So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

7 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

That top record "Sastanak" looks amazing. Really, anything with Julius Watkins on it, I'm interested. 

Same here!

Looks like a session made when the Quincy Jones band was scuffling on their ill-fated "Fancy Free" tour.

Don't know that I've ever seen a full list of all the records that came out of that, actually...

[Chuck Nessa]

In STEREO

same in MONO

[jazzbo]

Something there is about Tom Harrell’s music that I keep reaching for it the last 12 months or so. Perhaps it’s because it is solidly a part of the tradition and yet also a personal distillation of the post-bop musical world. He’a a favorite of my best friend who is also a trumpeter and that I think also plays a part–we have listened to his music over the years together.

This is a nice one. . . a live recording that sounds great and has spirited playing by musicians who listen to each other and enjoy playing together–THAT you can feel in the music.

George Robert & Tom Harrell Quintet “Cape Verde” Mons cd

 

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Alto Saxophone – George Robert

Bass – Reggie Johnson

Drums – Byron Landham

Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Tom Harrell

Piano – Dado Moroni

Recorded live in Rheinfelden, Switzerland on September 24-25, 1992

 

[rostasi]

	1.	The Way We Were 03:46
	2.	The Sting 04:24
	3.	Mon Ami Qui Frui 04:49
	4.	Le Picbois 03:27
	5.	Les Gens De Mon Pays 03:54
	6.	Watermelon Man 03:04
	7.	Coming Home Baby 02:56
	8.	Take Five 04:39
	9.	Le Roi Muffe 04:16
	10.	Bright Moments 02:50   Quote Ask anyone who took part in band, chorus, or any other cultural club as a teenager to name their best (or worst) memory, and there’s a good chance they’ll mention some variant of The Assembly, those recurring, strenuously rehearsed concerts played for fellow classmates in an auditorium or gym. The contents of the setlist, so to speak, have historically fallen under schools’ jurisdiction for obvious reasons, but exceptions do exists, and they’re available on wax, no less. Recorded in 1975 by students attending the Collège André Grasset, a pre-college institution in Montreal, 1001 Est Crémazie is a live re-recording of “The Rocking Grass,” an on-campus performance curated by, and catering specifically to, a student audience—all with the full backing of the college’s administrators, who financed the on-campus recording studio where the record was made, and handled the initial vinyl run of 500 copies, some of which have fetched prices as high as $500 before this week’s reissue. Like most music made by teenagers under the aegis of cool teachers, it’s a reflection of the youths’ voracious appetite for new sounds (in this case, the funk, psychedelic folk, jazz, and Latin circulating Québec at the time), refracted through uncontroversial standards like Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”(as if to reassure the parents that the teachers weren’t off taking a smoke break the whole time). They even let the kids throw some original material on here, too, which, according to the liner notes, subsequently appeared on the radars of Canadian crate-diggers and DJs. If that’s not a cool school project, I don’t know what is…plus, it sounds amazing. –Zoe Camp

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

3 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

That top record "Sastanak" looks amazing. Really, anything with Julius Watkins on it, I'm interested. 

Julius Watkins is on both  "Sastanak" and the Oscar Pettiford album.

 

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[Holy Ghost]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

In STEREO

same in MONO

Have the Savoy, but that top LP looks really hip. Too bad its opp. 

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Never seen this before, wow. 

[GA Russell]

50 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

Never seen this before, wow. 

That was one of my first jazz albums.  Still a favorite!

[Holy Ghost]

[Holy Ghost]

 

[BFrank]

Excellent new album from Myra

[Holy Ghost]

Meant to keep the Kenny fest going but wasn't looking and picked this gem instead, Dave and Kenny are brothers!? Thought they were cousins. Whatever the case, they're both awesome.