What jazz ALBUM are you currently listening to?

rockadanny · « **Reply #7920 on:** 10 Oct 2014, 01:58 am »

Big-ish swing band sound from some very cool cats on Tone Cool records.
These cats can really rock as well.

Hmm ... maybe this belongs in the Blues thread? Hmm ...

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #7921 on:** 11 Oct 2014, 12:48 am »

Best I could do for a photo. The album in Sky Blue by the Maria Schneider Orchestra on the artistShare label. Yep, small a. IMO she is the successor to Gerald Wilson and Gil Evans for great composers for big band or orchestra. Her compositions are more complex than Evans. She must have put a lot of time into the compositions on this album and they are both pretty or playful and never dull. Rich's Piece is about as blue as it gets. It took me several listens to appreciate this album in depth but now that I do I'm given to call it a masterpiece. Be patient and listen astutely. Cheers.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #7922 on:** 11 Oct 2014, 05:05 pm »

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers- Live at Keystone 3 (Concord Jazz) with a sextet including the Marsalis brothers and it cooks! Blakey has never IME sounded so nimble. Very good live and dimensional recording, too.

pumpkinman · « **Reply #7923 on:** 12 Oct 2014, 07:00 pm »

Ginger Baker ~ Middle Passage

ArthurDent · « **Reply #7924 on:** 14 Oct 2014, 04:50 pm »

Chet Baker: The Italian Sessions '96

ArthurDent · « **Reply #7925 on:** 15 Oct 2014, 08:13 am »

Weather Report: Heavy Weather '77

Airborn · « **Reply #7926 on:** 15 Oct 2014, 09:20 am »

Wes Montgomery, Road Song (1968)

CactusBob · « **Reply #7927 on:** 17 Oct 2014, 11:01 pm »

First cut, McLaughlin's "Follow Your Heart" always captivates me.

Joe Farrell Quartet

CTI

CactusBob · « **Reply #7928 on:** 17 Oct 2014, 11:34 pm »

Had to warm my ears & tubes up with the last album for this next one.

Been waiting all week or more like 42 years to hear to this next new release that has been bootlegged innumerable times!

Mahavishnu Orchestra ~ Whiskey A-Go-Go 27.03.72

Klondike, 2014

CactusBob · « **Reply #7929 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 12:43 am »

Mike Stern ~ Upside Downside

Atlantic

Guitar – Mike Stern
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Berg
Piano, Synthesizer – Mitch Forman
Bass – Mark Egan
Drums – Dave Weckl
Percussion – Dr. Gibbs

CactusBob · « **Reply #7930 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 01:13 am »

Jack DeJohnnette ~ New Directions

ECM

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #7931 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 01:55 am »

Quote from: CactusBob on 17 Oct 2014, 11:34 pm

Had to warm my ears & tubes up with the last album for this next one.

Been waiting all week or more like 42 years to hear to this next new release that has been bootlegged innumerable times!

Mahavishnu Orchestra ~ Whiskey A-Go-Go 27.03.72

Klondike, 2014

Dunno that one but a personal favorite for McLaughlin's music tho the recording is compressed all to hell is with Carlos Santana on Columbia. Got some huge drumming on this. Love the last track, I think it is, composed by John Coltrane, I believe. It's not in front of me.

CactusBob · « **Reply #7932 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 02:16 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 18 Oct 2014, 01:55 am

Dunno that one but a personal favorite for McLaughlin's music tho the recording is compressed all to hell is with Carlos Santana on Columbia. Got some huge drumming on this. Love the last track, I think it is, composed by John Coltrane, I believe. It's not in front of me.

Hi Jim, they do a version "Love Supreme" & an acoustic version of "Naima". The sound quality is good, but it was a "one off' wonder of sorts that any musician must hear in my world at least. I was going to see them when they played in Chicago in '73 but for some reason didn't. Like the album, they had Billy Cobham, Don Alias & Jan Hammer on drums! I missed a great one. I wasn't planning on playing it but the last one just ended and this one is front of me. What to do?? Cheers!

Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ~ Love Devotion Surrender

Columbia

ArthurDent · « **Reply #7933 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 06:46 am »

Quote from: CactusBob on 18 Oct 2014, 01:13 am

Jack DeJohnnette ~ New Directions

ECM

Sweet Sir Cacti

That was one in the garage 'find'. Spin on dude !

CactusBob · « **Reply #7934 on:** 18 Oct 2014, 03:37 pm »

Quote from: ArthurDent on 18 Oct 2014, 06:46 am

Sweet Sir Cacti That was one in the garage 'find'. Spin on dude !

Hey, Nice, I better start checking my garage.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #7935 on:** 19 Oct 2014, 03:04 pm »

Quote from: CactusBob on 18 Oct 2014, 02:16 am

Hi Jim, they do a version "Love Supreme" & an acoustic version of "Naima". The sound quality is good, but it was a "one off' wonder of sorts that any musician must hear in my world at least. I was going to see them when they played in Chicago in '73 but for some reason didn't. Like the album, they had Billy Cobham, Don Alias & Jan Hammer on drums! I missed a great one. I wasn't planning on playing it but the last one just ended and this one is front of me. What to do?? Cheers!

Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ~ Love Devotion Surrender

Columbia

Dat be da one, Roberto du Cacti. The drumming is monsterous but hard to hear clearly. What a band! Cheers.

CactusBob · « **Reply #7936 on:** 19 Oct 2014, 09:50 pm »

Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal

Recorded Sept. 5th and 6th, 1958

Argo

CactusBob · « **Reply #7937 on:** 19 Oct 2014, 10:35 pm »

Willis Jackson ~ Keep on Blowin'

Title on label; Cool "Gator"

Prestige, mono

Tenor Saxophone – Willis Jackson
Guitar – Bill Jennings
Organ – Jack McDuff
Bass – Milt Hinton, Wendell Marshall
Congas – Buck Clark
Drums – Alvin Johnson

Released 1959

CactusBob · « **Reply #7938 on:** 19 Oct 2014, 11:17 pm »

Can never get enough of this one.

John Coltrane ~ Olé

Atlantic

Soprano Saxophone – John Coltrane
Alto Saxophone, Flute – George Lane, aka Eric Dolphy
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard
Piano – McCoy Tyner
Bass – Art Davis (tracks: A, B1), Reggie Workman
Drums – Elvin Jones

Recorded and Released in 1961

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #7939 on:** 19 Oct 2014, 11:48 pm »

I must pull that out and spin it. Been a long while. I owned it around the time it was first released. I did listen to this last week:

and this:

Saw Trane with his quartet- Tyner, Garrison, Jones- several times in the 60's.