What Jazz are you listening to now?

[KevinP]

Although a solo jazz album isn't particularly surprising, Clark Terry is someone who shows up in the darndest places.

I mean, there's a Junior Welles LP in which Terry plays in the trumpet section. No 'Featuring the Great Clark Terry' hype sticker or anything, just a name listed without comment on the cover credits.

He also appears on some Wilson Pickett dates, and also Barbara Lewis, Ray Charles, Lighnin' Hopkins and Mahalia Jackson.

I know I've seen his name on a track on a funk compilation I have, though I can't access it now and allmusic doesn't show anything. Will check later.

He's also on a Simon Rattle CD, though it's called 'American Music,' which isn't that odd, but he sure did get around.

(Not to mention that he lived a long live and you'd have a hard time naming jazz greats he didn't record alongside.)

Alas, I never saw him perform live.

[KevinP]

Bit of a blind spot. Everything I've had by him was an incidental purchase (Bird with the Herd or various big band compilations), some going back decades.

Digging it if not quite blown away.

[KevinP]

Another big band, another blind spot.

If you accused me of having a blind spot regarding white jazz musicians, I might have a hard time defending myself.

[SimonNZ]

Cal Tjader - Concert By The Sea Vol.1

Including the original recording of "Afro Blue", which I heard for the first time on the radio yesterday.

[brewski]

Irreversible Entanglements: Nuclear War (by Sun Ra) - Hearing this group live on Monday, doing a little homework beforehand. This was recorded live in June 2022 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.

-Bruce

[brewski]

Diane Schuur: Pure Schuur (1991). A great album that always says "summer" to me.

-Bruce

[T. D.]

Irreversible Entanglements: Nuclear War (by Sun Ra) - Hearing this group live on Monday, doing a little homework beforehand. This was recorded live in June 2022 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.

-Bruce

Awesome! Must compare this with the original (from a re-issue I have):

https://sunra-mh.bandcamp.com/track/nuclear-war-1

[Added] Excellent Frank Strozier on this one. It's a better album than Haynes's Cymbalism IMO.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bird and Chet.

[KevinP]

I've always been drawn to the Mass as a musical setting, and there are, surprisingly, a few versions in the jazz idiom, plus a few other liturgical settings. This one is a new discovery for me (I'm listening to it for the first time as I type), but so far I like it a lot.

I'm also working on one myself. As such I don't really want to listen to any, but I think this approach is sufficiently different enough to mine.

[SimonNZ]

[brewski]

My Baby Just Cares for Me: The Best of Nina Simone - Can never get enough of her voice.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

[brewski]

Of all the recordings by The Manhattan Transfer, this one is my favorite, recorded live in Tokyo in 1983, and later released on the Rhino label. The group were in their prime, for an enthusiastic audience of Japanese jazz lovers.

-Bruce

[SimonNZ]

Of all the recordings by The Manhattan Transfer, this one is my favorite, recorded live in Tokyo in 1983, and later released on the Rhino label. The group were in their prime, for an enthusiastic audience of Japanese jazz lovers.

-Bruce

Huh. I'm a pretty big Manhattan Transfer fan, but I've never seen that one before.

Will check it out. Thanks

[brewski]

Huh. I'm a pretty big Manhattan Transfer fan, but I've never seen that one before.

Will check it out. Thanks

Rhino released it much later, in 1996, and since it's a small label, the release may have gone under the radar for many. (And glad you like the group!)

-Bruce

[KevinP]

I saw this last night and have to admit I was pretty impressed.

[Mookalafalas]

I saw this last night and have to admit I was pretty impressed.

  I watched it, too. I like when they all played at the end. Wonder how many modern stars have extra skill sets like this. I remember I toured a broadcasting museum years ago, in Chicago I think, and one of displays was a video of a bunch of Hollywood stars jamming together, kind of blue-grass style, on early television. None of them were people I associated, in my mind anyway, with music in any way, but they were all wailing on fiddles and banjoes, etc.  Kirk Douglas was particularly good...

[KevinP]

I guess we all wanted to hear some 'Suwannee River' before each song though.

[SimonNZ]

Going around on repeat last night

[modified]

Jeff Denson (2019):"Between Two Worlds"