So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzcorner]

[Niko]

Helmut Sachse - Hannes Zerbe

streaming this one via youtube... a split LP that was recorded in the first month of my life... it's a logical week for exploring more of this Easter stuff as we're approaching the 60th anniversary of the Berlin wall on Friday

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Dreams And Explorations by Don Friedman Quartet (Riverside, 1965)

Pairs nicely with aching joints and fever dreams.

That's a nice one, preferably without the jab side effects though. Hope they subside soon.

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

From the newly released box set of his Atlantic work, two Mose Allison releases.

Mose Allison, "I don't Worry about a Thing"

Mose Allison "Swingin' Machine"

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Jasper van't Hof - Solo Piano (Timeless, 1989)

 

[Niko]

Hannes Zerbe - Blech Band

"Blech" is for "brass"... an album that proves that the spirits of Eissler, Weill and Ayler were alive and well in early-80s Eastern Germany... 16 horns (including 3 tubas) plus rhythm featuring international guest Willem Breuker... my copy came with a promo poster and an additional document in (poor) English and French, all provided by the government institution that was in charge of organizing the international tours of the country's artists...

[Dub Modal]

This morning's listening. Lovely records, the both of them. 

[jazzbo]

Jose James "Love in a Time of Madness" . . . something different, though his voice and phrasing is not un-Mose Allisonesque.

[Rabshakeh]

40 minutes ago, Niko said:

Hannes Zerbe - Blech Band

"Blech" is for "brass"... an album that proves that the spirits of Eissler, Weill and Ayler were alive and well in early-80s Eastern Germany... 16 horns (including 3 tubas) plus rhythm featuring international guest Willem Breuker... my copy came with a promo poster and an additional document in (poor) English and French, all provided by the government institution that was in charge of organizing the international tours of the country's artists...

Great cover.

[HutchFan]

Bennie Wallace Plays Monk (Enja, 1981)

 

[Niko]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great cover.

interestingly, for the poster, they gave the cover some type of 1980s makeover:

 

[Rabshakeh]

Pony Pointdexter - Pony's Express (Epic, 1963)

[BillF]

41 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

This morning's listening. Lovely records, the both of them. 

Cupla great ones!

[Dub Modal]

Disc 2 

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Cupla great ones!

Blue Leo is such a great song 

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

[mjazzg]

[Dub Modal]

 

[BillF]

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

now onto disc 2

[Dub Modal]

Thread on Stitt inspired me to put on:

I've got the 32 Jazz CD reissue, but this Muse cover is much better. Nice work from all involved on this album. Jones' bass definitely has that 70s studio aesthetic but it's all good here. 

[DMP]

“Benny Goodman in Moscow.”  (I remember there was some criticism at the time (1962) that Goodman was hardly representative of where Jazz was at, why not send someone more modern - I always bought into that and avoided the LP  - but listening now for the first time I have a different view. Plenty of room for Joe Newman, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims and others, Mel Lewis is the drummer, the band includes Victor Feldman, Jimmy Knepper, there are a couple of Tadd Dameron arrangements...  Goodman - who sounds good - almost takes a back seat.)

[JSngry]

22 minutes ago, DMP said:

“Benny Goodman in Moscow.”  (I remember there was some criticism at the time (1962) that Goodman was hardly representative of where Jazz was at, why not send someone more modern - I always bought into that and avoided the LP  - but listening now for the first time I have a different view. Plenty of room for Joe Newman, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims and others, Mel Lewis is the drummer, the band includes Victor Feldman, Jimmy Knepper, there are a couple of Tadd Dameron arrangements...  Goodman - who sounds good - almost takes a back seat.)

Plenty of love for that one here!

[Dub Modal]