So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Gheorghe]

Some Art Pepper with the quartet with George Cables. Cherokee is fantastic, Ophelia too, everything.....

[sidewinder]

18 hours ago, JSngry said:

on the one hand...this type of thing has kinda turned me off for about as long as I got over it (and that was a loooong time ago).

on the other hand....DAMN. It will never be better than this, not for this type of thing. Writing/playing, this will be as good as this type of thing gets. Period.

Either way, quite apart from what I do or do not like, there is nothing cheap and/or trivial about this music. If you don't like it, that's your business. But if you don't respect the hell out of it, then you are just plain wrong about that. Sorry.

Great album by JJ !

 

 

Full Bandcamp digital version.

[ghost of miles]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

on the one hand...this type of thing has kinda turned me off for about as long as I got over it (and that was a loooong time ago).

on the other hand....DAMN. It will never be better than this, not for this type of thing. Writing/playing, this will be as good as this type of thing gets. Period.

Either way, quite apart from what I do or do not like, there is nothing cheap and/or trivial about this music. If you don't like it, that's your business. But if you don't respect the hell out of it, then you are just plain wrong about that. Sorry.

❤️❤️❤️ It’s a great late-period JJ record... I just spun “El Camino Real” from it a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday afternoon show, a day when I always feature past and present-day Indiana jazz artists.

Right now:

Edited February 13, 2021 by ghost of miles

[JSngry]

The JJ....it sounds to me like what a lot of late-60s "Lab Bands" (including THE Lab Band) were trying to do...a lot of fancy writing, no really distinctive soloists (or if there were, they were incidental to the effort)...their role model was always Kenton, and Kenton only went so far, but THIS record, this is what could be done by going furhter and trying ahrder...and doing better.

Much of it sounds like "soundtrack" music to me, but...so be it. It's just so damn well written. And then played the way that type thing should be played, perfectly.

And JJ was always a writer. Always.

 

[sidewinder]

Sounds to me like he picked up from ‘Perceptions’ and further developed it - without Dizzy of course. Great that the label was able to bank-roll such an ambitious project.

[jazzbo]

Zoot Sims with Jimmy Rowles "If I'm Lucky" Pablo cd

Zoot and the Lizard always make a comfortable pairing and the ease-inducing material here is in very good sound. Zoot and Jimmy share the same spirit here. . . probably the same spirits. Both are listening to each other closely and Jimmy is really giving Zoot just what he needs. And Zoot's horn really sounds great on this disc.

[HutchFan]

 

R.I.P.  Chick Corea

 

[jazzbo]

oe Chambers "Samba De Maracuto" Blue Note cd.

https://store.bluenote.com/products/joe-chambers-samba-de-maracatu

Nice music. Surprisingly loud bloated compressed sound.

[sidewinder]

Those samples of the new Joe Chambers on Spotify sound nice !

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

22 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

R.I.P.  Chick Corea

 

There was that great period in the early to mid 1980s when Chick was churning out lots of releases for ECM. ‘Trio Music’, ‘Voyage’ and the ‘Children’s Songs’. I bought many of them and though they often got a bit New Agey, I enjoyed them.

[JSngry]

hmmmm....no thanks?

[jazzcorner]

On 11.2.2021 at 5:53 PM, BillF said:

That's a nice album!  both are really good

Now playing:

 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

35 minutes ago, JSngry said:

hmmmm....no thanks?

Long been a favourite and - especially popular on this board - Phil Woods! 

 

Edited February 13, 2021 by BillF

[JSngry]

I was disappointed in the charts, seemed to have a bit of a sameness to them. Mulligan developed way past this, I think. Even when he breaks up the lines a little bit, there's not variety in the instrumentation. I guess he conducted this date, so, hey, if that's what he wanted....my hopes were for more/different/better than this. Oh well.

All the soloists seem to be "connecting the dots", like good studio players should (I guess). Put me in mind of a pinball game, the ball rolls to one cadence/bumper, bounces of on to the next one, gotta flip it up every so often. And Jimmy Cleveland...oh my god, this is the first time I've heard him be as annoying as a lot of other people often found him to be...I thought it was Frank Rosolino until I looked at the notes, just...manic.

The big drag for me, though, was the charts. Evans writing for Thornhill this ain't.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[soulpope]

3 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yesss ....

[John Tapscott]

[JSngry]

Superb!

[JSngry]

Wasn't sure what to expect, and still not sure what I really got, but it was a mostly satisfying listen, although there were a few spots when it sounded like French cafe music, which is not something that I really enjoy, except no, it wasn't, it was just John Lewis playing Bach with some weird rhythm section thing going on. But that was only in a few places, and since it wasn't actually French cafe music (no accordion!), I just dealt with it.

Overall, mostly satisfying. John Lewis had this stealth thing going on that you disregard at your own peril.

[EKE BBB]

McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (Blue Note) 

Edited February 14, 2021 by EKE BBB

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

40 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

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Can`t see the pic ....