So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[ghost of miles]

[JSngry]

In there.

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

Paul Moer Trio

[Chuck Nessa]

[bluesForBartok]

How is this not better known or widely discussed?

Holy smokes this is a fantastic session

[JSngry]

Listening to myself play with two pretty good musicians:

 

[JSngry]

almost all Revue, no problem.

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

Now:

Disc 12 - Recordings from the mid-Forties

 

Earlier today:

 

and

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Listening to myself play with two pretty good musicians:

 

Jim -  Just paused Duke to give this a listen. I dug it!  Thanks for sharing. ... Sounds like y'all were having a great time.  

 

[JSngry]

It's always a great time when you play for pleasure!

[JSngry]

Stranger things have happened, but not always with such pleasant results.

[mikeweil]

[sonnymax]

Roger Rosenberg, baritone & soprano sax, bass clarinet; Mark Soskin, piano; Peter Bernstein, guitar (#6 only); Chip Jackson, bass; Jeff Brillinger, drums. 2009 Sunnyside SSC1221.

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

on LP on Uptown:

Singing.

[Justin V]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul: Nance on violin, with Tiny Grimes, Jaki Byard, Sir Roland Hanna, Brew Moore, Tommy Lucas, Carl Pruitt and Steve Little.  Hanna plays organ on the lone track vocal track!  Produced by Duke Pearson.  

Edited July 6, 2020 by Justin V

[Larry Kart]

A good one. Brignola and Roditi in heated form;  they're a natural team; John Hicks is inspired.

[HutchFan]

[Pim]

[felser]

[JSngry]

8 hours ago, Justin V said:

Ray Nance - Body and Soul: Nance on violin, with Tiny Grimes, Jaki Byard, Sir Roland Hanna, Brew Moore, Tommy Lucas, Carl Pruitt and Steve Little.  Hanna plays organ on the lone track vocal track!  Produced by Duke Pearson.  

I still say that's Aunt Esther on the cover.

[JSngry]

Finished yesterday up with this one, which is one of the more...stealth (or just out and out deceptive) records I've come across in quite a while.

So, ok, cheesy tinkly mood music for late-night seductions, right?

The explain this:

By the time it's over, you're in some really "out" notions of space and silence, the dynamics of interruption and insertion and specific textural gravities:

and a McCoy Tyner cover in between (in 1965!):

and the one nod to the Poinciana beat gets really opened up. Vernell Fournier, don't sleep on Vernell Fournier!

But what about the strings? Well, the arrangements are by Joe Kennedy (a "legendary" figure about whom I don't know nearly enough) and they are lush, but not JUST lush.

It's  a stealth record.