What Are You Listening To? #30

[bluenoter]

There'll be some spillover anyway, so I'm starting this thread now.

Dennis González Boston Project--No Photograph Available
Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy--The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday (2 CDs, Columbia)




Horace Tapscott -- The Dark Tree (2 CDs)




v/a -- The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook




Getz/ Gilberto




v/a -- Jingle Bell Jazz

[Al in NYC]

R.I.P.

[Jason Bivins]

Lauren Newton - Soundsongs

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

YOB - The Unreal Never Lived

George Lewis - Sequel

John Hollenbeck - Joys & Desires

Will Guthrie - Body and Limbs Still Look to Light

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy--The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil

I just listened to that the other day. Something was missing for me; it didn't seem like one of their most magical meetings.

[bluenoter]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluenoter

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy--The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil

Originally Posted by Pete C

I just listened to that the other day. Something was missing for me; it didn't seem like one of their most magical meetings.

I enjoy it somewhat less these days than I did a few years ago.

[Jesse]

[Alastair]

Beatles - Love

Awful, just awful.

[Nim Chimpsky]

Originally Posted by Alastair

Beatles - Love

Awful, just awful.

Why?

[shrugs]

Don Joseph One Of A Kind

[Alastair]

Originally Posted by Nim Chimpsky

Why?

Merry Xmas, old thing.

Bits of it are very "stars on 45", most of the time they miss out verses, once you're over the "hey! they've just put 'within you without you' over 'tomorrow never knows" it just drags..I got very bored with it. I suppose it might work for the cirque de soleil (something I'd never want to see anyway) but as a listening experience it's irksome and not something I can see me returning to.

NP - I'm Not Like Everybody else (Camper Van Beethoven version), spookily.

[Noj]

Dexter Gordon - Nights At The Keystone 1-3
Art Pepper Mosaic Select
Stanley Turrentine - Common Touch

[gnhrtg]

Greg Osby - Symbols of Light (A Solution) (Blue Note)

Charlie Watts Orhcestra - 31 October 1986, Jazzfest Berlin

Beethoven - Piano Sonata no.29 in Bb, op.106 "Hammerklavier" (Gilels) (DGG)

Don Pullen - 1992, Boston

Art Tatum - The Best of The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces (Pablo)

Heinz Holliger - Violin Concerto (and Ysaye's Sonata op.27, no.3 "Ballade") (Zehetmair/SWR SO/Holliger) - I'm just hearing the Violin Concerto, of course, but what an amazing rendition of the "Ballade"

Jascha Heifetz - Violin Showpieces 1946-1970, disc 3 (RCA)

Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige/OJC)

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

ROVA -- Bingo




Horace Tapscott -- aiee! The Phantom/ Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam




Mamas and Papas Greatest Hits




Paolo Angeli -- Nita: the angel on the trapeze




Zakir Hussain/ Trilok Gurtu/ Bill Laswell/ Kahn/ Singh/ Kale -- Tabla Beat Science (During the cold and rainy season, it's important to choose recordings for running that are not only propulsive but also loud enough to drown out the so-called 'classic rock' that my gym pipes in.)




Billie Holiday -- Lady Day (2 CDs)




Motian/ Frisell/ Lovano -- I Have The Room Above Her




Jimmy Martin -- You Don't Know My Mind: 1956-1966




Bach -- Cello Suites (2 CDs: Pablo Casals)

[jaka]

Steve Lacy Four - Morning Joy


Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard


Haendel's Messiah (Concentus Musicus Wien - Harnoncourt)

+ a holiday time mix between listening, reading and watching:


Wildflowers - Loft Jazz New York 1976 3-CD set


Jaime Hernandez - Locas, the Maggie and Hopey Stories
Gilbert Hernandez - Palomar, the Heartbreak Soup Stories


Battlestar Galactica TV Series


God, I love holidays.

[Noj]

Miles Davis - ESP

...for the first time.

[chaamba]

[me wag]

[Sergio Zamora]

Rope - Heresy, And Then Nothing But Tears

Ali Farka Toure - Savane

Axel Dorner / Mattin - Berlin

The International Nothing - Mainstream

SFQ - Thirteen Rectangles

Miles - Bitches Brew

[jaka]

Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman - Malphas, Book of Angels vol.3

[Sergio Zamora]

Originally Posted by jaka

Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman - Malphas, Book of Angels vol.3

Jaka, how are these newfangled Masada thingies? I read a lot of hype about them in another jazz board, but I don't generally coincide with those posters' tastes, so I'd like to read your opinion. Are they really much different from the earlier Masada compositions? I've pretty much heard all I want to hear from the earlier Masada releases, but if this next phase is really much different I might change my mind. It does seem like Zorn et al are over-documenting themselves with these releases or at least over-saturating the market.

[jaka]

Originally Posted by Sergio Zamora

Are they really much different from the earlier Masada compositions?

It does seem like Zorn et al are over-documenting themselves with these releases or at least over-saturating the market.

Sergio,
You point out two major points here...
No, it's not THAT different, just enough to make it interesting to discover, but not many 'tunes' stand out when compared to 'Book One', which makes some releases by far not indispensible (if this is actually a word...).
The thing is the Courvoisier/Feldman duo is not really over-documented, which makes this particular volume especially worth listening. And as in earlier common efforts (Masada Recital being one), they're really making things happen and are in perfect sync. I've scheduled to see them live in a couple of months and I can't wait.
All this to say the series is not the most interesting thing in the catalogue in that sense that as you suspected, it doesn't bring much new, but another release really stands out, Astaroth (vol.1) by the Jamie Saft Trio, first for the discovery of Saft as a really compelling pianist and second, the trio with Cohen and Perowsky is really exciting from quality and interplay.
I'd skip vol.2 (Masada String trio), vol.4 & 5, which imho don't add anything to what was has been recorded before.
Vol.6 (Uri Caine) I haven't heard yet. Supposedly good I'm told, but I'm no fan of the guy, so...

My 0.5 cents.

[Jesse]

Rosy Parlane Jessamine

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Sergio: I'm basically in agreement with Jaka. Some of the recent ones are terrific, good enough to justify the fact that Zorn is seemingly milking this stuff for all it's worth. The specific groups of musicians make some of it special, like the Feldman/ Courvosier discs (Masada Recital, which is incredible!, and the one above) and the Electric Masada "Mountains of Madness".

[Sergio Zamora]

Thanks, Jaka and Steve. I of course dig Courvoisier and Feldman, so I might get that one.

[Jason Bivins]

SOZ, what do you think of the new Rope? RIP Rope, by the way.

[Jesse]

Disc 1 with Keith Rowe
Disc 2 with Palestine

[gnhrtg]

Beethoven/Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos (Szigeti, Walter/Beecham) (Columbia/Andante)

Nielsen - Symphonies nos. 4 and 5 (Blomstedt/SFS) (Decca)

Alfred Cortot - Le Rarissimes de, disc 1 (EMI)

The Thing - Garage (Smalltown Superjazzz)

Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher - Change This Song (BikBentBraam)

[Sand]

[Sergio Zamora]

Originally Posted by Jason Bivins

SOZ, what do you think of the new Rope? RIP Rope, by the way.

On one listen, I digs it. There seems to be a slightly different vocal approach than in the first disc though, but that's cool. The music remains excellent though - very cinematic, tenebrous and full of tension. It actually would make a good halloween cd. Bummer to hear they broke up.