So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Tom 1960]

[soulpope]

[BillyBatts]

Red Rodney - Home Free

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

I witnessed most of an interview she did last year at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at their small indoor interview stage. She was playing solo violin when I walked in. She was quite interesting to listen to (also very beautiful in person). She played two solo banjo pieces composed in the 1850s by a black composer (unfortunately I didn't catch the composer's name); the pieces and the performance were terrific. I didn't see her  performance  in the Blues Tent but heard and read a few raves about it.    

I bet that was exciting. She's really something. I first encountered her on the "Lost on the River: the New Basement Tapes" material and have been a fan of hers ever since. She's an amazing woman.

[kh1958]

48 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I bet that was exciting. She's really something. I first encountered her on the "Lost on the River: the New Basement Tapes" material and have been a fan of hers ever since. She's an amazing woman.

I would have gone to her concert but it was at the same time as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. 

[duaneiac]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

!  I took a chance on buying this disc last year without knowing anything about it.  I was quite pleased by  Mr. Murphy's performance, by the quality of the group backing him and by the audio quality

Recent listening:

One of her last recordings, this disc found her revisiting standards, but in a smaller musical setting than those used her albums with Nelson Riddle.  Here, Alan Broadbent supplied the arrangements, and on some tracks the piano accompaniment as well.  She does tend to "oversell" some of the songs, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

I borrowed it from the library.  Glad I didn't spend any money on it.

Ella was in fine voice here and the arrangements by Marty Paich are good, but the material itself is not always the best.  "Dites-Moi" is certainly not the most interesting selection from South Pacific and "Steam Heat" isn't even much of a song (it's a dance production number).  She does seem to have had fun with "Whatever Lola Wants".

[BillyBatts]

Another Muse Records gem;

Bill Hardman - Home

[BillyBatts]

Sticking with Muse Records today;

Art Hodes with Milt Hinton - Just the Two of Us

[BillyBatts]

More Muse!

Antoine Roney - Whirling

[jlhoots]

Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners

[BillyBatts]

Yet more Muse;

Jaki Byard - Family Man

[kinuta]

By coincidence.

[BillyBatts]

More Muse;

Sam Jones - Something In Common

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, BillyBatts said:

More Muse;

Sam Jones - Something In Common

That's ^ a great record!  

I've always wondered about that Bill Hardman Muse LP.  Is it worth tracking down???

 

NP:

Buddy DeFranco - Free Sail (Choice)

[HutchFan]

More Buddy DeFranco:

Gone with the Wind (Storyville)
Recorded 1977

[soulpope]

9 hours ago, BillyBatts said:

Another Muse Records gem;

Bill Hardman - Home

!

[JohnS]

Sonny Rollins at Music Inn. The MGM tracks.

 

[BillF]

[soulpope]

Thought provoking  music .... and a very good transfer (available via the Sony Jazz Connoisseur series for less than 5 Euro/USD) ....

[StarThrower]

[Tom 1960]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, StarThrower said:

Ron Mathewson ....

[John Tapscott]

[alankin]

Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings - CDs 5 & 6 - Sat, June 5th, 1994 - 1st & 2nd Sets (ECM Records)
— With Gary Peacock, Paul Motian

 

Edited March 26, 2017 by alankin

[BillF]