Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[Niko]

Listening to the first CD, the drumming on the first track of Il Giro is a lot of fun to listen, great album purists will probably hate it.

loved that first album from the box! not quite as convinced of the rest of the box, but that one is really fun...

[king ubu]

Listening to the first CD, the drumming on the first track of Il Giro is a lot of fun to listen, great album purists will probably hate it.

loved that first album from the box! not quite as convinced of the rest of the box, but that one is really fun...

Just playing that first one... fun indeed! Will report elsewhere how I'll like the rest...

[tranemonk]

Now Disc 3... the String Band Session... :cool:

Wow I guess we're all on the same wave length... Just broke this open also.. and I am enjoying it...

Listening to the first CD, the drumming on the first track of Il Giro is a lot of fun to listen, great album purists will probably hate it.

loved that first album from the box! not quite as convinced of the rest of the box, but that one is really fun...

Just playing that first one... fun indeed! Will report elsewhere how I'll like the rest...

Edited April 24, 2010 by tranemonk

[B. Goren.]

[king ubu]

Yes, I played the first four discs in a row! Then time ran out... very good! Not so sure about the second and fourth, but the first one with its funky beats and guitar was great, and I liked String Band a lot, too! The second was at the same time a tougher "jazz" date as it was also a venture into more hymnic, post-Milesian, ECM-expressionist territory, which kind of went on with "Secrets". Not that I disliked either of these, not at all, just found them a bit less fun, so to say. The first few tunes I heard of "Electric Five" sounded like a motherload of fun though, looking forward to play it in full tomorrow!

[Van Basten II]

Being a Rava mark, i enjoyed the whole set.

[king ubu]

I think my top Rava still remains "Quartet" on ECM, with Roswell Rudd, JF Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano!

[Van Basten II]

I think my top Rava still remains "Quartet" on ECM, with Roswell Rudd, JF Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano!

Never saw that one before, is it available on cd ?

[Chuck Nessa]

I think my top Rava still remains "Quartet" on ECM, with Roswell Rudd, JF Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano!

Mine too. Don't know if it has been "silvered" as they used to say.

[king ubu]

I think my top Rava still remains "Quartet" on ECM, with Roswell Rudd, JF Jenny Clark and Aldo Romano!

Mine too. Don't know if it has been "silvered" as they used to say.

Yes it has! That's how I've owned it for many years!

Seems it's only available as a download (or rather pricey used disc) now, though.

http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1100/1122.php?cat=%2FArtists%2FRava+Enrico%23%23Enrico+Rava&we_start=0&lvredir=712

http://www.amazon.com/Enrico-Rava-Quartet/dp/B000024I7W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272155709&sr=1-1

[B. Goren.]

[Van Basten II]

[king ubu]

Played the entire Haden Black Saint/Soul Note box this afternoon.

As expected, the O&ND albums were fine (I've heard the first one before but never owned it), the album with Allen had lots of great bass playing, not bad, the one with Chet I'll have to revisit... and the final one, same trio minus Chet (Pieranunzi-Haden-Higgins) sounded very good again. Will revisit that one soon, too!

Now into the second album of the Pieranunzi set (sort of logical to listen now, as Pieranunzi was on the final two Haden discs). Some good hardbop on the first, I thought the few spots by Massimo Urbani outshone most of the rest though, Farmer didn't sound that great here (hey, he's always good, he was a pro! But didn't sound "on" to me here).

[brownie]

Stan Getz/Kenny Barron 'People Time', disc 4 and 5

[king ubu]

enjoying that it seems my huge package (including Stitt, Chu Berry, Chambers Select and a pair of singles) has finally arrived... will have to wait for Monday to pick it up (feghing commies! )

[brownie]

Miles Davis 'Saturday Night at the Blackhawk' (Columbia), disc 1

[king ubu]

Henry Threadgill's Black Saint box - now into "Air Show No. 1" (began with the first disc this morning)

[Ron S]

Bill Evans, "The Complete Fantasy Recordings"

[Van Basten II]

Going through the Pieranunzi, actually enjoyed the first cd with Farmer, giving currently a spin to the following one with Johnson and Baron.

[alankin]

Miles Davis 'Saturday Night at the Blackhawk' (Columbia), disc 1

I just happened to listen to Friday night, disc 1, last night.

[Van Basten II]

Going through the Pieranunzi, actually enjoyed the first cd with Farmer, giving currently a spin to the following one with Johnson and Baron.

Finishing the set with the one titled Ma l'amore no, not a big fan of singers but this one is quite pleasant to listen, the sidemen are top class with Konitz and Rava as horn men.

Edited May 10, 2010 by Van Basten II

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Cab Calloway - Vol 1 the early years 1930-1935 - JSP (now on disc 3)

MG

[jeffcrom]

Ma Rainey - Mother of the Blues (JSP) Disc 3 - Right now a December, 1925 session with Fletcher Henderson and some of his guys. Joe Smith is a poet, and Charlie Green is a hero.

[gmonahan]

Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz, "Two Not One" on Storyville, disc 4.

gregmo

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Ray Charles - Trilogy - ABC compilation

MG