So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Sí, estoy de acuerdo. 

Happy to help you practise your Spanish skills...  

Edited March 17, 2021 by EKE BBB

[BillF]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

Happy to help you practise your Spanish skills...  

Muchas gracias. 

[Referentzhunter]

[JSngry]

 

Atta boy, Ted Hearne!

[JSngry]

13 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

It really is. And so is this one (listening now):

I'm maybe figuring out a nexus between Allyn Ferguson & the variety shows recorded live at Television City in Hollywood that had great (I mean HOLY SHIT great) orchestras playing live and some the music on this album, which definitely sprung out of that environment. I know Allyn Ferguson wrote on this one, did Jack Elliott also?

Whoever played lead trumpet on the Carol Burnette show....that whole band sounded like it was full of jazz players, just the sound and the phrasings...and they were picked up crystal-clear, whoever the sound engineers were on those shows were state of the art. Not something you really notice when you're watching the shows for the entertainment, but on rerun....yeah, there's a BAND on these shows.

[Dub Modal]

16 hours ago, jazzbo said:

No, it's music done by others after his death. Tributes, bands inspired by Ra, etc. His take on "Mausoleum."

 Gotcha. Well, I guess at least some tunes from Ra's extensive output should be considered "standards" at this point? Or at least worthy of stuff like this. 

[jazzbo]

13 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

 Gotcha. Well, I guess at least some tunes from Ra's extensive output should be considered "standards" at this point? Or at least worthy of stuff like this. 

I agree. I just don't always connect with interpretations and inspirations of/from those compositions. But some are fascinating.

 

Now

"The Complete Capitol Live Recordings of George Shearing" Mosaic Records 5 disc set, disc 2. It's fun revisiting this set. Now disc 2

 

 

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[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Tremendous record.  Hooray for Michael Garrick!   

 

[kh1958]

Freddie Hubbard, At the Club Volume 1, London 1983 (Sleepy Night). Decently recorded strong performance (Bob Shepard, Hilton Ruiz, Herbie Lewis, Carl Allen) but unfortunately a CDR.

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

I'm maybe figuring out a nexus between Allyn Ferguson & the variety shows recorded live at Television City in Hollywood that had great (I mean HOLY SHIT great) orchestras playing live and some the music on this album, which definitely sprung out of that environment. I know Allyn Ferguson wrote on this one, did Jack Elliott also?

Whoever played lead trumpet on the Carol Burnette show....that whole band sounded like it was full of jazz players, just the sound and the phrasings...and they were picked up crystal-clear, whoever the sound engineers were on those shows were state of the art. Not something you really notice when you're watching the shows for the entertainment, but on rerun....yeah, there's a BAND on these shows.

Ferguson yes (2 charts), but not Elliott. The other arrangers are Bill Reddie, Dick Grove (great chart on "The Rotten Kid"), Don Piestrup (one of my favorite Rich writers), John Boice, Bill Potts, Don Rader, Bill Holman and Dave Bloomberg. But despite this diversity, there's a surprising unity to the album.

Yes, the days when jazz at least had a look-in on network television were great, but long gone, I'm afraid. 

Now:

[jazzcorner]

[JSngry]

30 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Ferguson yes (2 charts), but not Elliott. The other arrangers are Bill Reddie, Dick Grove (great chart on "The Rotten Kid"), Don Piestrup (one of my favorite Rich writers), John Boice, Bill Potts, Don Rader, Bill Holman and Dave Bloomberg. But despite this diversity, there's a surprising unity to the album.

Yes, the days when jazz at least had a look-in on network television were great, but long gone, I'm afraid. 

Just for grins, check out reruns of the first few seasons of The Carol Burnett show, and The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (which is a bit of an oddball classic anyway). The check out the Away We Go clips on You Tube. There's a unity of sound there in the writing, and they all have Allyn Ferguson in common. Jack Elliot too, although not on the Buddy record.

The dance numbers on the Conway show quite often sound like charts written for but not recorded by Buddy's band and/or the Away We Go Show. I watching this stuff thinking that wow, this sounds familiar, and it did. The New One was the first Buddy record I heard, one of the older kids in stage band had it, so...you know how that went.

Now...I just found out about a Johnny Mathis Mercury record that Allyn Ferguson wrote for, and it is...intricate. In a good way. Did he go on to make any Seabreeze records, or things of that ilk? Seems like a writer with a pretty large palate.

[HutchFan]

After listening to Booker Little's Out Front last night, I'm giving this CD a spin:

Eric Dolphy with Booker Little - Far Cry (New Jazz/OJC)

Stealing a phrase from Duke, I'd say this music is "beyond category."

 

[John Tapscott]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Just for grins, check out reruns of the first few seasons of The Carol Burnett show, and The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (which is a bit of an oddball classic anyway). The check out the Away We Go clips on You Tube. There's a unity of sound there in the writing, and they all have Allyn Ferguson in common. Jack Elliot too, although not on the Buddy record.

The dance numbers on the Conway show quite often sound like charts written for but not recorded by Buddy's band and/or the Away We Go Show. I watching this stuff thinking that wow, this sounds familiar, and it did. The New One was the first Buddy record I heard, one of the older kids in stage band had it, so...you know how that went.

Now...I just found out about a Johnny Mathis Mercury record that Allyn Ferguson wrote for, and it is...intricate. In a good way. Did he go on to make any Seabreeze records, or things of that ilk? Seems like a writer with a pretty large palate.

Don't know about Seabreeze, but the only things that I'm really aware of are a chart or two Ferguson did for Kenton's Neophonic and all the arrangements for these two Basie Band CD's under the direction of Grover Mitchell.

"Count Plays Duke" won a Grammy I believe, but "Swing Shift" is the better of the two, IMHO.  

[jazzbo]

"The Complete Verve Wilson Recordings of the Teddy Wilson Trio" Mosaic 5 cd set, disc 1

Elegance and precision, not unlike the beboppin' George Shearing Quintet material in his Mosaic set

[Rabshakeh]

Currently on Bley, Koglmann and Peacock’s Annette (hatART, 1992).

[jazzbo]

Now
Dizzy Reece "Comin' On" Blue Note Connoisseur cd

Two sessions recorded in '60 but released for the first time in '99. Better late than never, good stuff with Stan the Man et al.
 

[Peter Friedman]

[Д.Д.]

Excellent stuff. 

https://sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com/album/acrobat-music-for-and-by-dmitri-shostakovich 

[Peter Friedman]

Just played this to honor the late Freddie Redd who is the pianist on this session.

[HutchFan]

Bob Stewart First Line Band - Goin' Home (JMT, 1989)
with James Zoller (tr), Earl Gardner (tr), John Clark (Fr hn), Steve Turre (tb), Jerome Harris (el g), Buddy Williams (d), Ed Blackwell (d), and Frank Conlon (perc)

The final cut is a 12-and-a-half-minute version of Billy Harper's composition "Priestess."  

 

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Just played this to honor the late Freddie Redd who is the pianist on this session.

I also thought about this. I have the CD with the studio material plus a live set with the same personnel , both from Sweden. 

[EKE BBB]