So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Two Compositions (Trio) 1998 by Anthony Braxton (Leo). 

My record player is busted, so I'm visiting old acquaintances via streaming services. 

I think that this one is missing a bit with retrospect, although I loved it at the time: it sounds very restricted composition-wise, and I think I can hear mistakes and fudges from the players. Braxton's more developed ideas strike me now as being not really up to the level of his writing for the Quartet from only a few years previously. 

I'd be interested to know if any Braxton fans disagree, and can "remind" me of why I liked this one so much at the time. 

Now moving on to The Story of Maryam (Soul Note, 1984) by Paul Motion. 

This one has always been a favourite: the tunes; the double tenor bludgeon of Lovano and Pepper; Bill Frisell's frisellisms; and Motion's playing, which is right up there in his best performances to my mind. Particularly the second side, where the saxophones move to equal prominence with the guitar.

It's probably just the combination of Motion's fluidity with Frisell's guitar, but listening to this in 2021, I hear its sound in some of the recent guitar/noise records that have come out over the last few years on labels like Astral Spirits.

Edited January 15, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[Referentzhunter]

not a big fan but listening to it anyway ...

[jazzcorner]

  On 1/14/2021 at 1:15 PM, Peter Friedman said:

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  On 1/14/2021 at 7:05 PM, BillF said:

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A nice coverart series of Pacific Jazz records with still living recent artists from the West Coast.

Music inside those recordings  is the same caliber

[Referentzhunter]

2014 mono

[BillF]

  On 1/15/2021 at 11:03 AM, jazzcorner said:

A nice coverart series of Pacific Jazz records with still living recent artists from the West Coast.

Music inside those recordings  is the same caliber

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Yes, I always liked this cover - and the music, of course!

 

[Referentzhunter]

Low - Double Negative

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

[Justin V]

In April, Kelly will have been gone 50 years.

[BillF]

  On 1/15/2021 at 1:52 PM, mikeweil said:

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Wow! 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

 

Earlier:

[duaneiac]

Mostly a solo album, but Howard Johnson accompanied Taj Mahal on a few of the tracks here.  On this tune, he is featured on penny-whistle instead of tuba:

 

[HutchFan]

[jazzcorner]

  On 1/15/2021 at 1:11 PM, BillF said:

Yes, I always liked this cover - and the music, of course!

 

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Naturally here too

+ one more out of many

 

[jlhoots]

Richard Sears Sextet: Altadena

[ghost of miles]

[BillF]

  On 1/15/2021 at 7:04 PM, jazzcorner said:

Naturally here too

+ one more out of many

 

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Yes, i've noticed that one.

I think my tastes in art - together with my jazz likes - are located about 60-70 years in the past. 

[HutchFan]

[John Tapscott]

  On 1/14/2021 at 9:12 PM, BillF said:

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Now:

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

One of the best releases from Jarrett's "American Quartet," IMO.  Right up there with Death & the Flower and Shades.

 

Edited January 15, 2021 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

  On 1/15/2021 at 9:15 PM, HutchFan said:

One of the best releases from Jarrett's "American Quartet," IMO.  Right up there with Death & the Flower and Shades.

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No Fort Yawuh?

[HutchFan]

  On 1/15/2021 at 9:48 PM, Rabshakeh said:

No Fort Yawuh?

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Fort Yawuh has never grabbed me as much as those other three.

I dig it.  Just not quite as much. ... Naturally, YMMV.   

 

[JSngry]

  On 1/15/2021 at 8:34 PM, HutchFan said:

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Now that's a very stealth record!

Sharing the back cover here, because when I went through a fitness (weights and running, got up to  9 miles a day!) bag in the late 70s, this picture was a bit of an inspiration, I wanted to be THIS person, in my own way.

Fit, vital, and no neck strap!