So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[T.D.]

Some interesting things acquired from Michael (Scott):

This contains 2 albums, one with Chris Schilder Quintet

This obscure Swedish free jazz disc is rather good!

[B. Goren.]

[Gheorghe]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Thanks for posting this one. 
As a fan of Tadd (starting with his arrangements for Billy Eckstine and Dizzy) as well as his unique piano style with those broad chords mixed with some typical single lines, I bought some of his albums, mostly the Royal Roost band, the Atlantic City Band and the two 56 records, the one with "Fountain Bleu" and the collaboration with Trane.

So I was really lookin forward when I saw "the Magic Touch". Great players indeed, but somehow on some tunes it seems that his newer compositions didn´t have that catchy quality that I liked on his earlier compositions, and I played many of his compositions in my live. And I really miss Tadd himself on piano. Somehow it reminds me of those last two Mingus LPs when Mingus couldn´t play anymore and you miss his strong bass. So I miss Tadd´s piano comping and his short "solos". I read that he was very very sick in the 60´s and couldn´t play anymore....

18 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Fritz Pauer was the first piano player I saw live when I was a high school kid and somehow a mentor for me. He encouraged me to play, to sit in and meet other musicians, which is remarkable since he was a jazz teacher at Jazz Conservatory, but I was not a student, he just said I got talent, and that was one of the greatest compliments I got in my life. 

And I remember Erich Bachträgl very well, but during the time I heard Pauer frequently, Tony Inzalaco was his drummer. 

[BillF]

6 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Now playing:

[jazzcorner]

 

homemade from german radio

 

[jazzcorner]

14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Great lineup of musicians on this very good album.

Herb Geller, Kenny Dorham, Harold Land, Lou Levy, Ray Brown, Lawrence Marable

Same music but different vinyls & title

Edited March 19, 2022 by jazzcorner

[Rabshakeh]

6 hours ago, T.D. said:

 

This obscure Swedish free jazz disc is rather good!

I liked this one too. A joyful take of free jazz history, up to that point.

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

So I was really lookin forward when I saw "the Magic Touch". Great players indeed, but somehow on some tunes it seems that his newer compositions didn´t have that catchy quality that I liked on his earlier compositions, and I played many of his compositions in my live. And I really miss Tadd himself on piano. Somehow it reminds me of those last two Mingus LPs when Mingus couldn´t play anymore and you miss his strong bass. So I miss Tadd´s piano comping and his short "solos". I read that he was very very sick in the 60´s and couldn´t play anymore....

I think Tadd ended up marrying the English-born nurse who looked after him in the NYC hospital back in the early 60s. I recall an interview with her by the BBC on the ‘Sounds of Jazz’ show back in the 70s, with recollections of Tadd. Wish I’d recorded it !

Edited March 19, 2022 by sidewinder

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

As a fan of Tadd (starting with his arrangements for Billy Eckstine and Dizzy) as well as his unique piano style with those broad chords mixed with some typical single lines, I bought some of his albums, mostly the Royal Roost band, the Atlantic City Band and the two 56 records, the one with "Fountain Bleu" and the collaboration with Trane.

So I was really lookin forward when I saw "the Magic Touch". Great players indeed, but somehow on some tunes it seems that his newer compositions didn´t have that catchy quality that I liked on his earlier compositions, and I played many of his compositions in my live. And I really miss Tadd himself on piano. Somehow it reminds me of those last two Mingus LPs when Mingus couldn´t play anymore and you miss his strong bass. So I miss Tadd´s piano comping and his short "solos". 

I, too, have always found The Magic Touch disappointing. I think the problem was that by the time it was made (1962) the music had moved on a great deal from the Dameron era.  As befits an early sixties album, it's a hard bop date, not a bop session, as were Tadd's 1940s' recordings and even the 1953 Clifford Brown/Golson/Gryce band. There's a gentleness and lyricism in Tadd's music which wasn't shared by the leading players of the early 60s who made The Magic Touch. Of course, they had their own formidable talents, but they weren't Dameronian. 

