So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Joe McPhee, Daunik Lazro, Joshua Abrams, Guillaume Séguron, Chad Taylor – A Pride Of Lions (Bridge Sessions, 2018)

[jazzbo]

Nucleus & Ian Carr "Torrid Zone: The Vertigo Recordings 1970-1975" disc 2

Listening to this disc 2 again. It has a really nice blend of jazz and funk and that sort of unique British verve that King Crimson and other seminal prog bands were beginning to mine.

[JSngry]

This is a REALLY good record.

And this was more than unexpected surprise:

Who knew?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[jazzbo]

Continuing my way through the Tania Maria catalog.

Tania Maria "Viva Brazil" Concord Picante cd

Bass – Carlos Werneck, Marc Bertaux
Drums – Stéphane Huchard
Drums, Percussion – Luiz Augusto Cavani
Percussion – Mestre Carneiro
Piano, Vocals, Synthesizer, Producer – Tania Maria
Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Claudio De Queiroz

This one is a Tania Maria production, and I like it a lot. There's a real sameness to her catalog, but if the music is this good it's not a problem!

[Jim Duckworth]

18 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet – Stellar Pulsations (Delmark, 2012)

I really like Rob Mazurek's work and am particularly fond of one called Galactic Parables by his Exploding Star Orchestra.

 

 

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I really like Rob Mazurek's work and am particularly fond of one called Galactic Parables by his Exploding Star Orchestra.

 

 

Me too, I hoover up all his releases, from solo to the Exploding Star.

 

[aparxa]

Kirk Lightsey And Rudolph Johnson with The All Stars – Habiba

Lightsey & Co. made three fine records in South Africa in 1974!

 

[jazzbo]

Stan Getz & Chet Baker "The Stockholm Concerts" Verve cd 3

Nice accompaniment and pretty darned nice sound.

Bass – George Mraz
Drums – Victor Lewis
Piano – Jim McNeely
Tenor Saxophone – Stan Getz
Trumpet – Chet Baker

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

[JSngry]

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I really like Rob Mazurek's work and am particularly fond of one called Galactic Parables by his Exploding Star Orchestra.

That's a very good one. I really like Skull Sessions and Return The Tides too.

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Now playing:

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith (Verve, 1972)
features some superb tenor work by Teddy Edwards

Smith's Root Down (also issued in '72) may have been more contemporary -- and it definitely made a bigger splash -- but I like Bluesmith better.

 

[aparxa]

Rhoda Scott – Lady All Stars

[John Tapscott]

[aparxa]

Sun Ra – Lanquidity (Strut 1LP)
 

[jazzbo]

SFJazz Collective "The Music of Thelonious Monk& Original Compositions" disc 2 (the original compositions).

[BillF]

1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

 

Edited August 10, 2022 by BillF

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

Revisiting these two albums via a new coupled-together reissue. Man, I sure miss this guy. 

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Stan Getz & Chet Baker "The Stockholm Concerts" Verve cd 3

Nice accompaniment and pretty darned nice sound.

Bass – George Mraz
Drums – Victor Lewis
Piano – Jim McNeely
Tenor Saxophone – Stan Getz
Trumpet – Chet Baker

I have read so much about that tour, I think mostly in some book about Chet Baker. The music must be great and it has a fantastic rhythm section. But I heard it was almost impossible to make it happen, because away from music they almost were fighting, I mean two live long junkies with bad temper, and though Chet was playing better than ever since his comeback and mostly over here in Europe, Stan Getz was the bigger name...