So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Vol.2

A great box I bought recently. The early Mariano is really something

😁 👍

2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

Saw him life in our jazzclub with Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers some years ago.

[Simon8]

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Is this good? Interesting line up

Yes, I like it very much. 

And I'd say the same about Roditi's Two of Swords, which I posted earlier.

 

NP:

2 LPs on 1 CD:
#1-7 originally released as Claude Hopkins - Swing Time! (Prestige/Swingville 2041)
#8-14 as Claude Hopkins With Buddy Tate & Joe Thomas (4) - Let's Jam (Prestige/Swingville 2020)

 

Edited May 12 by HutchFan

[jazzbo]

Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine” Pacific Jazz/EMI Norway 2 cd set, disc 2

This is a 2 cd set from Norway. The first disc is a best of Pacific Jazz compilation, the second disc is a collection of rare recordings from '84 to '88,

six from Norway, one from Paris, France. Excellent sound on these rare tracks, great playing.

 

https://www.discogs.com/release/1206664-Chet-Baker-My-Funny-Valentine

[Holy Ghost]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Deep masters of the dirge 

Don't question that, Gil Evans is a modern day master and very much respect Helen Merrell. Just didn't dig the record. 

7 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Vol.2

What's the packaging look like inside? Original artwork like the outside box indicates? 

[adh1907]

Warne Marsh Ted Brown live in Hollywood 1957. Both on top form. Ted would be 97 now, haven’t seen any updates for a few years since there was a fund raiser for him. Hope he’s keeping OK. 
 

[jazzbo]

Jefferson Airplane “Crown of Creation” Culture Factory cd

Great to listen to this music from my long ago past.

 

[JSngry]

19 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

Don't question that, Gil Evans is a modern day master and very much respect Helen Merrell. Just didn't dig the record. 

What, you don't like opium with your Seconal? 🤩🤩🤩🤩👁️‍🗨️

[Holy Ghost]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

What, you don't like opium with your Seconal? 🤩🤩🤩🤩👁️‍🗨️

Lols, I had to look up what Seconals were 😁

[JSngry]

On 5/10/2025 at 2:17 PM, jazzbo said:

That's cool. I don't do files or stream.

Some day if I am feeling really confident and adventurous I may try the downloading and burning to cdr. . . but that won't be soon.

Forgot to mention that Bandcamp generally offers WAV file for the same price as anything else. So if you got the hard drive space (and you really should, everybody should these days) , hey...some artists on Bandcamp aren't even offering CDs these days. Mostly young composers in the classical/classical-adjacent world, but a trend's a trend.

[Holy Ghost]

[John Tapscott]

4 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

A great box I bought recently. The early Mariano is really something

😁 👍

Saw him life in our jazzclub with Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers some years ago.

I expected the Schnitter recording to be a hard bop date, but it's quite different. Others' mileage may vary, but I didn't find it as musically satisfying as the early Muse LP's he made. 

 

Now:

followed by 

[Holy Ghost]

Still kind of weird listening to "In 'n' Out" without Kenny Dorham. 

[Holy Ghost]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Forgot to mention that Bandcamp generally offers WAV file for the same price as anything else. So if you got the hard drive space (and you really should, everybody should these days) , hey...some artists on Bandcamp aren't even offering CDs these days. Mostly young composers in the classical/classical-adjacent world, but a trend's a trend.

Yes, I know many artists are not offering cds now. I don't do audio on a computer so I'm not going to be buying WAV files . . . probably not. It is tempting to get all of Ms Henderson's catalog at once, but my luck with downloading and burning cdrs etc. has not been good the last few years and I will probably forego the files route. I'll investigate her music via cds as I see fit to spend the money.

[JSngry]

Have fun with that!

[mikeweil]

Played a lot of Cal Tjader today in preparation of an evening with Cal Tjader for a friend's bi-monthly listening saloon - his hi-fi and listening room are outstanding, vines sound fantastic on his gear.

... followed by Joao Donato:

[optatio]

8 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

👍

[Rabshakeh]

Masayoshi Urabe - What Hasn’t Come Here, COME! 

Real hack work from a Kaoru Abe imitator, in my opinion. Abe could be one dimensional and silly at times, but Urabe needs to learn more than my one pattern on the saxophone. At least the harmonica is competent. 

Why would you even set out to imitate Abe so slavishly? I love Kaoru Abe, but he wasn't a musician who enriched the vocabulary. He's loved for his intensity and the details of his life.

Edited May 13 by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

35 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Masayoshi Urabe - What Hasn’t Come Here, COME! 

Real hack work from a Kaoru Abe imitator, in my opinion. Abe could be one dimensional and silly at times, but Urabe needs to learn more than pattern on the saxophone. At least the harmonica is competent. 

Why would you even set out to imitate Abe so slavishly? I love Kaoru Abe, but he wasn't a musician who enriched the vocabulary. He's loved for his intensity and the details of his life.

Maybe a duet album with Andre 3000 next?

[Rabshakeh]

10 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Maybe a duet album with Andre 3000 next?

We can only hope. Imagine the crossover appeal. 

[mjazzg]

27 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

We can only hope. Imagine the crossover appeal. 

Dua Lipa's worried already

[Rabshakeh]

Snarky Puppy - Immigrance

My cousin loves these guys so I periodically check them out. Hard to see what is good about it. It seems to be just sequencer music, with musicians playing their parts to a ticker. So there's no tricks of phrasing or rhythmic interplay or anything much really. The tunes are just pastichey. Why you would listen to this rather than e.g. MPS big band jazz funk records or something bewilders me. 

12 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Dua Lipa's worried already

Let's see how her collaboration with Matthew Shipp goes first.

[EKE BBB]