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
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Radio paradise has been a pleasant companion as ever today.
Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz found a perfect accompanist in pianist Kenny Barron, who would regularly play in his group for his last five years. This out-of-print Black Hawk LP finds the pair, along with bassistGeorge Mraz and drummer Victor Lewis, performing two standards and four more recent pieces, including two ("Dreams" and "Voyage") by Barron. The music is difficult to classify (modern bop?) but relatively easy to understand; Getz never coasts. S.Yanow
Hi Peet
If you like this grouping of personnel, there are two releases culled from a live evening in Europe with Stan, Kenny, Victor and, on this night, Rufus Reid on bass. Both are recommended.
Good listening'
Jeff A
Play list so far this early morning:
10,000 Maniacs "MTV Unplugged"
Jackson Browne "Standing In The Breach"
Bob Dylan "Bootleg Servies Vol. 4, Live 1966, Royal Albert Hall"
Yep and personally don't like it but mind you I struggle to like anything of his after Hold Out apart from the solo discs.
Thanks ewemon. Good to know. I feel pretty much the same about his music after Hold Out, though I am guilty of owning Lawyers In Love and Lives In The Balance. 
Joe and Ewen
I concede to you both having more knowledge and experience with JB catalogue (I just had to look-up his discography to confirm sequence of releases). I have owned at one time The Pretender, Running on Empty, and Late For The Sky and currently have Lawyers In Love, Greatest Hits, the two Solo Acoustic releases and access to all the others at Spotify, of which I have listened to Looking East, The New Ride Home and the current release Standing In The Breach.
I like the "West Coast" sound that I lump JB into with the Eagles, JD Souther, and others. Listening frequency over the years has ebbed and flowed but I have always enjoyed the easy-going, relaxing, light rock-pop sound of this style. Some get played way more than others but not because I dislike any of them, and I admit there is so much stuff to check-out in music we tend to drift to areas and artists we find more interesting or likable at any given time.
So, to me, I enjoy coming back to JB with some regularity and the new release, after a couple listens, reminds me very much of Lawyers In Love and the first track, "The Birds Of St. Marks", has some wonderful jingle-jangle Rickenbaker playing by someone (I miss liner notes).
My divergent take on this at this moment is at least partly due to currently being in one of the flows where I am finding JB particularly interesting.
As always, thanks to both of you for your comments on this thread and exposing me to the music you each enjoy. I have playlist folders where I store your suggestions until I have time to investigate them.
I do that with 6 or 8 frequent posters here and have never enjoyed music more than in the past ten years with contributors at this forum.
best regards
Jeff A
continuing with:
Eels "The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett"
Johhny Marr "Playland"
Sarah Blasko "I Awake"
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Dawes "Stories Don't End"
recommended by Anthony Mason,
co-host of CBS Saturday Morning,
and a great music lover
on vinyl of course!
Sarah McLachlan "Afterglow"
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
I always find it tough to follow on from J.J. Cale and have taken the easy option...
Can - Tago Mago
Porcupine Tree - Stars Die
Great collection of early stuff
My second listen to this, and it's really starting to grow on me. More melodic and less extreme than his last two albums:
The Cars. Panorama. On vinyl from 1980. Some upbeat music for a midday lunch break.
The Cars. Panorama. On vinyl from 1980. Some upbeat music for a midday lunch break.
Good stuff! I used to to really enjoy The Cars. I must drag out and play some of their albums again.
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Because I haven't listened to this in quite a while it reminds me of a very pleasant month or so in Mexico way back when....
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Stunning piece of music
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Stunning piece of music
Yes, and beautiful SQ
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Jackson Browne. The Pretender. On vinyl from 1976. I was just reading about his just released album "Standing In The Breach". Has anyone here heard it?
Yep and personally don't like it but mind you I struggle to like anything of his after Hold Out apart from the solo discs.
+1
Good band. Very J.A. I can almost hear Grace Slick in the background...
