So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Excellent debut album ....

[felser]

17 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Great album, great group.  Minnie Riperton was amazing, but there was much more to them than just her.

[Rabshakeh]

Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra and Joëlle Léandre - Passagio

God, this record is excellent. One of Leander’s very best performances, but Ibarra and Courvoisier are fantastic too.

[optatio]

6 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

The prelude to A Love Supreme:

…I appreciate this one more and more as time goes on. 

👍

[jazzbo]

Starting the day off with this one again before it travels back to the shelves.

Terri Lyne Carrington “New Standards, Vol. 1”

 

[dougcrates]

[kh1958]

Count Basie, Chronological Classics, 1946-1947

[Rabshakeh]

Jason Adasiewicz – Roscoe Village (The Music Of Roscoe Mitchell)

[mjazzg]

34 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Jason Adasiewicz – Roscoe Village (The Music Of Roscoe Mitchell)

I like that one.

His was impressive, as always, at the Brotzmann memorial gig

[Rabshakeh]

8 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I like that one.

His was impressive, as always, at the Brotzmann memorial gig

I do like it. I need to listen to it again. His style and language is really different to Mitchell's percussion pieces as presented by Mitchell or the AEC.

I thought he was really excellent at the final Brotzmann gig. But Brotzmann and Mitchell are quite different languages. 

[John Tapscott]

[mjazzg]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

But Brotzmann and Mitchell are quite different languages. 

Definitely 

[HutchFan]

 

10 hours ago, felser said:

Great album, great group.  Minnie Riperton was amazing, but there was much more to them than just her.

Most definitely.  Charles Stepney !!!

 

2 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Stone classic!

 

[mjazzg]

35 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

Most definitely.  Charles Stepney !!!

 

Oh Yes!!!

Now streaming

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

 

[jazzbo]

20 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Oh Yes!!!

Now streaming

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

 

If you can, check out the BBC box set. . . better than the other albums imo.

[Peter Friedman]

Features -  Bobby Hutcherson 

[mjazzg]

1 minute ago, jazzbo said:

If you can, check out the BBC box set. . . better than the other albums imo.

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

[jazzbo]

11 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

I took it slowly but it was rewarding. I'm in my slow and steady in rotation listen to the box for a second time, and I think over time I'll listen to it more often than the other material.

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

Ryo Kawasaki - Ring Toss (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
with Larry Willis, Sam Morrison, Badal Roy, and others

Interesting music that aims high and convincingly pulls in disparate elements.  I hear some echoes of McLaughlin (and Shakti) in Kawasaki's playing & music -- but not disturbingly so.  I particularly dig the vocalist, Rhada Shottam, who contributes wordless vocals à la Norma Winstone.

 

 

43 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

Speaking of Winstone . . .  She is fantastic on that record!  That's my "go to" record for Nucleus, in no small part because of her.

 

[soulpope]

5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming:

Ryo Kawasaki - Ring Toss (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
with Larry Willis, Sam Morrison, Badal Roy, and others

Beautiful Cover Art ....

[optatio]

15 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Original LP

👍 - as VeeJay/FunHouse 32YD-1007 [1987] on my shelf

[John Tapscott]

[jlhoots]

47 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

I have the 6 CD Nucleus & Ian Carr: Torrid Zone (The Vertigo Recordings, 1970-1975). Works for me.

[jazzbo]

50 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

I have the 6 CD Nucleus & Ian Carr: Torrid Zone (The Vertigo Recordings, 1970-1975). Works for me.

I own that too. I like the BBC sessions better by more than a few hairs.

Right now

My copy of the Barylli Quartet’s Beethoven String Quartet cycle arrived today from Japan, reissued in the UHQCD format.

Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets [Limited Release] [UHQCD] Barylli Quartet CD Album

 

 

A budget production in that it comes in a clamshell sort of box with plastic sleeves and a booklet, but the UHQCD format is handsome and the sound is quite good as far as mastering goes. The sonic character is typical of well-recorded early fifties mono, and though I wish there were a bit more “oomph” to the cello, there’s little else to complain about.

So far I’d say that the interpretation is not too adventurous but plenty expressive. Will be interesting to hear the entire cycle.

I notice that Japan has also reissued a five cd set of the Mozart quartets by these gents on this label, as well as a single cd of the quintets. . . in UHQCD. I ordered those.