What Jazz are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

Its been a while since I owned this on lp, but my memory is of it being one of those late concerts where he would talk for too long between tunes and (for me) kill the mood.

This 2cd set has an additional 10 tracks not on the double lp, and has fit them in a least to some extent by taking out all the chat, apart from the odd "Ray Nance, everybody!". Which made for a really good listen.

[KevinP]

My perception of this album is heavily modulated by the memory of buying the CD and it being defective, missing the second disc and the back cover was all messed up. Must have been in the days of long boxes, else I'd've noticed. Sure, I could take it back, but I'd discarded the receipt, and I was shy and uncomfortable (as a child, I once tried to return something to a particularly unpleasant storeowner). And so I don't think I ever bothered to listen to even disc 1 since I couldn't finish it.

I finally (re)purchased it a few years ago, and marriage cured me of being afraid to return things to the shop.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Phil Woods & Tom Harrell.

[SimonNZ]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Seen the movie, Kansas City? I think it's a fun movie with some jazz music.

[SimonNZ]

Seen the movie, Kansas City? I think it's a fun movie with some jazz music.

Haven't seen it. Will check it out. Thanks.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Haven't seen it. Will check it out. Thanks.

Quincy Jones is in the movie!

Ed; Sorry, Harry Belafonte. I thought it was Quincy, but I was wrong. I saw the movie decades ago.

[brewski]

After seeing Samara Joy on the GRAMMYs the other night (a surprisingly good show), revisiting some of her work. Love both of these: "Guess Who I Saw Today" and "Lush Life."

-Bruce

[SimonNZ]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bird, Montreal.

[San Antone]

Not long ago I was listening to this set:



And I decided that I no longer really enjoy Coltrane's late career style.  I have gotten to the point where I mainly enjoy melodic jazz, i.e. where the solos are not scalar, based on the harmonies, but melodic, based on the tune/head.

I have been listening instead to a lot of Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.

[Henk]

[ando]

...I have been listening instead to a lot of Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.

How do you feel about Biederbecke? I seldom hear his name mentioned anymore (nor see his stuff on jazz shelves second hand music stores). I'd love a nice box set of him and his collaborators.

[ando]

Ok, I JUST saw this! 

and I did find this exceptional Bix playlist on the Tube. Might have to do for now.

[SimonNZ]

[San Antone]

How do you feel about Biederbecke? I seldom hear his name mentioned anymore (nor see his stuff on jazz shelves second hand music stores). I'd love a nice box set of him and his collaborators.

He did some excellent stuff, sadly not enough was recorded since his life was truncated due to alcoholism.  Louis Armstrong considered him a peer.

[KevinP]

Bought the score for The Tattooed Bride this morning, so that's what I'm listening to.

[Henk]

Have you seen Ken Burns overview of ten 2-hour episodes?

Besides that I can't think of many jazz documentaries I call much better than just okay. Maybe the one on Chet Baker called "Lets Get Lost". Or the one on Monk called "Straight, No Chaser".

I've just watched 'Straight, no Chaser'. Could hardly understand the words, but I liked watching it. It got me a sense of Monk's personality. It seems to me a man both in the way he lived as in his music was to turn the heavy into light, always trying to escape the heavy by the light (as is shown often in the film he just wanders and spins himself around in a circle). Just my perception and opinion though. All those jazz artist seem to me having relatively straightforward lives consisting of making music with friends, perform and recording with the common things organized around it. Though simple as it seems, as in the case with Monk, he could be a very complicated man (though that could be explained by some mental disorder).

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tal Farlow Private Recordings.