What Are You Listening To?

[Fretup]

I'm listening to a BB King number ' Stormy Monday '.

[Beach]

Count Basie & His Orchestra - April in Paris



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Count Basie - King of Swing


Bit of a major Jazz-purchasing push going on Chez Tiggi...

These two are part of a 2-disc set which contains four original Basie albums delivered from Amazon for a total of £2.98 (That's very cheap, work it out...).

I've ordered eight sets from this series, plus box sets from Miles, & Bird (Watch this space).

Anyway, these two are fine big-band swing records.

Excellent Tigger! Sounds very cheap indeed.
I need a new turntable to play them on because my old one has had the Sword but, I have Basie and Ellington hanging out of my posterior. Not a great deal of Miles or Bird sadly. Although I do have a fair bit of Bird on CD. :happy:
I also have a considerable collection of Ellington and Dexter Gordon on my Hard Drives.

[Tiggi]

If you have Basies & Ellingtons hanging out of you, you should be concerned, mate...

Disc 2 of the above:

Count Basie & His Orchestra - The Atomic Mr Basie



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Count Basie & His Orchestra - The Greatest !! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards



More top Swing albums.

The Joe Williams set is excellent...

[Beach]

If you have Basies & Ellingtons hanging out of you, you should be concerned, mate...

Disc 2 of the above:

Count Basie & His Orchestra - The Atomic Mr Basie



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Count Basie & His Orchestra - The Greatest !! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards



More top Swing albums.

The Joe Williams set is excellent...

Joe is by far one of my favourite vocalists Tigger.
Shirley and I saw him 'live' in Sydney at the Town Hall on Saturday - March 28, 1992 at the JAZZ MASTERS Concert singing with his surrogate daughter, Delilah who is an old and dear friend of ours and with whom I have sung many times.
Just another of the great memories of my life with my late darling girl! :nod:

[Beach]

Putting this here because it has elements of Blues, Rock, Funk and 'real' Rhythm and Blues in it.
Robert Palmer: Some People Can Do What They Like (Island Records - 1976)

[trbc08]

James Brown's "Live at the Apollo."

[Beach]

James Brown's "Live at the Apollo."

Great album and depending on which version has a great version of Kansas City on there! :biggrin:

[trbc08]

It is a great album. I had never really given Brown's music a chance before.

"Are You Glad to Be in America?" by James "Blood" Ulmer.

[Tiggi]

...and onto Hamster-Face:

Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport


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Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy & Strings


At Newport is a good live album, but the second one is not so strong. Still enjoyable.

Bebop, Swing, Blues, & Latin are all here...

[Tiggi]

...and onto Disc 2:

Dizzy Gillespie - Gene norman Presents Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra


This ^ isn't quite the right sleeve art, but it's very close...

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Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman