So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

  On 8/17/2022 at 7:40 AM, mjazzg said:

A series that hasn't ever quite lived up to the promise. Younge and Ali Shaheed Mohammed choose a "legend" to collaborate with on each. They are worth a listen if you're open to a beat-focussed, Madlib influenced Jazz (some keepers of the Jazz flame might baulk at the J word).

I liked the Brian Jackson, Jeane Carn and Gary Bartz more than others. All streamable I think.

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I like them but they tend to fade into the background after a while. Which is fine because there’s worse backgrounds to be had 

[jazzbo]

"Gilson et Malagasy" cd 1

http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jef-gilson-gilson-et-malagasy-3.html

Haven't listened to this set since I first got it. Some pretty interesting music here.

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

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"Gilson et Malagasy" cd 1

http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jef-gilson-gilson-et-malagasy-3.html

Haven't listened to this set since I first got it. Some pretty interesting music here.

Now on to disc 2, which is "Malagasy at Newport-Paris"

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[Rabshakeh]

Zbigniew Namysłowski – Winobranie (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1973)

Currently listening to this one. Looking at the Discogs page (https://www.discogs.com/release/587981-Zbigniew-Namys%C5%82owski-Winobranie) the Recommended section is full of great looking stuff that I don't recognise, mainly in Polskie Nagrania Muza's Polish Jazz series. Does anyone know any of them? I don't know whether we have a dedicated page for the historic Polish jazz scene.

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[mjazzg]

  On 8/17/2022 at 8:05 AM, Rabshakeh said:

Thanks. I'm so so on that sort of thing although I like hip hop just fine, so may pass.

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Just listening to the Doug Carn again, it's a lot better than I remembered.

I like that Namyslowski.

I have a few others from the series, Komeda's 'Astigmatic' is the rightfully regarded gem but these are very good too 

https://www.discogs.com/master/306294-Jerzy-Milian-Trio-Baazaar. 

https://www.discogs.com/master/811264-Jazz-Studio-Orchestra-Of-The-Polish-Radio-Jazz-Studio-Orchestra-Of-The-Polish-Radio

https://www.discogs.com/master/295407-Andrzej-Kurylewicz-Quintet-108-TenEight

https://www.discogs.com/master/316561-The-Andrzej-Trzaskowski-Quintet-Polish-Jazz-Vol-4

 

This is a lovely set 

https://www.discogs.com/release/6667325-Various-Jazz-In-Polish-Cinema-Out-Of-The-Underground-1958-1967

I bought it inspired by your European modernism thread

[Rabshakeh]

  On 8/17/2022 at 3:32 PM, mjazzg said:

Just listening to the Doug Carn again, it's a lot better than I remembered.

I like that Namyslowski.

I have a few others from the series, Komeda's 'Astigmatic' is the rightfully regarded gem but these are very good too 

https://www.discogs.com/master/306294-Jerzy-Milian-Trio-Baazaar. 

https://www.discogs.com/master/811264-Jazz-Studio-Orchestra-Of-The-Polish-Radio-Jazz-Studio-Orchestra-Of-The-Polish-Radio

https://www.discogs.com/master/295407-Andrzej-Kurylewicz-Quintet-108-TenEight

https://www.discogs.com/master/316561-The-Andrzej-Trzaskowski-Quintet-Polish-Jazz-Vol-4

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Thanks!

Astigmatic and For K are the two I know most well. Clear classics. I'll sniff these others out.

  On 8/17/2022 at 3:32 PM, mjazzg said:

This is a lovely set 

https://www.discogs.com/release/6667325-Various-Jazz-In-Polish-Cinema-Out-Of-The-Underground-1958-1967

I bought it inspired by your European modernism thread

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I remember that one coming up.

[sidewinder]

  On 8/17/2022 at 1:29 PM, jazzbo said:

"Gilson et Malagasy" cd 1

http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jef-gilson-gilson-et-malagasy-3.html

Haven't listened to this set since I first got it. Some pretty interesting music here.

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A really good set.

One of the 1969 tracks with Norma Winstone is almost prototype ‘Azimuth’.

[jazzbo]

Bud Freeman "1939-1940" Chronogical Classics cd

Lots and lots of Pee Wee and other greats! This one is HOT.
 

