So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[gmonahan]

Couldn't find a cover photo that would fit in the small dimensions allowed, but I've been listening to "Last Night When We Were Young: The Ballad Album" that was put together by pianist Fred Hersch in '94 as an AIDS benefit. Phil Woods plays clarinet on one track ("Adios Nonino"). It's very pretty. I don't think I have Woods playing clarinet anywhere else.

 

gregmo

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

I forgot how good this one is!

What a band. . . .

"The Pepper-Knepper Quintet"

Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Wynton Kelly – piano, organ 
Doug Watkins – bass
Elvin Jones – drums

[Joe]

[jazzbo]

[optatio]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

Couldn't find a cover photo that would fit in the small dimensions allowed, but I've been listening to "Last Night When We Were Young: The Ballad Album" that was put together by pianist Fred Hersch in '94 as an AIDS benefit. Phil Woods plays clarinet on one track ("Adios Nonino"). It's very pretty. I don't think I have Woods playing clarinet anywhere else.

 

gregmo

[Rabshakeh]

The Trovesi Damiani Quartet's Roccellanea (Ismez, 1984) 

Good stuff.

[optatio]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

"... Phil Woods plays clarinet on one track ("Adios Nonino"). It's very pretty. I don't think I have Woods playing clarinet anywhere else."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi%C3%B3s_Nonino 

[Justin V]

Some more Benny Golson, via his arrangements on Brass Shout.  The reissue pairing it with The Aztec Suite is essential Art Farmer, IMO.

[HutchFan]

This afternoon's line up:

 

 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Some more Benny Golson, via his arrangements on Brass Shout.  The reissue pairing it with The Aztec Suite is essential Art Farmer, IMO.

Yeah, I agree 100%.   

Golson and Chico O'Farrill are two excellent composer/arrangers. 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[ghost of miles]

Glad to finally get a hold of this:

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Renee Rosnes ‘Manhattan Rain’

[JSngry]

UH-oh!!!!

[Justin V]

More of the birthday Benny, with a crack band of Dr. Eddie Henderson, Steve Davis, Mike LeDonne, Buster Williams, Carl Allen and a guest spot from Al Jarreau.

[EKE BBB]

Listening to Fats Waller home recordings with Eubie Blake, JPJ, The Lion... originally issued as Ristic 22 & 23 with restoration by the great John R. T. Davies, and recently reissued for the first time on CD by Sounds of Yesteryear. This is music of the utmost importance, from an historical perspective, and soooo beautiful.... but the work done by the latter label is barely professional from a technical point of view, and the presentation so 'ugly', that I would gladly ask for a refund and stick to the cd-burn I received from a fellow stride piano collector many moons ago.

 

[EKE BBB]

[BillF]

9 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Now playing:

[JSngry]

I want to see the Davis operas performed, not just presented. It's "different" for me, to say the least, but I could see really enjoy getting immersed in it live.

 

[Peter Friedman]

Sal Salvador - Juicy Lucy - with Billy Taylor, Richard Davis , Joe Morello

[jazzbo]

Listening to the '97 SBM Sony LP facsimile cd of this Miles Davis release. I like the sound better on this than on the disc in the Complete Columbia Album set. . . but of course I can't just sell or give away that disc, it's part of an 80 disc set.

The dilemnas of a collector. . . I know them well.

Miles Davis "You're Under Arrest"

[BillF]

21 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Have given it a listen.

Yes, a nice one, John!

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Piri "Voces Querem Mate" 

This Brazilian trio of singers and instrumentalists is a sunny blast of upbeat beauty for a gray cold day. Reminding me a lot of the Tamba 3 and Tamba 4, with a bit more lushness of arrangements and of course more voices.