So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[EKE BBB]

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)

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[EKE BBB]

Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk (Columbia, 1965)

[Referentzhunter]

20 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Very nice, maybe not the very best of Miles´ Prestige sessions, but especially the Al Cohn Zoot Sims session is a very relaxed date, well the tunes are catchy and for easy listening after a day of hard work....

Collector´s items also very fine. 

yeah pretty nice ... !

[Referentzhunter]

[BillF]

12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

This album has perhaps the best version of the tune "Moonglow" I have ever heard. 

Saw that band at St George's Hall, Bradford in 1959. Was in cheapest (!) seats - onstage!!

[Rabshakeh]

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

The Jackie McLean Quintet featuring René McLean - Dynasty (Triloka, 1990)

 

I stared at this for a while this morning, wondering why Red Rodney was on the cover of a Jackie McLean record.

Moral of the story: drink coffee.

Now playing: 

Far From Over (ECM, 2017) by the Vijay Iyer Sextet.

Love that three horn front line, and Tyshawn Sorey in a more “conventional” mode.

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

ha ha ! This was (after some Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner heard at some friends house) actually the FIRST Real jazz album I heard and with that album everything started: I could not get enough of that stuff and each of the musicians involved became a "hero" of mine, That´s how my life long love affair with jazz started. But then around 1977 it has this cover (not the original cover) 

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force (ECM, 1980)

 

and

The Jackie McLean Quintet featuring René McLean - Dynasty (Triloka, 1990)

 

Unfortunatly I don´t have this album, but I saw one Jackie McLean sextet in summer 1985 with Jackie McLean, Rene McLean, Hotep Galeta I think was on piano, David Eubanks (former with Dex) was on bass, it could have been Ronnie Burrage on drums and it was Kemati Dinizulu on percussions. Very very exiting music. 

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[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)

5 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Now playing:

Edited March 12, 2021 by BillF

[JSngry]

I like how the chair and coat and water bottle takes on a presence of its own in the picture. Roscoe creates a holistic environment just by being there and doing.

[kh1958]

Mamman Sani, La Musique Electronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)

[Rabshakeh]

5 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Mamman Sani, La Musique Electronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)

Truly great truly odd record.

I had it on vinyl but sold it recently because noone else in the house would tolerate it, despite putting up with Ayler, Nonaah and a hundred other worse things.

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[HutchFan]

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I stared at this for a while this morning, wondering why Red Rodney was on the cover of a Jackie McLean record.

Moral of the story: drink coffee.

😁

 

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

I like how the chair and coat and water bottle takes on a presence of its own in the picture. Roscoe creates a holistic environment just by being there and doing.

Ordered. Hope it's good.

[Gheorghe]

Wonderful !

Chet was very often at his best until the very very end.

I saw him live in late 1987, that means 6 months before he died and he was in top form, better than ever. 

[JSngry]

17 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Ordered. Hope it's good.

I liked it. It's Roscoe. He's one of "those guys" for me.

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Definitive in so many ways...

[EKE BBB]

Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic, 1965)

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

I liked it. It's Roscoe. He's one of "those guys" for me.

Shipped within 2 hours from The Lab in San Francisco.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic, 1965)

❤❤❤ !!!

[Rabshakeh]

Just finished: 

That's the Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (A&M, 1984) 

A record that gets better with distance.

If anyone knows the reason why there are so many musicians from the "downtown" scene on a major label big budget tribute to Monk, I'd be interested to know. 

Edited March 12, 2021 by Rabshakeh