So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[optatio]

Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet: Teo. Original Jazz Classics Limited Edition Series OJCCD-1715-2 [US 1992]

 

[Holy Ghost]

I want to start the new year with Duke:

41 minutes ago, optatio said:

Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet: Teo. Original Jazz Classics Limited Edition Series OJCCD-1715-2 [US 1992]

 

Excellent!!

[jazzbo]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Gee that´s a good idea THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT !!!

My sister has a small jazz club, and always needs some records that is good, when there is not live music. 

And for late nights those ole hard bop records are good. 

I recommended to her "Mobley Soul Statig

 

Georghe, I confess I know NOTHING of clubs and the night life. . .35 years ago I quit smoking, and as a result had to at least temporarily stop drinking alcohol and going out at night after marrying and ceasing playing drums in bands. It worked really well, and I just continued these "bans" and they became habit, and the money I would have spent on cigarettes and alcohol and going out I spent on audio and musical instrument and equipment, and recordings. So. . . it seems that this would be a good example of a record to use, but I just don't know the audience and environment.

As for Monk, he was under contract with Riverside at the time of this release and then Columbia shortly after, and I think that European tours were more lucrative for Monk (and thus the label) than work in the US available to him at the time, and so it was pursued year after year. Many were broadcast, and as there were both radio station tapes and audience recorded tapes they made the rounds of collectors and often became bootlegged. What we have been seeing in the recent past are that especially the radio station tapes or tapes being made in clubs somewhat professionally are being released on LP and cd, mostly "authorized." So now there are better quality recordings of some long bootlegged items.

Edited December 31, 2025 by jazzbo

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

[mikeweil]

https://www.discogs.com/release/22878047-Julian-Mazzariello-Enzo-Pietropaoli-Easytude-Live/image/SW1hZ2U6NzY1ODU3MDA=

[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

 

 

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent.   

 

[jazzbo]

A busy morning. . . I spent some time shoveling last night’s snowfall as we had a plumbing inspection to be done (as part of a yearly program we have with the plumbing firm we use, who are nice people and knowledgable). All our plumbing is in excellent shape (should be as we have had a number of things corrected in the past few years) but he did find a gas leak right before our meter. So we contacted the gas company and that is taken care of, just a slight leak that required a tightening. Finally we could have lunch and relax. . . Lucinda is napping and I’m spinning Allan Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra “Louis Armstrong’s America Vol. 2”, disc 2 of the 2 cd set.

Lowe is a character but a really interesting musician and this music is very entertaining and. thought-provoking.

 

[HutchFan]

Disc 2 - originally released as Love Dance

A desert-island disc for this listener.

 

[John Tapscott]

[jlhoots]

Heath Brothers: Marchin' On (Reissue of Strata East album)

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[felser]

[Peter Friedman]

[nemo7]

eddie harris/is anybody listening

[jazzbo]

Gary Crosby's Nu Troop "Migrations" Dune cd

I'd forgotten about this cd. Really fine playing a la Jazz Messengers in great sound,.

 

[SMB1968]

[jazzbo]

It’s been too long since I spun this fantastic disc.

It is one of my all-time favorites. A great disc to play on the final day of the year.

Betty Carter “I’m Yours, You’re Mine” Verve cd. Unfortunately her last album. She was something else. A brave and brilliant artist.

 

 

Betty Carter – vocals, producer

Mark Shim – tenor saxophone

Andre Hayward – trombone

Xavier Davis – piano

Curtis Lundy – double bass

Matt Hughes – bass

Gregory Hutchinson – drums

Edited December 31, 2025 by jazzbo

[mikeweil]

[SMB1968]

[Rabshakeh]

Candido – Dancin' & Prancin'

Happy New Year everyone! 

[mikeweil]

[jazzbo]

Ben Wolfe “The Whisperer” Posi-tone cd

Evans is very good here.

[jazzbo]

This is probably my last disc spin of the year, so I selected Ellington and this was the first one I pulled out.

Duke Ellington “1939-1940” Chronogical Classics cd

Great variety here including solo piano, piano-bass duets, small group sides and full Orchestra sides.