So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

[dougcrates]

[Gheorghe]

Andi Steirer "Trance of Noiz" : This is a first class album of Austria´s greatest percussionist Andi Steirer. I am very proud that I got him for my own album "Waltz for Serena". Though he is very very much in demand, I´ll have him also in future on some of our gigs, most possible the larger ones. 
He is so fantastic and this album is so great. It has also some of Andi´s own compositions like "Hongkong Tavern" "Do Da Doo" as well as stuff with great guitarist Rens Newland , co-compositions between them both, like the title tune "Trance of Noiz". The album also features the wonderful saxophinist Thomas Kugi on soprano and tenor. 

[jazzbo]

Woke up to warmth! Lucinda and I had a wonderful warm evening with my brothers and most of their family last night, feeling really good today.

Starting off with

Grateful Dead, Veneta OR 1972
“Sunshine Daydream” box set, cd 3

 

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Followed by

Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon “In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album” Jazz Detective cd

This is a short but sweet fun album. Joe Moondragon’s electric bass is a highlight.

[jazzbo]

“Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil” Verve Originals cd

Intriguing arrangements (and piano) by Clare Fischer.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Charlie Parker - Bird/The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)

 

[optatio]

Gary Smulyan, Dominic Chianese – Bella Napoli. Capri Records– 74129-2 [2013]

Personnel: Jeff Lederer (as), Gary Smulyan (bs), Joseph Brent (mandolin, v), Gary Versace (acc, p), Martin Wind (b), Matt Wilson (dr), Dominic Chianese (voc)

… wonderful music!

Edited April 28, 2024 by optatio

[jlhoots]

7 minutes ago, optatio said:

Gary Smulyan, Dominic Chianese – Bella Napoli. Capri Records– 74129-2 [2013]

Personnel: Gary Smulyan (bs), Dominic Chianese (voc), Joseph Brent (mandolin, v), Gary Versace (acc, p), Martin Wind (b), Matt Wilson (dr)

… wonderful music!

Food & wine look good too. 😎

[Chuck Nessa]

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Lovely music indeed ....

[jazzbo]

I’ve been wanting to revisit this newest from Joel Ross, one of my favorites of the new cats, but it got lost in a few stacks of new arrivals. Found it!

Great disc.

Joel Ross “nublues” Blue Note cd

 

 

 

[dougcrates]

Original LP

Original LP

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

 

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

On 4/27/2024 at 9:28 AM, jazzcorner said:

My weekend pleasure  is the music of this unforgetten composer & big band leader

 

👍

Now:

[Brad]

[jlhoots]

2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

👍

Now:

Yep - that's a good one.

[dougcrates]

[jazzbo]

Theo Hill “Reality Check” Posi-Tone cd

Theo Hill - piano; Rhodes; synthesizer
Joel Ross - vibraphone
Rashaan Carter - bass; electric bass
Mark Whitfield Jr. - drums

This one has grown on me. I like it more now than I did when I bought it a few years ago. Joel Ross was the attraction, and he contributes strongly.

 

[Gheorghe]

18 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Charlie Parker - Bird/The Savoy Recordings (Master Takes)

 

This was my very very first Charlie Parker album, a double LP. I didn´t know nothing about Parker until I heard that "Parkeriana" on a Mingus Album featuring Dolphy. I thought, if Parker is so great, he must be the next artist I have to get to know. 
I love this album still, because it does not have all those alternative tracks, just the masters..... so you can just spin it and hear all the tunes.....

It´s interesting that on one side of the album is also a quintet that has Bud Powell playing but I remember that at that time I didn´t notice the piano solos and maybe Bud is also quite subdued and weakly recorded on that. 
I remember in my first "Parker-Year" I had four Parker albums: This Savoy Mastertakes, than a brown LP called "Jazz Tracks" that has the Carnegie Hall Concert and some of the Dial Session", then two live LPs from CBS: "One Night at Birdland" (where I first heard Bud Powell and never have heard better Bud), and a similar album "Summit Meeting at Birdland". 

[jazzcorner]

7 hours ago, Brad said:

😁 💗 Love it. A 'classic' for me.

6 hours ago, dougcrates said:

Yes indeed a great compilation.

Have the UA & PJ material on vinyls

😁 💗 👍

[jazzbo]

Magos Herrera “Whispering Orchids” cd

 

[jazzbo]

Art Tatum “Jewels in the Treasure Box–The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings” Resonance Records 3 cd set, disc 1

What an exciting release! A great trio in great sound (for a 1953 club recording).