So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[alankin]

Teddy Wilson – I Want to Be Happy [1944-1947] (Naxos Jazz Legends)
— quartets, quintets and sextets with various musicians including: Charlie Shavers, Red Norvo & Remo Palmieri / Buck Clayton & Ben Webster or Don Byas / Charlie Ventura; rhythm: bassist Billy Taylor, drummers J.C. Heard, Specs Power, Morey Feld, a.o.; vocalists Sarah Vaughan, Maxine Sullivan & Kay Penton are each on one track; recordings for Musicraft and Standard Transcriptions

 

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[alankin]

Mary Halvorson Quintet – Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12 Records)
— Jonathan Finlayson :: trumpet; Jon Irabagon :: alto saxophone; Mary Halvorson :: guitar, composition; John Hebert :: bass; Ches Smith :: drums 

 

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[alankin]

George Braith – Musart (Real Gone Music / Dusty Groove—Prestige 7515)
— With Jane Getz, Eddie Diehl, Bill Salter, Victor Davis, Cal Lampley, Ben Dixon, a.o.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

44 minutes ago, alankin said:

George Braith – Musart (Real Gone Music / Dusty Groove—Prestige 7515)
— With Jane Getz, Eddie Diehl, Bill Salter, Victor Davis, Cal Lampley, Ben Dixon, a.o.

 

That's a great record!

[alankin]

Assif Tsahar Mark Dresser / Gerry Hemingway[/b] – Code Re(A)d (Hopscotch Records)
— With Assif Tsahar (tenor sax & bass clarinet), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (drums& percussion); live at Levontin 7, Tel Aviv

 

[duaneiac]

An appropriate St. Patty's Day album from an Irish lassie.  It even concludes with "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral".  She was backed by Nat Pierce, Jake Hanna, Monty Budwig, Scott Hamilton and Cal Collins on this 1978 album.

[JSngry]

These are my favorite Mothers by a mile, not even trying to be a "rock band", instead, a "contemporary classical" composed/improvisational absurdist chamber ensemble.

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Billy Harper - Live on Tour in the Far East (SteepleChase, 1992).  Billy Harper - tenor sax; Eddie Henderson - trumpet; Francesca Tanksley - piano; Louie Spears - bass; Newman Taylor Baker - drums.  Wonderful.

[duaneiac]

[HutchFan]

Ted Nash - Still Evolved (Palmetto)

[l p]

rahsaan roland kirk  1974 & 1975

[paul secor]

4 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

In addition to the music, dig Terry Martin's liner notes.

 

 

Yes. Terry Martin's liner notes are excellent.

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[optatio]

1 hour ago, duaneiac said:

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[JSngry]

[optatio]

AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS SALUTES BESSIE SMITH. LEO RECORDS CD LR 103 [1996]

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[duaneiac]

That Piano Jazz episode with Amina Claudine Myers is the only recording I have by her and really, I have not heard much about her for the past 25 years or so.  What has she been up to?

Now playing:

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[soulpope]

5 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

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[StarThrower]

On 3/16/2017 at 0:02 PM, paul secor said:

I'm not a Ben Sidran fan, but it might almost be worth getting this to hear what Roscoe Mitchell does. Well, I did say "almost".

Hey, he's not Mose Allison, but I enjoy a few of Ben's albums including this one. Good tunes and great players.

[Peter Friedman]

A session I greatly enjoy.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS SALUTES BESSIE SMITH. LEO RECORDS CD LR 103 [1996]

Excellent ....

[optatio]

1 hour ago, duaneiac said:

That Piano Jazz episode with Amina Claudine Myers is the only recording I have by her and really, I have not heard much about her for the past 25 years or so. What has she been up to?

A lot! I only mention her outstanding "Poems for Piano. Piano Music of Marion Brown". (Sweet Earth Records SER1005), her trio recordings and her collaboration with Archie Shepp, for example "Live in Souillac" in Archie Shepp, Gemini (Archie Ball Arch 0701). And: She was my special guest during our Jazz Festival in 2008!

[JSngry]

I like the way she sings the opening line to "This Is Always".  Sets up a follow-through rather than being the conclusion.