I don’t often listen to Jazz but I am playing an old CD The Best of Herbie Hancock, and it does appeal to me. Right now I am listening to the Dolphin Dance, its quite rhythmic and subtle at the same time.
You are now scarily close to the edge of Jazz quicksand!
Which of course you know it is and prompted Branford Marsalis to name his fusion group Buckshot Le Fonque which I was listening too recently and posted on the WYLT thread
Thank you “Roon correlation algorythm” for suggesting Joe Alterman too me. Fantastic piano play woth smooth jazz
Iver
Thanks for that idea…
I’m going to give that a listen 
Actually…
Really enjoying this…
This type of jazz reminds me of so many jazz bars I’ve sat in. Great vibe between the musicians and everyone just having fun.
Much more tuneful that some of the “modern jazz” I’ve been listening to recently.
Thanks again.
A Zephyr release that is new to me.
Two masters.
Dave Green and Alan Ganley in support.
After watching Megan Markle in Suits,a snifter of Aberlour 12 and this gentle music I just drifted……… to a world beyond BlueNote.
On Qobuz.
N
More from the back woods. A strange Riverside release.
A unusual mixture of players and styles.
Buck,as ever,wonderful.
Some nice solos from Dickie Wells’ very own sound world.
Charlie Byrd doin’ a Freddie Greene.
The modernish arrangements seem to fit.
For me,a nice find on Qobuz.
N
This has been languishing in my record collection for a few years. Playing it for first time and it’s criminal on my part that it’s taken this long.
Today’s second hand purchase for a fiver !
Nearly 60 years of groove dust sorted out with a record cleaning machine. What emerges is pretty well near mint vinyl.
The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern Review
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern functions as something of an answer to its predecessor, Cheek to Cheek. That 2014 duet album with Lady Gaga was suitably brassy and snazzy, relying on well-loved standards and pizzazz – the kind of thing designed to stoke nostalgia vibes – but The Silver Lining is a purer jazz record, an intimate songbook collaboration with pianist Bill Charlap; the difference can be heard simply in comparing the versions of “I Won’t Dance” that pop up on the two albums – the Gaga swings boldly, the Charlap rendition carries a wry resignation. Songbooks have been a standard item for Bennett throughout the years but if The Silver Lining recalls any specific album in the vocalist’s discography, it’s The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, a record released in 1975 when Bennett dropped off the major-label radar and his name was perhaps as well-known to record buyers as that of Evans. While there may be a slight wattage differential between Bennett and Charlap, the difference is due to scale: Bennett is a household name; Charlap is a star among modern mainstream jazz fans. Accordingly, Bennett treats the pianist as an equal, giving him plenty of room to spin out long, liquid solos, passages that seem to glide out imperceptibly from his understated support. Often, The Silver Lining features little more than just the singer and the pianist – when they’re augmented by other musicians, it’s just bass and drums, offering a bit of rhythm and color – and this sparseness never seems austere due to the inherent warmth of the musicians’ easy interplay, not to mention their individual voices. Both aspects are subtly showcased on The Silver Lining, and it’s that delicate dance, where Bennett and Charlap enjoy playing together and apart, that makes this so charming.
Released September 25, 2015
Enjoy
Dave
With pianist Dave McKenna.
OnQobuz.
N
