So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

More Phil Woods:

Phil Woods - Musique du bois (Muse, rec. 1974)
with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson

I dare to say that the impeccable Rhythm Section is the difference maker here ....

[alankin]

Fat Cat Big Band – Meditations On the War For Whose Great God is the Most High (Smalls Records)
— Jade Synstelien: guitar, compositions, vocals; Phil Stewart: drums; Ben Meigners: bass; Jack Glottman: piano; Sharel Cassity: alto saxophone; Stacy Dillard: tenor saxophone; Geoff Vidal: tenor saxophone; Tatum Greenblatt: trumpet; Brandon Lee: trumpet; Jonathan Voltzok: trombone; Max Seigel: bass trombone

 

[Cyril]

feat. Rein de Graaff (piano), Jacques Schols (bass) & John Engels (drums)

 

[alankin]

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – Treasury Broadcast No.19 [18Aug45 on Vol.10 of The Treasury Shows] (Storyville Records—D.E.T.S.)

Personnel:
Shelton Hemphill,  Rex Stewart, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson(t); Ray Nance(t,vn,v); Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, Claude Jones(tb); Jimmy Hamilton(cl,ts); Otto Hardwicke(cl,as); Johnny Hodges(as); Al Sears(ts); Harry Carney(cl,as,bar); Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn(p); Fred Guy(g); Junior Raglin(sb); Sonny Greer(d,ch); Marie Ellington, Al Hibbler, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis(v).

The broadcast includes excerpts from Black, Brown and Beige: Work Song, The Blues, West Indian Dance, Come Sunday, Light plus Subtle Slough, I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues, Riff Staccato, Bugle Breaks, Kissing Bug, Suddenly It Jumped, Warm Valley, Blue Skies.  All prime material was played on this date.

Live broadcast from Radio City Studio 6B, NYC.

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – Broadcast from the 400 Restaurant, NYC (CBS) [5/4/45 on Vol.10 of The Treasury Shows] (Storyville Records—D.E.T.S.)

Personnel:
Rex Stewart, ct; Cat Anderson, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, t; Ray Nance, t, vn; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Claude Jones, vtb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as; Otto Hardwick, as, cl; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl, bcl; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Junior Raglin, b; Sonny Greer, d; Al Hibbler, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis,Al Hibbler, Ray Nance, voc.

Titles include: Riff Staccato, I'm Beginning To See The Light, I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues, I Miss Your Kiss.

(The bonus material on CD 2.)

[soulpope]

(IMO) one of the best female soul albums of the 70`s .... recorded at  at Sound City Recording, Shrevenport, LA. and jam-packed with superb song material courtesy of Messrs. Bobby Patterson + Jerry Strickland ....

[HutchFan]

George Mraz Trio - Plucking and Bowing (Progressive)

[Morganized]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Speaking of Phil Woods . . .

The Phil Woods Quartet - Birds of Feather (Antilles, rec. 1981)

 

Love this one...

 

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

As for both Woods & Pete C., they each made two of the most distinctive and memorable recorded saxophone solos of the Rock Era, and no, not everybody can do that. So, respect where due, no problem.

 

This is all I really meant. In fact, I am probably a bigger fan of Pete Christlieb than Woods but not the point. Criticize the work, not the person. Doubtful that all parts of everything that a person has done over the last 30 years is "bad". And for purposes of this board I like the word  "prefer" to "criticize" because some of what you guys like is............well........................you know!!! ha ha ha ha   I'll just say not my preference!!! ha ha 

So no worries Hutch!! No need to hold back!! Keep the opinions coming!!

Love this place!!!

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

Kamasi Washington "The Epic" discs 2 and 3

Followed by
the SHM-CD

 

[soulpope]

[JohnS]

[soulpope]

Side 4 with the cameo appearance of Rahsaan Kirk .... terrific stuff indeed ....

[HutchFan]

Roland Hanna & George Mraz - Sir Elf Plus One (Choice)
One of Sir Roland's best, IMO.

[jazzbo]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

the SHM-CD

 

The second session on this reissue truly jazzes me. It's music that keeps dishing out seconds and thirds.

[sidewinder]

10 hours ago, JohnS said:

Completely ignored the Jazz Crusaders back in the day.  IIRC their records were not widely available over here but more likely I was much more interested in the exciting stuff  going on the east coast at the time.

 

 

I think you are right John. They would have come out over here on UK Liberty or Sunset I think and I don't recall ever having seen any of these from the 1960s. Buddy Rich Libertys, of course, were/are ten a penny.

[jazzbo]

20 Bit K2 US version

This album always sucks me in. . . .

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Ray Mantilla & the New Space Station - Man-Ti-Ya (Savant)
Produced by Cedar Walton.

 

Edited August 10, 2017 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

Did Ray Pizzi study with Don Christlieb?

And check it out - there's a Vernon Duke record on Contemporary where Don Christlieb plays Duke's Etude For Violin and Bassoon 

https://www.discogs.com/Vernon-Duke-Sonata-in-D-Etude-for-Violin-and-Bassoon-Souvenir-de-Venise-Parisian-Suite/release/8363960

[jazzbo]

New Japanese reissue from Solid Records. Funky! (Sounds a little funky too. . .could have been better recorded).

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Wadada Leo Smith's Mbira – Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM Records)
— Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet, flugelhorn), Min Xiao-Fen (pipa, voice), Pheeroan akLaff (drums)

 

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

20 hours ago, JSngry said:

When it comes to things Christlieb, make mine Don!

As for both Woods & Pete C., they each made two of the most distinctive and memorable recorded saxophone solos of the Rock Era, and no, not everybody can do that. So, respect where due, no problem.

 

A wonderful player, but FWIW Christlieb testified circa 1954 as a "friendly witness" before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named 33 musicians, as well as Norman Granz, as former members of the Musicians' Branch of the Los Angeles-area Communist Party (to which Christlieb himself had belonged). One can imagine the pressures Christlieb himself might have been under from HUAC and the Feds at the time, but his testimony brought down much grief upon the heads of those he named (loss of jobs in the film studio world, etc.), and a good many in the LA musical community never forgave him for what he did.

From Tad Hershorn's Granz biography:
 

'Granz never forgot about these incidents and never forgave those whose testimony against former party members often destroyed their professional lives….

'Almost twenty years later Granz took a moment to stick it to his onetime accuser, Donald Christlieb. His son, the tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb, was part of a big band led by Louis Bellson being recorded in the mid-1970s for Pablo Records. Greanz inquired about the status of the elder Christlieb.

 

 '“He’s retired,” Christlieb replied.

 

'“Tell him Norman Granz said hello,” Granz said.

 

'“I never heard back on that,” he said.'