What Jazz are you listening to now?

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Geri Allen Trio: Twenty One

Dry Brett Kavanaugh recommended this to me. It's real good! (I'm not crazy about the drum sound though—the playing is great, but the drums sound a bit over compressed.)

SimonNZ



I've had very mixed results from the Kenton discography, but this one I think is quite impressive.

KevinP

Kenton can be extremely variable indeed. A lot hinges on who the arrangers were for a given LP. Some albums were more deliberately commercial than others.

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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Moanin'

I haven't heard this album in years. Just got it on CD. Damn, must be one of the best jazz albums ever.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

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Bobby Hutcherson: The Kicker.



George

"I can't live without music, because music is life." - Yvonne Lefébure

Dry Brett Kavanaugh


Brian

Marc Maron just did an hour-long interview with Ron Carter on his podcast.

Description:
"Marc talks with Ron about the dichotomies of his career, being a session musician and a band leader, a teacher and an eternal student, a maestro in concert halls and a regular in nightclubs. Ron explains how his output is all part of a responsibility he accepted long ago, one that continues today as he carries the flag of jazz throughout the world."

Dry Brett Kavanaugh


SimonNZ


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Archie Shepp: Four for Trane

Super cool album. Very raw takes on these Coltrane tunes.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Sonny Rollins. A Night at the Village Vanguard.



SimonNZ



Roy Eldridge - Littke Jazz (rec.1935-40)

Dry Brett Kavanaugh

Quote from: SimonNZ on December 22, 2022, 11:04:37 PM

Roy Eldridge - Littke Jazz (rec.1935-40)

The other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!

T. D.

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2022, 02:31:53 PMThe other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!

No, it's Teddy Hill, a frequent bandleader at Minton's at the time.
Seems to be cropped (and colorized?) from the famous photo with Monk and Howard McGhee:




SimonNZ

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on December 23, 2022, 02:31:53 PMThe other guy Lester Young? Merry Christmas!

Teddy Hill. Manager of Minton's Playhouse.

A crop of this famous photo with Monk and Howard McGhee on the left:




Edit: Ha! x-posted with T.D.

T. D.

The first time I saw the (full) photo, I asked the same question...and also mistook Roy Eldridge for Bud Powell.  :-[ ...so I committed the details to memory.
It's kind of an iconic jazz photograph.

SimonNZ



I continue to have a much higher assessment of The Three Sounds than the critical consensus.

A bad cover, but really fine playing.

SimonNZ


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Gil Evans Orchestra: Out of the Cool

First listen; found this at a local record shop today, bought off the strength of Evans' work with Miles Davis. Pretty good, so far; not what I was expecting. The first track is a kind of slick, funky vamp on one chord, that goes on for a very long time.

Getting kinda lonely here on the jazz board  :P