So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[ghost of miles]

[jazzbo]

 

 

 

[JSngry]

I very much do NOT like the Nyman piece, but the rest is a quite nice listen,

[gmonahan]

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Ahmad Jamal - Tranquility / Outertimeinnerspace (Impulse! 2-on-1)

Outstanding (especially "Outertimeinnerspace") ....

[Larry Kart]

Bought Bill Charlap's second Criss Cross album "Distant Star" at a library sale this weekend, along with the Milt Jackson Quartet's (Cedar Walton, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker) "It Don't Mean a Thing If You Can't Pat Your Foot To  It." The Milt album very together rhythmically, as one might expect -- Roker a key there. The Charlap quite tasty, as was his first on Criss Cross, but I was bothered by some  of his succeeding  Criss Cross efforts ("Stardust," with his eventual regular trio of Peter Washington and Kenny Washington  was one IIRC) where it sounded like Charlap was willingly restricting his harmonic language to what would have been the norm at, say, the Hickory House circa 1954. What a strange and rather creepy development, I thought. 

[JSngry]

What was he wearing on the cover?

As for the Hickory House circa 1954, I'm perfectly OK with Marian McPartland of that vintage, but the Marian of recent times wouldn't self-restrictively play that way. So if I'm right about what Charlap has found himself doing on "Stardust" and similar outings, what the heck is his motivation for doing so? It's not like it's an approach that can have intense musical appeal to him in this day and age I would think, nor is it an approach, though I may be wrong here, that would have a potent enough nostalgiac vibe that it would  draw in listeners on those grounds.

[jazzbo]

Ithamara Koolax "Serenade in Blue"

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Edited June 27, 2022 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

originally on Ictus

[sidewinder]

[jazzbo]

Cassandra Wilson "Songbook" Verve cd

[Rabshakeh]

Jim Staley – Mumbo Jumbo (Rift, 1987)

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

John Hicks - Piece For My Peace (Landmark, 1996)

 

[Bluesnik]

The Farlow bit. It was also his debut, Tal Farlow Quartet. In this release the McGhee and the Farlow sessions are tied in.

Edited June 27, 2022 by Bluesnik

[HutchFan]

More John Hicks:

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

More John Hicks:

Yesss .....

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

[ghost of miles]

An old and sentimental favorite, the first Chaloff I ever picked up before getting the Mosaic set:

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, ghost of miles said:

Such a magnificent album.

[EKE BBB]

Professor Longhair - Rock’n’roll Gumbo 

[BillF]

8 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

 

5 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

An old and sentimental favorite, the first Chaloff I ever picked up before getting the Mosaic set: