So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

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Enrico Pieranunzi - Live in Paris (Challenge, 2005)
with Hein Van de Geyn & André "Dédé" Ceccarelli

 

[Gheorghe]

On 2/15/2026 at 11:43 PM, Holy Ghost said:

That Sal Salvador album sleeve is pretty sweet!

 

Thoughts

I like the earlier versions of "Theme From A Symphony" on Science Fiction much more, but the cool freakout on Midnight Sunrise has got to be the coolist I've ever heard Ornette freak out since "Free Jazz". Worth the price of admission alone.  🤘

Well, I´m more into that funky sound of Prime Time now. I´m a bit tired of acoustic jazz I must admit. At least when I listen to music just as a listener. 

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Next up:

Disc 1

[Holy Ghost]

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Well, I´m more into that funky sound of Prime Time now. I´m a bit tired of acoustic jazz I must admit. At least when I listen to music just as a listener. 

I get it. It takes me years if not decades to recalibrate my ears to new listening. A wonderful experience when something "clicks" when it didn't before. 

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Disc 2 - originally released as Love Dance 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Martial Solal - Big Band

 

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Decided to start the day off with some Bird. I have not listened to a lot of later Bird this decade and decided to put the final disc of this box set into the transport.

Charlie Parker “The Complete Verve Master Takes” disc 3

 

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Fully formed and mature Bird, powerful tone and as fluid and fascinating as a world class figure skater. No wonder he commanded so much respect and was so influential.

That choir singing “Old Folks” always cracks me up. They get the vibe of the song and then Charlie just takes it somewhere else. I love Willard Robinson tunes.

[Rabshakeh]

James Brandon Lewis Trio - Apple Cores

 

i don't normally like JBL very much but this is a much more energised record than his usual. It is still the same tenor playing 

[optatio]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Martial Solal - Big Band

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[Gheorghe]

8 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

I get it. It takes me years if not decades to recalibrate my ears to new listening. A wonderful experience when something "clicks" when it didn't before. 

I hear you ! But I don´t think I needed to recalibrate my ears to new listening. Funky grooves and beats were around everywhere when I was a youngster. And Free Jazz had not completly died. 

So it´s natural that I dug the Miles from 1975 and Ornette Coleman from 1977 and saw them live exactly in that period. 

The first "jazz" I had heard when I was around 13 was Mingus with Dolphy. So it was the other way round: I "discovered" let´s say Bop and Bird THRU Dolphy, discovered acoustic Miles Davis or Ornette Coleman thru the way they played in the period of my youth.

Later, becoming a jazz musician in the late 70´s I concentrated on acoustic jazz and still do, but had periods of electric only, and now I may have got back to more funky stuff, since you just get bored and tired of anything if there is no change, and I keep myself young and all my gang is much younger people. 

But I must admit I prefer the later PrimeTime from the late 80´s into the 2000´s because I dig the more modern electric sound of let´s say an electric bass, of drums etc. much more than that old 70´s sound of electric instruments. And it got to be LOUD !!!!!! Because I am loud 😀

56 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Decided to start the day off with some Bird. I have not listened to a lot of later Bird this decade and decided to put the final disc of this box set into the transport.

Charlie Parker “The Complete Verve Master Takes” disc 3

 

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Fully formed and mature Bird, powerful tone and as fluid and fascinating as a world class figure skater. No wonder he commanded so much respect and was so influential.

That choir singing “Old Folks” always cracks me up. They get the vibe of the song and then Charlie just takes it somewhere else. I love Willard Robinson tunes.

Oh I know what you are talking about ! 

Same here, the mature powerful tone.

Yeah, those tracks with the choir are fun, and Old Folks is a cute tune ! 

And they recorded well for their time: 
Let´s say compare "Swedish Schnapps" or other records with the weak sound of the Savoy records. On a Savoy Bird you never hear the drums properly, but on the Verves you hear them cymbals ringing. 

Only one downer I have to add: I like the more spontanous Bird in live settings, but only in live settings with congenial partners. My favourite Bird is on that Columbia double vinyl "One Night at Birdland". The sound quality is terrible, but it get´s more in what I really need to hear as a musician......That´s the stuff from what I LEARNED to play. Play those tempos, play piano with similar passion like Bud, demand drummers to play LOUD etc.🤣

[Rabshakeh]

The Skip-Jacks – Let's Get Away From It All

A recommendation from Jazz Wax today. Unknown to me before. Five way close harmony singing on pop tunes and jazz standards with a big band behind. 

[jazzbo]

I chose this one when I heard the news of Jesse Jackson’s passing a bit ago. “Inner Spirit” seemed a good title for my assessment of his strength.

Bill Evans “Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert At The Teatro General San Martin” Resonance 2 cd set, disc 1

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Freddie Hubbard - High Blues Pressure

 

[jazzbo]

Now on to the second disc.

Bill Evans “Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert At The Teatro General San Martin” Resonance 2 cd set, disc 2

 

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[Rabshakeh]

Sachi Hayasaka – Minga

 

[Rabshakeh]

ICP Orchestra – Two Programs: The ICP Orchestra Performs Nichols - Monk

 

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Harold Lopez Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note)