What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)

ewemon posted:

Regretably I don't have a huge amount of Ellingtons work so will need to search the above title out. Any other recommendations?

Ewen, there are hundreds of albums but I would recommend:

The Blanton-Webster Band

Far East Suite

Ellington At Newport

Such Sweet Thunder

Ellington Uptown

Black, Brown & Beige

The First Time - The Count Meets The Duke (with Count Basie)

Afro-Bossa

Jazz Party!

The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

Money Jungle (with Charlie Mingus and Max Roach)

At Duke's Place (with Ella Fitzgerald)

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Brilliant trio recordings on CD:

CD of 1960s masterpiece (with added tracks):

Side 1 Todd's answer to DB's Pin Ups maybe!

1976 Original Vinyl.

45 rpm vinyl

Original Vinyl.

On vinyl.  Keith Morris et al. playing  West Coast hardcore for the 21st century.

Listening to this one as the 2nd one is not yet on Tidal. Checking if I like the music enough to buy it...

Kevin-W posted:

ewemon posted:

Regretably I don't have a huge amount of Ellingtons work so will need to search the above title out. Any other recommendations?

Ewen, there are hundreds of albums but I would recommend:

The Blanton-Webster Band

Far East Suite

Ellington At Newport

Such Sweet Thunder

Ellington Uptown

Black, Brown & Beige

The First Time - The Count Meets The Duke (with Count Basie)

Afro-Bossa

Jazz Party!

The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

Money Jungle (with Charlie Mingus and Max Roach)

At Duke's Place (with Ella Fitzgerald)

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Don't forget "And his mother called him Bill." Another interesting disc is "This one's for Blanton," with Ray Brown on bass. The Blanton Webster years appears as "Never No Lament"  A fun disc is the recording he did with Louis Armstrong, originally on Roulette, with an amazing version of "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

Indeed Huwge, they're all good; there's also a great album he made on Verve with Johnny Hodges, Back To Back.

Tidal :  Used to have this on vinyl many moons ago -  think it had a different (white) sleeve tho.  Great album.

Decemberists - Florasongs  EP - some decent tracks on this one. Tidal.

Their follow up EP to The King is Dead album .  Tidal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGWrI_1A-0

Richard Thompson "Mirror Blue"

Sarah Blasko "As Day Follows Night"

Classic Records reissue form the 90s.

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance, 1978

Nadia Reid, Listen to formation look for the signs,

Just a plug for a great new talent who serves an awesome beer at my local, she really is very good. Go you great Kiwi girl!

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Nadia Reid, Listen to formation look for the signs,

Just a plug for a great new talent who serves an awesome beer at my local, she really is very good. Go you great Kiwi girl!

Sorry can't post image.

Look for Nadia on You tube, give her a chance, very hard for a young talent like this to make it from way down here in NZ.

Stevee_S posted:

Streaming | WAV

(1964)

Just the fifty two years old and sounding fine on this Mono CD, absolutely years since I have played this, silly me! 

There's a palpable level of energy and excitement on the early Beatles recordings, isn't there?

The Capitol stereo album "Something New" contains many of the tracks from AHDN but with "Americanized" changes to the mix, including more compression, echo and reverb, and vocals-to-one-side stereo. Capitol changed mixes on their early stereo Beatle's releases through Rubber Soul. I'm not suggesting the Capitol versions are better, just different if you're into that sort of thing. Do a google search on "dexterized beatles albums" should you have any interest. I grew up with the Capitol stereo versions and so they're more familiar to me; however, I've begun to prefer the cleaner, balanced mono mixes since the 2009 mono CD releases.

The Black Crowes. Lions. On CD from 2001. I'm getting myself indoctrinated to the Crowes, a hard rockin' band for sure. On first listen, this has some good tracks but I found it less engaging than their debut.

Isserlis and Järvi give a spectacular account of Elgar's cello concerto; and do what they can for the Walton. Listening on CDR made from high-res download. Why? Because I enjoy the CD as medium. 

EJ