What Reynolds Favorite Are You Listening To Now

[Gordon B]

I hope this thread cheers up our friend, The Preacher. There aren't many old-timers who didn't discover a great cd or 50 from a rec from Steve.

DKV Trio- Live in Wels and Chicago, disc two (Chicago side).

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Oh my, Gordon. My good friend Steven turned me onto the GREAT Horace Tapscott among many others. Now listening to "The Dark Tree 1 & 2".

Horace Tapscott - piano

John Carter - clarinet

Cecil McBee - contrabass

Andrew Cyrille - drums

Thank you, Preacher, for your passion....................


Sandy And Niles, baby.

[Sergio Zamora]

Not right now, but this last week....

The Mad Swede - Mouthing Eating Trees and Related Activities

[Brian Olewnick]

I had 'Harmos' on this past week.

[bostontricky]

Tapscott's "Aiee! The Phantom" in the mail today, plus at least one Chris McGregor disc on over the last couple of days...

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

John Lindberg -- Bounce

[Captain Hate]

Great thread idea; what else but Exploded on Impact in the car on the way to and from basketball. I'm sure there's a direct correlation between listening to that and shooting out the lights.

Leimgruber/Leandre/Hauser - No Try, No Fail

[gnhrtg]

Not an old timer, though a lurker for perhaps 6 years now - but I enjoy, on a daily basis, albums where Gustafsson or Vandermark are involved. Most recently - impropositions by gustafsson and version soul by spaceways incorporated.

[Pete C]

I remember "Reynolds: The Jazz Years" with fondness.

[Boris Badenov]

Clusone 3 - Love Henry

Originally posted by Pete C
I remember "Reynolds: The Jazz Years" with fondness.

For us younger types without 30 years experience in Jazz, Reynolds in his Jazz phase was our first contact with names like Black Saint, Soul Note, Mal Waldron, Andrew Cyrille, and Don Pullen.

During the era of Marsalis ascendancy, Reynolds performed an admirable public service.

[jazzfiend]

Been listening to a number of Steve's faves, incl. David Murray & Milford Graves Real Deal and Fred Anderson's 2 Days in April.

I've also been checking out a couple that will become dear to Steve when he hears 'em:

Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love - Dual Pleasure

Tony Malaby - Apparitions (with 2 drummers & a bass player: Rainey, Sarin & Gress)

[walto]

"No Try, No Fail"

[stonemonkts]

Currently NP:

Joe Maneri - Get Ready To Receive Yourself

Grateful to Mr. R for many new sounds, chief among them (off top of head) would be LCJO, Fred Anderson, Mad Swede, Paul Dunmall, lot of Evan Parker I was unfamiliar with before, ditto Brotzmann, and others I cannot recall at the moment.

Hearing Harmos the first time was an eye opener. Added Portraits, Theoria, and Inscape-Tableaux in short order.

Duke Ellington - Complete Columbia/RCA Victor Sessions with Ben Webster (Definitive Records 24-bit remastered semi-legitimate issue)

Before Pete Cherches or Steve (thelil) points it out, yes, "semi-legitimate issue" is a hilarious double entendre, and I wish I had actually thought of it consciously...

[Steve Reynolds]

thank you Gordon for the kind words


feeling a bit better today - it is a day to day thing


but methinks the shoulder might need an operation


but the mind is still actively insane





but the people who havn't heard Colours Fulfilled need to give it a listen

[Nick]

I've never interacted with Steve before, but I've read his posts from the old board and he seems like an interesting guy with excellent taste. I just got back from a show he'd have loved-Brotzmann/Kessler/Drake in Milwaukee with Ken Vandermark joining in on the second set. Holy hell was it amazing. I'd seen Kessler, Drake, and KV live quite a few times but this was my first encounter with Brotz in the flesh. Things started out excellent, but somewhere in the middle of the first set, while Brotzmann was on clarinet, they just took off into the stratosphere. When it was announced during the intermission that Vandermark would be joining them during the second set I wasn't thrilled. Don't get me wrong, he's one of my favorite reedsman, but Brotzmann, Kessler, and Drake we're so hot I didn't want anything to get in their way. Once the music started it took about 5 seconds for my fears to dissolve. The band was even more amazing with Vandermark. The 2 reeds played off each other beautifully with Kessler supplying some instense funk-filled bad ass bass and Hamid playing like a man possessed. Hearing beautiful music like that second set really makes it easier to deal with all the other bullshit in life.

[Gordon B]

Jon Lloyd Quartet- head!

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Yep, the Preacher does have excellent taste...........except when it comes to beer...............

[Jason G]

This is my first post since returning from a long deployment, and I must say I'm listening to many of Reynolds' favorites now more than ever. 2 Days In April, Wels and Chicago, Braxton - Dortmund, and the *best* improvisational recording *ever*, At The Vortex, give me pleasure like no others. Knowing that I lived in the UK for 6 years, and didn't have a clue who Evan Parker was at the time, pains me to this day. I could've been there.

Tonight:

Hession/Wilkinson/Fell - Foom! Foom!

John Law - Exploded On Impact

[Fred K]

Dennis Gonzalez - Stefan

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Alex
During the era of Marsalis ascendancy, Reynolds performed an admirable public service.

Reynolds was Davey to Wynton's Goliath.

[Mike Schwartz]

Scott Hamilton plays the FRED songbook;-))

[Steve Reynolds]

now listening ot the final cut from Ghostly Thoughts




and yes, dunmall outdoes Trane on this one



do the few remember this from Heisler's place 3 years ago




I know Sisco remembers that I demanded to play something



Mark Sanders RULES the fucking world



ANTHONY B???


or should I say the *great* Anthony Basich??????



don't put down that horn young lad.........

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Steve Reynolds
and yes, dunmall outdoes Trane on this one

[bostontricky]

Thanks entirely to this thread, I've had Clusone's "I Am An Indian, Too" running through my head for days...

(beats the Carpenters)

[Gary Sisco]

I remember that morning well, StevieRey.

As for the thread subject, I've been turned on to many musicians and records I'd have otherwise probably not heard had it not been for Reynolds' ravings -- the one-man PR machine for the jazz a.g. -- way to many to list here.

My favorite Reynolds rec of this year is "Lunge." (See Record Reviews section of the bbs).

Last night I listened to another one that was a Reynolds rec and which I love, John Lindberg's "The Catbird Sings."

Preach away baby

[MRS]

I wasn't aware that Dunmall and Trane had locked horns in the first place.

Steve. . .you dug Sanders' work off 'Four in the Afternoon' yet?