So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Well, yeah, ok.

Very disappointed that this was never reissued on CD. A marvelous session that among other things shows just how good a player was Joe Romano.

[HutchFan]

David Liebman / Ellery Eskelin / Tony Marino / Jim Black - Renewal (hat Hut, 2008)

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Speaking of b + dr structures .....

I love how that record evokes dusty, way-out-in-the-country places.  Sorta similar (country-vibe wise) to records like John Carter's Fields and Marion Brown's November Cotton Flower.  ... Re: Mraz and Waits. Hell yeah. You cannot go wrong with those two.

 

 

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[JSngry]

14 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Very disappointed that this was never reissued on CD. A marvelous session that among other things shows just how good a player was Joe Romano.

I knew him from his big band work, mostly with Buddy Rich, and was surprised how much Joe Henderson influence he had absorbed.

The session as a whole is kinda "top-shelf second tier" to my tastes, but lord, with everything else that's been reissued, this one surely should have been.

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Well, yeah, ok.

... (again) speaking of top-flight rhythm sections!!!

 

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[Larry Kart]

All the Noto Xanadu albums are worthwhile IMO. I particularly like the one with Sam Most in the frontline.

 

 

37 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I knew him from his big band work, mostly with Buddy Rich, and was surprised how much Joe Henderson influence he had absorbed.

The session as a whole is kinda "top-shelf second tier" to my tastes, but lord, with everything else that's been reissued, this one surely should have been.

Henderson influenced a lot of players. Back in his Jones-Lewis Orchestra days, Rich Perry (now very much his own man) was known as "Little Joe."
 

[Peter Friedman]

26 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

All the Noto Xanadu albums are worthwhile IMO. I particularly like the one with Sam Most in the frontline.

 

 

Henderson influenced a lot of players. Back in his Jones-Lewis Orchestra days, Rich Perry (now very much his own man) was known as "Little Joe."
 

Joe Romano was from Rochester NY.

While I was living in Rochester,  Joe would return home quite often between jobs, sometimes staying a for a few months.

He played regularly in Rochester clubs, and I went to see/hear him numerous times. His playing in small groups and a local big band was , to my taste, excellent. every so often I heard a Sonny Rollins influence in his tenor solos.

Joe played both alto and tenor. He played lead alto in the big band, but mainly focused on tenor in his small group gigs. 

 

[John Tapscott]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

Well, yeah, ok.

Not sure what your point is, Jim, but I really like this session. You're right, it should have been reissued. And Romano's playing with Woody Herman was really good, too. Romano also had his own more recent session, a good quintet session (with Joe Magnarelli I think),   from the 90's perhaps, which I had as a digital download, but lost in a computer crash. 

Now:

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[Morganized]

 4 Audio CD Box Set - Capitol Masters/BMG Misc. – 1992  Vol. 1

 

 

Edited January 30, 2019 by Morganized

[soulpope]

Booker Ervin never disappoints ....

[soulpope]

More tenor sax excellency ....

[HutchFan]

Quest - Quest II (Storyville, 1986)

 

as reissued on:

[Tom 1960]

[JSngry]

54 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Not sure what your point is, Jim, but I really like this session. You're right, it should have been reissued. And Romano's playing with Woody Herman was really good, too. Romano also had his own more recent session, a good quintet session (with Joe Magnarelli I think),   from the 90's perhaps, which I had as a digital download, but lost in a computer crash. 

Now:

 

My point is just that I had never heard it before. Now I have. And that's about it. It's a good revord, neither Moto nor Romano were exactly... overexposed,  so mission acomplished there. But will I ever listen to it again?  Probably not? One, done, had my fun.

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1

[kinuta]

Disc 5 The Iron Men

 

[HutchFan]

Groove Holmes - American Pie (Groove Merchant, 1972)

[JSngry]

The CD, with the epic uncut "Escapism".

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

4 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Hey -- I have been listening to that one in my car the past couple of days and LOVING it!!  I love all the Terry Gibbs big band "Live" stuff I have heard.  I actually feel kinda guilty about listening to this band without the necessary accompaniment of a thick well-done steak, a highball and lots of cigar/cigarette smoke because that's the setting for which this music was designed, Just listening to this music, I half expect to see Joey Bishop or Marty Milner seated at a nearby table.  This is the type of band for whom "Too Close For Comfort" was a big showstopper, so this is not music for Maria Schneider acolytes.  Great arrangements, although some might dismiss them as "clever", and a band of musicians who combine to create a powerful, swinging musical machine.  Mel Lewis keeps the band's engines well stoked.

[JSngry]

14 minutes ago, duaneiac said:

 This is the type of band for whom "Too Close For Comfort" was a big showstopper, so this is not music for Maria Schneider acolytes. 

Why not? Are they averse to learning or otherwise paying attention? Or simply enjoying? God help them if they are!

[duaneiac]

15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Why not? Are they averse to learning or otherwise paying attention? Or simply enjoying? God help them if they are!

My impression is they would be aghast to find themselves appreciating the same type of music that the unwashed masses hoot & holler & applaud for.