What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Ian Thumwood]

Not playing a CD but watching this extremely funny film which includes this really nice tune by Norah Jones. Not a song I was familiar with before but I really like this....

Much of the music on this film was orchestrated by John Wilson - much maligned on this board.

[Joseph K]

Stella by Starlight.

[CGR]

'Bluesin' Around'
Kenny Burrell with Eddie Bert, Illinois Jacquet, Leo Wright, Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Major Holley, Osie Johnson, Louis Hayes, Jimmy Crawford & Joe Dukes
Columbia (1962)

Ah. Kenny Burrell. A great guitarist and always worth listening to. There seem to be so few jazz guitarists around these days that go for that nice warm clean sound and bluesy phrasing.

[Stanfordian]

'The Tokyo Blues'
Horace Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor & John Harris Jr
Blue Note (1962)

[Stanfordian]

‘Crazy! Baby!’
Jimmy Smith with Blue Mitchell, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, Quintin Warren & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1960)

Taken out for later.

[Joseph K]

So I admit I skipped Jimmy Garrison's bass solo, but McCoy Tyner and Trane are on fire. It's 65 not 66...

[CGR]

ESP
Miles Davis
Columbia (1965)

[Joseph K]

ESP
Miles Davis
Columbia (1965)

[Serial_Apologist]

ESP
Miles Davis
Columbia (1965)

I bought the CD of this but was disappointed to find no improvement in recording quality from the original LP - having splashed out!!! But no one can take away Miles Davis's first solo, on the title track, which has surely to be one of the the most euphoric, life-affirming improvisations ever captured in recording. And nobody else disappoints in the wake of that - which was expecting a lot. Something similar happened when Nikki Iles had to follow Mike Walker at one of Stan Sulzmann's gigs at the "old" Vortex, back in the good ole days: I had to stop myself going over and hugging her!

[Ian Thumwood]

Ray Charles - "Mess around"

[Stanfordian]

'Straight Life'
Jimmy Smith with Quentin Warren & Donald Bailey
Blue Note (1961, released 2007)

[Stanfordian]

‘Dale's Wail’
Roy Eldridge with the Oscar Peterson Trio - J.C. Heard, Jo Jones, Alvin Stroller/Buddy Rich
Verve (1954)

[Stanfordian]

‘The Warm Moods’
Ben Webster with Donn Trenner, Alfred Lustgarten, Lisa Minghetti, Cecil Figelski,
Armond Kaproff, Don Bagley & Frank Capp
Reprise (1961)

[Stanfordian]

‘The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York’
Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes
Riverside (1962)

[Joseph K]

‘The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York’
Cannonball Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes
Riverside (1962)