guy's name!
I haven't checked his classical recordings.
How are they?
Benny Goodman's classical recordings are somewhat controversial - although he did train in classical music he still had a unique personal style very different from most classical clarinetists. You either like it or dislike it and I suggest finding a sample track or two on streaming or YouTube to decide your own view. (Personally I think they're OK but quite strange.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on April 06, 2022, 07:11:13 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 06, 2022, 06:14:18 PM
Benny Goodman's classical recordings are somewhat controversial - although he did train in classical music he still had a unique personal style very different from most classical clarinetists. You either like it or dislike it and I suggest finding a sample track or two on streaming or YouTube to decide your own view. (Personally I think they're OK but quite strange.)

Several of them are available cheaply as used CDs.
He recorded the Mozart concerto three times, the last one being a live recording in Vienna.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 07, 2022, 01:52:39 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 06, 2022, 01:54:46 PM
Good to know about the guy's name!
I haven't checked his classical recordings.
How are they?

I have not heard them but I know that he played works by Bartok and Arnold amongst others. The only Classical works that he performed and that I am familiar with are the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. Given the required change of discipline I think he performed admirably in these works.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 07, 2022, 06:31:10 AM
Thank you gents, I will explore his recordings mentioned by you. Plus, I will revisit classical recordings by John Lewis as well.
I am familiar with Bach works by Keith Jarret and they are excellent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 07, 2022, 12:47:42 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 7


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 7:

Dealin' (Take 1) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Dealin' (Take 2) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Wheelin' (Take 1) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Wheelin' (Take 2) (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Robbin's Nest (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Wheelin' & Dealin' – 9/20/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2022, 01:23:09 AM
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I would have thought the trio album would have been the essential purchase and the late 40s band album the play once then pass on purchase. Turns out it was the exact opposite.

Odd because I remember a previous Goodman trio collection with Teddy Wilson I owned being much more worthy.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 08, 2022, 01:46:33 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 07, 2022, 12:47:42 PM
Wheelin' & Dealin'

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I'm sure I heard it once but I can't remember it now.

Did anything in particular stand out?
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Post by: aligreto on April 08, 2022, 01:54:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 08, 2022, 01:46:33 AM
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I'm sure I heard it once but I can't remember it now.

Did anything in particular stand out?

Not really for me.
TBH I actually felt just a little cheated because most of the album is taken up with with two takes each of just two songs.
I understand that an avid fan of this music would possibly be enthralled with this but, at my embryonic stage of development I just found it to be just a bit too much.
I would have preferred to hear something else, like the other two tracks on the album.
But that is just me, a newbie, unjustifiably nit picking.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 08, 2022, 01:34:27 PM
Herbie Hancock: River.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 08, 2022, 02:38:01 PM
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis


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Two of the Greats, together.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2022, 03:48:03 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 08, 2022, 01:54:48 AM
Not really for me.
TBH I actually felt just a little cheated because most of the album is taken up with with two takes each of just two songs.
I understand that an avid fan of this music would possibly be enthralled with this but, at my embryonic stage of development I just found it to be just a bit too much.
I would have preferred to hear something else, like the other two tracks on the album.
But that is just me, a newbie, unjustifiably nit picking.  :)

I had a long bus ride today so I listened to this, And while it was perfectly pleasant I disliked the cliched "round robin" thing on each track where everyone gets an equal 90 second solo every time - whether they want it or not.

On a Coltrane box set it must feel like Coltrane doing a bare minimum then sitting down and wondering why he was there.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 09, 2022, 04:30:28 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 09, 2022, 03:48:03 AM
I had a long bus ride today so I listened to this, And while it was perfectly pleasant I disliked the cliched "round robin" thing on each track where everyone gets an equal 90 second solo every time - whether they want it or not.

On a Coltrane box set it must feel like Coltrane doing a bare minimum then sitting down and wondering why he was there.

Yes, there is an element of what you describe in the box set but, for a newbie trying to explore this music, I find it very good overall as an introduction for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 09, 2022, 02:31:19 PM
Modern Jazz Quartet: A 40th Anniversary Celebration


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I am not at all familiar with this quartet. What I can tell you is that they celebrate with a host of others on each of the tracks on the album. It all makes for very easy and engaging listening.
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Post by: SimonNZ on April 09, 2022, 03:00:47 PM
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Reminded that "Neo" (originally "Teo") is one of my favorite Miles compositions and its a real pity not only that it didn't become a staple of his future live sets with all its potential explored but also that other artists have so completely overlooked it.

Followed this by playing Someday My Prince Will Come to hear the original studio version (with Coltrane). Had forgotten this album also has "Pfrancing" (aka "No Blues".

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 09, 2022, 03:13:59 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 09, 2022, 03:00:47 PM


Followed this by playing Someday My Prince Will Come to hear the original studio version (with Coltrane). Had forgotten this album also has "Pfrancing" (aka "No Blues".

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I Thought About You is one of my favorite recordings by Miles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 09, 2022, 03:16:32 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 09, 2022, 03:00:47 PM
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Reminded that "Neo" (originally "Teo") is one of my favorite Miles compositions and its a real pity not only that it didn't become a staple of his future live sets with all its potential explored but also that other artists have so completely overlooked it.

Followed this by playing Someday My Prince Will Come to hear the original studio version (with Coltrane). Had forgotten this album also has "Pfrancing" (aka "No Blues".

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Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 09, 2022, 03:13:59 PM
I Thought About You is one of my favorite recordings by Miles.


There is so much to learn  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 06:34:25 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 09, 2022, 03:16:32 PM


There is so much to learn  :)

It's a killer tune!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 10, 2022, 07:07:17 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 06:34:25 AM
It's a killer tune!  :)

No, that went way over my ignorant head, sorry  :-[   ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 10, 2022, 12:55:16 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 8


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 8:

You Leave Me Breathless (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In– 8/23/57)
Bass Blues (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
Soft Lights And Sweet Music (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
Traneing In (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
Slow Dance (John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio a.k.a. Traneing In – 8/23/57)
Our Delight (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)
Woody'n You (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 03:13:34 PM
Quote from: aligreto on April 10, 2022, 12:55:16 PM

All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)


A sentimental favorite.

I can't makr the case that its objectively better than similar albums, but it was one of the first jazz albums I owned and I got a lot of pleasure from it


last night:

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Never much cared for any iteration of this set. Much of the quintet work is fine, but the orchestral parts are a shadow of the studio albums and is particularly out of place on the opening  of "So What".

But after a reassessment having not played it in a decade it was the performance of "Neo" that I came for. For me easily the highlight and a real scorcher performance. Played those nine minutes through four or five times.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 07:11:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 03:13:34 PM
A sentimental favorite.

I can't makr the case that its objectively better than similar albums, but it was one of the first jazz albums I owned and I got a lot of pleasure from it


last night:

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Never much cared for any iteration of this set. Much of the quintet work is fine, but the orchestral parts are a shadow of the studio albums and is particularly out of place on the opening  of "So What".

But after a reassessment having not played it in a decade it was the performance of "Neo" that I came for. For me easily the highlight and a real scorcher performance. Played those nine minutes through four or five times.

I think it's a great album. I understand about the opening of So What, but I love this version and certainly prefer it to the studio version.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 07:17:14 PM
Lee Morgan Vol. 3. Early Lee with Benny Golson.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 07:38:16 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 07:11:53 PM
I think it's a great album. I understand about the opening of So What, but I love this version and certainly prefer it to the studio version.

Wow.

It's possible that the poor live sound capture is part of what puts me off in the orchestral parts which I find often shrill an poorly balanced. But I also find the transitions from orchestra to quintet unnatural.

Also I find the Rodrigo thing kind of misguided even on Sketches Of Spain.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 10, 2022, 07:48:02 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 07:38:16 PM
Wow.

It's possible that the poor live sound capture is part of what puts me off in the orchestral parts which I find often shrill an poorly balanced. But I also find the transitions from orchestra to quintet unnatural.

Also I find the Rodrigo thing kind of misguided even on Sketches Of Spain.

;D ;D

Miles' "autobiography" states that Rodrigo listened to the Miles' SoS version and he was tremendously moved. But of course we can't trust any statement in that book.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 08:07:30 PM
Huh. I heard a different anecdote somewhere that Rodrigo said he didn't like it and Miles shot back that he should see how much he likes the money.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 10, 2022, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 08:07:30 PM
Huh. I heard a different anecdote somewhere that Rodrigo said he didn't like it and Miles shot back that he should see how much he likes the money.

That's what I recall. I no longer own the book (autobio ghosted by Troupe) but found the passage online:

Joaquin Rodrigo, the composer of Concierto de Aranjuez, said he didn't like the record, and he—his composition—was the reason I did Sketches of Spain in the first place. Since he was getting a royalty for the use of the song on the record, I told his person who had played it for him, "Let's see if he likes it after he starts getting those big royalty checks." I never heard anything about or from him after that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 11, 2022, 02:54:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 03:13:34 PM

QuoteAll Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)

A sentimental favorite.


Noted.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 11, 2022, 02:56:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on April 10, 2022, 07:38:16 PM

Also I find the Rodrigo thing kind of misguided even on Sketches Of Spain.

I never liked Sketches Of Spain tbh.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on April 11, 2022, 07:21:52 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 11, 2022, 02:56:24 AM
I never liked Sketches Of Spain tbh.

Same.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on April 11, 2022, 10:46:54 AM
Quote from: George on April 11, 2022, 07:21:52 AM
Same.  8)

I liked Sketches of Spain for a long time and played it fairly often. But then either my tastes changed or I got tired of the album; for whatever reason I no longer like it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 11, 2022, 01:32:13 PM
I recall that Miles heard that Rodrigo was moved by the former's recording, got excited and killed a bull- something like that. But I read the book decades ago and I maybe mixed up.
All of the Miles-Gil Evans dates are transitory, still they are fun works and nice changes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 11, 2022, 01:40:44 PM
Peche a La Mouche, Django Reinhardt. Django plays an electric guitar.
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Post by: aligreto on April 11, 2022, 01:43:53 PM
Clark Terry: One On One


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I really like this one. It is very paired back in that it is just trumpet with a different piano player on each track. It has a low key atmosphere but is also very engaging at the same time.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 12, 2022, 11:07:33 AM
The sound of Miles Davis' horn is so piercing on the Sketches of Spain. I find that album's sound very tiring. I prefer Miles Ahead, personally.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 12, 2022, 01:43:27 PM
The Wallace Roney Quintet.
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Post by: aligreto on April 12, 2022, 02:08:54 PM
Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie: Sweet and Lovely


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What a terrific album with magnificent playing from everyone concerned.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 13, 2022, 11:14:02 AM
Fukui's album is very enjoyable, great trio performance, and I'm slowly getting into Chet, because it is way too slow even thought I like slow moody music.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41jdcIHrr2L.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rllWsRB2S._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 13, 2022, 05:07:33 PM
Anita O'Day. Live in Tokyo '63.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 13, 2022, 09:04:19 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 14, 2022, 12:40:51 PM
Love Jimmy Smith. I need to get more of his music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 14, 2022, 02:03:44 PM
Bye Bye Blackbird, Keith Jarrett. Makes me emotional a little.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on April 15, 2022, 12:32:40 PM
Interesting cover art.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 15, 2022, 02:05:07 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 14, 2022, 02:03:44 PM
Bye Bye Blackbird, Keith Jarrett. Makes me emotional a little.

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Quote from: Artem on April 15, 2022, 12:32:40 PM
Interesting cover art.


I think that it is quite graphic and a touch poignant.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:08:45 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 15, 2022, 02:05:07 PM


I think that it is quite graphic and a touch poignant.

Quote from: Artem on April 15, 2022, 12:32:40 PM
Interesting cover art.


Yes, I love the pic. Unfortunately there is no LP record issue of this recording. So I cannot display the jacket art on wall.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 07:23:22 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:08:45 AM

Yes, I love the pic. Unfortunately there is no LP record issue of this recording. So I cannot display the jacket art on wall.

Perhaps you could take a photo of a good quality image and have it printed say 10" X 8" and framed.
Worth a try for an image like that.  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:27:53 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 07:23:22 AM
Perhaps you could take a photo of a good quality image and have it printed say 10" X 8" and framed.
Worth a try for an image like that.  ;)

Excellent idea! I will look for a nice quality pic!
Probably a black frame will be good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 07:29:45 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:27:53 AM
Excellent idea! I will look for a nice quality pic!

If it works post an image of it framed on a wall.  8)  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 07:31:00 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:27:53 AM
Excellent idea! I will look for a nice quality pic!
Probably a black frame will be good.

A black frame would be mandatory for the tone of that image  ;)

Best of luck with it.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 16, 2022, 07:44:58 AM
Quote from: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 07:29:45 AM
If it works post an image of it framed on a wall.  8)  :)

I certainly will!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on April 16, 2022, 02:30:58 PM
Archie Shepp: Deja Vu


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This is a great mixture of music and music making from the laid back to the animated and exciting.
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Post by: T. D. on April 16, 2022, 05:52:48 PM
I once found posters/prints of a bunch of old Prestige album covers at the Fine Art America website. But I don't know of any outlet for ECM album cover art (such as Bye Bye Blackbird).

It's slightly funny to see an Archie Shepp album on the Japanese Venus label (known for straight-ahead programming and soft-porn cover art). Shepp once had a big reputation for free/outside playing (a bit overdone IMO, since a blues influence is generally clear), and only later developed a "mellower" side. Not to criticize; I like his straight-ahead recordings that I've heard.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 17, 2022, 02:10:36 PM
Sonny Rollins Vol. 2. Typical Rudy van Gelder sound.
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Post by: aligreto on April 17, 2022, 02:42:05 PM
Nina Simone Sings Ellington:


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One classic artist portrays another.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 19, 2022, 02:35:49 PM
Bobby McFerrin.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on April 19, 2022, 03:47:39 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 19, 2022, 02:35:49 PM
Bobby McFerrin.

Neat!

I have had a few opportunities to see Bobby McFerrin through his work in my area with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. I think he got pigeon-holed with Don't Worry, Be Happy, but I enjoy his style.

His a cappella cover of The Beatles' Blackbird is perhaps my favorite from seeing him live.

VS
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 19, 2022, 05:40:41 PM
Quote from: VonStupp on April 19, 2022, 03:47:39 PM
Neat!

I have had a few opportunities to see Bobby McFerrin through his work in my area with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. I think he got pigeon-holed with Don't Worry, Be Happy, but I enjoy his style.

His a cappella cover of The Beatles' Blackbird is perhaps my favorite from seeing him live.

VS

Yes, he is an incredible vocalist. Plus, he is like a human synthesizer!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on April 21, 2022, 01:00:51 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 18, 2022, 06:39:20 AM
Some of her albums are straight-ahead jazz, some are pop, and many are mixture of them. I think some of her recordings are excellent. The below is my favorite. She is with Hank Jones, Jimmy Cobb and Eddie Gomez.

That's a good one indeed. I've had it for a while now, but I remember having to search for it for a few years before finally getting a copy.

I generally like all her recordings up to when you start hearing synthesiers and even drum machines (late Capitol and the Columbia years). After that it gets spotty, but there are some definite diamonds throughout her career. If I had to pick a favourite it might be Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues, but there are several that are right up there. The Nancy Wilson Show has a couple wonderful examples of what rarely works, at least on repeated listenings: comedy songs.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 21, 2022, 06:49:50 AM
Quote from: KevinP on April 21, 2022, 01:00:51 AM
That's a good one indeed. I've had it for a while now, but I remember having to search for it for a few years before finally getting a copy.

I generally like all her recordings up to when you start hearing synthesiers and even drum machines (late Capitol and the Columbia years). After that it gets spotty, but there are some definite diamonds throughout her career. If I had to pick a favourite it might be Yesterday's Love Songs/Today's Blues, but there are several that are right up there. The Nancy Wilson Show has a couple wonderful examples of what rarely works, at least on repeated listenings: comedy songs.


Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 02, 2021, 02:26:24 PM
The Nancy Wilson Show!


Yes, I think Yesterday's Love Songs, and Today, Tomorrow, and Forever are excellent albums.
The album with George Shearing is cool too. I like Nancy Wilson Show, with some nice songs including Guess Who I Saw Today. Do you have a video of Carnegie Live? The way the opening number, Dearly Beloved, is done was so so so cool and killing!
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Post by: KevinP on April 21, 2022, 08:51:37 PM
I do have it, though it's been a long time since I've watched it. I need to rectify this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 26, 2022, 06:05:35 PM
Wynton Marsalis, "Who Can I Turn To".
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 01, 2022, 01:28:20 PM
Tribute to Count Basie
Jimmy McGriff.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 02, 2022, 01:35:39 PM
Terence Blanchard: Simply Stated.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 02, 2022, 04:05:34 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 02, 2022, 01:35:39 PM
Terence Blanchard: Simply Stated.


(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/400/0001/348/0001348176.jpg)



I saw him a few times when he was in Art Blake's Jazz Messengers, even talked to him briefly between sets. His career trajectory since then has been pretty amazing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 03, 2022, 06:26:55 AM
Quote from: KevinP on May 02, 2022, 04:05:34 PM
I saw him a few times when he was in Art Blake's Jazz Messengers, even talked to him briefly between sets. His career trajectory since then has been pretty amazing.
Nice player and excellent composer.

I have talked to him a little too. Around the year 2000, in New Orleans. Around the same time, I talked to Stanley Turrentine, and I was astonished by his sharp memory. He could recall everything he did in every years, and recollect the years, members, songs, etc. of all his albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 11, 2022, 12:09:46 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NPgP7BK4L._SX425_.jpg) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71L-WS4-VAL._SY355_.jpg)


Also had never heard of Ken Nordine before, so this came as something od a surprise:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Word_Jazz.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 11, 2022, 04:21:51 PM
Charlie Rouse: When Sunny Gets Blue.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 12, 2022, 01:33:05 PM
Wives and Lovers. Julie London, Nancy Wilson, and Rumer.


(https://images.genius.com/252df499a1d7f5e42d405a0daf0e8158.486x486x1.png)


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/22/f0/36/22f036fb-8067-797f-1cbf-c1cc50b0ad9e/00724352458455.tif/400x400bb.jpg)


(https://i0.cdn.hhv.de/catalog/475x475/00895/895635_1.jpg)



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 12, 2022, 09:41:12 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.5167e99dddad29cb0cc9a7a8c9d7aae4?rik=6xRzcIiZxhDT%2fA&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)


from the wikipedia entry for the song "I'll Remember April": "It made its debut in the 1942 Abbott and Costello comedy Ride 'Em Cowboy, being sung by Dick Foran."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: milk on May 13, 2022, 03:28:36 AM
It's a little annoying but my kids like it. I do love the songs but I prefer to hear Fred. Actually, Fred's longtime musical director, Johnny Costa, is nothing short of magnificent (improvising live on every singe show!), but even his solo album is kind of meh. These songs are great though and seem to be not very well-known. Forget the opening theme. Songs like, It's You I Like, Many Ways to Say I Love You, The Your Heart Is Full of Love, You've Got To Do It, are great compositions and show off the variegated genius of Fred Rogers. Remember folks, you you are special just for being you, people CAN like you just the way you are and there's nobody in the world like you.   
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JAvP-hERL._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on May 13, 2022, 05:15:42 PM
I keep forgetting that Smalls and Mezzrow (both clubs in NYC) do livestreams almost every night. Right now, watching the Adam Birnbaum Trio featuring Al Foster and David Wong, live from the latter venue. I'm already looking forward to Tyshawn Sorey on May 24.

Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwhWJS0uFU

Calendar:
www.smallslive.com

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 13, 2022, 06:46:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZqGKoWsTL._AC_SX679_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 13, 2022, 09:29:19 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 13, 2022, 06:46:40 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZqGKoWsTL._AC_SX679_.jpg)

My fav album. I wish Conga was not in the band. I love Kenny.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 13, 2022, 10:18:49 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 13, 2022, 09:29:19 PM
My fav album. I wish Conga was not in the band. I love Kenny.

Your favorite Burrell album, or your favorite album by anyone?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on May 14, 2022, 12:53:31 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51V4OoClTjL.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61b8axggD6L._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 14, 2022, 01:39:23 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 13, 2022, 10:18:49 PM
Your favorite Burrell album, or your favorite album by anyone?

The latter. It's a wonderful album with the dark tone and restrained playing.



Played today inspired by your post:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/%27Round_Midnight_%28Kenny_Burrell_album%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on May 15, 2022, 05:47:25 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/Lk2wVlNoH-VPU937L0TuZzZNZ-0HGdDZkqJgw8q8hyk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:523/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1MDc2/NzQtMTM5NTE2Njc0/Ni03NjI1LmpwZWc.jpeg)

"...the best there was of all the bebop piano players" according to Miles Davis and many others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 22, 2022, 12:56:29 PM
Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones.

(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44029-large_default/hub-tones-80th-anniversary-edition.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 22, 2022, 04:02:32 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/All_I_Wanna_Do_Is_Swing.jpg)

Joe Newman - All I Wamt To Do Is Swing (1955)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on May 23, 2022, 06:20:26 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/WxNMcpyRpKhM9tN7NJjkDfLLnQNSfq-ct8PhvB9FD4M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:425/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYxMDMx/NjAtMTQxMTE0Mzc1/Ni02NDE0LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 26, 2022, 01:33:53 PM
Dolphy at Copenhagen.


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/9399-large_default/the-complete-1961-copenhagen-concerts.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 02, 2022, 04:57:29 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/UzdJ9KGfl-aUz1fHo8bKlQtR4LfPG_kjnXJMR8qs_Ro/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY1NTgy/ODctMTQzMTM4NzEx/NS03NjYzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 03, 2022, 12:25:46 PM
Very enjoyable disk. I didn't get it at first, but it grows on me with every listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on June 05, 2022, 03:32:26 PM
First listen. Recorded last August in Sweden.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51m49kcpe2L._SY780_.jpg)
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hCYbKZTCL._SY350_.jpg)

There are two Avishai Cohens. This is the bassist: the Avishai Cohen who plays trumpet records with ECM. (They're both good. )
Although the ensemble carries Cohen's name, the musical focus seems mostly to be on the pianist
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on June 05, 2022, 06:02:30 PM
So...have Avishais Cohen recorded together yet?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on June 05, 2022, 06:10:33 PM
Quote from: Brian on June 05, 2022, 06:02:30 PM
So...have Avishais Cohen recorded together yet?

Not that I know of.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 11, 2022, 01:49:01 PM
Mingus Big Band: Blues and Politics. 


(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d0943cc1685450001db8e42/1575574017063-RS8CA9V7U05VE84RU5TV/bluespolitics.jpg?format=500w)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 15, 2022, 02:11:48 PM
Gene Harris: Funky Gene's


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4186AM605ZL._AC_SX355_.jpg)


This is fine music making and what impresses me most is the quality of the piano playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 16, 2022, 01:29:50 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 15, 2022, 02:11:48 PM
Gene Harris: Funky Gene's


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4186AM605ZL._AC_SX355_.jpg)


This is fine music making and what impresses me most is the quality of the piano playing.

I think he plays extremely well on this:
(https://i.discogs.com/TqORc1hnS2xzIcveVrkugeh9LQ0OwKL63tgs0pc5orQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5NjQ4/MDYtMTM1MDc0NjEw/Ny03MDgxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 16, 2022, 01:36:13 PM
Lee Morgan Vol. 3.



  (https://img.hmv.co.jp/image/jacket/400/25/8/9/547.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 17, 2022, 01:28:19 AM
Quote from: T. D. on June 16, 2022, 01:29:50 PM
I think he plays extremely well on this:
(https://i.discogs.com/TqORc1hnS2xzIcveVrkugeh9LQ0OwKL63tgs0pc5orQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5NjQ4/MDYtMTM1MDc0NjEw/Ny03MDgxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Thank you for the recommendation.
From what I have heard on the above disc he appears to be a very fine player.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 17, 2022, 08:19:11 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 17, 2022, 01:28:19 AM
Thank you for the recommendation.
From what I have heard on the above disc he appears to be a very fine player.

Gene Harris is rather popular, as a former member of the Three Sounds. I knew of his reputation as bluesy, high-energy, upbeat, etc. but didn't explore his music for a long time. When I did, I was seriously impressed by his technical facility, in addition to the other qualities.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JonSRB77 on June 17, 2022, 12:30:00 PM
Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals
Pat Metheny - lead guitar
Jaco Pastorius - fretless bass (Fender Jazz)
Don Alias - drums, percussion
Lyle Mays - electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1)
Michael Brecker - saxophones


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSuCOcL39U

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 17, 2022, 01:25:28 PM
Tal Farlow: Autumn in New York.



(https://i.discogs.com/BXbwDudoraQFmzSnzGeKeOE7sh6E0z_pjbJzqN22zrQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MjY3/NDktMTI5Mzk3Mzk5/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 17, 2022, 02:26:34 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 9


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 9:

Undecided (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Soul Junction (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
What Is There To Say? (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Birk's Works (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
Hallelujah (Red Garland – Soul Junction – 11/15/57)
All Mornin' Long (Red Garland – All Mornin' Long – 11/15/57)




I particularly liked this CD. Red Garland is certainly one to investigate further in the future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 17, 2022, 02:28:12 PM
Quote from: T. D. on June 17, 2022, 08:19:11 AM
Gene Harris is rather popular, as a former member of the Three Sounds. I knew of his reputation as bluesy, high-energy, upbeat, etc. but didn't explore his music for a long time. When I did, I was seriously impressed by his technical facility, in addition to the other qualities.

Thank you again for the information. Gene Harris is another one that I will investigate further in the future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 18, 2022, 06:53:52 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 17, 2022, 02:26:34 PM

I particularly liked this CD. Red Garland is certainly one to investigate further in the future.

I love Red Garland. I read that he used to be a professional or semi-professional boxer. Funny, his touch with piano is so tender.  ;D
Also he liked eating ice cream all the time. Ironically Miles was not happy about his playing and he eventually got Winton Kelly.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 18, 2022, 09:18:35 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 18, 2022, 06:53:52 AM

I love Red Garland. I read that he used to be a professional or semi-professional boxer. Funny, his touch with piano is so tender.  ;D
Also he liked eating ice cream all the time. Ironically Miles was not happy about his playing and he eventually got Winton Kelly.

Thank you for the information on Red Garland. I particularly like the comment on his tender touch on the piano given that he was a boxer.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 18, 2022, 05:16:23 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/tsXUpGmhizy6NgZs746eIb0eDwGfwRVUTOgZdVHwEe0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:240/w:240/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5MTQ4/MzctMTMwNzA2ODAx/OS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 18, 2022, 08:05:13 PM
Quote from: T. D. on June 18, 2022, 05:16:23 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/tsXUpGmhizy6NgZs746eIb0eDwGfwRVUTOgZdVHwEe0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:240/w:240/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5MTQ4/MzctMTMwNzA2ODAx/OS5qcGVn.jpeg)

Nice! I wish I had the box!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 19, 2022, 12:25:55 PM
Listened to these over the weekend. All for the first time. I didn't finished Brubeck though. I tried it twice but it just doesn't sound right.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Zu1FHXlBL._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bN+bJh69L._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KB9hGakML._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 19, 2022, 01:32:41 PM
Jeannine, Cannonball.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gwlesOpfL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 19, 2022, 01:33:04 PM
How could one not follow up on the conversation above on Red Garland as well as Simon NZ's original recommendation?

Red Garland Quintet: All Mornin' Long


https://www.youtube.com/v/A883c3YWoU4&t=8s


What a very fine album! It sounds so fresh and vibrant! Excellent playing from all concerned.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 19, 2022, 01:34:18 PM
Quote from: Artem on June 19, 2022, 12:25:55 PM
Listened to these over the weekend. All for the first time. I didn't finished Brubeck though. I tried it twice but it just doesn't sound right.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Zu1FHXlBL._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bN+bJh69L._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KB9hGakML._SX522_.jpg)

That Brubeck does not even look right!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 19, 2022, 01:34:53 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 19, 2022, 01:32:41 PM
Jeannine, Cannonball.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gwlesOpfL._SS500_.jpg)

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 20, 2022, 06:48:24 AM
Just back from a great weekend in New Orleans for a pal's birthday, and heard some fantastic music. On Saturday at Snug Harbor (a delectable little club), Cuban conga artist Alexey Marti brought down the house with four other musicians: Herlin Riley (drums), Pat Casey (electric bass), Oscar Rossignoli (piano), and Brent Rose (saxophone and flute). All were superb, but for many, Rossignoli was the revelation. Like John Batiste, he has both jazz and classical in his fingers, and mixes the two with real fluidity. Here he is at WWOZ Piano Night, scarcely a month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL3iR6kl7A

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 20, 2022, 01:21:54 PM
Quote from: Brewski on June 20, 2022, 06:48:24 AM
Just back from a great weekend in New Orleans for a pal's birthday, and heard some fantastic music. On Saturday at Snug Harbor (a delectable little club), Cuban conga artist Alexey Marti brought down the house with four other musicians: Herlin Riley (drums), Pat Casey (electric bass), Oscar Rossignoli (piano), and Brent Rose (saxophone and flute). All were superb, but for many, Rossignoli was the revelation. Like John Batiste, he has both jazz and classical in his fingers, and mixes the two with real fluidity. Here he is at WWOZ Piano Night, scarcely a month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaL3iR6kl7A

--Bruce

I love Herlin Riley! When I lived in New Orleans, I went to Snug mostly every week. Glad to hear that Brent Rose is still there and doing fine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on June 20, 2022, 02:44:30 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 20, 2022, 01:21:54 PM
I love Herlin Riley! When I lived in New Orleans, I went to Snug mostly every week. Glad to hear that Brent Rose is still there and doing fine.

Riley was really entertaining. Used a stick on the drum rim a lot, and got a lot of smiles when tapping a vertical pipe on the wall (i.e., likely HVAC) for a tangy ping.

Going to that club every week sounds like a little bit of heaven. I've only been there maybe 3-4 times; the last was hearing Ellis Marsalis, shortly before he died.

And Rose was great! Started on saxophone, but later a flute appeared. Always in awe of people who can play multiple instruments.

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 21, 2022, 02:00:23 PM
Jazz In Film, Terence Blanchard.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MbUho6vJL._SY355_.jpg)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 22, 2022, 01:27:49 PM
The New Standard, Herbie Hancock. 



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/6138JyzkEWL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 23, 2022, 05:19:37 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/CA0iOag1NBqWEehO34E3pXa9QluIUeHMC9au9NRHGls/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNjM4/NTEtMTM0MTI2MDM0/OS01NDM0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

SACD layer

Mastered by Kevin Gray
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 24, 2022, 06:20:03 AM
Quote from: George on June 23, 2022, 05:19:37 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/CA0iOag1NBqWEehO34E3pXa9QluIUeHMC9au9NRHGls/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNjM4/NTEtMTM0MTI2MDM0/OS01NDM0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

SACD layer

Mastered by Kevin Gray

I hope that sounded as good as I think it should  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 24, 2022, 08:10:02 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 24, 2022, 06:20:03 AM
I hope that sounded as good as I think it should  8)

It did!  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 25, 2022, 07:01:46 PM
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EqzDgVVpL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 27, 2022, 06:56:26 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71t13npoB4L._SL500_.jpg)

Man, I always enjoy this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 29, 2022, 08:09:07 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/rYhNyIR_wWDwi5KEBA0D7_DC_0xJOgFZl1BlcFTeClM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNTk0/MjktMTM1NTg3MDM4/Ni01OTg4LmpwZWc.jpeg)

and

(https://i.discogs.com/ser_wwupdMh3nrH9sX70-wzL6KiCyn1qtpwTB6D1AJY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1OTgz/MDUtMTYxNTMyMzM0/MS00MjQxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 29, 2022, 11:15:43 AM
Quote from: George on June 29, 2022, 08:09:07 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/rYhNyIR_wWDwi5KEBA0D7_DC_0xJOgFZl1BlcFTeClM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNTk0/MjktMTM1NTg3MDM4/Ni01OTg4LmpwZWc.jpeg)

and

(https://i.discogs.com/ser_wwupdMh3nrH9sX70-wzL6KiCyn1qtpwTB6D1AJY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1OTgz/MDUtMTYxNTMyMzM0/MS00MjQxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Very nice indeed, particularly the Ellington/Coltrane album. I would definitely like to hear that one!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 29, 2022, 04:17:02 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 10


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 10:

Billie's Bounce (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
Solitude (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Two Bass Hit (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Soft Winds (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Lazy Mae (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
Under Paris Skies (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)
Two Sons (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)


What a terrific album this is in every regard. Great variety in the musical content and style with superb playing and drive from all concerned.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 30, 2022, 09:20:27 AM
Quote from: aligreto on June 29, 2022, 04:17:02 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 10


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)

CD 10:

Billie's Bounce (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
Solitude (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Two Bass Hit Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Soft Winds (Red Garland – High Pressure – 12/13/57)
Lazy Mae (Red Garland – Dig It! – 12/13/57)
Under Paris Skies (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)
Two Sons (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)


What a terrific album this is in every regard. Great variety in the musical content and style with superb playing and drive from all concerned.

Two Bass Hit looks interesting. When you have time you may want to compare it with the same song by Miles Davis (and by Dizzy Gillespie to a lesser extent). Imho, the Miles version is a killer.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on June 30, 2022, 02:01:06 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 30, 2022, 09:20:27 AM
Two Bass Hit looks interesting. When you have time you may want to compare it with the same song by Miles Davis (and by Dizzy Gillespie to a lesser extent). Imho, the Miles version is a killer.  ;D

Cheers and thank you for that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 30, 2022, 02:42:13 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 29, 2022, 04:17:02 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 10

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Now enjoying this one:

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6C4AAOSwHP9iFvVb/s-l500.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 01, 2022, 03:38:05 PM
Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue. 



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 01, 2022, 05:19:53 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 01, 2022, 03:38:05 PM
Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue. 



(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qj7jY7gYL._SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

My favorite jazz drummer!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 02, 2022, 03:32:06 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 02, 2022, 03:49:05 PM
Blues In The Night, Red Garland.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 02, 2022, 03:53:31 PM
Quote from: George on July 01, 2022, 05:19:53 PM
My favorite jazz drummer!

Me, Albert Heath, Louis Hayes and Elvin Jones!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on July 02, 2022, 06:44:17 PM
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: "All the Things You Are" (Danny Fong and Meg Contini, 2004, arr. Gene Puerling) - I mean, what a gorgeous song to start with. Gene Puerling's tight harmonies (originally for the Singers Unlimited) are a tangy joy, and this version -- done well before the pandemic and lockdowns -- shows the benefits of savvy technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQ2gQWMDNo

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 02, 2022, 07:54:14 PM
Quote from: Brewski on July 02, 2022, 06:44:17 PM
Ella Fitzgerald: "All the Things You Are" (Danny Fong and Meg Contini, 2004, arr. Gene Puerling) - I mean, what a gorgeous song to start with. Gene Puerling's tight harmonies (originally for the Singers Unlimited) are a tangy joy, and this version -- done well before the pandemic and lockdowns -- shows the benefits of savvy technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQ2gQWMDNo

--Bruce

Jerome Kern
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on July 02, 2022, 07:57:41 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 02, 2022, 07:54:14 PM
Jerome Kern

Eek, thank you. I plead a distracting dinner with friends, and a lovely bottle of wine.  8)

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 06, 2022, 12:36:59 AM
Quote from: George on June 30, 2022, 02:42:13 PM
Now enjoying this one:

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6C4AAOSwHP9iFvVb/s-l500.jpg)

So much good music to explore and listen to.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 06, 2022, 01:53:19 AM
Quote from: aligreto on July 06, 2022, 12:36:59 AM
So much good music to explore and listen to.

So true!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 06, 2022, 04:06:41 PM
Quote from: Brewski on July 02, 2022, 06:44:17 PM
Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: "All the Things You Are" (Danny Fong and Meg Contini, 2004, arr. Gene Puerling) - I mean, what a gorgeous song to start with. Gene Puerling's tight harmonies (originally for the Singers Unlimited) are a tangy joy, and this version -- done well before the pandemic and lockdowns -- shows the benefits of savvy technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQ2gQWMDNo

--Bruce

Thanks for the link.  The Singers Unlimited were an amazing vocal group, and Gene Puerling's arrangements are legendary.  They did a record with the Oscar Peterson Trio (In Tune) which is among my favorite Jazz recordings, ever.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 07, 2022, 11:03:02 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 08, 2022, 04:58:25 PM
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Post by: San Antone on July 10, 2022, 02:36:45 PM
WAYNE SHORTER - SPEAK NO EVIL (https://store.bluenote.com/collections/vinyl/products/wayne-shorter-speak-no-evil-blue-note-classic-vinyl-edition) LP
(BLUE NOTE CLASSIC VINYL EDITION)

1964 was one of the most momentous years in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. Shorter made his own auspicious label debut that spring with Night Dreamer and quickly recorded the impressive follow-up JuJu. That summer he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, cementing a line-up that would become one of the seminal bands in jazz history. And when Shorter entered Van Gelder Studio with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Elvin Jones on Christmas Eve 1964 they created a masterpiece with Speak No Evil, a transcendent set of six Shorter originals including the swinging title track, "Witch Hunt," and sublime ballad "Infant Eyes."

This Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Store (https://store.bluenote.com/collections/vinyl/products/wayne-shorter-speak-no-evil-blue-note-classic-vinyl-edition))

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A1: Witch Hunt
A2: Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
A3: Dance Cadaverous

B1: Speak No Evil
B2: Infant Eyes
B3: Wild Flower
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Post by: aligreto on July 11, 2022, 02:43:27 PM
Mingus: Ah Um


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There is terrific drive and energy in the up tempo numbers and wonderful atmosphere in the slower numbers. This is a terrific album.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 11, 2022, 06:50:56 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 11, 2022, 02:43:27 PM
Mingus: Ah Um


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There is terrific drive and energy in the up tempo numbers and wonderful atmosphere in the slower numbers. This is a terrific album.

Yes, wonderful album!
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 11, 2022, 06:54:37 PM
A World of Piano!
Phineas Newborn Jr.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 11, 2022, 07:23:25 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 11, 2022, 06:50:56 PM
Yes, wonderful album!

Absolutely!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 12, 2022, 02:46:34 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 11, 2022, 06:50:56 PM
Yes, wonderful album!


Quote from: George on July 11, 2022, 07:23:25 PM
Absolutely!


Immediate love for Mingus: Ah Um  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 12, 2022, 05:52:22 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 12, 2022, 02:46:34 AM


Immediate love for Mingus: Ah Um  8)

All of his albums in the 1950-60s are excellent. When I was a high school student, I was crazy about his  "So Long Eric". I think I still am.   ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 13, 2022, 03:24:38 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 12, 2022, 05:52:22 PM
All of his albums in the 1950-60s are excellent. When I was a high school student, I was crazy about his  "So Long Eric". I think I still am.   ;D

Yes, anything that I have heard from him I really liked.
He was another late "discovery" for me.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 15, 2022, 03:51:15 AM
I've been listening to the complete Miles boxes, this week it was Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963–1964.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Miles_Davis_Seven_Steps_Box.jpg)

These sessions document Miles transition from the late '50s bands which cumulated with the sextet that made Kind of Blue. These bands from 1955-1960 featured John Coltrane, later paired with Cannonball Adderley.  It would take Miles several years and various personnel changes before he would create his second great quintet.  He had settled on the rhythm section of Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Herbie Hancock but went through several sax players.

