So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[jazzcorner]

Jazzed Media  JM 1009 - Don Menza Big Band " Menza lines" - rec. 2005 - Engineer: Tim Pinch

 

[jazzbo]

First played Santana “Borboletta” Columbia LP

 

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Now playing
Jack Teagarden “Mis’ry and the Blues” Verve stereo LP

 

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[John Tapscott]

46 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Jazzed Media  JM 1009 - Don Menza Big Band " Menza lines" - rec. 2005 - Engineer: Tim Pinch

 

👍 I love Don Menza's big band writing. 

 

Now:

[Gheorghe]

The Paris All Stars is quite fine. Those tunes with Phil Woods and Jackie McLean......I never had heard much about or from Phil Woods though I know he was quite popular, he really sounds fine, very much into be bop, but with some unusual "growls" in it. He is great, but personally I like Jackie McLeans alto sound and his more daring tonality better. Maybe I´m more used to it, because among the a bit older boys when I grew up, Jackie McLean and Eric Dolphy and Prince Lasha, and of course Ornette Coleman were those who were spinned and discussed.

Stan Getz is fantastic on "Warm Valley". Such a good version of that wonderful tune I really like. 
Max Roach is also one of the first idols of mine and "Speak Brother Speak" was one of my first few records. 

Hank Jones, Percy Heath, great as always. 

Dizzy, even if some dared to mention he had lost some of his chops in the late 80´s I think he sounds wonderful !!!!

A personal remark if possible: I would have liked "Con Alma" more with the rhythmic patterns it was supposed to be played. For someone with pure percussive ears and less understandmand of concerto-like performances this duet sounds quite strange, but very well played. Hank Jones lays down some beautiful chords and Diz sounds angelic, but as I saed, I like more the versions he played 10 years earlier when I heard him first, I need drums for real happiness 😉.

 

Well, that was enough of traditional straight ahead stuff, I had to listen to another great favourite of mine: Naturally as when I became interested in afro american music, the forefront of what we heard was late Trane, post Trane and the beginnings of electric Miles. Bitches Brew, Live Evil and maybe deja On the Corner where just appearing. 
My personal first loves from the late 60´s into early 70´s were Alice Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders, my most lasting idol in music.

I LOVE the "Universal Consciousness", fantastic drum work by Jack DeJohnette, Rashied Ali. Mrs Coltrane is fantastic on the organ AND on the harp, and can there be something more beautiful than the strings arrangements of Ornette Coleman ? He was a genius !!!!! 

[mjazzg]

https://youtu.be/iFikGDOgIEM?feature=shared

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[Peter Friedman]

[mjazzg]

It worked this time...

 

 

 

[rostasi]

25 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I LOVE the "Universal Consciousness", fantastic drum work by Jack DeJohnette, Rashied Ali. Mrs Coltrane is fantastic on the organ AND on the harp, and can there be something more beautiful than the strings arrangements of Ornette Coleman ? He was a genius !!!!!

The crux of the biscuit is the (lack of an) apostrophe.

[felser]

22 minutes ago, rostasi said:

The crux of the biscuit is the (lack of an) apostrophe.

 

Thank you, St. Alphonzo!

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[rostasi]

29 minutes ago, felser said:

Thank you, St. Alphonzo!

hmmm ... pancakes sound pretty good right now ...

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

👍

[HutchFan]

[Chuck Nessa]

[rostasi]

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Some feisty music to start the day.

Charles Mingus “Oh Yeah” Atlantic/Analogue Productions SACD

Damn this sounds really really good!

 

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[jazzbo]

Gil Evans “Out of the Cool” Impulse reissue LP

[jazzbo]

Jose James “Yesterday I had the Blues–the Music of Billie Holiday”. Blue Note 2 LP

This is an exceptional recording, in all ways. Fantastic performances and my system loves the mastering.

 

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[Rabshakeh]

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet / ONJQ - Live In Lisbon

 

[Rabshakeh]

Now streaming:

Sue Kaspar's fusion soundtrack to the video game Sim City 2000

https://youtu.be/q4gkAcj7GhU?si=wrNtQq47sJ5X_bsa

 

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[Kevin Bresnahan]

4 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

The Gonsalves/Ashby session, issued in England & Denmark in 1961 as "Tenor Stuff", has never been issued in the US in any form. Is there a reason for this? It sounds like a session I'd like to hear.

[jazzbo]

Umo Jazz Orchestra “Duke Ellington Homage”
Warner Classics cd

 

A little “ham-fisted” perhaps but a good listen.

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet / ONJQ - Live In Lisbon

 

I like that but then I like a lot of Otomo's Jazz output

[Rabshakeh]

30 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I like that but then I like a lot of Otomo's Jazz output

I'm the opposing side. I am an anti-Otomoist. I always found him to be dilettenteish. I saw him play once in Exeter and he was a total smug waste of time. That normally includes his jazz output too for me (including the Out To Lunch concept record), but this one I do really like. It has quite a unique interplay.