So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[Joe]

Superb. IMO, Riley is one of the most interesting musicians working "in the tradition" right now.

[jlhoots]

14 minutes ago, Joe said:

Superb. IMO, Riley is one of the most interesting musicians working "in the tradition" right now.

I like his playing too. His new SteepleChase quartet CD with Kirk Knuffke is terrific.

[BillF]

[Balladeer]

Lizz Wright - Salt (Verve)

Her voice is always a winner. But this debut remains IMO an early  masterpiece - terrific!

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Outstanding ....

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "My Funny Valentine" Sony DSD remastered lp facsimile cd release.

I've been listening to this album more than 45 years! I have a handful of editions but like this one, which I may have played more this century than others. I'm using this version as it's so familiar it will help to evaluate a new fuse I'm trying in my power regenerator. I love this music!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul - Be-Bop? (Musica). This is fairly hard-to-find yet relatively inexpensive LP from France. I'm listening to it via mp3 files created from a needle-drop CD-R that was made from an original LP. 3 steps from Kevin Bacon.

Piano sounds very rinky-dink. Must be a French thing (That's a joke revolving around the piano sound on Hank Mobley's "The Flip"). I do wish this was more readily available as it's not a bad date. To answer the title's question - no - this is not Be-Bop. It's bop, certainly, but this is not going to warm the cockles of a be-bop fan's heart. No matter how hard the French tenor player (Jean-Pierre Debarbat) tries, he still comes off sounding like a poor man's Coltrane "sheets of sound" during most of his solos.

[jazzbo]

Shabaka and the Ancestors "We are Sent Here by History"

This will give your woofers a cold sweat. I REALLY like it.

[Rabshakeh]

A really great one. 

[Joe]

3 hours ago, jlhoots said:

I like his playing too. His new SteepleChase quartet CD with Kirk Knuffke is terrific.

Will have to look for that.

Riley has clearly listened to a lot of tenor players, and distilled much. But I do find his sound closer to Lucky Thompson's than about any other tenor I can think of.

[gmonahan]

[Peter Friedman]

[jcam_44]

 

On disc one. Been a couple years since I pulled this out. Really shouldn't wait so long.

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, Joe said:

Will have to look for that.

Riley has clearly listened to a lot of tenor players, and distilled much. But I do find his sound closer to Lucky Thompson's than about any other tenor I can think of.

CD title is Friday The 13th.

[Joe]

38 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

CD title is Friday The 13th.

[duaneiac]

[Justin V]

I'm listening to Going Beyond by Ed Michaels, a local saxophonist. My collection is in such disarray that I can't find the disc to confirm the personnel. 

[jlhoots]

On 5/10/2020 at 10:23 AM, jazzbo said:

The new one from Dave Douglas "Dizzy Atmosphere" -- it's quite good!

My copy has been lost in space for 12 days. Hopefully will eventually show up.

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Miles Davis "My Funny Valentine" Sony DSD remastered lp facsimile cd release.

I've been listening to this album more than 45 years! I have a handful of editions but like this one, which I may have played more this century than others. I'm using this version as it's so familiar it will help to evaluate a new fuse I'm trying in my power regenerator. I love this music!

Me too, for almost 45 years. My Funny Valentine really impressed me, until then I only had the "Steamin" Album from 1956 and this more open stuff and the fast Version of "All Blues" really was something to listen to. 

[optatio]

RANDY WESTON/MELBA LISTON: VOLCANO BLUES. GITANES JAZZ. VERVE 519 269-2 [1993]

[Justin V]

[Peter Friedman]