So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Referentzhunter]

Listening to my 'Analogue Productions copy'

[jazzbo]

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Listening to my 'Analogue Productions copy'

[jlhoots]

George Wallington: The Prestidigitator

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Lee Morgan - Caramba! (Blue Note, 1968)

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Not sure why but this has been showing up in social media a lot recently, which prompted me to listen to it again. I forgot how enjoyable it is. The title track has some strong similarities to "Listen Here" to my ears, although the playing is so different.

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent

here is  one more

 

.... and this one only on cassette available

 

[John Tapscott]

[jlhoots]

Jared Schonig Two Takes Vol. 2: Big Band

[BillF]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lee Morgan - Caramba! (Blue Note, 1968)

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55 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

 

 

I saw them!

Shorty was great with the kids! 

[Rabshakeh]

Paul Plimley and Barry Guy - Sensology (Maya, 1997)

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now 

[Rabshakeh]

Milt Jackson - Olinga (CTI, 1974)

[Gheorghe]

22 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Listening to my 'Analogue Productions copy'

A classic and a must in every jazz collection. But I never understood why they played the solos on "St Thomas" in swing rhythm here.  

 

8 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Milt Jackson - Olinga (CTI, 1974)

Olinga.....Dizzy´s composition I think. Milt Jackson performed it with Diz in 1981 in Montreux. Great performance.

[BillF]

10 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now 

Now playing:

[Rabshakeh]

Michael Garrick Sextet - Jazz Praises at St Paul's (Airborne, 1968)

First listen to this. Didn't expect it to be this simple and enjoyable.

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now 

I never heard Pee Wee Russell and records with clarinet are very scarce in my collection I must admit. But I had read a long time ago that Monk played with him at Newport, I know there must be an album. But if a veteran plays compositions of Monk, and even Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, he earns my deepest respect, and that a more modern orientated label like Impulse recorded him. 

I heard a few combinations of Oldtime Jazz with "then modern jazz" in my live: The jam session in Paris 1949, were Sidney Bechet meets Bird and Miles, some broadcast of Bird with Miles, where an oldtime trumpetist named Max Kaminsky plays with them on Bird´s tune "Big Foot", then the 1947 WNEW Broadcast were Fats Navarro plays with more oldtime sounding Bill Harris "Sweet Georgia Brown". 
That means they really were musicians, and music is the common language. But if amateur Old Time groups here around in Europe play, they would not accept a more modern player, at least in most of the cases. Once there was a beer garden and such a Trad Band with Banjo and Tuba played and someone told me to sit in on piano. I still regret I did it. They said, let´s play Sweet Georgia Brown - no problem - and I played my solo maybe with lines not far away from Fats or Bud (who also recorded "Brown"), maybe with some left hand stride at one point as a nod to the "oldies". There were two young or middle aged guys in the oldy band who smiled at me and liked it, but the boss, a fat white hair banjo player hated it. By the way, he was from some authority that gave permisson if a club wants after hour open time, and he made a deal with that club "you get your after hour thing and let us play one time every month 

[JSngry]

I know, Steve Coleman, supposed to cancel him, etc. So, ok Steve Coleman, your dick fucked up your morality. Shame on you, you monster.

There, cancelled.

 But this is a damn good record of a damn good band.

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

19 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lee Morgan - Caramba! (Blue Note, 1968)

.

Not sure why but this has been showing up in social media a lot recently, which prompted me to listen to it again. I forgot how enjoyable it is. The title track has some strong similarities to "Listen Here" to my ears, although the playing is so different.

This was just reissued on vinyl via the BN Classic series. That's probably why it's been all over social media these days. 

[Rabshakeh]

8 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

This was just reissued on vinyl via the BN Classic series. That's probably why it's been all over social media these days. 

That makes sense. It's a fun record. 

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

I never heard Pee Wee Russell and records with clarinet are very scarce in my collection I must admit. But I had read a long time ago that Monk played with him at Newport, I know there must be an album. But if a veteran plays compositions of Monk, and even Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, he earns my deepest respect, and that a more modern orientated label like Impulse recorded him. 

I heard a few combinations of Oldtime Jazz with "then modern jazz" in my live: The jam session in Paris 1949, were Sidney Bechet meets Bird and Miles, some broadcast of Bird with Miles, where an oldtime trumpetist named Max Kaminsky plays with them on Bird´s tune "Big Foot", then the 1947 WNEW Broadcast were Fats Navarro plays with more oldtime sounding Bill Harris "Sweet Georgia Brown". 
That means they really were musicians, and music is the common language. But if amateur Old Time groups here around in Europe play, they would not accept a more modern player, at least in most of the cases. Once there was a beer garden and such a Trad Band with Banjo and Tuba played and someone told me to sit in on piano. I still regret I did it. They said, let´s play Sweet Georgia Brown - no problem - and I played my solo maybe with lines not far away from Fats or Bud (who also recorded "Brown"), maybe with some left hand stride at one point as a nod to the "oldies". There were two young or middle aged guys in the oldy band who smiled at me and liked it, but the boss, a fat white hair banjo player hated it. By the way, he was from some authority that gave permisson if a club wants after hour open time, and he made a deal with that club "you get your after hour thing and let us play one time every month 

I recommend trying it, even just through streaming the opening Ornette tune. It's really quite something. Russell I think was always a bit of a curious player, I think. He's backed by Marshall Brown on trombone and a good rhythm section, who keep him steady. It really works.

[jazzbo]

Pee Wee Russell is one of my favorite jazz musicians. Louis Prima described him as one of the most brilliant musical minds he ever worked with. I buy anything he appears on.

 

Right now

I've been thinking of this one lately, an old favorite. Grace's piano playing and singing are really something here.

Paul Kantner "Blows Against the Empire"