So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

26 minutes ago, erwbol said:

And Soul of an Angel.

I don't know that one, erwbol. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.  

[erwbol]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

I don't know that one, erwbol. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.  

The first track especially is magnificent.

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Dizzy Gillespie - The Big Bands (LRC, recorded 1962 & 1968)
Disc 1

There's some excellent music here -- but it's astonishing how bad a job LRC does packaging it. They do all that they can to convey, "Hey, we're cheap!" (And I don't mean value-conscious cheap. I mean slipshod and careless.) 

Dizzy deserves better.

[soulpope]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Shirley Scott - Scottie plays the Duke

 

Houston Person - Rain or shine

Ramsey Lewis - Bach to the blues

MG

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

 Beauties! - both Mrs. Dickerson and the recording.

I agree. It’s a superb performance and as good as anything Dickerson ever released. The band is spectacular too, Tucker and Cyrille being particular revelations.

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

 

 

[paul secor]

 

[HutchFan]

Sir Roland Hanna - Solo Piano (Storyville)

This man is a magician.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Breakfast with

The Pointer Sisters - Black & White

Pointer Sisters - Steppin'

Empire Bakuba & Papy Tex - Livre d'or

MG

[sidewinder]

Japanese Cadet

Edited September 10, 2018 by sidewinder

[BillF]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Pointer Sisters - Steppin'

Hilarious cover art ....

[mikeweil]

... and a hilarious album. Better than one might think, the Sisters were right down on it, great sidemen including Herbie Hancock, and Gaylord Birch laying down the funkiest grooves on the planet.

Now playing some Hip Hop which I bought for a buck because Rodney Kendrick is the mastermind here. 

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, mikeweil said:

... and a hilarious album. Better than one might think, the Sisters were right down on it, great sidemen including Herbie Hancock, and Gaylord Birch laying down the funkiest grooves on the planet.

(IMO) they were especially great with Alain Toussaint songs (here with "Goin`Down Slow" or the 1973 performance of "Yes We Can Can"), but on "Steppin`" for me the unquestionable highligt being their superb take on the McTell/Taj Mahal euvre "Chainey Do" with a ferociuos bassline by Paul Jackson .... irresistible to say the least ....

Edited September 10, 2018 by soulpope

[BillF]

[erwbol]

John Coltrane Coltrane (Tower Records Japan, PROZ-1110, Hybrid SACD)

New 2018 DSD mastering by Kevin Reeves. I only have this one title out of five (Ballads, Hartman, Ellington, A Love Supreme). Personally, I like it, but a member of the Hoffman board with all five titles states the series lacks consistency.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/tower-records-japan-exclusive-john-coltrane-hybrid-sacds.763610/#post-19495690

 

[JohnS]

         

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

(IMO) they were especially great with Alain Toussaint songs (here with "Goin`Down Slow" or the 1973 performance of "Yes We Can Can"), but on "Steppin`" for me the unquestionable highligt being their superb take on the McTell/Taj Mahal euvre "Chainey Do" with a ferociuos bassline by Paul Jackson .... irresistible to say the least ....

I love their vocal arrangements. I don't have many albums by vocal groups - more by the Coasters and the Pointer sisters than any others.

MG

Lunchtime o'grooves

Red Garland - Red alone

Bopol Mansiamina - Manuela

Al Casey - The swing-jump guitar of Al Casey (in Pete Brown Sextette 1944-45)

MG

[mikeweil]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

....., but on "Steppin`" for me the unquestionable highligt being their superb take on the McTell/Taj Mahal euvre "Chainey Do" with a ferociuos bassline by Paul Jackson .... irresistible to say the least ....

Full agreement - I learned that conga drums intro by Bill Summers not for note, and still know it by heart!

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