So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Niko]

3 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Listening to Dave Schildkraut with Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Miles, and Chuck Wayne and had to come back to this one.

a long-time favorite... played Tony Bennett's Cloud 7 yesterday which also features Wayne, Schildkraut and the elusive trumpeter Charles Panelly...

Edited January 2, 2023 by Niko

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

 

[EKE BBB]

[HutchFan]

Now playing:

Egberto Gismonti - Nó Caipira (Carmo; originally EMI Brazil, 1978)

with Gismonti's Academia De Danças:
- Mauro Senise (ss, as, fl)
- Zeca Assumpção (b)
- Zé Eduardo Nazário (d, perc)

and orchestra

IMO, this album is unclassifiable and brilliant, a tour-de-force.  I don't think I've ever heard music that integrates such a wide range of disparate elements/styles/genres so organically and so successfully.  

 

Edited January 2, 2023 by HutchFan

[Bluesnik]

And really, really enjoying it. The booklet is also very good. I've picked two bibliographical references from it.

[John Tapscott]

[John L]

1 hour ago, Bluesnik said:

 

And really, really enjoying it. The booklet is also very good. I've picked two bibliographical references from it.

Pick this one up if you can still find it.  If I could have only one blues disc, it would be disc 2 from this set.  (It is not a selected compilation as the title might suggest but all of Muddy Waters' first recordings for Chess)

 

Edited January 3, 2023 by John L

[gdogus]

 

Miles Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

Right now, it's December 22 - second set

[mjzee]

Disc 1.

[Chuck Nessa]

4 hours ago, John L said:

Pick this one up if you can still find it.  If I could have only one blues disc, it would be disc 2 from this set.  (It is not a selected compilation as the title might suggest but all of Muddy Waters' first recordings for Chess)

 

What he said, but if you are looking for more move on to this

and then this

I spent many hours hearing Muddy and band on the South Side (Pepper's Lounge) and North Side (Big John's) in the '60s and '70s.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Chuck Nessa

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, John L said:

Yes.  The closest thing that we have are the Billy Eckstine band recordings from 1944-1945.  But Bird wasn't present on any of those.  

I heard that pre 1944 there was a recording "ban" whatever that means. That must have been a desaster for the record industry and for the musicians. Maybe it had to do with that scheiss-krieg and now we can´t hear much of the real story of the transition from swing to bop. Well there is "Early Bird" with the Jay McShann Orchestra that gives us a glimpse of how music was then, but I heard that Diz and Bird and Oscar Pettiford were on the street as early as 1943,44 ....

[EKE BBB]

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Listening to Dave Schildkraut with Stan Kenton, Johnny Richards, Miles, and Chuck Wayne and had to come back to this one.

I have heard Ralph Burns only on that "Saturday Night Jazz Session"  on the America Label, that group with Fats Navarro (the reason I bought it then in the 70´s ) , Allen Eager, Charlie Ventura, Buddy Rich and I think that first number "High on an Open Mike" started with Ralph Burns on piano. I remember it was a quite unusual style, mostly with very heavy block chords on that descending chords in the bridge (I think I remember the song is based on "If I had You" in the A section with a bridge of descending chords). 

4 hours ago, mjzee said:

Disc 1.

That´s really a good group. That rhythm section, George Cables incredible solo on that long Art Pepper composition something with "Make a Wish" or so. I must admit I like the rhythm section more than the star himself, though sure he´s great. 

[BillF]

9 hours ago, John L said:

Pick this one up if you can still find it.  If I could have only one blues disc, it would be disc 2 from this set.  (It is not a selected compilation as the title might suggest but all of Muddy Waters' first recordings for Chess)

 

So pleased I managed to see the Muddy Waters Blues Band. It was in 1969 in the unlikely setting of the Variety Club in the small town of Batley in Yorkshire. (Mind you, they also got Louis Armstrong on another occasion!) The Waters band was in a package with the Horace Silver Quintet (Brecker Bros) and a gospel group (Stars of Faith?)

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

👍

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, BillF said:

So pleased I managed to see the Muddy Waters Blues Band. It was in 1969 in the unlikely setting of the Variety Club in the small town of Batley in Yorkshire. (Mind you, they also got Louis Armstrong on another occasion!) The Waters band was in a package with the Horace Silver Quintet (Brecker Bros) and a gospel group (Stars of Faith?)

👍

That Armstrong performance at Batley Variety Club (Yorkshire venue of the moment in the late 60s and flush with cash until it folded) was the last UK performance by the All Stars. I think it was that trip that a young Enrico Tomasso got presented with a trumpet by Louis at the airport, presumably Yeadon (Leeds/Bradford).

Alyn Shipton in his book tells a story about his school mates driving up to see the Armstrong Batley gig from Hampshire in a Dormobile driven by a 17 year old who had just passed his test. Alyn’s Mum put the stoppers on him going, needless to say the guys travelled safely and had a wonderful time.

Excellent !

Edited January 3, 2023 by sidewinder

[jazzbo]

Finally getting to listen again as Lucy is back at work.

Two Stanley Turrentine cds in the Japanese series of Blu-Spec CD releases in the “CTI Supreme” series. . .

“Salt Song”

followed by
“The Sugar Man”

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[Referentzhunter]

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Peggy Lee “Things are Swingin’” Capitol/Universal Japan lp facsimile cd 2022

(It amazes me how much Peggy Lee and my Mom resemble each other in some photographs).

[soulpope]

43 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Excellent ....

[BillF]

[jazzbo]

Grant Green “Talkin’ About!” Blue Note/Audio Wave XRCD24

[sidewinder]

Slide Hampton’s arrangements for this band are great - and what a lineup !

Edited January 3, 2023 by sidewinder

[Peter Friedman]