So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Dub Modal]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

Classic song and album. 

[jazzbo]

This is the most recent release, "Planetario da Gave" on Far Out Records 2 cd. 

Playing a Hermeto Pascoal album for the first time is a lot like Gump's box of chocolate. You really don't quite know specifically what to expect. From a February 1981 appearance by Pascoal with "O Grupo" . . .  and an exciting listen.

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

[kh1958]

Sidney Bechet, Live in Switzerland, 1951 & 1954

19 hours ago, soulpope said:

My favorite Hampton Hawes recording (actually tied  with As Long as There's Music).

[soulpope]

7 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

My favorite Hampton Hawes recording (actually tied  with As Long as There's Music).

Good call indeed ....

[jazzbo]

Shifted gears and am really enjoying revisiting this classic. The system sounds fantastic.

Grateful Dead "American Beauty (American Reality)" Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD

[ghost of miles]

Seeing her tonight at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater:

[jazzbo]

Another classic that needs re-visiting. There was a time last decade when I played this every Sunday. 

Sounds really really good on this SACD, even though I might prefer the alternate mix that was released on a deluxe 2 cd edition.

[HutchFan]

Now:

Mulgrew Miller - The Countdown (Landmark, 1989)
with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams

 

[Peter Friedman]

I first heard this album when first issued about 1959 or so. Didn't care for it then. But now many decades later I decided to give it a listen again.

It began (for me) very dull and cold sounding, with no jazz feeling. Things improved after about ten minutes into the Concerto. Cannonball and Art Farmer's playing was warmer and their solos had a jazz sensibility. Brooks deserves credit for attempting something different from the usual jazz albums being produced. 

So on the whole a mixed bag. There was not enough music that appealed to me beyond a modest level. It is doubtful that this is an album I will choose to listen to again. 

Edited April 11, 2022 by Peter Friedman

[JSngry]

4 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Classic song and album. 

 Not of a tragedy that the bassist and drummer remain anonymous. That tempo, that pocket...truth lives there

 

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Freddie Hubbard "Straight Life" King Record Japan "    CTI 50th Anniversary Special Collection" cd, KICJ 2595.

Man it sounds good.

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock
Guitar – George Benson
Percussion – Richard "Pablo" Landrum
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard

[jazzbo]

Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine "In Concert, Volume One" King Records Japan "    CTI 50th Anniversary Special Collection" cd, KICJ 2582

Also sounding really good!

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Guitar – Eric Gale
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Saxophone – Stanley Turrentine
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon "Live at Chateauvallon 1978" disc 2

Needed some Dexter in my day. Some pretty mellow playing here in this second set, and the sound is really nice.

[JSngry]

Thanks, I needed that!

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

4 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

[John Tapscott]

On 4/5/2022 at 2:24 PM, soulpope said:

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I bought that CD a long long time ago and have enjoyed it ever since. I watched the live show listings for decades to see if Leitch would ever make his way through the Boston area. He never did (that I am aware of).

[John Tapscott]

On 4/10/2022 at 6:24 AM, BillF said:

Whatever happened to this laddie? In this 2013 album he was able to hold his own at the age of 23 with the cream of the contemporary scene (his father is the label's owner), but googling him now produces a blank ever since. Perhaps he's one of those who preferred a career in law, say, to being a jazz musician. 

 

 

That seems to be the case. You know, as Phil Woods used to say, if you had to choose between becoming say, a lawyer or a brain surgeon, or becoming a jazz musician, best to choose law or medicine.   

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

More Sheila Jordan:

[BillF]