So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

This great record:

with this kinda bullshit cover:

This Motian/Haden thing...a constantly roiling cauldron always ready, willing, and able to accommodate any additional ingredients.

[Gheorghe]

A very fine hardbop album. Dizzy Reece is a very unique trumpet player, and Hank Mobley/Wynton Kelly fans also will be delighted with this album.

[John Tapscott]

[Larry Kart]

2 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Good one.

[jazzcorner]

RCA Victor LPM-3372 - The Rod Levitt Orchestra " Insight" - rec. 1965 - Engineer Mickey Crofford

 

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by jazzcorner

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

This great record:

with this kinda bullshit cover:

This Motian/Haden thing...a constantly roiling cauldron always ready, willing, and able to accommodate any additional ingredients.

Speaking of Sam Brown...this might be my favorite reading of "Song For Che" by anybody. Brown's acoustic playing is perfect in both conception and execution and makes it sound like the "folk song" it was no doubt intended to be instead of the "protest anthem" it was also no doubt intended to be.

Too often, "protest" comes only in bright colors lacking in both overtones and undertones and speaks only of itself. This one is resonant, redolent, and speaks for itself.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

A very fine hardbop album. Dizzy Reece is a very unique trumpet player, and Hank Mobley/Wynton Kelly fans also will be delighted with this album.

The playing of the "heads" on that recording are near miraculous.

[jazzbo]

Myriam Alter "Crossways"

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

I remember being kind of pissed off about this one back in the day, I mean, c'mon. Brackeen, Izenzon, Motian and this is the record you get? Fuck you, ECM, you suck the life out of jazz (is there one period of sustained ride cymbal on this record? Maybe?). Etcetcetc….

Heard today, it's a marvelously high-level program of "chamber jazz" played by a trio of masters. The silence and space is in the music itself, not in the record label, it's how the musicians played the music themselves, and I don't think any of those three would have played it like this if they didn't mean it. Yesterday, it pushed me away, today it pulls me in. Same record, same music, different me.

Fashion fades, substance doesn't. Substance is there for you to dind it when you want it, but it's also there even if you don't want it.

If facts are stubborn things, then substance is the apex of facts.

[mjazzg]

And maybe some preconceptions about the label played their part too back then? We hear what we think we're going to hear sometimes, the noise gets in the way 

stone cold classic in this house, always has been, always will be

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

[JSngry]

34 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

And maybe some preconceptions about the label played their part too back then?

Oh, most certainly.

Although, also the preconception that a record by that particular trio was going to be a lot more...extroverted was also a factor. I was expecting driving momentumfire, not finely wrought steely icelace.

But that was my bad.

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Oh, most certainly.

Although, also the preconception that a record by that particular trio was going to be a lot more...extroverted was also a factor. I was expecting driving momentumfire, not finely wrought steely icelace.

But that was my bad.

If we liked everything the first time we heard it it'd be a lot less rewarding world, that's for sure

[duaneiac]

Disc 1, Fort Yawuh

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

[Justin V]

This one leaps from the speakers.  Some hot trumpet!

[HutchFan]

6 hours ago, JSngry said:

This Motian/Haden thing...a constantly roiling cauldron always ready, willing, and able to accommodate any additional ingredients.

Perfect description of their hook-up.  Nowhere they couldn't go.

 

 

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

I remember being kind of pissed off about this one back in the day, I mean, c'mon. Brackeen, Izenzon, Motian and this is the record you get? Fuck you, ECM, you suck the life out of jazz (is there one period of sustained ride cymbal on this record? Maybe?). Etcetcetc….

Heard today, it's a marvelously high-level program of "chamber jazz" played by a trio of masters. The silence and space is in the music itself, not in the record label, it's how the musicians played the music themselves, and I don't think any of those three would have played it like this if they didn't mean it. Yesterday, it pushed me away, today it pulls me in. Same record, same music, different me.

Fashion fades, substance doesn't. Substance is there for you to dind it when you want it, but it's also there even if you don't want it.

If facts are stubborn things, then substance is the apex of facts.

Yes!!!  For me, Dance is the pinnacle of Motian's work as a leader. 

 

 

 

NP:

I love the almost floating simplicity of this music.  No flash, all feeling.  ... Or perhaps the feeling of no flash?

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by HutchFan

[duaneiac]

Includes the albums The Burner and Red Soul

[duaneiac]

[JSngry]

Ok, the mix/production does bother me on this one. The  music is fine, but the mix calls too damn much attention to itself.

Or maybe it's jsut more obvious playing this one on my "best" hi-fistereosoundsystem (which is pretty much a POS 101)...maybe ECMs are actually mixed to sound best on these and a 15 yr old Discman? Because, they do...