So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

This is a deserted island pick for me. I have the original Atlantic 2 LP set, the American cd release and this 1991 Japanese release. I think I prefer the sound of the US cd release a bit more, but this Japanese includes all the on stage banter and announcements and those are as good as the song performances!

Jimmy "The Lizard/The Silver Gauntlet" Rowles is the musical director here and one reason these live recordings shine. Then there is Joe Pass. . . and Carmen is totally in charge and "on."

[jazzbo]

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet "Change Is"

[jazzbo]

It's been 50 years now since the epic Europe '72 tour!

Grateful Dead "Wembley 4/7/72" (the first show in the "Trunk" complete Europe '72 edition)

[JSngry]

I wonder if the movie's any good? The music is.

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

Thelonious Monk Quartet with Pat Patrick, Wilbur Ware and Beaver Harris - Jazz Workshop, Boston, February 26/27 1970.

[HutchFan]

Now:

I dig Alan Broadbent.  He does subtle but nifty harmonic things that remind me of Jimmy Rowles. 

 

[porcy62]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

It's been 50 years now since the epic Europe '72 tour!

Grateful Dead "Wembley 4/7/72" (the first show in the "Trunk" complete Europe '72 edition)

Should I dust off my vinyl copy?

[Rabshakeh]

Evan Parker / Keith Rowe - Dark Rags (Potlach, 2000)

 

[mjazzg]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Evan Parker / Keith Rowe - Dark Rags (Potlach, 2000)

 

I don't know that one, should I investigate?

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

30 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

Should I dust off my vinyl copy?

Your call. I've been keeping away from the Dead for a while now. . . and I plan to listen to shows from the box set this month.

[Peter Friedman]

I saw Lee Katzman with the Kenton Band in the mid-1950's, and saw Teddy Edwards in California not long before he died, must have been in 2001.

So the interesting part is that there was a roughly 45 year gap between seeing these two horn players live.

[HutchFan]

Lee Konitz with Alan Broadbent - Live - Lee (Milestone, 2003)

[BillF]

17 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

I saw Lee Katzman with the Kenton Band in the mid-1950's, and saw Teddy Edwards in California not long before he died, must have been in 2001.

So the interesting part is that there was a roughly 45 year gap between seeing these two horn players live.

Sadly, located here, those amazing opportunities weren't available to me, Peter, though fortunately many US players did make their way across the ocean.

That's an aptly named album! 

Edited April 8, 2022 by BillF

[sidewinder]

I saw Teddy Edwards in 1999 (non-playing, arm in a sling but leading his quartet) and for the only time playing in NYC, the year was either 2000 or 2001. It was a rare East Coast live appearance and he played great. John Hicks on piano.

Edited April 8, 2022 by sidewinder

[jazzbo]

Billie Holiday "Lady in Satin"

I stay away from this album more often than I should. Over time I have learned to really like it. The respectful, sentimental hammock of the orchestral backing behind her frank, seemingly unfiltered delivery. . . a unique blend. A few of these songs evoke emotional memory in me.

I'm actually listening on this "Essential Masters" set which includes her MGM album and some great broadcast material; this first disc has Billie at Newport 1958 (in stereo with airplane fly-overs!).

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Edited April 8, 2022 by jazzbo

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I don't know that one, should I investigate?

I like it a lot, even though I'm normally allergic to Rowe. It feels like anything can happen, which isn't how I normally feel about free improv or electro acoustic stuff.

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Lee Konitz with Alan Broadbent - Live - Lee (Milestone, 2003)

There's always another Konitz record to investigate.

Edited April 8, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[HutchFan]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

There's always another Konitz record to investigate.

So true.

It would almost be easier if he wasn't so consistently excellent.   

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by HutchFan

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

[ghost of miles]

The expanded 2-CD reissue of this has become some of my favorite live Coltrane. I know it’s all drawn from the Live Trane box set that preceded it, and which I also have—but this is a more economical listening experience. (Though I do feel overdue to take in that box in its entirety again.) 

[John L]

11 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

The expanded 2-CD reissue of this has become some of my favorite live Coltrane. I know it’s all drawn from the Live Trane box set that preceded it, and which I also have—but this is a more economical listening experience. (Though I do feel overdue to take in that box in its entirety again.) 

When this was first released back in the 70s, I took a cassette version with me to an intensive foreign language course in Santa Cruz CA.   Since it was one of only a few cassettes that I had with me, I listened to it over and over again.   I think that I know almost every note by heart now.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

The expanded 2-CD reissue of this has become some of my favorite live Coltrane. I know it’s all drawn from the Live Trane box set that preceded it, and which I also have—but this is a more economical listening experience. (Though I do feel overdue to take in that box in its entirety again.) 

Outerwordly music .... btw worth the ticket of entry for "Spiritual" (from Stockholm) alone ....