So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

9 hours ago, bluemonkey said:

Pepper Adams: Urban Dreams

Excellent ....

[BillF]

[Berthold]

Antonio Zambrini Trio Forme Semplici

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

  Classic music with classic accompanying bands.

[aparxa]

Ellington-Strayhorn - [Great times] (Vogue 2017)

Chico Hamilton - The Dealer

Taylor - Neidlinger - New York City R&B

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

Listened again today. I know I could listen to this a hundred times and find new aspects of it on the hundredth listen.

[soulpope]

[bluemonkey]

Allen Eager: In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[Morganized]

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Morganized said:

Very good indeed ....

[paul secor]

3 hours ago, bluemonkey said:

Allen Eager: In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee

One of my favorite Uptowns. Just listened to it last week with a friend who was visiting.

 

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

  Some very good Buell Neidlinger.

[duaneiac]

[bluemonkey]

Ruby Braff and his Big City Six: Little Big Horn
 

[Clunky]

This morning connected my old Minidisc player and found it works just fine. From my disorganised collection of MD 

 

Andrew Hill - —-solo recording 2000 broadcast on BBC Jazz on 3

Cecil Taylor /Bill Dixon/ Tony Oxley ——trio recording London 2003/4 ,also broadcast on Jo3

 

despite its limitations these sound pretty good 

[sidewinder]

19 minutes ago, Clunky said:

This morning connected my old Minidisc player and found it works just fine. From my disorganised collection of MD 

 

Andrew Hill - —-solo recording 2000 broadcast on BBC Jazz on 3

If it is the QEH performance - I was there.

First half was a mesmerising performance of solo Hill. Joined by Archie Shepp in duo post-interval. Great show.

Edited March 19, 2018 by sidewinder

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

An otherwise excellent record almost ruined by Oscar Peterson. Not his playing, which is easily enough ignored, or would be if he hadn't been mixed so goddamned (a word I seldom use in these threads, please note) loud in the mix. How he plays is his doing, but how he's mixed isn't (I hope not, anyway). I see it was recorded at RCA, and I seem to recall that studio being potentially "hard" sounding. But this is not just sound, it's mix.

Ray Brown, Mickey Roker, and the two trumpeters are all in fine form, on the boogaloo in particular, the beat is damn near sampleable. those two weren't faking it! Kinda imagining, say, Cedar Walton on Rhodes takes some of the hurt away from Peterson's non-stop bricking up of all the air in their groove, but geez, that would have hurt too if he had been mixed like this.

But I tell you, maybe it's the cheap earbuds I'm using, but on every track, the trumpets are behind the piano in the mix, that's just wrong no matter who it is.

[John Tapscott]

[JohnS]

[Clunky]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

If it is the QEH performance - I was there.

First half was a mesmerising performance of solo Hill. Joined by Archie Shepp in duo post-interval. Great show.

Yes I think it’s that performance. I don’t know if the Hill/Shepp was broadcast. It’s certainly not in my MD collection.