So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

Just now, jazzbo said:

Cool. My two cents. . . the Japanese label "licensed" this recording and if that is true I'd believe their dating more than. . . Joker Records. 

There is no evidence of Mingus recordings from 1969, but who knows ....btw do like the frontline with McPherson + Jones + Preston, so great to have the music ....

[JSngry]

Joker was a bootleg/grey market label (Italian in origin, IIRC?) of the 70s that put out some great stuff, that's floated around in different guises for years, notably ton he Lotus label.

NP:

More Hale Smith, please!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Lionel Hampton Big band - Clef 1955

Erskine Hawkins - Horizons du jazz no 17 - RCA Victor

DCG-P - Diz delights - RCA Victor

MG

[kh1958]

Archie Shepp  and Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Jazz Village)

Edited September 28, 2021 by kh1958

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Sun Ra "Languidity" . . . the alternate mix.

Me like.

[HutchFan]

Disc 2 - Originally released as Fathead Comes On and House of David

 

 

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I also have this. My wife bought it for me last Chrismas, since she knew I have a lot of Diz but never saw this one in my collections. 

I like it mostly for the fact my wife bought it, yeah it swings and you can really close your eyes and relax listening to it.

But I must also state, that it doesnt really work together Basie and Diz. First of all they didn´t seem to get a lot of common material, most of it is blues, with the excepetion of "Ow" based on Rhythm Changes. But IMHO Basie has a too spare piano style to make such a small group album. His little phrases, a note here, a note there is mighty fine with the Basie Big Band, and maybe on the Basie All Star Jams for Pablo, but here, let´s say playing a very slow blues, there is not very much happening . He even plays lesser notes than Tadd Dameron, who sometimes was critizized for is lack of pianism, but Tadd really plays stuff on the quartet album with Trane. And somehow, Ray Brown always is too loud. 

The cover photo...... well that´s some pseudo 70´s scene. Dizzy might have been in his late 50´s but tries to wear 70´s closes and hippie like sittin on the floor. 

Funny how we all hear things so differently.  Because I love that album. 

To my ears, it's a bit of a stylistic and generational "mismatch" -- perhaps comparable to Ellington's recordings with Coltrane -- that works beautifully despite those differences (and maybe even, on some level, because of those differences).

 

[soulpope]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Basie with Diz:

 

Superb Cover Photography + great music ....

[kh1958]

13 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

Funny how we all hear things so differently.  Because I love that album. 

To my ears, it's a bit of a stylistic and generational "mismatch" -- perhaps comparable to Ellington's recordings with Coltrane -- that works beautifully despite those differences (and maybe even, on some level, because of those differences).

 

The small group Pablo releases featuring Basie, which I ignored at the time, have proven to be a bountiful treasure. Thanks once again, Norman Granz, for  capturing it on record.

[Dub Modal]

This OJC has some alternate takes and is enjoyable. 

[mhatta]

The premature death of Emily Remler is still sorely missed.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

[BillF]

20 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Lionel Hampton Big band - Clef 1955

 

 

 

 

17 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

 

 Love those early Montgomerys!

Edited September 29, 2021 by BillF

[soulpope]

Outstanding ....

[BillF]

1 hour ago, mhatta said:

 

 

Now playing:

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Now:

James Moody - Heritage Hum and The Teachers (Collectables)
Both LPs originally released on Perception Records

 

[jazzbo]

Stan Getzz Quartet wtih Astrud Gilberto "Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1966" The Lost Recordings, disc 2

Astrud is on this disc from the start, absent from disc 1.

 

[Dub Modal]

2 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

I love this album. 

NP disc one from the Bechet Mosaic Select:

[soulpope]

[Rabshakeh]

David Wertman and the Sun Ensemble - Earthly Delights (1978)

I assume Astral Spirits' graphics team took note of this one.

[mjazzg]

41 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

David Wertman and the Sun Ensemble - Earthly Delights (1978)

I assume Astral Spirits' graphics team took note of this one.

Great album

[mikeweil]

[BillF]

10 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

 

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