What music did you buy today?

[BFrank]

16 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Fieldwork's earlier albums are very high quality, I'm very much looking forward to the new one 

Me, too!

[JSngry]

This has to be one of the more surreal albums I've come across in a while. Proby wrote and performed all these songs, not for Elvis the general performer, but for Elvis movies, the really stupid, crappy ones. And it's like he's determined to be inside the movie himself, doing Elvis with all the weirdness of those movies spinning out of these songs. The song titles give you an idea of just what is going to happen - and it does.

It's no secret that I generally have ZERO use for Elvis, but this is a different animal altogether, I don't know that any of these songs made it into any of the movies, and that creates an even more otherness to the music - Proby as Elvis in Proby Elvis moves. Mayby qa parody, but only as a secondary objective.

It's a trip, as is so much of Proby in general. Skills AND concept.

[kh1958]

On 4/3/2025 at 1:21 AM, mjazzg said:

My copy is on the post. Initial streaming certainly suggests and album for these times, I would love to have heard that dual interview.

Their previous recordings are wonderful too. Where Iyer does his best work these days to my ears, many others would say his trio but not for ne

The Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith duo concert at Big Ears last weekend was really fantastic. The preceding concert, Wadada Leo Smith's Revolutionary Fire Love, was also quite good and featured Iyer in a larger group.

[JSngry]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

This has to be one of the more surreal albums I've come across in a while. Proby wrote and performed all these songs, not for Elvis the general performer, but for Elvis movies, the really stupid, crappy ones. And it's like he's determined to be inside the movie himself, doing Elvis with all the weirdness of those movies spinning out of these songs. The song titles give you an idea of just what is going to happen - and it does.

It's no secret that I generally have ZERO use for Elvis, but this is a different animal altogether, I don't know that any of these songs made it into any of the movies, and that creates an even more otherness to the music - Proby as Elvis in Proby Elvis moves. Mayby qa parody, but only as a secondary objective.

It's a trip, as is so much of Proby in general. Skills AND concept.

Ok, so it looks like Proby didn't necessarily write all of these songs, and that some of them did find their way into Elvis's movies.

But there's really no comparison. Elvis is just invisible

Proby is full-on creepy. Way ahead of his time, imo.

 

[JSngry]

No?

[Holy Ghost]

On 3/26/2025 at 2:09 PM, Pim said:

Wow I am one lucky fellow I guess 😵 I saw a copy of Noah Howard’s Live in Europe at the Dutch website Bol.com by a second hand vendor. It was the 2022 Sconsolato reissue and for 22 euros including shipment this sounded like a sweet deal. The package arrived and when I opened it, it contained the original Sun pressing in near mint condition 😍 for only 22 euros!  now that was one pleasant surprise  

 

 

Looks awesome! Hope it sounds the same!

 

This morning, ordered this:

 

And this:

Edited April 6 by Holy Ghost

[Pim]

6 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Looks awesome! Hope it sounds the same!

 

This morning, ordered this:

 

And this:

Great buys  and yes it does. I did not hold high expectations from a relatively small French 70’s label but it sounds great!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I just got in this:

[Holy Ghost]

On 4/6/2025 at 9:58 AM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I just got in this:

Thoughts?

[Niko]

Curious about that one as well... everyone around me seems to love it - despite the cover art which has more to do with "Grey's Anatomy" than with Reid Miles

[Pim]

Saved up monthly for the big record fair in Den Bosch and I did manage to pick up some great records. Prices seem to get a little more reasonable too. These items were all on my 64 piece wantlist so I felt very lucky. And I didn’t make even one impulsive buy. The discipline of me. I’m getting better at these things. 
 

 

Edited April 12 by Pim

[Holy Ghost]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

Saved up monthly for the big record fair in Den Bosch and I did manage to pick up some great records. Prices seem to get a little more reasonable too. These items were all on my 64 piece wantlist so I felt very lucky. And I didn’t make even one impulsive buy. The discipline of me. I’m getting better at these things. 
 

 

Wow. Never even heard of that Taylor/Murray title. Regret selling the Rene Thomas CD, but I needed to sell off part of my collection to survive while in college back in the 90's. 

