What Jazz are you listening to now?

T. D. · January 31, 2025, 06:38:49 PM

hopefullytrusting · February 02, 2025, 01:44:09 PM

Oh, boy, ain't that keen!: The Chronological Eddie South

hopefullytrusting · February 04, 2025, 06:14:31 AM

Down-home pickin' Delta blues: Babe Stovall's Pied Piper of New Orleans

Karl Henning · February 05, 2025, 01:20:31 PM

I've loved this since first hearing it in high school:

SimonNZ · February 08, 2025, 04:10:47 PM

Music to pour dry martinis to in your early 60s era bachelor pad.

Is there another Blue Note album with a chekere player listed on the cover?

edit: looks like Garvin Masseaux was also on some Grant Green albums

p30better · February 21, 2025, 05:06:21 AM

Quote from: T. D. on January 31, 2025, 06:38:49 PM

Wonderful .

Karl Henning · February 21, 2025, 04:37:02 PM

AnotherSpin · March 02, 2025, 12:34:04 AM

A remarkable debut album by the Japanese trombonist in the best traditions of modern jazz.

AnotherSpin · March 02, 2025, 09:03:29 AM

Steve Lehman, a student and collaborator of Anthony Braxton, pays tribute to his mentor on The Music of Anthony Braxton, but in his own way—playing complex, energetic music with his trio and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, blending Braxton's legacy, his own new compositions, and a final nod to Monk.

SimonNZ · March 06, 2025, 02:59:47 PM

Roy Ayers - Africa, Center Of The World (1981)

RIP

AnotherSpin · March 09, 2025, 11:39:59 AM

Brian · March 13, 2025, 07:32:40 AM

Welcome! I was just listening to Chet Baker last night, the 1940s Disques Vogue quartets with Gerry Mulligan and Chico Hamilton.

Henk · March 13, 2025, 11:24:51 AM

Great recording.

I love the sound of the xylophone. I compare with Nietzsche's sound which is cold compared to the xylophone. Xylophone is still hard but with the soft touch. 😋

Pelt plays trumpet btw.

Decided impulsively to join again. Will stay for a while.

Henk · March 13, 2025, 01:37:09 PM

NP 👌

Henk · March 13, 2025, 02:55:51 PM

Listened to the first half, tomorrow the other half.

So amazing. The drive and motivation to make music together is so strong. The result is staggering.

T. D. · March 14, 2025, 07:16:01 AM

I like bebop. The first album has a great version of Fats Navarro's Nostalgia, ergo I had to spin the second.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh · March 14, 2025, 08:13:14 AM

Quote from: T. D. on March 14, 2025, 07:16:01 AM

I like bebop. The first album has a great version of Fats Navarro's Nostalgia, ergo I had to spin the second.

Nice!

Brian · March 14, 2025, 01:07:44 PM

Quote from: T. D. on March 14, 2025, 07:16:01 AM

I like bebop. The first album has a great version of Fats Navarro's Nostalgia, ergo I had to spin the second.

I haven't heard either of these records but the lineups have me super interested.

brewski · March 14, 2025, 04:25:33 PM

Alfred James Ellis: "Chicken" (Quatuor Ébène, from their album Milestones). Okay, this is really something. Having heard this quartet in pretty serious classical rep, it is a revelation to hear them in jazz.

T. D. · March 15, 2025, 05:41:14 PM

Quote from: brewski on March 14, 2025, 04:25:33 PMAlfred James Ellis: "Chicken" (Quatuor Ébène, from their album Milestones). Okay, this is really something. Having heard this quartet in pretty serious classical rep, it is a revelation to hear them in jazz.

Thanks!
I'm having fun listening to some of the selections, concentrating on standards I'm most familiar with.

The only misfire so far is "Fables of Faubus", which seems to lack the sarcastic/mocking elements of the Mingus original. Almost as if the ensemble doesn't know exactly who the tune is based on.

Favorite so far (OTOH) is "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat".

Also enjoying listening for "jazzy" solos as opposed to written arrangements. So far the short "Milestones" seems to have the nicest solo(s?).