What Jazz are you listening to now?

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North Star

Quote from: George on February 02, 2016, 10:36:11 AM
Listened to about half of CD 01. The music is as good as the sound is bad. ;D
That's my recollection of the set, too.  :laugh:
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king ubu

Not sure, but yeah, many people seem to really dislike sound on that Ellington set - the music is beyond any reproach though, that's for sure! I've got it as part of the big RCA Centennial edition (24 discs, LP sized ... one of the most expensive sets I ever bought, but I've never regretted that). I assume the remasterings used for that three disc set would be the same ones as for the big box. The older (black) edition was quite certainly heavily noise-reductioned (the Carnegie Hall reissues on Fantasy/Concord are another example for that, very dull sounding), this newer might have benefitted from some more noise reduction/cleaning up, I guess ... but for me, usually after 15 or 20 minutes I stop being bothered, and I often just switch back to the first track once my ears are aligned.

Last weekend, I traveled to Italy to hear two concerts - turned out to be a terrific experience! In Novara, I heard Decoy & Evan Parker, and then as a Sunday matinee in Milan, Muhal Richard Abrams with his quintet. Here's my write-up, including a few snapshots:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/14653-what-live-music-are-you-going-to-see-tonight/&do=findComment&comment=1474750
longer intial write-up in german:
http://forum.rollingstone.de/showthread.php?56960-2016-Jazzgigs-konzerte-amp-festivals&p=3560333&viewfull=1#post3560333

Lately on the menu here - I failed to post for several days, so quite a list:

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This one's effin' great! Missed it in 2015, but finally got it ... Clean Feed is right now running their annual sales, lots of good music at a very attractive price:
https://cleanfeed-records.com/product-category/stockoff/superstockoff/

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disc one this time, and it was perfect for the day I played it - though probably it's interesting, rather than great

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the Simmons album is mighty fine, the Evans one (with Jack Wilson on piano) is a bit on the light side



Very nice one, but the Ayler double disc with Johnny Dyani is quite a bit better I find, I really love that one - this here:
http://www.ayler.com/anders-gahnold-flowers-for-johnny.html
like it very much!

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two classics, of course ... but the Mobley somehow just won't click with me as much as "Soul Station" and - to a somewhat lesser extent - "Workout" do

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I love the classic Mangelsdorff quintet albums (Now Jazz Ramwong, One! Tension), but this compilation of early sides is a rag bag, too much of his brother Emil's stiff, non-idiomatic phrasing, too many different sessions represented by just one cut each ... and due to Sonorama's also doing vinyl (and the releases thus being around 40 or close to 80 minutes mostly) it's a bit on the short side as well, which is regrettable, they really could have given the CD folks some more music from these sessions!

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This one, though again short, is pretty nice to have indeed - there's not exactly too much Brew Moore around and he's a wonderfully swinging player! The longer tracks are with Scandinavian rhythm players, the - alas pretty short - three tracks with Lou Bennett, Jimmy Gourley and Kenny Clarke can also be found as video on the INA website:
http://www.ina.fr/video/I09220001/brew-moore-kenny-clarke-jimmy-gourley-lou-bennet-zonky-satin-doll-broadway-video.html

also, organ heaven:

https://youtu.be/88UI6EcBWPY

Shirley Scott Trio (with Harold Vick & Art Taylor) - Don't Look Back - 1976


Played this one twice in a row - finally could pick it up at the Decoy concert in Novara - it's wonderful indeed!



bought this - and Vol. 2 (Vol. 1 is CD only, Vol. 2 LP only, both done during the same session) - at the concert as well ... or rather, still owe Alexander Hawkins some for these, will hear him again on Saturday, with the group of Mulatu Astatke

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had to give it back to its owner ... nice one but not one I'd buy for myself

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Hod O'Brien is great! Will have to play the second one again soon (it was made 20 years later in 2007, again with a drummerless trio but this time with g/b instread of p/b as on the Criss Cross disc)

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disc two

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first spin last night - Coles is terrific ... as for Wess, I'm mostly not so fond of his alto playing here, but luckily there's plenty of tenor, too! (and the opener of the second disc, live from Yoshi's, is on flute)

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This one - with Grant Green and the Horace Parlan Trio (George Tucker, Al Harewood) I bought while we were on a class trip in Athens, in the nineties ... loved it ever since, "Love for Sale" is killer, but there's plenty of other fine music here!
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


Artem

king ubu, your photos of evan parker and them having pizzas is amazing!  ;D

king ubu

Quote from: Artem on February 03, 2016, 08:51:31 PM
king ubu, your photos of evan parker and them having pizzas is amazing!  ;D

The pizza/negroni one and the one with me on it weren't taken by me ... but yeah, great weekend!  ;D
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



Archie Shepp - The Magic Of Ju-Ju (1967)

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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SimonNZ

Quote from: king ubu on February 04, 2016, 12:57:41 AM
that's a great one!