[John Tapscott]

  On 8/17/2022 at 6:22 PM, jazzbo said:

Bud Freeman "1939-1940" Chronogical Classics cd

Lots and lots of Pee Wee and other greats! This one is HOT.
 

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Now:

[BillF]

  On 8/17/2022 at 3:01 PM, Rabshakeh said:

Zbigniew Namysłowski – Winobranie (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1973)

Currently listening to this one. Looking at the Discogs page (https://www.discogs.com/release/587981-Zbigniew-Namys%C5%82owski-Winobranie) the Recommended section is full of great looking stuff that I don't recognise, mainly in Polskie Nagrania Muza's Polish Jazz series. Does anyone know any of them? I don't know whether we have a dedicated page for the historic Polish jazz scene.

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I saw Zbigniew N. and the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet in a Leeds pub/club in the late 60s. Leeds University Marxists turned out in force for these visitors from the other side of the Iron Curtain and actually booed when a number was announced "by the American pianist, Bill Evans".  My late pianist friend Paul Woodrow had a great "conversation" at the keyboard with the Polish pianist. Neither knew the other's language, but the names McCoy Tyner and Wynton Kelly flowed freely between them. Jazz knows no boundaries! 

 

 

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[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

  On 8/17/2022 at 6:52 PM, soulpope said:

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[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

  On 8/17/2022 at 6:40 PM, BillF said:

I saw Zbigniew N. and the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet in a Leeds pub/club in the late 60s. Leeds University Marxists turned out in force for these visitors from the other side of the Iron Curtain and actually booed when a number was announced "by the American pianist, Bill Evans".  My late pianist friend Paul Woodrow had a great "conversation" at the keyboard with the Polish pianist. Neither knew the other's language, but the names McCoy Tyner and Wynton Kelly flowed freely between them. Jazz knows no boundaries! 

 

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I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

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[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

  On 8/17/2022 at 6:52 PM, soulpope said:

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I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

 

  On 8/17/2022 at 6:22 PM, jazzbo said:

Bud Freeman "1939-1940" Chronogical Classics cd

Lots and lots of Pee Wee and other greats! This one is HOT.
 

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I miss my old friend. Bud was special.

[dougcrates]

[soulpope]

  On 8/18/2022 at 2:45 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

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Thnx for your input to make this happen .... these Don Sickler arrangements are magical .... and the platter holds a special place in my heart for sentimental reasons ....

[Pim]

Getting in a Tapscott mood already

[BillF]

  On 8/18/2022 at 12:45 AM, jazzcorner said:

I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

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VOA, of course, was also heard on this side of the Curtain. I was an avid listener to Conover's shows. I often think this early training in lo-fi jazz listening is why I'm less concerned about audio quality than some board members. 

  On 8/18/2022 at 2:45 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

 

 

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Thank you, Chuck!

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[Gheorghe]

  On 8/18/2022 at 12:45 AM, jazzcorner said:

I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

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Yeah I remember those times very well. 

But many players did include very much of Eastern European Folk music in their brand of jazz. I think this was supported by the governments who would not like that their artists play stuff that was created in USA. 

I got to know some of them personally, mostly from Romania. I knew the guys from Vocal Jazz Quartet (Nicolae Ionescu was the leader), Johnny Răducanu the pianist who also wrote an autobiography which I fear I have misplaced somewhere, Harry Tavitian - Corneliu Stroe „Duo Creativ”, and many others. Female singer Aura Urziceanu I think emigrated to Canada....., and sure I also met some cats from Cehoslovacia, Polonia and Republica Democratică Germania (GDR it was named in English I suppose). Wasn´t there the pianist Joachim Kuhn from over there ?  I think he left to the occident very early , I once saw a picture of him playing at Newport maybe in the 60´s. I think he had a lesser known brother who played clarinet. 

I think I didn´t meet musicians from Soviet Union, maybe from the now independent Republica Moldova (than a Soviet Republic), who had been separated from Romania after 1940.....

Maybe most I liked Valeriu Ponomarev, the soviet trumpet player best known with Blakey. I liked him most because I must admit I prefer american styled jazz, I don´t really have it with "searching the own roots" as it´s about music.....maybe a question of taste...., but I think it always was a secret how he had managed to get to USA....., once he was asked and said "no comment !!!!"

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