So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington, "Berlin 1959" disc 1

 

[soulpope]

31 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

A classic .... at least in our house ....

[HutchFan]

4 minutes ago, soulpope said:

A classic .... at least in our house ....

In my house too.  NO DOUBT!   

 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Is it jazz? Is it blues? Is it urban? Is it country? Is it sophisticated? Is it grass roots basic?

Why yes, it is!

Oh, Michael Silva's drumming...flayva. Sounds like a guy who if you got a bass player, cool, but if you don't, like if the guy got a flat or something, also cool, or even if for whatever reason Milt Bucker don't feel like working them pedals too much (if at all?), no problem, he knows what to do either way.

[Rabshakeh]

What are these Definitive Black & Blue Sessions? Is there a connection to the Black & Blue label? I've had a quick good and it's not clear.

[JSngry]

15 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

What are these Definitive Black & Blue Sessions? Is there a connection to the Black & Blue label? I've had a quick good and it's not clear.

It's the same label, but repackaged. Sometimes there's added tracks, and sometimes (rarely, but still...) the break up the original LP. But in the end, it's all good.

To widen things up a little more, there was a CD series before this, some of which did not make it to this series. And then there's LPs that (I think?) haven't made it to digital yet.

Really, it was a pretty extensive catalog, and none but the most obsessed will have (or will want to have) ALL of it.

Having said that, I very much try to pick them up as I see them, when I see them, as best as the budget will allow for.

[mikeweil]

Today's batch:

 

..... and another CD of the Philipp - Partyka band, Bad Follows Good (can't find a cover).

Edited March 8, 2022 by mikeweil

[jazzcorner]

21 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Supersax got very much listening around here. It was very common here, I think it was MPS albums, and I had a japanese album "Koko" too. 

Thanks for the Info. The MPS vinyl is here too. It was also reissued on a  MPS/ Jazzclub CD  together with another MPS LP.

See pix pl.  The "Koko" album is missed here. Can you supply some details?. Thanks

 

[Rabshakeh]

Jan Garbarek - Dis (ECM, 1977)

[BillF]

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

28 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

 

 

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[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for the Info. The MPS vinyl is here too. It was also reissued on a  MPS/ Jazzclub CD  together with another MPS LP.

See pix pl.  The "Koko" album is missed here. Can you supply some details?. Thanks

 

Yes, those are the MPS albums we had.

The "Koko", see I am not sure it was 45 years ago, maybe it can be the Album "Supersax Plays Bird", I saw the cover and it seems to be similar to the one I had bought. Maybe "Koko" is one of the titles, I remembered it only as the "Koko" album. It was an expensive hard cover Japanese LP. There was also another one titled "Salt Peanuts" and it had some nude girls in a cup of salt peanuts as cover photo.....

[mikeweil]

Started the day with Les McCann:

Those Fresh Sound CDs have the advantage of added tracks scattered over compilations or issued only as singles. Cuscuna neglected McCann, reissued only the "jazzier" stuff with Turrentine, but not the trios. The years 1958 to 1965 McCann was a grate jazz pianist with his own, gospel-tinged style, and enormously commuinicative. I'm glad I got me all these CDs before they go oop.

58 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

The "Koko", see I am not sure it was 45 years ago, maybe it can be the Album "Supersax Plays Bird", I saw the cover and it seems to be similar to the one I had bought. Maybe "Koko" is one of the titles, I remembered it only as the "Koko" album. It was an expensive hard cover Japanese LP. There was also another one titled "Salt Peanuts" and it had some nude girls in a cup of salt peanuts as cover photo.....

Koko was on their first Capitol LP:

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Yes, those are the MPS albums we had.

The "Koko", see I am not sure it was 45 years ago, maybe it can be the Album "Supersax Plays Bird", I saw the cover and it seems to be similar to the one I had bought. Maybe "Koko" is one of the titles, I remembered it only as the "Koko" album. It was an expensive hard cover Japanese LP. There was also another one titled "Salt Peanuts" and it had some nude girls in a cup of salt peanuts as cover photo.....

Well I am really a Supersax fan and have most of their issued material. Thanks  also for your explanations which helps a bit to see the matter more clear. Its correct that the mentioned " KOKO" album is the Capitol  " Supersax Plays Bird". The other one mentioned by you   "Salt Peanuts" is also here plus the one " Supersax plays Bird With Strings".

So here they are together with another 3 recordings - Missed the fist vinyl volume with L.A. voices.  However got it later  together with the Columbia reissue  CD-box. They had also a DOWN BEAT feature with an own frontcover picture.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by jazzcorner

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

"The Essential Vic Dickenson" Vanguard cd

Lots of cool cats on this one, not at all stuffy. I love the Vanguard jazz material. There are a few more LPs that they should put out on cd.

[John Tapscott]

[Referentzhunter]

On 7-3-2022 at 7:37 AM, Gheorghe said:

Definitly one of his best things. This and Filles de Kilijanjaro are favourites of mine. I remember that ostinato bass figure on side 2, all kids who could hold a bass guitar first tried to play that riff. Me too, I was a piano player but knew the basics of bass fiddle and so if somewhere there was a bass guitar around, I´d play that bass figure and other kid´s would say "wow!" 

[Rabshakeh]

Wynton Marsalis - Blood on the Fields (Columbia, 1997)

I hadn't listened to this before. I'd be impressed if this had been composed by a precocious high school student.

[EKE BBB]

[Referentzhunter]

love this guy's music. rp

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]