So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Д.Д.]

5 hours ago, T.D. said:

It's one of those "historically significant" albums. I got it pretty recently, am still evaluating. On first listen I was unimpressed, but am now liking it better. The album starts out as kind of straight-ahead but transitions (Free Form Suite) to exploratory and eventually outside. I'm partial to Takayanagi's late weird/noisy material, and the final track (3d movement of Free Form Suite) is very much in that wheelhouse.

At this stage I'd say "interesting" rather than "essential", although that final track is really outstanding. At this point I overall prefer the Cool Jojo (straight-ahead, even Tristano style) and Takayanagi's Angry Waves 850113 (outside/noisy) albums somewhat. I don't regret getting this recording, however.

I thought "Free Form" was mostly lame hippie crap (I don't remember if there actually was tambourine there, but it very much felt like it), but "Angry Waves" is excellent. If anybody wants to buy my CD copy of "Free Form", let me know.   

Edited March 14, 2024 by Д.Д.

[optatio]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

One of the finest albums of the 1980s, imo.

 

[jazzbo]

“Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster,” Mark Masters Ensemble

Man, great music and sound.

[Rabshakeh]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

One of the finest albums of the 1980s, imo.

 

So good.

[Rabshakeh]

Hamiet Bluiett, Marcello Melis and Don Moye – Bars

[mjazzg]

24 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hamiet Bluiett, Marcello Melis and Don Moye – Bars

That's a good one to start the day

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

One of the finest albums of the 1980s, imo.

 

Great stuff

[Rabshakeh]

Miroslav Vitous – Majesty Music

A bit like Bobby McFerrin and D'Angelo, this record is fascinating when viewed as a clear bridge between the fusion and jazz funk of the early 70s and the chill out music of the 1990s and early 2000s. Impossible not to hear the latter from a 2024 viewpoint.

33 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

That's a good one to start the day

It's a great record. Bluiett playing the way I always wish he would.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hamiet Bluiett, Marcello Melis and Don Moye – Bars

🧐👍 ....

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington “Midnight in Paris” HDTT cdr of a Columbia reel-to-reel

 

 

This one grows on me over the years. I suspect a high Strayhorn arranging content on this one. . . though Duke may have loved Paris as Billy and he may have done quite a few of the arrangements.

Great Columbia sound!

[Referentzhunter]

[John Tapscott]

Over the last day:

[Referentzhunter]

[Simon8]

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Simon8 said:

Good one 👌 ....

[Tom 1960]

A purchase made from Bill F many years ago. 

[HutchFan]

Now playing:

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Em Minas Ao Vivo: Piano e Voz (Biscoito Fino BR, 2004)
Archival release of an intimate concert recording from 1981

 

[mjazzg]

43 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now playing:

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Em Minas Ao Vivo: Piano e Voz (Biscoito Fino BR, 2004)
Archival release of an intimate concert recording from 1981

 

Does that label really translate as thin biscuit? I sincerely hope so

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Does that label really translate as thin biscuit? I sincerely hope so

I don't speak Portuguese, so I can't say.  But it makes sense!   

 

[gmonahan]

Listening to Disc "C." Sound was good on these radio transcriptions.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[ghost of miles]

29 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

Listening to Disc "C." Sound was good on these radio transcriptions.

 

Great set—picked up at my local record store a few years back.

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