So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[dicky]

22 minutes ago, JSngry said:

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

I'm listening to a ripped CD version of this and it sounds spectacular. 

Charles Brackeen dates are to be cherished.

[JSngry]

1 minute ago, dicky said:

Charles Brackeen dates are to be cherished.

Indeed they are, but one should be at least a little pissed off when that splendid tenor sound is neutered by pulling it waaaaay down in the mix, swarthing it in too much damn reverb, and making it sound like background commentary to the bass player. That's not how he sounded, not even slightly. And that's why "ECM" can still rankle. This mix is more about itself than it is the music. It happens/happened with them sometimes.

Oddly enough, his soprano playing on the same record is mixed just fine.

[dicky]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Indeed they are, but one should be at least a little pissed off when that splendid tenor sound is neutered by pulling it waaaaay down in the mix, swarthing it in too much damn reverb, and making it sound like background commentary to the bass player.

We might be hearing different mixes. Your LP vs the CD. ECM recordings do tend ECM- ize things. Either way, it's a killer session along with the other Motian/Brackeen set, "Dance".

[JSngry]

Not my LP, my CD.

[mjazzg]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

Not my LP, my CD.

Any excuse to get the LP out.  On my copy Brackeen's very front and centre to me; yes Jenny-Clark's prominent too but that's a very good thing in my book.

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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

Read that and thought, really with so much more to come from him as a leader? 

Then I sat back and thought long and hard, maybe just maybe but I'm very very fond of some of the later VV / On Broadway recordings where I think it all cohere's to near perfection for a late-career flourish. And then there's the EBBB...and the trio with Rava and Bollani.  Too many favourites

[jazzcorner]

Among the earliest Stereo big band recordings is the following Item - Sound quality outstanding!
Originally issued on RENOWN RECORDS

Drive Archive DE2-41066 -Les Brown " Lullybye In Rhythm" - rec. Dec 1954 / Jan 1955 live at the Hollywood Palladium - Engineer: Gerry McDonald

 

 

[JSngry]

In this case, it ain't the motion, it's the meat.

And I mean that in a positive way.

[jlhoots]

Bob Belden: Turandot

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

SF Jazz Collective "The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions".. . Listening to disc 1, the Jobim material.

Both discs are great. What I like most about the Jobim disc is how they've taken the Brazil out of most of the arrangements and added other Latin elements and straighter ahead jazz components. I love Jobim in all forms!

[Gheorghe]

The Dizzy Reece album recorded in UK, with Donald Byrd and the great Tubby Hayes. 

Jackie McLean ........the title tune very nice, based on Star Eyes, it´s not done often, but I have it also on record from The Heads of State with Gary Bartz.....

[JSngry]

This is a really good record.

[Joe]

Ruminative.

[jazzbo]

Duduka Da Fonseca Trio "Plays Dom Salvador"

[ghost of miles]

Don’t know how I slept on this one for so long...

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1 - Tal Farlow '58

[BillF]

33 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

The Dizzy Reece album recorded in UK

 

Now was it? When I had a hard copy I seem to remember mention in the liner notes of a French connection.

[sidewinder]

5 minutes ago, BillF said:

Now was it? When I had a hard copy I seem to remember mention in the liner notes of a French connection.

Subterfuge in the original liner notes - recorded as per Tempo sessions so presumably at Decca West Hampstead.

[Jim Duckworth]

I was compiling a Calvin Massey playlist but stopped to listen to this in its entirety. 

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[Rabshakeh]

Mama Rose, by Archie Shepp and a Dutch keyboardist called Jasper van 't Hof, from 1982, on Steeplechase. I don't know much about Shepp's eighties work, but it's a definite departure from his fire music or gospel days in tone.

Edited July 19, 2020 by Rabshakeh

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]