So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Oh, Gee! (2 CD set)

[HutchFan]

Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway – Oahspe (Auricle Records, 1979)
The first BassDrumBone album -- although they hadn't come up with that name for the trio yet.

 

[HutchFan]

First listen to Unity's Blow Thru Your Mind -- via YT:

The presence of vocalist Jay Clayton prompted me to give this a listen.

 

[Rabshakeh]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway – Oahspe (Auricle Records, 1979)
The first BassDrumBone album -- although they hadn't come up with that name for the trio yet.

Is this or any of their other records something you'd recommend?

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

Double CD reissue.

 

[mjazzg]

lovely album and a fitting tribute to the great Karl Berger who was 87 when he recorded this

[jazzcorner]

17 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁☝️

15 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

☝️😁

[BillF]

56 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

 

👍

 

👍

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

lovely album and a fitting tribute to the great Karl Berger who was 87 when he recorded this

I agree + I'm also a big Knuffke "fan".

[rostasi]

 

[Rabshakeh]

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - XXL

The long 1990s.

[jazzbo]

Joe Bushkin “1940-1946” Chronogical Classics cd

[kh1958]

The Genius of Sidney Bechet (Jazzology)

[ghost of miles]

[HutchFan]

10 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Is this or any of their other records something you'd recommend?

Yes, I would definitely recommend Oahspe.  It doesn't at all sound like first record.  Terrific playing and interesting compositions, most of which are by Helias.

The other album from BassDrumBone that I listen to most often is Right Down Your Alley.  It was actually released under Ray Anderson's leadership (on Soul Note in '84) -- but it's the same trio.

IMO, Mark Helias is the "glue" in that band, and he's one of those musicians who seems to always be making interesting music.  He's made a bunch of outstanding records too with his band Open Loose -- with Tom Rainey and Tony Malaby (and sometimes Ellery Eskelin).  Have you heard Atomic Clock or Verbs of Will?  More outstanding music in the same neighborhood as BassDrumBone.

 

[mjazzg]

5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

The other album from BassDrumBone that I listen to most often is Right Down Your Alley.  It was actually released under Ray Anderson's leadership (on Soul Note in '84) -- but it's the same trio.

I have a copy of that in the pile to go to the second hand shop this week, perhaps i should listen to it again beforehand 🤔

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I have a copy of that in the pile to go to the second hand shop this week, perhaps i should listen to it again beforehand 🤔

I dig it -- but, naturally, YMMV.   

 

[mjazzg]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I dig it -- but, naturally, YMMV.   

 

I certainly used to dig it, a lot

[rostasi]