So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Jim Duckworth]

Ethan Iverson mentioned the second of these in passing recently.  I realized that I inevitably reach for the Fats Navarro related Tadd Dameron, but now these are getting some play.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Classic ....

[mikeweil]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Ethan Iverson mentioned the second of these in passing recently.  I realized that I inevitably reach for the Fats Navarro related Tadd Dameron, but now these are getting some play.

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[jazzcorner]

Innovation Records  JC-0011- Rob McConnell feat. Phil Woods - rec. 1985- Engineer: Phil Sheridan

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[Peter Friedman]

I found it rather dull, and not to my taste.l

[BillF]

58 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

👍Innovation Records  JC-0011- Rob McConnell feat. Phil Woods - rec. 1985- Engineer: Phil Sheridan

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[mikeweil]

[EKE BBB]

[optatio]

Gunter Hampel Quintet: Heartplants. MPS POCJ-2672 [1999]

Rec. Jan. 30, 1965

Personnel: Gunter Hampel (vib, fl, ld), Manfred Schoof (tp), Alexander von Schlippenbach (p), Buschi Niebergall (b), Pierre Courbois (dr)

Note: 35 years later, on November 11, 2000, there was a reunion on stage at the 23rd Göttingen Jazz Festival. Only Buschi Niebergall, he died January 8, 1990, was replaced by Jan Roder (b).

 

[Joe]

[mjzee]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Joe said:

Lovely ....

[EKE BBB]

and

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I think I heard this one some years ago. Sure the trumpet player has a lot of technique, but I think I remember he sounds a little nervous, too many notes, not really leaving space. A lot of Clifford Brown Followers did this. Donald Byrd not sooo much, Lee Morgan found his own style very early......, even if you play the fastest stuff you got to leave some space. 

5 minutes ago, BillF said:

I think I picked that up at some Metro Station where they had some jazz cds and I browsed thru them. 
It seemed to be a previously unissued session. The first tune I think had something to do with an animal farm, it had some animal sounds imitated by the horns. My wife heard it and says it is funny. 

I don´t remember the rest of it, only that it must have been one of the very last dates where Paul Chambers plays. He doesn´t sound as sure and strong like he used to be. I think he might have been very sick already and quite out of work, that´s how he sounds, exhausted, unsure, uncomfortable, and it also seems to be a cheaper bass. 

15 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Ethan Iverson mentioned the second of these in passing recently.  I realized that I inevitably reach for the Fats Navarro related Tadd Dameron, but now these are getting some play.

Me too: The 1947/48 stuff for Savoy and BN seems to be the best, and the live stuff from the Roost of course. The instrumentations, the solos, the compositions, and Tadd´s own nice little piano inputs, and as an arranger all the stuff he did for the Dizzy Bigband and the Billy Eckstine Big Band. 

I have the impression that later he slowed down and his compositions got more smooth, I don´t get the kick out of it,  that I would get when playing "Our Delight" "Hot House" etc. 

The "Fountainbleau" is nice, but never really exited me. I like the "Mating Call" better. 
And the "Magic Touch" sounds more like a ghost band since Tadd obviously was very sick already and couldn´t play himself. And again a lot of the tunes are more a smooth easy listening. 

[EKE BBB]

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[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

I like this album very much. Tony Fruscella was a trumpet player who was able to dig into the music in his own special way.  His personal problems prevented him from recording more than a few times. Other than this one, I like the couple of tunes he plays on  with Stan Getz.

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Unreserved ❤❤❤ !!!

[Justin V]

I've acquired several Benny Carter albums over the years from bargain bins and haven't spent a ton of time with them, although I revisited them a few months ago.  The newly released Princeton concerts have me thinking that I should be listening to him much more often.

[HutchFan]

Now listening to:

Masahiko Togashi - Spiritual Nature (East Wind, 1975)

Gorgeous.

I'm continuing my recent Masahiko Satoh kick with this album.  He's a sideman here.  

 

[HutchFan]

6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

 

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Unreserved ❤❤❤ !!!

Yes. Same for me!