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
Meat Puppets. Backwater. On CD from 1994. A brief set of outstanding metal-driven alternative rock from the band that influenced and later played with Nirvana. Five upbeat tracks concluding with a cover of Marty Robbins' "White Sport Coat" from 1957 - go figure. Highly recommended.
Great band! Have you heard Meat Puppets II from '84 or Huevos from '87? Both awesome albums.
Back to this, their new album. Great stuff.
On CD...
A stunning album with top-notch reproduction quality. I suspect many a dealer will be adding this to their demo material.
Mike
Every now and again this has to have a 'spin'. The WEA first cd press ripped. Much wider dynamic range than subsequent remasters. Even at 11:00 O'Clock on the SN2/HCDR it's not 'loud'.
G
On CD...
A stunning album with top-notch reproduction quality. I suspect many a dealer will be adding this to their demo material.
Mike
Will also be available on vinyl from 13th November 
More live Elvis from the early 70s: the superb Prince from Another Planet set recorded at Madison Square Garden in June 1972. What's great about this late 60s/70s King live stuff is that a) it's on the whole very well recorded and engineered; b) the bands (usually built around the core of James Burton on guitar, bassist Jerry Scheff and drummer Ronnie Tutt) are never less than absolutely stunning; c) Elvis sings with good grace and playful humour; d) there are lots of (sometimes radical) rearrangements of old faves.
Jeffrey Foucault Salt as Wolves Demo recordings (official)
To remind myself that there used to good Bond themes!
Some reliable Dire Straits for after dinner listening.
BJ Thomas: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 1969 release
A perfect easy listening tunes for a lazy Autumn Sunday.
On vinyl, Bobbie's last album (1971), entirely written and produced by her. She even did the cover painting! What a gal!
Tijuana Jazz: Gary McFarland & Clark Terry 1965 release
Dated but sort of kitsch laid back Tijuana brass jazz perfect soundtrack for the Kontiki lounge whilst sipping strawberry margarita.
Recorded by Van Gelder so the album sounds good but musically not really my cup of tea.
Volume 1 of four wonderful albums.
Jackie McLean: Right Now! 1965 release Stereo
Line up:
- Jackie McLean - alto saxophone
- Larry Willis - piano
- Bob Cranshaw - bass
- Clifford Jarvis - drums
There are only 4 tunes on this album but each is a gem with different colours and moods.
I hear a lot of Byrd influence on McLean with a lot of lyrical yet unexpected moves. The nice discovery for me is a young piano player, Larry Willis who wrote eulogy like Poor Eric, a moving slow number written for Eric Dolphy. Here McLean is a bit Miles-ish.
'Christel's Time' contains bravura drum solo by Clifford Jarvis at the tail end and the album closes with the elegant but swinging free style title track 'Right Now'.
This is one of my favourite bop from the mid 60s. He's got the intensity and focus I look for in jazz.
Another beautiful Music Matters production inside and out.
If you are not familiar with McLean's work, give this album a try. I am curious what you'al think of it.
A very early Evans, his first LP as a leader, recorded exactly 59 years ago. Sidemen are Teddy Kotick on bass and Paul Motian on drums.
A classic. Great record.
The wife bought me two of his CDs, emptying the MoonDog bin at the record store. I felt sorry for them (and me) so I returned one of the discs. This is what I was left with, a recording from 1956.
On vinyl. Still amazed that Ms. Kaas was only 22 years old when she recorded that album. Amazingly rich and mature voice.
Jackie McLean: Right Now! 1965 release Stereo
Line up:
- Jackie McLean - alto saxophone
- Larry Willis - piano
- Bob Cranshaw - bass
- Clifford Jarvis - drums
There are only 4 tunes on this album but each is a gem with different colours and moods.
I hear a lot of Byrd influence on McLean with a lot of lyrical yet unexpected moves. The nice discovery for me is a young piano player, Larry Willis who wrote eulogy like Poor Eric, a moving slow number written for Eric Dolphy. Here McLean is a bit Miles-ish.
'Christel's Time' contains bravura drum solo by Clifford Jarvis at the tail end and the album closes with the elegant but swinging free style title track 'Right Now'.
This is one of my favourite bop from the mid 60s. He's got the intensity and focus I look for in jazz.
Another beautiful Music Matters production inside and out.
If you are not familiar with McLean's work, give this album a try. I am curious what you'al think of it.
Looks like a great suggestion Kuma. Do you have the vinyl version? It seems to be b/o on amazon.ca.
John Mellencamp. Cuttin' Heads. On HDCD from 2001. Mellencamp explores a variety of musical traditions within the pop/rock/funk/folk realm on this album and does so quite well. A very tuneful and upbeat album.