What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Whenever something of mine that has had great value to me has been stolen, I always hope that it will be to the good, inasmuch that the recipient will in some way be "improved" by the having of it. Probably a bit pious to think that way, I have to admit.

Not sure where it'll have ended up. Actually, I still have the first disk of this box from the first time I bought it because I kept it with me in my CD pouch while I was away from my flat. So I'm not sure who will have bought a second-hand version of this box with the first disk missing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not sure where it'll have ended up. Actually, I still have the first disk of this box from the first time I bought it because I kept it with me in my CD pouch while I was away from my flat. So I'm not sure who will have bought a second-hand version of this box with the first disk missing.

I had an original LP of "Beyond the Fringe" stolen. Actually given me by an atheist aunt, which freaked me mum out a bit, but that's another story. Anyway, years and years later I saw that LP in a secondhand record store, in another part of the country altogether - scratched and going for quite a price, but I had to have it, since from various marks on the cover I'm quite certain it was my original copy!

[elmo]

I really like this Archie Shepp version of Mal Waldron's lovely ballad "Soul Eyes" with Al Dailey, Reggie Workman and Charles Persip

https://youtu.be/PppuHWFXBOY

elmo

[CGR]

Soul Station
Hank Mobley

Yep. Returned to it yet again. Great music making.

[Jazzrook]

Sonny Rollins with NHOP & Alan Dawson playing 'There Will Never Be Another You' in Denmark, 1965:

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

JR

[CGR]

Birds of a Feather
Greg Abate & Alan Barnes
Woodville Records, 2008

[Stanfordian]

‘Work Time’ - Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins with Ray Bryant, George Morrow & Max Roach
Prestige (1955)

[DracoM]

JRQ on R3.
I marvel at the technical and expressive skills of the jazz players I hear on AS's fine show. A Less is More triumph.

[Serial_Apologist]

JRQ on R3.
I marvel at the technical and expressive skills of the jazz players I hear on AS's fine show. A Less is More triumph.

Hope you're listening to Rebecca Nash right now on Jay to Zee - really taking off stuff!

[elmo]

Soul Station
Hank Mobley

Yep. Returned to it yet again. Great music making.

A stone classic - Hank and Blue Note at their best

elmo

[elmo]

I am playing the new J D Allen "Barracoon" a lot at the moment. It is definitely a step away from band with Gregg August and Rudy Royston, I really liked that band but this new group is pushing J D into new directions. As Ian has been stating I can hear the relationship to Sonny Rollins improvising methods and moving them along, exciting music.

elmo

[Joseph K]

Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At the Half Note

[Ian Thumwood]

I am playing the new J D Allen "Barracoon" a lot at the moment. It is definitely a step away from band with Gregg August and Rudy Royston, I really liked that band but this new group is pushing J D into new directions. As Ian has been stating I can hear the relationship to Sonny Rollins improvising methods and moving them along, exciting music.

elmo

Elmo

This is a record that has been pulling me in to the music making process the more I hear it. The new trio seems more "outside" that the one with August and Royston which I also enjoyed and I think the challenge is certainly helping him to find his own voice. For my money "Barracoon" is one of the best new releases in 2019. The best so far has been Greg Ward's "Stomping off from Greenwood" which is probably more anchored than the JD Allen disc yet packs a bunch and includes some really memorable themes. It is a fun album to listen to. Other than that, the unknown Shems Bendali debut "Choukheads" is an amazing discovery and recommended if you like trumpeters like Ambrose Akinmusire. Not sure how easy this disc is to acquire as I bought it after his set. Like Ashley Henry, another top bloke to chat to. I have out in a request for this.

Other than that, I would have say I have spent most of 2019 listening to Paul Bley. Whenever I am working at home and there is no football to listen to in the evenings, I just play is records whilst I am ploughing through spreadsheets on my computer. I supposed that I am playing his music about 50% of the time. Not much else measures up to him, in my opinion.

[Ian Thumwood]

Jazzrook

Changing the subject somewhat, did you manage to get hold of the book about the Swing Riots in Hampshire?

At the moment I am reading another book that I would thoroughly recommend called "Start of play" which is written by David Underdown which is about cricket in the 18th century. I got in to the book by the historian at Lords when I went there in May to see Hampshire in the RD One Day up Final. When I researched my family tree, I found out that there were some Thumwoods who was a profrssional cricketer who played at Lords between 1816 and 1821. The historian recommended Underdown's book and I have found it impossible to put down. Most of the book concerns Hampshire , Kent and Sussex but the largest chunk is obviously given over to the Hambledon club which I am sure you will know well. The book puts cricket in the context of the social classes and the culture of the time. It is a bit like O level history but with the added bonus so much of the book concerns villages around Itchen and Meon valleys which I know well. I picked up second hand copy for under £2k and it has been compelling reading for the last two weeks. I am not sure if you are a cricket fan but think you would enjoy for the social and political context. Cheers.

[Joseph K]

'Senor CS' by the Five Peace Band, yet again. Not surprised this album won a grammy, this tune in particular is truly awesome, it's epic, with a beautiful set of changes, passionate solos, quite mystical. Not many tunes I know of like this, in 6/4. Each instrumentalist is incredible, creating a groove of surpassing momentum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fORfuN1JUGg