What Jazz are you listening to now?

[Tenor Freak]

"Down San Diego Way" - Arthur Blythe (as), Columbia Records, 1979.

[Quarky]

Unearthed in a shed clearance::

Hot Club Johnny Van Derrick - Britain's Greatest Jazz Violinist!

Happy Jazz

[burning dog]

[Joseph K]

Giving Gateway by Abercrombie/Holland/DeJohnette another spin. It's a great record.

[Ian Thumwood]

Giving Gateway by Abercrombie/Holland/DeJohnette another spin. It's a great record.

I missed this album but had one of the tracks from it on an ECM compilation. The third record (with the denim blue cover) is incredible but I am very bias towards John Abercrombie who, in moy opinion, was the most consistent musician on that label's roster.

Oddily enough, I have been playing another "Gateway" album this afternoon that you might have over-looked as it was a session from 1976 led by sitar player Collin Walcott called "Cloud dance." The Gateway trio is effectively augmented by Walcott who plays very convincing jazz on his instrument. This is an exceptional album and shows ECM at it's creative best,

[eighthobstruction]

I missed this album but had one of the tracks from it on an ECM compilation. The third record (with the denim blue cover) is incredible but I am very bias towards John Abercrombie who, in moy opinion, was the most consistent musician on that label's roster.

Oddily enough, I have been playing another "Gateway" album this afternoon that you might have over-looked as it was a session from 1976 led by sitar player Collin Walcott called "Cloud dance." The Gateway trio is effectively augmented by Walcott who plays very convincing jazz on his instrument. This is an exceptional album and shows ECM at it's creative best,

.... on both counts - [and for some reason I always associate/remember Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes from the same period]. Great flute on the Walcott album too....

[Joseph K]

Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions

[Joseph K]

Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans

[Ian Thumwood]

i have been listening to Dave Brubeck's "Jazz impressions of Japan" which I haven'tplayed since the lock-down ended. I have to say that this record is seriously under-rated and much more interesting that "Time out" which seems q bit twee in comparison. I think the novelty of odd meters has warn the novelty off this record but the "Japan" disc isprobably deper. The only mistep is the funky number and although the ballads is worth singling out, you get a real sense of how tight this quartet was as a band on the more uptempo numbers.

[elmo]

Andy Laverne and John Abercrombie playing a nice version of 'Waltz for Debby' - one for Joseph

https://youtu.be/890v6qrwQpA

elmo

[Joseph K]

Andy Laverne and John Abercrombie playing a nice version of 'Waltz for Debby' - one for Joseph

https://youtu.be/890v6qrwQpA

elmo

Cheers Elmo. Right now, however, I'm celebrating Herbie Hancock's 83rd by spinning Headhunters.

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - disk no. 2 of the first volume of the bootleg series, live in Europe 1967.

[Joseph K]

Dunmall & Bianco - 'Ascension' from Homage to John Coltrane.

Listening to disk 2 of this wonderful album.

[Joseph K]

Andy Laverne and John Abercrombie playing a nice version of 'Waltz for Debby' - one for Joseph

https://youtu.be/890v6qrwQpA

elmo

Very nice...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Don Cherry Quintet (with Gato, Karl Berger etc), live at the Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, 1966, Danish Radio. Good stuff from around the Cherry's Bluenote album period...

http://youtu.be/9Ugy7IhCEH4

*A kind of tribute to Karl Berger who I think died recently.