So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

Matthew Shipp Trio - Prism (Brinkman, 1993)

Nice early record. Some good digestible free piano trio playing. Fun to revisit.

15 minutes ago, Buddha the Magnificent said:

if you like Aloha, this should work for you as well.  some great covers incl Cortez the Killer (Young) and If 6 was 9 (Hendrix.  Nice version of Glenn's Lenore as well

NP

Helio Alves - Música (2010).

Thanks! 

Also, nice to see some Helio Alves. A good reminder.

[BillF]

42 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

A nice one, John! 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

[Rabshakeh]

Jan Garbarek - In Praise of Dreams (ECM, 2004)

[Rabshakeh]

Composers Workshop Ensemble with Warren Smith – Composers Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East, 1973)

A Strata East record that I don't really know at all and am listening to for the first time.

I was expecting some sort of Michael Mantler or European 60s art school thing, just from the name, but it's not that at all. 

It's quite interesting stuff - to my ears it sounds like it revisits some of that lost school of hard boppers like Gryce/Byrd or Golson: larger sized groups, playing very heavily arranged happy hard bop with interesting front line combinations and an emphasis on memorable tunes. I've always had a soft spot for that era, and am enjoying this.

The record has quite a bit of recognisable talent: Howard Johnson, Julius Watkins and Johnny Coles are on it. But I've never heard of the rest, including drummer Warren Smith, who seems to be the leader.

Does anyone know anything about it?

Edited March 22, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

That record has escaped my attention!

Warren Smith has been prolific over the years, but he's one of these "hiding in plain sight" type of guys. Seek and ye shall find!

Herb Bushler was on a LOT of records in the 70s...no idea where he went. He played a lot of electric at a time where not that mayny jazz players did.

Jack Jeffers seems to have worked mostly as a section player, but he's another on who turns up on a fair number of records in that capacity.

Same thing with Al Gibbons.

It seems like this group of players was at least in part floating in the same orbit as Gil Evans' early-mid 70s bands. Heady times, heady band.

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks for the info.

It's worth checking out. It is also quite distinct in putting a lot of emphasis on the bass horns: much more low end than you normally expect to hear in jazz from before the 1980s.

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

There's a lot there...not the least of which is almost moving the Louvin Brothers to Jamaica. Do you think that anybody had any idea about any of that?

Same thing with this one and "country rock"

Debbe's voice touches me in a place I don't want to understand....

[Rabshakeh]

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE | MIGUEL ZENÓN RETROSPECTIVE: ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, 2004-2016

Edited March 22, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[jazzbo]

15 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE | MIGUEL ZENÓN RETROSPECTIVE: ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, 2004-2016

Hope you are digging it.

[Rabshakeh]

3 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Hope you are digging it.

It's good! Thanks for the recommendation. I particularly like the 2009 - 2011 tracks.

I really can't believe the names that they have too...

[felser]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Composers Workshop Ensemble with Warren Smith – Composers Workshop Ensemble (Strata-East, 1973)

A Strata East record that I don't really know at all and am listening to for the first time.

I was expecting some sort of Michael Mantler or European 60s art school thing, just from the name, but it's not that at all. 

It's quite interesting stuff - to my ears it sounds like it revisits some of that lost school of hard boppers like Gryce/Byrd or Golson: larger sized groups, playing very heavily arranged happy hard bop with interesting front line combinations and an emphasis on memorable tunes. I've always had a soft spot for that era, and am enjoying this.

The record has quite a bit of recognisable talent: Howard Johnson, Julius Watkins and Johnny Coles are on it. But I've never heard of the rest, including drummer Warren Smith, who seems to be the leader.

Does anyone know anything about it?

There were two Strata-East albums by that group - this one and "We've Been Around".  Both very worthwhile.  The best way to get the music is on a 2CD set by Smith on Claves, which contains both albums, an outtake from the first album, and 30 minutes of 1982 recordings:  https://www.discogs.com/release/1990925-Warren-Smith-The-Composers-Workshop-Ensemble-Warren-Smith-The-Composers-Workshop-Ensemble

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

Identity crisis!

 

x2!

 

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

I love it. From the 40´s I like the Savoy sides more than the Dial sides Dexter made. Somehow the Savoy sides have more fire . My favourite tune is "Dexter Dig´s In" especially here in the original key Db. We also played this on some gigs, of course in that key that I love. 
Dexter re-recorded it later. In 1973 with Jackie McLean in Bb, and in 1979 with Eddie Jefferson in G .....Eddie Jefferson scats the same line as Dexters original solo on that tune, only in another key (G).

[jazzcorner]

6 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

Houston Person - Talk of the Town (Muse, 1987)

[Rabshakeh]

Ornette Coleman - The Empty Foxhole (Blue Note, 1966)

And now on to:

 

Jimmy Forrest with Shirley Scott - Heart of the Forrest (Muse, 1987)

[mikeweil]

[BillF]

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

[mikeweil]