So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Referentzhunter]

 

 

Edited October 28, 2021 by Referentzhunter

[Referentzhunter]

[Rabshakeh]

Just finished:

Wolfgang Dauber Trio - Dream Talk (CBS 1964)

and

Roy Ayers - Coffy (Polydor, 1973)

Now on: 

Bennie Wallace - Plays Monk (Enja, 1981)

My first time listening to it. I wasn't actually aware of its existence until @HutchFan posted it above and then @Gheorghe followed with the lovely recollection. Was it a big deal at the time? 

A lot of these 1980s records slip through the gaps. They're not great for sampling or particularly "spiritual" so DJ culture has no interest in them, and the jazz marketing gods aren't bothered about exploiting their 1980s catalogues. 

Just another reason to look forward to the new blog.

Edited October 28, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[EKE BBB]

32 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Bennie Wallace - Plays Monk (Enja, 1981)

My first time listening to it. I wasn't actually aware of its existence until @HutchFan posted it above and then @Gheorghe followed with the lovely recollection. Was it a big deal at the time? 

A lot of these 1980s records slip through the gaps. They're not great for sampling or particularly "spiritual" so DJ culture has no interest in them, and the jazz marketing gods aren't bothered about exploiting their 1980s catalogues. 

Just another reason to look forward to the new blog.

Bennie Wallace is a truely underrated master. Too sad we don't have any new recordings from him since 2006.

[Gheorghe]

37 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Just finished:

Wolfgang Dauber Trio - Dream Talk (CBS 1964)

and

Roy Ayers - Coffy (Polydor, 1973)

Now on: 

Bennie Wallace - Plays Monk (Enja, 1981)

My first time listening to it. I wasn't actually aware of its existence until @HutchFan posted it above and then @Gheorghe followed with the lovely recollection. Was it a big deal at the time? 

 

Big deal at the time.....I don´t know. It was more a musician´s kind of favourite. You must know, the small after hours clubs was very much musicians or budding musicians listening and discussing the music maybe not from the way non playing music lovers might listen to it. That´s the way I was brought up: Listen and Learn. I heard it at the mentioned club and no one less than the wonderful alto saxophonist Allen Praskin, who had settled in Europe pulled my coat to it. One day we both were at my place and before the regular rehearsal for a gig startet, he wanted to run through some Monk tunes with me , I remember one of "Four in One", and the other was a particulary difficult tune from the 1952BN session. And Mr. Praskin said to me I should listen to the Bennie Wallace version, the more open approach to the Monk compositions..... like if Mr. Praskin played old bop standards but with the knowledge that there was Jackie McLean, Dolphy, and Ornette after that......, just wonderful.

So I´d say it was especially interesting for musicians who studied Monk´s music.....

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks. And I see we have a thread on him. I will have a look further.

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Masabumi Kikuchi - Susto (CBS, 1981)

There’s a growing view in some circles that Miles Davis’ comeback records are worth a re-evaluation, alongside the not-so-recent reevaluation of his 1970s work and Hancock’s Mwandishi group. I’ve never been a hater when it comes to 80s Miles (or Marcus Miller), but I’m struck listening to this Kikuchi record at just how much better they could have been.

Edited October 28, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[BillF]

Now playing:

[EKE BBB]

[John Tapscott]

[Joe]

Such a fantastic ensemble effort on this. Maybe George Tucker's finest hour?

[kh1958]

Stan Getz, Swiss Radio Days, volume 29

[Rabshakeh]

Signe Emmeluth - Hi Hello I’m Signe (Relative Pitch Records, 2021)

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

That totally groovy Candid session with Roy Eldridge, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Tommy Flanagan, Charles Mingus, and Jo Jones.

Eldridge & Dolphy together would probably work nowhere else but on a record date, but...here one is, and listening to the contrast - and when Dolphy wants to go "vocal" the similarities - is one more reason why Records Are Your Best Entertainment Value!

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

[mikeweil]

Today:

[Rabshakeh]

Cannonball Adderley - The Price You Gotta Pay To Be Free (Capitol, 1970)

There's so much cool stuff happening on this record.

35 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Nice! I'm going to listen to this next.

[HutchFan]

Late last night and again today:

Weather Report - Night Passage (Columbia/Legacy)
I'm listening to the CD from The Columbia Albums 1976-1982 box set.  It includes four live bonus cuts. 

Definitely one of their best studio albums, IMO. ... And the live cuts are ridunkulous.

 

 

Up next:

Weather Report [1982] (Columbia/Legacy)
An end of sorts.  After this LP, Pastorius, Erskine, and Thomas all departed.

 

 

 

36 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Cannonball Adderley - The Price You Gotta Pay To Be Free (Capitol, 1970)

There's so much cool stuff happening on this record.

Nice! I'm going to listen to this next.

Zawinul is everywhere!  

 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

That totally groovy Candid session with Roy Eldridge, Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Knepper, Tommy Flanagan, Charles Mingus, and Jo Jones.

Eldridge & Dolphy together would probably work nowhere else but on a record date, but...here one is, and listening to the contrast - and when Dolphy wants to go "vocal" the similarities - is one more reason why Records Are Your Best Entertainment Value!

Do I know this one as Newport Rebels? 

[Rabshakeh]

Corey Mwamba - Sipping Rioja at Home (RICE, 2008)

2008 really was before the Instagram era...

[JSngry]

21 minutes ago, BillF said:

Do I know this one as Newport Rebels? 

You surely do, only some extras were uncovered and added to the Mosaic Mingus/Candid set and may have been included on later Candid CDs so...depends on what version you have.