So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Holy Ghost]

So, my wife brought home (shhh, I know she's a secret horder) a box of weird-ass religious CD's, but I looked in the box anyway, and nestled in them was this CD: Oscar Peterson (not Cindi Lauper/Miles Davis), Time After Time. Looks like someone used it as a brillow pad, no case, scratched up, but I put it on (after dishwashing it) and who knew, it plays!!!

Here's the jacket that should accompany the CD:

Pleasant enough, but I still can't believe it played all the way through!

 

 

1 hour ago, T.D. said:

 

 

Enjoying this. Some people don't like Cowell's "later straight-ahead" albums as much as his earlier work. Sometimes they can be slightly anodyne (which is why I was apprehensive about this one on the Japanese Venus label*), but: (a) he never played in a very "out" style; (b) he still plays great on the later recordings.

* Amusingly, discogs now censors the notoriously soft-porn Venus covers. You have to log in to view them. 🤣

With a funny West Side Story medley.

Superior listening!

 

 

 

 

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[Holy Ghost]

One of my favorite drummers:

[jlhoots]

10 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

One of my favorite drummers:

Mine too. That's a great CD (in my collection).

[JSngry]

33 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

Fascinating accounts, I was barely one years old!

I transitioned from Beatles-to-Henrix-to-Zappa with random but meaningful bumpings into Soul (which was a whole other story...)

It was a window in time...jazz-rock was about to become fusion (but had not yet), the big bands were still going (on all guides), the avant-garde was rapidly evolving. Europe was teeming with Americans and natives clicking decoratively and together, and most importantly...so many major voices were still alive, gigging, and recording. And the reissues were just beginning to get rolling!

I like to use Wayne Shorter to illustrate - just about a year in. I knew of Wayne from records by Blakey, Miles, and Weather Report. I was too dumb to realize that it was not basically all the same person.

Silly me.

[Holy Ghost]

32 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I transitioned from Beatles-to-Henrix-to-Zappa with random but meaningful bumpings into Soul (which was a whole other story...)

It was a window in time...jazz-rock was about to become fusion (but had not yet), the big bands were still going (on all guides), the avant-garde was rapidly evolving. Europe was teeming with Americans and natives clicking decoratively and together, and most importantly...so many major voices were still alive, gigging, and recording. And the reissues were just beginning to get rolling!

I like to use Wayne Shorter to illustrate - just about a year in. I knew of Wayne from records by Blakey, Miles, and Weather Report. I was too dumb to realize that it was not basically all the same person.

Silly me.

This is awesome, thank you for these cool insights! That account was nearly 20 years in the making for me...when I was barely one. Great experience, to be of age at the time!

48 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Mine too. That's a great CD (in my collection).

If you haven't seen this video where Ed rejoins Ornette, Dewey, and Charlie...what a treat!!!

 

[John Tapscott]

[medjuck]

6 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Yes, I very much agree. I am likely the oldest person posting on this board. My strong interest in jazz  truly developed at the very time when both Hard Bop and West Coast Jazz were coming onto the scene.Though my interest in Lester Young started early.

As time passed I also went back in time and developed a strong interest in the music and musicians of the Swing/Mainsteam period such as Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton,  Johnny Hodges, etc. Then I became interested in the Eddie Condon School such as Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Wild Bill Davison and others.

I also developed an interest in Blues Music and people such as Muddy Waters & Lightnin Hopkins .

Other than a very brief stint of interest of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Rock music was never on my radar.

When were you born?  I was born in '43 and I was too young to have appreciated West Coast Jazz when it was new.  

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

One of my favorite drummers:

There's another volume (What It Be Like?)which is equally good.

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[Pim]

[optatio]

7 hours ago, T.D. said:

 

👍

[Pim]

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

👍

[Holy Ghost]

4 hours ago, jlhoots said:

There's another volume (What It Be Like?)which is equally good.

Yep. I just have to hop to it and buy it.

NP

[Balladeer]

Brad Mehldau - After Bach II (Nonesuch)

[Referentzhunter]

[Holy Ghost]

5 hours ago, medjuck said:

When were you born?  I was born in '43 and I was too young to have appreciated West Coast Jazz when it was new.  

Right? More stories please!

3 minutes ago, Referentzhunter said:

👍Grew up listening to this record, one of my mom's favorites.

2 hours ago, optatio said:

👍

+2. Was just playing:

20 hours ago, jazzbo said:

COLD. It’s going to be one of those winters (as I keep finding myself thinking and repeating to myself).

Starting a day listeninig as Lucinda takes her first nap. . . a disc I haven’t heard long enough for it to be a joy to me after decades of listening to it. And in my favorite edition: a JVC XRCD in lp facsimile. There’s just a deeper soundstage to this mastering, and little details that reveal texture. . . I love the sound of this disc.

Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet LP facsimile XRCD

 

Oh yeah. For such a rush to end his Prestige contract, resulted in some of my favorite Miles records.

 

[Holy Ghost]

This album is sick! By some remote happenstance, this was at a remote used CD shop in the most remote location, and I couldn't believe it, sitting there, for what look like years.

This is DEEP GROOVE

 

 

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[Referentzhunter]

 

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[jazzbo]

COLD morning again.. I slept well but woke up at 5 and that was IT.

Finally opened this new Lateef release and it sure sounds great!

Yusef Lateef “Golden Flower, Live in Sweden” Elemental Music 2 cd set, disc 1

 

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For some reason it made me think of my first exposure to Lateef. Early on in my discovery of jazz I bought a Charlie Parker record on Charlie Parker Records that when I spun it was NOT Charlie Parker though that was what all the labeling said. It took me a while to discover it was a mis-labeled Yusef Lateef record!

 

 

[Referentzhunter]

an old favorite, they wanted to create a perfect record. The transition from side A to Side b is otherworldy. 

[jazzbo]

Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band “More Never Recorded Arrangements For Benny Goodman, Volume Two” Arbors cd

 

 

[Holy Ghost]

[Holy Ghost]

[jazzbo]

Continuing a revisit of Yes material.

Yes “Keys to Ascension Complete” cd 3