Today's Jazz Playlist

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Why not "start" with this one?

Stan Getz featuring
Al Cohn
Max Roach
Shelly Manne
Zoot Sims

 

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The Thing to Do

• Blue Mitchell
• Blue Note Reissue (vinyl)
• Bass – Gene Taylor
• Drums – Aloysius Foster*
• Piano – Chick Corea
• Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
• Tenor Saxophone – Junior Cook
• Trumpet – Blue Mitchell

 

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Something in Common

Muse Records

• Bass – Sam Jones
• Drums – Billy Higgins
• Keyboards, Producer – Cedar Walton
• Saxophone – Bob Berg
• Trombone – Slide Hampton
• Trumpet – Blue Mitchell

 

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The Only Recorded Performance of Paul Desmond with The Modern Jazz Quartet

 

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2 Horns/2 Rhythm

Kenny Dorham Quartet featuring Ernie Henry

• Alto Saxophone – Ernie Henry
• Bass – Eddie Mathias (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3), Wilbur Ware (tracks: A4, B4)
• Drums – G.T. Hogan*
• Piano – Kenny Dorham (tracks: A3)
• Trumpet – Kenny Dorham

 

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Let Freedom Ring

Do none of you "sharks" listen to jazz and care to share what you're listening to? Just wondering'.

 

[mauidan]

Lota of great music at:
Schedule - Smalls Jazz Club

 

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Mulligan and Getz and Desmond

Verve Records

 

[Don C]

Lionel Hampton and the Golden Men of Jazz
Just Jazz - Live at the Blue Note
Telarc Jazz

Lionel Hampton is a trip. He has the most fun!

 

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In New York

• Alto Saxophone – Julian "Cannonball" Adderley*
• Bass – Sam Jones
• Cornet – Nat Adderley
• Drums – Louis Hayes
• Piano – Joe Zawinul
• Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Oboe – Yusef Lateef

OK, now someone hit the ball back. It is not that hard.

 

[mep]

I just told Myles that the best sounding LP I bought at Axpona was Miles Davis Bags Groove. If you love jazz and you love vinyl and you love great sounding recordings with great music, run don't walk to your keyboard and order the new QRP remaster of Bags Groove. This is a 1954 mono recording that will have you patting yourself on the back for your innate brilliance at assembling your stereo system. Yes, this is a mono recording, but I promise that if you don't tell your friends, they will have no idea. Oh, and did I mention how damn quiet this LP is? There is no doubt in my mind that QRP is turning out the best LP remasters available on the market now.

 

[mauidan]

Wntrmute2,

Do you listen to any Jazz that was recorded in the last decade?

 

[A.S.]

Jazz from THIS decade

Wntrmute2,

Do you listen to any Jazz that was recorded in the last decade?

This is pretty good and that is from this year.
And the audio quality is on pair with the good ol' stuff.

link to samples; Sound Liaison Music Shop

The room was filled to the brim with audio enthusiasts, the closest listener being just a few feet from the musicians and the microphones.
When the audience is so close to the musicians, a synergy occurs. The audience becomes part of the music making and help spur the musicians on to great heights.
The musicians feeling the empathy from the audience dare to take chances that one rarely hears in a studio recording.
Tony and Bert had not performed together as a duo before, and no rehearsal had taken place prior to the Rhapsody concert, but the music these two masters of improvisation created that sunny afternoon in Rhapsody, is simply breathtaking.

 

[Wntrmute2]

Wntrmute2,

Do you listen to any Jazz that was recorded in the last decade?

Much of the recorded jazz I care for is from the Bop era. I find the recordings much more minimalist and gets me closer to the artist despite the distance in years. That said, I do go to a number of live performances; the crown jewel is the Detroit Jazz Festival where I have seen stars such as Sonny Rollins, Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Randy Weston, Ramsey Lewis, Cyrus Chestnut, Bill Charlap Lou Donaldson, Dave Brubeck and others. So in that sense, yes I listen in the current epoch! I do have a number of new recordings. The Smoke Sessions, The New Standard, Patricia Barber, Three MFs (Branford Marsalis) to name a few but just a few.

Got any suggestions?

 

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Indestructible

 

[groovy]

Re: Indestructible

Has anyone heard the impex box set 'Three Blind Mice'. impressions? thoughts?

 

[mep]

Re: Indestructible

Has anyone heard the impex box set 'Three Blind Mice'. impressions? thoughts?

Yes and meh. Everything is about the piano and it's spotlit. Brightly.

 

[mauidan]

Got any suggestions?

I like live recordings, lots of great stuff at:

Schedule - Smalls Jazz Club

You can't wrong with Fred recommendations:

Fred Kaplan | Stereophile.com

I really like Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project Lines of Color.

 

[Wntrmute2]

I like live recordings, lots of great stuff at:

Schedule - Smalls Jazz Club

You can't wrong with Fred recommendations:

Fred Kaplan | Stereophile.com

I really like Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project Lines of Color.

Thanks. I'll look into those over the next few days.

In the meantime:

A new gem in my collection. Six bucks at the local used record store of which there are 5 within 5 miles of my house. Oh the luxury!

 

[Myles B. Astor]

Re: Indestructible

Has anyone heard the impex box set 'Three Blind Mice'. impressions? thoughts?

I might be in the minority but I love it no would I sell my box set. Especially the music on Blow Up.

I also have the original and Audio Naute 45 rpm reissues from a couple of years ago.

Interestingly, as my system has improved over the years, so have these and some of the other TBM recordings. Yes, they are studio recordings. Yes, it's close miked. Yes the piano is a Yamaha. But they are still very good.