What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)

1973 Mono reissue on Prestige. Mint and excellent SQ.

A blast from the past re-issue on 180 gram vinyl

Been Reading a biography of Duke Ellington by Teachout a jazz bassist. Amazing history. After Christmas went to small vinyl store coastal CA heading home and bought a load of old jazz, many Pablo recordings. These are my DE LPs

*Ellington Vol2 The early years

*Side By Side Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Saxophone

*Ellington at Newport, the best live recording, the crowd goes wild

*Black, Brown and Beige box set of his Carnegie Hall concert, it is a digital remaster tho well done.

* Ellington in Sweden, 50s recording

*Pretty Woman, Duke Ellington,Vintage series

John Hiatt "The Open Road" (iTunes download)

An interesting collection of Punk as it moved through the classic club, CBGBs in New York.  A mix of some studio recordings and some live recordings

Johannes Brahms:  Stephen Hough (Piano), Mark Wigglesworth, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra 

Concerto for Piano no 1 in D minor, Op. 15

The Bevis Frond  -  What Did For The Dinosaurs  -    epic album on cd.

One night on a TV channel they had interviews on Blondie at CBGB. and the transformation by a producer took them from punk to more dance and disco with Parallel Lines.  It was quite fun, I never had the album but saw them on MTV often. What a hit that was.

   The night is but young.

Yeah, caught the tail end of the show, it was on the HiFi channel where I am.  The club , CBGBs, was a dump but the groups that moved through there were something else.  It was a wild and crazy place, only went there once when in the early 80's when I was passing through New York.  Few clubs were like that.  The one in Toronto that was distantly similar (but is still in operation) was the HorseShoe Tavern.

Gave up trying to guess what that "thing" was. Not my Zep favourite album but as usual,  in LZ's albums,  Bonham's  beats always outstanding as in  Achilles Last Stand

New discovery ....

Powerful music and a high-quality recording. on CD

Into stuff a little harder now

To close the evening's listening (we lose an hour tonight ), something gentle and melodic . A hi-def download on USB. 

John Gomm, Don't Panic, first play and very good it is too. Nice mellow accoustic guitar

Some Classic Cult, re-issue on 180gram vinyl, great tunes, great SQ.

Part 2 of the Cult re-issue, the apparently never released on vinyl Electric Peace album.  Also on 180gm vinyl and very good SQ if a little darker and more recessed than the re-issue of Electric.

LP (p) 1979 EMI Records Ltd : )

My first listen to this famous work,

finding it far more entertaining than i expected : )

Debs

Dear Debs,

Another great recording of this music is that by Sir Thomas Beecham [also on HMV/EMI]  though in a mid-fifties [stereo] recording.

Greig is rightly regarded as Norway's most internationally famous composer, and Peer Gynt is one of his real masterpieces!

ATB from George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gLKcrl654