So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Chuck Nessa]

Retrieved a couple from the "W section" -

[sidewinder]

RVG Edition - sounds pretty good.

Conn CD

Not in the Mosaic

[BillF]

3 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

 

👍

3 hours ago, rostasi said:

👍

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

👍 👍

5 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

👍

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

👍

Edited June 14, 2023 by BillF

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

Earlier:

[Rabshakeh]

The Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Dirty Boogie

I hated this record at the time. I still hate it, but I'm surprised at how differently. There's a forgotten naivity to this garbage which I do slightly miss.

Now listening to something not terrible:

Borah Bergman And Roscoe Mitchell – The Italian Concert

Edited June 14, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Great similarity in style with this cover

 

[Rabshakeh]

Fushitsuya - Live 2 (1991)

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

 

 

25 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Superb.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Daunik Lazro – Sweet Zee

[Rabshakeh]

28 minutes ago, rostasi said:

*Fushitsusha*

Oops

Urs Leimgruber & Fritz Hauser – L'Énigmatique
 

[jazzbo]

Finally getting to spin music again today after a day of plumbing and cooking.

Joe Williams “Having the Blues under European Sky” LRC Japan cd

 

 

[Coda]

 

[T.D.]

 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

One of those records where everybody's in the groove except for the leader.

Hate it when that happens. 

[T.D.]

 

 

1970s Yugoslavian (maybe today it'd be Serbian?) jazz-funk.

Got this on a whim (it's on bandcamp) and having fun. Listening through a second time.

Edited June 15, 2023 by T.D.

[JSngry]

I don't know why I was expecting more... 

[Chuck Nessa]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I don't know why I was expecting more... 

Didn't know it existed.

This is the only Billy Taylor record I own -

[ghost of miles]

A nicely-curated collection that represents the underappreciated diversity and  musical nuances of the bebop scene as documented by Savoy:

[ghost of miles]

… and on to Makaya McCraven, who’s performing at a free concert in Switchyard Park this Thursday evening here in Bloomington:

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent ....

[BillF]

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Didn't know it existed.

This is the only Billy Taylor record I own -

👍😁

[Gheorghe]

18 hours ago, HutchFan said:

It would be hard for me to choose between Larry Willis and Mulgrew Miller.  Miller is certainly more forceful. I consider him to be one of McCoy's "heirs."  Willis, on the other hand, is more lyrical, subtle.  In the past, Willis talked about his indebtedness to Herbie.

I love all of them.  

 

Thank you for this very insightful compairing of them both. Mulgrew Miller died too early, he was not even 60 when he died. 
When I heard Larry Willis (he must have been still quite unknown then) recorded with Jackie McLean on BN I also had the impression that he had learned from Herbie. 
But later is might got into another direction, more lyrical subtle as you describe it. In this context I like to remark the two Smoke Jazz albums "Heads of State" where I mostly paid attention to Al Foster, Buster Williams and Gary Bartz, while I couldn´t really warm up for Larry Willis, same on a Woody Shaw from Basel 1980, Swissland. 

Mulgrew Miller sure had some McCoy thing in his playing, but he also had some Bud thing in his playing, as I observed when hearing a concert where he plays with Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson and later Johnny Griffin comin in as a second tenor. On that occasion, which was also filmed, Mulgrew Miller has a very Powell-ish approach on the more bop based tunes and he even looks very much like Bud: Heavy, head up with that moving lips like cewing a gum, maybe hollerin´ along with the lines he plays, it´s as if Bud had re-appeared so similar he looked like. 

15 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

A classic, even if I was a bit disappointed at first hearing. After hearing Bird´n Diz from Birdland and Massey Hall, this is a lesser exiting thing and the choice of Buddy Rich on dr is typical for Granz. It should have been Max or Roy Haynes. 

And those strange album designs on those old Verve records and those short liner notes that don´t really come from musical understanding "Thelonious Monk is a lesser light in modern jazz, but nevertheless an important one" arghhh....

On 6/14/2023 at 12:42 AM, John Tapscott said:

When I was a teenager, this was on my wishlist but not available in my country. I found only a copy of the BN "Empty Foxhole" and of the  Impulse "Crisis" and later the earliest Prime Time with that red cover and that coloured egg. When I finally got "Shape of Jazz" it sounded very conservative to me. But "Lonely Woman" was a favourite of my mother. She had two jazz things she liked very much : "Lonely Woman", and Mingus´ "Meditations on Integration". Many years in my youth when she came up into my appartment she would say "spin Meditations". 

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Wow, such a great record. When I was a kid, this ..... as many BN in the early and mid 70´s was OOP or not available in my countries. One of my early mentors, the famous Fritz Novotny (austrian Freejazz Pioneer since 1959, founder and leader of the "Reform Art Unit" -short "RAU" borrowed it to me for making a tape, to learn that stuff, together with "Old and New Gospels". He was pleased that I dug Jackie and that "I´m in the right direction".....