Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim – Sangoma - Volume One (Sackville 1973)
Ruby Braff / George Barnes Quartet With John Giuffrida & Wayne Wright – The Ruby Braff / George Barnes Quartet (Chiarosco, 1973)
What a wonderful afternoon's listening it has been.
Some brazen skimming for recommendations here, but which of the Chicago Octet / Tentet records.do.you most enjoy? I realised that I only really know the first.
Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis (Nonesuch, 2022)
Now on:
Sirone Bang Ensemble – Configuration (Silkheart, 2005)
Such an incredibly ugly cover. Such great music. Tyshawn Sorey just fantastic.
How strange. Someone posted the record on instagram yesterday and I was also trying to figure out who it was. I also assumed Lester Young. I mean… it is a picture of Lester Young.
I second all of this.
I was so excited at the prospect of the reissue of By Myself that I have been encouraging all of my jazz and non jazz friends to listen to the record. This was done half as a joke: generally my recommendations are met with what I assume are rolled eyes and maybe a cursory listen. However, when I told them he had just died, only a week or so later, I was surprised to find that this time several of them had gone back to the album and listened to it multiple times in the short interval.
Zoh Amba Featuring William Parker And Francisco Mela – O Life, O Light (Vol. 1) (577, 2022)
FJC was going mad for this one recently. I'm actually pretty impressed by it.
Its a good question. Is modern art just more "polite" than modern music? Attending art galleries is assumed to be something that a cultured person does.