Recommended music - other than classical and pop

Good timing, this blog just posted on the above two "forgotten" singers today.

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-girl-singers-that-time-forgot/

Listening now...

Playing me some Hank Jones: Complete Original Trio Recordings, and I Remember You. Great, eloquent, understated player. Loved his more recent recording with Roberta Gambarini, too.

Just a bit more rowdy here. Playing the Miles Davis official bootleg from the Fillmore in 1970.
It is weird hearing music which I know well in the edited version, sounding foreign suddenly.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/miles-at-the-fillmore-miles-davis-1970-the-bootleg-series-vol-3-mw0002619823


Just finished the Thelonious Monk set at the Blackhawk in 1960. A great live album. It always strikes me as surprising that there is so much audience chatter through much of the concert.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-blackhawk-mw0000194844

The Blackhawk is a very good set, but perhaps trumped for overall production quality in two other live Monk records - Live at the It Club and Monk in Tokyo. Blackhawk probably has the definitive Round Midnight, certainly the longest one.

The Blackhawk is a very good set, but perhaps trumped for overall production quality in two other live Monk records - Live at the It Club and Monk in Tokyo. Blackhawk probably has the definitive Round Midnight, certainly the longest one.
Thanks. I will look for those. I am one of those dinosaurs who still collect CDs. And I do like the live jazz albums.

Our taste has much in common; ECM in general, Annour Brahem, Oregon and Collin Wallcott ... I have many of those

My top 50 artists contains many which you have mentioned; Mingus, Parker, Coltrane, Jarrett, Haden, Monk, etc ... also Brubeck & Ellington whom don't recall you mentioning
http://www.last.fm/user/Barry4679/library/artists?date_preset=

I also like classical music and pop|rock .... so many days, so many moods ..

One of my "new" (to me) artists are Oliver Nelson. I have owned, and enjoyed The Blues and the Abstract Truth for a long time, but recently got Straight Ahead and also Screamin' The Blues, both of which are good. I intend to get some more of his.

The other thing that I have started appreciating lately is André Previn's jazz recordings. Nothing flashy, but good chamber music style jazz. I bought his 10 cd box set a while ago, which I am slowly working through. ... These box sets are killing me. So inexpensive, but only if your time comes free.

André Previn is an incredible musician. I can't think of any other musician who was successful in jazz, pop and classical. His early albums with Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne are well worth a listen.

André Previn is an incredible musician. I can't think of any other musician who was successful in jazz, pop and classical.
Gershwin maybe, or Nigel Kennedy, or Keith Jarrett or at a stretch?

I have seen Nigel Kennedy in all three contexts.

His early albums with Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne are well worth a listen.
Yes, that one is in the box too. On cd 9/10; I am only up to cd 5 so far. :)

When I first got my Sonos there was an initial splurge of resumed CD purchases, due to the liberation from hunting through cd shelves, and the nagging about not putting things away again. :D

I made a bit of a pig of myself in the first year, and got too many new albums to engage with properly. ... Since then I have disciplined myself to start listening to new albums at a more measured pace.

It is good to hear that things continue to be good right through to CD 9.

It is a good box. Has 17 complete original albums across the 10 cds. All in the original track sequence, and without alternate take fillers being merged throughout the album. No booklet though.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-Recordings-CD10-Andre-Previn/dp/B006ZVI06E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442721892&sr=8-1&keywords=previn+the+jazz+recordings

Shelly Manne is also very good. My Fair Lady is good, but I prefer his Black Hawk live albums for some very classy jazz. If I remember right, Monk was to perform with him there, but they did not gel well together, so Monk did his Blackhawk session with a different crew and that turned out very well. But Live at It club and Monk in Tokyo are better engineered live recordings.

The only other Andre Previn I have is After Hours. Trio with Ray Brown and Joe Pass and with that caliber of musicians it isn't a surprise how good that session was.

I haven't mentioned Ellington and Brubeck only because I did not think they would be news to anyone that likes Jazz!

Recent discoveries in the realm of great horn blowers that perhaps aren't known as widely as they deserve to be:
1. Scott Hamilton
2. Houston Person - his albums with Ron Carter in particular, are sublime.
3. Warren Vache
4. Early years Stanley Turrentine.

Very little mediocrity in any of their output.

Speaking of Previn, here's a seemingly odd pairing that actually produced a pretty decent jazz date. Both were such pros, they were able to complete the entire album in a day, mostly single takes. They had never played together previously.

My old OmniFi DMS-1 streamer, with the OpenFi firmware, seems so antiquated now compared to the Sonos! 😉 Got the job done, though.