Rolling Jazz Thread 2019

haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so posting here as it may be of interest: earlier this year austrian label black-monk reissued franz koglmann's "flaps" and "opium for franz" on both vinyl and CD.

i've found it incredibly difficult to track down even an mp3 rip of "opium for franz" (to say nothing to say of an original LP), so this is most welcome !

looks like some of the european distributors still have copies, but americans might have better luck sending an email directly to the label.

http://www.blackmonk.at/blog

Opium/For Franz was reissued on CD in ‘99 or 2000, but it was a needledrop. Curious if this new reissue (the vinyl, particularly) is mastered from a different source.

anyone like Marilyn Mazur's Shamania? I love it!

This is great New Year's Day morning music.

Time for new thread?

Indeed.

Rolling Jazz Thread 2020

Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel is really hitting me, kind of adventurous in a low key MOR way, a lot of electronics and synth textures, jazz-meets-Brian-Wilson vocal arrangements

I was going to say that I've been checking this out yesterday and today and loving it, then saw that I apparently actually posted that I liked it literally a year ago.

I like Jon Batiste a lot more than I used to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyds04mi_Z0

He put out a couple of short live albums recently that I liked, one more than the other.

he's always a good time live.