So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

[Rabshakeh]

Now playing: 

ICP0001 itself: New Acoustic Swing Duo (ICP, 2017) by Han Bennink and Willem Breuker.

To my ears, this one is easily on a level with Machine Gun or Karyobin. Fantastic free music, but clearly jazz.

Edited March 12, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Just finished: 

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

Exciting project for sure .....

[Rabshakeh]

Then onto: 

John Coltrane's Expression (Impulse!, 1967).

2 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Exciting project for sure .....

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

[John Tapscott]

[soulpope]

5 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Then onto: 

John Coltrane's Expression (Impulse!, 1967).

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

I believe the art work for double vinyl is quite nice .... btw if I`m not mistaken the CD release is missing some material due to time constraint .....

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

18 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I never understood it. How did A&M come up with those players? It's a great selection.

Also, and on a different note, they must have spent a tonne recording it and getting everyone involved to show up, because it still sounds beautiful. But could they not have schtupped the graphics department something?! It looks like a cheap public domain comp.

I think graphics are very "1980s." Not necessarily terrible or great. Just representative of the time. IMO.

I didn't realize it was downbeat's critic's choice for album of the year until it came up recently on the "Favorite 1980s Albums" thread. I dig the record. It's interesting. But no way I'd choose any Various Artists record as my album of the year.  ... Then again, no one asked me to vote. 

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

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. 

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. There are more:

 

[soulpope]

1 minute ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. 

There are more ....

The Nino Rota homage excels ...

[Rabshakeh]

59 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I didn't realize it was downbeat's critic's choice for album of the year until it came up recently on the "Favorite 1980s Albums" thread.

Same reason that I was revisiting it.

And, I guess it reflects the state of mainstream jazz in the early / mid 80s. It does stand out among its peers. 

[kh1958]

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

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.

Interesting. I find it to be graceful and soothing.

[Rabshakeh]

25 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. There are more:

An understandably even-handed response.

Of the three others that you mentioned, would you recommend any? 

1 minute ago, kh1958 said:

Interesting. I find it to be graceful and soothing.

That's what I thought too!!!

[Chuck Nessa]

I like the Rota and Weill and haven't listened to the Mingus enough to have an opinion. I bought a copy on impulse and forgot about it.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

That is a Hal Wilner project - very much a producer driven program. There are more:

 

You might have forgotten this one:

Other than the Rota album, this is the one I think actually works in ways that the others don't/don't quite.

and so forth.

a study in contrasts...

 

It's one of those records that justifies itself simply by having been done.

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks, both!

Also, glad Pink Elephants on Parade got the treatment it always deserved.

[JSngry]

Fans of Smile, take note...and wipe that smile off your face. That was then, this is now.

Every day, surviving death, we send out our horses.
They don’t come back.

Here the dry river’s a place not to camp,
the night a place not to be.

An army gathers rattling its pans, thinking of home,
an army that will turn your head

to a fire in the sand where those
who've survived this wait out of time

in the dust and the gold,
with the horse you thought was gone.

 

[medjuck]

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I like the Rota and Weill and haven't listened to the Mingus enough to have an opinion. I bought a copy on impulse and forgot about it.

I think I have them all except the Disney because  I don 't like those songs.   Did I make a mistake? 

[ghost of miles]

Fabulous indeed:

[HutchFan]

Listening to House of David from this set:

[BillF]

9 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

[Referentzhunter]

[sidewinder]

CD4. Early Paraphernalia and Jubiaba broadcasts in excellent BBC sound.

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

3 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said: