So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

48 minutes ago, JohnS said:

Grand Encounter and Murray's Ballads, some nice stuff being played today.  

 

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

Joey Calderazzo - Going Home (Sunnyside)
with Orlando le Fleming (b) and Adam Cruz (d)

 

 

Gateway - Homecoming (ECM)

 

 

Elvin Jones & Masabumi Kikuchi - Hollow Out (Philips Japan)
with Gene Perla

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by HutchFan

[paul secor]

La Belle Epoque Vol. 1 - Les Grandes Classics Congolais(Glenn)

Mostly tracks by Les Bantous de la Capitale

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Gateway - Homecoming (ECM)

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[HutchFan]

More Masabumi Kikuchi:

Masabumi Kikuchi, Gary Peacock, Masahiko Togashi - Poesy: The Man Who Keeps Washing His Hands (Philips Japan)

[alankin]

Conference Call – Live At The Outpost Performance Space (482 Music)
— With Gebhard Ullmann - soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet; Joe Fonda - bass; Michael Jefry Stevens - piano; Gerry Hemingway - drums; recorded live in Albuquerque, NM

 

 

The Implicate Order At Seixal (Clean Feed Records)
— Steve Swell (trombone), Ken Filiano (bass), Lou Grassi (drums) + Rodrigo Amado (baritone sax),  {aulo Curado (alto & soprano sax); live at Auditorio do Forum Cultural do Seixal, Portugal

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by alankin

[Cyril]

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

Got my copy of the Japanese reissue today. An excellent album, and one of the best Duke tributes I have heard. Highly recommended!

[alankin]

Mal Waldron with The Steve Lacy Quintet (America Records / Universal Music France)
— Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Steve Potts (soprano & alto sax), Mal Waldron (piano), Irene Aebi (cello, voice), Kent Carter (bass), Noel McGhie (drums); plus two alternate takes

 

Paris, 1972.

[soulpope]

50 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Got my copy of the Japanese reissue today. An excellent album, and one of the best Duke tributes I have heard. Highly recommended!

Agreed .... and superb sound via this SHM-CD edition ....

[Tom 1960]

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu, 1975).  Barry Harris - piano; Gene Taylor - bass; Leroy Williams - drums.

[StarThrower]

[l p]

Pharoah Sanders

26.08.77, Willisau, switz 
Kenneth Moss (Khalid) p
Hayes Burnett b
Clifford Jarvis dr 

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Ben Allison - Little Things Run the World (Palmetto, 2008).  Ben Allison - bass; Ron Horton - trumpet; Steve Cardenas - guitar; Michael Blake - sax; Michael Sarin - drums. 

[HutchFan]

On a bit of a Calderazzo kick:

Joey Calderazzo - S/T (Sony)
with John Patitucci & Jeff "Tain" Watts

[Cyril]

3 hours ago, alankin said:

Mal Waldron with The Steve Lacy Quintet (America Records / Universal Music France)
— Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Steve Potts (soprano & alto sax), Mal Waldron (piano), Irene Aebi (cello, voice), Kent Carter (bass), Noel McGhie (drums); plus two alternate takes

 

Paris, 1972.

 !!!

[paul secor]

Whistlin' Alex Moore 1929 - 1951

[BillF]

[duaneiac]

On half of the tracks from the original 1960 album, "some of Basie's cats" appear -- the Two Franks, Al Grey, Joe Newman and Freddie Green.  The Lonehill Jazz CD reissue also includes the album Deep Roots from two years later.

Much of my listening lately has been the audiobbok version of Elvis Costello's new memoir:

I'm currently at Disc 5 of 15.  He has a lot of interesting tales to tell, and in the early discs, it's not always so much about himself as about his parents.  His father was a singer with the Joe Loss band and came into contact with a lot of the stars and up-and-comers in the UK music biz of the 1950's and 60's and on occasions when young Declan might accompany his dad to a gig, he got to meet some of them as well.  His mom worked for a time in a record shop and was instrumental in smuggling some Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano records into England for a customer (a tale Mr. Costello was able to recount to Mr. Konitz years later when the latter made a guest appearance on one of his albums).  He seems to be aware of his own limitations as a singer and songwriter (at least, it doesn't sound like false modesty), but is justly proud of his best work.  He does jump around in time a lot here, as one experience in his youth might remind him of a  situation from much later in his life, and my lack of knowledge of the geography of the UK & London is a bit of a hindrance.

I've always wanted to like Elvis Costello's music more than I do.  He seems like an intelligent enough chap with a world view beyond just "sex & drugs & rock 'n roll", but outside of the usual hits, most of his music just hasn't done much for me.  Still, he is an interesting storyteller.

[Cyril]