What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Alek Hidell]

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.

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):

[SimonNZ]

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.

[Spineur]

A be-bop classic

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And CD2

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[SimonNZ]

Mike Moreno - Three For Three (2017)
Marian McPartland - At Storyville/At The Hickory House (1955)

[Alek Hidell]

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 ...

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Nb28f6UrQHw

[SimonNZ]

LaVergne Smith - New Orleans Nightingale (1954)
Eliot Zigmund - Time Was (2017)

[SimonNZ]

Donald Byrd - Byrd's Word (1955)
Piotr Baron - Salve Regina (2007)

[SimonNZ]

Art Blakey - Backgammon (1976)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/yPYjPTiv-Xo

[aligreto]

Some early Jazz....

[SimonNZ]

Piotr Baron - Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus (2008)
Milt Jackson - The Jazz Skyline (1956)



Darrell Grant - The New Bop (1994)
Gene Segal - Spiral (2017)

[SimonNZ]

Art Pepper - Surf Ride (1956)
Somi - The Lagos Music Salon (2014)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/D9UeFOXtgzA

[kishnevi]

Found this today at B&N, first listen now.
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[SimonNZ]

Al Caiola - Deep In A Dream (1955)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/9lJOkXETO70

[San Antone]

[Omicron9]

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.

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-09

[SimonNZ]

Red Norvo - Move (1954)