What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013
On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Great album.
Great album.
A really great album.
Takin' Off is the debut album of jazz pianist Herbie Hancock originally released in 1962 for the Blue Note label as BST 84109.[3] The recording session included Freddie Hubbard ontrumpet and veteran Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone. The album was a typical hard bopLP, with its characteristic two horns and a rhythm section.[4] The bluesy single "Watermelon Man" made it to the Top 100 of the pop charts,[4] and went on to become a jazz standard. The album has been called "one of the most accomplished and stunning debuts in the annals of jazz."[5] It was released on CD in 1996 with three alternate takes and then remastered in 2007 by Van Gelder. The 2007 edition features new liner notes by Bob Blumenthal.
To describe an album as rather nice seems slightly patronising but this album is, rather nice.
First play, bit of a Leonard Cohen bluesy country folk feel to things. Not unpleasant grows on you as it plays.
Change of gears, some classic sonic bliss, from CD
Streaming cant stop playing this amazing Airbag album really good SQ and great musicians
identity
Acid Jazz - Vinyl
very nice, he has a special connection to this material...
Streaming wav
Original Mono Recording.
Last one tonight its been a long and short sort of day 
Latin jazz - Vinyl
Pink Floyd. The Final Cut. On vinyl from 1983.
Paolo Fresu - trumpet, flugelhorn
Daniele Di Bonaventura - bandoneon
A Filetta Vocal Ensemble (ex. track 7/13)
Jean-Claude Acquaviva - seconda
Paul Giansily - terza
Jean Luc Geronimi - seconda
José Filippi - bassu
Jean Sicurani - bassu
Maxime Vuillamier - bassu
Ceccè Acquaviva - bassu
"Sketches of Corsica: the radiant lyric trumpet of Paolo Fresu glides across the massed voices of A Filetta, the singers who are both trailblazers and keepers of tradition in the realm of Corsican polyphony. The ancient and the experimental blend seamlessly in these compositions, several of them written by ensemble founder Jean-Claude Acquaviva, who has directed the singing group for more than 30 years. A powerful showing here also for Italian bandoneon innovator Daniele di Bonaventura, who contributes new music, solos imaginatively, duets with Fresu, and envelops voices and trumpet with an almost orchestral sense of form." (from ECM site)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Simone Dinnerstein (Piano)
Neil Young. American Stars 'n Bars. On vinyl from 1977.