So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

McCoy Tyner - La Leyenda de la Hora (Columbia/Koch, 1981)

 

[mjazzg]

20 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Just looked that up, some interesting names involved

[sidewinder]

15 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Just looked that up, some interesting names involved

Recommended -  cheap as chips, swings like crazy and Simon Spillett’s usual excellent essay.

Just noticed that the arrangements are by saxophonist Tony Roberts of the Dankworth Orchestra, Ray Russell Group etc. He is still musically active in the West Dorset area and thereabouts.

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[mjazzg]

4 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Recommended -  cheap as chips, swings like crazy and Simon Spillett’s usual excellent essay.

Noted, and purchased.  Best band name ever...

[sidewinder]

1 minute ago, mjazzg said:

Noted, and purchased.  Best band name ever...

In fact, everything on this relaunched Turtle Records imprint is worth getting hold of. Not a dud amongst them. The Joy Marshall release with Gordon Beck’s Quartet (inc. McLaughlin) is a particular gem.

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

In fact, everything on this relaunched Turtle Records imprint is worth getting hold of. Not a dud amongst them. The Joy Marshall release with Gordon Beck’s Quartet (inc. McLaughlin) is a particular gem.

Stop it! 

Edit to add: the Gibbs/Burton looks very tempting

Edited August 5, 2021 by mjazzg

[sidewinder]

14 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Stop it! 

Edit to add: the Gibbs/Burton looks very tempting

Sorry !   Glad it’s not my bank account. 

The Gibbs/Burton is indeed interesting - a bit lo fi would be the only negative I would give it.

Edited August 5, 2021 by sidewinder

[Rabshakeh]

Toon van Vliet - s/t (BV Haast, 1959)

A recommendation from the recent jazz modernism thread.

Rudy Pronk has quite an original flick to his drum playing. 

[Jim Duckworth]

13 hours ago, BillF said:

My favourite Mingus! 

I almost invariably reach for Tijuana Moods (largely the same group with Bill Triglia instead of Bill Evans), but I think that this is my new go-to Mingus record.

[felser]

6 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I almost invariably reach for Tijuana Moods (largely the same group with Bill Triglia instead of Bill Evans), but I think that this is my new go-to Mingus record.

Black Saint & Sinner Lady for me, but there's so many great ones over a quarter century.

[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

NOW:

NEXT:

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Fondly remembering the night Miles slapped me on the butt.

[Chuck Nessa]

Now playing a project I worked on a few years back. Worth checking out before it disappears.

[JSngry]

Young Bull:

Old Bull:

(no points, bonus or otherwise, for playing the "same old bull" card or variant thereof)

[jazzbo]

That Allen Eager is great!

Now playing

  

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[HutchFan]

 

and

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[ghost of miles]

[HutchFan]

More Hank Crawford -- but jumping ahead to the '80s:

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

and

Underrated ....

[BillF]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Now playing a project I worked on a few years back. Worth checking out before it disappears.

[Rabshakeh]

Currently on:

Miles Davis - Live In Berlin (CBS, 1967)

I haven't listened to this one in years. 

Listening to it now, one particular thing strikes me: was Miles... trying to impress his new young friends? 

Quite aside from the fact that he is actually playing with commitment (not a criticism of Miles Davis, but nonchalant cool (AKA playing like he doesn't give a single shit) is what I normally associate with him, rising to apparent indifference once you get past the Plugged Nickel stage), Davis uses all kinds of funny techniques that I don't associate with him at all. 

Check out 'Stella by Starlight' as one example. 

On an entirely different note, it's good to hear Art Blakey's young tenor Wayne Shorter (which is how he still sounds here) making contact with Hancock, Carter and Williams. 

Edited August 6, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

[Dub Modal]

then

and now, select cuts from 

 

[kh1958]

The Monterey Quartet, Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival