So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[kh1958]

7 minutes ago, JSngry said:

What kind of music is this?

It's a big band based in Tel Aviv playing Mulatu Astatke's ethio-jazz, with Mulatu on vibes, piano and percussion. It's a fantastic record (IMO), Available through Bandcamp. Recorded in 2023. 

Edited January 6 by kh1958

[HutchFan]

NP:

Jimmy Owens - The Monk Project (IPO, 2011)

Howard Johnson's tuba (or bari sax) sounds wonderful filling out the bottom end.

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Stan Getz - Focus (Verve). My favorite "with strings" Jazz recording.

[rostasi]

Pawlo Humeniuk - Garland Weaving: Ukrainian-American Dances, April 1926 - Nov. 1930

[Teasing the Korean]

43 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Stan Getz - Focus (Verve). My favorite "with strings" Jazz recording.

Love this album, but I never thought of it as a "with strings" album stylistically.  Granted, it has strings.

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

What kind of tune is "Politics and Poker'?

Can't say at the moment. Have the CD bought 8 years ago and have to play it again then I will report

Original track from the musical Fiorello

 Composer Lyricist: Sheldon Harnick

Composer Lyricist: Jerry Bock

 

 

Edited January 6 by jazzcorner

[Peter Friedman]

I like this session quite a lot. Smulyan is in top form, pianist Pete Malinverni fits well and plays fine solos. Drummer Matt Wilsom is truly wonderful. His playing is highly creative and joyful.

The vocals by Anais Reno were just ok, and I would have been happy had she not been included on this album (your opinion may differ).

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Can't say at the moment. Have the CD bought 8 years ago and have to play it again then I will report

Original track from the musical Fiorello

 Composer Lyricist: Sheldon Harnick

Composer Lyricist: Jerry Bock

 

 

Ah, ok. A show tune.

Thanks!

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Love this album, but I never thought of it as a "with strings" album stylistically.  Granted, it has strings.

Cool Velvet would fit that bill, with variable results.

[EKE BBB]

followed by...

[John Tapscott]

[rostasi]

[HutchFan]

Owens in R&B mode.

 

[EKE BBB]

[HutchFan]

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

https://youtube/npH-DULg5lI?si=YZzCVqpo0XcfGo-O

[Teasing the Korean]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Cool Velvet would fit that bill, with variable results.

This album has eluded me, though I know the cover art.  I will check it out.  I generally like Russ Garcia's arrangements.  In what way would you say the results are variable?

[optatio]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

👍

[optatio]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

👍

[EKE BBB]

[Peter Friedman]

I am finding many CDs on the Concord label that I find that I like very much.

This is one of them.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

This album has eluded me, though I know the cover art.  I will check it out.  I generally like Russ Garcia's arrangements.  In what way would you say the results are variable?

It's on Spotify and You Tube.

The arrangements are all on the syrupy side to one extent or the other, so there's that. But Getz never sounds disengaged, and always seems fully engaged in playing inside the chart rather than over it. I like that approach a lot.

 

 

[T.D.]

[rostasi]

[JSngry]

Contains the (to this point) last readily available recordings of Rollins pre-Bidge sabbatical. Very revealing, in that regardless of how much he may or may not have been thrown of by Coltrane ,(and Ornette) it shows that ultimately he took the time off because, in his words, he wasn't yet "good enough". 

It's humbling to think about that, and at the time it must have seemed like a perverse notion, but comparing his playing before and after, it's clear to me what he was talking about.

Still, there is some "in the zone" playing here. Not all but some. Some!