What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Originally Posted by 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.

Very agreeable album.

[PHC1]

Moanin' includes some of the greatest music Blakey produced in the studio with arguably his very best band. There are three tracks that are immortal and will always stand the test of time.

The title selection is a pure tuneful melody stewed in a bluesy shuffle penned by pianist Bobby Timmons, while tenor saxophonist Benny Golson's classy, slowed "Along Came Betty" and the static, militaristic "Blues March" will always have a home in the repertoire of every student or professional jazz band.

"Are You Real?" has the most subtle of melody lines, and "Drum Thunder Suite" has Blakey's quick blasting tom-tom-based rudiments reigning on high as the horns sigh, leading to hard bop. "Come Rain or Come Shine" is the piece that commands the most attention, a highly modified, lilting arrangement where the accompanying staggered, staccato rhythms contrast the light-hearted refrains.

Certainly a complete and wholly satisfying album, Moanin' ranks with the very best of Blakey and what modern jazz offered in the late '50s and beyond.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/moanin-mw0000241419

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Haha Tony!

Well, I kid you not, we have bought a vintage Technics receiver from a good friend who is moving and doesn't need it anymore.
We're planning on getting our old B&Ws repaired, and connect Meta's old turntable.
We still have a stash of old LPs in the basement, and some 45 rpm singles!
Pigs will fly!

@Jim: indeed, a fantastic piece of equipment! Ours is less fancy.

Bart, Meta, congratulations on your great move!



Ivan in case you are reading this... we will need a flying pig smiley in the AA upcoming revised site

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Ray Brown - Soular Energy

Don't we all agree that this great album deserves better than the 4.0 given by AllMusic?

So on the following morning I received - as part of a batch of used vinyls I recently acquired - an album by Ray Brown... 'Brown's Bag' (released in 1976, Concord Jazz CJ-19)

Clearly not one of his better works but what a surprise when I looked at the back of the jacket

What a coincidence isn't it? or not?

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

So on the following morning I received - as part of a batch of used vinyls I recently acquired - an album by Ray Brown... 'Brown's Bag' (released in 1976, Concord Jazz CJ-19)

Clearly not one of his better works but what a surprise when I looked at the back of the jacket





What a coincidence isn't it? or not?

Wow!
Ray Brown himself signed this!

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Bart, Meta, congratulations on your great move!



Ivan in case you are reading this... we will need a flying pig smiley in the AA upcoming revised site

Merci Joel.

This system will be in one of our guest rooms.
Don't expect us to abandon our primary systems!

Maybe we'll hunt for old LPs on flea markets, who knows?
Just for fun.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Haha Tony!

Well, I kid you not, we have bought a vintage Technics receiver from a good friend who is moving and doesn't need it anymore.
We're planning on getting our old B&Ws repaired, and connect Meta's old turntable.
We still have a stash of old LPs in the basement, and some 45 rpm singles!
Pigs will fly!

@Jim: indeed, a fantastic piece of equipment! Ours is less fancy.

That’s very cool, congratulations! And never mind any of the vinyl vs digital nonsense, just have fun with it.

[PHC1]

Bart, enjoy the vinyl phase! It can be a lot of fun hunting for and cleaning those vinyl records... for some time...

[PHC1]

[bart]

Alice Coltrane - Kiryan Turiya Sings
Qobuz 24/44.1




A recommendation in Stereophile.
Not your everyday jazz for sure.
It's somewhere in between mantras, jazz and even classical.
Interesting, but I won't listen again.

Often lost in the ever-expanding legend of John Coltrane is the fact that his wife Alice Coltrane —later also known by her Sanskrit name Turiyaasangitananda—was an accomplished pianist and harpist in her own right. She replaced McCoy Tyner in John's quartet and released more than a dozen albums under her name between 1968 and 1977. Coltrane was also a singer and in the mid-'70s became a spiritual teacher and established the The Vedantic Center, an ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was there that she began experimenting with adding synthesizers, strings and sound effects to traditional chants, a pursuit that led to a 1982 cassette tape Turiya Sings, intended for the students in the ashram. In 2004 son Ravi Coltrane found a stripped down mix of the nine tracks with just her voice accompanied by Wurlitzer organ. A compilation from her ashram years, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda was released to great acclaim in 2017; now an even deeper collection taken from the original 24-track tapes (mixed by Steve Genewick and mastered by Kevin Reeves, both of whom worked on her final album, 2004's Translinear Light), adds to Alice's spiritual legacy.

Musically, these are sung and spoken chants of repeated phrases in Sanskrit, expertly accompanied by ghostly, pulsing chords on the Wurlitzer. While there are hints of a groove and some variation in the music in a piece like "Rama Katha," these are deeply spiritual pleas and very little of her jazz experience seeps into the pure, devotional hymns. In few instances, such as "Hara Siva," are hints of an actual song present. Coltrane's voice is strong throughout, her phrasing and intonation simple and unadorned. Clearly this was serious business, all of it given an odd ecclesiastic feel that will be instantly recognizable to anyone who's heard a church pipe organ. © Robert Baird/Qobuz