What jazz ALBUM are you currently listening to?

CactusBob · « **Reply #7780 on:** 18 Aug 2014, 12:35 am »

Gene Ammons ~ Blue Gene

Prestige

Hear Clifford Brown · « **Reply #7781 on:** 18 Aug 2014, 01:30 am »

Randy Johnston - Detour Ahead

EarPal · « **Reply #7782 on:** 18 Aug 2014, 10:40 pm »

Reuben Wilson - Love Bug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T2oWdFdJWw

EarPal · « **Reply #7783 on:** 18 Aug 2014, 11:44 pm »

Stew Cutler - Insignia

CactusBob · « **Reply #7784 on:** 20 Aug 2014, 12:28 am »

The Complete Lester Young

The Essential Keynote Collection, Vol. 1

Jazzman53 · « **Reply #7785 on:** 20 Aug 2014, 01:27 am »

etcarroll · « **Reply #7786 on:** 23 Aug 2014, 05:14 pm »

John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucía ‎– Passion, Grace & Fire

CactusBob · « **Reply #7787 on:** 24 Aug 2014, 10:29 pm »

The Ornette Coleman Quartet ~ This is Our Music

Atlantic

CactusBob · « **Reply #7788 on:** 24 Aug 2014, 11:13 pm »

Miles Davis ~ Miles in the Sky

Columbia

CactusBob · « **Reply #7789 on:** 24 Aug 2014, 11:50 pm »

Paul Desmond ~ Pure Desmond

with Ron Carter, Connie Kay and Ed Bickert

CTI

CactusBob · « **Reply #7790 on:** 25 Aug 2014, 12:31 am »

Been years since I spun this fine album.

Les McCann & Eddie Harris ~ Swiss Movement

Atlantic

CactusBob · « **Reply #7791 on:** 27 Aug 2014, 12:02 am »

A Cacti Fave!!!

Chet Baker ~ The Italian Sessions

CactusBob · « **Reply #7792 on:** 27 Aug 2014, 12:52 am »

Chet Baker ~ Picture of Heath

CactusBob · « **Reply #7793 on:** 28 Aug 2014, 12:06 am »

Art Blakey Quintet ~ A Night at Birdland, Volume 1

ArthurDent · « **Reply #7794 on:** 28 Aug 2014, 12:10 am »

Quote from: CactusBob on 27 Aug 2014, 12:02 am

A Cacti Fave!!!

Chet Baker ~ The Italian Sessions

Guess when the budget frees up I'll have to check that one out eh CB. Can't get a much better recommendation.

rockadanny · « **Reply #7795 on:** 28 Aug 2014, 03:17 am »

Bedtime prep ...

Recorded three years after his groundbreaking Maiden Voyage LP, this 1968 date features the pianist/composer leading a trio which includes his Miles Davis bandmate, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Mickey Roker, augmented by a three-piece horn section featuring alto flute, bass trombone, and Thad Jones on flugelhorn.

CactusBob · « **Reply #7796 on:** 29 Aug 2014, 12:06 am »

Ammons & Stitt ~ You Talk That Talk

Prestige Promo

Tenor Saxophone – Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt
Drums – Idris Muhammad
Guitar – George Freeman
Organ – Leon Spencer, Jr.

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 8, 1971

CactusBob · « **Reply #7797 on:** 29 Aug 2014, 12:50 am »

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols

rockadanny · « **Reply #7798 on:** 30 Aug 2014, 05:54 pm »

Tord's 6th release on ECM, this one adds tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg making the group a foursome.
I think he adds nice flavor the the trio's work.

rockadanny · « **Reply #7799 on:** 30 Aug 2014, 09:22 pm »

A trip to China may well have provided inspiration for Beyond the Wall, Kenny Garrett's first album for ever-expanding Nonesuch. But as has frequently been the case with the gifted alto saxophonist, the South Asian explorations of John Coltrane exert the strongest influence. With the still-formidable Coltrane disciple Pharoah Sanders featured on tenor saxophone and pianist Mulgrew Miller renewing his debt to Trane's superpowered foil, McCoy Tyner (to whom the CD is dedicated), the repeating modal patterns popularized by Coltrane are put to stirring use. Serving the master's spirituality in compellingly different ways--Garrett with his slashing attack, Sanders with his powerfully rooted sound--the saxophonists play off each other to sometimes thrilling effect. The album is nothing if not derivative: Its employment of wordless vocals recalls Donald Byrd's choir-enriched classics and, with the great Bobby Hutcherson featured on vibes, Return to Forever. But the music never flags, even on cuts running to 10 and 12 minutes, boosted by the limber, propulsive drumming of Brian Blade--who in his own way is a throwback to Coltrane's other legendary collaborator, Elvin Jones. --Lloyd Sachs

(Good music

, but not a fan of how it was recorded/mastered for CD - far from organic/analogue sounding

.)