So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jlhoots]

Kaisa's Machine: Taking Shape

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, felser said:

I always found the Elektric Band to be slog through the muck, and is some of the only Chick I have fully excused myself from ever needing to explore further.

Strangely I find this one easier to handle than most. The first track is gross out space invaders fusion, but a lot of the rest of it is pretty good electric jazz, much better recorded than those very dry and lifeless earlier records. 

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

That looks interesting, Peter. Are you enjoying it?

 

[Peter Friedman]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

That looks interesting, Peter. Are you enjoying it?

 

Yes, HutchFan, I like it quite a bit. I have quite a few Stanley Cowell albums. Most of them are, to my taste, very good, though a few veer off in a direction that does not appeal to me. This has a few more horn players than most of his things, and yet there are a few tracks without horns.

 

Currently listening to:

[John Tapscott]

[rostasi]

6 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Chick's clientology record.

😃 I’ll have to find a use for that word sometime!

[felser]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Strangely I find this one easier to handle than most. The first track is gross out space invaders fusion, but a lot of the rest of it is pretty good electric jazz, much better recorded than those very dry and lifeless earlier records. 

I stopped with the early ones - what are the best of breed?

[Rabshakeh]

58 minutes ago, felser said:

I stopped with the early ones - what are the best of breed?

Gosh. I don't know. It's not my music.

I think I enjoyed Light Years the most of the earlies, but this one is maybe stronger, particularly once past the first track. 

I think a lot of that is down to the recording style, which is more natural and dynamic.i hate how those early records sound.

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Tony!

 

[HutchFan]

Roberto Gatto Plays Rugantino (CAM, 2000)

Music by Armando Trovaioli arranged by Paolo Silvestri for jazz ensemble; soloists include Enrico Rava, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gabriele Mirabassi, Rosario Giuliani, and others

[Chuck Nessa]

Tomorrow

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Tony!

 

Those were the days when you were waiting for the next album of Sonny Rollins and when you saw him live playing you would get live renditions of just recently recorded tunes. 
This is one of my favourite Milestone albums of Rollins. I heard him play the "Isn´t She Lovely" shortly after that recording, with Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and the great Al Foster. Same was after the "No Question" album with Larry Corryell, just great times. 

[jazzcorner]

16 hours ago, BillF said:

👍😁

23 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Elliot Lawrence has recorded some fine bb albums. This is one of them

😁😁

 

[optatio]

2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Tomorrow

👍 + the original LPs on my shelf!

Edited August 16, 2023 by optatio

[BillF]

[BillF]

[jazzcorner]

Some swinging  Shorty Rogers big band sounds on CD

 

2 hours ago, BillF said:

😁👍

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

19 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

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[HutchFan]

Disc 1 - originally released as Out of This World

 

 

17 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Yes, HutchFan, I like it quite a bit. I have quite a few Stanley Cowell albums. Most of them are, to my taste, very good, though a few veer off in a direction that does not appeal to me. This has a few more horn players than most of his things, and yet there are a few tracks without horns.

Good deal.  Thanks!  

I'll give it a listen.   

 

[HutchFan]

[mjazzg]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Roberto Gatto Plays Rugantino (CAM, 2000)

Music by Armando Trovaioli arranged by Paolo Silvestri for jazz ensemble; soloists include Enrico Rava, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gabriele Mirabassi, Rosario Giuliani, and others

OK, so that lineup really grabs my attention 

[HutchFan]

16 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

OK, so that lineup really grabs my attention 

Give it a listen.  It's very good -- at times excellent -- but not a typical jazz record. 

I understand that Trovaioli was primarily a film composer (although Rugantino was a live show), and you can tell.  I imagine that anyone who enjoys Pieranunzi's take on Morricone's or Fellini's music would like it.  (I do.)  But this is a shade more arranged than those albums.