So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

[Peter Friedman]

[B. Goren.]

[kh1958]

Nduduzo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworld (Blue Note)

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

It is interesting how Stitt eventually recorded this "Bird Songs" Album. 

Usually he didn´t want to be too much associated with Bird, anyway he has his own unique style. 

I saw him live once and he played at least one tune that was on a Bird with Strings Album. The tune was "They can´t take that away from me"

it sure is. I also have this Edition, but I also have the original separate 2 LPs. 

I believe I have a Stitt album somewhere titled "Don"t Call Me Bird". I'll have to look for it.

[soulpope]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

I believe I have a Stitt album somewhere titled "Don"t Call Me Bird". I'll have to look for it.

[soulpope]

[Gheorghe]

Maybe some of you might find that listening to those two albums one after the other is strange and unusual, but when I was a young boy, another guy from one or to grades up borrowed me those two LPs , maybe the only 2 "jazz LPs" he had. So I taped them on a 90min Cassette, but of course bought the CDs decades later. 

The Miles album IMHO the best from the Prestige series, and also the Headhunters is really a classic, great music on both , and last not least, it shows how our generation was, we were open to good acoustic jazz as well to the then actual electric stuff.....

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[Joe]

Superb. IMO, Riley is one of the most interesting musicians working "in the tradition" right now.

[jlhoots]

14 minutes ago, Joe said:

Superb. IMO, Riley is one of the most interesting musicians working "in the tradition" right now.

I like his playing too. His new SteepleChase quartet CD with Kirk Knuffke is terrific.

[BillF]

[Balladeer]

Lizz Wright - Salt (Verve)

Her voice is always a winner. But this debut remains IMO an early  masterpiece - terrific!

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Outstanding ....

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "My Funny Valentine" Sony DSD remastered lp facsimile cd release.

I've been listening to this album more than 45 years! I have a handful of editions but like this one, which I may have played more this century than others. I'm using this version as it's so familiar it will help to evaluate a new fuse I'm trying in my power regenerator. I love this music!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul - Be-Bop? (Musica). This is fairly hard-to-find yet relatively inexpensive LP from France. I'm listening to it via mp3 files created from a needle-drop CD-R that was made from an original LP. 3 steps from Kevin Bacon.

Piano sounds very rinky-dink. Must be a French thing (That's a joke revolving around the piano sound on Hank Mobley's "The Flip"). I do wish this was more readily available as it's not a bad date. To answer the title's question - no - this is not Be-Bop. It's bop, certainly, but this is not going to warm the cockles of a be-bop fan's heart. No matter how hard the French tenor player (Jean-Pierre Debarbat) tries, he still comes off sounding like a poor man's Coltrane "sheets of sound" during most of his solos.

[jazzbo]

Shabaka and the Ancestors "We are Sent Here by History"

This will give your woofers a cold sweat. I REALLY like it.

[Rabshakeh]

A really great one. 

[Joe]

3 hours ago, jlhoots said:

I like his playing too. His new SteepleChase quartet CD with Kirk Knuffke is terrific.

Will have to look for that.

Riley has clearly listened to a lot of tenor players, and distilled much. But I do find his sound closer to Lucky Thompson's than about any other tenor I can think of.

[gmonahan]

[Peter Friedman]