So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

[BillF]

[soulpope]

Yep ....

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

 

[Chuck Nessa]

A smart and fun anthology giving a fair distraction at this time.

[Larry Kart]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

Very enjoyable for those of us who have those tendencies, but I found while listening to the whole thing a while ago on a long car trip that as the so to speak "West Coast" aspects/feel of the earlier dates gave way to the somewhat  (for want of a better term) more mainstream modern feel of the later dates, my interest began to wane. That's not because I favor the former style over the latter but perhaps because the former style was more in tune with the arguably rather quirky/special gifts and traits of Niehaus as both player and writer. I'm thinking of his rhythmic approach in particular -- I think that very few altoists placed so many accents on what seem to me to be  relatively weak beats and avoided placing them on strong beats as the early Niehaus did. One might have doubts about this approach, which could be said to either imperil swing per se or amount to a significant modification  of its commonly perceived nature and virtues. But for my part, as Niehaus on those latter dates became a somewhat more conventionally swinging player, he became a less interesting one. But then, when Niehaus returned to playing jazz after his long layoff to concentrate on film scoring, and recorded with the likes of Bill Perkins and Jack Nimitz, a modified version of his early accenting on the weak beats rhythmic approach cropped up again.

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

A really nice Album with the Tommy Flanagan Trio. I even got it signed by Mr. Eddie Lockjaw Davis himself. He signed it with a dedication for me and seemed to be pleased that I had that Album. It was Long Long time ago, I think in 1978. 

[BillF]

[EKE BBB]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Played two albums from the new Hank Mobley Mosaic Records cd set, I've always enjoyed these two.

Hank Mobley "Dippin'"

Hank Mobley "Hi Voltage"

And then the expanded cd version of Jerry Garcia "Run for the Roses." I neglect this one too much, it's an interesting album. I wanted to evaluate the bass response of my current tube complements and John Kahn's bass sound is a good measurement tool for me.

[felser]

A new discovery courtesy of Clifford:

[JSngry]

Gonna try to get through all 8 discs today, so far, well into Vol. 3. The only preventative will be what else pops up during the day. the music is fine!

[soulpope]

Still magical after all these years ....

[ghost of miles]

Continuing a renewed Boyd Raeburn kick:

[BillF]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

[jazzbo]

Shabaka and the Ancestors "We are sent Here by History" Impulse cd

Damned good. 

[Jim Duckworth]

As a young Mingus enthusiast I never warmed up to this record.  So I carried that initial response forward and never really reexamined this one.  Someone posted on this and, sure enough, this is right in my wheelhouse now.  Thanks.

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

As a young Mingus enthusiast I never warmed up to this record.  So I carried that initial response forward and never really reexamined this one.  Someone posted on this and, sure enough, this is right in my wheelhouse now.  Thanks.

Superb music hands down ....

[JSngry]

21 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

As a young Mingus enthusiast I never warmed up to this record.  So I carried that initial response forward and never really reexamined this one.  Someone posted on this and, sure enough, this is right in my wheelhouse now.  Thanks.

That would be me with the trio record with Hampton Hawes, only I still haven't warmed to it.

But the Bohemia stuff benefits greatly, imo, from hindsight being 20/20. At the time of its release, I think this was the first document of the "new" Mingus and as such, the music might well seem tame and under-developed. And maybe it was. I mean, it seems like Mingus is still having some of his "old" approach in there.

But hey, whatever problems there were with that took care of themselves!

[soulpope]

All music .... for all time ....

[Peter Friedman]

Both sessions are on one Japanese CD. Two completely different sets of musicians. The Pettiford is an Octet with Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, Jimmy Cleveland, Jimmy Hamilton, Dave Schildkraut, Danny Bank, Earl Knight and Osie Johnson.

The Rd Mitchell is a Sextet with Zoot Sims, Bob brookmeyer, Conte Candoli, Claude Williamson & Stan Levey.

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Jim Duckworth said:

As a young Mingus enthusiast I never warmed up to this record.  So I carried that initial response forward and never really reexamined this one.  Someone posted on this and, sure enough, this is right in my wheelhouse now.  Thanks.

Count me in as someone who has been in a similar situation. I became a Mingus enthusiast as early as I listened to "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" (Paris 1964). Many Mingus LPs during that time were available on the French America label, among them your mentioned album , together with "Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach". I didn´t know much about how Mingus developed from the 50´s into the 60´s and had thought that "Mingus Quintet + Roach" might be a quite far out thing with two drummers in one group. To my little disappointment it was a quite conservative thing with Max sittin in only on two tunes. 

But "Drums" and "Percussion Discussion" are quite daring, nevertheless. 

[EKE BBB]