Of special interest in this box is Dic Six which contains the Miles in Tokyo recordings, with Sam Rivers, the last link in the chain which ultimately led to
Wayne Shorter, and the final make up of the quintet for Miles in Berlin, Disc Seven.  "Seven Steps to Heaven" is something of a pun.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 15, 2022, 04:42:09 AM
Quote from: San Antone on July 15, 2022, 03:51:15 AM
I've been listening to the complete Miles boxes, this week it was Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963–1964.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Miles_Davis_Seven_Steps_Box.jpg)

These sessions document Miles transition from the late '50s bands which cumulated with the sextet that made Kind of Blue. These bands from 1955-1960 featured John Coltrane, later paired with Cannonball Adderley.  It would take Miles several years and various personnel changes before he would create his second great quintet.  He had settled on the rhythm section of Tony Williams, Ron Carter, and Herbie Hancock but went through several sax players.

Of special interest in this box is Dic Six which contains the Miles in Tokyo recordings, with Sam Rivers, the last link in the chain which ultimately led to
Wayne Shorter, and the final make up of the quintet for Miles in Berlin, Disc Seven.  "Seven Steps to Heaven" is something of a pun.

Nice. Looks like a very good set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 16, 2022, 05:38:28 PM
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Duke Ellington - The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1975)

Once past the unnecessary chatty bit at the beginning this again strikes me as one of Ellingtons very best albums.

Reminded again that I keep meaning to make edited versions of the later Ellington live albums which have great performances but the mood killed by all the chatty interruptions. I guess a hangover from the dancehall days when you had to give people time to come and go from the floor after a number or catch their breath etc.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 17, 2022, 02:03:33 PM
Jimmy Cobb Quartet: Jazz In The Key Of Blue


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This ensemble comprises drums, trumpet, guitar and double bass. This is a very smooth and mellow sounding album and it makes for a relaxed listening session; good late night listening. Everything is quite chilled. The instrumentalists blend very well together and create quite a tight sound. I particularly like the guitar playing on the album. There is also a nice sense of easy Swing to the rhythm section.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2022, 03:07:13 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 17, 2022, 03:29:16 PM
Danny Grissett: Promise.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 17, 2022, 04:02:51 PM
The Best Of Sidney Bechet

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on July 18, 2022, 12:02:14 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 13, 2022, 03:24:38 AM
Yes, anything that I have heard from him I really liked.
He was another late "discovery" for me.
Mingus was together with Coltrane and Miles Davis my introduction to jazz music when I was just starting to listen to it. Mingus at Antibes was one of my all time favourites as well as his recordings for the Impulse! label. However, these days I almost never reach out for his CDs when I want to listen to jazz. It's kind of weird.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 18, 2022, 01:01:00 PM
Quote from: Artem on July 18, 2022, 12:02:14 PM
Mingus was together with Coltrane and Miles Davis my introduction to jazz music when I was just starting to listen to it. Mingus at Antibes was one of my all time favourites as well as his recordings for the Impulse! label. However, these days I almost never reach out for his CDs when I want to listen to jazz. It's kind of weird.

Over-exposure at one point in your life and then moved on to investigate other musicians.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 18, 2022, 03:32:16 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on July 19, 2022, 04:01:20 PM
Diane Schuur - Pure Schuur (1991). Haven't heard any of her work in years, my bad. Not always crazy about some of the arrangements, but the good ones are really good. This was her first recording after losing a lot of weight, and happy to say, the change didn't seem to affect her clarion voice.

(https://i.discogs.com/gCQvz10nSiNWQymM8j5QciFSgMnt658JxVy18Zlqa0E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5Mzg5/OTQtMTI1Mzc0ODY5/MS5qcGVn.jpeg)

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 22, 2022, 02:36:38 AM
Ellington's Afro-Eurasian Eclipse on continual repeat tonight. Currently the fourth or fifth go.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 22, 2022, 03:20:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 22, 2022, 02:36:38 AM
Ellington's Afro-Eurasian Eclipse on continual repeat tonight. Currently the fourth or fifth go.

OK, that sounds like one that must be investigated!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 22, 2022, 03:30:11 AM
Quote from: aligreto on July 22, 2022, 03:20:09 AM
OK, that sounds like one that must be investigated!

Definitely. Get past the 1 minute 35 second chatty bit and then crank it right up to 11.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 22, 2022, 04:31:44 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 22, 2022, 03:30:11 AM
Definitely. Get past the 1 minute 35 second chatty bit and then crank it right up to 11.

Sound advice  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 22, 2022, 02:30:45 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 11


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 11:

Clifford's Kappa (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane - 12/20/57)
Filide (The Believer) (Ray Draper – The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane - 12/20/57)
Paul's Pal (The Believer – 1958) (Ray Draper - The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane – 12/20/57)
Ammon Joy (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)
Groove Blues (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)
The Real McCoy (Gene Ammons – The Big Sound – 1/3/58)
It Might As Well Be Spring (Gene Ammons – Groove Blues – 1/3/58)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 23, 2022, 06:20:06 PM
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Reading for the first time that  the 1959 "The Queen's Suite" existed as only one pressed copy presented to Queen Elizabeth until this commercial release after Ellington's death.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 25, 2022, 01:29:13 PM
Carol Kidd: Nice Work


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This is a light, bright and upbeat album. There is nothing profound here, just easy listening to a smooth and pleasant voice but also to a good ensemble of musicians doing a good job. The highlight on this album for me was the immaculate chord progressions of the guitarist on the tune "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 25, 2022, 03:03:16 PM
Doin All Right (Blue Note Classic Vinyl)
Dexter Gordon

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 25, 2022, 03:38:22 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 26, 2022, 09:55:07 AM
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Oliver Nelson's Nocturne album

Never really paid attention to the song "Azure-te" before, but just recently it seems to be everywhere I turn.

Lem Winchesters vibes always a welcome addition
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 26, 2022, 10:33:19 AM
Idle Moments
Grant Green / Joe Henderson / Bobby Hutcherson / Duke Pearson / Bob Cranshaw / Al Harewood

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 26, 2022, 03:03:46 PM
Quote from: San Antone on July 26, 2022, 10:33:19 AM
Idle Moments
Grant Green / Joe Henderson / Bobby Hutcherson / Duke Pearson / Bob Cranshaw / Al Harewood

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Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 26, 2022, 03:05:34 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 25, 2022, 03:38:22 PM
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The Golson disc is one of my all time fav recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 27, 2022, 02:31:19 PM
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Post by: aligreto on July 28, 2022, 05:08:48 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 27, 2022, 02:31:19 PM
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Binging on Ellington recently. One could do a lot worse!  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 28, 2022, 06:46:32 PM
Quote from: aligreto on July 28, 2022, 05:08:48 AM
Binging on Ellington recently. One could do a lot worse!  8)

Yes. Revisiting some old friends. And making a few new ones - I think that was the first time I'd heard This One's For Blanton.

But right now some Eric Dolphy:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Outward_Bound_%28album%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 29, 2022, 03:04:20 PM
Earlier:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 29, 2022, 04:03:30 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 28, 2022, 06:46:32 PM
Yes. Revisiting some old friends. And making a few new ones - I think that was the first time I'd heard This One's For Blanton.

But right now some Eric Dolphy:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Outward_Bound_%28album%29.jpg)

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on July 30, 2022, 03:12:51 PM
Jasper Somsen Group: Sardegna


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I was very impressed with and really liked this album. This is a tight knit ensemble and they play very well individually and collectively. The music is vibrant in the up beat numbers and it is very chilled, relaxed and atmospheric in the slower tempo numbers. The playing is always excellent and the recording quality is top notch. The recorded sound is warm and smooth. There is an element of the avant-garde and experimentation in both sounds and rhythms on the album which I find exciting, interesting and engaging.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 31, 2022, 01:45:26 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on July 31, 2022, 04:36:32 PM
This is maybe my favorite recording of Porgy & Bess, including the operatic versions.

Porgy & Bess | Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

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The competing recording for my favorite is the complete Bethlehem recording with narration and Jazz band orchestrations.

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273d01336fb2e8fc4aa2ec348f7)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 01, 2022, 02:26:37 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 12


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 12:

Lush Life (Lush Life 1/10/58)
The Believer (The Believer 1/10/58)
Nakatini Serenade (The Believer 1/10/58)
Come Rain or Come Shine (The Last Trane – 1/10/1958)
Lover (The Last Trane – 1/10/58)
Russian Lullaby (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
Theme For Ernie (Soultrane – 2/7/58)



Forgive me, in my ignorance, if I say that I think that this sounds like a watershed in terms of Coultrane's music making. It seems to me to be generally more free, involved and richer in musical content. Coultrane also seemed to be more animated and assertive here in his deliveries of the music. Either way, this is a particularly fine CD of Jazz music from all of the various musicians, in my opinion.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2022, 02:10:55 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71E7GLSa3KL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 04, 2022, 04:11:35 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.u2dzTJsQblJ1Qap3bhs_gAAAAA?pid=ImgDet&w=400&h=400&rs=1)

Joe Newman - Salute To Satch (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 04, 2022, 06:34:25 PM
McCoy Tyner Plays Ellington.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hHUGmPwiL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 06, 2022, 04:01:20 PM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51EHmeH8pRL._SX450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on August 06, 2022, 04:49:54 PM
Couldn't catch the first set, but yay, there's a second one, starting in about 10 minutes: live from Smalls in NYC, the Lew Tabackin Trio, with Lew Tabackin (tenor sax), Boris Kozlov (bass), and Jason Tiemann (drums).

It looks like the show is sold-out at the actual club, which makes this livestream all the more welcome.

https://www.smallslive.com/events/24315-lew-tabackin-trio/

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 07, 2022, 01:24:59 PM
Benjamin Herman: Trouble [Featuring Daniel Von Piekartz]


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27361dc61d76e7d6e37732b17be)


This is a very fine, velvety smooth, laid back album. There is nothing over the top here yet everything is excellent. Stand out pointers are the smoky saxophone playing, the rhythmic bass playing and the very smooth, laid back vocals. The rest of the ensemble, drums and piano, is not half bad either, to be honest. This is a wonderfully performed and atmospheric album. It is also terrifically relaxing music. There are also a few more upbeat tracks on the album which are exciting. The piano playing shines throughout for me but particularly excels on the tracks "Curacao" and "Lilac Wine".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 07, 2022, 01:37:43 PM
Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath.



(https://i.discogs.com/gzFs-gO7JbXzjQ3PmsdekV46YEhIR74QuV5t7zAaKgc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyNTA4/ODEtMTQwMDM2MjE4/Ni05Mzc5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 07, 2022, 03:43:04 PM
^A great one. I'm playing it again now - thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 07, 2022, 05:33:45 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 07, 2022, 03:43:04 PM
^A great one. I'm playing it again now - thanks for the reminder.

I imagine you like his Basra as well!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 08, 2022, 03:27:03 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51N86yFToGL.jpg)

Lovely!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 09, 2022, 01:47:13 AM
Quote from: George on August 08, 2022, 03:27:03 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51N86yFToGL.jpg)

Lovely!

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 09, 2022, 01:05:41 PM
David Grisman Quintet: Dawgnation


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2731ee8840da3dc46fbe542e4a4)


This was a completely unknown ensemble to me but an interesting listen for me with terrific musicianship throughout. There are obviously many musical influences at play here.



(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Dgq_low.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 09, 2022, 02:48:09 PM
Quote from: aligreto on June 19, 2022, 01:33:04 PM

Red Garland Quintet: All Mornin' Long


What a very fine album! It sounds so fresh and vibrant! Excellent playing from all concerned.

Especialy that first track!





Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 21, 2022, 02:00:23 PM
Jazz In Film, Terence Blanchard.

I'm not familiar with this album, but I used to go see him when he was in town with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He looked like a teenager then. (He's got a couple years on me though, so he couldn't have been.) Those were great shows. I used to go every day they were scheduled and attend every set.






Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 01, 2022, 03:38:05 PM
Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue.

One of those albums I bought when it came out, liked it and listened to it quite a bit...but not once since. This post inspires me to take it out.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 09, 2022, 04:59:56 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/7258O01eptpA-rBS_RJU6UqKC1v7VBgDV-Wz6nywcuM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:533/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4ODQz/OTktMTYxNDg3NTAw/MC05MjU2LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 09, 2022, 09:37:34 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Monk_%28Thelonious_Monk_album%29.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Monkmusic.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 10, 2022, 01:34:17 AM
Quote from: George on August 09, 2022, 04:59:56 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/7258O01eptpA-rBS_RJU6UqKC1v7VBgDV-Wz6nywcuM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:533/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4ODQz/OTktMTYxNDg3NTAw/MC05MjU2LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Very nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 10, 2022, 01:35:35 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 09, 2022, 09:37:34 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Monk_%28Thelonious_Monk_album%29.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Monkmusic.jpg)

Monk is an artist whose music I definitely will explore more of in the future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 11, 2022, 12:30:26 AM
Quote from: aligreto on August 10, 2022, 01:35:35 AM
Monk is an artist whose music I definitely will explore more of in the future.

The great thing about Monk's discography is that you can pretty much start anywhere and go anywhere - it's all of such consistent quality.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 11, 2022, 01:45:49 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 11, 2022, 12:30:26 AM
The great thing about Monk's discography is that you can pretty much start anywhere and go anywhere - it's all of such consistent quality.

Cheers for that. I look forward to that odyssey some time in the future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 12, 2022, 06:41:13 AM
The Mourning of a Star.  Keith Jarrett Trio.



  (https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/943735eb83d351e023ebb8428fabee8b/2233973/keith-jarrett-the-mourning-of-a-star-Cover-Art.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 13, 2022, 08:33:55 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.70dc78fe3cd7ec60f9a50b816684f828?rik=ZNaFIkB3%2bynOWQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) (https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.90d95f5cfacd462347c7b421e93a3048?rik=uZbpCPoV8zBQwg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jazzversand.de%2fModern%2fEllington%2f65566b.jpg&ehk=tzrQnw%2bOid8FsSuacbzNFqsJ25HV36dFwXs%2bd6LaWnY%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite (1970) and Black, Brown and Beige (1958)


(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.791ee67203ea1410917157363ba0ecb4?rik=%2fJ7nfhPyiTNl0w&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

The Blanton-Webster Band. Discs 1 and 2.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 15, 2022, 02:09:31 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 13, 2022, 08:33:55 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.70dc78fe3cd7ec60f9a50b816684f828?rik=ZNaFIkB3%2bynOWQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) (https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.90d95f5cfacd462347c7b421e93a3048?rik=uZbpCPoV8zBQwg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jazzversand.de%2fModern%2fEllington%2f65566b.jpg&ehk=tzrQnw%2bOid8FsSuacbzNFqsJ25HV36dFwXs%2bd6LaWnY%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite (1970) and Black, Brown and Beige (1958)


(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.791ee67203ea1410917157363ba0ecb4?rik=%2fJ7nfhPyiTNl0w&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

The Blanton-Webster Band. Discs 1 and 2.

Very nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 15, 2022, 03:10:29 AM
Today;

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.fa178f763d06a45aa628eb6cd84ddf68?rik=UdHmbYDyP7vcYg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) (https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0c1171c10ba200c03030336c06121886?rik=CqZfyOTAjmGaAg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.eqItaH1hmPlO8VsEtRxXFwAAAA?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fvqlu64PL._SL1280_.jpg)

And those last two I played twice.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 15, 2022, 05:17:57 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 15, 2022, 03:10:29 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fvqlu64PL._SL1280_.jpg)



I would like to hear that one. I will see if I can hunt it down on line somewhere.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 15, 2022, 01:25:02 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 13


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 13:


You Say You Care (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
Good Bait (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
I Want To Talk About You (Soultrane – 2/7/58)
Lyresto (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane - 3/7/58)
Why Was I Born? (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
Freight Trane (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
I Never Knew (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
Big Paul (Kenny Burrell – Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane – 3/7/58)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 15, 2022, 06:50:13 PM
Larry Young: Into Somethin'. 


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QDFXFw-kL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2022, 01:22:49 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Latin_American_Suite.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 01:53:51 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 16, 2022, 01:22:49 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Latin_American_Suite.jpg)

Are you streaming all of the recently posted Ellington albums or do you physically have them in your collection?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2022, 02:15:09 AM
Quote from: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 01:53:51 AM
Are you streaming all of the recently posted Ellington albums or do you physically have them in your collection?

Physically have them. I've recently been on a reacquiring binge, helped along by a secondhand cd store suddenly having a huge amount including many seldom seen ones, probably all from one persons former collection.

Not that I mind streaming stuff as well.

Edit: and now:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tfSChsz8L._SX355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 03:25:10 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 16, 2022, 02:15:09 AM
Physically have them. I've recently been on a reacquiring binge, helped along by a secondhand cd store suddenly having a huge amount including many seldom seen ones, probably all from one persons former collection.

Not that I mind streaming stuff as well.

Edit: and now:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tfSChsz8L._SX355_.jpg)

OK, very nice indeed.
They have obviously gone to a very appreciative home  ;)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 07:04:44 AM
Count Basie: Basie in London (Live in Sweden).



  (https://i.discogs.com/YVC8u5NbgyrBYN_mFbzZFLa67THxHbjN0CEuBZb0QLs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2Mzgx/MTctMTU1MzY4Nzkz/NS04MjU5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 07:20:50 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 07:04:44 AM
Count Basie: Basie in London (Live in Sweden).



  (https://i.discogs.com/YVC8u5NbgyrBYN_mFbzZFLa67THxHbjN0CEuBZb0QLs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2Mzgx/MTctMTU1MzY4Nzkz/NS04MjU5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

I do not have as much exposure to the music of Basie as I do to the music of Ellington.
I do enjoy listening to Basie.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 16, 2022, 08:03:52 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 07:04:44 AM
Count Basie: Basie in London (Live in Sweden).



  (https://i.discogs.com/YVC8u5NbgyrBYN_mFbzZFLa67THxHbjN0CEuBZb0QLs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2Mzgx/MTctMTU1MzY4Nzkz/NS04MjU5LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Oh, what a fun photo!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 01:47:32 PM
Quote from: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 07:20:50 AM
I do not have as much exposure to the music of Basie as I do to the music of Ellington.
I do enjoy listening to Basie.

Straight ahead, blues music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 02:17:46 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 01:47:32 PM
Straight ahead, blues music!

Yes, easy but interesting listening.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 02:23:46 PM
Quote from: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 02:17:46 PM
Yes, easy but interesting listening.


Btw, his autobiography is a fun read! 


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FFSKRZHGL._SX303_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 16, 2022, 02:28:35 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 02:23:46 PM

Btw, his autobiography is a fun read! 


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FFSKRZHGL._SX303_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

Cheers and thank you for that.  8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 16, 2022, 03:25:40 PM
There were two Basie Orchestras, referred to as the Old and New (or First and Second) Testament bands. Different as night and day. (More than two, really. After all, they're still together.)

The pre-war band generally played head arrangements, usually evolving out of jam sessions and repeated until codified. By contrast, the later band was known for their much more complex arrangements, often commissioned from the top arrangers of the day.

Both are amazing to listen to, but they are very different experiences.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 16, 2022, 04:23:34 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 02:23:46 PM(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41FFSKRZHGL._SX303_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

I've had that on my shelf for a while but never gotten around to reading it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 16, 2022, 04:54:45 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.cef75bc7ea8937a2a43a20e11bf49bda?rik=RN82ErlD8x24yw&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515ECuq37vL._SY355_.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51q1IzWjmjL._SY300_SX300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 16, 2022, 05:28:08 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/YFvwG22zSge7jQ_iy3r_yqQv5bD_upQlNTXt1u_3_L4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNjA3/NzM4LTE1NTc0MjAx/MjgtNDgzMS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 16, 2022, 07:40:04 PM
Quote from: KevinP on August 16, 2022, 03:25:40 PM
There were two Basie Orchestras, referred to as the Old and New (or First and Second) Testament bands. Different as night and day. (More than two, really. After all, they're still together.)

The pre-war band generally played head arrangements, usually evolving out of jam sessions and repeated until codified. By contrast, the later band was known for their much more complex arrangements, often commissioned from the top arrangers of the day.

Both are amazing to listen to, but they are very different experiences.

Though I love blues music in general, I personally prefer the modern Basie Orchestra with the arrangers like Neal Hefti, Frank Foster, etc..
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 17, 2022, 01:58:17 PM
Joe Henderson: Inner Urge.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61mHObH8DuL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 17, 2022, 07:58:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717PRlL+0AL._SL1500_.jpg)

Dont think I've encountered a Django track called "Inprovisations on Tchaikovsky's Pathetique" before.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: dhibbard on August 18, 2022, 06:15:01 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pneVT8s-L._SY355_.jpg)

some David Benoit..... some modern Jazz
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 18, 2022, 06:30:54 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 17, 2022, 07:58:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717PRlL+0AL._SL1500_.jpg)

Dont think I've encountered a Django track called "Inprovisations on Tchaikovsky's Pathetique" before.




I have the disc somewhere in my house. I will check it out. I dig Django. Btw (again), I think the book below is a nice read.

P.s. Not a big fan of Grappelly and I tend to focuse on Django recordings without him.




  (https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780306801716-us-300.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 19, 2022, 03:34:33 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 17, 2022, 07:58:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717PRlL+0AL._SL1500_.jpg)

Dont think I've encountered a Django track called "Inprovisations on Tchaikovsky's Pathetique" before.

I do not believe that I have any of Django's albums in my collection. Perhaps one, maybe. I will have to check.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 19, 2022, 01:31:55 PM
Paul Chambers: Bass on Top.



  (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vm7rstl4L._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 20, 2022, 10:12:44 PM
Earlier:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tuND85CML.jpg) (https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.4f50a081c5b0c957b9a634cd2302cff1?rik=TJV0Ez5WLceoYQ&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Arguably the two least essential of all Ellington's studio albums, this pair of reworkings of popular hits of the age (including Bob Dylan and The Beatles). Nevertheless everyone plays with more polish and professionalism than the project deserves, and the first manages to have two or three standout tracks anyway, especially "The Second Time Around"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 21, 2022, 04:38:58 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xSEAAOSwo9Rhh8h7/s-l500.jpg)

1963
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 21, 2022, 06:51:35 PM
Count Basie: Basie at Birdland.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/617CJ27HMkL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 22, 2022, 01:18:13 PM
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald: Autumn In New York


(https://i.discogs.com/hMh6Xvo-Z8M-Q_k2ouNje7zBJmEZZbN8m5UVsQ-Lhvc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxMDA1/NzMtMTQ1NTE0MjA0/Mi02NTIyLmpwZWc.jpeg)


This is a case of two Greats having a great time together performing standards. Both artists are very relaxed and laid back and this makes for both good music making and very easy listening. They have a great backing ensemble behind them. The piano player is a particular stand out for me; understated but very effective, in my opinion. Both Ella and Louis are in good form here!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 22, 2022, 01:22:42 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Concert_in_the_Virgin_Islands.jpg)

My first time hearing this fine album.

Misleadingly titled - its actually a studio recording.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 22, 2022, 01:31:02 PM
June Christy: The Intimate Miss Christy. 



(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/57/01/0094636980157_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 24, 2022, 01:14:17 PM
Avishai Cohen: Seven Seas


(https://avishaicohen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/seven-seas1.jpg)


I do not quite know how to explain this music [first time hearing it]. The best that I can do is to perhaps define it as modern, easy jazz with vocalise and vocals. The musical sound world can be very interesting and often inventive and exciting in itself. The big let down for me is the occasional da-di-da vocalise element. What is the point? Write some lyrics or just leave it out!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 24, 2022, 02:29:40 PM
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I'm glad Ellington made only one of these excursions, and there's an argument to be made that its in every way as unessential as the two pop covers lps, yet unlike those I've come to find this one charming and it actually gets a fairly regular play.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 25, 2022, 01:31:39 PM
Cross post from WAYLTN.


Remembering Duke Ellington. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 25, 2022, 03:46:30 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 25, 2022, 01:31:39 PM
Cross post from WAYLTN.


Remembering Duke Ellington. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin.



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I'm trying to remember or work out without checking which album has "Love Scene", but I'm not getting it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on August 26, 2022, 06:38:50 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 25, 2022, 03:46:30 PM
I'm trying to remember or work out without checking which album has "Love Scene", but I'm not getting it.
Duke wrote it for Tony Bennett; it first appeared on a Bennett album (Jet Set).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 26, 2022, 10:20:28 AM
Quote from: Brian on August 26, 2022, 06:38:50 AM
Duke wrote it for Tony Bennett; it first appeared on a Bennett album (Jet Set).

Thanks! I'll have to check that one out!

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Tonyjet.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 26, 2022, 11:40:03 AM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 14


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 14:


Rise 'N' Shine (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
I See Your Face Before Me (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
Little Melonae (Settin' the Pace – 3/26/58)
By The Numbers (The Last Trane – 3/26/58)
Black Pearls (Black Pearls – 5/23/58)

There is terrific music making, particularly from the backing ensemble on the tracks from "Settin' the Pace". I have checked the instrumentalists involved and they appear to be Paul Chambers on bass, Art Taylor on drums and Red Garland on piano [Garland's piano playing is stand out for me!].
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 26, 2022, 12:50:54 PM
Lorne Lofsky.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 28, 2022, 01:40:40 PM
Oscar Peterson [Supreme Jazz]


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There is a great sense of exciting swing permeating this album. Most enjoyable!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 28, 2022, 05:06:33 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/Hbe_QWzjoh7cu7TRdH8GAK9-xeluMiIm4n4BAiLcNa8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:526/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ1MjQy/ODMtMTM2NzMzMjIy/Mi0xNjQ4LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 28, 2022, 08:16:07 PM
Oscar Peterson: I've got a crush on you.
Inspired by Fergus' post.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on August 29, 2022, 02:18:46 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 28, 2022, 08:16:07 PM
Oscar Peterson: I've got a crush on you.
Inspired by Fergus' post.



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I have not heard too much of Oscar Peterson's work so I must remedy that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 29, 2022, 02:20:36 AM
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Roy Eldridge - Collates (1952)


The original 10" lp which someone has uploaded to YT. Looks like these tracks later appeared on the 12" lp Rocking Chair.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on August 29, 2022, 03:06:26 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 29, 2022, 07:00:48 PM
Phil Woods: Musique du Bois.




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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on August 30, 2022, 12:05:43 AM
All three albums were released in 1971

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 30, 2022, 01:13:18 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 30, 2022, 10:47:14 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 31, 2022, 06:31:09 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 30, 2022, 01:13:18 AM
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Love the Dizzy album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on August 31, 2022, 04:18:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on August 29, 2022, 02:20:36 AM
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Roy Eldridge - Collates (1952)


The original 10" lp which someone has uploaded to YT. Looks like these tracks later appeared on the 12" lp Rocking Chair.

Not to mention, cool cover art of the day.

Now listening to the Bruce Barth Quartet, live from Smalls in NYC:

Bruce Barth (piano) , Steve Nelson (vibes), Paul Sikivie (bass), Jason Tiemann (drums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYnQAh53wBs

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on August 31, 2022, 04:56:00 PM
And now, the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, live from Chris' Jazz Cafe. All I can add is, during a pandemic, thank goodness for livestreams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDqovOhGA28

--Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2022, 07:55:42 PM
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I hardly ever play Quiet Nights, but whenever I do I find, as now, that its much more interesting than its poor reputation.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/A_Flat%2C_G_Flat_and_C.jpg)


And actually listened to Quiet Nights right through a second time

And now:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 01, 2022, 11:53:22 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 01, 2022, 01:17:22 PM
Art Farmer: Modern Art.


(https://i.discogs.com/GFLWbrP5PifeNUGihBjar_zR8bD0Qiqdw_8pca_ZX3o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:501/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3Nzg4/MzctMTQyNzA5MjQ2/MC03NTg1LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: dhibbard on September 02, 2022, 08:43:26 AM
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some Pat today
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 05, 2022, 09:53:30 AM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 15


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 15:


Lover Come Back To Me (Black Pearls – 5/23/58)
Sweet Sapphire Blues (Black Pearls - 5/23/58)
Spring Is Here (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
Invitation (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All (Bahia - 7/11/58)
Love Thy Neighbor (Stardust – 7/11/58)
Don't Take Your Love From Me (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 06, 2022, 10:55:18 AM
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson


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I have seen versions of this tribute album coming up at least twice [above] in recent times and it piqued my curiosity. I did notice that one was a box set and the other was a single album [from the box set?]. I had not heard either before so I gave the single album a listen. I enjoyed both tracks on it. I liked the funky drive quite a lot in the first song "Right Off". I also liked the bass playing on this track.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 09, 2022, 12:32:43 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings CD 16


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(Original album, and recording date, for each track listed in parentheses)


CD 16:


Stardust (Stardust – 7/11/58)
My Ideal (Bahia - 7/11/58)
I'll Get By (Standard Coltrane – 7/11/58)
Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? (The Believer – 12/26/58)
Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Stardust - 12/26/58)
Something I Dreamed Last Night (Bahia - 12/26/58)
Bahia (Bahia - 12/26/58)
Goldsboro Express (Bahia - 12/26/58)
Time After Time (Stardust - 12/26/58)



Most of these tracks are obviously taken from two albums, Stardust and Bahia. These are two albums that I feel that I need to explore further as I liked the prevailing atmosphere in both of them.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 09, 2022, 12:36:59 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)


This collection was, for me, revelatory in helping to educate me in the world of the music and music making of both John Coltrane and the associated musicians and albums on which he appeared. He was, undoubtedly, a supreme talent. I am very grateful to have discovered and heard this collection both from the point of view of Coultrane himself but also for the exposure, for me, to the many other wonderful musicians that Coultrane worked with. It has been nothing but a constant pleasure for me to have listened to this collection.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 09, 2022, 01:37:16 PM
Wallace Roney: Misterios.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on September 09, 2022, 04:45:53 PM
Posting the picture so I don't have to spell the title.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 11, 2022, 03:47:58 AM
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1962
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on September 11, 2022, 04:18:36 AM
Quote from: aligreto on September 09, 2022, 12:36:59 PM
John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings


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This collection was, for me, revelatory in helping to educate me in the world of the music and music making of both John Coltrane and the associated musicians and albums on which he appeared. He was, undoubtedly, a supreme talent. I am very grateful to have discovered and heard this collection both from the point of view of Coultrane himself but also for the exposure, for me, to the many other wonderful musicians that Coultrane worked with. It has been nothing but a constant pleasure for me to have listened to this collection.
Nice!  How many CDs are in the set?  And is it mostly different works (vs. multiple recordings of the same works)?

PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 11, 2022, 01:47:10 PM
Bill Evans: Explorations.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 13, 2022, 02:01:04 PM
RIP Ramsey Lewis! 



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 13, 2022, 05:36:49 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 15, 2022, 02:05:41 PM
Bird at the Rockland Palace.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 16, 2022, 01:21:40 PM
Ray Sings, Basie Swings. 




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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 17, 2022, 05:37:59 AM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on September 11, 2022, 04:18:36 AM

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Nice!  How many CDs are in the set?  And is it mostly different works (vs. multiple recordings of the same works)?

PD

It is a 16 CD set with all different songs from various albums, both his own and others'.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 17, 2022, 03:00:44 PM
Miles Davis: In A Silent Way


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I find the music on this album to be very progressive and exciting. I find that the second track/Side B on the album to be particularly engaging with its changes of mood and atmosphere.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 17, 2022, 03:15:38 PM
Anita O'Day: Live at Mister Kelly's.


(https://i.discogs.com/KY_6-XumRGiyGUNarTiODyFgZaaHZdBtWLCOkDnKHSg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:583/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5Nzgz/MzMtMTQ3NDk3Njgw/Ni01MzIzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2022, 02:34:38 PM
Plays the Blues, Basie (compilation).



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 18, 2022, 03:49:44 PM
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool


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This is my first time to hear this album. If I am honest I would say that I was somewhat underwhelmed by what I heard here. I say that because I suppose I had built up an expectation in my mind as to what I would expect here, musically. I am not disappointed: it is just something completely different to what I expected for some reason. I thought that I was going to get some very progressive music with a very modern vibe. Instead I am hearing a throw back to the big band era of the 1940s to the 1950s. There is nothing wrong with that and I quite enjoy it. It is just not what I expected, for some inexplicable reason.

Funny, that, how preconceived ideas and perceptions can be so wrong.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 18, 2022, 03:50:26 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2022, 02:34:38 PM
Plays the Blues, Basie (compilation).



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Very nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2022, 06:38:37 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 18, 2022, 03:49:44 PM
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool


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This is my first time to hear this album. If I am honest I would say that I was somewhat underwhelmed by what I heard here. I say that because I suppose I had built up an expectation in my mind as to what I would expect here, musically. I am not disappointed: it is just something completely different to what I expected for some reason. I thought that I was going to get some very progressive music with a very modern vibe. Instead I am hearing a throw back to the big band era of the 1940s to the 1950s. There is nothing wrong with that and I quite enjoy it. It is just not what I expected, for some inexplicable reason.

Funny, that, how preconceived ideas and perceptions can be so wrong.


I think Birth of the Cool is a significant and good album. I think Miles wanted to create a music significantly different from then-major stream bebop jazz, which tended to be energetic music with heavy sound and many notes. The compositions in the album are fine, if not exceptional, and the arrangement is fresh. The music is relaxed and cool, and it happened to become a prototype of the west coast/cool Jazz. The solos by Miles are exceptional- stylish, matured, and sophisticated- and they are powerful antithesis to the style of Dizzy Gillespie. It is not one of my favorite albums personally, but I think the album significantly and successfully proffered a paradigm shift.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2022, 06:39:32 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 18, 2022, 03:50:26 PM
Very nice!

I love this compilation disc!  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on September 19, 2022, 07:28:52 AM
Quote from: aligreto on September 18, 2022, 03:49:44 PM
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool


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This is my first time to hear this album. If I am honest I would say that I was somewhat underwhelmed by what I heard here. I say that because I suppose I had built up an expectation in my mind as to what I would expect here, musically. I am not disappointed: it is just something completely different to what I expected for some reason. I thought that I was going to get some very progressive music with a very modern vibe. Instead I am hearing a throw back to the big band era of the 1940s to the 1950s. There is nothing wrong with that and I quite enjoy it. It is just not what I expected, for some inexplicable reason.

Funny, that, how preconceived ideas and perceptions can be so wrong.
If I'm not mistaken the music was recorded in 1949-1950. I find it pretty progressive for that period.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on September 19, 2022, 01:20:55 PM
Quote from: Artem on September 19, 2022, 07:28:52 AM
If I'm not mistaken the music was recorded in 1949-1950. I find it pretty progressive for that period.

Mr. Davis was always Miles Ahead of the crowd.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 20, 2022, 01:16:29 PM
The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live At Blues Alley.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 20, 2022, 05:07:18 PM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1WgAAOSw5Q5gFIKq/s-l500.jpg)

Heh. I was expecting just a straightforward sampler, but this has a running commentary by one of those 50s white jazz hosts who are trying to sound hip without realizing how square it comes across.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 21, 2022, 02:16:14 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 18, 2022, 06:38:37 PM


(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2036/5517/products/MUS000475654_grande.jpg?v=1636624734)


I think Birth of the Cool is a significant and good album. I think Miles wanted to create a music significantly different from then-major stream bebop jazz, which tended to be energetic music with heavy sound and many notes. The compositions in the album are fine, if not exceptional, and the arrangement is fresh. The music is relaxed and cool, and it happened to become a prototype of the west coast/cool Jazz. The solos by Miles are exceptional- stylish, matured, and sophisticated- and they are powerful antithesis to the style of Dizzy Gillespie. It is not one of my favorite albums personally, but I think the album significantly and successfully proffered a paradigm shift.

Thank you for the information and your insight Manabu.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 21, 2022, 02:16:36 AM
Quote from: George on September 19, 2022, 01:20:55 PM
Mr. Davis was always Miles Ahead of the crowd.

8)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 21, 2022, 10:37:42 AM
Carol Kidd: Dreamsville


(https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/ad29cc82fd9e53db09856de7d122a9c2/2516441)


This makes for very easy, relaxed listening. Kidd has a fine and very smooth singing style. The very relaxed guitar work from the accompanying Nigel Clark is quite noteworthy, in my opinion.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 22, 2022, 01:11:20 PM
Introducing Wayne Shorter. 



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 22, 2022, 01:51:39 PM
Stan Getz Quartet: Pure Getz


(https://i.discogs.com/VuShqzfIo-jJL3etdLU-gIxzOyekMaNxsXMb5jKG7A8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzQ4/NDAzLTE1MjE3MTU5/ODQtNTY5OC5qcGVn.jpeg)


I find this to be a terrific and exciting album. It is filled with energy. The playing from all concerned, both individually and collectively, is wonderful. It all sounds very polished and accomplished.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 22, 2022, 04:30:00 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 22, 2022, 05:57:46 PM
Quote from: aligreto on September 22, 2022, 01:51:39 PM
Stan Getz Quartet: Pure Getz


(https://i.discogs.com/VuShqzfIo-jJL3etdLU-gIxzOyekMaNxsXMb5jKG7A8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzQ4/NDAzLTE1MjE3MTU5/ODQtNTY5OC5qcGVn.jpeg)


I find this to be a terrific and exciting album. It is filled with energy. The playing from all concerned, both individually and collectively, is wonderful. It all sounds very polished and accomplished.

Great album!



Quote from: SimonNZ on September 22, 2022, 04:30:00 PM
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Interesting! I must check it out.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on September 23, 2022, 01:32:30 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 22, 2022, 05:57:46 PM

(https://i.discogs.com/VuShqzfIo-jJL3etdLU-gIxzOyekMaNxsXMb5jKG7A8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzQ4/NDAzLTE1MjE3MTU5/ODQtNTY5OC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Great album!


Yes, Manabu, I enjoyed it immensely.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 24, 2022, 09:18:24 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 27, 2022, 02:21:03 PM
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: New Year's Eve At Sweet Basil.



(https://i.discogs.com/pJITzmh_ex6RPJgLXq7MkyvudbYRL5Id0Qcb2PfzhPg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NzQ4/NDI5LTE2MDYxNTY5/NjgtODM2MC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 29, 2022, 02:02:01 PM
Count Basie Orchestra Live At El Morocco.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on September 30, 2022, 03:01:55 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 27, 2022, 02:21:03 PM
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: New Year's Eve At Sweet Basil.



