OT: What Are You Listening to Now?

[yosemiteben]

How you feel about more jazzy / fusion stuff like Return to Forever or Mahavishnu Orchestra?

I'm a huge huge huge fusion jazz fan from the 70s. I've been into Chick Corea return to forever stuff since The 90s when I was in college. I hung out with a bunch of jazz nerds that turned me on to a bunch of stuff like this. One of the very first cds I ever bought was returned to forever romantic warrior. Romantic warrior still has my favorite piano solo of all time. The last five minutes of that song is **** nuts. Herbie Hancock head hunter... There's never been an album that only had 4 songs that was that amazing. I actually had the pleasure of seeing Herbie Hancock and the headhunters play live at a reunion show in Charlotte in the 70s. There was like 100 people there. It was pretty amazing. I saw John Mclaughlin the guitarist from Mahavishnu Orchestra live in Asheville in the 90s with his jazz trio. Pretty insane. Dennis Chambers was the drummer and he's crazy talented.

Love all of this, very jealous that you go to see the Headhunders and Mclaughlin

Totally different thing, but I got to see Jimmy Herring's band play at Neighborhood Theater and they seriously scratched that jazz fusion itch for me.

[fatlever]

Definitely saw Jimmy herring a bunch of times in the 90s. Do you remember Colonel Bruce Hampton and the aquarium rescue unit? jimmy was guitarist. really awesome live. obviously you know the bass player oteil. Saw them a handful of times when they were first getting started. They played at the 1313 club on South Blvd, like a weekday night early 90s there was hardly any one there. Saw them again at Horde fest at Carowinds I think in 1992. That lineup was pretty cool. also had bela fleck like in the Flecktones... Saw them a bunch of times. got My shirt autographed by the whole band. Victor Wooten that's a whole separate conversation about bass players. Also Jimmy Herring and Aquarium Rescue Unit played in Boone and I had a friend who was working the concert who got me an autographed poster by the whole band. And then saw Jimmy Herring at Ziggy's and Winston Salem when he was doing the Jazz's dead band where they did jazz covers of all the Grateful Dead stuff. It's crazy that I went to all these concerts in the 90s and can't be bothered to walk across the street to see Wilco/string cheese in May. lol

I really need to find that spreadsheet that had all the concerts I went to in the 90s

[Snidely FC]

My album of the week is the eclectic combo of Chick Corea + Bela Fleck:

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[yosemiteben]

Fantastic album, actually won a grammy this year for best jazz instrumental album

Acceptance speech from Bela and Chick's daughter:

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[countryboi]

I forgot this thread existed but I been listening to a lot of Stevland Wonder and the new Westside Gunn "12"

I guess I'm in my R&B era

[yosemiteben]

Album of the Week (click album cover for Spotify link)

Artist: Bahamas
Album: Sad Hunk

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[fatlever]

I definitely dig this sad hunk this has kind of been my vibe the past few years. Been curating a monster playlist of what I call "chill melodic funk" Lots of good talented bands with this similar style the past five years. I'm surprised I hadn't run across this before. Definitely adding to my mix.

[Snidely FC]

This week I've been listening to Chucho Valdez, Cuba and Beyond

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[yosemiteben]

Love me some Chucho Valdez but haven't heard that one, definitely will listen

[fatlever]

haha chuco!!!

In the mid 90s to early 2000s I was really into this New York band called groove collective Kind of a mix of Latin jazz funk and hip hop. That's around the time that acid jazz was becoming a thing. And they were my favorites in that genre. Saw them at the visulite Theater sometime around early 2000s.

Anyway they had this song called Stargazer featuring Chucho Valdez first time I heard the piano solo on this I was like who the **** is playing piano on this. I didn't know who he was. Some googling to find out he was a Cuban Jazz legend.

Anyway this is the song and it has one of my favorite piano solos of all time. The piano solo 1:45 - 4:30.

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[fatlever]

This week I've been listening to Chucho Valdez, Cuba and Beyond

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The bass is so thick in this mix. I love it.

[GiggitySmalls]

Joyner Lucas

Adhd
Revenge
Ramen & OJ

Those 3 songs our fitting my vibe at the moment.

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[yosemiteben]

This week I've been listening to Chucho Valdez, Cuba and Beyond

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This album is fantastic, thanks so much for putting this on my radar.

[yosemiteben]

Album of the Week:

Artist: Taylor Eigsti
Album: Plot Armor

The beauty of Taylor Eigsti’s compositions draws from both classical culture and his love of jazz, with compositions featuring complex architecture and arrangements imbued with a cinematic lightness. From the first track, our ears are swept into a perfectly orchestrated and carefully arranged whirlwind. Taylor Eigsti states, “I wanted to build the whole album around two concepts: one was using the groups I frequently play with – Oscar and DJ and Charles and Maya,” Eigsti says. “And I also wanted more than one representative of each instrument on this album. It’s been such a joy playing with Harish, Kendrick, and Julian over the years, and I’m so glad they could join us on this project.”

And thus, we navigate through this album of discoveries and surprises, with the pleasure of listening never ceasing. Taylor Eigsti’s well-established style commands admiration, equally adept in melodic writing as in complex rhythms, utilizing each invited instrumentalist to craft a sonic backdrop in which he can gracefully evolve.

https://www.paris-move.com/reviews/taylor-eigsti-plot-armor-eng-review/

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[Snidely FC]

This week I've been listening to Julian Lage's latest, Speak To Me. He plays a variety of styles on the album

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[yosemiteben]

Dig some Julian Lage. I became aware of him when he sat in with Goose last year. Video below, very much worth the watch:

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[yosemiteben]

Album of the Week:

Artist: Khruangbin
Album: Con Todo El Mundo

Khruangbin craft atmosphere music that never fades into the background, like some endless curl of smoke that keeps pluming upward. Sprinkled with snippets of spoken word, faint vocal melodies, and ranging and impeccably performed guitar solos, the whole of their second record, Con Todo El Mundo is, in effect, a long and pleasant head nod that seems to hang between continents and eras. The group—whose name is a transliteration of the Thai word for “airplane”—elicits the same eclectic enjoyment of any number of artists that came of age around the turn of the century, from the laid-back trip-hop feel of Kruder & Dorfmeister to dub-jammy Thievery Corporation: Ethereal instrumental music that might be described as “world” as shorthand for its range of melody, rhythm, and overall vibe. But the Houston-based instrumental trio makes music that’s a little more dusty, frayed around the edges, and personal.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/khruangbin-con-todo-el-mundo/

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[fatlever]

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i could live in this groove forever
killer cover of an underrated 70s gem

the og version

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[Snidely FC]

This week I've been listening to Charles Lloyd's, I Long To See You.
Charles Lloyd tenor sax, Bill Frisell guitar, Greg Leisz pedal steel, Willie Nelson & Norah Jones guest vocals.

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[fatlever]

Bill frisel

That's another random Jazz guy I saw in the '90s at an intimate setting. My jazz nerd friends dragged me to see him at Dilworth Brewing in the mid-90s. I don't know how many of you remembered Dilworth Brewing that was on East Boulevard. They didn't typically have a lot of musicians like this come through so we were there with maybe 50 other people. And it was just bill no backing band. That was like the one and only Brewery in Charlotte in the 90s.

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