So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

Not for everybody's taste (and only sometimes mine), but Barbarito Diez is rightly considered a legend, and the arrangements (a precursor to charanga, just that these are danzons) have more detail to them than a casual listen might at first suggest.

Bottom line - Panart. Ain't no bullshit there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarito_D%C3%ADez

[mjazzg]

This again

[jazzbo]

Wynton Kelly "Undiluted" Universal Japan SHM-CD

Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb 

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by jazzbo

[jazzcorner]

15 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

I've got the Dave McKenna, the Jaki Byard, the Marian McPartland, the Cedar Walton and the Toshiko Akiyoshi. Also the Ken Peplowski and Howard Alden at Maybeck from the Concord duo series.

Good for you & good taste!

;-]] W.B.

 

14 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Wow! Missed that Item. Carl & Frank always a good duo.

Have a SeaBreeze vinyl with the same title.

Here is another one I like:

Edited February 18, 2022 by jazzcorner
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[BillF]

3 hours ago, scooter_phx said:

Feelin' cool today...

Birth of the cool.  Fantastic.

That 10" LP was the first version of Birth of the Cool that I owned.

[Peter Friedman]

Fay Claassen - Sing 

WDR Big Band Cologne Arranged and Conducted by Mike Abene

[jazzcorner]

SeaBreeze Jazz SBD 101 - Herbie Harper "Revisited" - rec. 1981 - Engineer: Dan Morehouse

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Aldo Romano - Non Dimenticar (MLP). Nice date with a killer band of Italy's finest Jazzers - Paolo Fresu on trumpet, Franco D'Andrea on piano, Furio Di Castri on bass and Aldo on drums.

[mikeweil]

Today:

next was  which is a reissue of this:

Not outstanding, but of course a good one, recorded in typical 1980 sound .....

[Referentzhunter]

[Gheorghe]

It´s strange that Vol. 3 , decades ago was really hard to find. Eventually I got the LP as Japan Import , and later the CD with Mini-LP Sleeve also Japan Import. 

I mostly bought it for Side B with Curtis Fuller, that´s the really fantastic part of the album. 

I always said that the best Powell is on occasions when he played with horn players, like with Navarro and Rollins on Vol. 1, with Sonny Stitt on the Prestige album, with Bird and Fats at Birdland, with Bird and Diz at Massey, with Donald Byrd and Phil Woods at Birdland, with Hawk in Germany, with Dexter or Don Byas in Paris.....

The first side is not so interesting or it would have been fantastic if it also had Curtis Fuller. 
The slow blues "Some Soul"...... Slow Blues was not Bud´s strongest point, he is much better on "Dry Soul" on Vol. 4. 
"Blue Pearl" sounds like a Duke Jordan Composition. This should be played with horns, as a typical hard bop tune. 
"Frantic Fancies" is based on "Strike Up The Band", but it is no theme, only improvisation from the start on. How great would it have been with Curtis Fuller playing the theme and a solo and then Bud....because his solo is really fine. 

The weakest point is when the great Chambers would start a solo and Bud always get´s into it. That´s not the way you support a bassist. You even can hear when Paul gets unsure to continue his solo or just walk on. I don´t know why Bud did that to Paul. 

I think it would have been a fantastic album, if 1) they would have recorded the whole album with Fuller with the exception of the Bach Piece as a solo, and if Bud would lay out or just gently support Paul Chambers when he is soloing. 

P.S.: About the cover: Bud and a Bari player. Who might it have been and too pity there is no recording of it. That would have been another great thing, maybe with Cecil Payne, or Pepper Adams. By the way, around the same time Curtis Fuller did "Bone and Bari" ......and.....I got it signed from Mr. Curtis Fuller, with a dedication.......!!!!!!

Edited February 18, 2022 by Gheorghe

[BillF]

[EKE BBB]

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[jazzcorner]

A rare one - just in from the USA (mint-)

[jazzbo]

Horace Silver "A Prescription for the Blues" Impulse cd

Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Ron Carter, Louis Hayes

Good for what ails me this morning.

[jazzbo]

Antonio Carlos Jobim "Terra Brasilia" 

I have come to appreciate later Jobim more and more.

Music to watch falling snow by.

[kh1958]

Eddie Henderson, Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions)

[Peter Friedman]

Simply beautiful. Renee Rosnes, Jimmy Greene and Ron Carter play at the 5 star level. 

[scooter_phx]

Got the box down and listening to disc 1... plan to listen to all discs (eventually).

[JSngry]

 

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Horace Silver "A Prescription for the Blues" Impulse cd

Horace Silver, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Ron Carter, Louis Hayes

Good for what ails me this morning.

Now playing:

There are so many One for All albums, but this one seems to have something extra as it's live. Which of the studio albums can you recommend, John?

[HutchFan]

Discussing Max's records with Odean Pope & Calvin Hill on another thread.  So this:

[mjazzg]

Discussing McCoy Milestones on the same thread, so this 

[sidewinder]

Freebie MPS selection CD from the latest issue of ‘Jazzwise’. Pretty good !

Good way to recover from today’s domestic storm destruction. 

Edited February 18, 2022 by sidewinder

[John Tapscott]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

There are so many One for All albums, but this one seems to have something extra as it's live. Which of the studio albums can you recommend, John?

I like these two which are the first and last CD's the group made for the Sharp Nine label:

 

 

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