All Star Celebration of Cannonball Adderley
-- Cannon Re*Loaded
Karrin Allyson -- Azure Te
Stacey Kent -- Breakfast on the morning tram
Frank Emilio Flynn -- Y Sus Amigos Barbausino

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Pat Metheny - Day Trip

Charles Lloyd - Rabo de Nube

Keith Jarrett - Live in Montreux

Ron Carter - Dear Miles

Lynne Arriale - Live

Joshua Redman - Back East

RG

The above list should make for some very fine listening. I haven't heard the new Charles Lloyd, could you grace us with a few words about it, please?

I'll post a list of my own within a few days.

Jason Lindner Big Band-Live at the Jazz Gallery
Phil Kelly-My Museum
Westchester Jazz Orchestra-All In
Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan-Live at MCG
Maceo Parker-Roots & Grooves

Andy

Tyshawn Sorey - That/Not

Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot 5 & 7 (JSP)

Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage

Bill Charlap - Live @ the Village Vanguard

Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown

Guillermo Klein - Una Nave

African American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways

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I haven't heard the new Charles Lloyd, could you grace us with a few words about it, please?

Something is happening here and I don't know what it is, but you may, Mr. Jones.

Highly recommended.

RG

And very right you are!!! I just picked up Rabo de Nube and what a fantastic recording it is. It sounds from just my first few listens that Jason Moran lifts the entire ensemble up to new and higher levels of creativity. What an inspired choice of sidemen. This is one of those recordings that answers the question "I wonder what "X" would sound like playing with "Y"?" And that answer is "better than I could have ever imagined".

Of the 8 LP

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Do you remember a Lloyd album: Forest Flower? It was his hippy trippy period. Very cool in the 60's! I recall Jack DeJohnette on drums, too. They actually toured with Jethro Tull when they were doing the Aqualung tour. All the bandmates (Lloyd's) sat in a circle on rugs with candles and incense burning. Unfortunately, the rowdy, stoned rock fans were too anxious to hear Tull and did not give them their due. But a great period in time, that's for sure.

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However, it is Charnett Moffett playing the bass, not Ron Carter......

Thank you for pointing out my error!
I try V hard to ensure the accuracy of the info I post, however, I made a big Boo Boo!

The last thing I ever want to do is be responsible for posting incorrect info on the this or any other site.

Ron Carter is NOT on the Marsalis LP. It is in fact Charnett Moffett.

Carter was on a different album I bought this weekend, and in my excitement and weekend level of alcohol consumption, I got the LP

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ROY HARGROVE- EARFOOD
KENNY BARRON- THE TRAVELER
SAXOPHONE SUMMIT- SERAPHIC LIGHT
NORMA WINSTONE- DISTANCES
ELLIS MARSALIS- OPEN LETTER TO THELONIOUS

rgibran-

ROY HARGROVE- EARFOOD & NORMA WINSTONE- DISTANCES
are my two favorites.

I have Dino Saluzi & Anja Lechner - Ojos Negros, if you like it, you'll love the Winstone CD. Enrico Rava &
Stefano Bollani-The Third Man, is another great ECM recording.

Larry Carlton with Robben Ford - Live In Tokyo - I'll look for this one.

Mahalo.

Here's an album that's recently in heavy rotation in my player:

"Contemporary jazz that anyone could like, characterised by strong yet open themes, unshowy brilliance and an overall mood of soulfulness and sensitivity. For his third album, French/African drummer Katch

1. Herb Alpert - Keep Your Eye On Me
2. Danny Heines - Every Island
3. Pat Metheny - Letter From Home
4. Special EFX - Slice of Life
5. Lee Ritenour - 6 String Theory

Mark Evans

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Here's an album that's recently in heavy rotation in my player:

"Contemporary jazz that anyone could like, characterised by strong yet open themes, unshowy brilliance and an overall mood of soulfulness and sensitivity. For his third album, French/African drummer Katch

Received Manu Katche' today and listening as I type. Thanks for the heads up. What a great disc. The recording is excellent.

An Excellent album. Very spacey with some of the most beautiful chord work around IMHO.

Mark

Keep em rollin. My son sent me David Sanborn "Only Everything" with Joey Defrancesco and Steve Gadd. Swinggin! With Joss Stone and James Taylor; produced by Phil Ramone. Greg Calbi mastered. VERY NICE!

How about:

Lee Riterour RIT
Dave Grusin/Lee Ritenhour Harlequin

To me, both great musicians. I am a huge Dave Grusin fan.

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How about:

Lee Riterour RIT
Dave Grusin/Lee Ritenhour Harlequin

I used to have the Lee Ritenour "RIT" album a long time ago. What made it special was the fact it was a Japan release on 100% virgin vinyl. I wish I still had it. Great album with the vocals of Eric Tagg and Bill Champlin with a whole host of class A session musicians.

