So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

I listened to one of my favorite ever cds, "Morning in Paris," Duke Ellington and Sathima Bea Benjamin--plus Billy Strayhorn, and amazing pizzicato violin by Ray Nance. An intimate, very low key, chamber jazz recording. Benjamin was then Dollar Brand's wife, and Duke was in Paris with a go ahead from Reprise Records to produce records and he recorded one with Dollar Brand and one with Bud Powell and Aiice Babs. I love them all.

Benjamin has a unique phrasing and an amazing control of her voice on super slow tempos. A beautiful album.

Then on to
Chick Corea and Origin "A Week at the Blue Note," disc 2.

This is one of my very favorite collections of recordings by Corea and this great ensemble he had together for a spell.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Nate Wooley – Argonautica (Firehouse, 2016)

[mjazzg]

Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight

First listen in decades, really enjoying it both nostalgically but also in the here and now

[Rabshakeh]

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight

First listen in decades, really enjoying it both nostalgically but also in the here and now

I love this record. Always gets heads bopping. 

[jazzbo]

Johnny Griffin "Lady Heavy Bottom's Waltz" Rearward cd

A great small group recording drawn from the personnel of the Clarke Boland Big Band. This sure does have a heavy bottom with both of the maestro drummers and the big rich sound of Jimmy Woode. And Johnny Griffin. . .I think he got lucky and didn't get a speeding ticket on this one. 

[kh1958]

Tubby Hayes, Down in the Village

Edited September 5, 2022 by kh1958

[Jim Duckworth]

[jazzbo]

Bob Dylan "Time Out of Mind" Sony Blu-Spec CD2

The Blu-Spec CD2 series of lp facsimile cds of the Dylan catalog sound fantastic.

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

James Moody and Al Cohn – Too Heavy For Words (MPS, 1973)

[BillF]

2 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Tubby Hayes, Down in the Village

[kh1958]

1 minute ago, BillF said:

Listening to the Complete Tubby Hayes Fontana box set.

Edited September 5, 2022 by kh1958

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

 

 

[John Tapscott]

[BillF]

22 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

[BillF]

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, BillF said:

I saw Jim Rotondi here in Viena for the first time with Curtis Fuller ! Great trumpet master. 
This year he was again in Viena with a "Dameronia" programm, it was an evening dedicated to the music of Tadd. 

[Rabshakeh]

George Howard – Dancing In The Sun (TBA, 1985)

[BillF]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I saw Jim Rotondi here in Viena for the first time with Curtis Fuller ! Great trumpet master. 
This year he was again in Viena with a "Dameronia" programm, it was an evening dedicated to the music of Tadd. 

Yes, with Jim at the University of Graz, Austria has a great jazzman in residence.

Now playing:

When I attended a clinic on jazz saxophone  - no, I don't play one! - by Dave O'Higgins, he answered a question about his favourite saxophonists predictably with Eric Alexander (with whom he's toured several times and made two albums), but also with Canadian player Phil Dwyer. And yes, Dwyer's pretty impressive! 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[kh1958]

Dave Holland Big Band, Overtime

[HutchFan]

Ray Mantilla Space Station featuring special guest Bobby Watson - Dark Powers (Red, 1988)

 

[Rabshakeh]

David Wertman – Kara Suite (Mustevic, 1976)

[Matthew]

The Jazz Crusaders: Freedom Sound