So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

[Eric]

1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

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Freaking delightful!

Edited March 8, 2023 by Eric

[Justin V]

5 hours ago, bresna said:

From the Mosaic Select box... Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant - The Blues Message (Pacific Jazz). Nice blues here. Unusual in that it has a bassist with an organ player which honestly anchors these blues tunes a bit more. I love a nice walking bass line on a slow blues tune.

This would make an excellent Tone Poet LP.

 

Yeah, Amy's work with Bryant is excellent, as is the rest of that Select.  I like the use of upright bass with organ as well, like Shirley Scott's Great Scott! (the Muse one with the great Buck Hill) or Ike Quebec's Heavy Soul.  Off of the top of my head, I think I've only seen upright bass with organ twice, though (Reginald Veal with Joey D and Larry Grenadier with John Medeski).

[dougcrates]

[ghost of miles]

[Justin V]

20 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Ha.  I am listening to the Musicraft sides via this reissue on Discovery, which arrived today.

Edited March 8, 2023 by Justin V

[ghost of miles]

9 minutes ago, Justin V said:

Ha.  I am listening to the Musicraft sides via this reissue on Discovery, which arrived today.

Must be a magenta haze in the air tonight!

[Chuck Nessa]

I have this version

'cause I used to distribute the label - bought them from Albert Marx.

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

John Hicks was a fantastic pianist, and I think I knew best his playing with Pharoah Sanders, since that´s the most times I saw him live and heard him on record, before . There must have been also other occasions , I don´t remember. But then I saw him with that weak Mingus-Ghostband I have described earlier, he was on piano, but I ´m not sure if he actually had played with Mingus. 

He is was a phantastic pianist, and his long solos on that fast swing tune "Dr. Pit" composed by Pharoah are great. 

I have heard he had died quite early, that´s terrible, I don´t know why....

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Ron Carter was one of the first acoustic bassists I saw live (it must have been even before I saw Mingus !) and though Mingus was my favourite bassist, I really loved and love Ron´s powerful sound, and it was the times of VSOP, you know. 

5 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

"If you could see me now" is a wonderful tune composed by Tadd Dameron. I have not played it for ages, you only find it always as the last bars of the tune are permanently used as the famous coda for Dizzy´s "Groovin High". 
 

Besides my favourite version with Sarah, I heard it played very well by Wynton Kelly with Wes, and Joanne Brackeen once played it to please a request. 

I can´t imagine how Oscar Peterson plays it....well once I heard him play an astonishing fine "When I fall in love" (maybe because it was a good copy of Art Tatum). Why did Oscar Peterson during all those years never use bros to play with him ?  

11 hours ago, optatio said:

The great Burton Greene. He has a very interesting background with roots from Eastern Europe, I even think I heard once that some were born in România. 
Yeah, I remember it must have been in the early 80´s when no one less than Austrian Freejazz Pioneer Fritz Novotny (Reform Art Unit) had him as a special guest in Vienna. I don´t remember which joint it was, but Fritz Novotny didn´t play the usual joints we others played (Jazzland, Jazz-Freddy, Jazz-Gitty, Opus One) , I think it was more museums or modern art places.
Burton Green was one of the greatest admires of Monk and could play Monkish like no one else. 

There was a special memory about that encounter: Novotny wanted Green to play one of Novotny´s compositions (the wonderful "Pannonian Flower") and when it was Burton Green´s turn to choose a tune, it was "Crepuscule with Nelly"......fantastic ! 

[soulpope]

Yesterday evening .... :

[BillF]

22 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Yesterday evening .... :

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Now playing:

[jazzbo]

George Benson “Beyond the Blue Horizon” CTI/Mosaic Contemporary cd

[Gheorghe]

23 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Yet another Monk on my playlist today:

This is quite a strange record. I got it as a birthday present from my wife since she saw that it doesn´t seem to be similar to what she saw from my Monk albums (BN, Prestige). I don´t know what it has to do with the film, the first CD is nice as ever played Monk repertory with Barney Wilen added to the usual Monk musicians. 
The strangest think is that idea to play "Light Blue" with an early attempt to play a "rock rhythm" which led me into some speculations.....Monk claimed that he hated rock, but maybe Rockers loved Monk. And maybe a fusion band around the time of my teens would have played it that way.

But it seems that Art Taylor had hard difficulties to play that beat. On Disc 2 there are endless and exhausting tries to get that beat straight, I mean the GREAT ART TAYLOR, but here he sounds like if you get a 13 old kid to try for the first time to play a rock beat on a set of drums.....

Very very strange the whole thing....

 

[EKE BBB]

19 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

This is quite a strange record. I got it as a birthday present from my wife since she saw that it doesn´t seem to be similar to what she saw from my Monk albums (BN, Prestige). I don´t know what it has to do with the film, the first CD is nice as ever played Monk repertory with Barney Wilen added to the usual Monk musicians. 
The strangest think is that idea to play "Light Blue" with an early attempt to play a "rock rhythm" which led me into some speculations.....Monk claimed that he hated rock, but maybe Rockers loved Monk. And maybe a fusion band around the time of my teens would have played it that way.

But it seems that Art Taylor had hard difficulties to play that beat. On Disc 2 there are endless and exhausting tries to get that beat straight, I mean the GREAT ART TAYLOR, but here he sounds like if you get a 13 old kid to try for the first time to play a rock beat on a set of drums.....

Very very strange the whole thing....

 

Interesting view and comments as always, Gheorghe, many thanks!

[Dub Modal]

30 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Very very strange the whole thing....

Indeed. Of the Monk I have it's my least favorite. Almost ephemera for completists would be how I'd categorize it. 

[Dub Modal]

Perfect album this morning. 

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Big Fun” Columbia 2 LP set

My phono playback is back in action. . . playing the original 2 LP copy I bought in '74. “Ife” followed by “Great Expectations.” This material was a real ear-opener to me at the time and was one of four or five Miles Davis releases that led me down the jazz rabbit hole I have been following ever since.

[jazzcorner]

6 hours ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

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2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

George Benson “Beyond the Blue Horizon” 

 

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Edited March 8, 2023 by jazzcorner

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “70th Birthday Concert” Solid State 2 LP set, LP 1

 

[HutchFan]

13 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Duke Ellington “70th Birthday Concert” Solid State 2 LP set, LP 1

 

jazzbo, I'm going to pull that album from the shelf and play it too.   

 

[John Tapscott]

26 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Duke Ellington “70th Birthday Concert” Solid State 2 LP set, LP 1

 

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Now:

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Now:

That's an outstanding album, imo.   

 

[jazzbo]

Jimmy Knepper “Idol of the Flies” Bethlehem LP

 

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Bill Evans as sideman. I usually listen to this on cd, but I’m spinning records today and wanted to hear it on LP.

Here’s the original cover, this is a 'seventies reissue LP.

[Quasimado]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

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👍👍👍 Getz's 'Talk of the Town' solo is one of the greatest tenor solos I have heard, and I'm not even a Getz fan ... Diz great, of course.