So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Prompted by Brignola discussion elsewhere on the board:

 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

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5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Prompted by Brignola discussion elsewhere on the board:

 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

"The Complete  Capitol Live Recordings of the George Shearing Quintet" disc 4

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

[John Tapscott]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

14 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Great recording. 

 

Listening now:

[duaneiac]

50 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

"The Complete  Capitol Live Recordings of the George Shearing Quintet" disc 4

I have the Mosaic set and enjoy it.  I've seen that Shearing On Stage LP in used shop many times, but never noticed until now exactly which musicians are nicely spotlighted and which ones (by design, one must suppose) are not.  A bit dismaying that even by 1959, a major record label such as Capitol would do that.

[jazzbo]

That's America for ya!

[JSngry]

Did Shearing have somebody to look at his record covers for him?

[duaneiac]

Surely he must have.  I mean his manager was his former bass player,John Levy, an African-American.  But even at the time the photo was staged and taken, didn't some one even stop to say, "Uhhh, guys, what's the deal here?"  And what was the deal?  Surely people who were fans of George Shearing would have known by 1959 that he led an integrated band.  I doubt they would have had a problem with a photo clearly showing all the band members. Was the record company concerned that a still significant number of record stores in --ahem -- certain markets would decline to display an album clearly showing a racially integrated band?

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

 

Disc 1 of  2.  Various radio broadcast performances literally from coast to coast -- from the Hollywood Palladium (all of Disc 1) to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City.

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

This comp is probably the first Monk I ever owned. Still one of my most cherised discs:

 

[Referentzhunter]

freaky stuff 

[EKE BBB]

1 hour ago, EKE BBB said:

This comp is probably the first Monk I ever owned. Still one of my most cherised discs:

 

Natural follow-up:

Monk in trio and also in quartet format is great but, oh my, how I love solo Monk!!! 

Edited March 24, 2021 by EKE BBB

[Referentzhunter]

[Gheorghe]

8 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Those two early Kenny Burrell albums for BN are wonderful. 

I heard Kenny Burrells guitar first on Paul Chamber´s "Whims of Chambers" and fell in love with it. 

1956 must have been a wonderful year for Kenny Burrell, he recorded his first two albums for BN and played on others like for example Kenny Dorham´s live at Bohemia.

[BillF]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

Did Shearing have somebody to look at his record covers for him?

At a Shearing concert I attended in the 1960s he tackled this question, saying with a very dirty laugh that he chose the models for his covers himself.

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Edited March 24, 2021 by BillF

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

Nat on cornet in 2 different quartet settings. Natch!

[BillF]

[John Tapscott]

17 minutes ago, BillF said:

 

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