So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Joe]

[EKE BBB]

[Justin V]

[HutchFan]

56 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Freddie Hubbard "Gleam" Sony/BGO 

I totally missed this one in the day, and am glad to have this two cd set now. I appreciate Freddie Hubbard more and more as time goes on. He's gone from "okay" to "wow" in my vocabulary, it took me a while to appreciate him fully.

 

16 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Keep Your Soul Together/High Energy/Gleam-a superb run of consecutive albums.

Gleam was a Japan-only thing back in the day, right?

I've only heard bits-and-pieces on YT.  Sounds like I need to go get it.   

 

[kh1958]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

 

Gleam was a Japan-only thing back in the day, right?

I've only heard bits-and-pieces on YT.  Sounds like I need to go get it.   

 

Yes; I never even heard of Gleam back in the day until I read about it here. It was basically unavailable until Wounded Bird reissued it.

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Yes; I never even heard of Gleam back in the day until I read about it here. It was basically unavailable until Wounded Bird reissued it.

Cool.  Thought so.  I'm adding it to my list.   

 

NP:

Max Roach - Deeds, Not Words (Riverside/OJC)

On a Booker Little kick over the last few days.

Gone at 23 years old.  Ugh.  Just think of all the things he could've done.

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

I've actually never spent any time with any VSOP albums. No reason other than they've never popped up on my radar. 

I listen to this first Live one every so often. Obviously it’s a rehash of what went before, but Herbie is more confident and Wayne is on another journey by this point. Downsides are Ron Carter’s awful bass sound and Freddie Hubbard not being in his prime.
 

In the Late 70s rechauffee stakes I’d probably pick Old and New Dreams as my choice long before VSOP, but It’s worth it every so often.

[soulpope]

Loved these performances since they saw release as Mole Jazz vinyl .... and always will ....

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

Echoes of the The Birth of the Cool sonorities.  Max and Draper's tuba, I suppose.  But the arrangements & compositions too.  

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by HutchFan

[duaneiac]

Music for completing my ballot, while hoping that the candidates of my choice are indeed "The Easy Winners".

[Gheorghe]

Today I´m in a mood for some fine organ by Jimmy Smith. I decided to go all the way back to his first to BN albums.

It´s interesting that on BLP 1512 they still had to work a little to get the right sound for the organ . On BLP 1514 the sound is better. 

Great tunes, some are really incredible virtuosity like "Lady be Good" (actually the bop line Rifftide), and Dizzy´s "The Champ". Not to forget the groovy medium tempo tunes and the fine ballads.....

13 hours ago, duaneiac said:

Disc 2 of 2.

this inspired me to listen to Jimmy Smith today

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

Yes; I never even heard of Gleam back in the day until I read about it here. It was basically unavailable until Wounded Bird reissued it.

Beat Goes On has it as a 2 cd set now, probably sounds better than the Wounded Bird.

[BillF]

[Referentzhunter]

[BillF]

6 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

[soulpope]

A sure bet ....

[sidewinder]

49 minutes ago, BillF said:

Dig the ‘window boxes’..

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Loved these performances since they saw release as Mole Jazz vinyl .... and always will ....

I will always regret the fact that I missed that gig, although I did see his appearance afterwards at RFH, which was memorable. Can’t recall why I missed it !

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by Referentzhunter

[soulpope]

Indispensable ....

[sidewinder]

Thanks to djcavanagh 

[gmonahan]

Actually went to a *record store* and found this one in the used cd racks. Lots of fun!

 

[jazzbo]

Jack Wilson "Easterly Winds" 24 bit by RVG Blue Note cd

[BillF]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

 

I will always regret the fact that I missed that gig, although I did see his appearance afterwards at RFH, which was memorable. Can’t recall why I missed it !

I recall Alan Barnes saying that as a student at Leeds College of Music he made the trip to Scott's to hear the master.

Perhaps that's why many years later he named an album The Art Trip.

Edited October 29, 2020 by BillF