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, Pim said:

Saved up monthly for the big record fair in Den Bosch and I did manage to pick up some great records. Prices seem to get a little more reasonable too. These items were all on my 64 piece wantlist so I felt very lucky. And I didn’t make even one impulsive buy. The discipline of me. I’m getting better at these things. 
 

 

I'd love to go to Den Bosch but not too sure I could be so disciplined as you @Pim

Some great stuff there, the Jefferson is terrific, do you know the one that Sam Records reissued? It's an absolute gem.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 4/7/2025 at 4:48 PM, Holy Ghost said:

Thoughts?

I like it. I'm going to spin it again before deciding where it sits with reference to the original. I do know that I like Calderazzo's piano playing quite a bit, so at least that's not a problem in comparison.

[Pim]

7 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I'd love to go to Den Bosch but not too sure I could be so disciplined as you @Pim

Some great stuff there, the Jefferson is terrific, do you know the one that Sam Records reissued? It's an absolute gem.

Haha it was hard. So many interesting and rare records. That Jefferson is on my radar! Your recommendation brings back my memory: I saw it a few months ago on the Sam website and it sparked my interest 

9 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Wow. Never even heard of that Taylor/Murray title. Regret selling the Rene Thomas CD, but I needed to sell off part of my collection to survive while in college back in the 90's. 

No Cecil Taylor on that one  it’s actually Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray with John Lindberg on bass. Intense and highly recommended music!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Last night, I picked up a few CDs at my local Bull Moose Music store.

Charlie Haden & Quartet West - In Angel City (Verve). I've had Quartet West's 1st CD for decades & saw the band several times but never got around to picking up their 2nd release until now.

I also picked up a used copy of Peter Gabriel's latest, "i/o". I got the 3 disc set with a surround mix on BlueRay. I like Gabriel's work so I'm wondering how he'll treat the surround tracks.

[HutchFan]

 

and

[mjazzg]

Can't go wrong with Charles on ECM as far as I'm concerned, enjoy them

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Yesterday, at the urging of my friend @Tom 1960, I sampled a newer (10/2024) release from drummer Jacob Wendt titled "Silver Street". The band plays in a style that harkens back to The Jazz Messengers and Wendt has said that this was what they were going for so kudos to the band for hitting their target. It's not a copycat tribute but an updated take, so no fear of that. You can sample/download it at bandcamp: Silver Street, by Jacob Wendt . I wanted the Kevin Gray-cut LP version (which is not on bandcamp for some reason) so I ordered that LP from The 'In' Groove.


While I was at The 'In' Groove website, I decide to pick up Gray's Chohearant label's latest release from Corey Weeds while I was at it.

[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Can't go wrong with Charles on ECM as far as I'm concerned, enjoy them

  

 

[Tom 1960]

On 4/15/2025 at 10:38 AM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Yesterday, at the urging of my friend @Tom 1960, I sampled a newer (10/2024) release from drummer Jacob Wendt titled "Silver Street". The band plays in a style that harkens back to The Jazz Messengers and Wendt has said that this was what they were going for so kudos to the band for hitting their target. It's not a copycat tribute but an updated take, so no fear of that. You can sample/download it at bandcamp: Silver Street, by Jacob Wendt . I wanted the Kevin Gray-cut LP version (which is not on bandcamp for some reason) so I ordered that LP from The 'In' Groove.


While I was at The 'In' Groove website, I decide to pick up Gray's Chohearant label's latest release from Corey Weeds while I was at it.

I like what he did on this recording. I've seen this album posted numerous times on my Instagram feed, so figured there must be something going on here. Definitely not disappointed.

[T.D.]

Ra, Noah Howard and assorted MPS. Happy to have found the John Taylor.

Edited April 23 by T.D.

[mjazzg]

A couple of LPs by French vibist Michel Hausser, 

'Vibes+ Flute' with Bobby Jaspar

'Holiday for Vibes and Cembalet' which featuring Michel Portal

All in all hitting sweet spots of vibes, flute and clarinet. A new player to me, apart from some judicious online sampling.

Edited April 23 by mjazzg

[HutchFan]

23 minutes ago, T.D. said:

Happy to have found the John Taylor.

Yes, it's a doozy.   

 

[optatio]

3 hours ago, T.D. said:

👍