So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

 

I believe the entire 50 items in this series were produced by Cuscuna.

Perhaps it was a special request from Japan for RVG remastering, after all the RVG series was later initiated by Japan.

According to this page the two Miles Davis volumes, the Clifford Brown and (surprisingly) Juju were also remastered by RVG.

https://www.discogs.com/label/441028-Blue-Note-CD-Super-50

Wasn't it determined that most of these early CP32 CDs are digital dupes of the US versions of these CDs that were mastered by Ron McMaster? In fact, the first Blue Note CDs sold in the US had CP32 CDs made in Japan with US artwork: https://www.discogs.com/release/12363492-Cannonball-Adderley-Somethin-Else

[jazzbo]

I have no idea who determined what or where or when. This one I listened to says remastered by RVG right in the insert. Nor do I remember a US cd that has this configuration of the first two sessions Powell did for Blue Note complete in session order.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

9 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I have no idea who determined what or where or when. This one I listened to says remastered by RVG right in the insert. Nor do I remember a US cd that has this configuration of the first two sessions Powell did for Blue Note complete in session order.

That is certainly true. It's really weird that the artwork on that CD didn't have it in large print on the obi, especially considering that the Japanese just adored RVG. It would've certainly been a selling point, even back in 1986.

[jazzbo]

Well, it cost about 35 dollars or so back then--I guess whoever was going to buy was going to buy it. . .or not.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook, Vol. 2, Lumnar cd

 

[jazzcorner]

10 hours ago, optatio said:

... and November 30, 1979 at the second Göttingen Jazz Festival: Carmell Jones & Friends Inc. feat. Miss Elly [later Elly Wright] Note: Carmell Jones replaced Leo Wright as leader because Leo Wright has had a stroke short before the gig.

Thanks for that Info. Leo was also member of the RIAS big band. Here is an example with with the "Berlin Dreamband" 1969 conducted by Stan Kenton (radiobroadcast)

 

 

[soulpope]

[Chuck Nessa]

About halfway through this one.

Been a while since I heard these.

[Jim Duckworth]

Very interested in Nicole Mitchell these days...

[jazzbo]

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for that Info. Leo was also member of the RIAS big band. Here is an example with the "Berlin Dreamband" 1969 conducted by Stan Kenton (radiobroadcast)

Thanks for sharing this! Elly Wright, Leo Wright's widow, is still active in Vienna https://www.ellywright.at/

[Dub Modal]

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

[optatio]

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

In from a discogs seller.

 

 

“The Amazing Bud Powell” Blue Note Japan cd CP32-5241 from 1986 reissuing the complete “Vol.1” and alternates in recording order, remastered by Rudy Van Gelder.

Sounds really good! Music is of course phenomenal with many bebop greats on board.

I remember that the BN albums Vol 1 and 2 in the 70´s were quite mixed. I think the tunes with Fats and Sonny (my favourites) were on Vol. 1 , and on Vol. 2 it was mixed with the George Duvivier/Art Taylor tracks and the Curley Russell/Max Roach tracks or so.
I was quite annoyed that I had the quintet sides twice, it was also on the Fats Navarro album. In those days when money was scarce and the need of buying records was high, something like that was a great disappointment of "lost money". 

 

12 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

About halfway through this one.

Been a while since I heard these.

It sure is interesting. My very very first jazz lp was "Steamin´" and I think I knew each note of it and could have sung along with the record......, 
Late I think I had a japanese pressed LP "Blue Haze" and in the inner side of the cover was a paper with little fotos of all of Miles´ Prestige recordings, even the one where he plays piano only on one track of a Sonny Rollins album. 

but let´s say the first version of "Walkin´ " I heard when I was a kid was the fast one with the "second quintet" and I was quite disappointed when I heard the wonderful original track, it sounded too slow and too quiet to me then, because as a kid I wanted to hear Philly J.J or most of all Tony Williams.....

10 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

A wonderful live set, I have not listened to it for many many years, I remember it really swung. But is it possible that on the first track the did speed up and ended much faster than they had started ? ? . 

[jazzcorner]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁 👍

[Dub Modal]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But is it possible that on the first track the did speed up and ended much faster than they had started ? ?

It's possible but I didn't notice this time around. I dug Vol 2 more than 1 fwiw 

[Justin V]

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

[Kevin Bresnahan]

16 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

BN reissued vol 1 on a recent Tone Poet LP. This Doubletime BN CD's got 'em both 👍 Laymon Jackson's playing is a highlight

That DoubleTime 2-CD set had 4 tracks of previously unissued material too:

 

You won't get those on the new Tone Poet LP.

Edited February 22, 2023 by bresna

[Gheorghe]

14 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

he was one of the leading surviving bop pianists. He must have had a great time in Europe, but strange to say I don´t remember I ever saw him performing in Austria. 

I prefer records under his name, where horns are added. His style is a bit spare for trio format, that´s my personal impression. He was a fine composer. 
Though it might be true that in the forties while playing with Bird and Miles his articulation was a bit stiff and his comping a bit rudimentary rhythmically, but he didn´t deserve that ugly words Miles said about him. This was unfair and made Jordan´s last years quite bitter. First you should judge a musician from how he developed himself, not only by some old stuff. 
I have a Jackie McLean All Star record with Duke Jordan on piano and it´s titled "Birdology". He is also nice on Cecil Payne´s "Bird Get´s the Worm".

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

with Hannibal and George Adams!!!  Good stuff!  I'd somehow overlooked this album until fairly recently. 

The only downer: Less than stellar AQ -- at least on my CD reissue (Solid Japan) -- but the music is so good that it carries the day, regardless.

 

31 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Although I of course have a ton of Jordan with Bird and a few sideman dates, this is my first leader date of his.  

There are MANY more to discover. 

When I hear Jordan's playing, I think of a dancer who glides effortlessly across the floor.  Everything is fluid and smooth and graceful.

 

11 minutes ago, BillF said:

Yeah. 

 

Edited February 22, 2023 by HutchFan