What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely you had to log in to post these messages?

Ian might have been referring to trying to post on his phone, in which case..........

[Joseph K]

Ian might have been referring to trying to post on his phone, in which case..........

But he also said he thought the tech was too new for his laptop...

[Ian Thumwood]

Unable to log on on my laptop due to issues with Edge.

I have been enjoying the Shelly Manne discs recommended by Jazzrook. Pretty much state of the srt for the time but shame the likes of Richie Kamuca are now little known.

i have also picked up a double cd by the Baselli Walarub jazz orchestra called the Gennett Project which recasts music from the Gennett studios made I the 1920s. The music resembles a mixture of Ellington and Mingus . This disc comes in hardback book about the the studio. The music is rooted in the tradition but the tunes are recast as motifs. There have been favourable reviews on All about Jazz as well as thr Jazz Bastard podcast The best new akun 9f 2023 in my opinion. Recommended to Jazzrook and Elmo. Hugely impressed.

[Jazzrook]

Unable to log on on my laptop due to issues with Edge.

I have been enjoying the Shelly Manne discs recommended by Jazzrook. Pretty much state of the srt for the time but shame the likes of Richie Kamuca are now little known.

i have also picked up a double cd by the Baselli Walarub jazz orchestra called the Gennett Project which recasts music from the Gennett studios made I the 1920s. The music resembles a mixture of Ellington and Mingus . This disc comes in hardback book about the the studio. The music is rooted in the tradition but the tunes are recast as motifs. There have been favourable reviews on All about Jazz as well as thr Jazz Bastard podcast The best new akun 9f 2023 in my opinion. Recommended to Jazzrook and Elmo. Hugely impressed.

Glad to see you back, Ian.
Will check out the Baselli-Walarub Jazz Orchestra -a new name to me.
Here are a few tracks from The Gennett Suite:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=jiLj5uWCPZ0

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

The Shelly Manne album is really good. I have been enjoying this 4 cd set. It is like a snap shot of where jazz was at the end of the 1950s. Victor Feldman is probably the most interesting soloist but I think the appeal is how good s band this was.

Still.waiting for the cricket to start. Annoying. Inspection at 2pm . Always seems ro rain when I watch England .

[CGR]

Shelly Manne's 'Complete Live At The Blackhawk' is one of my favorites. It is an excellent set of live performances.

[teamsaint]

Anybody got the New Directions in Jazz double CD by Bill Le Sage’s Directions in Jazz Unit ? Very tempted by a clip on an old BBC 4 episode of Jazz 625

[Joseph K]

Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane

[Joseph K]

Allan Holdsworth - Leverkusen '97

Holdsworth at the height of his powers. Sheer ecstasy!

[Joseph K]

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around

I love this album.

[Padraig]

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Angels Around

I love this album.

I like this

Tuba Skinny - Jubilee Stomp - Royal Street II - YouTube

[Joseph K]

I like this

Tuba Skinny - Jubilee Stomp - Royal Street II - YouTube

Not long ago I listened to Nefertiti by Miles Davis. Such an awesome, beautiful album.

[Joseph K]

The Wes Montgomery Trio

[Ian Thumwood]

Picking up in SA's comment of several months ago , I have been listening a lot to Martin Roscoe's complete works of Symanowski. I am so fascinated by this music that I have even tried learning the Olus 1 preludes. A few of are readable but they are too difficult although good fun to see how his music works.

I am coming around to the opinion that Symanowski is seriously under valued. The four volume Naxos set must be his complete piano output and I quite like the symphonies too. No one ever cites him as an influence and he does not have the cache of Scriabin a amongst jazz pianists. SA offered the opinion that Symanowski was superior to Scriabin and I suppose Joseph is 100 % correct drawing parallels to Coltrane. Is Symanowski classical music's answer to Wayne Shorter? Why is Symanowski so little appreciated? I have to say that I always perceived Debussy to be hugely significant amongst composers of that time and a major influence on jazz pianists as diverse as Evans and Hancock. I am a lone in thinking that Debussy is actually surpassed by Scriabin and Symanowski? I would never have argued this 12 months ago but I feel that they both epitomise classical piano music. Last year I was bowled over by Enescu yet I think Symanowski is even more criminally underrated.

[Joseph K]

Picking up in SA's comment of several months ago , I have been listening a lot to Martin Roscoe's complete works of Symanowski. I am so fascinated by this music that I have even tried learning the Olus 1 preludes. A few of are readable but they are too difficult although good fun to see how his music works.

I am coming around to the opinion that Symanowski is seriously under valued. The four volume Naxos set must be his complete piano output and I quite like the symphonies too. No one ever cites him as an influence and he does not have the cache of Scriabin a amongst jazz pianists. SA offered the opinion that Symanowski was superior to Scriabin and I suppose Joseph is 100 % correct drawing parallels to Coltrane. Is Symanowski classical music's answer to Wayne Shorter? Why is Symanowski so little appreciated? I have to say that I always perceived Debussy to be hugely significant amongst composers of that time and a major influence on jazz pianists as diverse as Evans and Hancock. I am a lone in thinking that Debussy is actually surpassed by Scriabin and Symanowski? I would never have argued this 12 months ago but I feel that they both epitomise classical piano music. Last year I was bowled over by Enescu yet I think Symanowski is even more criminally underrated.

All the Szymanowski I've heard (admittedly not that much) strikes me as being neither as distinctive, arresting or magical as either Scriabin or Debussy at their best. Perhaps I just haven't heard Szymanowski at his best. I'd ask for recommendations, but this is the jass bored.