What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Johnny Smith - Sentimental Mood (1954)
Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)

[Mookalafalas]

Looks good! I have a lot of Hope titles, missed out on that one and now it's too expensive.

Ditto



Also played some Horace Silver and Lester Young. And Sonny Rollins.

[Brian]

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.

[modified]

Songs by Sylvia Syms (1952)

[Tom 1960]

[Artem]

One of my favourite jazz purchases this year. Free, modal jazz from the early 70s.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Johnny Smith - Sentimental Mood (1954)
Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)

The both are great albums.

[T. D.]

One of my favourite jazz purchases this year. Free, modal jazz from the early 70s.

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.

[Tom 1960]

[André Le Nôtre]

The Poets are Gathering

[Tom 1960]

[toledobass]

Boy, this is some beautiful music....

[modified]

Wolfgang Haffner (2015): Kind of Cool

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/7ikQoJcAF54

[SimonNZ]

Stan Kenton - Standards In Silhouette (1959)

loving the sort of Miles Ahead feel this album has

[bhodges]

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

[staxomega]

Two in my heavy rotation to round out the year:

[SimonNZ]

Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty (1988)

[Artem]

Even not on their best recording Miles Davis band sounds ten times better than many others around the same time.

[George]

Even not on their best recording Miles Davis band sounds ten times better than many others around the same time.

Now enjoying another great album from that period.