What are you listening to?

[Kenny]

Today at the office with the 'phones on:

Rob Burke - Wide Eyed
South Side Six - Self-titled
Jann Rutherford - The Scented Garden
Eugene Ball, Steve Magnusson, Sergio Beresovsky - Healing Songs
King Oliver - Oh Play That Thing! (Cheapo Naxos reissue of about half the man's 1923 classics)
Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Martial Solal - NY-1
Bobo Stenson Trio - Serenity
Al Green - I Can't Stop
Allman Brothers - Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival

[Old Jazz Cunt]

Yeah that south side 6 is great. reminds me of jazz

[Kenny]

Ahhh - Sunday 11.30am, unhungover, wife and child absent, trawling the boards, reading the papers and Illinois Jacquet turned up to a SpinalTapesque 11.

[Gb]

I'm listening to....

Phil Slater - Strobe Coma Virgo : What an awesome album! Mystical.

Vada - Songs from the Dirty South : Great melodies & plenty of energy. Interesting recorded sound.

Joshua Redman - Elastic : This album makes me smile - I'm a big fan of Sam Yahel.

Michelle Nicolle - The Crying Game : Nice work - love the brass band!

Joe Henderson - Tetragon : What can I say - it's absolute bliss.

Roy Hargrove - RH Factor, Hard Groove. Hmmmm interesting - inconsistent though.

I've got a couple of brand new copies of Roy Hargroves 'RH Factor : Hard Groove' cd for sale. They're $18 ea if you're interested. Send me an email.

[vhb]

CDs out of their cases:

Michelle Nicolle: The Crying Game
Howowitz at Carnegie Hall
Mel Torme: Ellington Basie songbook
Marcus Roberts: As Serenity Approaches
Alison Wedding
IshIsh: What should be
Luther Vandross (yep and unashamedly)
Mags, Wilson and Guthrie latest whatever its called
Jessica Williams: Alone
Keith Jarret: Vienna Concert

[Iron Guts]

Hello OJFers,
This new system is giving me techno fear. I want my little Cartman back. Maybe if he see's Kenny is alive again hell come back.

Im not listening to anything right now, but Im looking forward to a lot of listening soon. RH factor will not be on the list ( sad shit).
Good to see some beaut Ausy stuff on yer lists. Slater/Ish Ish et al all well worth it, C'mon Ausy Cmon, Cmon.....

[Kenny]

WTF?

According to someone I spoke to at Bennetts Lane the other night, there's a school of thought that I AM cartman!

[Gb]

Hey Iron,

Interested as to why you consider Roy Hargrove's CD "sad shit"? It's definitely not THE shit or GOOD shit, but I don't know about SAD shit. It actually made me feel quite happy.

Can you just talk it up a little bit? - that way I might sell my spare copies...

In case you're wondering, I am setting up a little j**z CD shop within a shop. My dad is opening up a bookstore in Healesville in a few weeks and I am going to have a j**z CD stand. Priced b/w $15 & $20. I'd love to stock and feature OZ artists, so if you want to have your cd's on the stand, chuck me an email and we'll arrange it.

[Altered7th]

Cued to play for the next little while: 'Round Midnight

Versions by:

Chet Baker (White Blues)

Dollar Brand (Round Midnight At The Montmarte)

Stanley Cowell (Marian McPartland's Piano Jizz)

Miles Davis (Miles Ahead)

Dizzie Gillespie Big Band (Bird's Eyes)

Bill Evans (Verve Compact Bill Evans)

Maynard Ferguson (The Essence Of...)

