So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

John Coltrane "'63" Impulse Japan UHQCD, disc 1 ("Both Directions at Once")

[BillF]

13 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Excellent new release. 

That's a lovely album, John. A few years ago in Southport, UK I saw Basile, Patton and Karn in a sextet that included tenorman Osian Roberts who, like me, was born in Cardiff. I see that this album has a track called "The Cardiff Giant". As I'm listening on Spotify and don't have access to liner notes, I'm wondering if this is dedicated to Osian. Is it?

[Justin V]

[jazzbo]

Woody Shaw "Field Recordings of a Jazz Master"

[Justin V]

The Tenor Madness session.  I bought this a year ago and haven't spent a ton of time with it, which is my loss.  Listening to each session just makes me fall in love with Sonny all over again.  I'll binge on the RCA box by session soon.

[EKE BBB]

Both LPs and the Vega EP were gathered together in the FSR CD “Piano Jazz. Trio Sessions”, under Maurice Vander’s name.

[John Tapscott]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

That's a lovely album, John. A few years ago in Southport, UK I saw Basile, Patton and Karn in a sextet that included tenorman Osian Roberts who, like me, was born in Cardiff. I see that this album has a track called "The Cardiff Giant". As I'm listening on Spotify and don't have access to liner notes, I'm wondering if this is dedicated to Osian. Is it?

Yes Bill it is - quote -  "a bright and breezy 32 bar tune dedicated to his (Frank's) dear friend and great tenor saxophonist Osian Roberts." 

Now:

[jazzbo]

James Newton "The African Flower" Blue Note cd

This is so good. . . it really should have an audiophile SACD/cd and LP release.

[Justin V]

The Soul Junction/All Mornin' Long session. Listening to Tenor Madness led me to this.  It's interesting that Jamil Nasser is on this one instead of Paul Chambers.  Nasser was an excellent bassist.

[Referentzhunter]

wowww ... Wayne Shorter !

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

Litaniques * Rouge-mort Thanatos * E Pericoloso Sporgersi

[Joe]

 

 

 

[HutchFan]

This again:

 

 

14 minutes ago, Joe said:

Fantastic!    

 

[soulpope]

[BillF]

3 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Yes Bill it is - quote -  "a bright and breezy 32 bar tune dedicated to his (Frank's) dear friend and great tenor saxophonist Osian Roberts." 

 

 

Thanks John. I had a nice chat with Osian at the home of my friend Malcolm who hosts gigs and we compared notes on our early origins. (Sadly I'm now resigned to accepting those face-to-face sessions as a thing of the past ) Osian is a tenorman much to my taste, and I think yours. He can be heard to advantage on a number of albums he's made with Steve Fishwick, this probably being the most well known:

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

I recall seeing Basile heading up a reconstituted Slide Hampton Octet on a Smalls ‘livestream’ a while back. Impressive !

4 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Yes Bill it is - quote -  "a bright and breezy 32 bar tune dedicated to his (Frank's) dear friend and great tenor saxophonist Osian Roberts." 

Now:

An excellent reissue - I picked up the vinyl. Good sleeve notes by all concerned too.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Joe said:

Excellent line-up for sure ....

 

[Simon8]

3 minutes ago, soulpope said:

[jlhoots]

Walter Bishop: Coral Keys

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

"Shadow Puppets" Jim Gailloreto - Split Decision Naim cd

Hip music, wonderful recording.

[EKE BBB]

[Bluesnik]

Continuing with Bill Evans. Here he overdubs himself not once... but twice!