What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Autumn Leaves]

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Managed to listen to all of this latest box set already - I am very pleased with it! Definetely as good as the Atlantic Albums box set I bought a few years ago

[Bogey]

Some more 'Trane as well:



This is quickly becoming one of my favorite jazz albums.  When I purchased it some years back, I thought it decent, but now that I have given it my full attention I find that one spin is not enough. In fact, this round I let it move through four full times and gave Blues Legacy a couple more rounds in the ring.  Check it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlMGzDSQog

Oh, and the opening track, "Stairway to the Stars" has unbelievable acoustics.  The engineering on it is soe of the best I have of any jazz on the shelf.

[Bogey]

[king ubu]

disc one

[king ubu]

Wanted to mention that earlier: very much love Basie Meets Bond - some mean Lockjaw there! And fun arrangements!

Yesterday night:

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[SimonNZ]

Archie Shepp - Montreux One (1975)



Joseph Jarman - Song For (1967)

[king ubu]

Joseph Jarman - Song For (1967)

Nice! Are you into (early) AAC in general? Roscoe Mitchell's debut on Delmark, the early Art Ensemble albums (under Mitchell or Bowie's names) on Nessa, early Muhal Richard Abrams and Kalaparusha on Delmark? Love this stuff!

[SimonNZ]

Yeah, I love that Jarman album. AAC I've found uneven generally, some wonderful, some misfires. But I need to investigate further and relisten to the few I have.

[Bogey]

From 1959





Drasnin far left on the flute.

[Bogey]

[king ubu]

Yeah, I love that Jarman album. AAC I've found uneven generally, some wonderful, some misfires. But I need to investigate further and relisten to the few I have.

It does require time and perseverance, I guess. Took me a while to wrap my mind around it for sure. Some is in-yo-face brilliant ("Thème de Yoyo" on one of their Pathé albums for one ... there's also a Monteverdi thing there, on the other of the Pathés I think?), but lots of it is ... let's put it like this: less obvious.

This is, I think, because of the underlying concepts that deal with time and space in a much different way from NY jazz and free jazz. Things are opened up, empty spaces that can be handled in any number of ways. This is music that kind of opens up possibilities and then allows things to happen, rather than forcing anything (which is what the firebrands from NY do, Shepp, Sanders and the like). This creates a whole different type of intensity (that can become just as burning ultimately, see for instance Roscoe Mitchell's recent Nessa album in tribute of Fred Anderson), a different type of concentration and focus. And I guess I love this very much by now. It can also mean that recordings very slowly unwrap, it can mean (partial) failure in that options are opened up but then nothing really happens (or that nothing is IT which happens). It's an approach to freedom in music that I very much enjoy - not working on energy levels and build-ups mostly, or rather just making use of such techniques at the time when they are fitting in.

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[king ubu]

by the way, that Getz/Gilberto pic is a still from this most charming TV cap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA

[SimonNZ]

^Thanks for the above. Following up on one of the recommendations now:



Roscoe Mitchell - Sound (1966)

[SimonNZ]

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People In Sorrow (1969)

[SimonNZ]

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)

[king ubu]

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)

Yowzah! There's that one amazing tenor solo by Roscoe Mitchell on this!

[king ubu]

returning home from work, I found my recent Clean Feed order (from their still running sales) in the mailbox - put this into the player right away:



never heard anything by Adam Lane before, but a friend kept insisting I check him out, so I ordered some of his discs that were on sale ... pretty lively stuff somewhere between Mingus, free jazz and early 20c classical music - interesting, to say the least, and upon first impression pretty good indeed! (The other two I bought are a meeting with Ken Vandermark - whom I remain ambiguous about -, Magnus Broo and the amazing Paal Nilssen-Love, and another Full Throttle two CD set with some more familiar names in the line-up: Nate Wooley, Talyor Ho Bynum, Matt Bauder).

[SimonNZ]

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances à Sophie (1970)

[Bogey]

Here is one that set me back only $0.99 and is a gem! I am having difficulty dating this lp, so any help appreciated. Definitely some cuts that worthy of top shelf in my collection, like the sample I attached titled Cha-Cha-Cha Des Thons. You will not be disappointed with this two minutes or so of music that should get your foot tapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrkscyZ0Cw

[king ubu]

@Bogey: this might be of help:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/decca/kapp/kappstory.html