So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Henri Renaud - New Sound at the Boeuf Sur Le Toit

Still mining the Euromodernism vein.

There's some good playing by (non-European) Sandy Mosse on this.

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent! 

22 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

 

18 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Some nice Burrell. But although it says here Chess it was an Argo release.

Excellent (all here) 

[HutchFan]

Now:

Sonny Stitt Sits In with The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1959)

Good stuff.

 

[mjazzg]

Gideon Nxumalo on Matsuli

[mjazzg]

staying in SA

[Rabshakeh]

Great stuff!

[BillF]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Now:

Sonny Stitt Sits In with The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1959)

Good stuff.

 

[mjazzg]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great stuff!

Yes, just discovering it.  Seems to be a lot of good music, old and new out of SA at the moment. Needs further investigation.

Any tips gratefully received especially for new recordings.  Next up is Ndabo Zulu & Umgidi Ensemble

Edited October 11, 2021 by mjazzg

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Sonny Stitt and Sadik Hakim play well, but it is the excellent playing Buster Williams that grabs my attention.

[Rabshakeh]

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero. Trio (Whirlwind, 2020)

18 minutes ago, soulpope said:

I always loved this cover but never really grasped why. Clearly Jones and Montoliu are looking at the wrong cameras, whereas Johnson's creasing up over something Montoliu muttered. 

30 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yes, just discovering it.  Seems to be a lot of good music, old and new out of SA at the moment. Needs further investigation.

Any tips gratefully received especially for new recordings.  

I don't know many I'm afraid. My folks are all born in South Africa, and I've got received knowledge up to the early/mid 60s, when they all split, after which it is all about the emigres, particularly those based in London. That means they saw a lot of the 60s players live, but don't really know the records that they released in the late 60s, which didn't make it out.

The only family members who stayed in SA were... not jazz fans, so I'm as clueless about the new stuff as anyone, and irritatingly reliant on marketing from e.g. Blue Note and Impulse!, so also grateful for any recommendations.

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero. Trio (Whirlwind, 2020)

I always loved this cover but never really grasped why. Clearly Jones and Montoliu are looking at the wrong cameras, whereas Johnson's creasing up over something Montoliu muttered. 

I don't know many I'm afraid. My folks are all born in South Africa, and I've got received knowledge up to the early/mid 60s, when they all split, after which it is all about the emigres, particularly those based in London. That means they saw a lot of the 60s players live, but don't really know the records that they released in the late 60s, which didn't make it out.

The only family members who stayed in SA were... not jazz fans, so I'm as clueless about the new stuff as anyone, and irritatingly reliant on marketing from e.g. Blue Note and Impulse!, so also grateful for any recommendations.

Sounds like we need a SA Jazz thread

[HutchFan]

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jaw's Blues (Enja)

 

 

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Sounds like we need a SA Jazz thread

Sounds like good fun -- but bad news for the wallet! 

 

[Dub Modal]

The last few I've been able to listen to:

And now currently playing:

 

This was all after listening to Crispell's Circles, which got better after the first tune. Although both Lake and Buettner are super-buzzy on that recording which for listening's sake knocks it down a peg for me. 

 

[John Tapscott]

[Rabshakeh]

24 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Sounds like we need a SA Jazz thread

We've got one: 

 

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

We've got one: 

 

Your search skills are better than mine. 14 years dormant, needs some attention methinks

[HutchFan]

Next up, one of my all-time favorites:

Richard "Groove" Holmes - Onsaya Joy (Flying Dutchman, 1975)

Soooooo good -- especially that title cut.

 

If you wanna give it a listen... :

 

[felser]

[soulpope]

[EKE BBB]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

👌

[BillF]

48 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1

[jazzcorner]

On 10.10.2021 at 7:05 PM, EKE BBB said:

 

22 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Some nice Burrell. But although it says here Chess it was an Argo release.

Excellent (all here) 

[EKE BBB]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I always loved this cover but never really grasped why. Clearly Jones and Montoliu are looking at the wrong cameras, whereas Johnson's creasing up over something Montoliu muttered. 

I’ll ask my friend Jordi Suñol. He took the picture. By the way, you mean Alvin Queen, right? (no Jones in the lineup).