What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2016
2016 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread (and links to previous years) can be found here;
Never heard this through a good installation, triggered by a rip I am making right now. While kind of musac, still having some fine moments as well
Mono.
Abbey Road - "Side two" - CD rip.
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(1978)
This 1st press Mono..
1964 mono vinyl..
How Blue Can We Get? (1970 UK Blue Horizon 25-track stereo double LP compilation.
Volume I :
Fleetwood Mac-Watch Out
Jellybread - Don't Pay Them No Mind
Top Topham - Mini-Minor-Mo
Duster Bennett -What A Dream
Bacon Fat Boom, Boom - (Out Goes The Lights)
Chicken Shack- Evelyn
Christine Perfect - And That's Saying A Lot
Bacon Fat - Small's On 53rd
Fleetwood Mac -I'm Worried
Chicken Shack -The Way It Is
Jellybread No Brag, Just Facts - (Parts 1 And 2)
Fleetwood Mac- Rambling Pony
2016 - Tidal...
The Soft Bounce - Beyond The Wizzard Sleeve...
Massimo Bertola posted:Haim Ronen posted:Now, that's an exquisite duo that will never bore me, it is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, both musicians are not among the living anymore.
I think I can understand your feelings about Brad Mehldau. I heard him live a few summers ago, and I have a fistful of his CDs. In the end, to my ears it sounds like those long novels from young new writers, full of things and forgettable. As for Keith Jarrett, I'll take just one thing of his along on the desert island, his encore of Danny boy on the Tokyo Solo live DVD.
I'll have a listen at this Haden/Anderson duo.
M
Massimo,
To take your analogy, most of Mehldau's music is to me like stories which I don't care about the plot nor their characters. Just the other day I watched a long interview with him on TV which made me go and play his music again with the same results. The only enjoyable recording of his that I have (out of five) is: Songs: The art of trio Vol 3.
Chris Anderson on the other hand is in a different league despite having a limited output. He was born almost blind with very fragile bones that fractured often. He began in Chicago clubs in the mid -1940s and performed with Von Freeman and Charlie Parker. None But The Lonely Heart recording session was the first (and I think last) time the two musicians played together. I find the level communication between the two to be very rare. They were playing this particular disc the first time I walked into a Naim dealership while hunting for a new music system. I bought it on the spot and their Nait 3 four weeks later.
A Russian affair with talented Lubimov on the piano.
2016 - Vinyl...
Laura Gibson - Empire Builder.
Haim Ronen posted:Massimo Bertola posted:Haim Ronen posted:Now, that's an exquisite duo that will never bore me, it is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, both musicians are not among the living anymore.
I think I can understand your feelings about Brad Mehldau. I heard him live a few summers ago, and I have a fistful of his CDs. In the end, to my ears it sounds like those long novels from young new writers, full of things and forgettable. As for Keith Jarrett, I'll take just one thing of his along on the desert island, his encore of Danny boy on the Tokyo Solo live DVD.
I'll have a listen at this Haden/Anderson duo.
M
Massimo,
To take your analogy, most of Mehldau's music is to me like stories which I don't care about the plot nor their characters. Just the other day I watched a long interview with him on TV which made me go and play his music again with the same results. The only enjoyable recording of his that I have (out of five) is: Songs: The art of trio Vol 3.
Chris Anderson on the other hand is in a different league despite having a limited output. He was born almost blind with very fragile bones that fractured often. He began in Chicago clubs in the mid -1940s and performed with Von Freeman and Charlie Parker. None But The Lonely Heart recording session was the first (and I think last) time the two musicians played together. I find the level communication between the two to be very rare. They were playing this particular disc the first time I walked into a Naim dealership while hunting for a new music system. I bought it on the spot and their Nait 3 four weeks later.
In my opinion Brad Mehldau is highly overrated. The only partly enjoyable recording I own of him is Mehliana Taming the Dragon.
I have a few CDs of him, the only one I play regularly is Live in Tokyo:
to me, this is not overly-intellectualised, it's deeply felt and slightly obsessive. His Someone to watch over me is worth the CD alone.
Giving my Christmas purchases a listen.
Thanks to Nigelb for the heads up on this one. Very nice 
Eva Cassidy - Nightbird
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(2005)
"Manx's use of the Mohan Veena makes him stand out from the crowd... it's surprising how comfortably his clean, Canadian blues sit with traditional Indian music."
1979 - U.K. Vinyl...
Came in the post today...think it will be a "grower"!
earlier (ripped CD); inspired by previous posts . Charlie Haden - Chris Anderson - None but the lonely heart
and now; ripped CD; very enjoyable too; interplay between the 2 is very enjoyable too
Michel Petrucciani - Ron McClure : Cold blues
