What jazz ALBUM are you currently listening to?

ArthurDent · « **Reply #13860 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 03:37 pm »

Quote from: Starchild on 13 Dec 2015, 12:15 am

Samples: Dr. Lonnie Smith - Jungle Soul

JazzTimes (p.73) - "JUNGLE SOUL fuses intricate rhythms and soul jazz. Spare, sinewy and taut, it has a quietly insistent force, an undercurrent that pulls all -- including the listener -- along with it."

A favorite here SC.

ArthurDent · « **Reply #13861 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 05:10 pm »

John Coltrane: Soultrane '58

Asimov · « **Reply #13862 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 05:19 pm »

Gary Burton - Good Vibes

ArthurDent · « **Reply #13863 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 05:53 pm »

Donald Byrd Band & Voices: A New Perspective '63

ArthurDent · « **Reply #13864 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 06:26 pm »

Chico Hamilton: Peregrinations '75

Kenneth Patchen · « **Reply #13865 on:** 14 Dec 2015, 08:28 pm »

Of particular interest for me because of Joe Bonner's piano playing.

Starchild · « **Reply #13866 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 12:08 am »

Samples and review: Kevin Eubanks - The Messenger

Asimov · « **Reply #13867 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 01:42 am »

Mal Waldron - One Entrance, Many Exits

Asimov · « **Reply #13868 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 02:27 am »

Mulgrew Miller & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen â The Duets- A Selection of Duke Ellington

ACHiPo · « **Reply #13869 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 03:35 am »

The Thelonious Monk Quartet
Monk's Dream

Starchild · « **Reply #13870 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 04:00 am »

A great disk from Coltrane. Note that the reissue disk has 11 songs instead of 7.

Samples: Coltrane Plays the Blues (Original recording reissued)

Personnel: John Coltrane (soprano & tenor saxophones); McCoy Tyner (piano); Steve Davis (acoustic bass); Elvin Jones (drums).

Recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, New York on October 24, 1960.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an authority that, on the likes of 'Blues For Bechet' reflects Coltrane's increasingly diverse tonal explorations."

ACHiPo · « **Reply #13871 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 04:22 am »

Red Garland Quintet
All Mornin' Long

Not sure why I couldn't upload this image last night, but here it is belatedly. My first time hearing this record, and while not bad, I don't think it's as good as the ones below.

Starchild · « **Reply #13872 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 04:45 am »

A good call on the Red. Here's another good one!

Samples and review: Red Garland's Piano

Starchild · « **Reply #13873 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 05:34 am »

Last one tonight. Another great set from Red.

Red Garland Trio - Groovy

mresseguie · « **Reply #13874 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 07:13 am »

Another quick expression of appreciation.....

Listening to Red Garland's "Groovy"....another 'first in my life'.

While I was growing up, my father would listen to mostly Latin music too loudly (and a little ABBA) because he and my mother loved to dance. He never shared any of it other than to blast it into our living room which only made me cringe from it. Anyway, I was seldom exposed to Jazz.

Thanks!

Starchild · « **Reply #13875 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 11:13 am »

A nice collaboration between Steve Kuhn and Joe Lovano. Extremely well recorded too.

Samples and review: Steve Kuhn Trio - Mostly Coltrane

Steve Kuhn Trio: Joe Lovano (tarogato, tenor saxophone); Steve Kuhn (piano); David Finck (double bass); Joey Baron (drums).

Reviews:
JazzTimes (p.62) - "The fascination of this album is to hear them, in their maturity, venture in and out of Coltrane's spiritual domain, drawing inspiration for their own spontaneous testaments..."

JazzTimes (p.36) - Ranked #21 in JazzTimes' "Top 50 CDs of 2009."

Asimov · « **Reply #13876 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 12:17 pm »

Oscar Peterson Trio - Ljubljana

Starchild · « **Reply #13877 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 12:31 pm »

Samples and review: Thelonious Monk -Big Band and Quartet in Concert

Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Phil Woods (alto saxophone, clarinet); Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone); Gene Allen (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet); Nick Travis (trumpet); Thad Jones (cornet); Eddie Bert (trombone); Butch Warren (bass); Frank Dunlop (drums).

Down Beat (11/94, p.64) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...detailing the contextual contrasts created by the program's rotation of big-band and quartet performances....orchestrations were more cogent than those used at Monk's 1958 Town Hall concert..."

Recorded live at Lincoln Center, Philharmonic Hall, New York, New York on December 30, 1963.

ACHiPo · « **Reply #13878 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 01:41 pm »

Tina Brooks
True Blue

My first time hearing Tina Brooks and this record. Wow. Very nice swingin' bop.

Samples and Review

ACHiPo · « **Reply #13879 on:** 15 Dec 2015, 01:47 pm »

Quote from: Starchild on 15 Dec 2015, 04:45 am

A good call on the Red. Here's another good one!

Starchild, have you ever heard this one? Is seems to be a bit more obscure--I picked it up at a used record store. The record's not in great shape, but the music is decent, and it does seem to be somewhat rare. Oh, and it was recorded by Rudy van Gelder.