So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

22 minutes ago, erwbol said:

Just as long as it is not in the form of a referendum. 

🤓 ....

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

David Ruffin "My Whole World Ended" (Motown)      1969 .... a golden voice ....

A golden voice and, unfortunately, a screwed up human being.

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, paul secor said:

A golden voice and, unfortunately, a screwed up human being.

A summary so true (also for a number of other artists) .... unfortunately love was not the drug here ....

[soulpope]

Peter Tosh "Mama Africa" (EMI)       1983 .... long-standing fave ....

[JSngry]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

30 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I was playing that yesterday! Not the version with some Morris lane tracks but one I'd put together myself from compilations of Jaws' early recordings. I included all the recordings he'd made for Remington.

Wonderful honking stuff!!!!

MG

[BillyBatts]

Aloha!

I just read that Ramsey Lewis will play the Chicago Jazz Festival in a few weeks one final time before his official retirement.  I am going to go see him.  I have foolishly lost golden opportunities to see legends like Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson and a few others before they either retired or passed on.  I am NOT going to let this Jazz icon slip through my grasp before he retires, so OFF TO CHICAGO I GO IN A FEW WEEKS!  Anyone else going?

In honorary listening;

Ramsey Lewis - In Chicago, Stretching Out

Edited August 19, 2018 by BillyBatts

[JSngry]

17 minutes ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

I was playing that yesterday! Not the version with some Morris lane tracks but one I'd put together myself from compilations of Jaws' early recordings. I included all the recordings he'd made for Remington.

Wonderful honking stuff!!!!

MG

I found it on a blog and DL-ed it just to hear Morris Lane (already had all the Jaws stuff). I was neither impressed nor depressed, seemed like a really good player whose relatively unknown status among the general public today is not particularly in need of remediation.

Jaws, otoh...hell yeah.

[erwbol]

Ambrose Akinmusire A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard

[John Tapscott]

[bluemonkey]

Oliver Nelson And His Orchestra: Fantabulous

[BillF]

24 minutes ago, bluemonkey said:

Oliver Nelson And His Orchestra: Fantabulous

[BillyBatts]

Ramsey Lewis - The In Crowd

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

I found it on a blog and DL-ed it just to hear Morris Lane (already had all the Jaws stuff). I was neither impressed nor depressed, seemed like a really good player whose relatively unknown status among the general public today is not particularly in need of remediation.

Jaws, otoh...hell yeah.

Oh, I DO like that phrase, 'not particularly in need of remediation'. Heard a few samples of him and thought about the same, so I put all eight of those tracks together and messed around with the sleeve to wipe out Morris Lane.

Here's the sleeve of an earlier issue of some of the material on Remington. (Curious minds here will wish to see this, I guess.)

MG

[BillF]

[jeffcrom]

A friend is clearing out CDs and gave me (!) this super-fancy 5-CD box set - RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson on the Free Reed label. He's the friend who finally made me a Richard Thompson fan by playing me the right song at the right time, so I guess it's a fitting gesture. It was very generous of him.

[EKE BBB]

Newport All Stars - Tribute to Duke. Live in Basel (MPS, 1959)

 

[Bluesnik]

[jeffcrom]

Marion Brown - Three for Shepp (Impulse) I've had the LP for about 40 years. Today I found a ridiculously cheap copy of the 1998 CD and picked it up to have a digital version. It sounds very good.

Edited August 19, 2018 by jeffcrom

[John Tapscott]

[jeffcrom]

John Patton - Let 'Em Roll (BN)

[paul secor]

Grand Kalle et l'African Jazz Volume II - 1961 - 1962 (Sonodisc African)

[jeffcrom]

The CD that came with the Jazzology Press book The Hottest Trumpet: The Kid Howard Story by Brian Harvey. The music, recorded between 1950 and 1953, is excellent, but the sound is pretty rough on most tracks.

[paul secor]

Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: Song for My Sister (Pi)

[optatio]

3 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Marion Brown - Three for Shepp (Impulse) I've had the LP for about 40 years. Today I found a ridiculously cheap copy of the 1998 CD and picked it up to have a digital version. It sounds very good.

3 x !!!