So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Cecil Brooks III - The Collective (Muse, 1989)

 

This is a reminder that The Last Days Of Muse saw it trying to create a kind of a Blue Note style "repertory players" for the M-Base group.

Today we remember all the other types of records from those Last Days Of Muse, but there's a rather large number of this type by these players. Not a lot of "electricity" in the instrumentation, but still, a relatively lot of people made a relatively lot of records that were not organ/hardbop/HoustonEtta.

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

This is a reminder that The Last Days Of Muse saw it trying to create a kind of a Blue Note style "repertory players" for the M-Base group.

Today we remember all the other types of records from those Last Days Of Muse, but there's a rather large number of this type by these players. Not a lot of "electricity" in the instrumentation, but still, a relatively lot of people made a relatively lot of records that were not organ/hardbop/HoustonEtta.

Yep.  There are some excellent late-in-the-game Muses out there that are flying beneath the radar. 

Or at least they were flying below my radar.  I've discovered several over the past year or so -- including The Collective -- as part of my 80s Jazz blog project explorations.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

Funk exploration down the George Clinton production/writing interplanetary connection. So many hip hop samples came from these excellent records. 

[jazzbo]

Archie Shepp "Kwanza" Impulse Japan SHM-CD UCCI-9378

I haven't met an Archie Shepp Impulse recording I didn't like.

Edited November 19, 2021 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

Prime late Phil.

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Funk exploration down the George Clinton production/writing interplanetary connection. So many hip hop samples came from these excellent records. 

That looks like it'd be one helluva fun ride!  

 

[Rabshakeh]

Dwight James - Inner Heat (Cadence, 1983) 

Great record, with Byard Lancaster and Khan Jamal. 

6 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Archie Sheep "Kwanza" Impulse Japan SHM-CD UCCI-9378

I haven't met an Archie Sheep Impulse recording I didn't like.

I have a big thing for this record. It is quite silly in its own way, and puts a huge smile on my face. It is one of a few albums I play that is guaranteed to cheer me up.

[JSngry]

34 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.  There are some excellent late-in-the-game Muses out there that are flying beneath the radar. 

Or at least they were flying below my radar.  I've discovered several over the past year or so -- including The Collective -- as part of my 80s Jazz blog project explorations.

 

Yeah, and between Cindy Blackmon & Wallace Roney, there's a decent enough amount to collate as an "output"...the Blackmons in particular shine a bit of light...not really a blinding flash, but a little light. The Roneys are essentially derivate of what everybody involved thought Wynton's bag was, but Antoine Roney's Wayne is a bit fresher than was Branford's.

And so forth, there are some records there to be listened to, if only to gain a broader perspective.

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

33 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Yeah, and between Cindy Blackmon & Wallace Roney, there's a decent enough amount to collate as an "output"...the Blackmons in particular shine a bit of light...not really a blinding flash, but a little light. The Roneys are essentially derivate of what everybody involved thought Wynton's bag was, but Antoine Roney's Wayne is a bit fresher than was Branford's.

And so forth, there are some records there to be listened to, if only to gain a broader perspective.

I feel the same as you about Blackmon & Roney.  Their Muse stuff has never knocked me out.  

On the other hand, Jack Walrath's Muse records are treeeee-mendous.  And, of course, who could forget Bill Barron's!?!?   

There are others... but I don't want to show more of my hand.  Saving it for the blog! 

 

[Dub Modal]

Solo piano isn't something I typically seek out but I'm loving this album. 

[JSngry]

14 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I feel the same as you about Blackmon & Roney.  Their Muse stuff has never knocked me out.  

I have a little soft spot in my head, er...heart for Blackmon's records. The unabashedly 60s Tony immersion is something I have to listen to once I get started on it. Tony himself had moved on, so it was a nice parallel nostalgia-reality. But as far as gripping you by the musicwows and not letting go, no.

The most REALLY M-Base Muse records were made by Lonnie Plaxico, of all people!

[mjazzg]

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

Francois Bayle - L'Expérience Acoustique I - II 

Edited November 19, 2021 by Referentzhunter

[jazzbo]

Stan Getz & Antonio Carlos Jobim "Their Greatest Hits" Verve (Europe) cd

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

21 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

❤❤❤ !!!

[jazzbo]

Needed to hear "Alabama". . . seemed appropriate after the news just reported on a trial result.

 

 

[jazzcorner]

[HutchFan]

Bennie Wallace - The Free Will (Enja, 1980)

 

and

New York Jazz Quartet - Oasis (Enja, 1981)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Joe]

[soulpope]

21 minutes ago, Joe said:

As good as it gets ....

[HutchFan]

 

 

 

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

The most REALLY M-Base Muse records were made by Lonnie Plaxico, of all people!

I don't know those Plaxico records.  I should probably check 'em out.

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by HutchFan