So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

Jazz in general, and Xanadu in particular, lost a lot with the passing of Samm(mmmmmm) Jones.

[Justin V]

Disc 2, Session D (w/ Benny Powell, Gigi Gryce, Tommy Flanagan, George Duvivier and Elvin Jones): I've found some Mosaic bargains in my day, but $9.99 for this set (minus the box and giant book) takes the cake.  Oddly enough, I own this and the Thad/Mel quartet album and none of the big band. 

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, Justin V said:

Disc 2, Session D (w/ Benny Powell, Gigi Gryce, Tommy Flanagan, George Duvivier and Elvin Jones): I've found some Mosaic bargains in my day, but $9.99 for this set (minus the box and giant book) takes the cake.  Oddly enough, I own this and the Thad/Mel quartet album and none of the big band. 

I picked up a couple of straggler spare CDs from that box back in the day - I wonder if it was one of the ones affected by the reputed CD plant pilfering?

Candid

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[JSngry]

as found on/with the 2CD offering

 

If this ain't what you want, keep away!

[gmonahan]

18 hours ago, JSngry said:

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!

Dizzy's solo on "The Champ" is my all-time favorite. Nobody, but nobody, could soar over a big band like Dizzy.

 

 

gregmo

[duaneiac]

The CD reissue adds 4 new performances to the album's original 6.

[soulpope]

3 minutes ago, duaneiac said:

The CD reissue adds 4 new performances to the album's original 6.

!!!

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

Art Farmer: Live At Stanford Jazz Workshop. Monarch Records MR-1013 [1997]

[soulpope]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

3 x  !!!

[jazzbo]

Joe Henderson "Lush Life: the Music of Billy Strayhorn"

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

I just love this one. Very late Jobim, selections by other Brazilian songwriters he recorded for an excellent series of cds produced in Brazil featuring Brazilian artists performing the songbooks of Brazilian composers. All Jobim's contributions to the series are collected here. Lovely music.

Tom Jobim "My Soul Sings"

[Coda]

[sonnymax]

[Coda]

[Justin V]

I just finished listening to a Maynard Ferguson gig on the Blue Note's Patreon page.  I think that I own one album with Ferguson on it but I enjoyed the fun set.  I'm kicking myself for missing a Ferguson gig about 10 months before he died.  I was in my last semester of college and only a few years into my jazz listening.  Who knows what the younger me would have thought, but the older me wishes that I had gone.  

[duaneiac]

From this, the "Ferrara" disc.

Edited June 14, 2020 by duaneiac

[danasgoodstuff]

On 6/12/2020 at 10:05 AM, sidewinder said:

Ooh, a mono copy...is that real mono or just a fold-down?  Or have I been spending too much time on the Hoffman Forums?

[duaneiac]

Disc 1 of 2, which contains the albums Light, Airy and Swinging (a 1973 trio session with Andy Simpkins and Stix Hooper) and Continental Experience (a 1974 quintet session with additional Latin percussion)

[optatio]

8 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Joe Henderson "Lush Life: the Music of Billy Strayhorn"

3 x  !!!

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Ooh, a mono copy...is that real mono or just a fold-down?  Or have I been spending too much time on the Hoffman Forums?

Probably the latter..

Listening to the stereo version on Spotify. I may pounce on the Tone Poet LP so demoing on my streamer. Nothing profound but very enjoyable.

This one is more profound though - 

Conn reissue

2 hours ago, duaneiac said:

Disc 1 of 2, which contains the albums Light, Airy and Swinging (a 1973 trio session with Andy Simpkins and Stix Hooper) and Continental Experience (a 1974 quintet session with additional Latin percussion)

Really like that ‘Three Originals’ series. They were a bit elusive/expensive here when they came out though.

George Shearing had a very happy period at MPS, by all accounts.

Edited June 14, 2020 by sidewinder