(https://i.discogs.com/pJITzmh_ex6RPJgLXq7MkyvudbYRL5Id0Qcb2PfzhPg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NzQ4/NDI5LTE2MDYxNTY5/NjgtODM2MC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Been years since I've spun it, but I remember this being a good album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 30, 2022, 05:17:55 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on September 30, 2022, 06:17:45 PM
Miles, Birth of the Cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 30, 2022, 06:42:18 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 30, 2022, 06:17:45 PM
Miles, Birth of the Cool.

Nice!


Quote from: KevinP on September 30, 2022, 03:01:55 PM
Been years since I've spun it, but I remember this being a good album.

"Little Man"!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 11:22:52 AM
NP:

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Now please don't you cry, beautiful Edith

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 12:06:07 PM
NP:

McCoy Tyner: Horizon

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 05:43:48 PM
Welcome back John!  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 06:15:27 PM
Freddie Hubbard: The Body and the Soul.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 03, 2022, 06:18:23 PM
Miles, Birth of the Cool
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 06:39:46 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 05:43:48 PM
Welcome back John!  ;D

8) Thanks, but I'm not really in a classical mood, so my posts will be rather limited. Good to see you, Manabu. :)

I see you're listening to Freddie Hubbard. 8) Let me ask you, how large is your jazz CD collection?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 06:41:54 PM
NP:

Art Farmer: Something To Live For - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn

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I have always felt that Farmer's beautifully understated style was underrated. This is a great album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 06:47:40 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 06:39:46 PM
8) Thanks, but I'm not really in a classical mood, so my posts will be rather limited. Good to see you, Manabu. :)

I see you're listening to Freddie Hubbard. 8) Let me ask you, how large is your jazz CD collection?

I lost most of the CDs (and my house) due to a tornado in 2018. Plus I was busy selling and buying discs before that. At the peak, probably I had 2-3000 jazz discs. Now I have a few hundreds of electronic files.


Miles Davis liked very few trumpeters, which included  Farmer, Hubbard, and Dizzy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 07:13:00 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 06:47:40 PM
I lost most of the CDs (and my house) due to a tornado in 2018. Plus I was busy selling and buying discs before that. At the peak, probably I had 2-3000 jazz discs. Now I have a few hundreds of electronic files.

Miles Davis liked very few trumpeters, which included  Farmer, Hubbard, and Dizzy.

Oh man, I'm sorry to hear about that! I was incredibly lucky, because in 2017 a tree landed on our house due to Hurricane Irma (or its' downgraded tropical storm name...whatever that may be). The damage was extensive, but thankfully there were no CDs (or humans and pets) harmed in this storm's path of destruction. :) Between my dad and I, we own around around 5,000-7,000 jazz CDs. We did most of our collecting in the late 90s up until 2007 or 2008.

Miles Davis is one of my favorite bandleaders and there are so many outstanding albums made during his long career that I absolutely adore, but I wouldn't say he's one of my favorite trumpeters even though I do, indeed, love his playing, especially when he's 'in the zone'. Here are some of my absolute favorite trumpeters: Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie, Tomasz Stanko, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Wheeler, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Conte Candoli et. al.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 07:23:30 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 07:13:00 PM
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear about that! I was incredibly lucky, because in 2017 a tree landed on our house due to Hurricane Irma (or its' downgraded tropical storm name...whatever that may be). The damage was extensive, but thankfully there were no CDs (or humans and pets) harmed in this storm's path of destruction. :) Between my dad and I, we own around around 5,000-7,000 jazz CDs. We did most of our collecting in the late 90s up until 2007 or 2008.

Miles Davis is one of my favorite bandleaders and there are so many outstanding albums made during his long career that I absolutely adore, but I wouldn't say he's one of my favorite trumpeters even though I do, indeed, love his playing, especially when he's 'in the zone'. Here are some of my absolute favorite trumpeters: Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie, Tomasz Stanko, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Wheeler, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Conte Candoli et. al.

I don't know Wheeler. For my list I would add Booker Little, Terence Blanchard, Wallace Roney and Roy Hargrove.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 07:31:02 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 03, 2022, 07:23:30 PM
I don't know Wheeler. For my list I would add Booker Little, Terence Blanchard, Wallace Roney and Roy Hargrove.

Wow...you never heard of Kenny Wheeler?!?!? OMG! :o I guess I shouldn't be that surprised because he's not a 'household name', but has recorded many albums that I love and would take to the desert island most namely the following: Gnu High, The Widow in the Window and Music for Large & Small Ensembles. I also love his earlier big band album with the John Dankworth Orchestra called Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote. Check these albums out. I think you'll find something you enjoy. He had a haunting sound on the trumpet --- there is much sadness in his playing. For that list you mentioned, I like Booker Little and Roy Hargrove. Both of these particular trumpeters died too young. There's no telling what they would've done.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 08:10:57 PM
NP:

Chick Corea Trio: Trilogy (Disc 1)

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Simply outstanding. It's too bad this particular trio couldn't have done more recordings due to Corea's unfortunate illness and later his passing (he died in 2021). There are two sets with this trio and they're worth their weight in gold. Here's the other set:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 03, 2022, 09:22:09 PM
Speaking of Kenny Wheeler...NP:

George Adams: Sound Suggestions

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You should definitely give this album a listen, Manabu!

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 05, 2022, 01:17:30 PM
Brian Blade Fellowship: Perceptual


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This is very easy listening fusion style contemporary jazz. I find it to be engaging, interesting and atmospheric. I particularly like the guitar work but they are all excellent musicians.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 05, 2022, 01:35:40 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 05, 2022, 01:17:30 PM
Brian Blade Fellowship: Perceptual


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This is very easy listening fusion style contemporary jazz. I find it to be engaging, interesting and atmospheric. I particularly like the guitar work but they are all excellent musicians.

A great album, Fergus! I love this Brian Blade band. Have you heard their other recordings? Perceptual is probably my favorite overall, but I really like these two as well:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 05, 2022, 01:45:17 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 05, 2022, 01:35:40 PM
A great album, Fergus! I love this Brian Blade band. Have you heard their other recordings? Perceptual is probably my favorite overall, but I really like these two as well:

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No, John, I do not know those albums. Thank you for the recommendations. This is what people talk about when you are not around. You know stuff, obscure stuff  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 05, 2022, 02:28:25 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 05, 2022, 01:45:17 PM
No, John, I do not know those albums. Thank you for the recommendations. This is what people talk about when you are not around. You know stuff, obscure stuff  ;D

:) Well, I wouldn't call Brian Blade obscure considering his own work as a sideman, which includes a whole list of remarkable jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman and the list goes on and on. His Fellowship Band has been around for quite some time now and has went through many changes, but one constant in this band is composer/pianist/keyboardist Jon Cowherd who is basically the yin to Blade's yang. I couldn't imagine a Fellowship album without his creative input. Kind of like the Pat Metheny Group with Lyle Mays. Metheny wouldn't have had the kind of success he had without Mays' compositional input and his musical contributions.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 03:15:47 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 05, 2022, 02:28:25 PM
:) Well, I wouldn't call Brian Blade obscure considering his own work as a sideman, which includes a whole list of remarkable jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman and the list goes on and on. His Fellowship Band has been around for quite some time now and has went through many changes, but one constant in this band is composer/pianist/keyboardist Jon Cowherd who is basically the yin to Blade's yang. I couldn't imagine a Fellowship album without his creative input. Kind of like the Pat Metheny Group with Lyle Mays. Metheny wouldn't have had the kind of success he had without Mays' compositional input and his musical contributions.

Obscure music, or any other art form for that matter, is always relative to one's knowledge and exposure to these things, John.  ;)
You see, in my ignorance of this genre of music, I have not heard of most of the musicians that you have mentioned let alone heard their music  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 07, 2022, 06:55:35 AM
Quote from: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 03:15:47 AM
Obscure music, or any other art form for that matter, is always relative to one's knowledge and exposure to these things, John.  ;)
You see, in my ignorance of this genre of music, I have not heard of most of the musicians that you have mentioned let alone heard their music  ;D

I understand. I guess if one hasn't listened to jazz or has avoided it, the names wouldn't ring a bell. :) Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying Brian Blade's music and I encourage you to continue to explore not only his own recordings, but to check out more jazz in the future.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 07:17:03 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 07, 2022, 06:55:35 AM
I understand. I guess if one hasn't listened to jazz or has avoided it, the names wouldn't ring a bell. :) Anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying Brian Blade's music and I encourage you to continue to explore not only his own recordings, but to check out more jazz in the future.

Cheers, John. I have been endeavouring to listen to a lot more Jazz over the last year or so and I have been thoroughly enjoying it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 07, 2022, 07:31:45 AM
Quote from: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 07:17:03 AM
Cheers, John. I have been endeavouring to listen to a lot more Jazz over the last year or so and I have been thoroughly enjoying it.

Very nice to read, Fergus. What are some recordings that have stuck out to you and made an impression on you?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 12:38:22 PM
Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady


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What a wonderful, different and exciting sound world there is on this album. Some very different sounds emanate from this music making, often riotous and cacophonous but also terrifically exciting.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 12:39:54 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 07, 2022, 07:31:45 AM
Very nice to read, Fergus. What are some recordings that have stuck out to you and made an impression on you?

Too many to list, John, but a quick survey of past pages here will give you some indication. Each and every listening was, for the most part, a revealing experience. However, one major standout for me was a 16 CD set that I was given access to of John Coultrane's Prestige Recordings. That in particular, made for terrific listening for me.


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mirror Image on October 07, 2022, 01:18:45 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 12:38:22 PM
Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady


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What a wonderful, different and exciting sound world there is on this album. Some very different sounds emanate from this music making, often riotous and cacophonous but also terrifically exciting.

Thumbs up! One of the great Mingus albums.

Quote from: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 12:39:54 PM
Too many to list, John, but a quick survey of past pages here will give you some indication. Each and every listening was, for the most part, a revealing experience. However, one major standout for me was a 16 CD set that I was given access to of John Coultrane's Prestige Recordings. That in particular, made for terrific listening for me.


(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/44018-large_default/the-complete-prestige-recordings-16-cds-box.jpg)

Oh, that's a great set. If you Coltrane do check out his Atlantic and Impulse recordings as well, although his last albums for the label were "free jazz" and this is something I've never been able to get into for the simple fact that jazz, from musical philosophy point-of-view, is already "free" in a certain sense.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 08, 2022, 03:04:53 PM
Dizzy Gillespie- The Cool World


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I am not quite sure but I think that this may be my first time to listen to a Dizzy album.

This is, apparently, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. I like the energy and steady drive in this music and music making. There are a few atmospheric tracks here also. I am not normally percussively inclined but I did notice the quality of the drumming quite a lot here.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 09, 2022, 02:03:08 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 08, 2022, 03:04:53 PM
Dizzy Gillespie- The Cool World


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I am not quite sure but I think that this may be my first time to listen to a Dizzy album.

This is, apparently, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. I like the energy and steady drive in this music and music making. There are a few atmospheric tracks here also. I am not normally percussively inclined but I did notice the quality of the drumming quite a lot here.

Nice disc. I like the recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 09, 2022, 02:04:12 PM
Benjamin Schaefer Trio.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 09, 2022, 08:21:16 PM
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1972
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on October 10, 2022, 05:17:08 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 10, 2022, 05:19:56 AM
Quote from: aligreto on October 07, 2022, 12:38:22 PM
Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady


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What a wonderful, different and exciting sound world there is on this album. Some very different sounds emanate from this music making, often riotous and cacophonous but also terrifically exciting.


Love this!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 10, 2022, 01:09:39 PM
Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train


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This is a terrific album. It is full of vibrancy and wonderful playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 10, 2022, 01:31:01 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 10, 2022, 01:09:39 PM
Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train


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This is a terrific album. It is full of vibrancy and wonderful playing.

Yes, great recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 10, 2022, 05:31:05 PM
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First listen to this, which comes from the period in MD's career I'm least familiar with
CD 1
Santana 13:06
Minor Ninths Part 1 3:12
Minor Ninths Part 2 4:32
Celestial Blues Part 1 8:04
Celestial Blues Part 2 4:00
Celestial Blues Part 3 5:56
Remake of OBX Ballad 4:57
Remake of OBX Ballad [full studio session] 7:15
Freaky Deaky Part 1 9:50
Freaky Deaky Part 2 5:25

Freaky Deaky was recorded as part of the sessions which produced the Decoy album; the others come from the sessions which resulted in Star People.

Unlike the digipaks used for the previous installments of this series, this is a booklet and three CDs in cardboard sleeves inside a cardboard slipcase.

CD 2 consists of material recorded as part of the sessions for You're Under Arrest, while CD 3 is a July 7, 1983 concert in Montreal.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 10, 2022, 07:22:29 PM
I don't mind Star People, but to my ears it already sounds like a disparate collection of not-essential outtakes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 11, 2022, 04:54:10 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 10, 2022, 07:22:29 PM
I don't mind Star People, but to my ears it already sounds like a disparate collection of not-essential outtakes.

Disparate? I suppose so.
Outtakes means simply they weren't used for the album.
But I enjoyed listening to them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on October 11, 2022, 12:29:09 PM
Quote from: JBS on October 10, 2022, 05:31:05 PM
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First listen to this, which comes from the period in MD's career I'm least familiar with
CD 1
Santana 13:06
Minor Ninths Part 1 3:12
Minor Ninths Part 2 4:32
Celestial Blues Part 1 8:04
Celestial Blues Part 2 4:00
Celestial Blues Part 3 5:56
Remake of OBX Ballad 4:57
Remake of OBX Ballad [full studio session] 7:15
Freaky Deaky Part 1 9:50
Freaky Deaky Part 2 5:25

Freaky Deaky was recorded as part of the sessions which produced the Decoy album; the others come from the sessions which resulted in Star People.

Unlike the digipaks used for the previous installments of this series, this is a booklet and three CDs in cardboard sleeves inside a cardboard slipcase.

CD 2 consists of material recorded as part of the sessions for You're Under Arrest, while CD 3 is a July 7, 1983 concert in Montreal.
Was this "Santana" where or related to the rock group chose its name?...no Googling allowed!  :)

PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 11, 2022, 01:00:06 PM
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on October 11, 2022, 12:29:09 PM
Was this "Santana" where or related to the rock group chose its name?...no Googling allowed!  :)

PD

Possibly: the booklet talks about him listening to MTV on a regular basis (in its early days of actually showing music videos),  and otherwise grooving on early 1980s pop, but I didn't catch a specific Santana tune in that track and the only songwriting credit is Miles himself.

CD 2 includes his versions of Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It, and Michael Jackson's Human Nature.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 11, 2022, 01:42:36 PM
Jesse van Ruller. Here And There.



(https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/img/1217.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 11, 2022, 01:50:45 PM
Quote from: JBS on October 11, 2022, 04:54:10 AM
Disparate? I suppose so.
Outtakes means simply they weren't used for the album.
But I enjoyed listening to them.

And that's what matters.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 11, 2022, 06:07:32 PM
After Enescu, CD 2. Recorded during the sessions that resulted in You're Under Arrest, including Miles's takes on Cyndi Laupner, Tina Turner, and Michael Jackson
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41sBgQ0hdNL._SY580_.jpg)
Time After Time (alternate) 5:53
Time After Time (full studio session) 8:57
Theme From Jack Johnson [Right Off]/Intro 8:30
Never Loved Like This (studio session demo) 5:00
Hopscotch (slow) 5:34
Hopscotch (fast) 7:01
What's Love Got To Do With It 4:21
Human Nature (alternate) 6:00
Katia (full studio session) 10:24
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 12, 2022, 01:21:13 PM
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle


(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/extended-circle.jpg)


I find this album makes for very smooth and relaxed listening and is wonderfully exciting and atmospheric music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 12, 2022, 01:32:12 PM
Quote from: aligreto on October 12, 2022, 01:21:13 PM
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle


(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/extended-circle.jpg)


I find this album makes for very smooth and relaxed listening and is wonderfully exciting and atmospheric music.

I heard good things about his music. I will check this out!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 13, 2022, 01:42:53 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 12, 2022, 01:32:12 PM
I heard good things about his music. I will check this out!

I really liked it, Manabu.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 13, 2022, 12:59:04 PM
Kenny Drew: Recollections


(https://i.discogs.com/LWVETY8-Saf5qgxk3t--0jrBg79cGeSq2MImpFR1-Hc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:499/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYwNTI2/NTMtMTQwOTg0NTc2/Ni00ODIyLmpwZWc.jpeg)


This is very engaging and electrically infused music and music making. The musicians, both individually and collectively, are really excellent and they blend very well together as an ensemble. The music is very exciting with pounding rhythms and it is very well driven. This is an absolute cracker of an album and it really deserves to be heard if you do not know it! Really superb music and music making!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 13, 2022, 01:43:45 PM
Portrait of Wes.



(https://i.discogs.com/CsovKG51beFpdz7QtiecVk9GkyenuTFY_gx4Ye-Qdyo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzNTQz/MTQtMTUwMTQzNjE2/MS0xMjYxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on October 14, 2022, 02:04:35 PM
Bob James: Quartette Humaine (With David Sanborn)


(https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/400/0003/918/0003918624.jpg)


I enjoyed this album very much. It was smooth, straightforward and uncomplicated music and music making of a very high standard. One was in the rhythmic flow from the opening bars of the first song. It is vibrant music and I particularly like the recorded tone of the saxophone, not to mention, of course, the playing! A very fine album indeed!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 16, 2022, 07:16:15 PM
Sonny Rollins + 3.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51gf5W0yN6L._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 19, 2022, 10:22:15 AM
Charlie Parker – The Cole Porter Songbook.


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273a1f34c34f1b8c45bc3615dc2)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 19, 2022, 08:40:51 PM
CHARLIE PARKER — BIRD AT THE APOLLO.


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e028092f3505e08a87d86a70316)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 25, 2022, 02:04:15 PM
Roy Hargrove: With the Tenors of Our Time.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61fQJXPSMWL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 03, 2022, 11:20:05 AM
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had this on endless repeat for a couple of hours or so last night
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 03, 2022, 01:32:25 PM
Booker Little, with Scott La Faro.


  (https://dgwh4hty77sxy.cloudfront.net/10641-medium_zoomcrop/booker-little.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 03, 2022, 02:23:52 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 04, 2022, 08:19:44 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/All_Day_Long_burrell.jpg/220px-All_Day_Long_burrell.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZXkIj+KUL._SY580_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 05, 2022, 12:29:36 PM
Bird @ Rockland Palace.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5107tEG+iEL._SY580_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on November 06, 2022, 06:08:03 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 03, 2022, 11:20:05 AM
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had this on endless repeat for a couple of hours or so last night
I only recently discovered him as a band leader. His recordings are really great.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 07, 2022, 06:35:55 PM
Quote from: Artem on November 06, 2022, 06:08:03 AM
I only recently discovered him as a band leader. His recordings are really great.

That one I thought particularly nice with a more subdued tone and great contributions from Kenny Burrell.

now:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/To_My_Queen.jpg/220px-To_My_Queen.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 07, 2022, 07:25:51 PM
^ I must check the Dickerson disc!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 10, 2022, 07:30:51 PM
Wailin at the Village Vanguard. Art Taylor.  Exciting band with great tenor and alto saxes.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51clEsqorhL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 10, 2022, 08:10:18 PM
Huh. I went through a phase of trying to hear all the albums recorded at the Village Vanguard, but I don't recognize that one.

Hearing a set at the VV would be one of the few things on my bucket list that actually involves travel (mostly its stuff like "learn to play Go")

now:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51niTTB066L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gHqcjhSOL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 10, 2022, 09:13:27 PM
I don't know the blue album. Looks very interesting as I love Louis Hayes.
I like the album below. Since there is no piano or horn, the music sounds simple/unpretentious and you feel that you really are at the club. You may want wine or Brandy with this recording.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QIoAB7AYL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on November 12, 2022, 10:18:44 AM
I don't listen to jazz too often, but a coworker likes to recommend music for me to try.

Thad Jones' album Consummation (1970), particularly 'Us', with the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

VS

https://www.youtube.com/v/VJmoztNHqbw&ab_channel=ThadJones-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJmoztNHqbw&list=OLAK5uy_lnKCGgyPrTsQS--IelX4p-_4sgaZl4JX4&index=5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJmoztNHqbw&list=OLAK5uy_lnKCGgyPrTsQS--IelX4p-_4sgaZl4JX4&index=5)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 12, 2022, 03:47:40 PM
^ I remember really liking that album, though its been a long while since I've heard it.

Will try and give it a listen later today. Thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 20, 2022, 09:22:21 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 21, 2022, 08:55:55 AM
That Marsalis album and his J mood are vg albums!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2022, 05:00:15 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-OvOxtLGL._SY580_.jpg)

Played this twice today, and a number of other Kenny Dorham albums over the last four or five days
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 02, 2022, 09:04:24 AM
^ Nice recording. I think Miles had a good opinion of him.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 03, 2022, 10:32:09 AM
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Art Blakey Quintet: A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1

On a jazz kick these last few days, after a long break from the genre.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 04, 2022, 12:59:18 PM
Nostrand and Fulton, Freddie Hubbard.




(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2730cd96579e59f52f3c63b7336)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 04, 2022, 04:07:09 PM
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Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock: At the Deer Head Inn

Another record store find. Sounds good, though Jarrett's moaning is a bit on the annoying side, comparatively speaking.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 04, 2022, 04:21:24 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on December 04, 2022, 04:07:09 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/pV7GPHTB/image.png)

Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock: At the Deer Head Inn

Another record store find. Sounds good, though Jarrett's moaning is a bit on the annoying side, comparatively speaking.

Killer album. キラー アルバム。
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2022, 05:15:47 PM
On the radio heard Cannonball Adderley's "Sticks" from the live album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, and will now have to find a copy of the album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 05, 2022, 01:15:27 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 04, 2022, 05:15:47 PMOn the radio heard Cannonball Adderley's "Sticks" from the live album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, and will now have to find a copy of the album.

The entire disc is excellent!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 05, 2022, 09:41:57 PM
(https://e.snmc.io/i/1200/s/32bfe609eb83c0996fab507b26774fc2/5085963)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 08, 2022, 02:29:40 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/xjgw2GGZ/71i-Sx-NDX2-YL-AC-UL600-SR600-600-111.jpg)

Count Basie & His Orchestra: April in Paris

First listen, very nice. This 2CD set featuring four classic LPs was a steal for seven bucks. This is an area of jazz that I'm pretty ignorant about.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 08, 2022, 03:29:39 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on December 08, 2022, 02:29:40 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/xjgw2GGZ/71i-Sx-NDX2-YL-AC-UL600-SR600-600-111.jpg)

Count Basie & His Orchestra: April in Paris

First listen, very nice. This 2CD set featuring four classic LPs was a steal for seven bucks. This is an area of jazz that I'm pretty ignorant about.

All great albums. They represent beauty of blues and African American culture.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on December 10, 2022, 02:00:18 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on December 10, 2022, 09:48:12 PM
I listened to A Love Supreme yesterday. According to many posts on Instagram it was an anniversary of its recording session. I still cannot get into that disk. Everything about it is perfectly arranged, but I just don't feel the excitement about the music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 11, 2022, 01:31:12 PM
I'm not a fan of Love Supreme either.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2022, 02:59:12 PM
Wow. You may be the first two people I've heard say that.

The only problem I have with ALS is that Coltrane is mixed too loud in comparison to the other players and comes blaring out of the left channel. I always have to adjust the balance to the right side to compensate.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 11, 2022, 03:12:33 PM
I think these are my fav trane.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 11, 2022, 03:16:37 PM
^I have not heard any of those, but my interest is piqued.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 11, 2022, 03:19:59 PM
Coltrane's Sound is a great, for sure. Especially "Equinox" and "Central Park West".

I don't think I know The Other Village Vanguard Tapes, unless I've encountered it in different packaging.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 11, 2022, 03:25:57 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 11, 2022, 03:19:59 PMColtrane's Sound is a great, for sure. Especially "Equinox" and "Central Park West".

I don't think I know The Other Village Vanguard Tapes, unless I've encountered it in different packaging.

Equinox is based on the chord change of Dizzys Night in Tunisia. I like The night has a thousand eyes as well.

All the tracks in the Other Tape, ie green sleeves, chasin Trane alt takes, etc., are in the big box set of Village Vanguard live now.

My favorite  things in Afro Blue Impressions (1963 Stockholm) is a killer!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 12, 2022, 03:47:18 PM
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Bill Evans Trio with Paul Motian and Scott LaFaro. Sunday at the Village Vanguard

So damn good. Such amazing bass playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 13, 2022, 10:43:47 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on December 12, 2022, 03:47:18 PMBill Evans Trio with Paul Motian and Scott LaFaro. Sunday at the Village Vanguard

So damn good. Such amazing bass playing.



LaFaro sounds great in this album.


(https://dgwh4hty77sxy.cloudfront.net/10641-medium_zoomcrop/booker-little.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 14, 2022, 03:50:45 PM
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Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Excellent album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 16, 2022, 01:15:24 PM
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Geri Allen Trio: Twenty One

Dry Brett Kavanaugh recommended this to me. It's real good! (I'm not crazy about the drum sound though—the playing is great, but the drums sound a bit over compressed.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 16, 2022, 01:23:11 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Back_to_Balboa.jpg)

I've had very mixed results from the Kenton discography, but this one I think is quite impressive.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on December 16, 2022, 09:43:50 PM
Kenton can be extremely variable indeed. A lot hinges on who the arrangers were for a given LP. Some albums were more deliberately commercial than others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 17, 2022, 02:50:56 PM
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Moanin'

I haven't heard this album in years. Just got it on CD. Damn, must be one of the best jazz albums ever.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 18, 2022, 11:35:28 AM
Bobby Hutcherson: The Kicker.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on December 19, 2022, 05:33:31 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 19, 2022, 10:16:41 AM
Tadd's Delight. Akane Matsumoto.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on December 19, 2022, 12:01:49 PM
Marc Maron just did an hour-long interview with Ron Carter on his podcast (http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1378-ron-carter).

Description:
"Marc talks with Ron about the dichotomies of his career, being a session musician and a band leader, a teacher and an eternal student, a maestro in concert halls and a regular in nightclubs. Ron explains how his output is all part of a responsibility he accepted long ago, one that continues today as he carries the flag of jazz throughout the world."
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 21, 2022, 03:06:18 PM
Wallace Roney Quintet.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/415-s9D85OL._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 21, 2022, 09:28:35 PM
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Silly title, but a very fine album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 22, 2022, 12:11:32 PM
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Archie Shepp: Four for Trane

Super cool album. Very raw takes on these Coltrane tunes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 22, 2022, 05:22:55 PM
Sonny Rollins. A Night at the Village Vanguard.


(https://i.discogs.com/LjnUhJtFjthM-P4PeTbHgd34X2jDmwo4sH64M0rVsRk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:505/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2NjA5/NzYtMTQwOTQ5NjAz/Mi0xMjA3LmpwZWc.jpeg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 22, 2022, 11:04:37 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7387c7d558f7fe61fe73eb678c0977b?rik=IcuThIpJCdnVNg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Roy Eldridge - Littke Jazz (rec.1935-40)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2022, 02:31:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 22, 2022, 11:04:37 PM(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.f7387c7d558f7fe61fe73eb678c0977b?rik=IcuThIpJCdnVNg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Roy Eldridge - Littke Jazz (rec.1935-40)

The other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on December 23, 2022, 02:50:04 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2022, 02:31:53 PMThe other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!

No, it's Teddy Hill, a frequent bandleader at Minton's at the time.
Seems to be cropped (and colorized?) from the famous photo with Monk and Howard McGhee:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/91139219/de/foto/photo-of-thelonious-monk-and-mintons-and-jazz-clubs-and-howard-mcghee-thelonious-monk-howard.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=tf2xH7kioAtGba71UF3_Clc4t3Zyj4uiWpp-yWBVSnY=)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 23, 2022, 02:51:04 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2022, 02:31:53 PMThe other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!

Teddy Hill. Manager of Minton's Playhouse.

A crop of this famous photo with Monk and Howard McGhee on the left:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Thelonious_Monk%2C_Howard_McGhee%2C_Roy_Eldridge%2C_and_Teddy_Hill%2C_Minton%27s_Playhouse%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Sept._1947_%28William_P._Gottlieb_06201%29.jpg/360px-Thelonious_Monk%2C_Howard_McGhee%2C_Roy_Eldridge%2C_and_Teddy_Hill%2C_Minton%27s_Playhouse%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Sept._1947_%28William_P._Gottlieb_06201%29.jpg)


Edit: Ha! x-posted with T.D.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on December 23, 2022, 05:37:23 PM
The first time I saw the (full) photo, I asked the same question...and also mistook Roy Eldridge for Bud Powell.  :-[ ...so I committed the details to memory.
It's kind of an iconic jazz photograph.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 25, 2022, 03:24:57 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RitXBuXnQ4n1IjzX_75eUAHaHV?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)

I continue to have a much higher assessment of The Three Sounds than the critical consensus.

A bad cover, but really fine playing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 25, 2022, 06:33:53 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 28, 2022, 02:25:25 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/YqcZjwXX/outofthecool.jpg)

Gil Evans Orchestra: Out of the Cool

First listen; found this at a local record shop today, bought off the strength of Evans' work with Miles Davis. Pretty good, so far; not what I was expecting. The first track is a kind of slick, funky vamp on one chord, that goes on for a very long time.

Getting kinda lonely here on the jazz board  :P
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 28, 2022, 02:58:51 PM
Joe Henderson: Mode for Joe.


(https://i.discogs.com/tYD8HiFpxqI19QeYGRYrxijudR_PpbELjEpZUvMCe_o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMzc1/NTMtMTI5MzI0ODI4/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 29, 2022, 04:03:48 PM
Julian Cannonball Adderley.


(https://i.discogs.com/x2EBaINdQ-ad0_ef2E5SLZX--yUyABsB6-h3MO6Xp-E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU2NzIx/MjktMTYxMDIxMjQ0/MS04NzgwLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on December 29, 2022, 05:03:07 PM
The thing about Adderley that always fascinates me is how he begins a solo. The first phrase is often an amazing attention-getter.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 29, 2022, 05:08:43 PM
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Archie Shepp: Fire Music

Challenging work, but it sounds great right now, just the kind of thing I'm in the mood for at the moment.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 29, 2022, 05:19:50 PM
Quote from: KevinP on December 29, 2022, 05:03:07 PMThe thing about Adderley that always fascinates me is how he begins a solo. The first phrase is often an amazing attention-getter.

I agree. Nice observation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 30, 2022, 12:40:33 PM
The Gathering, Geri Allen.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pqgz1nJ6ONdUyL-6_x4k35YBSL0Zp5V6kpYWHAhokFjKntKqPtRq4Ze_zF8neSEc9NQxFssfSVqj0_H-=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on December 30, 2022, 02:40:39 PM
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Miles Davis Quintet: Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Man, I've been a Miles fan for many, many years but somehow I never got around to this disc until a few weeks ago when I found it at a local record shop. Damn, it's good. The first two tracks are such a one-two punch of absolute bangers, "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" and "Salt Peanuts", both of which feature some killer playing from Red Garland and Philly Joe Jones (on keys and drums respectively). Miles reportedly referred to Jones as his favorite drummer of them all, which is saying something from a guy who worked with Tony Williams for years. If you dig Miles but haven't heard Steamin', don't be like me and wait forever to check it out.

Need to hear the other records in the series asap (Workin' and Cookin'—Relaxin' has been a favorite of mine for a long time).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on December 30, 2022, 09:45:00 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 01, 2023, 08:53:31 AM
I'm looking through my listening log for 2022 and identified these as the best new explorations, discoveries, and purchases of my year:

- the Modern Jazz Quartet in general but especially live (European Concert, Dedicated to Connie, Last Concert)
- Dave Brubeck Trio live in Vienna (a night when Paul Desmond failed to appear on time)
- First Flight to Tokyo, and Just Coolin' - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

I also finally wrapped up listening to the amazing "Monk's Dreams" box set by Frank Kimbrough, Scott Robinson, Rufus Reid, and Billy Drummond. And then started over again from the beginning!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: DaveF on January 01, 2023, 09:13:26 AM
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/953/MI0001953595.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Blakey in wondrous form.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 01, 2023, 09:38:42 AM
Cannonball Adderley: The EmArcy Small-Group Sessions.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 01, 2023, 01:56:56 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 01, 2023, 08:53:31 AM- First Flight to Tokyo, and Just Coolin' - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers


Interesting. I hadn't heard of these recent issues from the vaults. Thanks for the heads-up.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T1/images/I/81ccDf6HVHL._SX425_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T1/images/I/61ycpiHML9L._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 01, 2023, 03:07:19 PM
The Miles Davis/Tadd Dameron Quintet – In Paris Festival International De Jazz - May, 1949.


(https://i.discogs.com/EfiQ0UPrn0CPyDl1yAQOHTGEOErWnXfsYi7hUht2E-U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:526/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk5MDkx/NDItMTU5NTMxMDk4/NC03MzA0LmpwZWc.jpeg)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 01, 2023, 04:53:41 PM
I'll continue the Cannonball theme with this:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419QRRBG2EL.jpg)

Alas, I don't think interpreting melodies of standards was Cannonball's forte, nor was doing arrangements of existing pieces William Russo's. These are also quite commercial (as 'with strings' recordings were back then), which may have been forced upon Russo.

Will move on to the Russo-arranged cuts on Jump for Joy probably later today.

In a few days (the 11th) it will be the 20th anniversary of Russo's passing.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 02, 2023, 07:33:12 AM
Quote from: KevinP on January 01, 2023, 04:53:41 PMI'll continue the Cannonball theme with this:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419QRRBG2EL.jpg)

Alas, I don't think interpreting melodies of standards was Cannonball's forte, nor was doing arrangements of existing pieces William Russo's. These are also quite commercial (as 'with strings' recordings were back then), which may have been forced upon Russo.

Will move on to the Russo-arranged cuts on Jump for Joy probably later today.

In a few days (the 11th) it will be the 20th anniversary of Russo's passing.

The playing is good and the arrangement is good too. But the songs are not my favorite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 02, 2023, 07:37:04 AM
Bud Powell – Swingin' With Bud.


(https://i.discogs.com/1puKRqsCk01VI5P9FpntSPFsG0blWpOopE9AHaiS1TM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:592/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMjg0/ODA0LTE1MTM0Mjg3/NjktNzk1MS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2023, 03:01:53 PM
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Four or five times in a row last night while I was reading the Quincy Troupe book I found in a secondhand store

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 02, 2023, 09:59:19 PM
How's that book?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2023, 11:53:01 PM
Quote from: Artem on January 02, 2023, 09:59:19 PMHow's that book?

It's very well written. But it confirms what I had already read about Miles being utterly insufferable personally, especially in the years covered in this book: the 1980s.

It's exhibit A for "you should never meet your heroes", even if the author got a few very rare glimpse at moments of his nicer side.

And I just read a bit where he's badmouthing McCoy Tyner saying he "couldn't play for shit", and knowing and loving the Tyner discography that made me very sad.

Edit: while I've been reading it tonight I've had another favorite album going around on repeat: Pat Metheney's As  Falls Witchita.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 03, 2023, 06:33:45 AM
Bud Powell at Birdland 1953.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 04, 2023, 07:37:44 AM
Dream of You - Helen Merrill.


(https://i.discogs.com/UdhhP1jNZVpzuIMsm9WRkrjGWmQCO11nsgBhSofg6wg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwNDY5/ODQtMTYwMzA3NDIx/Ny01MTU3LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 05, 2023, 12:46:20 PM
Bill Evans - Blue in Green (Live in Paris 1972).


(https://i.discogs.com/KDpD6ke9BNoZUWqr8WGEK_od5dcGIZS2sVo_tgGVu_g/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgyMjU4/OTktMTYzODkwNzcw/Ni01MjU2LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 05, 2023, 01:37:44 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 02, 2023, 11:53:01 PMI've had another favorite album going around on repeat: Pat Metheney's As  Falls Witchita.

One of those albums I played the hell out back in high school, but now it's been years since I've spun it. It's really due for a listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: bhodges on January 05, 2023, 02:33:31 PM
Started the day with Dianne Reeves singing "I Put a Spell on You." (Sorry, no recording credits included.) I am a fan anyway, but this shows some added vocal virtuosity.

-Bruce

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 06, 2023, 08:06:25 AM
Art Farmer - Art.


(https://i.discogs.com/ZImsCIJt4dgTSPcHX2RBNmgLDE6-nKmPaxz78dILBr4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzOTEz/NjAtMTY2MjM4NDgx/My04NTk5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 07, 2023, 06:36:45 AM
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John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

A really flawless record. One of the best jazz vocal albums I've ever heard. Can't stop listening to it these past few days.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 07, 2023, 11:41:53 AM
Nancy Wilson 1987 at Carnegie Hall -- Dearly Beloved. Killer performance!



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 09, 2023, 09:59:13 AM
Wayne Shorter – Second Genesis.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 09, 2023, 01:38:34 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 07, 2023, 11:41:53 AMNancy Wilson 1987 at Carnegie Hall -- Dearly Beloved. Killer performance!





One of my all-time favourite artists. I'm not aware of any recording she's done that I don't have.

Not saying I love them all equally, but the ones that dip for me only do so because of the producer and the then-current trends, not because of her.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 09, 2023, 02:28:34 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 09, 2023, 01:38:34 PMOne of my all-time favourite artists. I'm not aware of any recording she'd done that I don't have.

Not saying I love them all equally, but the ones that dip for me only do so because of the producer and the then-current trends, not because of her.


You sound right. We wouldn't have known her if she didn't sing pops and become popular.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 11, 2023, 07:07:42 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on January 07, 2023, 06:36:45 AMJohn Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

A really flawless record. One of the best jazz vocal albums I've ever heard. Can't stop listening to it these past few days.
Flawless record. Love it too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 12, 2023, 11:41:44 AM
Ingrid Jensen – Here on Earth.


(https://i.discogs.com/_W0XeWEFPHPjPejbFT1Qq2IPQGCcSXGk-c3GnUQa17k/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMTU5/MjA0LTE1MTA5NTIy/OTQtOTUwNi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 12, 2023, 04:23:57 PM
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Free For All

Holy f&@#, man. Freddie Hubbard. That cat can blow. The first track, identifiable as a Wayne Shorter composition within 5 seconds, is stunningly intense. The remaining three tracks don't bring that intensity down even a little bit. One of the best hard bop records I've ever heard.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 13, 2023, 09:42:18 AM
I talked to Freddie Hubbard in New Orleans in 1997. He was very pleasant and nice. He said that he liked Japan.

NP:

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 13, 2023, 11:02:09 AM
^I love that Ugetsu record too. Contains a few tunes inspired by the Messengers' recent Japanese tour, I think, including the title track, which, according to Blakey, is Japanese for "fantasy". That's cool that you met Freddie!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 13, 2023, 11:49:52 AM
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Ellington at Newport

First listen; so far, so good.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 13, 2023, 02:06:35 PM
I have an odd relationship with Hubbard because when I was first getting into jazz in the early 80s, I bought two horrible albums by him, after which I gave up.

