What Jazz are you listening to now?

[James]

[SimonNZ]

Jane Ira Bloom - The Red Quartets (1999)
Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975)

[James]

[Mirror Image]

Now:





This is a really beautiful album.

[James]

[SimonNZ]

David Kikoski - Almost Twilight (2000)
Rebecca Kilgore - Not A Care In The World (1997)



Louis Armstrong - Satchmo Serenades (1952)
Teddi King - Storyville Presents Miss Teddi King (1954)

[James]

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).

[king ubu]

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!



Revisiting after last week's weird encounter of the two at Vortex in London



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.



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.



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.

[Brian]

Art Tatum
Benny Carter
Louis Bellson

[bwv 1080]

[SimonNZ]

Ryan Kisor - Power Source (2001)
Albert Mangelsdorff - Triplicity (2005)

[king ubu]

Albert Mangelsdorff - Triplicity (2005)

Very nice one!

[SimonNZ]

Very nice one!

Yeah, that one was a treat!

now:



Lage Lund - Unlikely Stories (2009)

[Brian]

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.

[king ubu]

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 ...



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.

[SimonNZ]

Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer - Bix and Tram (1947)

[SimonNZ]

Jacqui Dankworth - Detour Ahead (2004)
Ethan Iverson - The Purity Of The Turf (2016)



Charlie Parker - [Dial 201] (1949)
Bud Powell - Strictly Powell (1956)

[SimonNZ]

Elton Dean - Newsense (1998)
Charlie Parker - [Dial 202] (1947)



Dexter Gordon - [Dial 204] (1947)
Roberto Gatto - Traps (2007)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/B5ctCTMKFEc

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/hMZBtoWgX7g