So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

A lot of big names from what was considered the young generation, when I was young myself.

But strange the cover. It looks like those old abstract coverarts that were on a lot of late 40´s early 50´s albums from BN, Prestige, Verve......

53 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

It took me much time to fully appreciate the MJQ. When I was young, it sounded to quiet, to chamber music like for me. But some of my confusion when I started to listen to jazz was my complete lack of jazz history knowledge. 

"Modern Jazz" I thought is Freejazz, post Free and Rock/Funk-Jazz, so when I became curious and asked someone to spinn that "Modern Jazz Quarted" I was disappointed since it didn´t sound "modern" to me. 

Now I love some of their records, but not so much if it goes to much into Bach or Rokoko or how you call it.....

1 hour ago, dougcrates said:

I don´t know why but Miles sure is one of the musicians from whom I have more than 5 records, maybe 10 or even 15, but somehow I never wanted to buy this, maybe I was not sure, I had or have Miles Smiles, Filles de Kilijmanjaro, Silent Way from the 60´s , and maybe I thought that Sorcerer might be something "in between" , I mean not such a landmark like Filles or Silent, which make the transition to electric, or "Smiles" as the quintessence of the acoustic quintet from the 60´s. 

[jazzbo]

A new Joel Ross album, with the bonus of Immanuel Wilkins on board! Exciting for me as these are two of my favorite musicians of this decade.

Joel Ross, “Nublues” Blue Note cd

 

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A great version of Coltrane’s “Equinox” here.

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

A new Joel Ross album, with the bonus of Immanuel Wilkins on board! Exciting for me as these are two of my favorite musicians of this decade.

Joel Ross, “Nublues” Blue Note cd

 

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A great version of Coltrane’s “Equinox” here.

My early listens suggest it's good

[jazzbo]

It's great. As are his previous.

Edited February 22, 2024 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

Tom Harrell “Roman Nights” High Note cd

A working band, and that is heard here in a tightness and confidence.

 

[dougcrates]

15 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Tom Harrell “Roman Nights” High Note cd

A working band, and that is heard here in a tightness and confidence.

 

Great album.  I saw the band at the Village Vanguard a few weeks before the album came out.  "Tightness and confidence" is an understatement.  

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

It's great. As are his previous.

Agree about the others, I have them all. This one is definitely less written. He's playing London soon, but without Wilkins, I may try and go

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

It's great. As are his previous.

I like Omega too.

[mjazzg]

2 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

I like Omega too.

Is Ross on that? I missed that if so

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzbo]

11 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Is Ross on that? I missed that if so

No, that's a Wilkins date with a piano-bass-drums trio behind him.

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Is Ross on that? I missed that if so

Sorry for the confusion.

FWIW, Wilkins & Ross are both on the Johnathan Blake album Passage.

Edited February 22, 2024 by jlhoots

[Chuck Nessa]

[T.D.]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Always  for Lester!

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Good one ....

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Joe Farnsworth “In What Direction Are You Headed?” Smoke Sessions cd

Includes a rendition of a song I love, Donny Hathaway’s “Someday we’ll all be Free”

 

[jazzbo]

“Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet” Blue Note reissue LP

[JSngry]

37 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

 

That pattern of jacket seems to only increasingly popular these days. 

It takes a certain confidence to pull it off (I couldn't, even if I wanted to) and this guy is doing it! 

[dougcrates]

[ghost of miles]

The Don Byas Mosaic is sending me back to this 1995 Gillespie anthology, a seminal collection in my early days of passionate jazz fandom:

 

[Rabshakeh]

Billy May and his Orchestra / Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra    The Swing Era: The Music of 1940 - 1941: How It Was To Be Young Then
 

More out of interest than anything. 

Listening to it reminds me that I already knew these versions from hearing them played. 

Presumably for many consumers, the recollection of the Time Warner box set has replaced the recollection of the originals. Much like how the filmed versions of the moon landing have replaced the original news footage in many people's memories.

Edited February 23, 2024 by Rabshakeh