So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[sidewinder]

18 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Good stuff ....

Yeah. Can’t go wrong with these vintage Uptown releases.

[HutchFan]

Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence)

 

[aparxa]

Edited October 28, 2021 by aparxa

[soulpope]

49 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence)

Quite fascinating music, marred a bit by Hiram "The Butcher" Bullock's presence/playing ....

[HutchFan]

  

Lew Soloff - Hanalei Bay (Electric Bird/ProJazz, 1985)

The rhythm section on this disc -- Gil Evans (el p), Pete Levin (synth), Mark Egan (el b), and Adam Nussbaum (d) -- is drawn from Evans' Monday Night Orchestra, as heard on the recording above.  Soloff played in that band too, of course. 

 

37 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Quite fascinating music, marred a bit by Hiram "The Butcher" Bullock's presence/playing ....

Hmm...  I've never had much of a reaction to Bullock, one way or the other. (My biggest association: Him playing with the "Late Night with David Letterman" band.)

What is it about Bullock's playing bothers you? 

Incidentally, he also appears on Hanalei Bay.

 

Edited October 28, 2021 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists Volume One - Mango Walk (Esquire, 1951-3)

Nice one, which I don't own but listened to on the YouTubes after reading a reference to it in a blog. From the looks of it, it was a London bebop band, with West African percussionists, playing Afro-Cuban bebop. What I heard is very witty and really enjoyable.

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

More Gil Evans:

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Clearing some cobwebs tonight

[HutchFan]

Bill O'Connell's Latin Jazz Project - Black Sand (Random Chance, 2001)

Excellent.

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Hmm...  I've never had much of a reaction to Bullock, one way or the other. (My biggest association: Him playing with the "Late Night with David Letterman" band.)

What is it about Bullock's playing bothers you? 

Too loud, too intense, simply way too much rock-oriented presence .... in general I'm not an aficionado of electric guitars, but here in places he dictates the sound of the band .... f.i. Ryo Kawasaki or John Beck had a much better intergrated role in this band ....

[EKE BBB]

[Rabshakeh]

1 minute ago, EKE BBB said:

That is a beautiful cover.

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Bill O'Connell's Latin Jazz Project - Black Sand (Random Chance, 2001)

Excellent.

It's so good...

[EKE BBB]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

That is a beautiful cover.

In line with the music contained therein.

 

BTW, many thanks for your info on the Sippin' Rioja disc. Not my cup of tea, I am afraid. The disc, not the wine...

Edited October 29, 2021 by EKE BBB

[BillF]

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Gil Evans & The Monday Night Orchestra - Live at Sweet Basil (Evidence)

 

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

More Gil Evans:

 

[EKE BBB]

[Rabshakeh]

Tom Rainey Obbligato - Untucked in Hannover (Intakt, 2021)

First listen to this one. I had high expectations due to the players, but I thought it very disappointing: despite some good solos, I found it a bit too diffuse, serious and without much drive, which I think afflicts a lot of forward thinking modern jazz. 

 

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

BTW, many thanks for your info on the Sippin' Rioja disc. Not my cup of tea, I am afraid. The disc, not the wine...

Ha ha. Indeed. 

[HutchFan]

Jovino Santos Neto - Roda Carioca/Rio Circle (Adventure Music, 2006)

Thanks again to jazzbo, who hipped me to this marvelous disc.  

 

[aparxa]

[soulpope]

[Joe]

18 hours ago, soulpope said:

👍Definitely👍 ....

TO MY QUEEN prompted me to review Tucker's discography. What a fantastic inside-out player he was; so sad to lose him so young.

 

[JSngry]

and yes, girls, there's an OBI!

[BillF]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

and yes, girls, there's an OBI!

Saw the same band, Manchester April 1961! 

[soulpope]

[BillF]