So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

20 minutes ago, BillF said:

The late Claudio was one of my favourites.

Saw him twice: in a fantastic quintet with Paquito D'Rivera and with the Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra.

Derek Humble?

Jimmy Deuchar Dexter sounds cool.

Ahem, yes. Derek Humble.

[Rabshakeh]

Hum Dono (Columbia, 1969) by Joe Harriott & Amancio D'Silva Quartet

[Rabshakeh]

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (Columbia, 1984)

Bizarrely, I see that Toshinori Kondo and Hamid Drake are on this record. It's a shame that Brötzmann wasn't available.

[EKE BBB]

[mjazzg]

55 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (Columbia, 1984)

Bizarrely, I see that Toshinori Kondo and Hamid Drake are on this record. It's a shame that Brötzmann wasn't available.

Now that genuinely made me LOL, lovely idea on a few levels

[jazzcorner]

On 23.8.2021 at 3:48 AM, Peter Friedman said:

[jazzcorner]

[Dub Modal]

The dual tenors of Lovano & Jim Pepper work well here

[Rabshakeh]

23 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

The dual tenors of Lovano & Jim Pepper work well here

I love that record. Thank you for the reminder.

[Peter Friedman]

Kenny Barron & Buster Williams

[HutchFan]

12 hours ago, T.D. said:

After a couple of spins, I like this and am happy with the purchase.

General comments: sound quality excellent IMO, better than expected. Playing time is short, about 40 minutes divided almost equally into two tracks, Questions and Answers-Epilog.

Specifics: Questions is rather "outside" (far more so than I've previously heard from Cowell), more percussive and atonal, more in Burrell's style. Answers-Epilog more accessible, less aggressively avant-garde (though there's some strumming of piano strings, for instance), more recognizably features Cowell's voice (or how I perceive same). Questions took 3 listens (1 on Youtube, 2 at home) to get my head around it, first hearing was rough but now I enjoy the piece.

Overall: probably depends on your opinion of piano duos. I don't own many recordings in the genre, but consider this a very good one. Not essential, but worthwhile if you dig Stanley Cowell (I'm not sufficiently familiar with Dave Burrell's work to venture an analogous statement). If in doubt, a prior release of the album is on Youtube.

Thank you, T.D.!   

 

 

NP:

[mikeweil]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

That's a rare LP, with the Gonzalez brothers in the band. Will have to pull this out.

I had breakfast with this here:

Edited August 24, 2021 by mikeweil

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

That's a rare LP, with the Gonzalez brothers in the band. Will have to pull this out.

I don't have the LP.  Wish I did! 

I'm listening to the music from this 2-CD set that compiles Diz's three Perception albums:

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

[BillF]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Kenny Barron & Buster Williams

Good one ....

[mjazzg]

[Rabshakeh]

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Free Jazz Collective's menu du jour. Four and a half stars well earned?

[mjazzg]

Just now, Rabshakeh said:

Free Jazz Collective's menu du jour. Four and a half stars well earned?

Only on the Butcher so far.  I often think when listening to improv like this that it's much better in the flesh.  I must have hundreds of albums that sound like this in some way. I can see why the reviewer would score it highly maybe not me, today.  It's very listenable, don't get me wrong. Trombone and percussionist are good and new to me. Three/Three and half stars, so far

[John Tapscott]

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

Spinning some Nancy Wilson this afternoon:

 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[John Tapscott]