What Jazz are you listening to now?

[teamsaint]

Another album I have been really enjoying recently from the early 80'S is " The Fugitive Kind" by Swansway. Some people may remember the minor hit " Soul Train" which I bought at the time, but I never got further into the music.
Anyway, the album is a really nice eclectic mix of pop , soul, blues, jazz, all sorts, but which works well and makes into something very nicely distinctive. Certainly sounds of its time in the production, with shades of bands like ABC in the styling. I really recommend this, I think its a bit of a neglected classic !

I can't find the whole album on Youtube, but it is available to stream. Here's Soul Train.

Just copying this over from the Rock/Pop/Jazz thread. in case any of you jazzers have interesting comments about the jazz elements or musicians involved, listed here.

https://www.discogs.com/Swans-Way-The-Fugitive-Kind/release/653399

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin: The Heart of Things, Live in Paris

[Padraig]

Here is one of my DIDs - a kind of legend in that, though it pre-dated Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives/Sevens, I did not hear it until well after I had heard them. I just came across it today while looking for something else among my old cassettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_WbQYdQty0

[Ian Thumwood]

Here is one of my DIDs - a kind of legend in that, though it pre-dated Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives/Sevens, I did not hear it until well after I had heard them. I just came across it today while looking for something else among my old cassettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_WbQYdQty0

I find these King Oliver recordings intriguing. It is a shame that the recordings were acoustic. You can just about make out Louis Armstrong. I always wonder whether these recordings actually captured how these bands would have sounded. Although they have been remarkably cleaned up since I first heard this music in the 1980s, the drumming almost seems totally lost by the recording process.

[Stanfordian]

‘Elevate’ – Lettuce
Lettuce Records (2019)

‘The Waiting Game’ – Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks with Johnny Coles, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware & Philly Joe Jones
Blue Note (1961)

[Jazzrook]

Tenor saxophonist Don Braden with Xavier Davis(piano); Dwayne Burno(bass) & Cecil Brooks III(drums) from his 2000 album 'Brighter Days':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92GCLHaLxlc

JR

[elmo]

Oliver Nelson and Eric Dolphy with some edgy exciting bebop on "Altoitis" with some very fiery riffing behind the alto's by the underrated Richard Williams and the great Roy Haynes on drums.

https://youtu.be/i6B8ZEZNP7w

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

‘Elevate’ – Lettuce
Lettuce Records (2019)

‘The Waiting Game’ – Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks with Johnny Coles, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware & Philly Joe Jones
Blue Note (1961)

Never heard of "Lettuce" but surprised this is on your listening list having sampled the tracks on Amazon!! Totally shocked!!

[Jazzrook]

Paul Plimley & Lisle Ellis playing Ornette Coleman's 'Dancing In Your Head' from their 1992 album 'Kaleidoscopes'(hatART):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0U6EOvyweWo

JR

[Jazzrook]

Pee Wee Ellis 'The Cologne Concerts' with Dwayne Dolphin(bass) & Bruce Cox(drums) in 1993:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=kOW30DxwvLI

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Paul Plimley & Lisle Ellis playing Ornette Coleman's 'Dancing In Your Head' from their 1992 album 'Kaleidoscopes'(hatART):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0U6EOvyweWo

JR

That's interesting, because I'd not previously heard of Paul Plimley and co. There's not much mention of the Canadian jazz scene - least of all by Canadians I know, who appear to know more about British stuff than abouit their own. I do remember a Toronto-based avant-garde collective centred around ex-Brit Bill Smith in the 1980s, close in spirit to the AACM.

[Jazzrook]

That's interesting, because I'd not previously heard of Paul Plimley and co. There's not much mention of the Canadian jazz scene - least of all by Canadians I know, who appear to know more about British stuff than abouit their own. I do remember a Toronto-based avant-garde collective centred around ex-Brit Bill Smith in the 1980s, close in spirit to the AACM.

I only recently came across the Vancouver-based pianist Paul Plimley after reading a review of his 1992 duo album 'Kaleidoscopes' which features Ornette Coleman tunes.
He trained as a classical pianist but then turned to 'free jazz'.
He also recorded with Joe McPhee on his 1995 album 'Sweet Freedom, Now What?'(hatHUT):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=EJQA3M57uHE

JR

[CGR]

Soul Station
Hank Mobley
Blue Note

Yet again. Put the cd into the player and sit back. Absolutely perfect.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

That's interesting, because I'd not previously heard of Paul Plimley and co. There's not much mention of the Canadian jazz scene - least of all by Canadians I know, who appear to know more about British stuff than abouit their own. I do remember a Toronto-based avant-garde collective centred around ex-Brit Bill Smith in the 1980s, close in spirit to the AACM.

There appears to be s very good jazz scene in Canada, and the old Cellar club was where Ornette & Cherry etc played their first gig outside America. Here's a current Canadian saxophonist I really like, Al McLean (no relation). He's got a load of live stuff on You tube usually in a Quintet with some very good Canadians.

Al McLean..."http://youtu.be/lEL5IjB3NsE

[Ian Thumwood]

I really like this track. Never heard of Al McLean. Forgotten the name of this tune - think I have the lead sheet somewhere.

I wasn't too impressed by the Canadian group on J-Z last night but there are some hugely impressive Canadian musicians around at the moment. The one that does impress is the pianist Kris Davis who is more involved in the avant garde scene and someone who I thought was really good when she performed at Vienne last year with John Zorn.