So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Justin V]

46 minutes ago, JSngry said:

What a gem of a record! The band appears to be mostly D.C./Baltimore in original and everybody can play. They are today referred to as "unknown".

Pianist Yusef Salim went on to make an ongoing cultural contribution, he is NOT unknown!

http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.com/2008/08/brother-yusuf-salim-rip.html

 

6 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I really dig this Bill Swindell guy, sounds like he had at least one more gear than he got to go to on these records. should be at lest a little bit more recordings of him, but life is not fair.

I also dig how Parker's playing here sometimes speaks the same language as later Lester Young.

When I picked up Let Me Tell You 'Bout It, I hadn't yet heard Tadd Dameron and Illinois Jacquet, so the entire band was new to me.  Being so impressed by the sidemen, I once wrote Buck Hill and asked him whatever became of Swindell and Burks, but I didn't hear back from him.  Even though the strong Rollin' with Leo brings in some better-known musicians like Burns, Acea, Lucas and Hogan, Let Me Tell You 'Bout It edges it. 

Two great albums, though.  Parker cleaning up and suddenly dying after making such a comeback was a tragedy.

[duaneiac]

[Coda]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

What a gem of a record! The band appears to be mostly D.C./Baltimore in original and everybody can play. They are today referred to as "unknown".

Pianist Yusef Salim went on to make an ongoing cultural contribution, he is NOT unknown!

http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.com/2008/08/brother-yusuf-salim-rip.html

I'm listening to this and enjoying it very much.  Thanks!

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

That Postcards label had some interesting releases.

 

 

[duaneiac]

[JSngry]

[EKE BBB]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

For aficionados only - but I guess you're one of those! 

Not a die-hard tristanite but... always ready to get collectors' items!  

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

That Postcards label had some interesting releases.

Now:

Reggie Workman: Summit Conference. Postcards 7-1003-2 [1999]

Edited June 6, 2020 by optatio

[JSngry]

The New Wave Of Soundtrack Is On impulse!

[sidewinder]

Hux CD

[JSngry]

 

[JSngry]

Not the mindfuck that is Almost Like Me....except when it is.

[Brad]

One of my earliest Jazz in Paris cds. I think I may have actually purchased it in Paris (at the Louvre). 

Edited June 6, 2020 by Brad

[Bluesnik]

6 minutes ago, Brad said:

Oh, I have that one, and it's lovely. I got it in Andorra of all places.

[ghost of miles]

[duaneiac]

Earlier:

Currently:

Beautiful version of "Some Other Time" on this one.  It's been too long since I have revisited any titles in this Maybeck Hall series.  Some really satisfying music by some of the world's greatest jazz pianists was preserved for us on these discs..  I wonder if there were any concerts left in the vaults by the time Concord ended the run of releases.  There are certainly some pianists I wish had been recorded in this setting back in those days, such as Ray Bryant, Art Hodes, Mulgrew Miller, Sir Charles Thompson, Dorothy Donegan, Tommy Flanagan, Don Pullen. 

[HutchFan]

Deeply soulful, brilliant, uncategorizable music.

[EKE BBB]

5 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

[BillF]

11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

[JSngry]

I get that it was mostly DeJohnette's thing, but listening today, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was in places a Bob Moses thing!

I'm finding myself still liking it, even if with eye-rollings at any number of given moments.

Too bad Harold Vick never played on a Marvin Gaye record.

[Brad]

14 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Oh, I have that one, and it's lovely. I got it in Andorra of all places.

I never made it there; my parents there went several times with friends but I was left home 

[JSngry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FNjQJpJR4

 

[duaneiac]