So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

Al Haig - Solo Piano - Plays Dizzy Gillespie

Duke Jorda - Solo Piano - Plays Tadd Dameron

John Lewis - Solo Piano - Plays John Lewis

Sadik Hakim Trio - Plays Charlie Parker

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

 

👍Excellent👍....

[John Tapscott]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Al Haig - Solo Piano - Plays Dizzy Gillespie

Duke Jorda - Solo Piano - Plays Tadd Dameron

John Lewis - Solo Piano - Plays John Lewis

Sadik Hakim Trio - Plays Charlie Parker

 

Now: 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[mhatta]

RIP Dr. Lonnie Smith.  I really love his slow-to-medium groove like this.

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Breakfast in South Africa with

Spokes Mashiyane - Sweet sax sweet flute - Quality 1962

Reggie Msomi, Spokes Mashiyane & Lemmy Special Mabaso - Top hits of the big three - New Sound 1962

 

Reggie Msomi - Soweto groovin' - Soul Jazz Pop 1976

Next

Amagugu - Ubhek'uZulu - Skyline 1974

 

MG

[Gheorghe]

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Al Haig - Solo Piano - Plays Dizzy Gillespie

Duke Jorda - Solo Piano - Plays Tadd Dameron

John Lewis - Solo Piano - Plays John Lewis

Sadik Hakim Trio - Plays Charlie Parker

This must be interesting. I think french pianist Henry Renaud had something to do with gathering the remained bop pianists in the late 70´s. 

Al Haig playing Dizzy must be very interesting. I have a special impression about Al Haig. When he started with Diz, he still sounded very stiff, I mean it sounded more like exercises and didn´t really flow like let´s say Bud or Hank Jones, but later.......oh Boy what a wonderful pianist. I 1949, playing let´s say with Wardell Gray he had it all, and some of the most beautiful ballads I ever heard. 

Al Haig in 1977 with Dexter in France.....the thing I like most on it is Al Haig´s trio version of "Round Midnight". I heard rumours that Haig  was a bit "plem plem" (like German speaking people say for someone a bit crazy), but he really had become a great , a very great pianist. But I always must laugh when I hear that early 1945 Diz and Bird at Town Hall, since the piano sounds the way I sounded when I fell in love with Bop , and as a pianist with Bud, and started to play all the bop tunes, but the solos sounded that way and when I listened back to it on tape I realized that something is wrong about it....

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Bernard Purdie is a fine drummer of the 70´s. Do you know the Dizzy Gillespie album as a trio of Diz, Toots Thielemans and Bernard Purdie ? 

By the way, maybe I wasn´t up to date then, but in the mid seventies when I started serously to listen to jazz, the Prestige Label for me was the label of the great stars of the 50´s. I might say I got to jazz through Prestige (Miles Davis Quintets). 

I eventually heard that Prestige went on much longer but changed the musical direction....

[sidewinder]

Last disk of this great box, recorded at Marlow Football Club !

[BillF]

11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Al Haig - Solo Piano - Plays Dizzy Gillespie

Duke Jorda - Solo Piano - Plays Tadd Dameron

John Lewis - Solo Piano - Plays John Lewis

Sadik Hakim Trio - Plays Charlie Parker

9 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

Now playing:

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

R.I.P.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Still the greatest 1 minute and 50 seconds in jazz history that doesn't involve Charry Wainer.

Edited September 29, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[Dub Modal]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Still the greatest 1 minute and 50 seconds in jazz history that doesn't involve Charry Wainer.

Fantastic scene from a fantastic movie 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

R.I.P.

Very good platter ....

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This afternoon

Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers - Doin' what we wanna - Atlantic 1970

Dakota Staton - I want a country man - Groove Merchant 1973

Clare Fischer - First time out - Pacific Jazz 

Next

Etta Jones - The Jones girl sings sings sings - King 1956

 

MG

[Referentzhunter]

 

Edited September 29, 2021 by Referentzhunter

[HutchFan]

30 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Very good platter ....

Yup. It's probably my all-time fave from LS. 

 

More from the late, great Doctor:

[jazzcorner]

 

[HutchFan]

More Lonnie Smith; this time as a sideman with Lou Donaldson:

[soulpope]

20 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

❤❤❤ ....

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Yup. It's probably my all-time fave from LS. 

 

More from the late, great Doctor:

I wish they would do a Tone Poet of that one !