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
Streaming from FLAC ripped CD
Self-titled debut solo album from the "Lighthouse Family" front man / lead vocalist
Smooth easy listening - the guy has a great voice
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
Wish You Were Here.....................the Title, not an invitation 
Up there IMHO alongside DSOTM, The Wall and The Final Cut
Godsticks - The Envisage Conundrum
On Vinyl
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kk
Ripped to FLAC and streaming
Intense, thoughtful
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kk
A fave shiny beer-mat of mine and relatively obscure I thought - so was surprised to hear 'Down to the Valley' used in the recent series on the Beeb about Dan Snow and Co, canoeing through The Grand Canyon.
John.
Original vinyl. I think the fashion shown was a portent of what was to come in the '70s.
Bix Beiderbecke was arguably the greatest white jazz musician of the 1920's. He lived fast, died young (at 28), and left us with a beautiful body of work, most of the best of which is collected on this CD.
Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road
Sonny Rollins is a saxophone colossus. The revered tenor saxophonist first received that appellation via the name of his 1956 Prestige Records album. Even then, at age 26, the title seemed fitting.
The sixth album Sonny Rollins recorded as the leader of his own band, Saxophone Colossus features Sonny on saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max Roach on drums. It was recorded in a single day, the tight knit of the musicians enabling them to record most of the songs in one take, then something of a rarity. Featured are Sonnys best known song St Thomas, two other original compositions and two covers, of which Moritat (better known as Mack The Knife) is probably the best known.
Overall the album is a jazz classic, consistently regarded as one of the best jazz albums released by not only Sonny but by his label Prestige.
This is just fantastic! They don't make em like that anymore!
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kk
Originally Posted by KeanoKing:
Hey kk, long time no post! How's things with you?
Saw the above earlier and had to listen to the only London Grammar I've heard...
...what's their album like?
Hey CC,
yeah i haven't been on the forum for a while, need to catch up! I got the album because of all the fuss but to be honest I'm a little disappointed. I had heard it was a mix of the xx and the singer from Florence and the machine, and it was too much of the latter for me! I can't stand that woman!
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kk
"Boot" and terrible recording. Can't get rid of it though...
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kk
Dexter Gordon considered this his finest album and few would disagree. With the perfect rhythm section of Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, this tenor giant reinvents standards like "Three O'Clock In The Morning," "Second Balcony Jump" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" and introduces his most famous composition "Cheese Cake.
Original Electra vinyl.
A CD I've had a long time and a firm favourite. It's also one of my references for trialling changes to my system so I thought I'd give it play to see how my two new Powerlines are bedding in.