What Jazz album are you listening to?

Psy-Fi · 03-31-2021, 05:21 PM

Longineu Parsons - Spaced: Collected Works 1980 - 1999 (1999)

ando here · 04-06-2021, 04:33 PM

Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie (1967, Impulse!)

Psy-Fi · 04-12-2021, 11:22 AM

The Heliocentrics - From the Deep (2016)

Psy-Fi · 04-15-2021, 12:46 PM

Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen Plus One - Energy Control Center (1972)

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Energy Control Center, Thomas’s third LP with his Lightmen band is his masterpiece: deep-set, maverick jazz that smolders in the embers of a cultural revolution. This is a highpoint amongst the best of the 1970s, and this version of the album contains second disc with bonus tracks: unreleased alternate takes, including two versions of the Spiritual Jazz classic “All Praises To Allah,” and the two singles Thomas produced for poet and activist Thomas Meloncon.

**Marie Monday** · 04-16-2021, 05:24 PM

Ganelin, Chekasin, Tarasov - Semplice

**Frownland** · 04-18-2021, 09:49 AM

Nate Wooley - Mutual Aid Music

Spoiler for Wooley's description (excerpt):

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Mutual Aid Has a History

It points to the concept of community action and the human drive to provide succor to our fellow humans. Mutual aid is the primary ethic of an anarchistic utopia in which each knows what they have, is honest about what they need, and is prepared to give and receive accordingly. Every human want is met by a commensurate surplus
and all are lifted equally above suffering.

The music on this disc is, to a degree, about this political conception of mutual aid history but, rather than celebrating its primary act of what to give, it concentrates on the decision of how to give it. It asks the musicians to take stock of their gifts and to ask themselves, in each moment, how their use of that gift will affect the community
(ensemble) of which they are currently a member. Will their addition provide:
1. A refined musical gesture that simply makes the group sound better
2. A raw idea that opens new sets of possibilities for the other musicians, or
3. The inspiration to others of making the difficult, selfless musical choice.

This set of eight ensemble concertos sprouts from a compositional system that asks musicians to question what they add to the ensemble as human beings first and musicians second. Rather than the traditional aim of faithfully reproducing a score through its mastery, the members of the ensemble are prompted to make decisions that purposely force the music away from facsimile and toward a spontaneity that may feel awkward and uncomfortable. Each supports each in the search for something new and interesting; a music that is not only greater than the compositional whole, but has the potential to recast the way we think about the balance of virtuosity and improvisational spirit in our practice. After all, if we, as an ensemble can enjoy jumping off musical cliffs together within the relative safety of this compositional system, then what’s to stop us from trying to find that same exhilaration in the other music we make?

Wooley just keeps hitting us with these landmark free improvisation albums. If you've any interest in the genre, this is essential.

ribbons · 04-18-2021, 11:02 AM

^ First track now playing; and I like the way Moran's vibraphone mellows out the dissonance here and there. I may purchase this - thanks for the rec.

**Marie Monday** · 04-18-2021, 12:20 PM

Anatoly Vapirov ‎- Invocations

ribbons · 04-18-2021, 12:34 PM

^ Never heard much Russian jazz before, Marie - and this sounds really intriguing. Bassoon, bass and percussion. I can just imagine how this sounds on vinyl! Should I make another purchase?...tempting, tempting...

ribbons · 04-20-2021, 03:20 PM

Max Roach & Cecil Taylor - Historic Concerts

These performances are true works of art by these masters. First time playing together, and no rehearsal.

04-06-2021, 04:33 PM	#672 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,802	Swing Low Sweet Cadillac Dizzy Gillespie (1967, Impulse!) __________________ "A musician plays music. Other people name it." - Artie Shaw

04-18-2021, 11:02 AM	#677 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	^ First track now playing; and I like the way Moran's vibraphone mellows out the dissonance here and there. I may purchase this - thanks for the rec.

04-18-2021, 12:34 PM	#679 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	^ Never heard much Russian jazz before, Marie - and this sounds really intriguing. Bassoon, bass and percussion. I can just imagine how this sounds on vinyl! Should I make another purchase?...tempting, tempting...

04-20-2021, 03:20 PM	#680 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Max Roach & Cecil Taylor - Historic Concerts These performances are true works of art by these masters. First time playing together, and no rehearsal.