What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Joseph K]

While changing strings for two guitars: Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around

Just now while changing bed sheets, and currently: Miles Davis - The Lost Quintet

The Rosenwinkel is superb, while the Miles is just incredible.

[Joseph K]

[Stunsworth]

Tubby Hayes: Tubbs In N.Y.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tubby Hayes: Tubbs In N.Y.

There seemed to be something of a fashion for horrible pink LP covers at around that time.

[Stunsworth]

There seemed to be something of a fashion for horrible pink LP covers at around that time.

Probably because it’s magenta, and that’s one of the four colours used to produce a printed image - cyan, yellow and black being the others - so easy and cheap to do.

[Jazzrook]

John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones playing an early version of 'Lonnie's Lament', live in Berlin, 1963:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=n_Ve5W4MWiw

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Groove Blues’ - Gene Ammons
with Pepper Adams, John Coltrane, Jerome Richardson & Paul Quinchette
Prestige (1958)

[Joseph K]

Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Artlessly Falling

On the basis of the Freeness appearance.

[elmo]

Goodbye Art hello Miles - Wayne departs the Jazz Messengers in style in 1964.

https://youtu.be/gLq3Y6zhyGA

elmo

[Stanfordian]

‘Heavy Sounds’ - Elvin Jones and Richard Davis
with Frank Foster & Billy Greene
Impulse (1967)

[Jazzrook]

Charles Mingus with Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson & Dannie Richmond playing 'All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother' in 1960:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJe_ZlFC084

JR

[Jazzrook]

Eric Dolphy with Nathan Davis, Donald Byrd, Jacques Dieval(piano), Jacques B. Hess(bass), Franco Manzecchi(drums) & Jacky Bambou(percussion) playing 'Springtime' in Paris, June 11, 1964:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgSHCGBh2o

JR

[Stanfordian]

‘Something Personal’ - Jack Wilson
with Roy Ayers, Ray Brown, Charles 'Buster' Williams, Varney Barlow
Blue Note (1966)

[Ian Thumwood]

I have been giving some old CDs a spin this afternoon including some by the likes of Paul Bley and Andrew Hill from the 1980s. The duet album "Notes" that Paul Bley made with Paul Motian is amazingly good.

I also found the trio record by Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau around 1997 which was featured on "Impressions" and was my first introduction to the pianist. The music never gets much beyond an ambulatory pace but I think that Mehldau is hugely impressive on this record. When it came out I was completely bowled over and ordered my copy from Magpie Records in Macclesfield which was a Mecca for obscure jazz albums. It is funny to return to this record which had probably the most hackneyed programme of standards imaginable on it and to find Mehldau operating at such a high level. I am a bit on the fence about his work. I have heard him live and record where he has been compelling although there have been other instances where he has bored me rigid. (I saw the quartet with Pat Metheny at Vienne and felt that the combination was incredibly anodyne and then a few years later playing keyboard which was pretty woeful.) In partnership with Konitz, the gauntlet was well and truly thrown down. Haden's playing is unfussy and glues the two soloists together as a cohesive unit. For my money, few jazz soloists match either Konitz or Sonny Rollins for the ability to extemporise yet Mehldau really matches the alto saxophonist. The music is stripped down and the over-fussy nature of Mehldau's playing which I feel he is sometimes guilty of is replaced by an almost puritanical desire to create. I think there have been quite a few detractors of Mehldau on this board in the past ( King Kennytone always referred to him as "Bad mildew") and I think the tsunami of imitators has taken some of the shine off his playing because this style is almost so ubiquitous that you become blase about it. There are moments on this record which are almost Tristano - like. Technically, I have always felt that there were few pianists in touching distance of him. This album ( "Alone together") truly puts him to the test and I still find it amongst the most rewarding records he has appeared on.

[Stanfordian]

‘Glide On’ - Bill Jennings
with Jack McDuff, Al Jennings, Wendell Marshall & Alvin Johnson
Prestige (1960)