What Jazz are you listening to now?

[elmo]

Aaron T Bone Walker " T Bone Jumps"

https://youtu.be/QTITjWr72tc

elmo

[Joseph K]

Remember Shakti - Remember Shakti

[burning dog]

[burning dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZW8U9bbmM&list=RDNJZW8U9bbmM&start_radio=1

[Jazzrook]

The little-known tenor saxophonist Tyrone Washington with Woody Shaw, James Spaulding, Kenny Barron, Reggie Workman & Joe Chambers playing 'Yearning For Love' in 1967 from Washington's sole album as leader 'Natural Essence'(Blue Note):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=NHZUeaE7z_c

JR

[Tenor Freak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGC2SL02g4Y&list=RDLGC2SL02g4Y&start_radio=1

[Joseph K]

Remember Shakti - Remember Shakti

Disk 2 of this.

[Joseph K]

Remember Shakti - The Believer

[Jazzrook]

Lightnin' Hopkins playing 'Lonesome Dog Blues'(1949/50):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=MZoHVNIUJ2w

JR

[groovydavidii]

"The Girl From Ipanema," Stan Getz & Gilberto...

[Joseph K]

Remember Shakti - The Believer

A superb album, just now getting round to listening to the last two tracks. McLaughlin's picking is so smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K11FOffLd28

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin - Extrapolation

[burning dog]

John McLaughlin - Extrapolation

[Joseph K]

Remember Shakti - Saturday Night In Bombay

[Ian Thumwood]

Been listening to the Harlem Hamfats today. On first listen, I was a little sceptical but I think that they were actually pretty good. I quite like Herb Morand's trumpet playing. He is a new name to me but sounds somewhat overlooked. I knew little of them but they are a kind of hybrid small group , assembled for studio recordings between 1936-8 by Mayo Williams (a leading record producer of the time) and featuring Kansas Joe McCoy, better known as the legendary Memphis Minnie's other half.

The material is either about alcohol and drugs or suggestive in a way that seems a bit crass in 2023. ("Let's get drunk and truck.") However, I love the bridge between blues and jazz as well as the fact that this was how "commercial jazz" sounded in thelate 1930s. Sometimes the music seems to look forward to Louis Armstrong's Allstar from about 15 years later.

Never heard this name banded around this board before and it is probably only going to interest Bluesnik. I quite like the music which is indicative of the fact that jazz in that era had no shame about being low-brow. The name is slang for musicians with little ability yet they were all professionals who were based in Chicago and had a foot in the blues and jazz scene of that era. This probably the typical of that era where the country blues tradition was no longer fashionable and the blues became a bit more sophisticated as it typified by the likes of Big Bill Broonzy and Leroy Carr.