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In a word Excellent!

Analogue Productions 45RPM Hoffman Remastered

MGT - after reading the EnjoyJazz festival program. Yummie !

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Michael Brecker
with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette
and James Taylor singing on two tracks only.

"Brecker describes the mood, accurately, as "kind of a slow, relaxed burn" and it's truly an honour to hear such fine musicians and such fine music"
SUPERB!

How's it ?

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Originally posted by fama:
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Michael Brecker
with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette
and James Taylor singing on two tracks only.

"Brecker describes the mood, accurately, as "kind of a slow, relaxed burn" and it's truly an honour to hear such fine musicians and such fine music"
SUPERB!

One of my favourite jazz albums and what a line up of musicians. It has a wonderful mellow atmosphere and so relaxing.

I like that !

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

A good album. More of a return to the his older style - less European influence in it

Here is a review from one of this weekends Sunday papers.

"Albums as perfect as this appear rarely. Tunisian oud maestro Brahem has been one of ECM's most-revered artists for years, pioneering a superior kind of east-west fusion (although that makes it sound less interesting than it is).

But this quartet recording beats anything I've heard from him yet. Dedicated to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the album's eight originals trace a continuous arabesque, wind and strings intertwining against a trance-like rhythmic pulse, which at times gets heavy enough to recall Massive Attack's remix of Nusrat."

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Originally posted by sjust:
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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by sjust:
after reading the EnjoyJazz festival program. Yummie !

So what are you going to see then? You are spoilt for choice of fine concerts there.

Thanks Adrian, so I did right peeking at the tickets for his concert (and ordering the record)

cheers
Stefan

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Originally posted by Lontano:
A good album. More of a return to the his older style - less European influence in it

Here is a review from one of this weekends Sunday papers.

"Albums as perfect as this appear rarely. Tunisian oud maestro Brahem has been one of ECM's most-revered artists for years, pioneering a superior kind of east-west fusion (although that makes it sound less interesting than it is).

But this quartet recording beats anything I've heard from him yet. Dedicated to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the album's eight originals trace a continuous arabesque, wind and strings intertwining against a trance-like rhythmic pulse, which at times gets heavy enough to recall Massive Attack's remix of Nusrat."

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Originally posted by sjust:
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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Blueknowz:
In a word Excellent!

I'll second that! Remember that these songs were first recorded back in 1992-93 and were supposed to be the follow up to "Jordan", so not strictly 'new' material. If you think back to Prefab Sprout in those days you won't get any surprises here - which is fine by me.

Mark

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Originally posted by Blueknowz:
In a word Excellent!

I'll second that! Remember that these songs were first recorded back in 1992-93 and were supposed to be the follow up to "Jordan", so not strictly 'new' material. If you think back to Prefab Sprout in those days you won't get any surprises here - which is fine by me.

Mark

Thanks to both of you. Well, a new PS album is a surprise!

On the list.

On 160g

Some Blues On CD

Difficult to follow Michael Brecker eventually settled on this, I especially like the tracks with Garbarek and also Charles Lloyd

On Silver

1. Steve Lillywhite, Ultravox! - Young Savage (Single Version)
2. Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle - Carty And Elvis In Erics - Dialogue Clip
3. The Rascals - All The Jazz (Exclusive Recording)
4. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
5. Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, David Hughes - Sunrise - Dialogue Clip & Score
6. David Alan Hughes - Liverpool 1979 - Score
7. Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
8. Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, David Hughes - When We Go To Berlin - Dialogue & Sore
9. Ultravox!, Conny Plank, Dave Hutchings - Slow Motion
10. David Alan Hughes - Wool Stomp - Score
11. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night (RS Organ Home Demo With Vox 2/78)
12. Joy Division, Martin Hannett - Insight
13. Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle - Come See The Stars - Dialogue Clip
14. David Alan Hughes - Elvis's Dub - Score
15. Liam Boyle, David Hughes - Carty Deflated - Dialogue & Score
16. David Alan Hughes - Carty 's Revenge - Score
17. Echo & The Bunnymen - Going Up
18. Nicky Bell, David Hughes - Carty's Last Awayday - Diallogue & Score
19. Conny Plank, Dave Hutchings, Ultravox! - Just For A Moment
20. The Mekons - Where Were You
21. The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler - When You're Young
22. Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Nick Lowe, Roger Bechirian, Steve Nieve, Bruce Thomas, Pete Thomas, Dan Hersch - Night Rally
23. Christopher Merrick Hughes, Dalek I, David Bates - The World
24. The Chameleons, The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas
25. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Paul Collister - Electricity
26. Human League - Being Boiled
27. Wire - I Am The Fly
28. Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods

The three H's: Haendel, Haydn, and of course, Hewitt. Simply put - if you love and appreciate great music do not hesitate to get this. It is wonderful music to have playing in a house setting and it is also the kind of music I like to play on the piano on those rainy or snowy days.

I have for some time wondered about the recorded sound of Hyperion piano cd's. This one, recorded at Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin, on a Fazioli is less variable or flawed. I say this in direct comparison to her last WTC recording (also recorded in Berlin). Now that I've listened to that recording more than enough I can confirm what I suspected on the first listening. It is really a shame that such a fine interpretation and understanding of Bach was let done by a mostly poor and miserably, variable recording.

Murray Perahia's - really superb playing of the highest order. This is a Hamburg Steinway which has been recorded to perfection....(a nice rich, velvety, bell like sound)

As far as piano recordings this one is also hard to beat. Beethoven played by Florian Uhlig for Haenssler Classic. A flawless recording which gets the sound and balance etc. right (IMHO). These are the earlier Piano Variations by Beethoven but their is still much to enjoy here. In fact, I'd recommend to those who only believe that Bach's WTC and Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas are the only game in town to listen to all that these great composer's produced - it is all special and relevant.

I truly hope that Florian Uhlig records the remaining Variations as I will be one of the first to get that recording. (Which should have the 32 Variations in c-, WoO 80 on it; a piece I've spent a lot of time at the piano with and really love).

Again, highly recommended!