What music did you buy today?

[T.D.]

It's a recent Soul Jazz (UK) reissue on gold colo(u)red vinyl/CD.

[Pim]

Wow I am one lucky fellow I guess 😵 I saw a copy of Noah Howard’s Live in Europe at the Dutch website Bol.com by a second hand vendor. It was the 2022 Sconsolato reissue and for 22 euros including shipment this sounded like a sweet deal. The package arrived and when I opened it, it contained the original Sun pressing in near mint condition 😍 for only 22 euros!  now that was one pleasant surprise  

 

 

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, Pim said:

Wow I am one lucky fellow I guess 😵 I saw a copy of Noah Howard’s Live in Europe at the Dutch website Bol.com by a second hand vendor. It was the 2022 Sconsolato reissue and for 22 euros including shipment this sounded like a sweet deal. The package arrived and when I opened it, it contained the original Sun pressing in near mint condition 😍 for only 22 euros!  now that was one pleasant surprise  

 

 

Nice!

Is your hearing back now to enjoy it?

[Pim]

40 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Nice!

Is your hearing back now to enjoy it?

Not fully but it gets better by the week, thanks for asking! Definitely enough to enjoy this record coming weekend  

Edited March 26 by Pim

[Niko]

Wow, that is some crazy luck! (my own new records of this week are Jazz behind the Dikes Volume 3 and a Japanese reissue of Tony Fruscella's Atlantic album... the closest I came to a bargain recently was the debut album of Bert Joris for 2 Euro last week... it's been good weeks for buying used records)

[jlhoots]

Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning

[BFrank]

Saw these two interviewed by Ashley Kahn at Big Ears, and it was a very sober sociopolitical discussion about life and the state of the world. I bought the CD at the venue.

[mjazzg]

54 minutes ago, BFrank said:

Saw these two interviewed by Ashley Kahn at Big Ears, and it was a very sober sociopolitical discussion about life and the state of the world. I bought the CD at the venue.

My copy is on the post. Initial streaming certainly suggests and album for these times, I would love to have heard that dual interview.

Their previous recordings are wonderful too. Where Iyer does his best work these days to my ears, many others would say his trio but not for ne

[Niko]

their previous duo album, A cosmic rhythm with each stroke, is my favorite album by Iyer... Defiant Life I liked as well, but I still need to get into it more - it's quite different actually

[BFrank]

22 hours ago, mjazzg said:

My copy is on the post. Initial streaming certainly suggests and album for these times, I would love to have heard that dual interview.

Their previous recordings are wonderful too. Where Iyer does his best work these days to my ears, many others would say his trio but not for ne

I discovered yet another version of Vijay when the trio Field Work reassembled for a show at Big Ears - last album, 2008. I believe they recorded a new album that will be out later this year.

An amazingly INTENSE live performance from Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey

 

[mjazzg]

54 minutes ago, BFrank said:

I discovered yet another version of Vijay when the trio Field Work reassembled for a show at Big Ears - last album, 2008. I believe they recorded a new album that will be out later this year.

An amazingly INTENSE live performance from Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey

 

Fieldwork's earlier albums are very high quality, I'm very much looking forward to the new one 

[BFrank]

16 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Fieldwork's earlier albums are very high quality, I'm very much looking forward to the new one 

Me, too!

[JSngry]

This has to be one of the more surreal albums I've come across in a while. Proby wrote and performed all these songs, not for Elvis the general performer, but for Elvis movies, the really stupid, crappy ones. And it's like he's determined to be inside the movie himself, doing Elvis with all the weirdness of those movies spinning out of these songs. The song titles give you an idea of just what is going to happen - and it does.

It's no secret that I generally have ZERO use for Elvis, but this is a different animal altogether, I don't know that any of these songs made it into any of the movies, and that creates an even more otherness to the music - Proby as Elvis in Proby Elvis moves. Mayby qa parody, but only as a secondary objective.

It's a trip, as is so much of Proby in general. Skills AND concept.

[kh1958]

On 4/3/2025 at 1:21 AM, mjazzg said:

My copy is on the post. Initial streaming certainly suggests and album for these times, I would love to have heard that dual interview.

Their previous recordings are wonderful too. Where Iyer does his best work these days to my ears, many others would say his trio but not for ne

The Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith duo concert at Big Ears last weekend was really fantastic. The preceding concert, Wadada Leo Smith's Revolutionary Fire Love, was also quite good and featured Iyer in a larger group.

[JSngry]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

This has to be one of the more surreal albums I've come across in a while. Proby wrote and performed all these songs, not for Elvis the general performer, but for Elvis movies, the really stupid, crappy ones. And it's like he's determined to be inside the movie himself, doing Elvis with all the weirdness of those movies spinning out of these songs. The song titles give you an idea of just what is going to happen - and it does.

It's no secret that I generally have ZERO use for Elvis, but this is a different animal altogether, I don't know that any of these songs made it into any of the movies, and that creates an even more otherness to the music - Proby as Elvis in Proby Elvis moves. Mayby qa parody, but only as a secondary objective.

It's a trip, as is so much of Proby in general. Skills AND concept.

Ok, so it looks like Proby didn't necessarily write all of these songs, and that some of them did find their way into Elvis's movies.

But there's really no comparison. Elvis is just invisible

Proby is full-on creepy. Way ahead of his time, imo.

 

[rostasi]

Are you familiar with Mr. Mucklehoney who walks into Ma Brontosaurus' Liquor store in the desert and knocks over a display of P.J. Proby wine?