So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

Kevin Bresnahan · April 10

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

The Walter Norris Quartet “Sunburst” Concord cd

Bass – Larry Grenadier
Drums – Mike Hyman
Piano – Walter Norris
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson

Recorded at Coast Records,San Francisco, August 13 & 14,1991

I sometimes wonder about Joe taking so many sideman dates around this time (late 80's/early 90's). He did a lot of them. This is certainly one of the good ones. My favorite sideman date from this time is probably the one he did with Neil Swainson but Tyner's "New York Reunion" is great too.

dougcrates · April 10

jazzbo · April 10

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Where are you based? I enjoy the seasonal updates.

I'm about 40 miles east of downtown Cleveland, out in the "rural suburbs," in Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio. Trump country unfortunately, but I am living in a sparsely housed wooded neighborhood directly across from a large state wildlife preserve (read big forest, a half a mile up a really steep hill from a man-made lake, Bass Lake. It's nice to no longer be in an urban, and just outside of a suburban, environment, but it has disadvantages in the heaviest snowfalls of NE Ohio perhaps, and because of the forest and trees abounding dangers due to high winds (which have become a thing when a few years ago they were NOT).

There's really so little going on in my life to talk about that the weather has more import to me than it ever did before.

Edited April 10 by jazzbo

Brad · April 10

Only one of two albums he made. The other (Indian Summer) was recorded by Chuck.

jazzbo · April 10

One of the (too few) albums that Duke Ellington was able to produce for Reprise Records before Sinatra sold the label, this one featuring one of his favorite people, Swedish singer Alice Babs.

“Serenade to Sweden” Real Gone cd

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1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I sometimes wonder about Joe taking so many sideman dates around this time (late 80's/early 90's). He did a lot of them. This is certainly one of the good ones. My favorite sideman date from this time is probably the one he did with Neil Swainson but Tyner's "New York Reunion" is great too.

I have never become a fan of "New York Reunion"--I've really tried, I have the SACD. It's partly the sound which I don't connect with, and partly the music itself which I don't find that interesting. I do like the Swainson album a lot.

Balladeer · April 10

Colin Steele Quartet - The Blue Nile (Marina Records)

jazzbo · April 10

I love the sound of lovely Una Mae Carlisle’s voice and her phrasing. I wish someone would look deep inside the Columbia vaults. . . I bet there is more to discover there.

Una Mae Carlisle “1944 - 1950” Chronogical Classics cd