What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Johnny Griffin - A Blowing Session (1957)
Introducing Johnny Griffin (1956)
Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Lookin' At Monk (1961)

[Green Destiny]

I really lost my mind for Jazz this time around - so much good Music to listen to
Now Playing:

[NikF]

Gerry Mulligan: Pleyel Concerts Vol. 1

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Having been listening to volume two of this quite recently, it was a pleasant surprise to find the first volume arrive in the post today.

[SimonNZ]

Johnny Griffin - The Kerry Dancers (1962)

[Green Destiny]

Now Playing :

[Mirror Image]

Johnny Griffin - The Kerry Dancers (1962)

Excellent album (the best I can remember). Griffin is quite underrated IMHO.

[Green Destiny]

Friday evening again! - Now Playing :

[Green Destiny]

This mornings listening:

[king ubu]

Excellent album (the best I can remember). Griffin is quite underrated IMHO.

Not in my house - he's a favourite! That album is definitely amongst his four or five most beautiful ones!

[Green Destiny]

Now playing:



Another first listen - great!

[SimonNZ]

Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown (1979)

Bud Powell - Blues In The Closet (1956)

Don Byron - Tuskegee Experiments (1991)

Joey Baron - Tongue In Groove (1991)

[Green Destiny]

This afternoon's listening:

[Green Destiny]

This afternoon:



Brilliant

[king ubu]

yesterday, spent some time going through a couple of recent acquisitions and then revisiting some of my top 2015 releases:

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and right now what's probably my jazz album of the year:

[king ubu]

the swan song by a great melodicist:

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[king ubu]

another favourite of 2015:

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[king ubu]

more 2015 wrapping up listening:

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discs 2 and 3 with the outtakes - fascinating for sure

now:

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Berlin 1973 on disc 3 - love the raw power of that band!

[king ubu]

finally got all three of Tim Berne's Snakeoil discs on ECM (r.i.p. discplus) - playing the first one now:

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[king ubu]

went on with Berne:

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now:

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[Wakefield]

One of the most addictive things I have listened to the last time. 

Renaissance Goes Jazz - Live

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Markus Becker - piano
Michel Godard - serpent, tuba, electric bass

Capella de la Torre
Annette Hils - bassdulcian & recorder
Johannes Vogt - lute & theorbo
Peter A. Bauer - percussion
Katharina Bäuml – shawms & musical direction

Review
The result in this live recording is entirely unexpected and brilliant, capturing the flavor and zest of the Renaissance's addictive mix of old and ancient instruments, providing an elusive, ingenious musical experience that refuses to be genre-ized. --Laurence Vittes, Huffinton Post, September 2014

They sound something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UxYOYWQBISo