What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Herbie Hancock - Inventions & Dimensions
Qobuz 24/192




I was already looking forward to listening to more of these Blue Note remasters today!

This one was recorded in '63.
It's not a latin jazz album but there are plenty conga and other latin percussion accents.

Herbie Hancock – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Willie Bobo – drums, timbales
Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez – percussion (not on track 5)

Last one for today.

[Antonmb]

Christian Sands - Be Water
Mack Avenue Records (2020)

Very nice new release. Sands is excellent on piano, and there’s some brilliant guitar playing from Marvin Sewell.

[joel_hifi]

Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz

A pleasant listen to one of the absolute classics, even on my little office desk speakers.

[joel_hifi]

Bill Evans Trio - Explorations

And the one released the following year by the same trio...

[bart]

Ella - The Lost Berlin Tapes
Qobuz 24/96




Nice to have some new Ella material... but it's not all positive.
Her singing is a bit too forceful at times, and her voice is too much forward in the mix.

[ehoove]

Live at the Bijou
Grover Washington Jr.
Excellent live Jazz 2 LP set
Kudu Records 3637
Regards,
Jim

[bart]

Cootie Williams - The Ellington's Days
with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1929/1940
via Qobuz




Focus on the magistral trumpet player.
These Ellington tunes are true masterpieces.

Even if the title is a bit awkward in translation -- obviously they meant to say "Ellington Days" -- this is one fine sampler of Duke Ellington's music from 1929 to 1940, with the spotlight on trumpeter Charles "Cootie" Williams, a formidably expressive player who with Bubber Miley and Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton defined the brass element in Ellington's orchestra. The Jazz Archives label doesn't always lay things out chronologically, but here they've done exactly that, and as a special treat there's an index of who solos on each tune. That makes this disc a valuable listening tool for anyone seeking to learn Ellington's primary soloists during the 1930s. Williams also sings on "Sweet Chariot" and on the bluesy "She's Gone," a lone example of his Rug Cutters band that the producers have included as a sort of aperitif. An excellent tribute to a powerful performer, focusing upon works he accomplished as a member of the greatest jazz orchestra of the 1930s.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Side By Side
Qobuz 24/192




Recorded in '58 and '59.
Hodges at the fore, with the Duke or Strayhorn on the piano, and an all-star band.

Playing this again, because of craving for more Ellington.

[bart]

Duke Ellington - The Private Collection Volume One: Studio Sessions Chicago 1956
via Qobuz




These private '56 recordings keep on surprising me with their sound quality.
And of course they show brilliant musicianship!

The first of ten CDs of previously unreleased material recorded privately by Ellington between engagements, all of which was eventually reissued first on LMR and then Saja/Atlantic. Each of the sets has its interesting moments, offering previously unknown compositions and performances. Volume One, recorded in Chicago during March and December 1956, has plenty of spots for Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves among the orchestra's many great soloists.

© Scott Yanow /TiVo

[kurt1970]

John Coltrane - The Prestige Recordings

The 16 CDs in this compendium represent nearly everything that John Coltrane recorded for the Prestige label during a 32-month period between May 7, 1956, and December 26, 1958.