So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

John Tapscott · 2026-01-09T01:35:33Z

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SMB1968 · 2026-01-09T02:14:27Z

ghost of miles · 2026-01-09T03:42:25Z

Listening to a Claude Thornhill anthology that provides a nice overview of his prime years, from the mid-1930s into the early 1950s. Caveat that it's a 2015 Acrobat CD-R release, but it was seven bucks new at my local record store:

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Praise always to the late Alastair Robertson for having shepherded eight CDs of Thornhill material into being through his invaluable Hep series, though I still wish Mosaic had been able to usher something of its own into existence--but I imagine the market for a Thornhill set might have been thin even 20-30 years ago. The individual Hep volumes remain my go-to Thornhill CDs, but this is perfect for an anthology mood (and about half of the first disc consists of sideman and early leader dates that took place before 1940, when the Hep series begins chronologically with the Snowfall CD).

ghost of miles · 2026-01-09T04:06:19Z

I also have this 1975 Columbia double-LP stashed somewhere around the house. Imagining this was the main representation of the Thornhill oeuvre that was to be found in the 1970s bins, or were there any other compilations that circulated?

JSngry · 2026-01-09T06:10:58Z

That was the only compilation that I ever knew.

But there was a Japanese collection of all the Gil Evans charts.

https://www.discogs.com/master/870403-Claude-Thornhill-Orchestra-Featuring-Gil-Evans-The-Real-Birth-Of-The-Cool-Featuring-Gil-Evans-Arrang?srsltid=AfmBOoql5QaL6FeG9R1XU8j4c7xEXpPEG87_nRkaexaHeokMVqG74PjT

EKE BBB · 2026-01-09T07:06:39Z

Started they day with...

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 2, principal, 1 de 3

Planned to go along with...

Harlem Butterfly (A Remembrance Of Maxine Sullivan), Primary, 1 of 4

and

Rebecca Kilgore With Hal Smith's California Swing Cats, Primary, 1 of 1

Becky Kilgore, in memoriam. R.I.P.

Rabshakeh · 2026-01-09T07:29:50Z

Alexandre Stellio – Integrale Chronologique 1929 - 1931

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Killer record.

Referentzhunter · 2026-01-09T07:55:13Z

thriftstore-find (CD)

optatio · 2026-01-09T08:10:06Z

Claude Thornhill Orchestra: The Real Birth Of The Cool (Featuring Gil Evans Arrangements). CBS/Sony 25DP 5321 [Japan 1989]

Edited 12 hours ago by optatio

optatio · 2026-01-09T08:42:24Z

For comparison:

Claude Thornhill: Tapestries. Affinity CD CHARLY 82 [UK 1987]

Note:: 23 tracks, not identical to the issue above (19 tracks)

jazzbo · 2026-01-09T10:19:48Z

Chilly rain. . . this will demolish what remains of the recent 13" plus of snow we had. Warm for January this morning, with a cooler front moving in this afternoon.

I decided to start the day with a Miles Davis bootleg–Miles Davis “Howlin’–Kyoto, July 15, 1964” EGHO cd. Not perfect sound, but decent, and Sam Rivers on tenor for one of his few recorded gigs with the Quintet. Interestingly this concert was recorded outside in the rain. . . so the slightly intrusive sound of the rain here, now, is appropriate.