So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Grant Green “Green Street” Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD 

A Ben Tucker master class ....

[Jazzmonkie]

On CD. Sound quality is better than I expected for live Sun Ra.
 

[jazzbo]

31 minutes ago, soulpope said:

A Ben Tucker master class ....

Indeed. Incredible sonics on this version.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjazzg]

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Jumala Quintet – Turtle Crossing

Veeeery good stuff

Glad you were able to track it down

[jazzcorner]

Verve MV  2087 (Japan 1974) - Stan Getz & Bill Evans -  "More Previously unreleased Recordings" - rec. 1963

 

[John Tapscott]

[Rabshakeh]

37 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Glad you were able to track it down

It's on the Spots.

[optatio]

4 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Verve MV  2087 (Japan 1974) - Stan Getz & Bill Evans -  "More Previously unreleased Recordings" - rec. 1963

👍 - just this from 1974 on my shelf!

[jazzbo]

Stan Getz “East of the Sun” NOW disc 2

[jazzbo]

Bob Brookmeyer “Trombone Jazz Samba” Verve LP

Drums – Carmen Costa
Drums – Willie Bobo
Guitar – Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney
Trombone, Piano – Bob Brookmeyer
Tambourine – Jose Paulo
Vibraphone – Gary McFarland

[Peter Friedman]

Vol.1

[jazzbo]

“Albare Plays Jobim Vol. 2”

 

[jazzbo]

Vanessa Da Mata “Sim”

Partly recorded in Jamaica with Sly and Robbie, and an appearance by Ben Harper.

 

900×1200 89.4 KB

 

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, Jazzmonkie said:

On CD. Sound quality is better than I expected for live Sun Ra.
 

From what year is this? 

I got acquainted with the music of Sun Ra very early, let´s say even before I knew much about earlier jazz stiles like bop. 
It was there, it was happenin, and my first Sun Ra album was the ESP "Nothing Is" that I got second hand from a girl who emegrated to Brazilia. Sun Ra and a lotta other stuff that´s hot, like early electric Miles, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and so on, that was my start for jazz. 

I heard Sun Ra live in the late 70´s until around 80 with Gilmore and Allen in the band and June Tyson singin´. That´s where I first heard older jazz forms like Fletcher Henderson´s "Yeah Man" or similar stuff, as well as the more usual space age free jazz and space chants.....

[jazzbo]

Starting a cool morning off with another interesting session Tom Harrell participated in, with a sort of Spanish tinge of Weather Report like fusion, led by guitarist Torres.

Fernando Torres featuring Tom Harrell and Arida Conta and the Sirius String Quartet “Secret Rhythms” Muse cd

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

From what year is this? 

 

At The Showcase: Live In Chicago 1976-1977

[jazzbo]

Theo Hill “Interstellar Adventures” Posi-Tone cd

Hill’s second album with Rashaan Carter and the excellent drummer Rudy Royston.

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

 

 

 

At The Showcase: Live In Chicago 1976-1977

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Sun Ra 1976-77 sounds good, that´s when I also heard him first, 

[jazzbo]

Bob Mover, Walter Davis Jr. “The Salerno Concert” Reel to Real cd

 

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Toshiko Akiyoshi - Just Be-Bop (Diskmate/SS Jazz). Pretty date with Charles McPherson playing as he usually does on a be-bop date.

[dougcrates]

[optatio]

22 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Vol.1

👍 Vol. 2 - 6 also here!

[HutchFan]

Al Di Meola - Soaring Through a Dream (Manhattan, 1985)

Al Di Meola – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, Synclavier guitar
Phil Markowitz – Steinway grand piano, synthesizers
Chip Jackson – electric bass, acoustic bass
Danny Gottlieb – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion, vocals

This is one of my favorite jazz records of the 1980s.  I bought it when it first came out, during my junior year in high school, when I was first diving into jazz.  I must've listened to it a thousand times.  (I literally wore out the LP.) . . . It's an atypical Di Meola album, much less jazz-rock fusion, much more dreamy & Brazilian.  That's largely due to Airto, who brings his usual soulful brilliance, both as a vocalist and percussionist.

Fair warning: Like many 80s jazz albums, Soaring Through a Dream is very synth heavy. But unlike many 80s jazz albums, the synths really work well here.  They add to the gauzy, otherworldly aspects of the music; they actually open up musical avenues, rather than sounding like nifty gizmos that are added on as technological afterthoughts.

That said, as much as this music in engrained in my brain, it's likely impossible for me to hear it like most folks do.  So, there's that. 

 

Edited May 3, 2024 by HutchFan