So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

I didn´t know this release https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Evans-Treffpunkt-Jazz-Festival-1979/release/13390456 ...

Whole album available today on JazzWax.

[JSngry]

A working band!

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Hubert Laws on meaty tenor, Harold Ousley, Wilbert Longmire, Ceasar Frazier, Porter/RVG, just all kinds of stealth.

[jazzbo]

These Muzak/Japan reissues in 2 cd sets sound wonderful--I have this one and the Monk, Gordon, Griffin, Sims/Brookmeyer and Konitz. I'm debating whether to get the Jackie and Roy.

Ben Webster "Saturday Night at the Montmartre" 

Edited June 24, 2020 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Popular Favorites Played With A Touch Of Class

seriously, it's a nice enough record until Peterson "improvises", which is almost always a bunch of mood-busting notejaculations. Riddle do what Riddle do, though, in a good solid B+ version (ok, A-, maybe), and when Peterson just plays the melody, more or less, it's a fine "mood" record. But that motherfucker is hellbent on busting the mood first chance he gets, unfortunately.

Great pianist, excellent musician, but just a damn poor concept of what he need to do to matter. The less he plays, the better he sounds. Did nobody ever tell him that?

But i like Nelson Riddle,  I really do.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Trying this one again. I like Shabaka here but overall I really don't get into the style of these. . . .which has kept me from buying their other discs. . . so far. . . . 

The Comet is Coming "Channeling the Spirits/Prophecy"

[optatio]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

Whole album available today on JazzWax.

Many thanks!

[HutchFan]

This CD collects 2 LPs that were compiled from five different recording sessions, so it's a bit of a grab bag personnel-wise.  Ammons, Stitt, and McDuff make it rock solid regardless. 

 

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hubert Laws on meaty tenor, Harold Ousley, Wilbert Longmire, Ceasar Frazier, Porter/RVG, just all kinds of stealth.

 

Hmm.  That does look interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up, Jim.   

I dig Mason's organ work.  He's fantastic on Rusty Bryant's LPs Fire-Eater and Wildfire.

[JSngry]

Other than eric Alexander's indigenous cypherness and Fathead being mislabeled as being on tenor when he's clearly on alto, nothing to complain about here!

[Referentzhunter]

thriftstore find

NP Sarah Vaughan / Brazilian Romance Muzak-mode

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[Dub Modal]

Recorded December 22, 1977 at Blue Rock Studio, New York City

From Mosaic's Bee Hive box. Love this album. 

 

[Referentzhunter]

Billy Holiday / Lady in Satin more sweetsongs muzak

[gmonahan]

8 hours ago, optatio said:

I didn´t know this release https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Evans-Treffpunkt-Jazz-Festival-1979/release/13390456 ...

Me neither. Discog shows it as a CD-R, and it's nowhere to be seen on Amazon. Boot??

 

 

 

gregmo

[jazzbo]

Eddie Gale "Black Rythm Happening" Blue Note Japan 

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

Paul Desmond With Strings ‎– Desmond Blue

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[BillF]

[BillF]

[Simon8]

20 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Fredrik Ljungkvist

Having just recently played Paul Bley’s  « Homage to Carla », this makes for a really interesting listening exercice. Didn’t know Ljungkvist nor his partner Risberg. Inventive.

[JSngry]

Ok, on the whole, I prefer O'Day the "character" to O'Day the singer (but only by some, and then not by THAT much), but this is a helliva good record. for both her and Gary McFarland.

[optatio]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

Me neither. Discog shows it as a CD-R, and it's nowhere to be seen on Amazon. Boot?

Bill has quoted above:"Whole album available today on JazzWax." See: https://www.jazzwax.com/2020/06/bill-evans-stuttgart-1979-1.html

[HutchFan]