So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

More Frank Foster & the Loud Minority:

Manhattan Fever + 2 (Denon, 1978)
Includes two long bonus tracks originally released as a 45RPM Denon LP titled Bursting Out! 

 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I've never heard that record -- but that's a killer line-up of saxophonists.

It's also got a typically pointed Baraka poem, "Heathens and Space", delivered as only he can deliver it.

[DMP]

Jonah Jones, “I Dig Chicks.”  ( But not for long, that shuffle/jump routine is usually only good for a few minutes.) (But Jones is a wonder player!)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Billy Harper - Soul of an Angel (Metropolitan Records) Another Metropolitan release that I've been spinning for many years. If you are on Tommy's E-mail list, you might want to pick this up. Excellent music.

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

Ella sound terrific.

But it is very disappointing that there are no solos by any of the musicians. With a rhythm section that includes Paul Smith and Jim Hall a few solos in the middle of tunes would be highly appropriate.

It seems there are jazz vocal albums that have solos by the musicians and others that do not. In my opinion, a jazz recording is always much better when the listener gets to hear some playing by the musicians on the session. 

[HutchFan]

Musical telepathy.

 

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Disc one

Now playing:

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Frank Foster - The Loud Minority (Mainstream, 1972)

I'd forgotten how much this record is STACKED with heavyweights:
– Frank Foster (ts, as, ss, al cl)
– Kenny Rodgers (as, bs, b cl)
– Hannibal Marvin Peterson (tr)
– Cecil Bridgewater, Charles McGee (tr, flhn)
– Dick Griffin (tb)
– Earl Dunbar (g)
– Harold Mabern, Jan Hammer (p, el p)
– Gene Perla, Stanley Clarke (b)
– Omar Clay, Richard Pratt (d)
– Elvin Jones (d, perc)
– Airto Moreira (perc)
– Dee Dee Bridgewater (vo)

 

 

 

Indeed!° A great surprising album

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Ella sound terrific.

But it is very disappointing that there are no solos by any of the musicians. With a rhythm section that includes Paul Smith and Jim Hall a few solos in the middle of tunes would be highly appropriate.

It seems there are jazz vocal albums that have solos by the musicians and others that do not. In my opinion, a jazz recording is always much better when the listener gets to hear some playing by the musicians on the session. 

I think it was Ella's date only! BTW there  exists another  album (same location) issued recently.

[Peter Friedman]

This is the 2nd CD in the two CD "Blues March" Roulette set.

It features Valery Ponomarev, Bobby Watson, David Schnitter, Walter Davis, Dennis Irwin, Art Blakey. 

[mjazzg]

[mikeweil]

23 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Back in high school I purchased this on lp, in a Walgreens for something like 65 cents. Now I have the cd.

Just put this on top of the pile for breakfast listening tomorrow. Any Teddy Charles session is worth hearing.

- That's what this thread is good for - reminding one of discs that have been gathering dust for too long.

[Teasing the Korean]

Now enjoying that most hated of albums, the Monk Columbia album with Oliver Nelson.  

If you get rid of the two Teo Macero originals and reinstate "Blue Monk," this is a very good album, like Monk sitting in with the Tonight Show band.

[HutchFan]

with Stanley Turrentine 

[HutchFan]

Charlie Palmieri and His Orchestra - Adelante, Gigante (Alegre, 1975)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

[BillF]

21 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

 

Now playing:

 

[Referentzhunter]

incredible, totally fits the time of the year (La Grande Vallée ). Does remind me Of Brian Eno's Ambient 4 'On Land'.

Edited September 25, 2021 by Referentzhunter

[mikeweil]

11 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

...... like Monk sitting in with the Tonight Show band.

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1 - Charlie Byrd & Special Guests - A Tribute To Antonio Carlos Jobim

[Teasing the Korean]