So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[T.D.]

After a couple of spins, I like this and am happy with the purchase.

General comments: sound quality excellent IMO, better than expected. Playing time is short, about 40 minutes divided almost equally into two tracks, Questions and Answers-Epilog.

Specifics: Questions is rather "outside" (far more so than I've previously heard from Cowell), more percussive and atonal, more in Burrell's style. Answers-Epilog more accessible, less aggressively avant-garde (though there's some strumming of piano strings, for instance), more recognizably features Cowell's voice (or how I perceive same). Questions took 3 listens (1 on Youtube, 2 at home) to get my head around it, first hearing was rough but now I enjoy the piece.

Overall: probably depends on your opinion of piano duos. I don't own many recordings in the genre, but consider this a very good one. Not essential, but worthwhile if you dig Stanley Cowell (I'm not sufficiently familiar with Dave Burrell's work to venture an analogous statement). If in doubt, a prior release of the album is on Youtube.

[JSngry]

13 minutes ago, T.D. said:

After a couple of spins, I like this and am happy with the purchase.

General comments: sound quality excellent IMO, better than expected. Playing time is short, about 40 minutes divided almost equally into two tracks, Questions and Answers-Epilog.

Specifics: Questions is rather "outside" (far more so than I've previously heard from Cowell), more percussive and atonal, more in Burrell's style. Answers-Epilog more accessible, less aggressively avant-garde (though there's some strumming of piano strings, for instance), more recognizably features Cowell's voice (or how I perceive same). Questions took 3 listens (1 on Youtube, 2 at home) to get my head around it, first hearing was rough but now I enjoy the piece.

Overall: probably depends on your opinion of piano duos. I don't own many recordings in the genre, but consider this a very good one. Not essential, but worthwhile if you dig Stanley Cowell (I'm not sufficiently familiar with Dave Burrell's work to venture an analogous statement). If in doubt, a prior release of the album is on Youtube.

Glad you posted this, never heard of this record, ordered it immediately along with two others form the same Trio/Ultra Vybe seires, VERY reasonably priced. Exceptionally well-priced! Now, just hope they're all three in stock when it comes time to fill/ship.

Dave Burrell...it took a while for him to really grow on me, he was not immediately apparent for me. But I got to where he was, and it was worth every step it took to get there.

[danasgoodstuff]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I should get this one to go with the others of hers that I have, such a freaking loss.

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, T.D. said:

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

Superb ....

[BillF]

10 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Oliver Nelson - Straight Ahead (New Jazz, 1961)

 

Now playing:

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Some good playing by rather unsung Claudio Roditi ....

[EKE BBB]

[Referentzhunter]

[Rabshakeh]

Listening to the Jimmy Deuchar Dexter's Opus de Funk (Tempo, 1958), with some good Tubby Hayes and Nick Humble on it.

[BillF]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Some good playing by rather unsung Claudio Roditi ....

The late Claudio was one of my favourites.

Saw him twice: in a fantastic quintet with Paquito D'Rivera and with the Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra.

5 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Listening to the Jimmy Deuchar Dexter's Opus de Funk (Tempo, 1958), with some good Tubby Hayes and Nick Humble on it.

Derek Humble?

Jimmy Deuchar Dexter sounds cool.

Edited August 24, 2021 by BillF

[Rabshakeh]

20 minutes ago, BillF said:

The late Claudio was one of my favourites.

Saw him twice: in a fantastic quintet with Paquito D'Rivera and with the Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra.

Derek Humble?

Jimmy Deuchar Dexter sounds cool.

Ahem, yes. Derek Humble.

[Rabshakeh]

Hum Dono (Columbia, 1969) by Joe Harriott & Amancio D'Silva Quartet

[Rabshakeh]

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (Columbia, 1984)

Bizarrely, I see that Toshinori Kondo and Hamid Drake are on this record. It's a shame that Brötzmann wasn't available.

[EKE BBB]

[mjazzg]

55 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Herbie Hancock - Sound System (Columbia, 1984)

Bizarrely, I see that Toshinori Kondo and Hamid Drake are on this record. It's a shame that Brötzmann wasn't available.

Now that genuinely made me LOL, lovely idea on a few levels

[jazzcorner]

On 23.8.2021 at 3:48 AM, Peter Friedman said:

[jazzcorner]

[Dub Modal]

The dual tenors of Lovano & Jim Pepper work well here

[Rabshakeh]

23 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

The dual tenors of Lovano & Jim Pepper work well here

I love that record. Thank you for the reminder.

[Peter Friedman]

Kenny Barron & Buster Williams

[HutchFan]

12 hours ago, T.D. said:

After a couple of spins, I like this and am happy with the purchase.

General comments: sound quality excellent IMO, better than expected. Playing time is short, about 40 minutes divided almost equally into two tracks, Questions and Answers-Epilog.

Specifics: Questions is rather "outside" (far more so than I've previously heard from Cowell), more percussive and atonal, more in Burrell's style. Answers-Epilog more accessible, less aggressively avant-garde (though there's some strumming of piano strings, for instance), more recognizably features Cowell's voice (or how I perceive same). Questions took 3 listens (1 on Youtube, 2 at home) to get my head around it, first hearing was rough but now I enjoy the piece.

Overall: probably depends on your opinion of piano duos. I don't own many recordings in the genre, but consider this a very good one. Not essential, but worthwhile if you dig Stanley Cowell (I'm not sufficiently familiar with Dave Burrell's work to venture an analogous statement). If in doubt, a prior release of the album is on Youtube.

Thank you, T.D.!   

 

 

NP:

[mikeweil]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

That's a rare LP, with the Gonzalez brothers in the band. Will have to pull this out.

I had breakfast with this here:

Edited August 24, 2021 by mikeweil

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

That's a rare LP, with the Gonzalez brothers in the band. Will have to pull this out.

I don't have the LP.  Wish I did! 

I'm listening to the music from this 2-CD set that compiles Diz's three Perception albums:

[John Tapscott]