So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “Volume 10: 1947-1951” Neatwork cd

I’m glad I picked up this one–it has a few alternates and a number of unissued Columbia sides I have never heard before.

[Simon8]

Revisting Wilbur Harden Savoy run (with Coltrane+Fuller+Flanagan). Very worthy records, all in all. Love Harden's large, soft sound. Flanagan shines as well.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Always worth the wait ....

[HutchFan]

Streaming via bandcamp (for the moment):

Sirone - Artistry (Of the Cosmos, 1979); reissued on moved-by-sound
with:
Sirone - Bass
James Newton - Flute
Muneer Bernard Fennell - Cello
Don Moye - Percussion

Beautiful.

 

[clifford_thornton]

lovely album. Got it from Academy Records over 20 years ago now.

[Peter Friedman]

[gmonahan]

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

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46 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

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4 hours ago, Simon8 said:

 

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[felser]

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Streaming via bandcamp (for the moment):

Sirone - Artistry (Of the Cosmos, 1979); reissued on moved-by-sound
with:
Sirone - Bass
James Newton - Flute
Muneer Bernard Fennell - Cello
Don Moye - Percussion

Beautiful.

 

Fabulous, top five for me. Took a few copies to get a clean one but we'll worth it.

I hear good things about the reissue, it's a needle drop but not at all noticeably a friend assures me

[Peter Friedman]

[dougcrates]

[Rabshakeh]

45 minutes ago, felser said:

I have a soft spot for this record.

 

Fight The Big Bull featuring Steven Bernstein – All Is Gladness In The Kingdom (Clean Feed, 2010)

Edited May 4, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[colinmce]

50 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Fabulous, top five for me. Took a few copies to get a clean one but we'll worth it.

I hear good things about the reissue, it's a needle drop but not at all noticeably a friend assures me

I just sold my original LP, which I bought sealed/unplayed, in favor of the new CD. It sounds perfectly fine to me. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I just finished playing my favorite Horace Silver recording, "The Hardbop Grandpop". It's just a fun record and swings like hell. Silver's bouncy piano is well placed in the mix and the band is tight. And what a band - with Claudio Roditi, Steve Turre, Michael Brecker, Ronnie Cuber, Ron Carter & Lewis Nash.

[JSngry]

[dougcrates]

[Larry Kart]

I like Stillman,  and Versace and Juris provide heady, empathetic support. Juris was quite a loss.

 

III

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, rostasi said:

Brian Eno & Fred again.. – Secret Life

Captivating Cover Art ....

[Pim]

I remember spinning this one the first time. I was still living with my parents on the attic room of their house and had a pretty nice stereo set up that my brother left to me when he left the house. I was 17 years old and just getting into the more free kind of jazz. I put on disc one sat down and was stunned for the coming 50 minutes. I had never heard something like that before. The version of Afro Blue remains the best with the Classic Quartet IMO. The interruption remains very annoying.

Edited May 5, 2023 by Pim

[Gheorghe]

1 minute ago, Pim said:

I remember spinning this one the first time. I was still living with my parents on the attic room of their house and had a pretty nice stereo set up that my brother left to me when he left the house. I was 17 years old and just getting into the more free kind of jazz. I put on disc one sat down and was stunned for the coming 50 minutes. I had never heard something like that before. The version of Afro Blue remains the best with the Classic Quartet IMO

Nice to read a story about the first impressions of a certain record. My youth was similar to yours. And in my case I think it was Coltranes "Live at the Village Vanguard Again", the one with Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane , Rashied Ali. And I had similar feelings with all my first 60´s avantgarde albums: Sun Ra´s "Nothing Is", Pharoah Sanders "Live at the East", Ornette Coleman´s "Empty Foxhole). 

It is strange that my main preferences were 40´s bebop and 60´s free jazz. 

17 hours ago, mikeweil said:

I think I have that, with those long tracks . It´s great horn playing, but somehow something from the rhythm section (bass and drums) is missing for me. It sounds incredible straight and metronomelike from the rhythm. Dex and Gray are extraordinary, Howard McGhee is one of my favourites, maybe I´m not a big fan of Sonny Criss in comparation to them. 

[BillF]

11 hours ago, dougcrates said:

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9 hours ago, bresna said:

 

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[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Pim said:

 The version of Afro Blue remains the best with the Classic Quartet IMO. 

Could be the case ....

[sidewinder]

9 hours ago, bresna said:

I just finished playing my favorite Horace Silver recording, "The Hardbop Grandpop". It's just a fun record and swings like hell. Silver's bouncy piano is well placed in the mix and the band is tight. And what a band - with Claudio Roditi, Steve Turre, Michael Brecker, Ronnie Cuber, Ron Carter & Lewis Nash.

A reminder to self to dig this one out. Those late period Horace’s are fun !

45 minutes ago, BillF said:

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Reminds me of the gig where JJ was deploying his slide right over my head ! Any other trombonist I would have been worried but, no sweat, JJ’s movements were with absolute precision.