What did you listen to the most in 2006?

[clifford_thornton]

Some free jazz records, some punk/indie records... you know the drill.

[Niko]

started the year mostly with Libertines/Pete Doherty/Babyshambles Bootlegs then in February I rediscovered jazz after a three year more or less consequent break and got more interested in it then ever, this board and the ojc sale at 2001 being the most important single factors besides the music itself - thank you; spent arguably the most productive six months of my life up to now from March to August with two daily visits at 2001 between working hours, no time for lunch in later weeks roughly i made the jump from 200 jazz cds (most of which i bought between 1996 and 2000) to about 500 this year...

the three single records i played the most were Johnny Griffin "Grab This", Don Patterson "Boppin and Burnin" and Prince Lasha feat Sonny Simmons "The Cry"... these days "the complete imperial sessions of lou blackburn", Kenny Dorham "Round About Midnight At The Bohemia" and Yusef Lateef "Eastern Sounds" are important discs... hadn't seen it this way but seems like i listened to a lot of west coast stuff, too

[sal]

Billy Hart QUARTET (with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street)

This is an excellent disc. Haven't listened to it as much, but every time it plays I'm always taken back by how good the music is. Definitely one of the best new releases of 2006.

[danasgoodstuff]

Ilistened to a lot of the same stuffs as y'all - Trio Beyond, GG Live @ Club Moz., Miles at the Cellar Door (esp'ly disc 4) - but what I probably listened to more thean anything else, at least since this past summer, is Sonny Sharrock's Highlife. Those of you who heard my blindfold CD know I'm a big fan of Ask the Ages, but I'd never really listened to Highlife til I saw it cheap at a used store and picked it and CW's Thunderbird up for less than the suggested retail for a new copy of Thunderbird (which I've hardly played). Sure, the overall sound is kinda bright and poppy, esp'ly the keyboards, but there's so much Sonny and it's so good. I'm particularly fond of the way he paraphrases the old spiritual "All My Trials" - If religion was a thing that money could buy/Then the rich would live and the poor would die. Has anyone heard his Spaceghost EP?

Edited December 14, 2006 by danasgoodstuff

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Most played artists so far have been

1 Sonny Stitt (thanks to the Mosaic box)

2 Jimmy Smith

3 Grant Green

4 Rev J M Gates (this year's main new discovery)

5 Jack McDuff

6 Jazz Crusaders (again Mosaic responsible)

7 Lonnie Smith

8 David Newman

9 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

10 Houston Person

Most played albums this year have been (so far)

1 George Clinton - How late do UF2BB4UR absent

2 Calvin Newborn - Up city

3 Grant Green - Live at Club Mozambique

3 Hamid Drake & Sabir Mateen - Brothers together

3 Calvin Newborn - New born

3 Slim Harpo - Tip on in

7 Tiny Grimes - Food for thought

8 Gene Ludwig - Live in Las Vegas

8 Hank Marr - Blues'n 'n cruisin'

10 George Lewis - Live at Club Hangover vol 1

Most played reissue sets have been (so far)

1 Rev J M Gates - Complete recorded works 1926-1941 (of which I've only got 6 volumes so far)

2 New Orleans Guitar, featuring Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim, Pee Wee Crayton & T-Bone Walker

3 Sonny Stitt - Mosaic box

4 Jazz Crusaders - Mosaic box

5 Big Joe Turner - Shout rattle & roll (1938-1954)

6 Rev J C Burnett - Complete recorded works 1926-1945

7 Rev F W McGee - Complete recorded works 1927-1930

7 Cousin Joe - Complete recordings 1945-1955

9 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Dubstrumentals

10 Albert Collins - Deep freeze

MG

[ornette]

Bob Dylan. Theme Time Radio Hour shows.

[montg]

This was a year for fixing some holes in my collection and discovering some giants that I had mostly overlooked in the past. So, a lot of listening to:

Sonny Rollins (Prestige years, mostly K2s from the blowout)

Gerry Mulligan (Pacific Years and the Emarcy sextet)

Dexter Gordon (mostly his 70s stuff--love Biting the Apple from Steeplechase along with the live Carnegie date)

Woody Shaw (Little Red's Fanatasy plus Steppin' Stones)

Among newer releases, I'm starting to warm up to Dave Douglas, I've been listening to 'The Infinite' a lot. And Kenny Garrett...don't like his new one much, but there was a period this year where I was pretty much listening to 'Songbook' everyday.

