So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzcorner]

RCA Masters (France) PL 31257 - Lee Konitz " Stereokonitz" - rec. 1968 Rome (IT)

 

[jlhoots]

Nels Cline: Concentrik Quartet

[Peter Friedman]

Hod O'Brien & Lew Woodall  Second Time Around

 

[EKE BBB]

followed by

[Chuck Nessa]

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

 

[felser]

Great album, amazing sound quality for an unearthed 1957 live recording on an "off" label.  The one I have has a different (better) cover on a slightly differently named label, but same material.

[Holy Ghost]

[optatio]

2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

👍

[Tom in RI]

Lester Young, The “Kansas City Sessions”, Commodore. Ooo, Lester on clarinet.

[Peter Friedman]

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

Some new-to-me Italian jazz on a sunny Monday morning:

Pietro Tonolo - Disguise (Splasc(H), 1997)

 

[Chuck Nessa]

More 70's nostalgia.

[John Tapscott]

[HutchFan]

Ernie Watts - Unity (JVC, 1995)
with Geri Allen (p), Steve Swallow (el b), Eddie Gomez (b), and Jack DeJohnette (d)

This is excellent.  

 

Edited May 5 by HutchFan

[John Tapscott]

On 5/3/2025 at 4:41 PM, Mark Eisenman said:

Thanks for listening, here's how that recording came to be.

https://jazzpiano.ca/the-jimmy-cobb-story/

I really like this one too.  Excellent band.

  

The opening track is called "Hark, the Duke's Trumpets" with no trumpet sounds at all.  The tune was as yet untitled so I suspect Duke gave it this impromptu title as the trumpets filed on stage, late.  

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

More 70's nostalgia.

👍❤️ - I have also the LPs on Douglas and Polydor 😂

[jazzbo]

A late start to listening today, tasks got in the way and I didn’t have time to myself early in the morning as Lucinda came to life the same time I did.

Starting off with

The Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab One Step 2 LP box of this release I know so well. Waited about 3 years for this I think and was so excited to finally gei it. I have OG Lps, reissue LPs, and one of nearly every cd and SACD release of this title which is so much a part of my listening world and has been from about '72.

Unfortunately. . . Record One, Side One is defective in a way that I have never had an LP be defective before: there is a very loud low frequency buzz that rattles woofers the entire first side, covering up the music itself. The other sides seem to be fine.

Sigh. I’ll have to figure out how to get a replacement for that LP.

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Unfortunately. . . Record One, Side One is defective in a way that I have never had an LP be defective before: there is a very loud low frequency buzz that rattles woofers the entire first side, covering up the music itself. The other sides seem to be fine.

Sigh. I’ll have to figure out how to get a replacement for that LP.

Oh man!  What a bummer!   

 

[jazzbo]

Indeed, that was pretty much what I said when I first spun that side, seconds in: "What a bummer." I sent an email to Music Direct, my source, and hope they'll take care of this (they have been good in regard to errors and faults in the past).

EDIT TO ADD: Just got an email back from Music Direct--they are sending me a replacement LP. Good company.

Edited May 5 by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

 

Kenny Burrell & Art Blakey “On View At the Five Spot.Cafe” Blue Note Japan SHM-SACD

The entire content of the new 2 cd set on one SACD. Sounds very good–a bit “faster” and less warm than the Analogue Productions SACD I also have.

[T.D.]

Japanese jazz briefly came up on another thread.

This is a most enjoyable live hard bop album with four well-known veteran players, rec. 1994.

[ghost of miles]