So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for that Info. Leo was also member of the RIAS big band. Here is an example with the "Berlin Dreamband" 1969 conducted by Stan Kenton (radiobroadcast)

Thanks for sharing this! Elly Wright, Leo Wright's widow, is still active in Vienna https://www.ellywright.at/

[Dub Modal]

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

[optatio]

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

In from a discogs seller.

 

 

“The Amazing Bud Powell” Blue Note Japan cd CP32-5241 from 1986 reissuing the complete “Vol.1” and alternates in recording order, remastered by Rudy Van Gelder.

Sounds really good! Music is of course phenomenal with many bebop greats on board.

I remember that the BN albums Vol 1 and 2 in the 70´s were quite mixed. I think the tunes with Fats and Sonny (my favourites) were on Vol. 1 , and on Vol. 2 it was mixed with the George Duvivier/Art Taylor tracks and the Curley Russell/Max Roach tracks or so.
I was quite annoyed that I had the quintet sides twice, it was also on the Fats Navarro album. In those days when money was scarce and the need of buying records was high, something like that was a great disappointment of "lost money". 

 

12 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

About halfway through this one.

Been a while since I heard these.

It sure is interesting. My very very first jazz lp was "Steamin´" and I think I knew each note of it and could have sung along with the record......, 
Late I think I had a japanese pressed LP "Blue Haze" and in the inner side of the cover was a paper with little fotos of all of Miles´ Prestige recordings, even the one where he plays piano only on one track of a Sonny Rollins album. 

but let´s say the first version of "Walkin´ " I heard when I was a kid was the fast one with the "second quintet" and I was quite disappointed when I heard the wonderful original track, it sounded too slow and too quiet to me then, because as a kid I wanted to hear Philly J.J or most of all Tony Williams.....

10 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

A wonderful live set, I have not listened to it for many many years, I remember it really swung. But is it possible that on the first track the did speed up and ended much faster than they had started ? ? . 

[jazzcorner]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁 👍

[Dub Modal]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But is it possible that on the first track the did speed up and ended much faster than they had started ? ?

It's possible but I didn't notice this time around. I dug Vol 2 more than 1 fwiw 

[Justin V]

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

[Kevin Bresnahan]

16 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

That DoubleTime 2-CD set had 4 tracks of previously unissued material too:

 

You won't get those on the new Tone Poet LP.

Edited February 22, 2023 by bresna

[Gheorghe]

14 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

he was one of the leading surviving bop pianists. He must have had a great time in Europe, but strange to say I don´t remember I ever saw him performing in Austria. 

I prefer records under his name, where horns are added. His style is a bit spare for trio format, that´s my personal impression. He was a fine composer. 
Though it might be true that in the forties while playing with Bird and Miles his articulation was a bit stiff and his comping a bit rudimentary rhythmically, but he didn´t deserve that ugly words Miles said about him. This was unfair and made Jordan´s last years quite bitter. First you should judge a musician from how he developed himself, not only by some old stuff. 
I have a Jackie McLean All Star record with Duke Jordan on piano and it´s titled "Birdology". He is also nice on Cecil Payne´s "Bird Get´s the Worm".

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

with Hannibal and George Adams!!!  Good stuff!  I'd somehow overlooked this album until fairly recently. 

The only downer: Less than stellar AQ -- at least on my CD reissue (Solid Japan) -- but the music is so good that it carries the day, regardless.

 

31 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

There are MANY more to discover. 

When I hear Jordan's playing, I think of a dancer who glides effortlessly across the floor.  Everything is fluid and smooth and graceful.

 

11 minutes ago, BillF said:

Yeah. 

 

Edited February 22, 2023 by HutchFan

[jazzbo]

Arrived from cdjapan.co.jp last night, a Helen Merrill recording that has eluded me until now. So glad this one was reissued!

Helen Merrill “Imagination” Lob Records/Solid Records Japan cd

Bass – Hideo Kawahara
Drums – Tim Horner
Piano – Kosei Uchida
Vocals – Helen Merrill

 This is a reissue of a reissue I believe, it contains the three instrumental trio tracks that were not on the original release.

Edited February 22, 2023 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Michael Blake - Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M Records, 2023)
This disc is due for release in May, but I got an advanced copy at his performance at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC on Sunday. 

A snapshot of Blake during the performance (with bassist Michael Bates):

 

[kh1958]

51 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Michael Blake - Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M Records, 2023)
This disc is due for release in May, but I got an advanced copy at his performance at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC on Sunday. 

A snapshot of Blake during the performance (with bassist Michael Bates):

 

If you like Michael Blake, this one is rather good (led by Kresten Osgood with Dr. Lonnie Smith): Hammond Rens

Edited February 22, 2023 by kh1958

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, bresna said:

You won't get those on the new Tone Poet LP.

Gotta love that CD format baby 😎

[HutchFan]

8 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

If you like Michael Blake, this one is rather good (led by Kristen Osgood with Dr. Lonnie Smith): Hammond Rens

Thanks, kh.  Will look into it.   

 

[jazzbo]

Cassandra Wilson “Jump World” Winter&Winter Records reissue.

Haven’t heard this one in a while! From 1990 and sounds like it. No judgment–I was playing Simmons electronic drums as well as my Sonor kit then and thought this cd was very very cool in the JMT edition I had with this cover:

[Dub Modal]

28 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Haven’t heard this one in a while! From 1990 and sounds like it.

Giving it a first listen now and I'm impressed. I dig the production...nice compositions and thanks to an amazon review, the inspiration behind it sounds interesting. Thanks for the rec here 👍

[HutchFan]

Tate's tone is Texas, but the music is pure KayCee.

 

35 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Cassandra Wilson “Jump World” Winter&Winter Records reissue.

Haven’t heard this one in a while! From 1990 and sounds like it. No judgment–I was playing Simmons electronic drums as well as my Sonor kit then and thought this cd was very very cool in the JMT edition I had with this cover:

 

Yeah!  Excellent!   

 

[Larry Kart]

Got it mostly because I wanted more Swana than I already had. Good album, but I wish Van Ruller had been replaced by a pianist whose comping reinforced Penn's drum work -- like Orrin Evans for example.

 

[JSngry]

Jump World was pretty grabbing back in the day. Glad to hear that it still is. I still think that whatever M-Base "backlash" that there was was a bit broad and ultimately myopic in throwing it all out,.

Then again, that's the nature of backlashes.

[John Tapscott]