What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Billie Holiday - Songs for distingué lovers
Qobuz 24/192




Equally fantastic.

[bart]

Jan Garbarek
The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium Novum
Qobuz 24/96




Quite a good marriage between polyphony and jazz.

[bart]

Keith Jarrett Trio - The Out-of-Towners
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I read in Stereophile that Eicher had to insist for almost 10 years for Jarrett to play in a trio.
We're lucky he was so obstinate!

Recorded in 2001 live at the State Opera House in Munich, Out of Towners features the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette trio in the kind of performance we've come to expect from them these last 21 years: Stellar. Being one of contemporary jazz's longest-running bands has its advantages; one of them is having nothing to prove. First and foremost, this band plays standards like no one else. Given their individual careers, the members playing in a trio that performs classics carries a kind of freedom, as well as weight. This material is treated not as museum-piece jazz, but as the essence of song. Check the whispered elegance of "I Can't Believe You're in Love With Me." This Jimmy McHugh-Clarence Gaskill number has plenty of history being recorded definitively by singers, chronologically by Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. The trio lean into the lyric phrasing in the body of the tune and turn it gently inside out without ever losing its melodic essence. They follow it with "You've Changed," a fine exercise in rhythmic invention with a popping, sure-footed swing throughout. The complete re-vamp of Cole Porter's "I Love You" that unfolds over ten minutes digs into the lyric underbelly of the song and brings out so many subtle and shaded nuances it's like hearing the composition for the first time. The lone original on the set is the title track, written by Jarrett. A sprightly swing is stretched and molded over nearly 20 minutes, and one can hear everyone from Horace Silver to Thelonious Monk to Hampton Hawes in Jarrett's approach, underscored by Peacock's strident basslines that walk the edge of DeJohnette's cymbal-caressed beat. The big surprise is the elegant, finger-popping read of Gerry Mulligan's "Five Brothers." Its skipping melody is folded inside waves of harmonic interweaving by Jarrett through the body taken in a knotty swing that is given wings by the rhythm section. Besides the wondrous performance, the sound of this recording should be noted. Its warmth is immediate, its very close and intimate sound makes the listener feel as if she were in the middle of the stage taking this all in, not in the audience. This is an accomplishment on all fronts. ~ Thom Jurek

[bart]

Don Cherry - Dewey Redman - Charlie Haden - Ed Blackwell - Old And New Dreams
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The version of 'Lonely Woman' is utterly stunning, with a fabulous Charlie Haden.
The rest is very good, but I skip the last 2 tracks, they're unlistenable.
Recorded in '79.

[bart]

Paul Motian - Bill Frisell -Joe Lovano - Time and Time Again
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Another ECM gem.

I've always loved Paul Motian, Joe Lovano is a great sax player, and Bill Frisell must be one of the most inventive musicians on the instrument.

Bill Frisell was in my town 2 weeks ago, but I couldn't go...

[JoeN]

AAA - Women of Jazz
https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/2554019

[Yardbird]

I’m listening to the new Coltrane on Prestige Box Set, “Coltrane ‘58” - excellent!!!

[JoeN]

Qobuz Playlist - AAA - Diana Krall
https://play.qobuz.com/playlist/2553557

[aardvarkbark]

Originally Posted by bart

Keith Jarrett Trio - The Out-of-Towners
via Qobuz




I read in Stereophile that Eicher had to insist for almost 10 years for Jarrett to play in a trio.
We're lucky he was so obstinate!

Have you been able to attend a live Jarrett trio performance? You'd fully appreciate it, I imagine. I never had the pleasure of hearing Bill Evans live, but have heard Jarrett and his trio twice at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. What a delight. I know you'd appreciate it.

I can't connect with any of Jarrett's solo jazz performances. But his Bach and Handel solo work is exceptional.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by aardvarkbark

Have you been able to attend a live Jarrett trio performance? You'd fully appreciate it, I imagine. I never had the pleasure of hearing Bill Evans live, but have heard Jarrett and his trio twice at Chicago's Orchestra Hall. What a delight. I know you'd appreciate it.



I can't connect with any of Jarrett's solo jazz performances. But his Bach and Handel solo work is exceptional.

One of my few musical performance regrets is that I never got to see the trio live before they stopped performing together. I’ve only seen DeJohnette (a couple of times in Seattle’s Jazz Alley) and he was outstanding.