So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for your detailed 'critic'.

Have to admit that I never was an enthousiastic follower of his music. But interested enough to buy this Lp set

 

A real good one I like very much is this one:

 and finally should be mentioned also these here in my stock:

- "Town Hall Concert" rec.  1962 United Artists15024

- "Money Jungle" rec. 1962  Liberty LBJ 60055 (Japan)

 

 

 

So anyway you have some nice recordings from the fities until the mid seventies. That´s sure enough for someone who is not a Mingus enthusiastic.

Mingus, I think, was not " everybody´s darling" even in jazz circles. 

In my case it was a bit unorthodox: Mingus was esential for all that I  began to love in jazz, he was in any case the second record I had (my first was Miles´ "Steaming" and soon I had more Mingus records than Miles records. I was just mesmerized by what I heard. He was my guide to several styles. Via Jakie Byard and some Ellington tunes I learned about the pre bop styles, via Dolphy I got curious to hear how Bird maybe had sounded and how Ornette Coleman and his followers might sound....., He was for me "in the middle of it". 

[BillF]

27 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

So anyway you have some nice recordings from the fities until the mid seventies. That´s sure enough for someone who is not a Mingus enthusiastic.

Mingus, I think, was not " everybody´s darling" even in jazz circles. 

In my case it was a bit unorthodox: Mingus was esential for all that I  began to love in jazz, he was in any case the second record I had (my first was Miles´ "Steaming" and soon I had more Mingus records than Miles records. I was just mesmerized by what I heard. He was my guide to several styles. Via Jakie Byard and some Ellington tunes I learned about the pre bop styles, via Dolphy I got curious to hear how Bird maybe had sounded and how Ornette Coleman and his followers might sound....., He was for me "in the middle of it". 

Have just been rewatching this with its fine Mingus (especially Shafi Hadi) soundtrack:

 

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, BillF said:

Have just been rewatching this with its fine Mingus (especially Shafi Hadi) soundtrack:

 

A quick question, is the soundtrack available as a standalone recording?

2 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

A quick question, is the soundtrack available as a standalone recording?

Answer to my own question,appears to have been a bootleg release a couple of years ago

Edited May 15, 2023 by mjazzg

[Peter Friedman]

Joe Roland on Bethlehem

[optatio]

24 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Joe Roland on Bethlehem

👍 - as LP - Fresh Sound FSR-2032 [1988] - on my shelf!

[BillF]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

A quick question, is the soundtrack available as a standalone recording?

Answer to my own question,appears to have been a bootleg release a couple of years ago

I wouldn't know about that, but this 1958 film perfectly complements the earlier chapters of the Rollins biography where race, and to a lesser extent, music are concerned.

[kh1958]

Floyd Smith, Relaxin' with Floyd (Definitive Black and Blue)

[BillF]

39 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Joe Roland on Bethlehem

👍

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

A real good one I like very much is this one:

❤️❤️❤️ ....

[jazzbo]

Shirley Scott “Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank” Reel to Real 2 cd set

 

[jazzbo]

Stan Getz “Serenity” Emarcy cd

 

 

This live show would be a good destination for a time machine.

[John Tapscott]

18 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Stan Getz “Serenity” Emarcy cd

 

 

This live show would be a good destination for a time machine.

 

👍

Now:

[Joe]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Joe said:

 

👍

[BillF]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Joe said:

 

Beautiful Cover Art ....

[Peter Friedman]

[scooter_phx]

[scooter_phx]

[John Tapscott]

13 minutes ago, scooter_phx said:

👍

Now:

Discs 5-7

[gmonahan]

9 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Stan Getz “Serenity” Emarcy cd

 

 

This live show would be a good destination for a time machine.

 

Agreed. The ballads are to die for.

 

[dougcrates]

[Larry Kart]

Martial Solal

 If you have a taste for Solal, check out this recording, "Contrastes,"  on Storyville of the concert he gave upon winning the 1999 Danish Jazzpar Prize. It includes five pieces he wrote for his trio (Mads Vinding and Daniel Humair) plus the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and three performances by the trio alone. Solal's writing for the ensemble is a detailed extension of his virtuosic piano playing, beautifully performed by the DRJO. Also this may be the best recording of an ensemble of this size I've ever heard. 

[dougcrates]

[BillF]

7 hours ago, scooter_phx said:

👍

6 hours ago, scooter_phx said:

👍