I'm not sure I would find them so terrible now, but I was a teenager and poo-pooed any kind of crossover as selling-out, not a stance I would default to now. I see one of them has a high rating on allmusic, both from the editors and users so I might check it out again. (Still, the idea of Hubbard doing 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey...')

I had heard him on the radio prior to those purchases, and I've certainly bought some good titles since, but he was largely absent from my early explorations.

Incidentally, I have the exact same situation with Stanley Turrentine.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 13, 2023, 06:04:46 PM
I have not heard any of Hubbard's sessions as a leader, but he does play on several of my favorite jazz records. Including the one I am listening to right now, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth. His solos always blow me away—or at least they have been doing so lately.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 05:20:28 AM
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Louis Armstrong: Satch Blows The Blues

I randomly found this CD in my closet, and I'm glad I did, because it sounds great. Never listened to much of his work before. Pure blues.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 14, 2023, 06:37:19 AM
Freddie in Cantaloupe and Hubtones (blues). These were after his fusion years.




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 06:59:12 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 14, 2023, 06:37:19 AMFreddie in Cantaloupe and Hubtones (blues). These were after his fusion years.






Before, weren't they? I found a cheap copy of that Hub-Tones disc on ebay so I'll be checking it out soon.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 07:03:02 AM
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Miles Davis: Dark Magus: Live at Carnegie Hall

It strikes me as somewhat funny that these lengthy freeform funk-rock jams were recorded at Carnegie Hall of all places. I imagine there would have been some perplexed faces in the audience.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 14, 2023, 09:21:59 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 06:59:12 AMBefore, weren't they? I found a cheap copy of that Hub-Tones disc on ebay so I'll be checking it out soon.

Both the compositions are in the 60s before the fusion music, but the performances in the videos are after his fusion period.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 09:37:14 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 14, 2023, 09:21:59 AMBoth the compositions are in the 60s before the fusion music, but the performances in the videos are after his fusion period.

Oh, nice! I shall check them out.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 14, 2023, 09:41:15 AM
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Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

This is an awesome record. Nothing particularly groundbreaking, just two jazz giants playing together and feeding off of each other's energy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 15, 2023, 01:46:02 PM
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(Back cover because the front has no clear artist or title.)

And:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81s9gWBGKLL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 15, 2023, 06:33:53 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 13, 2023, 02:06:35 PMI have an odd relationship with Hubbard because when I was first getting into jazz in the early 80s, I bought two horrible albums by him, after which I gave up.

I'm not sure I would find them so terrible now, but I was a teenager and poo-pooed any kind of crossover as selling-out, not a stance I would default to now. I see one of them has a high rating on allmusic, both from the editors and users so I might check it out again. (Still, the idea of Hubbard doing 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey...')

I had heard him on the radio prior to those purchases, and I've certainly bought some good titles since, but he was largely absent from my early explorations.

Incidentally, I have the exact same situation with Stanley Turrentine.



His music was better in the 60s, but I think that his skills were at peak in the 70s and early 80s. Anyway, great and intelligent trumpeter.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on January 16, 2023, 01:06:10 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 13, 2023, 09:42:18 AMI talked to Freddie Hubbard in New Orleans in 1997. He was very pleasant and nice. He said that he liked Japan.

NP:

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If you acquire the new "First Flight to Tokyo" album from the Jazz Messengers, there are several long essays and an interview with Wayne Shorter documenting all the musicians' experiences in Japan.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 17, 2023, 06:07:22 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/5SCvWTXziSoV5wCScifVJxROp1UYgQ7-jV2DrnWYwR8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:337/w:336/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4MTI5/NzgtMTM3NjMxNTMy/Ni03MjU0LmpwZWc.jpeg)  (https://i.discogs.com/S2acK1Y6dgDqkT_eFh6fjrEO_zfFDPQllzUpDyr5CYU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:529/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2NzIx/NDItMTYwMTE4NzMz/OS02MDgzLmpwZWc.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/aAlHONT2xJSIGuDlYzihGNmgj0H7mIW9b3cQo_3GUgc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTA3/NjY2LTE2MjMwNTYy/OTYtODgxMy5qcGVn.jpeg)  (https://i.discogs.com/D3jWpkTdps060nji8JF6N9gEvSgfOvP4tDlD2Kg31II/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2MTEx/ODUtMTU4MTM3Njcy/MC0xNjM2LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 18, 2023, 02:00:12 PM
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(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NZbXvYePL._SX425_.jpg)

Soul-jazz with so much soul I had to consider which thread to post these in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 18, 2023, 04:46:48 PM
Max Roach, We Insist!


(https://www.besteveralbums.com/albumart/album_large_3675_5eadf547bada3.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 18, 2023, 06:09:59 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/I5hdylk6wZHyEmQ359rXD9KdPEXGbeJbnQWCeqXNfg0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNjA4/MDYzLTE1NTc0MjQ2/MTctMTkyMS5qcGVn.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/DygjTKv0s_6_xA9MZDrh-oX3jTVk2JfHZgt-mAdaLOk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:522/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNjA4/MDYzLTE1NTc0MjQ2/MTktMzQwNy5qcGVn.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/0RYsO5eJgxNLhtzLSafYZVYKFnDuy3egL0kHCNf5vXw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkyMTM1/Mi0xNDcxODE1ODE1/LTgxNDguanBlZw.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/2nUJ4zrjgFskG9qV6cvy17VNsWi79bqCo3SPxeBLYEw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:463/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkyMTM1/Mi0xNDcxODE1ODE2/LTQ5MjYuanBlZw.jpeg)

(https://i.discogs.com/cLvlmRuLgwGpusZz0tnqb8ACjBvSk2RFjc0prIWiuA4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:497/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NTU2/MTktMTMyMTc4NzM5/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg)

2 images given for the first 2 albums due to lack of credits on cover
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 22, 2023, 09:43:38 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Witchi-Tai-To.jpg)

Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 22, 2023, 01:56:44 PM
Pat Suzuki.


(https://i.discogs.com/B2fUP5tyapXW07xuQqYHhi9Xp6BjYxLXYp4NwRPycMo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMyNzYw/MjAtMTMyMzcyOTM4/NC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 23, 2023, 09:54:32 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/d3YOtDmov8GFSQjVJ3oLLhtH_ZkYtW3vbX58ermsXEE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxODg4/NjQtMTYyMDExMDYw/Ny03MjYyLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Immortal desert island item...I like bebop and am a major fan of both great principals.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 26, 2023, 04:03:24 PM
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A couple of my favorite 3 Sounds albums, the second has a performance of Summertime that I think can be ranked alongside many of the more famous and admired recordings:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 26, 2023, 08:58:45 PM
I have no Three Sounds in my library, but I've become enamored of Monk Higgins lately, and he did the arrangements of their orchestral work which I've been exploring on YouTube.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 27, 2023, 03:46:37 AM
I don't own any Three Sounds recordings, either.
But I do have a couple of Gene Harris releases (1 trio, 1 solo), and am impressed by his playing.
I own a lot of the Live at Maybeck solo piano discs, and the Gene Harris is (surprisingly) one of my top two, along with Stanley Cowell.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on January 27, 2023, 05:06:39 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/q2BVbjotfU_rqqDeIiR3JQ_NfoL3lxRLhYOyJSMDx_c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:506/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxMDkz/MjEtMTU4MzUxNjEz/Ny05MzgzLmpwZWc.jpeg)

https://www.discogs.com/release/8109321-The-Three-Sounds-The-3-Sounds

This is the only Three Sounds I have. It was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray and has 6 bonus tracks. Great sound and playing.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 27, 2023, 01:49:32 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 26, 2023, 04:03:24 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51QkPj29CYL._SY1000_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jfRjEAdfL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)

A couple of my favorite 3 Sounds albums, the second has a performance of Summertime that I think can be ranked alongside many of the more famous and admired recordings:




Sick and dangerous! Incredible. He played music at a wedding of an owner of Jazz cafe I know in Japan. The cafe owner showed me some pics.



NP: Oscar Peterson - I've Got A Crush On You.


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Post by: SimonNZ on January 27, 2023, 02:00:06 PM
Heh."sick and dangerous" is...a compliment?
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 27, 2023, 02:08:29 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 27, 2023, 02:00:06 PMHeh."sick and dangerous" is...a compliment?

In Bayou region Louisiana, it means impeccable and well-constructed artistic presentation of dark aesthetics.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 27, 2023, 06:01:38 PM
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Keith Jarrett Trio: Standard, Vol. 2

Damn, nice. A lot better than the first volume, I think. I got this at a record store in Athens GA last month but never listened to it until now.
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Post by: T. D. on January 27, 2023, 06:27:09 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/lrOP89uKuODbijCV7k_JWAn1ZlXMB6Tdc1MOGtcOeB4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2MDg1/NzkwLTE2MDM3NzM0/NjUtNDEyNi5qcGVn.jpeg)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 27, 2023, 09:00:18 PM
How are these Sun Ra titles?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 28, 2023, 05:31:56 AM
Quote from: KevinP on January 27, 2023, 09:00:18 PMHow are these Sun Ra titles?

Very good.
The Modern Harmonic reissue of A Fireside Chat... has excellent sound quality and an awesome studio version of Nuclear War. The other tracks have a lot of Ra playing organ, only the long title piece is really "outside" (and in spades  ;D ).

Sleeping Beauty is a great "chillout Ra" studio album a la Lanquidity. Three pieces with vocals: Springtime Again and Door of the Cosmos are of course classics and the title tune is good too.

You can listen to everything at the estimable Sun Ra bandcamp page

https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/ .

Sleeping Beauty, which seems scarce on CD (I have it in the Art Yard in a Box collection) has many bonus tracks via the DL reissue at bandcamp. In my experience the bandcamp reissues (done in collaboration with Sun Ra LLC and the Sun Ra Archive) are the gold standard for sound quality.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: 71 dB on January 28, 2023, 07:07:09 AM
Clifford Brown - Brown and Roach / Jam Sessions
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Post by: vers la flamme on January 28, 2023, 12:19:35 PM
Quote from: 71 dB on January 28, 2023, 07:07:09 AMClifford Brown - Brown and Roach / Jam Sessions

What a coincidence; I just picked up Clifford Brown & Max Roach at Decatur CD in downtown Decatur, Georgia today. Have not yet listened to it.

Now playing:

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Benny Golson: New Time, New 'Tet

Found this at the library and picked it up, knowing nothing about it except that I dig Benny's work with the Jazz Messengers. I didn't realize at the time that this album was recorded half a century later in 2009; the saxophonist was age 79 on these sessions. That being said I am surprised how much I'm enjoying it. Very solid post-bop jazz, with very very good sound quality (though maybe I'm just so used to analog sound, listening to nothing but music recorded in the '50s and '60s for the past month or two).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on January 28, 2023, 12:51:38 PM
I'm Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody
Louis Prima with Sam Butera and the Witnesses

Love Keely Smith's intrusive backing vocals here.
VS

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 28, 2023, 01:26:11 PM
Escapade - James Spaulding.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 28, 2023, 05:59:54 PM
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For no good reason I haven't played this album in years.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 29, 2023, 06:32:42 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 28, 2023, 05:59:54 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71pyHkXo+aL.jpg)

For no good reason I haven't played this album in years.
I've been getting back into it lately too.

Now here's one I haven't played in years:

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John Coltrane: Blue Train

Stunning band on this one. With the exception of Trane being Trane, this is very straight Blue Note bop, executed miraculously. A VERY young Lee Morgan (all of 19 years old) plays beautifully on this session.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 29, 2023, 07:53:48 AM
Giant Steps doesn't  really appeal to me. I certainly belong to a minority group.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: 71 dB on January 29, 2023, 08:56:51 AM
Disc 2 from "The complete Max Roach 1958-1962"

Unfortunately the most interesting album here "Rich versus Roach" is badly incomplete. Only 3 tracks of 8 included! All other 8 albums here are complete, most of it is standard jazz without epic drum solos. This 4 CD box was a massive disappointment for me and I haven't listened to it for years... Buying jazz I REALLY like is very very very difficult.

So, not 9 full albums + bonus cuts and the cover art sayd, but 8 full albums + bonus cuts. False advertising.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 29, 2023, 12:29:06 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 29, 2023, 07:53:48 AMGiant Steps doesn't  really appeal to me. I certainly belong to a minority group.

I don't love that album, either. Listen occasionally, but basically only when I throw the Atlantic box set (which I enjoy) in the changer.

Even more heretically, Blue Trane has never done anything for me and I almost never revisit it.  :o

I do listen to a lot of Coltrane, but almost all post-Prestige/BN and skewed toward Impulse! material.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 29, 2023, 01:09:36 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 29, 2023, 12:29:06 PMI don't love that album, either. Listen occasionally, but basically only when I throw the Atlantic box set (which I enjoy) in the changer.

Even more heretically, Blue Trane has never done anything for me and I almost never revisit it.  :o

I do listen to a lot of Coltrane, but almost all post-Prestige/BN and skewed toward Impulse! material.

I think I'm more a fan of Impulse era Trane too. I love Giant Steps, Blue Train and My Favorite Things, but I kind of burned myself out on all of them from way too much listening over the years. Have not heard any of his Prestige releases.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 29, 2023, 01:18:11 PM
Manhattan Melodies - Eric Reed.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 29, 2023, 01:40:22 PM
Coltrane is one of those musicians I love and respect, but I also associate him more with my early explorations in jazz 40 years ago. These days, I'm more likely to listen to his wife (in whom I had zero interest back then).

I can appreciate the difficulty of improvising the changes to Giant Steps, but the album as a whole was never a favourite. Blue Train, ditto, I don't think Coltrane really fit into the Blue Note mold. With that and the Prestige recordings, he had undeniably found his voice but hadn't quite found his canvas yet.

When I do listen, I also gravitate towards the Impulse material. (Even then, the very late period, post-Tyner, bored me, though I have been thinking it might be time to revist those titles.)
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Post by: T. D. on January 29, 2023, 04:35:46 PM
I've also gotten into Alice Coltrane the past few years. Listened to this album last week.

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Love the cover photo, but dare not post it to the "best looking CD/LP" thread for fear of flames.  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on January 29, 2023, 04:45:20 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 29, 2023, 04:35:46 PMI've also gotten into Alice Coltrane the past few years. Listened to this album last week.

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Love the cover photo, but dare not post it to the "best looking CD/LP" thread for fear of flames.  ;D

The photo is great, but text color and typeface choices seem wrong to me: they clash with and block out the photo.

I'm not sure if I have anything by Alice C. Any specific album by her you would suggest as a first one?

As for John, I like almost all the stuff I've heard from him, including Giant Steps and Night Train--except Love Supreme.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 29, 2023, 04:48:55 PM
Journey in Satchidananda is a perfect introduction to Alice Coltrane, though by no means the only valid one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on January 29, 2023, 04:56:47 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 29, 2023, 04:48:55 PMJourney in Satchidananda is a perfect introduction to Alice Coltrane, though by no means the only valid one.

Thank you!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on January 30, 2023, 02:32:55 AM
My favorite Trane album these days is one I never knew about until recently, John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman. I've also been getting into Meditations.

Now playing;

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John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard
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Post by: vers la flamme on January 30, 2023, 03:07:47 AM
& now;

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Second time hearing this after finding it at Decatur CD in Decatur, Georgia over the weekend, and it's actually sounding much better this time around. Clifford Brown is just a crazy good trumpeter; much like my favorite bassist Scott LaFaro, he tragically died in a car accident at age 25. I'll need to hear more of his work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 30, 2023, 01:22:24 PM
Native Dancer - Wayne Shorter and Milton Nascimento.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 30, 2023, 03:12:51 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on January 30, 2023, 03:07:47 AM& now;

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Second time hearing this after finding it at Decatur CD in Decatur, Georgia over the weekend, and it's actually sounding much better this time around. Clifford Brown is just a crazy good trumpeter; much like my favorite bassist Scott LaFaro, he tragically died in a car accident at age 25. I'll need to hear more of his work.

Nice album while Richie Powell is mediocre in contrast to his brother, Bud Powell.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 31, 2023, 01:42:48 PM
True, but that's also true of most pianists.

I really got into Clifford Brown in the mid-80s because American music stores carried few CDs at the time, and all the ones they carried were imports. For whatever reason, one local store had a slew of the Japanese Emarcy Brown titles, so I eventually got them all.

Haven't listened in a while, but man, there was some amazing playing and musicality on those sides..
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 31, 2023, 01:55:23 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 31, 2023, 01:42:48 PMTrue, but that's also true of most pianists.

I really got into Clifford Brown in the mid-80s because American music stores carried few CDs at the time, and all the ones they carried were imports. For whatever reason, one local store had a slew of the Japanese Emarcy Brown titles, so I eventually got them all.

Haven't listened in a while, but man, there was some amazing playing and musicality on those sides..



Probably I'm biased, but I don't care Richie Powell's playing. Still I'm a big fan of Clifford Brown and Max Roach.
When I was in Japan late 80s - early 90s, I sent Miles in Berlin to my friends in USA several times. Same for some blues CDs as well.


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Post by: Karl Henning on January 31, 2023, 06:50:12 PM
I don't often listen to this 'un, but I love it whenever I do.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 02, 2023, 07:34:44 AM
A friend introduced me to Samara Joy, and she's marvelous. Listening to the classic "Guess Who I Saw Today," and her version can rank with the best. Excellent, moody video, too.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 02, 2023, 01:17:22 PM
Billy Cobham: Spectrum


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 02, 2023, 02:01:29 PM
Joe Pass Live at Dontes.


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Post by: KevinP on February 02, 2023, 04:44:54 PM
Quote from: aligreto on February 02, 2023, 01:17:22 PMBilly Cobham: Spectrum


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Nice. I have it in this box, but that's easily the one that gets played the most.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 02, 2023, 04:51:25 PM
For years, the only Billy Cobham album I could get was Smokin' by Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie. I only ever had it on cassette and it's never been re-released since CDs were invented. It was on the Elektra-Musician label, which went out of business. Many of their titles have never been re-released officially.

I suspect that in the grand scheme of his catalogue, it's a typical or even mediocre album, but I'd like to hear it again.
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Post by: vers la flamme on February 02, 2023, 05:52:38 PM
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Three Suites

I think the Norwegians were mad about this recording of the Peer Gynt Suites when this was released, something about it desecrating their national heritage. I think Grieg's colorful harmonies are a good fit with Ellington's rich big band textures.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 02, 2023, 06:33:57 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 29, 2023, 04:48:55 PMJourney in Satchidananda is a perfect introduction to Alice Coltrane, though by no means the only valid one.

That's a really good introduction.
Any of the Impulse! titles would probably work.
Ptah the El Daoud is an excellent more or less "straight jazz" album, I started out with that and recommend it, although her music rapidly gets more spiritually (Vedanta) oriented.
To my surprise, I really liked her "with strings" Impulse! albums (World Galaxy, Universal Consciousness, Lord of Lords), though I don't often listen to that genre.
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Post by: T. D. on February 02, 2023, 06:39:28 PM
Obscure '70s reissues:

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Good if you like that sort of thing  ... I doubt they'll be playing these albums in any Florida classrooms (though the former doesn't have vocals).  ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 03, 2023, 01:49:21 AM
Quote from: KevinP on February 02, 2023, 04:44:54 PMNice. I have it in this box, but that's easily the one that gets played the most.

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It certainly is an energetic album and all of the instrumentalists are very good indeed.
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Post by: 71 dB on February 03, 2023, 03:29:19 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on January 30, 2023, 03:07:47 AM& now;

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Second time hearing this after finding it at Decatur CD in Decatur, Georgia over the weekend, and it's actually sounding much better this time around. Clifford Brown is just a crazy good trumpeter; much like my favorite bassist Scott LaFaro, he tragically died in a car accident at age 25. I'll need to hear more of his work.

Unfortunately I don't have this CD. The "Four Classic Albums" twofer I have includes:

Brown and Roach Incorporated, Jam Session, Study In Brown and New Star On The Horizon. My father has the Clifford Brown Quintet Vol. 2 compilation double vinyl and Memorial Album on CD. That's it! I don't know why my father doesn't have more clifford brown. The Clifford Brown Quintet Vol. 2 was one of those jazz albums I actually liked in my youth when my father played it. Some of the track on it are from Study In Brown such as the George's Dilemma which I like a lot.

Unfortunately Clifford Brown died at age 25 in 1956 just a few years before stereo sound era started. Just imagine what Clifford Brown recorded stereo in say 1962 would sound like. Mono sound isn't a massive problem with speakers, because due to room acoustics etc. left and right ears end up hearing a little bit different versions of the sound, but with headphones mono sound means the ears hear identical sound! That makes headphone mono sound unnaturally flat and dull. It is not about the lack of left-right information. It is about the feeling that the sound doesn't really exist in reality. It is like the ghost of a real sound.

Fortunately I am someone who understands these things and headphone spatiality is one of those things that interest me. I have wrote countless of Nyquist plugins for Audacity and many of them process spatiality in some ways. So, I ripped George's Dilemma into my computer and processed it in Audacity. The result is what I call diffuse mono. It kind of simulates what room acoustics does to mono sound, but even speaker listening benefits from it.

How much does the processing ruin sound quality? I would say not at all! The sound quality in these 50's mono recordings isn't that high to begin with and the steps of processing are such that the sound quality doesn't really suffer. The main idea of diffuse mono is to think about the sound in mid (M)/side form instead of left/right. Mathematically we go between these forms using a rotation matrix to rotate (and mirror) the [L R]T or [M S]T vector 45° into the other:

M = k*L + k*R
S = k*L - k*R

L = k*M + k*S
R = k*M - k*S

where k = sin(45°) = cos(45°) = 1/√2 ≈ 0.71. For (double) mono sound (R=L) we get

M = L*√2
S = 0

The fact that S = 0 tells we are dealing with mono sound. The is no "side" information. We need to create it in order to get diffuse mono sound. We start by copying the M to S:

M = L*√2
S = L*√2

This however doesn't work, because if we "rotate" this into left/right form we get sound that is all in the left channel and nothing in the right. If we do instead:

M = L*√2
S = - L*√2

We have the stereo sound only in right channel. The trick is to introduce random (but scaled according to human spatial hearing) delays into S which means the sound gets spread randomly from left to right. We also reduce the level of S frequency-dependently to better simulate human spatial hearing. So, the processing gets complex at this point, but what is above tells the basic idea.

The diffuse mono sound gets then panned binaurally to "drive home" the spatial cues of something that sounds stereophonic even if it doesn't contain any left-right information (meaning the different instruments are not separated in space). Without this step the spatiality is random, all over the place instead of something that is infront of the listener.

The processing includes some other minor steps that finetune the result, but this is the process. Especially on headphones the benefits are clear: The sound jumps out of the middle of the head to become a small "cloud of sound" inside which the listeners head is and the sound is more "alive". Compared to real stereo sound this processing gets about 30 % of that I would say. Technically this processing reduces sound quality just a little bit, but that's not relevant with old mono sound: We have more to gain than lose. What is relevant is perceptual sound quality. How good does it sound to your ears, and that's what is improved quite a lot imho.
 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 03, 2023, 06:11:59 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on January 30, 2023, 03:07:47 AM& now;

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Second time hearing this after finding it at Decatur CD in Decatur, Georgia over the weekend, and it's actually sounding much better this time around. Clifford Brown is just a crazy good trumpeter; much like my favorite bassist Scott LaFaro, he tragically died in a car accident at age 25. I'll need to hear more of his work.

Clifford Brown was a legend who would have been an all-time great had he lived longer. Pick up anything you can find! If you like bebop, you might also enjoy Fats Navarro, who was perhaps the biggest influence on Brown.

Booker Little was another great trumpeter who died prematurely (kidney disease). Try anything you can find; the Five Spot recordings with Dolphy are probably the best known (poor Mal Waldron with that out-of-tune piano, though).

Since Navarro came up, I just had to listen to this on Youtube:


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 03, 2023, 07:43:48 AM
Dipping into Samara Joy's album Linger Awhile, with "Misty." She's nominated for two Grammy Awards, Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album, and whether or not she wins, deserves both.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on February 03, 2023, 08:51:36 AM
Staying home today due to cold (temperature falling, will fall to -15F or below tonight).
Having dropped Booker Little's name,

(https://i.discogs.com/aMibiaIDrh8N0t4ZNWg_-xmNpzL5A8D5I-94i8Ms5pI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4MDE4/ODAtMTQ3MjM5Mzcz/MS0xODU0LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/xMqWEo8OqVTjCgEWPf8FZH8UdHCbNO6zUEiCtipESaI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:466/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4MDE4/ODAtMTM0NDk3Njcy/Ni05MDAxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
(https://i.discogs.com/odt1zRopUH5U_5wYMAVbhWr3vCEpKFgO7rSR_QeAMXM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyMjc4/ODYtMTM5MDI2Mjg5/NS04Mzg4LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/usGh_c_mFS1N4J2scHaz7qgH_xdr1PVXdLsk6asgsOU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:424/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyMjc4/ODYtMTYyMTA1NjU5/My02MjA3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 03, 2023, 08:54:10 AM
^ All great albums!
Winton Marsalis' tone  sometimes sounds like him.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 03, 2023, 01:40:23 PM
Wishing On The Moon by Denny Zeitlin- pianist, psychiatrist, and professor.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 04, 2023, 01:41:26 PM
Bugge Wesseltoft: New Conception Of Jazz


(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4587/cover_4220129112015_r.jpg)


This album offers, for me, a different take in terms of the concept of fusion. I find it to be both interesting and challenging. It does have its fair share of exciting episodes throughout the album. However, I find it to be too electronic based for my taste. It is certainly an innovative album in terms of its concept, approach and execution.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 05, 2023, 01:17:33 PM
This livestream (5PM Boston time) of my two friends, Peter H Bloom & Jn Funkhouser, a program dubbed Exuberant Ellingtonia:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 05, 2023, 01:24:25 PM
Charlie Parker At The Finale Club.


(https://cdn1.dustygroove.org/images/products/p/parker_char_charliepa_108b.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 05, 2023, 02:35:33 PM
Charlie Haden [with Hank Jones]: Come Sunday


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Today being Sunday this just felt appropriate as these songs are good Jazz renditions of standard Gospel songs. This is an album based around the playing of a piano player and a double bass player. Both musicians deliver excellent performances in a very well performed and recorded album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2023, 04:33:34 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410HQJE6T0L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410Z65BJNTL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 05, 2023, 07:28:15 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2023, 04:33:34 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410HQJE6T0L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410Z65BJNTL.jpg)

Love the recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 06, 2023, 10:45:01 AM
Yesterday afternoon, just a few hours before she won Best New Artist at the Grammys, Samara Joy gave this performance of "Can't Get Out of This Mood." Seriously, she is destined for stardom.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on February 06, 2023, 02:31:15 PM
Miles, Birth of the Cool.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on February 06, 2023, 04:33:53 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2023, 04:33:34 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410HQJE6T0L.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410Z65BJNTL.jpg)

Don't think I realized Miles ever recorded for BN. What do you think?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2023, 06:47:10 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on February 06, 2023, 04:33:53 PMDon't think I realized Miles ever recorded for BN. What do you think?


Sideman gig, but doesn't sound like a sideman.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2023, 06:48:51 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 06, 2023, 02:31:15 PMMiles, Birth of the Cool.

Karl, I have a feeling that you may like his "Siesta."


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 07, 2023, 01:26:24 PM
Herbie.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 08, 2023, 01:47:38 PM
Rollins.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 08, 2023, 06:35:36 PM
After Samara Joy's version of this classic, I wanted to revisit another favorite version (there are quite a few), by Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer, from her 1982 album Experiment in White. It still holds up magnificently.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 09, 2023, 01:40:05 PM
RIP Burt Bacharach - my favorite composer.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 09, 2023, 02:55:33 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 09, 2023, 01:40:05 PMRIP Burt Bacharach - my favorite composer.



Any deep cuts or hidden gems in his songwriting catalog you'd recommend?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 09, 2023, 04:01:07 PM
I like Promises Promises and You'll Never Get to Heaven, sung by Dionne Warwick. Still I personally think Close To You is his best composition. Also I like the albums below.





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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 09, 2023, 04:04:15 PM
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I like this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 09, 2023, 04:15:19 PM
Quote from: George on February 09, 2023, 04:04:15 PM(https://cdn-5f7e6584c1ac190fbc5797e3.closte.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AR-ECBBcover450.jpg)

I like this one.

Nice recording!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 11, 2023, 02:18:19 PM
Jackie McLean - 4, 5 and 6.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 11, 2023, 03:54:17 PM
Jeff Greinke: Scenes From A Train


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This is fundamentally a Jazz based album but it is wonderfully infused with a little classical music vibe and an electronic music element. It is a wonderful fusion that works very well for me. I found it to be a very atmospheric, engaging and interesting listen. I had no knowledge of Greinke prior to hearing this.  It is a wonderful and full sounding album. I would certainly be interested in hearing more of his music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on February 13, 2023, 02:46:08 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 11, 2023, 02:18:19 PMJackie McLean - 4, 5 and 6.


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Wow, what a band he's got on that one. Would you recommend?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 13, 2023, 06:36:33 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on February 13, 2023, 02:46:08 AMWow, what a band he's got on that one. Would you recommend?

Yes, the album and his Swing, Swang, Swingin are fun music. Some songs are in quartet format, some are in quintet, and others in sextet, thereby the album title. His later recordings like Vertigo, A Fickle Sonance, Demons Dance are sharper  and nice too.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 13, 2023, 08:32:17 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/sjpynsxuBIlMgzQkK-u7W2s0RSzPlEkzdkTf0W00fMw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:530/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzMzEy/MDktMTU4MjU4MjE5/OC01MzIzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 13, 2023, 01:38:05 PM
(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/42717-large_default/introducing-johnny-griffin.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 13, 2023, 02:28:47 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 13, 2023, 01:38:05 PM(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/42717-large_default/introducing-johnny-griffin.jpg)

Great album. Despite being one of the great Chicago players, due to his move to Europe I only ever saw him once, and that was at a jazzfest.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 13, 2023, 02:41:05 PM
Quote from: KevinP on February 13, 2023, 02:28:47 PMGreat album. Despite being one of the great Chicago players, due to his move to Europe I only ever saw him once, and that was at a jazzfest.

OMG, you saw him! That's great and I'm envious.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 13, 2023, 03:50:13 PM
I believe it was a Chicago sax reunion in the mid-80s featuring--I think--Griffin, Von Freeman, and Clifford Jordan. Memory's pretty hazy now.

I'm curious who was on piano since Chicago produced an equal number of fine pianists, though some (Ramsey Lewis and Ahmad Jamal) rarely did sidemen work. Best guess is Jodie Christian.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 14, 2023, 08:38:33 AM
SALENA JONES: THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 14, 2023, 01:09:56 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/The_Four_Brothers_Sound.jpg)

Jimmy Giuffre - The Four Brothers Sound (1959)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 15, 2023, 11:49:50 AM
Charles Mingus: Three or Four Shades of Blues


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This is a terrific album. It is filled with great music and music making. I like the overall tone of the album with its overall upbeat attitude and atmosphere.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 15, 2023, 01:52:28 PM
Quote from: aligreto on February 15, 2023, 11:49:50 AMCharles Mingus: Three or Four Shades of Blues


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This is a terrific album. It is filled with great music and music making. I like the overall tone of the album with its overall upbeat attitude and atmosphere.


Nice album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 15, 2023, 01:54:02 PM
Dolphy.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on February 16, 2023, 05:20:18 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 18, 2023, 03:01:33 PM
Eddie Gomez- Beautiful Love [With Billy Drummond & Yutaka Kobayashi]


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This album comprises terrific music and music making. There is a wonderful exciting atmosphere pervading the album which is enhanced by the many wonderful individual performances. When Di Meola features, he is excellent in his delivery as one would expect.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 24, 2023, 12:50:20 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71p3U8WXb7L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

Hadn't been aware of this Yazoo collection before now.

(can something be "forgotten" and a "classic" at the same time?)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 24, 2023, 02:54:41 PM
Doumka Clarinet Ensemble: Afar


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This is wonderfully atmospheric music. The interplay between all of the musicians is wonderful and the playing from all is terrific. The bass player, for me, is a particularly fine instrumentalist.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 24, 2023, 02:55:21 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 24, 2023, 12:50:20 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71p3U8WXb7L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

Hadn't been aware of this Yazoo collection before now.

(can something be "forgotten" and a "classic" at the same time?)



Interssting!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 24, 2023, 03:42:27 PM
Sonny's Crib - Sonny Clark.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 24, 2023, 10:29:39 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.369c585459189eb37ad6af4679839c6b?rik=%2bEkmFhNH138%2bBA&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 25, 2023, 01:17:21 AM
Pinky - Pinky Winters.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OAyXWdX1L._SX466_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2023, 12:25:12 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WgDedDlDL._AC_.jpg)

love the Basie Pablos
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 25, 2023, 02:04:03 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Unknown_Session.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Unknown Session (rec.1960, rel.1979)

Hadn't heard this before. A beautiful session, the forces stripped back to just a septet including Ray Nance, Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney

(the wikipedia page adds Paul Gonsalves, but he's not listed on the cd)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 25, 2023, 02:17:51 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 25, 2023, 02:04:03 PM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Unknown_Session.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Unknown Session (rec.1960, rel.1979)

Hadn't heard this before. A beautiful session, the forces stripped back to just a septet including Ray Nance, Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney

(the wikipedia page adds Paul Gonsalves, but he's not listed on the cd)

Nice!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 26, 2023, 01:18:57 AM
South, Minami Yasuda.


(https://merurido.jp/_images/front_image/500pix/KICJ2260.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 26, 2023, 05:03:25 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IerNv7ssL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 26, 2023, 03:04:56 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41hSd8NjtWL.jpg)

Took a punt on this at the secondhand store because I didn't know the performer but like the series.

And it turns out to be quite possibly the best I've heard in Riverside's New Orleans The Living Legends series. An instant favorite. Nothing flashy: clarinet with guitar and bass backing. But perfectly polished and the kind of music that makes the world seem a nicer place.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 26, 2023, 03:10:44 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 26, 2023, 03:04:56 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41hSd8NjtWL.jpg)

Took a punt on this at the secondhand store because I didn't know the performer but like the series.

And it turns out to be quite possibly the best I've heard in Riverside's New Orleans The Living Legends series. An instant favorite. Nothing flashy: clarinet with guitar and bass backing. But perfectly polished and the kind of music that makes the world seem a nicer place.

I don't know the series or performer. But it looks interesting and I will check.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 26, 2023, 03:22:07 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 26, 2023, 03:10:44 PMI don't know the series or performer. But it looks interesting and I will check.

Looking now I see that the wikipedia page for Riverside draws special attention to that series and, it surprises me, to the Cottrell album:

"In 1960–61 Riverside produced an acclaimed series of albums featuring jazz and blues veterans such as Jim Robinson, Sweet Emma Barrett and Alberta Hunter. The objective was to record musicians before their artistry was lost forever. Many were no longer active and their union memberships had expired. Recognizing the importance of the project, the American Federation of Musicians suspended the rules. This "Living Legends" series was initially recorded in New Orleans. Later sessions were recorded in Chicago. The sessions took place at Societé des Jeunes Amis Hall, built in the 1800s. According to the producer, Chris Albertson, the hall was a "Creole fraternal headquarters and it proved to have every advantage over a studio; apart from its live sound, it gave the performers familiar surroundings... The hall's acoustical sound was exactly what I wanted to recapture: the same kind of ambience that lent such character to Bill Russell's 1940s American Music recordings from San Jacinto Hall." One of the musicians invited to participate was Louis Cottrell, Jr.[5] Cottrell organized a trio comprising McNeal Breaux, Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau with Emanuel Sayles sitting in playing guitar and banjo. The band was so well received that they continued to play together. The music on this album has been described as "more polite and subtle than the city's 'downtown' music... an intimate, low-key delight."[6] Cottrell's playing has also been well received:

[In 1961] Cottrell recorded a masterwork, entitled New Orleans: The Living Legends, which was reissued in 1994. To hear it is to conjure up the elegance of a bygone era by a man who did much to create it. From the opening note on "Bourbon Street Parade," to the charming "Three Little Words," to the reverent "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," the listener is hearing the living history of jazz.[7]



I was going to add that the one I see around the most is Alberta Hunter's, but checking now I see that's in a sister series they did: Chicago The Living Legends

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.980655dae77bba23bd541aa58c2c5939?rik=zCO4hi3EQMGpqw&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 27, 2023, 05:54:57 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YaLy272nL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Todd on February 28, 2023, 09:38:31 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51nwAcZVmeL._UX425_FMwebp_QL85_.jpg)

Revisiting a favorite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on February 28, 2023, 02:47:34 PM
Chie Ayado: Natural


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hGSgUKqsL._AC_.jpg)


I like the voice and her delivery style. I also like the simple but effective presentation with very basic accompaniments. The atmosphere of the album is very chilled and relaxed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 28, 2023, 06:22:39 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51iJLwvjX2L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 28, 2023, 07:13:27 PM
Jason Clotter Quartet, live from Smalls in NYC. Musicians very good, ambience marvelous. (Silly chat not so much, with asinine jokes about the rug on the stage.)


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 01, 2023, 06:21:39 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 26, 2023, 03:04:56 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41hSd8NjtWL.jpg)

Took a punt on this at the secondhand store because I didn't know the performer but like the series.

And it turns out to be quite possibly the best I've heard in Riverside's New Orleans The Living Legends series. An instant favorite. Nothing flashy: clarinet with guitar and bass backing. But perfectly polished and the kind of music that makes the world seem a nicer place.

I've been collecting used copies of this series whenever they turn up, and this one is a particular favorite. It's the exact opposite of the super-lively, super-loud entries from folks like Albert Wynn and His Gutbucket Seven. (But I love those too.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 01, 2023, 12:19:35 PM
Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham- This Is Jazz (Live At The Blue Note)


(http://offbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/donald-harrison-ron-carter-and-billy-cobham-this-is-jazz-live-at-the-blue-note-half-note-records.jpg)


Excellent and very smooth music making! Terrific live energy and atmosphere. Great listen!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 01, 2023, 02:23:23 PM
Quote from: aligreto on March 01, 2023, 12:19:35 PMDonald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham- This Is Jazz (Live At The Blue Note)


(http://offbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/donald-harrison-ron-carter-and-billy-cobham-this-is-jazz-live-at-the-blue-note-half-note-records.jpg)


Excellent and very smooth music making! Terrific live energy and atmosphere. Great listen!


Pretty hard to go wrong with that line-up.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 01, 2023, 04:32:55 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61S1amSFPjL._SX425_.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Soul Call (1967)

Excellent concert of mostly less familiar pieces - including a couple from Such Sweet Thunder.

I'll be buying the 8cd "Côte d'Azur Concerts", which includes these selections,  if I ever see it around.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 02, 2023, 12:29:05 AM
Paul Chambers Quintet.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41VUqxd-2tL._AC_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 02, 2023, 08:14:48 AM
In memory of Wayne Shorter, who has died at age 89, listening to his white-hot solo on "Free for All": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBLA39spc4

One of my favorite jazz solos of all time and maybe the most intense of the hard bop era.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 02, 2023, 01:24:38 PM
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RTWKj1EDL._AC_SL1400_.jpg)


Tight and cool! Wonderful stuff!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 02, 2023, 04:02:26 PM
RIP Wayne Shorter.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 03, 2023, 02:53:30 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.DbEysr3ocu87bynmaglNxAHaHV?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 03, 2023, 10:24:27 PM
Wayning Moments - Wayne Shorter.


