What Jazz are you listening to now?

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Karl Henning

Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
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 8)

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That is a fabulous album.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
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Green Destiny


Brian

Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 02:55:11 PM


My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.

Green Destiny

Quote from: Brian on November 13, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.

Yes its a very good album - I hadn't really paid much attention to it before.
Just playing it again now for a back to back listen :)

Mookalafalas

Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 02:55:11 PM
Feeling a bit Jazzy lately I guess :):

Looks like you have good material to indulge that feeling :)
It's all good...

Green Destiny

Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 04:02:25 PM
Looks like you have good material to indulge that feeling :)

Thanks  Mookalafalas - I don't own much Jazz but im pretty pleased with the selections from the box-sets I bought the last few years.
I was really happy to see yourself and some of the other guys interested in the Disques Vogues box too - some great stuff in this one :)

Mookalafalas

Quote from: Green Destiny on November 13, 2015, 04:36:55 PM
Thanks  Mookalafalas - I don't own much Jazz but im pretty pleased with the selections from the box-sets I bought the last few years.
I was really happy to see yourself and some of the other guys interested in the Disques Vogues box too - some great stuff in this one :)

Yeah, I just got that a week or two back, and so far I'm delighted with it. 
It's all good...

SimonNZ

#247
Quote from: Brian on November 13, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
My favorite studio Brubeck album. The only one I like better, overall, is At Carnegie Hall.

Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia gets my vote, fwiw (and Calcutta Blues imo his single finest moment). May even play it again later.



But right now:



Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)

Green Destiny

Afternoon listening:



One of the best albums from the Blue Note box I think :)


king ubu

Not sure which Brubeck album I'd pick if I needed to ... love "Jazz Impressions of Japan" very much, from the Columbia years (and many others), but ultimately, I think I'd go with some of the early Fantasy quartet material (mostly live recordings).

Before, disc 3 from this:

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That 1973 band was effin' powerful!

Now playing:

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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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Green Destiny


king ubu

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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Green Destiny

Had such a lazy day - just relaxing and listening to some Jazz :)
Currently playing:


Bogey

Quote from: karlhenning on November 13, 2015, 05:25:46 AM
That is a fabulous album.
Quote from: Mookalafalas on November 13, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
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 8)
[asin]B00IU5AH3W[/asin]

Agreed!
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

Quote from: Green Destiny on November 14, 2015, 03:01:45 PM
Good morning :) - current listening:



Spectacular listening!  Was refiling some recent vinyl spins and threw this one back on the turn table:



As solid an album as there is on my shelf when it comes to clarity of sound and allowing for individual instruments to shine through. The percussion and flute work here is top of the line and placed perfectly throughout. Not surprised to see Enoch Light's name as a producer here.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

king ubu

some of this (the earliest, 1947 recordings from Town Hall and Carnegie Hall for now):

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/

aligreto

I have been working my way through this double vinyl set recently....




king ubu

completist that I am, spent a fortune last year to get the complete Basie Roulette studio sessions Mosaic box ... which skips the singer collaborations, which I mostly missed so far (the Vaughan/Basie without Basie I've had for a while, same for the great one with Joe Williams and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) ... to the current Japanese reissue series (offering all of Basie's Roulette albums) was welcome for gap-filling - right now, this one is playing:

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had been completely unaware, it's a small group date with Joe Williams singing and Freddie Green playing some nice guitar (including some solos, alas he's very low in the mix), Basie is on organ, George Duvivier on bass (a bass player very good in working with organ - though I mostly prefer organists taking care of their own bass lines), ex-Lunceford mainstay Jimmy Crawford on drums, and on some tracks, Harry "Sweets" Edison does his thing (by 1958 he was a fixture in the studio scene I think, providing all those trumpet fills on Sinatra's finest albums etc.)
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

brooding music, as often with Blake, but most enjoyable:

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btw, CAM Jazz has just reissued his Black Saint/Soul Note albums (in a box, as they've been doing with the BSSN catalogue for a while)
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/