So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzcorner]

Discovery DS-833 - Gerald Wilson & The Orchestra Of The 80's " Lomelin" - rec. 1981 - Engineer: Bruce Leek

 

 

Edited September 25 by jazzcorner
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[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

[Rabshakeh]

The Jacques Schols Quartet – What Is There To Say

Enjoyed this stream. I don't know Ruud Brink. Are there other records on which he plays that members would recommend?

Edited September 25 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

Here's a good'un!

[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

Marmalsana is:
Burkhard Beins - percussion
Tony Elieh - acoustic bass guitar
Maurice Louca - microtonal acoustic guitar

[ghost of miles]

1993 Japanese import CD that I was thrilled to find on my first trip to Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart in 1995. I’d read about Brooks in David Rosenthal’s Hard Bop book and had bought True Blue just a few months before the JRM trip, when Blue Note reissued it on CD in its initial wave of Connoisseur titles. Iirc the CD was $28 (in 1995) and I was living on record-store clerk wages, but I happily and without hesitation bought it. Only got to the JRM one more time after that, but listening to this CD reminds me of what it was like to walk into that store for the first time. 
 

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

1993 Japanese import CD that I was thrilled to find on my first trip to Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart in 1995. I’d read about Brooks in David Rosenthal’s Hard Bop book and had bought True Blue just a few months before the JRM trip, when Blue Note reissued it on CD in its initial wave of Connoisseur titles. Iirc the CD was $28 (in 1995) and I was living on record-store clerk wages, but I happily and without hesitation bought it. Only got to the JRM one more time after that, but listening to this CD reminds me of what it was like to walk into that store for the first time. 
 

Hello ghost of miles ! 

I like that kind of stories, where you listen to a CD and it reminds you of some certain events in the past. 

I also have this CD maybe also from about 1993, but I never know what edition, and anyway would never buy another edition of a certain album I already know, even if it has alternate tracks....

But this one I like, though I must admit I bought it only because of the others, whom I knew, but didn´t know who Tina Brooks was. 
I think he was even more obscure here in Europe than in his home country. 
I don´t really know his story but it seems that his recording career was very short, and once I read somewhere that Alfred Lion though he liked Brook´s music, didn´t like him as a person. 
 

About memories by listening now: In your case it is walking into that store the first time. 
In my case : I spinned it in my car in the small hours on the highway, that first tune did fit so well to that hour and that lonesome drivin thru the night.......
I had to switch for many many years between Austria and România, let´s say from the time I was working here but had my wife down there, so driving the whole night 1000 km when there was no highway thru Hungary or Romania, that was cool, heard a lotta music in the car then. Often almost the only car in the night, at least in those years. 

20 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Another quartet recording, from the batch of UHQCD released today.

Jackie McLean "Let Freedom Ring" Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

with Walter Davis Jr, Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins

Definitly one of the great great records of the 60´s, from that period I love so much. 

I had the great occasion to hear Jackie McLean, Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins with Bobby Hutcherson instead of Walter Davis, but since Bobby Hutcherson is on the twin album "One Step Beyond", it was almost a Jackie McLean Blue Note Quartet, what I heard, one of the best concerts I ever heard....

9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Giorgio Gaslini Double – Message

I never had heard Giorgio Gaslini but had heard that he was great playing very similar to Monk´s style...

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

The Jacques Schols Quartet – What Is There To Say

Enjoyed this stream. I don't know Ruud Brink. Are there other records on which he plays that members would recommend?

Excellent .... as is his outing with Irvin Rochlin "When Or Where" from the same Blue Jack series ....

[Rabshakeh]

13 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Excellent .... as is his outing with Irvin Rochlin "When Or Where" from the same Blue Jack series ....

Thanks. I'll try that.

[mjazzg]

11 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Giorgio Gaslini Double – Message

Still to track that one down, what do you make of it?

[optatio]

4 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

1993 Japanese import CD that I was thrilled to find on my first trip to Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart in 1995. I’d read about Brooks in David Rosenthal’s Hard Bop book and had bought True Blue just a few months before the JRM trip, when Blue Note reissued it on CD in its initial wave of Connoisseur titles. Iirc the CD was $28 (in 1995) and I was living on record-store clerk wages, but I happily and without hesitation bought it. Only got to the JRM one more time after that, but listening to this CD reminds me of what it was like to walk into that store for the first time. 
 

👌 - as Japanese LP from 1990 on my shelf - "not for sale"

Edited September 26 by optatio

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Still to track that one down, what do you make of it?

Quite enjoyed it. A bit too much of the compositional tableau and a bit too little actual heat for me. I streamed it. 

[jazzbo]

Well, a cool damp morning. . . after two days with rain the greenery is happy!

Pepper Adams “Urban Dreams” Palo Alto cd

 

[jazzbo]

“Clifford Brown Memorial Album” Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

 

[jazzbo]

Joshua Redman “Beyond” Warner Bros. cd

with Aaron Goldberg, Ruben Rogers, Greg Hutchinson.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Pepper Adams “Urban Dreams” Palo Alto cd

Great Rhythm Section aka Jimmy Rowles + George Mraz + Billy Hart (🔥🔥) ....

[sidewinder]

15 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Discovery DS-833 - Gerald Wilson & The Orchestra Of The 80's " Lomelin" - rec. 1981 - Engineer: Bruce Leek

 

 

That's a good one. All of those 'Orchestra of the 80s' albums for Albert Marx are worth hearing. Will dig out.

The one time I saw Wilson's orchestra on home turf he still had much of this lineup in place. People like Jack Nimitz ('The Admiral') and drummer Mel Lee, plus his son on guitar.

Edited September 26 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Quite enjoyed it. A bit too much of the compositional tableau and a bit too little actual heat for me. I streamed it. 

Thanks, I'll do likewise. I like his composition so it might be right up my street

[Referentzhunter]

On 9/24/2024 at 2:22 PM, mjazzg said:

👍

one of those albums you get sucked into ...

[Kevin Bresnahan]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But this one I like, though I must admit I bought it only because of the others, whom I knew, but didn´t know who Tina Brooks was. I think he was even more obscure here in Europe than in his home country. 

I don´t really know his story but it seems that his recording career was very short, and once I read somewhere that Alfred Lion though he liked Brook´s music, didn´t like him as a person. 
 

As I understand it, the first batch of Connoisseur releases were the rarest Blue Note LP titles, with Tina Brooks' "True Blue" likely the rarest of them all. I seem to remember an eBay auction back then where someone paid close to $10,000 for a copy. It's not surprising then, that his name was not well known in Europe because it was not really well known in the US until the Mosaic box.

Edited September 26 by Kevin Bresnahan

[kh1958]

Louis Hayes, Artform Revisited (Savant)

[Chuck Nessa]

Pulled for later

[Peter Friedman]

9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Thanks. I'll try that.

Two others I like with Ruud Brink:

Ruud Brink - Double Face in Verona

Trio Pim jacobs featuring Ruud Brink - Just Friends 

Sarah  with no vocal "tricks", just straight  singing of good tunes. Also has solos by Thad Jones and Frank Wess. I very much like this album.