So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

Joe Lovano "Tenor Legacy" Blue Note cd

[HutchFan]

Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Frederick Waits - Persia My Dear (DIW, 1987)

Terrific.  No surprise, given the musicians involved.   

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The 12th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert (WeJazz). Leonard Brown on tenor & soprano; Billy Pierce on tenor; Bill Lowe on trombone; Frank J. Wilkins on piano; Larry Roland on bass; Tim Engles on electric bass; Keith Copeland or Syd Smart on drums & Sa Davis on percussion. I was at this performance. It was memorable for the music as well as for the day of the recording: Sept. 28, 1991 - the day Miles died. So even though it was a memorial for Coltrane, they opened with a Miles tribute that year. I remember they introduced Coltrane's first wife, Naima, in the audience. It was a very emotional night and performance.

Surprisingly, this is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/12th-Annual-Coltrane-Memorial-Concert/dp/B00000ICKR

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

 

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Caecilie Norby

[ghost of miles]

Michael Cuscuna’s favorite album from Dexter’s late-1970s Columbia run:

 

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Michael Cuscuna’s favorite album from Dexter’s late-1970s Columbia run:

George Cables really shines here ....

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Michael Cuscuna’s favorite album from Dexter’s late-1970s Columbia run:

 

Cuscuna is right. I would even go further and say it´s one of the ideal all acoustic albums from that comeback of straight ahead jazz in the late 70´s . Every aspect of it: The cover photo, the design, the liner notes, the choice of tunes, and above all the musicians. I hadn´t heard so much Dexter before I saw him live at that period. 
Here he is still in top form, you couldn´t thing it all would come to an end very very soon after it. Here his kind of more relaxed "behind the beat" playing is not as obvious as later, when things started to become a mess. Well I heard him again in 1980, still with Eddie Gladden, but Kirk Lightsey on piano and John Heard on bass, which still was a good and long performance. I had not heard about Lightsey before, but he was very articulate on piano. But as much I love drums and drum solos, an almost 20 minutes drum solo by Gladden on the always present "Backstairs" was a bit too much. 

Once I heard a tape that someone had made from Vanguard in July 1978 where the band played most of the material of "Manhattan Symphony", with "Dolphin Street" which was not part of the album, with a ballad on each set, one of it the "Times goes By" and the other "More than you know". And on Cables´ bossa "I told you so" there was a fantastic bowed solo by Rufus Reid.

[jazzcorner]

9 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Great music & splendid  cover art by Saul Bass

 

Edited January 20, 2022 by jazzcorner

[BillF]

5 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Michael Cuscuna’s favorite album from Dexter’s late-1970s Columbia run:

 

4 hours ago, Son-of-a-Weizen said:

 

[Rabshakeh]

John Patton - Understanding (Blue Note, 1968)

I never pay much mind to All music reviews, but it's treatment of this era of Patton as being simplistic "commercial" music, despite the frequent abrasive Coltrane influenced solos, really makes very little sense.

Edited January 20, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

Not really sure that Leonard Feather's production choices are the best, but there's not a whole helluva lot of Vi Redd on record, so....oh well. She definitely brought the flayva. Maybe there's a lost set of tapes of her doing a club date or something. I would love to hear her like that.

I don't know this at all. Did she do much else?

[Rabshakeh]

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (Cuneiform, 2015)

 

Edited January 20, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

Pacific Express - Black Fire (1976)

South Africa's Earth Wind and Fire.

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I don't know this at all. Did she do much else?

She did a thing called Bird Calls on UA (,I prefer), and a Marian McPartland all-female project in the 1980s.

She also in the person who first played "I Remember Bird". 

A unique voice, she was. Perhaps a yon to Clean head ,Vinson's yang?

 

 

 

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

ICP Orchestra - Jubilee Varia (Hatology, 1997)

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

She did a thing called Bird Calls on UA (,I prefer), and a Marian McPartland all-female project in the 1980s.

Thanks.

15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Perhaps a yon to Clean head ,Vinson's yang?

I'm imagining the lyrics now.

[jazzcorner]

[Referentzhunter]

[Jim Duckworth]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (Cuneiform, 2015)

 

I love this record.

[jazzbo]

Something completely different

Barney Wilen "French Ballads"

[Dub Modal]

This morning's listen: Spalding's Songwrights Apothecary Lab (SAL) from last year. Man, she takes her witchcraft super seriously. Ok, cool, and it's good that her creativity was supported and all because she's got to have 10 tons of confidence for this type of originality. Kudos to all that. She loves some word play for sure and the listener can sense the spilling over of intelligence on this album. Helluva bass player and composer. Formwela 8 is really the only track I enjoyed here though and it's a simple vamp with some chanting. The rest is outside of my scope but I can appreciate it. I'd definitely go see her live. Why the hell she's on the Concord label I have no idea, but I guess there's some partnership with UMG there at least in distribution. It seems like UMG should make a play to poach and put her on Impulse! or something else in their stable.