What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Jimmy Smith/Lalo Schifrin - The Cat (Verve, mono)

RIP Alain Delon.  

👍 ....

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Duke Ellington, The Pianist 

I have not heard much Ellington playing piano himself, maybe a a bit on "Money Jungle" and maybe he sounds a bit more Monkish, but I´m really a Monk fan as it is about piano. 

But interesting some of the pianists who play more "arrangers style" like Duke, Basie, Kenton, Dameron made solo albums or so. I´m not sure. I heard a Pablo album Diz with Basie only a quartet..., and also Dameron did albums where he plays mostly solo, I think on that album with Trane, or the one with "The Scene Changes"....

[kh1958]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I have not heard much Ellington playing piano himself, maybe a a bit on "Money Jungle" and maybe he sounds a bit more Monkish, but I´m really a Monk fan as it is about piano. 

But interesting some of the pianists who play more "arrangers style" like Duke, Basie, Kenton, Dameron made solo albums or so. I´m not sure. I heard a Pablo album Diz with Basie only a quartet..., and also Dameron did albums where he plays mostly solo, I think on that album with Trane, or the one with "The Scene Changes"....

You might want to investigate more deeply. Ellington is much more than an arranger's piano. He's one of my favorite pianists. There are plenty of solo, duo, trio, and small group recordings.

 

[HutchFan]

12 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

You might want to investigate more deeply. Ellington is much more than an arranger's piano. He's one of my favorite pianists.

Agreed!   

 

 

 

Last night:

[Mark Stryker]

52 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

You might want to investigate more deeply. Ellington is much more than an arranger's piano. He's one of my favorite pianists. There are plenty of solo, duo, trio, and small group recordings.

 

I just need to co-sign this. Duke was a fucking brilliant and original pianist, both as a soloist and as an accompanist. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either misinformed or hasn't done the listening. And while I'm at it, Basie was a great pianist too. When I think of folks who play "composer's" or "arranger's" piano, I think of people like Tadd Dameron, Gil Evans, and MANY cats I know who play other instruments but can sit down at the keyboard and comp changes in time and perhaps even solo too, some well enough to play gigs, but with limited technique and a narrow expressive range compared to "real" pianists (like Duke and Basie). 

Edited August 19, 2024 by Mark Stryker

[clifford_thornton]

22 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Yep, Atlantis. They got it in a couple of weeks ago and I showed restraint and common sense then but yesterday thought "sod it, won't see one of them again if it's still there I'm having it". Sometimes you just have to...

know the feeling. Well done!

[mjazzg]

27 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

know the feeling. Well done!

Thanks, I think it has to be my top score not least because a lot of previously sold copies seem to be G+, obviously a party album in its day

Edited August 19, 2024 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, tough to find ZA albums in decent shape for sure.

[Chuck Nessa]

[JSngry]

43 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That's my favorite Clifford Jordan record, period.

[HutchFan]

Earlier: 

[JSngry]

35 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Earlier: 

I love to say "kikiriki" in many different cadences.

[HutchFan]

15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I love to say "kikiriki" in many different cadences.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

57 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Earlier: 

This is my favorite Fajardo album.  Of course, I'm biased because of the artwork.

[HutchFan]

 

 

39 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

This is my favorite Fajardo album.  Of course, I'm biased because of the artwork.

In my experience (so far), all Fajardo is good Fajardo.   

 

[JSngry]

Fajardo? Artwork?

Ever seen a Panart inner sleeve?

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Classic ....

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

This is the one with the two compositions "Viena" and "Uagadugu", isn´t it. 
Very fine music, this might be from the strata East recordings then ? Isn´t it. 
 

[Pim]

 

someone inspired me to play this one. I love the Vienna composition and heard it play in a record store but a different version. It was the new Jordan release by the Dutch Jazz Archives :

It sounded pretty damn good and I am considering ordering it

Edited August 20, 2024 by Pim

[soulpope]

51 minutes ago, Pim said:

I love the Vienna composition and heard it play in a record store but a different version. It was the new Jordan release by the Dutch Jazz Archives :

It sounded pretty damn good and I am considering ordering it

Features soulful bassgrooves by Ruud Jacobs ....

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Features soulful bassgrooves by Ruud Jacobs ....

And the drumming master himself, at the same time he's playing with Brötzmann, Parker and Tchicai...

[soulpope]

7 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

And the drumming master himself, at the same time he's playing with Brötzmann, Parker and Tchicai...

Indeed .... always there ....

[Chuck Nessa]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

This is the one with the two compositions "Viena" and "Uagadugu", isn´t it. 
Very fine music, this might be from the strata East recordings then ? Isn´t it. 
 

My copy is an original Strata-East pressing.

[Teasing the Korean]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

In my experience (so far), all Fajardo is good Fajardo.   

👍

[mjazzg]

Wlodzimierz Nahorny Trio - Heart [Polskie Nagrania, Poland 1968]