these were both shared by ‘cosmikd’, years apart. i was going to upload the 1988 show and then listened to the 2007 show & just had to go for a “twofer”. of the two, i prefer the second (2007) simply because it has more elisabeth kontomanou and was mostly written by her. alain jean-marie & [Read more…]
there’s not too much piano jazz up here, but occasionally one really strikes my fancy, like this one, recorded just 6 months before sal mosca died at age 80. sal mosca bimhuis amsterdam, netherlands 12 jan 2007 sal mosca, piano 01 gone with the wind 02 just one of those things 03 i’ve got rhythm [Read more…]
the very beginning to this isn’t great (and the cut-in doesn’t help!), so i nearly just moved on to something else, but fortunately stuck with it. i might just spend the rest of today listening to other courtney pine recordings! looking for photos from that period turned up very little except for this rather nice [Read more…]
here’s some harmonica jazz. like (i suppose) many people, you say “harmonica” and i think of blue ‘harp’. silly me! but i do love the harmonica, be it blues or jazz… such a lovely warm sound. anyway, recently back from madrid where i saw andrea motis (who was fantastic, and sang more / played trumpet [Read more…]
i was out of town for 2 weeks and had a number of shows to listen to and maybe share up here. but no: it turned out that i couldn’t access the files. so, nothing this month until now! maybe we’ll have a little flurry of activity over the this week (hopefully! i’m out of [Read more…]
test message to see if the rss fix worked
following a recent question, i’ve found that the rss feed is not working. so if you’ve not been getting the feed from feedburner… that’s why. hopefully, i’ve just fixed that. if not, well, we’ll just see, won’t we?
i’ve been listening to a number of shows by leszek mozdzer, and this was my favorite of them. anna maria jopek has such a wonderful voice and piotr nazaruk’s various instruments add depth to the music (i couldn’t find a link for him, though). anna maria jopek & leszek mozdzer jazzahead! glocke bremen, germany 2018-04-20 [Read more…]
here’s a sampling of elliott sharp, solo, from various locations and dates over around 5 years. the style is similar throughout, which isn’t that surprising (but it could be), and the recording levels seemed quite similar (which is surprising). so they all work together very well, if you’re in the mood for around 2 hours [Read more…]
well summer’s over, and we’ve probably all missed the brecon jazz yet again, haven’t we? but here’s a nice set by ruby braff from around 23 years ago to make up for it. meanwhile, around here, i’m off to my first show at arthur’s since covid started. keen excitement all around, naturally. apparently they’ve (had [Read more…]