So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

on LP on Uptown:

Singing.

[Justin V]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul: Nance on violin, with Tiny Grimes, Jaki Byard, Sir Roland Hanna, Brew Moore, Tommy Lucas, Carl Pruitt and Steve Little.  Hanna plays organ on the lone track vocal track!  Produced by Duke Pearson.  

Edited July 6, 2020 by Justin V

[Larry Kart]

A good one. Brignola and Roditi in heated form;  they're a natural team; John Hicks is inspired.

[HutchFan]

[Pim]

[felser]

[JSngry]

8 hours ago, Justin V said:

Ray Nance - Body and Soul: Nance on violin, with Tiny Grimes, Jaki Byard, Sir Roland Hanna, Brew Moore, Tommy Lucas, Carl Pruitt and Steve Little.  Hanna plays organ on the lone track vocal track!  Produced by Duke Pearson.  

I still say that's Aunt Esther on the cover.

[JSngry]

Finished yesterday up with this one, which is one of the more...stealth (or just out and out deceptive) records I've come across in quite a while.

So, ok, cheesy tinkly mood music for late-night seductions, right?

The explain this:

By the time it's over, you're in some really "out" notions of space and silence, the dynamics of interruption and insertion and specific textural gravities:

and a McCoy Tyner cover in between (in 1965!):

and the one nod to the Poinciana beat gets really opened up. Vernell Fournier, don't sleep on Vernell Fournier!

But what about the strings? Well, the arrangements are by Joe Kennedy (a "legendary" figure about whom I don't know nearly enough) and they are lush, but not JUST lush.

It's  a stealth record.

 

[jazzbo]

I managed to sneak this one in, the new MQA/UHQCD or "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" from Impulse! Japan.

Sounds awesome!

And followed it with this:

Miles Davis "Four and More" MoFiSACD

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

a working band, not a project, unless making a living and creating a legacy is a project, and sure, it is.

[Balladeer]

Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron - Play Morricone 1 & 2 (CamJazz)

[HutchFan]

More Rabbit:

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Desert island platter ....

[sidewinder]

[duaneiac]

and then for something completely different  . . .

[HutchFan]

Art Farmer - Brass Shout and Aztec Suite (Blue Note, originally UA)
I love the big fat bottom that Don Butterfield's tuba brings to Brass Shout.  I guess Benny Golson deserves credit for the arrangements -- and Percy Heath too for the way that he and Butterfield dance around one another so beautifully in the basement.

 

and

Miles Davis Quintet - Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2 (Sony Legacy)
Disc 2

Incredible.  All of them.  But Wayne!  Phew!!!

 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Art Davis, Elvin Jones, and presumably God, all in the same place at the same time doing the same thing.

and yet...

[mikeweil]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

That's one I still need to get ..... Saturday was Groove day here, but I couldn't find the time to post it, so Here they come. finishing the round with the OJC  CD of "Misty" which I pulled from the mailbox today.