What jazz music are you listening to?

[joel_hifi]

John Carroll Kirby - Septet

I did spend some time trying to figure out in which box I should place this album...

Eletro? Jazz? Funk? Electro-Jazz-Funk? Was this the right thread to post in?

Anyway I thought it was quite good, I did like the whole feeling

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Bill Evans Trio - On a Friday evening - Live At Oil Can Harry's
Qobuz 24/192




Live album from '75.
Decent sound, and very good playing.

Great playing, as usual

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Great playing, as usual

What a genius he was...

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

I finished my jazz session for today with one of my cherished albums:

Sarah Vaughan - After Hours
via Qobuz




Sarah Vaughan – vocal
Mundell Lowe – guitar
George Duvivier – double bass


Sassy's voice can shine fully here (yeah, no strings!!).
Intimate, brilliant.

This will be our last album again tonight.

[joel_hifi]

Phineas Newborn Jr. - Fabulous Phineas

The Newborn brothers haven't really been on my radar, worth discovering some more

Listening on the office system, via Qobuz

Recorded in 1958 (RCA Victor)

Phineas Newborn Jr. – Piano
Calvin Newborn – Guitar
George Joyner – Bass
Denzil Best – Drums

[joel_hifi]

Wynton Kelly!

Great trio playing, recorded in 1961 (Vee-Jay)

Wynton Kelly - Piano
Paul Chambers/Sam Jones - Bass
Jimmy Cobb - Drums

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

You guys are playing terrific jazz!


I am currently enjoying this:

Martial Solal - Coming Yesterday - Live at Salle Gaveau 2019
via Qobuz (Challenge)




I wasn't expecting too much, I was just being curious.
How does a 91 year old piano player (°1927) fare in a solo concert?
Well, I invite you to listen.
He's still incredibly good!
And the sound is always good with this label.

Coming Yesterday is the recording of what turns out to be Martial's last concert, he decided to stop playing piano after that show:

Martial Solal
"When I walked onto the stage on January 23, 2019, I did not yet know that I would decide not to play piano anymore after this concert, more than seventy years after my debut. To maintain a certain level, this instrument requires your daily attention; it requires delicacy, brutality, and especially energy. I have lived with these demands all my life, with the joy of seeing the progress, the technical and musical advances, the rhythmic and harmonic enrichments that we acquire over time. Of course, everything goes very fast at first. As long as you are gifted, if you spend a little time on it, if you listen to what was done before you, if you choose a path, everything may seem easy. Progress is rapid, illusions are immense, and then walls arise, walls that you want to reach and overcome. Seventy years to achieve this is a minimum... When energy is no longer available, it is better to stop.

Bart, I'm listening and I concur!

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Bart, I'm listening and I concur!

Joel, glad you like it.
And... congrats! You guys kicked out the French!

[80B]

Originally Posted by jimtranr

SACD rip.

Great album - listened to this as a kid on my dad's Garard TT and got hooked on both the Count and the Duke with that album, not knowing anything else about them.

[joel_hifi]

Bill Evans Trio feat. Stan Getz - But Beautiful

Pretty incomplete album on Qobuz and Tidal... so worth looking for the CD or Vinyl

Recorded live in the Netherlands and in Belgium during August 1974.

Bill Evans – Piano
Stan Getz – Tenor Sax
Eddie Gomez – Bass
Marty Morell – Drums



However a number of the missing tracks can be found on the earlier studio album recorded 10 years earlier by the same pair (but not same bassist/drummer)

... so it ain't really the same

Bill Evans - Piano
Stan Getz - Tenor Sax
Richard Davis/Ron Carter - Bass
Elvin Jones - Drums