What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Mookalafalas]

Getting kinda lonely over here

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Well, Monk's cheering me up

[SimonNZ]

David Torn - Cloud About Mercury

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Jimmy Raney - Wisteria



Bobby Watson - Love Remains

[king ubu]

Roy Eldridge from this box.  1950 recording.  I love this 1940s Pre-bop super-bluesy sound. 

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Solal is terrific! Looking for his many fine albums can keep you busy for some years (and make you poorer - lots are OOP).

[king ubu]

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[Mirror Image]

Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

[Mookalafalas]

Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

  Great choice!! 

[Karl Henning]

This has been in heavy rotation for me this week

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[Brian]

Going to be spending more and more time with jazz and getting reacquainted with it after a near six year absence, so in the spirit of things, listening to this old favorite:

If you watch the 2015 German movie "Phoenix," it's not a great movie, but it is a good one, and you will never hear the song "Speak Low" again without thinking about the movie. The way "Speak Low" is used in the final scene...however uneven the rest of the film is, that is utterly unforgettable.

[Mirror Image]

  Great choice!!

Definitely. At Ease with Coleman Hawkins and Today and Now are two other albums of his that I rate highly.

[SimonNZ]

Kenny Wheeler - Song For Someone



Bill Connors - Swimming With A Hole In My Body

[king ubu]

That Kenny Wheeler disc is good!

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And Alexandra Grimal is good, too!

[king ubu]

another one ... quite a band, but Grimal holds her own:

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[Mookalafalas]

Lionel Hampton from

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[king ubu]

Motian again:

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[king ubu]

heard him live and had a short but pretty deep talk with Roy Campbell a few years ago after he played in duo with Joëlle Léandre at the now defunct Sept Lézards in Paris ... one of my fondest jazz memories, for sure ... so it seems right to finally have this disc in the player (it was released this year, but several months back):

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Oliver Lake is probably the one US jazz musician I've heard most often (with Trio 3, Trio 3 + Irène Schweizer, with a great local rhythm section, with those two guys and Nils Wogram, with a tough NY trio behind him where he didn't play the flute, tellingly - and unfortunately ...) - William Parker I'm ambivalent about ... he is on some discs I enjoy greatly, but I'm not too big on either his playing nor his own bands/projects, but I keep listening, and here, he fits in very well (and of course he and Roy Campbell went back quite some).

[king ubu]

saw the duo live, but they sempt tired ... took them half an hour to get into full gear, and a quarter of an hour later, their set was through ... nice to hear them in great form here:

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[king ubu]

before:

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now:

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next up (fifth and last of my Intakt catch-up, all 2015 releases, all duos):

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[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Jon Ballantyne Trio : Sky Dance

I saw Ballantyne, solo, last summer in Rochester and was singularly impressed.  This recording, done in his comparative youth, 1988, no less so.

[king ubu]

their second one in the series:

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[Karl Henning]

Love this stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Xflrp4yM2o8