What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

As Bart says, Parker’s best years were before “high fidelity,” but this one doesn’t suck too bad[emoji41]



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I just listened to it.
Good introduction and decent overview of his (earlier) career.
Parker is such a genius that I prefer the larger collection I posted.
It goes from his first years with swing bands, over the early bebop adventures with Gillespie, to his cooperation with Miles. The last CDs cover the 50s where drugs had partially destroyed his talent already.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Kenny Barron Trio - Bood of Intuition
Qobuz 24/96




My score: 4 ½ stars for the music, but only 3 ½ for the sound.
And that's a pity.

He has played brilliantly alongside double bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake for quite a few years, but Kenny Barron had not yet released an album with this addictive rhythmic approach that suits him so well. The result jumps out at the listener immediately with the magnificent Book Of Intuition released on Impulse!. Elegant, intelligent, refined and with a more than perfect swing, this record is an ambassador for the famous motto: less is more. Not a note overboard, No technical showboating. Each theme (all bearing Barron's signature except for two covers Thelonious Monk, Shuffle Boil and Light Blue, and one by Charlie Haden, Nightfall) is discussed here with formidable class. Kenny Barron is one of the last giants of the eternal and timeless piano, and one that does not seek to revolutionize the genre nor the instrument but rather to find the just the right tone. A project that succeeds thanks to the precious involvement of Kitagawa and Blake. The three musicians reach a sort of aesthetic grace together here. A great album to listen again and again.© MZ/Qobuz, Translation/BM

Wonderful playing.
Good album to hear after Charlie Parker.
It made me less critical of the sound.

[joel_hifi]

Lou Donaldson - Gravy Train

Not one of his better known works but still a quite enjoyable bluesy record

Recorded in 1961 (Blue Note), via Qobuz

Lou Donaldson - Alto Sax
Herman Foster - Piano
Ben Tucker - Bass
Dave Bailey - Drums
Alec Dorsey - Congas

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Wonderful playing.
Good album to hear after Charlie Parker.
It made me less critical of the sound.

These days I'm really fancying neo-bop... Barron, Chestnut, Hargrove, McBride, Payton, Redman, Reed...

[joel_hifi]

Keith Jarrett - Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne

Another must have/listen, recorded live 2 years before the Köln Concert (ECM)

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Keith Jarrett - Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne



Another must have/listen, recorded live 2 years before the Köln Concert (ECM)

This was my first Jarrett album and still one of my favorites.

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

This was my first Jarrett album and still one of my favorites.

Great taste Tony

[joel_hifi]

Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian - When Will The Blues Leave

Another live in Switzerland, recorded in Lugano in 1999 (ECM), via Qobuz

Very nice interplay and recording

Paul Bley - Piano
Gary Peacock - Bass
Paul Motian - Drums

[Antonmb]

Ben Markely Big Band with Ari Hoenig - Ari's Funhouse
OA2 Records (2022), via Qobuz

Enjoyable big band arrangements.
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[joel_hifi]

Martial Solal - At Newport '63

Earlier work, live in trio with Bill Evans' former rhythm section, via Qobuz

Martial Solal - Piano
Teddy Kotick - Bass
Paul Motian - Drums