So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Chris Potter Quartet - Vertigo (Concord, 1998)

Holds up very well, I think.

[soulpope]

52 minutes ago, BillF said:

👍Good one👍 ....

[Rabshakeh]

Joseph Jarman and Don Moye - Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (India Navigation, 1978) 

[duaneiac]

Disc 4 of 6.

[BillF]

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Joseph Jarman and Don Moye - Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (India Navigation, 1978) 

[mikeweil]

[duaneiac]

[kh1958]

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

[HutchFan]

Today, I've been listening to Ellington's mid-60s Reprise recordings:

 

I still enjoy giving these albums a spin every now and then, even though none are top-tier EKE.  Surprisingly (or maybe not), I think Mary Poppins is easily the strongest of the three.  The band digs into the music with gusto, and the arrangements are inventive.

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This afternoon

Webert Sicot - Haitian Merengues - Ansonia 1960

 

Al Grey - Last of the big plungers - Argo 1960

 

MJQ - Jazz Dialogue - Atlantic  1966

 

Next

Perez Prado - Mambo Jambo - JVC 1972

(looser band than on his RCA Victor recordings - very nice)

 

 

MG

 

 

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Today, I've been listening to Ellington's mid-60s Reprise recordings:

 

I still enjoy giving these albums a spin every now and then, even though none are top-tier EKE.  Surprisingly (or maybe not), I think Mary Poppins is easily the strongest of the three.  The band digs into the music with gusto, and the arrangements are inventive.

 

I would grab the other 3 Reprise records first.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I would grab the other 3 Reprise records first.

Yeah.  I think Afro-Bossa and Concert in the Virgin Islands are the best of them.

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Just now, HutchFan said:

Yeah.  I think Afro-Bossa and Concert in the Virgin Islands are the best of them.

 

I bought the Reprise records as they were issued and have a soft spot for the whole bunch. I was also catching the band "live" at the time as well.

[Teasing the Korean]

15 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I bought the Reprise records as they were issued and have a soft spot for the whole bunch. I was also catching the band "live" at the time as well.

Me too.  Especially Afro Bossa, as it is Duke's full-on exotica album, even though he had been doing exotica one-offs for years, including things like "Baikiff" and of course "Caravan." 

[HutchFan]

36 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I bought the Reprise records as they were issued and have a soft spot for the whole bunch. I was also catching the band "live" at the time as well.

I wish I could have seen Duke live. 

If I could travel back in time to see anyone, I'd go see Ellington. No doubt about it.

 

19 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Me too.  Especially Afro Bossa, as it is Duke's full-on exotica album, even though he had been doing exotica one-offs for years, including things like "Baikiff" and of course "Caravan." 

I love that element of Ellington's music too -- both the imaginary "exotica" as well as the full-on African and "Other" places as-filtered-through-Ellington.

It always strikes me as odd to read critics who were put off by that aspect of Ellington's music.  I remember reading Helen Oakley Dance throwing shade on Ellington pieces like "Caravan."  Like she knows better than Ellington what he should record!  (Just like Norman Granz and Leonard Feather.)  It's absurd.

 

Edited September 4, 2021 by HutchFan

[Teasing the Korean]

26 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I love that element of Ellington's music too -- both the imaginary "exotica" as well as the full-on African and "Other" places as-filtered-through-Ellington music.

It always strikes me as odd to read critics who were put off by that aspect of Ellington's music.  I remember Helen Oakley Dance throwing shade on Ellington pieces like "Caravan."  Like she knows better than Ellington what he should record!  (Just like Norman Granz and Leonard Feather.)  It's absurd.

There is sadly a sub-set of the jazz audience who lacks any sense of fun, adventure, or joie du vivre.  Who needs 'em.  

For example, all those calcified academics who hate Sun Ra.

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Today, I've been listening to Ellington's mid-60s Reprise recordings:

That version of "All My Loving" would fit great on Afro Bossa!

Edited September 4, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[danasgoodstuff]

14 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

There is sadly a sub-set of the jazz audience who lacks any sense of fun, adventure, or joie du vivre.  Who needs 'em.

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of peoples everywhere that applies to.  To heck with 'em.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 minute ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of peoples everywhere that applies to.  To heck with 'em.

Or just give them a big Bugs Bunny kiss on the lips.  

[danasgoodstuff]

1 minute ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Or just give them a big Bugs Bunny kiss on the lips.  

That'll fix 'em!  Who's going to go do that for Evan Parker now?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Earlier this evening

Stanley Turrentine - Nightwings - Fantasy 1977

Tito Puente - Pachanga con Puente - Tico 1961

 

 

MG

[danasgoodstuff]

3 hours ago, duaneiac said:

Hilarious that he's playing his usual alto in that pic when the whole point of this album is that he's playing tenor on it instead.  Must be a reissue, my copy has a pic of him with a goosenecked tenor in his mouth.

[Teasing the Korean]

57 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I love that element of Ellington's music too -- both the imaginary "exotica" as well as the full-on African and "Other" places as-filtered-through-Ellington.

We have a tiki room in our home, with a docking station that plays jungle sound effects on a loop.  I always blast the jungle sound effects when listening to Afro-Bossa.  They improve an already fantastic album!  

[Rabshakeh]

Lee Konitz - Wild As Springtime (Candid, 1997)

A lovely late period Lee Konitz record, with Harold Danko. Nil points for the rotten cover art, though. What even is it?

[Chuck Nessa]

40 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lee Konitz - Wild As Springtime (Candid, 1997)

A lovely late period Lee Konitz record, with Harold Danko. Nil points for the rotten cover art, though. What even is it?

Fine Konitz. I have that on vinyl - GFM Records out of Glasgow. Same "artwork".