So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[Joe]

[Teasing the Korean]

19 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

That album cover terrified me the first time I saw it!  

On 8/13/2021 at 4:19 AM, BillF said:

Eat that chicken!  

It has become a Thanksgiving tradition to spin this album on Wednesday night during dinner prep. 

[BillF]

18 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

That album cover terrified me the first time I saw it!  

Eat that chicken!  

 

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

Wow!

Some quiet, rainy day jazz is on deck for today:

• Paul Desmond - Polka Dots & Moonbeams (RCA)
• Phones Newborn - While My Lady Sleeps (RCA)
• Stan Getz Plays for Lovers (Concord Jazz)
• Guitar Moods by Mundell Lowe (Riverside)

[jazzcorner]

MGM Records MM 2084 - Leonard Feather presents " Hot Versus Cool (A)" & "Cats versus Chicks (B)" - rec. A 1952 & B 1954

 

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

When I hear that track I recall that during one of Roland Kirk's seasons at Ronnie Scott's in the 60s he spend a lot of time in Dobell's Jazz Record shop, leaning on the counter and demanding to hear one Fats Waller record after another. 

Wow ....

Edited August 15, 2021 by soulpope

[jazzcorner]

12 hours ago, BillF said:

   great LP

Bill Holman was in the 1980ies one of the leaders of the WDR Big Band in Cologne along with Mel Lewis and played many of his great  compositions the first time here in Germany, sometime  first a rehearshed studio version and then a public concert. Everything transmitted by german radio Cologne (WDR)

At that time the WDR big band had no regular drummer so Mel sat in very often also with other US guests. Great times will never come back!

Edited August 15, 2021 by jazzcorner
typo

[Peter Friedman]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

20 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Looks like a 1977 Honda CB-400F Super Sport. I had one of those for several years. It was a fun bike. My wife might've looked something like that back then too.

You can tell it's a 1977 because of the higher handlebars. The older models had "cafe racer" style handlebars.

[HutchFan]

11 minutes ago, bresna said:

Looks like a 1977 Honda CB-400F Super Sport. I had one of those for several years. It was a fun bike. My wife might've looked something like that back then too.

You can tell it's a 1977 because of the higher handlebars. The older models had "cafe racer" style handlebars.

The 4-into-1 exhaust was also very distinctive on that bike.

I had a CB-650 back in the day.  Honda inline fours rule.   

 

NP:

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, bresna said:

My wife might've looked something like that back then too.

This was your wife?

 

[HutchFan]

Now listening via YT:

[John Tapscott]

Some recent listening:

 

 

[sonnyhill]

Max Roach - speak, brother, SPEAK! (Debut)

 

 

Gerald Cleaver - Signs (577 Records)

 

JD Allen - Queen City (Savant)

[HutchFan]

More Cannonball:

 

 

and

Edited August 16, 2021 by HutchFan

[EKE BBB]

[BillF]

12 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Bill Holman was in the 1980ies one of the leaders of the WDR Big Band in Cologne along with Mel Lewis and played many of his great  compositions the first time here in Germany, sometime  first a rehearshed studio version and then a public concert. Everything transmitted by german radio Cologne (WDR)

At that time the WDR big band had no regular drummer so Mel sat in very often also with other US guests. Great times will never come back!

I saw Holman only once - in the 90s at the Wigan Jazz Festival with the orchestra that made the Monk album. It was particularly nice to see some veterans of West Coast Jazz of the 50s - not just Holman himself, but also Bill Perkins and Bob Enevoldsen.

[BillF]

Now playing:

[Gheorghe]

8 hours ago, sonnyhill said:

Max Roach - speak, brother, SPEAK! (Debut)

 

 

Gerald Cleaver - Signs (577 Records)

 

JD Allen - Queen City (Savant)

On 13.8.2021 at 8:18 AM, Gheorghe said:

 

 

 

Max Roach Speak Brother Speak is fantastic. I bought it after first seeing Max Roach live. It had another cover than (AMERICA Label). The other two albums I don´t know, never heard the names....

[jazzbo]

Kenny Burrell "Monday Stroll" Savoy/Denon cd.

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

I saw Holman only once - in the 90s at the Wigan Jazz Festival with the orchestra that made the Monk album. It was particularly nice to see some veterans of West Coast Jazz of the 50s - not just Holman himself, but also Bill Perkins and Bob Enevoldsen.

I met him once. Chatted with him about touring with Vic Lewis !  Nice guy. Perkins and Enevoldsen were around at that event too, also in the 90s.

Cy Touff was conducting a recreation of his ‘Keester Parade’ band but no longer playing by then.

Edited August 16, 2021 by sidewinder

[Rabshakeh]

Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender (ECM, 1981).

"Hey kids, what time is it?!"

Edited August 16, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[jazzbo]

Prince "Welcome 2 America" cd

A return to the type of Prince I really like. Nice sound too, not a loudness war victim.

[HutchFan]

Now listening to Fathead's Resurgence! as heard on this 32 Jazz reissue:

 

 

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Kenny Burrell "Monday Stroll" Savoy/Denon cd.

Excellent!