[BeBop]

As always, I was on the road 365 days. I seldom have the 'luxury' of being able to take recorded music with me, so, for me, I mainly listened to live, 'local' music wherever I was - Yemen, Albania, Macedonia, Guatemala, Djibouti, Des Moines...

[Johnny E]

[Aggie87]

Yemen, Albania, Macedonia, Guatemala, Djibouti, Des Moines...

**humming "One of these things is not like the others"**

[BeBop]

Yemen, Albania, Macedonia, Guatemala, Djibouti, Des Moines...

**humming "One of these things is not like the others"**

Agreed. Guatemala would be hard to lump in with the rest of those "Third World" places.

[BeBop]

Yemen, Albania, Macedonia, Guatemala, Djibouti, Des Moines...

**humming "One of these things is not like the others"**

Agreed. Guatemala would be hard to lump in with the rest of those "Third World" places.

To be fair, I liked all those places. Not everywhere I went, I liked.

[gslade]

It would be hard to say

because I return to recordings often

and mix it up with new acquisition's

but in any given year

most likely Duke Ellington

[Tom 1960]

Without a doubt, this was the year of Jackie McLean for me. I purchased at least a half dozen of his Blue Note releases with more in store for the upcoming year. I've yet to pick up a dud.

[Durium]

CHARLIE ROUSE

Bossa Nova Bacchanal

What a great album.

Keep swinging

Durium

[michel1969]

This one

Edited December 22, 2006 by Michel

[Soul Stream]

New Release....far and away, no contest....Dr. Lonnie Smith's "Jungle Soul"

Old Release....Jimmy Smith's "Softly, As A Summer Breeze"

[fomafomic65]

We did this last year and received many interesting and varied responses, so let's do it again this year.

What did you listen to the most in 2006?

Bud Shank - Mosaic box disc 4

I perfectly understand you. In my ears, disc 3 wasn't less than terrific too....

Edited December 26, 2006 by ArmandoPeraza

[Д.Д.]

Good question.

Despite my buying a lot of stuff in 2006, the list of most-listened-to CDs is more-or-less the same as in 2005.

In the order of decreasing frequency of listening:

1. Rustavi Choir: "Georgian Chorales"

2. Prokofiev: String Quartets (mainly the first movement of the 2nd quartet)

3. Fela Kuti: "Zombie"

4. Bach: "Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould)"

5. Frank Zappa: "Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar", disc 3

6. Death: "Individual Though Patterns"

7. Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Jazz Impressions of Japan"

8. Faith No More: "Angel Dust"

9. John Coltrane: "First Meditations"

10. Kevin Drumm / Martin Tetreault: "Particles and Smears"

11. John Handy: "Live at the Monterrey Jazz Festival"

12. Andre Jaume "Peace / Pace / Paix"

13. J.J. Johnson Mosaic

14. Ustad Sultan Khan: "Sarangi. The Music of India"

15. Joëlle Léandre, Mat Maneri, Christophe Marguet, Joel Ryan: "For Flowers"

16. Jali Musa Jawara: "Yasimika"

17. Nicolas Simion: "Luca's Dream"

18. Pee Wee Russell: "Ask Me Now!"

19. Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Patrice Héral, Terje Rypdal: "Karta"

20. Subramaniam: "South India: Le Violon de l'Inde du Sud / Karnatic Violin"

Edited December 28, 2006 by Д.Д.

[bolivarblues]

This should be a fairly accurate account of my listening habits during the past year. Ninety-percent of my listening is done in my bedroom, using iTunes on my desktop computer. These results are derived from a "smart playlist" that contains everything that I've listened to at least once since 1/1/06; by sorting the playlist by playcount, I have list of what I've listened to the most.

By album:

Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure

Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby

John Coltrane - Live At Birdland

Thelonious Monk - Misterioso

John Coltrane - The Heavyweight Champion

I had to go pretty far down the list to find something outside of jazz, but here's the top five non-jazz listens:

A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder

Loose Fur - Born Again In The U.S.A.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me

Doug Gillard - Salamander

[Durium]

A retrospect

A 2006 retrospect

Keep swinging

Durium

[mikeweil]

Been listening to a lot of Cal Tjader of course, while checking things for the discography.

Many recordings with Lenny White on drums, especially his own "Edge".

But I've been spinning so many different CDs it's impossible to recall them ......