Jazz fans - What are you listening to lately?

[ITGITC]

Hi.

 

I bought Fourplay's "Heartfelt" CD (download from Amazon) the other day. I liked their first CD... I like this one. Bob James always provides some tasty performances. LINK

 

There's a local group in Durham, The John Brown Quintet. I bought their CD not too long ago. It's called "Terms of Art". I recommend it highly. LINK

 

I want to hear what you've been listening to along these lines.

 

Do a guy a favor... turn me on to some new tunes.

 

Thanks

 

 

Tom

 

 

[yannis D]

Medeski Martin & Wood with John Scofield. Nice work, it just needs some time ro be "digested"

Manu Katche "Playground" - just perfect

Gianni Koscia-Gianluigi Troversi duet of accordion/clarinets. Very beautiful sound form ECM and Italy, kind of jazz a la italiano

Trio Alboran - another trio from Italy. Classic jazz sound blended with mediterranean colours

 

 

 

[orangefunk]

This morning I have had a blast listening to old Johnny Hammond Smith LPs from the mid 70s. Lots of rhodes, ARP, organ... just great...

 

check out Storm Warning (Milestone 1977) and Don't Let the System Get You (1978) on the jazz mp3 blogs... (both out of print but I won't directly link to them here)

 

Also I have uploaded a ton of jazz stuff to youtube recently from my old VHS collection..

 

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=orangefunk

 

Check Julian Joseph for some very cool rhodes bop

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=orangefunk&search_query=julian+Joseph

 

Or maybe the great Joachim Kuhn (how he is rarely mentioned on the web is unbelievable to me)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MusicaL]

Listening to Alan Pasqua's latest CD "The antisocial club" and Scott Kinsey's CD Kinesthetics. Both a bit on the outskirts of Jazz Fusion.

 

In Kinsey's CD you hear a lot of Zawinul's influence. If you didn't know you'd say it was a Zawinul CD. Has some really fun world rhythmic textures also a la Zawinul.

 

Pasqua's CD is darker but interesting in the way the instruments are recorded. It sounds intentionally raw and unpolished from a sonic perspective. I also recognize the Nord Stage's EP on it which Pasqua runs through the leslie sim at times and also uses the pitch stick to bend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Another great CD is Gary Willis' Bent. It's a more "traditional" fusion CD but one of my all time favorites. I am a sucker for good Bass hooks and great drumming. Willis is a monster bass player and Scott Kinsey and Kirk Covington (all from Tribal Tech) provide keys and drums on the CD... Steve Tavaglione also does some wonderful things on the Sax and EWI on some of the cuts. If you get a chance, listen to Armageddon Blues and It's only music!!!

 

aL

[ProfD]

Lately, I've been listening to Real Jazz 70 on XM radio. A lot of cool stuff there, old and new.

[Dana.]

I've been listening to some classics:

 

Billy Cobham, Spectrum

Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue

Grant Green, Grantstand

 

 

[orangefunk]

Listening to Alan Pasqua's latest CD "The antisocial club" and Scott Kinsey's CD Kinesthetics. Both a bit on the outskirts of Jazz Fusion.

aL

 

Man.. Pasqua.. thats a name I haven't heard in a while.. remember that Tony Williams LP called Believe It?

[bhodaway10]

I really like Roy Hargrove's new album, Earfood. Awesome album!! Lots of great originals and a wonderful and beautiful version of Speak Low done as a ballad.

 

I also like Esperanza Spalding's album. Very cool singing and good playing.

 

Check out the Aaron Park album as well!

 

 

 

 

 

[kanker.]

Jazz? I hate jazz...

 

 

 

 

(anyone who gets the reference wins a cookie)

[David Loving]

Marvin Stamm and Ed Soph - Stamm/Soph Project. Plus I am into a live/bootleg cd of a willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis concert at Bass Hall, Fort Worth that is just killer.

[Magpel]

wish I could say I had been listening to new stuff, but I am afraid Desmond/Mulligan, Hall/Carter, Hall/Evans, Ben Webster, and Lennie Neihaus don't count...

[timwat]

Hey, Tom:

 

This is the stuff I've been listening to these last few days that might be along the lines (or, very, very loosely related to those lines) you're thinking of:

 

Single tracks:

Miles - Human Nature

Fourplay - Bali Run (off their eponymous release)

Pat Metheny & Philip Bailey - Something to Remind You

Louis Armstong - various cuts inc., of course, West End Blues

 

Full Releases (fka CDs):

Allan Holdsworth - All Night Wrong

Fairfield Four - Standing in the Safety Zone

Bill Bruford - One of a Kind

Norah Jones - Feels Like Home

Lizz Wright - Salt

Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Paul Motian - Goodbye

 

Perhaps the Fairfield Four or Norah feels a little far afield from Fourplay and The John Brown Quartet, but they've been in heavy rotation on the iPod lately.

 

Tim

[timwat]

Man.. Pasqua.. thats a name I haven't heard in a while.. remember that Tony Williams LP called Believe It?

