So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzcorner]

 More or less for members familiar with the german jazz scene - great multiple CD box with some "fathers" of german jazz (modern and traditional)

A crossection of the second german Jazzfestival.

 

 

Edited May 14 by jazzcorner

[Д.Д.]

21 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

David Murray, Gipsy Cimbalom Band Balogh Kálmán Featuring Kovács Ferenc

 

8 hours ago, Niko said:

That is one interesting album, not a lost masterpiece but not bad at all either.... A really weird idea to couple Murray with a Hungarian gypsy band - then again, he'd recorded pretty much every obvious idea several times by then + he's good at rhapsodies... And trad jazz veteran trumpeter Kovacs Ferenc is doing perhaps surprisingly well as Murray's frontline partner

 

8 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

A strange record that I really enjoyed. Murray was as you say at that weird point in his career where he was dropping a new random album every week, and I think he may be the weakest link here. The music is so rhythmically strange that he comes across as tin eared at times. He just plays through them and can't adjust.

But luckily there is enough going on (new to me) that the record comes off. Ferenc who I don't know is a big part of uniting the different styles.

I'd appreciate any recommendations that you have for either cimbalom music or this type of records featuring Ferenc, who I really don't know.

I love this album - and normally I can't stand Murray. Got rid of all the CDs by/with him except this one. His whining unhinged tone fits very well with tipsy-turvy Hungarian gypsy tunes. And I like these tunes. Ferenc Kovacs (Ferenc is the first name) is mostly known as a violin player. He is on many records. I would recommend this one under his name: https://www.discogs.com/release/1786220-Kovács-Ferenc-Beli-Buba , although it's more on the folky soft side. He is also a member of Mihaly Dresch groups, whom you probably know from this (excellent) album:

  

https://www.discogs.com/release/1546927-Mihály-Dresch-Quartet-Archie-Shepp-Hungarian-Bebop 

 

Edited May 14 by Д.Д.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

1 minute ago, Д.Д. said:

 

 

I love this album - and normally I can't stand Murray. Got rid of all the CDs with him I have except for this one. His whining unhinged tone fits very well with tipsy-turvy Hungarian gypsy tunes. And I like these tunes. Ferenc Kovacs (Ferenc is the first name) is mostly known as a violin player. He is on many records. I would recommend this one under his name: https://www.discogs.com/release/1786220-Kovács-Ferenc-Beli-Buba . He is also a member of Mihaly Dresch group, whom you probably know from this (excellent) album:

  

https://www.discogs.com/release/1546927-Mihály-Dresch-Quartet-Archie-Shepp-Hungarian-Bebop 

 

Thanks!

I haven't heard that record but it is on my list. I'll check the Kovacs record out.

[Rabshakeh]

Sergio Armaroli, Francesca Gemmo, Barry Guy - At Sotto Il Mare First Visit

 

[mjazzg]

Just now, Rabshakeh said:

Sergio Armaroli, Francesca Gemmo, Barry Guy - At Sotto Il Mare First Visit

 

Lovely album. I'm a big fan of Armaroli in whatever setting

[jazzbo]

Jason Moran “All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller” Blue Note cd

Bass – Tarus Mateen
Drums – Nasheet Waits Drums, Vocals – Charles Haynes
Piano, Organ – Jason Moran
Saxophone – Stephen Lehman
Trombone – Josh Roseman
Trumpet, Vocals – Leron Thomas
Vocals – Lisa E. Harris, Meshell Ndegeocello

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Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 48: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (11/20/71)” disc 2 of 3

 

 

 

[HutchFan]

Thanks, @Kevin Bresnahan!   

 

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzbo]

 

Peter Evans "Being & Becoming – Ars Memoria"
More Is More Records cd

 

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[JSngry]

 

[HutchFan]

[Balladeer]

Ron McClure Quartet (feat. Rich Perry) - New Moon (Steeplechase)

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Aaron Parks “Little Big III” Blue Note cd

 

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[Big Beat Steve]

19 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 More or less for members familiar with the german jazz scene - great multiple CD box with some "fathers" of german jazz (modern and traditional)

A crossection of the second german Jazzfestival.

 

 

Ha, I bought this back in 1990 when it was released - waaay before I could bring myself to buying a CD player. 😄 (I resisted the CD trend for several years into the 90s)
All this because I figured this is music that I was highly unlikely to ever see the original releases of at affordable prices (and only part of the contents of this set were ever released on vinyl back in the day anyway). So I figured I'd better grab this set while it was available. 

Edited May 15 by Big Beat Steve

[kh1958]

Little Freddie King Live at the 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck)

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

This again:

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

Recently:

 

Now:

[HutchFan]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️

 

[T.D.]

Recent BGO reissue. I like the album, and having enjoyed Edward Lear's nonsense poetry in childhood I think this track is especially cool:

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

Marty Ehrlich's Traveler's Tales - Malinke's Dance (OmniTone, 2000)
with Tony Malaby, Jerome Harris, and Bobby Previte

Tremendous.

 

[Rabshakeh]

48 minutes ago, T.D. said:

Recent BGO reissue. I like the album, and having enjoyed Edward Lear's nonsense poetry in childhood

My kids are big fans. Currently reading a poem a night to them as a treat after lights out. 

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Marty Ehrlich's Traveler's Tales - Malinke's Dance (OmniTone, 2000)
with Tony Malaby, Jerome Harris, and Bobby Previte

Tremendous.

That's a really great one. Both Ehrlich and Malaby at their respective best.

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

That's a really great one. Both Ehrlich and Malaby at their respective best.

Yes. Definitely.

Crazy that it came out 25 (!) years ago.  Seems like only yesterday that it was new.