So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

In yesterday from Resonance Records. . . a very handsome 3 cd set of Les McCann live material. This disc 1 has great sound, nice swing for another chilly morning up too early.

Les McCann “Never A Dull Moment! Live From Coast To Coast (1966-67)” 3 CD set, disc 1

 

[jazzbo]

Bea Benjamin – Sathima Sings Ellington, Japan cd

Recorded New York City, April, 1979.

TO DUKE ELLINGTON
from AFRICA with LOVE,
“SATHIMA” BEA BENJAMIN

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

In yesterday from Resonance Records. . . a very handsome 3 cd set of Les McCann live material. This disc 1 has great sound, nice swing for another chilly morning up too early.

Les McCann “Never A Dull Moment! Live From Coast To Coast (1966-67)” 3 CD set, disc 1

 

Mine has been shipped!

[HutchFan]

Ron Carter / Herbie Hancock / Tony Williams - Third Plane (Milestone, rec. 1977)

[jazzcorner]

Musicmasters 01612-65089-2  - A Jazz Christmas

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

Don't sleep on this one. It is definitely (in my opinion), a really GOOD album.

[HutchFan]

Guitar: Kiyoshi Sugimoto
Tenor Saxophone: Takao Uematsu
Electric Piano: Hideo Ichikawa
Bass: Yoshio Ikeda
Drums: Motohiko Hino

 

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

NP:

Baden Powell - Solitude on Guitar (Columbia BR, 1973)
I'm still transfixed by the sound this guy makes with his guitar.  What an absolute master.

 

I definitely prefer the Brazilian cover (above) compared to the cheesy image on the U.S. release:

It's like the designers were trying to create an MPS-like cover -- but it doesn't come off, IMO.  Instead, it just looks like something that's pitched at an easy listening audience.  . . . Not that there's anything inherently wrong with easy listening.  But this ain't that.

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by HutchFan

[BillF]

2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Will be listening!

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Don't sleep on this one. It is definitely (in my opinion), a really GOOD album.

Looka very promising. Must listen! 👍

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Baden Powell - Solitude on Guitar (Columbia BR, 1973)
I'm still transfixed by the sound this guy makes with his guitar.  What an absolute master.

 

I definitely prefer the Brazilian cover (above) compared to the cheesy image on the U.S. release:

It's like the designers were trying to create an MPS-like cover -- but it doesn't come off, IMO.  Instead, it just looks like something that's pitched at an easy listening audience.  . . . Not that there's anything inherently wrong with easy listening.  But this ain't that.

Superb .... btw agree on your cover art assessment ....

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

Yesterday, this newl acqusition:

[John Tapscott]

I've had this recording for a few years, but only really started "listening" to it a couple of months ago. It's terrific.  

[jazzbo]

Sean Mason “The Southern Suite”

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Miles in Berlin” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 2 cd set, disc 2, the “pseudo-stereo” mastering used when the session was first released in Germany on LP.

It sounds really good! Surprisingly. Will probably listen to this version as often as the mono later released.

And what a concert this was! Pretty certain this was the first official recording of Wayne Shorter with these band members.

 

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

Earlier:

[Brad]

[dougcrates]

2004 Connoisseur CD.  

[dougcrates]

2008 Connoisseur CD

[optatio]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

👍👍

[BillF]

8 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Yesterday, this newl acqusition:

👍

8 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

  

👍

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

 

 

👍

Now playing:

Edited December 8, 2023 by BillF

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Ron Carter / Herbie Hancock / Tony Williams - Third Plane (Milestone, rec. 1977)

Sounds like a dream team. Though I have some VSOP records, I mean with Hubbard and Shorter, I didn´t know about this one. 

[optatio]

22 minutes ago, BillF said:

 

 

 

👍 - as LP on my shelf!

[Gheorghe]

Last night I listened to this one. 

Well, I     l o v e  it . 

First I was reluctant to spin it since    I h a d  heard and seen Dexter exactly the same period, early 1983, actually the last time I saw him live and it was almost a desaster , so weak it was. 

It´s astonishing that in an interval of maybe 2 or 3 days Dexter sounded so splendid in Copenhaga, Danemarca. 

He´s just in top form and the band is superb. 

It makes you understand why so many Americans in Europe after some nice and healthy years in fancy European towns had to leave Europe since they missed that competition and the power of N.Y. rhythm sections. 

Dexter was always great in the 60´s and early 70´s and had great pianists like Tete Montoliu or Kenny Drew, but bassists and drummer just were not up to what you hear in N.Y. for example.

Young Dave Eubanks is fantastic, listen how he pushes the thing on "Hanky Pranky", a tune I never had heard before, it´s pure Messenger´s sound. 

And some of the best "More than you know" I ever heard. In Vienna, it was really weak, it was painful to listen to and to look at Dex there. 

I think it was similar to other booze or drug addicted musicians in their last years, there performances were not persistent, you might catch a night were it was a stellar performance, and then on other nights you might leave with embarrassement and disapointment.....