So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Baden Powell – Os Afro-Sambas

Is that the original with different cover art, or the re-recording?

[jazzbo]

https://www.discogs.com/release/4946148-Baden-Powell-Os-Afro-Sambas

30 second search found this:

October 1990 re-recording of Os Afro Sambas, Powell's collaboration with Vinicius De Moraes originally released in 1966.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Is that the original with different cover art, or the re-recording?

The re-recording. Quite a different vibe.

[BillF]

[Teasing the Korean]

55 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

The re-recording. Quite a different vibe.

Thanks.  I've never listened to the re-recording.

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

[jazzbo]

I changed the front footers on my speakers and added another Shunyata Research “Defender” to the system that I traded a Furutech similar thing for with another audiophile, and I like the results.

I revisited this one to check it out, I play this one a lot, I like the front line of Palmer, Ross and Turner a lot.

Then on to this Landmark cd from Bobby Hutcherson, “Mirage.”

[HutchFan]

49 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

16 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

When I hear that album, I imagine a bunch of revelers traveling on the Amazon and finding an abandoned 16th century Portuguese monastery.  They all go inside and have a drunken orgy.  The album seems to simultaneously convey religious spirituality and worldly decadence.  

[jlhoots]

David Virelles Trio: Carta (Intakt CD)

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Thanks.  I've never listened to the re-recording.

I'm not one to compile top ten lists, but were I ever to compile a list of top 10 all-time favorite albums, the original may very well make the list.  It is simply incredible on so many levels. 

 

44 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

You'll get no argument from me on that. 

In fact, I would suggest that Os Afro Sambas initiated a (roughly) decade-long run of amazing music from Powell.  He combines disparate musical elements to make something unique: jazz from the U.S., European classical guitar, Brazilian folkloric guitar, and -- perhaps most importantly -- African & Afro-Brazilian rhythm.  Rather than the typically sophisticated bossanova that takes it's cues from Rio, Powell's music is more rough-hewn and rooted in Bahia.  I think others were making similar music (particularly Brazilian guitarists like Luiz Bonfa and Laurindo Almeida) -- but only those who came in Powell's wake combined all of these elements in a way that sounds like he did. 

Of course, these are only my impressions.  And I'm still learning about Brazilian music, so I might be missing something or someone.  But, so far, I haven't heard anyone else who sounds like Baden Powell.

 

25 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

When I hear that album, I imagine a bunch of revelers traveling on the Amazon and finding an abandoned 16th century Portuguese monastery.  They all go inside and have a drunken orgy.  The album seems to simultaneously convey religious spirituality and worldly decadence.  

I'm a very big fan of the first version.

The re-recording has more of what Hutchfan is speaking about and less of what TTK is speaking about. Much more of the advanced folkloric jazz and a bit less of the strange menace. It still has the magic though. It is on any analysis very good.

Easy streamer and listening to the one won't ruin the other.

[Teasing the Korean]

48 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I'm a very big fan of the first version.

The re-recording has more of what Hutchfan is speaking about and less of what TTK is speaking about. Much more of the advanced folkloric jazz and a bit less of the strange menace. It still has the magic though. It is on any analysis very good.

Easy streamer and listening to the one won't ruin the other.

Thanks.  Then I should give a remake a chance sometime.  I think that because I love the original so much, I was indeed worried about the remake ruining it for me.  Thanks for confirming.

There are two very different accounts of how this album was written.  One story has Powell and Vinicius traveling to Bahia in an attempt to get to the African roots of samba.  The other story is that Powell and Vinicius write it on a two-week drinking binge.  Maybe there is some truth to both versions. 

[jazzcorner]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette “Somewhere” ECM cd

Man. . . this trio. . . I can never get enough.

[jazzbo]

Noam Weisenberg “Roads Diverge” Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records cd

 

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Noam Wiesenberg - Bass
Philip Dizack - Trumpet
Immanuel Wilkins - Alto Sax & Clarinet
Shai Maestro - Piano & Fender Rhodes
Kush Abadey - Drums

 

[optatio]

3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

👍

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

26 minutes ago, rostasi said:

 

Oh my...

Make mine:

Lockjaw trumps anybody. 

[jazzcorner]

Great west coast group

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[optatio]

8 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Great west coast group

👍

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

A mellow warm start to a cool fall morning.

Vinicius Cantuária “Silva” Hannibal cd

 

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Cello – Hugo Vargas Pilger
Keyboards, Sampler, Flugelhorn – Jun Miyake
Percussion – Chacal, Cidinho
Trumpet – Michael Leonhart
Viola – Marie-Christine Springuel
Violin – Bernardo Bessler, Michel Bessler
Voice, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Loops, Drums, Cymbal, Percussion, Producer, Keyboards – Vinicius Cantuária

[jazzbo]

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[jazzbo]

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