So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[duaneiac]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Lots of people on this record...and there they all are, including Dianne Reeves, she's in there somewhere, I think. But I don't know...

 

I've seen Dianne Reeves in concert 3 times and while I like some of her CDs, she really seems to come across best in front of an audience. Here's one of my favorite live performances by her which, fortunately, was taped. I wish these two had recorded a duo album. They seem like a comfortable musical pair.

 

[JSngry]

19 minutes ago, duaneiac said:

I've seen Dianne Reeves in concert 3 times and while I like some of her CDs, she really seems to come across best in front of an audience. Here's one of my favorite live performances by her which, fortunately, was taped. I wish these two had recorded a duo album. They seem like a comfortable musical pair.

 

There's a track my current BFT that features her singing "Down Here On The Ground" that comes from one of those BN Remix projects they do every so often, and it is amazing. I mean, my god, where does that come from? Somewhere inside, obviously, right? So, I'm thinking that maybe I had missed something over the years, and...not really? I think that Edward Murrow soundtrack has some good things on it, so maybe sometimes. But otherwise, I hear some good singing, but no real RWAHHHH of guts that gets everything out of the way except THAT.

She's an enigma to me, sorta, obviously a wonderful instrument, but always a little...restrained. I would go see her live, though, assuming I could afford it.

[John Tapscott]

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[jazzbo]

The 5th and final disc of the "Complete Capitol Live Recordings of the George Shearing Quintet" on Mosaic Records, cd version.

I had to put something pleasant and breezy on after discovering that my favorite US high school teacher (I only went to high school the final two years in the US) passed away yesterday, and I found out when someone posted a picture of him in the classroom including me as a very competently slouching student from about 49 years ago. Sad. He was never boring--boredom was my biggest enemy in those years as I had learned so much in the boarding school I was at in Swaziland that almost all the cirriculum was something I had learned before. 

Edited March 29, 2021 by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

Bob Dylan "Rough and Rowdy Ways" Sony Japan 2 cd set, disc 1

This is a masterful work imo.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[jazzcorner]

45 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

31 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Very limited edition!!

 

[Bluesnik]

[Rabshakeh]

Currently enjoying the new Alexander Hawkins on Intakt.

It’s been a good week for free jazz / modern comp crossover.

[HutchFan]

Two solo piano records by Richie Beirach:

Breathing of Statues (CMP, 1982)

and

Common Heart (Owl, 1987)

Both terrific, IMO.

[HutchFan]

Now this:

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

Such a good band ! Strongly influenced by 'The United States of America' from the 70's

 

Edited March 30, 2021 by Referentzhunter

[Referentzhunter]

10 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Bob Dylan "Rough and Rowdy Ways" Sony Japan 2 cd set, disc 1

This is a masterful work imo.

!!!

[soulpope]

Yesterday evening .... :

[BillF]

12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Didn't get to fire up the stereo at all yesterday, and only for an hour or so on Saturday, so being able to plant myself in front of it today is a great thing. And it sounds stupendous this morning.

First up
Zoot Sims "Choice" Pacific Jazz/Toshiba Superbit Jazz Classics lp facsimile cd from Japan. 

Followed by
Richard Williams "New Horn in Town" Candid/Solid Records Japan  mono mix cd 

Two nice ones there! 

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

"Bud Shank/Shorty Rogers--Bud Shank/Bill Perkins" Pacific Jazz Toshiba Superbit Jazz Classics LP facsimle cd.

Two different sessions, and an alternate from the second. Jimmy Rowles on piano on the first, Hampton Hawes on the second. . . hard to get better West Coast piano playing.
 

[soulpope]

23 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Terrific indeed ....

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "Four & More" Mobile Fidelity SACD

 

[BillF]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

What is with the commas? Up, Jumped, Spring??

[Rabshakeh]

Currently listening to Overhang Party by Kaoru Abe and Sabu Toyozumi (Kojima, 1979). Nice to hear Abe (a real hero of my teenage years) on bass clarinet.

[Peter Friedman]

Pete Malinverni Trio - Autumn In New York

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Trio da Paz - Partido Out (Malandro, 1998)