So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet – The Classic Sessions

[jazzbo]

One of my very favorite Jobim discs, songs culled from the “Songbook” series from Brazil, featuring Tom singing songs by other composers with his great late career musical companions, in excellent sound.

Antonio Carlos Jobim “Minha Alma Canta”

 

[Rabshakeh]

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition – Apti

Revisiting this for the first time since it was released. I don't find that it makes much impression, despite everyone involved being talented. It never gets much of a pulse going. 

Edited September 1, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[jazzcorner]

[adh1907]

Lee Perry 

 

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

Stan Kenton – Standards In Silhouette

Stan Kenton – Back To Balboa

Not a Kenton fan but listening out of some sort of neurotic duty to acquire knowledge.

Edited September 2, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[BillF]

16 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Stan Kenton – Standards In Silhouette

 

 

 

👍

[Rabshakeh]

Just now, BillF said:

👍

As a frustrated triangle player, I must acknowledge this one as one of the great records for jazz triangle. Perhaps The Definitive Jazz Triangle record.

[Rabshakeh]

Stan Kenton And His Orchestra – Live At Redlands University

This one at least just sounds like a late 70s / early 80s professional big band record. Maybe that's because it influenced those records (if you believe the Wikipedia page).

[jazzbo]

I’m listening to this one again after a spell. I always want this one to be DIFFERENT than it is. I have been learning to accept it for what it IS and am winning over the years.

“The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix” Japan cd

 

Edited September 2, 2023 by jazzbo

[Niko]

Gil Evans plays Jimi Hendrix was one of my first 10, 20 CDs as a kid... at that stage, you accept every album for what it is... loved this one and played it over and over again... but haven't played it in years... Myself, I am just revisiting Swordfishtrombones for the first time in a long time and it seems that I'm finally ready

[jazzbo]

“The Pablo All Star Jam” Pablo/OJC cd

This is a really solid jam session with great players listening to each other.

 

Clark Terry, Ronnie Scott, Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Oscar Peterson, NHOP, Bobby Durham

Kudos to the recording engineers.

[Rabshakeh]

Stan Kenton – Kenton Live From The Las Vegas Tropicana

This one is a bit more direct.

[BillF]

[mhatta]

 

[Rabshakeh]

Stan Kenton – Kenton / Wagner

Just hilarious. Let's take Ride of the Valkyries and play it in the most lumpen way possible. You know what this needs, lads? Latin percussion.

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington Orchestra “LIEDERHALLE STUTTGART 1967” Jazz Art House cd

From the Count to the Duke. This is a very interesting concert in surprisingly good sound.

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, Niko said:

Gil Evans plays Jimi Hendrix was one of my first 10, 20 CDs as a kid... at that stage, you accept every album for what it is... loved this one and played it over and over again... but haven't played it in years... Myself, I am just revisiting Swordfishtrombones for the first time in a long time and it seems that I'm finally ready

Tom Waits, I assume there's not another album with that title. I was knocked out by that the day I bought the LP in the week it was released.

I can still remember listening to it with my mate, we were big Waits fans and Heartattack And Vine had hinted a little at a new direction but we didn't see the new sound coming at all

[John Tapscott]

6 hours ago, BillF said:

👍

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Stan Kenton – Standards In Silhouette

Stan Kenton – Back To Balboa

Not a Kenton fan but listening out of some sort of neurotic duty to acquire knowledge.

👍 for both.

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Stan Kenton And His Orchestra – Live At Redlands University

This one at least just sounds like a late 70s / early 80s professional big band record. Maybe that's because it influenced those records (if you believe the Wikipedia page).

👍

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Stan Kenton – Kenton Live From The Las Vegas Tropicana

This one is a bit more direct.

👍  Yes. Perhaps the best place to start.

 

Listening now:

Edited September 2, 2023 by John Tapscott

[Niko]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Tom Waits, I assume there's not another album with that title. I was knocked out by that the day I bought the LP in the week it was released.

I can still remember listening to it with my mate, we were big Waits fans and Heartattack And Vine had hinted a little at a new direction but we didn't see the new sound coming at all

I knew Rain Dogs fairly well when I first heard Swordfishtrombones, knew Greg Cohen a bit from his work with John Zorn... There's stuff that's just different when you live through history in it's linear way

[jazzbo]

 

[sidewinder]

On vinyl - very striking rehearsal tape, flawed genius and total original.

Edited September 2, 2023 by sidewinder

[gmonahan]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Stan Kenton – Kenton / Wagner

Just hilarious. Let's take Ride of the Valkyries and play it in the most lumpen way possible. You know what this needs, lads? Latin percussion.

Yeah, that's a bizarre one! One of the few that has never been reissued on cd!

 

I'm listening to this one, which I got after reading about it here on the board:

 

[Dan Gould]

1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

Yeah, that's a bizarre one! One of the few that has never been reissued on cd!

 

I'm listening to this one, which I got after reading about it here on the board:

 

You got it faster than it got to me.