What jazz music are you listening to?

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Milt Jackson - Sunflower
Japanese pressing




Recorded in '72.

Milt Jackson – vibes
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
Herbie Hancock - piano
Jay Berliner - guitar
Ron Carter - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
Ralph MacDonald - percussion
Romeo Penque - alto flute, English horn, oboe
Phil Bodner - flute, alto flute, piccolo, English horn
George Marge - clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute, English horn
Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Charles Libove, Joe Malin, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, Elliot Rosoff, Irving Spice - violin
Charles McCraken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman - cello
Margaret Ross - harp
Don Sebesky - arranger, conductor

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Milt Jackson - Bags & Flutes
Japanese pressing




Album from '57.
Agreeable music.
Fantastic recording!

Milt Jackson – vibes
Bobby Jaspar (tracks 1 & 7), Frank Wess (tracks 2-6) - flute
Tommy Flanagan (tracks 1 & 7), Hank Jones (tracks 2-6) - piano
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Percy Heath - bass
Art Taylor - – drums

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Milt Jackson - Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags
Japanese pressing




My God, these Japanese editions do sound good!
This was recorded in '58.

Milt Jackson – vibes
Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Eddie Jones - bass
Connie Kay - – drums

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There seems to be a new remaster of this album, but I played what was available on Qobuz:

Frank Sinatra - Sings For Only The Lonely
Qobuz 24/96

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Duke Jordan - Flight To Jordan
via Qobuz




Recorded in '60.

Duke Jordan - piano - solo track 8
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
Reggie Workman - bass
Art Taylor - drums

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Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Qobuz 24/192




What a fantastic remaster!
Sounds amazingly fresh after 61 years.
Of course you have to bear in mind that these early stereo recordings had very explicite channel separation to say the least.

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Grant Green - Idle Moments
Qobuz 24/192




Another absolutely great remaster of a terrific album.

Recorded in '63.

Grant Green - guitar
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Duke Pearson - piano
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone
Bob Cranshaw - double bass
Al Harewood - drums

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Miles Davis + 19. Nice flugelhorn, first collaboration with Gill Evans, the 19 are a bit too loud and piercing, lost interest towards the end. Better works were to come.

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Christian McBride's New Jawn
Qobuz 24/96




This is a great new release.
Enormously energetic yet played with delicacy and exactness.
Top sound.

Christian McBride, bass
Marcus Strickland, saxophone
Josh Evans, trumpet
Nasheet Waits, drums

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Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau - Long Ago and Far Away
Qobuz 24/44.1




Good stuff!

Label Impulse! has unearthed from its archives this previously unreleased concert from November 2007 between two absolute giants: Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau. The bass player, who passed away in 2014, met the pianist for the first time in the early nineties. The spark was instantaneous, and the two virtuosos regularly worked together, both on stage and in studio. But never in duo. This 2007 live was the first time. At the invitation of Heidelberg Enjoy Jazz Festival, in Germany, Haden and Mehldau agreed to perform together in the magical setting of a church, the Christuskirche in Mannheim. And while the result was stunning, the tapes remained in storage for over a decade… "It’s thrilling to play with someone who improvises like this”, recalls the American pianist. “After all, this is the guy who did it first on his instrument. Those early records of the Ornette Coleman Quartet like This is Our Music or Change of the Century were not “free” in the sense that they abandoned the principles of harmony. They often were free of a fixed harmonic schema, though, and Charlie was improvising the harmony, from the ground up!"
Above all else, it’s the depth of their complicity that shines through on this recording. The ease with which Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau integrate space and silence in their exchanges is sublime. In terms of repertoire, they opted for classics (Charlie Parker, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Gershwin, Kern…) that they stroke with their fingertips. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz