So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

First this:

and now this:

For me it remains a win on points fot the "Ballad Album" based on a perfect execution .... but probably nitpicking here ....

[Dub Modal]

Quartet with Ed Bickert, Ron Carter & Connie Kay

[BillF]

Listening again to Benny following his beautiful recent solo session (see YouTube Favorites).

[jazzbo]

"Four for Trane" Archie Shepp, Impulse/Universal Japan UHQCD. These Impulse UHQCDs sound so good I had to order more, and this is an important cd for me so I had to have the UHQCD--and am not disappointed.

Alan Shorter – flugelhorn
John Tchicai – alto saxophone
Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone
Roswell Rudd – trombone, arranger
Reggie Workman – double bass
Charles Moffett – drums

From wikipedia:

According to Coltrane biographer Ashley Kahn, Four for Trane "was a direct result of Coltrane’s intervention, and his faith in the young tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia." Shepp recalled his efforts to get a recording date with Impulse!: "I had spent months trying to get Bob [Thiele] on the phone and he never answered the phone. Every time I'd call, his secretary, Lillian, whom I got to know very well, but at that point I hated her because she said, 'Well he's gone out to lunch,' or 'He's gone home and he's not coming back.' I was living in a fifth-floor walk-up and I'd save a dollar a day just to make ten calls. I'd run down and put a dime in the phone in the drugstore. This went on for months... So this one night I sat in with Trane at the Half Note. I got up enough courage to ask if he would intercede. So John gave me a look — the first time he really sort of looked at me in a very critical way, very questioning. He said, 'You know, a lot of people think I'm easy.' Then he took a very hard look at me. I said, 'Well, John, you can be sure I'm not trying to take advantage. I need this.' He knew I loved him. It wasn't about just trying to get off easy. So he looked at me and he says, 'Well, I'll see what I can do...' The next day I called Thiele's office and lo and behold the secretary says, 'Well, he's not in now but he will be back at three o'clock and he's waiting for your call.' So when I did talk to him, the first thing he said is, 'You guys are avant-garde. I know you're into your own thing. If you do this recording you're going to have to record all of John's music.' I had just been waiting for the chance to do that. I loved Trane's music and I had my own ideas about how to work with it. That became the Four for Trane date..."

Regarding the recording session, Shepp said: "When we did the Four for Trane date, it went down almost take by take, because we had rehearsed nightly for months. After the third song, Bob, who had been really terribly rude at the beginning, smoking his pipe like a chimney, he brightened up a bit, sat down and said, 'I've got to call John and tell him this stuff is great.' He said, 'John, you got to come out and hear this!' Well, Coltrane already knew. He had been listening to this stuff for the last couple of years because the avant-garde was all around New York... John was very gracious. He drove out from his home in Long Island to Englewood, at about eleven o'clock at night. I assumed he got out of his bed, because when we took that photo they put on the album cover [he was] with no socks, you know."

[Dub Modal]

4 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

He drove out from his home in Long Island to Englewood, at about eleven o'clock at night.

With the current interstate highways, that's about an hour's drive or so at that time of night per Google maps. Back then, I'm wondering if it was more like 2 hours, or even more. Great story. 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Booker Ervin "That's It" Candid/Solid Records Japan SHM-CD, mono mix

These Nola Penthouse recodings are okay but I always wish there were a different piano. Great session though, one of my favorite Booker Ervins.

[Joe]

[jazzcorner]

 

 

 

[ghost of miles]

[jazzbo]

The Music of William Parker "Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World" Volume 3, "The Majesty of Jah."

I'm slowly, happily, working my way through this 10 cd box set, repeat listneing to each disc.

[Don]

 

My older daughter liked this so much she made me pause it when she had to leave the room for a minute.

[jazzbo]

"Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne Hall" Contemporary OJC cd.

Russ Freeman is such a nice accompanist for a singer here and elsewhere. And Kaumca too. . .this is a nice chill pill of a cd.

Bass – Chuck Berghofer
Drums – Shelly Manne
Piano – Russ Freeman
Tenor Saxophone – Richie Kamuca (6 tracks)
Trumpet – Conte Candoli (one track)
Vocals – Ruth Price

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Booker Ervin "That's It" Candid/Solid Records Japan SHM-CD, mono mix

These Nola Penthouse recodings are okay but I always wish there were a different piano. Great session though, one of my favorite Booker Ervins.

[soulpope]

[Referentzhunter]

[jazzbo]

"The Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge ,Pete Brown, Jo Jones All Stars at Newport" Verve "50th Anniversary" cd

This is one of those Kevin Reeves mastered cds from the first decade of this century that I think sounds bettter with my DAC "out of phase."

Joe Jones makes this one for me!

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

"Sonny Rollins on Impulse" Impulse/Universal Japan UHQCD

[Balladeer]

16 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Nice one!

[Peter Friedman]

[gmonahan]

Closed my eyes and picked this one out. Very third stream: