So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[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.

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[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]

[jazzbo]

My first music of Thursday is the bonus selection on the Grateful Dead (HDCD remaster) cd of “Wake of the Flood” that has Bob Weir demoing on acoustic guitar the “Weather Report Suite.” It’s quite a showcase.

Followed by an album that continues to fascinate me as much as it did when first released, featuring the lovely voice of Paula Morelenbaum in a sort of bossa nova/house collage that is a great listen.

Paula Morelenbaum “Berimbaum”

 

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[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

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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I was already a big Miles Davis fan, when Aghartha came out. It sold very well and we all listened to it. I had the record and others would come and make cassette tapes of it. That´s how it went then. First encounter with electric Miles late 1973. 
I have the impression that not all of his albums were so well advertised as this one. The "Get Up with It" was lesser known. I think the most common album just then in 1973/74 was "Big Fun" albeit it didn´t really represent the Miles of 1973-75 which was really a great, steady working unit.

After Agharta, and I think it was when Miles was into his 5 years of hiatus from recording and performing, the hardcore fans said something about "Pangheea" and it was very very expensive, but I got a copy but I think this was 2 years after Aghartha, though it was from the same day . 

[jazzbo]

June Christy “Something Cool” Capitol cd

I’m listening to the stereo version of this title, combined on a Capitol cd with the earlier mono version.

Both versions are great imo. But with the stereo you get that rich Capitol stereo sound, hard to beat.

 

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[Dub Modal]

First:

Then:

[jazzbo]

24 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I was already a big Miles Davis fan, when Aghartha came out. It sold very well and we all listened to it. I had the record and others would come and make cassette tapes of it. That´s how it went then. First encounter with electric Miles late 1973. 
I have the impression that not all of his albums were so well advertised as this one. The "Get Up with It" was lesser known. I think the most common album just then in 1973/74 was "Big Fun" albeit it didn´t really represent the Miles of 1973-75 which was really a great, steady working unit.

After Agharta, and I think it was when Miles was into his 5 years of hiatus from recording and performing, the hardcore fans said something about "Pangheea" and it was very very expensive, but I got a copy but I think this was 2 years after Aghartha, though it was from the same day . 

Though it first appeared from Japan, and like Pangaea was a Japanese production, I remember the US 2 LP set of Agharta appearing rather prominently in record shops here in the US; I bought a copy when released and still have that copy today. I had been following Miles since I first heard Filles de Kilimanjaro in late '72 and had caught up to all the current Miles releases by the time that Get Up with It came out, my favorite then being Miles Davis at Fillmore. So I was really ready for Agharta when it came out on LP. I never did find an LP copy of Pangaea I could afford until the cd versions came out. . . I splurged on the first Japanese cd version, then upgraded several times until this Blu-Spec CD2 version came out, which sounds best to me.

[Dub Modal]

And with that I'm now "Explorer" level here

 

[Jim Duckworth]