So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[John Tapscott]

[Bluesnik]

This RVG includes several Silver led piano trios. All excellent. With Art Blakey and, on one track, Sabu Martinez.

[JSngry]

Ted Hearne - The Source

http://www.tedhearne.com/project-details/2015/10/9/the-source

The Source is a modern-day oratorio, and a patchwork of songs based on American primary-source texts. The subject is Chelsea Manning, the US Army Private who infamously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. 

The text, culled and arranged by librettist Mark Doten, sets Manning's words and sections of the classified material known as the Iraq War Logs and the Afghan War Diary.
 
The music, like the text, draws from diverse sources. Auto-tuned recitatives, neo soul ballads, icy string trios and moments of cracked-out musical theater are peppered with (and sometimes structured around) samples that bridge sonic worlds. 

That's putting it mildly..."discombobulating" would be putting it mildly. I can honestly say that the first listen upset me in a way I do not usually get upset, especially by music. Disturbing music, disturbing in some pretty fundamental ways, ways that create involuntary reactions of...being disturbed.

Of course I'm going to listen again. But this time...once through means never again hearing it for the first time. So now I can start trying to have some "intellectual" reactions. Maybe? Hopefully?

And yeah, Ted Hearne. He's on my list now, names to start following unless/until there's a sustained set of reasons to suck.

[Referentzhunter]

[Referentzhunter]

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

only, that this is not a trout, but a carp. I´m not only a jazz fan, but a hobby fisherman too so I know what a trout and a carp are looking like 

[EKE BBB]

Now switching to

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Two by Lee Konitz:

 

and

[Gheorghe]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

Two by Lee Konitz:

 

and

Very fine. Here another one. Usually I´m not such a big fan of solo recordings, but this one has fascinated me when it came out.

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Very fine. Here another one. Usually I´m not such a big fan of solo recordings, but this one has fascinated me when it came out.

Thanks for the recommendation, Gheorghe.  

I've not heard that one, but Konitz was a remarkably consistent performer throughout his life. So I can imagine that would be very good indeed.

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Very fine. Here another one. Usually I´m not such a big fan of solo recordings, but this one has fascinated me when it came out.

I may have mentioned elsewhere, but Matana Roberts is apparently a big fan of this one. 

I'm not sure that I hear a lot of it in her alto playing.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

Nonesuch seems to be pimping the piece with Upshaw & Kalish (I get it), but for my money, the more interesting piece is Taxidermy, a piece for the percussion ensemble.

 

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Excellent ....

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

John Hicks - S/T (Evidence; originally Theresa)
with Bobby Hutcherson & Walter Booker

 

[felser]

[soulpope]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

40 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Brings back memories of my youth! Amazingly popular album around 1963. 

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

This arrived from France today:

[John Tapscott]

[Peter Friedman]

[Bluesnik]

This is the only 32 bit reissue I have, I think.