So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

I’m revisiting this one. It has so many elements that I love about Ellington records. And the sound is great.

Ray Nance!

 

[Peter Friedman]

Just now, Peter Friedman said:

P.J. Perry & Tommy Banks  Old Friends

 

[Rabshakeh]

Ben Webster – My Man - Live At Montmartre 1973

Very good.

[Justin V]

I had a few dollars in Amazon credits set to expire and thus paid a couple of bucks for my first Mosca-led date.

[Chuck Nessa]

Revisiting a couple of Harrison Bankhead recordings - the first is with Ed Wilkerson, Mars Williams & Avreeayl Ra

and the second one adds James Sanders on violin Ernie Adams on percussion

Having lost Harrison recently and cheering for Mars as he battles his cancer, I'm ..........................

[Justin V]

8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Revisiting a couple of Harrison Bankhead recordings - the first is with Ed Wilkerson, Mars Williams & Avreeayl Ra

and the second one adds James Sanders on violin Ernie Adams on percussion

Having lost Harrison recently and cheering for Mars as he battles his cancer, I'm ..........................

I didn't know about Williams having cancer.  I saw him a few years ago in a duo with Vandermark and he was fantastic.  He has a huge sound.  I just Googled, discovered the GoFundMe and donated.

 

 

[Dub Modal]

9 hours ago, rostasi said:

 

That actually might be better without the drum track. 

NP:

Hicks with Idris Muhammad & Walter Booker from '85. 

[Jim Duckworth]

23 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Are you getting into shape for part 5?

Exactly!  I've got a pre-order in my future...

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Thelonious Monk “The Classic Quartet” Candid cd 2023

After waffling I decided to order this new cd even though I do have a budget early cd of this in storage. This new remaster certainly would sound better than that cd in a side by side comparison. And it’s a great performance.

On the same day in Tokyo the Monk Quartet did this tv show performance, and a concert released by Columbia/Sony as a 2 disc set. The latter is stereo, this TV performance was recorded in mono.

[felser]

I always enjoy any of the iterations of this cooperative and the Mingus Dynasty.  Saw the Mingus Dynasty live once at the Painted Bride Art Center when they had Jack Walrath, Joshua Redman, John Hicks, Michael Formanek, Alex Foster (forget the others) and it was an outstanding show.

 

[jazzbo]

I saw them in Austin years ago in a great sounding hall. An amazing performance!

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

[John Tapscott]

On 6/15/2023 at 1:57 PM, JSngry said:

That's a terrifying cover. 

I hadn't thought of it as terrifying really, but the cover from the stereo re-make (recorded some 6 years later) seems more comforting somehow.  

Edited June 16, 2023 by John Tapscott

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

👍

Now playing:

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

22 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Much better. Kenny Drew with Frank Butler & Leroy Vinnegar. 

👍 Excellent

5 hours ago, BillF said:

👍

Now:

[JSngry]

30 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Is there ANY way to get paid that this dude didn't get to? 

1 hour ago, John Tapscott said:

I hadn't thought of it as terrifying really, but the cover from the stereo re-make (recorded some 6 years later) seems more comforting somehow.  

Everybody like to imagine that all endings are happy, right? 

[medjuck]

23 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

P.J. Perry & Tommy Banks  Old Friends

 

I remember being very impressed by PJ Perry some 60 years ago in Montreal. 

[Teasing the Korean]

5 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

I hadn't thought of it as terrifying really, but the cover from the stereo re-make (recorded some 6 years later) seems more comforting somehow.  

The change is kind of like when Liberty revised the cover art on the first three Chipmunks LPs.  They looked like real chipmunks at first, and they were scary with BIG TEETH - the universal indicator that a cartoon character is dangerous.  But they were replaced with the cute, non-aggressive Chipmunks that we all know and love.

So that first June Christy cover is like the scary early Chipmunks, and the color replacement is like the cute cartoon Chipmunks.

Edited June 16, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Replace that drink with a needle.

That's a look of the agony of hopeless and helpless  enslavement. 

[T.D.]

Bought this obscure disc because it was cheap, but it proved to be a sleeper and I really like it. Mix of piano trio and quintet (w. tenor, trumpet). Straight-ahead, he's obviously influenced by Bill Evans but for whatever reason it all works for me.

[Ken Dryden]

B

Brilliant live solo piano, out June 30 on Sunnyside.

Finally got around to acquiring this 2009 release after doing an interview with Helen Sung, it didn't disappoint!