So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

One Blue Note often leads to another. 

Sonny Rollins "Night At the Village Vanguard" Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD.

Edited December 8, 2017 by jazzbo

[Buddha the Magnificent]

5 hours ago, erwbol said:

It even has the Deutsche Grammophon biohazard label for historically appalling sound quality.

harsh, LOL!

Wycliffe Gordon - Within These Gates of Mine (Blues Back Records, 2016)  Saw Wycliffe do this one at Savannah Music Festival two years ago while the old silent movie played.  Religious.

[alankin]

Cedar Walton – Eastern Rebellion (Timeless Records—Solid Records/Ultra-Vybe Japan)
— With George Coleman, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins

[OliverM]

RIP

[duaneiac]

[alankin]

Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulant – Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac Records)
— Tevor Dunn (bass), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Ches Smith (drums)

 

Edited December 8, 2017 by alankin

[HutchFan]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Back Home (Concord, 1979)

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

 

[HutchFan]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Roots Strata (Atlantic)

 

Chris Connor - Sweet and Swinging (Audiophile)

 

The Harold Danko Quartet featuring Gregory Herbert (Inner City)

[xybert]

3 hours ago, alankin said:

Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulant – Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac Records)
— Tevor Dunn (bass), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Ches Smith (drums)

 

 

Bought this when it came out as i was a huge Mr Bungle (and by extension Trevor Dunn) fan. I never *really* got in to it and ended up trading it. Kind of blows my mind that years later Mary Halvorson and Ches Smith are such giants in my world. And Dunn still, of course, who has gone on to do so much. 

Finally got around to repurchasing this album in the last year or so. Was pleasantly surprised to find that they did a version of Single Petal of a Rose, which i would have been completely oblivious to at the time and is now a favourite.

I had time on my hands recently and have been enjoying Jeremiah Cymerman's podcast. It's apparent that for a lot of people of my generation Mr Bungle and Zorn were a gateway in to jazz/improv/etc. I remember being oddly fascinated by the words 'Produced By John Zorn and Mr Bungle' on the back cover of the self-titled Bungle record (like the weird pseudonyms used by Bungle it had a huge amount of mystique somehow). Never really investigated (lazy plus pre-internet), and then one day having my mind blown to see that he had his own section in the jazz section (which i never ventured in to at the time), and it was stacked! Will never forget that.

It's a common trope that fusion is a gateway: Mahavishnu leads to electric Miles, electric Miles leads to acoustic Miles etc. Similarly, Bungle leads to Zorn, Zorn leads to Naked City which leads to Frisell etc. Zorn also leads to Tim Berne which leads to any number of peeps. Zorn's Ornette tribute also got me in to Ornette after years of not really getting him. Anyways...

NP: Grant Green - Oleo (recent Japanese reissue) 

 

 

 

[Hardbopjazz]

Coltrane/Hartman. What a great album.

[Hardbopjazz]

Ellington and Coltrane

1. 

[Tom 1960]

[HutchFan]

Bennie Wallace - Disorder at the Border: The Music of Coleman Hawkins (Enja/Justin Time)

[jlhoots]

Wadada Leo Smith : Najwa

[paul secor]

Mississippi John Hurt: D.C. Blues Volume 2

[kinuta]

[bluemonkey]

Jimmy Cobb Quartet: Jazz In The Key Of Blue

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, kinuta said:

Outstanding 70's Southern Soul ....

[aparxa]

Paul Bley - Solo in Mondsee

Michel Petrucciani - Promenade with Duke

Randy Weston - Berkshire Blues

[soulpope]

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Roots Strata (Atlantic)

The Genius of Rahsaan Kirk unleashed ....

[BillF]

[soulpope]

16 hours ago, alankin said:

Cedar Walton – Eastern Rebellion (Timeless Records—Solid Records/Ultra-Vybe Japan)
— With George Coleman, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins

Never get tired of this one ....

[Cyril]