So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Ahmed Abdul-Malik "Jazz Sound of Africa" OJC cd

Reissues "The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik" and "Sounds of Africa" both originally on New Jazz Records

[kh1958]

Dizzy Gillespie Quartet, At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall

[HutchFan]

Now:

John Lewis - Kansas City Breaks (Red Baron/Finesse, rec. 1982)
with Frank Wess (fl); Joe Kennedy (vn); Howard Collins (g); Marc Johnson (b); Shelly Manne (d)

Edited January 28, 2022 by HutchFan

[jazzbo]

John Coltrane "Ballads" Impulse Japan SHM-SACD UCGU-9070

Perhaps not the best digital copy I have, but when spun with my DAC in "Out" phase it sounds pretty darned great.

Edited January 28, 2022 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Given to me for Christmas, the Plano library had an all-you-can-eat-for-$10.00 sale and my sone's family went all-in and got me a buttload of classical stuff, this one included.

I was not expecting the energy and vibrancy in these performances. A VERY enjoyable surprise!

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Sounds intriguing and fun. I never listened to Snarky P.  I see it's streamable so that's me sorted

Snarky Puppy is a bit more cinematic and "modern" in style. I think I enjoyed Culcha Vulcha the most. This record is a lot more commercial and basic than Snarky Puppy though, I think in a good way.

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Andrew Cyrille - Special People (Soul Note, 1980)
 

 

16 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Great set!

 

[mjazzg]

16 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Andrew Cyrille - Special People (Soul Note, 1980)

 

Great one. The Cyrille Black Saint/Soul Note box is 100% killer

[jazzbo]

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis "Cast of Cats"

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

John Coltrane "Ballads" Impulse Japan SHM-SACD UCGU-9070

Perhaps not the best digital copy I have, but when spun with my DAC in "Out" phase it sounds pretty darned great.

[BillF]

Time for a second listen. So lovely!

Record of the year so far, or is it this?

[JSngry]

Mixed emotions about these for me (as with Grossman in general, not just these records, he was apparently a "complicated guy") but of two things I am certain - It's hard not to like this record if you don't think about it past the immediate moment; and - for all those whiners who would love nothing more than to have Sonny Rollins playing in 1984 like he did in 1957, here's your records, thank you, now stop bitching about it.

[Peter Friedman]

Leonard Feather Presents BOP - Phil Woods, Idrees Sulieman, Thad Jones, George Wallington, Curley Russell, Denzil Best, Art Taylor

Edited January 28, 2022 by Peter Friedman

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Mixed emotions about these for me (as with Grossman in general, not just these records, he was apparently a "complicated guy") but of two things I am certain - It's hard not to like this record if you don't think about it past the immediate moment; and - for all those whiners who would love nothing more than to have Sonny Rollins playing in 1984 like he did in 1957, here's your records, thank you, now stop bitching about it.

In his autobiography, Dave Liebman talks about how surprised he was when he heard Steve Grossman in the 1980s after not having seen him for a long time.  Lieb was totally surprised by Grossman's sound, how Rollins-esque it was. ... Of course, it was very different than the sound Grossman had when he and Liebman were in Elvin's band.  So it was a shock.  I didn't sense that Lieb was judging Grossman exactly.  But it threw him for a loop. 

 

[jlhoots]

Andrea Motis: Emotional Dance

[HutchFan]

Two different John Abercrombie quartets from the 1980s.

Earlier:

 

Now:

 

[jazzbo]

Albare "A Long Way"

[JSngry]

22 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

In his autobiography, Dave Liebman talks about how surprised he was when he heard Steve Grossman in the 1980s after not having seen him for a long time.  Lieb was totally surprised by Grossman's sound, how Rollins-esque it was. ... Of course, it was very different than the sound Grossman had when he and Liebman were in Elvin's band.  So it was a shock.  I didn't sense that Lieb was judging Grossman exactly.  But it threw him for a loop. 

 

What Liebman told about Grossman was that Grossman had mastered Bird by the time he was, like 15 or 16, and then got busy doing the same thing with Trane and had that down by the time he was 18. Grossman got the Miles gig first, remember, so he must have had some kind of buzz about his very early on.

Somewhere Grossman was asked about his influence on all the young tenor players (or a certain ilk) and he replied that all he was doing was playing Trane slowed down into 8th notes instead of 16th notes. I took him at his word and respect his honesty.

A really complicated person with demons of the All Time type, if even half the stories are true. That kind of a tortured soul background adds a bit of poignancy that many of the other CloneTranes don't have for me.

Have you heard the Live at Brown's private tapes? He's in a zone there, and a zone is a zone, even if it's a little "derivative". You can't fake a zone, and he was in one there, and almost here as well.

 

[HutchFan]

9 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Have you heard the Live at Brown's private tapes? He's in a zone there, and a zone is a zone, even if it's a little "derivative". You can't fake a zone, and he was in one there, and almost here as well.

I haven't.  When were those recordings made?

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

mid-late 70s.

find your local  Tenor Geek Of A Certain Age, they should have old cassettes of it, that's how they circulated.

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Andrew Cyrille - Special People (Soul Note, 1980)

Outstanding ....