What Jazz Did You Just Purchase? 2012/13

[xybert]

Johnston/Shelton/Mezzacappa/Nordeson - Cylinder



This has been on my wishlist since it came out in 2011 but i've never quite been able to pull the trigger on it. Originally Darren Johnston was the big draw for me but in the last few months i've really gotten into Aram Shelton's music and it's like, whoa, Darren Johnston and Aram Shelton as the frontline on a quartet date? Yes please.

[KBerube80]

Originally Posted by xybert

Johnston/Shelton/Mezzacappa/Nordeson - Cylinder



This has been on my wishlist since it came out in 2011 but i've never quite been able to pull the trigger on it. Originally Darren Johnston was the big draw for me but in the last few months i've really gotten into Aram Shelton's music and it's like, whoa, Darren Johnston and Aram Shelton as the frontline on a quartet date? Yes please.

A personal favorite from that year. I love that album.

[Buddha]

[Buddha]

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - That's How We Roll
Alex Acuna, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Per Mathisen - Barxeta
Antonio Sanchez - Migration
Benny Golson - Gone with Golson
Christophe Pays - Ellipse
Brian Patneaude - All Around Us

[Steven Reynolds]

Paul Motian ECM 1972 - 84 Box

CD 1
Conception Vessel (ex-ECM 1028)
Georgian Bay
Ch´i Energy
Rebica
Conception Vessel
American Indian: Song of Sitting Bull
Inspiration from a Vietnamese Lullaby

CD 2
Tribute (ex-ECM 1048)
Victoria
Tuesday Ends Saturday
War Orphans
Sod House
Song for Ché

CD 3
Dance (ex-ECM 1108)
Waltz Song
Dance
Kalypso
Asia
Prelude
Lullaby

CD 4
Le Voyage (ex-ECM 1138)
Folk Song for Rosie
Abacus
Cabala/Drum Music
The Sunflower
Le Voyage

CD 5
Psalm (ex-ECM 1222)
Psalm
White Magic
Boomerang
Fantasm
Mandeville
Second Hand
Etude
Yahllah

CD 6
It should´ve happened
a long time ago (ex-ECM 1283)
It should´ve happened a long time ago
Fiasco
Conception Vessel
Introduction
India
In the Year of the Dragon
Two Women from Padua

Recorded November 1972, May 1974, September 1977, March 1979, December 1981 & July 1984

[Justin V]

Steve Kuhn - Life's Magic



Steve Kuhn - The Vanguard Date

These are the original live albums from Kuhn's trio featuring Ron Carter and Al Foster, which reunited 20 years later and released the excellent Live at Birdland. Both have thankfully been reissued by Sunnyside.



The Rivington Project - Trip: This a cooperative effort by drummer George Coleman, Jr., guitarist Victor Magnani and bassist Martin Rizek, with special guest Don Braden on tenor saxophone.

[HutchFan]

Originally Posted by Justin V

Steve Kuhn - The Vanguard Date

These are the original live albums from Kuhn's trio featuring Ron Carter and Al Foster, which reunited 20 years later and released the excellent Live at Birdland. Both have thankfully been reissued by Sunnyside.

I gotta get that "companion record" to Life's Magic. Like you Justin, I was glad to see it had been reissued.

[xybert]

A few recent purchases:

Made To Break - Provoke
Gary Burton - Guided Tour
Gary Burton - Quartet In Concert
John Coltrane - Sun Ship: The Complete Session

[Steven Reynolds]

expecting any day in the mail:

Barry Altschul Trio with Joe Fonda and Jon Irabagon: 3Dom Factor
Jon Irabagon Trio with Peter Brendler and Barry Altschul

and Long Story Short which is:

CD box of the legendary LONG STORY SHORT festival in Wels, Austria 2011.

Peter Brötzmann curated three days of great music by wonderful musicians from all over the world! Not a retrospective but a representation of the contemporary musical spheres that Brötzmann and his comrades are investigating today.

This box documents in 18 performances Brötzmann‘s close ties to the Chicago scene, his inclination to work with Japanese artists, his cultivation of old and new friendships from New York, his faible for African musicians and collaborations with his European friends.

The extensive compilation emphasizes the vitality and variety of Brötzmann's current work and documents a historical moment of the Unlimited-Festival.

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Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Milford Graves Beyond Quantum

[Buddha]

simply lovely trio recording

[Justin V]

I stumbled upon these when I sold some books to a local store.



George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band '87 - Happening Now!, with Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Anderson, Howard Johnson, Mike Richmond, Bob Moses and Sheila Jordan, among others. Despite the amazing lineup, I was totally unaware of this album, which is out of print. Although it can only be considered a wasted opportunity that Konitz does not get any solo space, it is hard to fault an album that features all of these musicians.



John Hicks/Cecil McBee/Elvin Jones - Power Trio: I've wanted to hear this album for a while, but it is selling for astronomical prices online. I was delighted to find it for $4.99 locally. The recording quality could be better, but the strength of the music pushes that issue aside. Hicks and McBee are two of the most underrated musicians on their respective instruments, and I love Elvin Jones in a piano trio.

[JETman]

Originally Posted by Justin V

I stumbled upon these when I sold some books to a local store.



John Hicks/Cecil McBee/Elvin Jones - Power Trio: I've wanted to hear this album for a while, but it is selling for astronomical prices online. I was delighted to find it for $4.99 locally. The recording quality could be better, but the strength of the music pushes that issue aside. Hicks and McBee are two of the most underrated musicians on their respective instruments, and I love Elvin Jones in a piano trio.

Wow, you lucked out here. I've been looking for this for ages. Lowest I've ever seen it being sold for was $25 for a USED copy! While I've been known to plunk down that much for new cd's, I refuse to pay that for a used one.

[Justin V]

Steve Kuhn - Life's Backward Glances



Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard Abrams - Duets and Solos



Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones - Together!