So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jlhoots]

16 hours ago, jlhoots said:

10 of the 11. I've had the first 8 for a while.

I got them all from Dusty Groove. I like the whole project. Tapscott, Mateen & Robinson are my favorites. The bass players are all good.

[HutchFan]

[EKE BBB]

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[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

A late start to listening today–cold cold BUT sunlight–sunlight has been missing for a while.

Shirley Horn “I Thought About You–Live at Vine Street” Verve cd

A very realistic sounding recording. And Miss Horn delivers.

 

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[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Sahib Shihab “Summer Dawn” Rearward cd

 

[HutchFan]

[rostasi]

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Jacques Morelenbaum CelloSam3aTrio “Saudade Do Futuro Futuro Da Saudade” Biscoto Fina cd

 

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This was hard for me to find for a while, but worth the effort–beautiful music, beautiful sound.

Acoustic Guitar – Lula Galvão
Cello – Jaques Morelenbaum
Drums, Percussion – Rafael Barata

I check out anything with either Jacques or Paula Morelenbaum–fascinating artists.

 

EDIT to add: I just found out about the death of a great work partner I had for a number of years in Texas, Felix Farias. Felix was a great ying to my yang as he was a calm and steady counter-rhythm to the excitable boy I sometimes was. And he was so warm and open and friendly, and very funny. A great man! RIP Felix. It's interesting that I pulled this disc from the shelf because of all the music that I played at work Felix liked bossa nova and samba the best, followed by Nat King Cole, who he loved because his father used to play Nat's Spanish language albums all the time.

 

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[Gheorghe]

6 hours ago, rostasi said:

I love the albums I have with Tristano. One is called "A Guiding Light in the 40´s", and one might be with Lee Konitz in a live set. 

But I really heard Tristano first on two Parker Broadcasts where he is the pianist and has beautiful trio features. 

Only on the album with Lee Konitz I can´t get it in touch with my vibrations, since I can´t feel the overdubs. Others sure can, but I fail to feel that. 

[Gheorghe]

22 hours ago, Pim said:

The great Mal plays duets with the underrated Romanian saxophonist Nicolas Simion. Great recording!

Nicolae Simion (he changed the real name into Nicolas.... didn´t ask him why. 

You know: NicoLAE, I spotted him at some joint where I was leading the "house band" for a jam session night and in came that tall guy, and up he came on stage and .......oh boy.......what stuff he played. I felt I might play for ever with that wonderful musician. Never had seen him and was sure he is a great international jazz tenorist who somehow had a day off in that town Viena. 

He was so great that one after the other left the stage, so it was reduced to the four musicians who have it at heart and we forgot about all things around. It was like if you are out in the night and meet a person who you know was always there, and you finally find her and there is no end.....

I don´t know what tunes we played, but they might last 15 - 20 minutes.....

When the stuff finally made a sign that they want to close the joint, someone said to me that this guy .....he doesn´t no his name but that he had heard the guy is from România. So .....same music, same feeling....... and same language....

He was quite surprised when I approached him, see there was not so much Români in Viena back then.....

The next years we played here or then a gig, once with the then blood young trumpetist Ingrid Jensen ! Wonderful.

Well, later Nicolae concentrated more on finding a combination of jazz and his folclore background, I mean some old folk music from the villages of Transilvania and stuff.......

Well, I am a 100 la 100 city guy and muzică populară, if there was any, it was modernized, just for weddings or stuff, but know one I new ever listened voluntary to it.......

He became a big name in Germany and played with all greats that exist: Mal Waldron, Tomasz Stanko, Lee Konitz, Archie Shepp and who knows.....

[Pim]

24 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Nicolae Simion (he changed the real name into Nicolas.... didn´t ask him why. 

You know: NicoLAE, I spotted him at some joint where I was leading the "house band" for a jam session night and in came that tall guy, and up he came on stage and .......oh boy.......what stuff he played. I felt I might play for ever with that wonderful musician. Never had seen him and was sure he is a great international jazz tenorist who somehow had a day off in that town Viena. 

He was so great that one after the other left the stage, so it was reduced to the four musicians who have it at heart and we forgot about all things around. It was like if you are out in the night and meet a person who you know was always there, and you finally find her and there is no end.....

I don´t know what tunes we played, but they might last 15 - 20 minutes.....

When the stuff finally made a sign that they want to close the joint, someone said to me that this guy .....he doesn´t no his name but that he had heard the guy is from România. So .....same music, same feeling....... and same language....

He was quite surprised when I approached him, see there was not so much Români in Viena back then.....

The next years we played here or then a gig, once with the then blood young trumpetist Ingrid Jensen ! Wonderful.

Well, later Nicolae concentrated more on finding a combination of jazz and his folclore background, I mean some old folk music from the villages of Transilvania and stuff.......

Well, I am a 100 la 100 city guy and muzică populară, if there was any, it was modernized, just for weddings or stuff, but know one I new ever listened voluntary to it.......

He became a big name in Germany and played with all greats that exist: Mal Waldron, Tomasz Stanko, Lee Konitz, Archie Shepp and who knows.....

Thanks for sharing that. He’s a great tenor player. The country and decade he grew up in might caused the fact he never really became well known. He definitely deserves wider recognition 

Edited yesterday at 06:29 AM by Pim

[jazzbo]

 

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette “Yesterdays” ECM cd

Adding a little mental warmth to a cold morning. Ye olde dachshund woke me up early again!

 

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, Pim said:

Thanks for sharing that. He’s a great tenor player. The country and decade he grew up in might caused the fact he never really became well known. He definitely deserves wider recognition 

not well known in the country he grew up. At least in jazz circles of people from a bit older generation he is extremly well known. Saw his name mentioned in some anecdotes or facts from the programfolder at the Festival internațional Sibiu then, when I player there. Nicu as we call him already was living in Austria. So people asked me how he is doin. Well you know , club gigs are not well paid so mostly got support from friends. I mean among jazz fans who might not be your friend. He made some fine records here. "Black Sea" I remember, with topnotch players. 

I just played a few gigs then, but the situation was so desperate that I had to accept also some dumb gigs for weddings and stuff where you must play 90 la 100 easy music, șlagări and stuff.....

But I saw him in fine shape when he came back to Viena when he already lived in Germany. 

Oh, great human being, maiebe I got to rite him a message .......

[jazzbo]

Maria Schneider and SWR Bib Band “Jazz Works & Arrangements” disc 2

 

[Quasimado]

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[kh1958]

Russell Malone, Time for the Dancers (High Note)

[HutchFan]

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[Peter Friedman]

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[Pim]

 

Persian Classical music can’t get much more beautiful than this. Parissa has the voice of an angel and the ensemble provides excellent accompaniment.