So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[kinuta]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

 

[EKE BBB]

From 1963, a few live tracks from

and one of my desert island recordings...

...including the three tracks without Hawk and featuring Don Cherry that were originally issued in this odd LP (odd because the reason for this bundling of different musicians evades me):

[EKE BBB]

Exhausted after listening to some of the 1963 recordings (the SR-Don Cherry Quartet material was hard stuff for these ears!), now heading to the 1964 RCA-Victor recordings, grouped in the following three discs:

Edited August 8, 2019 by EKE BBB

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Exhausted after listening to some of the 1963 recordings (the SR-Don Cherry Quartet material was hard stuff for these ears!), now heading to the 1964 RCA-Victor recordings, grouped in the following three discs:

You have some persistance for sure  .... though great recordings, for me they don`t match the intensity of his late 50`s euvre ....

Edited August 8, 2019 by soulpope

[Coda]

[Coda]

[Coda]

[BillF]

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

NP .... :

Dusko Goykovich "Swinging Macedonia" (Philips)          1967 ....

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

Now listening to Sonny Rollins’ 1965 two Impulse recordings:

 

[soulpope]

9 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Sublime .... for me probably his strongest post 1962 album ....

[EKE BBB]

17 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Sublime .... for me probably his strongest post 1962 album ....

It also ranks at the top of the "after 'The Bridge'" recordings for me, possibly paired with 'Sonny Meets Hawk!', which is a personal fav of mine, being a diehard Coleman Hawkins fan and despite the flaws that it unmistakably has...

And Ray Bryant does a great job, which is not very easy for a pianist, having Sonny on board.

Edited August 8, 2019 by EKE BBB

[JSngry]

I personally think the overall apex of that thing was the Alfie album, but "Three Little Words" is supra-genius.

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

It was bound to happen  ....

[Balladeer]

3 hours ago, soulpope said:

 Magic.

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

[gmonahan]

After news of his death, some fine music in memory of his mentor:

 

[Chuck Nessa]

[Larry Kart]