So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

[duaneiac]

 

[ghost of miles]

[John Tapscott]

[erwbol]

[Referentzhunter]

in the mood for more ambient music

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

 

[John Tapscott]

[sidewinder]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, ghost of miles said:

That's a good un! 

[ghost of miles]

1 minute ago, BillF said:

That's a good un! 

Yes!  I came across a used copy of it at Landlocked last week--being a fan of the several other relatively modern Holman big-band albums that I have, I didn't hesitate to snap it up.  

[jazzbo]

Nat Birchall "Akhenaten" . . . very nice. I'm enjoying Nat's work, he nails the early 'sixties Coltrane feel both compositionally and in execution, but in his own way at the same time.

Edited October 25, 2019 by jazzbo

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

[felser]

39 minutes ago, JSngry said:

How are performance and sound quality?

[JSngry]

Hate to be snarky, but if you have to ask....

 

[JSngry]

The story behind the recording, from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WHMR77K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

October 1, 1969, in Augusta, GA, was a homecoming for James Brown. His and his band's smoking performance at the city's Bell Auditorium was captured on tape, with an intention to make an album of the show the cornerstone of a move back to his roots. Live at Home With His Bad Self was scheduled as a lucrative holiday release. But JB and that band broke up. Soul Brother No. 1 called in a new, young band, featuring Bootsy Collins, and within a few weeks they recorded the funk anthem 'Sex Machine.' With the single flying up the charts and no album to promote along with it, JB scrapped the planned Live at Home album. He instead doubled down on a Sex Machine album, a part-live 2LP set that included a portion of the Augusta show. Now, finally, as James Brown intended: the full show with his celebrated '60s band. Live at Home With His Bad Self arrives on its 50th anniversary newly mixed with seven unreleased performances that even include two actual live instrumentals, 'Lowdown Popcorn' and 'Spinning Wheel,' that were on the original LP in studio recordings with fake applause. The package includes an essay by former James Brown tour manager and publicist Alan Leeds, a Grammy-winner who is also the co-producer of the album.

Dusty Groove want you to know this: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/929874

A rare lost treasure from James Brown – the full, unedited version of a live concert that was cut up and butchered for the Sex Machine album – presented here for the first time ever, with a huge amount of never-issued tunes! Sex Machine was one of those "fake" concert albums from James – some original live recordings, other studio tracks tricked out – and put together in a way that never really made much sense. This set is something completely different altogether – a James Brown concert from start to finish, complete with some wickedly sharp patter from the stage – and long tunes that really show his group hitting on all burners! The lineup of musicians include three drummers at once – Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Stars, and Melvin Parker – alongside Fred Wesley on trombone, Maceo Parker on alto, Jimmy Nolen on guitar, and Charles Sherrell on bass. James himself plays a bit of organ at instrumental moments – and tracks include the never-released "Lowdown Popcorn", "World", "Spinning Wheel", "Try Me", "I Got The Feelin/Lickin Stick Lickin Stick", and "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loos" – next to versions of "There Was A Time", "Say It Loud", "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing", "Mother Popcorn", and "I Can't Stand Myself"

Here, decide for yoursel:

 

and the energy builds from there...

[jlhoots]

Lloyd McNeill: Elegia

[John Tapscott]

[Balladeer]

Malia - Black Orchid (Universal)

[ghost of miles]

My Saturday date with the Duke:

[sidewinder]

CD2 - A treasure trove.

 

[Peter Friedman]

MJQ in Concert 1972 - Seeds Records

[Gheorghe]

Horace Parlan with Isla Eckinger and Dannie Richmond.

 

About the same time 1983 I saw Horace Parlan live, also with Isla Eckinger, but another drummer. 

 

This is a great record. Dig Mingus´ Duke Ellington´s Sound of Love"