So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)

5 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Now playing:

Edited March 12, 2021 by BillF

[JSngry]

I like how the chair and coat and water bottle takes on a presence of its own in the picture. Roscoe creates a holistic environment just by being there and doing.

[kh1958]

Mamman Sani, La Musique Electronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)

[Rabshakeh]

5 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Mamman Sani, La Musique Electronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)

Truly great truly odd record.

I had it on vinyl but sold it recently because noone else in the house would tolerate it, despite putting up with Ayler, Nonaah and a hundred other worse things.

Edited March 12, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[HutchFan]

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I stared at this for a while this morning, wondering why Red Rodney was on the cover of a Jackie McLean record.

Moral of the story: drink coffee.

😁

 

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

I like how the chair and coat and water bottle takes on a presence of its own in the picture. Roscoe creates a holistic environment just by being there and doing.

Ordered. Hope it's good.

[Gheorghe]

Wonderful !

Chet was very often at his best until the very very end.

I saw him live in late 1987, that means 6 months before he died and he was in top form, better than ever. 

[JSngry]

17 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Ordered. Hope it's good.

I liked it. It's Roscoe. He's one of "those guys" for me.

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Definitive in so many ways...

[EKE BBB]

Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic, 1965)

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

I liked it. It's Roscoe. He's one of "those guys" for me.

Shipped within 2 hours from The Lab in San Francisco.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic, 1965)

❤❤❤ !!!

[Rabshakeh]

Just finished: 

That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) 

A record that gets better with distance.

If anyone knows the reason why there are so many musicians from the "downtown" scene on a major label big budget tribute to Monk, I'd be interested to know. 

Edited March 12, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[soulpope]

[Rabshakeh]

Now playing: 

ICP0001 itself: New Acoustic Swing Duo (ICP, 2017) by Han Bennink and Willem Breuker.

To my ears, this one is easily on a level with Machine Gun or Karyobin. Fantastic free music, but clearly jazz.

Edited March 12, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Just finished: 

That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) 

Exciting project for sure .....

[Rabshakeh]

Then onto: 

John Coltrane's Expression (Impulse!, 1967).

2 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Exciting project for sure .....

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

5 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Then onto: 

John Coltrane's Expression (Impulse!, 1967).

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

I believe the art work for double vinyl is quite nice .... btw if I`m not mistaken the CD release is missing some material due to time constraint .....

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

18 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

I think graphics are very "1980s." Not necessarily terrible or great. Just representative of the time. IMO.

I didn't realize it was downbeat's critic's choice for album of the year until it came up recently on the "Favorite 1980s Albums" thread. I dig the record. It's interesting. But no way I'd choose any Various Artists record as my album of the year.  ... Then again, no one asked me to vote. 

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Just finished: 

That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) 

A record that gets better with distance.

If anyone knows the reason why there are so many musicians from the "downtown" scene on a major label big budget tribute to Monk, I'd be interested to know. 

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. There are more:

 

[soulpope]

1 minute ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. 

There are more ....

The Nino Rota homage excels ...