So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

 

Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra “The Gennett Suite” 2 cd set, DISC 2

A fascinating modernized suite of music inspired by classics from the Gennett label.

[rostasi]

[Rabshakeh]

Jair Rodrigues – Eu Sou O Samba

 

Just finished:

Johnny Mathis might be one of the few men who looks better the older he gets.

[rostasi]

[jlhoots]

Johnathan Blake: Passage

[ghost of miles]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

 

Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra “The Gennett Suite” 2 cd set, DISC 2

A fascinating modernized suite of music inspired by classics from the Gennett label.

Oh hell yeah, Lon! John Edward Hasse and I wrote the booklet essays… thanks for listening and posting!

Right now:

[jazzbo]

2 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Oh hell yeah, Lon! John Edward Hasse and I wrote the booklet essays… thanks for listening and posting!

Right now:

Right. I sort of mentioned you in my post of listening to disc 1 earlier today. Great work!

[ghost of miles]

23 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Right. I sort of mentioned you in my post of listening to disc 1 earlier today. Great work!

Ah! I hadn’t scrolled back that far yet… much appreciation.

[Referentzhunter]

found this disc for 50 p at thrift-store !

Wonky tunes ! 

[Gheorghe]

10 hours ago, jazzbo said:

 Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD

You might kill me for the sacrilege I say now but by all consciousness that this is one of the all time most important albums in jazz history, I had a wrong start here 50 years ago. 
There were not so many jazz records in the regular record stores, many went OOP in the 70´s but I was a stone Miles Davis fan and tried to find what I could. 
But after hearing the three albums I had (Steamin´ , "Carnegie Hall 64" and "Bitches Brew" ) I was a bit disappointed. For the old stuff, I had preferred Philly J.J on drums and Garland on piano to Jimmy Cobb and Bill Evans, though I liked Kelly on "Freddie Freeloader" . I preferred Coltrane only and though I admitted that Cannoball is great, I thought as so much music Trane creates, he cannot be topped, and Cannonball had another sound than what I am used to on alto (more the McLean Thing). 

After hearing "So What" and "All Blues" first as the Carnegie Hall versions, the original versions sounded a bit too tame for an early teenie. 

As a newbie just at the beginning, maybe I was not ripe enough for the more quiet, more subdued stuff. About really slow stuff like "Blue in Green" , I did like ballads, but more with a bit a more sharper thing in it like the "Round Midnight" with the stuff borrowed from the old arrangements of the Gillespie Big Band like you hear it on the first CBS album Miles made, or .....still more......the "Funny Valentine" from Carnegie Hall........

I also dare to say that I was a too difficult and restless kid and even grown up to really get into the more introverted and meditative way Bill Evans plays...... another sacrilege.....

[Rabshakeh]

Hector Lavoe – La Voz

4 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

You might kill me for the sacrilege I say now but by all consciousness that this is one of the all time most important albums in jazz history, I had a wrong start here 50 years ago. 
There were not so many jazz records in the regular record stores, many went OOP in the 70´s but I was a stone Miles Davis fan and tried to find what I could. 
But after hearing the three albums I had (Steamin´ , "Carnegie Hall 64" and "Bitches Brew" ) I was a bit disappointed. For the old stuff, I had preferred Philly J.J on drums and Garland on piano to Jimmy Cobb and Bill Evans, though I liked Kelly on "Freddie Freeloader" . I preferred Coltrane only and though I admitted that Cannoball is great, I thought as so much music Trane creates, he cannot be topped, and Cannonball had another sound than what I am used to on alto (more the McLean Thing). 

After hearing "So What" and "All Blues" first as the Carnegie Hall versions, the original versions sounded a bit too tame for an early teenie. 

As a newbie just at the beginning, maybe I was not ripe enough for the more quiet, more subdued stuff. About really slow stuff like "Blue in Green" , I did like ballads, but more with a bit a more sharper thing in it like the "Round Midnight" with the stuff borrowed from the old arrangements of the Gillespie Big Band like you hear it on the first CBS album Miles made, or .....still more......the "Funny Valentine" from Carnegie Hall........

I also dare to say that I was a too difficult and restless kid and even grown up to really get into the more introverted and meditative way Bill Evans plays...... another sacrilege.....

Same here. I also initially found Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew a bit of a turn off. Like everyone of my age exploring jazz, they were among the very first records I purchased, along with some random Parker/Gillespie and random ill judged re-packaged Monk. I grew to understand their stature, but I still don't really think they are for beginners. I think Round Midnight and In A Silent Way are far more digestible for a first timer. Even then, I think that it is really A Love Supreme that they should be feeding to teenagers; not Miles Davis.

Edited August 9, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

Junior Mance Trio – Happy Time

[Referentzhunter]

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hector Lavoe – La Voz

Same here. I also initially found Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew a bit of a turn off. Like everyone of my age exploring jazz, they were among the very first records I purchased, along with some random Parker/Gillespie and random ill judged re-packaged Monk. I grew to understand their stature, but I still don't really think they are for beginners. I think Round Midnight and In A Silent Way are far more digestible for a first timer. Even then, I think that it is really A Love Supreme that they should be feeding to teenagers; not Miles Davis.

Well, interesting you had the same encounter with Kind of Blue. 
My very first LP was "Steamin´" but I would consider "Round Midnite" in the same range, same period, same personnel, same style, so this is practically identic. Silent Way, I love it but I think I bought it after Bitches or On the Corner. 
About "digestible" well my second LP (3 LPs in one album) was "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" (with Dolphy, Byard, Cliff Jordan, Danny Richmond) and this was my most semnificative entry in jazz, because I must have had that thing in me about more so called "difficult" jazz (I don´t see nothing difficult in it) . I mean that Mingus thing with Dolphy opended the way to the more free forms of 60´s avantgarde, and .... damn, I got to Bird thru Dolphy and Mingus ! 
Bird with Diz or Fats and Bud, Monk absolutly......
What I didn´t really like was more "easy listening comfortable" music like an Oscar Peterson trio, mainstream swing, westcoast stuff and so on, it always had to "burn" .......😉

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Haven’t pulled this one from the stacks for a while.

Michele Rosewoman Trio “Occasion To Rise” Evidence cd

with Rufus Reid and Ralph Peterson

 

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[jazzbo]

Monday Michiru “Don’t Disturb the Groove”

Monday always lifts my mood, and I’m enjoying the little boost right now.

[jazzcorner]

Jazz West Records JWLP-2 - Jack Sheldon Quintet feat. Zoot Sims -  rec. July 1955

 

[Simon8]

[kh1958]

Louis Hayes, Exactly Right (Savant)

[HutchFan]

[Rabshakeh]

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band – Vol. 1: Dawn Club Favorites

In recent explorations of trad jazz, I have tended to find that the records that I enjoy the least are those from the core SF Scene that I think to some extent created the mature revival. This is one of the few records from that scene that I have enjoyed, probably because it is quite early and a lot of work clearly went into making the arrangements as exciting as possible.  I can see why this music might be exciting in a way that does not come across with e.g. Turk Murphy's Verve records.

[jazzbo]

Ivan “Boogaloo” Joe Jones “Sweetback” Love 'n Haight cd

 

Man, this guy played! Fluid and funky.

[rostasi]

Winston Ngozi, Merton Barrow, Midge Pike & Selwyn Lissack
Live at Art Centre, Green Point Common, Cape Town (1966)

1. Free Thing (12:01)

2. The Preacher (Horace Silver) (6:56)

3. unidentified  (11:08)

4. Misty (Erroll Garner) (6:48)

[Chuck Nessa]