What Jazz are you listening to now?

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SimonNZ



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

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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
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

brewski

#5743
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
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

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.



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The Malcolm X Jazz Suite - Terence Blanchard.



Artem


brewski

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


-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

brewski

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


-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

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Jazz Workshop Revisited - Cannonball Adderley.



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Wynton Marsalis, Who Can I Turn To. Herbie Hancock is killing.



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#5753
Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby. Newport Jazz Festival 1986.



Brian


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Bill Evans - Re: Person I Knew.



SimonNZ



A track called "Kerouac"? From 1941? Can that be right?

Apparently so:

"Of Charlie Christian's work at Minton's only a handful of samples survive: "Swing to Bop," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Up on Teddy's Hill," "Stardust," "Kerouac," "Guy's Got to Go," and "Lips Flips." They are stellar documents, lively, graceful, raw, bristling with the energy of the uncharted. They exist because of Jerry Newman, a trombone-playing Columbia student, who hauled a Wilcox-Gay Recordio disc-cutter over to Minton's to record the jam sessions. (Jerry Newman and Jack Kerouac were pals according to Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac accompanied Newman to Minton's when Kerouac was still a football-jock Columbia student. Charlie Christian named one of his tunes "Kerouac.")"

brewski

Live from Smalls in NYC, the Sasha Berliner Quartet, doing stellar work so far.

Sasha Berliner / Vibraphone
Mike King / Piano
Russell Hall / Bass
Timothy Angulo / Drums


-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

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