Quirky album in Bill Evans catalogue. He plays over a tape of himself. I felt the concept was a little gimmicky at first but I am warming to it I can't imagine how difficult this must be. In some places the juxtaposition really creates a wonderful tension. In others it seems a little heavy handed to me but I need to spend more time with it still.
It has been a while since the last play, so I had forgotten just how excellent this title is, another superb AP / SACD... NP: The Gil Evans Orchestra* - Out Of The Cool
I broke this one out last week (the 45 rpm) too, I also picked up a copy of Into the Hot last week, haven’t played that one yet though.
Gianluigi Trovesi - Jazz Italiano Live 2007 Casa del Jazz CdJ 02 Another day, another Italian alto saxophonist. Trovesi always seems to put together great bands. This time he has a guitarist and extra percussion/keyboards along with the rhythm section and the redoubtable Rava who never disappoints. At turns, funky, wistful and muscular music. Good live sound too.
Listening and watching Everytime i watch these clips of Joey in the studio with these world class musicians.It's just amazing how good he is,when many kids are just starting to take lessons and he is already playing at this level.
NP The Genius of Coleman Hawkins (Verve) silver on black stereo pressing. With Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Alvin Stoller.
Listening to this from the Waldron CD box set vol. 2. Anyone with an x or a z in their name is a mysterious person to me.
Louis Hayes (Vee Jay) mono rainbow rimmed label. This is most of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet minus Cannonball and Barry Harris on piano instead of Joe Zawnul. Excellent hard bop and Nat Adderley is hot.
The Byrds & The Doors did their first, "demo" recordings there, the ones that got them signed to Columbia & Elektra.
I just picked this up yesterday in the used bins. $1 for a West Germany for US CD. Haven't listened yet but looking forward to it - didn't realize it was with the OP Trio until I got home and looked at it. So I'm stoked about that.
This is really, really great performance. And the sonic is quite listenable albeit a few obvious flaws. I found a short video that shows the room where the performance was done. Looks like very interesting but it’s a pity that I seldom understand the German narration. Video "Bill Evans in Bad Hönningen" - Landesart
I was also concerned for the same reason. In the wrong hands an artist could make it a busy mess. Thankfully Bill didn't do that. I held off buying it for a long time and was pleasantly surprised.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Analogue Productions SACD Followed by Wayne Shorter "Juju" Blue Note Universal SHM-SACD
Hi Yasujiro, how would you rank this one compared with other 1980 concerts? The performances on The Last Waltz* are amazing. Spent a lot of money on that box, so instead of getting: Turn Out the Stars: Final Village Vanguard Recordings I bought: Artist's Choice: Highlights from Turn Out the Stars (Bill's own choices for a future album). In terms of sound quality it's the best I heard from the last trio live. *wish Joe's drums were louder
Hi, I would ranked this as top with the Consecration & The Last Waltz, since this was recorded just two weeks before the Keystone Korner dates. If you love The Last Waltz, this Gambit CD is definitely indispensable. It is simply beautiful.
The drums on The Last Waltz are mastered heavily compressed compared with the original Consecration box set from Alfa Japan that sounds like almost flat transfer of the master tapes.
Tina Brooks True Blue on Music Matters - is there a better blend than Hubbard and brooks? Geez these guys can blow!
This time of year a lot of my listening becomes about catching up on all the new albums I missed during the year -- and this year there are a lot of them, by virtue of my personal circumstances I heard less knew music to date in 2017 than in any of my previous 54 years on the earth. One album I haven't seen much turn up on lists yet, but which has absolutely knocked me out as I've been going through it is Roscoe Mitchell's Bells for the South Side. It's a long (over 2-hours) recording from a 2015 performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago celebrating the 50th anniversary of the AACM, and it's pretty broad and brilliant, almost a sort of summation of Mitchell's career in a way. the title piece in particular is great, in some ways suggesting to me almost a sequel to People in Sorrow.