What Jazz are you listening to now?

[muzzer]

I had some Clifford Brown on earlier. How do we get youngsters fo listen to that era? Or do they anyway? It just cuts through, for me.

[Joseph K]

First disk of the JSP Louis Armstrong Hot Fives & Sevens box. Such wonderfully clownish (as it now appears to me) music is just what I needed this morning.

[Bert]

A Jason Rebello album from an old TDK C90 that I just dug up - I don't remember recording it. No details other than the date I taped it (probably from a friend's CD) 1992. Think I need to clean the heads on my Nakamihi Dragon.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Sorcerer

[Joseph K]

First disk of the JSP Louis Armstrong Hot Fives & Sevens box. Such wonderfully clownish (as it now appears to me) music is just what I needed this morning.

Second one now.

[Stanfordian]

‘The Sidewinder’ – Lee Morgan
with Joe Henderson, Barry Harris, Bob Cranshaw & Billy Higgins
Blue Note (1963)

[Serial_Apologist]

Two 1970s Fusion compilations:

Chick Corea's Return to Forever, an hour's worth on Walkman Jazz Digitally Remastered - yes!!! - tracks from 1971. '73, '74, 75 and '76, a cassette given to me by Daphne Raven as it was "too complicated" for her mainstream tastes, and reminders of how RTF turned firstly from the airy electric Latin jazz of Light as a Feather to heavy Mahavishnu-influenced Fusion courtesy Lenny White's drumming and in turn the guitars of Bill Connors and Al Di Meola, both Mclaughlin-influenced in this kind of music. The real delights (for me) are in the early period - especially the intelligence and quicksilver responsiveness of Corea to Airto Moreira, and vickie verkie. This has the (possibly?) original 500 Miles High, which I also have one Flora Purim's white hot concert recording of 1975 with her own group. And:

The Real Birth of Fusion Two - tracks from Weather report, David Sancious, Tony William's (mid-70s) Lifetime, Miles Davis (from Directions), Stanley Clarke, Santana/McLaughlin (Live, Devotion, Surrender - one of Joseph K's favourites, but to be frank not mine), Bill Cobham, Headhunters, and Al Di Meola - more reminders: this time that some, but not all Fusion was quite as bad as some would have us think, ahem.

[Joseph K]

Santana/McLaughlin (Live, Devotion, Surrender[/B] - one of Joseph K's favourites, but to be frank not mine).

You're confusing the Santana/McLaughlin album Love Devotion Surrender, which I happen to think is ok but nothing to write home about, with McLaughlin's album Devotion, which is an utterly awesome album, absolutely supernal.

Right now I'm listening to the third Louis Armstrong disk from the aforementioned box (West End Blues is on as I type).

I really like the original Chick Corea Return to Forever album - brings back fond memories of my last year at uni.

[Serial_Apologist]

You're confusing the Santana/McLaughlin album Love Devotion Surrender, which I happen to think is ok but nothing to write home about, with McLaughlin's album Devotion, which is an utterly awesome album, absolutely supernal.

Thanks Joseph K for putting me right on that one!

[Bert]

Ike Quebec - Blue & Sentimental 1963 Blue Note

[Joseph K]

Disk four of the aforementioned Louis Armstrong box.

[Stanfordian]

‘Heavy Soul’ - Ike Quebec
with Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton & Al Harewood
Blue Note (1961)

[Bert]

Keith Jarrett - Vienna Concert ECM Records 1991

[Joseph K]

Resuming where I left off from the Complete Albums Collection 1954-57 of Thelonious Monk - with disk four, which comprises the albums The Unique Thelonious Monk and Brilliant Corners.

[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)