So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Brad]

24 minutes ago, kinuta said:

Nice varied selection 

[Bluesnik]

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1

[paul secor]

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Gregg Smith's recordings of Ives' choral music for Columbia are magnificent.  . . . I've never heard that disc though. What do you think of it, Paul?

I enjoy this one more with every listen. The Celestial Country was recorded in 1972 and, I believe, originally issued by Columbia. There is a credit: "licensed from BMG/Sony Classical". The other recordings were done in 2003 and 2004.

[HutchFan]

Art Pepper - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard (Contemporary)
A favorite.

 

Sonny Stitt - 12! (Muse)

 

 

 

22 minutes ago, paul secor said:

I enjoy this one more with every listen. The Celestial Country was recorded in 1972 and, I believe, originally issued by Columbia. There is a credit: "licensed from BMG/Sony Classical". The other recordings were done in 2003 and 2004.

Ah, I see.  The Celestial Country must be the same recording as the one originally released in the Charles Ives centenary box set in 1974.

 

If you want to investigate more of Ives' choral music, I'd definitely recommend the Gregg Smith Singers LP below.

Edited January 9, 2019 by HutchFan

[John Tapscott]

[paul secor]

29 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Ah, I see.  The Celestial Country must be the same recording as the one originally released in the Charles Ives centenary box set in 1974.

 

If you want to investigate more of Ives' choral music, I'd definitely recommend the Gregg Smith Singers LP below.

Thanks.

[paul secor]

Listeners today owe a debt of thanks to Prestige for recording swing era musicians in the late 50's - early 60's. If not for those recordings, much would have been lost.

[HutchFan]

George Cables - Why Not (Why Not)

 

"My Buddy": Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (Muse)

[jeffcrom]

 

Max Roach - Parisian Sketches (Mercury/Verve)

Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Volume Nine (Saja)

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

How do you like it .... ?

[mikeweil]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[John Tapscott]

6 hours ago, soulpope said:

How do you like it .... ?

I like it. The music is excellent. One could have hoped for a little better sound perhaps, but it's acceptably OK.  

[soulpope]

20 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

I like it. The music is excellent. One could have hoped for a little better sound perhaps, but it's acceptably OK.  

Thnx for the feedback ....

[HutchFan]

12 hours ago, paul secor said:

Listeners today owe a debt of thanks to Prestige for recording swing era musicians in the late 50's - early 60's. If not for those recordings, much would have been lost.

So true! 

And labels like Black & Blue, Chiaroscuro, Sackville, Master Jazz and others carried on this important work into the 70s.

My listening this morning -- a double-shot of Buddy Tate -- is case in point.

  

 

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

 

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1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Three gems!

Edited January 9, 2019 by paul secor

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Mary Lou Williams - Nite Life (Chiaroscuro, 2 CDs)
Outstanding solo piano. Some of MLW's best recordings, imho.

 

[soulpope]

[JohnS]

There's so much fascinating music here.  Surely there must be enough decent stuff for another compilation.

[soulpope]

34 minutes ago, JohnS said:

There's so much fascinating music here.  Surely there must be enough decent stuff for another compilation.

 A good reminder .... worth the ticket of entry for the three ballad tracks with Ike Quebec + Duke Pearson + Israel Crosby + Vernell Founier .... btw two more tracks still missing (aka "I Remember April" + Midnight Sun" ) ....

Edited January 9, 2019 by soulpope