Yes! I was very impressed!

I'm really just  catching up with the Shepp discography now. Are there any others you'd recommend?

king ubu

Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:07:10 AM
Yes! I was very impressed!

I'm really just  catching up with the Shepp discography now. Are there any others you'd recommend?

easy to answer: basically, all Impulse albums up to a certain point ... Four for Trane, Fire Music, On This Night, New Thing in Newport (shared with Coltrane, of who's set there's better editions, but the Shepp was never expanded or available separately I think), Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (the late 90s Master Editions reissue also contains "Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime", any "Originals" reissue won't contain more than the actual LP album from back when), Mama Too Tight, The Magic of Ju-Ju, The Way Ahead, For Loosers, Kwanza (these two are paired on one of the Impulse 2-on-1 series reissues!) ... at that point, there's also a live album on BASF/MPS (messy sound, never widely available on CD), several on BYG and America (I'm not familiar with all of them, but I'd say if you're really hooked to Shepp and see them for a good price, go get them).

Shepp then returned to recording from Impulse (there's not even a gap, just a flurry of European albums from 1969/70), doing two more that can be found on a recent "2-on-1" reissue, "Things Have Got to Change" and "The Cry of My People", as well as a large ensemble album, "Attica Blues", that's quite exciting indeed!

Up to this point; I'd say that later twofer is maybe the least essential of the Impulse albums, my top favourites would be, in rough sequence: Mama Too Tight, Live in San Fransciso (with the bonus album!), Fire Music, Four for Trane, On This Night and Attica Blues. The Americas aren't easy to find (if at all), the BYG discs were shady from the git-go and reissued on shady CDs at least in part (shady meaning: no royalties paid ever, these labels kept pretending to maintain there was no money in it for anyone ... I'm sure producing avantgarde jazz rekkids never made these guys rich, but they could keep up shop for a while, so .... either way, I need to spend more time with the ones I have, which are just a few).

Later on, Shepp turned into some kind of post Coltrane-traditionalist, I'm ambivalent about lots of his later output, but for one, "Steam" on Enja is excellent, a live trio recording with just bass and drums (Cameron Brown & Beaver Harris) from 1976. Also, the duos with Max Roach are great (for "Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76" you gotta help yourself in the interwebs, "The Long March" on Hat should still be around). I also like his duo album with Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) quite some.

For his "classicist" (sort of, he never turned into a changes player at that!) recordings, others will certainly be better equipped to give guidance ... his discography is really big:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Shepp_discography

For starters I guess I'd try and get "Mama Too Tight" (almost Ellingtonian, if that makes sense), one of the hot and wild ones ("Live in San Francisco" or "Fire Music") and maybe one of the seventies ones ("The Long March" or "Steam").

And of course there's some really early stuff, too - the Savoy album with Bill Dixon was only on CD on a yurpeen PD reissue, the shared one by the New York Contemporary Five (with Shepp) and Bill Dixon (no Shepp there) was reissued officially in the early noughties though. The NYC5 have more recordings out ... I've got the twofer on Storyville that omits one track (I think), would have to look up details.
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/

SimonNZ

Thanks for that. I played Mama Too Tight a few nights ago and liked it very much. I've made a note of the othrt titles you mention.

playing now:



Grant Green - Matador (rec.1964)

Green Destiny

Listening to this new arrival for the first time:



Mellow album - perfect for Friday evening :)

SimonNZ


king ubu

Quote from: SimonNZ on February 04, 2016, 01:24:02 PM
Thanks for that. I played Mama Too Tight a few nights ago and liked it very much. I've made a note of the othrt titles you mention.

Just saw that the 2CD reissue of Shepp/Roach "The Long March" is again OOP - on these hatOLOGY titles, you have to move fast (you might note to get the two Santa Cruz ones by Braxton and the two vols of Cecil Taylor's "Garden" in time!
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

some Kenny Wheeler ... his tone just tears my heart open:

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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

more Taylor and Wheeler, with Riccardo del Fra on bass:

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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

'nother one from the evil aFR sales - glad they're over!

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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

now some grease before it's time to move over to the kitchen and fix dinner - another one picked up in those evil sales a few weeks ago:

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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/

SimonNZ



Grant Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand (1965)

king ubu

^ good one, 'xept for I don't like Beatles covers by jazzers much ...

here, this one, from the evil sales, just went into the player for the first time, and it starts out very good:

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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

next one from the sales and from Chicago:

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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/