So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

On 12/20/2023 at 2:54 PM, soulpope said:

NP .... :

Soooooo good.

 

 

2 hours ago, soulpope said:

Earlier .... :

Wonderful.  

 

7 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Interesting. While I do like to hear Ellington compositions by others they are really not a substitute for the "real thing" for me. The Ellington Orchestra is an amazing musical organization. There's a slop in their presentation, just a dollop, that makes them unique for me--tightness in tension with a little looseness. And Ellington and Strayhorns arrangements are always interesting and I love how they are framed for soloists and how the soloists and the framing changes over the years. And there are instrumental voicings that just floor me with their uniqueness and beauty. I think if I were isolated to a deserted island I'd wish I had a lot of Ellington recordings with me. . . I'd leave a lot of others' behind if I could bring more Duke.

I'm with you, @jazzbo.  Well said.  . . . Ellington is a magnificent composer, but -- like Strayhorn said -- his instrument was his orchestra.  So, for me, the greatest performances of his music will always be by his band.  

Then again, I freely admit my bias.  If I'm taking ONE musician/composer/band to my desert-island (in any genre), it's Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra.    

 

[jazzbo]

12 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

I'm with you, @jazzbo.  Well said.  . . . Ellington is a magnificent composer, but -- like Strayhorn said -- his instrument was his orchestra.  So, for me, the greatest performances of his music will always be by his band.  

Then again, I freely admit my bias.  If I'm taking ONE musician/composer/band to my desert-island (in any genre), it's Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra.    

 

“Hank Mobley” Blue Note RVG Japan SHM-CD

 

This one sounds better with phase reversed to me.

Edited December 22, 2023 by jazzbo

[soulpope]

59 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Prompted by the vinyl thread -

😍😍 ....

[BillF]

35 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

👍

[HutchFan]

NP:

Berigan made such a gorgeous, MASSIVE sound on the trumpet.  . . .  His Time-Life 3-LP set made me a Berigan convert.  I just picked up this CD overview to supplement the Berigan LPs in my collection.  

 

[soulpope]

[jlhoots]

Harold Danko: Trillium

[Joe]

Not a record to judge by its cover. 

 

[HutchFan]

18 minutes ago, Joe said:

Not a record to judge by its cover. 

Right on, Joe.   That's a terrific record!  

 

[jazzcorner]

Mystic Line CD 050100 - Octobop " West Coast Christmas" - rec. 2012 - Engineer: Stephen Hart

 

 

[optatio]

[HutchFan]

[Rabshakeh]

6 hours ago, mjazzg said:

A couple of sartorial bangers

Why even start a band if you don't get the uniform?

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” Mono Blu-Spec CD2 from the 2023 2 cd Blu-Spec CD2 title.

[Peter Friedman]

[Joe]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Right on, Joe.   That's a terrific record!  

 

Norris was his own thing. Such harmonic imagination!

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Why even start a band if you don't get the uniform?

Because there's no investors to con into paying for them. 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, optatio said:

Terrific music ....

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Grant Green “Am I Blue?” US RVG Blue Note cd

This one gets little love, but I really do like it myself.

I know, that it gets little love, but I can say there is certain occasions where I like to hear it, especially very very late at night. The title track is just fantastic and really has that after hour feeling. 
Usually I listen to recorded music always after midnight, and sometimes, when I don´t want to hear more loud and rhythmic stuff , you know there is nights where you just are in that mood, you love it. 

 

[soulpope]

10 hours ago, Joe said:

Not a record to judge by its cover. 

Excellent indeed ....

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

I forgot how interesting this album is. Poindexter and Ervin are great front line sharers here, and my one complaint is that Al Gray is not on every track on this disc.

This edition from Japan does not have the extra material on the US cd (which was not part of this session).

Pony Poindexter and Booker Ervin “Gumbo” Prestige Japan lp facsimile cd

 

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Followed by
“Fats Sadi’s Vibe” Fresh Sound cd

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I don’t have too much Fats outside of the Clark Boland Big Band and small group sides, so this is a welcome compilation.

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I know, that it gets little love, but I can say there is certain occasions where I like to hear it, especially very very late at night. The title track is just fantastic and really has that after hour feeling. 
Usually I listen to recorded music always after midnight, and sometimes, when I don´t want to hear more loud and rhythmic stuff , you know there is nights where you just are in that mood, you love it. 

 

I generally listen to music most in the early hours of the morning as I wake up early with the dog and squeeze in three hours or so before my wife awakens. To me it doesn't matter what I play during these hours and there's not a "right time" for an album for me. . . but I've been retired over fifteen years now and there's fewer hours when something is significant for me in the way when I had a working schedule.

Even though I had more hours to lisen in the years before my wife retired this year. . . I never have had enough time to listen and enjoy my stereo systems. What would our lives be without music, creating (I do vanishingly less of that as time goes by) and listening!