What Jazz are you listening to now?

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaca: Tokyo Adagio. A masterpiece. Preferably over a nice dinner with my wife accompanied by a good bottle of red wine!

[aligreto]

Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaca: Tokyo Adagio. A masterpiece. Preferably over a nice dinner with my wife accompanied by a good bottle of red wine!

Great artwork on that one 

[SimonNZ]

I don't know Hartman's story (will look it up), but it seems he had the voice and the talent to have been a household name...

In my teens I asked a jazz expert at a cd store to recommend me a vocal version of "Lush Life" and he immediately set me up with a Johnny Hartman compilation album, calling him among other superlatives "a singer's singer", a title that still strikes me as the perfect way to describe his great yet understated talent.

now:



Sonny Stitt - Goin Down Slow (1972)
Eumir Deodato - Prelude (1972)



Charles Earland - Intensity (1972)
Elvin Jones - Mr. Jones (1972)



Boogaloo Joe Jones - Snake Rhythm Rock (1972)
Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson - Cherry (1972)



Leon Spencer - Bad Walking Woman (1972)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/r594pxUjcz4

[SimonNZ]

Cal Tjader - Primo (1973)
Eric Gale - Forecast (1973)



Don Sebesky - Giant Box (1973)

[SimonNZ]

George Benson - Body Talk (1973)
Airto Moreira - Fingers (1973)



Hank Crawford - Wildflower (1973)
Ron Carter - All Blues (1973)



Gábor Szabó - Mizrab (1973)

[king ubu]

Preparing a two hour Monk portrait for a small online radio station ... so lots of Monk lately. Lots of tracks from here and there, but also some full albums:







Right now, what remains my favourite of his solo albums:

[SimonNZ]

Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
Grover Washington - Soul Box Vol.1 (1973)



Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Higher Ground (1973)
Ron Carter - Spanish Blue (1974)



Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade (1974)

[George]

First spin.

[SimonNZ]

Grover Washington - Mr Magic (1974)
Paul Desmond - Skylark (1974)



Idris Muhammad - Power Of Soul (1974)
Roy Kral and Jackie Cain - A Wilder Alias (1974)



Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me (1974)

[SimonNZ]

First spin.

What did you think?

[George]

What did you think?

Loved it!

[SimonNZ]

Loved it!

Yeah! Even though it was originally just a stopgap roundup of unreleased pieces from wildly disparate sessions, I've always enjoyed that collection.

now:



Milt Jackson - Goodbye (1974)
George Benson - Bad Benson (1974)



Joe Farrell - Upon This Rock (1974)
Don Sebesky - The Rape Of El Morro (1975)



Milt Jackson - Olinga (1975)
Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)

[George]

Yeah! Even though it was originally just a stopgap roundup of unreleased pieces from wildly disparate sessions, I've always enjoyed that collection.

Yeah, the title track is incredible!

[Kontrapunctus]

I just received this SACD--wow, the musicians are practically in the room with me!

[king ubu]

After the incredible concert on Saturday, I felt like revisiting the few Malcolm Braff recordings I've accumulated in the past years ... and I have ordered several missing ones, filling some gaps.

[SimonNZ]

Lalo Schifrin - Towering Toccata (1976)
Grant Green - The Main Attraction (1976)

[king ubu]

Last night, revisited the fourth (and last) of my current Braff holdings - more are on the way now, inspired by the glorious concert last weekend. Then gave a very first spin to the recent (2016) Les McCann - and that one is very good indeed! Looking for more of those Live in Paris releases, some of which are DL only ... and stumbled over one that has Barney Wilen playing - took crappy amazon music half an hour to load last night, but I was finally able to download it and have played the first half (up to the first - of four - tracks with Wilen) on the commute to the office this morning (the Bennett trio consists of him on organ, Jimmy Gourley on guitar and Kenny Clarke on drums - fine group):

[SimonNZ]

Ron Carter - Yellow And Green (1976)
Urbie Green - The Fox (1976)



George Benson and Joe Farrell - Benson and Farrell (1976)
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Percussion (1977)



Ron Carter - Peg Leg (1977)

[Karl Henning]

http://www.youtube.com/v/YefLht-j7-c