So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Justin V]

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I'm finally getting around to listening to this after buying it for a buck a few months ago.  I just ordered the complete five-disc box for $6.36 including shipping.  I am feeling a Duke spree coming on today while on quarantine with the flu.

[soulpope]

[Justin V]

Disc 1: This might be only my second or third trip through this set since buying it 5 years ago.  Although the frugal part of me wonders whether I should downgrade to the earlier Columbia sets, the other part of me thinks that it'd be foolish not to have a complete document of this music in great sound.

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[Peter Friedman]

[EKE BBB]

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Mongo at Montreux is the subject of today's entry on my 70s jazz blog, PLAYING FAVORITES.

 

[Gheorghe]

6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Great ! I bought this in 1978 with another cover and it became a "hit" among my Friends. We all hummed those catchy tunes "The Squirrel" "Good Bait", "Our Delight", and don´t forget Allen Eager, he is great on those sides. 

But we were mis-lead by the wrong cover notes of our Musidisc LP, it said it was done in 1949 at Birdland. Later I found out it was made at the Roost. 

Edited February 20, 2020 by Gheorghe

[HutchFan]

[Gheorghe]

Now I came to the CD Nr. 4, the last one. 

Oh, all that Music, and the great Thing is you hear the whole tunes, not only Bird, but all the fine solos done by Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, and two guests Lucky Thompson and Milt Jackson. 

Maybe that´s why I hadn´t purchased the Dean Benedetti stuff, because I prefer to hear the whole tunes, starting with Bird and than with the great musicians who played with him. 

So this is among the very best Bird live stuff I ever heard……., 

[EKE BBB]

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Great ! I bought this in 1978 with another cover and it became a "hit" among my Friends. We all hummed those catchy tunes "The Squirrel" "Good Bait", "Our Delight", and don´t forget Allen Eager, he is great on those sides. 

But we were mis-lead by the wrong cover notes of our Musidisc LP, it said it was done in 1949 at Birdland. Later I found out it was made at the Roost. 

Fats Navarro was an extremely talented player. So sad he was gone so soon!

As for the Royal Roost recordings, there is yet another release, on the Jazz View label. But I haven't compared the material on these two-cds pack with the Fresh Sound disc.

Agreed on Allen Eager, a marvellous player sadly underrecorded!

Ernie Henry is another hidden gem, to be found in several Fats Navarro recordings for Blue Note and Savoy.

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

So this is among the very best Bird live stuff I ever heard……., 

Yesssssss!!! 

Edited February 20, 2020 by EKE BBB

[BillF]

May I join you in worshipping at the shrine of Bird, Fats, Allen and Ernie? So nice to see music of this era played!

I'm almost tempted to start a thread titled "Playing Favourites: Reflections on Jazz of the Later 1940s", but am too lazy. 

[EKE BBB]

[Coda]

[Coda]

to clean the pallet

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Classic ....

[Referentzhunter]

[EKE BBB]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

May I join you in worshipping at the shrine of Bird, Fats, Allen and Ernie? So nice to see music of this era played!

I'm almost tempted to start a thread titled "Playing Favourites: Reflections on Jazz of the Later 1940s", but am too lazy. 

Please do! I would happily join the discussion... 

[Gheorghe]

Just now, EKE BBB said:

Please do! I would happily join the discussion... 

Me too !

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by Gheorghe

[B. Goren.]

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Jakob Bro - Bay of Rainbows (2018).  Jakob Bro - guitar; Thomas Morgan - bass; Joey Baron - drums.  ECM 2618

[Peter Friedman]

[Coda]