What Jazz are you listening to now?

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SimonNZ



Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar (1961)

king ubu

Tethered Moon:

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Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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SimonNZ


king ubu

lately, amongst others:

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Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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SimonNZ


king ubu

Not really familiar with Kikuchi at all so far ... only know this and the great one on ECM (Paul Motian's final recording, I think). Got to look for more!

Last night, I gave a second listen to this new release of a fantastic solo concert by Sal Mosca 1992:

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Highly recommended!
Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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NikF

Johnny Hodges Septet: Blues A-Plenty.

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"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

Brian

Quote from: NikF on October 15, 2015, 03:18:19 AM
Johnny Hodges Septet: Blues A-Plenty.

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Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, Strayhorn, Woodyard...well this looks really cool. is it as good as it sounds?

Also literally, because that's a nice album cover.

NikF

Quote from: Brian on October 15, 2015, 06:56:58 AM
Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, Strayhorn, Woodyard...well this looks really cool. is it as good as it sounds?

Also literally, because that's a nice album cover.

Yeah, what a line up... It's certainly undemanding music (although it bears close listening) and hardly groundbreaking. However, if you enjoy Hodges, Webster, Eldridge, et al during the late fifties (and with the addition of such as Jo Jones and Ray Brown on the bonus tracks) then there's every chance you'll slip into enjoying how simply cool it all is.  ;D
"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

jochanaan

Imagination + discipline = creativity

SimonNZ



Carmen McRae Sings Monk (lyrics by Jon Hendricks a.o.)


king ubu

Big fan of those Verve recordings by Hodges, Webster, Edison etc. - the official reissue including the Hodges album (even with two alternate takes that, alas Mosaic were unaware of when they released their 1956-61 Hodges box) is this here: http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Webster-J-Hodges-Sweets-Edison/dp/B000001EEQ/
It contains a wonderful album by Webster (with Harold Ashby on second tenor), the Hodges one and Harry Edison's "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You". Webster is the common link. "Sweets", also by Edison, obviously, is another wonderful album with Ben and Sweets on Verve.

Now playing:

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Lou Donaldson - Here 'tis (Blue Note, 1961) - definitely one of my top organ jazz albums, thanks to Baby Face Willette and Grant Green (less so to Poppa Lou, whose recordings I enjoy but usually don't estimate *that* highly). Just got the SHM CD (now OOP it seems) from Japan, which contains a previously unissued ten minute blues.
Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/

NikF

Quote from: king ubu on October 16, 2015, 06:12:12 AM
Big fan of those Verve recordings by Hodges, Webster, Edison etc. - the official reissue including the Hodges album (even with two alternate takes that, alas Mosaic were unaware of when they released their 1956-61 Hodges box) is this here: http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Webster-J-Hodges-Sweets-Edison/dp/B000001EEQ/
It contains a wonderful album by Webster (with Harold Ashby on second tenor), the Hodges one and Harry Edison's "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You". Webster is the common link. "Sweets", also by Edison, obviously, is another wonderful album with Ben and Sweets on Verve.

Now playing:

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Lou Donaldson - Here 'tis (Blue Note, 1961) - definitely one of my top organ jazz albums, thanks to Baby Face Willette and Grant Green (less so to Poppa Lou, whose recordings I enjoy but usually don't estimate *that* highly). Just got the SHM CD (now OOP it seems) from Japan, which contains a previously uniss

Was unaware of the first one. But both look interesting. Thanks, man.
"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

king ubu

just gave a first spin to this:

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wonderful!
Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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Artem

Nice album, but nothing groundbreaking. Just come comfortable trio playing.

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The first part is pretty good. The second is so so.

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SimonNZ


Brian

I listened to a lot of jazz on this weekend's road trip, by the likes of Monk (Live at the Jazz Workshop), Davis, Harry "Sweets" Edison, etc.

But one really great experience was my 2nd and 3rd listens to this masterpiece:



Of course, you've probably all heard it many more times than I. But listening to it once Friday and once Sunday really brought some interesting ideas to my mind. This is Mal Waldron sounding a lot like Mingus, isn't it? The direct, heated emotion; the penchant for dissonance; the complex compositions with clear classical influences. Cello, like on Tijuana Moods. And of course the saxophones of Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin, who also feature on Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. Dolphy here seems tamer than usual, or is it just me?

This album reminds me of another musical figure. Schumann. Maybe Mal Waldron did not have a Florestan and Eusebius, but a very similar dynamic is at work here, isn't it?

One more though. "Warm Canto" is, of course, remarkable even in the context of this remarkable album. Dolphy on clarinet is a rare and beautiful thing. And the melody is strikingly beautiful - but for all its beauty and strikingness, it's hard to figure out exactly what the melody means. It suggests a number of different emotions. It's Brahmsian in that way. My favorite part of the song, though, now, may be the big "pause," after all the improvised sections are over, but before Dolphy returns with the main theme, when Ron Carter and the rhythm section play the simple unadorned bass line several times over. No melody, no improvising, no adornment, just the bass line. Not many songs do that. I can't think of any others.

king ubu

Love "The Quest"! Love Dolphy!

Last night:

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Deeply fascinating stuff ... the Beckett strain of ECM Records, that was first fully developed on Paul Bley's album "Ballads". Standstill music that is over at the moment it starts.
Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

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king ubu

before:
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now:

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Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/

king ubu

last night also this one, and more of "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway":

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tonight:

Two of Allen Lowe's new discs - intriguing stuff as always: "Where a Cigarette Is Smoked by Ten Men" (featuring an amazing clarinet player by name of Zoe Christiansen) and "Man with Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson?" (featuring among others Gary Bartz and DJ Logic).

In between the two, my latest disc by Barney Wilen:

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And now, to cap things off, the new one by nonagenarian Bob Dorough:

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Es wollt ein meydlein grasen gan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Und do die roten röslein stan:
Fick mich, lieber Peter!
Fick mich mehr, du hast dein ehr.
Kannstu nit, ich wills dich lern.
Fick mich, lieber Peter!

http://ubus-notizen.blogspot.ch/