(https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/cf/bb/6e/cfbb6e8b-4a50-2aab-6610-6ae39bf16ece/00829410757171.rgb.jpg/632x632bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 04, 2023, 12:39:13 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Wbt-R+EHL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on March 04, 2023, 03:25:18 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QHkHYl0RL._SL1050_.jpg)

I bought this knowing Barry Harris only as a sideman, but trusting that Sam Jones and Louis Hayes are a mark of quality. It's a great trio album, everyone is in a good mellow groove, and I think I need to learn more about Harris and the rest of his discography.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on March 04, 2023, 06:36:40 PM
Mark Stryker, the excellent Detroit-based journalist, wrote this appreciation of Barry Harris including playlist with audio/video clips:

https://ethaniverson.com/2021/12/10/mark-strykers-barry-harris-playlist/

I should have just posted this rather than the above.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Keemun on March 04, 2023, 08:03:10 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71LQ34+Jj+L._SL1061_.jpg)

It's been a long time since I listened this.  I saw it while scrolling through my Spotify albums and thought, why not?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 05, 2023, 12:33:15 AM
Quote from: aligreto on March 02, 2023, 01:24:38 PMSonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RTWKj1EDL._AC_SL1400_.jpg)


Tight and cool! Wonderful stuff!


Yes great album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 07, 2023, 03:31:04 PM
Freddie Hubbard + Wayne Shorter: Nostrand and Fulton.
Nice, modal, composition with 4/4, 3/4, 5/4 measures.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 08, 2023, 10:15:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51820rIFrBL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

followed by:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HMnGWZCAL._SX425_.jpg)

disc three
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 09, 2023, 01:06:57 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 08, 2023, 10:15:32 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51820rIFrBL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

followed by:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HMnGWZCAL._SX425_.jpg)

disc three

I think Basie was under a bad/unfair contract with Decca and John Hammond, entrepreneur and civil rights activist, helped him to get out of Decca. Something like that. My memory is not quite sharp. Still good recording though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 09, 2023, 01:27:53 AM
Lee Morgan + Wayne Shorter: Trapped.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 09, 2023, 02:30:21 PM
Bugge Wesseltoft: Songs


(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4123429140_10.jpg)


A simple and relaxed session of solo piano playing with nothing too taxing in the playing and the harmonies employed are particularly wonderful.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: aligreto on March 10, 2023, 03:30:40 PM
John Taylor: Whirlpool


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61oRPjiJDaL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)


Very smooth and relaxing piano trio Jazz playing. Piano, bass and drums constitute the lineup. The musicians, both individually and collectively, are excellent.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 11, 2023, 01:39:29 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 09, 2023, 01:06:57 AMI think Basie was under a bad/unfair contract with Decca and John Hammond, entrepreneur and civil rights activist, helped him to get out of Decca. Something like that. My memory is not quite sharp. Still good recording though.

The Deccas are wonderful sides, right up there with the Columbias.

And I love Gene Ammons (re: SimonNZ's post). He's one of those names that everybody knows, but he doesn't get the airplay he deserves.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 12, 2023, 08:56:58 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Second_Genesis_VeeJay.jpg/220px-Second_Genesis_VeeJay.jpg)

Damn, what a great album. And Art Blakey on fire!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 13, 2023, 12:01:32 AM
^ Yes vg music!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on March 15, 2023, 05:35:47 PM
Watching the Clovis Nicolas Quartet, live from Smalls in NYC. Excellent. On a related note, I made a small contribution to help fund his latest recording, The Contrapuntist.

Clovis Nicolas / Bass
Jeremy Pelt / Trumpet
Adam Birnbaum / Piano
Bill Stewart / Drums


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on March 16, 2023, 06:18:25 PM
Fifty: The Manhattan Transfer with the WDR Funkhausorkester - Released last fall, this album—presumably their last one—comes ahead of their final tour. Hard to believe this group has been around for 50 years. For jazz vocals, they remain in a class of their own. Nice to hear them with an enormous band.

(https://manhattantransfer.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ManhattanTransfer-FiftyCover-Rev7-1b-scaled.jpeg)

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2023, 01:01:36 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Afro-Bossa.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 19, 2023, 06:16:59 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/The_Soothsayer.jpg/220px-The_Soothsayer.jpg)

Was waiting to hear "Valse Triste" and then the album ended. had to go back and realize it was more of a subtle nod. Shorter could probably have given the track his own title and his own writing credit and maybe a handful of sharp listeners might have spoken of "echoes of Sibelius".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 20, 2023, 11:06:29 AM
Smokin' at the Half Note - Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly.


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/ae/93/73/ae93732d-9d09-ac62-8dba-863fb24c94a0/00602547806666.rgb.jpg/632x632bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 21, 2023, 10:31:33 AM
The Malcolm X Jazz Suite - Terence Blanchard.


(https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/2d/ba/c1/mzi.oasivypt.jpg/600x600bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on March 22, 2023, 09:26:27 AM
Today

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81RK2vZHLpL._SX522_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41aTC0q1KfL.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31AtHXMUTbL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on March 22, 2023, 03:50:07 PM
Clarence Williams: Cushion Foot Stomp (by Tuba Skinny, recorded January 2023 at d.b.a., New Orleans)


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on March 22, 2023, 05:14:12 PM
Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra: You Can Have It - Schuur in her prime, sailing effortlessly over the glorious ensemble.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 23, 2023, 11:49:07 AM
Jazz Workshop Revisited - Cannonball Adderley.


(https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music4/v4/c9/f4/d5/c9f4d526-da2e-eccb-9b32-bfd20f6fd664/00724352944156.tif/632x632bf.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 24, 2023, 04:27:59 PM
Wynton Marsalis, Who Can I Turn To. Herbie Hancock is killing.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 25, 2023, 04:47:24 PM
Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby. Newport Jazz Festival 1986.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on April 02, 2023, 03:58:25 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Oliver-Nelson-Soul-Battle-405193.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 11, 2023, 07:25:35 PM
Bill Evans - Re: Person I Knew.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/V67Z0I8asVDbup-YX3XefogVRFRZFPTCs6Cd4ani4iJtq5mRV7_7QyqIETefE7XLieTMGSpeP4emvyw=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 12, 2023, 08:01:05 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/81CQkYQw4zL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

A track called "Kerouac"? From 1941? Can that be right?

Apparently so:

"Of Charlie Christian's work at Minton's only a handful of samples survive: "Swing to Bop," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Up on Teddy's Hill," "Stardust," "Kerouac," "Guy's Got to Go," and "Lips Flips." They are stellar documents, lively, graceful, raw, bristling with the energy of the uncharted. They exist because of Jerry Newman, a trombone-playing Columbia student, who hauled a Wilcox-Gay Recordio disc-cutter over to Minton's to record the jam sessions. (Jerry Newman and Jack Kerouac were pals according to Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac accompanied Newman to Minton's when Kerouac was still a football-jock Columbia student. Charlie Christian named one of his tunes "Kerouac.")"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on April 21, 2023, 04:00:05 PM
Live from Smalls in NYC, the Sasha Berliner Quartet, doing stellar work so far.

Sasha Berliner / Vibraphone
Mike King / Piano
Russell Hall / Bass
Timothy Angulo / Drums


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 21, 2023, 04:11:32 PM
First-Listen Fridays!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 21, 2023, 06:44:26 PM
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/v24jg-xUueUZ_aXbGWGfGq_ZRuxVOf09LSwxVIpYng-Db7nen3G3AdgtMdWKnI8LRkAaZUado1hqsF5Neg=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 22, 2023, 07:48:29 AM
Rip Rig & Panic
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 22, 2023, 01:41:50 PM
McCoy, Nights Of Ballads & Blues.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fhCUGIeDnDY6y4kWzUZNa1phQ2NN_9Xw9bOR3glufe75SZFZcePUaCPctMWOAvTUAoLROYq_y8CiFSQ=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 23, 2023, 07:50:51 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/The_Magnificent_Thad_Jones.jpg/220px-The_Magnificent_Thad_Jones.jpg)

and later:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Detroit-New_York_Junction.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on April 25, 2023, 10:49:52 AM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on April 25, 2023, 01:41:32 PM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 27, 2023, 09:36:42 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Historically_Speaking_%28Duke_Ellington_album%29.jpg)

Duke Ellington - Historically Speaking (1956)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on April 28, 2023, 06:51:05 AM
This is the freshest stuff I have heard in quite a while, DOMi is a monster keyboardist - the bass here is her pedal work

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on April 29, 2023, 06:12:04 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/517QulzWnxL._AC_SX450_.jpg)

So many unfamiliar names mixed into this bargain box that I decided to take a punt on it, though its frustrating to have no notes or any other information.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on April 30, 2023, 02:51:14 PM
Ray Barretto Orchestra – Latino!.


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27374fae683915ec21f3be9b850)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on May 01, 2023, 12:35:41 PM
Great new jazz / afrobeat band

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 01, 2023, 11:58:35 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Duke_Ellington_Presents.jpg)

1956
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 05, 2023, 02:32:09 PM
The Phil Woods Quintet – Heaven.



(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41RpxkMHTHL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 07, 2023, 05:19:18 AM
Ready for Freddie. Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, etc..




(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6j099AgLo22LE_c2LHETJBmGHudtfwIU6T1TyesbiCef2kqM_iDlsIn7jNUZ1eFYOq2WMst6sStkKuU5=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 08, 2023, 05:08:26 AM
The Modern Touch - Benny Golson.
Max Roach on drums. I wonder why his name is not on the cover.



(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/phy2Pro3vFpvJO7YMQS-5bymUaP702P1sFd3iaM0JwBbAjlgKHd7k1qpmbM8_I-5d_cliJwiFzLVIlq7=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 08, 2023, 05:11:06 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QrsUZqCaL._SY445_.jpg)

Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day Live dvd

Having not seen him play before I hadn't previously known it was this weird-ass 42-string "Pikasso" guitar-harp thing that made so many of his distinctive sounds.

(https://downbeat.com/images/news/_full/3481_Pat_Metheny.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: toledobass on May 08, 2023, 07:53:16 PM
I recorded a podcast episode with Reuben Rodgers last week and have been enjoying listening to his playing.

Here's a performance from 2017 with the Joshua Redman Trio.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 09, 2023, 01:22:12 PM
On Route 66. Joe Carroll with Grant Green.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 12, 2023, 07:08:52 AM
Blues And The Abstract Truth · Oliver Nelson featuring Phil Woods.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Peter Power Pop on May 12, 2023, 11:33:48 PM
A 6-CD set from 2001 simply titled Jazz.

It contains 2- to 3-minute jazz tracks that were popular on the charts in the 1940s and '50s.

(https://i.postimg.cc/d1FRGZ7g/Jazz-2001-Front.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/B6CTpZHb/Jazz-2001-Back.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/PJrmRGQ4/Jazz-2001-Inside.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 15, 2023, 06:40:10 PM
Ella.


(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c70444f7df808f39c81784f4)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on May 16, 2023, 01:30:42 PM
Hat-tip to @SurprisedByBeauty
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 19, 2023, 02:56:06 PM
(https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/08/19/001c1908.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 19, 2023, 03:19:52 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/513U0GBnMkL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

My once a decade listen to this.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 19, 2023, 03:25:57 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on May 19, 2023, 03:19:52 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/513U0GBnMkL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

My once a decade listen to this.

I bought it when it came out and not sure I've listened to it since.

His 80s output are enjoying a minor reappraisal. I should probably blow the dust off some of those titles.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on May 19, 2023, 03:38:49 PM
Quote from: KevinP on May 19, 2023, 03:25:57 PMI bought it when it came out and not sure I've listened to it since.

His 80s output are enjoying a minor reappraisal. I should probably blow the dust off some of those titles.

I've probably said it before on this thread, but Tutu remains my favorite of the 80s. The Marcus Miller production may be very firmly of its time, but Miles is really playing and playing on that one, rather than just contributing a few splashes of colour.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 20, 2023, 02:45:14 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51c+I1ldeuL.jpg)

Debatable which thread I should put this in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 21, 2023, 04:33:59 PM
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.xo6Ops9rODMQ8t7O2nWk2gAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=c8894f346295fe891a7bfc52531fcbee65573cb81b3319fd6554691fc781b447&ipo=images)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 24, 2023, 04:32:57 PM
A Fickle Sonance - Jackie McLean.


(https://i.discogs.com/RQ65pd8Q5aMcI3BIlVSECUwky2PxOTG5nztL1eobcJI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:565/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY0MTk4/OTgtMTQxODc1NjU1/My00NDE5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on May 25, 2023, 10:02:02 AM

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on May 25, 2023, 07:34:35 PM
R.I.P. Bill Lee.
This is a really outstanding album (IMO). I prefer the version of Coltrane on this recording to the more famous one on Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games (also on Strata-East).

(https://i.discogs.com/b_WEb_0ltsr1DTTPrWNAw_r_ztuczGH-UYA2-Degs04/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwODMz/NTI1LTE1MDUwNTM3/NjgtNTYxOS5qcGVn.jpeg) (https://i.discogs.com/HN-XQXknRlQtQlDHNHEBiqKvGDn217x6-Abesss2o1U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMDY1/ODE3LTE1MjQxNDA1/NTUtNDIyOS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 26, 2023, 04:15:00 PM
Louis Hayes - Woody Shaw Quintet, Lausanne 1977.


(https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/a7/15/a8/mzi.kxmkwjvb.tif/632x632bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 28, 2023, 01:59:43 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/615qj+dDiTL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 28, 2023, 06:18:55 PM
Freddie Hubbard: Skylark.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on May 30, 2023, 06:00:31 PM
Freddie Hubbard - For Spee's Sake.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 31, 2023, 01:19:40 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41jttzyTCXL._SX425_.jpg)

Been a while, but this album is an old friend. Includes a re-recording of Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite. You miss Bird of course, but you get nice modern sound.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on May 31, 2023, 03:51:50 PM
And by extension:

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YYDWF2SJL.jpg)

This is my favourite piece by him, a short little piece with no improvisation, just three delicately orchestrated choruses (in C minor, then transformed to C major, and finally in Eb).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhm7pWaIiU
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 04, 2023, 06:27:30 AM
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section. Art Pepper, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cKeO378J8qZANKo5Weho0YJZ71aqOmk1c9KUC3UXlTWotgk5EkRgckRP4PZz6OXHbLKagUSLOro9hcLq1g=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 04, 2023, 02:14:45 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81D+0+hKv3L._SX425_.jpg)

This four or five times on repeat last night.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 05, 2023, 06:21:38 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 04, 2023, 02:14:45 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81D+0+hKv3L._SX425_.jpg)

This four or five times on repeat last night.


Good album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 06, 2023, 04:44:51 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71YK810lbsL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 08, 2023, 04:03:21 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515smACw8hL._SY300_SX300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

I'd flicked past this a few times in the cd store, thinking it was just another cheapo repackaging of familiar recordings from Columbia, three discs cleverly put into a single case with no notes at all. But luckily I looked closer and found it had an unusually large number of titles I hadn't heard of.

A lot of googling and cross-checking at home after purchase reveals that it is the 30s Brunswick recordings that Columbia have the rights to, not to be confused with the late 20s ones that Decca own. But Columbia, it seems, have no rights to the Brunswick branding, or even mention of the name. Which might be why they've seemingly never made a cd package of them similar to their "The Okeh Ellington". Pity they couldn't have found some way of hinting at that in the title.

And even by the high standards of the Ellington orchestra of this time this is really great stuff.

Grab it if you see it. (If you've got deeper pockets that me it looks like these recordings are also part of a 12cd Mosaic box)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 09, 2023, 06:14:26 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 08, 2023, 04:03:21 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515smACw8hL._SY300_SX300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

I'd flicked past this a few times in the cd store, thinking it was just another cheapo repackaging of familiar recordings from Columbia, three discs cleverly put into a single case with no notes at all. But luckily I looked closer and found it had an unusually large number of titles I hadn't heard of.

A lot of googling and cross-checking at home after purchase reveals that it is the 30s Brunswick recordings that Columbia have the rights to, not to be confused with the late 20s ones that Decca own. But Columbia, it seems, have no rights to the Brunswick branding, or even mention of the name. Which might be why they've seemingly never made a cd package of them similar to their "The Okeh Ellington". Pity they couldn't have found some way of hinting at that in the title.

And even by the high standards of the Ellington orchestra of this time this is really great stuff.

Grab it if you see it. (If you've got deeper pockets that me it looks like these recordings are also part of a 12cd Mosaic box)

Thanks for the heads up. This will fill a gap in my Duke collection.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on June 09, 2023, 12:59:22 PM
I've been in a Miles mood lately.  Started out listening to the Second Quintet's albums, then went on to these live releases:

Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West was recorded on April 10, 1970, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, shortly after the release of the trumpeter's Bitches Brew album and the recording of Jack Johnson (1971).

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Black_Beauty_Miles_Davis_at_Fillmore_West.jpg)

Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East
Miles Davis at Fillmore was recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City on four consecutive days, June 17 through June 20, 1970, originally released as a double vinyl LP. The performances featured the double keyboard set-up Davis toured with for a few months, with Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea playing electronic organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano, respectively.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Miles_Davis-At_Fillmore-cbs.jpg)

In Concert
In Concert is a live double album, recorded in 1972 at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City. Columbia Records' original release did not credit any personnel, recording date, or track listing, apart from the inner liner listing the two titles "Foot Fooler" and "Slickaphonics".

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/In_Concert_-_Miles_Davis.jpg)

Dark Magus
Dark Magus was recorded on March 30, 1974, at Carnegie Hall in New York City, during the electric period in the musician's career. Davis' group at the time of the concert included bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist Mtume, saxophonist Dave Liebman, and guitarists Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. He also used the show to audition saxophonist Azar Lawrence and guitarist Dominique Gaumont. Dark Magus was produced by Teo Macero and featured four two-part recordings with titles from the Swahili words for the numbers one through four.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/MilesDavis_DarkMagus.jpg)

And this, among my favorites of his electric eriod:

Live-Evil
Live-Evil is an album of both live and studio recordings. Parts of the album featured music from Davis' concert at the Cellar Door in 1970, which producer Teo Macero subsequently edited and pieced together in the studio. They were performed as lengthy, dense jams in the jazz-rock style, while the studio recordings consisted mostly of renditions of Hermeto Pascoal compositions. The album was originally released on November 17, 1971.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Miles_Davis_Live-Evil.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 09, 2023, 04:14:55 PM
Quote from: San Antone on June 09, 2023, 12:59:22 PMAnd this, among my favorites of his electric period:

Live-Evil
Live-Evil is an album of both live and studio recordings. Parts of the album featured music from Davis' concert at the Cellar Door in 1970, which producer Teo Macero subsequently edited and pieced together in the studio. They were performed as lengthy, dense jams in the jazz-rock style, while the studio recordings consisted mostly of renditions of Hermeto Pascoal compositions. The album was originally released on November 17, 1971.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Miles_Davis_Live-Evil.jpg)

Among my favorites from that period too!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 10, 2023, 10:56:35 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5102FSk3e0L.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51G3h0d-5sL.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bN+bJh69L._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 12, 2023, 03:00:47 PM
Gil Evans: New Bottle Old Wine.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ST1hajElV-7DLXyOuAtMla-lKrwcEXPE0IeVStxll0TL-YWhh_-CwNAOyJC52kL5_FS592MJBMp4NthL=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 13, 2023, 02:38:55 AM
I bought that album when it was first released on CD (87ish). I'm not sure I've listened to it so much as five times, but oddly enough, I just listened to it last week.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 17, 2023, 02:41:01 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xrjRv7xRL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 17, 2023, 11:33:16 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Born_to_Be_Blue.jpg)

1982
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 18, 2023, 02:06:02 PM
Jimmy Smith. Groovin' At Smalls Paradise.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vLLrF6DXL._SX522_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 18, 2023, 10:36:27 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51uUAh3AlPL._SY355_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on June 19, 2023, 02:13:04 AM
(https://img.usaudiomart.com/uploads/large/4509495-1f78576f-patricia-barber-clique-sacd-shipping-included.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 19, 2023, 06:22:13 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sLveEgs1L._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 19, 2023, 02:10:33 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/ckyY0_H7POrxGX7nXZCtgai5Ci8-0w5nuVlRp4fkY8s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:448/w:449/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM1NTk2/MjYtMTMzNTI2ODI2/OC5qcGVn.jpeg)

I recently acquired this obscurity on a whim (it was cheap), but am really enjoying it! The pianist is strongly influenced by Bill Evans. Mix of trio and quintet tracks. Rubén Barbieri (Gato's brother) plays trumpet in the quintet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 19, 2023, 05:40:44 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/It%27s_Timeless.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 20, 2023, 08:57:33 AM
Birthday Boy:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 21, 2023, 02:57:56 PM
Roy Hargrove: The Vibe.


(https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/86/d3/65/86d365a4-fd7b-8844-1e52-387183cdfc17/035629066823.jpg/1200x1200bf-60.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on June 23, 2023, 08:38:11 AM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on June 24, 2023, 07:38:39 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on June 08, 2023, 04:03:21 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515smACw8hL._SY300_SX300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

I'd flicked past this a few times in the cd store, thinking it was just another cheapo repackaging of familiar recordings from Columbia, three discs cleverly put into a single case with no notes at all. But luckily I looked closer and found it had an unusually large number of titles I hadn't heard of.

A lot of googling and cross-checking at home after purchase reveals that it is the 30s Brunswick recordings that Columbia have the rights to, not to be confused with the late 20s ones that Decca own. But Columbia, it seems, have no rights to the Brunswick branding, or even mention of the name. Which might be why they've seemingly never made a cd package of them similar to their "The Okeh Ellington". Pity they couldn't have found some way of hinting at that in the title.

And even by the high standards of the Ellington orchestra of this time this is really great stuff.

Grab it if you see it. (If you've got deeper pockets that me it looks like these recordings are also part of a 12cd Mosaic box)

Quote from: George on June 09, 2023, 06:14:26 AMThanks for the heads up. This will fill a gap in my Duke collection.

And I have reeled that baby in, thanks!

Tangentially, TD:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 24, 2023, 07:57:38 AM
I've gotten interested in British jazz and recently picked up this excellent collection (from Squidco, a US vendor):

https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/alan-skidmore-a-supreme-love-6xcd-box-set-twenty-page-booklet

(https://i.discogs.com/0kI1Si2Z9Yrk4aEptmYHelunaCAP_uqZuVM4dj_BNEo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:588/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2OTcy/Nzg5LTE2ODQ2ODAz/MTMtOTk4MS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on June 25, 2023, 04:44:21 AM
A Jim Hall Sunday. I love jazz guitar.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DupGxgWlL.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pzaxhqkDL._SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZUUg+zE1L._SY300_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 26, 2023, 03:00:07 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41iqNTwKr3L._SL1500_.jpg)

An album I always want to like more than I actually do when I listen to it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on June 26, 2023, 12:00:56 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/-UVFojtDTErx6C_zYjLpTKj_NgLk181n0WLHjRAK3Ho/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMTcx/ODgzLTE2MzgyMjYw/NjMtMTA2NC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba (2021): "Skyline"
#3:"Silver Hollow"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 27, 2023, 06:25:00 AM
Bird at St. Nick's.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZdjTGJbJYCP9iDkM6HT8oZ682VXxfOLiHDfRo6o6R6mp6rxwpj0u1_x6Y0SbVkV4IZJeU94Lbx_Xvsvs=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 28, 2023, 02:25:34 PM
Bud Powell: 1962 Copenhagen.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TFbMD6j0aJNH35SNVo5mLDvuGhVHqTrderknZ-6L6jj38_2VJOeI6VNvMCasezI6X4PdN2GMWJyhW2N_=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 29, 2023, 02:24:08 AM
(https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=QJKrnNRIYuimSW4pEonsyJhUoDg0hsvx4F4sL4oO-nA=&f=4)

Via the complete Mosaic box
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 29, 2023, 02:41:00 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/7b/e4/0f7be440d3ec77822af2f444747621f0.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on June 29, 2023, 03:02:53 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/Ii-B6fx9efDP9OBMz-yWqj-xnXU_vU5GHctHUU4uHSY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:512/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2OTA5/NzA0LTE2MTA1NTAx/MDYtMTM5NC5wbmc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/GeZ5ZQ8DnypGwuFnZiKhWUEET_CCBPddNDY7-xDxweE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:503/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2OTA5/NzA0LTE2MTA1NDk5/MzctOTc3Ny5wbmc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 29, 2023, 03:05:23 PM
Byrd.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BDywowWLtHgHCM-W2c5td1qmAZqTBfVNKpDFf9OZXxV2OXMT2hN4K8ZaAyFQyP5wkgDDyQiIyOw5qQJ7=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 29, 2023, 06:35:35 PM
I discovered this fascinating YouTube channel, and it's definitely got me digging up all my old Gil Evans albums.

https://www.youtube.com/@gilevansinsideout

Very focused, very detailed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on June 30, 2023, 12:15:09 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51E3KQP+iUL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

I like this album a lot. In a way it reminds me of Miles Davis' electric period, but it's not electric and it's from 1967.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on June 30, 2023, 01:44:56 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41CEQMBGSPL.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 01, 2023, 01:37:53 PM
Dolphy in Illinois.


(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NNmxaUHrUI6Kzwybq5wpQdJYHAg-RgJB75PAnLL7EaKvZ4NeGJSqZDBYBBDkCiHQj9IFDv-jRGqm22mf=w544-h544-l90-rj)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on July 01, 2023, 09:08:10 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 29, 2023, 03:05:23 PMByrd.

One of my favorite jazz disks. The sound, the playing, the tunes. Everything is top notch.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on July 01, 2023, 09:10:36 PM
Quote from: KevinP on June 30, 2023, 12:15:09 AMI like this album a lot. In a way it reminds me of Miles Davis' electric period, but it's not electric and it's from 1967.
I am a big fan of Bill Dixon. His records on the Italian Soul Note label are really great if you are into that free side of jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 02, 2023, 06:00:53 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51AwhCEfVKL._SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)

Going round and round while I was reading last night.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on July 02, 2023, 11:03:50 PM
Frank Morgan
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 03, 2023, 05:07:14 AM
Quote from: Artem on July 01, 2023, 09:10:36 PMI am a big fan of Bill Dixon. His records on the Italian Soul Note label are really great if you are into that free side of jazz.

Yep. I have his complete Soul Note box set. His is one of my favourites from that series.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on July 04, 2023, 03:31:24 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/VKKENlbTp2zD2XmFj_csEQCQRZ0hIVGj4MaXKb00cZs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUwNzMy/NjktMTQzOTQ0NDY4/MS03NzUxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Patricia Barber: "Verse" (2005 reissue)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 06, 2023, 04:55:45 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 06, 2023, 06:47:59 PM
Although a solo jazz album isn't particularly surprising, Clark Terry is someone who shows up in the darndest places.

I mean, there's a Junior Welles LP in which Terry plays in the trumpet section. No 'Featuring the Great Clark Terry' hype sticker or anything, just a name listed without comment on the cover credits.

He also appears on some Wilson Pickett dates, and also Barbara Lewis, Ray Charles, Lighnin' Hopkins and Mahalia Jackson.

I know I've seen his name on a track on a funk compilation I have, though I can't access it now and allmusic doesn't show anything. Will check later.

He's also on a Simon Rattle CD, though it's called 'American Music,' which isn't that odd, but he sure did get around.

(Not to mention that he lived a long live and you'd have a hard time naming jazz greats he didn't record alongside.)

Alas, I never saw him perform live.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 06, 2023, 10:57:02 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51qtHZtLBwL._UF894,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

Bit of a blind spot. Everything I've had by him was an incidental purchase (Bird with the Herd or various big band compilations), some going back decades.

Digging it if not quite blown away.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 08, 2023, 12:44:58 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/710cbTmJdrL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

Another big band, another blind spot.

If you accused me of having a blind spot regarding white jazz musicians, I might have a hard time defending myself.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 09, 2023, 06:23:36 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/610A5yRdjML._UX250_FMwebp_QL85_.jpg)

Cal Tjader - Concert By The Sea Vol.1

Including the original recording of "Afro Blue", which I heard for the first time on the radio yesterday.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 13, 2023, 07:54:39 AM
Irreversible Entanglements: Nuclear War (by Sun Ra) - Hearing this group live on Monday, doing a little homework beforehand. This was recorded live in June 2022 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.



-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 13, 2023, 09:08:39 AM
Diane Schuur: Pure Schuur (1991). A great album that always says "summer" to me.

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on July 13, 2023, 11:47:00 AM
Quote from: brewski on July 13, 2023, 07:54:39 AMIrreversible Entanglements: Nuclear War (by Sun Ra) - Hearing this group live on Monday, doing a little homework beforehand. This was recorded live in June 2022 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.



-Bruce

Awesome! Must compare this with the original (from a re-issue I have):

https://sunra-mh.bandcamp.com/track/nuclear-war-1

[Added] Excellent Frank Strozier on this one. It's a better album than Haynes's Cymbalism IMO.

(https://i.discogs.com/RihRrkKqxkWbJsD1407kC1lbuL_kFINHDbt0dudEWhI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwOTM0/OTg1LTE1NjY2NjM2/NzUtNDQ2NS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 13, 2023, 01:52:39 PM
Bird and Chet.


(https://i9.ytimg.com/s_p/OLAK5uy_m0HUUrDMjuLIRNBElQSrJqEuhkHATt77w/sddefault.jpg?sqp=CIjjwaUGir7X7AMGCJLnuqUG&rs=AOn4CLBvbo4FDqSIfUeApP1YFz7COK_w2g&v=1689170834)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 13, 2023, 05:33:37 PM
I've always been drawn to the Mass as a musical setting, and there are, surprisingly, a few versions in the jazz idiom, plus a few other liturgical settings. This one is a new discovery for me (I'm listening to it for the first time as I type), but so far I like it a lot.


I'm also working on one myself. As such I don't really want to listen to any, but I think this approach is sufficiently different enough to mine.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 13, 2023, 07:53:57 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81QzKyTi2GL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 14, 2023, 05:28:34 AM
My Baby Just Cares for Me: The Best of Nina Simone - Can never get enough of her voice.

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 14, 2023, 07:08:58 AM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 14, 2023, 10:37:43 AM
Of all the recordings by The Manhattan Transfer, this one is my favorite, recorded live in Tokyo in 1983, and later released on the Rhino label. The group were in their prime, for an enthusiastic audience of Japanese jazz lovers.

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 14, 2023, 11:54:52 AM
Quote from: brewski on July 14, 2023, 10:37:43 AMOf all the recordings by The Manhattan Transfer, this one is my favorite, recorded live in Tokyo in 1983, and later released on the Rhino label. The group were in their prime, for an enthusiastic audience of Japanese jazz lovers.

-Bruce

Huh. I'm a pretty big Manhattan Transfer fan, but I've never seen that one before.

Will check it out. Thanks
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 14, 2023, 01:51:33 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 14, 2023, 11:54:52 AMHuh. I'm a pretty big Manhattan Transfer fan, but I've never seen that one before.

Will check it out. Thanks

Rhino released it much later, in 1996, and since it's a small label, the release may have gone under the radar for many. (And glad you like the group!)

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 14, 2023, 03:20:53 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on July 14, 2023, 07:08:58 AM


I saw this last night and have to admit I was pretty impressed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Mookalafalas on July 16, 2023, 01:04:32 AM
Quote from: KevinP on July 14, 2023, 03:20:53 PMI saw this last night and have to admit I was pretty impressed.

  I watched it, too. I like when they all played at the end. Wonder how many modern stars have extra skill sets like this. I remember I toured a broadcasting museum years ago, in Chicago I think, and one of displays was a video of a bunch of Hollywood stars jamming together, kind of blue-grass style, on early television. None of them were people I associated, in my mind anyway, with music in any way, but they were all wailing on fiddles and banjoes, etc.  Kirk Douglas was particularly good...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 16, 2023, 01:53:43 AM
I guess we all wanted to hear some 'Suwannee River' before each song though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 16, 2023, 03:29:50 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Duke_Ellington_Indigos_LP.jpg)

Going around on repeat last night
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on July 17, 2023, 02:48:15 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/7ZYh3lwr9BvFOTz3Urti5i6Y0KItuEU4rX7WTUK5n5c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:218/w:246/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0MzE3/NTUwLTE1NzIxMDk4/MzctMzc2Ni5qcGVn.jpeg)
Jeff Denson (2019):"Between Two Worlds"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 17, 2023, 04:22:23 AM
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Post by: brewski on July 18, 2023, 05:47:33 AM
Last night, my first live jazz in Philadelphia (thanks to the pandemic), from Irreversible Entanglements (https://www.irreversibleentanglements.com/), at a relatively new (and great) venue called Solar Myth (https://solarmythbar.com/).

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 18, 2023, 04:20:50 PM

Heard this version of the Armstrong number on Arctic Outpost Radio yesterday. Will have to track down a cd or two by this New Orleans close harmony group.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 19, 2023, 01:12:46 PM
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Interesting. Never heard of the group.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 20, 2023, 12:33:04 PM
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Good listen. Pulse, drive and improvisation feed on each other with enthousiasm. Forceful pieces, always staying within it's own limit, alternate with slower pieces, without a dull moment. The music develops greatly and the arrangements are really wonderful and original.
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Post by: T. D. on July 20, 2023, 01:35:51 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/wlJVgUljy3LGJwEf4NjLXu50pgznOJVwg0bu29c03f4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk0NTQ2/OTEtMTY1NjEwNjk4/Mi0yNzU2LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/cURyAMzkMcXxGJJ3oYDPgV0l6AbiMEtASb3vfofu1G8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk0NTQ2/OTEtMTY1NjE3NDUy/MC02MTE3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Outstanding piano trio.
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Post by: T. D. on July 21, 2023, 09:28:15 AM
Quote from: brewski on July 18, 2023, 05:47:33 AMLast night, my first live jazz in Philadelphia (thanks to the pandemic), from Irreversible Entanglements (https://www.irreversibleentanglements.com/), at a relatively new (and great) venue called Solar Myth (https://solarmythbar.com/).

-Bruce

Wow, a real Ra fest! [Philadelphia, at a club called Solar Myth...I assume the band played Nuclear War (you recently posted a clip).... ;D ] Must have been outstanding.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on July 21, 2023, 09:46:03 AM
Quote from: T. D. on July 21, 2023, 09:28:15 AMWow, a real Ra fest! [Philadelphia, at a club called Solar Myth...I assume the band played Nuclear War (you recently posted a clip).... ;D ] Must have been outstanding.


Alas, no "Nuclear War," but basically three songs, lasting roughly 90 minutes without a break. (I still have to find out the setlist, since I'm not familiar enough with their output to identify.) But yes, outstanding. If I had already made plans, I might have gotten a ticket to the second night, with Marshall Allen (now 99 years old!) playing with the group. But that was sold out, no chance.

In any case, glad to have caught them, and the club is now on my radar. (It just opened last fall.)

PS, the venue is now run by Ars Nova Workshop, which presents jazz here, but they left the neon sign outside from Boot & Saddle, the previous venue. The sign is landmarked by the city, which I hope means it can't go anywhere. ;D

-Bruce
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Post by: T. D. on July 21, 2023, 10:25:50 AM
Quote from: brewski on July 21, 2023, 09:46:03 AM... If I had already made plans, I might have gotten a ticket to the second night, with Marshall Allen (now 99 years old!) playing with the group. But that was sold out, no chance.

That ticket would have been almost impossible to acquire, surely sold out long in advance. Marshall Allen is really amazing. From what I've heard (Internet anecdotes), the modern Arkestra shows are very enjoyable and definitely worth seeing.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 21, 2023, 10:30:46 AM
RIP Tony.


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music124/v4/d1/e3/1e/d1e31eb0-3ca3-8b84-f432-d5866f4bb12b/0077779389957_1500x1500_300dpi.jpg/632x632bb.webp)
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 22, 2023, 01:31:21 PM
Donald Byrd: Byrd's Word.


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Post by: brewski on July 23, 2023, 02:20:22 PM
For the birthday of jazz vocal great Janis Siegel (of The Manhattan Transfer), here she is last month at the Dergårdsteatern in Lerum, Sweden, with pianist Mattias Nilsson, in "Lucky to Be Me" from Bernstein's "On the Town." At 1:50, check out her evocation of a muted trumpet, among other delights.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 26, 2023, 01:49:17 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on July 26, 2023, 02:03:18 AM
Miles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 26, 2023, 02:52:49 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on July 26, 2023, 02:03:18 AMMiles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions

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Released 2007??

I've never seen this before

How is it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on July 26, 2023, 03:42:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on July 26, 2023, 02:52:49 AMReleased 2007??

I've never seen this before

How is it?

If you like electric Miles from In a Silent Way era to semi-retirement in the mid-70s, this is a very good collection of about 6 hours worth of recordings included on several albums like On the Corner, Big Fun, Get Up with It plus some amount of never-released material. Of similar sets released in recent times, I like this one and The Cellar Door Sessions the best. For those who aren't going to delve into multi-disc editions I can recommend Get Up with It. But, one have to consider that the Get Up with It tracks sound better in this set.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on July 26, 2023, 04:51:56 AM
I think it's the only metal spine box of Davis' that wasn't re-released in a long box. I don't have it either.

Best cover art of the series.

(EDIT: My praise of the cover art is not in reference to the art depicted above, which is good but doesn't wow you the way the metal sleeve does.)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 26, 2023, 03:18:09 PM
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Post by: JBS on July 26, 2023, 03:36:50 PM
Quote from: KevinP on July 26, 2023, 04:51:56 AMI think it's the only metal spine box of Davis' that wasn't re-released in a long box. I don't have it either.

Best cover art of the series.

(EDIT: My praise of the cover art is not in reference to the art depicted above, which is good but doesn't wow you the way the metal sleeve does.)

The metal sleeve are raised reliefs of the original LP cover art, front and back.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51f7GIaCmxL._UF350,350_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514MrAIE1pL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1omvaY8AsL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vKCncDUrL._UF350,350_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)
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Post by: KevinP on July 26, 2023, 04:11:29 PM
Kicking myself for not buying that. The metal version is the coolest thing ever.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 27, 2023, 01:54:29 PM
Lew Tabackin.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/414RGN0CGFL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 30, 2023, 10:28:02 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on July 30, 2023, 11:21:10 AM
Quote from: Henk on July 30, 2023, 10:28:02 AM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61VUckWpnBL.jpg)

Amazing recording. Lucidity, transcendance. Gibbs in particular is in great shape.
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Post by: SimonNZ on July 30, 2023, 04:27:39 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on July 31, 2023, 04:05:25 AM
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Post by: Irons on July 31, 2023, 07:03:04 AM
Quote from: JBS on July 26, 2023, 03:36:50 PMThe metal sleeve are raised reliefs of the original LP cover art, front and back.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51f7GIaCmxL._UF350,350_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514MrAIE1pL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)

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Same artist as this one I would think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: George on July 31, 2023, 07:34:00 AM
I highly recommend this incredible sounding Hybrid SACD of Miles Davis On The Corner. It's on sale right now: https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/112088/Miles_Davis-On_The_Corner-Hybrid_Stereo_SACD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 02, 2023, 02:30:07 PM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on August 02, 2023, 02:37:26 PM
h/t to @Dry Brett Kavanaugh ...

