So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Agent Smith on bari.

  Make no mistake: That bari is a lethal weapon.

 

[BillF]

[jazzcorner]

18 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 

 

playing now

Edited October 12, 2022 by jazzcorner

[Rabshakeh]

11 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Pat Matshikiza – Sikiza Matshikiza (The Sun, 1976)

Listening to this one again to perk myself up this morning. A really good late slice of cape jazz with Sipho Gumede on it to give it a modern (for the time) feel.

Edited October 12, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

The Cliffs featuring Mankunku Ngozi – Alex Express (R&T, 1975)

Another great one from SA. This time more in a laid back soul jazz / funk vein, but still with the banks of horns. If anyone knows who played on it, other than Ngozi, let me know as there's very little info out there about the group. I think possible Stompie Manana may be on trumpet.

Edited October 12, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I love it. I think it also has that incredible tune "Jodo" on it, which I first heard on "Night of the Cookers" . Great record as I remember it. 

[Rabshakeh]

Ben Webster With Strings – Music With Feeling (Norgran, 1954)

[mikeweil]

There could be more Cuber on it! When he plays, he's great. There was an abundance of talent in that band that was not quite taken advantage of, the was these albums were made. Benson in his notes talks about the freedom he had in selecting the material, but if that is true, he already had an idea about a commercial career.

Edited October 12, 2022 by mikeweil

[robertoart]

41 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

There could be more Cuber on it! When he plays, he's great. There was an abundance of talent in that band that was not quite taken advantage of, the was these albums were made. Benson in his notes talks about the freedom he had in selecting the material, but if that is true, he already had an idea about a commercial career.

These Columbia albums were the direct result of John Hammonds intervention. The power of Ronnie Cuber's baritone is always felt on the heads though. The whole mood is set from the Baritone/Guitar unison. But mostly it's the George show. No 12 minute Blue Note or Prestige workouts. Lonnie Smith was given his own leader date at the time. Otherwise it's not until the later Verve sessions with Hancock and Billy Cobham do you get much sense of dialogue occurring on a Benson lead session imo. 

[Joe]

Secretly a bit "out there" (Cf. Yusef Lateef's entrance on "Judyful").

[jazzbo]

20 minutes ago, Joe said:

Secretly a bit "out there" (Cf. Yusef Lateef's entrance on "Judyful").

Pretty cool engineering by RVG--the Savoy/Denon cd I have sounds fantastic.

 

This morning:

Sun Ra "Universe in Blue" Cosmic Myth Records cd 2022

A lot of cool Sun Ra organ. He gets some very neat sounds on this blues album. My favorite the organ sounds like a cross between a B3 and a Clavinette.

Sound is nicely live and dynamic and generally quite good. On the vocal number the horns backing the singer are very under-recorded--you have to really listen for them. But even that is kind of cool.

1972--the bonus material is from Slug's, the original release is purported to be from Slugs.

Followed by

3/10/81, disc 3 from this set

The Grateful Dead: In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83

Edited October 12, 2022 by jazzbo

[BillF]

6 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

[Peter Friedman]

[dougcrates]

[JSngry]

 

[jazzbo]

Louis Gasca "Collage" Fantasy/Beat Goes Public cd

Huge personnel on this one! Some great trumpeting from Gasca.

[dougcrates]

16 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Louis Gasca "Collage" Fantasy/Beat Goes Public cd

Huge personnel on this one! Some great trumpeting from Gasca.

How do you find the remastering on this one?  Some of the titles in this series were brickwalled to death

[jazzbo]

Sounds fine to me. Not brickwalled.

[dougcrates]

Good to know.  I'll have to pick that one up.  I have his other 70s albums on vinyl but for some reason I never see this one.  

[HutchFan]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now:

John McNeil - East Coast Cool (OmniTone, 2006)
with Allan Chase (bari sax); John Hebert (b); Matt Wilson (d)

This album is a tip of the cap to the Baker/Mulligan quartet; however, this band sounds much more contemporary.  They're just using the Baker/Mulligan aesthetic as a jumping off point for doing their own thing.

I picked this up when it came out. Chase has been teaching at Berklee for a long time and used to play pretty frequently in the Boston area before Covid. I haven't seen him on a club schedule in a while.

[jazzbo]

All the cool kids are talking about this one so I am joining in. I'm going to vote for Miles!

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

[Peter Friedman]