So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Al Haig Trio with Jamil Nasser (bass) & Jimmy Wormworth (drums)

Good one.

 

NP:

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

Next in line (and last one for today) .... :

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

I've a cold that is taking its time getting better and yet luckily hasn't reached my ears. I'm chilling with the third disc of the "Complete Bill Evans on Verve," trio recordings and then a few with Stan Getz. 

The system sounds fabulous of late. I never heard these Verve discs sound this good before. Wow. Bill was such a talent. He left behind a huge inventory of recordings. . . but I still think he was taken from us far too soon and we should have had more.

[Gheorghe]

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I saw them live together at Jazzland.

When was this album recorded ? 

[Referentzhunter]

[Misterioso]

Listening to the excellent CD that comes with this book:

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, Misterioso said:

Listening to the excellent CD that comes with this book:

👍!

[JSngry]

 

I'm thinking/hoping that there are now more lively transfers available in the general market place? Suggestions, anybody?

[kh1958]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

 

I'm thinking/hoping that there are now more lively transfers available in the general market place? Suggestions, anybody?

For the King Oliver sides, the Archeophone/Off the Record double CD (there is a thread here somewhere) is great. https://www.archeophone.com/catalogue/king-oliver-complete-1923-jazz-band-recordings/

Edited December 2, 2019 by kh1958

[Justin V]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

 

I'm thinking/hoping that there are now more lively transfers available in the general market place? Suggestions, anybody?

The Off the Record reissue was lauded here.  I plan on buying it soon and was pretty impressed by their Wolverines and New Orleans Rhythm Kings releases.  Samples can be found here.

Now playing:

After finding Young's Verve sessions set for $20 and Basie's Complete Deccas for $2 last month, I've found myself digging into this set, which I hadn't spent much time with in the several years I've owned it.  I still have 5 or 6 discs of Verve material and the Deccas to hear.  Between all of this Pres and the Chu Berry Mosaic, I don't need to leave the house.

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

26 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

For the King Oliver sides, the Archeophone/Off the Record double CD (there is a thread here somewhere) is great. https://www.archeophone.com/catalogue/king-oliver-complete-1923-jazz-band-recordings/

 

22 minutes ago, Justin V said:

The Off the Record reissue was lauded here.  I plan on buying it soon and was pretty impressed by their Wolverines and New Orleans Rhythm Kings releases.  Samples can be found here.

Thanks, both of you. Just ordered the Off The Record set. A bit pricier than I was wanting to go, but I'm fed up with having to listen to this stuff sounding like this.

[HutchFan]

Let's hear it for Larry Willis! Oh yeah.

[Gheorghe]

On 1.12.2019 at 9:35 AM, BillF said:

Yeah, Bud´s first trio recordings 1947 and a very fine set from 1953, when he still was at his peak.

 

But he could still play up to his highest standards even 15 years later, as the 1962 set in Lausanne shows. I played it yesterday. 

[EKE BBB]

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

[ghost of miles]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Let's hear it for Larry Willis! Oh yeah.

The band definitely surpasses itself here ....

Edited December 2, 2019 by soulpope

[Kevin Bresnahan]

22 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Man, we're getting old, aren't we? I can't believe that Jim is already 61.

[soulpope]

[Peter Friedman]

This 2 tenor quintet CD with Bob Cooper, Pete Christlieb, Mike Wofford, Chuck Berghofer & Donald Bailey is true winner.

I consider it on the same level as the Al Cohn / Zoot Sims sessions, and the Johnny Griffin / Lockjaw Davis recordings.

Their version of "Limehouse Blues" is as good as it gets.