So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[Rabshakeh]

George Otsuka 5 - Go On' (1973)

[jazzbo]

Lee Morgan "The Complete Live at the Lighthouse" disc 6

Really enjoying this set. The sound has definitely been "modernized." In a good way. I really admire Benny Maupin's work and having more is . . . more!

[Rabshakeh]

Horace Tapscott Sextet - Dial 'B' for Barbra (Nimbus West, 1981)

One of my favourite records from that LA scene.

[JSngry]

Among other thigs, it can be a CTI record for people who hate CTI records!

Of all the Ra records where listening to the inside of the music takes you deeper to the point than does just staying on the surface, this one makes it easier than most.

Then again, that's true of most all music, the surface is where they get your attention, the inside is where they keep it...to do what it will...

[jazzbo]

I need to revisit the new release of Languidity again very soon. A Sun Ra album that is inescapable once you've really felt the recording.

Now, a shift in gears perhaps, but music I love as well.

Duke Ellington, “Volume 6: 1929” Masters of Jazz (Media7, France)

Sometimes I try to imagine how this music would see and feel like performed by these guys in 1929. I cannot conjure an accurate image, but the imagining is fun. It has an impact for me now, and imagine an even greater impact to many at that time.

[jlhoots]

  On 8/26/2021 at 9:04 AM, Rabshakeh said:

Philly Gumbo Vol. 2 on Criss Cross.

A nice recent recommendation from @Larry Kart, for which thank you.

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Vol. 1 is very good too.

[T.D.]

  On 8/23/2021 at 10:49 PM, T.D. said:

 

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Spinning this again, the more I listen the more I like it.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Paul Bley, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Bruce Ditmas - Jaco (Improvising Artists, 1974)

My first time listening to this. Pastorius is absolutely great, but Bley and particularly Metheny really aren't there at all. It's like very weak Weather Report.

[JSngry]

  On 8/26/2021 at 2:36 PM, Rabshakeh said:

Paul Bley, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Bruce Ditmas - Jaco (Improvising Artists, 1974)

My first time listening to this. Pastorius is absolutely great, but Bley and particularly Metheny really aren't there at all. It's like very weak Weather Report.

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also not mixed particularly well, iirc?

[Rabshakeh]

  On 8/26/2021 at 2:41 PM, JSngry said:

also not mixed particularly well, iirc?

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No. Not mixed particularly well. Sometimes you can't even heard whether it is the synths or the guitar that's playing. At least Pastorius is prominent.

[HutchFan]

Yeah.

 

[Rabshakeh]

I'm giving this one a long overdue relisten, off the back of the recent Ernie Watts thread. 

Charlie Haden's Quartet West - Always Say Goodbye (Verve Gitanes, 1994)

The 90s had some incredible long term groups like Quartet West, the Fo'tet and Motian's Trio. I kick myself every time I listen to them for not remembering to put them on more. 

[BillF]

  On 8/26/2021 at 1:49 PM, jlhoots said:

Vol. 1 is very good too.

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Yes (Philly Gumbo)

Now playing:

  On 8/26/2021 at 3:01 PM, HutchFan said:

Yeah.

 

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Yeah to that.

[HutchFan]

[sidewinder]

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

  On 8/26/2021 at 4:23 PM, HutchFan said:

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  A fine trio date from late in his career.  I like when DE leads the crowd in singing "I'm Beginning to See The Light" and then he forgets the words himself!

[Referentzhunter]

bonusdisc

[mjazzg]

  On 8/26/2021 at 4:32 PM, sidewinder said:

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Great music but that cover's design is so poor, I think. Surely there's plenty of photos of Joe they could have used instead. 

[sidewinder]

  On 8/26/2021 at 5:42 PM, mjazzg said:

Great music but that cover's design is so poor, I think. Surely there's plenty of photos of Joe they could have used instead. 

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Looks OK to me - but I guess to each his own.

[mjazzg]

  On 8/26/2021 at 5:44 PM, sidewinder said:

Looks OK to me - but I guess to each his own.

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Indeed. I think it's the text out of the horn that really gets me, GCSE graphic design. I'll go and have a lie down...

[sidewinder]

Maybe the bar is low. Anything better than 32 Jazz is usually OK by me. 

I would draw the line at buying a t shirt of that Harriott cover though (currently on sale).

GCSE Graphic Design - must be worth an ‘A*’ 

Edited August 26, 2021 by sidewinder