So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

Sunday afternoon Duke Ellington.  Recorded live in 1948:

Cornell University (MusicMasters)

 

Cornell University: Second Set (MusicMasters)

 

[jazzcorner]

6 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Thats a good one. Some years ago I was in touch via mail with the producer of Astral Records  John Loeffler (german born Hans Löffler).

He informed me about other recordings he had produced. We did exchange some music (more from his side than mine). Here are other  copies:

Kenton,Stan    "live" at KEESELER Air Force Base    1958    Astral Jazz    102
Kenton,Stan    Concert in Wiesbaden    1953    Astral Jazz    101
Kenton,Stan    Kenton ' 63 - Concert in England    1963    Astral Jazz    104
and the above mentioned compilation  issue # 105 on the Astral label.  Here I like best the period from 1951 to 1958

Part of this issue are also  2 tracks from the famous Berlin Sportpalast concert. I think that was Stans first visit to Germany.

I have them all and must say these were the times when Stan really had  great bands. Nice to see that  also our common friend Fred Augermann was part of the  production crew for 3 of those and also another friend Steven D. Harris on 2 copies.

Edited January 17, 2021 by jazzcorner

[BillF]

55 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Listening to
Clifford Brown featuring Zoot Sims "Jazz Immortal" TOCJ "Superbit Jazz Classics" cd remastered by Rudy Van Gelder

[Peter Friedman]

[jcam_44]

Peter Brotzmann - I Surrender Dear (Solo Tenor Saxophone)

A departure from the typical Brotzmann solo as he plays (his) version of standards here. Quite enjoyable. 

[JSngry]

It sounds so easy...

[Justin V]

I saw this lineup playing this material, minus Wolf, whose wife was giving birth.

[kh1958]

Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance The Coltranes (Ropeadope)

[Gheorghe]

On 17.1.2021 at 7:11 AM, BillF said:

Great , I usually listen to this together with "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants"

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Great , I usually listen to this together with "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants"

Yes, I grew up with this:

 

[EKE BBB]

[BillF]

[John Tapscott]

 

 

1 hour ago, BillF said:

[Gheorghe]

That´s some very fine Stan Kenton live from Stuttgart 1972. 

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Sounds/Feels like "smooth jazz" to me, but not in a derogatory way.

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Nice!

[Dub Modal]

10 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Sounds/Feels like "smooth jazz" to me, but not in a derogatory way.

I thought that when he was on a recent BFT, but his playing keeps it firmly out of any smooth jazz cheese. Some of the production elements flirt with smooth jazz but he and his bandmates keep it interesting. I'm not a smooth jazz hater either, FTR. 

[HutchFan]

Now listening to Nelson's tribute to MLK:

Oliver Nelson - Black, Brown and Beautiful (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

 

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

I thought that when he was on a recent BFT, but his playing keeps it firmly out of any smooth jazz cheese. Some of the production elements flirt with smooth jazz but he and his bandmates keep it interesting. I'm not a smooth jazz hater either, FTR. 

I don't necessarily equate "smooth jazz" with "cheese" (although god knows it's a well-deserved conditioned relex/survival mechanism to do so). What struck me about this record (or the first disc, anyway, as far as I've gotten) is how "large audience ready" the whole thing is. I mean, it's all there but the sing/clap-along. And that's ok with me, I mean, if you can get a lot of people to listen to something besides metronomes and fascistic diatonic assaults, good for you.

I was just sorta taken aback at how...un-austere the whole thing was. I've not listened to Gararek for a loooong time, when was It's Ok To Listen to the Grey Voice? I liked him, precisely becuase of his austerity. He had a sorta "bleak vision" thing going on that seemed quite real to me. But there's nothing like that here.

But, as "friendly" as it is, there's no cheapness, none. So, yeah, Do it like that. Cheapness sucks.

[jlhoots]

Junior Mance Trio & Eric Alexander: Groovin' Blues (MYCJ-30152)