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