What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
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
Pink Floyd. The Final Cut. On Columbia vinyl from 1983. Always a good listen to me.
Lovely vivacious Lena Horne!
Pink Floyd. The Division Bell. Original CD from 1994. Excellent!
Freddie Hubbard's all-star cast Straight Life
1971 release form CTI Record. Recorded by Van Gelder. CTI seems to mimc the Blue Note formula.
Hire the same engineer as Blue Note ( they must have wanted the Van Gelder sound ), hire an iconic photographer and graphic designer. A least the sound of early CTIs are pretty good altho, many of their catalogues are not as memorable as Blue Note.
- Bass – Ron Carter
- Drums – Jack DeJohnette
- Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
- Guitar – George Benson
- Percussion – Richard "Pablo" Landrum*
- Piano – Herbie Hancock
- Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax] – Joe Henderson
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard
Revisiting The Art of Fugue.
This is an orchestrated version by Karl Ristenpart from Nonesuch.
Colourful like the cover art beautifully recorded natural sounding disc.
This has an excellent pacing and flow plus more open and less depressing and dark than usual sparse dry sounding renditions. Spacious and enveloping soundstage and wider range palette layers each instrument over one another creating rich and vivid musical landscape. Mirror figure Fugues still sound repetitive but the final triple fugue is expansive and poignant worthy for the close of this massive saga.
Streaming | 16/44.1 download
Pink Floyd ~ Live at the BBC (1971-2)
A single session with John Peel doing all the introductions song by song, good sound quality . Downloaded from Bandcamp for $1.
1. | The Embryo 10:56 | |||
2. | Fat Old Sun 05:45 | |||
3. | ||||
4. | If 05:24 | |||
5. | Atom Heart Mother 25:35 | |||
6. | Fat Old Sun 15:06 | |||
7. | One of These Days 07:53 | |||
8. | Embryo 10:48 | |||
9. | Echoes 26:54 | |||
10. | Drift Away Blues 04:57 |
This album came in the middle of the decade which I did not own any hifi. Catchy mega hit 'The Way It Is' had a heavy radio play.
I was curious to hear how this title track sounds on vinyl on my LP12.
It is annoying as I remember but sounds good.
Streaming | 16/44.1 download
Pink Floyd ~ Live at the BBC (1971-2)
A single session with John Peel doing all the introductions song by song, good sound quality . Downloaded from Bandcamp for $1.
1. | The Embryo 10:56 | |||
2. | Fat Old Sun 05:45 | |||
3. | ||||
4. | If 05:24 | |||
5. | Atom Heart Mother 25:35 | |||
6. | Fat Old Sun 15:06 | |||
7. | One of These Days 07:53 | |||
8. | Embryo 10:48 | |||
9. | Echoes 26:54 | |||
10. | Drift Away Blues 04:57 |
*EDIT. This is in fact two BBC sessions, both introduced by John Peel. The second session was a live Radio 1 set again with an audience. Session two starts at track 6. Fat Old Sun.
a recommendation from a friend - on vinyl 
A good start into the Sunday...
While this is a great album in it's own right it's musically not fitting after my Liszt album so I will soon switch to something else. The album as such is good.
On the original vinyl:-
Following the last of Reggie's excellent programmes last night. This is blisteringly good!
Deezer FLAC stream.
G
The Grateful Dead - Live Dead (1969)
Original vinyl
I am currently reading "Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation" by David Malvinni, which I can recommend if you are interested in the musical theory associated with the Dead's music.
An academic paper is referenced in the the book, which devotes two lengthy chapters on "Dark Star" alone; the paper, by Graeme Boone, concerns the tonal and expressive ambiguity contained in the version of "Dark Star" which appears on Live Dead, which I found fascinating.
The Grateful Dead - Live Dead (1969)
Original vinyl
I am currently reading "Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation" by David Malvinni, which I can recommend if you are interested in the musical theory associated with the Dead's music.
An academic paper is referenced in the the book, which devotes two lengthy chapters on "Dark Star" alone; the paper, by Graeme Boone, concerns the tonal and expressive ambiguity contained in the version of "Dark Star" which appears on Live Dead, which I found fascinating.
Very interesting - 'Etic' sums it up perfectly!
G
Better check....
Better check....
With study paper to hand I hope Graeme 
Better check....
With study paper to hand I hope Graeme
At '5 C1' as I type!
G
Listened to this before - I knew him only so far from his Scarlatti album..., but have to say what I have heard so far is really great...
Now listening to fashion Jazz (modern)..., good but sounds more interesting at a concert like I saw them at North Sea Jazz
