So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

La Mont Johnson – Sun, Moon And Stars

First listen to this. Goodness me it is a lot of fun. 

Edited Thursday at 06:01 PM by Rabshakeh

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

44 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

La Mont Johnson – Sun, Moon And Stars

First listen to this. Goodness me it is a lot of fun. 

It is indeed! Quite the imagination, going back to his work with J-Mac. He made a few record after this one that are also interesting.

[mikeweil]

2005 Mighty Quinn reissue CD.

In such a rather modern context, Lionel Hampton sounded pretty much like Bags in many phrases, especiallly in blues changes. It show how much Bags came out of Lionel.

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

It is indeed! Quite the imagination, going back to his work with J-Mac. He made a few record after this one that are also interesting.

What are the others? I would be interested in hearing more.

[soulpope]

The unbearable lightness of being .... and The Marty Paich Dek-Tette spreads cool bliss ....

[JSngry]

33 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

What are the others? I would be interested in hearing more.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2026738-LaMont-Johnson-2?srsltid=AfmBOor84kUaF0lQltgaheo7BB9JB5URBfL3fzqNQpU9Zc2dTCBpHA6L

He got into film scoring, so some of these are that.

I've not heard all of them but the ones I have were all wonderful, each in their own way.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Brice Winston - Child's Play (Criss Cross).

[Rabshakeh]

36 minutes ago, JSngry said:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2026738-LaMont-Johnson-2?srsltid=AfmBOor84kUaF0lQltgaheo7BB9JB5URBfL3fzqNQpU9Zc2dTCBpHA6L

He got into film scoring, so some of these are that.

I've not heard all of them but the ones I have were all wonderful, each in their own way.

But which struck you most? If you had to identify two.

Currently listening to:

Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband and Champion Jack Dupree – Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband And Jack Dupree

I really do wish that there were better resources out there for revivalist trad / Dixieland / hot jazz. There's next to nothing in print and a complete absence on the internet. 

That's a fact that we shall all be rueing when the inevitable "inclusive" Dixieland revival trend kicks off on tiktok and none of us know anything about the one kind of jazz to which the Kids are listening. 

Edited Thursday at 09:26 PM by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

https://www.discogs.com/master/2024548-LaMont-Johnson-New-York-Exile

and

https://www.discogs.com/release/10189277-LaMont-Johnson-Burned-By-The-Passion

YMMV of course.

[Rabshakeh]

6 minutes ago, JSngry said:

https://www.discogs.com/master/2024548-LaMont-Johnson-New-York-Exile

and

https://www.discogs.com/release/10189277-LaMont-Johnson-Burned-By-The-Passion

YMMV of course.

Cheers!

[JSngry]

There's a duet record with Kenny Burrell that I've never heard. If you hear it, please report!

[John Tapscott]

[Referentzhunter]

thriftstore-find

[Referentzhunter]

thriftstore-find

[jazzbo]

Starting off with some Kenny Burrell. . . from the mid-seventies.

Kenny Burrell “Sky Street” Fantasy LP

 

[jazzbo]

On to

Chet Baker "Mr. B" Timeless cd

I've had this one for years, but it's the only one of the upcoming 5 cd box set of his Timeless recordings that I have. Looking forward to that!

This is a good one. . . great for late night or early morning.

Chet Baker – trumpet
Michel Graillier – piano
Riccardo del Fra – bass
Philip Catherine – guitar (one track)

[jazzbo]

It’s been too long since I played a recording of the wondrous Ms Maria. And this one is amazing.

Just Tania and Eddie, so well-recorded. Some great beauty here and two masters at their best.

 

 

Tania Maria (featuring Eddie Gomez) “Tempo” Indigo/Naive cd

[Rabshakeh]

Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband with Wingy Manone & Edmond Hall – Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband With Wingy Manone & Edmond Hall

More for the second side with Edmond Hall. One of my favourite arrangements of St. Louis Blues on record. 

Now dipping my toes back into this:

Anthony Braxton – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006

This is the first listen in over a decade, during which I have retrospectively warmed to some of Braxton's box sets. I still don't care for this one at all. I find it very charmless and undercooked. 

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband with Wingy Manone & Edmond Hall – Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband With Wingy Manone & Edmond Hall

 

Anthony Braxton – 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006

This is the first listen in over a decade, during which I have retrospectively warmed to some of Braxton's box sets. I still don't care for this one at all. I find it very charmless and undercooked. 

I never got on with that one either, in fact all Ghost Trance Music left me bewildered. The only period of AB's music that has done so

[Peter Friedman]

A very good Canadian trumpet player. If you like Art Farmer, you will enjoy Kevin Dean's playing. 

[Rabshakeh]

37 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I never got on with that one either, in fact all Ghost Trance Music left me bewildered. The only period of AB's music that has done so

I generally agree (although there are other periods when I sometimes allow myself to question whether he is just winging it...). 

But the Ghost Trance stuff always seemed to be designed with a view to securing funding, more than making music worth releasing.

I'm impressed, looking back through the power of Google, at both how unanimously full of praise the critics were at the time, and just how many academic treatments of the music and concept are returned by a simple search.  

But what an amazing line up of musicians! Almost half of them went on to be future leaders. Not so young now, sadly, but for a long time the great hopes. 

Edited Friday at 02:30 PM by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I generally agree (although there are other periods when I sometimes allow myself to question whether he is just winging it...). 

But the Ghost Trance stuff always seemed to be designed with a view to securing funding, more than making music worth releasing.

I'm impressed, looking back through the power of Google, at both how unanimously full of praise the critics were at the time, and just how many academic treatments of the music and concept are returned by a simple search.  

But what an amazing line up of musicians! Almost half of them went on to be future leaders. Not so young now, sadly, but for a long time the great hopes. 

I have a friend whose taste is usually reliable who thinks that box is one of Braxton's greatest achievements. I think it may have helped that he saw the band, or one very similar play GTM live 

[Rabshakeh]

Oliver Lake Steel Quartet – Dat Love

[Rabshakeh]

Cecil Taylor and Feel Trio - Celebrated Blazons