So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

[Brad]

Disc 7

[soulpope]

32 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

Yes, I think this is the first one, or one of the first ones. This is not necessarily the best Waldron / Lacy collaboration, but as far as Monk tributes are concerned, this is an excellent album. 

As far as Monk tributes are concerned, here is another one:

  

These two young upstarts, Johnny and Eddie, can make circles around Mr. Braxton. 

 

Another strong contender .... :

[felser]

[jazzbo]

This morning I started off with some great Brazilian jazz: Duduka Da Fonseca "Samba Jazz Fantasia." A great cast and recording.

Then somehow I got a hankering for Sonny Rollins music. That happens sometimes. Decided to spin two great albums that I listened to on the DCC gold cd editions:

Sonny Rollins "The Sound of Sonny" (Riverside Records)

Followed by 
"Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders" (Contemporary Records)

Edited January 24, 2020 by jazzbo

[Larry Kart]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

That "Mood Indigo"!

[soulpope]

The Monk sides ....

[erwbol]

1 hour ago, Д.Д. said:

Yes, I think this is the first one, or one of the first ones. This is not necessarily the best Waldron / Lacy collaboration, but as far as Monk tributes are concerned, this is an excellent album. 

As far as Monk tributes are concerned, here is another one:

  

These two young upstarts, Johnny and Eddie, can make circles around Mr. Braxton. 

 

Now listening to the Griffin' on YouTube. By the way, **(*) in the Penguin Guide. They feel something's amiss here. No feeling for nuanced Monk tunes.

The Penguin Guide also calls Braxton's Monk tribute a triumph, ****, and I agree. I generally prefer some Thelonious with my Monk, so I own just the one tribute album.

Lacy's Reflections was re-issued in Japan in 2013 as part of the excellent Prestige 7000 & New Jazz Chronicle SHM-CDs. I bought a lot of those in 2013-15 in addition to over a 100 Blue Note 75th anniversary SHM-CDs. That's not counting non-Japanese jazz CDs. I had to make a choice and decided against the Lacy at the time. A choice I don't regret, but I'll have another look.

[Д.Д.]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Another strong contender .... :

Absolutely. 

[Peter Friedman]

There are quite a number of Monk tribute albums. This would be (for me) a strong favorite.

[erwbol]

One of the very best jazz albums of the past 20 years.

[duaneiac]

8 hours ago, BillF said:

Just by looking at the title, "Limbo Jazz" is now stuck in my head, it is that powerful an earworm!

[Gheorghe]

One of my favourite Wayne Shorter albums

[soulpope]

Standout Monk tribute .... here we go .... :

[felser]

Stunning.  I've never been able to REALLY appreciate this material until now, the dozens of previous releases of 'Iron Man' and, especially 'Conversations' (aka 'The Eric Dolphy Memorial Album', aka 'Music Matador') being so shoddy in every aspect:

 

 

[erwbol]

I forgot about Paul Motian's excellent Monk in Motian, so that's 2 Monk tributes in my collection.

[soulpope]

Still in the "Monk Homage" mood .... :

[erwbol]

34 minutes ago, felser said:

Stunning.  I've never been able to REALLY appreciate this material until now, the dozens of previous releases of 'Iron Man' and, especially 'Conversations' (aka 'The Eric Dolphy Memorial Album', aka 'Music Matador') being so shoddy in every aspect:

 

 

Strange, I thought it was the more accessible Conversations, which was released first, that always had the best sound. That was the opinion of the Jazzwise reviewer in 2002 when the Fresh Sound stereo CDs were released and also my own experience.

By the way, it took me over 30 stress-filled minutes to carefully remove the booklet from the Dolphy Resonance digipack two years ago. It has since had its own plastic sleeve, because putting it back in would surely have caused damage. Exhausting. Haven't listened to Musical Prophet since.

[Peter Friedman]

[felser]

22 minutes ago, erwbol said:

Strange, I thought it was the more accessible Conversations, which was released first, that always had the best sound. That was the opinion of the Jazzwise reviewer in 2002 when the Fresh Sound stereo CDs were released and also my own experience.

By the way, it took me over 30 stress-filled minutes to carefully remove the booklet from the Dolphy Resonance digipack two years ago. It has since had its own plastic sleeve, because putting it back in would surely have caused damage. Exhausting. Haven't listened to Musical Prophet since.

I've never heard the Fresh Sound CD's of these sessions.  They generally do a nice job.   I did fine getting the booklet out, but it is really tight in there, 100 pages.  I love "Iron Man", "Mandrake", and especially "Burning Spear" most of all, and all were on 'Iron Man'.  But it is good to have the session combined on one set, and the alternate takes are nice (though "Crow Jim" is still a pretentious mess to my ears, with the bizarre operatic vocal).

[JSngry]

16 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Yeah, just go hip to that one within the last month. Really good stuff!

[Clunky]

Having spun Reid’s new Old New quite a bit recently I decided to give this one with Nick Mazzarella an outing .

Tomeka Reid/ Nick Marrazella —-Signaling——-(nessa)
 

I’d forgotten how much this one  impressed me . She’s a real talent.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

Just now, BillF said:

Good one ....

[jazzcorner]