So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[ghost of miles]

Not sure why, but I often find myself in the mood for 1920s jazz on Saturday mornings:

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

  

First time listening in a few decades, and I like it as much now as ever, albeit for probably completely different reasons. 

Bruce Johnstone came to play. Hell, the whole band came to play. When people come to play, hell, that's all you can ask of them. How they do, that's their business. They're not gaming you, so enjoy the honest humanity in that 

My friend John Porter turned me on to this album! 

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[BillF]

[JSngry]

an intriguing combination of ingredients:

 

[jazzbo]

A video I have not seen before of the largest organ that my great great great great great grandfather built for the Moravian church in Salem, NC.

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[kh1958]

Oumou Sangare, Acoustic

[John Tapscott]

3 hours ago, BillF said:

 That may be my favorite Blakey album. 

Now:

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

  

First time listening in a few decades, and I like it as much now as ever, albeit for probably completely different reasons. 

Bruce Johnstone came to play. Hell, the whole band came to play. When people come to play, hell, that's all you can ask of them. How they do, that's their business. They're not gaming you, so enjoy the honest humanity in that 

My first copy looked like that, too. I played it a LOT!  It's a fine album, still sounds good. As one wag put said,  it could have been titled "Bruce Johnstone and His Orchestra." The amount of solo space Johnstone gets is really apparent when you listen to the whole thing right through on CD. The tenor player Ferdinand Povel is impressive, too.   

Edited February 12, 2022 by John Tapscott

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

20 hours ago, JSngry said:

  

First time listening in a few decades, and I like it as much now as ever, albeit for probably completely different reasons. 

Bruce Johnstone came to play. Hell, the whole band came to play. When people come to play, hell, that's all you can ask of them. How they do, that's their business. They're not gaming you, so enjoy the honest humanity in that 

I love this one. 

It's my favourite big band record with electric piano.

[BillF]

43 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

 

 

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[T.D.]

Discs 1-3

[Peter Friedman]

[Jim Duckworth]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Disc 2

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 2

I also heard some Mr. B from the time after the famous band, but my favourites always have been the Savoy stuff "Mr. B. and the Band" . From later albums I always missed that fantastic sound and arrangements. Like, when I heard "Billy and Sarah" and a friends place: Fantastic voices as always, but the band sounds more like a "show band" than a jazz big band. Like that Charlie Parker album with "Temptation" on it.....somehow like an early 50´s movie ....

But Mr. B. always was my favourite singer. I would have liked to do a gig with a good male singer here , but there are much more female singer students with the usual standard program. Would have been nice to play a bop gig with an Eckstine- or Kenny Hagood style singer. 

[BillF]

8 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

18 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

I also heard some Mr. B from the time after the famous band, but my favourites always have been the Savoy stuff "Mr. B. and the Band" . From later albums I always missed that fantastic sound and arrangements. Like, when I heard "Billy and Sarah" and a friends place: Fantastic voices as always, but the band sounds more like a "show band" than a jazz big band. Like that Charlie Parker album with "Temptation" on it.....somehow like an early 50´s movie ....

But Mr. B. always was my favourite singer. I would have liked to do a gig with a good male singer here , but there are much more female singer students with the usual standard program. Would have been nice to play a bop gig with an Eckstine- or Kenny Hagood style singer. 

"Jelly Jelly" is a big favorite of mine.

[sidewinder]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

On tour at a pub in Wiltshire.

Edited February 13, 2022 by sidewinder

[Jim Duckworth]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Disc 2

When I was 18 I took my mother to see Mr. B and the Basie band.  She was a longtime fan and was pretty happy when I gave her this set years later.  As much as I like the more boppish material reissued by Savoy, I find this more to my liking.

[Chuck Nessa]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

[Peter Friedman]