So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

Two by Masaru Imada:

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[ghost of miles]

Well worth checking out if you’re in the mood for a new Christmas jazz release. Sands’ several originals are pleasantly captivating, and the standards freshly arranged.

Edited December 11, 2023 by ghost of miles

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Live at the Plaza” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 2023

[optatio]

2 hours ago, BillF said:

👍 - as LP on my shelf! It´s a 'cut out', with a huge hole in the cover!

Edited December 11, 2023 by optatio

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Outstanding ....

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

👍 😁

One of the timeless  'classics'  bought many years ago and still listening to it

Edited December 11, 2023 by jazzcorner
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[BillF]

8 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

👍 😁

One of the timeless  'classics'  bought many years ago and still listening to it

Agreed. When Peter Ind was tutoring at Leeds College of Music in the sixties, he took me to meet Lennie at the Harrogate Festival.

Edited December 11, 2023 by BillF

[jazzcorner]

Swing from Germany  

L + L Records 10.004 - Gust'l Mayer & his Jazz Stampede " Yellow Cab" - rec. 1978

[HutchFan]

Now playing Disc 1 from this terrific set:

Tito Puente - El Rey (Fania/Tico)

Between Tito's music and a cuppa dark roast, I'm getting a much-needed Monday morning jolt.    

 

[soulpope]

3 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now playing Disc 1 from this terrific set:

Tito Puente - El Rey (Fania/Tico)

Between Tito's music and a cuppa dark roast, I'm getting a much-needed Monday morning jolt.    

Sunshine for the ☀️soul☀️ guaranteed ....

[Peter Friedman]

[kh1958]

Ahmad Jamal, Emerald City Nights, Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Elemental)

[soulpope]

16 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

These sessions are of sheer beauty .... 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Don Menza - First Flight (Catalyst, 1977)

I have the Fresh Sound reissue First Flight: Complete Recordings -- but the reissue producers re-arranged the track sequencing and screwed up the musical flow of the original album.  The good news is that in this digital world it's no big deal.  I just made a playlist that matches the original LP's sequence of cuts.  Ahhh . . . That's so much better.

 

[HutchFan]

Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New (Philips, 1963) 

Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
Tenor Saxophone – James Moody
Piano – Kenny Barron
Bass – Chris White
Drums – Rudy Collins

Playlist created from:

[John Tapscott]

[sidewinder]

20 hours ago, BillF said:

Dave Cliff is an old friend whom I've known since he was a student on the pioneering jazz course at Leeds College of Music in the 1960s where tutor Peter Ind was a big influence on him. I was a student at Leeds University at the time. 

There's an interesting recording circulating with Cliff doing a gig with Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz in the late 70s. Whitley Bay, Northumberland, of all places. I think Ind is on that one too (audience recording).

[mikeweil]

[sidewinder]

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Thelonious Monk, “Solo Monk” Columbia cd

Great performances here, I especially like “Ruby, My Dear”

[jazzbo]

Some Prestige Miles Davis.

First, this Ezz-thetic cd, “2nd Session 1956 Revisited.” I had stopped buying the items in this series because they are basically “gray market” discs, using the European copyright laws to issue things and no notice of licensing or using original parts. But a jazz penpal pulled my coattails towards this one saying the sound was very interesting.

Well it is interesting. . . the sound is quite good if a tiny bit “thin,” and it seems as if the engineer has turned this into a stereo recording with some sort of magic. What’s odd is that if this were a stereo Van Gelder recording the drums would be on the right, but they are here on the left, which is odd-sounding. But really the only odd-sounding part of the stereo sound field, which is puzzling. Doesn’t sound like the usual “pseudo-stereo.” Interesting. Maybe it's an anomaly of my system today. Will try to listen on headphones later.

 

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Then on to
“Workin’” Prestige/Concord Rudy Van Gelder Remasters version. Very good sound! (MONO)

 

Edited December 11, 2023 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, mikeweil said:

I'm now giving this a listen via YouTube.  Very interesting.