So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Mike Ladd - Negrophilia: The Album

I remember being very disappointed with this record back when it was released in 2005. I was deep into Thirsty Ear and, at the time, had not yet realised that "Alternative Hip Hop" as it was called then was a polite cul-de-sac. Revisiting it now two decades later it doesn't seem any better quality-wise (the production in particular is third rate), but it is at least a bit charming, which some of its successors in style could perhaps learn from. There was lots wrong with Ladd's music but at least it always felt like a chat with a friend.

I've always liked that record.

[jazzbo]

Just finished starting a big pot of spaghetti sauce and am sitting down for a nice listen.

“Black Art Jazz Collective presented by The Side Door Jazz Club” Sunnyside cd

[Rabshakeh]

28 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I've always liked that record.

There you are. Everyone has their own ears, and I don't doubt that others' are better than mine. Opinions presented above my own and only opinions. 

[optatio]

[JSngry]

Oh, there's been plenty of bad opinions about Ladd, you're far from unique in that regard. But I've always liked him. Different strokes indeed!

[optatio]

Lucky Thompson: The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 1. BMG France 74321409342 [France 1998]

... with Martial Solal (p)! Excerpt from the liner notes by Claude Carrière (1992):"The rhythm section featured here includes Martial Solal who backs him with great taste. Martial was soon to become one of jazz history's important pianists. Art Tatum and Bud Powell had no secrets for him, but he had found his own voice very early. His technique allows him to play bold rhythmic figures and melodic disgressions."

[Rabshakeh]

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Oh, there's been plenty of bad opinions about Ladd, you're far from unique in that regard. But I've always liked him. Different strokes indeed!

I enjoyed Welcome To The Afterfuture at the time, and that series of records he did attacking Puff Daddy (as he was then) type glossy rap were a big deal for me as a kid. 

[HutchFan]

#1-9 originally released as Lucky Thompson - Plays Jerome Kern And No More (Moodsville 39)
#10-15 as Lucky Thompson - Happy Days Are Here Again (Prestige 7394)
Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; March 8, 1963 (#1-9) and February 16, 1965 (#10-15).
 

 

 

 

15 minutes ago, optatio said:

... with Martial Solal (p)! Excerpt from the liner notes by Claude Carrière (1992):"The rhythm section featured here includes Martial Solal who backs him with great taste. Martial was soon to become one of jazz history's important pianists. Art Tatum and Bud Powell had no secrets for him, but he had found his own voice very early. His technique allows him to play bold rhythmic figures and melodic disgressions."

Solal is tremendous. 

 

[JSngry]

3 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I enjoyed Welcome To The Afterfuture at the time, and that series of records he did attacking Puff Daddy (as he was then) type glossy rap were a big deal for me as a kid. 

I've like his words more consistently than I have his music.

[jazzbo]

 first listen to. . .

Gerald Clayton “Ones & Twos” Blue Note cd

 

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Pianist & composer Gerald Clayton featuring vibraphonist Joel Ross, flutist Elena Pinderhughes, trumpeter Marquis Hill & drummer Kendrick Scott with post-production work by Kassa Overall.

[Peter Friedman]

Yusef Lateef plays tenor sax throughout this entire album. I have long believed that tenor sax is his strongest instrument.

His sidemen on this session are not, in my opinion, as strong as on his Savoy and Prestige recordings.

[jazzbo]

I love Teefsky's tenor playing! 

[optatio]

Clark Terry featuring Al Grey, Charles Fox, Marcus McLaurine: Shades Of Blues. Challenge Jazz – CHR 70007. [Netherlands 1994]

[Chuck Nessa]

Disc 1 - mostly pre-bop

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

So good.

 

[JSngry]

23 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

They both look like they gotta work for that.

[Pim]

21 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

So good.

 

That’s one my Adderley favorites. Great stuff indeed.

[HutchFan]

More Cannonball:

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

 first listen to. . .

Gerald Clayton “Ones & Twos” Blue Note cd

 

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Pianist & composer Gerald Clayton featuring vibraphonist Joel Ross, flutist Elena Pinderhughes, trumpeter Marquis Hill & drummer Kendrick Scott with post-production work by Kassa Overall.

Now that's a line up I can get behind

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[optatio]

54 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

More Cannonball:

👍 - as Gatefold-Album from 1970 on my shelf ...

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[rostasi]

[jazzbo]

Starting off a cool rainy morning with a classic I haven’t played for some time.

John Coltrane “A Love Supreme” Impulse Japan SHM-SACD lp facsimile cd.

This particular edition sounds amazing.