So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

[optatio]

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage: ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music ESP 1008-2 [Germany s.d.]

Personnel: Dewey Johnson (tp), Marshall Allen (as), Paul Bley (p), Eddie Gomes (b), Milford Graves (dr)

All compositions by Carla Bley

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Chico Hamilton - Passin' Thru / Man from Two Worlds (Impulse, rec. 1962-63)

Until recently, I didn't realize that Charles Lloyd composed nearly all of the music on these 2 LPs.

 

[JSngry]

20 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Chico Hamilton - Passin' Thru / Man from Two Worlds (Impulse, rec. 1962-63)

Until recently, I didn't realize that Charles Lloyd composed nearly all of the music on these 2 LPs.

 

Hopefully you have the other Hamilton records with Lloyd. Same thing there, only not nearly all. It's ALL.

Except, of course, for the standards, where there are any.

[jazzbo]

Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo “Live at Planetário da Gávea”

 

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hopefully you have the other Hamilton records with Lloyd. Same thing there, only not nearly all. It's ALL.

Except, of course, for the standards, where there are any.

I don't have Drum Fusion or Transfusion or A Different Journey.   More for the list.   

I do have The Chico Hamilton Special -- but Lloyd didn't contribute any compositions to that date. 

[dougcrates]

17 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Meaning the Coltrane set. Everything looks great about it, how is it?

For my wife (and me🙂) She loves Chet 😍

 

The Coltrane set is really good.  Not sure why Impulse didn't release the show in the early 70s.  Sound quality isn't stellar as the original tapes were lost and is taken from producer Ed Michel's reference tapes.  

[Holy Ghost]

6 hours ago, optatio said:

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage: ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music ESP 1008-2 [Germany s.d.]

Personnel: Dewey Johnson (tp), Marshall Allen (as), Paul Bley (p), Eddie Gomes (b), Milford Graves (dr)

All compositions by Carla Bley

This is one wicked record. 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I don't have Drum Fusion or Transfusion or A Different Journey.   More for the list.   

I do have The Chico Hamilton Special -- but Lloyd didn't contribute any compositions to that date. 

No, that was the last record by the "old" group, the chamber group with cello. Forgot about that one, probably because it's not a favorite.

But those others...yeah! I like to tell people "don't sleep on Chico Hamilton!" That guy is deeper than a casual listen suggests, if only for the drumming itself.

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Porgy and Bess” Sony Blu-Spec CD2, stereo copy in this 2 cd set.

[Chuck Nessa]

[JSngry]

Horace Tapscott played trombone here.

[Quasimado]

16 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Yes, Yes!

[Holy Ghost]

On 8/1/2025 at 1:22 PM, dougcrates said:

Original LPs

The Magic of JuJu is one of my favorite Impulse! Shepps. Contrasts, I am waiting for a copy to graze my presence. 

[JSngry]

6 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

The Magic of JuJu is one of my favorite Impulse! Shepps.

Mine as well, at least from his first period. Also On This Night. That one maybe gets underappreciated.

Most of them have actually held up really well though. However...Fire Music and Four For Trane might be of more historical importance than Shepp importance once his pre-Impulse work gets familiar?

[Holy Ghost]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Mine as well, at least from his first period. Also On This Night. That one maybe gets underappreciated.

Most of them have actually held up really well though. However...Fire Music and Four For Trane might be of more historical importance than Shepp importance once his pre-Impulse work gets familiar?

On this Night, yeah! Historically and great music, love Fire Music and Four for Trane, but I like the Shepp Impulse!'s that fly under the radar, like For Losers, Live in San Francisco, Attica Blues, and Mama Too Tight. The Savoy material with Bill Dixon should be made more readily available (have the Atlantic/Savoy issue of Shepp/Dixon 7tette/Cont 5, but not the quartet issue , which is some gray-area issue).

 

 

[JSngry]

18 minutes ago, Quasimado said:

Yes, Yes!

Indeed. Even in a very, VERY strong run, this one stands out for me 

The older I get, the more I realize just how much of a TOTAL badass Coleman Hawkins was, and not just about music. Like, how much of a badass about life he had to be to get to be that much of a badass in music.

Not always true for everybody, and more true for Hawk than for many!