So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[mikeweil]

[Joe]

[Peter Friedman]

[Justin V]

Arlington Houston - Cool Casual: This arrived today.  I took a flier on it and am glad I did.  I was unfamiliar with Houston, who has worked and recorded with John Handy, and only knew his front line of Javon Jackson and Patches Stewart.  The album has catchy originals as well as 2 Wayne Shorter tunes and one each by Ron Carter and Tony Williams. 

Houston is strong on upright and electric without letting chops override taste.  It is a feel-good date.  Houston hasn't recorded another leader date, unfortunately.

[ghost of miles]

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Joe said:

👍Excellent👍 ....

[Gheorghe]

12 hours ago, gmonahan said:

Still in a Fats Navarro mode:

 

Great ! First in 1978 I had the Brown paper 2-LP Blue Note (LA Series) of "Fats Navarro" with almost all the BN stuff from 1947-1949, and when the CD Era started I purchased this with the additional track of Kenny Haggood singing "I think I´ll go away", and the non BN tracks "Stealin Apples" with Goodman and Gray is very fine, as is the Capitol tracks…..

[Referentzhunter]

[jazzcorner]

19 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Is the Gonsaloves content  of your Item on this Nocturne box below?

Steve White seems missing.

 

[EKE BBB]

24 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Is the Gonsaloves content  of your Item on this Nocturne box below?

Steve White seems missing.

 

It seems so:

Now listening:

[Referentzhunter]

[mikeweil]

[EKE BBB]

[John Tapscott]

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Yesterday I had a clinging not-feeling-so-well old dog on my lap a lot and didn't record what I listened to very much. But I had some very good music flowing through the system. Three that really struck me were:

Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks" Test Pressing RSD release LP. This album is like a handful of great novels condensed onto two sides of an LP. Of course I love the original release, but these originally chosen tracks at an un-futzed with speed have their own forceful beauty.

Eric Dolphy "Out to Lunch" Blue Note Universal Japan SHM-SACD. I have never heard this sound better, and I haven't heard this session in a while. Tony Williams' bass drum head! If only this had the alternates that were on the 75th Anniversary SHM-CD.

Duke Ellington "Duke Ellington in Sweden 1973--featuring the Swedish Guests Alice Babs, Rolf Erikson, Ake Persson, Nils Lindberg"--I looked for this one on and off the last few weeks and found it had slipped behind one of my bookcases full of cds. I really like this concert late in the Duke's life. . . his piano playing in this period was often inspired and his love for Alice is clear from his announcements, and I'm a fan as well. This isn't the greatest recording but it is good enough, and the band seems to be enjoying the guest artists and the audience, and the audience is very enthusiastic. And some great playing, just overall what seems a historic night and we're fortunate to have it for our pleasure.

[John Tapscott]

[Gheorghe]

A wonderful collection of Northsea Jazz Festival events with Dizzy. 

[duaneiac]

[mikeweil]

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Excellent stuff! This was one of the very best mambo orchestras and should be known better among jazz fans.

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

[EKE BBB]

[Referentzhunter]

a very welcome reissue (2020) of an ambient classic

Edited May 14, 2020 by Referentzhunter

[Peter Friedman]