What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Stunsworth]

Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train

The last instalment of the DeAgostini Jazz LP reissue series. I’m sorry to see it end after 70 LPs rather than the 100 originally stated.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train

The last instalment of the DeAgostini Jazz LP reissue series. I’m sorry to see it end after 70 LPs rather than the 100 originally stated.

Being a typical teenage victim of appearances I bought that album when aged 16 on the strength of the album cover colour scheme, and the experience of having just heard the OPT at the Finsbury Park Odeon. And it was the first time for me that Oscar, for all his technique, seemed creatively jaded to my ears.

[Quarky]

.......Moten Swing a redeeming feature, a pure diamond.......Oscar these days appears more popular with non-Jazz musicians....

[Quarky]

Miles Smiles keeps getting better...

Possibly Miles greatest album....but some reviewers gave Wayne Shorter less than 10/10, presumably comparing him with Coltrane. Comparisons are odious, but Wayne a dry red wine compared to John's Rocket Fuel...

[Joseph K]

Possibly Miles greatest album....but some reviewers gave Wayne Shorter less than 10/10, presumably comparing him with Coltrane. Comparisons are odious, but Wayne a dry red wine compared to John's Rocket Fuel...

I think it's probably Miles' best acoustic album. My own overall favourite has to be either Bitches Brew or In a Silent Way. It's a bit silly comparing Shorter to Coltrane... they're just different really, each magnificent for their own magnificent concepts. It's totally arbitrary to invoke Coltrane just to criticise Shorter, since the former had by this point left Miles six or seven years ago.

I thought rocket fuel was a term used for cocaine.

[Quarky]

Just discovered in my Download collection: Miles Davis Quintet: Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5

Great insight into Miles Smiles!

[Stanfordian]

'Destination... Out!'
Jackie McLean with Grachan Moncur II, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley & Roy Haynes
Blue Note (1963)

[Beef Oven!]

'Destination... Out!'
Jackie McLean with Grachan Moncur II, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley & Roy Haynes
Blue Note (1963)

[Stanfordian]

‘Breaking Point!’
Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Ronne Mathews, Eddie Khan & Joe Chambers
Blue Note (1964)

[Jazzrook]

Chet Baker live in Tokyo in 1987 playing 'My Funny Valentine' with Harold Danko(piano); Hein Van Der Geyn(bass) & John Engels(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpfZaZfsZg

JR

[Stanfordian]

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

[Stanfordian]

‘Blowing in from Chicago’
Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore with Horace Silver, Curly Russell & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1957)

[Stanfordian]

'Unity'
Larry Young with Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1965)

[Joseph K]

'Unity'
Larry Young with Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson & Elvin Jones
Blue Note (1965)

[Serial_Apologist]

Seconded!