So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Peter Friedman]

[Gheorghe]

The more I am involved my self in jazz being in increasing demand since I have that damn good band "Bop-Explosion", the more I get tired of regular straight ahead for LISTENING.

My faves now are especially those who have a very spiritual side of it. Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler. 

My own band started playing bop type music, but I got rid of it and compose other, my own stuff, and for listening records like this one thrill me, or make me believe, pray.....

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Muggy morning. Starting off with a recording I haven’t heard in some time, Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia “Hooteroll”

 

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[jazzbo]

Re-visiting this recent Resonance Records 2 cd reissue of Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse.” I’m listening to disc 1

Was there anyone else really like Kirk? He was unique in several ways. And I think one of the few who really deserve to be called a genius.

 

[jazzbo]

Time for some Pops. Never can have enough. This is prime Louis.

Louis Armstrong “The Alternate Takes In Chronological Order Volume 2 1935-1944” Neatwork cd

 

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[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

 

[jazzbo]

Joe Wilder “Wilder 'n Wilder” Savoy 20 bit lp facsimile cd

 

 

With that outstanding trio: Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke.

[Peter Friedman]

[rostasi]

Been waiting for the full album of this batch of microtonal goodness.

[jazzbo]

Dexter Gordon “Dexter Rides Again” Savoy 20 bit lp facsimile cd

Baritone Saxophone – Leo Parker
Bass – Curly Russell or Gene Ramey
Drums – Art Blakey or Eddie Nicholson oe Max Roach
Piano – Bud Powell or Sadik Hakim or Tadd Dameron Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon
Trumpet – Leonard Hawkins

 

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

Walter Bishop Jr.'s 4th Cycle “Keeper Of My Soul” Black Jazz cd

Ronnie Laws, reeds; Woody Murray (Sumtunji), vibes; Walter Bishop Jr., keyboards; Gerald Brown, bass, Fender bass; Bahir Hassan, drums; Shakur M. Abdulla, congas, bongos.

Hollywood Spectrum, Los Angeles, CA, released 1973

 

[John Tapscott]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 minutes ago, John Tapscott said:

What a great CD! I asked Christian what it was like playing with these two masters and he was almost speechless. He thanked me for reminding him of it.

I cringe when I think about how much I had to pay to get this CD. I think it was close to $40 with the shipping.

[optatio]

Burton Greene: Live At The Woodstock Playhouse 1965. Porter Records PRCD - 4040 [US 2010]

[jazzbo]

Tal Farlow, Hank Jones, Red Norvo, Ray Brown, Jake Hanna “On Stage” Concord cd

Recorded live at the Concord Pavillion, Concord, California August 1976

That unique vibe sound of Red Norvo. . . and the great drumming of Jake Hanna, one of my favorites. And oh year, those other. . . masters.

 

[Peter Friedman]

Features very good playing by Benny Bailey and Horace Parlan.

[SMB1968]

Saw him live yesterday, so today . . .

Mdou Moctar -- Funeral for Justice

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

Burton Greene: Live At The Woodstock Playhouse 1965. Porter Records PRCD - 4040 [US 2010]

oh that´s a treasure ! Burton Green once was playing in Viena with my late idol Fritz Novotny (Art Reform Unit), who was the pioneer of Freejazz in Austria (Freejazz as early as since 1959 !) 

Burton played also Novotny´s compositions "Pannonian Flower", and then when it was his turn to call a tune, he called "Crepuscule with Nellie". Burton Green loved Monk ! 

3 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

I don´t really know Teddy Edwards. of course know Billy Higgins and Christian Mc Bride. I think I have in the batch of my old records something by Dex, where he plays duets with Teddy Edwards, but more with Wardell Gray whom I know better. 

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I don´t have this, but it must have been recorded with the band I saw live once, with James Williams and so on....

5 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Dexter Gordon “Dexter Rides Again” Savoy 20 bit lp facsimile cd

Baritone Saxophone – Leo Parker
Bass – Curly Russell or Gene Ramey
Drums – Art Blakey or Eddie Nicholson oe Max Roach
Piano – Bud Powell or Sadik Hakim or Tadd Dameron Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon
Trumpet – Leonard Hawkins

 

Oh yes, in my early days, like Bird on Savoy, Dex, J.J. Johnson, Don Byas and who may have been on Savoy, I learned that music back then. But I don´t know who is Leonard Hawkins. Bud is great here ! But he was always great ! 

[Stompin at the Savoy]

 

[Dub Modal]

The newest album from Chris Potter, released May 6, 2026. With Bill Frisell, Burniss Travis, Nate Smith, Zekkereya El-Magharbel, Rane Moore and Sara Caswell. It's a "suite inspired by the story of John Brown." I don't listen to a lot of Potter, but while he plays fine here I keep thinking about how Frisell (g), Smith (d), and Travis (b) would make a helluva trio. 

[Rabshakeh]

Hector Lavoe – Revento

 

Mike Cooper – Trout Steel