What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

John Scofield and Pat Metheny - I can see your house from here

Picked this up for 6 quid in HMV today, along with a Duke Ellington compilation, some of which I listened to earlier.

[Joseph K]

John Scofield and Pat Metheny - I can see your house from here.

Interesting. Pat Metheny's tone is somewhat different than usual - more distorted for a start.

[elmo]

I like this Tom Waits take on advertising and consoomerism. He also has fine support from Lew Tabackin, Jim Hughart and Shelly Manne.

https://youtu.be/AZYrEJr74Hk

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

I like this Tom Waits take on advertising and consoomerism. He also has fine support from Lew Tabackin, Jim Hughart and Shelly Manne.

https://youtu.be/AZYrEJr74Hk

elmo

I quite like Tom Waits and often play "Heart of Saturday night" and "Swordfish trombones." Both of these albums are really good and it is surprising just how many jazz musicians crop up in the personnel. Shelly Manne was a regular but I had no idea before that former Ornette sideman Greg Cohen regularly played bass for Waits. I find it curious that the reviews on line all seem to declare every particular album to be his masterpiece. There seems to be no consensus as to what his best records are but I would imagine the two I have must be pretty high up there. Strange to think that Waits's music covers so many bases yet he is clearly his own oeuvre. In my opinion, he is a terrific song writer. My favourites are "A town with no cheer" and the wonderfully ironic "In the neighbourhood."

[Ian Thumwood]

I have been listening to this band a lot of late. The trumpet soloist is Al Cohn's grand-daughter.

[cloughie]

Tom Waits’ definitely got the Marmite factor - I’ll stick to Marmite - he needs a Jakeman’s! What a dreadful voice - he may sing good songs for all I know - but I just can’t listen to him!

[Jazzrook]

Sun Ra 'When Angels Speak Of Love':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k-CYzpVuQ

JR

[Stanfordian]

'The Tower of Power!' - Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon with James Moody, Barry Harris, Buster Williams & Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath
Prestige (1961)

[Joseph K]

Five Peace Band Live

[Jazzrook]

I quite like Tom Waits and often play "Heart of Saturday night" and "Swordfish trombones." Both of these albums are really good and it is surprising just how many jazz musicians crop up in the personnel. Shelly Manne was a regular but I had no idea before that former Ornette sideman Greg Cohen regularly played bass for Waits. I find it curious that the reviews on line all seem to declare every particular album to be his masterpiece. There seems to be no consensus as to what his best records are but I would imagine the two I have must be pretty high up there. Strange to think that Waits's music covers so many bases yet he is clearly his own oeuvre. In my opinion, he is a terrific song writer. My favourites are "A town with no cheer" and the wonderfully ironic "In the neighbourhood."

Tom Waits 'What's He Building In There?' from 'Mule Variations':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=qAkZT_4vL_Y

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Tom Waits, movie scene: a "over the rainbow & out the window story"...http://youtu.be/aY3wPaAQ4mY

Tom Waits also recorded and toured a fair bit using Teddy Edwards on tenor, which must have been good for TE. Probably both.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Only posting this as a "curiosity" and because the original single goes for c. £800. Frank Foster (yes apparently the FF), "Harlem Rumble" from 1968. A big big hit with Northern Soul fans, it sounds more like a Blaxploitation movie theme...

http://youtu.be/AC8UA5bM56k

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy playing 'Stormy Weather' in 1960:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=QP67vJz1vhg

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy playing 'Stormy Weather' in 1960:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=QP67vJz1vhg

JR

Timely - in more than one sense!

[Joseph K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXjfvEcAV6w

Gary Burton with Julian Lage.