So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

Shearing on MPS is often "groovy". Worth streaming.

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon Al Cohn Xanadu “Silver Blue” Xanadu cd (with “True Blue” in 2 cd set)

[HutchFan]

NP:

 

 

8 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Shearing on MPS is often "groovy". Worth streaming.

I know Shearing's three MPS LPs with NHØP & Louis Stewart  . . . and his solo LP, My Ship.

But I had no idea that The Way We Are existed.  Will give it a listen.

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Eddie Higgins - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Venus). Higgins in a quartet with Scott Hamilton. Beautiful playing all around.

[Teasing the Korean]

55 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Not a song that I would've EVER associated with George Shearing!   

Yet. . . there it is.

I found the LP years ago without ever having heard it, and bought it just for that track.  I couldn't even imagine how the quintet would play it.  Turns out it's a killer version!  

[gmonahan]

On 10/1/2024 at 6:50 AM, kh1958 said:

Harlan Leonard and His Rockets 1940 (Classics)

A valuable record of a great, largely unremembered band. Fred Beckett was a great trombonist!

I'm listening to a classic from the golden age of Columbia Legacy reissues

 

[JSngry]

41 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I found the LP years ago without ever having heard it, and bought it just for that track.  I couldn't even imagine how the quintet would play it.  Turns out it's a killer version!  

I don't usually get into Shearing, unless he's playing with some good Latin percussion. Then everything works for me.

[Teasing the Korean]

6 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I don't usually get into Shearing, unless he's playing with some good Latin percussion. Then everything works for me.

I like most of the MGM-era stuff, but from Capitol on, my favorite Shearing albums (and individual tracks) have Latin percussion. I like his solo piano albums, too, though I don't spin them often.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Pete Jolly “Little Bird” Ava Records/Muzak Records Japan cd

 

Some tracks trio, with Chuck Berghofer (bass), Larry Bunker (drums); some tracks with Howard Roberts (guitar), Kenny Hume (percussion) added

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

For this one, yes, again and again and again some more!

[jazzcorner]

Blue Note 40536 (CD) - Tina Brooks "The Waiting Game" - rec. 1961 - Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

[soulpope]

59 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Blue Note 40536 (CD) - Tina Brooks "The Waiting Game" - rec. 1961 - Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

👌👍 ....

[optatio]

13 hours ago, gmonahan said:

I'm listening to a classic from the golden age of Columbia Legacy reissues

👍 - as LP from 1976 on my shelf ...

[optatio]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

👍

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

👌👍 ....

Strange, so much as I liked "Back to the Track", I didn´t find much stuff for me on the "Waitin´ game". 
Somehow like I don´t like the before unissued album they made with Freddie Redd. I love his compositions, his playing and his choice of musicians so much and was so disappointed by I think it´s titled "Redd´s Blues", with an obscure drummer, who doesn´t fit in, and the ensemble playing and the horn solos are also a mess.....

[jazzbo]

Fiona the dachshund has decided that this is the first COLD morning. Feels welcome to me!

Starting off with
Tina Brooks "Minor Move" Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD.

I wish they had used the original Japanese cover. But this sure sounds better than the last release!

Edited October 3, 2024 by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

Dave Holland Big Band “What Goes Around” ECM cd

 

[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, JSngry said:

For this one, yes, again and again and again some more!

ABSOLUTELY.

 

[kh1958]

Joy Clark, Tell It To The Wind (Righteous Babe)

[Simon8]

 

[jazzcorner]

23 minutes ago, Simon8 said:

 

😁 👍 Excellent