So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Hopefully you have the other Hamilton records with Lloyd. Same thing there, only not nearly all. It's ALL.

Except, of course, for the standards, where there are any.

I don't have Drum Fusion or Transfusion or A Different Journey.   More for the list.   

I do have The Chico Hamilton Special -- but Lloyd didn't contribute any compositions to that date. 

[dougcrates]

17 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Meaning the Coltrane set. Everything looks great about it, how is it?

For my wife (and me🙂) She loves Chet 😍

 

The Coltrane set is really good.  Not sure why Impulse didn't release the show in the early 70s.  Sound quality isn't stellar as the original tapes were lost and is taken from producer Ed Michel's reference tapes.  

[Holy Ghost]

6 hours ago, optatio said:

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage: ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music ESP 1008-2 [Germany s.d.]

Personnel: Dewey Johnson (tp), Marshall Allen (as), Paul Bley (p), Eddie Gomes (b), Milford Graves (dr)

All compositions by Carla Bley

This is one wicked record. 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I don't have Drum Fusion or Transfusion or A Different Journey.   More for the list.   

I do have The Chico Hamilton Special -- but Lloyd didn't contribute any compositions to that date. 

No, that was the last record by the "old" group, the chamber group with cello. Forgot about that one, probably because it's not a favorite.

But those others...yeah! I like to tell people "don't sleep on Chico Hamilton!" That guy is deeper than a casual listen suggests, if only for the drumming itself.

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Porgy and Bess” Sony Blu-Spec CD2, stereo copy in this 2 cd set.

[Chuck Nessa]

[JSngry]

Horace Tapscott played trombone here.

[Quasimado]

16 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Yes, Yes!

[Holy Ghost]

On 8/1/2025 at 1:22 PM, dougcrates said:

Original LPs

The Magic of JuJu is one of my favorite Impulse! Shepps. Contrasts, I am waiting for a copy to graze my presence. 

[JSngry]

6 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

The Magic of JuJu is one of my favorite Impulse! Shepps.

Mine as well, at least from his first period. Also On This Night. That one maybe gets underappreciated.

Most of them have actually held up really well though. However...Fire Music and Four For Trane might be of more historical importance than Shepp importance once his pre-Impulse work gets familiar?

[Holy Ghost]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Mine as well, at least from his first period. Also On This Night. That one maybe gets underappreciated.

Most of them have actually held up really well though. However...Fire Music and Four For Trane might be of more historical importance than Shepp importance once his pre-Impulse work gets familiar?

On this Night, yeah! Historically and great music, love Fire Music and Four for Trane, but I like the Shepp Impulse!'s that fly under the radar, like For Losers, Live in San Francisco, Attica Blues, and Mama Too Tight. The Savoy material with Bill Dixon should be made more readily available (have the Atlantic/Savoy issue of Shepp/Dixon 7tette/Cont 5, but not the quartet issue , which is some gray-area issue).

 

 

[JSngry]

18 minutes ago, Quasimado said:

Yes, Yes!

Indeed. Even in a very, VERY strong run, this one stands out for me 

The older I get, the more I realize just how much of a TOTAL badass Coleman Hawkins was, and not just about music. Like, how much of a badass about life he had to be to get to be that much of a badass in music.

Not always true for everybody, and more true for Hawk than for many!

[Holy Ghost]

40 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Indeed. Even in a very, VERY strong run, this one stands out for me 

The older I get, the more I realize just how much of a TOTAL badass Coleman Hawkins was, and not just about music. Like, how much of a badass about life he had to be to get to be that much of a badass in music.

Not always true for everybody, and more true for Hawk than for many!

👍

[jazzbo]

Sneaking a few listens in this cool morning before I have to go back to the dealership with my car.

Starting off with the expanded Charles Mingus “The Carnegie Hall Concert–Deluxe Edition,” Rhino 2 cd set, disc 1–the newly released first part of the concert. The sound is so good!

 

 

A reissue truly done right!

[Pim]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Mine as well, at least from his first period. Also On This Night. That one maybe gets underappreciated.

Most of them have actually held up really well though. However...Fire Music and Four For Trane might be of more historical importance than Shepp importance once his pre-Impulse work gets familiar?

Plus The Way Ahead of course 😍

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” Mobile Fidelity One-Step 2 LP, LP 1, side A (“Pharaoh’s Dance”)

 

[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “Kind of Blue–50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” LP from the box set

 

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What a magnificent box set.

[Referentzhunter]

[Holy Ghost]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

Plus The Way Ahead of course 😍

Of course!!

14 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

Love this one simply for Billy Higgins making a simple trap and snare sound like a huge drum kit!

[Referentzhunter]

[Holy Ghost]

1 minute ago, Referentzhunter said:

Still love this record up to this very moment. 

[jazzcorner]

The Lost Recordings TLR-2104038 (2 CD set) - Stan Getz Quartet / Astrud Gilberto " Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1966

[Kevin Bresnahan]

54 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

The Lost Recordings TLR-2104038 (2 CD set) - Stan Getz Quartet / Astrud Gilberto " Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1966

I know Bev Getz was looking into this... I'm somewhat surprised it's still out there. PD cuts off at 1962 in the EU so 1966 is way outside of that so when the estate of a musician questions a release, that's usually all it takes to get it pulled.

[optatio]

James Carter: Chasin' The Gypsy. Atlantic 7567-83304-2 [Germany 2000]

… with Regina Carter (v) – cousin of James Carter

[Pim]

24 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I know Bev Getz was looking into this... I'm somewhat surprised it's still out there. PD cuts off at 1962 in the EU so 1966 is way outside of that so when the estate of a musician questions a release, that's usually all it takes to get it pulled.

Thats one fancy PD label then. I see their vinyl releases go for 100+ euros sometimes.