Dexter Gordon (Homecoming - Live At The Village Vanguard)

Herbie Hancock (A Jizz Collection)

Woody Herman (The Concord Years)

Hank Jones (Bop Redux)

Carmen McRae (Carmen Sings Monk)

Modern Jizz Quartet (Verve Compact Jizz)

Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk 1947 - 1953)

Charlie Parker (3 versions - The Bird; Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection; Yardbird Suite)

Art Pepper (Art Pepper + Eleven)

Danilo Perez (PanaMonk)

Bud Powell (The Complete Bud Powell On Verve)

Linda Rondstadt (For Sentimental Reasons)

Sun Ra (Greatest Hits)

Jeff Usher (Plays Monk)

[Kenny]

Charlie Parker - Bird on the Side
Charlie Mariano - Deep in a Dream
Bernie McGann - McGann
Grateful Dead - Skull & Roses
Lennie Tristano - Intuition (cheapo 4cd box - and my introduction to this enigma. Thanks, Mum!)

[Kenny]

Another Saturday of hard sweat at the coal face of journalism.

"Must stay cool, must stay cool, must stay cool, must stay cool."

Lennie Tristano - Intuition
Jack Montrose Sextet
Jack Sheldon - The Quartet & The Quintet
Chet Baker - The Pacific J**z Years
Stan Getz - The West Coast Sessions

[vicki]

Crikey Kenny - so were you Cartman? And if not please do tell who accused you?

I heard many rumours over the years, was it years the brat was with us, maybe it justseemed that way. As to the true identity, others accused include: Danny Fischer who said it wasn't him, various members of Blowfish, Michael Tortoni, Jane March, all of the Necks in a democratic-stylee-trio-posting-session thing, Chindamo, Grabbers, Tinkler, Jules W, Nick McBride, Jon Zwarz, Will Guthrie, Mark Isaacs, Morrison, Dave Beck, Christine Sullivan's chair, Martin Jackson's hair, Peter Knight, Henk, Wally, and Fionna Burnett. So you see you have some interesting company combos.

But I agree with the Guts cometimes I miss the festively plump brat and when ever I see him on TV I shed a silent tear. Maybe his ghost will come back.

He was really detested in some jazz circles so that tells us a lot lurkers more read than post.

[Kenny]

Guest-vicki said:

Crikey Kenny - so were you Cartman? And if not please do tell who accused you?

I heard many rumours over the years, was it years the brat was with us, maybe it justseemed that way. As to the true identity, others accused include: Danny Fischer who said it wasn't him, various members of Blowfish, Michael Tortoni, Jane March, all of the Necks in a democratic-stylee-trio-posting-session thing, Chindamo, Grabbers, Tinkler, Jules W, Nick McBride, Jon Zwarz, Will Guthrie, Mark Isaacs, Morrison, Dave Beck, Christine Sullivan's chair, Martin Jackson's hair, Peter Knight, Henk, Wally, and Fionna Burnett.

Nope, not me. And I wasn't accused - it was more a passing comment by someone who had heard my name mentioned in this regard. Someone the name of whom is just above. ;D

[Kenny]

Starting of 2004 with a bang (and wife and child staying elsewhere for the night. Volume at 11):

*Anton Delecca Quartet - Flow (Newmarket).
(Holy shit. I think for a lot of people, me included, this one slipped by when it was released. Now I'm playing it a lot. Great, great tunes, and playing that makes me catch my breath.)

*Trio Alchemy - Reflection (Webster's Jazz Classics).
*Tim McMahon Ensemble - Illuminations ((Heavywood).
(A couple of newish opeii (?) from the San Diego area, sent to me by a buddy. Nice.)

*Thelonious Monk - Underground and Criss-Cross (Columbia)

*Bing Crosby - His Legendary Years 1931-1957 (MCA)
(Goes with the Gary Giddins' bio I got for Chrissie. A mind-blowing read. What a man! As the back of the books quotes Artie Shaw: "The thing you have to remember about Bing Crosby is that he was the first hip white person born in the United States.")

[Kenny]

HarDi & Co - Fourthcoming. Being launched at Bennetts Lane on Tuesday. Tasty.

Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone. Freaking brilliant western swing/hillbilly boogie.

Mike Wofford - Synergy. Tough/smart/ piano trio from San Diego.

Kylie Minogue - Sings Ella. NOT!