So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

I pulled out the three volumes of this series to listen to this week. These "Songbook" series are excellent compilations. 

Vinicius de Moraes "Songbook, Volume 1"

[HutchFan]

I love how LOOSE the music on this album is.  The sensation of imprecision -- whether real or not -- is just fantastic.

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra "At Duke's Place" Verve cd

This is one of my favorite of Ella's collaborations. Just so wonderfully relaxed and the arrangements so tenderly enveloping her. Great music and engineering.

Dark and soulful .... excellent ....

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

 

[HutchFan]

 

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[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

[mikeweil]

 

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

From that unusual period in time when the Bearded One invested some of his dosh in recording jazz. Didn’t last..

CD version

Edited December 14, 2021 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

25 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

From that unusual period in time when the Bearded One invested some of his dosh in recording jazz. Didn’t last..

Yep.  It's a cryin' shame that it didn't last longer -- because they signed some interesting artists: Flora & Airto, Lester Bowie, Mike Westbrook, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, a.o.

 

[mjazzg]

[sidewinder]

29 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.  It's a cryin' shame that it didn't last longer -- because they signed some interesting artists: Flora & Airto, Lester Bowie, Mike Westbrook, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, a.o.

 

Yeah, forgot that he/they put out Mike and Kate W’s ‘London Bridge is Broken Down’.

[HutchFan]

Now:

Milton Nascimento - Milton (A&M/Verve, 1976)

 

[Ken Dryden]

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

[BillF]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 12/13/2021 at 6:38 PM, John Tapscott said:

No problem. I didn't make anything of your comment. 

Now:

 

Disc 1

This is one of the few Mosaics I sold and switched over to individual CDs. First off, I didn't like the alternates side by side with the released take, which happens several times in this set. On top of that, I really liked the Capitol stuff, in particular "Blue Serge" and "Boston Blow Up", so it was pretty easy to cherry pick.

[jazzbo]

Harold Mabern "Afro Blue" Smoke Sessions cd

Some great vocal performances mixed in with these great quartet and sextet performances.

Edited December 15, 2021 by jazzbo

[John Tapscott]

 

Disc 2

[Referentzhunter]

[jazzbo]

Some killer live Aretha!

Aretha Franklin "Don't Fight the Feeling--Aretha Franklin and King Curtis--Live at the Fillmore West" disc 2

Great sound as well as moving music.

Edited December 15, 2021 by jazzbo

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

29 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said: