So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

We Thought About Duke (HatArt, 1994) by Franz Koglmann and Lee Konitz

[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

[mikeweil]

This afternoon:

Vikilcky really is one the best European jazz pianists!

[ghost of miles]

[rostasi]

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

I really like this one, but the cover artwork in particular has always struck me. Farmer just looks so crisp.

[JSngry]

[jazzbo]

Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano "The Music of John Coltrane"

With Phil Markowitz, Ron McClure and Billy Hart

Lots of energy here!

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

9 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Yep! Any time.

 

 

 

 

[kh1958]

Art Ensemble of Chicago, Urban Magic (AECO)

[Dub Modal]

Really enjoyed this one. Monk & Rich in the rhythm section with Curly Russell on bass. 

[Rabshakeh]

1 minute ago, Dub Modal said:

Really enjoyed this one. Monk & Rich in the rhythm section with Curly Russell on bass. 

One of the first jazz CDs I and every jazz fan of roughly my age that I know bought. For some reason, record shops in 90s London were awash with this one at a discount price.

Edited May 24, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[Dub Modal]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

One of the first jazz CDs I and every jazz fan of roughly my age that I know bought. For some reason, record shops in 90s London were awash with this one at a discount price.

Recent buy and first time listen for myself. Only got into jazz about 5 years or so ago, so a lot of these classics are new to me. 

[jazzbo]

This one got stuck in my player, it just sounds so nice and there's some great playing here.
Mario Adnet, "Para Gershwin e Jobim"

 

[Rabshakeh]

7 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Recent buy and first time listen for myself. Only got into jazz about 5 years or so ago, so a lot of these classics are new to me. 

It was just one of those things. Some guy in a suit on one continent decides that a cut price tie in with a coffee chain or something is a good way to shift product. Three years later, on another continent, a spotty kid in unfashionable clothes looks at a record rack and sees something on offer for a price he can afford. Meanwhile, everyone else in his peer group does the same thing.

The other 90s discount phenomenon that I remember was the bizarre Frank Zappa comp Cheap Thrills, which I recall being everywhere. Twenty years before, I think that Virgin Records' Faust Tapes was the big one (before my time). Flood the discount bins and see what you get!

 

Edited May 24, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Recent buy and first time listen for myself. Only got into jazz about 5 years or so ago, so a lot of these classics are new to me. 

I've been listening to Jazz for at least 35 years (Yikes!) and I don't think I've heard that one yet...

[Dub Modal]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Some guy in a suit on one continent decides that a cut price tie in with a coffee chain or something is a good way to shift product. Three years later, on another continent, a spotty kid in unfashionable clothes looks at a record rack and sees something on offer for a price he can afford. Meanwhile, everyone else in his peer group does the same thing.

Ha, those were the days. We had a local shop that had a big listening station set up in the middle of the store where you could take any CD and listen to it before buying or not buying. This was pre-internet of course. 

 

[John Tapscott]

[mjazzg]

19 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Really enjoyed this one. Monk & Rich in the rhythm section with Curly Russell on bass. 

Me too, now! 

[Dub Modal]

1 minute ago, mjazzg said:

I've been listening to Jazz for at least 35 years (Yikes!) and I don't think I've heard that one yet...

I was pleasantly surprised. Don't know why, but my expectations were low for this (maybe I thought chemistry beyond Bird and Diz would be nonexistent?).