So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[ghost of miles]

[Matthew]

Stan Kenton: Sophisticated Approach

[Clunky]

On 05/06/2018 at 4:17 AM, paul secor said:

Frank Lowe Quintet: Live from Soundscape (DIW)

How's this one. Not one I've heard and I do like Lowe's music.?

[Peter Friedman]

[SimonSpill]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Good that the Jazz Journal column remains a going concern. A highlight of that fine publication !

I'd love to know what those 'domestic difficulties' were that supposedly 'curtailed' my playing... I never stopped playing ever (or being a professional musician). It's intriguing to learn here that some folk think I've given up! This year alone I've played nearly 70 gigs - all jazz - and have just appeared at Ronnie's with my quartet.

I've just given up recording, that's all. After coming up with three, to my mind, utterly awful records (I'm referring to my own performance on the albums not that of the other players) I said no more. As I said in the current Jazz Journal the idea of my making albums with people like Martin Drew and Spike Wells was delusional to say the least. It took a while but I realised that making records wasn't good for me. I did a sideman session last year on someone else's project and it was even worse than the first three! On top of that, Gearbox dropped my contract which had included the option of a second LP - I suspect because I wouldn't play the Social Media game in order to promote Square One. Just couldn't do it.

The Jazz Journal column is finishing next month too - again, my choice.

Edited June 6, 2018 by SimonSpill

[duaneiac]

Disc 1 of 2 from --

[bluemonkey]

Hank Garland: Move! The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland
Discs 1 & 2 of 2

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, Clunky said:

How's this one. Not one I've heard and I do like Lowe's music.?

I like it a lot. Very good Lowe and, as an aside, Tim Pleasant, the drummer on the date, was part of a trio that played at my wife's and my wedding.

[paul secor]

Sonny Rollins Plus 4

[soulpope]

10 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

!!!

[JohnS]

4 hours ago, paul secor said:

Sonny Rollins Plus 4

An all time favourite.  It grabbed me when I first heard it back in the day..  Still does,

[mjazzg]

Mentioned on the Masakela thread

[erwbol]

Henry Threadgill Mosaic, disc 3: X-75.

[mjazzg]

25 minutes ago, erwbol said:

Henry Threadgill Mosaic, disc 3: X-75.

I hope it's living up to the hype

[erwbol]

3 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I hope it's living up to the hype

[Berthold]

Joe Henderson Big Band

 

 

[erwbol]

Henry Threadgill Too Much Sugar for a Dime

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

The best, or most interesting arrangements, all newly witten for this recording, are - not surprisingly - those of Gene Puerling and Clare Fischer. The group sings nice and clean, the whole project was and sounds like a labour of love, but they do not really swing. If you can accept that, it's a very nice album. If not, it leaves something to be desired ..... crossover by classical artists into jazz or pop territory somehow never convince me.

The whole record, btw, would gain from longer pauses between tracks. It would let the music breathe instead of jumping to the next number.

[JohnS]

Today-

     

[jlhoots]

Rudi Mahall / Alexander Von Schlippenbach: So Far (Relative Pitch CD)

[John Tapscott]

[Clunky]

SME———Karyobin——-(emanem)

cleaner sounding cf. the Japanese reissue from 2016. Music as compelling. The emanem reissue has good liner notes and appears to be fully authorised . I had found the Japanese edition anything to complain about but I’m glad to have this newer one from Martin Davidson.