So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

Is it cruel to say that I would love this session more if it weren't Ray Draper's and just a quartet with Coltrane?

Great rhythm section behind the horns. Listening to this via the Coltrane "Side Steps" box set.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Is it cruel to say that I would love this session more if it weren't Ray Draper's and just a quartet with Coltrane?

Great rhythm section behind the horns. Listening to this via the Coltrane "Side Steps" box set.

Perhaps not cruel, just an honest response. I'm not familiar with that one, but having heard Draper in a couple of other contexts, I can understand your feelings.

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Is it cruel to say that I would love this session more if it weren't Ray Draper's and just a quartet with Coltrane?

I don't think so.  

 

 

I'm listening to this again:

Stephane Grappelli Meets Earl Hines (Black Lion)

[jlhoots]

Sorry, but I think Draper always added a sort of mysterious touch to the sessions he was on.

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, erwbol said:

Mark Shim - Turbulent Flow

Why doesn't Shim record as a leader anymore? 

I wonder, too. Caught him live at the Jazz Gallery some ten years ago with a Mark  Helias group that included Herb Robertson, Craig Taborn, and IIRC Eric Harland, and Shim and everyone sounded terrific.
Also, a perfect NYC-attitude experience  --  I was at the Jazz Gallery a few years ago and mentioned to the ticket taker at the door how mesmorable that Helias group performance was and how good Shim had sounded. He said with great certainty that Shim had never played at the Jazz Gallery. When I told him that I had in fact heard Shim there, he said, and not at all in a nice way (if such be possible), "You're lying." Too bad I really wanted to see the band I'd bought a ticket for that night; otherwise I would have torn it up and thrown the pieces in his face.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

I wonder, too. Caught him live at the Jazz Gallery some ten years ago with a Mark  Helias group that included Herb Robertson, Craig Taborn, and IIRC Eric Harland, and Shim and everyone sounded terrific.
Also, a perfect NYC-attitude experience  --  I was at the Jazz Gallery a few years ago and mentioned to the ticket taker at the door how mesmorable that Helias group performance was and how good Shim had sounded. He said with great certainty that Shim had never played at the Jazz Gallery. When I told him that I had in fact heard Shim there, he said, and not at all in a nice way (if such be possible), "You're lying." Too bad I really wanted to see the band I'd bought a ticket for that night; otherwise I would have torn it up and thrown the pieces in his face.

Wow. "You're lying"? Not even - You may be mistaken, or I don't think so? Sounds like a total a-hole.

Edited April 21, 2017 by paul secor

[erwbol]

 

[duaneiac]

1 hour ago, erwbol said:

 

Isn't that a Hound Dog Taylor tune?

Now playing

[AllenLowe]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

I wonder, too. Caught him live at the Jazz Gallery some ten years ago with a Mark  Helias group that included Herb Robertson, Craig Taborn, and IIRC Eric Harland, and Shim and everyone sounded terrific.
Also, a perfect NYC-attitude experience  --  I was at the Jazz Gallery a few years ago and mentioned to the ticket taker at the door how mesmorable that Helias group performance was and how good Shim had sounded. He said with great certainty that Shim had never played at the Jazz Gallery. When I told him that I had in fact heard Shim there, he said, and not at all in a nice way (if such be possible), "You're lying." Too bad I really wanted to see the band I'd bought a ticket for that night; otherwise I would have torn it up and thrown the pieces in his face.

sorry Larry, I think you are lying about this whole thing. A New Yorker rude? Especially a hip music guy?  (sounds like a scene out of High Fidelity; I am surprised they even let you into the Jazz Gallery).

Edited April 21, 2017 by AllenLowe

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

John McNeil Quintet - Faun (SteepleChase)

[duaneiac]

I've been listening to the audiobook version of Harry Belafonte's autobiography.  I'm only up to the point where he joined the Navy in 1944, but man, he had a pretty brutal childhood. 

Listening to Disc 3 of 5 from this Bear Family boxed set:

[duaneiac]

Next up

from the boxed set

Recorded in 1965-66, the big band included the likes of Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Tony Coe, Kenny Wheeler, Jimmy Deuchar, Stan Tracey and Phil Seamen.

[John Tapscott]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

John McNeil Quintet - Embarkation (SteepleChase)
Terrific band. Terrific music.

Indeed. Great rhythm section. 

 

Now: 

[sidewinder]

Mr Fame is doing a gig just down the road from me in a few weeks' time. Sadly, no Harry South Big Band though..

[jazzbo]

Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stone Flower, this time the Japanese SHM-CD remastered by Rudy Van Gelder. Subtly different, a bit more forward, stronger bass. A neat way to hear this recording that I know so well.

[Peter Friedman]

[Simon8]

[soulpope]

thereof

[HutchFan]

Earl Hines - Plays Duke Ellington (New World)
Disc 2

 

Earl Hines - At Home (Delmark)

[jazzbo]

Haven't spun this one in a while, this is a quiet storm of a great jazz vocals album.

[BillF]

[paul secor]

When the Sun Goes Down - That's Chicago's South Side (Bluebird)

[soulpope]

thereof

[jazzbo]

Holy cow! The new three hybrid-SACD reissue of Santana's "Lotus" arrived from Japan. To call this a "deluxe reissue" is to damn it with very faint praise. Oversized. Incredible printing, card stock quality, etc. Lots to read. .. if you can read Japanese!

Sound is exceptional.