So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[mjazzg]

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

 

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

How are these two? 

Just finished: 

Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes - Heritage of the Invisible (International Anthem, 2021)

Now on:

Pat Matshikiza and Kippie Moketsi - Tshona! (the Sun, 1975)

Basil Coetzee very very good on the title track here. One of my favourite records by non-emigrees from the period.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

How are these two? 

Just finished: 

Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes - Heritage of the Invisible (International Anthem, 2021)

Now on:

Pat Matshikiza and Kippie Moketsi - Tshona! (the Sun, 1975)

Basil Coetzee very very good on the title track here. One of my favourite records by non-emigrees from the period.

Both very good in very different ways. The Roscoe is "musical pointillism" if I were sat in Pseud's Corner.  Very deliberate use of space/time, lots of single notes from saxophone and/or the percussion.  All sounds very organic. I haven't enjoyed a RM release as much on first listen for ages.

I knew Mortazavi from his last solo album so was intrigued by the addition of beats. Works really well and is short and sweet at just over 20 minutes. It's on Tidal and Spotify.

I do like the Navarro/Holmes a lot despite it always sounding too short or unfulfilled in some way.  What makes you of it?

The 

[EKE BBB]

The Prestige Jazz Quartet (Prestige, 1957)

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Pat Matshikiza and Kippie Moketsi - Tshona! (the Sun, 1975)

Basil Coetzee very very good on the title track here. One of my favourite records by non-emigrees from the period.

Rab, I'm not familiar with that one.  Looks very interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up. 

 

EDIT:  Just looking at this on discogs.  Yowza.  Expensive!  

 

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[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I do like the Navarro/Holmes a lot despite it always sounding too short or unfulfilled in some way.  What makes you of it?

The 

It does have a slightly half chewed feel to it, but, like a lot of IA's releases, I'm impressed with the ease with which it fuses genres and creates something new. It's not my favourite but it's good, I think.

9 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Rab, I'm not familiar with that one.  Looks very interesting.  Thanks for the heads-up. 

Circular township vamps with three horn players. It's a South African equivalent to the sort of groove based jazz you had in the US, I guess. 

As is often the case with the 70s SA jazz releases, the recording quality is a little lifeless, which is sad because the music is really all there.  But the soloing is really great, particularly Coetzee. 

[HutchFan]

4 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Circular township vamps with three horn players. It's a South African equivalent to the sort of groove based jazz you had in the US, I guess. 

As is often the case with the 70s SA jazz releases, the recording quality is a little lifeless, which is sad because the music is really all there.  But the soloing is really great, particularly Coetzee. 

Will keep an eye out for it.  Thx!   

 

 

Next up:

Excellent.

 

[EKE BBB]

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

EDIT:  Just looking at this on discogs.  Yowza.  Expensive!  

Yep. Small run, no / contemptuous marketing. 

[Rabshakeh]

Henri Renaud - New Sound at the Boeuf Sur Le Toit

Still mining the Euromodernism vein.

There's some good playing by (non-European) Sandy Mosse on this.

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent! 

22 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

 

18 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Some nice Burrell. But although it says here Chess it was an Argo release.

Excellent (all here) 

[HutchFan]

Now:

Sonny Stitt Sits In with The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1959)

Good stuff.

 

[mjazzg]

Gideon Nxumalo on Matsuli

[mjazzg]

staying in SA

[Rabshakeh]

Great stuff!

[BillF]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Now:

Sonny Stitt Sits In with The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1959)

Good stuff.

 

[mjazzg]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great stuff!

Yes, just discovering it.  Seems to be a lot of good music, old and new out of SA at the moment. Needs further investigation.

Any tips gratefully received especially for new recordings.  Next up is Ndabo Zulu & Umgidi Ensemble

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[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

Sonny Stitt and Sadik Hakim play well, but it is the excellent playing Buster Williams that grabs my attention.

[Rabshakeh]

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero. Trio (Whirlwind, 2020)

18 minutes ago, soulpope said:

I always loved this cover but never really grasped why. Clearly Jones and Montoliu are looking at the wrong cameras, whereas Johnson's creasing up over something Montoliu muttered. 

30 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yes, just discovering it.  Seems to be a lot of good music, old and new out of SA at the moment. Needs further investigation.

Any tips gratefully received especially for new recordings.  

I don't know many I'm afraid. My folks are all born in South Africa, and I've got received knowledge up to the early/mid 60s, when they all split, after which it is all about the emigres, particularly those based in London. That means they saw a lot of the 60s players live, but don't really know the records that they released in the late 60s, which didn't make it out.

The only family members who stayed in SA were... not jazz fans, so I'm as clueless about the new stuff as anyone, and irritatingly reliant on marketing from e.g. Blue Note and Impulse!, so also grateful for any recommendations.

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Rudresh Mahanthappa - Hero. Trio (Whirlwind, 2020)

I always loved this cover but never really grasped why. Clearly Jones and Montoliu are looking at the wrong cameras, whereas Johnson's creasing up over something Montoliu muttered. 

I don't know many I'm afraid. My folks are all born in South Africa, and I've got received knowledge up to the early/mid 60s, when they all split, after which it is all about the emigres, particularly those based in London. That means they saw a lot of the 60s players live, but don't really know the records that they released in the late 60s, which didn't make it out.

The only family members who stayed in SA were... not jazz fans, so I'm as clueless about the new stuff as anyone, and irritatingly reliant on marketing from e.g. Blue Note and Impulse!, so also grateful for any recommendations.

Sounds like we need a SA Jazz thread

[HutchFan]

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jaw's Blues (Enja)

 

 

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Sounds like we need a SA Jazz thread

Sounds like good fun -- but bad news for the wallet! 

 

[Dub Modal]

The last few I've been able to listen to:

And now currently playing:

 

This was all after listening to Crispell's Circles, which got better after the first tune. Although both Lake and Buettner are super-buzzy on that recording which for listening's sake knocks it down a peg for me.