So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[sidewinder]

19 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I'm now listening to Disc 2 from Bobby Hutcherson's Mosaic Select set:

Have been spinning that set myself over the last week or so. Great set !

Currently spinning Jimmy Heath Orchestra 'Really Big !'  (OJC CD). BillF's old disk lives on, lovely stuff. On drums - Albert Heath (RIP).

 

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[Peter Friedman]

Cedar Walton has long been among my very favorite jazz pianists. I have almost all of his recordings as both leader and sideman.

His playing on this Ettta Jones recording  may well be the very best playing I have heard by Cedar Walton. The first track is by the trio and is outstanding. Cedar also gets a lot of solo space on all the vocal tracks and , once again, is in tip top form. His comping behind Etta Jones is also wonderful. 

I should also say that Jones vocal are damn good too.

Don't sleep on this album if you are a Cedar Walton fan. This is the best jazz album I have heard in a long time!

[Referentzhunter]

Edited April 4, 2024 by Referentzhunter

[Referentzhunter]

[gmonahan]

Back toward the beginning

 

[sidewinder]

Horace Silver 'Retrospective' CDs 3 and 4.

[EKE BBB]

discs #1, #2 and #3.

[mikeweil]

[soulpope]

24 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

😍George Duvivier😍 ....

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Have been spinning that set myself over the last week or so. Great set !

Yes!  ❤️  ❤️

 

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Don't sleep on this album if you are a Cedar Walton fan. This is the best jazz album I have heard in a long time!

Thanks for the heads-up on this, Peter.  Walton is one of my favorite pianists too. 

I'll check it out!  

 

[mikeweil]

55 minutes ago, soulpope said:

😍George Duvivier😍 ....

One of the greatest!

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now streaming this.

Yes sir.  The Magic Triangle are DEEP in the pocket on this one.

 

[soulpope]

17 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

One of the greatest!

Indeed ....

[dougcrates]

Just arrived in the mail.  Listening to Disc 1.  

[soulpope]

Great choice of tunes (including an pin point Monk cover version) and skillful playing .... Albert Heath    R.I.P ....

[T.D.]

Lee Pan-Geun and Korean Jazz Quintet 78, Plays Arirang and other assorted classics

I've probably lost my mind, but this is pretty good. I particularly  like the drumming.

[optatio]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

Recorded @ MPS Studio Villingen in 1968 feat Peter Trunk (b) + Albert Heath (dr) .... R.I.P ....

👍

[felser]

[dougcrates]

Disc 2

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

You could walk a tightrope from Mt. Everest to my house and back, blindfolded and with your eyes closed, with the totality of balance that Wilson gets from these bands on this record.

[HutchFan]

Picked this up for peanuts at a library sale.  I didn't even know it existed.  First listen.

A Tribute to John Coltrane: Blues for Coltrane (Impulse, 1988)

- Tracks 1-3 with Sanders
- Track 4 trio 
- Tracks 5-7 with Murray

First impression: Cecil McBee & Roy Haynes sound great together.

 

56 minutes ago, JSngry said:

You could walk a tightrope from Mt. Everest to my house and back, blindfolded and with your eyes closed, with the totality of balance that Wilson gets from these bands on this record.

Gerald Wilson rules.

 

[Ken Dryden]

[JSngry]

Not just his writing, not just his conducting, but also and above all his aura, it's togetherness, it seems like everybody is playing for the same purpose and that purpose is...for everything to be together, balanced. What a big band can and should be. 

6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Gerald Wilson rules.