Ever fall in love with a jazz CD?

[HutchFan]

Originally Posted by Midnight Blue

I love that sudden segue from 'Shades of Jazz' into 'Southern Smiles' - gets me every time!

Oooohh, yeah. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.

[Midnight Blue]

Originally Posted by HutchFan

Oooohh, yeah. I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.

I don't know if the CD carries it over, but certainly the vinyl sequencing sounds very deliberate. It doesn't sound like it was recorded as one piece.

[jazzofonik]

Originally Posted by Avant-Guardian

Oh, to answer the question... "Mingus Ah Um" does it for me... Goodbye Porkpie Hat is sooo moving.

I second that - but more for the lead-off track Better Get Hit In Yo Soul and Pussycat Dues

[Avant-Guardian]

^The whole album is classic... every track is perfect. It's a top 5 album of all time to me.

[Mark13]

The first time I heard "Are You Going With Me" from Pat Metheny's "Offramp"-album remains the most important listening-experience of my life. It is THE track that got me into jazz somewhere in 1985. And to this day it moves me deeply...

And apparently I am not the only one. In the liner notes to the recent Metheny/Mehldau-collaboration Mehldau explicity refers to this PMG-classic (albeit the live-version that is on "Travels") as a defining moment in his musical development as well. Remarkable...

[mmairowitz]

It may not be a famous classic, but I fell in love (years ago and ever since) with a Shorty Rogers/Bud Shank disc, YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER issued on Concord Records in 1983.

[Brize]

My current squeeze is Lontano by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet. I love this CD, despite having struggled with the two previous recordings by this group.

[El Barrio]

I am in love with Andrew Hill's album Point of Departure. Every time I hear it, I melt.

[Mottele]

Those are my choices, for the moment:

"Transparence" by Philip Catherine ("Dance for Victor" is a total delight!)
"'Round Midnight Y Otros Tangos" by Adrian Iaies
"Gringo" by Rita Marcotulli & Javier Girotto
"Origenes" by Javier Girotto & Aires Tango
"In The Beginning" by Eli Digibri Quartet (with Kurt Rosenwinkel)
"The Ballad of the Fallen" by Carla Bley, Jim Pepper and Charlie Haden
"Beyond Missouri Sky" by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny
"Imagenes" by Juan José Mosalini, Gustavo Beytelmann & Patrice Carattini
"L'Opéra Va" by Enrico Rava
"Rikud Ha'Yareach" ("Moon Dance") by Gidi Gov (not really Jazz, but not really not Jazz either!)
"Face to Face" by Eddy Louiss & Richard Galliano (Eddy Louiss plays certain standards on Hammond Organ just the way I play them on my Gibson, I discovered)
"Stenkuriscioignanzi" (means:"I'm here, what the f*ck" in local Garfagnana Tuscan dialect) by my dear drummer friend Piero Orsini's Quartet
"New York Tango" by Richard Galliano, Bireli Lagrene & George Mraz (its version of Astor Piazzolla's "Vuelvo Al Sur", for me, as a born Argentinian is just sheerly breath-taking!)
"Full Force" by Art Ensemble of Chicago (gorgeous decompositions!)

Well, I know, this is quite a list of Jazz CDs I'm in love with (at the moment), but gorgeous gals, good wine and excellent music can difficultly be packed away one-by-one. :-)

Those are the Jazz Cds I would take to a forelorn island, along with my wife (at least her!), my notebook, my smartphone , a bi-directional satellite i-net connection and a solar power station. :-)

[HutchFan]

I've played this one at least once per day for several weeks now:



Tony Malaby - Adobe w/ Drew Gress and Paul Motian

It's the first Malaby recording I heard. His sound immediately knocked me for a loop. I've only got one other CD that features Malaby's playing, Charlie Haden's new Liberation Music Orchestra disc Not In Our Name. (Also excellent, imho.)

Part of the fun of this sort of discovery is anticipating the fun that you're going to have exploring all of those other recordings that the artist has done.

So, any more Malaby recommendations? His CDs Sabino and Apparitions are now both on my short-list.

[NewJazz4Mike]

Originally Posted by HutchFan

I've played this one at least once per day for several weeks now:



Tony Malaby - Adobe w/ Drew Gress and Paul Motian

It's the first Malaby recording I heard. His sound immediately knocked me for a loop. I've only got one other CD that features Malaby's playing, Charlie Haden's new Liberation Music Orchestra disc Not In Our Name. (Also excellent, imho.)

Part of the fun of this sort of discovery is anticipating the fun that you're going to have exploring all of those other recordings that the artist has done.

So, any more Malaby recommendations? His CDs Sabino and Apparitions are now both on my short-list.

Those two are also great CDs. I'm also an admirer of Tony Malaby. He appears as a sideman on many releases. One I'd enthusiastically recommend is "Malinke's Dance", by Marty Ehrlich's Travellers Tales - a great CD.



He also plays on this fine Fred Hersch release:

[Lonson]

Originally Posted by El Barrio

I am in love with Andrew Hill's album Point of Departure. Every time I hear it, I melt.

Funny how people hear things differently and have different tastes. .. I love Hill. . . I don't enjoy this album.

[jazzofonik]

Not an entire CD, but everytime I play Kenny Garrett's Bali Delta Blues, from his Simply Said CD, my spirit lifts. I put it on again yesterday for the firsttime in about six weeks, and I just kept hitting replay. Needless to say, I started with it this morning too

[nickc]

I've fallen for many but heres my latest. Ok it's not strictly Jazz but Tango...

'The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night' by Astor Piazzolla.

I can't say it better than Piazzolla himself:

"this record needs the darkness of a nostalgic dream. It's music meant to be played by half-drunk musicians in a bordello"

This is hugely passionate, romantic, masterful, yet still rough at the edges. Best savoured late at night with a lady and a few bottles of wine i'd say ;-)

[Lunar Drift]

I'm currently addicted to this:



Matthew Halsall - Fletcher Moss Park (Gondwana Records)