What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Lester Young - Pres On Keynote

[Green Destiny]

Listened to this album today:



Very good!

[Green Destiny]

[Mookalafalas]

clifford brown, on Vogue.  This isn't the cover, but best I could find (without much trouble)

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[Mookalafalas]

Never heard of Jimmy Raney til I got this box.  Good, but the low key back up band is wicked good, too.

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[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/9XlJvWORC9U

(A Christmas tune?  Who knew!)

[Green Destiny]

Now playing:

[king ubu]

Never heard of Jimmy Raney til I got this box.  Good, but the low key back up band is wicked good, too.

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Raney worked with one of Stan Getz' finest ever bands ... amazing live recordings from the Storyville and some studio cuts, too. Blue Note pulled together the complete Roost Sessions by Getz on a terrific 3CD set that is OOP but if you ever get the chance, don't hesitate! It opens with quartet studio dates with Al Haig and Horace Silver, then goes on for more than an entire disc with that live material (Al Hagi again on piano), then goes on with some more studio dates with either Raney or Johnny Smith on guitar, and ends with three cuts that have Getz sitting in with the Basie orchestra.

The Getz/Raney unit produced another album, "Stan Getz Plays" on Verve. That one should be easier to find. If you're inclined to get lotsa Getz, it's also part of the Hip-O-Select 3CD set "Quintets: The Clef and Norgan Studio Albums", which pulls together all the music Getz made with Bob Brookmeyer in his band, "Plays", and a short session (2 tracks) with the wonderful Tony Fruscella who joined as Brookmeyer's replacement.

EDIT: you might also consider Raney's own "A" (originally on Prestige, official reissue again OOP, I'm afraid).

[Mookalafalas]

Thanks, Ubu!  I have a jazz collector colleague who is a compulsive collector.  I'll try to remember to ask him about it when I next talk to him about music.
   Meanwhile, I have my new Monk Live 10 CD box

TD: Miles Davis disc from this:

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[Dancing Divertimentian]

San Francisco Jazz Collective. Consistently outstanding jazz, absolutely some of the finest of today.






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[king ubu]

sad morning listening, in memory of a giant:

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[Green Destiny]

Very good - a real box of delights

[George]

Very good - a real box of delights

Indeed!!

[king ubu]

Billie Holiday is the best, of course! 

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[king ubu]

some heavy sh*t!

[Mookalafalas]

Never heard of him.  He sure put together an all-star band, however.
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[king ubu]

Renaud is an okay piano player at best, but he enabled some mighty fine music! Renaud had travelled to NYC in 1953 and produced several fine dates, usually taking care of the piano himself, with the likes of Al Cohn, J.J. Johnson, Oscar Pettiford, Tal Farlow ... Fantasy had two volumes of "Birdlanders" discs out with the material, which once triggered a short discussion over at the Organissimo forum - you'll find some more information there, though it's hard to read:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/62206-the-birdlanders/

Playing now, discs 4 & 5 of:

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"sprezzatura" is the keyword Ted Gioia uses in his book "West Coast Jazz" to describe Rogers, and I guess there's no better ... not a fan of his in respect of having to own all his albums (he simply made too many), but this JSP five disc set compiling the early tracks (arrangements for Herman, Kenton etc.) and his own leader dates up to 1954 is outstanding! (There's also a Fresh Sound 3CD set with, I think, some overlap, don't have it, but Jordi Pujol from Fresh Sound, no matter what odd PD reissues he does in between, really knows his way around Californian jazz)

[Green Destiny]

listening to a couple of nice Jazz albums tonight:

[Mookalafalas]

Renaud is an okay piano player at best, but he enabled some mighty fine music!

  Yeah, he was the weak link in his own band! (at least on this disc) Kind of ridiculous. The other musicians are clearly superior, but it feels like the spark is missing--they never quite step it up (except maybe in the first track, where Lionel Hampton really cooks).

[Mookalafalas]

Finally got into my new Monk box (ten discs live).  The discs are in cool looking, relatively solid gatefold sleeves.  Unfortunately, they are in so tight I actually ripped the first one I tried to extract
Still, happily listening now
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