So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

[BillF]

21 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Now playing:

[jazzbo]

The last two days I've been listening to SACDs I bought from Acoustic Sound's sale of Analogue Productions.

Listened to these Blue Note titles:

Joe Henderson "Page One"
Big John Patton "Along Came John"
Jackie McLean "Cappucin Swing" (I've never heard a better digital version of this title)
Sonny Rollins "Vol. 2"

And these Verve titles:

Johnny Hodges "With Billy Strayhorn and Orchestra"
West Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio "Smoking' at the Half Note"
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges "Back to Back"
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges "Side by Side"

These Verve titles sound so f'in good that it sent me on a side trip of messing around with isolation to further refine the system sound. Other than Classic Records gold cds these are among the best mastered jazz discs I've ever heard.

Now moving to one of the two RCA Living Stereo titles I bought:

Jean Morel/Paris Conservatory Orchestra "Albeniz: Iberia/Ravel: Rapodie Espagnole" disc 1

Iberia is sounding fantastic.

Edited April 1, 2020 by jazzbo

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

 

My "Gordon-mania" continues ! 

I was lucky to see Dexter live on several occasions. We were a little group of big Gordon fans and I remember our exitement when the appearance of his next album "Gotham City" was advertised in the news-folders of our favourite record dealer. 

Finally in spring 1981 the "new album" Gotham City was in the shop, I bought it and went few blocks down to the little hip  jazz club "Spelunke" were we were regulars, and they spinned it and we all listened to it. 

The other record from 1982 is  very fine live playing, though the sound quality is not the best. It´s great to hear the live version of "Moment´s Notice" and "Body and Soul". 

 

[jazzcorner]

[duaneiac]

[soulpope]

Very good indeed ....

[sidewinder]

11 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Very good indeed ....

Now a photo-copying outlet ! (or at least it was when I visited).

Edited April 1, 2020 by sidewinder

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Now a photo-copying outlet ! (or at least it was when I visited).

There goes the history ....

[sidewinder]

4 minutes ago, soulpope said:

There goes the history ....

There was a plaque outside though to commemorate it. 

Oddly enough it was just a few doors away from another Hollywood jazz Club, Catalina’s Bar and Grill.

Edited April 1, 2020 by sidewinder

[jazzbo]

I know I have this in my collection but just can't seem to find it. . . .
 

[jazzcorner]

 

[gmonahan]

22 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I know I have this in my collection but just can't seem to find it. . . .
 

 I was just listening to an intro to a set from Tubby Hayes "Couriers of Jazz," and Ronnie Scott mentioned they were going to play a tune from THIS album!! Scott apparently did pretty good stand-up back in the day! (At least I *assume* it was Scott talking!)

 

 

 

gregmo

Edited April 1, 2020 by gmonahan

[jazzbo]

Ha! I guess I could at least listen to Carmen McRae sing Jimmy Rowles' song "The Ballad of Thelonious Monk."

Right now

Something completely different but happily so.

Victor Assis Brasil, "Esperanto/Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim." Two very interesting albums from '70.

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

49 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

 I was just listening to an intro to a set from Tubby Hayes "Couriers of Jazz," and Ronnie Scott mentioned they were going to play a tune from THIS album!! Scott apparently did pretty good stand-up back in the day! (At least I *assume* it was Scott talking!)

 

 

 

gregmo

He could be very funny, in a dead-pan way.

I once saw a gig with Scott in tandem with Prof. Irwin Corey. You can imagine what that one was like. 

[Peter Friedman]

[aparxa]

Carmell Jones  -  Mosaic Select CD3

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

Knuffke: Live In Amsterdam

[Peter Friedman]

[Marzz]

[Justin V]