What Are You Listening To?

[bluenoter]

[image: Ben Goldberg / Adam Levy / Smith Dobson -- Worry Later]

A nice mix of Monk tunes from Ben.

What is Smith playing?

Over the past 10 years or so was playing drums, vibes and more recently saxophones.

I'm not pig pen, but Smith is playing drums---

http://www.bengoldberg.net/store

[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.

Click here for the live stream






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.

[bluenoter]

For the first time:

[Mike Schwartz]

Jason Moran

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

[Ron Thorne]

I'm listening to one of my all-time favorite jazz stations, KCSM, The Bay Area's Jazz Station, while watching the sun begin to settle in southern California. The quality of the light is wonderful.



KCSM Live
Click here

[rlfun]

Jason Moran

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

Listened to this numerous times on NPR's First Listen. Then I bought it. Great CD.

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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]

Wow, what a trip to see Jim Pepper's debut album cover here, Cem!

This just in from artistShare via our mailman a few minutes ago:




Spanish Harlem Orchestra<
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]

Working my way through this glorious recording, now on Disc 2, which begins with "Sophie". Oh, boy!

Man, do I love Kenny Wheeler's work! I can't believe I waited this long to add this to our library. "Better late ..."

[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]

This early birthday gift from a special friend is spinning for the 1st of many times. It's an extraordinary recording from 1968, now digitally re-mastered after being (essentially) "lost" for decades. A young Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Evan Parker, John Taylor and Michael Gibbs are a part of this magical setting.

[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)