So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

Joe Wilder - Wilder 'n' Wilder (Savoy, 1956)

[ghost of miles]

17 hours ago, Brad said:

This was my first Bird collection many years ago. 

 

That’s a decent Bird set! I bought a cheap used copy a few years ago when I was commuting two and a half hours for four days a week—made for great car listening.

Dipping right now into one of the many Black Saint/Soul Note sets that arrived last week:

Edited May 28, 2019 by ghost of miles

[EKE BBB]

Joe Wilder - The Pretty Sound (Columbia, 1959)

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

Joe Wilder - Wilder 'n' Wilder (Savoy, 1956)

Nice!!

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Modern mainstream with a kick.

[JSngry]

I still do not get Morgana King, not even sortakinda a little, not even appreciate-if-not-actually-like. Not ever. That's gonna have to be somebody else.

But this record has really great soft-MOR-psych charts by Jimmy Haskell. I just wish he had done them for another record for another singer. Like, if Joni Mitchell was on a career path in 1968 to make this/this kind of record, that would have been SO good. But...life does not work like that, then or now.

 

[ghost of miles]

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I still do not get Morgana King, not even sortakinda a little, not even appreciate-if-not-actually-like. Not ever. That's gonna have to be somebody else.

But this record has really great soft-MOR-psych charts by Jimmy Haskell. I just wish he had done them for another record for another singer. Like, if Joni Mitchell was on a career path in 1968 to make this/this kind of record, that would have been SO good. But...life does not work like that, then or now.

 

King is not a favorite of mine -- mannered in several ways at once -- but I don't get why she'd be a total turn off.

[JSngry]

I dunno either. If I could figure it out, I could at least appreciate her, and that's something I have no interest in.. But let me try - no low notes, no sense of the lyrics maybe once in a while actually being real, rather than melodrama, notes bent the wrong way/for the wrong reasons...you name it. And a vibrato that makes me want to...do something not good. Exactly what, I can't say.

She's got good pitch, though, if that counts for anything other than having good pitch.

that second one, that's not at all a bad song, but....gag.

Gagging is a reflex, just sayin'.

[Larry Kart]

Those two are ... terrifying.

[JSngry]

and not in the good way.

oh well...on a more pleasant bunch of notes:

 

[kinuta]

[Matthew]

I've always loved this mix

 

[jazzbo]

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian "At the Deer Head Inn" ECM cd.

Followed by
"Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy" Sony Blu-Spec CD2

[Justin V]

[Justin V]

Purchased through the Greenleaf $3 sale:

 

[Brad]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian "At the Deer Head Inn" ECM cd.

Followed by
"Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy" Sony Blu-Spec CD2

The Armstrong looks like it must be a nice one. 

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

This one is really a treasure ! They sound wonderful together, and I think it was the only occasion Dannie Richmond (one of my favourite drummers) recorded for BN.

[EKE BBB]

Idrees Sulieman ‎– Now Is The Time (SteepleChase, 1976)

[JohnS]

Lovely record.Super sound.

[jazzbo]

7 hours ago, Brad said:

The Armstrong looks like it must be a nice one. 

Yes, Sony used a European cover for this release; it's better known in the US with this cover;

[EKE BBB]

John Coltrane ‎– My Favorite Things (Atlantic, 1960)

[Brad]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Yes, Sony used a European cover for this release; it's better known in the US with this cover;

Ahh, now I recognize it. 

[EKE BBB]

5 minutes ago, Brad said:

Ahh, now I recognize it. 

That is also the cover on my copy.