What jazz ALBUM are you currently listening to?

django11 · « **Reply #100 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 05:11 pm »

Quote from: chadh on 5 Nov 2010, 04:17 pm

There seems to be a theme for the ECM album covers. I'm worried the artistic director may be suicidal.

Chad

Ditto

django11 · « **Reply #101 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 05:14 pm »

Quote from: django11 on 30 Oct 2010, 11:50 pm

I had to go listen also and then ordered it!

This was on the same Amazon page and I ordered it as well:

samples

I got this today. Let me resume this in one smiley :

; and one word: funky, funky, funky...

ArthurDent · « **Reply #102 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 05:30 pm »

Quote from: chadh on 5 Nov 2010, 04:17 pm

There seems to be a theme for the ECM album covers. I'm worried the artistic director may be suicidal.

Chad

I don't think you have to worry too much, their themes haven't changed that much in close to 40 years, so if it's the same person he's hanging in pretty good.

Or maybe it's just a Bergman mentality.

Larry Carlton: Alone But Never Alone

chadh · « **Reply #103 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 06:13 pm »

Quote from: ArthurDent on 5 Nov 2010, 05:30 pm

I don't think you have to worry too much, their themes haven't changed that much in close to 40 years, so if it's the same person he's hanging in pretty good.

That's a load off my mind. Thanks.

Chad

GaryArthur · « **Reply #104 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 09:29 pm »

Quote from: ooheadsoo on 28 Oct 2010, 06:19 am

Hey Robin, listening to that album, too. Really good stuff.

I would tentatively throw out Youn Sun Nah - Same Girl. Simple arrangements, virtuosic voice. Exotic, may not be everyone's cuppa, but I love it.

Here's a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ1H9kRI5RM

Give Breakfast in Baghdad and Enter the Sandman a chance. Just need to have an open mind.

This recomendation sent me to Amazon. I received the CD today and I will say Yuon Sun Nah sings with passion feeling and control. Yes the arrangements are simple but haunting. Slow down and let the her voice enter your soul. Thanks for the recommendation.

django11 · « **Reply #105 on:** 5 Nov 2010, 11:20 pm »

You will forgive me if I plug my nephew's album.

A video sample from the Montreal Jazz Festival. This is a song from the first album. My nephew is on bass and is the nicest guy in the world.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #106 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 05:58 am »

Point of Departure- Andrew Hill (Blue Note)
Live at The Iridium, Sketches of MD- Kenny Garrett (Mack Avenue)

mjosef · « **Reply #107 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 06:58 am »

What is Jazz?...

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The first noticeable thing about Sarah Wilson’s new album Trapeze Project is her band. Ben Goldberg plays the clarinet, Myra Melford plays the piano, and Jerome Harris and Scott Amendola are the rhythm section. If anyone from my hometown wanted to record an album with this band, they would have to commit homicide first. Jazz trumpeter and vocalist Sarah Wilson has assembled some of the best of the best, so it comes as little surprise that she is outshined by the hired help...http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/129876-sarah-wilson-trapeze-project/

More memorable on vocals than her trumpet chops...but the band is alla' dat and a bagga' chips. She has an interesting background.
http://www.amazon.com/Trapeze-Project-Sarah-Wilson/dp/B0041OOCQY
Sarah Wilson, trapeze project

ArthurDent · « **Reply #108 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 02:46 pm »

Terje Rypdal: Skywards

ArthurDent · « **Reply #109 on:** 6 Nov 2010, 06:01 pm »

original release CD

Stanley Turrentine: Look Out

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #110 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 12:20 am »

Quote from: Bear Heath on 31 Oct 2010, 04:06 pm

http://www.jazz.com/music/2008/3/11/oliver-nelson-1hoe-down

Blues and the Abstract Truth

Yip. Ditto that.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #111 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 12:26 am »

Christian McBride - "Number Two Express"
Excellent sound quality as well.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #112 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 12:33 am »

Speaking of Christian McBride, the tune "Brown Funk" should get your dead butt movin'.

Massively great sound quality. Punch you in the chest kind of bass and percussion.

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #113 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 01:03 am »

I like this Branford Marsalis CD better.

There are two "bluesy, jazzy" songs:
- B.B.'s Blues
- Rib Tip Johnson
That together consume twenty minutes total.

Excellent "blues/jazz".
Plus, there's a weird little track called "Berta Berta", that will one day end up on some speaker manufactures demo disc. You'd have to hear it to understand.

And.... There's a song callee "Mable" that has John Lee Hooker singing.

"I heard you twice the first time"

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #114 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 02:11 am »

Good stuff - essential for all jazz fans....

Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra - "Out of the Cool"....Samples...

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQyuualA6Y

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #115 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 02:53 am »

A....is for Adderley....Mercy,Mercy,Mercy....

Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy Mercy Mercy"

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #116 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 04:54 am »

B ....is for Brown...

Clifford Brown - "Study in Brown"

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #117 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 06:34 am »

C ....is for Chambers...

Paul Chambers - "Bass On Top"

pumpkinman · « **Reply #118 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 11:53 am »

Stan Getz - Jazz Samba Encore

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #119 on:** 7 Nov 2010, 07:04 pm »

This album was made on location on a tour Gil Evans made with his then orchestra in Europe. The majority of the tracks were captured in '86 with one in '81. Some of it sounds like it was made with a hand held single point stereo mic from the audience with a bass pick up. Don't let that stop you. A mass of well known jazz players from the day are featured and the playlist is stellar. Pieces like Here Comes De Honey Man, Voodoo Chile, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, and a don't miss Drizzling Rain. I own a lot of his recordings. This one released by his estate in 1999 features magnificient arrangements and magnificient playing. To me, it is the most deeply felt of all his recordings I own. I couldn't be without it-

The Gold Collection (Fine Tune). Very highly recommended for your late night listening.