So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

22 hours 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. 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 😄

Yes, i've always been partial to solo Monk.

Probably the first I heard was this French 10" disc:

But my favorite solo track is "Functional" from this album, where Monk and traditional piano blues (for which I'm also an enthusiast and even something of a practitioner) meet:

 

Edited November 17, 2022 by BillF

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

But she didn't age well. (See previous photo.)

 

Hell, if that was a crime, I'd be doing life without parole seven times over...

[Peter Friedman]

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hell, if that was a crime, I'd be doing life without parole seven times over...

I didn't say that was a crime; it's just that even though her husband took some of those shots, Moffitt's rather grim latter-day visage didn't fit well in a thread about fresh-faced California young ladies who graced West Coast Jazz album covers.

[JSngry]

She wasn't old then, was she?

Point being, it was a connection possibly. Access to a pool of talent. 

[Dub Modal]

Picked up this Real Gone Jazz/Dusty Groove collab reissue CD at Real Gone Jazz's CD sale (this one was $5...and all Black Jazz CDs are $6 if ya need to know). 

First Sonny Fortune appearance on record. Rudy recorded this one in '65. 

[ghost of miles]

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, BillF said:

Yes, i've always been partial to solo Monk.

Probably the first I heard was this French 10" disc:

But my favorite solo track is "Functional" from this album, where Monk and traditional piano blues (for which I'm also an enthusiast and even something of a practitioner) meet:

 

Yeah, "Functional" is nice and to play it "stride" is very nice. But what I like most from solo Monk playing is other songs, especially to hear how he re-harmonizes the song. You know, there is a special inner logic in the way Monk voices a chord, and there is a special thing that let´s a very old song even sound like if it´s played on an old slightly out of tune piano. Take "I love you Sweethearts of my Dreams". Sometimes if I play a little "private solo set" for my wife I close that "set" with this tune. 

12 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Never saw that: those four musicians......seems to be a "dream team" . I like each of them very much. 

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, BillF said:

As good as it gets ....

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Peggy Lee “If You Go” Capitol/Universal Japan SHM-CD

 

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Blue ballads to watch the snow fall by.

[jazzbo]

Bill Evans “Live at the Keystone Korner 1980 Vol. 6” Timeless/Solid Records cd Japan (material from "The Last Waltz)

This disc sounds really good.

[JSngry]

[jazzbo]

Tommy Flanagan Trio with Kenny Burrell “Another Beyond the Blue Bird” Timeless/Solid Records cd Japan

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

Hank Jones - Bluesette (Black & Blue/Solid, 1979)
with George Duvivier & Alan Dawson

Five stars. 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Milt Buckner Featuring Jo Jones – Block Chords Parade (Black and Blue, 1975)

 

[jazzbo]

“Jackie & Roy: Forever” Music Masters cd

Forgot how nice this one is

[Rabshakeh]

16 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Hank Jones - Bluesette (Black & Blue/Solid, 1979)
with George Duvivier & Alan Dawson

Five stars. 

Hadn’t seen this when I posted! Black and Blue was a great label.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hadn’t seen this when I posted! Black and Blue was a great label.

Yes sir!

 

[soulpope]

43 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Hank Jones - Bluesette (Black & Blue/Solid, 1979)
with George Duvivier & Alan Dawson

Five stars. 

Yep, really good ....

[sidewinder]

Rare example of a project commissioned by a fellow board member.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Paolo Fresu - Incantamento (Plays the music of Tino Tracanna) (Blue Note Italy). Part of a 5 CD series of sessions Fresu did with his quintet with each disc featuring original compositions from each member of the band. This is Tino Tracanna's disc. This is great jazz. All 5 of these CDs are well worth hearing.