What jazz music are you listening to?

[ehoove]

The Clark Duke Project
Stanley Clarke and George Duke
Excellent pull!
Epic Records B000091K2X
Regards,
Jim

[joel_hifi]

Late night classic...

Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights

Gerry Mulligan - Sax
Art Farmer - Flugelhorn
Bob Brookmeyer - Trombone
Jim Hall - Guitar
Bill Crow - Bass
Dave Bailey - Drums

Philips (1963) - Qobuz

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

You’re on a real Kenny Dorham kick, great stuff Bart.

Yeah Tony, I think he's underrated.
When we think of great trumpet players of that era, besides Miles, it was not only Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard who were good.

While cooking yesterday we listened to this:

Kenny Dorham - 'Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia
Qobuz 24/192




Pretty well recorded brilliant live sessions!
Part of the Core Collection of the Penguin Guide to Jazz.

May 31, '56.

Kenny Dorham – trumpet
J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3–7, 9–12 & 14–17)
Bobby Timmons – piano
Kenny Burrell – guitar (tracks 5–7, 9, 10 & 12–17)
Sam Jones – bass
Arthur Edgehill – drums

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Keith Jarrett: Keith Karrett 75 - A Sequence by Manfred Eicher
ECM (2020)

Issued in celebration of Jarrett’s 75th birthday, this is an excellent collection of some of Jarrett’s finest, with pieces from the standards trio (Peacock and DeJohnette), “Jasmine” with Charlie Haden, and the European quartet with Jan Garbarek. If you’re a dedicated Jarrett fan like me, you probably already have all of these in some form in your collection, but no matter: this is a worthwhile addition, the sequencing makes for a great listen - highly recommended.

Not yet for free on Qobuz.
I'll wait a bit.

[Antonmb]

Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell ‎– Americana
ACT (2020), via Qobuz

Quiet, introspective, beautiful music.

[bart]

Lee Konitz Quintet - Peacemeal
via Qobuz




A 'Stereo' recommendation.

Recorded March 20-21, '69.
In some tunes, Konitz is dipping his toes into the rock jazz that was then starting, but not too much for my taste.
An entertaining album!

Lee Konitz – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, multivider
Marshall Brown – valve trombone, baritone horn
Dick Katz – piano, electric piano
Eddie Gómez – bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums

This Lee Konitz recording is of even greater interest than usual. Altoist Konitz, in a quintet with valve trombonist Marshall Brown, pianist Dick Katz, bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette, performs jazz adaptations of three Bela Bartok piano compositions, a trio of Dick Katz originals, two of his own pieces (including "Subconscious-Lee") and versions of "Lester Leaps In" and "Body and Soul" that include transcriptions of recorded solos by, respectively, Lester Young and Roy Eldridge. A thought-provoking and consistently enjoyable set of music.

© TiVo

[ehoove]

Taking a Chance on Love
Jane Monheit
Fabulous Female Jazz Vocalist (Big Band) well recorded!
Sony Classical B0002JP4K0
Regards,
Jim

[bart]

Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Qobuz 24/192




Another one of those relaxed, brilliant albums of Dorham.
What a great band he had.
And what a wealth, these Blue Note remasters...

Recorded Jan. 15, '61.

Kenny Dorham - trumpet
Hank Mobley - tenor sax (except track 7)
Kenny Drew - piano
Paul Chambers - double bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums

[ehoove]

Surrender
Jane Monheit
Another solid offering!
Concord Records CCD-30050
Regards,
Jim

[Antonmb]

Lucian Ban / John Surman / Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Folk Songs - The Bela Bartók Field Recordings
2020, via Qobuz


Lucian Ban - piano
John Surman - baritone & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet
Mat Maneri - viola

Fascinating music. From the Bandcamp site:

“Pianist Lucian Ban, violist Mat Maneri and woodwind master John Surman come from different backgrounds but are connected by their focus on improvised music along with their appreciation of folkloric and classical styles.

Their mutual interest in the work of Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók led to their new recording, Transylvanian Folk Songs, an assortment of arrangements of folk songs collected by Bartók in Ban’s native Romania.

In the early 1900s Bartók was introduced to the folk music of the Romanian people in Transylvania. His immediate infatuation with the music led him to a lifelong pursuit to record and catalog these beautiful regional pieces. Bartók spent eight years traveling the Romanian countryside recording and transcribing these pieces, which he would spend the rest of his life collating into six catalogs containing over three thousand tunes, simply entitled Romanian Folk Music. The composer’s own compositions would be influenced at every level by his folk studies.

A century later, these three outstanding improvisers – Mat Maneri, Lucian Ban and John Surman – draw fresh inspiration from the music that fired Bartók’s imagination, looking again at the carols, lamentations, love songs, dowry songs and more which the composer collected, in the period between 1909-1917. “