So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[BillF]

48 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Count Basie and His Orchestra “Basie at Birdland” Roulette/Warner Japan cd

 

 

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30 minutes ago, bresna said:

Miles Davis - In Person, Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, San Francisco, Complete (Volume II) - disc 1.

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[felser]

Good, not great.  Bobby Watson, Ari Brown, James Williams, etc., but the whole is less than the sum of the parts (or maybe I'm just jaded after 50 years of listening).

[Rabshakeh]

Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers – Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joy Makers (Riverside, 1961)

 

[Niko]

12 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers – Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joy Makers (Riverside, 1961)

 

Not my favorite item in the series musically, but definitely one of the prettiest covers

[Simon8]

[optatio]

18 hours ago, T.D. said:

 

  

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[Rabshakeh]

Lee Willhite – First Venture

 

24 minutes ago, Niko said:

Not my favorite item in the series musically, but definitely one of the prettiest covers

I enjoyed it a fair bit. Certainly more than other Humphreys records. There are a few tracks where it collapses musically.

[HutchFan]

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath (RCA Neon UK, 1971)

 

[Rabshakeh]

Now on:

Najee – Day By Day

[Peter Friedman]

[sidewinder]

Redial CD - Inspired by the Ronnie Scott thread.

[HutchFan]

[felser]

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

Masahiko Togashi & Masahiko Satoh - Double Crystal (Trio, 1973)

 

[HutchFan]

[Chuck Nessa]

Forgot about that one. Long gone.

[Gheorghe]

12 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Remember buying this as a youngster and getting spooked out by ‘Rated X’ big time ! 🤣

Of course, then I bought each new Miles Davis album. I think I was a bit disappointed by "Big Fun" which was just a collection of stuff, that was remainders from earlier sessions, like part of "Get Up with It". But I like the long "He Loved Him Madly" , it was the band with Dave Liebman that I saw, as well as "Calypso Frelimo" which was part of the tour programm. Other stuff from that double album was much older. One tune I think was called "Red China Blues". It never was played live and is just an old fashioned blues in G if I remember right. Isn´t "Rated X" that thing with organ only, very minimalistic, but dense chords the way Miles played chords on organ......, and wasn´t there a tune called "Billy Preston" , which seemed quite old, like the stuff that had been on the 1972 recordings ? I didn´t really know who Billy Preston is, I had thought there was a more obscure trumpet player who is on Mingus´ recordings from 1970, who has this or a similar name....

Is it possible that this was Miles´  last studio album until 1981 ? His other records of that time all was live recordings like "Agharta" and "Pangheea " . My favourite is "Dark Magus". 

[sidewinder]

‘Red China Blues’ was overdubbed over a Wade Marcus orchestration I think.

Eddie Preston would be the Mingus trumpet player mentioned.

[BillF]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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[sidewinder]

‘Impulse Records - Music, Message and the Moment’. Interesting 2CD compilation.

[Rabshakeh]

Lenny McBrowne and the 4 Souls - Eastern Light 

First time I'd heard of or heard this one. Just goes to show that there is always more out there.

[jazzcorner]

16 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I have that Stateside LP with the Geller/Dorham session.

It was also reissued by Vogue as ‘West Coast Scene Vol 3’ but only half the LP was included and I don’t think Vol 4 ever came out !

Yes thanks for the Info. Have also West Coast Vol. 3 myself

19 hours ago, scooter_phx said:

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Yes a superbe CD reissue of material from these vinyls:

 

[mjazzg]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming:

Masahiko Togashi & Masahiko Satoh - Double Crystal (Trio, 1973)

 

That's been on the wantlist for a while

[jazzbo]

Nat Birchall Quartet “The Storyteller–A Musical Tribute to Yusef Lateef”

 

 

 

[optatio]

3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

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