So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Buddha the Magnificent said:

Buck Hill Quartet - This is Buck Hill (SteepleChase, 1978).  Buck Hill - tenor sax; Kenny Barron - piano; Buster Williams - bass; Billy Hart - drums.

Tremendous initial release - and what a superb Rhythm Section ....

[jazztrain]

6 hours ago, duaneiac said:

Great album.  His chorus on "My Romance" where he plays harmonics is ingrained in my head.  

Working at home and enjoying the following recent acquisition:

 

[Bluesnik]

I think they recorded acoustically back then and the band sounded only as well as they could sound live, which here is very good.

[jazzbo]

[paul secor]

Charlie Parker w. Chet Baker: Live at the Trade Winds, June 16,1952

[bluemonkey]

Kenny Barron Trio: The Perfect Set, Live At Bradley's II

 

[paul secor]

[JSngry]

uh....

[John Tapscott]

[paul secor]

Von & Ed (Delmark)

[JSngry]

 

 

 

 

[bluemonkey]

Oscar Pettiford - Vienna Blues: The Complete Session

[JSngry]

 

 

 

 

[JSngry]

 

[BillF]

[paul secor]

The Essential Buck Clayton (Vanguard)

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Rafał Sarnecki - The Madman Rambles Again (Fresh Sound/New Talent, 2011).  Rafal Sarnecki - guitar; Luca Pino - tenor sax, flute; Jerzy Malek - trumpet; Pawel Kaczmarczyk - piano; Wojciech Pulcyn - bass; Lukasz Zyta, Pawel Dobrowolski, Jose Mauel Alban Juarez - drums, perc. 

[JohnS]

[optatio]

MICHEL PETRUCCIANI: LIVE. BLUE NOTE 0777 7 80589 2 2 [1994]

Rec. live November 1991 at The Arsenal in Metz (France)

[paul secor]

George Russell: Ezz-thetics

I'm very happy to have the two previously unissued takes of "Kige's Tune".

[Buddha the Magnificent]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

MICHEL PETRUCCIANI: LIVE. BLUE NOTE 0777 7 80589 2 2 [1994]

Rec. live November 1991 at The Arsenal in Metz (France)

Love that one!

NP my favorite 1970s funk album.  I got to see George Clinton and Funkadelic, among other times, when they were touring with this one.  Make my funk the P-Funk, I wants to get funked up!

 

 

Edited July 22, 2017 by Buddha the Magnificent

[Berthold]

Teddy Wilson And His All Stars from 1945 (Musicraft Session)

 

[Berthold]

and again Teddy Wilson, this time "The Associated Transcriptions" from 1944

[BillF]

[duaneiac]

Music from 57 years ago today, at Mather Air Force Base --

First off, in general it seems Wally Heider does not get the respect and recognition his work deserves.  This is an excellent sounding "live" location recording, just as most of the things I've heard recorded by him have been.  I'm certainly grateful that he was out there on the scene preserving so many live performances.

This concert has a few unique characteristics.  First, there are 2 selections from Ellington/Strayhorn's Nutcracker Suite -- at a dance in the middle of July!  (The liner notes by Stanley Dance note this was only a couple of months after the band recorded this suite.)  Second, this is apparently the first recorded performance of "Paris Blues", captured 5 months before the band recorded the song for the film of that same name.  It does sound kind of like a work in progress here.

What does any one know about trumpeter Andres Merenguito?  Mr. Dance notes that he as also known as Fats Ford, which is how he is listed in the personnel here.  I have seen both names in relation to the Ellington band, but did not realize they were one and the same person.  What was the reason behind the two different names.  It's not like his original name was terribly difficult to pronounce, and even if it were, how hard would it have been to shorten it to just Andy Guito?  Where did the "Fats Ford" name come from?  Inquisitive minds beg to know . . .