Gheorghe Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 12 hours ago, BillF said: Now playing: Cool Struttin is the ultimate hard bop album. I have heard in Japan in the 80´s or 90´s or early 2000´s were tea houses where they always spinned music like this, I mean "Cool Struttin", "Blue Train", Donaldson´s "Blues Walk" and so on. And.....oh yeah....the cover photo is fantastic, it has everything I like and you can imagine how day dreams for a jazz loving teenager were "one day I´ll get it, one day I´lll have a woman with legs like this....." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Referentzhunter Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) First American press best sounding, better than first UK. Edited June 10, 2022 by Referentzhunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rabshakeh Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 Sunny Murray, Odean Pope, Wayne Dockery – 13# Steps On Glass (Enja, 1995) Pretty underwhelming stuff. 1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said: First American press best sounding, better than first UK. That's interesting. I always found my British version very muddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Gheorghe said: Cool Struttin is the ultimate hard bop album. I do agree with you, Gheorghe. Hard textures predominate. Sonny's touch is very percussive and hardly resonates at all. (I hear something similar in Walter Davis of the same era.) Jackie, too, of course. Compare him with the much softer sound of Hank on Dial S for Sonny. That album has Louis Hayes, who is considerably less hard and aggressive than Philly on Cool Struttin'. The only player on the album whose "hard" credentials could be questioned is Farmer, who was sufficiently versatile to be a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet not long after. Edited June 10, 2022 by BillF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nighthawk68 Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 I recently grabbed all the Xanadu at Montreux volumes. Some wonderful music and a nice addition to my growing Xanadu collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 2 hours ago, BillF said: I do agree with you, Gheorghe. Hard textures predominate. Sonny's touch is very percussive and hardly resonates at all. (I hear something similar in Walter Davis of the same era.) Jackie, too, of course. Compare him with the much softer sound of Hank on Dial S for Sonny. That album has Louis Hayes, who is considerably less hard and aggressive than Philly on Cool Struttin'. The only player on the album whose "hard" credentials could be questioned is Farmer, who was sufficiently versatile to be a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet not long after. Right, Art Farmer didn´t make many records for BN, I think he was with Hank on some Horace Silver album.........oh yeah, on "No Smokin´" since I like to play that tune.... I have only one Art Farmer record, it´s "To Duke with Love". He was a regular here in Viena and played at least twice for several days at a club..... During the 70´s I heard a very very strange remark from a club owner, who booked a lot of great musicians, but when some guy at the bar asked if Art Farmer also will play at that joint he said "no comment about Art Farmer". The customer insisted "why ?" and the club owner answerd: "Art Farmer tries to be whiter than the whites..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) thanks to @Dub Modal BFT compiler extraordinaire Edited June 10, 2022 by mjazzg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 Music played is music made! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub Modal Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 25 minutes ago, mjazzg said: thanks to @Dub Modal BFT compiler extraordinaire Nice! Vesala is a beast, and I’m pretty sure I discovered him thru a BFT in the last year or so. This album is killer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 (edited) David Murray, Brad Jones, Hamid Drake, Seriana Promethia (Intakt) Edited June 10, 2022 by kh1958 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 47 minutes ago, JSngry said: Music played is music made! I've got the first of those. They still go for quite cheap. About half what Braxton solo stuff goes for. It really captures the period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute To Big John Patton (Big O Records). Excellent CD. No offense to the organissimo dates, I really like this date by Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Buddha the Magnificent Posted June 10, 2022 Report Share Posted June 10, 2022 Opus 5 - Swing on This (Criss Cross Jazz 1406, 2022). Seamus Blake - tenor sax; Alex Sipiagin - trumpet, flugelhorn; David Kikoski - piano, Fender Rhodes; Boris Kozlov - bass; Donald Edwards - drums. Very swingin' session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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soulpope Posted June 11, 2022 Report Share Posted June 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said: Now listening to an old friend. Aptly titled .... great platter .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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