What Jazz are you listening to now?

[burning dog]

Lots of Count Basie and Jimmy Lunceford

seems the trombone part was written out, same as the classic studio version. No "Pop Goes the Weasel" on trumpet though

[Stanfordian]

Herbie Nichols, Al McKibbon & Art Blakey
‘The Prophetic Herbie Nichols’ Vol. 2
Blue Note (1955)

[Ian Thumwood]

Bang, bang, boom, boom;-

[Stanfordian]

Bang, bang, boom, boom;-

Ah, but is it Jazz? More Rock/Pop tinged with Blues I think. But if it's Jazzy to you why not!

[CGR]

Drinking coffee and listening to a Jake Langley cd "Diggin' In"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snmYlTk7wxk

[Stanfordian]

Herbie Nichols with George Duvivier & Dannie Richmond
‘Love, Gloom, Cash, Love’
Blue Note (1957)

[Jazzrook]

Stan Getz in Paris, 1971 with Eddie Louiss(organ); Rene Thomas(guitar) & Bernard Lubat(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcRtztr35A

JR

[Beef Oven!]

I’ve listened to this, this afternoon.

[Stanfordian]

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis with Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance, Larry Gales & Ben Riley
‘The Late Show’
Prestige (rec. 1961)

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Polish Jazz Vol. 3 - The Polish Jazz Quartet entered a studio to record this album in December 1964. It was released on an LP in 1965 in a monophonic version. The 2016 reissue is a stereo version, both on CD and LP.The Polish Jazz Quartet album, as the third one in the Polish Jazz series, is an important document in the history and development of the pioneering period in Polish jazz. The icons of Polish jazz: Jan “Ptaszyn” Wróblewski, Wojciech Karolak, Andrzej Dąbrowski and Juliusz Sendecki make up the quartet. This is a formation which heralds the emergence of modern jazz and such bands as Andrzej Trzaskowski, Krzysztof Komeda quintets, and Zbigniew Namysłowski quartet. A half of the album’s repertory was composed by the leader of the quartet – Jana Ptaszyn Wróblewski (tenor sax) and the other half includes pieces composed by Wojciech Karolak."

Hugely enjoyable and musically impressive, even more so when you realise what they went through to play and produce it.

BN.
*Jan Wroblewski was (still alive) a major figure in Polish "modern" jazz, mostly in a hard boppish area (think maybe Tubby Hayes in sound and chops) but with interesting sometimes quirky compositions and surprisingly good groups. A lot of the Polish Jazz Series is now on Utube, both the sessions and the excellent film music. Highly recommended and pause for thought how quickly they developed their own idiom.

[Lat-Literal]

I’ve listened to this, this afternoon.

Not exactly a "what I am listening to now" but it doesn't deserve a separate thread. There seems to be some sort of jazz feature on R2 in collaboration with Jazz FM. I am not sure whether it has happened yet but I am sure I heard it promoted recently, possibly as a night of jazz. There was, I think, also a collaborative pop-up station. Does anyone know more about it, ie why and how there is such a collaboration? I am wondering whether it is the slippery slope towards a merging of the BBC services and commercial radio more broadly.

[Old Grumpy]

Not exactly a "what I am listening to now" but it doesn't deserve a separate thread. There seems to be some sort of jazz feature on R2 in collaboration with Jazz FM. I am not sure whether it has happened yet but I am sure I heard it promoted recently, possibly as a night of jazz. There was, I think, also a collaborative pop-up station. Does anyone know more about it, ie why and how there is such a collaboration? I am wondering whether it is the slippery slope towards a merging of the BBC services and commercial radio more broadly.

Is it this perchance to which you refer, Lat-Lit?

Why is there such a collaboration? - it's ve Lahndun Jazz Festival, innit.

Slippery slope? I don't see it way, personally.

OG

[Lat-Literal]

Is it this perchance to which you refer, Lat-Lit?

Why is there such a collaboration? - it's ve Lahndun Jazz Festival, innit.

Slippery slope? I don't see it way, personally.

OG

I think so OG and this seems relevant - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...ound-the-clock - but I still don't fully understand it.

[Ian Thumwood]

Stan Getz in Paris, 1971 with Eddie Louiss(organ); Rene Thomas(guitar) & Bernard Lubat(drums):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcRtztr35A

JR

Jazzrook


I have seen both Lubat and Eddy Louiss perform live and it strikes me as really strange to learn that they performed together and in a group led by Stan Getz. I seem to recall that Louiss had worked with Getz but when I saw this organist with (I think) Richard Galliano, it seemed very tame and almost bathed in nostalgia. He sadly passed away shortly afterwards. Prior to this I had little knowledge of him other than the album he made with Michel Petrrucciani which was really good fun albeit probably not MP's best. Louiss always strikes me as being a bit cheesy but with an ability to get away with it somehow. On this clip, Louiss seems to do little more than provide a wash for Getz to perform over.

Lubat performing with Getz perplexes me even more as I saw him in an improvised set with the great Michel Portal, not only one of the great French jazz musicians but a true original who borrows from rock, West African music, 20th century music and jazz in his highly individualistic approach. I find Portal far more interesting than Getz, especially in the kind of detached performance on the YouTube clip. I very much rate Michel Portal and, in my opinion, the antithesis of someone like Getz who was doggedly within the jazz mainstream no matter how you feel about his music. I had always understood that Lubat was very much part of the French Improv scene, rather like Tony Oxley in the UK and it is staggering to find him working with a bopper like Getz. The clip is interesting in that there is practically no interplay or understanding between the French musicians and Getz. Lubat seems to be doing his own thing and Getz just ploughs on oblivious.

I never realised that Shostokovich played jazz guitar !

[Stanfordian]

Paul Chambers with Tommy Turrentine, Lex Humphries Wynton Kelly Yusef Lateef & Curtis Fuller
‘1st Bassman’
Vee Jay Records (1960)