What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

'Watusa' from Sun Ra's 'Nubians of Plutonia':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3ZMC8OAj4

JR

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - Transition

Love it!

[Jazzrook]

John Zorn's Masada 'Live in Sevilla 2000' with Zorn(alto sax); Dave Douglas(trumpet); Greg Cohen(bass) & Joey Baron(drums):

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

http://www.furious.com/perfect/zornzion.html

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

John Coltrane - Transition

Love it!

It is indeed superb. The classic Quartet on the cusp, testing itself to destruction. Which followed.

BN.

[Stanfordian]

‘Groovin' High’
Booker Ervin with Carmell Jones, Jaki Byard, Gildo Mahones, Richard Davis & Alan Dawson
Prestige (1964)

[Stanfordian]

‘Somethin' Else’
Cannonball Adderley with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1958)

[Stanfordian]

‘The Blues Book’
Booker Ervin with Carmell Jones, Gildo Mahones, Richard Davis & Alan Dawson
Prestige (1964)

[Joseph K]

Sorcerer - Miles Davis

[Stanfordian]

‘Not so Dukish’
Johnny Hodges featuring Ben Webster with Roy Eldridge, Ray Nance,
Jimmy Hamilton, Lawrence Brown, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmy Woode, Sam Woodyard
Verve (rec. 1958)

[Richard Barrett]

Roscoe Mitchell/Craig Taborn/Kikanju Baku - Conversations 1 (2014)

Brilliant. Free jazz is alive and still growing.

[Jazzrook]

Albert Ayler Quintet live in Berlin on November 3, 1966:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnY2uaRm3wQ

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Midnight Blue’
Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Major Holley Jr., Bill English & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1963)

[Stanfordian]

‘The Blues and the Abstract Truth’
Oliver Nelson, Eric Dolphy, George Barrow, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans
Impulse! (1961)

[Quarky]

Billy Strayhorn- he's on all week as COTW, I am given to understand.

[Serial_Apologist]

Billy Strayhorn- he's on all week as COTW, I am given to understand.

Some nice latter-day interpretations on this morning's programme: perhaps a tad over-nice? - in that tendency (welcomed by some on this board) to seek some goal of perfection from jazz, like putting a gloss on a Georgian mahoganny dinner table, which for me isn't at all what it's about, but (to apply that overused cliché in its proper sense) moving forward.