So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[mjazzg]

21 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming:

Winstone's brilliant debut as a leader -- with a Who's-Who of Brit jazzers supporting her.

 

 

22 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The Michael Garrick Sextet with Norma Winstone - The Heart is a Lotus (Argo, 1970)
Vocalion CD reissue 

 

Dug both LPs out for a spin today prompted by your posts, such great music

[Simon8]

[John Tapscott]

[jazzcorner]

RCA Vicor NL-45954 (FSR reissue) - Hal McKusick Octet " In A Twentieth-Century Drawing Room" - rec. 1955

 

[jazzbo]

Abdullah Ibrahim “The Balance” cd

Another beautiful release from Ibrahim.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

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[dougcrates]

[dougcrates]

[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Dug both LPs out for a spin today prompted by your posts, such great music

Yes!!!  AMAZING music!  

 

[JSngry]

Fine music, but - is it just where I'm sitting right now, or is Cook pulled back in the mix just a little, and the bassists boosted up to the front? 

[Chuck Nessa]

Interesting - haven't listened to this in a while

[dougcrates]

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, dougcrates said:

It´s interesting that those classic BN albums of some artists like Miles, Monk, Milt Jackson, and here Clifford Brown were done somewhat before those gentlemen became world famous. 

But they are very fine. 

Here the Clifford Brown album, I think I had or have the CD shortly after the invention of CDs, somewhat in the 80´s after BN had a revival and put out all the stuff that had been OOP for decades.....

If I remember right, there was one side with John Lewis, Charlie Rouse, and one with Lou Donaldson like on the Blakey Birdland album.......

 

If I remember right there was also a Prestige album of Clifford Brown with the same title "Memorial Album", but strange to say it was not a Cliff Brown led band, but Tadd Dameron´s "Atlantic City" band.....

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I also have this but didn´t spin it very much, since I was a bit disappointed. It sounds much too "smooth" for me. I love the early Jimmy Smith Dates for BN, like that two records with Lou Donaldson, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd and Art Blakey and the first trio sessions especially "At Baby Grand" Delaware......., it´s more rough but very very exiting. 
From the late 50´s on into the 60´s his music somehow smoothened out. 

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Interesting, I remember his name and think I remember he was a Mingus-influenced bass player of the late 70´s of those who played after Mingus death on memorial albums. I think he and Dannie Richmond did that. 

15 hours ago, dougcrates said:

For me: The best Henderson album I have, and one of the best acoustic albums of the 70´s , especially from the tenor led quartets of that time and there were so many: I think a great part of what I heard live in the 70´s was tenor led quartets: Sonny Rollins Quartet, Joe Henderson Quartet, Dexter Gordon Quartet, Johnny Griffin Quartet, George Coleman Quartet, Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quartet........there must have been dozens of quartets......

[Rabshakeh]

Lol Coxhill – Cou$cou$

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, dougcrates said:

There exists also on a Jack Montrose vinyl on Pacific Jazz  a  Clifford Brown Sextet  - Here it is (recorded in 1954)

 

Edited February 16, 2024 by jazzcorner

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lol Coxhill – Cou$cou$

I recall that Lol did one of his final UK tours, mainly Up North, out of a skip. Would have loved to have seen that.

His solo recital in the Barbican conservatory back in 2005 was great.

[EKE BBB]

Over the last few days:

 

 

 

[jazzbo]

Prince Lasha “Inside Story” Enja cd

Also contains the album “Search for Tomorrow”

 

 

[mjazzg]

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - The Thompson Fields

taken me too long to finally get this. Ended up buying the download as the CD price is steep.  Prompted by this article in the Guardian today

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/15/jazz-composer-maria-schneider-david-bowie-cracked-me-maybe-not-in-a-good-way

Edited February 16, 2024 by mjazzg

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

Listening to the Buck Clayton Jam Sessions prompted me to get this off the shelf -

 

[HutchFan]

Now:

Lee Konitz - Lone-Lee: Solo (Inner City, rec. 1974)
licensed from SteepleChase

 

Earlier:

Neil Ardley - A Symphony of Amaranths (Regal Zonophone, 1971)
Wah Wah Records (ES) 2018 vinyl reissue

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Listening to the Buck Clayton Jam Sessions prompted me to get this off the shelf -

 

I tracked down that LP after you recommended it a few years ago.   

 

[optatio]

5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

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