So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[dougcrates]

Original LP

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Excellent debut album ....

[felser]

17 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Great album, great group.  Minnie Riperton was amazing, but there was much more to them than just her.

[Rabshakeh]

Sylvie Courvoisier, Susie Ibarra and Joëlle Léandre - Passagio

God, this record is excellent. One of Leander’s very best performances, but Ibarra and Courvoisier are fantastic too.

[optatio]

6 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

The prelude to A Love Supreme:

…I appreciate this one more and more as time goes on. 

👍

[jazzbo]

Starting the day off with this one again before it travels back to the shelves.

Terri Lyne Carrington “New Standards, Vol. 1”

 

[dougcrates]

[kh1958]

Count Basie, Chronological Classics, 1946-1947

[Rabshakeh]

Jason Adasiewicz – Roscoe Village (The Music Of Roscoe Mitchell)

[mjazzg]

34 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Jason Adasiewicz – Roscoe Village (The Music Of Roscoe Mitchell)

I like that one.

His was impressive, as always, at the Brotzmann memorial gig

[Rabshakeh]

8 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I like that one.

His was impressive, as always, at the Brotzmann memorial gig

I do like it. I need to listen to it again. His style and language is really different to Mitchell's percussion pieces as presented by Mitchell or the AEC.

I thought he was really excellent at the final Brotzmann gig. But Brotzmann and Mitchell are quite different languages. 

[John Tapscott]

[mjazzg]

9 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

But Brotzmann and Mitchell are quite different languages. 

Definitely 

[HutchFan]

 

10 hours ago, felser said:

Great album, great group.  Minnie Riperton was amazing, but there was much more to them than just her.

Most definitely.  Charles Stepney !!!

 

2 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Stone classic!

 

[mjazzg]

35 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

Most definitely.  Charles Stepney !!!

 

Oh Yes!!!

Now streaming

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

 

[jazzbo]

20 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Oh Yes!!!

Now streaming

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

 

If you can, check out the BBC box set. . . better than the other albums imo.

[Peter Friedman]

Features -  Bobby Hutcherson 

[mjazzg]

1 minute ago, jazzbo said:

If you can, check out the BBC box set. . . better than the other albums imo.

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

[jazzbo]

11 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

I took it slowly but it was rewarding. I'm in my slow and steady in rotation listen to the box for a second time, and I think over time I'll listen to it more often than the other material.

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

Ryo Kawasaki - Ring Toss (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
with Larry Willis, Sam Morrison, Badal Roy, and others

Interesting music that aims high and convincingly pulls in disparate elements.  I hear some echoes of McLaughlin (and Shakti) in Kawasaki's playing & music -- but not disturbingly so.  I particularly dig the vocalist, Rhada Shottam, who contributes wordless vocals à la Norma Winstone.

 

 

43 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I don't know why (although I did have them down as an electric Miles tribute act) but I have completely ignored Nucleus until recently when I bought 'Labyrinth' mostly because Norma Winstone's on it. Now investigating them chronologically, this is very good isn't it?  Sounds not unlike the Graham Collier albums of this time that I love so much.

Speaking of Winstone . . .  She is fantastic on that record!  That's my "go to" record for Nucleus, in no small part because of her.

 

[soulpope]

5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming:

Ryo Kawasaki - Ring Toss (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
with Larry Willis, Sam Morrison, Badal Roy, and others

Beautiful Cover Art ....

[optatio]

15 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Original LP

👍 - as VeeJay/FunHouse 32YD-1007 [1987] on my shelf

[John Tapscott]

[jlhoots]

47 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks. I've just been chatting with a friend who has it. I may have to borrow it, 14 CDs seems a bit too much of a deep dive straight off

I have the 6 CD Nucleus & Ian Carr: Torrid Zone (The Vertigo Recordings, 1970-1975). Works for me.