 

In 2006 I saw Pasqua and Holdsworth (w/ Chad Wakerman and Jimmy Haslip) at Yoshi's in Oakland. The night was billed as a tribute to Tony Williams, with several TWL tunes in the set (they closed w/ Red Alert). There's a DVD out of the concert, not sure if it includes all the tunes they played that night. Great gig, and of course the perfect intimate venue to see a gig like that.

[tarkus]

Ella and Louie.

 

Lots of Jaco lately.

 

Jazz 88 (WBGO) every morning.

[tarkus]

http://www.wbgo.org/

[David Loving]

I got to plug KNTU:

 

http://www.kntu.com/universal/playlists/kntulive.asx

 

[GuitarPlayerFL]

Jazz? I hate jazz...

 

 

 

 

(anyone who gets the reference wins a cookie)

 

Isn't that at the end of an Allan Holdsworth or Scott Henderson tune where it sounds like somebody in the audience?

 

I'm really missing seeing Shelly Berg live at Steamers Cafe in Fullerton these days so I'll just have to listen to one of his best: Blackbird

[timwat]

Jazz? I hate jazz...

 

 

 

 

(anyone who gets the reference wins a cookie)

 

5 to 10, first track on Allan Holdsworth's Wardynclyffe Tower

[Mark Zeger]

+1 on Manu Katche's "Playground". If you dig that, Yannis, you might like Antonio Sanchez' album, Migration.

 

+1 on XM 70. Wife's new car came with XM free for 3 months. It's going to hard when day 91 comes around. Might have to subscribe.

 

+1 on Roy Hargrove. I'll take the recommendation on "Earfood", bhodaway10. When I want someone to know what great flugelhorn tone sounds like, I direct them to "Moment to Moment", his "with strings" album. Here's Roy blowing a VERY nice "I Remember Clifford": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovafg_3PZbs

 

Me, most recently:

Richard Bona "Munia: The Tale"

Kurt Elling "Flirting with Twilight"

Dave Douglas "The Infinite"

 

[kanker.]

Jazz? I hate jazz...

 

 

 

 

(anyone who gets the reference wins a cookie)

 

5 to 10, first track on Allan Holdsworth's Wardynclyffe Tower

That's exactly the track

[cnegrad]

This new release from Denise Donatelli is absolutely knocking me out; not so much because of Donatelli, but because Geoff Keezer's arrangements; deep stuff! Linwood, you'd probably like this one.

 

Here's the iTunes url...

 

and for those of you who are anti-iTunes, you can check it out at Denise's site, located here....

 

This one is a Reharmer's delight! Enjoy....

[Jim Alfredson]

Y'all need to get hip to the new organissimo. Just got word that a review is coming in the Dec. issue of Downbeat.

[VLH]

Newer stuff by Joe Locke.

Newer stuff by Dave Holland/Prime directive.

[MusicaL]

 

In 2006 I saw Pasqua and Holdsworth (w/ Chad Wakerman and Jimmy Haslip) at Yoshi's in Oakland. The night was billed as a tribute to Tony Williams, with several TWL tunes in the set (they closed w/ Red Alert). There's a DVD out of the concert, not sure if it includes all the tunes they played that night. Great gig, and of course the perfect intimate venue to see a gig like that.

 

I am not familiar with much of Tony Williams' work, but I think I saw some of the Holdsworth, Pasqua, Haslip and Wackerman concert on Youtube... Great stuff from some great players.

 

aL

[zephonic]

Hey Tom, where have you been? If you like Bob James, you should dig this guy, Brian Simpson. He's not a very technical player but knows how to do what he does really well :-)

http://www.bsimpsonmusic.com/

 

In fact, he's somewhat of a modern-day Bob James, except that I like his music much better!

 

[octa]

bix beiderbecke

chet baker sings

best of sir douglas quintet (not "jazz" tho it swings)

best of mose allison

Billy Strayhorn songbook

Joseph Schillinger

Richard & Linda Thompson "shoot out the lights" (also belonging in some other categorical pigeonhole) :-)

[yannis D]

+1 on Manu Katche's "Playground". If you dig that, Yannis, you might like Antonio Sanchez' album, Migration.

 

Mark, that was the next one to buy actually

[RABid]

The older the better, and with few exceptions I hate anything close to fusion. Love Latin jazz. My list ...

 

Dizzy: Dizzy's Diamonds - Best of the Verve Years

Jazz Futures: Jazz Futures Live In Concert

Ella Fitzgerald: Any "hits" CD.

Yellowjackets: Yellowjackets

Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Various Artists: The Colors Of Latin Jazz - Soul Sauce!

Oscar Peterson: Live at the Blue Note

Various Artists: More Than Mambo: The Introduction to Afro-Cuban Jazz

Monk: The Memorial Album

Various Artists: The New Latinaires 2 (A mix of Latin jazz and dance.)

 

 

 

[zephonic]

One dude I would like to hear more about is Kim Pensyl. I had a track of his on a GRP sampler, and every once in a while I hear some killer track on the radio and it turns out to be him. Anybody know anything about this dude, like which album to get?

 

[cnegrad]

Tom,

 

Here's a Chet Baker CD with Bob James that I've always loved:

 

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