So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[optatio]

32 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

👍

[HutchFan]

[Chuck Nessa]

[rostasi]

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Great Cover Art (too) ....

[Rabshakeh]

Winard Harper – Be Yourself

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Winard Harper – Be Yourself

Another graduate of the "Betty Carter School" 😎 ....

[jazzbo]

Christian Scott “Live at Newport” Concord cd

Hard to believe it has been fifteen years since this was released. One of these days I should watch the DVD that is included with this cd!

 

[jazzbo]

The Dave Liebman Group “Expansions Live” Whaling City 2 cd set, disc 1

 

Edited July 17, 2024 by jazzbo

[kh1958]

Kris Davis' Diatom Ribbons, Live at the Village Vanguard

[Referentzhunter]

[optatio]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

👍

[jlhoots]

35 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Kris Davis' Diatom Ribbons, Live at the Village Vanguard

👍

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon Gene Ammons “The Chase!” OJC cd

Giving me my energy boost.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Teasing the Korean]

More and Morricone:

• Le Casse, aka The Burglars
• The Sicilian Clan

[HutchFan]

 

and

 

Edited July 17, 2024 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Dexter Gordon Gene Ammons “The Chase!” OJC cd

Giving me my energy boost.

 

That was a crazy day!!

[Dub Modal]

6 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That was a crazy day!!

What was happening?

[John Tapscott]

[jazzcorner]

18 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁 👍

23 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁 👍

[jazzbo]

8 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Dexter Gordon Gene Ammons “The Chase!” OJC cd

Giving me my energy boost.

 

Listening to this one again. In part because I was rudely interrupted by kitchen modding reality mid-way, and partly because there is a lot going on here--it's no wonder Dex and Jug are/have been/will be wiping sweat.

[Chuck Nessa]

9 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

What was happening?

Joe Segal ran those things with his wife and a couple of his kids helping.

I arrived about 90 minutes early.  Joe met me at the door and said something like "Great,

someone who knows something. Prestige wants this recorded, and I hired an

engineer but I'm here all alone and I have to work the door. Will you

take charge of the recording?"  I later found out there was a big family

fight and as a result they all stayed away.

 

I look inside to find my old friend Leon Kelert fiddling with a tape

machine. Leon was some sort of electrical engineer, trad band fanatic,

record collector and proprietor of Blackbird Records. He had a semi-pro

Concord tape machine and had recorded a few dixie dates for his own

label. Leon was in over his head and knew it. He was as happy to see me.

The recorder was on the right edge of the stage, no playback facilities and only a

pair of headphones. Since the sound of the band would overpower the headphones,

I decided my best chance was to have as thorough a soundcheck as I could get for

balances and just watch the VU meters. Oh yeah, I moved the recorder off the risers

and set it on a folding chair or something.

 

The show was 3 tenors - Jug, Dexter and Don Byas. Joe told me we would not

be recording Byas since Don and Prestige had not come to terms. The format was a

continuous program of tenors rotating in quartet and quintet formats,

sort of "round robin" style. Because of the format, Joe had hired 2

rhythm sections, or they would have played for hours at a time.

 

The place was packed with a rowdy Chicago crowd and Byas took to

the stage and announced there were 2 thieves at the edge of the stage and

asked the audience to police us while he was on playing. This became an

ongoing "joke" throughout the day and by the end of the evening Byas was

plying me with Courvoisier back at the bar, and exhorting me to punch

him in the stomach so I could see just how tough he was.

 

We rolled tape when the other guys played, both afternoon and night. I

watched the dials and Leon sat there with his headphones, shaking his

head from side to side. In the evening, during a fantastic version of

"Lonesome Lover Blues" (or what passed for it) a drunk tripped over the

power cord and unplugged the machine. At the end of the piece, a delighted Jug,

wiping his brow with a bar towel, looked over at me and said

"How's it goin' fellas?". I held up 2 fingers, he stared at me for a few seconds

and turned to the mike. Then Jug said "the man says we have to do it again".

Dexter chuckled and the crowd went wild.

Edited July 18, 2024 by Chuck Nessa
typo

[Peter Friedman]

Great story Chuck!

Now Listening to:

 

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Joe Segal ran those things with his wife and a couple of his kids helping.

I arrived about 90 minutes early.  Joe met me at the door and said something like "Great,

someone who knows something. Prestige wants this recorded, and I hired an

engineer but I'm here all alone and I have to work the door. Will you

take charge of the recording?"  I later found out there was a big family

fight and as a result they all stayed away.

....

The show was 3 tenors - Jug, Dexter and Don Byas. Joe told me we would not

be recording Byas since Don and Prestige had not come to terms. The format was a

continuous program of tenors rotating in quartet and quintet formats,

sort of "round robin" style. Because of the format, Joe had hired 2

rhythm sections, or they would have played for hours at a time.

The place was packed with a rowdy Chicago crowd and Byas took to

the stage and announced there were 2 thieves at the edge of the stage and

asked the audience to police us while he was on playing. This became an

ongoing "joke" throughout the day and by the end of the evening Byas was

plying me with Courvoisier back at the bar, and exhorting me to punch

him in the stomach so I could see just how tough he was.

We rolled tape when the other guys played, both afternoon and night. I

watched the dials and Leon sat there with his headphones, shaking his

head from side to side. In the evening, during a fantastic version of

"Lonesome Lover Blues" (or what passed for it) a drunk tripped over the

power cord and unplugged the machine. At the end of the piece, a delighted Jug,

wiping his brow with a bar towel, looked over at me and said

"How's it goin' fellas?". I held up 2 fingers, he stared at me for a few seconds

and turned to the mike. Then Jug said "the man says we have to do it again".

Dexter chuckled and the crowd went wild.

Thnx for sharing ....