Best track you heard all week

[TedR]

Tenderly, dIsc 6 (Chicago concert) from Louis Armstrong All Stars Mosaic. Billy Kyle does "play so sexy". (Quote from Velma Middleton, and I have to agree. :-))

[Balladeer]

Make me smile - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

[BFrank]

Pretty outrageous version of Moanin'

[Steve Reynolds]

From "Way Out Northwest"

John Butcher, Torsten Muller & Dylan Van der Schyff

second track "Magic Clock Machine"

Butcher on tenor here is from another alternate universe

[ghost of miles]

The Pink Fairies, "Tomorrow Never Knows"

[Peter Friedman]

Just listened to this CD for the first time. The entire album is one of the best new (to me) CDs I have

heard in quite some time. George Mraz is and has been one of my very favorite bass players.

[BillF]

"Short Wave" (arr. Shorty Rogers) from this:

[A Lark Ascending]

Vaughan Williams song based on a 19thC poem. Extremely well known and generally performed in a plummy, parlour room style.

Fay Hield's singing of it here always gets the waterworks going for me. Martin Simpson's guitar accompaniment is precisely judged. A perfect ending to a wonderful album. 

Edited October 16, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[Jim R]

When it ended, I almost thought I wanted to hear more, and then realized that it couldn't have been improved upon.  Just generally a favorite tune of mine, also.

 

[jlhoots]

Paul Giallorenzo: Roscoe Far I from Force Majeure

[soulpope]

 

[Peter Friedman]

Wheatleigh Hall from this album has one of my favorite Sonny Rollins solos. 

[BillF]

Wheatleigh Hall from this album has one of my favorite Sonny Rollins solos. 

[HutchFan]

"So What's Old?" from Conversations with Warne, Vol. 1 (Criss Cross) by Pete Christlieb & Warne Marsh

YouTube link here.

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Jesus from Om Lill, Jesus, Alberto och våra föräldrar (Havtorn Records, 2015) by Brigaden.  True joy.

 

 

 

[erwbol]

Composition 40B from Willisau (Quartet) 1991. Everytime I hear this track I am struck with how perfect it is and how hard it swings. 

[Steve Reynolds]

"Misericords" 13:04 opening track from Ghostly Thoughts c/o Dunmall, Adams & Sanders

fwiw, as I've been saying for many years, the whole CD is as good and as explosivly innovative as free jazz can get. There is no other recording to compare it to. Thoroughly its own piece.

[BillF]

The Gene Krupa Orchestra playing Gerry Mulligan's "Disc Jockey Jump" as featured in jeffcrom's current Blindfold Test.

[Buddha the Magnificent]

 

[Steve Reynolds]

15 minute trio track on Steve Swell's Kanreki

trio is Swell, Guillermo Gregorio & Fred Lonberg-Holm

fwiw, I am resisting at all costs putting disc 1 in which starts with a 31:19 piece by Dragonfly at least until the day after 11/24 which is the night I see that quartet live up close and personal. I have a feeling that track and maybe that concert might be more than simply, "the best track I've listened to this week"

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Guillermo Klein y Los Gauchos - Filtros (Sunnyside Records, 2008).  Tough to pick one song off this fantastic album, but let's go with the first cut, Va Roman.  Here's a live version.

 

 

[Steve Reynolds]

Sonic Youth : The Diamond Sea

[Peter Friedman]

"Jaylock" from - Count Basie Kansas City 7 on Pablo.

Not to be confused with the Impulse Basie recording also titled - Kansas City 7.

[fasstrack]

Andy (Here comes Louis Smith, Blue Note). Unbelievable Cannonball (as Buckshot Lafonque). 

[John Tapscott]

Well, I'll pick 2 tracks from this recording -- "Autumn Leaves and "Nardis" . This is an outstanding CD in every way  and reminds me of one of my very favorite piano trio recordings - Beirach's "Elegy for Bill Evans", which I  have only on a rather scratchy and worn LP. 

 

Edited November 30, 2015 by John Tapscott