So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Cyril]

5 hours ago, uli said:

 

 !!!

NP

Sonny Criss is the most underrated sax man ever....

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Cyril said:

 

NP

Sonny Criss is the most underrated sax man ever....

Beautiful .... btw featuring some mighty fine Barry Harris playing ....

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Matt Ulery - In the Ivory (Greenleaf Music, 2017)  Rob Clearfield - piano; Jon Deitemyer - drums, perc; Matt Ulery - bass, voice; Zac Brock, Yvonne Lam - violin; Nicholas Photinos - cello; Timoty Munro - flute; Michael Maccaferri - clarinet; Lisa Kaplan - piano; Gregory Beyer - marimba, vibes, berimbau, maracas; SM Young, E Hall, C Lunsford, Grazyna Auguscik - vocals.

[Peter Friedman]

[Bluesnik]

A nice private set from my beloved Farlow, together with his fabulous trio. Eddie Costa on piano and Vinnie Burke on bass.

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

John Hicks!  Love that CD.  

 

 

On the way home from work:

Joe Lovano Us Five - Bird Songs (Blue Note)

 

Edited October 23, 2017 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Now:

Gary Peacock - Tales of Another (ECM)
with Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

Professor Longhair: House Party New Orleans Style

[SMB1968]

Hozan Yamamoto/Masabumi Kikuchi -- Silver World

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Henri Texier - Colonel Skopje (Evidence, licensed from Label Bleu)
with Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Steve Swallow and Aldo Romano

[Morganized]

 

 

Edited October 24, 2017 by Morganized
addition

[HutchFan]

Bob Mintzer - Hymn (Owl)
with John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson and Peter Erskine

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now:

Gary Peacock - Tales of Another (ECM)
with Keith Jarrett & Jack DeJohnette

Interesting "pre-standards" session by this trio ....

[sidewinder]

17 hours ago, Berthold said:

Buck Clayton The CBS Jam Sessions 1

[soulpope]

[JohnS]

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

John Hicks!  Love that CD.  

Me too.

[BillF]

[JohnS]

Soulpope mentioned this the other day.  

 

Disc 1. Reunion.

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, JohnS said:

Soulpope mentioned this the other day.  

 

 

Disc 1. Reunion.

Olu Drara's playing on "Oakland Blues" is a favorite of mine.

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

Mingus Rarities Volume 1 - The Jimmy Knepper Quintet sides

[rostasi]

Tumi Mogorosi - Project ELO

Breathtaking Contemporary Spiritual Jazz from South Africa 

When Tumi Mogorosi composed this suite for jazz musicians and opera vocalists he had never heard the previous successful attempts by Donald Byrd, Max Roach or Mary Lou Williams to combine these seemingly 'unfriendly' aesthetics. Tumi, born in 1987 and already an accomplished drummer on the Jo'Burg scene, was at the time studying music at the Tshwane University of Pretoria where he became close friends with opera singers working on the same campus. So unlike some of his US peers Tumi's beliefs are not 'religious'. 

Surprisingly, Tumi's suite wasn't influenced by these great elders' masterpieces, but anyone who listens to this album will agree that the suite encaptures the soaring spirituality that made these experiments of the '60s the beloved classics that they are today. Tumi does not belong to any religious group. 

This album is neither a jazz mass like Mary Lou William's Black Christ of the Andes, nor a compilation of devotional pieces like Donald Byrd's Christo Redentor. Project Elo stands for Project Elohim, the angelic entities of the spiritual scriptures which are in the drummer's philosophy, a symbol for accomplished human beings. 

The spirituality the album conveys is attuned to a 21st century syncretic, non dogmatic vision infused with esotericism. Recorded live with no overdubs in two days by a group of friends, this album captures a moment of Eternity and will defy any idea you may have of what South African jazz is. Tumi's music transcends labels and styles. When composing or playing he is only concerned with being true to the primordial source of life, which cannot be confined to any genre.