So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

20 hours ago, JSngry said:

  

First time listening in a few decades, and I like it as much now as ever, albeit for probably completely different reasons. 

Bruce Johnstone came to play. Hell, the whole band came to play. When people come to play, hell, that's all you can ask of them. How they do, that's their business. They're not gaming you, so enjoy the honest humanity in that 

I love this one. 

It's my favourite big band record with electric piano.

[BillF]

43 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

 

 

Now playing:

[T.D.]

Discs 1-3

[Peter Friedman]

[Jim Duckworth]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Disc 2

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 2

I also heard some Mr. B from the time after the famous band, but my favourites always have been the Savoy stuff "Mr. B. and the Band" . From later albums I always missed that fantastic sound and arrangements. Like, when I heard "Billy and Sarah" and a friends place: Fantastic voices as always, but the band sounds more like a "show band" than a jazz big band. Like that Charlie Parker album with "Temptation" on it.....somehow like an early 50´s movie ....

But Mr. B. always was my favourite singer. I would have liked to do a gig with a good male singer here , but there are much more female singer students with the usual standard program. Would have been nice to play a bop gig with an Eckstine- or Kenny Hagood style singer. 

[BillF]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

18 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I also heard some Mr. B from the time after the famous band, but my favourites always have been the Savoy stuff "Mr. B. and the Band" . From later albums I always missed that fantastic sound and arrangements. Like, when I heard "Billy and Sarah" and a friends place: Fantastic voices as always, but the band sounds more like a "show band" than a jazz big band. Like that Charlie Parker album with "Temptation" on it.....somehow like an early 50´s movie ....

But Mr. B. always was my favourite singer. I would have liked to do a gig with a good male singer here , but there are much more female singer students with the usual standard program. Would have been nice to play a bop gig with an Eckstine- or Kenny Hagood style singer. 

"Jelly Jelly" is a big favorite of mine.

[sidewinder]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

On tour at a pub in Wiltshire.

Edited February 13, 2022 by sidewinder

[Jim Duckworth]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 2

When I was 18 I took my mother to see Mr. B and the Basie band.  She was a longtime fan and was pretty happy when I gave her this set years later.  As much as I like the more boppish material reissued by Savoy, I find this more to my liking.

[Chuck Nessa]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

Various Artists -  FSR  reissue  (1984) 054 2602131 - Way To The West -  originals rec. 1950ies

originally a compilation from CAPITOLS 78rpms of the 1950s

 

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by jazzcorner

[HutchFan]

John Lewis - Midnight in Paris (EmArcy, 1989)
with Sasha Lewis (as; three cuts only), Christian Escoudé (g), Pierre Michelot or Michel Gaudry (b), and Daniel Humair (d)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Now playing:

John Lee & Gerry Brown - Bamboo Madness (Limetree, rec. 1973)
Originally released as Infinite Jones (Keytone, 1974)

 

[mikeweil]

Yesterday and today:

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Yesterday and today:

Little gem ....

[BillF]

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

[JSngry]