So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Holy Ghost]

To Gheorghe, love your comments on Ayler and Sanders! Awesome!

Now:  Can't believe I haven't listened to this section in 20 years! Double RVG

[Gheorghe]

17 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

To Gheorghe, love your comments on Ayler and Sanders! Awesome!

Now:  Can't believe I haven't listened to this section in 20 years! Double RVG

thank you ! 

You might laugh about me, but that Donald Byrd live album from the HalfNote maybe is the one I still listen to sometimes.  I got to know about bebop thru Charles Mingus when I had listened to his tune dedicated to Charlie Parker. And maybe when I started to buy some of Bird and Diz and acoustic musicians after those two, I think I liked that Half Note set. 

I have not listened to it for ages. 

[EKE BBB]

[Holy Ghost]

56 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

thank you ! 

You might laugh about me, but that Donald Byrd live album from the HalfNote maybe is the one I still listen to sometimes.  I got to know about bebop thru Charles Mingus when I had listened to his tune dedicated to Charlie Parker. And maybe when I started to buy some of Bird and Diz and acoustic musicians after those two, I think I liked that Half Note set. 

I have not listened to it for ages. 

Pepper's on it, Lex is in great form, come on! Put it on the turntable now; it's great music!

Still Byrd:

[Holy Ghost]

Can I hang out in this crib?

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

Pepper's on it, Lex is in great form, come on! Put it on the turntable now; it's great music!

Still Byrd:

I know this Donald Byrd album also. 

One interesting aspect is, that I never got into Donald Byrd´s electric stuff. The first name musician I heard and saw live was Miles Davis when I was 14, it was the band with Dave Liebman, Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey, Mtume, Mike Henderson and my favourite Al Foster. 
I think that music impressed me so much that it spoiled me on other main artists of electric jazz, okay, Hancock, Chick Corea, Larry Corryell, Zawinul, that´s all. But......Miles with that wah wah trumpet and that incredible group, he was my man.

But I had heard Donald Byrd only from radio. We here in Austria had a Saturday Night Jazz programm and the DJ was somehow an Austrian version of Symphony Sid Torin, he was THE voice of the night that came into your home. 

And that´s I think I remember how I started to buy two or three Donald Byrd records.

Lex Humphries: Yeah, he was a super fine drummer. 

[jazzbo]

This one again before it returns to the shelves. Tom’s High Note recordings are so so good.

Tom Harrell “Moving Picture” High Note cd

 

[Referentzhunter]

[Dan Gould]

 

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[Simon8]

[Peter Friedman]

[jlhoots]

21 minutes ago, Simon8 said:

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[Dan Gould]

Plus the bonus disc!

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[Dan Gould]

[jazzbo]

John Coltrane "Blue Train" Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD UCGQ-9023

[jazzbo]

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Buhania’s Delight” Blue Note reissue LP

 

[jazzcorner]

6 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

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[Simon8]

[jazzbo]

Yazz Ahmed “Polyhymnia”

 

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[optatio]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

  

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[gmonahan]

On 4/7/2025 at 8:56 AM, jazzbo said:

“Jack Teagarden” Verve LP stereo

lf memory serves, this was Jack's last studio album, wasn't it? It was somehow acquired and reissued on cd by the family on the briefly revived "Teagarden Presents" label back in 2005 with "Dame Blanche" listed as a "special bonus track" and an uninteresting generic cover. I like the original Verve cover a lot better!

 

[jazzbo]

I believe you are correct on all accounts there. I have the mono and stereo LPs and the Teagarden family release on cd. I'm a Teagarden nut.

[gmonahan]

35 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

I believe you are correct on all accounts there. I have the mono and stereo LPs and the Teagarden family release on cd. I'm a Teagarden nut.

Oh, so am I. A hopeless completist, but then, I used to play the instrument, and I can still remember listening in utter awe to Big T's version of "St. James Infirmary" in the Armstrong Town Hall Concert. I tried doing the waterglass thing and quickly realized that I'd have to reinvent the instrument completely--change all the positions--to play it. I just shook my head and decided to let *him* do it!