So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

Listening to this for the second time today:

Miles Davis - Live at The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (Sony Legacy, 2 CDs)

This masterpiece is the subject of today's blog post on PLAYING FAVORITES.

 

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

Very true.

That record was a huge hit, with a lot of crossover appeal (I figured that out when I showed up to college my freshman year and met people who didn't know anything else about jazz, but they knew that record).. Of course, the "hit" was "Compared to What", which made it problematic for a lot of radio stations (there were "beeped" versions that got played on the stations in this area). Also, what radio play it did get was on Black and/or Underground Radio, so if you weren't tuned in to (pun almost unavoidable, sorry) that scene, you'd have no idea what was going on with that record.

"Cold Duck Time" was also pretty popular, especially as a live/club tune. I was still playing it well into the 1990s.

So yeah, a monster hit record.

It had this cover when I was young and during that time it sold very well. 

I had quite a few from that "That´s Jazz" series: Mingus "Blues and Roots", Coltrane-Cherry "The Avantgarde", Ornette Coleman "Free Jazz", The Messengers feat. Thelonious Monk etc. …..

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Listening to this for the second time today:

Miles Davis - Live at The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (Sony Legacy, 2 CDs)

This masterpiece is the subject of today's blog post on PLAYING FAVORITES.

Another excellent choice ....

[EKE BBB]

[erwbol]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Listening to this for the second time today:

Miles Davis - Live at The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (Sony Legacy, 2 CDs)

This masterpiece is the subject of today's blog post on PLAYING FAVORITES.

 

 

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Another excellent choice ....

Though the two sets from March 6, 1970 have been recorded in much better sound without the added distortion. Strange Sony chose to only release March 7, 1970. The soundboard bootleg from the other night is an essential companion.

[BillF]

[EKE BBB]

[B. Goren.]

[David Ayers]

14 hours ago, erwbol said:

Passed on that series but wish I had bought a few. The US releases are a bit lacking. 

[erwbol]

27 minutes ago, David Ayers said:

Passed on that series but wish I had bought a few. The US releases are a bit lacking. 

A lot of them are very good. I have almost the entire Coltrane portion of the series, except the ones I didn't need like The Coltrane Quartet Plays (APO Hybrid SACD). The mini-LPs are laminated and so not easily damaged (unlike the Alice Coltrane mini-LPs from 2004). This is the best Ascension CD I have heard. The Kevin Reeves from 2000 had too much highs, the Originals from 2008 also by Reeves was even worse with added compression.

Edited January 10, 2020 by erwbol

[JSngry]

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Listening to this for the second time today:

Miles Davis - Live at The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time (Sony Legacy, 2 CDs)

This masterpiece is the subject of today's blog post on PLAYING FAVORITES.

 

The thing that most makes me smile about this gig is a bit trivial (or not, maybe!) - the gig was Wayne's last with the band, and it was on a Saturday. With that in mind,, note that Wayne takes great pains to, at one point, quote "Never On Sunday" to some great length. Language!

[Peter Friedman]

More good Al Cohn here.

[JSngry]

Spurred on by the inclusion of "Sister Sadie" in Dan Gould's current BFT. This is a really good band, and a pretty damn good record, with Pauls Gonsalves & Quinichette aboard (although not at the same time). But the real treat for me is the section work here, the blends and colors that was once everywhere and today seems to be nowhere. I've heard the same thing about the "French Orchestra sound", but can't speak to that.

This, I think I can speak to. Technology changes, society changes playing changes to meet the technological and societal changes, and so it goes, colors change, concepts of sound change...nothing's "right" or "wrong", just different.  And me myself, this era/style of section playing is really, really satisfying.

How many people playing in big bands today have actual, extended experience playing in any kind of a dance band, never mind an unamplified one?

[Justin V]

 

When my daughter wakes up and asks for some Stitt, I have no problem obliging her.

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

1 minute ago, John Tapscott said:

That's a damn good record.

[jazzbo]

Hubert Laws "Carnegie Hall" CTI/BGO Records

[David Ayers]

2 hours ago, erwbol said:

A lot of them are very good. I have almost the entire Coltrane portion of the series, except the ones I didn't need like The Coltrane Quartet Plays (APO Hybrid SACD). The mini-LPs are laminated and so not easily damaged (unlike the Alice Coltrane mini-LPs from 2004). This is the best Ascension CD I have heard. The Kevin Reeves from 2000 had too much highs, the Originals from 2008 also by Reeves was even worse with added compression.

Noted. If these come round again I’ll be waiting. In the meantime, this:  

 

[erwbol]

1 minute ago, David Ayers said:

Noted. If these come round again I’ll be waiting.

The masters have been used for subsequent (budget) reissues in jewel cases, some up until recently while others having been replaced with for instance the US Originals masters of the 2011 SHM-CD masters. I have a spare copy of this Ascension in jewel case in near mint condition as well (UCCI-9124). Are you perhaps interested for a friendly price? 

I also have Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (UCCI-9144).

Also a spare copy of the incredible SHM-CD from 2011 of Meditations without the distortion in the bass of the all domestic releases. And SHM-CD 2011 of Transition.

Friendly price means free except the price of shipping, which is not budget from the Netherlands.

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon "Our Man in Paris" Blue Note Japan "24 Bit by RVG" cd

For a bit more than a month I've neglected to refile this one in the shelves and have been spinning it. It has the mojo, great to have Bud and Klook with Dex.

[B. Goren.]

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, erwbol said:

Though the two sets from March 6, 1970 have been recorded in much better sound without the added distortion. Strange Sony chose to only release March 7, 1970. The soundboard bootleg from the other night is an essential companion.

Thanks erwbol.  I'll track that down.  

I will say that I intentionally avoided including bootlegs in my survey -- even if they're widely available. Just wanted to stick with official releases.

 

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

The thing that most makes me smile about this gig is a bit trivial (or not, maybe!) - the gig was Wayne's last with the band, and it was on a Saturday. With that in mind,, note that Wayne takes great pains to, at one point, quote "Never On Sunday" to some great length. Language!

Wayne's fantastic wit.  No way that's trivial.  

 

1 hour ago, Justin V said:

When my daughter wakes up and asks for some Stitt, I have no problem obliging her.

Justin, you have an extremely HIP daughter!   

 

1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

Still strange that Geri Allen's gone. ... Way too soon. 

 

Edited January 10, 2020 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

7 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Wayne's fantastic wit.  No way that's trivial.  

Right. And the notion of music as an actual language, a means of literal (but non-verbal) communication, no way that's trivial either! Notes are just the building blocks of a very complex and comprehensive language.

Verbal language is actually too often crude in comparison.

[HutchFan]

10 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Verbal language is actually too often crude in comparison.

Absolutely. 

Makes me think of this famous quote: "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will move the stars to pity."
-- Flaubert

 

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