So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

6 hours ago, JSngry said:

The band is too often too big for the orchestrations, the takes are too long. and the ensemble lacks a distinct color/personality. It reminds me of a "lab band" except with real people doing the playing, not lab rats.

None of which is what I take delight in about damn near every other Carla Bley record.

Go figure.

I will say that Lew Soloff & Gary Valente are doin' the do (just doin' it to).

I remember seeing that band here in Manchester in the1990s. Gary Valente was the standout feature, as I recall.

 

 

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[BillF]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

[Tom 1960]

[BillF]

48 minutes ago, Tom 1960 said:

A classic, Tom! 

[Tom 1960]

2 minutes ago, BillF said:

A classic, Tom! 

Another one for you, Bill. Digging into the Blue Note titles today. 

[HutchFan]

Jutta Czurda, Richie Beirach, Gregor Hübner, Veit Hübner - Lonely House: Kurt Weill Songs (Laika Records, 2005)

 

[kh1958]

Kreston Osgood, Hammond Rens

[mikeweil]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Tom 1960 said:

Another one for you, Bill. Digging into the Blue Note titles today. 

Good again! 

[Peter Friedman]

[Tom 1960]

[BillF]

13 minutes ago, Tom 1960 said:

[HutchFan]

I listened to these 3 albums while drafting their entries for my 80s jazzblog:

 

 

 

[jazzbo]

 

[JSngry]

How about that 1976.

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand (Mainstream, 1972)

Legrand's arrangements oscillate between the extremes of intensely baroque and just-too-damn-much.  I wish he would've throttled it back, if only a little -- because Sassy sounds divine and the songs suit her.

 

11 minutes ago, JSngry said:

How about that 1976.

Lateef's best record of the 1970s, I think.

 

[JSngry]

Part of the Search and Ten Years Hence are at least every bit as interesting for me.

[JSngry]

[HutchFan]

48 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Part of the Search and Ten Years Hence are at least every bit as interesting for me.

Fair enough.  I've heard both of those before, but it's been years.  Maybe it's time to circle back 'round again. 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

IIRC, this was the first record where Sonny had a mike hooked up/on to the bell of his horn so he could walk around while he recorded. Of course, you would hear pad noise and other odd sounds, but oh well. It seems to have unleashed him in the studio that hadn't happened in a loooooong time.

[HutchFan]

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