So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

(Rahsaan) Roland Kirk "Now please don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" Universal Japan Verve cd

What a lovely title for an album. And what a release! One of my favorite Kirk albums pre-Atlantic.

RRK with:
Bass – Ronnie Boykins
Drums – Grady Tate
Piano – Lonnie Smith
Producer – Creed Taylor

[JSngry]

2 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

(Rahsaan) Roland Kirk "Now please don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" Universal Japan Verve cd

What a lovely title for an album. And what a release! One of my favorite Kirk albums pre-Atlantic.

RRK with:
Bass – Ronnie Boykins
Drums – Grady Tate
Piano – Lonnie Smith
Producer – Creed Taylor

Indeed. That one gets lost in the shuffle sometimes, probably because it was a one-off for Verve. It should be far better known, imo. It's a bit Creed Taylor-y (motly in the recording sound and maybe the song selections and lengths), but oh well about that. Kirk's Atlantic sides were often a bit John Dorn-y, so again, oh well about that. Rahsaan could function in a blowing setting and a production setting equally well. His was a true voice and its message/meaning was never dilutable.

[kh1958]

Lennie Tristano Mosaic set, disc 5.

[jazzbo]

"Johnny Hodges, Soloist, with Billy Strayhorn and THE Orchestra" Verve cd

Beautiful. I find this particular US cd sounds better with the phase "OUT" on my DAC.

[JSngry]

Of all the records with good players playing well out there, this is one of them. Congratulations to all concerned -y'all made a record and I listened to it one time!

[jazzbo]

"Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio" Swingville

A nice pairing!

 

[BillF]

52 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

"Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio" Swingville

 

 

Now playing:

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Data Lords - The Natural World (Disc 2). I'm finally getting around to spinning these CDs. I like this second disc a bit more than the 1st one.

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, mjazzg said:

 

Disc 1.

Track 1 is 'India' and there's no going back from where that takes you

Heavenly music .... and no less ....

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

(Rahsaan) Roland Kirk "Now please don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" Universal Japan Verve cd

What a lovely title for an album. And what a release! One of my favorite Kirk albums pre-Atlantic.

 

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Indeed. That one gets lost in the shuffle sometimes, probably because it was a one-off for Verve. It should be far better known, imo. It's a bit Creed Taylor-y (motly in the recording sound and maybe the song selections and lengths), but oh well about that. Kirk's Atlantic sides were often a bit John Dorn-y, so again, oh well about that. Rahsaan could function in a blowing setting and a production setting equally well. His was a true voice and its message/meaning was never dilutable.

Amen & Amen !!!

 

 

NP:

Al Cohn in excelsis.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Funk Inc. – Chicken Lickin (Prestige, 1972)

 

[jazzbo]

I needed to hear another Coleman Hawkins, so I pulled out this SACD, "Wrapped Tight" by Analogue Productions.

Another fine one indeed.

[Rabshakeh]

7 hours ago, Niko said:

that's a change in direction, from Compost to Wild Bill... played those two Compost albums recently and thought that the second one was quite a bit more successful...

They were spaced out, I promise.

Yeah, the first one is not that great. Very of its time.

4 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Perennially sits on my 'must buy' list but I never get around to doing so. I like Jaume's music

 

I like his playing a lot on this one, but I'm perhaps a bit less impressed by the more "composed" tunes. 

[Niko]

Just now, Rabshakeh said:

They were spaced out, I promise.

Yeah, the first one is not that great. Very of its time.

for the second one, they made a number of production decisions that made a lot of sense (to me at least): limit most of the singing to professionals (including Jeanne Lee) rather than have Bob Moses or Jack deJohnette sing on most tracks, add a guitar, and find ways to integrate Harold Vick, a talented man, better into the band... 

[mjazzg]

21 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

They were spaced out, I promise.

Yeah, the first one is not that great. Very of its time.

I like his playing a lot on this one, but I'm perhaps a bit less impressed by the more "composed" tunes. 

Interesting to know, thanks.  I like his solo recording on Hat 

[jazzbo]

Shabaka and the Ancestors "Wisdom of Elders" 

This one really gets me. The next from them too.

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Shabaka and the Ancestors "Wisdom of Elders" 

This one really gets me. The next from them too.

Me too

[Rabshakeh]

Scott Rosenberg – Creative Orchestra Music, Chicago 2001 (New World, 2003)

 

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis ‎– A Love Supreme (Palmetto, 2004)

Edited April 27, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

Conduction, as performed here, seems to me to be an exponentially more evolved version of "jam band", like people with more ideas and resources than some stoned-ish "advanced rockers".

Still, as with all such things, advanced or otherwise, too many repeated listenings reveal the hard truth that nobody can just make all of that up without having some shit in your pocket to begin with.

With that in mind, I like it a lot. And with that in mind, I'd like to see more attempts at "free improvisation" carry some notion of road maps along. It just makes for more interesting listening for us old folks to feel like you're not just starting and ending, but actually going to places in between.. The best already know that and plan accordingly, but how many best ones are there, really?

[jazzbo]

Charles Mingus "Pre Bird" Universal Japan UHQCD

[BillF]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

Amen & Amen !!!

 

 

NP:

Al Cohn in excelsis.

 

4 hours ago, jazzbo said:

 

[Peter Friedman]

With Willis Jackson & Houston Person

Edited April 27, 2022 by Peter Friedman