So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[Gheorghe]

18 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Lee Morgan "The Cooker" Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

This is my favourite Lee Morgan album. If I might keep only one, which would be easy since I am not a collector and play more my own music, but I would keep only this one ! 

But what means Blue Note anniverary, is that better sound or bonus tracks ..... well I have the CD, bought it when the first bunch of BN CDs came out, I think it was pre RVG as most what I had bought....

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

As I got a compilation of all the Griff-Jaws stuff I never know which is which. Some of them have Monk tunes, some are live and the last ones have a completly unknown pianist called something like Fort Myers, on the others it is Junior Mance, who has a lotta technical stuff, but sometimes, especially on Monk tunes like the wonderful "Epistrophy" it´s too much, it´s like if Oscar Peterson would have had to play that tune which he sure didn´t do....

[JSngry]

For those (too often many) times when Phil is just TOO GODDAMN PHIL-Y, try Chris!!!

[jazzbo]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

This is my favourite Lee Morgan album. If I might keep only one, which would be easy since I am not a collector and play more my own music, but I would keep only this one ! 

But what means Blue Note anniverary, is that better sound or bonus tracks ..... well I have the CD, bought it when the first bunch of BN CDs came out, I think it was pre RVG as most what I had bought....

 

 

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/feature/Blue-Note-85th-Anniversary-Reissue-Series-Remastered-by-Kevin-Gray

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by jazzbo

[Rabshakeh]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

Don't miss the final reunion of Shank & Kenton!

 

Nice one. And well done for finding the streams, which I never managed for some reason. Good to hear that fuzzy bass, harpsichords and baritone sax go together as well as I assumed they would. That's going to sell to those crazy long haired kids.

Poor old Stanley. I picture him at this point of his career like Princess Leia in the Jabba the Hut scenes of Return of the Jedi. 

Meanwhile, keeping on the theme (if not so extreme): you like rock, kids? Well try this!

Marty Paich – The Rock-Jazz Incident

Edited October 18, 2024 by Rabshakeh

[jazzbo]

A dry morning . . . so far! Cold, I put a blanket on the bed for the first time last night. But we slept good!

Need something sweet and gentle to start the day. . . .

Blossom Dearie “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” Fontana Japan SHM-CD

 

[HutchFan]

More from Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis:

Recorded at Minton's in 1961

 

 

8 hours ago, JSngry said:

I really like that record. 

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by HutchFan

[Simon8]

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

More Griff & Lock from Minton's:

[Referentzhunter]

Dizzy gillespie - The giant

[John Tapscott]

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I bought that Brubeck octet CD he did mainly because of Scott Robinson. The whole thing is pretty good.

[HutchFan]

Oh yeah.

 

[JSngry]

8 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Poor old Stanley. I picture him at this point of his career like Princess Leia in the Jabba the Hut scenes of Return of the Jedi.

Legend (and possible fact) has it that this was Kenton's Last Straw, the one that made him go away from Capitol and form his Creative World label/organization.

I mean, I get it. When that Hair album is not being pretty good, it's being pretty goddamn awful.

But a few things stand out, still. Including

a great Jack Sheldon feature:

 

and a really crazy Bill Perkins alto solo:

 

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Legend (and possible fact) has it that this was Kenton's Last Straw, the one that made him go away from Capitol and form his Creative World label/organization.

Jim - I've read -- don't recall where -- that Kenton had no involvement with the making of that record at all.  None.

Not sure whether that's true or not.

 

[JSngry]

He's got a couple piano solos. But other than that...

I've also hear rumors that they took "Sodomy" and "Colored Spade" out on the road for a quick minute.

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

More Griff & Lock from Minton's:

Excellent 👌 ....

[Rabshakeh]

3 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

Love this one. It’s the CD I miss the most, largely because it is really hard to stream.

[jlhoots]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Excellent 👌 ....

The Griffin / Lockjaw are all good.

[JSngry]

ALL!!!!

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, Simon8 said:

👍

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Chiasma (MPS, 1976)
with Akira Sakata and Takeo Moriyama

Tremendous.

 

[HutchFan]

with Teddy Edwards