What's your latest jazz purchase?

[Joseph K]

Wayne Krantz - Greenwich Mean

Another download, this is quite different from what I remember of listening to it on youtube, where each track was cut off in many cases too early before the next one started - despite that I enjoyed it, so as you can imagine, having the proper thing to listen to is even better.

[Joseph K]

Waiting for these in the post:

[Joseph K]

Those Joe Henderson albums arrived today. Might give one a spin...

[Joseph K]

Pre-ordered the new Allan Holdsworth live CD/DVD Live at Leverkusen, should get it on March 12.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just now received an email from Martin Archer, the Sheffield free jazz/improv scene producer (Discus recordings), saxophonist and electronics guy, saying he's putting out a CD of a duo recording of improvised electronics he made with the bassist Simon H Fell in 1997. It was the one occasion they worked together - Martin is sad the chance never recurred for a get-together; he's good musician and from the work he's done with Julie Tippetts I might well go for it.

[Joseph K]

Arrived in the post today:

[Serial_Apologist]

Arrived in the post today:

Seeing he too has The Flap under his chin revives my feeling of belonging! Enjoy - you deserve to.

[Stanfordian]

Waiting for these in the post:

Hiya Joe K,

Those are super Joe Henderson albums especially the earlier set.

His solo debut album 'Page One' is my particular favourite - recorded and released on Blue Note in 1963.

[Joseph K]

Hiya Joe K,

Those are super Joe Henderson albums especially the earlier set.

His solo debut album 'Page One' is my particular favourite - recorded and released on Blue Note in 1963.

Thanks for the tip.

[Joseph K]

Oz Noy is a fantastic guitarist - seeing a video of him playing All The Things You Are on Instagram just now led to me buying the recently-released album the video was promoting. Check it out - https://outsideinmusic.bandcamp.com/album/riverside

[Joseph K]

Went and bought John Coltrane: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album today in HMV. I'm about to listen to at least some of it now...

[Ian Thumwood]

Hiya Joe K,

Those are super Joe Henderson albums especially the earlier set.

His solo debut album 'Page One' is my particular favourite - recorded and released on Blue Note in 1963.

I love these albums. Joe Henderson is really under-rated. The first set is a bit perculiar as it combines 3nr albums from the 60s and and excellent live set from the 1980s. There are two other records made with Kenny Dorham on Blue Note but under the trumpeter's name called "Trumpetta Toccata" and "una mas." I think that this was one of Blue Notes' best front lines in the 1960s. The three in this collection are probably the best albeit the other two are worth chasing down. I agree about "Page One" but I think it is pipped by "Our thing." The Joe Henderson albums are really great on Blue Note, "Mode for Joe" striking me as reaching out to further albums with larger groups but maybe a bit of a hard listen in comparison with the albums with Dorham.

I hae been listening a lot to Orrin Evans' Captain Black bif band. Theier last disc sees the unit scaled down but tackling a diverse programme which covers gospel standards, Roy Hargrove and Andrew Hill material. I find this band really pushes things out and I love the aggression of the unit. The ballads are very decent yet it is the band's ability to combust which really appeals. I am very intrigued by Evans' new "Taebaby " album which features the great Oliver Lake.

The later collection is really good too. The pcik if the album with John Scofield . The Strayhorn tribute album was much fancied at the time but I enjoy the big band album more.

[elmo]

Dropped some stuff into our local charity shop today and while there ploughed through the cd's and amongst the acres of failed x factor crap was a jewel. 4 cd set of Bix and Tram - the JSP set remastered by John R T Davies. I have never really warmed to Bix so now is my chance to spend some time giving him the attention he deserves.

elmo

[Old Grumpy]

David Forman: Like a Rainbow (https://bashorecords.com/albums/like-a-rainbow/). Excellent selection of compositions by jazz photographer David Forman, together with a book of some of his jazz and travel photographs.

"Highly recommended"

OG

[Joseph K]

Just went and ordered a compilation of Jimmy Raney albums (four albums on two disks or something) since he's a guitarist whose work I feel I ought to know.