So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[kinuta]

Discs 1 & 2

[JohnS]

Last evening

[BillF]

[paul secor]

South America - Black Music in Praise of Oxala and Other Gods (Nonesuch Explorer)

[duaneiac]

Recorded in 1964 in Berkeley, CA (where I happened to buy this disc at Amoeba Records yesterday).  Lightning Hopkins appears on just over half of the tracks, including one bonus track the two singers made in 1961.  The music has a very loose feel to it because as Ms. Dane explained in the liner notes, she was recording a session in front of an audience of invited friends/guests one afternoon at the club she was playing at and had no idea the Mr. Hopkins (who was to be the performer at that club the next week) would be in the audience.  So she had not even planned on singing with him that day, let alone having rehearsed anything with him.  Still, the music works and it's fun to hear the two of them "wing it" more or less.

[soulpope]

A treasured recording of mine ....

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

 

[soulpope]

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by soulpope

[JSngry]

 

[JohnS]

Disc 1.

[paul secor]

The Best of Little Walter Volume Two

[soulpope]

[duaneiac]

 

 

[soulpope]

[Cyril]

[jazzbo]

[sidewinder]

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[HutchFan]

J.D. Allen - Radio Flyer (Savant)
First listen. Really enjoying it.  The instrumentation brings Sonny Rollins' quartet with Jim Hall to mind.

 

Steve Kuhn and Ecstacy - Motility (ECM)
Phew!!!  "Ecstacy" is right.  Superb music and sound recording. 

[duaneiac]

Disc 2 of 2.

[Morganized]

[sonnyhill]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

J.D. Allen - Radio Flyer (Savant)
First listen. Really enjoying it.  The instrumentation brings Sonny Rollins' quartet with Jim Hall to mind.

 

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Cyril said:

Aptly titled - very nice indeed ....

[HutchFan]

Abdullah Ibrahim - The Journey (Chiaroscuro / Downtown Sound)
with Don Cherry, Carlos Ward, Hamiet Bluiett, Johnny Dyani, Roy Brooks, a.o.

 

 

[duaneiac]