What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Chick Corea / Gary Burton - Hot House (2012)

[Bogey]

@Bogey: this might be of help:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html

Many thanks, KU!

[king ubu]

Sure! the site isn't focused on jazz, but plenty of jazz labels (or tangential ones such as Kapp) are included, so it's often pretty interesting to dig around there some!

Started with this last night:



The first album included, "Jazz Mission to Moscow" (with Marky Markowitz, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, the great Eddie Costa a.o.), I already have in a Japanese reissue, but the other two are new to me, "Soviet Jazz Themes" (with Nat Adderley or Carmell Jones, Harold Land, Victor Feldman, Joe Zawinul or Herb Ellis - some mighty good Land here, and this guy's always a pleasure to hear anyway!), and "Jazz at Liberty" (with Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Woods, Sims, Nick Brignola), which was a one-sided LP (but the Fresh Sound set includes four alternate takes of three of the four masters). On this last one, there's sonic issues as you get them with not-that-good vinyl rips, I guess, wobbly piano (John Bunch is on the keys, he was actually part of the "Jazz Mission" band when it visited Russia, but in the studio they - luckily! - got Eddie Costa) and dull sound on the drums etc. Either way, if you buy these, you know what you're in for, so all's well, and the music is really good, all the way through.

[SimonNZ]

McCoy Tyner - Reaching Fourth (1962)



Egberto Gismonti - Sanfona (1981)

[Henk]

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Amazing recording.

[Bogey]

This one is all over the place as I believe it is just songs lifted from previous recordings. I cannot identify a theme within the album except to say it is Mancini, so who needs a theme!

[king ubu]

lately:




in other words: still obsessing about Stéphan Oliva - love his music!



Very good music in less-than-ideal (but perfectly acceptable) sound ... have the first of the three albums in a proper Savoy/Denon reissue, but not the other two (Orrin Keepnews goofed here, he put out an official disc with the same contents as disc one of the Fresh Sound, which is the entire first album and half of the second ... yet the third, pairing Bill Barron and Booker Ervin's tenors, might be the best of the bunch ... the first has a quintet with Ted Curson, with whom Barron recorded more later on that is of a different, freer nature and pretty effin' good, like "Tears for Dolphy", expanded reissue on a Black Lion CD in the nineties, or "The New Thing and the Blue Thing" on Atlantic, probably recently in the cheapo (pseudo-)Japanese reissue series by Warner, I've got it on an older Koch CD. Kenny Barron, Bill's younger brother, is on all three albums, Curson also on the second that adds Jay Cameron on baritone sax and offers a more arranged setting that doesn't gel perfectly, I find.





some Andrew Hill, a favourite in this house - followed by some unreleased material (the earliest I've got of his):

Andrew Hill Quintet - WNET-TV Broadcast - New York City (USA) - February 11, 1971
Woody Shaw (t), Carlos Garnett (ts), Andrew Hill (p), Victor Sproles (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Grass Roots > Bayou Red (12:15)

Andrew Hill Trio - Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (USA) - 1972
Andrew Hill (p), unknown (b, elb), Roy Haynes (d)
five unknown titles



discs one and two of the Hill Select ... only just coming to grasps with his solo music really - or rather: hearing it differently this time than ever before (posting stuff on the interwebs daily allows me to track that my last bigtime binge Hill listening has been in January 2011, but then I focused on the 1966-66 albums, which still form the finest part of his discography, I'd say, thogh towards the end of his initial Blue Note tenure, 1969-70, he reached another peak).

[SimonNZ]

McCoy Tyner - Asante (1970)



Tony Williams - Life Time (1964)



Hubert Laws - Afro Classic (1970)

[SimonNZ]

McCoy Tyner - Trident (1975)

[king ubu]

On the commute this morning ... one of a handful of Blue Note classics I always have with me!

[king ubu]

another favourite!

[SimonNZ]

I'll follow you and have a listen to that as well:



There are a couple of other Big John Patton albums that are often played favorites here at work, including Let Em Roll which includes Bobby Hutcherson.

[king ubu]

I'm on the hunt for just about every bit ever recorded by Patton!

Today's further listening included:





and right now this new acquisition (from the on-going sales at Clean Feed):

[king ubu]

on the morning commute ... afro-jazz from Sweden:

[SimonNZ]

Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert By The Sea

my first time hearing the two-disc edition

[George]

Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert By The Sea

my first time hearing the two-disc edition

Is there a two-disc edition only or is yours a three disc set (with the old one as the third.)

[SimonNZ]

Is there a two-disc edition only or is yours a three disc set (with the old one as the third.)

Ah, sorry. The first two discs from the three-disc set.

I'm already starting to get a sense of how the original selection was made: it was (at least partly) those louder tracks that could stand up in ballance against the over-miked audience, or without the perfectly captured scattered applause at the wrong moment which is stopped quickly. The band still sounds as lo-fi as it ever did (which never really mattered much, its such a fun record), but I feel like I can pick out individual audience members.

[SimonNZ]

Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator

[Mookalafalas]

 Charlie Christian from this box.

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[SimonNZ]

Earlier:



McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment

Now:



Ella Fitzgerald - The Duke Ellington Songbook