What Jazz are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya: Home (1983)

Oooooh! Love that one!

Played these two brand new ones last night, both very enjoyable:

[SimonNZ]

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:



Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well (1985)
Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw - Double Take (1985)



Tom Harrell - Moon Alley (1986)
Clifford Jordan - Royal Ballads (1986)



Michael Weiss - Presenting Michael Weiss (1986)
Jimmy Knepper - Dream Dancing (1986)

[Mirror Image]

Listening to this one yet again. Gorgeous and the interplay between Wheeler, Taylor, Abercrombie, Holland, and Erskine is just unbelievable.

[Spineur]

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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[SimonNZ]

Carmen Lundy - Good Morning Kiss (1986)
Mark Murphy - Living Room (1986)



Ray Anderson - It Just So Happens (1987)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/-TaaCkjoITQ

[SimonNZ]

Hank Jones and Red Mitchell - Duo (1987)
Woody Shaw - Imagination (1987)



Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff - Steppin Up (1987)

[king ubu]

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).

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/pWTLqmV3-z4

[king ubu]

First listen - great fun!

[SimonNZ]

Kirk Lightsey and Marcus Belgrave - Kirk 'n Marcus (1987)
Woody Shaw - Solid (1987)



Franco Ambrosetti - Movies Too (1988)
Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif (1988)

[SimonNZ]

Jim Snidero - Mixed Bag (1988)
Jimmy McGriff - Blue To The Bone (1988)



Donald Byrd - Harlem Blues (1988)
Tommy Flanagan - Jazz Poet (1989)



Don Cherry - Art Deco (1989)

[king ubu]

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):

[SimonNZ]

Hank Crawford - Night Beat (1989)
Kenny Barron - Invitation (1990)



Bill Doggett - The Right Choice (1991)
Kenny Barron - Lemuria-Seascape (1991)

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A new acquisition. Sounds wonderful so far. Great group of musicians backing Wheeler, too.

[king ubu]

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).

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/gFbv9EqjJXY

[SimonNZ]

Dianne Reeves - I Remember (1991)
Jimmy Ponder - To Reach A Dream (1991)



Elvin Jones - Youngblood (1991)
T.S.Monk - Take One (1991)



Jim Hall - Youkali (1992)
Shirley Scott - A Walkin Thing (1992)



Hubert Lawes - My Time Will Come (1993)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/oXgy12TT_t4

[George]

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?