What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

... ok, so now I'm listening to the whole album... I have 'The Message Continues' on which is more like it IMO, compared with the title track.

OK the keys person and the drummer are very good - the rest of the band sound like they're down the other end of a very long corridor: they and the underpinning format seem glued on somehow from afar. I must be exceptionally curmudgeonly not to like this!

[Joseph K]

OK the keys person and the drummer are very good - the rest of the band sound like they're down the other end of a very long corridor: they and the underpinning format seem glued on somehow from afar. I must be exceptionally curmudgeonly not to like this!

Currently listening to 'Before Us: In Demerara & Caura' which is pretty good, quite dramatic. It's closer to something like post-bop or late-sixties jazz. The album is a mixed bag.

Gotta say that the few commercial nods to things like reggae and the overall vibe is, to use the F word, quite like fusion.

[Joseph K]

Coltrane Jazz - John Coltrane

[Stanfordian]

‘Brown and Roach Incorporated’ - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
with Harold Land, Richie Powell & George Morrow
EmArcy (1955)

[cloughie]

‘Brown and Roach Incorporated’ - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
with Harold Land, Richie Powell & George Morrow
EmArcy (1955)

Whenever I see your postings on this thread I always imagine you like a bit of 50s or 60s jazz with your mid-morning cup of coffee!

[Bert]

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

[Jazzrook]

Giorgio Gaslini playing 'Ghosts' from his remarkable 1990 solo piano album 'Ayler's Wings':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Oi1uL-Sc480

JR

[Joseph K]

Disk three of Sonny Rollins' The Prestige Years boxed set, which begins with the album 'Rollins Plays for Bird'. Excellent music, though in order to cram two albums onto this disk (which apparently has more than 80 minutes' worth of music on - how did they manage that?) each songs segues straight into the next one like a medley - not ideal.

EDIT: just discovered via wiki, it's meant to be a medley.

[Stanfordian]

'Workout' – Hank Mobley
with Grant Green, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones
Blue Note (1961)

[Serial_Apologist]

Disk three of Sonny Rollins' The Prestige Years boxed set, which begins with the album 'Rollins Plays for Bird'. Excellent music, though in order to cram two albums onto this disk (which apparently has more than 80 minutes' worth of music on - how did they manage that?) each songs segues straight into the next one like a medley - not ideal.

EDIT: just discovered via wiki, it's meant to be a medley.

Of course that "medley method" became Rollins's stock-in-trade performance methodology in the 1960s, sometimes substituting sections of one tune for another in mid flow - Stan Tracey described having to acquire what he called a "musical all weathers approach" harmonically to accompany him because "one couldn't know where or which tune he was going to next to without actually living inside his head".

[Joseph K]

[Stanfordian]

‘Redd’s Blues’ - Freddie Redd
with Benny Bailey, Jackie McLean, Tina Brooks, Paul Chambers & Sir John Godfrey
Blue Note (1961)

[Jazzrook]

Altoist Massimo Urbani who died of a heroin overdose aged 36 a few months after recording 'Blues for Bird' in 1993:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=s5u5WO-oS-M

JR

[Bert]

Free For All - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

[Stanfordian]

‘City Lights’ - Lee Morgan
with Curtis Fuller, George Coleman, Ray Byrant, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Blue Note (1957)