So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzcorner]

6 hours ago, BillF said:

I saw Zbigniew N. and the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet in a Leeds pub/club in the late 60s. Leeds University Marxists turned out in force for these visitors from the other side of the Iron Curtain and actually booed when a number was announced "by the American pianist, Bill Evans".  My late pianist friend Paul Woodrow had a great "conversation" at the keyboard with the Polish pianist. Neither knew the other's language, but the names McCoy Tyner and Wynton Kelly flowed freely between them. Jazz knows no boundaries! 

 

I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

Edited August 18, 2022 by jazzcorner
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[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

7 hours ago, soulpope said:

I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

 

8 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Bud Freeman "1939-1940" Chronogical Classics cd

Lots and lots of Pee Wee and other greats! This one is HOT.
 

I miss my old friend. Bud was special.

[dougcrates]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

Thnx for your input to make this happen .... these Don Sickler arrangements are magical .... and the platter holds a special place in my heart for sentimental reasons ....

[Pim]

Getting in a Tapscott mood already

[BillF]

6 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

VOA, of course, was also heard on this side of the Curtain. I was an avid listener to Conover's shows. I often think this early training in lo-fi jazz listening is why I'm less concerned about audio quality than some board members. 

5 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I contributed some editing help to make this date issue-able. Wonderful session.

 

 

Thank you, Chuck!

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[Gheorghe]

7 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

I used to trade  jazz from behind the Iron Curtain with  people from East Germany (DDR at these times). This one above and some stuff more from  Poland, CSSR a. o. Also many bigbands. There was a living jazz scene in those eastern countries influenced by listening to the VOA  with Willis Conover especially in Hungary.

Yeah I remember those times very well. 

But many players did include very much of Eastern European Folk music in their brand of jazz. I think this was supported by the governments who would not like that their artists play stuff that was created in USA. 

I got to know some of them personally, mostly from Romania. I knew the guys from Vocal Jazz Quartet (Nicolae Ionescu was the leader), Johnny Răducanu the pianist who also wrote an autobiography which I fear I have misplaced somewhere, Harry Tavitian - Corneliu Stroe „Duo Creativ”, and many others. Female singer Aura Urziceanu I think emigrated to Canada....., and sure I also met some cats from Cehoslovacia, Polonia and Republica Democratică Germania (GDR it was named in English I suppose). Wasn´t there the pianist Joachim Kuhn from over there ?  I think he left to the occident very early , I once saw a picture of him playing at Newport maybe in the 60´s. I think he had a lesser known brother who played clarinet. 

I think I didn´t meet musicians from Soviet Union, maybe from the now independent Republica Moldova (than a Soviet Republic), who had been separated from Romania after 1940.....

Maybe most I liked Valeriu Ponomarev, the soviet trumpet player best known with Blakey. I liked him most because I must admit I prefer american styled jazz, I don´t really have it with "searching the own roots" as it´s about music.....maybe a question of taste...., but I think it always was a secret how he had managed to get to USA....., once he was asked and said "no comment !!!!"

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[Rabshakeh]

John Fedchock New York Big Band – John Fedchock New York Big Band (Reservoir, 1995)

[aparxa]

Howard Rumsey ‎– Sunday Jazz A La Lighthouse, Vol. 1 (OJC)

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Yeah I remember those times very well. 

But many players did include very much of Eastern European Folk music in their brand of jazz. I think this was supported by the governments who would not like that their artists play stuff that was created in USA. 

 

Yes, I recall that there was a Polish folk element in what the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet were playing, but this fitted well with their Coltrane Quartet-based style. After all, Coltrane was happy with "Greensleeves". 

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

John Fedchock New York Big Band – John Fedchock New York Big Band (Reservoir, 1995)

1 hour ago, aparxa said:

Howard Rumsey ‎– Sunday Jazz A La Lighthouse, Vol. 1 (OJC)

[Rabshakeh]

Don Byas – Anthropology (Black Lion, 1972)

[Gheorghe]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Don Byas – Anthropology (Black Lion, 1972)

I love it, vintage bop tunes and ballads also from that period...... played by that too unsung hero. 

And I love those old BlackLion LPs, I have quite a bunch of them, all of them US stars recording in Europe.  I think the producer was Alan Bates. 

[jazzbo]

Alain Jean-Marie "The Complete Beguine Reflections 1992-2013" 4 cd set (5 LPs reissued on 4 cds). This is a quite addictive sound, a groove and body to the sound and excellent musicianship. Repetitive, taken a disc at a time though it's an experience. I knew this excellent pianist through Barney Wilen and I'm glad that I grabbed this set this year.

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Monday Michiru "Premium Mix" cd. This is a collection of remixes of several Monday works and I happen to really like this one. Monday is in my opinion not as well known as she deserves to be. She is a great lyric writer and and an even better singer.

[kh1958]

Carl Grubbs, Inner Harbor Suite

[HutchFan]

[Rabshakeh]

6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

That's a good one.

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "Live/Evil" -- this time the SACD with Quad mix that Sony put out recently, listening to the 2 channel original mix layer.

I bought this 2 LP set when it first came out and I still have my original LPs and play them--they still sound fantastic. But this SACD release sounds fantastic too.

I've always loved this music. Most of my friends wouldn't let me play it when they were around, which was a shame. I bought a cassette version early on to play and drive around in my car. It was where I discovered Jarrett and soon after that I bought his album with Gary Burton on Atlantic and then every one of his solo piano albums as they came out. And it was where I first heard Hermeto Pascoal and his music and that led to my eventually become a Brazilian music fan.

[JSngry]

On 8/16/2022 at 8:47 AM, JSngry said:

Music from what was left of Miles' orb from the time when it was not clear if he had an orb at all. No overt MilesMusic (except the melody of the title cut), but a few things sound like they were coming from there, and maybe could have gone there, had there been a there for them to go.

all in all, not a great record, but a good one, and another piece of the electric Miles Diaspora Story.

Casually staying on this one for a few days. Actually a bit fascinating, hearing Al Foster playing his Miles style.

[BillF]

53 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

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