So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

49 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

A little gem ....

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

 

[Chuck Nessa]

Haven't pulled this one out in years and was surprised by the bands - Farmer & Gryce I remembered, but Jug, Cecil Payne, Henderson Chambers & my old friend George Brown had faded into the cobwebs.

[HutchFan]

with Sonny Fortune, Larry Willis, Walter Booker, and Jimmy Cobb

 

 

8 hours ago, soulpope said:

 Outstanding HH !!!  

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by HutchFan

[Holy Ghost]

On 4/4/2022 at 10:23 AM, Tom 1960 said:

Great record.  

 

Now playing: Bill Evans Interplay. Perhaps the most exuberant playing I've ever heard Bill play. Like the play on words, right? 

[BillF]

[jazzcorner]

[jazzbo]

Billie Holiday in her final album release, on the MGM label, "Billie Holiday" aka "Last Recording." Like "Lady in Satin" this is arranged and conducted by Ray Ellis, but it has a jazzier backing and feel. And though much is made, perhaps rightly, about the damage to Billie's voice, she still inhabits these songs and lets us into her world of feeling and texture. What a master she was from her first recordings on.

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

Classic song and album. 

[jazzbo]

This is the most recent release, "Planetario da Gave" on Far Out Records 2 cd. 

Playing a Hermeto Pascoal album for the first time is a lot like Gump's box of chocolate. You really don't quite know specifically what to expect. From a February 1981 appearance by Pascoal with "O Grupo" . . .  and an exciting listen.

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

[kh1958]

Sidney Bechet, Live in Switzerland, 1951 & 1954

19 hours ago, soulpope said:

My favorite Hampton Hawes recording (actually tied  with As Long as There's Music).

[soulpope]

7 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

My favorite Hampton Hawes recording (actually tied  with As Long as There's Music).

Good call indeed ....

[jazzbo]

Shifted gears and am really enjoying revisiting this classic. The system sounds fantastic.

Grateful Dead "American Beauty (American Reality)" Mobile Fidelity Labs SACD

[ghost of miles]

Seeing her tonight at Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater:

[jazzbo]

Another classic that needs re-visiting. There was a time last decade when I played this every Sunday. 

Sounds really really good on this SACD, even though I might prefer the alternate mix that was released on a deluxe 2 cd edition.

[HutchFan]

Now:

Mulgrew Miller - The Countdown (Landmark, 1989)
with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams

 

[Peter Friedman]

I first heard this album when first issued about 1959 or so. Didn't care for it then. But now many decades later I decided to give it a listen again.

It began (for me) very dull and cold sounding, with no jazz feeling. Things improved after about ten minutes into the Concerto. Cannonball and Art Farmer's playing was warmer and their solos had a jazz sensibility. Brooks deserves credit for attempting something different from the usual jazz albums being produced. 

So on the whole a mixed bag. There was not enough music that appealed to me beyond a modest level. It is doubtful that this is an album I will choose to listen to again. 

Edited April 11, 2022 by Peter Friedman

[JSngry]

4 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Classic song and album. 

 Not of a tragedy that the bassist and drummer remain anonymous. That tempo, that pocket...truth lives there

 

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Freddie Hubbard "Straight Life" King Record Japan "    CTI 50th Anniversary Special Collection" cd, KICJ 2595.

Man it sounds good.

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock
Guitar – George Benson
Percussion – Richard "Pablo" Landrum
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard

[jazzbo]

Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine "In Concert, Volume One" King Records Japan "    CTI 50th Anniversary Special Collection" cd, KICJ 2582

Also sounding really good!

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Guitar – Eric Gale
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Saxophone – Stanley Turrentine
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard