What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

Larry Young - Lawrence Of Newark (1973)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1968)



The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Fanfare For The Warriors (1974)
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)



John McLaughlin - Qué Alegria (1992)
The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas (2003)

[aligreto]

Earlier: Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite....

[aligreto]

now (and yeah, it has to be that big this one time! just look at it):

Super portrait 

[king ubu]

Super portrait 

Indeed! Too bad I have it in CD-size only ... but then the CD - as is often the case with Ogun CDs - contains much more music, which is really cool (it has the full first set of the Paris solo gig in question, plus the same bits from the second as on the LP, which only had the middle three of eight tunes that make up the first, so it's a substantial addition, even more so as the eight tunes are all played as a seemless medley).

Now, taking another Blue Notes-inspired detour:

[George]

Now enjoying a first listen to a new audiophile mastering of this classic album by Mobile Fidelity.

[George]

First listen to this classic, on an Analogue Productions audiophile SACD.

[king ubu]

returned from a big jazz shopping spree ... found the new Betty Davis one with recordings from 1968 & 1969 in the mailbox and played that one (the track I knew, "Politician Man", remains the best, I guess) ... now on to the new jazz discs:



oh, forgot: in the morning, before going shopping, I played this one:

[king ubu]

Next one from the haul ... gotta love Zerbe anyway, so all the nicer to find a new album of his "Blech Band" (brass band), featuring Willem Breuker and several GDR jazz greats ... the second half of it (after an Eisler piece and Zerbe's title track) is taken by a suite Zerbe composed for a play on a distant relative of mine, who goes by the charming name of "King sh*t" (Suite in sieben Sätzen aus König K. - stage music for a play titled "König Kacke", an adaption of Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" by Jürgen Holtz). Recorded in 1992 in Berlin.

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[George]

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[George]

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with Don Pullen on the organ

[SimonNZ]

Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo (1980)
Dave Douglas - Charms Of The Night Sky (1998)



Billy Eckstine - No Cover No Minimum (1961)
Jean-Michel Pilc - Welcome Home (2002)

[king ubu]

Very good indeed - glad to have snatched it!

[king ubu]

A very nice one by the late, lamented Don Friedman - and a rather unusual one in that his trio (George Mraz and Billy Hart, this time around) is amended by a frontline with horns: Pepper Adams and Jimmy Knepper, as the album's title already suggests ... they start out with Sonny Rollins' "Audubon" (from the very early session with J.J. Johnson on Prestige), then it's standards and pop (Getting Sentimental Over You, Alfie, Laura, Beautiful Love), more bop (Groovin' High), some Ellingtonia (Prelude to a Kiss, I Got It Bad - those form the second part of a medley with Alfie and Laura coming first), and an Adams original (Hellure). The CD ends with with three alternate takes (Sentimental, Beautiful Love, Audubon).

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In the mail today ... about time I got that one! I don't really find the p/b duo an attractive format, but with Haden, I enjoy it very, very much - and from first impression, this is as good as I was hoping!

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Gorgeous ... and how's that, having Kippie Moeketsi AND Dudu Pukwana on the same album!

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Spent last night at a friend's, mostly listening to music by Chris McGregor, his Blue Notes and his Brotherhood of Breath, also some Harry Miller (all stuff I recently mentioned here, except for the trio album pictured above, which arrived just in time for me to bring it to my friend's, too, where we gave it a first spin together), and to cap things off the new reissue of John Surman's "Morning Glory" (seems the previous FMR was a boot, actually, the new one on Fledg'ling is clear).



Now continuing with some Mike Osborne:

[SimonNZ]

Enrico Rava and Ran Blake - Duo En Noir (2000)

^I love small venue live recordings where you can hear the waiters busing the tables and the cash register ringing...and the indifferent audience carrying on conversations, seemingly oblivious to the amazing performance being captured.



Jean-Michel Pilc - Follow Me (2004)