So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[GA Russell]

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Just never got around to it until now. Scot LaFaro and Billy Higgins holding it down.

Ginza Samba!

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, GA Russell said:

Ginza Samba!

I´ve never heard Cal Tjader but I remember an album "Stan Getz-Cal Tjader" was on that strongly Mingus bound french jazz record label "America Records". I had heard a little about Stan Getz (I must say more the pre 1950 stuff than the bossa nova that is not really my thing) so I didn´t have no idea who is Cal Tjader, the name didn´t sound really american to me. 
There was some exotic albums like also one "Gerry Mulligan with Jimmy Witherspoon", but the rest was the jazz I heard (Mingus, Roach, Bird, Diz and so on) 

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I don´t know what´s Acid Jazz, but Bernard "Pretty" Purdie was a great drummer, someone in the category of Billy Cobham or Alphonse Mouzon, anyway great and he does great things on a very strange Diz record from the late 70´s of Diz just with Toots Thielemans, and Bernard Purdie.

So what is Acid Jazz, never heard that word, and how did good old Prestige record more modern music of the 70´s ? 

11 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Discovery DS-836 - June Christy / Lou Levy Sextet " Impromptu" - rec.  1977 - Emgineer: Gordon Shyrock

 

I never had heard June Christy but how this personnel reads it must be a gas, especially if there is a singer not just bein selfish and don´t give solo space to the others (like Ella in the later days did), but with a regular good jazz combo.
Lou Levy, he was not so well known here over in old Europe or Eastern Europe, but he was tops, he was just maybe some milimetru-groove near Bud Powell so much piano that nice guy could play. 
Saw him with Art Pepper, because he had replaced Pepper´s regular group, who got stranded somewhere, but it was a great replacement, don´t remember the bass and ddrums, but remember Lou Levy....

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 2023 (mono disc)

 

Sure I Milestone in Miles´ career , I wonder how much spinning it still get´s . 
I still must have my old LP somewhere in the shelves, but strange to say, I had a wrong start with this album, since I had heard before the versions with Herbie, Ron, Wayne and above all Tony (All Blues, So What) and was disappointed by the much slower and more quiet studio recordings. 
As I say, I had not the best start with it, and liked Herbie more than Bill Evans, and Tony more than Jimmy Cobb.....

[mhatta]

14 hours ago, soulpope said:

🥳🔥"Fire Eater"🔥🥳 ....

Everybody(I guess) loves Fire Eater!  At least I love it!

[soulpope]

27 minutes ago, mhatta said:

Everybody(I guess) loves Fire Eater!  At least I love it!

Hard not to love it 😇🤓 ....

[jazzbo]

Got a little more sleep before the old dog woke me up. Nice cool, quiet morning.

I have been revisiting a few Armacost discs that I never played much and then filed away. . . .

Tim Armacost “Fire” Concord cd

 

[jazzbo]

Bill Holman “In A Jazz Orbit” Andex/Muzak Japan lp facsimile cd

 

[jazzbo]

Mulgrew Miller Roy Hargrove “In Harmony” Resonance Records 2 lp set, LP 1

 

 

I got the 2 cd set upon release, but Resonance was selling this 2 LP set so cheaply that I picked it up. Both formats sound great.

Edited September 18 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

9 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I don´t know what´s Acid Jazz, but Bernard "Pretty" Purdie was a great drummer, someone in the category of Billy Cobham or Alphonse Mouzon, anyway great and he does great things on a very strange Diz record from the late 70´s of Diz just with Toots Thielemans, and Bernard Purdie.

So what is Acid Jazz, never heard that word, and how did good old Prestige record more modern music of the 70´s ? 

Gheorghe, you can see the definition of "Acid Jazz" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz

The "Legends of Acid Jazz" series repackaged soul-jazz and jazz-funk music originally recorded in the late-60s and early-70s for Prestige. Typically, CDs in the series contain 2 complete LPs.

Whatever you might want to call it, the music is fabulous -- if you enjoy those jazz sub-genres.

 

Edited September 18 by HutchFan

[Peter Friedman]

Ella in 1951 sounds wonderful. I really like this album more than many of Ella's later recordings.

[HutchFan]

Two by Lou Donaldson:

 

and

[jazzcorner]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

Just never got around to it until now. Scot LaFaro and Billy Higgins holding it down.

 

Excellent and love it 

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

BTW appears also with this coverart:

 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

João Donato, Arranged & Conducted by Deodato (Muse, 1973)

Personnel: João Donato (kybds); Deodato (kybds, arr, cond); Romeo Penque (fl, whistle); Mauricio Einhorn (harmonica); Randy Brecker (tr); Michael Gibson (tb); Bob Rose (g); Dud Bascomb (b); Allan Schwartzberg (d); Ray Barretto (cga); Airto (perc)

I have the 32 Jazz reissue with a different cover -- but I like the Muse cover better.

 

Edited September 18 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

Recorded @ Paris in May 1994 .... affectionate ....

[JSngry]

[Chuck Nessa]

15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Need to pull that out.

Fascinating cross section of the label.

[mikeweil]

Edited September 18 by mikeweil

[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

[jazzbo]

Disc 1

[optatio]

3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

Excellent and love it 

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

BTW appears also with this coverart:

👍 - on my shelf!

[jazzbo]

SACD 5

[Aggie87]

A comp I picked up while living in Germany back in 2003.

[Peter Friedman]

[dougcrates]