So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

Bob Brookmeyer - Street Swingers (World Pacific Records, 1958)

[paul secor]

[soulpope]

Exceptional ....

[tomatamot]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Very nice album!!

[duaneiac]

Onto Disc 7 of 8 from --

This Disc includes her final studio album, Patchwork, plus singles and some previously unreleased tracks.  Patchwork is, quite simply, one of the finest pop albums you have likely never heard.  Some marvelous songwriting -- all songs were written or co-written by her -- on what are basically a number of character sketches, from "Benjamin" who, among other things, was "selling Pacific Ocean water and calling it seaweed wine" to "Belinda" a burlesque dancer whose mantra is "you may know my body, but you cannot know my mind", to what is an apparently autobiographical tale in "Mean Stepmama Blues".  There are a number of brief, beautiful musical interludes between many of the tracks.  It is just an amazingly good album which sold very poorly.  It is a little eerie hearing her sing "Lookin' In", the final track on her final studio album,  Here she sings about the life of going from airport to limousine to show to hotel and having papers to sign and phone calls to take and about being tired of "thinking up new ways to do the same old thing".

Perhaps my favorite track from this album

How that did not become a hit is beyond me.  Somebody should cover it today and they could still make a hit of it.

And then in the bonus tracks you get a gorgeous little gem like this

 

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[EKE BBB]

Frank Wess - The Frank Wess Quartet (Prestige Moodsville, 1960)

[JSngry]

now being used for this commercial:

 

[Brad]

[Bluesnik]

[EKE BBB]

The Chico Hamilton Trio (Pacific Jazz/FSR, 1953-56)

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[ghost of miles]

👍

[jeffcrom]

 

Paal Nilssen-Love & Frode Gjerstad - Nearby/Faraway (PNL). Very good, indeed - some of the best Gjerstad I've heard. Thanks to Chuck for passing along his extra copy to me.

Milt Jackson - High Fly (JLR). Recorded live at EJ's in Atlanta on July 4, 1980. The 21-year-old version of me was there. And EJ's (which lasted about 10 years) was located on site of the apartment house where my parents lived when they were first married.

[paul secor]

[HutchFan]

David S. Ware - Go See the World (Columbia)
with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, and Susie Ibarra

[jeffcrom]

Richard & Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver (Carthage). "Dimming of the Day" is one of my favorite songs of any genre.

[kh1958]

Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit, Strata Concert Gallery, disc 3.

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Classic ....

[HutchFan]

[EKE BBB]

Kenny Dorham ‎– 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia (Blue Note, 1956)

[soulpope]