Best track you heard all week

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Chief COmmander Ebenezer Obey & his Inter Reformers Band - Eda to mose okunkun - Decca West Africa

Twenty minutes in GROOVE PARADISE!!!!!

MG

[John Tapscott]

Could really have picked several from Shelly Manne and His Men, Complete Live at the Black Hawk, but I'll go with "Cabu" by Roland Alexander from Disc 4 - wonderful solos from Richie Kamuca and Joe Gordon. On this and so many of the tracks Manne gets the tempo just right for the soloists to really tell their story. Rhythm section has a great feel. Outstanding stuff all around.

P.S. Ira Gitler is mildly critical of Richie Kamuca's playing in his review of Vol 1. (reprinted here). May I say that I think Ira was wrong. Richie was really at the top of his game on this session.

[Steve Reynolds]

Brotzmann Tentet + 2: Stone Water

[Shawn]

Best track I heard all week was this entire album:

Lovely.

[A Lark Ascending]

A toss up between:

'Spitfires' by Chris Wood - a perfect piece of restrained political song making.

or:

The slow movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21. Back in the 70s this was colonised by the Easy Listening bands - people like James Last. Hearing it this afternoon, distanced from the schmaltz, it sounded gorgeous.

[jeffcrom]

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "Lovable" from 1928, for Bix Beiderbecke's brilliant eight-bar solo.

Bix is sometimes hard to appreciate, because so much of his best work appears like gems in a thrash pile - wonderful solos, sometimes very short, on lousy songs, with horrible singers, in dated, overblown settings. But it's worth the effort.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just finished listening to

"Kush" by Diz, from "Swing low, sweet Cadillac" - Impulse.

Candy Finch is a bleedin' MF!

And Moody kills me!

And Diz! Oh wow!

Sixteen minuts of heaven!

MG

[kinuta]

Little Richard - Get Rhythm

[Steve Reynolds]

Vitamin C - Can

[BeBop]

Bill Evans - Interplay (the album, not just title song)

Don't often get to hear Evans really swingin' hard over up-tempo things. Freddie Hubbard really changes the experience from hearing Evans in a trio, which is what I'm accustomed to - Kind of Blue aside. Jim Hall is nice too, but Freddie is FIRE. Recommended with the BeBop Squeal of Approval.

Edited October 2, 2010 by BeBop

[Matthew]

I'm starting to discover J Dilla, here's my favorites so far. What a loss when he died...

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=_ncSt5xC8Uk

Edited October 3, 2010 by Matthew

[jazzbo]

"Working on a Building," that old song re-done by Cowboy Junkies for their "Trinity Revisited" cd and dvd set. Great recording/film all around, but there's something really special to my ears about this track.

[paul secor]

Gus Cannon: "Poor Boy a Long Way from Home" from Memphis Masters (Yazoo)

Beautiful slide banjo

[jeffcrom]

Gus Cannon: "Poor Boy a Long Way from Home" from Memphis Masters (Yazoo)

Beautiful slide banjo

That entire session is amazing - even though it was recorded 1927, it seems to reflect what was going on in African-American music in the 1890s: slide banjo, picked banjo blues, banjo ragtime, and what (unfortunately) used to be called "coon songs." Amazing stuff.

[JohnS]

Hugh Ragin; Golf Coast Groove from Feel The Sushine on Justin Time.

But it could have been almost any track. Ragin has a lovely tone and a great command of the instrument. It's about time he poduced something new.

Edited October 5, 2010 by JohnS

[Guest Bill Barton]

Vonski - "Footprints"

[aparxa]

René Urtreger - St Eustache

Elysian fields - dreams that breathe your name

And the soundtrack of SugarRush http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/546567

[John Tapscott]

Donald Byrd - "Little Boy Blue" from Byrd in Flight (BN) - all around a superb recording with great contributions from Duke Pearson

[John L]

Chief COmmander Ebenezer Obey & his Inter Reformers Band - Eda to mose okunkun - Decca West Africa

Twenty minutes in GROOVE PARADISE!!!!!

MG

:tup You inspired me to pull this one out. Ebenezer Obey can groove like nobody else!

[Shawn]

Remember The Future (Part One) - Nektar (1973)

[B. Clugston]

Paul Desmond`s cover of Jobim`s "Wave" from the Paul Desmond Quartet Live in 1975. Great record with Ed Bickert and Don Thompson (on bass plus he recorded the concert).

Also, many versions of Deep Purple`s "Space Truckin" -- some with strange Glenn Hughes interludes, but most with Ian Gillan.

[Matthew]

Night Images from:The Gary McFarland Orchestra -- Special Guest Soloist: Bill Evans. Love how the opening and closing mirror each other. I would not call McFarland a great vibe player, but he wrote very good arrangements here that highlights his tastefulness.

[John Tapscott]

"Squatty Roo" from the Dizzy Gillespie Mosaic set Disc 3, track 4. Johnny Hodges guests with Dizzy's Quintet of the day. Both Johnny and Dizzy sound inspired by one another's presence. A great track.

[Shawn]

The Pilgrim by Wishbone Ash, from the album Pilgrimage.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Hank Mobley "Recado Bossa Nova"