What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Dominic Miller - Absinthe
Qobuz 24/96




As always with ECM very well recorded.
The combination guitar, bandoneon, keyboard, bass and drums works.

A nice and relaxed listen.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Joachim Kühn - Melodic Ornette Coleman - Piano Works XIII
Qobuz 24/48




Brilliant interpretations of some of Coleman's classics.

This is a very intelligent and nice sounding album.

[bart]

Music for the Film
Sounds and Silence
via Qobuz




I didn't know this album.
I think Jim (Still-One) might like it.

Over a period of five years, Swiss directors Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer documented the activity of legendary producer Manfred Eicher, the founder and driving force behind ECM Records, whose advocacy of progressive jazz and of classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Meredith Monk, Valentin Silvestrov, and György Kurtág changed the landscape of contemporary music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The film Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher was released in 2009 and this 2011 soundtrack album is made up largely of tracks taken from previously released ECM albums that Eicher produced, some from as early as 1980. Most of the pieces are low-key and understated and feature chamber ensembles, although there are several piano tracks and several featuring orchestra or chorus. The album has a mix of selections from ECM's classical and jazz repertoire, and from the label's specialty, the many pieces that lie somewhere in between the two. The artists include pianist Keith Jarrett, saxophonists Jan Garbarek and Gianluigi Trovesi, violist Kim Kashkashian, the duo of bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner, and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir led by Tonu Kaljuste. The album offers a good sampling of ECM's offerings (although it steers clear of the more avant-garde music) and should whet listeners' appetites for seeking out the releases from which these tracks were taken.

© Stephen Eddins /TiVo

[joel_hifi]

Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet - Carpe Diem

Qobuz 24/96

[ehoove]

Esprit De Four
Fourplay
Excellent offering, solid recording as always!
Heads Up International HUI-33738-02
Regards,
Jim

[ehoove]

Let's Touch the Sky
Fourplay
Working my way backwards in in their catalog.
Heads Up International HUI-32030-02
Regards,
Jim

[bart]

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Scott Colley - Brian Blade - Angular Blues
Qobuz 24/96




Every week I browse the new classical and jazz releases on Qobuz.
When I see an ECM release, I always try it, and they seldom disappoint.
This is another winner from Manfred Eicher.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

To end this evening:

Ella Fitzgerald sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book



Out of my box:



I find all these remasters extremely well done.
Ella does these classics so well that you just can't feel anything else but happy hearing them.

Originally Posted by PlanarSpeakerFan

Bart,

I recently purchased this box set and I can't play it enough. My favorite is the Duke Ellington Songbook but who doesn't love "Blue Skies" on the Irving Berlin or "Someone To Watch Over Me" on the Gershwin. The Complete Songbooks is a masterpiece.

Ken

Playing the Ellington Songbook!




It's been too long since I played an album from this magnificent box!

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[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Qobuz 24/192



Recorded in '66.

Has some brilliant moments!

Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone, marimba, drums
Herbie Hancock - piano, box full of rocks
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Joe Chambers - drums, marimba, triangle, timpani

Revisiting this great album.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Stan Getz & Bill Evans
via Qobuz




Recorded in '64, but only released in '73.

Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
Bill Evans - piano
Richard Davis - bass (tracks 4-6, 9 & 10)
Ron Carter - bass (tracks 1-3, 7, 8 & 11)
Elvin Jones - drums

This was a recommendation by the German magazine 'Stereo', in the rubric old gems.
I listened to it before studying the band members, and it struck me that the bass and drums were terrific.
Then I saw it was once again Ron Carter and Elvin Jones.
Good recording too.

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I love this album!