So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[mikeweil]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

Steve Grossman - Homecoming

Thjat cover is a clear reference to this 1979 album:

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

David "Fathead" Newman - House of David (Atlantic, 1967)

as heard on this 32 Jazz set:

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

Quiet as it's kept(?) the trio of Chico, Cary DeNigris, and Paul Ramsey was tighter than the proverbial gnat's ass. In the end, Chico records are GROOVE records, no matter what else is (or isn't) going on on top.

 

[jazzbo]

Coleman Hawkins "Good Old Broadway" Moodsville/JVC XRCD

Another excellent session recorded with Flanagan, Holley and Locke.

[Dub Modal]

Joining in on Chico with this one:

Paul Ramsey, Andrew Hadro, Evan Scwam, Cary DeNigris, Jeremy Carlstedt, George Bohanon, and Fontella Bass round out the crew. Recorded in 2005 with one track from 2000. Released in 2006. 

[JSngry]

Paul Ramsey holds a pocket like an upright player on the straight-ahead stuff plus is TOTALLY on the one for funk beats. Hella fine player, hope he is alive and, if so, well.

These Chico records sound and feel like "small club" music. No sense in doing ginormous festival venues or shit like that, go like back in the day with neon lights on the wall (and some of them being beer brands), low ceilings, tables right up on the edge of the bandstand, maybe a small dance floor, and don't forget to tip your waitress. That kind of vibe, like, for jazz, doesn't really exist any more. Places to go hang while you get off on some groovy (but not stupid) jazz.

If you've been there, you know what I mean. and if you haven't....use your imagination and have some Champale or some Hennessey. Just show that you got style and class, even if for that moment. But you probably do, all the time.

And don't forget to tip your waitress.

[Dub Modal]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Paul Ramsey holds a pocket like an upright player on the straight-ahead stuff plus is TOTALLY on the one for funk beats. Hella fine player, hope he is alive and, if so, well.

These Chico records sound and feel like "small club" music. No sense in doing ginormous festival venues or shit like that, go like back in the day with neon lights on the wall (and some of them being beer brands), low ceilings, tables right up on the edge of the bandstand, maybe a small dance floor, and don't forget to tip your waitress. That kind of vibe, like, for jazz, doesn't really exist any more. Places to go hang while you get off on some groovy (but not stupid) jazz.

If you've been there, you know what I mean. and if you haven't....use your imagination and have some Champale or some Hennessey. Just show that you got style and class, even if for that moment. But you probably do, all the time.

And don't forget to tip your waitress.

On Believe, the song Christina really features Ramsey's bass. I don't see any further credits beyond Chico's 2014 The Inquiring Mind. 

[jazzbo]

(Tom Jobim) Nova Banda "Familia Jobim"

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

12 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

On Believe, the song Christina really features Ramsey's bass. I don't see any further credits beyond Chico's 2014 The Inquiring Mind. 

This is before then, but it looks interesting: https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-lines-mw0000575249

If this is accurate....he made a Gospel record in 1973: https://www.discogs.com/release/11366003-Professor-Benny-Cummings-And-The-Kings-Temple-Choir-COGIC-Gods-Music-Is-My-Life

On the Thoughts Of... record, he's got a tune called "PJ"...."Praise Jesus"?

Wouldn't be the first guy I know to go back to church music...with the right gig, it pays a helluva lot better than jazz...

[John Tapscott]

[Dub Modal]

18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

This is before then, but it looks interesting: https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-lines-mw0000575249

If this is accurate....he made a Gospel record in 1973: https://www.discogs.com/release/11366003-Professor-Benny-Cummings-And-The-Kings-Temple-Choir-COGIC-Gods-Music-Is-My-Life

On the Thoughts Of... record, he's got a tune called "PJ"...."Praise Jesus"?

Wouldn't be the first guy I know to go back to church music...with the right gig, it pays a helluva lot better than jazz...

I saw a lead that he may have played bass for Kirk Franklin, so if that's the same guy then those may be accurate as well. 

[BillF]

33 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

 

[Peter Friedman]

[jcam_44]

Wonderful album by Masabumi Kikuchi, Ben Street and Thomas Morgan on bass and Krestin Osgood on drums

followed by one of the best releasees I've heard in a while. 

Ming Bau Set - Yakut's Gallop which is Vera Baumann on vocals, Florestan Berset on Electric Guitar and Gerry Hemingway on Harmonica, Vocals and Drums. 

Absolutely captivating music.

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

Though in the last few weeks I was listening much more to modal, free, fusion etc, yesterday for my daily hour of record listening I decided to go ALL the way back , to the days of bop. First I thought about some Fats or early Dex etc, but then I said to me better the Mr.B and the Band, since I love B´s voice very much. 

This together with the Spotlite "Together" is the stuff where you really hear the band. 

And those arrangements (Dameron) and chords combined with Mr. B, it´s wonderful. 

A friend of mine who already has passed , also liked this stuff very much, but later bought a lot of the more commercial sides, like that "Billy and Sarah again" , but the big band that plays sounds quite boring to me, kind of routine without a really "brand" like the old band or like "Thad Jones-Mel Lewis" or "TALT" ....

So IMHO this is the best Mr.B for a musician who listens to the instrumentation too. And the solos of stars like Fats, Dex, Jug, KD and so on......, 
The way they interpretate ballads like "Cottage for Sale" "I´m in the Mood for Love" "Without a Song", and listen to the exiting bop stuff they make out of a simple thing like "Jitney Man" , "I like the Rhythm in a Riff" and also the instrumentals of bop classics like "Cool Breeze", "Oo Bop Sh Bam" and "2´nd Balcony  Jumb".
The last side is less interesting, it starts to change into those syrop string things that sounds like old films ..... 

[jazzcorner]

16 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Joining in to Niehaus with the collection here in Germany

;-]]

[BillF]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Though in the last few weeks I was listening much more to modal, free, fusion etc, yesterday for my daily hour of record listening I decided to go ALL the way back , to the days of bop. First I thought about some Fats or early Dex etc, but then I said to me better the Mr.B and the Band, since I love B´s voice very much. 

This together with the Spotlite "Together" is the stuff where you really hear the band. 

And those arrangements (Dameron) and chords combined with Mr. B, it´s wonderful. 

A friend of mine who already has passed , also liked this stuff very much, but later bought a lot of the more commercial sides, like that "Billy and Sarah again" , but the big band that plays sounds quite boring to me, kind of routine without a really "brand" like the old band or like "Thad Jones-Mel Lewis" or "TALT" ....

So IMHO this is the best Mr.B for a musician who listens to the instrumentation too. And the solos of stars like Fats, Dex, Jug, KD and so on......, 
The way they interpretate ballads like "Cottage for Sale" "I´m in the Mood for Love" "Without a Song", and listen to the exiting bop stuff they make out of a simple thing like "Jitney Man" , "I like the Rhythm in a Riff" and also the instrumentals of bop classics like "Cool Breeze", "Oo Bop Sh Bam" and "2´nd Balcony  Jumb".
The last side is less interesting, it starts to change into those syrop string things that sounds like old films ..... 

I share your views on that one. 

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Joining in to Niehaus with the collection here in Germany

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