What Jazz are you listening to now?

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/3u5lW99YygU

[James]

[SimonNZ]

Terry Gibbs Dream Band - Vol.6 One More Time (rec.1959)
Wally Rose - Ragtime Classics (1959)

[HIPster]

Rez Abbasi - Snake Charmer

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[XB-70 Valkyrie]

This LP.

[SimonNZ]

Bill Frisell - Is That You? (1990)
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree (1989)



John Zorn - The Big Gundown (1985)
Alex Cline - Sparks Fly Upward (1998)

[king ubu]

Hope you enjoyed the Gibbs! That band's a monster!

Love the Tapscott dearly.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

I have a few of the Tapscott LPs, but will have to check this one out. Thanks

[SimonNZ]

Hope you enjoyed the Gibbs! That band's a monster!

Love the Tapscott dearly.

The Gibbs was superb - thanks for the recommendation.

It was the first time I'd heard the Tapscott, and it was a knockout. First time I'd heard any Tapscott in fact, so it was a great introduction (though I'm already a big fan of John Carter, who also appears.

Been trying to do more "first-listen" exploring of more recentish jazz, and finding some great stuff. The Ravish Momin albums and the Alex Cline albums in particular became instant favorites.

[king ubu]

Glad to hear that about Gibbs! The entire series is worth hunting down if you enjoy this kind of music, no idea how difficult that may be these days (I often realize how lucky I am to have been collecting jazz since my high school days in the 90s ... so much of the great 50s and 60s jazz has been around for so long, it was quite easy to grab so many great albums even with my small budget back then, as Fantasy would just keep all these Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary etc. albums in print forever!)

Re: Carter ... the Mosaic Select with the Revelation sessions has just gone OOP ... but the two Flying Dutchman albums are around, one on Ace and the other one in a superb reissue by International Phonograph (who also did Tapscotts magnificient debut, "The Giant Has Awakened", also originally on Flying Dutchman - alas the reissue is OOP ... International Phonograph is the current label of Jonathan Horwich, one of the guys behind Revelation back in the sixties and seventies and his reissues are splendid, other than the two mentioned also one each by Bill Dixon and by Julius Hemphill, plus a very good one by Clare Fischer and one by Jeremy Steig which I've not spent nearly as much time with yet as I should).

Also, there's a great live concert by Carter/Bradford out on DarkTree records!

And Carter's "Echoes from Rudolph's" has been reissued by NoBusiness (operating out of Lithuania, another great, small label, focussing on both reissues of classic free jazz albums - often extended, as is the case with the Carter! - as well as recording new albums by both legendary older guys as well as younger musicians - and they did a few new Bradford albums (the group he co-leads with saxophonist Frode Gjerstad), as has Chuck Nessa on his fine label.

Good times for Carter/Bradford fans indeed!

I'd love to hear more of Carter's work as a leader though, have his "Castles of Ghana" and "Dance of the Love Ghosts" in addition, but that's it already.

As for Tapscott, his solo recordings can be totally mesmerizing, but of the official "Tapscott Sessions" on Nimbus West (no connection to Nimbus the CD-R label) I have only Vol. 8 so far, alas. I need to get more, really! Also need to pick up the recordings of Tapscott's larger arkestra, eventually.

[SimonNZ]

^Great info as always, KU. Thanks again. ("Castles Of Ghana" is a favorite of mine and gets played pretty regularly)

playing now:



Joe Locke and David Hazeltine - Mutual Admiration Society (1999)
Bill Frisell - East/West (2005)

[king ubu]

^Great info as always, KU. Thanks again. ("Castles Of Ghana" is a favorite of mine and gets played pretty regularly)

always happy to provide a little jazz fix 

"Castles of Ghana" is desert island stuff for me as well, besides the great Carter/Bradford (there's two out on Hat Hut btw, one a Revelation album that was also part of the OOP Mosaic Select, the other a much later recording), it's my favourite Carter so far - but as I said, I really need to explore more there. Wish his recordings were easier to find!

[HIPster]

Wadada Leo Smith - Tabligh

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[SimonNZ]

David Hazeltine - The Classic Trio (1997)
Bill Frisell - Further East / Further West (2005)



Trevor Watts - The Deep Blue (2009)
David Sanchez - Cultural Survival (2008)



Charlie Hunter - Songs From The Analog Playground (2001)
Adam Lane - New Magical Kingdom (2006)

[SimonNZ]

Gerald Wilson - New York New Sound (2002)
Bill Frisell - Richter 858 (2005)

[James]

https://www.youtube.com/v/M0-sRmTFOMo

[king ubu]

arrived today - had to get it, eventually, although I didn't expect it to be earth-shattering ... but seems pretty nice (that's three tunes in), with Ortega doubling up on alto, tenor, baritone, flute and clarinet - but mostly so far sticking to his regular alto for his improvisations - which sound quite like Lee Konitz here, at spots

[SimonNZ]

Joe Bushkin - After Hours (1951)
Lee Konitz - Subconscious Lee (1950)



Wilbur De Paris - That's A Plenty (1959)
George Lewis - Jazz Funeral In New Orleans (1953)

[SimonNZ]

Joe Locke - Love Is A Pendulum (2015)
Bill Frisell - The Intercontinentals (2003)

[king ubu]

Just heard the sad news that Johannes Bauer has died, a few weeks shy of 62 (confirmed on the website of his brother and co-'bonist Conny) - very sorry to hear this.



Playing this duo concert recording of theirs, recorded live in 1993