What jazz ALBUM are you currently listening to?

Asimov · « **Reply #13440 on:** 14 Nov 2015, 06:28 pm »

Jimmy Ponder - Thumbs Up

jpm · « **Reply #13441 on:** 14 Nov 2015, 06:43 pm »

Tord Gustavsen Quarter - Extended Circle

The somber beauty of this work feels appropriate in respect of yesterday's events.

S Clark · « **Reply #13442 on:** 14 Nov 2015, 07:20 pm »

The Pres playing smooth. On a Savoy label SJL 2202 promo copy.

Starchild · « **Reply #13443 on:** 14 Nov 2015, 08:06 pm »

Paul Desmond - First Place Again

Personnel: Paul Desmond (saxophone, alto saxophone); Jim Hall (guitar); Percy Heath (upright bass); Connie Kay (drums).

Recording information: New York, NY (09/05/1959-09/07/1959).

Starchild · « **Reply #13444 on:** 14 Nov 2015, 10:54 pm »

Art Pepper - More for Les: At the Village Vanguard, Vol. 4

Personnel: Art Pepper (saxophone); George Cables (piano); George Mraz (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).

Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, New York between July 28 & 30, 1977. Originally released on Contemporary (7650).

Starchild · « **Reply #13445 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 12:41 am »

Originally released on Blue Note Records in 1995, Joe Lovano's Quartets: Live At The Village Vanguard was named Jazz Album of the Year by readers of Downbeat Magazine.

Joe Lovano - Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard

Personnel:

Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, C melody saxophone; Tom Harrell - trumpet, flugelhorn (Disc One); Mulgrew Miller – piano (Disc Two); Anthony Cox (Disc One), Christian McBride (Disc Two) – bass; Billy Hart (Disc One), Lewis Nash (Disc Two) – drums.

Starchild · « **Reply #13446 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 01:55 am »

Bob James / David Sanborn - Quartette Humaine

Personnel: Bob James: piano; David Sanborn: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone; Steve Gadd: drums; James Genus: bass; Javier Diaz.

Mojo (Publisher) (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hough slightly sombre and autumnal in tone the album's material is elegantly wrought thanks to James' crystalline piano filigrees..."

Release Date May 20, 2013

Starchild · « **Reply #13447 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 03:02 am »

Cannonball Adderley - Radio Nights

Personnel: Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone); Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone); Nat Adderley (cornet); Joe Zanwinul (piano); Sam Jones (bass); Roy McCurdy, Louis Hayes (drums).

JazzTimes (6/91) - "..one of the best of all Cannonball live albums."

Principally recorded live at the Half Note, New York, New York in December 1967 and January 1968.

brooklyn · « **Reply #13448 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 05:21 am »

ArthurDent · « **Reply #13449 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 06:43 am »

Milles Davis: Kind of Blue

Asimov · « **Reply #13450 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 01:30 pm »

John Hicks - Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Seven

Starchild · « **Reply #13451 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 02:00 pm »

Duane Eubanks - Things of That Particular Nature

Personnel: Duane Eubanks: trumpet, flugelhorn; Abraham Burton: tenor saxophone; Marc Cary: piano, Fender rhodes; Dezron Douglas: bass; Eric McPherson: drums; Steve Nelson: vibraphone.

Release Date January 20, 2015

Asimov · « **Reply #13452 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 02:45 pm »

Plas Johnson - Positively

etcarroll · « **Reply #13453 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 03:24 pm »

Mosaic

Starchild · « **Reply #13454 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 04:20 pm »

Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay

Personnel: Freddie Hubbard - trumpet; Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone, flute; Herbie Hancock - electric piano, organ; Ron Carter - bass, electric bass; Lenny White - drums

Product Reviews:

Down Beat (p.64) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "The trumpeter spits out his fiery, hard-tongue improvisations over a buttery groove on the title track..."

Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.125) - "...A rigorous purveying of muscular 2-chord, hard-bop-to-light-fusion improvisations over frantic boogaloo beats..."

Starchild · « **Reply #13455 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 05:03 pm »

This is case where 96/24 really does sound better on an older recording.

Kenny Dorham - The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia

Personnel: Kenny Dorham: trumpet; J. R. Monterose: tenor sax; Kenny Burrell: guitar; Bobby Timmons: piano; Sam Jones: bass; Arthur Edgehill: drums.

Down Beat (May 2002, p.60) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...This is one of only two recordings by Dorham's ensemble that have survived....triumphs over time..."

Recorded live at the Cafe Bohemia, New York, New York on May 31, 1956.

jrobinson · « **Reply #13456 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 06:32 pm »

jrobinson · « **Reply #13457 on:** 15 Nov 2015, 07:34 pm »

Starchild · « **Reply #13458 on:** 16 Nov 2015, 12:24 pm »

Kenny Werner - The Melody

Personnel: Kenny Werner: piano; Johannes Weidenmueller: bass; Ari Hoenig: drums.

md92468 · « **Reply #13459 on:** 16 Nov 2015, 08:27 pm »

Feeling like some Pres today:

Lester Young – tenor saxophone, vocals on Two To Tango
Oscar Peterson – piano
Barney Kessel – guitar
Ray Brown – double bass
J. C. Heard - drums