So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

Jefferson Airplane "Crown of Creation" Culture Factory cd

 

 

Many dislike these Culture Factory cds, but they sound pretty good to me on my system.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

Two great singers:

and

[HutchFan]

Buster Williams - Griot Libertè (HighNote, 2004)

Buster is a singer of a different sort -- but he's a singer nonetheless.  He makes that bass sing!  

 

[JSngry]

A perfectly professional album of very professional (and occasionally interesting!) playing, and if you have an insatiable and/or yet-satiated appetite for that type of thing, I'd recommend it without hesitation.

[Dan Gould]

6 hours ago, BillF said:

If anyone has the album only - the CD has extra track - Blue Lament, which I want to say was otherwise only recorded on an unissued BN session, and Ken Dryden's Allmusic review confirms that.

Edited April 28, 2022 by Dan Gould

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Paul Bley - Solemn Meditation (GNP Crescendo, 1958)

First ever listen to this. A lot more fun than the title suggests.

Sort of a Dave Pike record, I guess.

[Rabshakeh]

Sam Newsome - The Straighthorn of Africa: A Path to Liberation - The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 2 (2014)

My third listen to this one (not third today); I like it a lot. Avant whilst fresh and listenable and 'world' fusion without being cheesy.

Having just finished:

Chet Baker - Chet Baker & Crew (Pacific, 1956)

The funnest Chet record, thanks to a large extent to the presence of Bobby Timmons and Phil Urso

Edited April 28, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together (CTI, 1974)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

 

Chet Baker - Chet Baker & Crew (Pacific, 1956)

 

Now playing:

[Rabshakeh]

Basso-Valdambrini Octet – New Sound From Italy (Jolly, 1960)

3 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Budd Johnson has been a late discovery for me, but I'm pretty addicted at the moment.

[Rabshakeh]

Eddie Harris - I Need Some Money (Atlantic, 1974)

 

[Dub Modal]

Mal Waldron with Fred Braceful, Eberhard Weber and Jimmy Jackson, The Call from '71. Not sure why I never listened to this before as it's phenomenal. Two songs, each stretching over the side of an LP and these guys really dig in. Late to the party on this one, but glad I made it. 

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Mal Waldron with Fred Braceful, Eberhard Weber and Jimmy Jackson, The Call from '71. Not sure why I never listened to this before as it's phenomenal. Two songs, each stretching over the side of an LP and these guys really dig in. Late to the party on this one, but glad I made it. 

Great record. Close enough to European progressive rock from the time (particularly the German "krautrock") that I often recommend it to non-jazz friends.

George Russell - Listen to the Silence (1973)

My first ever listen to this rather odd one, a sort of jazz secular mass. Very much of the early 1970s, with references to Nixon, 'metanoia', Vietnam and everything else, including a Maoist / Nietzschean digression on the real message of the gospel being the rejection of "slave morality". Plus all the musicians were to achieve fame and remuneration mining the ECM vein. It is so of it's time that it makes Escalator over the Hill look like Oasis. Strangely enjoyable though.

[JSngry]

containing

and

Some strange sounds get made!

[jazzbo]

It's the birthday of someone whose music is very important to my listening world so. . . .

Duke Ellington "Unknown Session" Columbia cd (from the second box set of Columbia Albums).

Great relaxed swinging stuff.

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great record. Close enough to European progressive rock from the time (particularly the German "krautrock") that I often recommend it to non-jazz friends.

Felt the same way after listening to it. It's about as close to rock as I come these days. The groove they got into was great. 

[jazzbo]

A friend of mine called this Jobim's "most Ellingtonian" album and I think he's on to something. So I'm playing it today.

Antonio Carlos Jobim "Tide" Universal Japan SHM-CD.

This and "Stone Flower" are kissing cousins. I love the Jobim and Deondata collaborations.

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

18 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

I like that one, Peter! 

(Saw Tiberi leading a reconstituted Herman orch in the 90s after the death of the master.)

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

It's the birthday of someone whose music is very important to my listening world so. . . .

Duke Ellington "Unknown Session" Columbia cd (from the second box set of Columbia Albums).

Great relaxed swinging stuff.

Album cover clearly influenced by the art works of Christo, who wrapped everything:

 

Now playing:

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington "1947-1952 Vol. 4" 

I LOVE this five disc set. So much of so much!

[JSngry]

People paying attention.