So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

Two remarkably similar albums separated by forty years! And both very good.

[JSngry]

21 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Excellent!

I do like it (I mean, what's not to like?), but I also feel that this label was perhaps not really equipped to give this record the best production it could have had, maybe?

[Tom 1960]

[HutchFan]

22 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I do like it (I mean, what's not to like?), but I also feel that this label was perhaps not really equipped to give this record the best production it could have had, maybe?

Do you mean the mix is poor?  Or some other aspect of production?  

[jlhoots]

56 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Excellent!

There's also one without Fortune titled Such Great Friends.

[HutchFan]

as heard on

[Tom 1960]

51 minutes ago, BillF said:

Two remarkably similar albums separated by forty years! And both very good.

Thanks for posting those, Bill. I am especially interested in the earlier release. You already know I'm a big fan.

[JSngry]

15 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Do you mean the mix is poor?  Or some other aspect of production?  

I think the mix is inconsistent, and maybe in a few cases the performances sound rushed or otherwise not totally relaxed. I get that this was not going to be a really stretched out date, but the last two cuts are just ZONED, whereas a few of the others sound like maybe another take wouldn't have hurt, to maybe get a better flow. Then again, time/place/budget/etc.

Not complaining, mind you, just observing. This is not a typical Black & Blue date to begin with anyway, and I'm glad they made it, period.

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I think the mix is inconsistent, and maybe in a few cases the performances sound rushed or otherwise not totally relaxed. I get that this was not going to be a really stretched out date, but the last two cuts are just ZONED, whereas a few of the others sound like maybe another take wouldn't have hurt, to maybe get a better flow. Then again, time/place/budget/etc.

Not complaining, mind you, just observing. This is not a typical Black & Blue date to begin with anyway, and I'm glad they made it, period.

I hear you. There's definitely an "off the cuff" vibe. ... Need to pull that one out and give it another listen.

[HutchFan]

More from Bobby Hutcherson's Mosaic Select set; music originally released on this LP:

 

Edited November 20, 2019 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Joe Henderson - Black Is the Color (Milestone, 1972)

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Do you mean the mix is poor?  Or some other aspect of production?  

On my Evidence label version of this, on track 1 Reggie Workman is more prominent in the mix than than Billy Harper! Also the room in which the album was recorded seems fairly dead/claustrophobic. I've never lasted all  the way through.

[JSngry]

And yet, this one (and the one after it, the last two on the album)) is ON!

 

Although, yes, mix still off.

But, it seems to improve on the fly. The playing, though, is full frontal burn all the way. I'd like to know what the recording order was, both to trace the evolution of the playing and of the mixing.

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

And yet, this one (and the one after it, the last two on the album)) is ON!

 

Although, yes, mix still off.

But, it seems to improve on the fly. The playing, though, is full frontal burn all the way. I'd like to know what the recording order was, both to trace the evolution of the playing and of the mixing.

OK -- I need to listen again from this point on.

[B. Goren.]

[HutchFan]

as heard on ...

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, B. Goren. said:

👍!

[danasgoodstuff]

Batman!

[Д.Д.]

From back in the day when ECM (JAPO, to be exact) had some balls. 

Edited November 21, 2019 by Д.Д.

[Referentzhunter]

[Coda]

[Coda]

Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Thomas Morgan
Drums, Cymbal [Cymbals] – Tyshawn Sorey
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Todd Neufeld

[Misterioso]

[soulpope]

12 minutes ago, Misterioso said:

👍👍👍!!!

[Coda]