What Jazz are you listening to now?

[AnotherSpin]

[SimonNZ]

[Henk]

Fine Sco. Bluffing, mocking, without a trace of hesitation or nerve.

[karti1999]

This work of genius!

[SimonNZ]

Ellington "Private Collection" Volume One

Everything is wonderful, but I was particularly surprised that the long closing track hadn't been released before this.

[KevinP]

Soapsuds, Soapsuds Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden (1979, Polygram)

It's been years, decades even, but I used to love this one. The Mary Hartman theme especially, with Coleman's sax intoning the 'Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman! call from the tv show.

Wonder if I still have the LP.

[KevinP]

Great recording. All players at still young age and in great shape.

I had their first album (high school classmate lent it to me and I bought the cassette, and pretty sure I upgraded to CD when it came out). I bought this second one when it came out. But for whatever reason, I've probably never listened to it after the initial few listens. I need to dig it out. Both of them.

[AnotherSpin]

The seminal mid-seventies album in Chick Corea's oeuvre. Stylistic diversity, magnificent compositions, great mood. First heard it on a double LP in the late seventies, since then I have listened to it not often, but every time with great pleasure.

[KevinP]

The seminal mid-seventies album in Chick Corea's oeuvre. Stylistic diversity, magnificent compositions, great mood. First heard it on a double LP in the late seventies, since then I have listened to it not often, but every time with great pleasure.

Great album.

Think I first had it on 8-track.

[AnotherSpin]

[ando]

Diana Krall Live In Paris (2002, Verve) full playlist
Christian McBride, bass
John Clayton, bass
Jeff Hamilton, drums
Anthony Wilson, guitar
Luis Quintero, percussion
Paulinho Da Costa, percussion
Michael Brecker, tenor sax
Orchestre Symphonique Europeen
Diana Krall, piano, vocals


One of my favorites. Good to hear again.

[ando]

Swing Time CD 89 All-Star Groups Vol. 4 1943-44
Mountain Air by the Charlie Shavers Quintet, above, is one of many stunners on this ST installment.

[KevinP]

This album:


From this set:

[SimonNZ]

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)

[ando]

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)

Giant. Good to hear again. Thanks. This album, what is essentially the rest of that live 1965 set from which OOga Booga was made, followed a few years later -

lasting impressions of HUGH MASKELA (1968, mgm)

[T. D.]

Hugh Masekela - The Americanization Of Ooga Booga (1966)

Wow. I'm shocked by the title of this album.

Having lived in Kenya (former British colony) for two years as a youth, I have some experience with British humour, and there's an ancient and rather disgusting joke (variously in African, South American and island settings) about "ooga-booga". The curious can google.

[SimonNZ]

Wow. I'm shocked by the title of this album.

Having lived in Kenya (former British colony) for two years as a youth, I have some experience with British humour, and there's an ancient and rather disgusting joke (variously in African, South American and island settings) about "ooga-booga". The curious can google.

I'm sure it was intended to be provocative/political.

And like @ando said, its a really great album.

[SimonNZ]

Perhaps more for the movie thread, but after being described in the Ellington biography I'm picking away at I watched his fisrt film, the 20-minute "Black ad Tan" from 1929 (which includes some 1929 racism in the two black piano-movers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWge47vuatY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tan_(film)


They also drew attention to an Okeh track called "Old Man Blues" I hadn't much noticed before:

[ando]

Perhaps more for the movie thread, but after being described in the Ellington biography I'm picking away at I watched his fisrt film, the 20-minute "Black ad Tan" from 1929 (which includes some 1929 racism in the two black piano-movers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWge47vuatY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tan_(film)


They also drew attention to an Okeh track called "Old Man Blues" I hadn't much noticed before:

Great stuff. Hadn't seen the film in its entirety. Thanks. 

[AnotherSpin]