Mark

You guys should give a listen to Herbie Hancock's "The Imagine Project". World jazz of the finest sort, and extremely well recorded and mastered. Close to the sound of 24/96

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You guys should give a listen to Herbie Hancock's "The Imagine Project". World jazz of the finest sort, and extremely well recorded and mastered. Close to the sound of 24/96

Quite right! Another winner from Herbie like 2007's "River: The Joni Letters", although the new has a less "jazz" feel and a more "world music" feel to it. Regardless of how one chooses to label it, it's still great music.

Big Michael Hedges fan here!

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Big Michael Hedges fan here!

Thats awesome JA. If you like Michael Hedges, I would highly recommend Andy McKee. Very similar stylings and Andy plays the harp guitar just as well as Michael did. R.I.P.

If George Benson did an album with Michael Hedges, it would surely be smokin'.

I am so ashamed of myself.

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If George Benson did an album with Michael Hedges, it would surely be smokin'.

I am so ashamed of myself.

That got me rollin bro. good one.

Mark

you got me thinkin..and I pulled this one out of the collection. This is one sweet jam.

The Complete Verve Roy Eldridge Studio Sessions:

A seven CD collection on Mosaic of some the best and hardest swinging there is. Little Jazz lives!!

Sabicas - Volume III, 1958

Flamenco GENIUS! and possibly the greatest guitarist that has ever lived.

This is the Moody Blues- 2 CD set from the late 80's.

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This is the Moody Blues- 2 CD set from the late 80's.

Just one quick question - in what parallel universe are the Moody Blues considered even remotely related to jazz? Music, yes (just barely) but jazz, no way by any possible standard.

With that in mind try listening to this:

William Parker Organ Quartet - Uncle Joe's Spirit House

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The Complete Verve Roy Eldridge Studio Sessions:

A seven CD collection on Mosaic of some the best and hardest swinging there is. Little Jazz lives!!

I wish I'd bought that before they sold out. I'll keep an eye out for a used set.

I've decided to get myself the Basie 50's box for Christmas. That should help keep the house warm this winter.

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The Complete Verve Roy Eldridge Studio Sessions:

A seven CD collection on Mosaic of some the best and hardest swinging there is. Little Jazz lives!!

I wish I'd bought that before they sold out. I'll keep an eye out for a used set.

I've decided to get myself the Basie 50's box for Christmas. That should help keep the house warm this winter.

What I find funny about my jazz listening habits and preferences is that while I thoroughly enjoy listening to swing jazz, either small group or big band, I only really enjoy that type of jazz when it's being played by the original musicians. In other words, Roy Eldridge or Lester Young or Ben Webster I can listen to but current musicians playing swing jazz, such as Scott Hamilton, bore my to tears. And it gets even complicated. For example I can take or leave Randy Standke when he's playing straight ahead swing jazz, which he does very well, but I really enjoy his playing when he moves away from straight ahead swing jazz.

In any event Roy Eldridge just smokes!!

Here's a CD I just discovered via a good friend:

Steve Smith

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Here's a CD I just discovered via a good friend:

Steve Smith

Kazumi Watanabe - Mobo I & II, 1984

Insane guitar work = A total mind trip.

My wife loves Coltrane above all others, so we decided to see if any of the alternate takes were "better" than the originally released versions.

In this case, habit may have played a part, because we preferred the versions we had been listening to to the alternate takes.

And this one:

Coltrane & Cherry is a great one. Add the new Elvis Costello.

Pure magic, preserved for the ages.

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Pure magic, preserved for the ages.

Absolutely!!!

Many years ago (25 years+) the then very young WBGO-FM, a jazz radio station located in Newark, NJ, was running a contest where they were giving away the 18 LP box set of Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings (which includes the Village Vanguard sessions. You had to send in a postcard and then every morning they would pick one postcard per hour and the person named on the postcard had until the end of the hour to call in and claim their prize.

I diligently sent in about 10 postcards and declared to my wife and friends that the box set would soon part of my record collection. And would you believe the very first postcard picked the first hour of the first day of the contest belonged to yours truly. The on air DJ, who was hoping to use the contest to keep his listeners glued to the radio until the winner was selected several hours and days into the contest, was not too pleased that the first name called won the damn contest but I was ecstatic!

Classic Bill Evans in glorious full analog sound!

Great story, jazzfan. WBGO is my go to source for jazz on the internet.

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Great story, jazzfan. WBGO is my go to source for jazz on the internet.

I listen to WBGO on and off - mostly off during the daylight hours when they tend to go with a very heavy dose of vocals. Once it gets dark out WBGO goes back to playing a better balance of instrumentals and vocals but still nothing outside of the mainstream.

For a better picture of the full scope of jazz I listen to WKCR-FM which is also out of the NYC area and also streams to the internet.

WKCR-FM

This Sunday 11/21 WKCR will feature the annual, day long Coleman Hawkins Birthday Broadcast. Now that's what jazz is all about!

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