Now Playing Some Jazz [2025]

Jimmy Rowles Plays Duke Ellington is hailed as one of the best jazz piano solo albums ever by Ethan Iverson, but good luck sourcing this one.

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You’re such a tease :rofl:

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging

Available on Tidal and Qobuz

“All tracks composed by Keith Jarrett” so that would make it a Jarrett tribute album.

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CD-4 Recording

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I’m looking forward to getting this on vinyl shortly!

I recently was able to obtain some vinyl that has been hard for me to obtain. I really like the new mastersounds. They are a British four piece jazz fusion/blues/funk band from leeds. They have been around for a couple of decades but i haven’t seen any vinyl that was new. I was able to get 5 discs from the fellow who produced them, all bnib. I started with shake it. I usually do classical on sundays but the weather is too good today.

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Dick Hyman Plays Duke Ellington (Reference Recordings) is streamable on Qobuz USA.

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Greetings, fellow jazz hounds!

As many of you may know, April is Jazz Appreciation Month in the rest of the world. In this thread, and in our minds, jazz appreciation is a daily event. To celebrate the music we love, we’ve posted a series of jazz-themed lists in the Playlists by Roon section of the Roon home page.

Among them, you’ll find a new list titled Jazz Community featuring a sample of the jazz sounds you’ve shared here and other various music threads — with a few added favorites of my own sprinkled in.

Like its classical sibling, Jazz Community will be regularly updated with new selections. I’d like to thank the inaugural contributors for their recommendations. They are, in order of appearance in the playlist: @Paul_Jeno, @Michael_Egan, @Louis_Casadonte, @Matz, @Basstech, @Jazzfan_NJ, @Torben_Rick, @Njal_H, @CoralRad, @Bauer, @LennyBoy, @David_Gibson, @Frederick_Davidson, @SandboxGeneral, @Arlen, @7NoteScale, and @Glimmer.

Thank you all for making this new community list a possibility — and for shining a light on one of music’s most inspiring forms to both new and seasoned listeners in Roon.

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I am working on “Top 100 Jazz” tracks:

But work is stille in progress :slight_smile:

Torben

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Don’t you mean:
Miles Davis - Top 100 Tracks
Duke Ellington - Top 100 Tracks
Charlie Parker - Top 100 Tracks
Thelonious Monk - Top 100 Tracks
Charles Mingus - Top 100 Tracks
etc.

You get the general idea. :smile:

No I don’t

Torben

Thanks!!

There are a couple of classic live tracks to add to the suggestion box:

“Castillian Drums” from:

and

“Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” from:

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What I was trying to say is why limit the playlist to 100 tracks? There is plenty of great jazz out there, more than enough to make many, many “Top 100” playlists.

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Gary Bartz - I’ve Known Rivers
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Odwalla
Miles Davis - Zimbabwe (Parts 1 & 2)
Charles Mingus - Folk Forms I
Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana
Thelonious Monk - Well, You Needn’t
Sun Ra - Space Is The Place
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
The Lounge Lizards - Big Heart
Dave Holland Quintet - The Balance

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We could have a “Jazz Is Alive” playlist – all live performances, across the years, right up to the modern day. Arooj Aftab – already included – has a live record from London.

My recommended track – hope it is on a streaming service:

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Live recorded vocal jazz concert from San Francisco Jazz Fest “Hipsters at Herbst” 11-10-2002
Set 1 is Kurt Elling (w/ Laurence Hobgood; Robert Amster; Frank Parker Jr)
Set 2 is Mark Murphy (w/ Larry Dunlap; David Rokeach; Steward McCain)

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Yes-yes, apologies for the year being 1959, but it’s still pretty groovy. Henry Mancini - The Music from Peter Gunn. :blush:

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Roon says this isn’t in the “Jazz” genre . . . :woman_shrugging: Anyway, quite an enjoyable listen, and I’m happy to pick this one up! Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls.

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News by HIROMI: Out There

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