So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

Wally Heider recording. Very good sound. 

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

Yazz Ahmed ‘La Saboteuse’ (Naim)

[sidewinder]

Stan Tracey hated this one, apparently. Me - I love it. 

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[BillF]

[soulpope]

[Larry Kart]

 

On 10/5/2018 at 9:37 PM, Larry Kart said:

https://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Musical-Joe-Castro/dp/B0157S7MTQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538696755&sr=1-1&keywords=joe+castro

On to CD 2, with Teddy Wilson, bass, drums and either Getz  (7/55) or Zoot Sims (1/56). This is great stuff. Wilson is in remarkable form throughout, and Getz really responds to his thematic-motivic, semi-contrapuntal comping, which is not unlike John Lewis' behind Milt Jackson with the MJQ. Stan initially is akin to his laidback "Long Island Sound" period of a few years before but then he really digs in.

Zoot was in great form in 1956, more long-lined/linear than he would be in later years. His reading of "You Go To My Head" is masterly. Drummer Sol Gubin only has a snare and brushes to work with, and the first of the Teddy-Zoot tracks, "Sunday," doesn't lift off as much it might have, as Gubin sticks with "what-to-do" rudiments, but things loosen up notably later on, and Zoot is irrepressible. Interestingly, Wilson's comping behind Zoot is not particularly thematic-motivic, as it was behind Getz.

On to CDs 3 and 4. I was particularly looking forward to No. 3, which features lots of Lucky Thompson, and Oscar Pettiford throughout, and was not disappointed. Lucky's solo on "Tricrotism" is a good deal more extended than on his classic ABC-Paramount trio recording with Pettiford and Skeeter Best, and the more Lucky the better for me -- what a unique, marvelous player. Next comes Lucky paired with Zoot Sims on "Lester Leaps In," intriguing to hear the un-Prez-like Thompson in this context and with Zoot. Castro with Zoot is rather too forceful at times on "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," but that doesn't bother Zoot at all; he's all in. And so it goes for three more tracks with either Lucky or Zoot, very good all the way. Trombonist Sonny Truitt, an Earl Swope disciple it would seem, is mellow and creative once he loosens up. Trumpeter who is thought  to be John Glasel doesn't make much of an impression. Pettiford's bass lines and solos are something else -- what a shame he died when he did (1960, age 37).

Cd 4 is the Castro-Teddy  Edwards-LeRoy Vinnegar -Billy Higgins quartet that made several records. Nothing startlingly better here than on those, but very good. Nice to hear Vinnegar take some non-walking solos; he had a flair for them too.

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 3

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Yazz Ahmed ‘La Saboteuse’ (Naim)

[BillF]

[Matthew]

William Parker: Painter's Spring. 

Edited October 6, 2018 by Matthew

[Kate]

6 hours ago, soulpope said:

Though my initial reaction was, "Oh my God, yes!", the profligate abuses of "OMG" in the interweb age precludes invocation in proper society.  So I won't.  The crown jewel might well be "Down in The Flood", with Dylan rollin and Toussaint's quintet adding uncharted ornamentation you can almost hear the crackle of electric charges jumping between players.  Some Saturday night heresy:  It's a stone cold lock over "Last Waltz".

 

 

Edited October 6, 2018 by Kate

[Peter Friedman]

[paul secor]

11 hours ago, soulpope said:

11 hours ago, soulpope said:

Lingering in the "blue" modus ....

A beauty!

2 hours ago, Matthew said:

William Parker: Painter's Spring. 

And another.

[paul secor]

Big Guitars from Texas

Like hearing Link Wray meets Duane Eddy in your living room. I'm getting to be a little too old for that.

[paul secor]

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

Like hearing Link Wray meets Duane Eddy in your living room.

If they tried to come into my living room, I'd blast some fucking Sonny Sharrock at their cornball asses and tell them to try that fetishized bullshit someplace else. Then I'd give them to 10 to get the fuck out before I feed them to my dog. She's still young and stays hungry.

As for "Big Guitars From Texas", yeah, let them continue to be from Texas, not in it. We got enough wrong as it is.

[paul secor]

Unheard Bird - The Unissued Takes

[sonnymax]

[JohnS]

20 hours ago, mjazzg said:

for which I have my ticket. I saw her with  Equal Interest [Leroy Jenkins and Joseph Jarman] at QEH years ago and have very hazy memories of a gig maybe at the old Vortex but it's too hazy

I was at the QEH concert.  I don't recall the music being that memorable but it was particularly good to see the participants.

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, Kate said:

Though my initial reaction was, "Oh my God, yes!", the profligate abuses of "OMG" in the interweb age precludes invocation in proper society.  So I won't.  The crown jewel might well be "Down in The Flood", with Dylan rollin and Toussaint's quintet adding uncharted ornamentation you can almost hear the crackle of electric charges jumping between players.  Some Saturday night heresy:  It's a stone cold lock over "Last Waltz".

Fully agreed .... 

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, JohnS said:

I was at the QEH concert.  I don't recall the music being that memorable but it was particularly good to see the participants.

For once this year - there are no concerts listed which have me itching to buy a rail ticket to the Big Smoke. 

[John Tapscott]