So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

6 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Smooth jazz guitarist. Late 70s / Early 80s. Not the same person, despite me having assumed they were for years. 

Eric Gale actually began life as a late 1960s NYC rock/pop session guitarist! He's on some of Van Morrison's Bang records, among other things. And by the earlyish 1970s, he was all over the Kudu records output.

A very distinctive voice, imo. 

10 hours ago, soulpope said:

Hilarious cover photography ....

Hilarious? How so? 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[HutchFan]

55 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

Wonderful, a fave of mine. 

 

[HutchFan]

Really enjoying this album lately:

Masaru Imada Quartet - Now!! (Three Blind Mice/Craftman, rec. 1970)
Masaru Imada (p) with Ichiro Mimori (ts,ss), Takashi Mizuhashi (b), and Masahiko Ozu (d) 

 

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Two Warner Bros lps from 1959 on this disc.

I think these 2:

& this one  (on Discovery also reissued)

 

 

 

Playing now

Palo Alto Jazz PA 8003 - Full Faith and Credit  Big Band  " Jazz Faire" - rec. 1981

feat. Madeline Eastman (4 tracks)

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[John Tapscott]

17 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

I think these 2:

& this one  (on Discovery also reissued)

 

 

 

Playing now

Palo Alto Jazz PA 8003 - Full Faith and Credit  Big Band  " Jazz Faire" - rec. 1981

feat. Madeline Eastman (4 tracks)

I only have this one by the FF&C Band.

 

[HutchFan]

Masaru Imada Trio +2 - Green Caterpillar (TBM/Craftman, rec. 1975)

Keyboards – Masaru Imada
Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe
Electric bass – Isoo Fukui
Drums – Tetsujiro Obara
Congas, Percussion – Yuji Imamura

 

[jazzbo]

Mali Obomsawin “Sweet Tooth” Out of Your Head Records cd

 

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This is a good disc!

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[HutchFan]

 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

1m

 

Art Pepper “The Complete Maiden Voyage Recordings” Omnivore Records, final disc, disc 7

[JSngry]

 

[T.D.]

New reissue. Discogs doesn't yet have it listed.

[BillF]

14 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

& this one  (on Discovery also reissued)

 

 

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14 hours ago, optatio said:

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14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

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14 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

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Now playing:

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[jazzcorner]

10 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

I only have this one by the FF&C Band.

 

Ah yes,  its here too but there is another one on CD.

 

 

22 minutes ago, BillF said:

Now playing:

Yes great artist , composer and band leader.

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[Gheorghe]

20 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Smooth jazz guitarist. Late 70s / Early 80s. Not the same person, despite me having assumed they were for years. 

From your description it´s no wonder I didn´t have no idea who it is. Never got in touch with "smooth jazz" . 

[Balladeer]

Dayna Stephens - Peace (Sunnyside)

[Gheorghe]

I got this from my wife for my birthday on december 14th, 2 days ago. 

Again, she picked up somethin ´  from names she heard thru me. Dizzy of course, ableit Diz is not so dominant on this album. 

The first tune is wrong titled as "Birk´s Works" but actually it is Bird´s "Quasimodo" and Diz is not playin. It´s a battle between Jackie McLean and Phil Woods, but also very fine Stan Getz. 

The ballads "Warm Valley" and "Old Folks" are wonderful. Max drum features of course, Cherokee again with those great saxophonists.

Maybe I would have expected more from "Con Alma", it´s only trumpet with piano in a rubato style. How much I love to play that tune with a fine quintet, I just can´t think about that tune without drums. 

Percy Heath has a wonderful feature on "Yardbird Suite". I like his sound also on the fast tunes. It´s very boppish, not them long notes, it´s more percussive style like Curley Russell would have done it, really fitting to the fast bop numbers......

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Wonderful, a fave of mine. 

Same here ....

[Rabshakeh]

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Sweet photograph. Shame that the poor family didn't have some warmer pun in their surname, but you take what you're given in life.

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

From your description it´s no wonder I didn´t have no idea who it is. Never got in touch with "smooth jazz" . 

Eric Gale actually made some nice recordings with Quincy Jones in a (slightly) more straight-ahead style. 'Smackwater Jack' has an 'evolution of jazz guitar' thing/suite (called 'Guitar Blues Odyssey I think) where he covers most of the stylistic bases.

Edited December 16, 2023 by sidewinder

[Rabshakeh]

Maybe "smooth jazz" is the wrong way to describe Eric Gale. More of a session musician / CTI guy who crossed over to radio jazz in the late 1970s, alongside others taking a similar trajectory. He was never "smooth jazz" in the sense of George Howard or Najee.

Edited December 16, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[optatio]

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I got this from my wife for my birthday on december 14th, 2 days ago. 

Again, she picked up somethin ´  from names she heard thru me. Dizzy of course, ableit Diz is not so dominant on this album. 

The first tune is wrong titled as "Birk´s Works" but actually it is Bird´s "Quasimodo" and Diz is not playin. It´s a battle between Jackie McLean and Phil Woods, but also very fine Stan Getz. 

The ballads "Warm Valley" and "Old Folks" are wonderful. Max drum features of course, Cherokee again with those great saxophonists.

Maybe I would have expected more from "Con Alma", it´s only trumpet with piano in a rubato style. How much I love to play that tune with a fine quintet, I just can´t think about that tune without drums. 

Percy Heath has a wonderful feature on "Yardbird Suite". I like his sound also on the fast tunes. It´s very boppish, not them long notes, it´s more percussive style like Curley Russell would have done it, really fitting to the fast bop numbers......

👍

Happy birthday belatedly ...

 

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I got this from my wife for my birthday on december 14th, 2 days ago. 

Nachträglich alles Gute zum Geburtstag 🎂 ....

[John Tapscott]