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 05, 2023, 11:19:53 PM
This album:

(https://i.discogs.com/38TmkdHDLiLYviJhEic_QrQLx2hWMRlTIyVNVVsGhA0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExODQ0/Nzc4LTE1MjMzNTE1/NjQtOTQ0Ny5wbmc.jpeg)

Via this CD:
(https://i.discogs.com/fJY3yxRQV-n617vn9zZ-TLP8LhunOAOrcXlr-F52_WI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA4/NTkxLTE1OTEyOTk3/MTktNzMzOC5qcGVn.jpeg)
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Post by: modified on August 06, 2023, 10:32:54 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/P7ohfPzoRZb024F8AKjk60VdQUDZ3PZFU93Wq46s_OY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNTA5/MDMtMTI4NTg3MDcy/My5qcGVn.jpeg)
The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet (1986): "Voodoo"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 06, 2023, 11:10:44 PM
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Anthony Braxton has recorded quite a few sets of standards, of the relatively recent ones I often go back to this one.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 07, 2023, 06:55:48 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/ZDb4HdYtfg9H_ZR2Bz34kNvTpR_vyXPradXJlnSLSiQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk0Nzkx/NTMtMTQ4MTMwMDgx/MS0xMTAyLmpwZWc.jpeg)
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Post by: T. D. on August 07, 2023, 11:50:19 AM
Quote from: modified on August 06, 2023, 10:32:54 PM(https://i.discogs.com/P7ohfPzoRZb024F8AKjk60VdQUDZ3PZFU93Wq46s_OY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNTA5/MDMtMTI4NTg3MDcy/My5qcGVn.jpeg)
The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet (1986): "Voodoo"


I only recently got a Japanese reissue of this.

Quote from: Henk on August 07, 2023, 06:55:48 AM(https://i.discogs.com/ZDb4HdYtfg9H_ZR2Bz34kNvTpR_vyXPradXJlnSLSiQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk0Nzkx/NTMtMTQ4MTMwMDgx/MS0xMTAyLmpwZWc.jpeg)

I got this from a shop but didn't like it. The graphics made me think it was a Strut (excellent label) release, but it's from a Euro PD label and the sound quality is bad compared to many other reissues. Anyone who wants a copy, make me an offer (USA only).  ;)

Listening

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 08, 2023, 03:53:45 PM
Charlie Parker: Complete Bird at the Apollo.



(https://www.jazzmessengers.com/56673-large_default/complete-bird-at-the-apollo.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 08, 2023, 09:10:01 PM
My Gentleman Friend, Sarah Vaughn w Charlie Parker.



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 08, 2023, 09:50:18 PM
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Art Pepper
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 05:54:06 AM

Just ordered a four-LPs-on-two-CD set by Dorothy Ashby.

In fact, I seem to have fallen down a rabbit hole of black female harpists.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 06:21:40 AM

I keep pulling threads and making discoveries.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 10, 2023, 06:35:35 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 10, 2023, 07:43:37 PM
I bought that Jarrett album back in the '80s when I was heavily into ECM...still have it.

(https://zyx.de/wp-content/uploads/090204774838-1000x1000.jpg)

This is the ZYX release of the "Complete Solo Masterpieces", crummy packaging but sound quality is fine and the music is of course hors concours.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 10, 2023, 08:11:27 PM
Django Reinhardt w Beryl Davis.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 10, 2023, 08:31:16 PM
Quote from: T. D. on August 10, 2023, 07:43:37 PMI bought that Jarrett album back in the '80s when I was heavily into ECM...still have it.


This was a second Jarrett's LP I bought, in late 70s. The first one was Arbour Zena. I was also deep into ECM. Still listening some and follow the news.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 08:57:02 PM
Would anyone buy buy the Keith Jarrett catalogue again if they used AI to remove his 'vocalisations'?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 10, 2023, 09:06:32 PM
Quote from: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 08:57:02 PMWould anyone buy buy the Keith Jarrett catalogue again if they used AI to remove his 'vocalisations'?

Many times I've come across negative opinions about Jarrett's "singing". I guess those who can't stand them have their own reasons for that. As for me, I don't mind it at all. If making every musician "perfect" would it make all musicians sound the same, I'm not sure I'd want that. The beauty is in the little imperfections.
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Post by: AnotherSpin on August 10, 2023, 09:11:47 PM
(https://d1iiivw74516uk.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwcmVzdG8tY292ZXItaW1hZ2VzIiwia2V5IjoiODQ5OTMwMi4xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6OTAwfSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2NX0sInRvRm9ybWF0IjoianBlZyJ9LCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOjE1NTI1NjEwNjd9)
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Post by: T. D. on August 11, 2023, 03:10:58 AM
Quote from: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 08:57:02 PMWould anyone buy buy the Keith Jarrett catalogue again if they used AI to remove his 'vocalisations'?

I ultimately tired of Jarrett, but for other reasons. Still enjoy his Standards Trio, but haven't felt compelled to purchase recordings thereof.

There are pianists I enjoy who vocalise. The great Bud Powell, of course. Barry Harris. From Japan, Shoji Aketagawa (who is admittedly rather eccentric  :P ) and Masabumi Kikuchi (who doesn't always do it, but is extreme when he does), both of whom go over the top at times.
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Post by: AnotherSpin on August 11, 2023, 04:46:48 AM
Quote from: T. D. on August 11, 2023, 03:10:58 AMI ultimately tired of Jarrett, but for other reasons. Still enjoy his Standards Trio, but haven't felt compelled to purchase recordings thereof.

There are pianists I enjoy who vocalise. The great Bud Powell, of course. Barry Harris. From Japan, Shoji Aketagawa (who is admittedly rather eccentric  :P ) and Masabumi Kikuchi (who doesn't always do it, but is extreme when he does), both of whom go over the top at times.

I am big fan of Masabumi Kikuchi.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 11, 2023, 08:49:56 AM
(https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/img/1315.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 12, 2023, 06:04:36 PM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on August 11, 2023, 04:46:48 AMI am big fan of Masabumi Kikuchi.

Have you seen this interview?

https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-masabumi-kikuchi/
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 12, 2023, 07:47:15 PM
Quote from: T. D. on August 12, 2023, 06:04:36 PMHave you seen this interview?

https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-masabumi-kikuchi/

Thank you.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 13, 2023, 02:34:34 PM
Pat Martino Live at Yoshi's.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NDQliHPnL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 13, 2023, 05:00:35 PM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4036206080_16.jpg)

https://brandee.bandcamp.com/album/prelude

Though I unfortunately discovered her after the well of her physical releases has mostly dried up, I just made my first Bandcamp purchase.

A new release by (the more classical-oriented) harpist Ashley Jackson had a track composed by Younger which led me to check out her output.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 14, 2023, 01:50:46 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oKAGlCpxL._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg)


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None of these are new to me, but I finally sequenced them in a listening session.

The parents were on vinyl. They sired a CD.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 14, 2023, 02:59:11 AM
Crescent is my favorite Coltrane album.  But I was never a fan of Alice; I think of her as the Yoko Ono of jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 14, 2023, 04:37:37 AM
Don't see that at all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 14, 2023, 06:06:56 AM
Bud Powell Live in Lausanne 1962.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 14, 2023, 07:03:01 AM
That's my favourite Alice Coltrane album:

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/9a/w5/wlphbuc9uw59a_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 14, 2023, 01:58:22 PM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on August 14, 2023, 07:03:01 AMThat's my favourite Alice Coltrane album:

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/9a/w5/wlphbuc9uw59a_600.jpg)

Mine as well. It's brilliant.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 14, 2023, 02:58:33 PM
I am an Alice Coltrane fan. All the Impulse! titles are very good, though arguably only Ptah is "pure jazz", whatever that might mean (and I don't care anyway).

I even get into the later devotional woo-woo music. No kidding. This one is excellent along those lines, and nice cover art, too.  :)

(https://i.discogs.com/WlOyV9pay9ETs8TymVGObVkdT3nOUhhI_ZaYFlAQ6lY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:550/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjQy/MDMwLTE0OTM5OTcx/MDQtNjU3Mi5qcGVn.jpeg)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 15, 2023, 01:55:49 AM
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Coltrain still in his prime.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 15, 2023, 01:32:29 PM
Basie Plays the Blues.


(https://i.discogs.com/YhJHIOW82bFc8Ms4LOAgj3lH4Wx845wQ-djIurZoE0M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzNjM3/MzUtMTQxNzM5NzA2/OC0xNjkzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
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Post by: modified on August 16, 2023, 10:10:48 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/jnt0o3mKs_gt8GMbUzNyvjMwjitjTdyu7uzf7K2aVz4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyODU4/NzEyLTE1NTU0MjE1/MjUtNzM4NC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba (1991): Blessing
#6: "Silver Hollow"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 16, 2023, 04:33:58 PM
Not familiar with the music, but he sure looks bored.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 17, 2023, 08:50:31 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/GwIoe64UzopgNjVhze00-m4srdpjduXW0C8kHFL0x2U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:590/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMDU4/MjctMTU1OTA2NTE2/MC0xODg3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Charles Mingus - Changes Two

Basic Mingus, prominent swing, stylistically distinct like baron jazz. Mijgus was a great band leader I think.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 18, 2023, 08:46:33 AM
Roy Hargrove.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 18, 2023, 09:07:22 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on August 18, 2023, 09:21:47 AM



PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 18, 2023, 08:12:15 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on August 19, 2023, 10:49:44 AM
I'm reading mixed reviews about that one. How do you like it? Is it necessary?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 19, 2023, 01:34:02 PM
Quote from: Artem on August 19, 2023, 10:49:44 AMI'm reading mixed reviews about that one. How do you like it? Is it necessary?

The sound quality is like an okay bootleg, so I'd imagine that loses a few points in reviews, but if you can look past that the playing is as fine as you'd expect.

I'm not sure I'd say its essential, especially if you've already got enough Coltrane live, but I don't feel short-changed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 19, 2023, 06:19:17 PM
On the fence.
Certain musicians, e.g. Coltrane and Mingus, have had so many reissues in recent years that only dedicated completists can keep up with them.
In this case, I already have the 4-CD Village Vanguard set.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 19, 2023, 09:06:00 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 19, 2023, 09:12:48 PM
The album from great Czech bass player Miroslav Vitous on this day.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on August 20, 2023, 12:13:53 AM
Esperanza Spalding:  Endangered Species (by Wayne Shorter) from the live concert series Austin City Limits


PD

EDIT:  As an aside, I heard an interview with her on NPR yesterday.  It was of an earlier interview which they did for the radio program "Wait, wait.  Don't tell me."  Her name was familiar to me, but I didn't really know anything about her nor heard any of her recordings, so I thought that I would poke around a bit.  Any suggestions here from you folks would be appreciated.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 20, 2023, 01:00:25 AM
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Huh. I don't think I've seen this before or heard it.

So it has "controversial" posthumous overdubs by Alice? Would you recommend it?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 20, 2023, 01:57:53 AM
Yes, if you're an Alice Coltrane fan or at least open to her.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 20, 2023, 03:13:12 PM
Booker Little 4 and Max Roach.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 22, 2023, 02:43:58 PM
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Billy Harper's on this! The music is kind of fusion. Gil uses some ring modulation, and Kikuchi plays electric piano, if it matters.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 22, 2023, 11:02:35 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 24, 2023, 09:36:30 AM
Manhattan Melodies - Eric Reed.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 25, 2023, 02:42:40 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 25, 2023, 11:11:22 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on August 26, 2023, 12:27:54 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on August 26, 2023, 06:16:04 PM
Eric Dolphy, a Night in Copenhagen.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on August 26, 2023, 06:45:13 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on August 26, 2023, 09:18:09 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 28, 2023, 12:52:56 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on August 28, 2023, 02:21:40 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on August 30, 2023, 03:03:47 AM
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Free for All
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 30, 2023, 04:32:32 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on August 31, 2023, 12:30:49 AM
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Mark Guiliano - The sound of listening

Mellow jazz at it's finest.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2023, 12:44:59 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on August 31, 2023, 03:56:38 AM
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Is this new?  I've never seen it before, and it is something I am very interested in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on August 31, 2023, 04:10:33 AM
Quote from: San Antone on August 31, 2023, 03:56:38 AMIs this new?  I've never seen it before, and it is something I am very interested in.

Yes. Recent release of a 2006 concert.

Superb in every way. Lots of energy and fun. Not at all some over respectful museum curating. They can't contain their joy and laughter for the last few numbers.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on September 01, 2023, 10:40:02 AM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 01, 2023, 01:45:02 PM
Quote from: Karl Henning on September 01, 2023, 10:40:02 AM


I was playing the tune last week!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on September 01, 2023, 02:51:30 PM
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Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud OST

Haven't heard this in ages; found a copy on CD from the NY Public Library today. Damn good. Good mix of bop and cool film noir vibes.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 01, 2023, 03:06:53 PM
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Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud OST

Haven't heard this in ages; found a copy on CD from the NY Public Library today. Damn good. Good mix of bop and cool film noir vibes.

Very good album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 02, 2023, 11:30:23 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on September 02, 2023, 12:21:37 PM
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Listened to this recording yesterday night.
Great recording, great quartet. Would possibly be in my top-ten jazz recordings.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: BWV 1080 on September 05, 2023, 10:35:13 AM
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Post by: modified on September 05, 2023, 11:17:23 AM
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Tomas Stanko Quintet (2009): Dark Eyes
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 05, 2023, 02:03:51 PM
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Tomas Stanko Quintet (2009): Dark Eyes

+ many pluses for Tomas Stanko.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: 71 dB on September 07, 2023, 03:26:20 AM
I don't listen to jazz very often so you won't see me much here.

The Modern Jazz Quartet --- Blues On Bach

Most of the time when I listen to jazz, the first 5 minutes sounds very cool, but then I get gradually more and more bored. Nothing really "happens" in typical jazz. No drama. No story. No provocation. No experimentation. Nothing. It is just endless improvisation based on compositions by other people most of the time (J.S.Bach in this case). That's why I don't like "pure jazz" much and I favour jazz that combines other music styles to have some interest beyond endless improvisation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on September 07, 2023, 06:03:29 PM
Many jazz artists write their own compositions.

Davis called jazz 'social music'. Most jazz is without pretentions, which I appreciate.

Jazz is about musical personality. Good jazz just is a pleasure to the ears. It's as in life, people are at best just gentle, funny, inspiring etc to each other.

Playing an instrument is a skill and art. Jazz artists make their own music with their own instrument, in a live performance, which can be a thrill.
There are many different genres within jazz. It evolves.

Maybe you can visit a concert instead of listening to a cd, if you haven't. Be sure you visit something first rate. Or even a school or local amateur band can be fun.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 07, 2023, 08:21:28 PM
Quote from: 71 dB on September 07, 2023, 03:26:20 AMNothing really "happens" in typical jazz. No drama. No story. No provocation. No experimentation. Nothing. It is just endless improvisation based on compositions by other people most of the time.

As a sweeping generalization all of those statements are manifestly false. Especially the "no experimentation" one.

You need to play more, not less, and learn why.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 07, 2023, 10:24:25 PM
Quote from: 71 dB on September 07, 2023, 03:26:20 AMI don't listen to jazz very often so you won't see me much here.

The Modern Jazz Quartet --- Blues On Bach

Most of the time when I listen to jazz, the first 5 minutes sounds very cool, but then I get gradually more and more bored. Nothing really "happens" in typical jazz. No drama. No story. No provocation. No experimentation. Nothing. It is just endless improvisation based on compositions by other people most of the time (J.S.Bach in this case). That's why I don't like "pure jazz" much and I favour jazz that combines other music styles to have some interest beyond endless improvisation.

Jazz has been coming in many different forms. From commercial salon music, which is really impossible to listen to, to the most diverse, unpredictable and in the most serious sense creative music. Try listening to Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers. Recordings of early 60's Coltrane, Miles Davis from the 60's. Various albums on Blue Note from the 60s, early ECM from the 70s. Keith Jarrett's American and Norwegian Quartets. Many, many others.

There are some very interesting jazz musicians from Finland. Juhani Aaltonen, Iiro Rantala, Edward Vesala, etc.

Another thing is that what is released today under the category of jazz causes serious doubts that this music has a future. It is enough just to check what is being listed on Qobuz every Friday under the jazz. Jazz is becoming increasingly indistinguishable from pop, hip-hop or other commercial products. It's not fun at all.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: 71 dB on September 08, 2023, 07:41:20 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 07, 2023, 08:21:28 PMAs a sweeping generalization all of those statements are manifestly false. Especially the "no experimentation" one.

You need to play more, not less, and learn why.

Those statements are not false. They are my opinions. I grew up in a household where jazz was almost only music ever played because my father is a jazz nut. There's jazz I like such as Clifford Brown/Max Roach or Gato Barbieri's latin jazz, but most of it isn't for me. Just bought Charlie Haden/Kenny Barron Night and the City album, but the jazz I enjoy (for more than 5 minutes) is few and far between to my experience. Miles Davis' On the Corner is really cool jazz funk. Keith Jarrett is cool... Bobo Stenson, Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 08, 2023, 02:16:00 PM
RIP Richard Davis, my favorite bassist.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 10, 2023, 01:36:43 PM
Bird at the Bandbox.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vandermolen on September 14, 2023, 01:53:11 AM
In These Times
Makaya McCraven
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on September 14, 2023, 08:24:15 PM
Quote from: KevinP on August 10, 2023, 05:54:06 AMJust ordered a four-LPs-on-two-CD set by Dorothy Ashby.

Which just arrived.

However, I've since discovered these have been recently reissued on a deluxe limited edition six-LP set that I'm really tempted to get.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 15, 2023, 09:16:45 AM
I knew that one day Steve Lehman would deliver the perfect modern jazz album. If this album isn't it yet, it's very close.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 15, 2023, 12:22:41 PM
Unexpectedly fine

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on September 15, 2023, 12:37:57 PM
This obscure release by the underrated Prince Lasha (with British sidemen incl. mostly Stan Tracey on piano) has some nice harp playing by David Snell:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 15, 2023, 01:46:32 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:00:25 AM
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Nice. I hear Sony is in the midst of a complete Ellington discography titled, Ellington In Order, the latest installment is 1930-31, I believe. Think I'll wait until they've released them all before I venture an investment. Looks promising, though.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:01:50 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on September 15, 2023, 12:22:41 PMUnexpectedly fine

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How did it feel to you? Been ages since I listen to a Redman album. Cool cover.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:04:41 AM
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Abby Sings Abby Abby Lincoln
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 22, 2023, 04:31:35 PM
Quote from: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:00:25 AMNice. I hear Sony is in the midst of a complete Ellington discography titled, Ellington In Order, the latest installment is 1930-31, I believe. Think I'll wait until they've released them all before I venture an investment. Looks promising, though.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the heads-up.

Like you, I think I'll wait and see how the series takes shape and what feedback it gets.

There was a 40cd set from a bargain label called "The Duke: The Complete Works, 1924-1947" which I considered, but it seemed it had no notes of any kind and possibly lesser-quality transfers. But I might reconsider it, if it ever appears in front of me again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on September 22, 2023, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:00:25 AMNice. I hear Sony is in the midst of a complete Ellington discography titled, Ellington In Order, the latest installment is 1930-31, I believe. Think I'll wait until they've released them all before I venture an investment. Looks promising, though.

The first four installments are available on Spotify and I assume other streaming services.  They are fantastic.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 22, 2023, 08:53:16 PM
Quote from: ando on September 22, 2023, 11:01:50 AMHow did it feel to you? Been ages since I listen to a Redman album. Cool cover.

Haven't listened to Redman in a while either. His previous albums started to seem too samey. But this one was unexpectedly good. Something new, or a new level. And interesting vocals.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on September 23, 2023, 06:37:30 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on September 22, 2023, 04:31:35 PMI wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the heads-up.

Like you, I think I'll wait and see how the series takes shape and what feedback it gets.

There was a 40cd set from a bargain label called "The Duke: The Complete Works, 1924-1947" which I considered, but it seemed it had no notes of any kind and possibly lesser-quality transfers. But I might reconsider it, if it ever appears in front of me again.
You're Welcome. A very good box set of Duke's Orchestral Suites was just delivered and despite the varying quality of the tracks I can heartily recommend it. Here's Dave Hurwitz' review of the set -

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 23, 2023, 02:53:55 PM
Roy Hargrove.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on September 25, 2023, 02:48:57 PM
Friends and Neighbors, Ornette Coleman.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on September 26, 2023, 03:04:08 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on September 27, 2023, 09:37:33 AM
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Brad Mehldau Places (2000, WB)

One of my favorite releases from Mehldau. Nice to take with you round the town.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SurprisedByBeauty on September 29, 2023, 02:03:30 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on May 16, 2023, 01:30:42 PMHat-tip to @SurprisedByBeauty

I still haven't made my way through all the CDs, I have to admit. But what I've heard has been fascinating.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 29, 2023, 03:56:48 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 02, 2023, 04:34:15 AM
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Wynton Marsalis Septet Live at the Village Vanguard (1999, Columbia)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 02, 2023, 05:06:25 AM
Oblique, Bobby Hutcherson.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 05, 2023, 10:06:18 AM
Eliane Elias - Kissed By Nature. A lot of Herbie Hancock influence.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Roasted Swan on October 06, 2023, 06:07:00 AM
I was very impressed indeed by this disc;

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Schmid regularly leads a jazz quartet and he's right inside the idiom.  All three composers here are really from the jazz side of the tracks rather than classical.  The 12 piece string orchestra are superb.  All in all I enjoyed it a lot....!
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on October 07, 2023, 01:14:12 PM
Earlier today:  some Freddie Hubbard "Skydive".  Recorded in 1972 and released in 1973.  :) Enjoyed listening to it.

PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 07, 2023, 03:03:33 PM
Suspended Night - Tomasz Stańko.



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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 09, 2023, 12:32:40 PM
Wynton & Company

"Timelessness" from the Buddy Bolden Soundtrack

Let the YouTube continue the feed for some great Hot Fives & Sevens (Pops Armstrong) sounds from Marsalis & the band...

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 10, 2023, 08:15:36 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on September 01, 2023, 02:51:30 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/QChMFqCx/image.png)

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud OST

Haven't heard this in ages; found a copy on CD from the NY Public Library today. Damn good. Good mix of bop and cool film noir vibes.
Love this!

TD:

Attn: @Pohjolas Daughter
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Post by: Pohjolas Daughter on October 10, 2023, 09:29:39 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on October 10, 2023, 08:15:36 AMLove this!

TD:

Attn: @Pohjolas Daughter
I'll check it out...thanks!  :) I have several albums of theirs...always interesting.

@vers la flamme  Yours sounds interesting too.  I'll see if I can find some samples of it.  8) Ah, good ole youtube!  It would be interesting to see the movie too.

PD
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 10, 2023, 09:36:43 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/PN3EiwJjR7BJsH9RaRmkrbm8ZB4ALKVU7LRrkqO10hM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMzY5/MDQwLTE2Mzk2NDY0/NTItMjMyNi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963, Impulse)

I swear '63 saw the release of some of the best films and the best albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 10, 2023, 10:56:46 AM
Quote from: ando on October 10, 2023, 09:36:43 AM(https://i.discogs.com/PN3EiwJjR7BJsH9RaRmkrbm8ZB4ALKVU7LRrkqO10hM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMzY5/MDQwLTE2Mzk2NDY0/NTItMjMyNi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963, Impulse)

I swear '63 saw the release of some of the best films and the best albums.

This is amazing album. However, 1959 was even better for jazz. Mingus Ah Um, plus add Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, Time Out, The Shape of Jazz to Come...  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on October 10, 2023, 11:10:26 AM
Quote from: ando on October 10, 2023, 09:36:43 AM(https://i.discogs.com/PN3EiwJjR7BJsH9RaRmkrbm8ZB4ALKVU7LRrkqO10hM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMzY5/MDQwLTE2Mzk2NDY0/NTItMjMyNi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963, Impulse)

I swear '63 saw the release of some of the best films and the best albums.
Love this album!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 10, 2023, 02:59:19 PM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 10, 2023, 10:56:46 AMThis is amazing album. However, 1959 was even better for jazz. Mingus Ah Um, plus add Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, Time Out, The Shape of Jazz to Come...  :)
;D I ain't touching that. I think you can find great jazz in every year. I just mean '63 across the board artistically was kinetic. Hell of a year. Mingus, of course, stayed prolific throughout the 60s, imo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 10, 2023, 03:43:53 PM
Here to Stay, Freddie Hubbard.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 10, 2023, 03:59:01 PM
Quote from: ando on October 10, 2023, 02:59:19 PM;D I ain't touching that. I think you can find great jazz in every year. I just mean '63 across the board artistically was kinetic. Hell of a year. Mingus, of course, stayed prolific throughout the 60s, imo.

Another Spin is right to pick 1959 out as a great year for jazz.  There have been a number of articles in jazz publications making the same observation.  But you are also right, every year there are great jazz recordings.  However, the reason 1959 is written about is the fact that three albums from 1959 (Kind of Blue, Shape of Jazz to Come, and Time Out) have had a huge impact, besides being great albums.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 10, 2023, 05:05:07 PM
Quote from: San Antone on October 10, 2023, 03:59:01 PMAnother Spin is right to pick 1959 out as a great year for jazz.  There have been a number of articles in jazz publications making the same observation.  But you are also right, every year there are great jazz recordings.  However, the reason 1959 is written about is the fact that three albums from 1959 (Kind of Blue, Shape of Jazz to Come, and Time Out) have had a huge impact, besides being great albums.
Yes.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 10, 2023, 05:40:08 PM
Black Saint on the HMV label??
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 10, 2023, 07:52:25 PM
^ Was wondering if the mono recording sounds better than the stereo.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 12:04:15 AM
Quote from: ando on October 10, 2023, 02:59:19 PM;D I ain't touching that. I think you can find great jazz in every year. I just mean '63 across the board artistically was kinetic. Hell of a year. Mingus, of course, stayed prolific throughout the 60s, imo.

I have a feeling there is less and less jazz every year now, and soon there will be almost none at all.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 01:15:18 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 12:04:15 AMI have a feeling there is less and less jazz every year now, and soon there will be almost none at all.
Huh? Dude, there's a younger generation of great jazz musicians gigging, recording and having a blast. It's just that model of distribution has changed. You certainly can't go looking for jazz in the same places and in the same way as we did yesterday. But as long as there is America there will always be jazz.

For instance, do you ever check out the daily live YouTube feed from Smalls? There's jamming every night from all sorts of young ensembles. They ain't making record deals, necessarily; but they're jamming and people are listening. Last time I stopped by I caught a band led by a young vibes player. It was straight ahead stuff but very spirited -

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 11, 2023, 04:08:50 AM
Quote from: ando on October 11, 2023, 01:15:18 AMHuh? Dude, there's a younger generation of great jazz musicians gigging, recording and having a blast. As long as there is America there will always be jazz.

Right.  And there is a lot of new jazz coming from outside the US.  The ECM catalog alone is putting out consiistently great stuff.  Granted, stylisically very different from the hard bop of decades back. Also, Wynton Marsalis and the LCJO is doing great work, preserving and reintroducing some classic stuff to a new young audience, which inspires a whole generation of musicians to play jazz.

His resurrection of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige is a landmark achievement of a tragically long neglected work.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on October 11, 2023, 05:22:10 AM
I saw Ron Carter's bass-piano-guitar trio at Birdland the other night. I was star struck, what an artist. Chops still razor sharp at 86.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 11, 2023, 05:34:44 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on October 11, 2023, 05:22:10 AMI saw Ron Carter's bass-piano-guitar trio at Birdland the other night. I was star struck, what an artist. Chops still razor sharp at 86.


He was a classical player. He started playing jazz because blacks wouldn't be hired by orchestras. Same for Nina Simone.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on October 11, 2023, 07:45:52 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 11, 2023, 05:34:44 AMHe was a classical player. He started playing jazz because blacks wouldn't be hired by orchestras. Same for Nina Simone.

Indeed. He is quite educated too with a master's from the Manhattan School of Music. I believe he started as a cellist before switching to bass. During an extended unaccompanied bass solo the other night he interpolated from the Bach cello suites.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 08:02:09 AM
Quote from: ando on October 11, 2023, 01:15:18 AMHuh? Dude, there's a younger generation of great jazz musicians gigging, recording and having a blast. It's just that model of distribution has changed. You certainly can't go looking for jazz in the same places and in the same way as we did yesterday. But as long as there is America there will always be jazz.

For instance, do you ever check out the daily live YouTube feed from Smalls? There's jamming every night from all sorts of young ensembles. They ain't making record deals, necessarily; but they're jamming and people are listening. Last time I stopped by I caught a band led by a young vibes player. It was straight ahead stuff but very spirited -


Your argument about other distribution models is most likely valid. But I live in a place where I can only judge the state of affairs from the records available online. I open up the new jazz releases at Qobuz every Friday, and see virtually nothing that can compare to the recordings of the giants of the middle of the last century. I don't mean reissues, of course. New recordings today it's mostly crossover, mixed with ethnic, hip-hop, etc. Yes, I heard Smalls recordings. Just couple of days it was new Dave Liebman at Smalls album. Not bad, but I heard it all many times before. Again, there are some interesting new names, but it will not stand comparison with what happened back in last century.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 08:06:02 AM
Quote from: San Antone on October 11, 2023, 04:08:50 AMRight.  And there is a lot of new jazz coming from outside the US.  The ECM catalog alone is putting out consiistently great stuff.  Granted, stylisically very different from the hard bop of decades back. Also, Wynton Marsalis and the LCJO is doing great work, preserving and reintroducing some classic stuff to a new young audience, which inspires a whole generation of musicians to play jazz.

His resurrection of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige is a landmark achievement of a tragically long neglected work.

I grew up on ECM LPs in 70's and 80's. What the company releases today is a pale shadow, at best a rehash of clichés worked over and over again.

I have no interest in what Marsalis is doing today. He had some good jazz albums in the early 80s.

I fully realise that my opinion is subjective and I don't expect agreement ;) 
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 11, 2023, 08:13:10 AM
Quote from: vers la flamme on October 11, 2023, 05:22:10 AMI saw Ron Carter's bass-piano-guitar trio at Birdland the other night. I was star struck, what an artist. Chops still razor sharp at 86.

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 11, 2023, 05:34:44 AMHe was a classical player. He started playing jazz because blacks wouldn't be hired by orchestras. Same for Nina Simone.

Quote from: vers la flamme on October 11, 2023, 07:45:52 AMIndeed. He is quite educated too with a master's from the Manhattan School of Music. I believe he started as a cellist before switching to bass. During an extended unaccompanied bass solo the other night he interpolated from the Bach cello suites.

There was an excellent mini-series documentary about Ron Carter released this year on PBS, Finding the Right Notes (https://www.pbs.org/show/ron-carter-finding-right-notes/). I think it is still available to stream if you subscribe to PBS Passport. Or clips might be on YouTube.

Highly recommended.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 10:36:36 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 08:02:09 AMYour argument about other distribution models is most likely valid. But I live in a place where I can only judge the state of affairs from the records available online. I open up the new jazz releases at Qobuz every Friday, and see virtually nothing that can compare to the recordings of the giants of the middle of the last century. I don't mean reissues, of course. New recordings today it's mostly crossover, mixed with ethnic, hip-hop, etc. Yes, I heard Smalls recordings. Just couple of days it was new Dave Liebman at Smalls album. Not bad, but I heard it all many times before. Again, there are some interesting new names, but it will not stand comparison with what happened back in last century.
Happy listening.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 10:39:54 AM
Quote from: San Antone on October 11, 2023, 08:13:10 AMThere was an excellent mini-series documentary about Ron Carter released this year on PBS, Finding the Right Notes (https://www.pbs.org/show/ron-carter-finding-right-notes/). I think it is still available to stream if you subscribe to PBS Passport. Or clips might be on YouTube.

Highly recommended.
Yeah, I saw that Carter will headline Birdland (https://bassmagazine.com/bass-maestro-ron-carter-is-back-at-birdland-all-october/) for a few weeks this month. Thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 10:58:16 AM
Quote from: San Antone on October 11, 2023, 04:08:50 AMAlso, Wynton Marsalis and the LCJO is doing great work, preserving and reintroducing some classic stuff to a new young audience, which inspires a whole generation of musicians to play jazz.

His resurrection of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige is a landmark achievement of a tragically long neglected work.
You reminded me to burn into iTunes (yep, I still use it) a recent great Ellington acquisition -

(https://i.discogs.com/SPPxIM_fD8paoe9gCH3OdZNPt-DFj9v-lI7tULZ6eOE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:539/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMzI3/OTc4LTE2Mjk0Mjcx/MzktNjA4NS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Duke Ellington The Complete Orchestral Suites

It's embarrasingly the only Ellington in my physical media collection, but a very welcome one. The quality of tracks on the 5 disc set vary from poor to stunning, as you might expect from such a wide time frame, but not entirely excusable given today's technology. None of the major platforms are streaming it, which is a shame - and is bound to be corrected. But it's a must have for any serious Ellington fan.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 11:40:45 AM
Duke Ellington Orchestra The Tattooed Bride (1951, Columbia)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 11, 2023, 12:51:14 PM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 08:06:02 AMI grew up on ECM LPs in 70's and 80's. What the company releases today is a pale shadow, at best a rehash of clichés worked over and over again.

I have no interest in what Marsalis is doing today. He had some good jazz albums in the early 80s.

I fully realise that my opinion is subjective and I don't expect agreement ;) 

Do you still enjoy the classics? I sometimes go back to them but rarely.

I try to catch up with jazz now and then. Matthew Shipp does some interesting things. Also I dig Tom Harrell, Bobby Watson, Gilad Hekselman, James Brandon-Lee, Jim Black among others. Maybe some artists for you to check.

If you like to get yourself up to date you might do yourself a favor subscribing to Downbeat. Jazz isn't dead yet, I'm sure.

I co-runned a venue in my student years (00's). In these times jazz was flourishing with much energy. When one is attuned to it, one can know otherwise you just miss too much to know.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 11, 2023, 03:00:31 PM
Charle Lloyd Quartet in '66, Belgium. Classic ensemble. Recording level's a bit low but they're all in great form.

1. East Of The Sun
2. Of Course, Of Course
3. Love Song To A Baby
4. Manhattan Tripper (or Manhattan Carousel)
5. Island Blues

Keith Jarrett - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Charles Lloyd, tenor sax, flute


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 11, 2023, 03:27:02 PM
Quote from: ando on October 11, 2023, 03:00:31 PMCharle Lloyd Quartet in '66, Belgium. Classic ensemble. Recording level's a bit low but they're all in great form.

1. East Of The Sun
2. Of Course, Of Course
3. Love Song To A Baby
4. Manhattan Tripper (or Manhattan Carousel)
5. Island Blues

Keith Jarrett - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Charles Lloyd, tenor sax, flute




Great quartet.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 11, 2023, 08:47:58 PM
Quote from: Henk on October 11, 2023, 12:51:14 PMDo you still enjoy the classics? I sometimes go back to them but rarely.

I try to catch up with jazz now and then. Matthew Shipp does some interesting things. Also I dig Tom Harrell, Bobby Watson, Gilad Hekselman, James Brandon-Lee, Jim Black among others. Maybe some artists for you to check.

If you like to get yourself up to date you might do yourself a favor subscribing to Downbeat. Jazz isn't dead yet, I'm sure.

I co-runned a venue in my student years (00's). In these times jazz was flourishing with much energy. When one is attuned to it, one can know otherwise you just miss too much to know.

Yes, I listen to ECM from 70s -- such albums as Keith Jarrett's Survivor' Suite, My Song, and virtually all his other albums in group and as soloist; also albums from Abercrombie, Holland, Garbarek, Weber, Towner, Surman, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Rava, Stańko, and many others.

Blue Note, Atlantic, Inpulse! treasures from 50s - 60-s. Coltrane, Miles, Mingus, Monk, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Andrew Hill, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams... what a time for jazz!!!

Bobby Watson, of course; Art Farmer, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, there were some great recordings still in 70s-80s.

There were some good albums later, Charles Lloyd, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, James Carter, David Murray, Stan Getz, Frank Morgan, Joe Lovano, etc.

A lot of interesting things were happening in the avant garde area. I love what Anthony Braxton did for the last 50 years. Roscoe Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Lehman, Craig Taborn, Tim Berne, Gerry Hemingway, William Parker, Marilyn Crispell, Taylor Ho Bynum, David S Ware, and many others. Matthew Shipp, yes.

However. As I see it from my point of view, something has happened, broken in the last few years, mirroring the pandemic, world politics, social turmoil and all the crap before, during and after it. Let's see if something real starts to happen again, in jazz too.

P.S.: I read Down Beat, still in paper, in 70s-80s.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 12, 2023, 01:24:53 AM
Moves  8)

Manhattan Transfer

Miles Davis

(The Original) George Shearing Quintet w/ Denzil Best (composer)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on October 12, 2023, 04:27:24 AM
@AnotherSpin - your preference reminds of the age old conflict between classical listeners who only listen to or prefer the Common Practice period composers and refuse to even acknowledge that much of the new music being written since the 1970s as classical music.

It also reminds me of opera fans who complain that the new singers are not nearly as good as the "golden age" singers. But they may have  a point.

This is a syndrome among music fans of probably all genres: "the old is always better."

Some jazz fans feel as you do.  But I don't buy it.  Yes, you are welcome to your opinion, but I can't help but feel you are missing so much with these blanket reductive opinions.

To each his own, but I find plnety of good jazz being done right now and has been done since the very first recordings.  And by the way, I am a huge fan of not only new jazz, but early jazz, and jazz from the last 100+ years.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 12, 2023, 05:40:49 AM
Village - Wallace Roney.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 12, 2023, 06:27:02 AM
Quote from: San Antone on October 12, 2023, 04:27:24 AM@AnotherSpin - your preference reminds of the age old conflict between classical listeners who only listen to or prefer the Common Practice period composers and refuse to even acknowledge that much of the new music being written since the 1970s as classical music.

It also reminds me of opera fans who complain that the new singers are not nearly as good as the "golden age" singers. But they may have  a point.

This is a syndrome among music fans of probably all genres: "the old is always better."

Some jazz fans feel as you do.  But I don't buy it.  Yes, you are welcome to your opinion, but I can't help but feel you are missing so much with these blanket reductive opinions.

