So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

👍😁 Braff & Pizzarelli ---> always a good sounding combination

😁👍 You cant have enough "Silver'.

This box is really good

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2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

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1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

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16 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Pre-Blue Note Jackie McLean frequently has a Soulful Rough and Tumble quality that I find highly appealing. Bill Hardman is another of my favorites. Along with Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan, Hardman is at the top of the Hard Bop class among trumpet players of his generation.

This album along with the other pre-Blue Note Art Blakey sessions has a warm place on my listening agenda. 

 

A favorite album from a favorite Messengers band. 👍

4 minutes ago, BillF said:

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A favorite album from a favorite Messengers band. 👍

Some really good stuff being played today!

[John Tapscott]

1 hour ago, Justin V said:

This is a really strong big-band date.  I plan on checking out more of his music.

Thanks for this. I'm always on the outlook for new and good big band jazz.  I just downloaded this and a previous release, "Portraits and Places."  

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Very good .....

[kh1958]

6 hours ago, jlhoots said:

How are the vocals?

Not really my cup of tea/mildly annoying. Still I liked the CD overall.

Edited November 30, 2022 by kh1958

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

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[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Now streaming via YouTube:

[mjzee]

[Dodo]

Some criminally underheard mid 50s cool jazz, wonderful arrangements and the original compositions are pretty fantastic.

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming via YouTube:

Another japanese "Jazz Classic" ....

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, BillF said:

The interesting thing is that the first "Walkin" I heard was one of the live versions of the "2nd Quintet" that means with Herbie, Ron, Tony, which I played over and over again when I was a kid.

So when I bought a then available Prestige Double album of pre-first-quintet Davis recordings I was kinda puzzled that it´s  such a relaxed medium tempo. Then, in my early youth I didn´t find it as exiting as the herbie-tony-ron-thing. 

As I said, that´s a generation thing.....

The "second quintet" walkin´ seemed to be a hit of my generation, everybody hummed it and said it´s fast and strong. 
Once when I lived with my 10years elder sister she had called a craftman  to fix something in the 1st floor and I was up in my room and had Davis second quintet, maybe just "Walkin" spinnin and as always during that time, very very loud.

And later my sister came up and said "that craftman  said "wow, great music you are spinnin´"
I asked her "why didn´t you send him up ?" 

[BillF]

3 hours ago, Dodo said:

Some criminally underheard mid 50s cool jazz, wonderful arrangements and the original compositions are pretty fantastic.

Now listening.

But who is "Fudd Gumjaw"?

6 hours ago, mjzee said:

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9 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

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Now playing:

[jazzbo]

Lee Morgan "Complete Live at the Lighthouse" Japan cd edition

Disc 3

[Dodo]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

Now listening.

But who is "Fudd Gumjaw"?

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Based on the credits from Fresh Sound, it seems to be a pseudonym for Phil Woods, contractual obligations to Prestige I guess?

[jazzbo]

Jose James "Yesterday I had the Blues: the Music of Billie Holiday" Blue Note Japan SHM-CD (2022 reissue)

This is one of those rare releases that I didn't think I would fall in love with when it was first released but I did and I still think it's both a great slab of music and a great recording.

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

21 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Long a favorite! 👍

[jazzbo]

Elvin Jones "The Prime Element" Blue Note Japan UHQCD 2022

Disc 1

So great that this 2 LP set is now on cd from Japan as a 2 cd set.

[jazzbo]

Peggy Lee "World Broadcast Recordings 1955" Audiophile Records, 2 cd set, disc 1

Could wish for a bit livelier mastering perhaps, but I love Peggy during this time period a lot, and this is good stuff.

Edited December 1, 2022 by jazzbo

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]