What Jazz are you listening to now?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bobby Hutcherson - Total Eclipse

I’m enjoying this BH album more than the others I have (they’re all great!). I also have Dialogue, Happenings & Oblique.

Harold Land, he's the Man! Great album.

BN.

[Beef Oven!]

Harold Land, he's the Man! Great album.

BN.

Yes, that chap on the sax is rather good!!

On Pompeian right now which is deliciously off the wall.

1968, how come Miles gets all the limelight around this time when there’s stuff like this being done?

Update: Just found this about Pompeian ....

"I was experimenting with moving intervals in my playing, doing seconds and thirds to fourths and fifths. It was creating a different sound instead of typical jazz lines. The intervals were opened up. The idea was to try to make it sound simple even though it was music that was hard to figure out. Harold started playing the intervals, too, so that we could bounce off each other. Actually, I got a lot of my ideas from Joe Chambers, who was always trying to change the recipe. 'Pompeian' is full of the intervals playing--which actually reflected the scene that was going on in San Francisco at the time.” — Bobby Hutcherson (Wiki)

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yes, that chap on the sax is rather good!!

On Pompeian right now which is deliciously off the wall.

1968, how come Miles gets all the limelight around this time when there’s stuff like this being done?

Update: Just found this about Pompeian ....

"I was experimenting with moving intervals in my playing, doing seconds and thirds to fourths and fifths. It was creating a different sound instead of typical jazz lines. The intervals were opened up. The idea was to try to make it sound simple even though it was music that was hard to figure out. Harold started playing the intervals, too, so that we could bounce off each other. Actually, I got a lot of my ideas from Joe Chambers, who was always trying to change the recipe. 'Pompeian' is full of the intervals playing--which actually reflected the scene that was going on in San Francisco at the time.” — Bobby Hutcherson (Wiki)

There's a fantastic set by that band (but Stanley Cowell, brilliant, on piano) at Antibes from around that period. Its on Youtube and is ferocious. Brilliant stuff.

BN.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sidney Bechet - Si tu vois ma mère

Final choice of D Beckham Esq. on Desert Island Discs - a good programme (extended version online http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bz0rz), no classical but upside: no Spice Girls either - Ella Fitzgerald was there, and indeed was his final 'save only one from the eight' choice (due to family associations).

[Beef Oven!]

Sidney Bechet - Si tu vois ma mère

Final choice of D Beckham Esq. on Desert Island Discs - a good programme (extended version online http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bz0rz), no classical but upside: no Spice Girls either - Ella Fitzgerald was there, and indeed was his final 'save only one from the eight' choice (due to family associations).

I’d planned on catching up on this. Will listen in, thanks for not giving a spoiler

[Nick Armstrong]

I’d planned on catching up on this. Will listen in, thanks for not giving a spoiler

If you're dependent on the tension of unlistened-to DID episodes, you really do need to get out more!

[Beef Oven!]

If you're dependent on the tension of unlistened-to DID episodes, you really do need to get out more!

I put my all into anything I do

[Daniel]

Recently listened to and enjoyed very much was this excerpt from a Cecil Taylor concert. (May be a mood thing but amongst other things, I kept hearing Chopinesque parallels and even a quasi quote from Liszt Mephisto waltz towards the end.)

[Stanfordian]

Herbie Nichols with Teddy Kotick, Al McKibbon & Max Roach
‘Herbie Nichols Trio’
Blue Note (1956)

Will be playing this album later.

[Jazzrook]

Sir Roland Hanna(knighted by the President of Liberia in 1970) playing 'Take The "A" Train' from his magnificent and hard-to-find solo piano album 'Perugia' recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1974:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvYBTqsj1w

JR

[Stanfordian]

Stanley Turrentine with Horace Parlan, George Tucker & Al Harewood
‘Look Out!’
Blue Note (1960)

[Jazzrook]

Andrew Hill's solo piano album 'Live at Montreux'(FREEDOM) from 1975:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0iN0gdpQc

JR

[Stanfordian]

Harold Land with Red Mitchell, Carmell Jones, Frank Strazzeri & Leon Pettis
‘Hear Ye!’
Atlantic (1961)

[Stanfordian]

Ike Quebec with Kenny Burrell, Wendell Marshall, Willie Bobo & Garvin Masseaux
‘Bossa Nova Soul Samba’
Blue Note (1962)

[Jazzrook]

Don Pullen's 1988 trio album 'New Beginnings'(BLUE NOTE) with Gary Peacock & Tony Williams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VZHJFPGiY

JR