Now Playing Some Jazz [2021-2022]

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Unfortunately jazz is littered with artists deserving wider recognition. And very near the top of that list, perhaps right alongside the great Horace Tapscott, is another fantastic piano player, although from the east coast, Jaki Byard. Just take a look at Byard’s discography that shows up on Roon, it’s amazing how many great recordings he was part of, from Mingus’ Black Saint and the Sinner Lady to Rahsann Roland Kirk to Booker Ervin to Eric Dolphy and many others. And the recording shown below is simply amazing, straight ahead jazz of the highest order. Available on Tidal and Qobuz
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You’re killing me with the great stuff. Here’s a volley back with similar horsepower.

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And I’m just getting started! :grin: :sunglasses:

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Here I go. Something a little different. Also different from his great album “The blues and the abstract truth”. Got this on vinyl.
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Very cool cover, I was looking at this yesterday but didn’t give it a digital spin yet.

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Listening to this beautiful album right now, my ears are pleased :smiley:

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Although guitarist Jack Wilkins falls within the artist deserving wider recognition category, his career arc as a backup musician for several popular music acts often kept him away from the jazz world for years at a time. I would place the release below, recorded in 1977 which was early in Wilkins’ career, in the “hidden gems” category. Killer version of the Tommy Flanagan tune “Freight Train” featuring a fairly young Michael Brecker wailing away. Available on Tidal
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Perfect for a cold night, here in Madrid. Switch the light off, turn up the volume as high as you can and close your eyes. Enjoy the music.
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Well it took me a while to get it all worked out but I did it!
Now Playing Some Jazz Qobuz Playlist

Here’s what I did: I made a public, collaborative playlist on Qobuz which features one track from each of the albums mentioned thus far on this thread. A few notes:

  1. If possible I used the title track
  2. If the exact album was not available on Qobuz then I picked a track which I felt would be a good alternative.
  3. As stated above the playlist is public and collaborative which means that others can listen to it and amend it so going forward, if you like you can add a track from the any album you post to this thread to the playlist, provided of course that the album is available on Qobuz. Otherwise add another alternative track from the artist.

So far 114 tracks featuring just over 16 hours of great jazz.

Special thanks to @killdozer for giving me the idea to make a Qobuz playlist for this wonderful thread. Enjoy and happy listening!

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Ralph, thank you. A playlist for the ages. I’m driving five hours tomorrow, looking forward to paradise!

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Yes, really cool idea! I have to drive 90 mins a day for work, this should really help :+1:
Safe travels, @Walter_Mason !
@Jazzfan_NJ , thanks for all of your hard work!

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Excelent idea! thanks a lot for that very good job.

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Let´s start the morning with energy! Sorry. See the info on Roon but nothing on qobuz.
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How the great David Murray has not been mentioned in this thread is beyond me so let me correct that oversight. This release, recorded in 1983 when Murray’s star was on the rise, is fairly typical for Murray’s recordings from this period of his career. Of course within a few years jazz would become all things Wynton Marsalis and Murray’s star would be somewhat dimmed but I’ve never lost my love of Murray’s playing. By the way the review is little too harsh since the album is much better and more enjoyable than the reviewer says it is. Available on Tidal and Qobuz.
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Some more interesting reading:

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Thanks, I added that David Murray album to my listening queue as I didn’t hear this one yet!

Let me also add this album by Murray that I know a little bit better but is also dynamite!

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All history of jazz are in there. Even Hendrix or Sonic Youth are mentioned. Curiosity I also have have some CDs still not opened. Even some of them Duplicates or triplicate. And as he says, I´ll open it when retirement; and, in the same way, my friends don´t understand either.

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New release of the week, available on Tidal and Qobuz:
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Great post, never enough DM. WSQ seems like a natural next step. I like this one, but they are all very wonderful.

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