So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

I wanted to hear some Kenny Clarke and this was the first session I pulled out.

Modern Jazz Quartet "Django" Prestige 50th Anniversary K2 20 bit cd version.

[jazzbo]

Sublime. Billie Holiday "All or Nothing at All" Analogue Productions SACD

Great songs sung so well.

[HutchFan]

It's turning out to be a singers sorta day for me:

Mark Murphy - Jazz Standards (32 Jazz, 2 CDs)
1998 compilation of Murphy's Muse sides

I'm a forum member who often "defends" 32 Jazz releases -- since the label regularly comes in for quite a bit of stick around here.  My line of thinking: It's better to have the music in some (any!) digital format, rather than the alternative of the music not being available at all, aside from the original LPs.  Without 32 Jazz, I'd wager that most of the music that Muse released would still be sitting idle on the shelves, inaccessible to listeners without turntables.  To my point, I can't think of any Muse releases that are available for streaming and downloads today that weren't first issued on 32 Jazz. ... And heaven knows that Concord hasn't done anything with the music since they acquired the catalog from Denon.

All that said, this Mark Murphy cover looks like it was designed by an inartistic ten year-old using PowerPoint for the first time.  Yeesh!  It's U-G-L-Y. ... As for the music, it's stellar -- although I would've preferred to have four of the original LPs in their original sequence, rather than this hodge-podge compilation.

Even so, I'm still glad that 32 Jazz existed for the short while that it did.  The timing was just right for me to discover heaps of terrific music, glorious stuff from the Muse and Atlantic archives.  Yes, you can argue with the packaging -- but you can hardly argue with the music. 

 

Edited March 9, 2022 by HutchFan

[Peter Friedman]

[Bluesnik]

Now, what a discovery!

[mikeweil]

[Rabshakeh]

Miles Davis - Live at the Fillmore East March 7, 1970: It's About that Time

[John Tapscott]

7 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

vinyl or CD box? I have the early vinyls- Like it very much.

 

CD. 

Now listening:

 

[mikeweil]

[jazzbo]

Louis Prima "1944-1945" Chronogical Classics cd

More bigger band Prima. 

[jazzbo]

"Mingus at Carnegie Hall" the complete edition, disc 1

So thankful this complete concert was finally made available.

[Peter Friedman]

[jk666]

In light of recent news.

[jlhoots]

Ron Miles: I Am A Man

[HutchFan]

Timeless/Solid (Japan) CD reissue

Edited March 10, 2022 by HutchFan

[jazzbo]

Bob Dylan "Tell Tale Signs--The Bootleg Series Volume 8" Sony Japan edition, disc 1

I keep returning to this set (I also have the third disc from the US set I bought separate from the 3 cd edition).

Just amazing music and sonic presentation (in my opinion).

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

[mjazzg]

10 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Is Fred Frith on that?

[Rabshakeh]

6 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Is Fred Frith on that?

I really do struggle to tell them apart!

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Now playing:

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

Gabriel Mervin "Say Something" Octave Music SACD

[soulpope]

Outstanding ....

[jazzbo]

Tom Harrell "Colors of a Dream" Highnote cd

Alto Saxophone – Jaleel Shaw
Bass – Esperanza Spalding, Ugonna Okegwo
Drums – Johnathan Blake  Escoffery
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell
Vocals – Esperanza Spalding