To each his own, but I find plnety of good jazz being done right now and has been done since the very first recordings.  And by the way, I am a huge fan of not only new jazz, but early jazz, and jazz from the last 100+ years.

I don't mean jazz only. The same can be said about rock music. Or, for example, about the cinema of recent years. By the way, opera is virtually disappearing as a genre before our eyes. There are many times fewer significant recordings in this genre than there were 30 or 50 years ago. It's not just about voices. Bayreuth has become a mockery of Wagner's ideas.

Although, of course, your words about the aversion to the new that can happen with age express a long-known observation that can be found already in ancient texts.
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Post by: Henk on October 12, 2023, 07:34:41 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 12, 2023, 06:27:02 AMI don't mean jazz only. The same can be said about rock music. Or, for example, about the cinema of recent years. By the way, opera is virtually disappearing as a genre before our eyes. There are many times fewer significant recordings in this genre than there were 30 or 50 years ago. It's not just about voices. Bayreuth has become a mockery of Wagner's ideas.

Although, of course, your words about the aversion to the new that can happen with age express a long-known observation that can be found already in ancient texts.


I don't share the pessimism. In my newspaper for example I come across many positive cinema reviews. It may have been going downwards for some time, it's going upwards these times.

Of course there is some danger that creativity loses it's driving force. This danger is exactly what keeps it alive. The sparkle remains. Look at the bright side. The sparkle is at least as much interesting. The artists behind the art are too. New masterpieces can always come to light, the thing is not everybody is aware.

Things go upwards and downwards. This is a matter of perception too, caused by factors of age, distance, mood, taste etc.

Your perception may contain a grain of truth. But if you expect only progress that is an unfounded assumption.

You can't generalize all areas. Some areas and genres may be more productive than others.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 12, 2023, 07:45:38 AM
First reissue on CD was not complete. This edition contains all material from original 2LP set plus some live recordings. Original 2LP set was one of my favourite ECM albums 40+ years ago.

(https://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/odyssey1.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 12, 2023, 07:53:33 AM
Quote from: Henk on October 12, 2023, 07:34:41 AMI don't share the pessimism. In my newspaper for example I come across many positive cinema reviews. [..]

1. Good for you.
2. The reviews can be super positive. It's a job of reviewers to wright reviews. It doesn't mean the films worth a thing.

Don't you think we're going round in circles?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 12, 2023, 07:55:46 AM
Ok, let's close the discussion then. I have had my say.

It's not a bad thing to stick to the music you like.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 14, 2023, 02:40:44 PM
Wes.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 14, 2023, 03:12:34 PM
Also Wes:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/West_Coast_Blues%21.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 15, 2023, 05:53:21 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on October 14, 2023, 03:12:34 PMAlso Wes:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/West_Coast_Blues%21.jpeg)


Love Louis Hayes!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 18, 2023, 06:50:40 AM
How I'm feeling this Wednesday morning...

Lazy Mae  John Coltrane & The Red Garland Quintet

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 18, 2023, 10:22:52 AM
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/tc/f9/gi6vxe2c8f9tc_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 19, 2023, 06:32:10 PM
Live at Yoshi's - Pat Martino.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 19, 2023, 11:35:34 PM
Quote from: ando on October 18, 2023, 06:50:40 AMHow I'm feeling this Wednesday morning...

Lazy Mae  John Coltrane & The Red Garland Quintet



Haven't played the Dig It album in a while, so giving that one another spin right now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on October 20, 2023, 06:44:37 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/znb_DslJ84XKQc_OyX0gfjeWnp4Wakk8r1_bEv-ogjk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/OTI0LTE0OTQ0Mjk4/ODktOTQ3MC5qcGVn.jpeg)
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet  Paris, 1960 (1960, Pablo)

Cannonball Adderley, alto sax
Nat Adderley, coronet
Victor Feldman, piano
Sam Jones, bass
Louis Hayes, drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 20, 2023, 01:55:31 PM
Benjamin Schaefer Trio – Roots And Wings.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on October 20, 2023, 05:24:26 PM
RIP Carla Bley

A recording of her "Ida Lupino" I hadn't heard before:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 20, 2023, 05:50:48 PM
That video isn't available in USA, but it's hard to go wrong with an ensemble containing John Gilmore:

Off-topic, but this excellent column is the most recent substantial Carla Bley interview I've been able to find.

https://thequietus.com/articles/29717-carla-bley-interview
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 22, 2023, 01:48:06 PM
Getz.


(https://i.discogs.com/Ibu1uI0jJFDq4HtuLbuBBcfOsNufPMig1KWCTYviELM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:551/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1MDU5/NDItMTMwNjQyNjMz/My5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 24, 2023, 10:39:24 AM
(https://www.plexusrecords.com/upload/image/smack-up-p-image-86225-grande.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: JBS on October 24, 2023, 06:22:14 PM
Perhaps a bit of a novelty.

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Music by Ornette Coleman for wind quintet and trumpet interludes, Forms and Sounds, and for string quartet, Saints and Soldiers and Space Flight.

Mr Coleman was the trumpet, the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet were the winds, the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia Quartet were the strings.
About 45 minutes long.
The only non-classical music in this set
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Can be heard on Youtube here
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 27, 2023, 01:44:08 AM
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Just released. Fine album, it tells jazz not dead yet. But, is this an idiomatic jazz at all?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 30, 2023, 06:54:17 AM
A Fickle Sonance - Jackie McLean.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 30, 2023, 08:19:19 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 30, 2023, 06:54:17 AMA Fickle Sonance - Jackie McLean.

I listened to that last week.
Really enjoy the opening number Five will get you ten. Sometimes attributed to Monk, sometimes to Sonny Clark.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on October 30, 2023, 01:49:26 PM
Quote from: T. D. on October 30, 2023, 08:19:19 AMI listened to that last week.
Really enjoy the opening number Five will get you ten. Sometimes attributed to Monk, sometimes to Sonny Clark.



Art Blakey/Wayne Shorter.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 30, 2023, 02:19:16 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/8tOztftDYJQoPedRNBlUkG_p2aSkWiDrG3I0_paU3os/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NTI5/NDgwLTE1OTM3NzYw/NjUtODcwMS5qcGVn.jpeg)

A masterpiece. Must have played it before, but it counts as a first listen since I didn't remember anything.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 30, 2023, 11:34:35 PM
Another remarkable album released by Portugal's Clean Feed Records, one of the most important jazz labels today.

(https://cleanfeed-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CF653CD-600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on October 31, 2023, 09:07:39 AM
Matthew Shipp Quartet (with Mat Walerian, Whit Dickey and Michael Bisio).

(http://www.espdisk.com/image/cache/catalog/Sonic%20Fiction%20cover-750x750.jpg)



Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 31, 2023, 09:38:15 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on October 31, 2023, 09:07:39 AMMatthew Shipp Quartet (with Mat Walerian, Whit Dickey and Michael Bisio) on German ESP label.
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Excellent. I live about 45 miles from Michael Bisio and have often attended his events, several times with Matthew Shipp in various configurations. He and Shipp are long-time associates and have a remarkable musical communication, rapport or whatever (not sure how to word it).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on October 31, 2023, 11:40:49 AM
Recent book on Matthew Shipp here. (https://roguart.com/product/singularity-codex-matthew-shipp-on-rogueart/222)

Recent (video) interview with Michael Bisio here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6dw7PA_Keg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on October 31, 2023, 03:25:53 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/2FtpV4NBydXTCRPDzFNXcSb2sPq35OfoAqViNHD_ch8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5ODAx/MDEtMTM1MTI2ODA4/OC03NTg5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 01, 2023, 11:00:11 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 01, 2023, 04:26:30 PM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3083161786_5.jpg)

Just out, a new album by Peter Evans. Some very mysterious tracks. Digging Evans. This album is my first encounter with his music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 01, 2023, 05:30:33 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41efqFOP9YL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

Hank Mobley et al - Monday Nights At Birdland (1958)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on November 02, 2023, 02:23:59 AM
It is a very fine album. The duet of Matthew Shipp and Polish saxophonist and woodwind player Mateusz (Mat) Walerian.

(https://images.theabsolutesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mathewsh.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 02, 2023, 10:42:23 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on November 02, 2023, 02:23:59 AMIt is a very fine album. The duet of Matthew Shipp and Polish saxophonist and woodwind player Mateusz (Mat) Walerian.

(https://images.theabsolutesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/mathewsh.jpg)

Listened to exerpts. Purchased some free jazz albums yesterday and today, will top it off with your recommendation.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 02, 2023, 05:24:13 PM

Youtube for now, BBE reissue (DL, vinyl, CD) expected 26 Jan: https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/reminicent-suite-2
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Leo K. on November 03, 2023, 06:24:16 AM
(https://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834027880581bf8200d-500wi)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 07, 2023, 07:09:18 AM
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NP:
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 07, 2023, 12:34:56 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 07, 2023, 03:56:10 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/U_aHt0qLcaZr-kOEjTJR0Yo-dv7zzqmqggEOinBn9W4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:446/w:450/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYwNDA0/MTEtMTQwOTUyNDgz/MC05MzI4LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/O-hA6-K85GabAxdRhgnX4XMXCKNQzqM9mwzmOfecgOY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:443/w:469/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYwNDA0/MTEtMTQwOTUyNDgy/My01Mjc0LmpwZWc.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/TNCowsXOa1cyAX1tS3ysr83G-DX-0kiSjYEsJfxjmiE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:587/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMzUy/NDk0LTE0OTU4MzYw/ODMtMjQ4NC5qcGVn.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/fwRhdEMeoIsfz_ZL2sfbR1hJkXQJPk_WxqL5xEMYklA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:549/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMzUy/NDk0LTE0OTU4MzYw/ODctMTIyOS5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 08, 2023, 09:14:40 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/n-j8WlDo_1yhxtn4QYlVsLG4JteqrwqI0nPNUKrKL2U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:604/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExOTA4/ODI4LTE1MjQ1NDA3/MTItOTgxMy5qcGVn.jpeg)

Not only the French compose. They haven't heard of Don Cherry and his superior performers. ;D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 08, 2023, 10:01:47 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/C2AGiwTTBFo1gijRXsQrejj3GrOP6Y5tZnQ02VSW340/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzMDU2/MDUtMTQ5MzAyODYy/OS05NTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Hubbard and Shorter again. They seem to have recorded quite a few times. I wonder about their live performances and if there are records made of it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 08, 2023, 03:54:03 PM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 08, 2023, 04:09:50 PM
Quote from: Henk on November 08, 2023, 10:01:47 AM(https://i.discogs.com/C2AGiwTTBFo1gijRXsQrejj3GrOP6Y5tZnQ02VSW340/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzMDU2/MDUtMTQ5MzAyODYy/OS05NTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Hubbard and Shorter again. They seem to have recorded quite a few times. I wonder about their live performances and if there are records made of it.


Blakey.

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on November 08, 2023, 04:44:56 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 08, 2023, 04:09:50 PMBlakey.

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If you want to venture into fusion-land, this

(https://i.discogs.com/HIR4y9Kht_zQYOt8wzg2UUyW0JYfB1WN_fMZWFmMmKk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNDIy/MDY5LTE2MzMxNjE5/MTEtMjk1My5qcGVn.jpeg)(https://i.discogs.com/zXGzjrOOQKBxNDsvIXBuuMW7RNSVpF1D--3YLo-iVgM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNDIy/MDY5LTE2MzMxNjE5/MjMtMzU2Ny5qcGVn.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 09, 2023, 02:46:12 PM
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Jazz Giants of the 20th Century tubi (https://link.tubi.tv/YJwxN989AEb)

Ok compilation streaming free on tubi (link above). First half of the 70 minute film is composed of post-war black and white clips featuring the leading Jazz lights of that era. The second half is a series of talking heads talking jazz history. Makes you appreciate more sophisticated combos of clips and conversation like Ken Burns' Jazz, derided as it sometimes is for its scant coverage of late 20th century jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 09, 2023, 02:53:02 PM
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The Miles Smiles "session reels" from this set. Fascinating to hear the struggle these top musicians had to get the takes perfect.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on November 11, 2023, 05:24:11 AM
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The only Louis CD I have, a comp spanning several decades. Open to recommendations.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 11, 2023, 03:28:08 PM
Quote from: vers la flamme on November 11, 2023, 05:24:11 AMThe only Louis CD I have, a comp spanning several decades. Open to recommendations.

Do you like the first two tracks on that? Because they are from the Hot Five, and pretty much everyone, myself included, will tell you that you need the Complete Hot Fives And Hot Sevens, either the 4cd JSP box or the 4cd Columbia. There are some acceptable single disc selections, but you'll soon regret what you're missing.

If you prefer the four tracks at the end you could get the full "Plays W.C.Handy" album that those come from, and would probably also like the similar "Plays Fats Waller" album they haven't sampled.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on November 13, 2023, 03:05:54 AM
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Ugetsu
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 13, 2023, 12:49:25 PM
McCoy.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on November 13, 2023, 01:06:29 PM
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Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

Getting myself into another jazz kick.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 13, 2023, 04:12:27 PM
Recent live set with Emmett Cohen and Houston Person. Needed this tonight.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 14, 2023, 04:32:04 PM
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Chet Baker Quartet No Problem (1980, SteepleChase)

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass
Norman Fearrington, drums
Duke Jordan, piano
Chet Baker, trumpet

I wasn't aware that Baker had an official quartet. Always had the impression that he put together cats who happened to be available and willing. His mystique as some kind of romantic wanderer never really left him. Wonder how long this particular iteration stayed together. Nice album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 17, 2023, 02:45:46 PM
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Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die (World War) (2023)

Currently the highest rated (aggregated critical consensus) album of any genre on AlbumOfTheYear
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 17, 2023, 06:44:53 PM
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Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956, EmArcy)

Brownie and Max get the billing but the entire septet is stellar:

George Morrow, bass
Max Roach, drums
Richie Powell, piano
Sonny Rollins, tenor sax
Clifford Brown, trumpet

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 18, 2023, 12:52:57 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 18, 2023, 01:01:17 PM
The Life of a Song - Geri Allen.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 18, 2023, 01:21:27 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 18, 2023, 01:01:17 PMThe Life of a Song - Geri Allen.


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Soul Eyes
Nice. Thanks, DBK. A few more uncredited personnel on this one -

Marcus Belgrave, flugelhorn
Dwight Andrews, sax
Clifton Anderson, trombone

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 18, 2023, 01:24:36 PM
Quote from: Henk on November 18, 2023, 12:52:57 PM(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OefCSOv6L._SL1500_.jpg)
(https://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/happy/happy0034.gif) The Monk lp I listen to the most. Haven't in a while. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 18, 2023, 03:34:25 PM
https://peterevansmusic.bandcamp.com/album/house-special (https://peterevansmusic.bandcamp.com/album/house-special)

Peter Evans - House Special. Cool use of special effects, cool musicianship. Free download on Bandcamp. Not to be missed.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: vers la flamme on November 19, 2023, 07:27:13 AM
Quote from: Henk on November 18, 2023, 12:52:57 PM(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OefCSOv6L._SL1500_.jpg)

Just put this on.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 19, 2023, 12:49:34 PM
Wallace Roney, Village.


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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Leo K. on November 20, 2023, 01:13:56 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on November 20, 2023, 05:44:26 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 08, 2023, 03:54:03 PM

Fantastic!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on November 21, 2023, 01:41:03 PM
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Clifford Brown et al - Jam Session (1954)

Including a 15-minute "Move" I hadn't heard before
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 23, 2023, 08:13:24 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on November 21, 2023, 01:41:03 PM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Jam_Session_%28album%29.jpg)

Clifford Brown et al - Jam Session (1954)

Including a 15-minute "Move" I hadn't heard before
Cool. That album (judging by the track list) is one in a 10 disc set that I just picked up (and highly recommend).

(https://i.discogs.com/HHUTDZCVlBzgxt7rKiGQTRExHYm0y0OpJCJZ5kT--As/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:528/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNzI0/MzItMTUwMzI1NDk1/NS0yNzk0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Move is one of my favorites. Thanks.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on November 24, 2023, 09:56:17 AM
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Avalon from Django Reinhardt: The Classic Recordings in Chronological Order (2000, JSP Records)

None of the YouTube uploads (that I've heard) do justice to these remastered 30s recordings of Django Reinhardt and company. Been listening to disc 1 of the excellent value 10 CD set (you can get it for literal pennies online) and the quality is much better than you may suspect. The above example is the best rep I could find of this smoking version of Avalon. But get the set. No brainer buy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 27, 2023, 12:48:57 PM
Art.


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music128/v4/ce/c6/1f/cec61ffd-f4fe-43a6-4567-2a5f00d0ae21/00602577011696.rgb.jpg/632x632bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on November 29, 2023, 11:15:55 AM
(https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/871ca3d52284498136f0fca7e90e18af/11238819/mendoza-hoff-revels-echolocation-Cover-Art.jpg)

New release. Quite heavy. Comparable to Mahavishnu Orchestra, if you like them, you will probably like this recording. With James Brandon Lewis on sax.
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Post by: Henk on November 29, 2023, 12:21:38 PM
(https://cdn.tower.jp/ze/o/64/zeMI0005531564.jpg)

With Bisio and Shipp.
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Post by: ando on December 01, 2023, 09:06:52 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on November 27, 2023, 12:48:57 PMArt.


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Farmer doesn't get enough play.

(https://i.discogs.com/gWDZsqxph-nsPt-RxY9E63e_NvNiE4hqtrcQJsZkpo0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0NzA5/MzEtMTU5NTM0MDYz/Ny0xMTQ0LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce (1956, Prestige) YouTube version (https://youtu.be/7g04AiBPWvo?si=w8Pi7u-63PgvpdnU)
Gigi Gryce, alto sax
Addison Farmer, bass
"Philly" Joe Jones, drums
Duke Jordan, piano
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Post by: AnotherSpin on December 01, 2023, 12:43:29 PM
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/za/3a/pnr16k0ui3aza_600.jpg)
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 01, 2023, 04:22:59 PM
(https://img.discogs.com/1bJaoz2eDiG_tx9wzNgcOLRAQQQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11358150-1514903388-4349.jpeg.jpg)

The Double Six Meet Quincey Jones (1960)
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Post by: AnotherSpin on December 02, 2023, 07:32:43 AM
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0230006380_10.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Karl Henning on December 02, 2023, 03:28:14 PM
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Post by: Karl Henning on December 02, 2023, 03:42:23 PM
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Post by: ando on December 04, 2023, 07:57:27 AM
Quote from: Karl Henning on December 02, 2023, 03:42:23 PM

Ha, I'm assuming this is Previn again. Nice; especially his intros (on both vids).
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Post by: ando on December 04, 2023, 08:12:43 AM
more Autumn...

Red Mitchell, bass
Chuck Thompson, drums
Hampton Hawes, piano
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Post by: ando on December 04, 2023, 08:26:39 AM
Longtime fan of Claudia Acuna. Enjoying this 2021 Springfield (Massachusetts) Jazz festival appearance -

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Post by: Karl Henning on December 04, 2023, 08:53:33 AM
Quote from: ando on December 04, 2023, 07:57:27 AMHa, I'm assuming this is Previn again. Nice; especially his intros (on both vids).
Correct!
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Post by: T. D. on December 04, 2023, 05:23:28 PM

No secret who this is, but I like the version
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 04, 2023, 10:48:11 PM

Don't think I've heard a Miles track called "The Mask" before, even on other live sets from this time.

Originally from rom the Jack Johnson sessions, it appears.
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Post by: modified on December 05, 2023, 06:11:53 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/O4wSJcOrYu-zfZHO0RBaNItLDQ3g7ow1qDHekp7BGoU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:534/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgwMTc1/NjUtMTQ1MzU2ODQ0/MC0yODMxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Michel Benita (2010): Ethics
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Post by: relm1 on December 06, 2023, 05:59:05 AM
I introduced my jazz loving uncle to Chet Baker over thanksgiving.  A nice mellow tone and voice. 
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Post by: ando on December 06, 2023, 02:39:41 PM
Quote from: relm1 on December 06, 2023, 05:59:05 AMI introduced my jazz loving uncle to Chet Baker over thanksgiving.  A nice mellow tone and voice. 
He always gave me the impression Charlie Brown on vocals but the horn playing was always fascinating. Classic doc on him is Let's Get Lost. Worth a viewing.

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Post by: T. D. on December 06, 2023, 04:40:38 PM
Also subject of a fictional film Born to be Blue (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2133196/), and involved in one of Bill Moody's jazz mysteries, Looking for Chet Baker. (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/721689)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 07, 2023, 07:48:09 AM
Quote from: T. D. on December 06, 2023, 04:40:38 PMAlso subject of a fictional film Born to be Blue (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2133196/), and involved in one of Bill Moody's jazz mysteries, Looking for Chet Baker. (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/721689)
Really like Ethan Hawke but don't see him as Chet Baker. Different sensibility. Doesn't strike me as a jazz guy.  What do I know? I'll give it a go. Nice, free version on tubi (https://tubitv.com/movies/724540?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed). Put the Moody book in my queue. Thanks.
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Post by: Henk on December 07, 2023, 10:58:40 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 04, 2023, 10:48:11 PM

Don't think I've heard a Miles track called "The Mask" before, even on other live sets from this time.

Originally from rom the Jack Johnson sessions, it appears.

Not 'Live-Evil'?

EDIT: Nice find the recording. I stumbled upon a track from Live-Evil it sounded like, but also BB is being played. What made you think of The Mask?
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Post by: T. D. on December 07, 2023, 01:36:24 PM
Quote from: ando on December 07, 2023, 07:48:09 AMReally like Ethan Hawke but don't see him as Chet Baker. Different sensibility. Doesn't strike me as a jazz guy.  What do I know? I'll give it a go. Nice, free version on tubi (https://tubitv.com/movies/724540?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed). Put the Moody book in my queue. Thanks.

I actually saw the film in a cinema when released, because the mother of female co-star Carmen Ejogo is a local who I (slightly) know. It's OK but not great.

The Bill Moody books are fun from the jazz angle but not blockbuster detective stories. I read two or three of them years ago, and should read the rest.
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Post by: ando on December 07, 2023, 02:46:25 PM
Quote from: T. D. on December 07, 2023, 01:36:24 PMI actually saw the film in a cinema when released, because the mother of female co-star Carmen Ejogo is a local who I (slightly) know. It's OK but not great.

The Bill Moody books are fun from the jazz angle but not blockbuster detective stories. I read two or three of them years ago, and should read the rest.
Man, I hung in for ten minutes, even after it was clear that Hawke was way too uptight to play Baker, and despite the high octave impression the cadences weren't right, on and on... plus with lines like "Who do you like better, me or Miles?" I knew I was in for cringe weather.

I quickly put on Tavernier's Round Midnight to get the taste out of my mouth.  :D Always good to hear Gordon (hey, there's a Chet Baker appearance on the soundtrack).  :P
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Post by: ando on December 09, 2023, 07:53:42 AM
(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ada2d957e70b88ff9f6c3378)
New Moon Daughter Cassandra Wilson (1995, Blue Note)

One of her best albums; Wilson's husky vocals and spare band provide an atmosphere of an intimate club set.
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Post by: AnotherSpin on December 09, 2023, 10:27:54 AM
Quote from: ando on December 09, 2023, 07:53:42 AM(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ada2d957e70b88ff9f6c3378)
New Moon Daughter Cassandra Wilson (1995, Blue Note)

One of her best albums; Wilson's husky vocals and spare band provide an atmosphere of an intimate club set.

Years ago I used this CD to check the sound quality of my sound set when I was swapping tubes, cables, played with spikes/vibration control, placement of components, and so on.
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Post by: ando on December 09, 2023, 10:45:36 AM
Quote from: San Antone on January 24, 2019, 04:08:53 PMNo studio dates, during that time he was recording for Orrin Keepnews (I think the label was Fantasy) who insisted on using name rhythm sections on all his recordings.  Also, we were playing hard-bop along with his R&B hits (Hard Times) whereas Keepnews wanted him to record more urban "smooth" jazz.  I personally think his records during that period are some of his worst.  Both before and after the Keepnews years his records were better.
Wow, not a very positive review of Keepnews' touch. I've been listening to this 2002 extended interview  (https://youtu.be/SAW9HrdwcdM?si=G6wpm_ZaAwvH8Mcy)with the late Riverside Records founder who doesn't sound anything like the producer hack you suggest (?). Or maybe he just likes to talk.  :P

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Post by: ando on December 09, 2023, 10:53:09 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on December 09, 2023, 10:27:54 AMYears ago I used this CD to check the sound quality of my sound set when I was swapping tubes, cables, played with spikes/vibration control, placement of components, and so on.
Interesting. It did get a Grammy for best vocal performance, but like you demonstarte, I find her instrumental arrangements one of the best aspects of her recordings. You can hear that she puts a lot of thought into her ensemble. For years I didn't understand her appeal, but once I relaxed and opened my ears (and heart) a bit she became one of my favorites.
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Post by: Henk on December 09, 2023, 12:35:52 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ynIoxpilL._SL500_.jpg)
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Post by: Henk on December 09, 2023, 01:52:43 PM
(https://a1.cdn.hhv.de/items/images/generated/970x970/01042/1042797/1-john-scofield-uncle-john-s-band.webp)
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Post by: Karl Henning on December 10, 2023, 03:44:20 PM
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on December 11, 2023, 06:28:50 AM
Quote from: ando on December 09, 2023, 10:45:36 AMWow, not a very positive review of Keepnews' touch. I've been listening to this 2002 extended interview  (https://youtu.be/SAW9HrdwcdM?si=G6wpm_ZaAwvH8Mcy)with the late Riverside Records founder who doesn't sound anything like the producer hack you suggest (?). Or maybe he just likes to talk.  :P
I'd love to hear his response to this (always like hearing San Antone's jazz stories) but I do think that Keepnews likes the sound of his own voice, judging from the branding of a "Keepnews Collection" of reissues with pictures from his birthday party replacing information about the performers...
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Post by: ando on December 11, 2023, 09:23:56 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61cWAWP9OTL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Sarah Vaughan Live at Mister Kelly's (1958, Mercury)
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Post by: ando on December 13, 2023, 05:59:26 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/xxpMBiOKRlwasDDntay6gQ-V-eTQe_8Q1z1g-EGLMEM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTg3/MTA4LTE1NjU1MzQx/NTgtMTU3Ny5qcGVn.jpeg)
When I Fall In Love Chris Botti (2004, Columbia)
Spinning this one now. Found it among my mom's (who recently passed) collection. Never took Botti seriously as a horn player (and loathed the whole smooth jazz sound of the 90s/early 00s). But this disc isn't bad; it's certainly relaxing (romantic, I guess), if not particularly memorable. Think it went platinum. Good for Chris.  ;D
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Post by: ando on December 15, 2023, 07:45:27 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/T1r5hvH9/kob.jpg)
Kind of Blue Miles Davis (1959, Columbia) YouTube  (https://youtu.be/La4MyQxuk6k?si=7uNPHR5RB9LdxYZa)
Been a while. Still sounds good.
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Post by: ando on December 15, 2023, 08:30:28 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/3f/6f/543f6ff6de0883cb24c07a3c3d561c79.jpg)
Soapsuds, Soapsuds Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden (1979, Polygram)
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Post by: Henk on December 16, 2023, 12:22:36 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/R6o3VmO7qXnZT_xYsecjEaTdmAvDHHHrw5i58XK3PK4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYxMDg1/LTE1MTY4OTI4MzYt/ODM1MC5qcGVn.jpeg)

Track 1 is the most interesting imo and the longest of both tracks with McLaughlin on guitar doing a great job.
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Post by: ando on December 16, 2023, 08:01:43 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/KvJtNKmg/dayprev1.jpg)
(https://i.discogs.com/tcGR7DuDLSI8KCesfLiMGDmujuagfBWAhvcWPGoc60I/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:581/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3NzQ4/ODUtMTQ1MzYxMTk2/Mi05NDgxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Duet Doris Day, André Previn (1962, Columbia)
Not as good or varied as my favorite Day album, Day Sings Gus Khan (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33GgtvBqRZlV3fSAprk6dE?si=b99ffd47973d4eb9) (I'll See You In My Dreams Soundtrack) but it's a nice late night simmer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 17, 2023, 12:56:11 AM
Quote from: ando on December 16, 2023, 08:01:43 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/KvJtNKmg/dayprev1.jpg)
(https://i.discogs.com/tcGR7DuDLSI8KCesfLiMGDmujuagfBWAhvcWPGoc60I/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:581/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3NzQ4/ODUtMTQ1MzYxMTk2/Mi05NDgxLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Duet Doris Day, André Previn (1962, Columbia)
Not as good or varied as my favorite Day album, Day Sings Gus Khan (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33GgtvBqRZlV3fSAprk6dE?si=b99ffd47973d4eb9) (I'll See You In My Dreams Soundtrack) but it's a nice late night simmer.

That's interesting. I'd been thinking just recently that I wanted to know Days albums better and I don't know that one. I really like Day By Night and would welcome more recommendations.
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Post by: ando on December 17, 2023, 04:37:23 AM
Enjoying more Previn accompaniment, this time with Ella Fitzgerald and members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a live 1979 performance. Boy, this is a beat up VHS transfer but the audio is in remarkably decent shape.

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Post by: AnotherSpin on December 17, 2023, 08:03:00 AM
(https://storage.highresaudio.com/2023/12/15/e8vwb8-owlsong-preview-m3.jpg)
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Post by: AnotherSpin on December 19, 2023, 08:50:32 PM
New release from great Yamamoto Tsuyoshi Trio. Perfect for testing the capabilities of your audio set among other things.

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71exYegidFL._SL1296_.jpg)
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Post by: Henk on December 20, 2023, 09:50:54 AM
(https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/233/233686/991/720/follow-the-red-line-live-at-the-village-vanguard.jpg)

Sounds great. Better than 15 years ago to my ears. Groovy, visceral, intense and Potter in great shape.
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Post by: Henk on December 20, 2023, 11:15:05 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/2Yow-SVs61eKO_GVJmd3ixQzrf2LcZPCQWslm5aK3u4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1MTY2/NjAtMTM0ODczNjI0/OC0xODQzLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Sco's first.

Edit: This is actually his fourth album, third studio album. But it's the first one on Spotify.
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Post by: Henk on December 20, 2023, 11:16:13 AM
NP:
(https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/6062/cover_42242162017_r.jpg)
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Post by: Henk on December 20, 2023, 02:14:21 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 20, 2023, 11:15:05 AM(https://i.discogs.com/2Yow-SVs61eKO_GVJmd3ixQzrf2LcZPCQWslm5aK3u4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1MTY2/NjAtMTM0ODczNjI0/OC0xODQzLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Sco's first.

Edit: This is actually his fourth album, third studio album. But it's the first one on Spotify.

Scofield started his career with Chet Baker and after that George Duke, but most interesting, Mingus I read on the second last recording of the latter: (https://akaru-records.com/images/detailed/15/IMG_2083.JPG)

NP

There is a documentary made of Scofield, looks very interesting. You can watch the preview:
https://scofield.joerg-steineck.com/ (https://scofield.joerg-steineck.com/)

I'm definitely gonna watch it. Curious about his life and the life of a jazz artist.
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 21, 2023, 05:29:09 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.469e3c8103eddcec8c05abb6130f3483?rik=8qVzx4GX1FKh%2fg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on December 21, 2023, 09:56:48 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 20, 2023, 02:14:21 PMScofield started his career with Chet Baker and after that George Duke, but most interesting, Mingus I read on the second last recording of the latter: (https://akaru-records.com/images/detailed/15/IMG_2083.JPG)

NP

There is a documentary made of Scofield, looks very interesting. You can watch the preview:
https://scofield.joerg-steineck.com/ (https://scofield.joerg-steineck.com/)

I'm definitely gonna watch it. Curious about his life and the life of a jazz artist.

Good album from late period of Mingus.
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Post by: Henk on December 22, 2023, 12:01:53 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61omy-GVgjL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg)

Digging Turrentine. Very soulful.
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Post by: Henk on December 22, 2023, 12:03:44 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/FxRjmImDFhqrypTUcgVaQjGkDUgZry1u6OspfoPpiBM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3Nzgy/MDgtMTM3NTIxNjI1/MS0zODIxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Great recording. All players at still young age and in great shape.
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 22, 2023, 01:11:44 PM
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.ce0a0defb2890db17b279d9eaec5980e?rik=PTgne5IdLJ09gg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)

Ellington "Private Collection" Volume 10

Some very interesting reworkings of the "Black, Brown and Beige" material.
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Post by: ando on December 22, 2023, 03:06:04 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/nel3GKx-AsaXQEIbOuoD_xHL8DmzYndPkjiwGo_xDac/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM4NDU0/ODgtMTU0MTk4MTkz/NC02MzIzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
I Concentrate On You: A Tribute To Cole Porter Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell (1974, SteepleChase)
Lee Konitz, alto sax
Red Mitchell, bass, piano
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Post by: SimonNZ on December 22, 2023, 05:28:40 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/81S5PsuS97L._SX425_.jpg)
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Post by: Henk on December 23, 2023, 08:26:51 AM
(https://jazzjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Scofield-John-Swallow-Tales-696x696.jpg)

Great recording. Scofield's best of his more recent work imo. Very fine improvising and nice tunes.
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Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2023, 08:57:41 AM
Dexter Gordon.


(https://i.discogs.com/YXilWKpw0R0sM8SLSsdCqAu036WIJPU2DbGk13T4Fc8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE2NTIx/NTEzLTE2MjExMDgy/NDQtNjA0My5qcGVn.jpeg)
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Post by: ando on December 23, 2023, 01:07:47 PM
(https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/2525/25257258_sa.jpg;maxHeight=640;maxWidth=550)
Herbie Harper Sextet! Herbie Harper Sextet (1957, Mode)
Red Mitchell, bass
Frankie Capp, Mel Lewis, drums
Howard Roberts
Marty Paich, piano
Jay Coré, tenor sax
Herbie Harper, trombone, session leader

5th and last Harper led sextet recording. Solid West Coast jazz outing but the opener, Jay's Tune (after sax man, Coré) and the standard, Skylark, with the uncanny appeal of Harper's crooning trombone are the real winners in my book.
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Post by: ando on December 23, 2023, 01:39:52 PM
Oscar Peterson, piano
Ben Webster, tenor sax
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass
Tony Inzalaco, drums

all legends, in Hanover, circa '72:

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Post by: Henk on December 23, 2023, 02:25:35 PM
Quote from: ando on December 23, 2023, 01:39:52 PMOscar Peterson, piano
Ben Webster, tenor sax
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass
Tony Inzalaco, drums

all legends, in Hanover, circa '72:



I love the sound of Webster. I was/am planning to listen to his works among others (Lockjaw Davis, Basie, Turrentine) the coming days/weeks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Brian on December 23, 2023, 02:29:46 PM
Driving to the family house for Christmas, just played these two:

In Paris - Bud Powell
Why Am I Treated So Bad - Cannonball Adderley Quintet

First time hearing Powell in Paris, the playing is exceptional but I found the Japanese remaster very hard to listen to - drums are extremely loud and piano very quiet. Ballads are easier to appreciate the art at the piano.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on December 24, 2023, 08:10:53 AM
Reading reports of the final concert by The Manhattan Transfer, a few days ago at Disney Hall, has put me in a vocal jazz mood. Here is the Gene Puerling arrangement that they made famous, done by the Alaska Chamber Choir.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 24, 2023, 03:41:38 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/51YdExxZfvL._SX425_.jpg)

Ellington "Private Collection" Vol.9
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 25, 2023, 09:01:41 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/519-ckd7gqL.jpg)
Duke Ellington Small Groups Vol. 2 (1937-38)
Nice disc that I came up with pulling blindly from the box set I just picked up. Amazon Music (https://www.amazon.co.jp/Duke-Ellington-Small-Groups-1937-38/dp/B0051RE788) has it streaming if you can manage your VPN to configure it from the Japan site. U.S. and European addresses are apparently out. What a racket.  8) Did find a nice YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCAeehu67Gqa_WKyHqs9C7w) featuring just the small group sessions. Hopefully they'll add all of them soon!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 25, 2023, 03:52:05 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on December 17, 2023, 12:56:11 AMThat's interesting. I'd been thinking just recently that I wanted to know Days albums better and I don't know that one. I really like Day By Night and would welcome more recommendations.
(https://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/doris-day-youre-my-thrill-ab.jpg)
You're My Thrill (1949, Columbia) full playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mC1IbdrXRQNPxNYnFSnrhnmWoe-_vcgc8&si=IPDFslHll4OAWIAE)
Her very first solo album remains one of her best, imo. I'm not crazy about her backup vocal team, The Mellowmen, but that kind of styling was the trend of the day. Would rather have had an alto sax in their place but I think Columbia execs were hard pressed for middle America sales. Too bad. Nice set, anyway.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on December 25, 2023, 09:26:47 PM
An album featuring two criminally underrated musicians, pianist John Hicks and saxophonist Frank Morgan on Qobuz.

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/tc/o4/y8qxh7qgco4tc_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 26, 2023, 11:11:54 AM
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61RYAAQOT9L.jpg)

(https://img.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2017-11/1510070966_cover.jpg)

Both great. Happy music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on December 27, 2023, 03:12:10 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/71-1bGCNVXL._SX425_.jpg) (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/91BcCeUbFYL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg)

"Berlin '65 / Paris '67" and "Private Collection Vol.6: Dance Dates, California 1958"

The first has the surprise inclusion of a full 14-minute "Ad Lib On Nippon", originally on the Far East Suite album.

The second includes a couple of tracks from the Such Sweet Thunder album (for a dance date!), and while I like that album I find I'm always surprised by the many unexpected ways that material turns up outside the context of that album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on December 28, 2023, 11:36:58 AM
Swingle Singers
A Cappella Amadeus: A Mozart Celebration

I can't say I have purposefully sat down and listened to the Swingle Singers of any generation. I know their tell-tale style, and once thought they were the vocal ensemble singing in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, my first exposure to that type of singing.

This recording is from the Jonathan Rathbone era, after Ward Swingle retired, although he is listed as music advisor here. I sort of miss the overdubbing / double tracking vocal quality of the older era. This later group uses vocalized bass and percussion instead of actual instruments.

