So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[rostasi]

Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground

by BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, Jazzmonkie said:

On CD. Sound quality is better than I expected for live Sun Ra.
 

From what year is this? 

I got acquainted with the music of Sun Ra very early, let´s say even before I knew much about earlier jazz stiles like bop. 
It was there, it was happenin, and my first Sun Ra album was the ESP "Nothing Is" that I got second hand from a girl who emegrated to Brazilia. Sun Ra and a lotta other stuff that´s hot, like early electric Miles, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and so on, that was my start for jazz. 

I heard Sun Ra live in the late 70´s until around 80 with Gilmore and Allen in the band and June Tyson singin´. That´s where I first heard older jazz forms like Fletcher Henderson´s "Yeah Man" or similar stuff, as well as the more usual space age free jazz and space chants.....

[jazzbo]

Starting a cool morning off with another interesting session Tom Harrell participated in, with a sort of Spanish tinge of Weather Report like fusion, led by guitarist Torres.

Fernando Torres featuring Tom Harrell and Arida Conta and the Sirius String Quartet “Secret Rhythms” Muse cd

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

From what year is this? 

 

At The Showcase: Live In Chicago 1976-1977

[jazzbo]

Theo Hill “Interstellar Adventures” Posi-Tone cd

Hill’s second album with Rashaan Carter and the excellent drummer Rudy Royston.

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

 

 

 

At The Showcase: Live In Chicago 1976-1977

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Sun Ra 1976-77 sounds good, that´s when I also heard him first, 

[jazzbo]

Bob Mover, Walter Davis Jr. “The Salerno Concert” Reel to Real cd

 

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Toshiko Akiyoshi - Just Be-Bop (Diskmate/SS Jazz). Pretty date with Charles McPherson playing as he usually does on a be-bop date.

[dougcrates]

[optatio]

22 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Vol.1

👍 Vol. 2 - 6 also here!

[HutchFan]

Al Di Meola - Soaring Through a Dream (Manhattan, 1985)

Al Di Meola – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, Synclavier guitar
Phil Markowitz – Steinway grand piano, synthesizers
Chip Jackson – electric bass, acoustic bass
Danny Gottlieb – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion, vocals

This is one of my favorite jazz records of the 1980s.  I bought it when it first came out, during my junior year in high school, when I was first diving into jazz.  I must've listened to it a thousand times.  (I literally wore out the LP.) . . . It's an atypical Di Meola album, much less jazz-rock fusion, much more dreamy & Brazilian.  That's largely due to Airto, who brings his usual soulful brilliance, both as a vocalist and percussionist.

Fair warning: Like many 80s jazz albums, Soaring Through a Dream is very synth heavy. But unlike many 80s jazz albums, the synths really work well here.  They add to the gauzy, otherworldly aspects of the music; they actually open up musical avenues, rather than sounding like nifty gizmos that are added on as technological afterthoughts.

That said, as much as this music in engrained in my brain, it's likely impossible for me to hear it like most folks do.  So, there's that. 

 

Edited May 3 by HutchFan

[mjazzg]

Claire Daly - VuVu For Frances

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

The Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End (MPS, 1971)
with Heinz Sauer (ts, as), Günter Lenz (b), and Ralf Hübner (d)

Brilliant band.  Brilliant album.

If MPS ever reissued this on vinyl, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

 

[Referentzhunter]

La Forme De L'esprit Est Un Papillon * Couleurs Inventées * Univers Nerveux (Inédit)

(In Memoriam K. Stockhausen)

[rostasi]

[jazzbo]

The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-1947, disc II

Revisiting this set with enjoyment. That studio at that time had such a rich sound for their releases.

 

Edited May 3 by jazzbo

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Tommy Flanagan - Positive Intensity (Sony/Japan). Tommy with Ron Cater & Roy Haynes from 1977. Nicely done if a bit too brightly presented on the Japanese CD I found in a used bin yesterday.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End (MPS, 1971)
with Heinz Sauer (ts, as), Günter Lenz (b), and Ralf Hübner (d)

Brilliant band.  Brilliant album.

Yep .... btw we should mention Günter Lenz in the "Underrated Bassists" thread .... 

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon “Night Ballads - Montreal 1977” Uptown cd

This one cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it.

Recorded live at The Rising Sun in Montreal, November 9-12, 1977. Featuring the great saxophonist Dexter Gordon, pianist George Cables, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Eddie Gladden.

[Stevie Mclean]

On 5/2/2024 at 6:36 AM, soulpope said:

A Ben Tucker master class ....

Along with one of my personal favourites:

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Kinda the Postcards All-Stars here. It was a nifty label.

"Dated" in the sense of technology. "Derivative" in that it sometimes sounds like if Wayne and Joe never got into popular rhythms and such. 

Pleasant listening, and with the players on hand to move it ahead. Fun listen!

[dougcrates]

Mr Bongo CD reissues