What Jazz are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

The one Julie London album you need! It's gorgeous!

I do not have any Blakey from the '60's, I believe.  Curious if he changed his sound or approach later in his career?

Well, up to the end of his Blue Note stay in the mid-sixties, he continued to make some of his very best albums ("Free for All", "Buhaina's Delight", "Mosaic", "Indestructible", "The Freedom Rider", etc.). "Golden Boy" (Colpix, 1963; later part of the Capitol/EMI family of jazz labels and thus reissued in the same series as his Blue Note albums) is a bit of a departure as it comes with an enlarged band (former Blakey-ite Lee Morgan is added on second trumpet, Julius Watkins, Bill Barber, James Spaulding and Charles Davis are added, too - that makes for 11 instead of the then regular 6 pieces). Later in the sixties, Blakey switched to Limelight/EmArcy, who kinda produced more narrowly and didn't let the music flow as much as Blue Note did, alas ... "'S Make It" has John Gilmore on tenor, but he's not let lose, alas, "Soul Finger" has one totally gorgeous Lucky Thompson track (though they failed to mention LT on the cover!!!), "Buttercorn Lady" is pretty cool again though, with unsung Frank Mitchell on tenor and Keef "No End" Jarrett on piano ... in 1968, Blakey led another very nice band with Bill Hardman (he was with the 1957 Messengers), Julian Priester and the amazing Billy Harper in the frontline, plus Ronnie Mathews on piano and Lawrence Evans on bass (don't know Evans elsewhere), "Live at Slug's" and "Moanin'" are the two albums that are out by this band (on Everest and LRC, respectively). In the early seventies, Blakey incorporated some electric instruments for a short moment - that can be heard  on two not entirely succesful Fantasy discs "Child's Dance" and "Mission Eternal" (they contain three LPs: "Child's Dance", "Anthenagin", "Buhaina", featuring Woody Shaw, Manny Boyd, George Cables, Stanley Clarke, Cedar Walton and others). After that, Blakey returned to his well-tested hard bop formula, featuring younger players again (Bobby Watson, Billy Pierce, Terence Blanchard, Javon Jackson etc. etc. - for those that love Criss Cross, that should be interesting, but for me it's more like: have each and all Blakey records from 1954 to 1968 before you buy any later ones ... those early bands with Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Bobby Timmons, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton etc. were hot, and amongst the discs there's hardly a clunker, not even in the output of the so-called "second edition" from 1956/57 that is less universally loved).

Thread duty:

[SimonNZ]

Wynton Marsalis - Live At The Village Vanguard (1999), disc six
Wynton Marsalis - In This House, On This Morning (1994)

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

George Shearing is great anytime anywhere in my book, but when he has the fabulous Armando Peraza along for the session on the bongos and congas then the lp goes directly to the top shelf.

mmmmmmmmm, that is a nice cover!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Here's another interesting one heard on The Jazz Oasis--KCSM, The Bay Area's Jazz Station--kcsm.org! (I'm a member. Are you?)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tomasz Stanko

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

What do you think? I tried to get into that CD, but just couldn't. His sound is similar to Enrico Rava, but the music is so much less interesting IMO.

I've also been listening to a fair amount of Mathias Eick lately

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

What do you think? I tried to get into that CD, but just couldn't. His sound is similar to Enrico Rava, but the music is so much less interesting IMO.

I've also been listening to a fair amount of Mathias Eick lately

Interesting. I always liked both Rava and Stanko.......

[Bogey]

Some Sunday afternoon jazz provided by Lalo. hard to beat.

[SimonNZ]

Wynton Marsalis - Blood On The Fields (1997)

[SimonNZ]

Wynton Marsalis - Big Train (1999)
Miles Davis - Miles in Tokyo (rec.1964 rel.1969)



Miles Davis - The Complete Concert: My Funny Valentine and Four And More (1964)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wynton Marsalis - Big Train (1999)
Miles Davis - Miles in Tokyo (rec.1964 rel.1969)



Miles Davis - The Complete Concert: My Funny Valentine and Four And More (1964)

I like In Tokyo. So What is so thrillful!  Sam Rivers sounds great. No idea why the boss was not happy about him.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Another great one from KCSM (www.kcsm.org ), a radio station you should be listening to and supporting!!! Ron Carter Nonet.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Another great one from KCSM (www.kcsm.org ), a radio station you should be listening to and supporting!!! Ron Carter Nonet.

He was/is a great bassist for classical music, but none of the orchestras hired him because he was black. That's how he unenthusiastically began his career with Miles.

[SimonNZ]

Wynton Marsalis - The Marciac Suite (1999)

[Bogey]

Took me a while to warm to the Gil Evans' collaboration stuff, but I am easily in now.  This one I can put on a loop and let it play three or four hours.

[SimonNZ]

Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour (2004)

[Turner]

Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour (2004)

Nice & interesting cover art too.

[aligreto]

Took me a while to warm to the Gil Evans' collaboration stuff, but I am easily in now.  This one I can put on a loop and let it play three or four hours.

There is very little music or music making that I totally dislike but I have to be honest and say that I just cannot get past that Concierto de Aranjuez. I have tried but it just will not happen.

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/_EUQjjUbv98

[SimonNZ]

Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin (1964)
Max Roach - We Insist (1960)



Cecil Taylor - Dark To Themselves (1976)