Palmetto Records

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I am wanting opinions on Palmetto records. Production values, catalogue, etc.

Thanks

[BFrank]

Good stuff. Interesting, adventurous music.

eMusic carries that label, if you want an inexpensive way to check them out.

[gdogus]

  Greg Waits said:

I am wanting opinions on Palmetto records. Production values, catalogue, etc.

Thanks

Great production values, and a great catalogue. Check out Ben Allison, Frank Kimbrough, other participants in the Jazz Composers Collective. Palmetto also offers Andrew Hill's Dusk, which I think is a very fine latter-day effort from him. And Fred Hersch...and Marty Erlich...a great label.

[Guy Berger]

I only have two Palmetto discs -- Andrew Hill's Dusk and Ben Allison's Riding the Nuclear Tiger. I like both very much.

Guy

[Kalo]

  gdogus said:

Great production values, and a great catalogue. Check out Ben Allison, Frank Kimbrough, other participants in the Jazz Composers Collective. Palmetto also offers Andrew Hill's Dusk, which I think is a very fine latter-day effort from him. And Fred Hersch...and Marty Erlich...a great label.

Excellent label, I agree. And great recommendations above. But don't forget Matt Wilson and Joel Frahm.

  Guy said:

I only have two Palmetto discs -- Andrew Hill's Dusk and Ben Allison's Riding the Nuclear Tiger. I like both very much.

Guy

Those two might be my favorites on the label (though the Matt Wilson discs come close). Either or both would be a great place to start.

[jlhoots]

Ted Nash

[Clunky]

David Berkman has some excellent disc on Palmetto

[gdogus]

One can also find Javon Jackson on Palmetto, as well as Bobby Watson and Horizon, some Dewey Redman (In London), Bobby Previte...the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra...

[marcello]

I'm looking forward to the new Frank Kimbrough recording called Play, with Masa Kamaguchi and Paul Motian.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I have Javon Jackson's "Easy does it", which is pretty good and Lonnie Smiff's "Too damn hot", which is brilliant. I keep forgetting to check out the Greg Hatza albums on Palmetto - he was a very good Jimmy Smiff-influenced organist in the 60s.

MG

[mikeweil]

All that I've bought sounded fine and lived up to their expectations. Andrew Hill, Matt Wilson, Larry Goldings, Javon Jackson, Lonnie Smith, Dave MacKay, Sam Newsome, The Voodoo Dogs .... I'd buy anything from them if I know I like some of the musicians involved.

[king ubu]

I have some Palmetto discs and like them all, more or less (the Javon Jackson may be the least interesting one, for me):

Larry Goldings - Moonbird

Fred Hersch Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard

Fred Hersch Trio - + 2

Andrew Hill - A Beautiful Day

Andrew Hill - Dusk

Javon Jackson - Easy Does It

Rick Margitza - Memento

Rick Margitza - Heart of Hearts

Ted Nash - Still Evolved

Greg Tardy - Abundance

The Hills and the Tardy are probably my favourites from these.

[mikeweil]

  king ubu said:

Rick Margitza - Memento

That's an excellent album - and the Tardy is on my ever growing wish list!

[Aggie87]

Thumbs up for:

Ben Allison - Peace Pipe

Joel Frahm/Brad Mehldau - Don't Explain

Larry Goldings - Sweet Science

Andrew Hill - Dusk

Bobby Previte - Counterclockwise

Voodoo Dogs

Matt Wilson - Arts & Crafts

[md655321]

Ill throw in the now ubiquitous Andrew hill - Dusk rec. Fantastic album.

I also LOVE Fred Hersh - +2 and Marty Ehrlich - Line on Love. Palmetto is for 3 for 3 with me for having some of the best jazz records in recent memory.

[montg]

The Bobby Watson (Horizon Reassembled) and Ben Allison (Nuclear Tiger) are probably two of my favorite new releases over the past few years. I guess the only complaint I have about the label is that they don't put out enough material.

[Nate Dorward]

Not one of the more "modern"-sounding ones, but Bill Mays' Coming Home is an outstanding trio disc. I don't like the later live one quite so much, though it's fine.

[Peter Friedman]

I like "The Bill Mays Trio - Summer Sketches".

[jlhoots]

The Ted Nash CD not specifically mentioned that I really like is Espada De La Noche.

[gdogus]

  jlhoots said:

The Ted Nash CD not specifically mentioned that I really like is Espada De La Noche.

Yup, that's a great one. I'd also reinforce recommendations of the Matt Wilson discs, especially those with his group Arts and Crafts.