Jazz for aficionados

This is song is called Spanish Joint · by D’Angelo. Is it Jazz? Maybe not necessarily so - but as far as I’m concerned it is very much jazz - tinged and infused with some serious jazz chops. Also check out his Roberta Flack’s cover - Feel Like Makin’ Love.

Roy Hargrove is providing the nicely arranged horns and Charlie Hunter is on the hybrid bass/guitar playing both the bass lines and guitar licks all at the same time.

As you may or may not know Roy hargrove is no longer with us and sadly we have also lost the Young Lion, Mixing Engineer, Producer, Vocalist and Multi Instrumentalist - D’Angelo.

Check Charlie Hunter out ...Charlie Hunter plays his part on the D’Angelo classic “Spanish Joint” Now tell me that ain’t Jazz...

As some of you know I'm a huge fan of Bobo Stenson and Tord Gustavsen.  I just browsed through my Playlists today and rediscovered a couple gems:

Vijay Iyer Trio "Uneasy" quick and dynamic and explosive 

Jakob Bro "Gefion" spacious atmospheric jazz that prioritizes texture and space between notes that is very ethereal. Definitely late night listening.

I was also recommend this by AI today: ​Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin "Llyria" which is different from what I listen to but incredibly interesting. I like it but I need more time with it to understand it. 

@fire_water,

I'm a big ECM fan also. It's amazing that the level of recording/engineering is still and always was/is top notch. May I ask what medium are you listening with? Vinyl, CD, stream or all the above? Just because you may not get a response sometimes when you share, doesn't mean we're not listening. Keep posting.

@tyray I only stream as I got to this hobby late in life.  In my earlier days I had a  variety of vinyl, CDS and cassette recordings of the likes of KISS, Bonjovi,  Queen,  lol but i never had a quality setup.  But now I'm hooked. A lot of these great ECM jazz recordings that I thoroughly enjoy aren't available on vinyl so I'm determined to focus on the digital end. I've tried a few streamers and DACS but I currently have an Innuos Pulsar and Accuphase DC-37 Processor DAC which I'm replacing with Accuphase's flagship DC-1000 unles someone here has a better suggestion for me.  

@fire_water,

That’s interesting. This may make you laugh but my first experience with ECM, I was actually crate digging. It was Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group w/ Lyle Mays, Mark Egan, Dan Gottlieb ECM Records 1978. Produced by Manfred Eicher and the recording engineer was Jan Erik Kongshaug

This was a few years ago. I didn’t even know what I had at the time but I was really  into Pat Metheny and I realized I had stumbled onto some of his earliest works. It was in pristine condition, a completely flat vinyl album and I bought for believe it or not $2.00 US. To this day it’s one of the best original pressings I own. Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group (1978) ECM Records