What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

Horace Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor(?) & Louis Hayes playing 'Senor Blues'(1959?):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=BFL920uqGYo

JR

I don't always check out suggestions people post. But in this instance I am glad I did.

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI07_jmHX8Q

John Scofield - Live 3 Ways

Uploaded last year... surprised it hasn't had more views. Good stuff.

[Joseph K]

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 - Thelonious Monk

[Joseph K]

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1 - Thelonious Monk

Volume 2 now.

[Joseph K]

Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones

[Ian Thumwood]

‘Midnight Blue’ - Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell, Stanley Turrentine, Major Holley Jr. Bill English & Ray Barretto
Blue Note (1967)

Simply a 'classic' - I thought I didn't like jazz guitar until I heard this.

I would go further than this, Standordian. If I met someone who had never heard a note of jazz before, this is the record that I would choose to introduce them to get in to the music. For me. it is the best "entry level" jazz record there is. Great music which is extremely good to listen to and very evocative. The music is very accessible and I would be hard pushed to think of anything else better suited as an introduction to jazz.

Regarding Joe's enthusiasm for Freddie Hubbard's "Hub-tones" , this record sums up the finesse of his playing for me. I think the "problem" with Hubbard's Blue Notes is the consistency which probably means that the fact there is so little between them means that they have not acquired the cult status they deserve. The opening "You're my everything" is a great example of Hubbard's fantastic ability on ballads. He was the trumpet master at this in my opinion yet he never seems as lauded as a ballader as say Ben Webster although of the same class. I like this album a lot and would also recommend "Ready for Freddie" as a great record.

[Stanfordian]

‘Blowing in from Chicago' - Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore
Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore with Horace Silver, Curly Russell & Art Blakey
Blue Note (1957)

[Jazzrook]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers at Umbria J.F., 1976 with Dave Schnitter, Bill Hardman, Mickey Tucker & Chris Amberger:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=4nmDx68wAZw

JR

[Joseph K]

The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1.

[Serial_Apologist]

I was hoping in vain to find youtube of Ed Jones's 1996 CD "Out Here" - one of the best of the British hard bop revival of the time, down to Winston Clifford's exceptional contribution on the drums making it much more than just another Blue Note '60s simulacrum, as was so often the case back then. Instead here is Ed with a younger group performing in Nottingham in 2014. Tim Giles is on drums here - I well remember seeing him aged about 13 and thinking, a new Tony Williams in the making - this little boy backing Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles, at the old Vortex! Ed is always at pains to stress Coltrane's influence on him, but I hear a lot of Joe Henderson in the way he limbers up, and creates rhythmic tensions against the beat. Always plays with commitment. Nice guy, Ed - under-appreciated, in my view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46-vvi3azg

[Stanfordian]

‘A Touch of Satin’- J.J. Johnson
The J.J. Johnson Quartet (with Victor Feldman, Sam Jones & Louis Hayes)
Columbia (1960)

[Jazzrook]

Yusef Lateef, Kenny Barron, Bob Cunningham & Albert Heath at Jazz Harmonie, Paris in 1972:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JLTHTdD1RoU

JR

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin - Que Alegria

[Stanfordian]

‘True Blue’ - Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks with Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1960)
Probably my favourite Blue Note album at the moment

[Jazzrook]

I was hoping in vain to find youtube of Ed Jones's 1996 CD "Out Here" - one of the best of the British hard bop revival of the time, down to Winston Clifford's exceptional contribution on the drums making it much more than just another Blue Note '60s simulacrum, as was so often the case back then. Instead here is Ed with a younger group performing in Nottingham in 2014. Tim Giles is on drums here - I well remember seeing him aged about 13 and thinking, a new Tony Williams in the making - this little boy backing Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles, at the old Vortex! Ed is always at pains to stress Coltrane's influence on him, but I hear a lot of Joe Henderson in the way he limbers up, and creates rhythmic tensions against the beat. Always plays with commitment. Nice guy, Ed - under-appreciated, in my view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46-vvi3azg

John Stevens with Ed Jones, Byron Wallen & Gary Crosby playing 'Dudu's Gone' in 1992:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Suv4mygtg_s

JR