So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Gheorghe]

12 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Cool Struttin is the ultimate hard bop album. I have heard in Japan in the 80´s or 90´s or early 2000´s were tea houses where they always spinned music like this, I mean "Cool Struttin", "Blue Train", Donaldson´s "Blues Walk" and so on. 

And.....oh yeah....the cover photo is fantastic, it has everything I like and you can imagine how day dreams for a jazz loving teenager were "one day I´ll get it, one day I´lll have a woman with legs like this....." 

[Referentzhunter]

First American press best sounding, better than first UK.

Edited June 10, 2022 by Referentzhunter

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

Sunny Murray, Odean Pope, Wayne Dockery – 13# Steps On Glass (Enja, 1995)

Pretty underwhelming stuff.

1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

First American press best sounding, better than first UK.

That's interesting. I always found my British version very muddy.

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Cool Struttin is the ultimate hard bop album. 

I do agree with you, Gheorghe. Hard textures predominate. Sonny's touch is very percussive and hardly resonates at all. (I hear something similar in Walter Davis of the same era.)

Jackie, too, of course. Compare him with the much softer sound of Hank on Dial S for Sonny. That album has Louis Hayes, who is considerably less hard and aggressive than Philly on Cool Struttin'.

The only player on the album whose "hard" credentials could be questioned is Farmer, who was sufficiently versatile to be a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet not long after.

Edited June 10, 2022 by BillF

[mjazzg]

[nighthawk68]

I recently grabbed all the Xanadu at Montreux volumes. Some wonderful music and a nice addition to my growing Xanadu collection.

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

I do agree with you, Gheorghe. Hard textures predominate. Sonny's touch is very percussive and hardly resonates at all. (I hear something similar in Walter Davis of the same era.)

Jackie, too, of course. Compare him with the much softer sound of Hank on Dial S for Sonny. That album has Louis Hayes, who is considerably less hard and aggressive than Philly on Cool Struttin'.

The only player on the album whose "hard" credentials could be questioned is Farmer, who was sufficiently versatile to be a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet not long after.

Right, Art Farmer didn´t make many records for BN, I think he was with Hank on some Horace Silver album.........oh yeah, on "No Smokin´" since I like to play that tune....

I have only one Art Farmer record, it´s "To Duke with Love". He was a regular here in Viena and played at least twice for several days at a club..... 

During the 70´s I heard a very very strange remark from a club owner, who booked a lot of great musicians, but when some guy at the bar asked if Art Farmer also will play at that joint he said "no comment about Art Farmer". The customer insisted "why ?" and the club owner answerd: "Art Farmer tries to be whiter than the whites..." 

[mjazzg]

thanks to @Dub Modal BFT compiler extraordinaire 

Edited June 10, 2022 by mjazzg

[JSngry]

Music played is music made!

 

[Dub Modal]

25 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

thanks to @Dub Modal BFT compiler extraordinaire 

Nice! Vesala is a beast, and I’m pretty sure I discovered him thru a BFT in the last year or so. This album is killer 

[kh1958]

David Murray, Brad Jones, Hamid Drake, Seriana Promethia (Intakt)

Edited June 10, 2022 by kh1958

[Rabshakeh]

47 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Music played is music made!

 

I've got the first of those. They still go for quite cheap. About half what Braxton solo stuff goes for. It really captures the period.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute To Big John Patton (Big O Records). Excellent CD. No offense to the organissimo dates, I really like this date by Jim.

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Opus 5 - Swing on This (Criss Cross Jazz 1406, 2022).  Seamus Blake - tenor sax; Alex Sipiagin - trumpet, flugelhorn; David Kikoski - piano, Fender Rhodes; Boris Kozlov - bass; Donald Edwards - drums.  Very swingin' session.

[HutchFan]

Next up:

 

[jazzcorner]

[BillF]

13 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Good one ....

[sidewinder]

The Kristianstadt disk

[Chuck Nessa]

[Chuck Nessa]

Now listening to an old friend.

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Now listening to an old friend.

Aptly titled .... great platter ....