So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Pim]

29 minutes ago, aparxa said:

 

NP: Joe McPhee -  Nation Time
 

Nation Time 

[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

Hafez Modirzadeh - Post-Chromodal Out! (Pi, 2012)

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

SFJazz Collective "Original Compositions & Works by Herbie Hancock" disc 2

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Quite a band! 

Edited August 22, 2022 by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

Bill Evans "Montreux Concert II" CTI RVG UHQCD King Records Japan

[jazzbo]

The Pyramids "AOMAWA: THE 1970s RECORDINGS" disc 2

A brand new 4LP/4 cd box set bringing together the incredible 1970s recordings of Afrofuturism pioneers The Pyramids, led by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor. The set features the remastered LPs Lalibela, King Of Kings and Birth / Speed / Merging alongside the first ever vinyl issue of their live session for KQED TV in 1975. The accompanying 12-page 12”-sized booklet features extended interviews with The Pyramids by Francis Gooding and a host of unseen photos.

[John Tapscott]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

 

 

Xanadu in Africa

Now: 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Barney Wilen with the Mal Waldron Trio "Movie Themes from France" 2022 Japanese cd reissue.

This is a great album I've enjoyed for years. Barney Wilen and Mal Waldron make a great pairing, each melodic improvisors who understand song structure so well and how to build and release tension and emotion in musical form.

Nice clear recording too.

[JSngry]

The Creel Point reissue, which also includes Tome VI and Waterbirds. 2 CDs, excellent value (and a bootleg).

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, BillF said:

Some 'forgotten' big band music from Europe

 

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

 

 

On 8/21/2022 at 11:14 AM, mikeweil said:

Such a great record!   

 

Edited August 22, 2022 by HutchFan

[Simon8]

53 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Barney Wilen with the Mal Waldron Trio "Movie Themes from France" 2022 Japanese cd reissue.

This is a great album I've enjoyed for years. Barney Wilen and Mal Waldron make a great pairing, each melodic improvisors who understand song structure so well and how to build and release tension and emotion in musical form.

Nice clear recording too.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

I never did get around to picking this up. I love Kamuca's work so it should've been a no-brainer. The biggest problem with picking it up now is that VSOP only sells CD-Rs these days.

[HutchFan]

Carmen McRae - Torchy! and Blue Moon (MCA/Universal; originally Decca)

 

[soulpope]

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

[Peter Friedman]

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, soulpope said:

I think I had this one, maybe it was one of the first Dynasty albums ? Then, most of the members still had played with Mingus, Somehow, especially because I had such an affinity to Mingus´ music who was among the very very first things I heard and led me to become the jazz fan I´ve been for the last 5 decades, I was so deeply depressed by his passing that I just couldn´t believe it. And hearing "ghost bands" play his music somehow hurt me. It even took me many months until I could buy "Me Myself an Eye", which came out in early 1979 and first I thought "A Mingus album without Mingus playing bass can´t be worth listening". 

Later, I think 10 years later I saw one of those "Mingus Dynasties" at Wiesen, but it was sad. Though the only left active Mingus musicians were nobody less than John Handy and George Adams, there was no fire in it, and Jimmy Knepper was conducting but seemed completly bored. Those were guys in semi coma doin some sad stuff without any life in it. 

As many records, I think I had sold or misplaced that "Chair in the Sky" after 2 times of spinning, I still was suffering that Mingus was not here anymore.....

[soulpope]

2 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I think I had this one, maybe it was one of the first Dynasty albums ? Then, most of the members still had played with Mingus, Somehow, especially because I had such an affinity to Mingus´ music who was among the very very first things I heard and led me to become the jazz fan I´ve been for the last 5 decades, I was so deeply depressed by his passing that I just couldn´t believe it. And hearing "ghost bands" play his music somehow hurt me. It even took me many months until I could buy "Me Myself an Eye", which came out in early 1979 and first I thought "A Mingus album without Mingus playing bass can´t be worth listening". 

Later, I think 10 years later I saw one of those "Mingus Dynasties" at Wiesen, but it was sad. Though the only left active Mingus musicians were nobody less than John Handy and George Adams, there was no fire in it, and Jimmy Knepper was conducting but seemed completly bored. Those were guys in semi coma doin some sad stuff without any life in it. 

As many records, I think I had sold or misplaced that "Chair in the Sky" after 2 times of spinning, I still was suffering that Mingus was not here anymore.....

Excellent playing overall (John Handy !! Don Pullen !! Charlie Haden !!) and insightful arrangements by Sy Johnson .... this was the first and remains the best Mingus homage by this group ....supposed not to replace Charles Mingus, but to put another perspective on his body of work ....

[Gheorghe]

Just now, soulpope said:

Excellent playing overall (John Handy !! Don Pullen !! Charlie Haden !!) and insightful arrangements by Sy Johnson .... this was the first and remains the best Mingus homage by this group ....supposed not to replace Charles Mingus, but to put another perspective on his body of work ....

Well yeah, Sy Johnson was a very good arranger and did many arrangements for Mingus, I think for his "Let My Children Hear Music". 
And the two times I saw Mingus live, he always started the set with "For Harry Carney", a minor blues in Bb with an ostinato bass-figure. Great tune especially the voicings. It´s quite strange that Mingus, who usually played his own compositions, always started the set with this tune, that was not composed by him. 

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]