So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[JSngry]

Yes, that's it. Shockingly authentic for a Verve record. Highly recommended!

[HutchFan]

Cool.  Thanks.  I'll keep an eye out for it.   

 

[HutchFan]

More Tjader:

2 LPs on 1 CD:
Tracks 1 to 6 originally released as Guarabe
Tracks 7 to 11 originally released as Here (less one cut)

 

[jazzbo]

Getting funky with Rusty Bryant “Legends of Acid Jazz” Prestige cd

Originally released as Night Train Now! and Soul Liberation.

Rusty deserved a longer life and bigger career.

 

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[HutchFan]

9 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Rusty deserved a longer life and bigger career.

Yup.  

And Soul Liberation might be his finest hour.

 

[JSngry]

Apparently Rusty Bryant stayed pretty active for all of his like, just off the jazz radar.

It was a time when you could do that. Play regularly, just locally/regionally and live a comfortable(enough life.

Different world then.

[jazzbo]

Yes, I still wish his career had been "bigger." And that he made it into his 'eighties at least. But as I have been known to say if wishes were horses there would be dung everywhere.

[HutchFan]

More music to celebrate what would've been Cal Tjader's 100th birthday:

Another 2-fer CD:
- tracks 1-11 previously released as Cal Tjader Goes Latin (Fantasy 8030)
- tracks 12-21 as Cal Tjader Quintet (Fantasy 8085)

 

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[optatio]

Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus. Atlantic Jazz 781 456-2 [Germany 1981]

[Peter Friedman]

On 7/14/2025 at 11:43 AM, HutchFan said:

This is one of Hawes' finest recordings, IMO.  Five stars! 

I actually don't care for this album. It lacks all the main features that makes Hawes a jazz pianist I like very much - hard swinging with a strong blues feeling.

Just checked and I have 12 Hampton Hawes albums (Contemporary label) on my shelf. I prefer each one of them to "High In The Sky" . 

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

I actually don't care for this album. It lacks all the main features that makes Hawes a jazz pianist I like very much - hard swinging with a strong blues feeling.

Just checked and I have 12 Hampton Hawes albums (Contemporary label) on my shelf. I prefer each one of them to "High In The Sky" .

O.K.  As the old saying goes, "Different strokes for different folks." 

 

[felser]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I actually don't care for this album. It lacks all the main features that makes Hawes a jazz pianist I like very much - hard swinging with a strong blues feeling.

Just checked and I have 12 Hampton Hawes albums (Contemporary label) on my shelf. I prefer each one of them to "High In The Sky" . 

This is a late 60-album, and Hawes had changed with the times.  I love this album, but also dig his earlier Contemporary work.

[dougcrates]

Sun Ra Celestial Love - original LP but my copy has a yellow label

[optatio]

Chico Freeman Quintet Featuring Arthur Blythe: Focus. Contemporary Records CCD 14073-2 [US 1995]

[jazzbo]

Woke up in the cool stillness and enjoyed the sound of the birds and trees for a few minutes. I love living out here by the forest.

Yesterday I pulled Joe Farrell CTI discs from the shelves and am starting with “Joe Farrell Quartet” on CTI, King Jazz cd.

The great team of Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette anchor this one, and the fourth member is either Chick Corea (three tracks) or John McLaughlin (who appears on two tracks only). There are two duo tracks with Joe, one with Chick and one with Dave.

[jazzbo]

Joe Farrell “Outback” CTI King Jazz cd

 

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Another killer band.

Joe Farrell – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, piccolo
Chick Corea – electric piano
Elvin Jones – drums
Buster Williams – acoustic bass
Airto Moreira – percussion

 

 

 

 

 

[optatio]

1 minute ago, jazzbo said:

Joe Farrell “Outback” CTI King Jazz cd

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Another killer band.

Joe Farrell – tenor and soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, piccolo
Chick Corea – electric piano
Elvin Jones – drums
Buster Williams – acoustic bass
Airto Moreira – percussion
 

👍 - as LP from 1973 on my shelf ...

[jazzbo]

From “Enjoying the Ride,” the 60th anniversary box set from the Grateful Dead.

Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/24/71) disc 2

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

 

 

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A terrific album.   

 

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[kh1958]

Terence Blanchard, Live at the 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Munck)

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[HutchFan]

More Woody Shaw:

[HutchFan]