So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

Old time favourite ....

[John Tapscott]

[relyles]

[Tom 1960]

Thanks to Lon for recommending this. Just started listening to this and I like what I hear. Not bad for 99 cents via Dusty Groove.

 

[alankin]

Hal Galper – Now Hear This (Enja Records)
— Hal Galper - piano; Terumasa Hino - trumpet; Cecil McBee - bass; Tony Williams - drums.

Remixed & remastered from the original 8-track masters by Thorsten Scheffner in 2006. Also includes one bonus alternate take.
 

[alankin]

John Escreet – Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside Records)
— John Escreet - piano; Evan Parker - tenor & soprano saxophone; John Hébert - bass; Tyshawn Sorey - drums

Very nice.
 

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, alankin said:

Hal Galper – Now Hear This (Enja Records)
— Hal Galper - piano; Terumasa Hino - trumpet; Cecil McBee - bass; Tony Williams - drums.

Remixed & remastered from the original 8-track masters by Thorsten Scheffner in 2006. Also includes one bonus alternate take.
 

!!!

[catesta]

[duaneiac]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[bluemonkey]

Bill Evans Trio at Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood, California

[duaneiac]

:"A Friendly Session" -- as opposed to the usual surly or combative June Christy session?

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, duaneiac said:

:"A Friendly Session" -- as opposed to the usual surly or combative June Christy session?

I believe the implication of "friendly" here is relaxed, casual, off-the-cuff, compared to some other Christy recordings.

[John Tapscott]

[duaneiac]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

I believe the implication of "friendly" here is relaxed, casual, off-the-cuff, compared to some other Christy recordings.

Yes, I suppose so.  Ms. Christy herself almost always sounded "friendly' on her recordings, even when tackling some of the more challenging Kenton arrangements.  I have 3 volumes of these recordings (not sure if there were more) and the liner notes state they were recprded in 1949 by NBC for radio play only.  As such, I'm guessing it was a pretty "casual" recording session with loosely framed arrangements of standards and they probably whipped through a dozen tunes in a given session.  Nice stuff which any June Christy fan would enjoy.

Now playing

For some reason, the piano used for this session had 91 keys instead of 88.  To fully capture the sound of those extra keys, I hope the recording engineer turned all his knobs up to 11.

[paul secor]

5 hours ago, soulpope said:

 Still fascinating to listen to after all these years.

[duaneiac]

[ghost of miles]

David Young, David Young (new reissue of Mainstream album).

[ghost of miles]

... and yet more Mainstream jazz: