The Jazz Beat

"Donald Byrd - Free Form" (1961) with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins.
Really like this. Night Flower is just beautiful (well, it's way past midnight here!!).
(Blue Note CD 1989)

 

Two new slabs of 180 goodness this evening.

At's delight and No Room For Squares on Heavenly Sweetness.

 

Sonny Rollins – Alfie (Impulse! / MCA Records)
— With Oliver Nelson, Bob Ashton, Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. Johnson, Phil Woods, Danny Bank, Kenny Burrell, Roger Kellaway, Frankie Dunlop; tunes by Rollins, arranged by Nelson

 

I have a feeling that to be in that group, you have to be able to put your own stamp on an arrangement

 

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Art Blakey, drums; Wayne Shorter, tenor sax; Lee Morgan, trumpet;
Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass.

 

E.T.C. featuring Jerry Bergonzi – Plus One (Red Records)
— Steve La Spina, Fred Hersch, Jeff Hirshfield + Jerry Bergonzi

 

Steve Beresford - I Shall Become A Bat - LP (blood red and black splatter vinyl)
Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore - Play Some ****ing Stooges!!! - LP (one-sided)
Fred Frith & John Butcher - The Natural Order - CD (back cover photo has the two of them playing under a large painting (photo?) of Kenny Rogers. really not sure what to make of that.)

 

Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell

 

Just found this box (used), however it's no booklet included. Was there a booklet when it was new?

 

Sonny & Linda Sharrock - Paradise - CD (shame they changed the cover design. the full-color LP sleeve was MUCH better)
Sven-Ake Johansson - The 80s: Selected Concerts - 5CD (just disc one: "Rimski")

 

No it didn't have a booklet - it was three jewel cases in a clam box.

Now playing:
John Hebert – Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12)
— With Tony Malaby, Michael Attias, Nasheet Waits, Satoshi Takeishi, Adam Kolker

 

New Orleans style...

 

Bob Moses – Nishoma (beautiful soul) (Grapeshot Records)
— With Steve Kuhn, Chris Wood, Scott Robinson, Rossen Zahariev, Jacques Schwartz + Luciana Souza, Abbey Lincoln, Jimmy Slyde

 

The Complete Blue Note Recordings Of The Tina Brooks Quintets (Mosaic)
Playing Sides 1 and 2

 

Yeah, I have that one and agree. Joe Henderson also played on a local pianist's album (Joe Gilman) ten or so years ago.
Robert Hurst and Jeff "Tain" Watts were also on it I think because Joe went to school with Hurst and Hirst and Watts were often paired together since their Marsalis days. Joe had some funny stories about the recording of the album.

 

Ron Carter - Orfeu ((Blue Note)

 

"Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady" (1963).
(Impulse CD)

 

This album tells me jazz isn't dead. Three monsters hitting it hard!

 

Lonnie Liston Smith - Visions Of A New World

 

Woody Shaw ~ Imagination

Woody Shaw: Trumpet; Kirk Lightsey: Piano; Steve Turre: Trombone; Ray Drummond: Bass; Carl Allen: Drums.

32 Jazz

 

Newbie question.The idea in this thread is to post a recommendation? Very little commentary ?

 

The Jazz from Hell above prompted me to retrieve this from the Zappa archive. The music is much better than the cover art!

 

That's great thanks for the info.

 

John Hicks in Concert (Evidence Music / Theresa Records)
— With Walter Booker, Idris Muhammad + Bobby Hutcherson, Elise Wood; with two bonus tracks; recorded live at Sacramento State Univ, Half Moon Bay, and Kimball's in 1984