So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

Bob Florence plays keyboards that sound like a SNES game. Vegas Stakes in particular. 

[gvopedz]

Weather Report with Alex Acuña

 

[JSngry]

On 9/20/2023 at 3:38 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

Just arrived, went straight into the player and is beginning as we speak. Most immediate impression is the astounding clarity of the recording.

And now the horns, wonderful! This is going to be fun! 

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Bob James - Hands Down

Rare to get a consistently great Bob James record, and this isn't one. But as always there are some great singles.

Manny Albam – The Jazz Greats Of Our Time - Vol. 2

This one on the other hand is a great record all the way through. Absolute corker.

Edited September 22, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Tiger Okoshi – Tiger's Baku

Charlie Parker – Live At Rockland Palace (September 26, 1952)

[BillF]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

 

 

 

👍

Now playing:

Edited September 23, 2023 by BillF

[Referentzhunter]

2023 reissue of the classic album !!!

[Balladeer]

Wolfgang Engstfeld - Songs and Ballads (Nabel)

[jazzbo]

Tom Harrell “Labyrinth” RCA Victor cd

 

 

My best friend and avant-garde trumpeter has long been a Harrell fan and I’m finally “getting” him as I hadn’t before.

 

 

[jazzcorner]

17 hours ago, JSngry said:

Bob Florence plays keyboards that sound like a SNES game. Vegas Stakes in particular. 

For Bob ---> 👍

14 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Manny Albam – The Jazz Greats Of Our Time - Vol. 2

This one on the other hand is a great record all the way through. Absolute corker.

Indeed! No doubts about that for both volumes.

[Rabshakeh]

Alexander von Schlippenbach, Axel Dörner | Rudi Mahall | Jan Roder | Uli Jennessen – Monk's Casino (The Complete Works Of Thelonious Monk)

Last listened to this years ago. I'm not sure why I've left it so long, given that it is very strong. But in the intervening decades I have discovered Steve Lacy (who I didn't know about as a twenty year old) and it makes it sound like quite a different record to how it originally sounded to my ears, without a note having changed.

Edited September 23, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

Baden Powell – Os Afro-Sambas

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Baden Powell – Os Afro-Sambas

Is that the original with different cover art, or the re-recording?

[jazzbo]

https://www.discogs.com/release/4946148-Baden-Powell-Os-Afro-Sambas

30 second search found this:

October 1990 re-recording of Os Afro Sambas, Powell's collaboration with Vinicius De Moraes originally released in 1966.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Is that the original with different cover art, or the re-recording?

The re-recording. Quite a different vibe.

[BillF]

[Teasing the Korean]

55 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

The re-recording. Quite a different vibe.

Thanks.  I've never listened to the re-recording.

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

[jazzbo]

I changed the front footers on my speakers and added another Shunyata Research “Defender” to the system that I traded a Furutech similar thing for with another audiophile, and I like the results.

I revisited this one to check it out, I play this one a lot, I like the front line of Palmer, Ross and Turner a lot.

Then on to this Landmark cd from Bobby Hutcherson, “Mirage.”

[HutchFan]

49 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

16 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

When I hear that album, I imagine a bunch of revelers traveling on the Amazon and finding an abandoned 16th century Portuguese monastery.  They all go inside and have a drunken orgy.  The album seems to simultaneously convey religious spirituality and worldly decadence.  

[jlhoots]

David Virelles Trio: Carta (Intakt CD)

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Thanks.  I've never listened to the re-recording.

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

 

44 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

 

25 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

When I hear that album, I imagine a bunch of revelers traveling on the Amazon and finding an abandoned 16th century Portuguese monastery.  They all go inside and have a drunken orgy.  The album seems to simultaneously convey religious spirituality and worldly decadence.  

I'm a very big fan of the first version.

The re-recording has more of what Hutchfan is speaking about and less of what TTK is speaking about. Much more of the advanced folkloric jazz and a bit less of the strange menace. It still has the magic though. It is on any analysis very good.

Easy streamer and listening to the one won't ruin the other.