What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think that the rings are the only thing she put up her nose.

Those aren't rings, they're knuckle dusters!

[Stunsworth]

Bill Laurence streaming live from Ronnie Scott’s on YouTube.

[Jazzrook]

Charles Tyler, Earl Cross, John Ore, Ronnie Boykins & Steve Reid from 'Saga of the Outlaws' recorded at Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea in New York City, 1976:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=9d9-Nzrf_Kc

JR

[Joseph K]

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around

This is a beautiful album.

[Ian Thumwood]

ECM have been re-issuing some of their more interesting albums from 70s-90s and one that I bought back in October was Enrico Rava's "The pilgrim and the stairs." I think it was Bruce who singled this album out for praise but it does chime in with some of the earlier comments regarding the lyricism of Chet Baker and Joseph's enthusiasm for the plugged-in bands of Miles Davis. The quartet is made up of the trumpeter, Jon Christensen , Palle Danielsson and guitarist John Abercrombie. As someone more familiar with Rava's more lyrical playing, this is a bit of a shock, the music having a brooding European feel typical of the time but refracted through "Filles De Killemanjiro" era Miles. This is not the introspective album I had envisaged and there are moments where the music has the knotty quality of Ornette's playing of the time. Abercrombie's playing does mirror the kind of approach used by Miles' keyboard players and although there is a "rocky" element in the sound, any "jazz-rock" pretentions are hard to recognise 45 years after it's recording.

[Stanfordian]

‘Side by Side’ – Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges
with Harry ‘Sweets’ Ellison, Les Spann, Sam Jones, Al Hall & Jo Jones
Verve (1959)

[Serial_Apologist]

Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
with Matana (as) Jeff Parker (g) Josh Abrams (b) Frank Rosaly (d) (2007)

and

Aki Takase - My Ellington
solo piano (2012)

Thus completing a year-long journey through my entire recorded jazz collection - the first time I have done this.

[Joseph K]

Matana Roberts - The Chicago Project
with Matana (as) Jeff Parker (g) Josh Abrams (b) Frank Rosaly (d) (2007)

and

Aki Takase - My Ellington
solo piano (2012)

Thus completing a year-long journey through my entire recorded jazz collection - the first time I have done this.

I too am systematically going through my collection! (With some interruptions and asides...)

Now: Miles Davis and Horns (Second CD of the complete Miles on Prestige box).

[Bert]

Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil. Blue Note. Recorded 1964, released 1966.

[Joseph K]

Bert, I've joined you.

I forget how eargasmic that album is.

[Stanfordian]

‘Face to Face' - Baby Face Willette
with Fred Jackson, Grant Green & Ben Dixon
Blue Note (1961)

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Collectors' Items

[Bert]

Bert, I've joined you.

I forget how eargasmic that album is.

It's a perennial.

[Stanfordian]

‘Hootin' 'n Tootin' - Fred Jackson
with Earl Van Dyke, Willie Jones, Sam Jones & Wilbert Hogan
Blue Note (1962)

[Serial_Apologist]

Bert, I've joined you.

I forget how eargasmic that album is.

Horticulturalists have tried to get that album re-named "Speak No Weevils".