What Jazz are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

Sam Rivers - Streams | A terrific album, finally found my own copy of the LP in Vienna last summer.

[SimonNZ]

Ben Webster - At The Renaissance (1960)
Benny Green - Prelude (1988)



Abdullah Ibrahim - Sotho Blue (2011)

[James]

[SimonNZ]

Are you wanting someone to ask why you're posting blues albums on the Jazz listening thread?

[king ubu]

Well, Jimi is jazz, at least in spirit.

Earlier:



My late night listen is Ran Blake:

[Kontrapunctus]

Extraordinary sound and superb playing. I bought a 24bit/192Khz file that was copied directly from the analog master tape.

[James]

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.

[king ubu]

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:



Maurice Vander (11 June 1929 - 16 February 2017)

[James]

[king ubu]

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.

[George]

[king ubu]

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).

[SimonNZ]

Jackie McLean - A Ghetto Lullaby (1974)
Peter Leitch - Portraits And Dedications (1988)



Abdullah Ibrahim - Banyana (1976)

[George]

Miles Davis - Get Up With It - Recorded 1970 - 1974

[HIPster]

Dave Holland - ones all

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Have not played this in an age!

So cool to revisit right now. 

[James]

[George]

First spin, and already really enjoying these.

[SimonNZ]

Larry Coryell - Private Concert (1998) and Restful Mind (1975)

RIP

[Dee Sharp]

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.  Absolute bliss.

[aligreto]

Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin....