So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Rabshakeh]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

Is this comp's title a pun? I am not getting it.

[EKE BBB]

Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Heavy Hitter (Muse, 1979)

[HutchFan]

7 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Is this comp's title a pun? I am not getting it.

Rab, I have no idea what that title means, why it was chosen.

I just took a quick look at Joel Dorn's introductory notes, and he doesn't say anything about it.

 

12 minutes ago, EKE BBB said:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Heavy Hitter (Muse, 1979)

Outstanding.

 

[dougcrates]

Always a joy to pull this one off the shelf. 

[Peter Friedman]

[BillF]

[EKE BBB]

Kenny Garrett - Sounds from the ancestors (Mack Avenue, 2021)

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Excellent ....

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[Referentzhunter]

Tanar 1&2 * Etornal

[dougcrates]

[Chuck Nessa]

Been working my way through the Jerry Newman recordings from Minton's from the early '40s focusing in the Monk material. Not easy to sort out.

Edited October 14, 2022 by Chuck Nessa
typo

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

21 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

[soulpope]

21 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Some good Henry Grimes playing featured here .... 

[BillF]

[danasgoodstuff]

Been listening to a lot of Red Garland recently, such a fine touch on that loud/soft keyboard mechanism.

[Gheorghe]

47 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Been listening to a lot of Red Garland recently, such a fine touch on that loud/soft keyboard mechanism.

Yeah, that was his trademark. And very very significant his chord-voicings when he plays those fantastic chord solos. 

3 hours ago, BillF said:

I must admit that I never listened to Baker oder Pepper in the 50´s , I think I heard a live date of Pepper from 1952 which is not bad. But I heard much Baker and Pepper live in the late 70´s and 80´s. Sounds much more interesting to me than the old Westcoasts, which sure had a big following, but somehow I can´t get the feeling I want to get. And them horrible album covers. Well, that was the life style then , I suppose. 

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Yeah, that was his trademark. And very very significant his chord-voicings when he plays those fantastic chord solos. 

I must admit that I never listened to Baker oder Pepper in the 50´s , I think I heard a live date of Pepper from 1952 which is not bad. But I heard much Baker and Pepper live in the late 70´s and 80´s. Sounds much more interesting to me than the old Westcoasts, which sure had a big following, but somehow I can´t get the feeling I want to get. And them horrible album covers. Well, that was the life style then , I suppose. 

A great session!  Compositions by Jimmy Heath who was in prison at the time - it's said the charts were smuggled out! Third horn by Phil Urso does real justice to Heath's wonderful writing.

I think this one contains all they did:

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, BillF said:

Iconic Cover Art ....

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

"The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan-Wayne Shorter Sessions" disc 1

Lots of alternates back to back but I dig this box set and am re-visiting it with enjoyment.

[kh1958]

The Complete Capitol Recordings of Duke Ellington, disc 1 (Mosaic)