So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Dub Modal]

15 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

From my perspective, that one's up there with Hill's very best.  

 

Just started but had to put it aside for now. After the 3 I listened to this afternoon, my ranking would be the same as listening order: Change, Dance with Death, then Grass Roots in a distant 3rd. It's good, and has some great moments (Ponder shines in spots), but so different from what was on those first 2. 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

All these years having to run away from Streisand & the like, hell columbia does one record with Joanie Sommers, gets Mort Garson (of Arthur Prysock) and BOOM who cares about that?

A lot of people, obviously, but...Joanie Sommers got skills, is it ok to say that? If it was really that way, everybody would do it, right?

Did everybody do that?

 

[BillF]

[JSngry]

The longest journey beginning with a single step (or piano duo), etc.

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "Someday my Prince will Come" Analogue Productions SACD

Ignore this album for a while and when revisited it really packs a punch of enjoyable listening.

[Dub Modal]

After Passing Ships (interesting album in that it had me wondering if the title referenced some other players that Hill was listening to. For example, the title track sounds a bit like Sun Ra, Plantation Bag seemed to have SGQ influence, and Noon Tide was Horace Silver-ish. Maybe it was just my brain making tenuous connections, but great album regardless). 

Anyway, Herbie doesn't show up on this one until the 3rd track as I think the opener was a trio (or quartet if both Rivers & Shorter were playing) while the second track is a solo. 

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

With - Harold Land, Frank Rosolino, Carl Perkins, Leroy Vinnegar, Stan Levey

[jazzbo]

Sean Kahn featuring Hermeto Pascoal "Palmares Fantasy"

[Rabshakeh]

SOUND ADVICE BY PAT PATRICK AND THE BARITONE SAXOPHONE RETINUE (SATURN, 1977)

It's a fun approachable record, behind the murk and incredibly over-recorded percussion. It is an insight into the type of music Patrick was into when he first passed the threshold of the Arkestra: a sort of big band type music that was always at the heart of Sun Ra's own music, even if contorted into quite different forms. 

As is often the case, much as I love Sun Ra, I do wish his musicians had been allowed to record more. 

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[John Tapscott]

[John Tapscott]

[Dub Modal]

8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

SOUND ADVICE BY PAT PATRICK AND THE BARITONE SAXOPHONE RETINUE (SATURN, 1977)

It's a fun approachable record, behind the murk and incredibly over-recorded percussion. It is an insight into the type of music Patrick was into when he first passed the threshold of the Arkestra: a sort of big band type music that was always at the heart of Sun Ra's own music, even if contorted into quite different forms. 

As is often the case, much as I love Sun Ra, I do wish his musicians had been allowed to record more. 

Agreed. I need to check this one out. 

[jlhoots]

27 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Agreed. I need to check this one out. 

I have a reissue of that someplace with a different cover. Will look for it.

[mjazzg]

5 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

I have a reissue of that someplace with a different cover. Will look for it.

So do, on Art Yard I think. Need to dig mine out too

[HutchFan]

Charlie Palmieri !!!

 

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[Rabshakeh]

I think there are various covers, mostly showing iterations of the above photo. From discogs, it looks like the original may have been in a generic sleeve.

Now onto:

Terumasa Hinto Quintet - Into The Heaven (Takt, 1970)

[BillF]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

The longest journey beginning with a single step (or piano duo), etc.

[duaneiac]

I've always really enjoyed this disc, perhaps my favorite among the "late period" Horace Silver albums.  There are several good songs here including the lovely ballad "Soul Mates, his tribute to Louis Armstrong called "Red Beans And Rice" and the funky and danceable "Let It All Hang Out".  It features a superb lineup of saxophonists and it was great to hear O.C. Smith, who had long ago dropped off my radar screen by the time this CD came out in 1994, sing again.

[JSngry]

"Red Beans And Rice" is a great piece, really, truly great.

[cds23]

JOE HENDERSON | PAGE ONE | BLUE NOTE | 1963 | US THIRD STEREO PRESSING BN_8140 LP







Not a very first pressing - those have become ridiculously expensive over the last few years, but a a nice RVG mastered edition with Liberty labels (probably second or third, from 1966-67) and original laminated cover with letter pressed liner notes (which came in shrink; I usually don't remove the shrink wrap, but for those laminated Blue Note covers, I didn't want to have yet another layer of plastic (beneath the obligatory protective sleeve) obscuring this wonderful artwork).

Not sure what my favourite Blue Note Album from Joe Henderson is. As much as I like "Page One", it is not his best, in my humble opinion. I always felt that "Mode For Joe" and "Inner Urge" represented his strongest efforts. And even those don't quite reach the quality of "Power to the People" on Milestone.

[HutchFan]

Cal Tjader - Guarabe (Fantasy, 1977)

This band -- with Clare Fischer and Poncho Sanchez -- was excelente.

 

[Rabshakeh]

32 minutes ago, cds23 said:

Not sure what my favourite Blue Note Album from Joe Henderson is. As much as I like "Page One", it is not his best, in my humble opinion. I always felt that "Mode For Joe" and "Inner Urge" represented his strongest efforts. And even those don't quite reach the quality of "Power to the People" on Milestone.

I agree with you there, although I'm not always sure whether I prefer the Milestones to those later Blue Notes. 

Currently listening to:

Dave Douglas Quintet - Meaning and Mystery (2006). 

Donny McCaslin, the tenor player on this, is good. I don't know anything else about him. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has any opinions on his leader dates.

[BillF]