So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

 

and

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:03 PM by HutchFan

[JSngry]

 

[T.D.]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Yes, it's an EXCELLENT album.  Probably Beirach's strongest in this century.

Regarding the album's scarcity: Has OutNote gone belly up?  I hope not.

 

Whoa, the album's not that scarce.

I had only looked for discogs US $ sellers. Currently just one, used, at a high but not exorbitant price.

Amazon (where I rarely look any more) has it new at a midrange price. Available used for a song if I wanna roll the dice on ex-library.

Label seems to be part of the outhere portfolio, which includes Werner's ezz-thetics in jazzland and a bunch of estimable classical labels, so it's probably still extant.

Edited Tuesday at 08:31 PM by T.D.

[optatio]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Still more Baden Powell:

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[jazzbo]

Junko Onishi “Baroque” Verve cd

What a band!

Junko Onishi - piano
Nicholas Payton - trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon - trombone
James Carter - Tenor sax, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
Reginald Veal, Rodney Whitaker - bass
Herlin Riley - drums
Roland Guerrero - congas

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 11:41 PM by jazzbo

[Chuck Nessa]

[JSngry]

Well...the tempos are just too fast. Not radically so, but...,"The Barbara Song", no master how gorgeous, needs to hang in the air, not feel like the gentlest of gentle breezes. And don't ask either of these tenor players to assume the phantasmical spectre of Wayne Shorter.

Otoh, times keep changing and Gil certainly did as well. So maybe this is as it should be, or close to it. But I still like the big hairy slo-mo codeine spiders of the original.

 Slow that shit down!

[JSngry]

Needed to check ..yeah, this one is imo much more on point than this new one.

[rostasi]

[Rabshakeh]

Axel Dorner, Clare Cooper and Cor Fuhler - Crax

 

Bill Evans Group – Let The Juice Loose - Bill Evans Group Live At Blue Note Tokyo

 

[Rabshakeh]

17 hours ago, JSngry said:

Just wondering what, if any, connection there was to the album.

I assume she just wanted a subject. The First Book of Enoch is famous for being used in Ethiopian Christianity which is why I think she picked it. (The liner notes hint at that, although they are pretty neutral, for an Angel Bat Dawid release.)

She has just released another record about travelling to Nabta Playa so perhaps she is pivoting to more of a African-centred 'spiritual' concept after maybe having run out of steam with what she was doing. I haven't listened to the other new record yet but I think it has some Don Cherry influence.

I still like her first records (which were part of that incredible burst of energy coming out of International Anthem about 6 years ago) and I keep up with her releases. I think she may have become a bit of a creative casualty of recent trends, but I am pleased to see that she is at least trying something a bit different. 

Edited yesterday at 10:07 AM by Rabshakeh

[Referentzhunter]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

11 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Junko Onishi “Baroque” Verve cd

What a band!

Junko Onishi - piano
Nicholas Payton - trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon - trombone
James Carter - Tenor sax, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute
Reginald Veal, Rodney Whitaker - bass
Herlin Riley - drums
Roland Guerrero - congas

I've never heard this one. It looks like her last release recorded in the US with US-based musicians. All of her releases after this were recorded in Japan with Japanese musicians.

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I've never heard this one. It looks like her last release recorded in the US with US-based musicians. All of her releases after this were recorded in Japan with Japanese musicians.

IMO it's among her best work. In parts very Mingus like. 

[kh1958]

Bela Fleck, Edmar Castaneda, Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)

[HutchFan]

More Duke:

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Vol. Six: Dance Dates, California 1958 (Saja)

 

[Rabshakeh]

ORF Bigband / Karel Krautgartner – Eleven Steps

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

First listen to this and enjoying it. 

[gmonahan]

On 6/2/2025 at 4:04 PM, JSngry said:

Have you read The Book(s) of Enoch?

You can more than safely add M.F. Horn 4&5: Live at Jimmy's

After that, hey...all bets are off 

Yes, I've had 4 and 5 for a while, but for some reason, I didn't have the first three. Anyway, Maynard is great on all of them!

[John Tapscott]

[optatio]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

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