What Are You Listening To?

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[Ron Thorne]

The mp3 version while my 3-CD set is being shipped. Wonderful, thus far.

[Ron Thorne]

Outstanding! They just started a set, so you can enjoy it, too.








The Smalls Legacy Band
featuring Frank Lacy

10:30 PM to 1:00 AM

Stacy Dillard - Tenor Sax
Josh Evans - Trumpet
Theo Hill - Piano
Ameen Saleem - Bass
Frank Lacy - Trombone
Kush Abadey - Drums

[pig pen]

Stefano Bollani - Joy in Spite of Everything



Mark Turner quartet - Lathe of Heaven



Jeff Ballard Trio - Times Tales

I just got the above three disks and haven't yet listened all the way through, but what I've heard so far is outstanding.

[rawac]

Silk And Salt Melodies from Louis Sclavis Quartet; 2014



cl: Louis Sclavis
gtr: Gilles Coronado
p/kb: Benjamin Moussay
perc: Keyvan Chemarini


The Sky Inside from Drew Gress; 2011



db: Drew Gress
dr: Tom Rainey
p: Greg Taborn
sax: Tim Berne
tp: Ralph Alessi

[Tom Storer]

Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation, just out. As classic as can be and just about perfect.

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[Mike Schwartz]

Jason Moran

The subtitle for the album is "A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller" and he really nails it!

[Ron Thorne]

Click here

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[moldyfigg]

Django Reinhardt with big band arranged by Benny Carter with Hawk on tenor.

[Cem]

Some recent finds and orders on vinyl:



Chu Berry -- The Calloway Years 1937-1941




Art Tatum/Roy Eldridge -- The Tatum Group Masterpieces




Jim Pepper -- Pepper's Pow Wow




Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet -- Navigation (Possibility Abstracts X & XI)

[Ron Thorne]

Click above

[Cem]

Yes, Ron, great to have and hear it on vinyl… though one must be careful which version, I guess. Seems common to find duds, as there are a lot of scamming operations releasing subpar recordings not from the original analog source masters, but digital sources.

A sampling from Saturday's Toronto record safari:



Cecil Taylor Unit -- Dark To Themselves




James "Blood" Ulmer -- Odyssey




String Trio of New York -- Common Goal




String Trio of New York -- Rebirth of a Feeling




Albert Ayler -- In Greenwich Village




Albert Ayler -- Witches & Devils

[BeBop]

TuneIn web radio broadcasts from the U.S. Eases moments of homesickness.

[moldyfigg]

Hank Mobley Mosaic set

[Ron Thorne]

[David Gitin]

Hampton Hawes "All Night Session" with Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, Bruz Freeman (rec. Nov. 1956), still mighty fine, a joy to hear...

[pig pen]

I'm really enjoying this one, reminds me of Sonny Rollins at the VV.

[Fred K]

Kenny Barron/Dave Holland - The Art of Conversation
Charlie Haden - Jim Hall - (s.t.)
William Parker Quartet - Raining on the Moon
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio - No Man's Land
Enrico Pieranunzi/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron - Deep Down
Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte - The New Standard
Mark Turner Quartet - Lathe of Heaven
Kenny Wheeler - Gnu High
Kenny Wheeler - Deer Wan
John Zorn - Adzamelech (Book of Angels, Vol. 22)(Zion80)
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It from the Man!
The Handsome Family - Twilight
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Bach - Goldberg Variations (Sokolov)
Beethoven -Diabelli Variations (Sokolov)
Chopin - Piano Sonata 2/Preludes (Sokolov)

[Ron Thorne]

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Miles Davis - "Blues/Standards from the Columbia Years 1955-1985". Sweet.

[rawac]

Some live recordings from the Smoke Jazz & Supper Club:







Footnote:
Eric Reeds Groovewise was released September 2014 and the cover says recorded September 6 & 7, 2014, which would be very fast. Cyrus Chestnuts Midnight Melodies was released July 2014 and cover says recorded November 22 & 23, 2014, which would be more than fast (some should tell Smoke to be be more attentive when typing a 2013 date in 2014)