So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

John Tapscott · Saturday at 10:51 PM

A Summer Night In Munich, Primary, 1 of 3

Simon8 · Saturday at 11:28 PM

57 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Continuing the Decca George Russell run

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felser · 2025-02-09T01:29:04Z

Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa. Great album!

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Gheorghe · 2025-02-09T05:24:06Z

23 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Is this the record with Andrew Hill on piano ?
I have some of Joe Hendersons old records and dig most of them.

But from the old stuff mostly the Henderson-McCoy Tyner live stuff.

I saw Henderson live very very often, he was one of my earliest favourites, I mean I heard him after Sanders, Liebman and imediat thought he is of the same categoria

Having listened too the last hours:

First of all the live Love Supreme:

I love it so much. Everything Coltrane did in the mid sixties. Great Band and Pharoah Sanders is one of my most favourites anyway.
I think, great as McCoy Tyner is and he is one of my favourites on piano, it sounds a bit like if there might be a change on the piano chair and it sure was, since Alice Coltrane was the next and with all due respect to McCoy, Alice fits better into that music....., just an opinion or better said a suggestion.....

Freddie Hubbard sounds so great here and has such great musicians: I can say from that band I heard each of them separatly: Hubbard of course, Javon Jackson and Benny Green of course both together with Blakey, and the great Tony Reedus with the magic Woody Shaw....
I like especially Hubbards compositions Poiebe´s Samba and First Light. Such a great live record !

I don´t know what impulse drove me to spin some tunes of a strange Bud Powell live recording. I love Bud live very much, like the ones at Birdland from the early years to the late years, and the European concerts with Hawk, with Mingus, and with Blakey.....
But I had to stop this after a few tunes. Though I am not an audiophile, never have been, and don´t care much if a piano is a bit out of tune, since I had to play myself hundreds of slightly out of tune pianos in damp cellar clubs as many jazz clubs are.
But this piano sounds like if it had stood some decades in a damp room that´s all shambles and has never been touched for at least a decade..... so poor it is.
It´s no wonder Bud, as honestly he tries, can´t play completly in his usual good form, he seems to struggle a bit with that poor piano. You can get over this on faster tunes, but on Ballads this reallly becomes a challenge. How good would this have sounded on a well tuned piano, especially because there are some Monk tunes like Off Minor and Epistrophy.....