So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

That's interesting, Gheorghe.  Thanks for sharing.   

It sounds like this might be another example of Europe being more supportive of jazz than the U.S. 

 

Definitely.

Look at Max's 70s records. All of them made in Europe or Japan, some of them for smallish (or smaller) labels, some of them appear to be hit-and-run dates, like hey, they're in town, let's make a cash offer, see what we can get. Max would work like that, apparently, rather than doing a US deal where somebody else ended up owning everything in perpetuity.

Hell, one of the very best of the lot, Force , the first duet with Shepp, was made through a connection with the Italian Communist Party! Hardly a record company bigwig!

Perhaps one of the biggest obstacles to a formal collation of these records is ownership rights. Who owns them, really? And if anybody other than the Estate gives them up....OOPS! So at this point, who wants all that hassle?

[Joe]

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

My impression is that while many American jazz musicians have gone to live in Europe, a significant percentage of them return to the USA at some point.

When the musicians travel to various countries they do well for a while. But the special appeal wears off after a while, especially in the country in which they are living. They become just local musicians.

 

Currently playing: 

[jazzbo]

On another board people were discussing Miles Davis “Agharta” so I played the first half of the Sony Blu-Spec CD2 version.

 

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And then for some reason I saw the Grateful Dead “Wake of the Flood” cd on the shelf and put that one on, it’s been a long time. (The HDCD remastered version). I can still remember marveling at the original LP I bought when it came out–that was the thickest vinyl I’d ever purchased! This is one of my favorite Dead, and rock, albums.

 

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Edited February 1, 2023 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

David Murray once said that Summer in Europe pays for the rest of the year in America.

[John Tapscott]

[optatio]

On 1/31/2023 at 6:59 PM, soulpope said:

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[T.D.]

 

[Rabshakeh]

On 1/31/2023 at 8:01 PM, HutchFan said:

Now:

Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream of Music (Gramavision, 1983)

Superb.

Love this one.

[HutchFan]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Love this one.

There's nothing else quite like it, is there?  It's almost miraculous.

The music has a Gil Evans-like grandeur, but it's much more jumpy and trippy -- almost like a fever-dream.

And the production is perfectly in tune with the music.  Hand in glove. 

 

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

David Murray once said that Summer in Europe pays for the rest of the year in America.

Yeah, I've heard exactly this sort of thing many times.

It makes me think of an analogy:  A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.  -- Mark 6:4

 

[HutchFan]

Now this:

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now this:

Carter Jefferson - a beloved artist of mine - excelled as sideman especially ....

[BillF]

15 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

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12 hours ago, Joe said:

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Now playing:

[sidewinder]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now this:

On my list in that vinyl reissue.

Great series from Mosaic while it lasted. Slide was an absolute master at making a mid sized band sound twice as big. Brilliant work by Roach and Lateef on this one too.

Edited February 2, 2023 by sidewinder

[soulpope]

15 hours ago, Joe said:

Desert island platter ....

[Joe]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Desert island platter ....

It contains what might be my favorite rendition of "How High The Moon."

[Peter Friedman]

[Dub Modal]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

On my list in that vinyl reissue.

Great series from Mosaic while it lasted. Slide was an absolute master at making a mid sized band sound twice as big. Brilliant work by Roach and Lateef on this one too.

Roach's playing is intense on this album. I've got that Mosaic Single as well - love it!

14 hours ago, T.D. said:

 

I picked up that Farewell record recently via the Octave Lab Deep Jazz Reality series. Excellent record!

[mikeweil]

[JSngry]

21 hours ago, JSngry said:

Patient-Lee + Bley being exceptionally facile and spry, even by his standards.

 

Staying with this one for another day. Paul Bley goes all-in Frisky Imp from start to finish. Wondermous!!!!

[Dub Modal]

10+ minute tune called Higgins Holler is fun although not what I usually listen for on a Cedar Walton album. 

[John Tapscott]