What are you listening to right now? (VOL III)

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Wolfgang Muthspiel - Real Book Stories with Marc Johnson and Brian Blade.

I'd be interested to know a little more about this? Is this the 'if you like Jan Garbarek you'll like this?'.

Gordon

Gordon - this is not the album where I said that on Garbarek but there will be plenty of Garbarek fans who would like this. This is just a very high quality guitar trio with lovely bass from Marc Johnson and Brian Blade on drums.
i have borrowed these words from a 5 star review in the Guardian back in 2003.

"Muthspiel comes to London's Vortex on Tuesday with the power trio that is featured on Real Book Stories: a pedigree ensemble featuring the former Bill Evans bassist Marc Johnson and the formidable, Tony Williams-like drummer Brian Blade. Real Book Stories is devoted to standards, and though the spikier and more abstract aspects of the guitarist are largely banished by the familiar formalities of the setting, Muthspiel's lithe Pat Metheny-like fluency and terse John Scofield phrasing flourishes within a vivacious group. JJ Johnson's Lament immediately establishes Muthspiel's slow-build shaping of a narrative: a quick, nonchalantly struck burst of notes at the end of his first solo is the only virtuosic departure from a dreamy, Bill Evans-like overlaying of chords. As the pace picks up, his second break adopts a bright, ringing sound, like Django Reinhardt's acoustic intonation.

The players' ease and eloquence with each other is plain on an uptempo All the Things You Are, and Muthspiel duets inventively with Blade's off-centre bass-drum figures and hissing brushes on I Hear a Rhapsody before Johnson arrives with an emphatically wayward counter-melody. The famous chord-maze Giant Steps is treated rather warily, but something of Metheny's singing melody lines warms the mood of Horace Silver's Peace. The American's whoopy uptempo manner is also audible over Blade's declamatory rimshots on a headlong account of Solar. A little genteel at times perhaps, but high-quality with a contemporary feel."

The album I said was like Garbarek was by Bendik Hofseth - Metamorphoses - hard to find these days but is very good. Released back in 95, there is one copy on Amazon at the moment for £21. Shoot me a mail if you want a listen.

Cheers

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Wolfgang Muthspiel - Solo

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
I am still digesting your reply, but in the meantime my sister appeared over my shoulder and announced that she had... for me to borrow!

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Originally posted by droodzilla:
So, Adrian, what's the best Muthspiel album in your opinion? I've been meaning to check him out for a while.

Thanks
Nigel

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
Isn't it magical how a certain song or album can ecapsulate the time of your life or how you were feeling or an event or a person which brings back powerful memories?

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Originally posted by Mario:

I know this is a dvd, but I'm listening through a blu ray player in stereo and the quality is fantastic.

Mario

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Food - Molecular Gastronomy

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Finally arrived from the US. Big expectations after hearing good things on it from Jeff and Huw

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Originally posted by patk:
My Morning Jacket - Acoustic Citsuoca: Live at the Startime Pavilion

Jonatha Brooke - The Works