So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

13 hours ago, soulpope said:

This was a nice Atlantic series ....

For sure!  I found the complete set at a thrift store recently.   (No box or booklet; just the CDs.)  It's been great fun digging into it, hearing both the obscurities and the classics.

 

NP:

Machito - Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz (Roulette)
Featured soloists are Cannonball and Joe Newman

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

For sure!  I found the complete set at a thrift store recently.   (No box or booklet; just the CDs.)  It's been great fun digging into it, hearing both the obscurities and the classics.

I bought the vinyl box back in the day .... and kept it  .....

[alankin]

Loren Stillman – Blind Date (Pirouet Records)
— With Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Joey Barron

[bluemonkey]

David X. Young's Jazz Loft
Discs 1 & 2 of 2

Edited October 30, 2017 by bluemonkey

[alankin]

Tony Malaby / Joey Sellers Quartet – Cosas (Nine Winds Records)
— Tony Malaby (tenor sax), Joey Sellers (trombone), Michael Formanek (bass), Billy Mintz (drums)

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Excellent, and recorded even better.

[BillF]

[optatio]

JIMMY HEATH: ON THE TRAIL. RIVERSIDE/ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS OJCCD 1854-2 [1994]

Edited October 30, 2017 by optatio

[HutchFan]

Coltrane with Red Garland:

  

 

And the new Tom Harrell:

 

[paul secor]

3 hours ago, bluemonkey said:

David X. Young's Jazz Loft
Discs 1 & 2 of 2

I know that there were those who were disappointed with this set - perhaps for what wasn't included. I took it for what it was and enjoyed it.

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

Buddy Terry, "Lean on Him" Mainstream Records/Solid Records. Smooth funky "spiritual" jazz.

Bass – Wilbur Bascomb
Drums – Bernard Purdue
Electric Piano, Piano – Larry Willis
Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Eddie Henderson
Flute, Saxophone [Soprano, Tenor] – Buddy Terry
Guitar – Jay Berliner
Organ – Ernie Hayes
Percussion – Lawrence Killian
Producer – Bob Shad
Vocals – Alphonse Mouzon, Dee Dee Bridgewater

[paul secor]

Memphis Slim: Rockin' the Blues (Vee-Jay/Charly)

[Cyril]

October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956

 

The last official album by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach 5.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

ANDY BEY: TUESDAY IN CHINATOWN. MINOR MUSIC MM 801099 [2002]

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[sonnyhill]

[HutchFan]

[duaneiac]

Another excellent Ace compilation.  A great assortment of Leiber & Stoller songs (some written in collaboration with others) sung by such artists as Ben E. King, Jimmy Scott, Tommy Roe, Irene Reid, The Shangri-Las, Solomon Burke, Carmen McRae, The Walker Brothers and more.  There are some well known hits, the best known being perhaps Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" (which had an enormous impact on me as a boy), but even the more obscure tunes make for great listening.  The liner notes are very informative.  For example, Mike Stoller wrote "Juicy" (a hit for Willie Bobo) as a TV commercial jingle for the Florida Citrus Commission and Jerry Leiber got co-writing credit on Johnny Cash & June Carter's hit "Jackson" by helping songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler edit and restructure his song, basically telling him to dump several verses and begin the song with his last verse and that unforgettable "We got married in a fever / hotter than a pepper sprout" line.

 

Edited October 31, 2017 by duaneiac

[BillF]

[duaneiac]

in addition to music I also enjoy listening to old time radio programs.  The theater of the mind created by some of those shows is really wonderful  Appropriate for Halloween, here's a classic episode from the Suspense series called "Three Skeleton Key".  It's about three men who staff a lighthouse on a small, lonely island miles from the nearest coast.  One stormy day a seemingly deserted ship crashes upon the shore of their island -- but it is not deserted for it bears on its decks and in its holds thousands and thousands or hungry, ravenous rats.  With the sound effects used and the presence of star Vincent Price, this is a truly scary, suspenseful story.  You can listen to it (with the lights out, of course) here:

http://ia800500.us.archive.org/26/items/OTRR_Suspense_Singles/Suspense_561111_673_Three_Skeleton_Key_-128-44-_28101_29m53s.mp3