What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Jazzrook]

Curtis Counce Quintet with Harold Land, Jack Sheldon, Carl Perkins & Frank Butler playing 'Landslide' in 1956:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=JRVvP1IcbqY

JR

[Tenor Freak]

For the first time in many a year, it's Miles' "Nefertiti". I listened to "Sorcerer" last week.

Just finishing the title track, and into "Fall".

[Joseph K]

For the first time in many a year, it's Miles' "Nefertiti". I listened to "Sorcerer" last week.

Just finishing the title track, and into "Fall".

Both beautiful albums, though Sorcerer has a bit of an incongruous last song, if memory serves. 'Pee Wee' by Tony Williams, on which Miles sits out, is a very beautiful thing indeed. And Nefertiti is highly suggestive and fertile stuff, I tend to associate it with 'Hand Jive' and 'Madness', two enigmatic numbers without piano comping for the most part...

[elmo]

Betty Carter, "Spring can really hang you up the most", from "An audience with Betty Carter". I bought the double vinyl of this in the mid 1980s and it's the standout track. I now find some of her late stuff indulgent, stretched beyond her limits and pointless, but THIS is something else...http://youtu.be/kmgGBuxb4KI

Bluesie - Great song and great version by Ms Carter - here is Ella's equally beautiful version

https://youtu.be/vd5VVELfWC8

elmo

[burning dog]

Dexter!

[Tenor Freak]

Both beautiful albums, though Sorcerer has a bit of an incongruous last song, if memory serves. 'Pee Wee' by Tony Williams, on which Miles sits out, is a very beautiful thing indeed. And Nefertiti is highly suggestive and fertile stuff, I tend to associate it with 'Hand Jive' and 'Madness', two enigmatic numbers without piano comping for the most part...

My copy of Sorcerer is a reissue from the 80s by CBS France with the horrible grey cover. It lacks that last track, fortunately!

On Nefertiti, I always think that the tracks Hand Jive, Fall and Pinocchio make a great little suite (I had a cassette with those tracks in that order).

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Miles at the Fillmore: 1970 The Bootleg Series 3

First disk of this.

... edit: this is pretty fantastic...

Second disk now, while wrapping presents. Just as good, if not better!

[Serial_Apologist]

Second disk now, while wrapping presents. Just as good, if not better!

I don't remember any recommendation that "This album is best listened to while wrapping presents"!

[Jazzrook]

Bennie Wallace with Jimmy Knepper, Eddie Gomez & Dannie Richmond playing Monk's 'Ask Me Now' in 1981:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=aCNx1sSRlnc

JR

[RichardB]

Andrew Hill - Judgment!

A new one for me. After a couple of tracks I thought: this is what I always thought the MJQ should have sounded like but didn't because they weren't really that "modern". Hill's compositions are fascinating and oblique as usual, & memorable playing from him, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones.

[cloughie]

Andrew Hill - Judgment!

A new one for me. After a couple of tracks I thought: this is what I always thought the MJQ should have sounded like but didn't because they weren't really that "modern". Hill's compositions are fascinating and oblique as usual, & memorable playing from him, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones.

Steady RB - they were a bit modern when I first heard them in 1964 - what did you want them to do call themselves the ‘Jazz Quartet formerly known as Modern’. I recently purchased a couple of sets of their albums - really enjoyed them!

[cloughie]

I don't remember any recommendation that "This album is best listened to while wrapping presents"!

What would you choose to accompany the task S_A?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Better ask Sam and Dave,
"Wrap it up" Stax 45. 1968. Nice guitar from Steve Cropper.

http://youtu.be/FJavDJfLbJ0

[Jazzrook]

Milt Jackson Quartet with Horace Silver, Percy Heath & Connie Kay playing Artie Shaw's 'Moonray' in 1955:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ZEbUW7Q0ur0

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Miroslav Vitous - "Mountain in the Clouds" - Side A.

Early jazz-rock, when it was still about breaking free within loosened structures. I expect Joseph K knows this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zybqu7iCBo

Miroslav Vitous - bass
Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Herbie Hancock - electric piano
John McLaughlin - guitar
Jack DeJohnette/Joe Chambers -drums - Nov 1969.