So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[mjzee]

Picked it up at a used record fair.  Yet another Bley album I cannot get into.  And while many people say Keith Jarrett imitates Bley, I do not hear the similarity.

[Peter Friedman]

[Larry Kart]

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Where did all those photographers for Contemporary and Pacific Jazz get all those fresh-faced young women?

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

12 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

Where did all those photographers for Contemporary and Pacific Jazz get all those fresh-faced young women?

[Larry Kart]

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Where did all those photographers for Contemporary and Pacific Jazz get all those fresh-faced young women? And what do they look like now?

[JSngry]

Claxton married a model, did he not? 

[Larry Kart]

12 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Claxton married a model, did he not? 

Yes, Peggy Moffit, but she looked like a witch.

[Joe]

Not exactly an homage, and more interesting for it. 

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

She was among my favorites.  

Lovely album too.

 

Also nice and healthy. Never heard the album though.

[BFrank]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

 

Great photography with a perfectly tuned composition of colours ....

[BillF]

8 hours ago, optatio said:

👍

3 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

 

 

 

 

👍

Now playing:

With Phil Woods

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Re: Grand Encounter

Great photography with a perfectly tuned composition of colours ....

😁👍

Edited November 16, 2022 by jazzcorner

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

I love it and as much as I love Monks quartet and quintet performances , sometimes I like to listen to a bit of solo Monk also. I don´t want to BE a Monk copycat but somehow it happens, if I play a solo piece it might have some of Monk´s style, I mean the voicings. There is such a musical logical thing in it that you just fell you can´t do otherwise. 
My wife sometimes makes a little joke and want´s I do some personal "mini concerto" for her at home and she starts calling things I never had played or that are not my music. 
So once she said "do some classical stuff". I said "what ? I don´t know any classical music" but she insisted and somehow I had a little Chopin waltz in Ab in my head that I once heard and liked. And there I went, it sounded like if Monk plays Chopin. But since my wife also is no classic music conoisseur (she is primary a dancer) she dug it and said "you should get a tuxedo and play in such a concert hall only you" and didn´t understand that this is not my stuff.

Then she asked me to play a Hildegard Knef waltz, and I did, since I like it, and again it sounded like Monk playing Knef 😄

[EKE BBB]

2 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I love it and as much as I love Monks quartet and quintet performances , sometimes I like to listen to a bit of solo Monk also. (...)

Same here. His solo discs (particularly the London recordings) are very frequently spinned at my place.

[Gheorghe]

1 minute ago, EKE BBB said:

Jeanne Lee was singing with the Gunther Hampel Galaxy of Dreams band, I think she went to Europe with him. Another great musician who came to Europe with Gunther, is Allan Praskin (alto sax), whom I admire very much and love everything he does and I have played with him and have gigs with him fixed for next year...... 

[soulpope]

7 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Same here. His solo discs (particularly the London recordings) are very frequently spinned at my place.

Same here ....

[sidewinder]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Jeanne Lee was singing with the Gunther Hampel Galaxy of Dreams band, I think she went to Europe with him. Another great musician who came to Europe with Gunther, is Allan Praskin (alto sax), whom I admire very much and love everything he does and I have played with him and have gigs with him fixed for next year...... 

 

Jeanne lived with Gunter in Göttingen. Daughter Cavana was born here. Allan was at home here too...

[Gheorghe]

46 minutes ago, optatio said:

 

Jeanne lived with Gunter in Göttingen. Daughter Cavana was born here. Allan was at home here too...

Yeah that is true. And with Wolfgang he did a nice little record "Just Friends-Just Jazz" recorded live. The drummer was Ernst Bier, don´t remember the trumpetist and the bassist. 
Shortly after that (1978), I was barely 19 I had the luck to get the possibility to play with Allan. He is such a wonderful musician and a great composer ! 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

8 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

I often wonder if there is a farmer with a shotgun not far from that barn door.

[soulpope]

32 minutes ago, bresna said:

I often wonder if there is a farmer with a shotgun not far from that barn door.

😂😂 ....

[JSngry]

12 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Yes, Peggy Moffit, but she looked like a witch.

That seems harsh...

She was iconic.