HutchFan

It's Brazz-Jazz from the 1980s. Sorta Azymuth-ish. I dig it.

Superb.

Next up: Marcio Montarroyos - Magic Moment (Columbia/Lorimar, 1982)

Recently plucked from a record store dollar bin: Billy Eckstine - Mister B. and the Band: The Savoy Sessions (Savoy/Arista, rec. 1945-47)

You'd be more qualified to answer that question than most of us.

Anyone heard this one? with Pharoah Sanders (ts), John Hicks (p), Curtis Lundy (b), and Idris Muhammad (d) Tracklist: 1 You Gotta Have Freedom 2 It's Easy To Remember 3 Dr. Pitt 4 The Creator Has A Masterplan 5 Greetings To Idris Due for release in March 2023. I suppose this is an archival release, technically, rather than a reissue. But close enough.

Yes, I can hear that. At times, Redd's playing reminds me (a little) of Randy Weston's style. Both men love those low, low bass notes. I don't know what Redd did either. I have a few of his records from more recent years, including a 2015 SteepleChase release, Music for You. I've enjoyed what I've heard from Redd -- but, you're right -- his discography is relatively small, especially given the duration of his career. Agreed! . . . But my recommendation would be to BEGIN with A Lazy Afternoon.

Now streaming: Masahiko Sato & Toshiyuki Miyama and His New Herd - Nayutagenjo (Columbia Japan, 1976) Hypnotic, potent music. . . . And strange -- in the best sense of the word.

Back in 70s and 80s, Stowell made a series of albums with bassist David Friesen. Perhaps you saw Stowell with him? Stowell's more recent work in the trio Scenes -- with bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop -- is what initially drew me to his playing.

Freddie Redd - Straight Ahead! (Interplay, 1977) with Henry Franklin (b) and Carl Burnett (d)

with Claudio Roditi, Jim McNeely, Mike Richmond, and Billy Hart

In No Direction Home? A lounge-y sort of singer. That's my recollection.

OJC reissue

Yep. Same thing. Speaking of movies, that industry has gone through a similar sort of transformation from (mostly) making movies for adults to (mostly) making movies for kids & teens. Another case of shifting demographics and focusing on chasing younger people's disposable income.

I think demographics -- as @JSngry points out -- has a great deal to do with the demise of Easy Listening as a marketing or radio concept. The Boomer wave was so large that it swamped other genres. Anything not "new" (and youth-oriented) was OLD and therefore not valuable. Jazz was another victim of this giant demographic wave -- from a certain point of view. (Of course, from another perspective, the destruction was also simultaneously re-vivifying for jazz in that it cleared out some space for new things to happen.) An embodiment of this perspective: Think of the scene in No Direction Home where Dylan makes fun of the jazz/lounge singer. (I don't even recall who it was, or exactly what type of music it was.) From Dylan's point of view, the music was just not contemporary and therefore "inauthentic." So Dylan ridicules it. That one scene sums up what seems to me to be a generational attitude -- even if Dylan has since repudiated that particular scene and feels embarrassed by it now. And, of course, this shift to a youth orientation was aided and abetted by marketers who wanted to sell stuff to young people -- because they realized that young people have much more "disposable income" than their parents (generally speaking).

This again: Beautiful.

Same here. My U.S. version of that Hino LP was released on the Catalyst label in their "International Jazz from Japan" series.