So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

This is back out on cd again (was out in '87 on Dragon and 2002 by the Monk Family) and sounding great!

Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live in Stockholm 1961" Dragon Records cd disc 1

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

VERY much appreciate the "anatomy of a track" takes of "Perfect Man" (which seems to intersect with Eddie Harris somehow, somewhere, from whatever directions), plus the inclusion of "Space Probe"...which in hindsight is a prediction of the nightmare that the "real world" came to embrace and OD on basic electronic sound effects in the upcoming decade. Not that that's what he had in mind, but...all a prophet can do is predict what is going to happen, not how it will go once it does, right?

The actual album OG itself, it's nice, I like that a lot.

I have vol 2, need to get vol 1

28 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

This is back out on cd again (was out in '87 on Dragon and 2002 by the Monk Family) and sounding great!

Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live in Stockholm 1961" Dragon Records cd disc 1

love this set 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

35 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

This is back out on cd again (was out in '87 on Dragon and 2002 by the Monk Family) and sounding great!

Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live in Stockholm 1961" Dragon Records cd disc 1

Maybe I missed a discussion on it, but why did Monk's estate get the rights to this recording? It was issued by 3 different labels in 1987 (Dragon, DIW & Secret) and then went out of print until Thelonious Records put it out in 2002.

[jazzbo]

8 minutes ago, bresna said:

 

48 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

This is back out on cd again (was out in '87 on Dragon and 2002 by the Monk Family) and sounding great!

Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live in Stockholm 1961" Dragon Records cd disc 1

Maybe I missed a discussion on it, but why did Monk's estate get the rights to this recording? It was issued by 3 different labels in 1987 (Dragon, DIW & Secret) and then went out of print until Thelonious Records put it out in 2002.

 

 

I honestly don't have any sort of educated answer. . . I think that the Monk Family had come to the conclusion (probably erroneously) that it was an unofficial bootleg and so they just flat put it out. All their discs didn't stay in print long. In 2012 DIW reissued it again I believe.

https://www.amazon.com/Thelonious-Monk-Live-Stockholm-1961/dp/B0087CXXSY

Now playing:

 

John Beasley "Positootely" 

Edited August 23, 2021 by jazzbo

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

This is back out on cd again (was out in '87 on Dragon and 2002 by the Monk Family) and sounding great!

Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live in Stockholm 1961" Dragon Records cd disc 1

Outstanding "live" Monk .... btw ❤love❤ the Ore + Dunlop tandem ....

[Rabshakeh]

Motohiko Hino - First Album (Columbia, 1971)

I'm coming to the conclusion that Kosuke Mine never appeared on a bad album. He, Hideo Ichikawa, Masabumi Kikuchi and the rest of that set were on fire in the early 1970s.

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

Earlier:

 

and

 

[Dub Modal]

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

Sophisticated Latin Jazz .... very good ....

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Outstanding "live" Monk .... btw ❤love❤ the Ore + Dunlop tandem ....

Me too.

[BillF]

4 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

[Rabshakeh]

Oliver Nelson - Straight Ahead (New Jazz, 1961)

I feel like this one should be more famous among Dolphy fans. It's my first time listening to it and it's absolutely great. Nelson lets him run the shop.

Perhaps people get out off by the incredibly ugly cover.

[HutchFan]

42 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

I'm listening to that now too.  

 

[soulpope]

16 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Oliver Nelson - Straight Ahead (New Jazz, 1961)

I feel like this one should be more famous among Dolphy fans. It's my first time listening to it and it's absolutely great. Nelson lets him run the shop.

Perhaps people get out off by the incredibly ugly cover.

George Duvivier + Roy Haynes just wonderful here ....

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

Turns out I've been buying some of these "approaching audiophile quality" issues this last go 'round without even realizing it! Not sure how much of a difference it really makes in terms of experience, but not having this one in any other form, works for me!

No idea what this must have sounded like in 1966, but the Tommy Hunter reverb makes it at once sound dated and timeless. The playing doesn't sound "dated" interms of substance, but in terms of time/place, yes. But so what? All real music SHOULD!

Two things apropos of this period of Ra (1963, Choreographer's workshop) - 1 - The saxophonists are SO predicative of what was just about going to happen on the instrument that it ain't even funny. Whatever was about to happen, it was already happening here. 2 - in terms of "normal" jazz - did ANYBODY use the Hunter-style reverb before Sonny Rollins's mouthpiece solo at the end of East Broadway Rundown?

Finally - always a pleasure to read Clifford Allen's contributions anywhere, and this one here is no exception!

[Rabshakeh]

Noah Howard - Live at Judson Hall (ESP, 1966)

I am very impressed at how forward thinking Noah Howard's shirt is here. Clearly hugely influential on the early 90s scene.

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[HutchFan]

Terrific.

 

[T.D.]

Used an unexpectedly large tax return (I usually file late w. extension) to splurge on some Japanese reissues from DG. Arrived today:

  

  

[HutchFan]

Koch CD reissue

 

16 minutes ago, T.D. said:

  

What do you think of this record, T.D.?  I've thought about ordering it.

 

[T.D.]

2 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

What do you think of this record, T.D.?  I've thought about ordering it.

 

4th of 4 on the changer, not yet started, will update.

I auditioned the whole disc on youtube through my low-fi computer speakers, and to be honest it could go either way. But I really like both principals (though more familiar with Cowell), and am hoping for the best in hi-fi.

[HutchFan]

Just now, T.D. said:

4th of 4 on the changer, not yet started, will update.

Sounds good.  I'll keep an eye out for it.  Thanks.

 

[HutchFan]