So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[optatio]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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[jazzbo]

A hazy morning outside. Spring here in NE Ohio can be ugly. Foggy, damp, cold, windy. It gets better later, looking forward to that.

Starting off the morning with “Dave’s Picks 2015 Bonus Disc” randomly pulled from the shelves. 1972 Dead. Great stuff.

 

[Referentzhunter]

Gave it a second listen, it's not 'that' interesting as a whole ... but there are some moments.

[Rabshakeh]

Just now, Referentzhunter said:

Gave it a second listen, it's not 'that' interesting as a whole ... but there are some moments.

I never really got into Mehldau. His reign seems a long time ago, now. 

[Referentzhunter]

12 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I never really got into Mehldau. His reign seems a long time ago, now. 

Do you know of any highlights from his oeuvre ?

[Niko]

I'd say what you are playing there is pretty much the highlight but I haven't followed most of the more recent developments 

[Referentzhunter]

33 minutes ago, Niko said:

I'd say what you are playing there is pretty much the highlight but I haven't followed most of the more recent developments 

Dankie, dankie !

[HutchFan]

Prompted by all the Mehldau talk:

[Balladeer]

Monty Alexander with special guest Ernest Ranglin - Rocksteady (Telarc)

[HutchFan]

Today is Wes Montgomery's birthday. 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Playing this one again before it goes back on the shelves. Such a great variety of music from this period of Ellington, much of it not released before this 2 LP set.

Duke Elllngton “Ellington '56/'62, Volume 2” CBS France 2 LP set, LP 1

 

[jlhoots]

7 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

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[Simon8]

[dougcrates]

Original Italian LP

[Rabshakeh]

Dieb13 / Pure / Siewert – Just In Case You Are Bored. So Are We.

Dieb13 / Pure / Siewert – Just In Case You Are Bored. So Are We.

[optatio]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Playing this one again before it goes back on the shelves. Such a great variety of music from this period of Ellington, much of it not released before this 2 LP set.

Duke Elllngton “Ellington '56/'62, Volume 2” CBS France 2 LP set, LP 1

 

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[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Monty Alexander with special guest Ernest Ranglin - Rocksteady (Telarc)

Love it 💗 !!

[HutchFan]

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 1

 Somewhat  disappointing. Art Pepper play ok, though not with much passion. The rhythm section is recessed a bit in the background, and their playing is on the dull side./

I am unlikely to listen to the other 3 discs in this set. There are numerous other Art Pepper recordingsI would prefer to hear. 

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

[Gheorghe]

2 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

This is one of the best of Birds later recordings ! 

 

Now listening:  June Tyson ! I love her voice, I love the lyrics and Sun Ra was one of my favourites from the very beginning, when I started to listen to afro american music ! Sun Ra, Ornette, late Trane, Pharoah Sanders, electric Miles, and ....Mingus.....those where my favourites in my early teens.

I saw the Arkestra with June Tyson of course and was deeply moved by her angelic voice, the "Space Songs and Chants", wonderful.

And as a generation thing: Sure I got acquainted first to the kind of music that was played then in the early 70´s, and it was the Arkestra, where I first heard some old jazz too, those Fletcher Henderson things. I had never heard about that before and loved it, I believed it´s a special "Space Jump", had no idea that this was the jazz of earlier decades of the century....
Same with Mingus....heard the pianists do some stride sections at one point and heard that kind of old thing for the first time.