So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Now on Night Fire (Black Saint, 1981) by the John Carter Quintet.

Possibly even better than the Roots & Folklore records that came after? I know those well but I'd never listened to Night Fire before now.

It has a similar feeling, like the listener is watching an unfolding chamber drama.

Roberto Miranda on bass is just incredible. 

Edited March 5, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Simon8 said:

Now playing:

Wonderful bop guitarist - largely unsung beyond these shores I guess.

Sorry never to have seen him play. Was due to hear him in Wigan in the summer of 2016, but sadly Louis didn't live that long.

Edited March 5, 2021 by BillF

[Larry Kart]

16 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

 Yeah, me neither but he's playing some inspired brush work here. Maybe it was being in Tokyo or something but he's having fun. Gomez is kind of a drag here but Morell & Evans are in good form. 

 

Listened a bit last night. Very well recorded -- balance between Evans and Gomez is ideal, for once there's just right amount of space between them, albeit Gomez is still Gomez; Evans is in fine form for that period; Morell is just Morell, or so it seems to me.

[sidewinder]

34 minutes ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Wonderful bop guitarist - largely unsung beyond these shores I guess.

Sorry never to have seen him play. Was due to hear him in Wigan in the summer of 2016, but sadly Louis didn't live that long.

Remember seeing him with Ronnie Scott. It must have been just before Dick Pearce joined that lineup because I think it was just the once.

[Dub Modal]

29 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Listened a bit last night. Very well recorded -- balance between Evans and Gomez is ideal, for once there's just right amount of space between them, albeit Gomez is still Gomez; Evans is in fine form for that period; Morell is just Morell, or so seems to me.

I guess I should qualify "funky" as in "funky for Morell." It was unexpected from my perspective. Not a bad drummer, but on this one he seemed to let loose a little more. 

[felser]

[mikeweil]

 

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

Cal Massey "Blues to Coltrane" Candid/Solid Records Japan mono cd.

Sounds so good compared to my earlier version. There should have been more Massey led sessions in the past. He was an interesting writer.

[sidewinder]

13 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Cal Massey "Blues to Coltrane" Candid/Solid Records Japan mono cd.

Sounds so good compared to my earlier version. There should have been more Massey led sessions in the past. He was an interesting writer.

The Candid LP version of that one sounds pretty good.

[jazzbo]

I am sure it does. I have only been able to compare one of the new Japanese cd reissues to a US Candid LP and that was mono and stereo in the mix as well but the new ones sound far more like the LPs to me than the cd versions I've had before.

[sidewinder]

I think the LP version I have might be a 90s German pressing. Never heard any of the CD versions. 

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

I guess I should qualify "funky" as in "funky for Morell." It was unexpected from my perspective. Not a bad drummer, but on this one he seemed to let loose a little more. 

I found that Morell let loose a good deal on the two recent Resonance label Evans releases -- "Live at the Top of the Gate" and "Evans in England." Interesting interviews with Morrell and Gomez in the latter set's booklet.

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

I found that Morell let loose a good deal on the two recent Resonance label Evans releases -- "Live at the Top of the Gate" and "Evans in England." Interesting interviews with Morrell and Gomez in the latter set's booklet.

Those are the 2 Resonance Evans releases I didn't get. I stuck with the DeJohnette sets, of which Another Time was my favorite of the two. Gomez, of course, is ubiquitous across them all. 

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

Mal Waldron: What It Is

[Rabshakeh]

Jacques Coursil's Black Suite (BYG, 1971)

[Don]

 

(Weirdly, the version of this I have in the Coltrane 'Interplay' box set doesn't list McLean in the session notes.)

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

 Brignola and DeJohnette are great together.

[Peter Friedman]

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Those are the 2 Resonance Evans releases I didn't get. I stuck with the DeJohnette sets, of which Another Time was my favorite of the two. Gomez, of course, is ubiquitous across them all. 

Over time I find I prefer the other two Resonance Evans sets Imentioned; at least I listen to them more often.

[felser]

5 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

That is a great Griff album.

Edited March 5, 2021 by felser

[HutchFan]

Excellent.