Including a picture of the album is fine as part of the post, but of little value on its own with nothing else.
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Listed this morning by jghughes and seconded by lonson, so it must be good, and it is. A December 6, 2024BN Classics release of motion I OUT OF/INTO. Just getting into this on Qobuz, but Joel Ross’ vibes and Immanuel Wilkins’ alto on the first cut is exceptional.
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Mal Waldron Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert, a fine sounding album. Solo piano, Mal takes a simple phrase building on it until wrestling all possibilities from it and then moving on. Never in a hurry, nor rambunctious, more self reflective and introverted.
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TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS - PHILLIP ARNEILL
My wife picked up a copy at Dusty Groove for my birthday while we were celebrating in Chicago. I continue too be fascinated by the Jazz Kissa, coffee shop concept. Typical 50’s and 60’s jazz LPs spun on a low power SET tube system driving high efficiency speakers. At one time a few Madison friends and I considered opening a Jazz Kissa that would double as an intimate performance space. Along came 2020 and all notions of a Kissa evaporated. We intended a modified version featuring premium espressos, whiskey, and and outdoor cigar lounge. Possibly as a private club regarding the latter. COVID killed it as we barely survived our BlueStem experiment. We still enjoy discussing the concept, but reality kicked in and we decided against introducing one in Madison.
Chicago’s Blue Room serves as the City’s take on the concept:
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@lonson posted this the other day, and I’m really digging it. The Delmark website says Javier Red is a descendant of Lennie Tristano…I’m not all that familiar with Tristano, but this is definitely sophisticated, cool jazz. In some places I’m reminded of Nik Bartsch. Very nice record.
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One of jazz websites had a recent series of reports from Jazz Kissa establishments all over Japan (the author also visited as many records stores as he could). Sounds fun. Apparently some places allow conversation, others enforce a rule of silence……
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It’s the recommendation of an album to consider. It’s not the album cover.
Or it could be a suggestion to avoid this album, or my brother likes it, or the sound is great, but the performance dreadful, or I like the graphics, or I previously enjoyed this album, but no longer, or I post album covers because it annoys another member . . .
We have had all of these and more, none of which are expressed by posting the cover alone.
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It’s not you. It’s me.
All this time I thought folks were recommending albums that they like–for whatever reason. Silly me.
This is the largest group of naked album covers certainly.
But without explication we often do not even know what kind of jazz merely by seeing the cover.
As previously noted, including a picture of the album is fine as part of the post, but of little value on its own with nothing else.
Fortunately we have a number of members who provide more than a picture and include everything from thoughtful reviews to historical context to musical influences - great stuff.
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The why brings more to the equation. I for one believe the forum members are up to the task to provide a brief basis for the recommendation(s). A string of repeated covers says something to me other than a recommendation. There exists a thread dedicated to album covers, which certainly is fine. Having two or more seems redundant. For example I find it interesting as to how one determines heir first spin of the day. Is it a blind pull, a conscious decision, or one emerging from a morning fog selecting music to clear the haze. Providing a context can make it more interesting and possibly fun for all.
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Well said.
