So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

5 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Dizzy Gillespie, mid 1970s?

i think I’ve seen May too but for the life of my can’t recall who with. It wasn’t in the UK though.

Probably in a Frank Foster orch at Wigan in the 90s.

Those names who cropped up as sidemen! Perhaps the most notable was Walter Bishop Jr in a 1980s Woody Herman orch. (I'm sure about that one!)

[sidewinder]

7 minutes ago, BillF said:

Probably in a Frank Foster orch at Wigan in the 90s.

Those names who cropped up as sidemen! Perhaps the most notable was Walter Bishop Jr in a 1980s Woody Herman orch. (I'm sure about that one!)

I’m sure I would have remembered if Walter Bishop Jr had been with Woody when I him but don’t think he was. First time seeing Woody in 1978 it was Lyle Mays. I saw him again at Ronnies in 1980/81 (a performance which was live televised) but can’t recall who was on piano.

Edited October 15, 2021 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[jazzcorner]

VeeJay [Japan May 1977)  - rec. 1967

[Peter Friedman]

2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

CD from this set - listening to them in no particular order 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill, You asked if I liked the Frank Foster on Vogue from the early 50's. The answer is yes. This along with the Foster Quintet on Blue Note and the Prestige recordings with Elmo Hope are all very good.

[HutchFan]

Next up:

The title tells the truth.

 

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

The Lee Konitz Quartet - Tranquility (Verve, 1957)
with Billy Bauer (g), Henry Grimes (b), and Dave Bailey (d)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Vol.1 - 1941-1944    Prez, Roy,  Bean, Dinah, 

[BillF]

11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Bill, You asked if I liked the Frank Foster on Vogue from the early 50's. The answer is yes. This along with the Foster Quintet on Blue Note and the Prestige recordings with Elmo Hope are all very good.

 

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The Lee Konitz Quartet - Tranquility (Verve, 1957)
with Billy Bauer (g), Henry Grimes (b), and Dave Bailey (d)

 

[aparxa]

Roland Hanna & George Mraz – Romanesque
Kenny Drew Quintet – Lite Flite
People Under The Stairs – Sincerely, The P
 

[BillF]

[mikeweil]

Just played my own CDR with all of Cal Tjader's early dates as a leader and sideman.

Except for Brubeck or Shearing, that is.

Edited October 17, 2021 by mikeweil

[sidewinder]

Latest Trunk 2CD compilation. Plenty of jazz - rare Mark Murphy, Karin Krog (with Don Ellis !), Michael Garrick, Kenny Graham, Dudley Moore, Basil Kirchin....and Mike and Bernie Winters.

Edited October 16, 2021 by sidewinder

[Morganized]

[EKE BBB]

[Morganized]

20 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

 

 

 

Another vote for this one!!

[Peter Friedman]

[Joe]

Sharpe's solo on the title track is some epochal stuff.

Edited October 16, 2021 by Joe

[jazzcorner]

Woofy Productions WPCD 37 (9 CD box + Scrapbook) - The Kenton Alumni " Live at the Royal Palms Inn" - rec. 1993

CD1 Conte Candoli & Carl Fontana 5tet
CD2 Carl Fontana & Buddy Childers 5tet
CD3 Bob Cooper & Carl Fontana 5tet
CD4 Bud Shank & Conte Candoli 5tet
CD5 Shorty Rogers & Bill Perkins 5tet
CD6 Carl Fontana & Steve Huffsteter 5tet
CD7 Bill Holman & Conte Candoli 5tet
CD8 Buddy Childers & Jack Nimitz 5tet
CD9 Bill Perlkins, Pete Candoli & Carl Fontana Sextet

[EKE BBB]

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[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

36 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

 

 

18 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

One of my earlier jazz outings was seeing the Alex Welsh band at Macks, 100 Oxford Street, London (later the 100 Club), surrounded by whirling jivers on the dance floor. The papers were full of the Sputnik launch, which dates it at October 1957, with me one month short of my 18th birthday. 

Edited October 16, 2021 by BillF

[sidewinder]

[Gheorghe]

22 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

CD from this set - listening to them in no particular order 

 

Manhattan Symphony is probably the best from the CBS years, just a perfect album, not only the music itself that is superb, and the long time rhyhtm section, but also the cover photo and the liner notes. 

But the very best Gordon track from his later years is a live version of "Fried Bananas" on the two double albums "CBS Allstars at Montreux". Most of the stuff is long tunes of a mixture of fusion and straight ahead, and at one point there is the small group track of Dexter doing "Fried Bananas" and this is the best version I ever heard.