So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

Now: 

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

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3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

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Edited March 24, 2023 by John Tapscott

[JSngry]

[Larry Kart]

9 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Two great sources for somewhat revivalist jazz that's terrific are foreign -- the Australian stuff that originated in the 1940s  by the late Dave Dallwitz, the Bell Brothers (Roger and Grahame) Ade Monsborough  et al.  and the more recent French stuff from Jean Pierre Morel and his Le Petit Jazz Band and its orchestral offshoot. Different as they are, these guys get it right -- nothing is within quotation marks. Dallwitz in particular is a composer in the Morton class. Morel's stuff is or used to be available via the Stomp Off label. As Terry Martin (himself an Australian who grew up around Dallwitz in Adelaide) shrewdly pointed out in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, one key reason thus stuff works so well is what might be called the "so near, so far" principle, in terms of time and geography. Distance in those realms tends to preclude futile Turk Murphy attempts at outright emulation and leaves room for fruitful personal engagement of sensibilities. One Dallwitz album to go for first is his masterpiece, the "Ern Malley Suite."  "Gold Rush Days" and "Gulgong Shuffle" are also choice.  "Ern Malley Suite" seems to be on You Tube. Maybe more Dallwitz too. He also was a gifted painter.

 

A nice Dallwitz piece is "Clarinet Sugar." You can find it on You Tube. Also go to You Tube for "Billabong Bob Barnard" another Dallwitz gem.

[Rabshakeh]

8 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

I said "somewhat." Morel's orchestra actually plays the compositions and arrangements of U.S. writers of the '20s. The results sound great and fresh, not revivalist in the restrictive/constricting 

Seems like a positive. From the limited stuff I have explored, I have enjoyed the Yerba Buenas the least.
 

Very interested in hearing more about the French and Australian scenes, then and now.

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

 

A nice Dallwitz piece is "Clarinet Sugar." You can find it on You Tube. Also go to You Tube for "Billabong Bob Barnard" another Dallwitz gem.

For some galvanic early Morel got to You Tube for "Everybody Stomp Morel" and "Charquet & Co Jungle Jamboree" (an entire album). For Morel's orchestra go to on You Tube "Les Rois du Foxtrot - 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival." On CD I'd recommend "TNT: a Tribute to Elmer Schoebel but all their albums are very good.

[BillF]

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Los Dos Lados de la Típica '73 / The Two Sides of Típica '73 (Inca/Fania, 1977)
with Sonny Bravo, Alfredo De La Fé, Nicky Marrero, John "Dandy" Rodriguez, and others

Excellent ....

[hopkins]

https://archive.org/details/cd_wardell-gray_wardell-gray

9 minute Blue Lou on repeat last night!

[Rabshakeh]

7 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

For some galvanic early Morel got to You Tube for "Everybody Stomp Morel" and "Charquet & Co Jungle Jamboree" (an entire album). For Morel's orchestra go to on You Tube "Les Rois du Foxtrot - 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival." On CD I'd recommend "TNT: a Tribute to Elmer Schoebel but all their albums are very good.

Thanks!

[Rabshakeh]

The New Black Eagle Jazz Band – The New Black Eagle Jazz Band (GHB, 1972)

Actually enjoying this one. 

[jazzcorner]

Jam Session Vol. 7 (out of 9 volumes)

 

 

[optatio]

4 hours ago, BillF said:

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[BillF]

[Rabshakeh]

New Air Featuring Cassandra Wilson – Air Show No.1 (Black Saint, 1987)

[Peter Friedman]

As there has been some talk about traditional jazz, here is one I just listened to thi morning.

[Jazzmonkie]

Disc 1

[HutchFan]

[scooter_phx]

Nice music for a Saturday morning...

21 hours ago, felser said:

Very good Maynard.

[HutchFan]

Superb. 

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Shel Silverstein And The Red Onions – Hairy Jazz

 

This one is pretty great.

[sidewinder]

‘Neil Ardley and the Danish Radio Big Band, 1968’ (Jazz In Britain, mono)

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, scooter_phx said:

Nice music for a Saturday morning...

 

Agreed! 😁 

 

7 hours ago, BillF said:

Interesting coverart (DSM??). Have similar graphic drawing  on a JATP set.

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

This CD just arrived in the mail:

Yamashita Trio - Clay (Enja, 1975)
Yosuke Yamashita (p); Akira Sakata (cl, as); Takeo Moriyama (d)

Phew!!!  This is some potent stuff.

Over the past few weeks, I'd been streaming Clay via YouTube.  Needless to say, it sounds even more explosive & impactful in high fidelity.