So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[mikeweil]

Yesterday:

Not his best solo piano album,  and too short with 28 and a half minutes. Sounds like a rather spontaneous affair during a visit to Paris. But his ideas how he arranges the well known tunes are very original.

[sidewinder]

[JSngry]

Pre-Svengali, and expansive as you want it to be! 

[BillF]

59 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

[Peter Friedman]

[Jim Duckworth]

[Rabshakeh]

Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Jika (Nkomo, 1986)

From later on in Mankunku's career. This is definitely pop jazz, but like Stanley Turrentine or Hank Crawford, it's never just pop jazz when the greats are around.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

This is a record worth hearing! 

[Rabshakeh]

Billy Cobham – Life & Times (Atlantic, 1976)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Gheorghe]

On 22.10.2022 at 5:08 AM, dougcrates said:

I´m not such a fan of the many organists that came after Jimmy Smith, or those quite similar BN albums from the 60´s with focus on "boogaloo", but THIS one I like, mostly for the strange frontline of guitar and vibes, and the tunes. Especially "Turnaround" is very very catchy.....

[Pim]

[BillF]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]

[dougcrates]

[ghost of miles]

[soulpope]

9 hours ago, BillF said:

Beloved platter ....

[soulpope]

[BillF]

25 minutes ago, soulpope said:

[Peter Friedman]

This is a wonderful album. Hard to understand why Dick Katz  recorded so few albums under his own name. This is his only actual trio session. 

His playing reminds me a bit of Jimmy Rowles, and perhaps to a lesser extent John Lewis. It is a bit sparse with a number sometimes space between phrases. The focus is not on technique, but on telling a  musical story.  That suggests he had something in common with Lester Young.

[EKE BBB]

[ghost of miles]

[soulpope]

11 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

This is a wonderful album. Hard to understand why Dick Katz  recorded so few albums under his own name. This is his only actual trio session. 

His playing reminds me a bit of Jimmy Rowles, and perhaps to a lesser extent John Lewis. It is a bit sparse with a number sometimes space between phrases. The focus is not on technique, but on telling a  musical story.  That suggests he had something in common with Lester Young.

Agreeed, outstanding Piano Trio platter ....

[EKE BBB]