So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Let me refine that answer - it's actually a pretty good record as far as jazz/bossa goes. It's not faux or anything like that. The core trio is very good, actually.

But Simmons/Lasha/Jordan are not in any way the focal point of the record, nor does their presence bump it up a notch or two. It's interesting to hear them, but unless you really want it otherwise, they come in and they go out.

Well, Jordan's presence does add value, actually, he plays very well here, very well. But he's just on a few cuts.

That's a shame. I was having daydreams of Firebirds Jazz Samba.

Thanks for the description, though. 

[BillF]

[Balladeer]

Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach 1,2 & 3

[Justin V]

Disc 2

[Peter Friedman]

[Dan Gould]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

It's not really "by" them, it's really that The Bossa Tres' record. Lasha & Simmons are just on some cuts, heads and solos. They play well enough, but they do much more impactful work almost everywhere else, ever.

also on some cuts is Clifford Jordan, who plays very well when he plays.

Truthfully, it's a curiosity item above anything else. You could be forgiven for thinking htat it's going to be Music Matador Unleashed or something like that, but no, no even a little tiny bit that.

I mean, it's a fun record, and if you find it at a fun price, by all means, hop on, take a ride. But past that....don't get taken for a ride.

Looks mostly like a prime source for BFT material.

[jazzbo]

"Fred Hersch Plays Monk"

Followed by
Candice Hoyes "On a Turquoise Cloud," which is quite nice. The lovely Ms Hoyes sings the way Ellington liked his singers, does a credible Kaye Davis wordless vocal or three, and reminds me in many places of Alice Babs, a good thing.

[ghost of miles]

[jcam_44]

13 hours ago, bresna said:

It's been a while for me too. I have this on a gold CD. Were all of them gold or just some of them?

I believe they were all gold. Mine is. 

[mikeweil]

Earlier today:

The Ray Crawford is one of my desert island discs.

[kh1958]

Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott, Live at Chickie Wah Wah

[B. Goren.]

[Peter Friedman]

Steve Kuhn Trio - Wisteria

[Simon8]

[Peter Friedman]

[B. Goren.]

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

[soulpope]

[Justin V]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "Water Babies" Columbia/Sony CD (from the Complete Columbia Albums box set).

I used to play in fire hydrants in Phladelphia as a kid in the summer. One of the neighbors would come along with a monkey wrench and open it up and kids, black and white, from the blocks about would run to cavort in the water and sail popsickle boats down the gutters. And in about an hour the City guys would show up and turn it off. The hydrant was just at the end of my block. This would happen about five times a summer. 

When I hear the RMI pianos playing on side two I'm taken back to the trailer of one of my friends in the 'seventies where he had one of these distinctive sounding pianos and I would fool around with it. 

Followed by
Joe Henderson "Double Rainbow" Verve cd

Jobim. . . and Joe. . .these are a few of my favorite things.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

I bought the Dexter Gordon Montmartre Cafe material in this series as well as the Thelonious Monk Black Lion material in this series and love the sound. So I ordered this one and it arrived today. Wow. This is some of my favorite Konitz which I only have on very early dull sounding cds and this is a real improvement.

Lee Konitz At Storyville/At Harvard Square/Konitz (Japanese paper sleeve edition) Storyville/Muzak (Japan 2 cd set)

[JSngry]

Went looking for this on the shelf last week and was quite WTF? when I realized I never got it. So...thank you Amazon Seller HPB Ruby (aka Half Price Books), y'all done me right.

I still like the 40s band more, because you can't duplicate that kind of gonzo. But I like this band just fine, more and more as time goes by. Not gonzo, but property damn unequivocal!