So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

[JSngry]

 

[mjazzg]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

 

What do you make of it?  I bought it recently and rate it some

[JSngry]

I love stuff like this just on principal. But this one has more than just principle going for it, imo. Good thoughts, good delivery. Definitely, as advertised, a good addition to the Last Poets/Gil Scott Heron continuum. I look for this stuff whereever I can find it, spoken word of what I guess today would be considered "Afro-centric", but back then would have been rightly viewed as "people's poetry".

Also, the fact that the guy's a barber and has stayed a barber, in his own shop, that lack of "star ambition" speaks very well to me.

[sidewinder]

From the other thread.

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I love stuff like this just on principal. But this one has more than just principle going for it, imo. Good thoughts, good delivery. Definitely, as advertised, a good addition to the Last Poets/Gil Scott Heron continuum. I look for this stuff whereever I can find it, spoken word of what I guess today would be considered "Afro-centric", but back then would have been rightly viewed as "people's poetry".

Also, the fact that the guy's a barber and has stayed a barber, in his own shop, that lack of "star ambition" speaks very well to me.

I bought it unheard because of the Gil Scott-Heron continuum. I really like it and had no idea about the barber angle which makes me like it more.  I was listening to the Jayne Cortez with Richard Davis, I'm assuming that's in the same continuum for you.  Also, we both like Ursula Rucker I believe, continuum's continue

[JSngry]

all of the above, yes!

[Peter Friedman]

[kh1958]

On 2/18/2022 at 8:32 AM, kh1958 said:

Eddie Henderson, Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions)

Still listening to this. It is really good (with Kenny Barron, Donald Harrison, Mike Clark, Gerald Cannon)..

[BillF]

[sidewinder]

Disk 3 on the Mosaic Select

[jlhoots]

OGJB Quartet: Ode To O

[kh1958]

Alabaster DePlume, To Cy & Lee, Instrumentals volume 1 (International Anthem)

Edited February 19, 2022 by kh1958

[mjazzg]

42 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Alabaster DePlume, To Cy & Lee, Instrumentals volume 1 (International Anthem)

[T.D.]

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

With Olu Dara, Frank Lowe and Fred Williams.

[JSngry]

[mikeweil]

This afternoon:

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

With Olu Dara, Frank Lowe and Fred Williams.

Excellent ....

[Rabshakeh]

The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (Watt/ECM, 1996)

What fun this era of Carla Bley is. For a brief period, her writing was similar to in her late 60s/early 70s period, but without the excesses. (Not to knock mid 70s through mod 80s Carla, which I like a whole lot too).

[BillF]

5 hours ago, mikeweil said:

This afternoon:

 

 

Now playing:

[jazzcorner]

14 hours ago, BillF said:

 

18 minutes ago, BillF said:

 

Now playing:

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]