My father-in-law gifted me this set years ago with a Manhattan Transfer anthology. Since the girls are at home this week with me, I though I would sit down and give them a listen.
VS


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/71ehbqgPjoL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

From this set:

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273118dc21c7e1316d8f39c627b)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on December 28, 2023, 12:14:45 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/2wt9q0a3UVqA0Xx2BlTvdz6JbuCZa9xVqax9sLcHn_w/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:604/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk4MTQ2/MDItMTQ4Njc0ODU0/OC00MzU0LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Hill's final album. It's wonderful. Hill kept evolving til the end of his life, his music a sublime art and turning into imo what could be rightly described as 'holy' in some way at the end, but not without the creative spirit of fire. He performed at a church in 2007 I guess his final public performace:


(https://www.birdland.com.au/assets/thumbL/642623801321.jpg?20230713134321)

Brandon Lewis's latest and it's great.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 28, 2023, 01:51:46 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/tvDg5eIhlV5jRXC5utEAmJYeDU7pSNSGICrt98vrAEM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1OTQ1/MTEwLTE2MDA2ODI5/OTAtMzIxMy5qcGVn.jpeg)
Crash! Crash (1978, Wifon cassette)
Re-listening now. I initially came across this cassette transfer uploaded to the Tube on my way home today. Every track kept me surprisingly intrigued. Yeah, they're a kind of Weather Report redo but without the sometimes-baffling excursions. And they keep the funk at a high priority. The audio transfer is far from optimal. Might nab a vinyl copy.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on December 29, 2023, 01:12:28 PM
Quote from: VonStupp on December 28, 2023, 11:36:58 AMSwingle Singers
A Cappella Amadeus: A Mozart Celebration

I can't say I have purposefully sat down and listened to the Swingle Singers of any generation. I know their tell-tale style, and once thought they were the vocal ensemble singing in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, my first exposure to that type of singing.

This recording is from the Jonathan Rathbone era, after Ward Swingle retired, although he is listed as music advisor here. I sort of miss the overdubbing / double tracking vocal quality of the older era. This later group uses vocalized bass and percussion instead of actual instruments.

My father-in-law gifted me this set years ago with a Manhattan Transfer anthology. Since the girls are at home this week with me, I though I would sit down and give them a listen.
VS


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/71ehbqgPjoL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)

From this set:

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273118dc21c7e1316d8f39c627b)

A legendary group. I haven't heard most of these recordings, but it looks like they are worth sampling.

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on December 29, 2023, 01:14:27 PM
Andy Bey: Pretty Girl - Can't thank the friend enough who introduced me to Andy Bey.


-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on December 29, 2023, 02:40:45 PM
Quote from: VonStupp on December 28, 2023, 11:36:58 AMSwingle Singers
A Cappella Amadeus: A Mozart Celebration

I can't say I have purposefully sat down and listened to the Swingle Singers of any generation. I know their tell-tale style, and once thought they were the vocal ensemble singing in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, my first exposure to that type of singing.

My father-in-law gifted me this set years ago with a Manhattan Transfer anthology. Since the girls are at home this week with me, I though I would sit down and give them a listen.

Swingle Singers
Bach Hits Back

No wonder the early Swingle Singers focused on Bach; it is as if his music is tailor-made for their particular style. Oddly, the chorales are sung straight, but Bist du bei mir is given the full vocal-jazz treatment.
VS


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/67/6d/02/676d0280-a833-8160-8b97-55621318d3d1/0724354504952_1400x1400_300dpi.jpg/600x600bf-60.jpg)

From this set:

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273118dc21c7e1316d8f39c627b)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on December 29, 2023, 02:44:49 PM
Quote from: brewski on December 29, 2023, 01:12:28 PMA legendary group. I haven't heard most of these recordings, but it looks like they are worth sampling.
-Bruce

It takes an open mind to accept the fusion of classical and jazz; not for everyone, I am sure.

A lot of the old performances are on YouTube. The newer stuff has playlists too:
VS

Swingle Singers YouTube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4EtrepuSj2WrKW8juabOZQ)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on December 29, 2023, 03:24:56 PM
Quote from: VonStupp on December 29, 2023, 02:44:49 PMIt takes an open mind to accept the fusion of classical and jazz; not for everyone, I am sure.

A lot of the old performances are on YouTube. The newer stuff has playlists too:
VS

Swingle Singers YouTube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4EtrepuSj2WrKW8juabOZQ)

Thank you. My first encounter with them was in Berio's Sinfonia, and only later did I backtrack to find some of their other, earlier recordings.

-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 30, 2023, 06:15:33 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/VPHkS7fI98vFrvSb18xJgW53Uvl5HvhQEI9woIEKm3Q/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3NDky/NDEtMTU3MjczNjk1/My01ODQ1LmpwZWc.jpeg)
boss tenor gene ammons (1960, prestige)
Doug Watkins, bass
Ray Barretto, congas
Arthur Taylor, drums
Tommy Flanagan, piano
Gene Ammons, tenor sax
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 30, 2023, 01:11:41 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/iTt4vk-hRh_FOwuTSEDGj9qw2BZzm6BbVaBi9CBi0pg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk5OTc3/NzItMTQ4OTg5MDIw/Ny04MDAzLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Antiphon Alfa Mist (2017, Various)
Mellow, drum n bass/hip hop influenced jazz session. Disc gets a bigger following as time goes on.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on December 30, 2023, 03:35:39 PM
Swingle Singers
1812

What an odd addition. Some tracks are live, some are studio. The live tracks sound a little pushy from The SS, and the singers sound tired; all true aspects of a live performance.

Only a couple 'doo-wah' type songs here; all encore pieces such as the 1812 Overture, the William Tell Overture, and Clair de lune. Oddly they perform Debussy's Trois Chansons straight.

The rest are pure vocal jazz settings of The Beatles and musicals. This outing reminds me of The King's Singers lighter fare recordings; for The Swingle Singers, without much of what made them famous and why many come to listen.
VS


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From this set:

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273118dc21c7e1316d8f39c627b)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: VonStupp on December 31, 2023, 03:33:18 AM
Swingle Singers
Around the World: Folk Songs

The last of this set, and another which reminds me of The King's Singers. Here, the singers mimic indigenous instruments mixed with their vocal-jazz stylings.
VS


(https://www.dibpic.com/uploads/posts/2022-06/1655421863_front.jpg)

From this set:

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273118dc21c7e1316d8f39c627b)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on December 31, 2023, 06:08:26 AM
Shchedrivky are Ukrainian folk songs performed on New Year's Eve, i.e. on the Generous Evening. According to Christmas and New Year's customs, shchedrivkas, like carols, glorify the host and his family. The most well-known shchedrivka performed by The Swingle Singers:

https://youtu.be/hIT303fYf8A?si=RLyoqRWSJ5vAqSyO
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 31, 2023, 06:10:06 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/C5Yp0xgR/IMG-2642.png)
Live at the Barbican, London Brad Mehldau & Mark Giuliana (2013, JZM)
Mehldau, keyboards
Guiliana, drums, percussion, loops
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on December 31, 2023, 07:45:17 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/XDBSMbi_LKrRXxjlSuNfohMFR7NYQGt5WHU18AMfZzE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1Nzc1/NzItMTQxNDA4MDA4/Mi00NDk5LmpwZWc.jpeg)
The Touch Of Your Lips Chet Baker (1979, SteepleChase)
Hushed but poignant playing by everyone on this studio session.

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, bass
Doug Raney, guitar
Chet Baker, trumpet
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Artem on January 01, 2024, 06:21:19 AM
That's a great Baker's disk. I got it not too long ago and it quickly became my favorite.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 01, 2024, 08:34:10 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/9fKnGL09/ghosts1.jpg)
Ghosts Peter Evans Quintet (2011, More Is More)

Tom Blancarte, bass
Jim Black, drums
Carlos Homs, piano
Peter Evans, trumpet, piccolo
Sam Pluta, electronics, live mixing

This disc established a rep as one of the albums leading jazz in a new direction in the 2010s. (It'd make a great Paul Schrader soundtrack.) I'm all about an album (or any work of art, for that matter) having a discernable though-line and, as we all know, the opaque language of ghosts precludes such an approach. But Ibsen did it. Why can't we? These are compelling fragments to an indecipherable whole, imo; though it does wrap up my 2023 quite well. :D
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 01, 2024, 08:57:11 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/-4bfgOh2uEMGvmq1fsFwsRuawn7Yg4Hy07mLcokZn-8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTY5/NjM5LTE1NjUxNTcz/NTktMzQ2NS5qcGVn.jpeg)
The Remarkable Carmell Jones Carmell Jones Quintet (1961, World Pacific)

Gary Peacock, bass
Leon Pettis, drums
Frank Strazzeri, piano
Harold Land, tenor sax
Carmell Jones, trumpet
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 02, 2024, 06:30:40 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/miMx21B23QbQaBrYiKzn-EPYxMWS-x1j2jvK9qwHz4U/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTcwNDM5/MTMtMTQzMjQwMjE3/MS00MjAwLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Conception (1956, Esquire/Prestige)
Early 50s hodge-podge of leaders and dates on the same label. Hodge-podge of greats, though.
full lineup (https://www.discogs.com/release/7043913-Miles-Davis-Stan-Getz-Gerry-Mulligan-Lee-Konitz-Sonny-Rollins-Zoot-Sims-Conception)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on January 02, 2024, 06:55:44 AM
Perfect fusion album from 70s. With Jan Hammer, Zbigniew Seifert, Jack Bruce.

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/43/35/4056813003543_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on January 02, 2024, 09:34:55 AM
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/4a/ir/rs24m5nf3ir4a_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 02, 2024, 04:54:56 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/I/71KgPaQtB-L._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 04, 2024, 12:58:26 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/-zrNaGsakM_U2oz7DPY_L6owRgfi4RYzpsYTVGVCIXk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjc2/NzU0LTE1NTMwMjcx/MzktMjQyNy5qcGVn.jpeg)

Fine Sco. Bluffing, mocking, without a trace of hesitation or nerve.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: karti1999 on January 06, 2024, 01:52:06 PM
This work of genius!
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 09, 2024, 12:16:25 PM
Ellington "Private Collection" Volume One

Everything is wonderful, but I was particularly surprised that the long closing track hadn't been released before this.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 10, 2024, 04:49:15 PM
Quote from: ando on December 15, 2023, 08:30:28 PM(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/3f/6f/543f6ff6de0883cb24c07a3c3d561c79.jpg)
Soapsuds, Soapsuds Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden (1979, Polygram)


It's been years, decades even, but I used to love this one. The Mary Hartman theme especially, with Coleman's sax intoning the 'Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman! call from the tv show.

Wonder if I still have the LP.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 10, 2024, 04:56:52 PM
Quote from: Henk on December 22, 2023, 12:03:44 PM(https://i.discogs.com/FxRjmImDFhqrypTUcgVaQjGkDUgZry1u6OspfoPpiBM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ3Nzgy/MDgtMTM3NTIxNjI1/MS0zODIxLmpwZWc.jpeg)

Great recording. All players at still young age and in great shape.

I had their first album (high school classmate lent it to me and I bought the cassette, and pretty sure I upgraded to CD when it came out). I bought this second one when it came out. But for whatever reason, I've probably never listened to it after the initial few listens. I need to dig it out. Both of them.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on January 10, 2024, 10:54:10 PM
The seminal mid-seventies album in Chick Corea's oeuvre. Stylistic diversity, magnificent compositions, great mood. First heard it on a double LP in the late seventies, since then I have listened to it not often, but every time with great pleasure.

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/32/30/0073145433032_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 11, 2024, 02:34:44 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on January 10, 2024, 10:54:10 PMThe seminal mid-seventies album in Chick Corea's oeuvre. Stylistic diversity, magnificent compositions, great mood. First heard it on a double LP in the late seventies, since then I have listened to it not often, but every time with great pleasure.

(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/32/30/0073145433032_600.jpg)

Great album.

Think I first had it on 8-track.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on January 11, 2024, 10:24:50 PM
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/fc/vc/qpjh7v0b2vcfc_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 13, 2024, 09:22:33 AM
(https://youtu.be/9Iv__walYL4?si=Djv_S4lxJD3B_5ts)
Diana Krall Live In Paris (2002, Verve) full playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0q2VleZJVEn25sECBIoXHLHIk_m7DlQ_&si=2-fjM_r9wehM9GpU)
Christian McBride, bass
John Clayton, bass
Jeff Hamilton, drums
Anthony Wilson, guitar
Luis Quintero, percussion
Paulinho Da Costa, percussion
Michael Brecker, tenor sax
Orchestre Symphonique Europeen
Diana Krall, piano, vocals


One of my favorites. Good to hear again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 13, 2024, 09:55:17 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/0NSv4HDr/89f-cover.jpg)
Swing Time CD 89 All-Star Groups Vol. 4 1943-44
Mountain Air by the Charlie Shavers Quintet, above, is one of many stunners on this ST installment.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 13, 2024, 03:17:00 PM
This album:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ckjF+Y21L._SY355_.jpg)

From this set:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41I8XC9Tc5L.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 14, 2024, 10:57:17 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Hugh_Masekela_%E2%80%93_The_Americanization_Of_Ooga_Booga.jpg)

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 15, 2024, 08:17:18 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 14, 2024, 10:57:17 PM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Hugh_Masekela_%E2%80%93_The_Americanization_Of_Ooga_Booga.jpg)

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)
Giant. Good to hear again. Thanks. This album, what is essentially the rest of that live 1965 set from which OOga Booga was made, followed a few years later -

lasting impressions of HUGH MASKELA (1968, mgm)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: T. D. on January 15, 2024, 02:52:58 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 14, 2024, 10:57:17 PM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Hugh_Masekela_%E2%80%93_The_Americanization_Of_Ooga_Booga.jpg)

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)

Wow. I'm shocked by the title of this album.

Having lived in Kenya (former British colony) for two years as a youth, I have some experience with British humour, and there's an ancient and rather disgusting joke (variously in African, South American and island settings) about "ooga-booga". The curious can google.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2024, 03:08:14 PM
Quote from: T. D. on January 15, 2024, 02:52:58 PMWow. I'm shocked by the title of this album.

Having lived in Kenya (former British colony) for two years as a youth, I have some experience with British humour, and there's an ancient and rather disgusting joke (variously in African, South American and island settings) about "ooga-booga". The curious can google.

I'm sure it was intended to be provocative/political.

And like @ando said, its a really great album.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 15, 2024, 04:30:07 PM
Perhaps more for the movie thread, but after being described in the Ellington biography I'm picking away at I watched his fisrt film, the 20-minute "Black ad Tan" from 1929 (which includes some 1929 racism in the two black piano-movers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWge47vuatY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tan_(film)


They also drew attention to an Okeh track called "Old Man Blues" I hadn't much noticed before:




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 15, 2024, 06:01:47 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 15, 2024, 04:30:07 PMPerhaps more for the movie thread, but after being described in the Ellington biography I'm picking away at I watched his fisrt film, the 20-minute "Black ad Tan" from 1929 (which includes some 1929 racism in the two black piano-movers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWge47vuatY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tan_(film)


They also drew attention to an Okeh track called "Old Man Blues" I hadn't much noticed before:

Great stuff. Hadn't seen the film in its entirety. Thanks.  :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on January 15, 2024, 06:43:04 PM
(https://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/4b/pa/mmbma301dpa4b_600.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 16, 2024, 06:16:31 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Dudu_Pukwana_In_the_Townships.jpg)

Dudu Pukwana - In The Townships (1974)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/LenoxAveBreakdownCover.jpg/220px-LenoxAveBreakdownCover.jpg)

Arthur Blythe - Lennox Avenue Breakdown (1979)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 17, 2024, 03:38:25 AM
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BEkAAOSwrqthyQ0R/s-l1600.jpg)

(Odd photo from eBay)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 03:29:48 AM
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Debated, as I often do, about which thread to put this in.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 19, 2024, 11:46:00 AM
Quote from: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 03:29:48 AM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516XCyJqThL.jpg)

Debated, as I often do, about which thread to put this in.
Ha. No "Third Stream" thread on the site, eh?

Third Stream is, of course, how Orbert Davis describes his muisc; a kind of jazz-meets-classical hybrid. The piece apparently celebrates the history of the Chicago River in the industrial age and as you listen you can hear phrases and passages that clearly quote musical events of the late 19th through early 21st centuries. I see the double CD and DVD (which has hisorical images to accompany the music) have been out a few years. Might pick up a copy. Thanks! full YouTube playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kt4QvRuO4CHlkcPUSxxz9B7pcCS8pa0J4&si=FOFzAs6FixFRe0S0)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 02:06:10 PM
A couple years ago, I tried to purchase all the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic titles I didn't have. They were all unavailable on Amazon, at least for my location, so I ordered them directly from the CJP. Alas, a few hours later, my money was refunded with a note that they no longer ship internationally and a suggestion to order the digital downloads.

I'm not a huge fan of downloads but yesterday I broke down and ordered them.

It seems gone now, but several years back there was a YouTube video (at least I assume it was on YouTube) of the Gil Evans arrangement of the Concierto de Aranjuez with Orbert Davis as the soloist and Bill Russo conducting.

Those two co-taught my Jazz Comp & Orchestration class, which I think was the only class I had with Davis. Our final pieces were performed by members of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and boy did I learn a lot from that.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 19, 2024, 02:19:01 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 02:06:10 PMA couple years ago, I tried to purchase all the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic titles I didn't have. They were all unavailable on Amazon, at least for my location, so I ordered them directly from the CJP. Alas, a few hours later, my money was refunded with a note that they no longer ship internationally and a suggestion to order the digital downloads.

I'm not a huge fan of downloads but yesterday I broke down and ordered them.

It seems gone now, but several years back there was a YouTube video (at least I assume it was on YouTube) of the Gil Evans arrangement of the Concierto de Aranjuez with Orbert Davis as the soloist and Bill Russo conducting.

Those two co-taught my Jazz Comp & Orchestration class, which I think was the only class I had with Davis. Our final pieces were performed by members of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and boy did I learn a lot from that.
Interesting. What do you play?

Btw, here's the clip -


Of course, I'm bringing out the Miles recording for comparison. I haven't heard many versions of the piece. Thanks!
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Post by: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 02:29:13 PM
That's it. Thanks.

And piano.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 19, 2024, 02:43:44 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 19, 2024, 02:06:10 PMIt seems gone now, but several years back there was a YouTube video (at least I assume it was on YouTube) of the Gil Evans arrangement of the Concierto de Aranjuez with Orbert Davis as the soloist and Bill Russo conducting...

When I referred to my limited exposure of of Concierto, I meant jazz takes. It's, of course, one of the most famous works written for the guitar and I assumed I owned an Andres Segovia rendition. But he never recorded it. Apparently, Rodrigo offered the premiere of the piece to Segovia but he refused to play it, claiming a scheduling conflict and problems with its construction. Rodrigo then gave it to Regino Sainz de la Maza who performed it in public for the first time in Barcelona, 1940. Whether or not Segovia regarded it as a snub or simply unworthy we'll never know but he never recorded nor performed it live.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 19, 2024, 03:00:16 PM
Stunning version of Concierto -

Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Narciso Yepes, guitar
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 20, 2024, 11:09:34 AM
Keeping in the spirit of the Spanish/American, classical/jazz hybrid I'm spinning one I haven't listed to in a while -

(https://i.discogs.com/gNocI_eTp6YRExD0bSGTYuSFBTyUQQj0caMLMMWtooo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg5NTkx/Mi0xNjgyNDUzOTk1/LTQ5MzAuanBlZw.jpeg)
White Rabbit George Benson (1972, CTI) full playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJKSJlZX7zTBA7c5_lq8xe1nK4FCcfA7Y&si=7koZOwaXzDLgoZrr)

I also like what Benson had to say about the current state of jazz a couple of years ago -

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 20, 2024, 12:19:45 PM
More guitar centered jazz - and a trip to the eye doctor. When a track from Albert Vila's 2023 album came on my Apple Music shuffle I liked it and immediately went to YouTube and typed Beauty is Nuisance, Albert Avila.  ;D

(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1570972148_65)
Reality Is Nuance Albert Vila (Fresh Sound New Talent)
full playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nLfIat7zokSYfqBWSRI-kylrj0rZtEplY&si=5CNSzeeeVr0kR8_D)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 20, 2024, 01:06:18 PM
Pleasantly weird cover art. Too pleasant for the Worst Cover thread and too weird for the Beautiful one.

Will give it a listen a bit later.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: DavidW on January 20, 2024, 03:14:57 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 20, 2024, 01:06:18 PMPleasantly weird cover art. Too pleasant for the Worst Cover thread and too weird for the Beautiful one.

Will give it a listen a bit later.

It looks like something from Monty Python! :laugh: Yeah I love it. :)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 21, 2024, 02:58:32 PM
The Amazing Bud Powell.


(https://cdsvinyljapan.com/cdn/shop/products/4988031172070.jpg?v=1655393391)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 23, 2024, 10:48:58 AM
A bit off-topic, but I just saw the documentary 'Inside Joe Scofield' I posted about a couple weeks earlier. It was very pleasant, brings you closer to the musician and the music, you got to see such documentaries. Has anyone other recommandations of documentaries about jazz?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 23, 2024, 03:27:34 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/doItxge5iaDY0-9ejgDVTTRekdzWXe-8ssVlHJV85W8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:546/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkwMDMw/NDUtMTQ3MzE3NjUy/OC01MzM0LmpwZWc.jpeg)


I mentioned this above, saying they did Gil Evans' arrangement. Now that I've listened to the whole thing, it's not quite that score, though it is very close.

You can't just purchase the score and parts, so to pull this off, they would have to transcribe it from the record. I remember Russo used to hire people to transcribe some big band charts for his performances. (It used to boggle my mind how people could do that, especially in pre-DAW days; today I'm slightly less impressed, not because of technology but because I've developed my abilities a little, but it's still a very impressive skill.)

Anyway, in the end, it's an arrangement that's quite faithful to the original (er, to Evans' rather), but it has been arranged for the CJP and their instrumentation, and they've exercised a very restrained degree of freedom in other aspects.

Note: The digital album does not include the liner notes, which may explain this situation more accurately than I am. There's some guesswork and assumptions on my part.




Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 23, 2024, 03:28:09 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 16, 2024, 06:16:31 PMArthur Blythe - Lennox Avenue Breakdown (1979)

What are your thoughts on this album?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2024, 04:43:52 PM
Quote from: Henk on January 23, 2024, 10:48:58 AMA bit off-topic, but I just saw the documentary 'Inside Joe Scofield' I posted about a couple weeks earlier. It was very pleasant, brings you closer to the musician and the music, you got to see such documentaries. Has anyone other recommandations of documentaries about jazz?

Have you seen Ken Burns overview of ten 2-hour episodes?

Besides that I can't think of many jazz documentaries I call much better than just okay. Maybe the one on Chet Baker called "Lets Get Lost". Or the one on Monk called "Straight, No Chaser".
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 23, 2024, 04:48:56 PM
Quote from: KevinP on January 23, 2024, 03:28:09 PMWhat are your thoughts on this album?

I've only heard it twice, and the previous time was five or so years ago. But both times I loved it, they generate great excitement and interaction from what is an unlikely combination of instruments.

Do you ask because you disagree with its Penguin Crown rating?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on January 23, 2024, 05:32:45 PM
Let's say I find it overstated. The few times I've heard it I thought it was okay, but I tend to forget about as soon as I put it away.

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 24, 2024, 05:50:17 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 23, 2024, 04:43:52 PMHave you seen Ken Burns overview of ten 2-hour episodes?

Besides that I can't think of many jazz documentaries I call much better than just okay. Maybe the one on Chet Baker called "Lets Get Lost". Or the one on Monk called "Straight, No Chaser".

Thanks for the reply. I will watch the one about Monk. It's on Youtube (with Italian subtitles though).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on January 24, 2024, 11:05:59 AM
Quote from: Henk on January 24, 2024, 05:50:17 AMThanks for the reply. I will watch the one about Monk. It's on Youtube (with Italian subtitles though).

There is also a more recent one on Lee Morgan, "I Called Him Lee", which I haven't yet seen but know has had strong recommendations.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on January 24, 2024, 03:33:00 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 24, 2024, 11:05:59 AMThere is also a more recent one on Lee Morgan, "I Called Him Lee", which I haven't yet seen but know has had strong recommendations.

Not that into Morgan, but very interested. Will search for it. Thanks again.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 25, 2024, 06:41:25 PM
There are a few good jazz docs out there. One of my favorites -

(https://i.discogs.com/GGz7LK2FfOBREnYApQa_fLwt0g7KWLkgTb_NYa2R9k4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:444/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyMjY3/OTUyLTE1MzE3OTQx/NDQtNjE5Ni5qcGVn.jpeg)
(https://youtu.be/Y8qOcKPYDtE?si=yqLF7mBDuMYMg3Lf)
Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday (1991,  Matthew Seig)
The firsthand accounts of Billie from her peers (who were still alive at the time); good editing, particularly the samples of Billie's best recordings and Ruby Dee's narration from Billie's memoir, Lady Sings The Blues, are mostly what makes this one stand out from the others. Gotta mention Audra Macdonald's turn as Billie in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (2016, HBO). Not a documentary as much as a document (sometimes eerily so) of what the real Lady Day was like.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 26, 2024, 09:02:54 AM
Anyone watch this one? It's a 3 and a half hour look at the development of sax man, Wayne Shorter, who passed on last year. Currently streaming on Prime Video (//http://Hey%20I'm%20watching%20Wayne%20Shorter:%20Zero%20Gravity.%20Check%20it%20out%20now%20on%20Prime%20Video!).

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/pv-target-images/f51398cfc8dbe989bde9503b1d91c52f589d0699ea59cbc700d3724689145d84._UY500_UX667_RI_TTW_.png)
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Post by: ando on January 28, 2024, 09:42:24 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/mpxFTmdRBcUypTF7v3-WIy5-87DPdZ03bl0iVXPRmyg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5MzQ1/MTAtMTQ3MzE2MDQw/Mi00MjQyLmpwZWc.jpeg)
The Jazz Workshop George Russell (1957, RCA Victor) full playlist (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQYN6qZq1JDy0llCBKkeiksJccfIlktxQ&si=8Tw0RlgFcn95XVgH)
Ye Hypocrite popped on my AM shuffle and I decided to give Russell's debut album a listen...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on January 29, 2024, 02:12:17 PM
Wallace Roney Quintet.


(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/415-s9D85OL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 29, 2024, 03:10:43 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/JBU8bmBbc2Pctlp6n-DrMy6Iga0CAet3X9m8TipGBe4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxMjg5/ODctMTQ1NTY3NDc2/Ny04ODQ2LmpwZWc.jpeg)
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Post by: modified on January 30, 2024, 04:03:36 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/TmHEb-p0tuRFxc0iVe8DcFvbe2ERAynA9l1NlZexNcs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:562/w:561/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NDky/MTI3LTE1NzU2NDQ5/MzEtNjc0OC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Pat Thomas (2019): BleySchool
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Post by: Henk on January 30, 2024, 06:28:09 AM
Quote from: modified on January 30, 2024, 04:03:36 AM(https://i.discogs.com/TmHEb-p0tuRFxc0iVe8DcFvbe2ERAynA9l1NlZexNcs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:562/w:561/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NDky/MTI3LTE1NzU2NDQ5/MzEtNjc0OC5qcGVn.jpeg)
Pat Thomas (2019): BleySchool

After Paul Bley?
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on January 30, 2024, 11:27:57 AM
Quote from: Henk on January 30, 2024, 06:28:09 AMAfter Paul Bley?
One more Ida Lupino...
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on January 30, 2024, 02:54:53 PM
(https://i.discogs.com/Cp-e-0IpDBLUOF483Fs1-7NSzbpwm--SumkSGBPCZWc/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:588/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMjUx/MzE1LTE1MTI3NTc1/NjEtNTg0Mi5qcGVn.jpeg)
Introducing Wayne Shorter (1959, Vee Jay)
Paul Chambers, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums
Wynton Kelly, piano
Lee Morgan, trumpet
Wayne Shorter, tenor sax
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 01, 2024, 05:18:12 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Jazz_at_the_Pawnshop.jpg)

Surprised to find this in the 2 dollar bin today.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 01, 2024, 07:32:01 PM
Jackie McLean, Jacknife.


(https://i.discogs.com/JIo-5NJ9WEvOm4LbTOv1L7OgDR2k7zXzs4xA0lyoC6s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:596/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY3ODc4/Ny0xNjU5MDU0Mzky/LTU5MjYuanBlZw.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 02, 2024, 10:56:43 AM
Audra doing her Billie routine.  ;D She's good!

Crazy He Calls Me
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 02, 2024, 10:58:44 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 01, 2024, 05:18:12 PM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Jazz_at_the_Pawnshop.jpg)

Surprised to find this in the 2 dollar bin today.
Thanks!  8)

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 02, 2024, 11:36:20 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/iOXFfcUo4HjHieCMCWqz1KZXheSjl3JA_XmfN0dYnvQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4OTg3/NTk1LTE2MjI2NTcw/OTMtMTE0MS5qcGVn.jpeg)
All Mine And Yours Ray Bryant (1989, Gramarcy)
Rufus Reid, bass
Winard Harper, drums
Ray Bryant, piano

Low key, straight-ahead noodling.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 03, 2024, 01:26:37 AM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81koOLUXZ7L._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2024, 04:32:13 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514ATxZDI6L._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)

I grabbed this thinking it was an album I hadn't heard before, but it turns out to be selections from his two RCA albums Strictly Powell and Swinging With Bud.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 03, 2024, 11:13:39 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71lnNl7fQoL._SX425_.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Duke_%26_Teresa.jpg)

Duke Ellington and Teresa Brewer - It Don't Mean A Thing (1973)

Never heard of this album before finding it yesterday. Original cover on the right, the one I got on the left.

Nothing revolutionary, but impeccably done, nonetheless.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 05, 2024, 06:36:34 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+NHBCQaLL._UX358_FMwebp_QL85_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 10:32:58 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/TheGreatParisConcert.jpg)

Its been a while since I owned this on lp, but my memory is of it being one of those late concerts where he would talk for too long between tunes and (for me) kill the mood.

This 2cd set has an additional 10 tracks not on the double lp, and has fit them in a least to some extent by taking out all the chat, apart from the odd "Ray Nance, everybody!". Which made for a really good listen.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 06, 2024, 01:49:11 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 10:32:58 AM(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/TheGreatParisConcert.jpg)

My perception of this album is heavily modulated by the memory of buying the CD and it being defective, missing the second disc and the back cover was all messed up. Must have been in the days of long boxes, else I'd've noticed. Sure, I could take it back, but I'd discarded the receipt, and I was shy and uncomfortable (as a child, I once tried to return something to a particularly unpleasant storeowner). And so I don't think I ever bothered to listen to even disc 1 since I couldn't finish it.

I finally (re)purchased it a few years ago, and marriage cured me of being afraid to return things to the shop.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2024, 01:53:48 PM
Phil Woods & Tom Harrell.


(https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/fb/15/f9/mzi.grygnmpo.jpg/620x620bb.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 02:21:32 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KCVlfZWZL._AC_SX450_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2024, 03:08:04 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 02:21:32 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KCVlfZWZL._AC_SX450_.jpg)


Seen the movie, Kansas City? I think it's a fun movie with some jazz music.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 03:36:07 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2024, 03:08:04 PMSeen the movie, Kansas City? I think it's a fun movie with some jazz music.

Haven't seen it. Will check it out. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 06, 2024, 03:38:16 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 03:36:07 PMHaven't seen it. Will check it out. Thanks.

Quincy Jones is in the movie!

Ed; Sorry, Harry Belafonte. I thought it was Quincy, but I was wrong. I saw the movie decades ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: brewski on February 06, 2024, 04:49:03 PM
After seeing Samara Joy on the GRAMMYs the other night (a surprisingly good show), revisiting some of her work. Love both of these: "Guess Who I Saw Today" and "Lush Life."



-Bruce
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 06, 2024, 06:28:45 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/819FcqNhWRL._SX425_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 07, 2024, 05:18:37 PM
Bird, Montreal.


(https://i.discogs.com/_7EvaOqCAVDStn5YM-lCEXKvZZx_n2U8qOT83Oh1jDs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:393/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYyNTIw/NjAtMTQxNDgzMDg4/Mi0xNTc3LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 07, 2024, 05:28:57 PM
Not long ago I was listening to this set:

(https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=wS4Tzm6HPzq7Z9l9AJY9t1WnbEN5fCjifro6xhIBuB4=&f=4)

And I decided that I no longer really enjoy Coltrane's late career style.  I have gotten to the point where I mainly enjoy melodic jazz, i.e. where the solos are not scalar, based on the harmonies, but melodic, based on the tune/head.

I have been listening instead to a lot of Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on February 08, 2024, 01:18:08 PM
(https://data.opus3a.com/product_photo/3d/3d21b46e90cdd97094a790cc623857c9/MAX/7f4e05bbd591750de4a533974f5e5f67.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 08, 2024, 01:38:22 PM
Quote from: San Antone on February 07, 2024, 05:28:57 PM...I have been listening instead to a lot of Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.
How do you feel about Biederbecke? I seldom hear his name mentioned anymore (nor see his stuff on jazz shelves second hand music stores). I'd love a nice box set of him and his collaborators.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 08, 2024, 01:55:33 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 05, 2024, 06:36:34 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+NHBCQaLL._UX358_FMwebp_QL85_.jpg)
Ok, I JUST saw this!  :laugh:

and I did find this exceptional Bix playlist (https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqZtMJwUx_VOdLxCPeOVVHTg9rSH55Ir&si=wiJBJq3wEg8gxQ_9) on the Tube. Might have to do for now.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 08, 2024, 04:57:48 PM
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61uEk5FzXIL._SY300_SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: San Antone on February 08, 2024, 05:35:37 PM
Quote from: ando on February 08, 2024, 01:38:22 PMHow do you feel about Biederbecke? I seldom hear his name mentioned anymore (nor see his stuff on jazz shelves second hand music stores). I'd love a nice box set of him and his collaborators.

He did some excellent stuff, sadly not enough was recorded since his life was truncated due to alcoholism.  Louis Armstrong considered him a peer.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 10, 2024, 09:57:58 PM
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Bought the score for The Tattooed Bride this morning, so that's what I'm listening to.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on February 12, 2024, 01:44:10 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on January 23, 2024, 04:43:52 PMHave you seen Ken Burns overview of ten 2-hour episodes?

Besides that I can't think of many jazz documentaries I call much better than just okay. Maybe the one on Chet Baker called "Lets Get Lost". Or the one on Monk called "Straight, No Chaser".

I've just watched 'Straight, no Chaser'. Could hardly understand the words, but I liked watching it. It got me a sense of Monk's personality. It seems to me a man both in the way he lived as in his music was to turn the heavy into light, always trying to escape the heavy by the light (as is shown often in the film he just wanders and spins himself around in a circle). Just my perception and opinion though. All those jazz artist seem to me having relatively straightforward lives consisting of making music with friends, perform and recording with the common things organized around it. Though simple as it seems, as in the case with Monk, he could be a very complicated man (though that could be explained by some mental disorder).
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 14, 2024, 01:12:40 PM
Tal Farlow Private Recordings.


(https://i.discogs.com/seDS6WUYJtB7HszlRZ51q6xrOFn3l8x9USHGUkTpQvw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA0/NzctMTQzMTA3MzQ0/Ni0zNTkyLmpwZWc.jpeg)


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 14, 2024, 03:21:27 PM

Watching the 9 1/2 minute Duke Ellington 1935 film "Symphony In Black", built around his composition "A Rhapsody of Negro Life".

Its actually really well made and inventively shot. And includes a young Billie Holiday in a bit I'd seen excerpted before.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 15, 2024, 06:27:27 PM
The Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Frank Foster – Live At El Morocco.


(https://i.discogs.com/IveGNk0AZ7CDGiEUOYVSB4BNJUJKWrMVmZXno9z9mVo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4ODkz/NjAtMTM3ODU3Nzcy/Ni00OTk3LmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Henk on February 17, 2024, 06:03:15 AM
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Great recording. European free jazz.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 17, 2024, 08:13:09 PM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on February 15, 2024, 06:27:27 PMThe Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Frank Foster – Live At El Morocco.


(https://i.discogs.com/IveGNk0AZ7CDGiEUOYVSB4BNJUJKWrMVmZXno9z9mVo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:596/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4ODkz/NjAtMTM3ODU3Nzcy/Ni00OTk3LmpwZWc.jpeg)

Telarc really has a blind spot when it comes to covers.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on February 17, 2024, 10:14:48 PM
Girl Talk - Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio

(https://i.discogs.com/jYJZRkZHMphHVgOc28dVAn5Z2ANB0MTE3Naiq4FpNcI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkwNDg1/ODktMTY3NjczNTcw/Ni02NjQwLmpwZWc.jpeg)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on February 18, 2024, 10:11:35 PM
John Surman - Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Rob Luft - Guitar
Rob Waring- Vibraphone
Thomas Strønen - Drums

(https://ecm-server.de/audio/06024586/0602458620351/Cover_1000.webp)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 19, 2024, 09:32:45 PM
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Bought a few months ago, shelved after a cursory listen, but now I have been listening to it virtually nonstop for the past two or three weeks. Love it.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: modified on February 21, 2024, 10:36:41 AM
(https://i.discogs.com/Qb2QOTgZmQSc6kYl7fkq0mv6pI3i-zQxLer0p3yB4A0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:527/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NjQ2/OTctMTIyODkxOTgx/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg)
McCoy Tyner (2008): Guitars

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 23, 2024, 12:59:39 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on February 26, 2024, 03:28:24 PM
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"Turn on the Heat: The Fats Waller Piano Solos"
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 27, 2024, 02:37:08 PM
Quote from: SimonNZ on February 26, 2024, 03:28:24 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/413RGWVSY2L.jpg)

"Turn on the Heat: The Fats Waller Piano Solos"
8) Just bought a load of Fats CDs (local secondhand music shop). Doesn't seem to be any comprehensive box sets of his stuff out there. Glad to see peeps still spinning him.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: ando on February 28, 2024, 12:52:39 PM
Would You Like To Take A Walk?

Emmet Cohen, Piano
Joy Brown, Vocals
Abdias Armenteros, Tenor Saxophone
Philip Norris, Bass
Kyle Poole, Drums

nice Cohen (Standard) follow up...

It Could Happen To You

Emmet Cohen - Piano
Philip Norris - Bass
Kyle Poole - Drums
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on February 28, 2024, 03:12:17 PM
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A two-fer, with School of Rebellion and Seven Deadly Sins.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 05, 2024, 05:25:27 PM
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Where else can you hear a medley of Stravinsky and the Mahavishnu Orchestra?

In this day and age, the name of this 1973 single-disc release is confusing. I kept getting notifications like 'Your Giant Box will be delivered today', and I kept thinking, 'What did I order a giant box of?', thinking it must be something I pre-ordered months ago.
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Daverz on March 06, 2024, 01:07:32 PM
This came into my youtube feed:

Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on March 07, 2024, 04:19:11 AM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on March 08, 2024, 08:18:45 PM
Count Basie Orchestra w. Irene Reid.


Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 10, 2024, 09:15:34 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 11, 2024, 05:31:47 PM
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Paul Desmond - Glad To Be Unhappy (1964)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 12, 2024, 04:08:02 PM
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Gary Burton - Country Roads And Other Places (1969)
Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: SimonNZ on March 13, 2024, 05:14:49 PM
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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: AnotherSpin on March 15, 2024, 12:34:56 AM
today's release

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Title: Re: What Jazz are you listening to now?
Post by: KevinP on March 16, 2024, 03:28:07 AM
This album:

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but from this release:

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George Russell was a very interesting fellow. Wish I hadn't waited so long to dig into him.

Plus, where else are you going to hear John Coltrane and Doc Severenson on the same tracks?