So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[felser]

Alexander is my favorite jazz player who started after the 70's.  Harold Mabern shines on this (no surprise)

[jazzbo]

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Like Someone in Love” RVG Blue Note Japan 2023

One of the very mellowest of Messengers albums!

 

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Followed by

Ike Quebec “Bossa Nova Soul Samba” RVG Blue Note Japan 2023

 

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A favorite. So beautiful!

[HutchFan]

26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Currently listening to my Dad's specially curated Christmas playlist, which he seems to have decided should be in the background this year. It's bleak energy sapping stuff. I'm trying to sneak some Carla Bley in there. Bobby Timmons' Holiday Soul still up the sleeve.

Wow.  "Bleak" and "energy sapping" are not words one usually associates with Christmas music! 

 

I've been listening to some early-70s soul jazz, which is neither bleak nor energy sapping.  Quite the opposite, in fact!   

 

and this again:

[JSngry]

Where are you finding the appeal of Black Byrd ? I try and fail. But there are plenty of people, then and now, who enjoy it. What might I still be missing? 

[HutchFan]

52 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Where are you finding the appeal of Black Byrd ? I try and fail. But there are plenty of people, then and now, who enjoy it. What might I still be missing? 

I like the music because it's groovy and soaring.  I think it has a sort of "airiness" that's very appealing.  (The titles reflect this up-in-the-air theme: "Flight Time," "Sky High" -- even the title of the album itself.)  . . . It's sunny party music for the backyard on a Sunday afternoon rather than heavier stuff for a house party on Saturday night.  In that regard, it lives in the same neighborhood as Roy Ayers' music.  . . . Plus the Mizell Brothers don't take over the album like they often (usually?) did.  It's still very much Byrd's record. . . . Lastly, I like how Byrd use voices for flavor on this album, rather than making them the focus of the music -- as on the Blackbyrds albums.

 

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[JSngry]

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind next time I try! 

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I've been listening to some early-70s soul jazz, which is neither bleak nor energy sapping.  Quite the opposite, in fact!   

😁 👍  Like it anyway. The background singers sound nice.

Edited December 24, 2023 by jazzcorner

[nemo7]

Gunn...Number 1!

Henry Mancini

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[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Masahiko Satoh - Pavane Lachrymae (Denon, 1978)
solo piano with electric piano, harpsichord, and synthesizers added in various combinations

 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

👍

[hopkins]

 

Sources:
Tracks #1-7, 9-11 form the Transition album "Jazz by Sun Ra" (TRLP-10)
Track #8 form the Transition album "Jazz in Transition" (TRLP-30)
Tracks #12-15, form the Saturn album "Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth" (LP-207)
Tracks #16-19, form the Saturn album "Super-Sonic Jazz" (LP-0216)

Personnel:
Dave Young, Art Hoyle (tp), Julian Priester (tb), James Scales (as), John Gilmore (ts), Pat Patrick (bars, as); Charles Davis (bars), Sun Ra (p, org), Richard Evans, Victor Sproles (b), Wilbur Green (b) Bob Barry, William Cochran (d), Jim Herndon (tympani, percussion).
Recorded at Universal Studios, in Chicago, 1956

 

 

Edited December 24, 2023 by hopkins

[optatio]

6 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Like Someone in Love” RVG Blue Note Japan 2023

One of the very mellowest of Messengers albums!

👍

👍

[jazzbo]

Fabiano do Nascimento “YKYTU”

 

[jazzbo]

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

Where are you finding the appeal of Black Byrd ? I try and fail. But there are plenty of people, then and now, who enjoy it. What might I still be missing? 

It’s a funk record, with only great tunes on it and a bit of jazz quality soloing. What’s not to love?

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Wow.  "Bleak" and "energy sapping" are not words one usually associates with Christmas music! 

 

He’s doing it wrong. It is just flaccid versions of slow paced choral Christmas carols. It’s horrible stuff. 
 

We didn’t celebrate Christmas in any meaningful way growing up. This year because of the grandkids my parents are experimenting with doing it with all the trimmings. The music is one experiment that is not working!

[jazzcorner]

 

Re: Stan Kenton: last recording

Found this one in another forum (link from the Vosbein blog)

https://allthingskenton.com/table_of_contents/recordings/last-band/

 

[jazzbo]

Jack McDuff (featuring Kenny Burrell) “Crash” Prestige compilation cd

Starting a cold Xmas morning off with some hard swing. Kenny is such a master!

 

[JSngry]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

It’s a funk record, with only great tunes on it and a bit of jazz quality soloing. What’s not to love?

That it's not in the least bit funky? Not even a teense. 

Next time I get to it, I'm trying HuchFan's "airy" angle. That's one I haven't tried yet 

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Pangaea” Sony Blu-Spec CD2, 2023

This, like the Blu-Spec CD and the previous Blu-Spec CD2, is the release without the extra minutes of noise at the end, and a DSD transfer. Sounds awesome!

 

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[Peter Friedman]