What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

In next week's Latin jazz edition of JRR, Egberto is featured in duo with Nana Vasconcelos. Judging by the time of your last post S-A, I hope you were listening to this week's edition...

Yep, multitasking as is my usual. Good to know Big Brother's in the watchtower!

[Joseph K]

This is rather good, though the drum sound is what I'd describe as a bit bangy - whether that's down to Mr Husband or the mix or sound engineer or whatnot, I don't know:

[Stanfordian]

‘Clifford Brown & Max Roach’
with Harold Land, George Morrow & Richie Powell
EmArcy (1954)

[Bert]

Andrew Hill- Compulsion!!!!! (1965) Blue Note

[Serial_Apologist]

This is rather good, though the drum sound is what I'd describe as a bit bangy - whether that's down to Mr Husband or the mix or sound engineer or whatnot, I don't know:

"Remix" can mean a lot of things!

[Serial_Apologist]

Earlier on I gave the first Headhunters album a listen, for the first time in several years. One thing that immediately occurred to me was how strangely flattened out, or muffled, the sound qualities are in the upper registers of this recording. I had thought this might have had something to do with my deliberate pumping up the lowermost register on my player for maximum desired impact, but lowering it to closer to my usual acceptabilities, which is usually halfway up the slider, made no difference. I suppose this merely reflects assumed different aesthetic standards by CBS - Soft Machine's Third of three years previous was notoriously bass-heavy, this being mitigated somewhat in the CD "remix" I have. I feel sure anybody recording that particular Headhunters today would have paid greater respect to Herbie Hancock's imaginative timbral delineations at that time, which surely played so important a part in successfully popularising the famous "Chameleon".

[Joseph K]

I've never noticed that about the first Headhunters album, S_A.

[Bert]

Jeff Beck - Wired 1976

[Joseph K]

Miles Smiles

[Bert]

Jeff Beck's Live album from 2008 "Live At Ronnie Scott's".

I bought it the moment it came out, so missed out on the later expanded release.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sonny Fortune: Awakening (1975)

Fortune (as,fl) Charles Sullivan (tpt) Kenny Barron/John Hicks (1 track)(p) Wayne Dockery/Reggie Workman (1 track) (b) Billy Hart/Chip Lyles (1 track) (d) Angel Allende (perc).

I bought this on the strength of Sonny's playing on the barnstorming McCoy Tyner "Sahara" of 1972, only to find it to be a mainstream 70s hard bop release. But it's a pretty good one, including as it does Mr Barron's modal tune "Sunshower", which is easy for a naff pianist like me to play, most of the right hand consisting of open sixth chords, and which I now find to be in A minor - an easy key - always preferring to play stuff in the key in which it's been recorded. I would have preferred Fortune's soprano sax to his choice of flute on its two features - it's OK but hard to sound distinguishable on unless you're in the Dolphy class! But no one American sounds closer to our Elton Dean than Sonny - that way he has of meandering chromatically around pivot notes before landing on them, and spreading out from them in similar spiral movements.

[Joseph K]

Allan Holdsworth - Frankfurt '86

[Stanfordian]

‘Tex Book Tenor’ - Booker Ervin
with Kenny Barron, Woody Shaw, Jan Arnet & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1968)

[Jazzrook]

Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden & a 10-year-old Denardo Coleman playing 'Good Old Days' from the hard-to-find 1966 BLUE NOTE album 'The Empty Foxhole':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=uQLm9MF0zoQ

JR

[Joseph K]

John Coltrane - Sun Ship