What Jazz are you listening to now?

[T. D.]

There are so many good box sets that it's impossible to rank them. But this is one I'm extremely fond of.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good · Etta James.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tomasz Stanko. Lontano.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nothing Serious · Roy Hargrove.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Terence Blanchard.

[T. D.]

[nakulanb]

The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman

[nakulanb]

Bill Frisell - Rising from the West

[brewski]

Saturday listening: this concert from July 2025, the great Dianne Reeves at Jazz Open Stuttgart.

So good, and the venue is beautiful.

[San Antone]

Sylvie Courvoisier with Mary Halvorson and Wadada Leo Smith
Live at Roulette

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier shares a special performance celebrating two major 2025 duo releases with frequent collaborators Mary Halvorson and Wadada Leo Smith. Not only will this mark the first time the two projects will be featured together in a single evening, the performance will come fresh off the release of Angel Falls, Courvoisier and Leo Smith's very first duo album. (Read more about the performance)

[ando]

Saturday listening: this concert from July 2025, the great Dianne Reeves at Jazz Open Stuttgart.

So good, and the venue is beautiful.

Indeed. Thanks for the post. It put me in mind of a recent Dianne Reeves collab with guitarist, Romero Lubambo, at Trinity Church in New York -

[brewski]

Indeed. Thanks for the post. It put me in mind of a recent Dianne Reeves collab with guitarist, Romero Lubambo, at Trinity Church in New York -

And thank you for that, which will make my holiday listening better!

[San Antone]

Created a playlist of my favorite albums by Wynton Marsalis:

Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Bolden
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
Black, Brown & Beige

[AnotherSpin]

The wonderful duo of Anthony Braxton and Joe Fonda, released on the Portuguese label Clean Feed, sounds absolutely magical.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bud.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Created a playlist of my favorite albums by Wynton Marsalis:

Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Bolden
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
Black, Brown & Beige

My fav are Live at Blues Alley, J Mood, and Black Codes.

[San Antone]

Thelonious Monk : At the Five Spot



Thelonious Monk – piano
Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
Ahmed Abdul-Malik – bass
Roy Haynes – drums

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When originally released it was titled Thelonious in Action. A 1958 live album recorded at the Five Spot Café in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan on August 7, 1958, at the same show that produced Misterioso.

[Philo]

Thanks to Instagram and skateboarding: David S. Ware's Birth of a Being

[T. D.]

Thanks to Instagram and skateboarding: David S. Ware's Birth of a Being

I got this reissue and like both Ware and Cooper-Moore. When I saw both names I had to buy it.

[brewski]

Irma Thomas: Backwater Blues. Of all the great choices on this album, this 1926 classic by Bessie Smith, written in response to massive flooding at the time, perhaps resonates the most. Decades later Irma Thomas gave it new life as a post-Katrina anthem.

Lyrics and more info on the Library of Congress site, here.