What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Damn, what a great album. And Art Blakey on fire!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

^ Yes vg music!

[brewski]

Watching the Clovis Nicolas Quartet, live from Smalls in NYC. Excellent. On a related note, I made a small contribution to help fund his latest recording, The Contrapuntist.

Clovis Nicolas / Bass
Jeremy Pelt / Trumpet
Adam Birnbaum / Piano
Bill Stewart / Drums

-Bruce

[brewski]

Fifty: The Manhattan Transfer with the WDR Funkhausorkester - Released last fall, this album—presumably their last one—comes ahead of their final tour. Hard to believe this group has been around for 50 years. For jazz vocals, they remain in a class of their own. Nice to hear them with an enormous band.



-Bruce

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

Was waiting to hear "Valse Triste" and then the album ended. had to go back and realize it was more of a subtle nod. Shorter could probably have given the track his own title and his own writing credit and maybe a handful of sharp listeners might have spoken of "echoes of Sibelius".

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Smokin' at the Half Note - Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Malcolm X Jazz Suite - Terence Blanchard.

[Artem]

Today

[brewski]

Clarence Williams: Cushion Foot Stomp (by Tuba Skinny, recorded January 2023 at d.b.a., New Orleans)

-Bruce

[brewski]

Diane Schuur and the Count Basie Orchestra: You Can Have It - Schuur in her prime, sailing effortlessly over the glorious ensemble.

-Bruce

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jazz Workshop Revisited - Cannonball Adderley.