So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

 

2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

  

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

I discussed that album last year with a fellow musician  and said that the only thing I complain is that there is too little work on the left hand. I mean , you must not bang all them keys only because there are 88 keys, but the left hand should do more rhytmically. The tunes are great, but it´s strange "be bop" is played in C minor rather than F minor, and it suffers from the lack of left hand punctations.....

19 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

The George Shearing Quintet – You're Hearing George Shearing (MGM, 1950)

One big discovery for me this year has been how much I enjoy some of George Shearing's records. If you would have told me this five years ago, I would have thought that you were mad, but it's there. When it works, there's that great combination of jazz pop and Debussyian exotica, with lovely piano and vibes interplay.

Well, across here I don´t remember there was a big George Shearing following among us musicians and music students. 

It´s possible that a slightly older generation, who liked comfortable "lounge jazz" liked it. I remember one guy who was more into easy listening jazz praised George Shearing, but in my case my only linke to him is two of his compositions that I have in my repertory: 

I like to play "Lullaby at Birdland" at a brisc tempo in A minor, or in a more medium tempo in F minor, using block chords in the theme and then building up more and more emotion into the chorusses. 

And I think I´m one of the few guys around here who do "Conception". Actually there is the original Conception in AABA with 12 bars in the A section, and I play it in Db, which some folks consider a difficult key.

Others, like a trumpet player I know play the Miles Davis version in C, with the A section as normal, but a different continuing of the tune with that great pedal point in it.

Two listening examples:

1) Conception in Db with the original AABA form: Bud Powell Piano Interpretations, Verve 1955.

2) Conception as done by Miles on "Miles Davis-Stan Getz at Birdland 1950", and "Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron on "Last Bop Session" also at Birdland 1950....

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Aptly titled classic ....

[BillF]

[jazzcorner]

On 12/5/2022 at 12:05 PM, Rabshakeh said:

The George Shearing Quintet – You're Hearing George Shearing (MGM, 1950)

One big discovery for me this year has been how much I enjoy some of George Shearing's records. If you would have told me this five years ago, I would have thought that you were mad, but it's there. When it works, there's that great combination of jazz pop and Debussyian exotica, with lovely piano and vibes interplay.

Well I like the early Shearing & his quintet when I started collection in the 1960s. His Everest &  most MGM recordings are here. He was a fine bebopper  with a feeling for good melodies. Pete Rugulo did an interesting composition "Rugolo meets Shearing" on a Mercury LP.

BTW I have 2 different 12"  editions of "You're hearing George Shearing"  (MGM E 3706 & MGM E 3216) and would like to see the tracks from the copy above. Is that a 10" edition?

Here are my 2 versions (with different tracks)

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by jazzcorner
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[BillF]

I also prefer the early Shearing (1949-52). By the time I got to see him - in Leeds in the later 60s - I no longer liked his stuff. I was at this show for the other billed group - the Junior Mance trio with Bob Cranshaw on bass. 👍

[Gheorghe]

20 minutes ago, BillF said:

I also prefer the early Shearing (1949-52). By the time I got to see him - in Leeds in the later 60s - I no longer liked his stuff. I was at this show for the other billed group - the Junior Mance trio with Bob Cranshaw on bass. 👍

I also would have choosen Junior Mance trio.

Festivals sometimes was a mess. Especially North Sea where so many good artists played at the same time in different halls. 

I had that experience once in 1985 at Hollabrunn Festival. For the same time there was Jackie McLean sextet in hall A, Lou Donaldson quartet in Hall B, and Pharoah Sanders quartet in Hall C, so I had to split the performances to see all them three. 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Well I like the early Shearing & his quintet when I started collection in the 1960s. His Everest &  most MGM recordings are here. He was a fine bebopper  with a feeling for good melodies. Pete Rugulo did an interesting composition "Rugolo meets Shearing" on a Mercury LP.

BTW I have 2 different 12"  editions of "You're hearing George Shearing"  (MGM E 3706 & MGM E 3216) and would like to see the tracks from the copy above. Is that a 10" edition?

Here are my 2 versions (with different tracks)

 

It was the second these. Just a stream though.

I find it very interesting music: the blend of modern classical, exotica and catchy jazz pop was a complete dead end, but it is quite strange and mystical.

I think that I find it in a haunting "true exotica" that I find in post-Wagner classical music like Debussy but not in Martin Denny.

Currently listening to:

The Bad Plus – Give (2004)

I started listening to jazz during The Bad Plus' pomp, and never liked the group's music. I occasionally return to see what I missed and am reminded that it was never going to be. Something about the completely rigid time keeping for the piano melodies really annoys me.

Edited December 6, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[jazzbo]

Dianne Reeves "In the Moment Live in Concert"

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis "Seven Steps to Heaven" Sony SBM mastered lp facsimile cd.

It's interesting how well these 20 bit remastered cds that I bought years and years ago of Miles Davis albums I love have held up sonically. When I revisit them I notice how great they sound. . . and then I disappear into the familiar, almost "cherished" music.

https://www.kind-of-blue.de/seiten/disco/seven_steps_srcs9109.htm
 

[jazzbo]

On to another Miles Davis, "E.S.P." this time a Mobile Fidelity SACD edition.

One of the first "Second Great Quintet" releases I ever bought, way back when on a reissue LP. It remains one of the cornerstones of my listening world.

[HutchFan]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

 

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Now playing:

 

[Balladeer]

Avishai Cohen - Shifting Sands (Naive)

[Chuck Nessa]

[Peter Friedman]

The Big 3 with a variety of special guests such as Pee Wee Russell, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn and others.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Do you know the early version of the band with Muhal, Paul Serrano & Nicky Hill?

[HutchFan]

41 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Do you know the early version of the band with Muhal, Paul Serrano & Nicky Hill?

I'm aware of it -- but I've never heard it.  It's worth seeking out?

 

 

Now playing:

Rubén Blades y Son del Solar - Live! (Elektra, 1990) 

 

 

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Tremendous!   

 

Edited December 6, 2022 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

[jazzbo]

[sidewinder]

7 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Remember seeing them circa 2000 at Bath Pavilion in an era when Bath Council actually supported live jazz events. Alas no more - and it is a far less interesting place for it. As I recall, it was an intriguing performance. I think they were paired with ‘Supersilent’ - my ears are still recovering from that one.

Edited December 6, 2022 by sidewinder

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzbo]

 

Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo "Planetaria de Gavea" disc 2

[John Tapscott]

[mjzee]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I'm aware of it -- but I've never heard it.  It's worth seeking out?

 

I picked up a copy in 2019 from CDJapan.  The band is Serrano, Hill, Abrams, Bob Cranshaw and Walter Perkins.  I only gave it one spin so far, but remember liking it.  What specifically struck me was how well Muhal played in a straight-ahead context.  IIRC, one of Cranshaw's earliest dates.