What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Ian Thumwood]

You could also cite this for an example of Manne's mastery...

For my money, this is a truly great album. The music encapsulates Sonny Rollin's idea about jazz being the sound of surprise and I love the idea of musicians pushing out like this.

[Joseph K]

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer

This again. Shorter's tone has such depth of expression; this seems greater still when combined with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, as it is here and also on the wonderful Juju.

[Jazzrook]

Hal Singer with Charlie Shavers, Ray Bryant, Wendell Marshall & Osie Johnson playing 'Blue Stompin'' in 1959:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Z0OyT0ZzxcY

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Doin' the Thing’ – The Horace Silver Quintet at the Village Gate
Horace Silver with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor & Roy Brooks
Blue Note (live 1961)

[Jazzrook]

Roland Kirk with Sonny Boy Williamson(Rice Miller) playing 'Untitled Blues' in Copenhagen, 1963:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=rJfcXsRAw1w

JR

[Padraig]

I like this band, Tuba Skinny, because they play New Orleans Jazz, and they play it now. Some Hot 5/7 heard from time to time, like this one, Willy the Weeper.

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

[Stanfordian]

‘Steppin' Out!’ - Harold Vick
with Blue Mitchell, John Patton, Grant Green, Ben Dixon
Blue Note (1963)

[Jazzrook]

At last! The Mike Taylor Quartet 'Pendulum' will be reissued by Universal/Decca later this year:

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

Also, Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth 'Windmill Tilter'; New Jazz Orchestra 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe; Graham Collier 'Deep Dark Blue Centre' & Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet 'Lola'.

JR

[Joseph K]

The tenth and final disk of the Dizzy Gillespie Milestones of a Legend boxed set, which features the albums World Statesman and Birk's Works.

[Serial_Apologist]

At last! The Mike Taylor Quartet 'Pendulum' will be reissued by Universal/Decca later this year:

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

I picked that up when it came out on CD, what? 15 years ago I guess. Well worth having - I guess you could call it the nearest thing to what Paul Bley was doing over in the States around the same time, though there's no direct equivalent, and no successors.

Also, Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth 'Windmill Tilter'; New Jazz Orchestra 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe; Graham Collier 'Deep Dark Blue Centre' & Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet 'Lola'.

LIkewise the Kenny Wheeler, around the same time. The NJO, from '68, will be well worth acquiring, and also the Graham Collier, which was his first recording (1967), and not, I think, released when most of the rest of Graham's stuff was re-released a few years back.

JR

[Jazzrook]

John Coltrane with Donald Byrd, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Louis Hayes playing Cal Massey's 'Nakatini Serenade' in 1958 from the album 'The Believer':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ftPO6cl5NXY

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

At last! The Mike Taylor Quartet 'Pendulum' will be reissued by Universal/Decca later this year:

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

Also, Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth 'Windmill Tilter'; New Jazz Orchestra 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe; Graham Collier 'Deep Dark Blue Centre' & Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet 'Lola'.

JR

Zbigniew Namyslowski Qrt - "Wozny Nojwazniejszy" (1964). I'm a sucker for Polish jazz of this period. He also played with Komeda etc. This sounds like he knew what Jackie McLean was up to...

http://youtu.be/rdtcHryy1bk

[Jazzrook]

Zbigniew Namyslowski Qrt - "Wozny Nojwazniejszy" (1964). I'm a sucker for Polish jazz of this period. He also played with Komeda etc. This sounds like he knew what Jackie McLean was up to...
http://youtu.be/rdtcHryy1bk

That was great. BN.
Can't wait to get hold of 'Lola'!

JR

[Joseph K]

The tenth and final disk of the Dizzy Gillespie Milestones of a Legend boxed set, which features the albums World Statesman and Birk's Works.

Enjoying 'Birk's Works'. Even his vocals I find endearingly quirky.

[Ian Thumwood]

I really liked Michael Kawinuka's last album "Love & hate" which was very much in the same kind of jazz-influenced vein as Bill Withers. It also helps that he is a decent guitarist too. I would be hard pushed to think of any better opening track than "Cold little heart" nor anything quite so risky on a "pop" album where there first 2-3 minutes are purely instrumental. In opinion, that album was cracking.

The latest eponymous disc is a bit of a let down. The better material attains the higher level of the last record whereas there is quite a bit of padding on this new album and some of the new material tends to be a bit similar. I am surprised that his name has not been mentioned on this board before. There is quite a bit of improvisation on this record and whilst there was a strong 1960s vibe on "Love & hate" which marked it out as far superior to anything his contemporaries in pop had be producing and gave it the feel of an instance classic.
By contrast, I think that the production has tended to interfere with the new disc and the sound owes a great deal to the early 1970s. No doubt, Michael Kawinuka seems head and shoulders above his contemporaries and is a genuine musician as opposed to a "product." The new disc has it's moment yet I don't think reached the levels of the earlier record.

For my money, both Michael Kawinuka and Laura Mvula are artists with genuine, musical talent and strike me as being a breath of fresh air.