[Peter Friedman]

I believe I read that Sean Levitt is the son of drummer Al Levitt. He is guitar player who reminds me slightly of Jimmy Raney or Doug Raney.  This is the first time I heard him. I like his playing.

[jazzbo]

"Miles Davis In Person Saturday Night" Columbia cd, disc 1 from the Complete 2 cd set.

[Joe]

[Jim Duckworth]

[jazzbo]

Lucy has a "hair appointment" so I am getting a bonus listening session in and continuing with 

Miles Davis, "Water Babies" Columbia cd, from the Complete Columbia Albums box set

Great, different music on both sides of this original album, I really wanted to hear side 1 this time, the second great Quintet. 

This cover always brings me back to childhood in Philadelphia. . . we had one neighbor Dad who brought out a big monkey wrench a few times each summer and opened up a water hydrant and kids flocked to frolic in the outpouring of water for about an hour before city workers came out to wrench it closed again. Ah, simple fun urban childhood times. 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

"Miles Davis In Person Saturday Night" Columbia cd, disc 1 from the Complete 2 cd set.

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

I believe I read that Sean Levitt is the son of drummer Al Levitt. He is guitar player who reminds me slightly of Jimmy Raney or Doug Raney.  This is the first time I heard him. I like his playing.

Now playing. Yes, I think you're on to a good one there, Peter. 

29 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

One of my favourite Blue Note albums.

Those Dorham compositions! 

[jazzbo]

Grant Green with percussion! I felt like listening to some guitar.

Grant Green "Green is Beautiful" Blue Note Japan UHQCD UCCQ-9478

Bass – Jimmy Lewis
Bongos – Richard Lendrum
Congas – Candido Camero
Drums – Idris Muhammad
Guitar – Grant Green
Organ – Emanuel Riggins, Earl Neal Creque (one track)
Producer – Francis Wolff
Tenor Saxophone – Claude Bartee
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell

[Peter Friedman]

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Lucy has a "hair appointment" so I am getting a bonus listening session in and continuing with 

Miles Davis, "Water Babies" Columbia cd, from the Complete Columbia Albums box set

Great, different music on both sides of this original album, I really wanted to hear side 1 this time, the second great Quintet. 

This cover always brings me back to childhood in Philadelphia. . . we had one neighbor Dad who brought out a big monkey wrench a few times each summer and opened up a water hydrant and kids flocked to frolic in the outpouring of water for about an hour before city workers came out to wrench it closed again. Ah, simple fun urban childhood times. 

When that LP came out in 1976, I thought of it almost like a ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ linking the Sorcerer era on side 1 with the ‘Dual Mr Tillman Anthony’ stuff on side 2 as a missing link into the ‘In A Silent Way’ period. A real humdinger release at the time, when Miles was otherwise silent. 

I don’t think Tony Williams’ drums was ever recorded better by Columbia than he was on those side 1 tracks.

Edited March 19, 2022 by sidewinder

[jazzbo]

4 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

When that LP came out in 1976, I thought of it almost like a ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ linking the Sorcerer era on side 1 with the ‘Dual Mr Tillman Anthony’ stuff on side 2 as a missing link into the ‘In A Silent Way’ period. A real humdinger release at the time, when Miles was otherwise silent. 

I don’t think Tony Williams’ drums was ever recorded better by Columbia than he was on those side 1 tracks.

It was a really exciting release when it came out. I can even remember when I picked it up and where, and I've loved this music ever since.

[sidewinder]

1 minute ago, jazzbo said:

It was a really exciting release when it came out. I can even remember when I picked it up and where, and I've loved this music ever since.

Yeah - I remember hearing one track on side one and the whole of side 2 being broadcast on a radio show, liking it from the off and buying the LP very soon after.

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, Joe said:

 

 

Like this one Very good

[soulpope]

[BillF]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

[Chuck Nessa]

[Peter Friedman]